Under Teacher Cao's 'soothing', the students resigned themselves to their fate, accepting the reality that they had to attend an extra year of junior high school.
After Teacher Cao left the classroom, although there was still some whispering, there were no significant emotional fluctuations anymore.
The stove in the center of the classroom was already built, with yellow mud and straw sandwiched between the red bricks.
The exterior was a bit dry, and in places where too much mud had been applied, it would fall off.
Around the stove, here and there, were the remains that had fallen off after Zhen Yu's group of duty students had swept the area.
Qiao Xian had just given the 'fire-starting roster' to Teacher Cao, which, according to Liu Ting's gossips, was simply a stringing together of the duty student list.
The elementary section of Siying School had a designated person for fire-starting, but in junior high, it was the students' turn to handle this chore.
