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16 Jun 2019
SAYE, Translation
And now that Gu Fei had scattered a handful of candy on his desk for
him to pick out, he suddenly felt very refreshed by the idea.
Coffee candy, milk candy, mint candy, fruit candy… and there was
even a difference between soft and hard candies. He stared at them
for a long time contemplating before picking up a milk candy.
Just as he peeled the wrapper open, Gu Fei reached out again and
took away the remaining ones left on the desk.
“Fuck?” Jiang Cheng froze, remembering that Gu Fei had said, “pick
for yourself’, and not, “it’s all for you” – such tightly-woven logic
made him momentarily convinced. Yet, he could not help but look at
him, “Are you gonna have Wang Jian Lin[1] riding on your coattail
tomorrow from your stingy ways?”
… Sicko!
Jiang Cheng peeled open all three milk candies and jammed them
into his mouth, not sure what else he could express.
The English teacher had a surname of Lu and his class was much
more controlled than Lao Xu in the sense that he made sure
everyone was focused and quiet as birds. This was because he
roared at people, hence his effectiveness in class was better than
Lao Xu.
Even though Jiang Cheng felt that the teachers he had met today
were incomparable to his previous teachers, Lu Laoshi’s[2] class was
exceptionally overdriven. He would wave around his pointer at
anyone who dared to scratch their itch and even asked if they
needed help. It has been a long time since Jiang Cheng was this
concentrated on a lesson and he would instantly be startled back to
reality from the slightest distraction.
The class erupted in excitement after the dismissal bell rang and as if
they had been greatly suppressed, there were even people who let
out a few howls and wails while stretching their backs.
This “you” and this “point” stretched over quite a wide range of
possibilities. Everyone’s head rolled to the back of the class as if they
were passing on hot-potatoes again but Jiang Cheng paid no
attention when he felt their gazes fall on him. He was a newly
transferred student, and the teacher couldn’t even put a name on
:
him yet…
“… ay,” Gu Fei had his head down and was on his phone, but this
sudden outcry made his phone fall directly onto the floor. He raised
his head to look at Lu Laoshi and then twisted his head slightly to the
side in Jiang Cheng’s direction, “He’s calling you.”
Jiang Cheng had no choice but stand, unsure of what this English
teacher wanted from him.
“En,” Jiang Cheng sounded and followed him down the stairs. “Do
you need me for something?”
“Xu Zong was even flaunting you in front of me before, saying that a
Real ‘dot’ Xueba[3] has arrived…” Lu Laoshi said.
“… now, I do.” It was the first time that Jiang Cheng knew there were
people who actually pronounced the dot out loud.
“Our school was a regular high school before, later it was turned into
a vocational high school, and much later converted back to a regular
high school again,” Lu Laoshi said. “So this can’t be compared to
your previous school. I hope you won’t be affected – however you
studied before, you can continue to do so in the same way now.”
“Oh.” Jiang Cheng thought about how he studied before and felt that
this teacher did not know much about him.
“People like Wang Xu ah, Gu Fei ah, don’t provoke them too much,
they’re all a bunch of dawdlers,” Lu Laoshi said. “If I didn’t bring you
out, he’d be giving you trouble right now. His mission wouldn’t be
accomplished without receiving a punishment, also, he already has a
few records of demerits on him.”
“… oh.” Jiang Cheng nodded and thought this Lu Laoshi cared quite a
bit for his students.
“En?” Jiang Cheng was surprised, then quickly shook his head, “No.”
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“Why not,” Lu Laoshi was quite surprised. “I heard from Lao Xu that
you were actually the Class President before, you can’t think a Class
Rep is too tiring, right?”
“I was only the Class President for one semester anyway,” Jiang
Cheng said.
Lu Laoshi stared at him with wide eyes, his mouth opened but no
words came out.
Jiang Cheng mentally sighed and very much wanted to say, ‘I don’t
have a computer right now’, but this Lu Laoshi seemed pretty chill – it
would be bad to reject him again after the first time, so he nodded.
“Something my ass, have you ever seen Lao Lu need anyone for
anything! Probably no more than to ask about his situation because
he’s a new transferred student. They’ve likely finished talking already
but the sucker’s too scared to come back to class!” Wang Xu said.
:
“You want to resolve it here?” Gu Fei, who was quietly playing games
on his phone the whole time, finally popped a question.
Gu Fei put down his phone, raised his head and peered at him.
“I don’t care,” Gu Fei said, “Don’t fight around me. Geez, don’t you
find it bothersome?”
“How about you let it pass,” Zhou Jing said. “You both got a chance
at revenge already, so it’s even.”
“Even my fucking ass!” Wang Xu turned his head and glared at Zhou
Jing.
“If not in the fields then do it outside of the school.” Gu Fei continued
to play his hand game, “Just not near me, it’s annoying.”
Gu Fei looked up as his gaze swept through the front of the room to
see Jiang Cheng slowly make his way back with his hands in his
pockets and eyes on Wang Xu.
“Hiding from me?” Wang Xu sneered, “The class bell hasn’t even
rung yet you have the nerve to come back?”
When Wang Xu finally recuperated and bulged his eyes wide open to
speak, Jiang Cheng had already raised a third finger to interrupt him.
“Three, how you want to resolve this – give it to me straight but if it’s
just fighting with your mouth[5] then I surrender.”
After he finished talking, the class that was waiting for a bustling
scene suddenly fell silent.
Gu Fei’s bent his head back, leaned his body against the back wall
and let out a low whistle.
Since the moment he saw ‘Bu, Shi, Hao, Niao’ in Gu Fei’s family shop,
Jiang Cheng knew that Gu Fei’s seemingly mild, well-mannered and
state of ‘it’s none of my business’ was all a facade.
Tsk.
:
Bluffing as an old immortal free-roaming the universe.
“I’ll wait for you after school at noon.” Wang Xu jumped off the desk
and pointed back at Jiang Cheng while walking back to his own seat,
“In due time, don’t run.”
After giving it some thought, he leaned his head to the side and
asked Gu Fei: “Is this guy the big boss in your class?”
From this distance, he was suddenly aware that the rest on the left
side of Gu Fei’s undercut had three dots, a thirty-two beats rest.
“It means that if anyone disagrees then he’ll fight them.” Gu Fei was
still staring at his phone, his fingers actively swiping at the screen.
“You still play that?” Jiang Cheng could not help but ask.
“En, wastes no brain power,” Gu Fei said. “It’s not like I’m a xueba.”
Everything that Jiang Cheng had seen this morning had already put
him in a sour mood, and now having heard this word, he almost
landed a punch straight on the thirty-two-beat rest on Gu Fei’s
:
undercut.
He gritted his teeth to refrain from moving his hand – one reason was
that Gu Fei helped him when he fainted, two because he just finished
eating three of Gu Fei’s milk candies… does this even count as a
reason?
“To have the ability to directly confront your watery brain can be
considered a courageous act,” he said. “I have faith in you.”
Gu Fei turned his face over to look at him; his face was
expressionless, but his tone was exceptionally slap-worthy. “Good
luck at noon oh.~”
Fuck.
Jiang Cheng didn’t pay much attention to the lesson afterward, his
heart felt suffocated – after blacklisting the family of three, he still
couldn’t help but feel the urge to reopen their -Moments-.
Their relationship was indeed rough and certainly tense as well, but
nonetheless, it was the “home” he resided for decades and they
were the “family members” he had come face to face with every day
– these were not sentiments he could castaway within the next
second.
This form of peacefulness made him feel even more depleted than
being kicked out of the home he had lived in for years.
:
Deciding to forget it and sleep for a bit, he lied his head on the desk,
pulled down his hat to cover his forehead and closed his eyes. He
never had trouble sleeping in a new environment, but he had been
unable to sleep soundly after his arrival.
That was until the bell indicating an end to the last class of the day
had rung and Wang Xu’s palm slapping the surface of his desk did
Jiang Cheng finally straighten his body with a yawn, aching all over.
Jiang Cheng did not make a sound. He shoved his textbooks and
what-not into the slot below the surface of his desk, then picked up
his school bag and stood up.
Wang Xu turned his body around with swag and walked toward the
door. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was wearing a down-filled jacket
and the lack of wind indoors, there would definitely be an aura of
“here comes the big boss.”
There were also three to four people tailing him and based on the
excitement on their faces, it was plausible he brought his little
:
sidekicks along as well. The others who wanted to catch a good
show had yet caught up to them.
Wang Xu looked at the people beside him and glared back at Jiang
Cheng, “Why, scared?”
Gu Fei was still playing the Craz3 Match game that only people
without a xueba’s intelligence loved to play, only having passed a
level did he finally stand up. “Nope.”
“Let’s go and take a look, aren’t you afraid something will happen?”
Zhou Jing said.
“Does it look like whatever happens will happen to me?” Gu Fei put
his phone inside his pocket, turned around and left.
“Da Fei…” someone immediately inched over when they saw him.
“Shh,” Gu Fei stuck his index finger vertically in front of his lips.
“Don’t annoy me.”
The elementary school students had yet to start school today which
meant that Gu Miao was definitely waiting for him in front of the front
entrance an hour ago, therefore, he didn’t have the leisure time to
see Wang Xu get beaten up.
How could Wang Xu, a patient with Zhong Erbing[8] who dreamt of
being a master in the great Jianghu[9], compete with a moody
psychopath?
Once he exited the school gates, a green head whizzed past him like
a sharp blow of wind – a “whoosh” sound emitted from all around.
Gu Fei walked toward the bicycle racks to retrieve his own bike but
just as he swung his leg over the seat, Gu Miao once again passed
him like the blowing winds – only stopping by his side for
approximately two seconds to steal a handful of candies from his
pocket.
:
As he rode his bike to the intersection, Gu Miao was standing on the
sidewalk peeling open a candy wrapper – all the fruit candies had
been specially picked out for herself.
“You want me to give you a ride?” Gu Fei asked. “Or do you want to
follow behind?”
Just when Gu Miao picked up her skateboard and was getting ready
to straddle the backseat, Gu Fei stopped her and held up her chin to
look at the scratch mark on the corner of her eyes. “Was this a
scratch from somewhere or did you get into a fight?”
Gu Miao brought the skateboard to her chest and sat down in the
back with her arms wrapped around his waist.
Maybe it was a scratch, maybe it was a bruise left from fighting with
someone, but whatever the case was, this little girl was dead
stubborn. There was no point in asking and you couldn’t overly
meddle in her affairs – she had to solve her own problems, even if it
meant getting beat up.
“How ‘bout I take you to buy a new pair of gloves,” Gu Fei peddled
the bike. “The little leather gloves you wanted last time?”
But seeing that Wang Xu’s appearance was full of enmity and his
gaze full of persistence, Jiang Cheng stopped himself, not wanting to
anger the guy into tears.
Might as well treat this as a tour then and come back to eat later.
As they walked out of the narrow streetway, the savory scent also
evaporated. Jiang Cheng was unsure of where in the world Wang Xu
wanted to go.
“What’s wrong?” Across from them stood a tall, lean guy who looked
as if he had been in hunger for tens of years, smiling at them. “Are
you going to call Gu Fei? The guy left just a second ago with his little
sister, he probably won’t have the mind to meddle in your lame
business.”
Then he swept his gaze over Jiang Cheng’s face: “Did you find a new
buddy? He must be a kick-ass, with him here you don’t even need to
run anymore.”
“Before, it was actually a crowd of them running away with the wind
picking up as they passed,” a person behind the tall lean guy added
sardonically.
The tall lean guy displayed a face full of mockery as he looked at the
two, “How about I count to three and you two…”
This fist not only smashed the guy’s speech to pieces, but also the
opposing members to confusion.
Jiang Cheng did not stop there – this sort of thing was all about
fighting a quick battle and arriving at a quick closure.
:
After throwing a fist, he grabbed the tall lean guy by the hair along
with his hat and pulled him downwards before letting his knee collide
once again with the guy’s nose.
The strength he used both times were minor. With Jiang Cheng’s
experience, the guy’s nose bridge won’t run into major problems, but
his nose bleed will explode from within to create the effect of
ketchup being smeared all over his mouth.
Jiang Cheng looked to Wang Xu, then as he took a step forward, his
elbow smashed upon an arm that was presumably reaching for a
knife, so taking advantage of the position he was in, Jiang Cheng
smashed the guy’s nose with his cranium.
The person let out an “ow” and grasped his nose in pain.
“Run, you stupid cunt!” Jiang Cheng yelled at Wang Xu as took to his
heels and break out into a run toward the direction ahead.
“This is…” Wang Xu inhaled heavily for a moment, “The place where I
schedule fights with people.”
“Umm,” Wang Xu looked at him and after hesitating for a long time,
he finally said: “For just now… thanks.”
“Thank me for what,” Jiang Cheng fished out a cigarette from his
pocket and dangled it in his mouth after it was lit. “It’s not like I
meant to help you.”
“Let’s resolve the issue between us now,” Jiang Cheng said matter-
of-factly as he checked the time. “I’m hungry, hurry up and end this, I
want to eat.”
“For real, you saw only three just now. Since you beat up Hou Zi until
:
his face was covered in blood, there definitely won’t be just the three
of them anymore if you leave and bump into them again. I… I’ll call
someone over to help.” Wang Xu took out his phone.
Jiang Cheng thought back to what the tall lean guy said previously
and then with scrunched up eyebrows he asked: “Who are you
calling?”
“What the fuck? Gu Fei?” Jiang Cheng immediately felt the skin on
his face swiftly fall to the ground.
[1] Wang Jianlin 王健林 – owner of China’s Wanda Group; this group
has a foot in just about everything – real estate, international trade,
constructions, petrochemicals, chemicals, rubber production,
cables, finance and banking… Jiang Cheng is basically asking him if
Gu Fei thinks he will become richer than Wang Jianlin from being
stingy.
[5] Fighting with your mouth – talking bullshit but can’t back it up
[7] Craz3 Match |天天爱消除| similar to Candy Crush, but it’s basically
a fun and frantic game that needs you to eliminate some seriously
cute animals by matching tiles in groups of 3. Just image Gu Fei
playing such a cute game