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"Today is a great day to show off, indeed a great day~"
Chu Yi hummed a tune as he, along with Fan Qingling and his twenty-five disciples, marched grandly towards the school.
During this period, he had been openly leading them in and out through the school's main entrance.
Too lazy to pretend anymore!
The teachers and students at the school were giving them increasingly strange looks.
This Teacher Chu, leading so many students day after day, not returning home at night, what was he up to?
Could it be that the special training method he mentioned couldn't be practiced within the school?
Then what was he practicing with the other students of Class 20 during the day?
It was incomprehensible! Totally incomprehensible!
"Everyone go back to your classes, your teacher is going back to the dorm to sleep. Come early for the afternoon class assembly!"
After entering the school gate with his disciples, Chu Yi lazily waved his hand at them, ready to head back to his dorm.
Just then, an anxious voice called out: "Teacher Chu! Why have you only just arrived? I've sent you so many Weixin messages, didn't you check them at all?"
Chu Yi frowned and looked over to see Wang Yuan approaching in a hurried pace: "Hurry and take these students to the sports field for the physical fitness test!"
Chu Yi was puzzled: "What? Isn't it supposed to be in the afternoon?"
Every Monday, the physical fitness of senior high school students was tested.
But usually, it was done during the afternoon PE class.
Why had it changed to the morning today?
Wang Yuan slapped his forehead, speechlessly saying: "Teacher Chu, didn't you check your phone last night? There was a message in the group! The city's education bureau leaders are making a surprise inspection of our physical education achievements!"
"The city education bureau? A surprise inspection?"
Chu Yi scratched his head, embarrassedly admitting: "I was a bit busy last night, indeed I didn't look at my phone."
"What on earth are you so busy with all day and night?"
Wang Yuan really couldn't understand, glancing at the twenty-some students beside him.
He couldn't fathom what kind of training required taking so many students out overnight.
Chu Yi honestly replied: "Busy cultivating immortality and proving the Dao."
Wang Yuan: "…"
Can't you be serious for once?
Can't you utter a single normal word?
Wang Yuan was truly at a loss for words, and now wasn't the time to banter with Chu Yi.
"Teacher Chu, please hurry to the sports field with them, and Teacher Fan, you too!"
"A bunch of leaders have arrived! The deputy director of the city education bureau, and the old coaches from the city sports team are here! Take it seriously! Don't be so nonchalant!"
After hurriedly explaining the situation, Wang Yuan turned and ran towards the sports field, looking quite urgent.
"In this day and age, why doesn't anyone believe the truth?"
Chu Yi sighed, then wondered: "Why would the city leaders make a surprise inspection of our trashy school?"
Fan Qingling spoke softly: "Because good schools don't need inspections…"
Chu Yi: "…"
That… makes sense!
Irrefutable!
Looks like I won't be getting my morning sleep today.
Chu Yi sighed inwardly, but then a thought struck him, and his face lit up with excitement.
The city leaders are making a surprise inspection of PE, huh?
Physical education? Sorry, but I teach cultivation!
Time to give you a little shock of immortality!
"Hehe…" Chu Yi chuckled foolishly.
His disciples cast strange glances at him, sensing something ominous.
"Junior brothers and sisters, prepare to be showcased by your master like a magic trick…"
Chen Hao said with a wistful tone.
Xu Guanghui muttered: "Why is master showing off again?"
***
On the sports field.
The students from twenty classes had already assembled.
At the front, on a high platform, sat a long table covered with a red cloth, with a dozen leaders seated behind it.
Chen Huaiyu, the principal, could only sit at the edge of the table.
His face bore an unmistakable look of nervousness and urgency.
Nervous because he hadn't received any prior notice about the city education bureau's surprise inspection, it was too sudden.
And anxious because… Chu Yi! Where the hell are you?!
Wasn't it announced in the teachers' group chat that everyone should bring their students to the sports field an hour early today?!
Chen Huaiyu was nearly frantic; he had called Chu Yi over a dozen times, but none went through!
This kid, taking dozens of students out every night and now his phone is off?
The situation was utterly messed up!
The city leaders had been sitting here for half an hour, all the other students and teachers had arrived!
They were just waiting for Chu Yi!
And the students he was with, including Fan Qingling!
Chen Huaiyu wiped the sweat from his forehead, cautiously glancing at the deputy director of the city education bureau, the secretary, and several directors beside him.
Their expressions were calm, revealing no emotion.
But it was clear to anyone with eyes that these leaders were already dissatisfied, even angry!
Who wouldn't be under such circumstances?
"Haha." Deputy Director Song Liang chuckled dryly, his voice emotionless: "Principal Chen, your school's ethos is truly unique. It's my first time seeing a school where teachers and students can't be found during class time."
His secretary also spoke indifferently: "I heard that this Teacher Chu Yi took more than twenty students out of school after evening self-study last week, only returning each morning. What was he doing?"
Both spoke calmly, but the questioning tone was unmistakable.
Their impression of Teacher Chu Yi was already quite negative.
Song Liang and the others were here to fulfill the "physical education college entrance examination targets" set by higher authorities.
Every city, every high school of different levels, had required targets for the proportion of students passing the physical education college entrance examination.
Better schools didn't need to worry too much, as their students already had good academic scores, so PE classes were conducted normally.
But for third-rate high schools like North Hill High School, neglecting PE classes to boost academic scores was a common occurrence.
After three years, one could imagine the students' physical fitness.
Such schools were the hardest to meet the physical education college entrance examination targets.
Hence, Song Liang and others came to make a surprise inspection of North Hill High School's physical education achievements, even bringing along Feng Shikai, a former coach of the city sports team, to provide some physical education guidance.
Initially, they thought North Hill High School would value physical education for the sake of college admission rates.
Instead, they encountered Chu Yi, an incredibly outrageous PE teacher.
Previously, he let his class slack off for half a month…
Then took more than twenty students out overnight for a week?
What exactly was he doing?
Playing around?
Is this what a people's teacher should do?
And today.
They had notified North Hill High School last night that there would be a surprise inspection the next morning, giving the school a night to prepare.
And what was Chu Yi's deal?
Making them wait for half an hour?
Quite the attitude, huh?
Song Liang and the others were high-ranking officials, at least within Shuzhou City's education system, they were among the most powerful.
Which school didn't treat them with utmost respect when they visited?
Today, they encountered a PE teacher who made them wait for half an hour?
One could imagine their mood.
For a teacher like Chu Yi, who lacked any sense of responsibility, they had to enforce discipline.