CH 7

He looked at the sign of Class 1 Fifth Grade above his head, then at the hustle and bustle inside the classroom. Yu Xiao remained rooted in his position. Based on the class number written on his homework book, it was indeed the classroom he was assigned in. But the problem is, he doesn’t remember where his seat was. After all, for him, more than twenty years had passed.

And if he enters the classroom now and pulls a random person to casually ask: Hello classmate, do you know where my seat is? That scene would be really ridiculous. Besides, he doesn’t remember the names of his classmates in his fifth grade.

A sigh escaped from Yu Xiao’s lips. He thought in his head: Should he stay at the door and wait until all his classmates have entered before walking inside to see which seat was still vacant? If a seat was really empty, then that only means that it was his seat!

But before he could put his plan into action, a sudden force on his back caused him to stumble a few steps forward, almost making him fall to the ground. A voice that was unfamiliar yet familiar to him rang out. “Yo! Xiao Yuzi, you boy finally went to school.”

Yu Xiao turned his head and stared at the person who was currently pressing on his back at this time. After a few moments of thinking in his head, he asked hesitantly, “Fan Lie?”

“What’s wrong with you? You boy, why do you have such an expression? Could it be you have lost your memory? You don’t even recognize me?” Fan Lie jumped off from his back and stretched out his hand to wrap around Yu Xiao’s neck. “By the way, we haven’t seen each other for more than a week.”

It was not just more than a week. We haven’t seen each other for more than ten years, Yu Xiao thought secretly.

As his friend and classmate from elementary until high school, what Yu Xiao regretted the most was that he chose to be away from these good people after meeting ‘him’. It was not until two years before his death that he was able to meet them again.

He have to say that when two good friends saw each other again after many years, even after meeting again, the bond was still there.

Looking at his friend who obviously had a younger appearance, Yu Xiao’s heart was filled with sourness and his eyes started to get slightly wet.

“Hey, hey, Xiao Yuzi, don’t scare me. I didn’t bully you at all!” When Fan Lie saw that Yu Xiao’s eyes were becoming wet, he immediately panicked. “Why are you crying? Did I do something wrong? Or did I jump on your back too hard? Are you hurt somewhere?”

Yu Xiao couldn’t stop his loud laugh when he saw his friend’s panicking look. Upon hearing his laugh, Fan Lie was in dazed for a while. Then as if a switch had turned on, he yelled at him and ruffled his hair hard.

“Fan Lie, what are you doing? Are you bullying Xiao Yuzi again?” A voice full of scolding tone sounded behind them. At the same time, a force slapped away Fan Lie’s hand that kept messing Yu Xiao’s hair. “Yuzi, don’t be afraid. You can tell me, and I will avenge you!”

Yu Xiao lifted up his head and looked at the person who just arrived. It turned out to be another friend of his– Hao Ren. Just like his name, he was a kind-hearted person, but his kindness was only limited to his friends and brothers he recognized.

At this time, Hao Ren, who had a height of 1.6 meters at such a young age, stood out from the crowd amongst the fifth grade students who were only 1.5 meters. In addition, he followed his father’s appearance, looking very tough and strong. To describe him in two words, he was tall and strong!

Having been neighbors with Yu Xiao from when he was still a little, Hao Ren had long since regarded him as his younger brother. Especially after his parents always lamented at how hard Yu Xiao’s mother’s life was, he unknowingly developed a protective feeling for this poor child. The thing that he couldn’t bear to see the most was Yu Xiao being bullied. If it wasn’t for the fact that he was still young, he would have directly beaten that scumbag father of Yu Xiao.

“You got it wrong, Brother Ren.” Yu Xiao had long regarded Hao Ren as his older brother. He looked at him and saw him staring at Fan Lie with a pair of fierce eyes. He hurriedly explained, “Fan Lie is just playing with me. Don’t take it seriously.”

“Really?” Hao Ren took a deep look at Fan Lie with an expression of not believing on his face. This kid had always been a displeasing existence in his eyes starting from first grade and sure enough, his feelings was right. He robbed off Yuzi from him in first grade. If it wasn’t for giving Yu Xiao any face, he really wanted to beat this stupid kid.

Fan Lie deliberately rubbed his hand that had just been slapped away and said to Yu Xiao pitifully, “Xiao Yuzi, look at this savage man. My hands were hurt by him. We are just playing, but this man is just too nosy to meddle with our business. We don’t have to care about him.”

Seeing the fighting posture of the two, Yu Xiao stepped forward and stood between them. Afterwards, he dragged them into the classroom. “Alright, you two, let’s go in quickly. The class will start soon.”

“That is to say, we better go in quickly. Hmp!” Fan Lie directly pulled Yu Xiao to a table, and said proudly, “Come on, Xiao Yuzi. Let’s sit down quickly. The teacher is coming.”

Hao Ren looked at his smug appearance and had an urge to punch his face for a while. He clenched his fist and touched Yu Xiao’s head before walking away after giving Fan Lie a death stare. He walked directly to the last row and sat down. The seat arrangements were placed accordingly to height and he disliked it this way. He also wants to be in the same table as Yuzi.

Meanwhile, Yu Xiao finally remembered that he was indeed sitting at the same table with Fan Lie starting from fourth grade. It was also at that time Hao Ran and Fan Lie became the mortal enemies of each other.

He packed up his textbooks and put down his school bag. Yu Xiao looked at his surroundings and after racking his brain for a while, he had no choice but to give up his plan of remembering the names of his classmates.

Fan Lie moved closer to him and asked worriedly, “Xiao Yuzi, are you okay? I heard from my mother that you fell into the river. Why are you so careless?”

“It’s nothing. I just slipped my foot by accident.” His darkened as he replied nonchalantly. Speaking of which, his cousin was really a casual person. After pushing him into the river, he can still eat and drink like nothing had happened.

Also, his aunt. She was so good that she can give birth to such a son. It was not enough for her to give birth to one child to that man, but she also added another one. In the end, wasn’t she still left behind by her cheating husband despite having his child twice?

He didn’t know what was running on his mind but after thinking for a bit, he felt that having an aunt like her was just as he expected. After all, he has a biased and unreasonable grandmother by his side.

Fan Lie said fearfully: “Then you have to be more careful in the future. I heard from my mother that you almost lost your life. If something bad really happens to you, your mother will definitely be sad.”

“Don’t worry, I won’t make my mother sad again.” Yu Xiao replied with firm eyes. This time, he wants to let his mother live a good life.

“Yeah, I believe in you!”

Fan Lie made a serious expression, looking like a very mature man. It was a pity that in the next second, the solemn atmosphere was broken down by his next words. “This… Xiao Yuzi, you’ve finished your assignment right? You don’t know how tormented I was in the days when you were absent!”

The corners of Yu Xiao’s mouth twitched. He felt a feeling of not wanting to talk with this kid for the time being. He opened his school bag and took out his assignment book. Upon seeing the assignment book, Fan Lie immediately grabbed it and copied the content inside.

While copying, he said emotionally from time to time, “Xiao Yuzi, I really didn’t mean to copy your assignment but you’re really a good student. Yesterday, you even reminded me that the assignment will be handed in today. Oh right, since when did your handwriting become so good?”

“It’s because I’ve been practicing my handwriting in my free time at the hospital.” Yu Xiao casually spout out a lie. It was him, an old man in his thirties, who was so ashamed after seeing the dog-like characters in his assignment book just now. He had to spend a considerable amount of effort just to improve these crooked characters.

There was no way that he would write directly using his own handwriting. Otherwise, how can he explain to others how a primary school student like him who didn’t attend class for a week can improve his handwriting in a short period of time? It was still better to make an improvement little by little.

Not long after Fan Lie finished copying the assignment, a tall young girl with a ponytail tied on her head entered the classroom. Just by looking at the Chinese book held in her hands, he instantly knew this was their Chinese teacher. He remembered that this teacher’s surname was Xu. Because of her connection, she came to their school as a Chinese teacher without any obstruction after graduating from middle school.

Teachers at this time do not need to graduate from university and get a teaching certificate after passing an exam to be an official teacher like that of in the future.

As long as you have connections at school and give some gifts, it doesn’t matter whether you graduated from junior or senior high school, you can directly become a teacher. Of course, others will also don’t care about how you teach the students.

This thing was not uncommon in the towns of City C during this time.

Anyway, it was not the teacher’s fault that a child didn’t want to learn. It can only mean the child didn’t study hard.

The reason why he still remembered this Chinese teacher’s surname was mainly because next year, this girl will deliberately seduced the principal just to compete for the vice principal’s position. It must be known that the principal is already an old man in his fifties, while this girl has just turned adult. The conflict also became big as the principal’s wife was a shrewd woman who was a tough and war-freak person.

In short, the whole incident had spread to everyone in the town. The most surprising thing was when their Chinese teacher knelt on the ground and begged the principal’s wife to let the two of them live a good life. She also added that the two of them really loved each other very much.

Yu Xiao still remembered that after hearing the whole thing, he was so shocked and was left in the state of being speechless for a long time. He couldn’t wrap his mind about how the final development could become like this.

Now, seeing Ms. Xu standing in the stadium and giving a lecture, he couldn’t help but sighed: Girl, perhaps you have a heavy taste and especially liked type of an old men?