Chapter 20
Seeing Jiang Yu and Jiang Wenyu standing one after the other at the entrance of the men’s restroom, it was hard to tell who was bullying Chi Abei.
Seeing Chi Abei sitting on the ground, crying convincingly, Jiang Yu was numb. He suspected he had missed something; otherwise, why didn’t he see Jiang Wenyu hit him?
Lin Xiu was doing test papers in the classroom. There was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and suddenly someone called out at the door: “Lin Xiu, your little fool got beaten. Come and have a look.”
Lin Xiu: “…”
When Lin Xiu arrived, he saw Chi Abei sitting on the ground, tilting his head and crying loudly, his cries loud enough to be heard ten miles outside the school.
Hearing his cries, Lin Xiu’s first reaction was—he’s faking.
Lin Xiu had seen his genuine crying on the playground that day, and also his fake crying. The current state was clearly not genuine.
Lin Xiu glanced at Jiang Yu, who was standing beside him, trying to suppress his bewilderment, and Jiang Wenyu, who was completely clueless… Although he didn’t know what happened, he was sure Chi Abei was aiming for an Oscar.
Before Lin Xiu could act, Chen Jiang and the headmaster arrived. As soon as they arrived, they heard Chi Abei crying and yelling that he’d been beaten.
The headmaster was most afraid of dealing with anything related to Chi Abei. He could scold and punish those students who fought and made trouble, but what could he do to a fool?
The headmaster asked: “Who hit you?”
Chi Abei pointed at Jiang Wenyu, sobbing: “He hit me.”
Jiang Wenyu twitched his mouth: “Bullshit! I didn’t even touch you!”
Chi Abei cried even louder: “He hit me! He also called me a fool and said I was asking for it.”
Jiang Wenyu wasn’t a good guy at school; such words were likely to come from his mouth.
Seeing the headmaster glare at him, Jiang Wenyu quickly said: “I didn’t hit him! He stuck his finger in the water tap and splashed water all over me. Look, my clothes are all wet.”
Chi Abei sobbed: “Then he hit me.”
Jiang Wenyu: “…”
Jiang Wenyu had never known what it meant to be wronged until today.
Jiang Wen Shi was sleeping in the classroom when someone came in and pushed him twice. He impatiently raised his head: “What?”
The boy said: “Jiang Wenyu beat someone up and got stopped by the headmaster.”
Jiang Wenyu frowned, cursed “idiot,” irritably slapped the table, stood up, and left the classroom with sleepy anger.
Jiang Wen Shi’s classroom was upstairs. As soon as he came out, he heard Jiang Wenyu’s “justification” from afar. He asked the boy who had called him: “Who did Jiang Wenyu beat?”
The boy said: “Chi Abei, from Class 7… no, the fool who transferred from Class 7 to Class 1.”
Jiang Wen Shi: “…”
Jiang Wen Shi came downstairs, pushed past the onlookers, and bumped into Jiang Yu.
Jiang Wen Shi frowned, ignoring him as always. He glanced at Chi Abei, who was lying on the ground refusing to get up, and punched Jiang Wenyu in the back: “Why did you provoke him?”
Jiang Wenyu was hit and turned around to scold, but seeing it was Jiang Wen Shi, he swallowed his words. He was so damn wronged! Seeing Jiang Wen Shi also blaming him, Jiang Wenyu grumbled: “I didn’t even touch him!”
Chi Abei kicked his legs and cried: “You did! You hit me! Ask him!”
If it weren’t embarrassing, Jiang Wenyu would have cried too. He followed Chi Abei’s gaze to Jiang Yu, who was standing beside him. He almost forgot about him: “Did I hit him?”
Jiang Wen Shi’s frown deepened. He couldn’t help but curse Jiang Wenyu in his heart. Asking Jiang Yu about this, do you think he’ll help you?
Jiang Yu didn’t expect to have a role in this; he was stunned by Chi Abei’s crying.
Chen Jiang, seeing Jiang Yu involved, asked: “Jiang Yu, what’s going on?”
Jiang Yu glanced at Chi Abei.
He didn’t know what was going on; it happened so suddenly, and he didn’t see clearly…
Chi Abei sobbed: “He not only insulted me, he also insulted our class monitor.”
No one at school, including the headmaster, knew the relationship between Jiang Yu and Jiang Wen Shi and Jiang Wenyu. Hearing that Jiang Wenyu even dared to insult Jiang Yu, the headmaster exploded before Chen Jiang, the class teacher, could even speak.
The headmaster shouted: “Jiang Wenyu! Is what he said true?”
Chi Abei’s mixture of truth and falsehood made Jiang Wenyu speechless. He glared at Jiang Yu, and unfortunately, the headmaster saw it.
The headmaster: “You dare glare?”
The headmaster’s outburst made Chen Jiang seem much calmer. He asked Jiang Yu: “Is that right?”
Jiang Yu nodded with a complicated expression: “Yes.”
Jiang Yu didn’t have the skill of lying, and Jiang Wenyu did insult him, so he could answer this question.
Jiang Wenyu needed someone to prove his innocence. This “yes,” whether he hit anyone or not, the headmaster certainly wouldn’t let him off.
Jiang Wenyu: “Jiang Yu, you…”
The headmaster: “Jiang Wenyu, who are you talking to like that?!”
Jiang Wen Shi hadn’t slept well, and now Jiang Wenyu was making his temples throb. He pressed Jiang Wenyu down and whispered, “Stop making a fuss! Do you want to get your parents called?”
Hearing about getting his parents called, Jiang Wenyu immediately wilted.
Of course, he didn’t want that. If his father found out he had confronted Jiang Yu at school and made such a scene, he might lose a leg.
Chi Abei understood some of the unspoken secrets of the Jiang family from Jiang Wen Shi’s warning, such as Jiang Fu’s love for face, and that Jiang Yu was an illegitimate child, a fact that remained unknown to many even until his death.
Chi Abei gratefully looked at Jiang Wen Shi, and tearfully pulled out his phone to call Chi Wendong: “I need to call my brother.” I need to make a bigger fuss!
After spending these days with him, Chi Abei found that Jiang Yu at this time, although bad-tempered and a bit picky, was still so naive that he could be easily tricked by him with a few words. The biggest reason for his darkening was that he had suffered too many grievances in the Jiang family over the years. If they hadn’t bullied him so badly, this cold-blooded villain Jiang Yu might have been salvaged.
Chi Wendong had just returned from a business trip and hadn’t left the airport when he received Chi Abei’s call.
Chi Abei said on the phone that he had been beaten and that a parent needed to be present to resolve the issue.
“I know. I’ll be there soon.” Chi Wendong didn’t ask too many details, fearing Chi Abei wouldn’t be able to explain clearly. He asked: “Is Lin Xiu with you?”
“No…” Chi Abei looked around as he spoke. Before he finished saying “is”, he saw Lin Xiu leaning against the wall, looking like he had seen through everything, watching him. Chi Abei froze: “…Yes.”
When did he get here?
Did he see everything?
Chi Abei handed the phone forward, and the headmaster and Chen Jiang all turned to look at Lin Xiu.
Lin Xiu walked over, took the phone, pulled up Chi Abei from the ground, patted the dust off his pants, and said into the phone: “I might not be able to solve this. You need to come here.”
He didn’t know what the person on the phone said, but Lin Xiu said: “Okay, I’ll take him back to class first.”
After hanging up the phone, Lin Xiu told the headmaster: “His brother will be here in half an hour. He asked the school to contact the other party’s parents, saying they will discuss an apology.”
Jiang Wenyu’s heart sank. He couldn’t call his parents; he was done if he did!
The bell rang, and the headmaster started chasing people away. Almost everyone had dispersed, but Jiang Wenyu still wanted to struggle: “What apology? To whom?”
Lin Xiu looked at him: “Apologize to whoever you bullied. Do you need to ask?”
The matter had escalated to the point where the parents had to be called in to resolve it. Chen Jiang said: “Alright, class is starting. You should go back to the classroom too.”
Jiang Wen Shi pulled Jiang Wenyu to stop him from speaking. Passing by Chi Abei, Jiang Wenyu saw the little fool triumphantly raise an eyebrow at him.
Jiang Wenyu almost had a heart attack.
Lin Xiu saw him gloating and patted the back of his head.
Jiang Yu watched all this. He didn’t know how to describe his current mood. Everyone said Chi Abei was a fool, but which fool would act like him?
After the commotion subsided, no one noticed He Chenjiang, who had been standing there.
If he hadn’t seen clearly last night, then he was certain he had just seen Chi Abei’s two different faces, that cunning expression. Was this really the little fool he knew?
He Chenjiang returned to the classroom, and Qin Wanpeng came over: “I heard Chi Abei made a fuss again. I wanted to watch, but there were too many people, and I couldn’t get in.”
Qin Wanpeng talked a lot, but He Chenjiang didn’t say anything. Seeing his unusual expression, Qin Wanpeng asked: “What’s wrong with you?”
He Chenjiang: “I want to go to Class 1.”
Qin Wanpeng was stunned: “What did you say?”
He Chenjiang repeated: “I said I want to go to Class 1.”