Chapter 61 – Left-behind Children
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Xiao Qin definitely restrained herself in language class, she knows that old man Zhang is easily irritated and shouldn’t be provoked, she catches on pretty quickly.
When she waited for English class, she started acting up again.
“Owwww…”
Xiao Qin wrinkled her brows, anxiously staring at me, hoping to catch my attention.
How annoying. You’re English grades are good, so it’s fine if you don’t pay attention in class. But I only scored 6 points on the last test!
I sighed.
“What, does your head still hurt?”
Because of my concern, Xiao Qin beamed, but her smile quickly turned sour because of the pain.
“It stopped hurting ages ago, Sister Ying Ran gave me some strange spray, the wound feels icy-cold, but my lower abdomen hurts…”
It just sounds like a cold spray commonly used during soccer (football) matches. How did the perverted school doctor prepare this? I don’t think the infirmary originally had such high-end goods. Is it because she just got the job and got heated up? In order to get her hands on young boys, she’s even willing to spend her hard-earned cash!
In addition, Xiao Qin, you didn’t even fall on your stomach, how can you have abdominal pain?
“Is it because you ate too much for lunch? Even if the shrimp fried rice was delicious, you didn’t have to eat it all?”
Xiao Qin groaned in protest.
“I didn’t overeat! In order to preserve my figure I usually only eat until I’m seven-tenth full! I’m still hungry now!”
Xiao Qin is indeed a glutton. That serving of shrimp fried rice can pretty much fill me up. I do not know where she is expending those calories.
Oh right, it must have been consumed by her teleportation powers and delusions. I heard that exercising the brain expends a lot of calories.
Seeing that I stopped talking, Xiao Qin sprawled over the table and started painfully crying:
“Sob sob sob~~~~Ye Lin classmate doesn’t care about me at all! My lower abdomen already started hurting last week, I must be terminally ill!”
There is not a single tear on her face, she is fake crying.
“Screw your terminal illness! Do you think you’re acting in a Korean drama!”
It seems like she realized that she was unconvincing and forced herself to squeeze out two tears.
“I got a terminal illness anyway! Everything I say now may be my last wish, you must satisfy me!”
I made an expression to signify disbelief.
“You said that you have a terminal illness, what’s the name of this illness?”
Xiao Qin was momentarily stunned.
“Well… it’s a disease called ‘If Ye Lin classmate doesn’t like me, I’ll die’ disease!”
I don’t have time to play along with her anymore. I will just put her through neglect PLAY, and let her listen to teacher.
If an English student as outstanding as Xiao Qin is playing around during class, will the lonely teacher Yu secretly cry from the bottom of her heart?
In the afternoon, when the second class ends, there is a 30-minute break between classes. Since you don’t have to do radio calisthenics like in the morning, these 30 minutes is actually ‘free time’.
It seems that the State Education Commission believes that students are severely lacking in physical exercise. In the event of the outbreak of World War Three, we might not be able to defeat the bratty Americans. So the school is forced to set aside half an hour in the morning and afternoon for physical exercise.
Half an hour in the morning was taken up by radio calisthenics. In the afternoon, the school does not bother us. For students who like outdoor activities, this is a rare and enjoyable time of day.
During this time, the sports equipment room will also be open to students. It’s up to the P.E. committee member or class leader to receive exercise equipment from the teacher on duty.
The boys are obviously playing basketball and soccer (football). The girls will go play jump ropes, playing with Jianzi (TN: kinda like hacky sack), or throwing sand pouches. Of course, PE committee members sometimes organize the girls to play volleyball, badminton, table tennis, or similar sports.
Xiao Qin claimed to be weak and sickly, she was even excused from participating in physical education classes. During free time, it is basically sitting in the classroom.
Moreover, since she fainted today under the eyes of the public. In the future, she might gain special privileges and even be exempt from attending the flag raising ceremony!
Saying that you haven’t left the house for over three years. Then when you come to school you do not exercise at all. Do you want to throw away your martial arts! Do you not know that martial arts skill will diminish over time?
However, Ren XiaoQin is still my enemy. It’s only advantageous for me if the enemy’s martial arts have become worse.
Before leaving to play basketball, I put the Bible and the checkered sheets on Xiao Qin’s desk and asked her to finish copying this weeks’ amount.
“What are you even using this for!”
Xiao Qin came to me with a rare complaint.
“My stomach hurts, can I copy it later?”
I think she is definitely feigning illness, and unknowingly the tone of my voice became more stern:
“No! You’re gonna be sitting in the classroom anyways with nothing to do! So you better copy! Same rules as last time, continue writing after 10 pages, and slightly improve your writing every 10 pages! Understand?”
Xiao Qin nodded, full of grievance. She leaned over the table and started copying.
Eh? I didn’t expect it to feel so good when ordering people around! Especially the Little Tyrant who abused me during my youth. Now she has to listen to me, times really do change, today I am the king, ahhahahahahaha—
As a result, I did not get to play basketball.
The school basketball team seems to have been called by the coach to go to a meeting, leaving all the amateur players. Whether or not if we were in the same grade, none of them dared to play with me.
They always felt that if I was allowed to play, I would commit all kinds of fouls and play violently. If by chance they do win, they think they will get beat up.
Although if I insisted on playing, they would not disagree, but it is really boring to compete with people who are afraid of confronting you.
I had to walk laps around the playground bored silly. I bought a bottle of mineral water to drink while walking. When I saw a group of juniors playing soccer (football), I wholeheartedly wished they wouldn’t hit their eggs.
“Brother Ye Lin! There you are here! It took a while to find you!”
I knew without even turning around that the brother of the class leader, Shu Zhe, is coming.
His face was white and clean, without even a speck of dirt on his sportswear. It seems like he did not participate in any physical activities.
“Who told you come? Haven’t you caused enough trouble for your sister?”
I sat down by the flowerbed while deriding him, and Shu Zhe also sat next to me.
I have to reduce the area I can get hit. Just in case Shu Sha sees her brother with me, she might just shoot me, even if it was just bean bags and volleyball it would be too much.
“Brother Ye Lin, I don’t want to trouble my sister either, but there’s no other way! Who told her to be that strict!”
Shu Zhe’s complaints made me learn things that I didn’t know before.
It turns out that their parents both worked in Shanghai. The company was very busy and they could only return home once a year during Chinese New Year.
Although there is an Aunt here that will help take care of them. She would also handle events like parent-teacher conferences. But no matter what, she can’t replace the care and comprehensiveness of your parents.
Therefore, in day-to-day life, whether it was washing clothes or cooking, it was all done by Shu Sha.
Shu Zhe said that their parents once said that they would like to find a nanny for them, but his sister did not agree. Saying that she can take care of it, and it wouldn’t harm them learning to be self-sufficient.
Eh? So, is the class leader and her brother are not the typical “left-behind children”?
Parents would make money outside the city, the children would stay and be neglected. Out of all the punks that I fought, many of them had such a background!
I remember one punk who was scared by my “Berserker mode” and complained to me while crying:
“I also want to be a good person! But no one cares about me! I can’t even remember what my mother looks like!”
In my experience, left-behind children often lack confidence and are unsociable, and it is especially easy for them to give up all hope.
But Shu Sha and her brother were completely different.
Is this the hard work of Shu Sha? She emits such a powerful aura, even the class teacher would use her name to control the class. The feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and coldness, should have long been gone in her eyes, right?
Shu Zhe has two main complaints about his sister:
Number one, she would interfere with his relationship
Number two, too less allowance
I asked him how much allowance the class leader would give him in a week. He said a number, I thought it was a lot, it’s 20% more than me!
But Shu Zhe insists that he received too less of an allowance. Since their parents knew they were neglecting their children by working in another city, they would support their kids from an economic standpoint and always send them a lot of money. But who knew, all financial control fell in the hands of Shu Sha. Other than daily necessities, school related fees, and some spending money, the rest was all saved up and she did not let Shu Zhe touch even a cent of it.
“My sister is too tyrannical! Why doesn’t she just give me a bit more money? That’s the money that our parents earned, not by her! Why is she hiding it!”
Shu Zhe complained unhappily.
I don’t like the ungrateful tone he uses when he talks about his sister.
“That’s enough! How much allowance do you need! Is your sister starving you, or letting you freeze? How much money can a junior even spend?”
“Brother Ye Lin, you don’t know, having a girlfriend is very expensive!”
Shu Zhe said to me while counting with his finger: gifts on Valentine’s Day, gifts on Qi Xi (TN: QiXi is Chinese Valentine’s day based on lunar calendar), gifts on Christmas, gifts to commemorate the day we started going out, can’t forget birthdays, and from time to time I would have to pay for meals and movies…
I look at his anxious expression, and for the first time sincerely thanked 28 Middle for prohibiting early love.
“Shu Zhe, even if you’re lacking money, you can’t sell your sister just to earn some loose change!”
I started to lecture him.
“Brother Ye Lin, you’re wrong, you’re definitely not the richest in our school. If I only wanted money, why not sell her to others?”
I thought it was also strange that he didn’t do so.
“Then why don’t you tell me, why did you choose me? Doesn’t your sister hate me the most?”
Shu Zhe laughed a few times, which was obviously a sinister laugh. If it was Cao JingShen who laughed, it will definitely cause goose bumps. But because the one who laughed is Shu Zhe, the big eye shota, it felt less creepy, and was even a bit cute. It is probably the type that the perverted school doctor, Chen YingRan, likes.
When I just wanted to suggest that Shu Zhe should head to the infirmary to sell himself and earn some money. He opened his mouth first:
“Brother Ye Lin, my sister has a habit of keeping a diary since she entered elementary school. Because I know where my sister keeps the bank card, but I don’t know the password, so in order to find the password, I peeked at my sister’s diary yesterday!”