Ch8 - Hey Hey Hey

Edited – Zaki

Qi Linqing went back to his original class to get his personal belongings. 

When he first came in, the students of Class 1, Senior Grade 2,  stared at him like they were watching a monkey. They all secretly held their laughter in their hearts and didn’t say anything.

When Qi Linqing left the room, the class burst out like boiling hot water, sizzling and smoking up.

Former classmates spoke passionately:

“It’s good he finally left. I thought it was unlucky for him to stay in the same room as Qi Lele!” 

“Yes, that’s true. My mom doesn’t have to worry about me being led astray by the guy who is ostracised by the whole internet.”

“…….”

Qi Lele originally wanted to laugh with them, but thinking about it, he still squeezed out a sad expression to enhance the atmosphere:

“Even if my brother goes down below, I’ll miss him.”

Classmates:”???”

Something seemed to be wrong.

The student committee member pushed up his glasses and whispered, “Lele, You should not say something like this about a person who is alive?”

Qi Lele realized that his mouth had slipped and he regretted his clumsy words and hurriedly said, “Not below… Cough, cough, slip of the tongue. I mean, even if he went down to Class 18, and I’ll miss him too.” 

Student Committee member: “Oh, oh.”

Everyone expressed their understanding and comforted Qi Lele, asking him not to take it to heart. Having slip of the tongue is like hiccups and farting, it was inevitable and happened to everyone.

Qi Lele: “En, I’m fine.”

Qi Lele was actually very happy now. Although he lost to Qi Linqing in the filming crew, when he returned to school, with his excellent academic performance he could still get back in the game. 

In the corner, Du Yuanbai saw this scene and tsked twice.

How come he didn’t realize that Qi Lele was so good at pretending before?

The deskmate pushed him and asked, “Didn’t you go to see Qi Linqing filming and painting during the weekend? How was it?”

Du Yuanbai’s face suddenly stiffened. He remembered the day he went to see the play, he sent gossip to one, two, three, four, five N friends respectively. 

These people still don’t know the tragedy of his face being beaten solidly.

“Haha, you guys will know when the drama airs.” Du Yuanbai deliberately kept up the suspense of the story.

He couldn’t be the only one getting hit in the face!!! Du Yuanbai thought wickedly.

“What the hell.” The deskmate grumbled discontentedly, “Tut! Do you think I can’t guess? Qi Linqing must have painted like a ghost.” 

Du Yuanbai: “What if he suddenly counterattacked?”

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Deskmate: “?”

———

Meanwhile, Class 18, Senior Grade 2.

Jiang Bai rushed through the door as if his ass was on fire and shouted, “The news that shocked your family, male and female students cry silently! Qi Linqing is going to transfer to our class!!” 

The class was quiet for a moment, and then it exploded.

“Fuck Fuck! Qi Linqing, the one who participated in the “Metamophosis Meter” and was blackened by the whole network?”

“Is this news true or fake?”

Jiang Bai said, “I just saw Old Zeng taking him to complete the transfer procedures.” 

The crowd took a sharp breath.

The class president Luo Xing crossed his legs and declared as if he was the King: “But there are no more empty seats in our class.”

In fact, there was one place left. Back row by the window, and Zhong Chen’s right-hand seat was always empty.

But people always automatically and subconsciously ignored it. After all, even if one had ten guts, no one would dare to sit next to the famously fierce school bully in junior high school. 

“I get it.” Jiang Bai tapped his head and said excitedly, “I guess Qi Linqing is doing it on purpose! Doesn’t he like Brother Zhong? No wonder he got a zero on the test just to transfer to our class and to sit next to Brother Zhong!!!”

Even if Qi Linqing came from a rural area and the quality of education was not high, it was impossible to get zeroes in all 9 subjects in the placement test.

Now all the details made sense with this logic.

Everyone in the class was stunned. 

“Fortunately, brother Zhong is not here now.” Luo Xing didn’t even bother pretending to be the King. He sat up straight and said, “I want him to know that Qi Linqing will sit next to him and not throw the table irritably.”

Zhong Chen certainly wouldn’t like to sit with Qi Linqing. If he asked the rest of the class to change places at that time – everyone suddenly felt the danger at the thought of this situation:

“Hurry up, we have to force Qi Linqing out!”

“Yes, yes, yes, it’s a disaster for him to come to our class.” 

Someone remembered that Qi Linqing had said in the interview of the “Metamorphosis Meter” that he was particularly afraid of snakes, one of the second generation students immediately called and asked the family secretary to send a fake snake immediately.

They stuffed the fake snake into the table pocket next to Zhong Chen’s seat, waiting for Qi Linqing to sit down and discover it and make a fool out of himself.

Jinglingling.

The bell rang for class. 

Zhong Chen stepped in when the bell rang and returned to his seat. When he was about to pull the chair, he made a pause and changed to a light lift without making any noise.

Several people around witnessed this scene and were stunned. You know, they are almost used to the creak of Zhong Chen’s chair, when he violently pulled it out to sit.

“Brother Zhong has changed.”

“Brother Zhong has become much more civilized recently.” 

“Maybe it’s because of the recent anti-pornography campaign □□…”

A few people gathered their heads together to whisper.

Afterwards, Zeng Penghai also led Qi Linqing in.

It seemed that the pause button was pressed for a moment in the class. 

Zeng Penghai: “This will be your new classmate in the future. Won’t you all give him some applause?”

“……..”

Two rows of crows flew by.

Zeng Penghai was not annoyed. He had long been used to this group of students not giving  anyone any face. He pointed to the position next to the window in the last row and said to Qi Linqing, “Sit down there.” 

“Okay, Sorry for troubling Teacher.” Qi Linqing carried his bag and walked over to sit down. Without looking in, he took his textbooks out of his bag and put them in his desk pocket.

Jiang Bai and others watched this scene with bated breath, hoping that Qi Linqing would touch the fake snake and scream in shock in the next second.

Just thinking about the scene made the people excited.

Soon, Qi Linqing did feel a long, floppy body in the desk pocket. 

He frowned slightly, and calmly pulled it out—it was a real-looking fake snake.

Qi Linqing was not surprised. He remembered that this scene was written in the novel. The original owner who had just transferred over was scared shitless when he touched the fake snake. His video was also recorded by his classmates and it was uploaded on the internet. This post garnered countless sarcastic comments from the netizens.

However Qi Linqing was not afraid of snakes. He calmly put the fake snake on the table and turned his head and asked, “Whose is this, please?”

Jiang Bai and others: “…” 

Aren’t you afraid of snakes? You just pretended.

They made a fool of themselves and felt bummed out.

However, in the next moment when they were about to withdraw their gaze, they saw Zhong Chen jerking up from his chair, backing up in a swift manner, his voice hoarse: “Snake… Why is there a snake in the classroom?!”

“It’s okay, it’s fake.” Qi Linqing picked up the fake snake and rubbed it in his hand to prove it. 

Zhong Chen’s face was pale: “Then you throw it away!”

Seeing that no one claimed it, Qi Linqing got up and threw the snake into the dustbin.

Zhong Chen’s fingers trembled by the side of his trousers.

He forced himself to calm down and then move back to sit in his chair. 

Zeng Penghai knocked on the podium and asked in a deep voice: “Which student did this prank? Don’t force me to check the surveillance camera.”

There was silence under the podium.

Jiang Bai and the others wanted to die then and there.

Out of all the scenarios, unexpectedly, Qi Linqing was not afraid of snakes, but brother Zhong, who was always fierce, was afraid!! 

——-

Qi Linqing looked at the boy beside him who was frowning fiercely and cold sweat was still flowing down the side of his temples making him look wretched. Qi Linqing cautiously opened his mouth to comfort him: “Don’t be afraid.”

Zhong Chen bit his bloodless lip, “I’m not afraid, I just…”

He could not say the words. 

The moment he saw the snake, he just felt utterly powerless and a deep pain that was still fresh in his memory. The alarm bells that sounded from the depths of his soul could not be overcome at all.

Qi Linqing subconsciously remembered the little apprentice he had taught for a while in his previous life. He was like Zhong Chen. He was bitten by a fierce snake when he was a child. He was afraid of the rope on the well for ten years, but he would never admit to others about his fears.

“En!, you’re not afraid.” He coaxed him in a tone that was used for babies.

Zhong Chen: “……” 

The classmate on the desk in front who accidentally heard this conversation silently warned himself in his heart: Be sober! !

Fierce outside, soft inside school bully vs. Cautiously scheming real Young Master CP. You can’t beat it. This is a cult.

———

This farce ended when Zeng Penghai finally checked the surveillance and investigated and found out the second generation who bought the fake snake. He asked him to apologize to Qi Linqing and carried out ideological education. 

Immediately afterwards, the first Chemistry class began.

Of course, Qi Linqing didn’t know that this was a Chemistry class. He still didn’t even understand the specific meaning of the word “Chemistry”.

In the class, the teacher called him to answer, “As shown in the figure below, what are the functions of the long tube and short tube of the instrument?”

Qi Linqing looked up at the projection screen, only to see a cup with a stopper drawn on it. There was a long tube on the left side, straight to the bottom of the cup, and a short tube on the right side just a little over the stopper. 

He was confused at first. But soon after he remembered the time when Qi Lele brought home Panda milk cover milk tea, he suspected that it had almost the same structure.

He could answer the question.

Qi Linqing calmly and confidently stood up to answer: “The role of the long tube is to drink milk tea, the role of the short tube is to drink milk cover.”

Students: “…..” 

The corners of the chemistry teacher’s mouth twitched slightly, “Oh, this student is really humorous, sit down quickly.”

Qi Linqing was puzzled. So did he answer correctly?

Zhong Chen: “……”

Even he, an ancient man, now knew that the Chemistry class’s catheter could not be used for sipping milk tea. 

I can see that this fool sitting next to me, unexpectedly turned out to be a deadpan funny guy.