Chapter 22: Cheating on the Exam

  "How was I supposed to know? At first, I thought he was an old acquaintance of yours. Now it seems that Fatso doesn't even recognize your brother. Instead, your brother took the initiative to greet him. I don't know what's going on with Fatso, but your brother told me to get along with him and said I'll definitely need his help in the future."

  "Then let's get moving, my brother is a people person and won't fool around. My third sister said seriously to me. "By the way, have you found someone like Liu Kai?" "I've found him, so far I've found eighteen of them, I think it's no problem to bring ten of them," I said.

  "Ten, plus Liu Kai and his gang, plus my brother coming to find you today to make your reputation soar, I reckon this flag-raising is almost done." San Jie felt at ease. "Look carefully, there are still one or two useless little rascals that can be found."

  "Find out who's the weakest, get rid of him, and then we'll talk about raising the flag." San Jie suggested to me.

  "Third sister, I'm not going to pick on the soft persimmon anymore. I plan to take down Gao Tianwei's sharp edge and directly use the Four Great Golden Arhats to take action." I said to Third Sister, "Although the Four Great Golden Arhats have nominally established their own sects, in reality, everyone knows they are all Gao Tianwei's claws. Since Gao Tianwei is making things difficult for me, not letting me raise my flag and putting me in a tough spot, I won't let him off easy either."

  "You think a dozen people can take down the Four Great Pillars? Are you crazy?" Third Sister glared at me "You, you're so naive. Doing it this way will make it easy to fail, don't you know?"

  "Didn't your brother also fail?"

  "You're not my brother, don't think too much, you haven't seen the hardships my brother has endured, I couldn't bear to see you like that--" Third Sister paused and said dejectedly "Listen to me, don't be arrogant, take things one step at a time. My brother came to find you today, you no longer need any fame, so as long as you can defeat a small leader, being able to hold the flag is enough, do you understand?"

  "Okay, I'm thinking about what I said with great difficulty."

  "You don't have to think about it, I'm doing this for your own good. Don't worry about it, I'll take care of this matter. Not everyone can get back up after failing at the flag challenge. If you want to deal with Gao Tianwei, that will take time. You can't swallow a fat man in one bite. When you succeed at the flag challenge, my sister and I will think of a way to deal with Gao Tianwei together. With my intelligence and your foolishness, we'll definitely be able to defeat Gao Tianwei," said San Jie with a smile.

  "I'm speechless looking at you, Third Sister" "Intelligence and talent, plus foolishness? This is so contradictory! If you want to praise yourself, then just praise yourself, why scold me?" "You don't understand, a fool's luck is good," said Third Sister. "What I mean is that my intelligence combined with your luck makes an unbeatable combination, do you get it?"

  Not long after separating from San Jie, Wang Dong really came to our dormitory to find me. In the conversation, it seemed like we had known each other for a long time. After sending Wang Dong away, we took out the list that was previously investigated and prepared to go to persuade each one individually. Of course, I had to go myself, because only this way could show my sincerity. If Liu Kai or Liu Shuai went, the failure rate would definitely be very high.

  After Brother Qiang came to find me, my reputation suddenly became loud in the mouths of campus thugs. Basically, as long as they were thugs, they all knew I had a backstage. Those who didn't know Brother Qiang before also got to know him through mutual introductions.

  In our time, if you know some social figures, who is powerful, who has what kind of background, then you are a cool figure, everyone wants to hear you talk about these things.

  It seems that in our era, understanding the big mess of society is more important than understanding historical greats.

  After the weekend, it's the mid-term exam. I plan to put aside things that win people over until after the mid-term exam. After all, Cao Na and I have an agreement, although I won't be able to get into the top ten, at least I'll try my best.

  I just received my exam number, and I went to ask about the people in front of and behind me. The person behind me is a bad student, with scores even lower than mine, so he'll probably be copying from me during the exam. As for the person in front of me, although she's not a top student, her grades are still pretty good, at least much better than mine. She's a girl named Li Yaqi. When I went to her class, I saw her jumping around energetically, a complete tomboy with short hair and a very outgoing personality. A girl like that is still easy to get along with.

  Luckily it wasn't someone like Cao Na, that kind of cold and book-smart person, there's basically no chance to move them to help.

  The next day, after arriving at the examination venue, I saw another familiar face, Zhang Kun from the Four Great Kings. This Zhang Kun is probably the most impressive one among our group of friends. As one of the Four Great Kings, he has many brothers and values loyalty, but what's more important is that he studies extremely well, always ranking within the top ten in our grade, and every time there are scholarships to be awarded, he gets one. Sometimes when he fights, even teachers feel embarrassed to criticize him or give him demerits.

  Apart from that, Zhang Kun's English is particularly good and his piano skills are also excellent. He looks like a model student. His parents are both teachers, so he has been well-trained since childhood.

  I've always been curious why Zhang Kun became one of the Four Heavenly Kings - even more curious, why he would become a hoodlum.

  The first section tested language, I stole Liu Shuai's small stir-fry, my language level has always been good, it's just that I haven't recited poems and short essays for a while, this little stir-fry of Liu Shuai's happened to make up for my weakness.

  After finishing the Chinese exam, I started to get close to a girl named Li Yaqi. This Li Yaqi was also very outgoing and quickly became familiar with me. She even knew me and knew that I was San Jie's younger brother, but she didn't know about my bad behavior. I asked her if she could help me out during the exam.

  She asked me what to do? Passing notes won't work for her because she'll get in trouble with the teacher too.

  I said no need, just put the answer sheet on the corner of the table, I can see it, and when you finish answering all the questions, put the test paper also on the corner of the table, I can see it by raising my head, is that okay?

  Li Yaqi said: That's no problem.

  The teacher is not a fool, this method only succeeded in one English subject and then it didn't work anymore. The invigilating teacher warned Li Yaqi not to put the test paper on the corner of the table, but to finish answering the questions and check carefully.

  The invigilating teacher certainly knew what we were doing, but putting the test paper on that side of the table was Li Yaqi's freedom, and the teacher couldn't punish us for it.

  One day, my relationship with Li Yaqi took a sudden leap forward. I secretly invited Li Yaqi to have a KFC meal without telling Cao Na, as a way of repaying her for some favors. As the saying goes, "when you take someone's hand, your arm will be short; when you eat from someone's mouth, your tongue will be short." Li Yaqi voluntarily offered to help me ** and said she would pass notes for me when the time comes.

  I tactfully declined, Li Yaqi said it was nothing, as long as the action is quick and the teacher doesn't notice, guaranteed no problem, she has experience with this kind of thing.

  Originally, passing small notes was a common occurrence during exams and few people got caught. Teachers would sometimes pretend not to see it, after all, they weren't the class teacher, as long as you didn't do it too openly, sneaking around, they wouldn't bother with you.

  But we overlooked one person, Zhang Kun.

  At the moment when we were wearing small paper strips, Zhang Kun stood up and exposed us.

  Zhang Kun is a student that all the teachers know, a model of good behavior in the eyes of the teachers. At that time, I wanted to deny it, but Zhang Kun loudly said that I was holding a small piece of paper in my hand, and the paper must have had the answers written on it.

  I was caught, but fortunately, I didn't implicate Li Yaqi, and Zhang Kun didn't bother to expose Li Yaqi either. After all, Zhang Kun's target is me.