Chapter 19
Faced with their coordinated attack, Ling Fengli could only fume impotently.
He subconsciously wanted to throw a punch, but before he could extend his arm, he retracted it.
They were all adults now, fighting wasn’t like it was when they were kids. If he dared to lay a hand on Jiang Huaisheng, that venomous snake would have him thrown in jail.
After Gu Tang wiped his hands clean, Jiang Huaisheng made a phone call to his grandfather: “There’s a stink bug in the dormitory, not sure how it got in… Oh… Mm, I understand, Grandpa.”
The situation of three people sharing a room couldn’t be changed. He hung up the phone and wiped his eyes with a handkerchief. His fair face looked a bit gloomy.
Seeing him unhappy made Ling Fengli happy. He didn’t care about retaliating against Jiang Huaisheng calling him a stink bug at the moment, saying rather smugly: “Jiang, this isn’t City A, it’s City B.”
The Ling family were the local snakes in City B, Jiang Huaisheng was an outsider, the tables had turned.
Gu Tang asked him: “Your grades are so bad, how did you get in, by donating a building?”
Ling Fengli grinned: “Don’t look down on people. Do you know what a sports special student is? I got in with my own abilities, fair and square!”
He was originally from City A, but he had studied elsewhere from the third grade of elementary school to the first year of high school, then transferred back to City B in his second year of high school.
The admission score for local residents at B University wasn’t that high, and coupled with him being a sports special student and having various other bonus points, as long as his grades improved a little, attending B University was perfectly legal and compliant, and no one could find any dirt on him.
After asking this question, Gu Tang fell silent. He walked out. Many of the things he had bought online had arrived at the school’s delivery station, and he had to ride his electric scooter to pick them up.
The Jiang family was the Jiang family. He and Jiang Huaisheng had studied together, but now he had finished nine years of compulsory education, and the things he used might be different from the young master’s.
He didn’t hesitate to take the money he deserved, but Gu Tang wouldn’t take things that didn’t belong to him.
“I’m going too.”
Jiang Huaisheng wanted to go out with him, but Gu Tang refused: “I have to carry things on my electric scooter, there’s no space for you.”
What could the young master do if he came along? He would only be a nuisance.
Jiang Huaisheng snorted coldly. If it weren’t for the fact that he had to keep a low profile during the school opening period, he would have driven directly to pick up the things, and Gu Tang wouldn’t have had the chance to look down on him.
For a moment, he did consider using a wheelchair, but glancing at the electric wheelchair in the corner, rationality prevailed. He wasn’t that crazy yet.
With only two people left in the three-person dormitory, Ling Fengli immediately felt the atmosphere change. He was originally leaning lazily against the cabinet, but after being swept by that venomous gaze, he felt like he would be bitten.
“Humph!” He hummed even louder, grabbed his motorcycle keys from the table, and dangled them in front of Jiang Huaisheng to show off: “I’m too lazy to deal with you guys.”
He quickly followed. Gu Tang got on his electric scooter, and he got on his cool red motorcycle.
“Hey, Gu Tang, why are you riding a scooter as a grown man?”
Ling Fengli patted his motorcycle and said: “A man should ride a motorcycle, motorcycles are a man’s romance, don’t you understand?”
Gu Tang ignored him. He and Ling Fengli had a history, but this guy called Pineapple was just like a pineapple, prickly and difficult to handle.
If Jiang Huaisheng was an extremely hypocritical hypocrite, at least the young master would still put on an act for the sake of appearances, while Ling Fengli didn’t bother to hide anything, he was the flamboyant type.
Moreover, his swearing was very direct and crude. Gu Tang had a twisted friendship with Jiang Huaisheng, a pathological bond, but he purely disliked this person in front of him.
Ling Fengli insisted on following Gu Tang on his motorcycle. He didn’t know if his brain had malfunctioned after not seeing him for three years, but he suddenly blurted out: “Since ancient times, red and blue make a CP. Your scooter is silver-blue, and my Gale is black and red, quite a match, huh?”
Gu Tang parked his electric scooter and finally couldn’t help but say: “I haven’t seen you for two years, and your ability to disgust people has indeed improved.”
Ling Fengli pouted his lips aggrievedly. He really didn’t know how to speak properly, sometimes he just couldn’t help being a jerk.
But he didn’t have any real malice, he was just speaking his mind, and what he said wasn’t always what he meant.
For example, when they first met, he called Gu Tang a dog, but he was actually speaking up for Gu Tang.
This dormitory was originally arranged for two people, Jiang Huaisheng and Gu Tang. It was he who saw a familiar name and begged his grandfather to add him in.
This dormitory was originally for graduate students, and it could accommodate 2 to 4 people. The Jiang family had contacted the school beforehand, saying that their child was in poor health and needed a quiet environment, and they didn’t want any random people assigned to the same room.
Ling Fengli wasn’t considered a random person, they knew his background, and he also had his grandfather, Ling Laoyezi, contact the school.
Reuniting with old friends at university sounded like a happy occasion, but unfortunately, he ruined it.
He rolled up his sleeves: “Let me help you with your packages.”
Gu Tang stopped him: “No need.”
“We were classmates for seven years, you don’t have to be like this.”
Ling Fengli said: “And I was a transfer student just like you back then, we have alumni camaraderie.”
Gu Tang looked at him: “I don’t have any alumni camaraderie with you. Seeing you only reminds me of unpleasant memories.”
Ten years ago, Gu Tang transferred from Lishui Town Elementary School to City A No. 1 Elementary School.
Because the textbooks in the small town were different from those in City A, and there were no English classes in the small town before the third grade, he scored last in his first exam after transferring, and his English score was only in the teens, the only failing grade in the class.
Children were sometimes even more competitive than adults, especially in the elementary school he transferred to in City A, where everyone compared everything: family background, parents’ abilities, appearance, and grades.
Except for his appearance, Gu Tang ticked all the negative boxes: single-parent family, deceased father, remarried mother, and neglectful parents.
Although his appearance was deceiving, his speech revealed his rural background.
Gu Tang couldn’t speak the local dialect, his Mandarin wasn’t standard, and he had a funny small-town accent. In the eyes of his classmates, most of whom were locals from good families, Gu Tang, the transfer student, was an ignorant country bumpkin.
With this negative filter, he didn’t even look that good anymore.
If Gu Tang had good grades, it would have been fine, but his grades were poor, yet he was placed in the best class, lowering the class average.
His classmates gossiped about Gu Tang: “Such a poorly performing country bumpkin, I wonder how much money he spent to get in.”
“How can he have the nerve to stay in our class? He’s dragging down our class average.”
“Yeah, I heard his father died, and his mother remarried with him. He’s the legendary baggage, right?”
“The class president is so pitiful, having to sit next to such a country bumpkin, he must be suffocated by the smell of dirt.”
It was said that children were angels, but children were also devils. Sometimes their malice was more direct and cruel than that of adults.
No matter how strong Gu Tang was, he was only an eight-year-old child, and he had just lost his father, far away from his familiar hometown and friends.
That year in third grade was the darkest year of his life. Even though the wounds had healed, looking back, he could still see the ugly scars left on his heart.
Ling Fengli was different from Gu Tang. Gu Tang transferred in the first semester of third grade, while Ling Fengli transferred in the second semester. He was a year and a half older than him and Jiang Huaisheng, already a ten-year-old child.
They were both transfer students, but they received completely different treatment. Ling Fengli had both parents and was considered half a local.
Some local students with a superiority complex ostracized him, so Ling Fengli, with his financial resources and decent fighting skills, quickly formed his own small group and ostracized others in return.
Gu Tang, as the bullied transfer student in the class, was also someone Ling Fengli tried to win over, but they had different paths and soon fell out.
Originally, Gu Tang hated Jiang Huaisheng very much, but it was because of Ling Fengli that he and Jiang Huaisheng became “friends.”
He didn’t expect to see Ling Fengli in university, and even become roommates with him. Gu Tang didn’t feel happy about starting university at all.
He stacked all his packages, there were quite a few, so he planned to transport them in two trips.
However, when he left the delivery station, Gu Tang found Ling Fengli jumping up and down behind him: “My motorcycle was towed! Which bastard did it?!”
The disciplinary committee said: “Motorcycles are not allowed on campus, so we moved it out. You also need to submit a self-criticism.”
Ling Fengli’s motorcycle was able to enter because he was the young master of the Ling family. No one reported him, so the school turned a blind eye.
But someone reported him, and the school couldn’t ignore it.
The kind-hearted person who reported Ling Fengli, Jiang Huaisheng, was standing in the corridor of the nearby administrative building, watching the scene from afar.
Seeing the corners of Gu Tang’s lips curl up, his own lips also curved into the same arc.
