Chapter 46: The Three Youths

  This serious fight incident naturally spread to the school. The next day, Cen Yanqiu was called to the office as soon as he arrived at school. Actually, when he got home last night, he didn't get scolded less, but when he said a sentence, his father and mother were shocked, and they all didn't say anything else.

  Until now, Cen Yanqiu still felt a sense of regret, wondering why his father and mother suddenly fell silent at that time. He was feeling regretful, not suspicious.

  Actually, the thing is that when his parents saw him coming home with a wounded body, they were very surprised. Usually their son was well-behaved and obedient, so how could he come back from school with wounds? So Lin Jingxian, Jianye's mother, hastily asked Jianye what had happened. Jianye didn't hide anything and honestly told his parents about the fight with his classmates.

  After hearing what Xun Yanqiu said, his father Xun Heyan was furious and scolded him, pointing at his nose without considering his feelings or noticing the wounds on his body. Lin Jingxian also forgot to apply medicine to her son's wounds and just looked at him with a disappointed expression.

  Nor did he know how long the noise had been going on at home, but finally, Cen Yanqiu, who had been silent and bowed his head, raised his head and said calmly: "They said my friend was born to a single mother, his parents were divorced, and he was alone... so I hit him."

  Upon hearing this, Xun He Yan suddenly stopped his scolding and stared at Xun Yan Qiu in astonishment.

  Cen Yanqiu lowered his head again, "I'm going to sleep!"

  Yesterday, Cen Yanqiu said two sentences and didn't even eat dinner. After finishing speaking, he went to sleep in his room and forgot about his homework. He had originally planned to come to school early today to borrow someone's homework to copy, but unexpectedly was called to the office instead.

  Today when going out, Lin Jingxian got up a bit late. Seeing her son about to go out, she hastily made breakfast for him. "Qiu, it's not time yet, I'll make something for you to eat first. You didn't eat anything last night! Don't worry about being late, your dad will take you to school."

  At that time, Cen Yanqiu was already changing his shoes at the door. He didn't look back and just focused on tying his shoelaces, muttering to himself: "No need, I'm not hungry at all! You don't have to make breakfast for me from now on, and I don't need him to send me to school either, I don't want to get used to you doing these things for me!"

  "Qiu, what are you talking about?" Lin Jingyan was extremely surprised again, this didn't sound like something her usual son would say.

  Cen Yanqiu opened the door, threw out a sentence, "Nothing! I'm going to school!" After saying that, he closed the door with a "bang", leaving his mother's astonishment inside.

  In fact, saying that he's not hungry is a lie. Xun Yanqiu just doesn't want to compromise. He knows more clearly than anyone else in his heart, but he pretends to know nothing.

  Now standing in the office, of course, there are also Yang Chengyu and Tan Shizhe. Jin Mingmei sat in front, raised her head, and looked at them with a serious face, "This time, the school leader gave me a face to hand over this matter to me for processing. You say it yourself, why do you want to fight with students from other classes?"

  "Teacher, it's all my fault, it has nothing to do with them. They didn't understand anything and just rushed out, getting in the way!" Tan Shizhe hastily said.

  Cen Yanqiu was also surprised, this didn't seem like the usual Tan Shizhe, the Tan Shizhe he knew was usually elegant in speech, serious and meticulous, humble and gentle.

  Yang Chengyu's mouth still had a faint purplish bruise, although he was usually careless and frivolous, but at critical moments, he was very serious. He glanced at Tan Shizhe with disdain, his heart indeed feeling extremely resentful. He had rushed to help Cen Yanqiu without asking the reason, not expecting that he would still want to take all the blame for himself. Since they had already decided to take action together, it meant they should share the burden together.

  "Hey, I'm also fed up with that group of guys from Class B. You're just a fuse, what qualifications do you have to say it's all your fault?" Yang Chengyu looked at Tan Shizhe with a hint of disdain in his eyes.

  Cen Yanqiu let out a sigh and said, "This isn't the time to talk about that. Right now, I just want to know what happened between A Zhe and B Class's classmates."

  "I'm asking the same thing!" Jin Meimei impatiently picked up where Cen Yanqiu left off.

  Tan Shizhe lowered his head, but fell into silence again. Why did he fight with the people in Class B? This should have been a long time ago. Two classmates in Class B were with him since junior high school.

  Everyone in junior high school knew Tan Shizhe's background, of course, his family was not as simple as what Cen Yanqiu said, he had too many things that he didn't want to tell others.

  Cen Yanqiu looked at Tan Shizhe lowering his head and couldn't help but roll her eyes. How could there be such a person? What's wrong with speaking up? It's fortunate that everyone trusted him, yet he remained silent at this critical moment.

  "Alright, teacher, whatever punishment I get, I'll accept it!" Yang Chengyu also said impatiently, he too had lost his patience. He thought this was the most failed fight in his life, he had found the courage to strike, but couldn't find a reason to do so.

  Jin Mingmei let out a soft sigh, lifted her head and looked at the three boys with bruised noses and swollen faces in front of her. Suddenly, she felt that this scene was very familiar, as if she had seen an identical scene a long, long time ago. She paused for a moment, then said coldly: "No matter what it is, the school will always be lenient. Ningning is sensible, at that time she would run back to school to find the security guard."

  "If he went to call for help every time, the person being beaten would have been killed long ago!" Xun Yanqiu said lazily.

  Jin Mingmei frowned, looked at Cen Yanqiu and said: "It's wrong for Class B students to fight indiscriminately, and the school will deal with it now. However, no matter what, I hope our classmates won't be impulsive and hit people without reason."

  "They always scolded my dad..." At this time, Tan Shizhe, who had been silent all along, slowly raised his head and said in a low voice.

  At this time, it was not only Jin Mingmei, but also Cen Yanqiu and Yang Chengyu who were looking at Tan Shizhe with extreme surprise.

  Tan Shizhe's father has always been a pain in his heart. In the second grade of elementary school, his father did not go out and never came back, but was imprisoned. At that time, his father was deceived by so-called friends to invest, and later others took away the funds, and his father went to prison.

  That was eight years ago, until Tan Shizhe's third year of high school. In fact, even before Tan Shizhe's father was in prison, his mother had already divorced him. After the divorce, she didn't stay with Tan Shizhe anymore, but went to another city, saying it was for work, or rather, to live the life she wanted.

  Tan Shizhe initially lived with his maternal grandfather, but when he was in the first year of high school, his grandfather passed away. After his grandfather's death, he thought his mother would take him back home. However, his mother abandoned him again at his fifth uncle's house. His fifth uncle was a wandering person who spent most of his time running between his daughter's and son's homes, so Tan Shizhe basically lived alone.

  His middle school classmates would bully him, also because of his father's imprisonment. His father owed too much debt, including to a classmate's father. So that classmate in middle school didn't understand things and often looked down on Tan Shizhe, often finding people to bully him. As time went by, the classmates all knew about his situation and gradually distanced themselves from him.

  Recently, his mobile phone was snatched by a classmate from junior high school, who is now in Class B. Tan Shizhe was very angry and fought with him, but unexpectedly, he not only failed to retrieve his phone but also got beaten up badly. That's why he hasn't been coming to school for some time and lost his phone as well.

  Yesterday, at the school gate, I met that classmate again. He brought someone with him and threatened him. If he dared to tell anyone about what happened with his phone, he would tell all the students in school about his father's behavior, making everyone laugh at him. He also wanted to make the animation club members stay away from him. He was so angry that he started fighting again.

  He didn't expect Xun Yanqiu and Yang Chengyu to rush out and help, at that time he was very moved, but also very afraid, he was worried that they would know about his family's situation and wouldn't care about him anymore.