Chapter 107 School Anniversary
The day after Qingming Festival, the Zhang family prepared to leave for the city.

The things that needed to be taken had been packed last night, but this morning, Aunt Zhang was still walking from one room to another, looking empty-handed. When she saw Zhang Yunqi, she said, "Help me think again, is there anything I haven't taken? Oh! Look at my memory. I just remembered that I forgot something, but now I can't remember it."

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "Mom, you've asked me about this three times. Everything we need to bring has been packed. Don't think too much. We'll set off when the car arrives."

Mother Zhang smiled and shook her head, then walked to the yard, found a snakeskin bag, packed up all the things that were not needed in the city and would go bad if left here, and sent them to the home of her next-door neighbor Zhang Xiaomei. She also gave the key to Zhang Xiaomei's father Zhang Haijun for safekeeping, and asked him to help look after the house.

Zhang Xiaomei's mother took Zhang's mother's hand and said enthusiastically: "Eat breakfast here, so you don't have to cook and clean up afterwards, which is too troublesome."

This is how it is in the countryside. If you are generous to him, he will be generous to you. If you are stingy to him, he will not even let you drink a sip of water.

After breakfast, Zhang Yunfeng and the driver just happened to arrive from the town in a truck. The family loaded the bundled things into the truck. Zhang Haijun's family also came to help. Many villagers who were eating breakfast with bowls in their hands rushed to the square to watch. Everyone was very enthusiastic. They held Zhang's mother's hand with reluctance and asked her to come back to the village often when she had nothing to do.

When the things were almost moved, Zhang Yunqi jumped out of the truck and saw Zhang Guorui with some surprise.

Zhang Guorui seemed to be just passing by. He stood outside the yard of his neighbor Guohua across the street, smoked a pipe with Guohua, and then went to the field with a hoe on his back. But when he was at the door of Guohua's house, his occasional glances towards the Zhang family revealed a certain kind of anxious yet helpless emotion in his heart.

Zhang Yunqi smiled, turned to Zhang Yunfeng beside him and said, "Brother, you have just passed the first difficulty in this journey to the West to obtain the scriptures."

Zhang Yunfeng looked puzzled.

Zhang Yunqi didn't say anything more.

After packing up their things, the family got in the car.

When the truck started, Zhang Haijun took out a string of large firecrackers from his home and set them off. Amid the "crackling" sound of firecrackers and the admiring gazes of the villagers, the family drove away from the small village where the Zhang family had lived for generations.

The truck first went to Longwan Town Middle School.

Chunlan had to attend evening self-study tonight, so she had to be sent to school first. On the way there, Zhang Ma held Chunlan's hand and gave her instructions, but Chunlan was a sensible and opinionated child and did not show much reluctance.

After the truck arrived at Longwan Town Middle School, Chunlan got off the truck at the instruction of her mother and two brothers, smiled and waved goodbye to her relatives who were going to the city, then watched the truck start, moving farther and farther away on the muddy road, gradually disappearing from her eyes. Suddenly, she couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat and her eyes turned red.

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It took more than two hours for the truck to enter the city. After arriving at the residential community opposite the Education Bureau, the family moved the bundled things upstairs together. Zhang Yunqi ran to the kitchen to make tea for his mother. His mother looked at the huge house and the various high-end furniture and appliances, smacked her lips, and kept muttering how much money it would cost.

Zhang Yunqi had just arrived home and was too lazy to cook, so he found a restaurant outside and the whole family gathered together to have a big meal.

While eating, Zhang Yunqi touched Zhang Xiaoxiao's head and asked with a smile: "Xiaoxiao, how do you feel about living in the city?"

"It's so much fun, so many beautiful houses and cars, and so many great times!" Zhang Xiaoxiao held a chicken leg in one hand and a Coke in the other, and said excitedly with wide eyes: "By the way, second brother, when will you take me to the zoo to see the giant pandas?"

Zhang Yunqi laughed dumbly: "Some other time."

This change of day is destined to be endless...

After dinner, Zhang's mother and Zhang Yunfeng began to busy themselves with the final work before the opening of the family's fish meal shop, as well as Zhang Xiaoxiao's transfer to Gusuling Primary School.

The weekend is over and Zhang Yunqi returns to school for classes.

As the school anniversary was approaching, the No. 4 Middle School began to decorate the campus environment. On April 7, the day before the school anniversary, the No. 4 Middle School began to set up guards at the gate. The number of luxury cars on campus suddenly increased. The school band responsible for welcoming them blew trumpets and beat drums again and again to show the grand welcome. The stadium was surrounded by hydrogen balloons with banners. Zhang Yunqi felt that if he worked harder, he could catch up with the configuration of "Up". On April 8, the school anniversary, except for the third grade of junior high school and the third grade of senior high school, all other grades of the No. Middle School had no classes. Students either studied in class or went to participate in the school anniversary activities.

The school anniversary activities are very well scheduled.

从4月8号下午开始搞校友座谈会，4月9号上午搞校庆活动开幕式和杰出校友学术讲座以及杰出校友事迹报告会，晚上7点则是为期两天校庆的重头戏，将在体育馆举行市一中88周年校庆文艺汇演。

On the first day of the school anniversary, Zhang Yunqi was very busy. In the morning, he went to Wenlou Street to bring back five customized palace fans to school, and then watched the final rehearsal of the dance team in the music room.

In the afternoon, attend a report meeting on outstanding alumni deeds.

The No. 1 Middle School in the city has a glorious history of nearly a hundred years. Many celebrities and some awesome people came out of here. Several big names who are well-known at home and abroad were invited by the host to come on stage and talk about their glorious days at the No. 1 Middle School.

Since they are reminiscing about the glorious days, bragging is of course inevitable. And it just so happens that the alma mater is such a suitable stage, and their qualifications are there, so the big shots on the stage all have an air of being able to point out the way forward and make decisions, which can fool the little fools in the audience.

Zhang Yunqi didn't hear a word.

Do not have time.

After he entered the venue with the free ticket issued by the school, he hung the Jiangchuan News Evening News reporter's card that he had bought for 100 yuan around his neck, wore a black baseball cap with the brim pulled down low, and walked around the venue with a Konica Hexar camera in his hand.

Each guest table had a name tag with the name and title of the big shot written on it. Zhang Yunqi took photos of them openly, not caring about how pretty they looked, but the key point was to take photos of their faces and the name tags.

After the photo shoot, Zhang Yunqi left the venue and found a Kodak photo processing shop outside the school to develop the photos.

It only takes 2 hours for a roll of film to be fed into the machine and for the photos to come out. Of course, since the chemicals used to develop film are very expensive and cannot be reused, the boss will generally be unwilling to start the machine if the number of photos developed is not enough. In special cases, extra money will be charged.

After getting the photo, Zhang Yunqi went straight home and discussed with his elder brother Zhang Yunfeng about going to the cafeteria of No. 1 Middle School to make Qifengdu fish powder the next day.

After more than half a month of practice, the taste of the Zhangji Qifengdu fish powder made by elder brother Zhang Yunfeng is almost the same as his. In fact, it is very easy to master as long as you know the recipe and calm down and study the making of the soup.

But tomorrow's scene is quite big and nothing can go wrong. He still needs to check with his eldest brother about some small details and how to deal with any unexpected situations.

The two brothers discussed until eleven o'clock in the evening before going back to their rooms to rest. Zhang Yunqi lay on the bed and looked at the photos that he had developed in the afternoon one by one. He did not turn off the lights and go to bed until the names and faces of the important people in the photos were imprinted in his mind.

I didn't even sleep for two hours.

He got out of bed around three in the morning.

Eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng had already gotten up and was preparing the ingredients for making Qifengdu fish powder. After Zhang Yunqi washed up, he and his eldest brother moved all the things they needed to the door.

When going downstairs, Zhang Yunqi suddenly remembered that today was Chujian's birthday, so he turned back to his bedroom and put the gift for Chujian in his pocket.

　Please collect and recommend, big-breasted brothers
　　

(End of this chapter)