Ruan Qingmu looked at both, stooped down, and picked up two iced soda bottles on the ground. “Hey, drink a little water.”
Fu Songhua pretended not to see it and looked all around. “Hey, where are the grandsons from our class? They actually didn’t wait for us?”
Qin Yuan silently reached out and accepted the soda in Ruan Qingmu’s hand. After unscrewing the lid, he passed the first bottle to Fu Songhua.
Fu Songhua was at his wit’s end. He rolled his eyes and poured the bottle into his throat.
Fang Li hurriedly stood up and awkwardly said, “The people from your class asked us to pass a message, saying they would help you get dishes and wait for you guys in the canteen.”
Fu Songhua finally became a bit happier. He reached an arm out and put it around Fang Li’s shoulder. “Let’s go, go to eat. I’m going to die from hunger.”
Fang Li’s face turned red. He wanted to struggle free from the hold, but Fu Songhua was 10 cm taller than him. Once he encircled his long arm around him, it was impossible for him to even move.
Fu Songhua exerted strength in his arm and squeezed his neck threateningly. “Are you still going to help him? Please be a little more aware. He’s pretending!”
Grandma. He had been deceived by him too. Even though he looked miserable with crutches, he jumped higher and hit harder than anyone else.
If he was a patient, was there any healthy person in this world?
Fang Li tried his best to break free from his clutches and explained in a whisper, “No…..The doctor told him to use the crutches.”
Fu Songhua was frustrated, “If you distance yourself from him, you won’t be targeted by Liu Jun and the others!”
He was miserably thin like a little daughter-in-law but still insisted on sticking closely with that big trouble, Ruan Qingmu. Look at his small face; half of it had already swelled from being beaten!
Qin Yuan silently took a bottle of soda, raised his head, and took a sip. Sweat quietly slipped down his bulging Adam’s apple.
Beside him, Ruan Qingmu leaned on his crutches and walked side-by-side with him.
He opened his mouth after a long time, “Thanks, ah.”
Qin Yuan faintly said, “No problem.”
“No need to do this next time.” Ruan Qingmu smiled. “I can settle it myself.”
Qin Yuan lightly glanced at him from the corner of his eyes. “Would you just go by yourself to fight them? Fight them until their faces bloom with flowers5? Only then could it be considered as settled?”
“Do you really think it was good to handle it like this?
Ruan Qingmu lightly snorted. “Didn’t you also directly come up to fight too? Is there any difference from my solution?”
Qin Yuan halted his steps and looked at him. “I’m from outside the class and can just leave after the fight ends. At worst, I only need to write a self-review letter. How about you?”
He talked word by word, and his voice carried patience. “Since you took the initiative to run for the sports representative, you should be responsible for your duty. Even if you can’t uphold the basic discipline of physical education class, at least don’t break it. Even if you can’t unite everyone, at least don’t lead others to beat your classmate. Liu Jun hit people, and you only know how to hit back. Then when they hogged the sports equipment, did you care about it?”
Ruan Qingmu: “…..”
Fu Songhua shockingly turned his head and looked at Qin Yuan in suspicion.
Boss usually cherished his word like gold. He probably had almost reached the amount of a week’s worth of words with this long paragraph, right?
Ruan Qingmu gently squinted his pair of peach blossom eyes.
The corners of his eyes slightly slanted, and he looked at the handsome and cold youth beside him with a fake smile. “Great class monitor Qin, aren’t you tired?”
Fu Songhua and Fang Li in front of them secretly pricked up their ears.
“Seeing Liu Jun like that, you wanted to care about the injustice; Seeing someone was too poor to have lunch, you wanted to care about them too. You cared about justice and righteousness and wanted to care when others didn’t take responsibility.”
Fu Songhua and Fang Li in front of them listened in shock. When their eyes met together, Fu Songhua’s face turned red, and he awkwardly released Fang Li’s neck.
Fuck! Last time when Boss hinted at him to buy chicken drumstick and pork meatballs, had it been discovered by this guy? His eyes were really poisonous6!
Ruan Qingmu slowly approached the canteen’s doorway. Who knew what he suddenly thought of, as an indifferent smile appeared. “Oh right, do you know what you look like right now?”
Qin Yuan coldly looked at him and didn’t say anything.
“It’s very much like the righteous and chivalrous young hero from a prestigious sect in the wuxia TV series.”
……
“Class monitor, Old Fu! Here, here. We’ve helped you guys to get good dishes.”
“Ruan-ge, Fang Li, here. Come and eat!”
Once entering the canteen, more than ten boys gathered together in the corner and shouted at them in unison.
There were some from Class 1 and Class 9, which were clearly differentiated into two sides.
Qin Yuan and Fu Songhua sat in the group of Class 1 boys. Several of their close friends had already prepared a table full of food for them. One plate was full of braised pork in gravy, and the other was full of seaweed braised pork ribs. There were also several assorted vegetable dishes. The whole table was made as if they were holding a formal dinner.
“Come, come. Class monitor and Old Fu had suffered from the running punishment. Quickly eat!” Class 1 boys nosily shouted.
Bai Jing and the others sat at another table and similarly prepared all kinds of good dishes, not wanting to be outdone. They continuously called out for Ruan Qingmu and Fang Li, “Ruan-ge, come quickly. There are sweet and sour short ribs and braised fish.”
Ruan Qingmu sat down and looked at the dining table, feeling a little speechless. “What is this?”
Several boys shouted together, “We’re holding a welcoming dinner for you to celebrate the inauguration of the new sports representative!”
Bai Jing mischievously laughed and lowered his voice. “Also to celebrate Liu Jun and the others being beaten into fools.”
Ruan Qingmu smiled. “It’s not just myself who beat them.”
Several boys felt a little awkward. Bai Jing whispered, “Mn, mn. Originally, we are going to sit together with them, but in the end…..”
Ruan Qingmu picked up a piece of fish. “What happened?”
“In the end, there was a fool in their class who insisted on fighting with us for the braised fish, saying that their class monitor liked to eat that and told us to give up on it.” Huang Ya whispered with disbelief, “Fuck, could we agree to that? Then we each sat at our own seats.”
Fang Li secretly turned his head and looked at Class 1’s side. “But they have helped us…..”
Huang Ya unceremoniously hit him, “You don’t understand. Be careful; maybe they’re plotting something.”
Ruan Qingmu looked at the serving plate full of braised fish and blankly stared at it for a while.
He then stood up, picked up the plate, and walked to the neighboring group of boys.
All boys halted their chopsticks. Some nearby girls peeking at them also widened their eyes.
Qin Yuan unhurriedly turned his head.
Ruan Qingmu’s pair of peach blossom eyes were upturned, and the viciousness from hitting people just now had disappeared without a trace. He bent down, personally picked up several pieces of braised fish, and placed them on Qin Yuan’s plate.
His voice was bright and clear, carrying the implications that others couldn’t understand. “Treating you to eat fish, Qin shaoxia.”
Everyone, “…..”
Qin Yuan looked at him, then drooped his head to look at the fish on his plate.
Everyone held their breaths.
Amidst the silence, the top student opened his mouth and faintly said, “Still want more; this isn’t enough.”
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The author has something to say:
Boss Qin: I still want it ~~~ Not enough~~~~.
Little young master: (struggling) Wait a minute, I want to comment first!
Footnote:
6 Swollen and red
7 to be able to see through other people’s thoughts and careful thoughts