Shao Zhan suddenly closed in, surpassing Shen Wenhao’s reaction speed. He stammered, “At, at our lodging building, the alleyway nearby…”
Then Meng Guowei saw Shao Zhan directly pass by the class representative and storm out the door without a word.
Shao Zhan usually gave Meng Guowei the impression of cold tranquility, but he hadn’t even seen such an expression of nervousness even at the Olympics.
Meng Guowei wondered to himself, why was he frantic to that point after hearing that Xu Sheng was in a fight?
Meng Guowei forced himself to calm down. He had to face the problem at hand calmly. The situation had already happened. He comforted the panicked class representative while comforting himself at the same time. “It’s fine, since Hou Jun and the others have already gone over, this isn’t a big problem. I trust Hou Jun. That child looks well-mannered and is mature. He’ll be able to handle this issue. I trust him!”
Shen Wenhao nodded rapidly. “Right, Hou ge can definitely hold him back. Even if Hou ge can’t do it, there’s Kai zi and Ziqiang. It shouldn’t be much of an issue with three people.”
Meng Guowei closely followed behind, matching the excellent student Shao Zhan’s steps, heading towards the site of the incident.
Shao Zhan went down the stairs two and three steps at a time, his hand on the railing, until he reached the last flight of stairs where he finally lost his patience and went down the rest of the stairs in one leap.
He initially thought that he would be worried about the things Yang Shiwei was saying to them, but when he actually heard the news, he realized that none of that mattered.
The wind blew.
Shao Zhan’s brain was entirely full of: How is Xu Sheng right now?
Yang Shiwei wasn’t easy to deal with.
Was he injured?
Shao Zhan had never run so fast before. The distance was less than 800 meters, and he had only traveled halfway before feeling his heart palpitate wildly.
Shao Zhan never cursed, but he was now so agitated because of Xu Sheng that he let out a soft “fuck” under his breath.
Was he a fool? Why did he go and start a fight?
Meng Guowei couldn’t keep up with the young man, his middle age affecting his speed. He usually sat in his office with his small belly out, and the sparse amount of exercise he did was not enough for him to keep up with the rest that were running towards the scene.
After Meng Guowei went down the stairs, he gasped, “Wenhao, you run first, don’t wait for me.”
Shen Wenhao halted. “Teacher Meng?”
Meng Guowei fished out a key from his pocket and bent over to unlock the bicycle downstairs. This was the rental bike given to the supervising teachers. “…Teacher is too old, I can’t run anymore, I’ll take the bike.”
“…”
Before Shao Zhan reached the scene, he had already imagined many different scenarios.
But the only scenario he hadn’t imagined was the one in front of him.
At this time, behind Shao Zhan, the rumbling of wheels in the distance stopped abruptly. The rental bike hurriedly rushing in made a quivering and sudden stop.
Meng Guowei, who was riding the rental bike, hadn’t thought that the events unfolding in front of him would turn out like this—
At a glance, he couldn’t even find the mature class president of their Class Seven.
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“I say! Do you even know who my Zhan ge is that you dare to say such fucking nonsense!”
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“You might not know whose hands you’ve died at. How about this, I’ll tell you out of mercy—I am your handsome daddy!”
“…”
In the dim alleyway, it was chaotic with the ten of them, there were just way too many people, and it was a ruckus. There was no way to tell one person from another. In the midst of the chaos, a blue pair of plastic slippers squeaked against the floor and was tossed out, drawing an arc in the air, before falling to the ground in front of Shao Zhan and the others.
Shao Zhan, “…”
Meng Guowei, “…”
Shen Wenhao, “…”
In the middle of the fight, a student wearing the green military uniform of Hong Hai was pulled back by a slender and tense hand, slamming him into the wall and then pressing him to the ground.
Bam!
The youth in the black t-shirt was initially blocked from view by the others, but as they fought, they gradually moved out of the way, and the group parted. The youth had his back turned to them, he had been fighting until his collar was crooked. After he’d pushed the other person down, he slowly squatted down, his other hand very casually resting atop his knee, as though this entire thing had been effortless.
It was hard to recognise the others in the kerfuffle, but this person was very easy to identify.
He could be recognised just from his back alone.
Meng Guowei hurriedly got down from the bicycle. When his feet touched the ground, he didn’t even bother to park the bike, he just tossed it to the side. “– Xu Sheng!”
Xu Sheng, who was pinning Yang Shiwei down, paused.
“All of you stop! Don’t you dare move!”
Meng Guowei’s voice was very useful here. He shouted those few words and everything quickly came to a standstill.
This way, he could clearly see that the supposedly mature President of Class Seven had been fighting until his slipper had flown off, and the other one was clutched in his hand as a weapon, and he was currently slapping people while barefoot.
Meng Guowei nearly passed out.
“I’m in charge of Lin Jiang Sixth High’s Class Seven. Students from Hong Hai, you’d better stop as well, if you don’t, then I will be notifying your school representatives! Fighting while on the base during the National Defense education camp is grounds for severe punishment! You are all still young, you have a long road ahead of you!”
“Lao Meng?” Hou Jun remembered his foolish mistake at this moment. “Fuck, I forgot, I asked Wen Hao to go and find him…”
Tan Kai,” You knew what was happening, why did you want to get Lao Meng here in the first placer? Men should solve their problems with their fists.”
Hou Jun, “There was a mistake in my strategy. How was I supposed to know the people from Hong Hai were so deserving of a beating!”
“…”
After a few seconds, the group of people that had been entangled together finally separated. Those who were lying on the ground also got up.
Xu Sheng hadn’t had enough yet, and he had to finish it.
But he also couldn’t not let go. Once he let go, when he raised his eyes, he saw Shao Zhan in front of him.
Xu Sheng was squatting down, the light from the streetlamps shining into the alleyway as a sliver of light. Shao Zhan stood in front of him, against the light, and neither of them spoke.
Xu Sheng had wanted to solve this stupid problem with Hong Hai before Shao Zhan returned, and had even decided on not telling Shao Zhan that they had come looking for him. In the end, he got caught red-handed in the middle of the fight. “…”
Xu Sheng didn’t continue.
Because Shao Zhan was kneeling down to meet his gaze. “Are you hurt?”
Xu Sheng would have never have thought that Shao Zhan’s first words would be those. It was very obvious that he had been the one pressing Yang Shiwei down and beating him. That question of whether he was hurt would have been more appropriate if directed at Yang Shiwei instead. “… No.”
Meng Guowei just finished calling the relevant people in charge of the base, and had been told that Hong Hai would be sending people over. After Meng Guowei hung up, he interrupted the conversation between Shao Zhan and Xu Sheng. “Xu Sheng! Get up, and get in line. Lin Jiang on the right, Hong Hai on the left. Stand against the wall! You all dare to fight here? Huh?!”
“…”
“Hou Jun, put your slippers back on!”
“…”
They didn’t stand for very long before the Director of Hong Hai rushed over on a bicycle. After more or less understanding the situation, he took all the Hong Hai people back to their dormitories to deal with them.
Those in Hong Hai weren’t afraid of their teachers, so for them to listen so obediently meant that they had been beaten senseless just now.
“And you, Xu Sheng.” After the Hong Hai people left, Meng Guowei turned around to find the culprit of the “scene”. “What a show of your capabilities, huh? These two days, you’ve made a stage for yourself, even praising the school’s fighting skills-”
Xu Sheng’s hair had already dried, and was covering his forehead. The others were standing straight against the wall, but he was leaning on it after a short while.
Meng Guowei, “Stand up straight!”
Xu Sheng forced himself to stand up enough so that he was passably straight.
Meng Guowei, “Can someone explain what is going on?”
No one spoke.
Meng Guowei, “You were all so heroic earlier, now you’ve all become mute?!”
Still no one spoke.
In the silence, to Meng Guowei’s surprise, Shao Zhan stepped out from the shadows to stand beside Xu Sheng. He was still wearing the military uniform, just not as formally as he would wear it in the day. He had unbuttoned it as he was running over, and now his shirt was a little haphazardly open. Meng Guowei watched, wide-eyed, as this excellent student went to stand with the group of fighting hoodlums.
“It has nothing to do with them,” Shao Zhan said. “That group of people were coming for me.”
Meng Guowei, “…?”
His genius young man, the best of the best, the pride of Lin Jiang Sixth… What was he saying?
Since he had been the one to raise his fist, Xu Sheng admitted his wrongdoings. “It has nothing to do with him, I’m the one who fought with them.”
Shao Zhan, “Stop talking.”
“…”
Meng Guowei, who had been furious, somehow became completely calm after Shao Zhan finished speaking.
He had been angry earlier, and had overlooked the fact that there were other students involved. If this had been a normal fight and Xu Sheng had been fighting alone, then so be it, but Hou Jun, Tan Kai and the others would never do such a thing.
Something was not quite right. There had to have been another reason.
Fights between schools should be severely punished, but because Shao Zhan came forward, the situation was much more complicated. Meng Guowei finally waved his hand. “Let’s not stay out here. Go back to your dormitories and we’ll settle this.”
After they returned, Meng Guowei called Hou Jun over. In the beginning, Hou Jun wouldn’t say a word, but he eventually explained the entire incident, and Meng Guowei listened quietly.
Hou Jun, “I originally didn’t want to say it. They were the ones out of line. Apparently they were even Study God’s former classmates. What kind of classmates huh, how can that be?”
Meng Guowei had been teaching for many years, and he had encountered many kinds of situations.
It was usually because of family situations, or being constantly provoked by other people.
It was better in high school. It was those students in the lower years that hadn’t fully matured yet emotionally, and even when there was no ill will, they could still cause trouble for others, let alone in this situation where there was resentment.
Although Meng Guowei didn’t say it, he was quite relieved, but he had to keep things fair, so he still had to punish them. “You still shouldn’t fight! Can you solve problems with your fists?! I want to see four reflection essays tomorrow morning, no less than 3000 words. I don’t care if you don’t get to sleep tonight. You must hand them in tomorrow morning!”
After that, Hou Jun held a stack of A4 papers given to him by Meng Guowei before returning back to the dorm.
“Brothers, Lao Meng said we have to write reflection essays.” Hou Jun sighed and put the stack of papers down. “No less than 3000 words, and we have to recite them in front of all four schools tomorrow morning.”
It was the first time they had to write reflections.
Tan Kai, “Never mind, it’s quite exciting, my high school life is pretty fulfilling now.”
Hou Jun looked around. “Where’s Zhan ge and Sheng ge?”
Tan Kai took a piece of paper. “Don’t know. They left again not long after they came back…”
Xu Sheng had sat for a short while before leaving. He had planned on going to a store to buy some medicine. He had noticed while they were being punished to stand that Hou Jun and the others had suffered varying degrees of injuries, and just as he walked to the entrance of the store, he saw a familiar silhouette.
“Seventy eight.” The boss of the little convenience store passed over the plastic bag. “Here’s your change.”
The plastic bag contained disinfectant and bandages.
Xu Sheng rubbed his nose. Now that someone had stolen the lead, he could only walk back with Shao Zhan. “I was planning on going over to buy some medicine. Hou zi and the others have hand injuries…you’re so fast.”
Shao Zhan didn’t continue the conversation. The two of them followed each other back into the lodging.
Their room was at the very end of the hallway. There were windows at the sides. Xu Sheng was about to push the door open to go in, when Shao Zhan halted his steps and unexpectedly grabbed his wrist, pulling his entire person to the edge.
When Xu Sheng returned to his senses, his back was already pressed against the edge of the windowsill.
Shao Zhan placed the things in his hand on the windowsill, and opened the cotton swab package with one hand while still not letting go of Xu Sheng’s wrist with his other hand. Grasped within his hand, Xu Sheng’s hand didn’t seem like one that could hit very hard in a fight. There was a slight scratch on his protruding knuckles. The wound was very shallow and unnoticeable if one didn’t look at it carefully. Shao Zhan said lowly, “…You don’t even know when you’re injured?”
You two might as well start dating now….
Shao Zhan: Unforgivable!!
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“the wound was unnoticeable if one didn’t look at it carefully” so how long was shao zhan looking at xu sheng
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