Chapter 2420 — Winter Outing
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Oh, then I'll thank you on Han Jingyi's behalf," Wei Zhao said. "Class is starting. Classmate You Panhu, you should go back to class too."
"Ah... class is starting. All right then..." You Panhu was suddenly rather dejected. He hadn't gotten a single word in with Han Jingyi, and had instead dawdled half the day away with Wei Zhao — not only failing to build any connection with Han Jingyi, but losing a whole pile of materials into the bargain first. What rotten luck.
He rose somewhat helplessly and walked back to his seat, and just then Instructor Bai also walked into the classroom.
"Fellow students, I've just received notice from the school. This weekend, our biology department is organizing a winter outing. The location is the natural ski resort in Jidun City, near Donghai City. The department doesn't require every student to take part, but in our major, you all are all the students there are. I hope everyone will go — otherwise our group will be too small, and it just won't be the same." Instructor Bai went straight to the point: "As for the cost, the other majors collect a fixed fee, but our class is different. Everyone can pay whatever they like — no ceiling, no minimum. Those with money can pay more, those without can pay less, and not paying at all is fine too. Whatever's short will be made up from the class fund, and whatever's left over also goes into the class fund."
In doing this, Instructor Bai was in fact trying to get everyone to attend without letting the cost become a hindrance. But anyone who could study in Instructor Bai's class had some influence at home — they were all luminaries of the medical and pharmaceutical world — so a little outing fee was truly nothing to them!
"Ha ha, as your senior fellow student, of course I wholeheartedly answer Teacher Bai's call. I'll put up ten thousand yuan to start — for classmates whose financial circumstances are poor, I'll cover them!" No sooner had Instructor Bai finished speaking than Kang Jinglong declared: "Instructor Bai hopes everyone will take part in the group activity, and we can't let Instructor Bai's kind intentions go to waste!"
There was a reason he jumped up so eagerly to donate. Kang Jinglong had been worrying over how to get close to Wang Xinyan, and now the school had organized a winter outing — how could he not be delighted? He was afraid Wang Xinyan wouldn't go, which was why he deliberately stood up and made that speech — that way, once even the classmates with poor finances were going, what reason would Wang Xinyan have to refuse?
As for how to get close to Wang Xinyan on the outing, Kang Jinglong had not yet had time to think it through in detail — but there would always be a way.
Instructor Bai was rather pleased with Kang Jinglong's gesture. Though he had disapproved somewhat of the harmful medicines that the Kang family's Kang Divine Physician Pharmaceutical Company had put out, Kang Jinglong was, after all, his student, and he did not know that Kang Jinglong actually took part in running the family business — he assumed it was Kang the Divine Physician's doing — so he did not hold much of a grudge against Kang Jinglong.
"Classmate Kang Jinglong has set a good example. But ten thousand yuan is about enough for the whole class's expenses. Since Classmate Kang Jinglong is so generous, then it's settled — no one else needs to pay a cent." Though Instructor Bai bore Kang Jinglong no ill will, he felt that the money in Kang Jinglong's hands was all dirty money the Kang family had raked in, and there was no shame in spending it. Since he was being so openhanded, let him cover all the costs. RQ