Chapter 72: The Growth of a Rogue

  After parting with San Jie, I returned to the dormitory.

  Today is the weekend, these days are packed with things, I'm exhausted, after returning to the dormitory, I directly fell on the bed and closed my eyes.

  In my mind, those unsolved troubles keep surfacing, such as, Cao Na and I, are we really going to break up like this? No way, I still have feelings for Cao Na, if it ends like this, I won't be able to accept it.

  And also Gao Tianwei, how can I thoroughly knock him down and make it impossible for him to turn over?

  These troubles fill my mind and keep me awake.

  Finally, I pulled out a roasted chicken and several bottles of beer from the cabinet at the head of my bed and started drinking by myself. This was usually Pangs' stash for late-night eating, but since I was alone in the dormitory and feeling rather bored, I decided to get rid of it all.

  Having eaten and drunk enough, under the influence of wine, I threw all my worries behind me and then slept soundly.

  When I woke up again, it was already past 11 at night. Fatso and the others were still chatting and hadn't gone to sleep yet. As soon as I got up to go to the bathroom, Fatso scolded me: "Jiege, you're really too much!"

  "What?" I rolled my eyes in confusion, then came to my senses "Hey, didn't I just eat one of your chickens? I'll make it up to you tomorrow!"

  "It's just a chicken! Just now, Liu Shuai accidentally found the mid-term exam cheat sheet in your clothes, which was carefully made by Liu Shuai for a whole day and cost me 200 yuan to buy." Fatso looked at me with disdain and said, "Jiege, you're too shameless, stealing things!"

  "Right, Brother Jie, isn't this also an insult to your wise and powerful image?" Liu Shuai indifferently chimed in "At that time, I asked so many times in the dormitory, you could have kept calm and not admitted it, Brother Jie, when did your face become so thick?"

  So, Fatso and Liu Shuai started teasing each other with one sentence after another.

  "That's enough, isn't it just a small stir-fry?" I glared at the two of them. "Brothers, if you hadn't messed me up during the exam, and if I hadn't taken away the stir-fry, then the one who would have been caught by the proctor that day would have been you, fatty!"

  "Jie Ge, don't pretend you didn't know, you got caught because you were copying the beautiful girl in front of you, who doesn't know that? And that beautiful girl even came looking for you!" Liu Shuai laughed and said "Is that right, Fatty? What's that beauty's name again? Wasn't it Li Yaqi?"

  "Brother Jie, you're really lucky, you can even hook up with such a beautiful girl just by taking an exam!" Liu Shuai teased me.

  "Don't joke with me! I hate it when men make fun of me!" I said with a serious face.

  "No joke, I'm asking you, Jie Ge, I heard that Xu Long became depressed because of the Grade 2 Rubin incident? Is it true?" Liu Shuai asked me. "And, Gao Tianwei is back, I heard that now Heizi, Gao Tianwei and Zhi Ge have already formed an alliance, if these three swordsmen join forces, our situation will be in trouble."

  "Jie Ge definitely has a way, what are you blindly worried about?" Pangzi glanced at Liu Shuai "It's so late, just go to bed early"

  "Go to sleep, tomorrow we'll take down Gao Tianwei," I said calmly, without a hint of emotion.

  "What?!" exclaimed Fatso and Liu Shuai in unison.

  "This is the time to take down Gao Tianwei? Isn't this seeking death? Now that Gao Tianwei has just acknowledged two brothers, Heizi and Zhige, if we go and take out Gao Tianwei now, Heizi and Zhige will definitely go crazy," Liu Shuai said.

  "Go crazy, go crazy, it's better to be crazy!" I frowned and said firmly "My mind is made up, don't say anything else, just go and do something great, make a big deal out of it, send him to the hospital, make him the next Robin, break his legs!"

  "So ruthless?"

  "Is it fierce?" I smiled slightly "Actually, according to my intention, I wanted to break both legs of Gao Tianwei, but after thinking about it, let's keep a low profile"

  The people in the dormitory, including those two academic tyrants, heard my words and still took a cold breath.

  Both legs are crippled, that's the rhythm of becoming a useless person!

  "If you cripple both of Gao Tianwei's legs, I reckon he'll become a celebrity in our school!" Liu Shuai said with a smack of his lips "Even if only one leg is crippled, I bet it'll be all over the school"

  "What a ruthless person helps is not a ruthless person, my brother said to me before he left: when dealing with scoundrels, you have to be more scoundrel than them; when dealing with ruthless people, you have to be even more ruthless." I said expressionlessly. "If you punch someone and your own fist doesn't hurt, how can the other person possibly get hurt?"

  "Your brother is too ruthless!" Liu Shuai sighed in admiration.

  "Cut, my brother and the others are all in society, we're fighting with our fists, they're chopping with knives, it's not even on the same level. People grow up slowly, thugs too. When we go from punching to bricks, from bricks to knives, from knives to ***, at that time..." I said with a smile "We'll become big shots in society!"

  "Fists, bricks, knives, and guns!" Fat High Sheng looked at me with some fear "Jie Ge, you're not running a fever, are you? You'll end up going in if you keep playing like this"

  "Just go in, what's the worst that could happen? At most, I'll be a good man again after 18 years." I said with an extremely happy face. "I don't want to live a calm and peaceful life on campus, nor do I want to spend this lifetime in vain. Me, Li Jie, just wants a colorful and exciting life."

  "I think your life is already colorful enough" a still awake study freak said with a smile "It's only been such a short time, and you Li Jie have already become the most popular person in our first year of high school. Now when I go out, no one dares to bully me, and some people who are bullied even come to find me, thinking that just because we're in the same dormitory, I can help them, haha"

  "Just ignore people like that," I said calmly. "If you guys were being bullied, I'd be happy to help out, after all, we're in the same dorm and living together is fate."

  "There's no need for Jie Ge to take action. From now on, just tell me directly if there's anything." Liu Shuai said with a pat on his chest.

  I didn't say anything and went to the bathroom, then fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

  Being a hoodlum in school may have this advantage: can pretend to be cool!

  Unless you're like my brother, who was able to take care of a whole street's security in his second year of high school and collect some protection fees.

  Of course, in this society ruled by law, protection fees are all given voluntarily. For example, the boss of that Youyuan internet cafe gives Brother Qiang a little money every month and makes friends with him.

  Those little rascals saw Qiang Ge and You Yuan boss drinking tea and chatting together, who would still dare to make trouble in You Yuan internet cafe?

  In fact, at some times, casual wear is more efficient than wearing uniforms.

  For example, if something happens at a internet cafe and the boss calls the police, it will definitely make customers feel uncomfortable. Places like internet cafes and KTVs are entertainment venues that don't want to see police showing up, and besides, the police's efficiency is so low, by the time they arrive, the troublemaker would have probably run away already.

  Things are different when thugs come, they start fighting as soon as they arrive, and these internet users like to watch fights, which won't affect their consumption mood. Plus, thugs have high efficiency, so the bosses of these entertainment venues all like to spend some money to buy peace.