Rebirth: My dad is too obedient

Chapter 31 Old Junior High School Brothers

Towards evening, Xu Chen and Feng Qingqing came out of the Internet cafe.

This is a relatively central location in the town. Feng Qingqing's home is nearby, in a compound belonging to a government agency.

Xu Chen said he wanted to send Feng Qingqing back, but for some reason, the little girl seemed a little reluctant.

In fact, Xu Chen was a little impatient, but due to Feng Qingqing's identity as the "leader's daughter", he still had to accompany her for a while.

"Then let me take you to drink juice!"

"OK……"

The two went to a fruit store and squeezed two glasses of fresh orange juice. Then they drank them while walking towards Feng Qingqing's house.

The town was not big, and we soon arrived at the gate of the compound.

The two said goodbye, and Feng Qingqing suddenly said:
"Xu Chen, actually I don't have a boyfriend yet, I lied to you at the beginning..."

Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, laughed twice, but said nothing.

Feng Qingqing wanted to say something, but when she saw Xu Chen carrying a lot of bags, she stopped herself.

She pursed her lips:

"Then I'll go up first. If you have anything, you can send me QQ or text message."

"okay!"

……

Xu Chen had a quick bite to eat in the town, then took the bus home, carrying the shoes and clothes he had bought for Xie Bingran.

When I got home in the evening, my father Xu Zhiquan was already there.

Xu Zhiquan asked with a smile: "How are you getting along with the little girl?"

Xu Chen: “Very good!”

Xu Zhiquan: "What did you buy in all these bags?"

Xu Chen: “Shoes and sportswear.”

Xu Zhiquan: "My son, are you going to start exercising?"

Xu Chen smiled but did not give a direct answer:
"Dad, do you still remember my deskmate in the first and second year of junior high school?"

Xu Zhiquan frowned and thought about it, but couldn't remember.

Xu Chen: "It's the little girl who always has no money to eat, Xie Bingran."

Xu Zhiquan: "I remember now! You told me at that time that I gave you some extra pocket money and asked you to buy some food for her.

Where is she studying now? Why are we suddenly talking about her? "

……

……

After lunch the next day, Xu Chen took the town bus to his former junior high school.

She was carrying a lot of bags in her hands, which were the shoes and sports equipment she bought for Xie Bingran yesterday.

Arriving at the school gate, Xu Chen looked up at the gate, as well as the teaching building and office building behind it.

It still looks the same shabby way, and not much has changed in the past few years.

The slogan on the wall at the school gate is a little mottled.

【Unity and hard work, seeking truth and progress】

【Knowledge changes destiny】

[Without the accumulation of small streams, a river or sea cannot be formed; without the accumulation of small steps, a journey of a thousand miles cannot be completed]

【Affirm yourself, create yourself, and surpass yourself】

……

This junior high school in this township is not considered a good school. More than half of the students in each grade are transferred or drop out after finishing junior high school.

Children in rural areas are divided into two extremes.

One is to study extremely hard and regard studying and taking exams as the only way to change one's destiny.

They tend to be introverted and silent, and hide their inferiority complex.

Another type of people gave up on taking the college entrance examination from the very beginning. They basically fought and skipped classes in junior high school, burning up their adolescence in aimless indulgence.

Such children are often arrogant, cruel, angry and arrogant.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, they stood in the same place, but a huge gap was torn between them in their lives.

Even among the first group of hardworking children, only a small number can be admitted to good high schools in the city through the junior high school entrance examination. This is related to the teaching of this township school and the environment in which they were born and grew up.

It was precisely because of this that many people were surprised when Xie Bingran entered Tiancheng No. 1 Middle School.

After all, in the eyes of many people, Xie Bingran was hanging out with a bunch of bad kids, and it seemed that his fate of dropping out of school after graduation was already predetermined.

But who would have thought that "Brother Bing" would perform exceptionally well in the high school entrance examination and just barely pass the passing score to be admitted to the No. 1 Middle School in the city.

But Xu Chen knew that this might be Xie Bingran's true level.

In fact, if it weren’t for Brother Bing who turned evil after the second year of junior high school and became a person who skipped classes and fought, perhaps her grades would have been better.

When I was at the same table with Xu Chen in the first and second year of junior high school, that introverted girl who couldn't even afford to eat, always studied very seriously and meticulously.

Thinking of this, Xu Chen couldn't help but sigh again.

After entering high school, he and Xie Bingran lost contact.

But we can still know from the side that after entering high school, Xie Bingran became even less interested in studying, and his grades were basically at the bottom.

If she relied solely on the college entrance examination, just as Xie Bingran said that night, she would probably have to go out to work and earn money after the college entrance examination.

Fortunately, she still has untapped athletic talent...

Xu Chen turned and went to the playground.

The rusty iron gate was not locked. The dilapidated junior high school in the township was poorly managed.

The 400-meter dirt track has not yet been paved with plastic.

In the middle of the football field, there were clumps of disorderly and yellow weeds growing in patches.

Just like the lives of many young boys and girls in this township junior high school.

……

Xu Chen walked into the playground and turned around to see a dozen people standing around the podium.

They were all teenagers of seventeen or eighteen years old, with cigarettes in their mouths and their arms around each other's shoulders.

Xu Chen saw at a glance that Xie Bingran was standing among them.

She was still wearing the baggy black jacket, her hands in her pockets, an unlit cigarette dangling from her lips.

In the crowd, a sturdy young man saw Xu Chen and said in a muffled voice:
"Xu Chen is here!"

Xu Chen thought about it and remembered that this sturdy boy was actually his classmate in junior high school. His name seemed to be Li Qiang.

I looked at the other people again and recognized a few people from my junior high school, but I couldn't remember their names.

Xu Chen walked forward, and several of them whispered:

"Xu Chen, long time no see."

Xu Chen remembered that these junior high school classmates all hung out with "Brother Bing" back then.

Xie Bingran looked up at Xu Chen, raised his hand to take the cigarette out of his mouth and hid it in his palm.

Li Qiang walked up to Xu Chen with a smile and handed him a cigarette:

"Brother Chen smokes."

Xu Chen smiled and said, "No."

Li Qiang said:

"We heard that Brother Bing was here, so we came to chat with him..."

Xu Chen smiled but didn't say anything.

Several other people also came forward and chatted with Xu Chen.

They were all classmates from the same school. Although Xu Chen was not familiar with them, they were of the same age after all, so they could still chat and laugh together.

Only then did Xu Chen realize that these people had rushed back from all directions just because they heard that "Brother Bing" was coming back to school.

When they were in junior high school, they were a group of so-called "bad kids" with poor grades, and they stopped studying after graduating from junior high school.

Some are studying in technical schools, some have returned to the village to farm, some are driving taxis, some are tightening screws in nearby factories, and some are apprentices in restaurants...

In a sense, they have all "turned over a new leaf" and are no longer involved in the underworld.

These brothers of Brother Bing at that time each embarked on a different life path after graduating from junior high school.

But when they heard that "Brother Bing" had returned to the school, they put down what they were doing and rushed to this dilapidated and weed-covered playground.

There was nothing serious going on. We just passed around cheap cigarettes in different packages and had some fun, just like when we were in junior high school...

At a certain moment, Xu Chen seemed to understand a little about Xie Bingran's past and her "brothers".

(End of this chapter)