Volume 2 Chapter 32: High School Students Mixing into a Parent-Child Class
Uh…
Being stared at by so many pairs of eyes all of a sudden, Lin Lin immediately felt huge pressure.
Her legs unknowingly started to feel weak, and she stood there, unable to move. But… Staying where she was didn’t seem like a good choice either, because everyone was still looking at them.
After a moment, Gao Liang noticed how nervous Lin Lin was. He gently pulled her behind him, found a corner, and sat down.
“Phew… we’re saved.”
After sitting down, Lin Lin took several deep breaths. Then she turned to look at Gao Liang…
Mm… better look at the blackboard instead.
There weren’t many people in the classroom. Most of them were parents who came with their children. One adult and one child per pair made Lin Lin and Gao Liang, two high school students, look very out of place among them.
That was probably why so many people were staring at them earlier.
The teacher hadn’t arrived yet. Lin Lin stared at the blackboard for a while, then sighed.
“Ah… why do we still have class at night~”
“Well…” Gao Liang touched his chin. “There’s nothing we can do, Lin Lin. Hang in there, you can do it!”
“Mm…” Lin Lin shook her head. What he said made sense, but sitting in a classroom like this really made her sleepy~
So sleepy…
To avoid falling asleep right next to her rival desk mate, she started another topic. She looked around the classroom and asked curiously,
“Huh? By the way, why are there so many little kids in this class?”
“I’m not sure… maybe this is a kids’ class?” Gao Liang thought along with her. Looking around again, there really weren’t many people their age.
“Did we come to the wrong place?” Lin Lin looked at Gao Liang suspiciously.
Cough, this guy was the one leading the way.
“No, I don’t think so. The front desk said this was the classroom, the one at the very end of the floor,” Gao Liang replied. “And I checked when we passed the door. The other classrooms looked similar. They should be the same.”
“Then…” Lin Lin still wasn’t fully convinced. “So now it’s popular for parents to bring kids to learn art?”
“Hasn’t it always been popular?” Gao Liang answered. “Art exam students wouldn’t come to this kind of hobby class, and adults don’t have much time. So… maybe this place really is mainly for kids?”
He said this quite reasonably. Lin Lin curled her lips.
“More like it’s popular with the kids’ parents, right?”
While they were talking, a middle-aged woman walked in through the classroom door. She smiled warmly as she looked around.
After quickly checking the room, she clapped her hands, walked to the front, and said,
“Hello everyone. I’m the teacher for this art crash course. My last name is Wang. From today on, I’ll be teaching this class. We…”
Teacher Wang talked smoothly and warmly. She often pointed at the children in the class and interacted with them.
This very familiar teaching style made Lin Lin feel a little warm inside. After thinking for a moment, she suddenly remembered where she had seen this before…
It was like when she was little. In kindergarten, when the teacher held her hand and taught her how to draw a duck. Just like this, hehe…
Ah, thinking about it now, her kindergarten teacher was really pretty~
“Cough, cough!”
Gao Liang quickly nudged Lin Lin and pulled her back from her memories. Being interrupted, Lin Lin puffed up her cheeks unhappily and turned to glare at him.
“What are you doing?!”
“Lin Lin, pay attention! The teacher is explaining something very important!”
Gao Liang was really anxious. What was she daydreaming about? The teacher was already talking about key basics. If she missed this, later it would all sound like nonsense!
Mm…
Lin Lin rolled her eyes and turned back to the blackboard. While complaining in her heart about how annoying Gao Liang was, she also started listening to the teacher.
“So for this kind of three-view drawing, first we look at it from this side…”
“Huh?”
Lin Lin scratched her head. What is this supposed to be?
She had learned about three-view drawings before in math and geometry, but somehow, what the teacher was explaining felt completely different from what she had studied.
No… It wasn’t just different, it felt totally unrelated.
“Huh?”
The more she listened, the more confused she became. She was still thinking about the previous part when she turned her head back. Only to realize the teacher had already moved on to something else that Lin Lin completely did not understand.
So before she could figure out the last topic, she was already forced to listen to the next one, which she also didn’t understand.
This cycle repeated again and again. After only a few rounds, Lin Lin felt dizzy, like stars were spinning in front of her eyes.
However…
What made her feel even more pressure was—
“Students, did you understand?”
After finishing each topic, the art teacher kindly asked the students below.
Then, immediately, young and neat voices rang out from the class.
“We understood~”
The loudest voice came from a small child sitting next to Lin Lin and Gao Liang. The child’s mother was sitting next to Gao Liang, looking at her child with a proud face.
This…
With that confident look, even Lin Lin almost believed the kid really understood everything.
“So… Lin Lin, did you understand?”
Gao Liang quietly turned his head and asked her a question that went straight to her soul.
Uh…
Well…
“I… I think I understood… maybe?”
“Then,” Gao Liang said seriously, “Can you repeat what the teacher just said about shadows?”
Th-this…
Cold sweat instantly broke out on Lin Lin’s back. She hesitated and stammered for a long time, but still couldn’t give an answer.
Wh-what even is a shadow?
I have a huge mental shadow right now!
“I… I didn’t understand.”
Sigh…
In the end, the girl could only admit the truth helplessly. She said it out loud and then lowered her head sadly.
At the same time, she secretly glanced at the little kid beside her.
“Hmph… I don’t believe I’m the only one who didn’t understand. They must all be pretending. The teacher talked way too fast.”
She muttered quietly. It sounded like an excuse, but Gao Liang didn’t completely think she was wrong.
The teacher really was speaking fast. Many people in the class were probably pretending too. After all, kids are young and don’t have strong opinions, when the teacher asks if they understand, they usually just say yes.
But then—
Suddenly—
The teacher standing at the podium called on someone. She pointed to the child sitting next to Gao Liang and said,
“Student, why don’t you tell us what I just talked about~”
Hiss—
An on-the-spot test?!
What made both Lin Lin and Gao Liang completely shocked was—
The child smiled confidently, stood up, and began to speak nonstop…
The more Lin Lin listened, the more confused she became. Her face slowly lost all control of its expression.
Under everyone’s amazed looks, that kid…
Actually explained everything?!