Chapter 23 Fleeting Clouds and Smoke

  "Oh? What did Glasses say?" Cheng A asked his older cousin.

  "No! It's what Zifeng said."

  "How did he know?" he wondered

  "Hmph, he's relying on his uncle being the school's grade director, thinking he knows everything and bragging about it in class." Lao Biao's face was full of disdain.

  "Hehe, what does the school plan to do with me?" Brother A remained noncommittal.

  "Uh..."

  "What's wrong with just being like this? What can't be said?" Looking at older cousin's hesitant expression, I really don't know where the spirit of fighting went.

  "He said..."

  "What did you say? Can't I be dismissed?" Cheng A was incredulous at his elder cousin's hesitant words.

  "Expulsion won't happen, but he said the school will give you a detention and ask your parents to come to school." Seeing Lao Biao's hesitant expression, Ye Zhen spoke up for him.

  "Haha, it's nothing. Why are you looking so down? It was expected. You guys didn't get punished, did you?" Cheng A asked, not showing much surprise, but instead looked at Little Chicken and the others.

  "He didn't say anything, but it seemed like he was intentionally targeting you. He's been actively spreading rumors in class about what the school is going to do to you... I really wanted to hit him!" Lao Biao said with a resentful expression.

  "Yeah, I don't like him either. He's just a county town person, always looking down on us country folks." Li Ming said in agreement.

  "What's wrong with city people? Without us farmers, they'd have nothing to eat but shit and drink piss!" Even Nie Zheng, who rarely spoke, looked disdainful.

  Seeing everyone's indignant expression, Cheng A knew that everyone was actually taking my side.

  "Why haven't you left yet?" He asked his older cousin in confusion after the crowd had vented their emotions and returned to their dormitory.

  "I'll explain this to your uncle and them, it's all because of me." Lao Biao said with a sincere face.

  Actually Cheng A knew he was afraid of his parents finding out about being punished by the school and getting beaten up.

  "Hehe, this matter ends here. Even if Dad finds out, it's no big deal. At most, I'll just get a good scolding. It's been years since I've tasted Dad's fist, and I kind of miss it!"

  "......" The old table looked at him with a yearning expression and was stunned into silence.

  "Alright, go back to the dorm and sleep now, Glasses Brother will be doing his rounds soon." Seeing his dazed cousin, Cheng A urged him to leave quickly, afraid that he would bring up the matter again if he stayed.

  "Uh... didn't you get into a car accident today?" his older cousin asked with full expectation.

  "...and now I've even been cursed with a car accident..."

  "I'm not talking about that car accident, I'm talking about this one."

  "What crash are you talking about? I don't understand what kind of crash you're referring to."

  "It's just the top student and the school beauty..."

  "What's wrong with them?" He suddenly felt inexplicably strange.

  "They all asked me in the afternoon when they were about to finish class if I wanted to go help you deliver food. Originally, I was planning to come, but looking at their expectant faces, so I said I couldn't go because something came up."

  "Uh... you mean both of them will come to deliver food for me?"

  "Ah, did we crash or what?" Lao Biao seemed to be looking forward to crashing.

  "...the excellent student girl has arrived, as for the school flower..." he said, shaking his head at the mention of the school flower.

  "Has the school beauty not arrived?"

  "Ah!"

  "It doesn't make sense, School Flower has always been very enthusiastic about your affairs." Lao Biao seemed to be thinking deeply.

  "Alright, go back to sleep quickly."

  "Alright, take care of yourself then, I'll bring you breakfast in the morning."

  "Ah!" I raised my head and stared at the ceiling in a daze, already convinced that the figure from this afternoon was the school beauty.

  But what's the use of knowing? They are not on the same parallel line, so it is destined that their intersection in this life will only be this.

  Isn't it? ???????

  "Hey, not bad, like a triumphant hero, so many people came to comfort you old man." Just as he was lost in thought, the voice of Glasses Brother sounded from the doorway.

  It seems like from the beginning until now, every time Glasses Brother appears on stage, it's always a painful and heartbreaking experience.

  "I'll also go take a look at our classmate Cheng A, who has brought such great 'honor' to our Class 1 (2) and gotten hurt. If I don't go, it won't be right!"

  Looking at the "serious" bespectacled guy, if he could choose to bury his head in the quilt, he would undoubtedly dive into the quilt and shrink into a ball.

  "Sorry to trouble you, Teacher He." Looking at Glasses Brother's ambiguous smile, he felt a chill run down his spine and finally managed to squeeze out these words.

  "Oh, you're also aware that you've caused me trouble? Have you realized your mistake?"

  "Right, fighting is wrong, I take full responsibility."

  "What are you going to take responsibility for? What can you take responsibility with?" As expected, when this matter was brought up, Glasses Brother started getting angry.

  "Hmm... whatever punishment the school gives, I'll carry it out, guaranteed no complaints." After saying this, he looked like a hen-pecked wife.

  Looking at his wronged expression, Glasses Brother was stunned for half a day and couldn't find an excuse to continue scolding.

  "Alright, alright, you win. You've calculated correctly that I'll help you get out of this, so now you're putting on a pretentious face? Just wait and see if I'll help you next time."

  The glasses guy said three goods in a row, then dropped a mysterious sentence and walked away, leaving him alone with the two-meter-tall monk who was at a loss.

  The next few days, Cheng A became a unique landscape in the school, with his left hand wrapped in a bandage hanging from his neck and his right hand in his pocket, occasionally scratching up and down. What was he scratching? Don't even mention it, his whole body was itching... It had been three days since he got injured and hadn't taken a bath, if he didn't scratch, others would want to scratch just by listening to him...

  "Brother A, how can you face your parents if you go back like this?" Zhuang B looked at me with the bandage still wrapped around my hand, his face full of concern as he looked at Cheng A. As for whether the worry on his face was genuine or not, there was no way to tell.

  Since that night when Glasses Brother came to see him, there have been various rumors about his punishment for fighting. Of course, he is very calm in the face of everyone's concerns. After Glasses Brother left that night, I also thoroughly understood the meaning of his last sentence. It seems that this time the punishment for the fight won't be too severe, but it won't be too light either. As for asking parents to come, he thinks it's basically unlikely, because three days have passed since the incident and the school hasn't notified him to ask his parents yet, so this possibility is basically not reliable.

  He couldn't help but glance at Qi Feng, who was getting closer and closer to the school flower. This guy was actually the one he had mentioned earlier, and he thought that the outcome didn't match what he had said, so he must be very embarrassed. For some reason, seeing Qi Feng chatting and laughing with the school flower made his impression of him worse and worse...

  "It's nothing, I just told my family that I accidentally fell down the stairs." He said with a calm and composed face.

  "Isn't that deceiving one's parents?"

  "It's okay! That's called a white lie."

  "Older brother, I heard that the Dean of Studies will be reading out our punishment at the school assembly this afternoon." Older brother was shoveling rice into his mouth while looking around nervously, scaring Little Chicken and the others to quickly move their dishes away.

  "Oh!" responded with a grunt, continuing to eat with his head down.

  "I said, old buddy, why aren't you worried at all? We're all anxious to death."

  "What's the hurry? Do you think if we hurry, the school won't punish us?" Seeing Xiao Ji and the others also looking anxious on their own behalf, Cheng A felt a warmth in his heart.

  "Brother A, you're not really going to smash the pot and make a scene, are you?" Since the fight, Little Chicken has also started calling him Brother A, following Zhuang B's lead.

  "I think it's about 80%!" Li Ming said, looking at him and stroking his chin.

  "Is brother so fragile?! It's really annoying... Brother is still a big man, will he be unable to let go of such a trivial matter?"

  "You guys continue, I'll change tables. Little chicken, be careful with that piece of lean meat in your bowl!" Seeing them wanting to ask more questions, Cheng A quickly slipped away...

  "A Ge, his old buddy, damn it... He took away the biggest piece of lean meat again."

  The little chick's angry cry was mixed with the old man's sarcastic laughter...

  As expected, just after reminding Little Chicken, Little Chicken didn't even have time to react before falling into the trap...

  "...". Hearing the little chicken's scolding voice, Cheng A almost turned around and put the rice bowl on its head.

  Sister, if you want to scold someone, just scold them, why drag me into this?