Part 2
Zhou Xia turned around and looked at the three of them. There was a moment of shock and panic in his eyes, but he quickly calmed down, twitching the corners of his lips. “Are you here to help them?”
Tu Yao saw Tu Jiu and let out an angry “ying ying” sound. [You big traitor!]
Tu Jiu didn’t dare meet Tu Yao’s eyes. It silently shifted behind Yu An to hide. Once it was completely hidden, it shot Tu Yao a very provocative glare.
Hmph! I have a little cub backing me up now, I’m not afraid of it.
At his feet, a male student cried heart-wrenchingly. The look he gave Yu An and the others was filled with hope. “Save me, please save me. He will kill me.”
Yu An pursed his lips, shifted his gaze from the boy, and placed it on Zhou Xia.
However, he didn’t know how to face Zhou Xia right now. He hemmed and hawed for a long while before saying, “I, I’m not… Zhou Xia gege, don’t do this. My Papa said fighting is bad…”
Zhou Xia looked at him quietly for a moment, saying slowly, “I didn’t fight either. I’m just doing to them what they did to me. Did your Papa also tell you not to fight back when you’re bullied?”
Yu An thought seriously for a moment, then shook his head. “They didn’t say that.”
On the contrary, Lin Huaichen told him that if anyone bullied him, he must tell them, or bully them back on the spot. In short, he must not suffer any grievances.
Thinking about this, Yu An felt that Zhou Xia wasn’t wrong. Looking around the classroom, one could see that these students were mostly just heavily frightened. Even the ones lying on the floor were breathing evenly, having merely fainted from fear. Zhou Xia hadn’t dealt them any lethal blows.
“Then, then hurry up.” Yu An turned around, covering his eyes, deceiving himself. “I didn’t see anything.”
Gu Yixing was dumbfounded. “So we aren’t going to do anything? Won’t the Institute scold us?”
Gu Ersheng: “If you want to, you go do it.”
Gu Yixing shook his head like a rattle-drum. He’d be crazy to provoke this group of terrifying carnivorous rabbits again; he already had trauma from rabbits.
So Yu An turned his gaze to Fu Yunshu, looking slightly uneasy, because Fu Yunshu had always been the one who followed the rules the most.
Fu Yunshu picked up the Snow Snake and wrapped its long tail around his arm, seemingly seeing through Yu An’s thoughts. “The Snow Snake is injured and can’t beat that group of rabbits either. Anyway, I can’t do anything.”
The Snow Snake opened its large eyes energetically and wagged the tip of its tail, gaining a new understanding of this person’s ability to lie through his teeth. But to actually spread a rumor that it was no match for a bunch of silly rabbits, that made the Snow Snake very dissatisfied.
It was clearly the silly rabbits ganging up on it, winning with superior numbers. If it were a one-on-one fight, those silly rabbits would be no match for it.
Smack!
The Snow Snake whipped Fu Yunshu’s wrist heavily with its tail. Fu Yunshu’s hand trembled, and he frowned at it.
But the Snow Snake had already found an opportunity to slither into Yu An’s arms, coiling around his waist, resting its chin on Yu An’s shoulder. Yu An liked being with the Snow Snake; a smile appeared on his face as he petted its small head.
Fu Yunshu: “… Just this once.”
The Snow Snake was disdainful. [Tch~ A little brat pretending to be an adult, truly annoying to a snake.]
Even though Yu An understood, he pretended not to. In passing, he pushed Monday next to Tu Jiu. Tu Jiu instantly dropped its provocative, fox-exploiting-the-tiger’s-might posture, obediently snuggling at Yu An’s feet, pretending it was also a good little bunny.
“It’s a bad rabbit.” Zhou Xia pointed at Tu Jiu. “Don’t trust it too much, or it will make you suffer a loss too.”
Tu Jiu being able to betray Tu Yao naturally meant it could also backstab Yu An.
Yu An shook his head. “It’s fine. If it does bad things, I’ll eat it.”
This was, of course, meant to scare Tu Jiu. But Tu Jiu took it seriously, crying “ying ying ying,” grabbing Yu An’s pant leg. [I am a good rabbit, he’s the bad human.]
Tu Yao bounced angrily. [Say that again! I’ll beat you up!]
Tu Jiu’s backer had abandoned it. Its momentum instantly weakened by more than half, and it stared mournfully at Yu An, sobbing without making a sound.
The conflict between the two rabbits was irreconcilable. Yu An found an empty seat and sat down. Watching Tu Jiu and Tu Yao pulling each other’s ears and spitting at each other, he moved his seat away in disgust.
Zhou Xia continued to hold his pen to complete his list. Whether he was holding a classmate’s head in a water bucket or scribbling on a classmate’s face with a pen, his expression was completely natural and relaxed, as if he were just completing a class assignment.
Time gradually slipped away amidst the students’ sobbing. The afterglow of the sunset faded, night descended, and the lights on campus turned on one by one. The incandescent lights in the classroom illuminated the pale, lifeless faces of the students inside.
Xu Yening still guarded the door. He even had the leisure to bring Yu An dinner.
Seeing him, Zhou Xia’s entire body tensed. “Principal…”
Xu Yening waved his hand, showing him his phone screen. “Don’t be nervous. I’m just here to deliver a meal. This child’s father was terrified his kid would starve if he missed a single meal.”
Yu An embarrassedly took the various lunchboxes. “Thank you.”
Xu Yening looked at Fu Yunshu and Gu Yixing and the others. “If you want to eat, go buy it yourselves. Don’t look at me like a mother hen watching feeding time. You aren’t nearly as cute as chirping chicks waiting to be fed.”
Fu Yunshu: “…”
Gu Yixing grumbled, “Stingy iron rooster.”
Gu Ersheng smiled without a word, covering his brother’s mouth again.
Xu Yening turned and left breezily. “Alright, I won’t disturb you. I’ll be right outside. Call me if you need anything, and wrap it up quickly.”
Zhou Xia stared blankly at him waving and turning to leave, falling into a period of silence.
This seemed different from what he had imagined. Shouldn’t the principal be very angry? But Xu Yening was different from ordinary principals in every aspect. For him to act this way seemed somewhat expected.
“Then let’s eat first.” Yu An had been hungry for a while. He eagerly opened the lunchboxes. Inside were his favorite pearl meatballs, steamed pork with rice flour, stir-fried shiitake mushrooms, braised pork ribs… The aroma of food filled the classroom.
The portions Xu Yening provided were very large, at least enough for three or four people. Yu An went outside to ask the uncle for disposable bowls and chopsticks, distributing the food to Fu Yunshu and the other two.
Gu Yixing sat casually on the floor, eating happily, and started chattering again. “I’m really starving to death. Zhou Xia, honestly, when you locked us in the dorm, you should’ve gone to buy some breakfast. Later we smashed the door and hurried to find you, and didn’t even eat breakfast. Sigh… this food is really fragrant.”
Zhou Xia’s hand trembled. He pretended not to hear anything, casually checking a box in his little notebook.
Yu An also served a bowl of rice for Zhou Xia. The aroma of the food permeated the classroom, and sounds of swallowing saliva rang out one after another. The students had also been trapped since early morning, not having eaten a bite of food.
Faced with the others’ burning gazes, Yu An suddenly found it hard to swallow. He suggested to Zhou Xia, “How about we let them eat first and take a halftime break?”
Zhou Xia shook his head. “There are only three people left.”
The remaining three people had long since let go of their fear and even looked at Zhou Xia with anticipation. One of them asked eagerly, “I know, I know. I poured mop water on your head, it’s my fault. How about… I do it myself?”
Zhou Xia: “…”
His mood was complex, and he dryly spat out two words, “Suit yourself.”
The boy immediately ran to the water bucket, lifted it over his head without hesitation, and with a splash, was completely soaked, foul-smelling dirt clinging to his clothes.
After doing all this, he returned to his seat as if relieved of a heavy burden, waiting for the other two to face their revenge. Once the revenge was over, he could go eat.
The remaining two people looked at each other, somewhat hesitant. They had already realized that Zhou Xia wasn’t actually going to do anything to them, at most repeating the methods they used to bully him back on them.
A docile sheep, even if truly enraged and bearing sharp horns, still wouldn’t dare actually hurt anyone in the end, at most knocking them to the ground.
Yu An took in these students’ expressions, muttered “bad things,” and used his chopsticks to poke a meatball, bringing it to Klold’s mouth.
Klold tilted His head up, eating the meatball contentedly, entirely unconcerned with the petty squabbles between children.
After feeding Klold and Monday, Yu An looked down and saw the Snow Snake, Tu Jiu, and Tu Yao gathered at his feet, gazing with drooling mouths.
In the end, all the little Xenogenics surrounding Yu An got a bite of food. The Snow Snake got a mushroom and happily swished its tail. Tu Jiu and Tu Yao started fighting again over a piece of pork rib.
Separated by a wall, Xu Yening leaned against it, an unlit cigarette between his fingers. He listened to the commotion from the classroom, his eyes lowered.
The teachers in the school naturally knew about Zhou Xia’s difficult situation and had helped him both overtly and covertly several times, even calling him to the office. As long as he admitted to being bullied, the teachers could stand up for him.
But Zhou Xia didn’t dare, hemming and hawing and refusing to speak. Left with no choice, the teachers could only let him leave.
And now, this docile rabbit was also fighting back.
Xu Yening let out a soft laugh. “A bunch of arrogant and domineering little brats. They always have to kick a steel plate and feel the pain before they learn their lesson.”
His phone vibrated twice. Xu Yening glanced at the screen, frowning.
—The Base actually sent someone over personally to apprehend Zhou Xia. Now this is going to be troublesome.
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