Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 52 - 48: The Beautiful Principal Arrives (Double - ) (Part 2)
Yang Wei’s eyes were glued, and he gulped down the liquid forming in his throat before striding over to the beautiful woman who was very likely a new colleague.
Such a beauty would definitely be chased after by single male teachers like him at this school!
So, he had to make the first move.
"Hey there, beauty, are you here to find someone at school?"
Yang Wei found an excuse to strike up a conversation.
"I’m here to work."
Lin Xiamo glanced at Yang Wei; due to her outstanding appearance, she had encountered countless similar attempts at conversation.
If it weren’t at the school where she was about to work, she wouldn’t have bothered with Yang Wei.
Upon hearing that Lin Xiamo really was the new teacher, Yang Wei was overjoyed.
They would be colleagues in the future, with geographic advantage on his side!
"Hello, I’m Yang Wei, the PE teacher for the third years, and also a national level two athletics coach!"
Yang Wei hurriedly introduced himself.
By normal social etiquette, when one party introduces themselves, the other should do the same, but the beautiful teacher in front of him didn’t play by the rules. She pointed to the athletic students on the field and asked, "Do they always practice while memorizing vocabulary?"
"Not before, it’s just been like this for the past week."
Seeing that the beautiful teacher seemed interested in the athletes memorizing vocabulary, Yang Wei cheerfully explained, "Let me tell you, there’s a 38-year-old companion student at our school."
"Never heard of anyone that old attending high school."
"It’s the first I’ve heard of it too!"
Gossip is quite an effective way to bridge the gap between people, so Yang Wei planned to use this as a breakthrough point.
Coincidentally, the Shen father’s and son’s story was quite novel, which should pique the interest of anyone working in the education system.
However, to Yang Wei’s surprise, the beautiful teacher didn’t show any expression of surprise or curiosity.
It was as if she was already aware of this matter.
"What connection is there between the 38-year-old companion student and these athletes memorizing vocabulary?"
After having hotpot last time, Shen Qiushan had told Lin Xiamo about accompanying his son to school.
Therefore, Lin Xiamo naturally knew who this 38-year-old companion student was and wasn’t interested in this gossip.
However, she was quite curious as to how her unreliable brother-in-law had gotten involved with these athletes memorizing vocabulary.
Seeing her interest piqued, Yang Wei chuckled and explained, "It’s quite interesting! His son is one of our school’s track and field athletes, named Shen Yixiao. Last week, father and son had a vocabulary competition in English class; guess who won?"
At this point, Yang Wei tried to build suspense.
Lin Xiamo raised her brow; she didn’t think there was any point to this suspense and did not continue the conversation.
Seeing the cool demeanor of the beauty, Yang Wei awkwardly chuckled, "The father won!"
"Out of 50 must-know words for the college entrance exam, he only got 5 wrong, and they say he went easy!"
"Word got out, and it caused a stir in the whole school."
"Initially, people only said Shen Yixiao was too weak, but then it extended to the whole group of athletes."
"Of course, these athletes were not convinced and collectively challenged Old Shen."
"Old Shen is that 38-year-old companion student named Shen Qiushan."
Yang Wei continued, "Old Shen is quite a bold one and accepted the challenge directly."
"This afternoon at 5, both sides are going to have an English vocabulary competition in the canteen."
"These athletes are memorizing vocabulary during training to prepare for the competition."
After listening to Yang Wei’s explanation, Lin Xiamo said "thank you" and then began walking towards the teaching building.
Yang Wei was a bit disappointed; he had thought at least he’d be able to add her on WeChat.
But he didn’t even ask for her name.
However, it’s no problem!
Since they are working at the same school,
they’re bound to know each other sooner or later.
In fact, the athletes were always paying attention to what was going on between Yang Wei and Lin Xiamo.
Seeing Lin Xiamo leave, the athletes immediately began whispering among themselves.
"Do you guys think Old Yang succeeded?"
"Totally not, she didn’t even pull out her phone!"
"Old Yang is just a toad trying to eat swan meat!"
"But they did seem to talk for quite a while, and Old Yang looked quite animated!"
"They did talk for a while, but it was all Old Yang doing the talking, didn’t you see!"
"Haha, Old Yang is a seasoned bootlicker. Wasn’t he pursuing that music teacher from sophomore year before, and now he has a new target."
"..."
The athletes privately called Yang Wei "Old Yang," and their coach’s romantic life was one of their usual gossip topics.
"Brother Xiao, why did that woman look so familiar to me just now?"
"Have we seen her somewhere before?"
Wang Yunpeng, running at the back with Shen Yixiao, whispered.
"Of course, you’ve seen her, she even treated you to pizza!"
Shen Yixiao shrugged lightly.
"Er..."
"She treated me to pizza?"
Wang Yunpeng was stunned for a moment, but then his face quickly showed a look of realization: "It’s your aunt!"
"She had long hair before, now it’s short."
"No wonder she looked so familiar!"
Shh!
Shen Yixiao made a silencing gesture: "Don’t tell anyone, or if Old Yang that bootlicker finds out, he’ll pester me every day to introduce him to my aunt."
"Haha, absolutely!"
Wang Yunpeng teased cheerfully, "Look at Old Yang, he’s still reluctant to part with her!"
"He’s just like a giant teddy bear, can’t move when he sees a beauty!"
In the teaching building.
Lin Xiamo first made a round on the floors where the first-year and second-year students were located, then walked up the stairs to the floor where the third years were.
As she was walking up, there was the sound of rapid footsteps coming from behind her on the stairs.
Clearly, some students were late for morning self-study and were rushing up the stairs, accompanied by the sound of a father-daughter conversation.
"Dad, can you be earlier next time, or I won’t go with you. I’m late for morning study!"
"I wonder if Teacher Zhang is there yet, if she catches me, I might be made to stand in the hallway!"
"Your Teacher Zhang is something else, in the third year and she still does that stand-in-the-hallway punishment!"
"No need to worry, I’ll explain it for you."
"You should explain, who told you to stay in the bathroom, knowing full well we had school."
"Is it my fault?"
"Your grandpa wouldn’t come out of the bathroom while watching a female host dance, I couldn’t just drag him out!"
The voices, naturally, belonged to Shen Qiushan and Shen Yanran, the father and daughter.
Ever since Shen Yixiao started training with the athletes, it’s been the father and daughter commuting together in the mornings.
Today, they left a bit late, and thus were both late.
"A- Aunt?"
Shen Yanran, running ahead, almost bumped into Lin Xiamo. She was about to apologize.
Upon realizing the person she almost bumped into was her aunt, she was naturally very surprised.
"I’ve been transferred to work at your school, don’t call me aunt at school from now on."
"Also, don’t tell anyone about our relationship."
Lin Xiamo softly advised.
"Ah?"
Shen Yanran was startled at first; she didn’t expect her aunt to be transferred to her school.
Though she quickly nodded: "Okay, got it."
"Go on to class."
"Be earlier next time!"
Lin Xiamo waved lightly.
"Uh-huh."
"I’m going."
Shen Yanran responded and then ran toward Class 2 of the third year.
After watching her niece leave, Lin Xiamo turned to look at Shen Qiushan behind her, "I heard you’re going to have a vocabulary contest with the athletes?"
Shen Qiushan smiled and nodded: "The principal is very responsible!"
"Just started here and already knows about this."
"Do you even know English?"
When Yang Wei was narrating the story of Shen Qiushan and the athletes, a big question mark formed in Lin Xiamo’s mind.
In her impression, this unreliable brother-in-law was basically illiterate, so when she heard he was having a vocabulary contest with students, she found it utterly ridiculous.
No matter how you look at it, those athletic students, as third-year students, should have a bigger vocabulary than Shen Qiushan, this "old illiterate"!
