Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 586 - 585: Unexpected Reversal

Chapter 586: Chapter 585: Unexpected Reversal

Nostalgia is like wild grass; once it sprouts, it’s impossible to remove completely.

That evening, Wen Lan didn’t do any sewing, but bit on her handkerchief, crying while writing a letter home. When she became emotional, she grabbed a pillow and charged into Wang Shumei’s room to beat her up.

Sister Lan is from the Unrestrained Faction, while Lin Nianhe is from the Subdued Faction.

She waited until the next day to leisurely go find Li Dahe—

"Uncle Team Leader, could you write me a letter of introduction when the village school is on summer break? I want to make a trip back to Beijing."

Li Dahe, clenching his tobacco pipe, answered briskly, "No."

Lin Nianhe insisted, "Uncle Team Leader, I have important business. I need to research the market."

Li Dahe: "Oh, that is indeed important business."

"So..." Lin Nianhe, full of anticipation, rubbed her hands as she eagerly looked at Li Dahe.

Li Dahe: "No."

Lin Nianhe’s face fell: "Uncle Team Leader!"

Li Dahe: "Buzz off."

"Don’t think just because you’re the best team leader that I won’t dare to kneel and beg you!"

It took Li Dahe a great while to understand what Lin Nianhe was saying. Rolling his eyes, he exhaled a puff of smoke: "No means no. Even if you kneel and kowtow three times, it still won’t work."

"You have to give me a reason!" Lin Nianhe moved to sit next to Li Dahe. "Summer break is more than a month long, I don’t have much to do. Do you not find it annoying having me around every day?"

Li Dahe glanced at her sidelong: "During the summer break, the factory needs repairing, and all the Educated Youth must participate."

Lin Nianhe: "...?"

"Wait, is that really the work I can do?" Lin Nianhe was astounded. "To my limited knowledge, the only use for a brick is to crack open someone’s head!"

"Oh, then you can supervise. If anyone slacks off, you slap them."

Lin Nianhe: "..."

You really know how to make the most of things.

Seeing Li Dahe’s resolute expression, Lin Nianhe could no longer remain gentle and ran into the house: "Aunt Li! Uncle Team Leader is bullying me!"

Before Aunt Li could respond, Li Dahe added another line: "Go tell whoever you want, even if you complain to my mother-in-law, I still won’t write you that letter!"

Lin Nianhe stumbled and directly crashed into Aunt Li’s arms.

Aunt Li hugged her, glaring outside: "What are you quarreling with the kid for? Can’t you discuss things nicely? And you bring up my mother at that, show some capability!"

Li Dahe, rather uncomfortably, turned his head away, his voice notably lower: "It’s just not possible."

Aunt Li snorted, then turned to ask Lin Nianhe: "What’s wrong, girl?"

Lin Nianhe said softly, "I want to go home for the summer break."

"Missing home?" Aunt Li affectionately ruffled her hair, sighing gently, "It’s hard for you children, being so far from home. How could you not miss it..."

Lin Nianhe nodded like a pecking chicken.

Yes, yes! That’s the kind of twist we need—

"But you really can’t go back this summer; the commune is watching."

Lin Nianhe: "...?"

That’s not the twist she wanted!

Having failed as a member of the Subdued Faction, Lin Nianhe returned to the Educated Youth Corps... then grabbed her own pillow and charged into Wang Shumei’s room. Sister Shumei hadn’t even reacted before Lin Nianhe’s latex pillow smacked into her back.

Wang Shumei: "Again? Are you two sick?"

Educated Youth Corps is full of clamor, Li Dahe sighed deeply in the yard.

Aunt Li sat down next to him with a basin of potatoes, peeling them while saying, "Actually, the girl was not wrong. Over the summer vacation for more than a month, they really had nothing to do... It’s just over a year since they were sent down to the countryside, unlike Hongqi; they have homes they can’t return to..."

Li Dahe sighed: "If they wanted to return last year, I wouldn’t have minded. In fact, I found their idling around bothersome... Didn’t you hear on the radio, these past few months have been so eventful? With that little bastard’s temperament, wouldn’t she just be delivering herself into trouble if she went back?"

Aunt Li sighed, suddenly tugging at Li Dahe, "But that doesn’t mean we should let the girls build houses, how could they handle that kind of work?"

"I know, I know... you don’t need to pinch me. Initially, I just intended for them to help move some stuff, and that was it. What kind of task could we actually entrust to them..."

"That’s more like it."

...

Homesickness is like a wildfire, a single spark can ignite a vast field.

The students of the village school noticed their teacher had been low in spirits lately, noticeable by Teacher Hehe not snacking during break time.

Not knowing what else to do, the children tried to behave better and study harder, hoping it might cheer up their teacher.

Teacher Lin Nianhe, looking at the test papers with full scores for three consecutive days, nodded silently after a moment of reflection: "Hmm, looks like they have mastered the knowledge points very well, it might be time to increase the difficulty."

Teacher Xiao Lin worked overnight to revise the lesson plan and the quiz, so exhausted she couldn’t even think of home.

The children noticed that Teacher Hehe was snacking during breaks again and thought it was their diligent studying that made the teacher happy, so they studied even harder.

Teacher Xiao Lin: "Eh? You understand this so quickly? But if I increase the difficulty again, I will have to teach second-grade material."

Children: "Study, study, for the sake of the teacher being able to enjoy snacks!"

The children thought Teacher Lin Nianhe was happy because of their hard work, but Teacher Lin thought she had initially underestimated them, that they were all good students, just overshadowed by Niuwa.

Thus, a beautiful misunderstanding was born.

Every day, the children pondered how to study better, and each night, Lin Nianhe worked overtime to research how to explain new knowledge points more clearly and how to tailor the quizzes to genuinely test their understanding.

Teacher Lin Nianhe looked forward to great things from the children, and they consistently delivered pleasant surprises.

An unintentional misunderstanding had practically given life to the Rosenthal effect she had contemplated months ago.

"Lin Nianhe, the questions you set for this final exam were a bit tough."

Principal Wu, holding the final examination paper set by Lin Nianhe, frowned and shook his head.

Lin Nianhe, having anticipated this reaction, immediately presented a stack of quizzes: "Principal, please take a look at these, and you’ll understand after reviewing them."

Principal Wu, slightly confused, took them and meticulously went through each one. Shock gradually replaced his initial skepticism.

"Wait, wait," as an experienced principal, he was struggling to accept this, "Do you assign a lot of homework?"

"No, the usual standard."

"Then did you take away Xiao Lan’s sports class time?"

"No, I wouldn’t dare. Sister Lan would kill me."

"So this is...?"

Principal Wu found it hard to comprehend.

It was just a first-grade quiz, but the handwriting was tidy, the paper clean, certainly not worse than those of second or third-graders. And those questions, clearly more challenging than what first-graders should know, yet all the students scored perfect marks?

It would be normal if just one or two students achieved such scores, but the entire class?

Especially when there were kids like Bai Xiaojun who treated school more like a daycare – he managed to understand the material too?

"How did you manage this?" Principal Wu was utterly puzzled.

Lin Nianhe responded earnestly: "I actually didn’t do much; I just discovered that our class is full of little geniuses. Maybe I didn’t see it before because Niuwa was too excellent, overshadowing them!"

Principal Wu: "... ?"

What’s going on? Are geniuses like leeks that keep sprouting up by batches?