Chapter 42: Return to Campus

  "So it's the Dean of Education! Didn't you expel me? What do you want from me?" Listening to this humble and deferential tone, it seems that Qin Shou has already handled things in such a short time. It's truly admirable, truly swift. It appears that I have unknowingly become a powerful backer."

  "Master Xia, you're a magnanimous person who doesn't bother with trivial matters, so please spare me! Why didn't you mention earlier that you know Director Li? This is really a case of 'a flood destroying the Dragon King Temple'!" The Dean of Studies, let's just call him Wang Tong for now, his tone right now doesn't have even a hint of being a dean.

  Listening to Wang Tong and me speaking, he was filled with disdain in his heart. At first, when he saw that I had no background, he pretended to be fair and strict, even if the head teacher pleaded for me, he would have expelled me. Now, however, he is speaking in a low and humble tone. This situation suddenly reminded me of a line from Stephen Chow's movie "A Chinese Odyssey": "Look at him, he looks like a dog..."

  "Director Li? What Director Li? I don't know, master, don't randomly assign relationships to me!" Although I knew that this Director Li might have a relationship with Qin Shousheng, I still pretended to be clueless. Ha! To put it bluntly, I just wanted to mess with him! As I said before, Xia Tian has never been a magnanimous person.

  Wang Tong on the other end of the phone almost cried: "Young Master Xia, Young Master Xia, please spare me! It's not easy for old Wang to get to this position!"

  "Old Wang?" I said with some amusement.

  On hearing that, Wang Tong seemed to have realized something. He slapped himself twice and said: "It's my fault, it's my fault! I'm Little Wang, Little Wang!"

  Wang Tong suddenly came and shocked me. To be honest, I was just annoyed with Wang Tong at most, but now it seems that things have gotten out of hand.

  "Never mind, never mind. I don't know what Director Wang wants to find me for?" I roughly guessed that Wang Tong still wanted me to go back to school, but this couldn't be said from my own mouth.

  Wang Tong let out a sigh of relief when he heard this: "I was just asking, when will Young Master Xia come to school? I'll go welcome him."

  "This is great, I'm quite happy living at home, but suddenly being sent to school might be a bit uncomfortable!" The loser's pretentious nature has once again sparked my interest in teasing Wang Tong.

  As soon as I said this, Wang Tong became anxious: "You mustn't! My current rice bowl is entirely in your hands!"

  "It was just a joke, Director, why did you take it seriously!" I laughed and felt relieved to death, does this count as a comeback? Does this count as a comeback?

  "Haha, haha, kidding, kidding!" At this time, I could almost imagine Wang Tong wiping sweat while talking to me on the phone. I complained a few more sentences with him and then hung up the phone.

  Then he called Qin Shousheng's phone again. How to say, this time not being fired, all relied on others, knowing the favor and repaying it, I still understand.

  "Is it settled?" Qin Shou's calm voice came over before I could even open my mouth.

  I smiled: "That's it, you've all taken action, is there still no solution to this matter?"

  "I just made a phone call, no big deal." Qin Shousheng said politely.

  Showing off, this is the ultimate showing off! Making a phone call, that's all, damn it! This is the highest level of showing off, this is what we should learn from, ah! High! It's really high!

  "Anyway, thanks to Uncle Qin!" Because of what happened earlier, the distance between me and Qin Shousheng was shortened a lot, so I also pretended to be grateful and called him uncle without losing anything.

  "Hey kid, just stay in school and focus on your studies. I'm busy with some things over here, so I'll hang up for now."

  "Yeah." I had just responded when Qin Shou sheng hung up the phone on me. I was shocked! He didn't give me any face at all.

  Ran to the bathroom, tidied up her hair, and then headed out to school.

  I ran all the way to the station, but still missed it by a step. The bus had already departed from the stop. I was anxious and chased after it, shouting loudly: "Driver, wait for me!"

  In his haste, he forgot to control his speed and ran with all his might.

  "Whoa! Is this still human? Running so fast?"

  "This speed is much faster than Liu Xiang!"

  "Looking at the speed and standard running posture, it should be a national team."

  "This kid is quite something, racing with a public bus! I have to quickly take a video and post it online, it's definitely going to be forwarded over 10,000 times!"

  Listening to the praise of the crowd, I couldn't help but feel a little proud, but suddenly a childish voice popped out and almost made me stumble: "Mom, mom, look! Ultraman!"

  Damn it! I'm way more handsome than that idiot wearing tight clothes and having a face like an eggshell, okay?!

  Ignoring the crowd's astonished gaze, I finally caught up with the bus after a frantic sprint, but damn it... the bus had already passed the stop and wouldn't stop except at red lights!

  Since I've already started running, there's no need to stop now, so I'll just keep running all the way to school.

  Ran all the way to school, of course, there were some onlookers' exclamations along the way, but after hearing them, I didn't feel as excited as before. What surprised me was that I ran all the way to school without breaking a sweat, and it's three or four kilometers from home to school!

  It's not time for school dismissal yet, so the main gate at the entrance of the campus is locked tight. I had no choice but to knock on the door of the security room outside.

  The security guard poked his head out and looked at me: "What's up?"

  "I am a student here." I explained.

  The gatekeeper handed over a notebook and pen from the window: "Sign your name, you can go in."

  Damn it! It's so troublesome, having a closed education system is really suffocating.

  After signing, I handed it over to the gatekeeper, who then opened the door for me. As soon as my left foot stepped in, Wang Tong hurriedly ran over.

  "Summer, you're here!" Wang Tong said with a smile, looking at me.

  This Wang Tong called me Xia classmate, I didn't say anything, after all, I'm just a student too, he called me that, should be not wanting to lose face in front of the gatekeeper.

  He nodded and didn't say a word, heading directly towards the teaching building. Wang Tong saw this and hastily followed him, his face showing some embarrassment as he said: "I called you Xia earlier, it's just that I didn't want to lose face in front of such a small security guard, hope you don't mind."

  "It's all men, I get it!" I said indifferently.

  Wang Tong saw that I wasn't angry, and his heart was delighted. He fawned over me and pulled out an ice pop to hand in front of me: "Young Master Xia, you must be hot from the journey, have an ice pop to cool down."

  I wasn't really in the mood, so I was about to decline, but then I took a look and oh man! It's H?agen-Dazs, might as well eat it.

  Awesome! That's where the tragedy of being a loser lies, and it was dismissed with just one popsicle.

  It's almost time to enter the classroom, but Wang Tong still doesn't seem to want to leave. If I were to enter the classroom with the director of studies, who knows what kind of trouble it would stir up in class? After all, this position is not a small one in school.

  Made up an excuse and sent Wang Tong away, then entered the classroom.

  As soon as I sat down, Zhang Yu that little brat, pinched my neck with his hand: "You stupid idiot still know how to come back!" The fat guy next to him also knocked on my head with a textbook.

  "Cough! You damn idiot, trying to strangle me to death!" He broke free from Zhang Yu's grasp and said angrily.

  "Has the matter of being fired been resolved?" Zhang Yu also stopped joking around with me and looked at me seriously.

  "After some thought, I felt it wasn't necessary to reveal the truth, so I casually said: 'I apologized to the instructor and then came back.'"

  "Damn! This is really surprising, when did that idiot become so talkative? Has his uncle come?" Fatso complained, damn! This kid can only say this in front of me.

  "Listen, I'm going to tell you something serious." Zhang Yu patted me on the back and said solemnly.

  Normally Zhang Yu has a serious face, it must be something big.

  I looked at Zhang Yu and said: "What's up?"

  Zhang Yu looked at me and after a long while, said: "Zhou Feng has dropped out of school."