Chapter 320 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (31)
Chapter 320 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (31)
Jin Shuhe heard the boys laughing and joking from across the room.
"Oh my! Who is our little Lin sister calling?"
"Our Brother Zhang is talking to you, can't you hear me? Huh? What's with Qiao'er?"
"I..." Lin Zhuoran's voice was tense, and he moved further and further away from the microphone.
Then "beep—"
The call was hung up.
Jin Shuhe had already walked halfway to the playground.
The sun was still hanging low in the sky, bright and clear. Students were scattered around the playground in twos and threes, along with teachers passing by.
But when Jin Shuhe reached the school gate, Lin Zhuoran was already gone.
He stood there, looking around, but couldn't see the girl anywhere.
Just as I was about to call back, a soft voice suddenly came from behind me: "Are you looking for Lin Zhuoran?"
Jin Shuhe turned around and saw two girls, one wearing black-rimmed glasses and the other with a lot of acne on both cheeks.
Jin Shuhe saw these two people when he was on the podium and looking down.
He has an excellent memory. If he deliberately tries to remember something, it's like having a photograph in his mind. He can recall it clearly later.
"Are you her classmates? Do you know where she went?" Jin Shuhe nodded.
"She..." The girl with the black-rimmed glasses lowered her voice, her eyes darting around.
"She left with Zhang Mingxiang and his group! They went to the bungalow area behind the school!" another girl said quickly in one breath.
"It's not that we don't want to help her, but anyone who dares to help her will be bullied by them too," the girl with black-rimmed glasses said, as if defending herself.
Jin Shuhe was not interested in her explanation.
I took a few steps in the direction they pointed out.
The school is located in a remote area. Many students choose to live on campus if they do not live nearby. Students who live even further away choose to go home once every two weeks.
When Jin Shuhe enrolled, he heard that there used to be cornfields around the school, but later buildings were built and roads were repaired so that a few buses could get in.
However, the area behind the school has not been relocated yet. The messy bungalows and illegal prefabricated houses make the alleys a chaotic mess, with a vegetable market in between.
He can now turn back, talk to the teacher about it, and then go straight home and wait for the school to resolve the issue.
If he chases after them, who knows what might happen? He might even get into trouble.
Although he didn't ask Lin Zhuoran directly these past few days, he had kept track of some information.
I heard that Lin Zhuoran was dating Zhang Mingxiang, but they broke up, which led to the current situation.
At the beginning of the semester, Wen Bei mentioned in casual conversation that there were more girls dating in the humanities classes than in the science classes, and several couples had already had their parents contacted by the school.
Jin Shuhe didn't know exactly what had happened, but Lin Zhuoran's closed-off attitude and fear were obvious.
He did what he could, and the current situation has exceeded his initial assessment.
The two girls behind me walked over.
Does your teacher know that she's being bullied?
"No...you don't know, do you? Her grades aren't good, and she's dating. Last semester, her homeroom teacher criticized her several times and said that if she continued like that, he would call her parents."
"Could something have happened to her?"
Jin Shuhe walked silently toward that area, where there was a pile of ruins where houses had been demolished.
In the past, during flag-raising ceremonies, it was reported that students had engaged in group fights there.
Jin Shuhe felt he should go over there because he sensed something was wrong.
It wasn't that he was being overly enthusiastic or trying to be a hero; for a moment, he had considered not getting involved in these matters.
After all, he has already been harassed at school, although it hasn't affected him yet.
But Jin Shuhe hates variables.
From childhood to adulthood, he preferred a long, uneventful life to any kind of change, because in his memory, no change had ever gone in a positive direction.
Until I met Sister Li Ruan.
Jin Shuhe was even more resistant to change. He hoped that nothing would change and that no unexpected events would hinder his plans. He already had a direction in mind.
But he quickened his pace.
As all those thoughts flooded his mind, he suddenly remembered what Sister Li Ruan had once said to comfort him.
"You don't need to think I'm so great or so kind-hearted. You have to please me and respect me all the time. I help you because in my heart, I feel it's what I should do and what's right."
"Everything I did was not only to help you, but also to seek peace of mind for myself. I saw it, but I pretended not to see it. Every time I think about it in the future, I will probably regret it and feel conflicted..."
I sensed something was wrong, but I ignored it. Every time I think about it later, I'll probably regret it and feel conflicted.
Jin Shuhe didn't know what he would have done in the past.
But now, he has to be like Sister Li Ruan...
Most of the residents in that bungalow area have moved away, and the windows of many houses are broken and dilapidated.
Walking through the path in the middle, Jin Shuhe saw the abandoned land, where two or three boys, carrying their school uniforms and dangling them, were squatting there smoking.
When they saw Jin Shuhe, they were taken aback at first, then revealed a mocking smile: "Oh! Isn't this your protector of flowers? What are you doing here?"
Jin Shuhe ignored them and went straight to the walls that had been knocked down. He heard the girl crying.
"Fuck! Are you fucking deaf?"
Hey! You idiot!
Someone threw a still-burning cigarette butt from their mouth at Jin Shuhe.
They chased after him, but Jin Shuhe had already reached the wall.
Jin Shuhe's pupils suddenly contracted. She hadn't expected that in such cold weather, Zhang Mingxiang would be so beastly as to throw the girl's coat aside and tear at her shirt underneath.
Her shoulders were already exposed, and the girl screamed loudly and shrilly. Zhang Mingxiang reached out and covered her mouth.
Hearing the voice, he turned around and saw Jin Shuhe: "Didn't you get enough of being a knight in shining armor? I'm having fun with my girlfriend here, and you want to watch?"
"Let her go." Jin Shuhe frowned.
"Help me! Jin Shuhe! Please save me!" Lin Zhuoran was clearly so frightened that he was incoherent. His eyes, blurry from crying, kept pleading for help when he saw Jin Shuhe.
"You little slut..."
"Let go!" Jin Shuhe shouted sternly when he saw that he seemed to want to attack Lin Zhuoran.
"Get lost—this is none of your business! Don't force me to hit you! I'll make sure you never have a good time again, and you won't even pass the college entrance exam!"
"Someone as poor as you probably can't even afford to repeat a year of high school, right?"
"I said, let her go."
Jin Shuhe completely ignored his mockery and insults, and calmly continued to emphasize.
"I see you won't shed a tear until you see the coffin!" Zhang Mingxiang was enraged. He shoved the crying girl aside and swung his fist at Jin Shuhe!
Jin Shuhe dodged to the side, but Zhang Mingxiang had used too much force, causing him to stumble and become even angrier.
The boys who had followed saw that Zhang Mingxiang had already made a move, looked at each other, and then rushed over as well.
They thought that beating up Jin Shuhe would be a piece of cake; he was just a spineless, bookish nerd, as thin as a stick.
They had bullied others before, beating them so badly that they could only lie on the ground screaming in pain, unable to even stand up.
result.
"state--"
Zhang Mingxiang felt a heavy blow to his back, and he screamed in pain.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that the bookworm was holding... a metal thermos?
He actually knows to bring weapons?
Jin Shuhe specially packed the thermos into her schoolbag before leaving the classroom.
When Li Ruan was choosing a pear, she specifically picked a large one, saying earnestly, "You need to drink more water, and make sure you get enough every day."
It is indeed big enough, and quite handy and powerful.
The other boys who rushed over to help were also stunned; they hadn't come out to fight today.
When they bully others, they rarely start a fight without saying a word like this...
In particular, Jin Shuhe was very fast and hit people accurately with a thermos cup. Although he was surrounded and also took punches and kicks, the others did not gain any advantage.
Jin Shuhe never causes trouble, but he's quite good at fighting.
Back in junior high, he and his dad lived in a dormitory at a construction site. All sorts of people lived there, especially a bunch of kids—big and small, hooligans and thugs…
When they start fighting, it's a huge, chaotic mess. Even little kids, some even in elementary school, dare to use steel pipes they find at construction sites to fight.
Jin Shuhe learned to fight from there, and his methods were much more unorthodox than those of the kids who, no matter how much they misbehaved, still managed to get into high school.
Lin Zhuoran was stunned and sat on the ground crying.
suddenly:
"Stop fighting!"
"What are you doing! Stop it—which class are you all in!"
Several shouts rang out, and several tall, burly male teachers from the school rushed over and separated them.
The group of people were taken back to school together.
The head of moral education was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table and asked each of them which class they were in.
Actually, I mainly asked Jin Shuhe and Lin Zhuoran, those few moral education directors obviously already knew each other.
Fights happen frequently at this school. The most outrageous incident last year was a group fight between two classes right outside the cafeteria, which prevented many students from getting into the cafeteria that day and caused them to miss lunch...
The head of moral education, who was on a Saturday, clearly didn't want to delve into the details.
He yelled at them, "Go home, and we'll announce the punishment on Monday!"
The head of moral education chased them all away and even had several male teachers escort them off separately to prevent them from fighting again at school.
Jin Shuhe had no intention of fighting anymore, and seeing that Lin Zhuoran was accompanied by a female teacher, he left directly.
When I got home, Sister Li Ruan wasn't there. It was Saturday, and she said she was going to the Small Commodities World to see if she could buy some cheap decorations.
When she returned, Jin Shuhe had already ordered takeout according to the WeChat message she sent on the way.
Jin Shuhe tidied up the house inside and out, went downstairs to the express delivery station, picked up the newly arrived flowers, and decorated them in vases.
When Lu Liruan returned, Jin Shuhe had already changed out of his clothes that were dirty from the fight and was washing them in the washing machine.
Ah! It smells so good!
Lu Liruan put down her bag, took a deep breath, and sprawled out on the carpet.
"I took 15,000 steps on WeChat today. I'm about to become disabled!"
Jin Shuhe brought over a can of cola that had been taken out of the refrigerator a while ago and wasn't so cold anymore, along with a small bowl of strawberries.
Squatting by the carpet.
Lu Liruan acted out the scene, her hand trembling as she raised it halfway before dropping it again: "Ah—I'm paralyzed!"
Seeing her looking at him, Jin Shuhe sighed, took a strawberry, and held it to Lu Liruan's lips: "Sister Liruan, quickly replenish your energy!"
"Ouch!" Lu Liruan took a bite, rolled over, barely managed to get up, and went to drink her cola.
When Jin Shuhe picked up the chopsticks, he pulled his sleeve down to cover a bruise on his wrist.
Fortunately, it was winter, so even though a fight broke out, there was no blood. Otherwise, Jin Shuhe felt he would definitely have been beaten up...
Jin Shuhe didn't want to tell Sister Li Ruan about this. He didn't know how the school would handle it, and it wasn't his fault.
Who knew that on Monday noon, Jin Shuhe was called to the Moral Education Department.
The moral education director, who looked impatient on Saturday, appeared very serious today.
Teacher He, the class teacher, was also there.
Jin Shuhe saw Zhang Mingxiang and several other boys, each accompanied by a parent.
Zhang Mingxiang gave Jin Shuhe a provocative look, while Jin Shuhe stood next to Teacher He.
"From what I've heard, you started this conflict?" the moral education director asked Jin Shuhe.
"Although... puppy love has always been strictly prohibited in our school, you can't be with another boy because of a female classmate..." the moral education director said, carefully choosing his words.
"You went and hit them! What you did was too extreme! You even injured them, and now their parents have come looking for you!" The head of moral education's voice grew louder.
Jin Shuhe listened without saying a word. He understood what the moral education director meant: Zhang Mingxiang and Lin Zhuoran were dating, and he had gone to fight Zhang Mingxiang because he liked Lin Zhuoran.
"It wasn't my choice."
Jin Shuhe simply said calmly, "The director can verify this with student Lin."
"What can that female classmate say?"
Upon hearing this, Jin Shuhe frowned.
"You're suspended from school starting today! We'll talk about when you'll be back!"
“I do not agree with this approach,” Jin Shuhe replied directly.
"Do I need your consent? If you don't agree, then I'll call your parents!"
"director!"
Teacher He called out, indicating that the director already knew about Jin Shuhe's situation.
Teacher He pulled Jin Shuhe outside: "You...call your sister over. Suspending school at this time will seriously affect your grades!"
Jin Shuhe fell silent.
He couldn't quite describe his feelings. He didn't regret it, but he felt a bit uneasy.
"My sister..."
"I'll call your sister. It's okay, your teacher believes in you!"
Teacher He knew about the group of troublemakers in Class 14.
Jin Shuhe did not object.
He leaned against the cold wall of the corridor and heard Teacher He's voice coming from around the corner.
"Hello, is this Jin Shuhe's sister? It's like this..."
"Yes, yes, do you have time now? You'd better come over in person."
……
"Okay, okay, then let me know when you get there, and I'll tell the security guard!"
When she returned, her expression was much more relaxed.
"Your sister said she'll be here soon."
Jin Shuhe nodded.
Then Teacher He said, "Your sister told me to tell you not to worry or be afraid. We'll talk about it when she gets here."
Jin Shuhe nodded again, feeling a mix of emotions, but also a warm feeling in his heart.
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