Chapter 164: CH 162

Chapter 162 – 1992-2020

RenDong heard the muffled groan, turned around and saw Lian Qiao covering the back of his head in pain. He asked in surprise and worry: “What’s wrong? Do you have a headache?”

“…” Lian Qiao frowned and slowly adjusted his breathing.

At that moment, he felt a weird feeling as if his scalp had been tugged on by someone. But now suddenly it’s fine again.

RenDong jumped off the small chair, went around behind him and touched his head: “Where does it hurt? Here?” 

“It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt anymore.” Lian Qiao said, “It might be a migraine.”

“It can’t be a cold, right? You got diarrhea and caught a cold…” Although RenDong felt that Lian Qiao’s physique was not weak, he still suggested asking the dean for some cold medicine.

Lian Qiao’s headache had completely healed but, at the insistence of RenDong, he still took some medicine.

RenDong watched him finish taking the medicine and then raised his little hand to touch Lian Qiao’s forehead, the worry in his eyes finally receded a little. Then he went back to the desk to read the primary school math book that he had been studying all night.

Lian Qiao couldn’t help laughing as he looked at the little back who was obsessed with studying.

Didn’t you say you wanted to break up?

Why do you still spoil me so much?

Three days later, RenDong was seven years old and entered elementary school. The surrounding scene also changed, from the orphanage to a whole block.

Everyone was caught off guard by this sudden change. RenDong has already experienced it several times so he was naturally calm. To his surprise, Lian Qiao was also very calm, as if he had expected this.

Since RenDong has mastered the weakness of ghosts ‘being afraid of Buddhist scriptures’, the survival rate of their teammates this time has been greatly improved. Currently, including Little Apple, Auntie Long-hair, and Scarface Man, there are a total of thirteen teammates. If the Beijing opera monk picked up from the unfinished building was included, there were fourteen people in total.

According to the plan, everyone went to find a job separately to solve the problem of board and lodging.

Since there were so many people, this time around the economic conditions were not as tight as last time. Little RenDong was finally able to concentrate on his studies, avoid being sent to a garbage school and being retaliated against by the problem girl when all her love turned to hate.

Since RenDong was concentrating on studying, Lian Qiao co-operated with him, served him with delicious food and drinks every day, and escorted him to and from school.

XX Primary School was rigorous in academics, had a good school spirit and occupied a stable and peaceful campus, which gave Xu RenDong the illusion that he is really studying in the real world.

Although the homework in elementary school was simple, Xu RenDong still needed to do a year’s worth of homework every day. So Lian Qiao mobilized the strength of his teammates to help with homework. Even so, the pressure on RenDong still hasn’t eased – if he wants to enter XX junior high school, he still has to take the junior entrance exam. No one in the examination room can help him and he still has to learn it all by himself.

To be reasonable, although it is only a primary school test… but, as a social animal who had graduated many years ago, Xu RenDong found it really tiring to do this kind of questions. Therefore, after homework every day, Xu RenDong has to preview the homework that will follow and even started preparing for the junior high school exam in the fourth grade.

He was so busy with his studies that when Xu RenDong came back from elementary school every day, he had to study hard until late at night, only breaking for a simple meal. Seeing him study so hard, Lian Qiao finally understood why he would say “don’t fall in love early” in the elevator.

He couldn’t even finish memorization, so what kind of love affair can he have! A waste of time!

So even though Lian Qiao was worried to death, he didn’t dare to ask him about school affairs, for fear of delaying his study, just like an anxious single father.

Xu RenDong sometimes wonders if Zhong Xiu hadn’t abandoned him back then, would she have been like Lian Qiao? Clearly being worried to death and wanting to ask him what happened at school during the day, but afraid of affecting his study so having to hold back and not daring to open her mouth.

—However, Xu RenDong thought too much.

After all, Lian Qiao was his partner, not really his father. Lian Qiao’s love for him was far beyond his imagination!

After the junior high school exam, RenDong was promoted to XX Middle School with a good school spirit and unlocked a new neighborhood. At the same time, Lian Qiao managed to enter XX Middle School and became a janitor!

On the first day of junior high school, thirteen-year-old Xu RenDong 囧囧 looked at Lian Qiao, who was wearing his janitorial overalls, with fascination. Lian Qiao was quite satisfied with this outfit and said triumphantly: “This way, I can go to school with you logically!”

RenDong: “No, you can’t. You have to sweep the floor.”

Indeed, the school recruited Lian Qiao not to be RenDong’s full-time nanny. Instead, Lian Qiao was contracted to clean the entire teaching building and had to run up and down to clean it constantly.

Only then did Lian Qiao realize how destructive junior high school brats are. He had just swept up the dust and garbage on the ground but, when class finished, all the brats came roaring out, trampling over his just cleaned floors with their iron hoofs, and all the garbage returned to its original place.

And the trash can he just emptied, as long as there is a recess, the trash can will be refilled. If he doesn’t show up to replace the trash bag in time, there will be food scraps and packaging bags scattered all over the side of the trash can.

These bear kids are already difficult to deal with, and their rubbish school leaders (staff) are even more difficult to deal with. The principal was always idle and constantly ran out to inspect his work. When he saw a piece of waste paper or a pencil stub in the corridor, he would call Lian Qiao over to give him a lesson, regardless of whether the thing was something some annoying kid had just thrown out of a window three seconds ago. 

Lian Qiao was furious enough but the principal threatened to fire him, so Lian Qiao had to endure the humiliation in order to stay with RenDong.

After bearing the burden of humiliation—of course there would be pay offs.

With the status of a janitor, Lian Qiao can freely enter and leave the school gate every day. So, during the lunch break, he went to the snack bar to buy the Xiaolongbao and small wontons that RenDong loves and delivered them to RenDong hot.

Junior high school was far more stressful than elementary school. In order to get into a good high school, RenDong needs to spend more time studying. Therefore, even if it is a short lunch break, RenDong has to seize the time to memorize.

The stairs leading to the school rooftop were originally blocked all year round, but Lian Qiao, the cleaner, held the key and could easily go up. Lian Qiao put RenDong on his lap and lay down to rest for a while. RenDong handed him the book in his hand and said, “Help me recite this book.”

Lian Qiao glanced at it, it was a Chinese text and it was on the page of “The Story of Peach Blossom Spring”. RenDong closed his eyes and quickly recited in a low voice: “I was shocked when I saw the fisherman, and asked where I came from. If I answered it, I would return home… um… return home…”

Lian Qiao laughed: “Return home and then?”

RenDong got the reminder, and immediately recalled: “Well… I have to return home, set up wine and kill chickens for food. I heard about this person in the village, so I came to ask. During the chaos of Qin Dynasty, he led his wife, Yiren, to this desperate situation, and did not come out again, so he separated himself from outsiders…errr…”

At this point, he got stuck again.

Lian Qiao said: “People in Peach Blossom Spring are isolated from the outside world, and they don’t know what day and night are. It’s rare to see an outsider, so what would they ask them?”

RenDong suddenly realized: “Ask the year!” Then he recited it smoothly.

After stumbling through the recitation, RenDong held the book again and read “The Story of Peach Blossom Spring” several times. Then he sighed: “Oh, I’m getting older and my memory is not as good as that of a child. I can’t even memorize such a short article…”

Lian Qiao stroked his hair and said softly, “You have only read it a few times and you can basically remember it. Memorizing at this level is actually pretty good. What’s more, you have to memorize the entire junior high school ancient prose syllabus in one breath, which is very difficult for anyone to do.” 

“But I must do it.” 

A trace of exhaustion flashed in RenDong’s eyes but, forcibly pulling himself together, he lifted the book up again.

Lian Qiao pressed his book back down: “You’re tired, take a break. It’s not efficient to memorize like this.” Then, he raised his hand to cover RenDong’s eyes, “I’ll give you a massage, you close your eyes.” 

RenDong heard the words and closed his eyes. He felt that Lian Qiao’s palm was warm and it was very comfortable when covering his eyes.

Lian Qiao shielded him from the midday sun with one hand and massaged his acupuncture points on his head with the other. In fact, Lian Qiao didn’t learn this specifically but he watched it a few times when his parents went to the old Chinese doctor they knew for a massage.

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Clearly, the technique of stealing has paid off. Little RenDong’s tense body softened obviously, and his breathing rate also slowed down.

Lian Qiao looked down at the relaxed little RenDong and couldn’t help sighing: “Why are you so obsessed with studying?”

RenDong was about to fall asleep and, after hearing this, he replied in a daze: “I want to get into my Alma mater and study finance. Then I will be able to make money… to support you…”

Lian Qiao laughed dumbly, and the movements of his hands became softer: “Didn’t you say that you can’t fall in love early?”

Little RenDong turned over. Perhaps because he smelled a familiar smell, he buried his face in Lian Qiao’s clothes. He said vaguely: “When you go to college, it’s not considered early love…”

Lian Qiao took off his coat, covered him and then gently hooked the back of his neck to prevent him from slipping off his legs.

This posture is a bit strenuous for Lian Qiao and he would get a backache easily. But Lian Qiao was happy with it.

He looked at the sky and saw that the sky was clear and blue. The sun shone on his face lazily, making him sleepy too.

However, the lunch break was only half an hour after all. Soon, RenDong woke up from his deep sleep, rubbed his eyes and needed to go back to the classroom again.

Lian Qiao packed himself up and went to work as his cleaner.

After all, he is smart. After working on this job for two days, he has already summed up the routine, figured out the time rule for the bear child to spoil the fruits of his labor, and the inspection route led by the principal.

Therefore, at this moment, even though this school leader just about lay on the ground with a magnifying glass, but actually couldn’t find a speck of dust.

The leader snorted, got up from the floor tiles and took out a banknote.

Lian Qiao: “!” There are bonuses!

He happily took the banknotes and was about to thank the principal but saw the principal pushed his glasses and ordered in an official voice: “Go, buy me a pack of cigarettes.”

Lian Qiao: “…” This bastard school principal is a bastard after all. Wasn’t smoking forbidden in the school!

Lian Qiao accepted the task honestly and scolded the dog leader ten thousand times in his heart.

There was no canteen in the school, but the proprietress of the stationery store was related to the principal, so the back door was open so that students could come to buy snacks at any time. Lian Qiao came in through the back of the stationery store but was told that the kind of cigarettes the leader wanted were out of stock.

He had no choice but to walk out of the school gate.

The proprietress said that there is a tobacco shop in the alley opposite the OO Middle School next door, and there might be some there. So Lian Qiao went to the next block with the cash, and, sure enough, he found the shop deep in the alley.

When he bought cigarettes and planned to go back to school, he suddenly heard a burst of wanton laughter.

It sounds like a very young girl. The laughter was mixed with unbearable insults such as “bitch” and “slut”. Lian Qiao was excited for a while, wondering if he bumped into a hidden mission?

He quietly approached and found that it was a group of girls in heavy make-up and strange clothes, beating an innocent girl in school uniform.

Huh? School bullying?

According to the routine, if he saves that pure little white flower at this moment, some special plot should be triggered. Lian Qiao was gearing up for a moment and stepped forward excitedly like a fly rubbing his hands.

Just as he was about to yell, he suddenly noticed that the girl who spoke the loudest was wearing a red skirt.

A severe burning pain like electricity suddenly came from the depths of the brain!

“Oh!…”

Lian Qiao exhaled in pain and squatted down covering the back of his head.

…

It was unknown how long time had passed.

Lian Qiao opened his eyes in a daze, feeling stickiness \on his eyelids. He subconsciously stretched out his hand and felt that his hand was bright red.

……Blood?

Lian Qiao licked the sticky and smelly liquid and frowned in disgust.

Deep in the brain there is a dull pain like burning. He rubbed the back of his head and, after seeing the scene around him clearly, he froze for an instant.

Corpses—lots of—corpses!

In the depths of the alley, corpses lay in a mess. Looking at their attire, it was exactly the bad girls he had just seen. The innocent girl in the school uniform was also among them.

It’s just that at this moment, whether it’s makeup or no makeup, all the faces are pale. Blood and scars became the only shocking decorations on their faces. The same is true of the bodies, which had countless stab wounds, and the bones can even be seen. The person who did it must have a deep hatred for them, otherwise how could they have dealt such a heavy hand?

There was a thick and pungent smell of blood in the air. Lian Qiao subconsciously covered his mouth and backed away, accidentally stepped on a pool of blood then slipped and fell.

He was terrified and frantically got up from the pool of blood, but suddenly found that he was holding a knife in his hand!

The watermelon knife!

Lian Qiao stared blankly at the blood-stained watermelon knife. The edge of the blade has been cut over and over, and it seemed that it has been repeatedly chopped on something hard with great force.

Very hard…like bones…

Clang. The watermelon knife fell to the ground.

Lian Qiao looked at his blood-red hands trembling, trying to think desperately, but he still couldn’t remember what happened just now.

Did I kill someone? Did I kill them…

Why…what happened…even if they provoked me, I shouldn’t have killed them all on the spot, and it was still so cruel, almost like venting anger…

Why I can’t remember at all?

Lian Qiao covered his face in pain. The sticky and cold blood on his palm stained his face, and he was so suffocated by the smell that he wanted to cry.

His chest felt hot.

He fumbled towards his neck in a daze, and hanging along the red rope, he drew out a brass key.

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