Thinking that this person was going to ask them why they had come to the No. 1 Middle School to seize their territory, all those who were lying on the ground mentally prepared their plea for mercy.
They watched the man wander around for a while, then heard him suddenly ask, "Who is Meng Bo?"
The thugs were stunned for a moment, then they all stretched out their hands and pointed at the young man who had been leading them.
Zhao Yuan walked over and kicked him directly: "Get up, stop pretending to be dead."
Meng Bo stood up shakily.
Zhao Yuan used a stick to lift the man's chin, looked him over, and then touched his chin, clicking his tongue: "He's not exactly good-looking either..."
Meng Bo: "..." Damn it, a taxi driver can be killed but not humiliated.
Yang Ge: "..." That's so damn insidious.
Zhao Yuan clearly knew Meng Bo. When he was beating him up, he hit everyone else on the body, but he hit Meng Bo in the face. He beat Meng Bo until his head looked like a pig's head, and now he was making a serious comment, "He's not that good-looking."
That's so shameless!
Actually, aside from the marks on his face from the beating, Meng Bo is quite good-looking. Coupled with his gangster identity, he has a kind of handsome roguish charm.
Zhao Yuan looked him over and over and had to admit that, in terms of facial features, this person did seem to be a bit more handsome than him.
With that thought, Zhao Yuan lost control of his legs, and Meng Bo, who had just stood up, suddenly fell to the ground.
Yes, face down.
"Damn it, these guys are scum. They were staking out the school. That bald idiot was even trying to take pictures of girls. One of our guys went to yell at him and got chased for two blocks!"
Yang Ge came over and started complaining, and even offered Zhao Yuan a cigarette.
Zhao Yuan glanced at it and refused very seriously: "What are you doing? What are you doing, kid smoking?"
He now has a deskmate, so he absolutely cannot pick up this bad habit.
Reaching out to snatch the cigarette from Yang Ge's hand and preparing to throw it away, Zhao Yuan waved his hand and said, "I'll go back to my school dormitory first and see if my deskmate has left."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Yuan turned his head and caught a glimpse of a shadowy figure crouching on the high wall behind him.
He squinted and looked over. The person on the high wall had long limbs and was squatting on the top of the wall on tiptoe. The blue and white school uniform pants were pulled up a bit, revealing slender and powerful ankles.
Moving his gaze upwards, Zhao Yuan met a pair of dark, cold eyes.
Zhao Yuan: "..." That's it.
Chapter 21, First Story (19)
Zhao Yuan glanced at the cigarette he hadn't thrown away in his left hand, then at the stick in his right.
He wondered if it was too late for him to cry and say that Yang Ge had forced the stick on him.
Just as Zhao Yuan was pondering the feasibility of this method, he heard that idiot Yang Ge point at the high wall and shout, "Hey, boss, isn't that your deskmate?"
Zhao Yuan: "..." He should have removed Yang Ge from his job a long time ago.
The title of "boss" completely blocked Zhao Yuan's escape route.
But a weirdo is a weirdo.
After his initial surprise, Zhao Yuan didn't react much. He shamelessly ran to the wall, reached out to hug Qin Chu's leg, and blatantly lied, "Classmate, it was really dangerous without you. I was ambushed as soon as I left school, and I had no choice but to bravely resist..."
"Who the hell is your deskmate?"
Qin Chu swung his schoolbag and smashed it towards Zhao Yuan's face.
Zhao Yuan caught the backpack in his arms, and then casually asked with a smile, "What's in your backpack, deskmate? Why is it so heavy?"
Qin Chu sneered, "What did you pretend to be? You just put on a stupid book."
Well, no wonder Zhao Yuan's mission progress didn't change at all after dealing with so many thugs. Turns out he's the school bully himself.
Qin Chu finally understood that when kids get naughty, they can drive you crazy.
Seeing that Qin Chu hadn't replied and meeting Qin Chu's cool gaze, Zhao Yuan's expression remained unchanged, but his feelings were complicated and even a little strange.
He felt a growing unease, yet he didn't seem to be able to control himself from these trivial matters. These emotions were chaotic, but they were like waves crashing around on the outside, never quite reaching the core.
But these emotions were his true emotions, stirring his nerves, even making his heart beat faster, and making what was wrapped in that membrane restless.
"Hey deskmate, I got really badly beaten up just now, my arm is all red." Zhao Yuan started to act pitiful, raising his hand to show Qin Chu the marks on his hand from where he had just been swept.
He knew that Qin Chu seemed cold, but was actually soft-hearted. However, this time... things didn't go as he expected.
Qin Chu leaped down from the high wall, landing steadily. He looked up and continued to stare at Zhao Yuan with his extremely dark eyes, his tone icy: "Keep acting. Keep acting."
Zhao Yuan's heart skipped a beat, and he couldn't quite describe the feeling.
Seeing that Zhao Yuan remained silent, Qin Chu kicked the stick on the ground: "Judging from your performance, you swung it quite well?"
Zhao Yuan was panicking inside, scratching his head sheepishly, "No, no, it's just so-so..."
Qin Chu almost laughed out of anger. He raised his chin, looked at Brother Yang, and asked again, "Boss? When did this happen?"
"No, it really hasn't been long," Zhao Yuan blurted out.
But Qin Chu ignored his reply and simply nodded to himself: "Hmm, it seems it was from the very beginning."
As he spoke, he looked at Zhao Yuan and accused him one by one: "On the way to the bookstore, he pretended not to know how to fight; he probably pretended not to know how to climb walls; and that day outside the alley, you were the one who brought them here."
In the end, the whole place was quiet. Even Yang Ge realized that something was wrong and shrank into a corner like a quail.
Zhao Yuan hadn't even considered how to handle the situation.
Whether he pretended to be a bookworm at school or deliberately concealed his true identity, it was all just for fun. If someone found out, so be it; it wouldn't affect him at all.
At first, I found Qin Chu's reactions amusing.
Unexpectedly, it's so funny now that he's about to cry.
No one dared to utter a sound.
It was quiet all around, with only the sound of the wind whistling through the alleyway hinting at its presence.
Just as Zhao Yuan remained silent, one of the people who had been lying on the ground suddenly stood up and rushed towards him, grabbing a brick in the process.
As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Qin Chu casually chopped with a hand chop, and the person who rushed over fell to the ground along with the brick.
He kicked the man to the ground twice. When Qin Chu came to his senses and continued to deal with Zhao Yuan, he found that the guy had already shrunk behind him as usual, like a quail, and was even hugging his arm.
Qin Chu was so angry his liver hurt: "Let go."
"I won't let go! I'm scared, deskmate!" Zhao Yuan persisted, wishing he could cling to Qin Chu.
You're fucking thrilled by this interruption, what's there to be afraid of!
Qin Chu was seething with anger, but he couldn't bring himself to actually beat Zhao Yuan up.
With Zhao Yuan slung over his arm, he called out to the thugs lying on the ground one by one: "Who told you to fight? Go squat in the corner."
After dealing with the thugs, Qin Chu looked at Brother Yang and said, "You guys, squat down there too."
None of Yang Ge and the others dared to utter a sound; they obediently squatted in the corner, their hands covering their heads.
Forget about resisting; they were already stunned by their boss's shameless attitude.
Finally, Qin Chu looked at the one hanging on his arm, raised his chin towards the corner of the wall, and said, "You come over here too."
Zhao Yuan then feigned pitifulness and said, "No, I'm afraid they'll retaliate against me."
"You fucking get over here!" Qin Chu kicked him, and Zhao Yuan shrank back looking aggrieved.
Then Qin Chu said to him, "Take out your phone."
Zhao Yuan understood immediately, pulled out his e-textbook, and handed his phone to Qin Chu.
Unexpectedly, Qin Chu didn't answer, but instead looked at him with that same cold gaze: "You stay with them."
Zhao Yuan: "..."
What should you do if you are the victim of a malicious attack?
Zhao Yuan began to bargain: "Um... deskmate, I got 98 points on my moral education test in my second year of high school."
Qin Chu was surprisingly magnanimous. He nodded and said, "Okay, you don't need to memorize it."
Then he pointed to the thugs lined up against the wall and said, "You lead them in reading, and you can only stop when they've all memorized it."
Zhao Yuan: "..." He looked at the group of oddballs squatting by the wall. Was this a task that could be completed?
His deskmate's temper is terrifying.
When it was actually read aloud, the atmosphere at the scene became somewhat agitated.
Yang Ge has read all of these; they are so familiar to him, so familiar that they bring tears to my eyes.
Only the short guy, who performed exceptionally well that day, felt like he had once again entered a realm where he could show off, and he was incredibly energetic.
Meng Bo and his fellow thugs, who had never seen anything like this before, were completely stunned by the scene.
A group of people surrounded Zhao Yuan and read aloud to him. Surrounded by people, he even tried to make fun of himself by imitating a broadcaster's voice. His smug look made Qin Chu really want to kick him.
As the thugs jostled and pushed, Qin Chu suddenly heard Brother Yang curse, "Meng Bo, you little punk, stop pushing your way to the front! You can't even read, what the hell are you doing pushing?"
Qin Chu looked over upon hearing the sound, then walked directly to Yang Ge and pointed at the thug next to Yang Ge, asking, "Is he Meng Bo?"
Yang nodded obediently.
Qin Chu raised an eyebrow, instinctively wanting to see what Meng Bo looked like.
Although this guy got beaten up and his face is all swollen and ugly, his facial features are still pretty good.
When Qin Chu heard Yang Ge and the others spouting nonsense before, he thought that what they said was probably a little exaggerated, but he didn't expect it to be this exaggerated.
"Shoehorn face?"
"His head is bigger than a winnowing basket?"
Qin Chu raised his voice slightly, and every time he repeated a key word, Yang Ge and the others would shudder. Zhao Yuan, the culprit, kept his eyes down, solemnly leading the reading, as if it had nothing to do with him.
Meng Bo was first insulted by Zhao Yuan, and then Qin Chu looked at him and said a bunch of words to describe an ugly monster. His face turned purple and then green, then green and then purple again, which was quite a sight.
Just then, a girl's clear voice suddenly came from the other end of the alley: "Cheng Cheng, are you there? Are you alright?"
It was Zhou Sisi's voice. Upon hearing this voice, Qin Chu instinctively tightened his grip on Meng Bo's hair, pinning Meng Bo to the ground.