272: Chapter 70: The Principal’s Perfect Measure 272: Chapter 70: The Principal’s Perfect Measure They had gained a lot from this expedition into the Outer Dimension.
Not only had they exchanged for a Martial Arts Secret Manual and established connections within the Imperial City,
But also the armor and weapons of the Rebel Army and its Rebel Leader.
The armors themselves were no longer wearable, all decayed through, but the metal plates could be removed, totaling almost twenty to thirty pounds.
Mainly because the rebels couldn’t afford to wear any decent Armor, most of which were just leather.
The real big-ticket items belonged to the Rebel Leader.
Wang Yunxiao really wanted his two big hammers, heavy and seemingly valuable at first glance, but sadly they hadn’t dropped.
Originally, he felt it was strange to see those hammers because historically, real battle hammers were at most the size of a fist; his pair was just too big, feeling like generals straight from the storytelling stages and operas.
To swing one’s arm is to wield a thousand pounds of strength, handling an eight hundred pound hammer to fight off hundreds!
Latter on, it was proved to be nothing but a boast.
The existence of the Thousand-Year Dynasty and the Great Wilderness Nomads depended greatly on the historical stereotypes they held of each other.
It also reflected the stereotypes most people of the era had about their homeland and the world.
In later historical texts, the loss of a territory the size of a fingernail, or the signing of some unequal treaty, would be harshly documented, with every word bleeding sorrow, meant to make readers empathically feel the anguish, remembered to the bone.
But in that era, if you asked any commoner in the countryside about a territory’s fall, they would likely be totally confused.
What’s that?
Never heard of it, what’s it got to do with me?
The Rebel Leader may not have dropped any weapon, but his set of Armor, when disassembled, still weighed over a hundred pounds.
Previously, Nurse Liu had said that polluted items brought back from the Outer Dimension could be exchanged for meat coupons at a rate of ten pounds per pound of pollution.
This was just a rough standard, for instance, the metal they had confiscated this time was worth more than the corpse of the monster from their last trip.
Nurse Liu estimated for them that a hundred pounds of metal could be exchanged for about one thousand five hundred pounds of meat coupons.
This meant that for the following year, Wang Yunxiao and his brothers wouldn’t have to worry about their livelihood.
For the remaining tens of pounds of metal, Nurse Liu suggested that they save it.
There was bad news too, however.
The bad news was that Nurse Liu also relayed a notice from Principal Zhou, which stated that since they had grown up and gained the ability to survive independently, the school had decided to deduct a portion of their spoils for school fees.
The specific amount would be determined by their final exam scores, with the same number of pounds of meat coupons deducted as points lost on the test.
Even Wang Yunxiao, who faced gunfire and artillery on the battlefield without flinching, nearly had a heart attack upon hearing this.
This was practically taking their lives!
Does it count for every person and every subject?
Wormwood isn’t even able to get out of bed yet, he alone could lose all the points!
The principal truly lived up to his title, you have to admit there was a reason why he could be the principal.
Of all the things Wang Yunxiao had calculated, he’d never expected Principal Zhou to corner him here.
Until the final exams, there was still…
Calculating the time in his head, Wang Yunxiao felt a chill in his heart.
“Yan’er, find some time to give us a catch-up lesson.”
“Okay…”
Chen Yan looked at Wang Yunxiao and his brothers, sighing silently.
She had never expected that these guys would one day take the initiative to study, but knowing them as she did, how much they could actually improve in the remaining month and a half was anyone’s guess.
In the days that followed, everyone threw themselves wholeheartedly into their studies.
Wormwood, who had been left alone in the Special Service Bureau hospital to recover from his injuries, was carried back by his brothers.
He was incredibly touched and had no idea what had happened.
For a whole week after the fifteenth, Wang Yunxiao crazily caught up on lessons under Chen Yan’s supervision.
In fact, he didn’t really need to catch up much.
Wang Yunxiao’s grades were always decent in Chinese, math, and foreign languages, and he was passable in physics and chemistry.
After all, in this era the periodic table hadn’t even been included in textbooks yet, and the content was much simpler than in the future age of intense academic competition.
The only subject he was seriously weak in was history because the history of this world was completely different from the one he knew before he traveled through time.
To be more precise, the history he was experiencing now might not even match the one in the textbooks.
In other families, physics becomes metaphysics in the end; in ours, it’s history that turns into metaphysics.
Incredible, isn’t it?
Hahaha, this is downright absurd.
As for the other brothers, you could only say they were too lazy to study normally, but they still had some basic foundation.
Guozi and Eryang, for example, were tough fighters who seemed impulsive and thoughtless, but after all, both had genuinely attended elementary school.
There was no need to mention Little Gourd and Youtiao, one born into a scholarly family and the other from a wealthy merchant family, whose grades had always been at the top of the class; they could never be considered poor students.
The ones with the worst grades and the poorest foundations were Gangtou, Wormwood, and Loach.
Gangtou had some mental issues, which were innate and couldn’t be helped.
Wormwood grew up in the mountains, and Loach had always hung around his dad’s auto shop; neither had attended elementary school.
If they hadn’t joined Wang Yunxiao’s gang and been led by their eldest brother to study, they wouldn’t have had any notion of schooling at all.
Even if they were forced to attend school, they might have snuck out to continue being loafers.
In the past, as class monitor, Chen Yan had to oversee their studies, but they didn’t take her seriously by hiding behind Wang Yunxiao’s influence, chuckling and joking around.
Now that Wang Yunxiao and Chen Yan stood together, these brothers were in trouble.
“Big brother, I think I need to rest in bed for a couple more days…” Wormwood pleaded softly to Wang Yunxiao.
Looking at the foreign words in the textbook was like having maggots crawling in his eyes.
Being struck by lightning and left paralyzed was less painful than this.
Why hasn’t the President unified the globe yet?
What’s the use of learning this damned foreign language!
“Real men shouldn’t be so delicate!”
Wang Yunxiao consoled him earnestly, “Look at you, handsome and good with a gun.
With a good diploma, won’t finding a wife be as easy as pie in the future?”
“Big brother, I don’t want to find a wife…”
“You don’t want to study, nor do you want to find a wife, so what do you want to do?
Do you want to be the Emperor?”
Under the gentle consolation of his elder brother, Wormwood, with bandages still wrapped around him, held back tears and picked up the English textbook to start memorizing words.
But speaking of finding a wife…
Wang Yunxiao himself didn’t know why he had blurted out such a remark.
Of course, it couldn’t be because he had accidentally flipped through his notebook yesterday and seen a message someone had left.
“Are you there?”