Rebirth of a Girl in a Boys' School

"I've been calling you all morning, why didn't you answer?" Ding Yilin asked in a low voice.

"Don't even mention it!" Lin Ruofei waved her hand and said helplessly, "Zhang Yang set up some ridiculous room rules for me, forbidding me from making any noise, or he'll kick me out. I had to put my phone on vibrate, but I didn't hear the alarm and I didn't hear you calling either."

Ding Yilin took out a large bag of bread and handed it to Lin Ruofei, saying, "I noticed you didn't come to the cafeteria for breakfast, so I went to the school supermarket to buy you some bread."

"Thank you so much, Dingding!" Lin Ruofei gratefully accepted the bread. "You're such a loyal friend!"

"Here..." Ding Yilin then handed Lin Ruofei a small plastic wooden comb, "Hurry up and comb your hair, it's such a mess!"

Lin Ruofei hurriedly took out her phone and used the screen as a mirror to look at herself, but she was also startled by her hairstyle: her hair looked as if it had been struck by lightning, standing up haphazardly like clumps of weeds on top of her head.

"Wow...did I run all the way from the dorm to the classroom with this wild hairstyle?" Lin Ruofei was extremely embarrassed and quickly took the small wooden comb from Ding Yilin and combed her hair.

The first class was an English class taught by the homeroom teacher, Ms. Hao. Lin Ruofei secretly ate all the bread without lifting a finger.

With this large loaf of bread to fill her stomach, Lin Ruofei didn't find the morning classes too difficult, and before she knew it, it was noon.

"Little Dingding, let's go to 'Qianji Mountain' together for lunch today!" Lin Ruofei whispered to Ding Yilin. "I promise you won't regret it after you go. The food there is absolutely delicious!"

Ding Yilin shook his head timidly and said in a low voice, "I dare not go. If the school catches me, I'll be in big trouble. I advise you not to go either. I'll treat you to a meal in the cafeteria!"

"How can I always let you treat me!" Lin Ruofei said softly. "If you don't want to go, I won't force you. I'm going to find Gao Qiang. See you this afternoon!" After saying that, Lin Ruofei ignored Ding Yilin's obstruction and went straight to the No. 5 teaching building where the senior students were located to find Gao Qiang.

At the main entrance of Teaching Building No. 5, Lin Ruofei encountered Gao Qiang, who was in a hurry.

"Hey, Gao Qiang!" Lin Ruofei grabbed Gao Qiang, who had already passed by, and whispered, "What do you mean? Pretending not to see me? Do you think you can get rid of me after just one day?"

"Oh... I'm sorry, I really didn't see you..." Gao Qiang said apologetically, "I suddenly have some urgent business to attend to. I'll give you the password now, you can go ahead by yourself, I promise you'll be safe..." After saying that, Gao Qiang leaned close to Lin Ruofei's ear.

"What's the emergency? Do you need any help?" Lin Ruofei asked with concern.

"Hmm..." Gao Qiang thought for a moment, then shook his head.

Just as Lin Ruofei was about to press for more information, she suddenly heard a sarcastic voice behind her:

"Hey! Poor kid, what are you doing standing here chatting nonsense?"

Lin Ruofei turned around and saw seven or eight boys walking towards her.

Leading the group was a short, dark-skinned, and thin boy, followed by a row of tall and strong boys. Judging from the obsequious expressions of the boys behind, it was clear that they all looked up to the short boy at the front.

"This kid looks familiar..." Lin Ruofei muttered to herself, "Ah... I remember now! Isn't he the son of that gang leader I saw at the basketball game last time? What's his name again...?"

At this moment, the short boy, with his squinting eyes and hippo-like lip, slowly walked up to Gao Qiang and said in a teasing tone, "Your little sweetheart 'Big Head Fen' has something urgent to discuss with you! Aren't you going to go see her? A poor boy and a silly girl, what a perfect match... haha..."

The group of people following behind the short boy laughed loudly, and they also laughed out loud.

"Hey!" Lin Ruofei reached out, intending to point at the short boy and give him a good scolding, but Gao Qiang grabbed her arm and forcibly pulled her away.

"Why are you pulling me away?" Lin Ruofei said unwillingly as Gao Qiang dragged her away. "This kid is clearly making fun of you. We can't let him get away with this so easily, or he'll treat you like this again in the future!"

"We'd better not mess with this kid!" Gao Qiang held Lin Ruofei tightly and said softly, "He's not like Zhang Yang. At least Zhang Yang isn't a bad person at heart, he's just a bit willful, so he won't do anything too outrageous!"

"You mean that short, dark-skinned guy was rotten to the core?" Lin Ruofei retorted.

"That kid's name is He Zhiheng..." Gao Qiang said in a low voice as he pulled Lin Ruofei away quickly.

"Ah! That's right, I remember now! His name is He Zhiheng, a first-year student." Lin Ruofei quickly remembered the name after Gao Qiang reminded her.

I heard from classmates who knew the situation: his father was a gangster, and notoriously ruthless; he was always the top dog in our city…

"So what? Are you afraid of him?" Lin Ruofei said righteously, "Good will always prevail over evil!"

“I don’t know whether evil can prevail over good,” Gao Qiang continued, “Anyway, He Zhiheng is just as ruthless as his father. Anyone who offends him never gets away with it and ends up being forced to drop out of school!”

"Is he really that scary?" Lin Ruofei didn't believe that a student could be so powerful as to drive someone to a dead end.

“Anyway, his methods of tormenting people are exceptionally cruel and despicable,” Gao Qiang added. “I heard from a classmate who was in the same class as him in junior high that there was a classmate who was a good student who wouldn’t help him with his homework, so he would gang up with his 'followers' every day to corner this classmate in the toilet and beat him up, and even urinate on him, until he broke two of the classmate’s ribs, making it impossible for him to go to school, and only then did he stop.”

"After this classmate recovered from his injury and went back to school, did He Zhiheng still bully him?" Lin Ruofei asked.

"After this student recovered from his injury, he transferred to another school," Gao Qiang replied helplessly. "Sigh, after all, if you can't afford to offend someone, you can only avoid them."

"Hey, I say...where are you taking me?" Lin Ruofei couldn't help but ask loudly when she saw that after Gao Qiang arrived at 'Qianji Garden', he didn't take her up 'Qianji Mountain', but instead bypassed 'Qianji Garden' and headed straight for the path behind the mountain.

"Well... well, since we're already here, why don't you come with me and take a look?" Gao Qiang released Lin Ruofei's arm, waved his hand to signal her not to say anything more, and just follow him.

Lin Ruofei knew that Gao Qiang must have something important to do, so she obediently followed behind him, walking quickly along the circular path behind the mountain...

After walking for about five minutes, a huge rock, more than three meters high, suddenly appeared at a bend, blocking Lin Ruofei's view and abruptly cutting off the winding path.

"Oh, we've reached the end!" Lin Ruofei couldn't help but whisper to Gao Qiang, who was walking ahead, "Where do we go next?"

The walls of Yucai Middle School are all made of red bricks and are about 2.5 meters high. However, for some reason, there is no red brick wall next to this boulder; instead, there is only a section of iron fence more than 2 meters high.

Gao Qiang didn't answer, but walked straight towards the iron fence...

"Are you planning to jump out of here?" Lin Ruofei asked as she followed Gao Qiang to the iron fence. "Do you need to go off-campus to handle this important matter you mentioned?"

Gao Qiang still did not answer Lin Ruofei's question, but walked to the iron fence and stood there.

"I said..." Before Lin Ruofei could finish her question, a woman's voice came from outside the fence:

"Gao Qiang, you're here!"

"Huh? Someone's calling you!" Lin Ruofei heard the voice and curiously looked through the fence...

Outside the fence was a lush green lawn, and opposite the lawn was a red brick wall with an iron fence more than two meters high.

At that moment, inside the iron fence opposite, stood a slightly chubby girl with both hands holding onto the fence, anxiously looking towards Lin Ruofei.

"Xiao Fen, how's your brother's situation?" Gao Qiang asked loudly.

"Where is that? Who is that girl? What happened to her brother?" Lin Ruofei couldn't help but ask a series of questions out of curiosity.

Gao Qiang didn't really want to talk to Lin Ruofei, but Lin Ruofei kept asking him questions, making it impossible for Gao Qiang to have a proper conversation with Xiao Fen across from him. Forced by circumstances, Gao Qiang had no choice but to give Lin Ruofei a brief answer to her question.

"Yucai Girls' School is right across the street. This girl is from my hometown. Her father called the school the day before yesterday and said that her brother fed rat poison to an old sow belonging to Old Lin next door, and the sow died!"

"Oh, is that so? Don't worry," Lin Ruofei loudly comforted the slightly chubby girl, "Luckily it's a pig, not a person. We can just compensate Old Man Lin according to the price!"

"Dark yellow skin, big eyes, flat nose, thick lips... Why does this girl look so familiar?" Lin Ruofei carefully examined the slightly chubby girl opposite her, trying hard to search her memory for any trace of her.

"The key point is that when Old Lin's eldest son went to her house to argue, her brother poked his left eye with a pitchfork and damaged it!" Gao Qiang added softly.

"Huh?" Lin Ruofei exclaimed in surprise at Gao Qiang's words.

"Has the eldest son of the Lin family had his eyes checked at the hospital? Is it serious?" Lin Ruofei hurriedly asked the slightly chubby girl opposite her.

“We’ve already been to the county hospital, and they said they can’t treat him. They told us to go to a hospital in the city…” The slightly chubby girl started sobbing. “My dad just called and said that Old Lin wants our family to prepare 30,000 yuan first, so he can take his eldest son to the city hospital to get his eyes checked right away. If we don’t have enough money there, we can ask my dad for more…”

"Xiao Fen, don't cry!" Gao Qiang comforted her urgently, "I'll have Uncle Jin talk to Old Lin and ask his family to cover the cost first. Once the 'school anniversary season' starts in a few days, I'll have a lot of money coming in!"

“My dad said the Lin family insists on cash right away, otherwise they’ll send my brother to the authorities. My dad’s worried that if my brother goes to jail, he won’t survive for more than a few days…” the slightly chubby girl cried. “I only have the 10,000 yuan the school just awarded me, I still need 20,000 yuan…”

"Don't worry, let's figure something out together!" Gao Qiang said, pulling a large paper bag from his pocket. "I brought the money I collected from the stalls today. Hua Di and I have already discussed it, and we'll lend you this money for now."

"That wouldn't be good!" The slightly chubby girl across from her shook her head and said, "Everyone has many expenses, if you lend me all of them..."

“I’ve already agreed with them that I’ll pay them back as soon as the ‘anniversary celebration’ revenue arrives,” Gao Qiang said, then turned and walked to the bushes beside the boulder, bent down and picked something up…

At this moment, Gao Qiang was holding a wooden stick over two meters long, with a square plank about twenty centimeters in diameter firmly nailed to the top.

After Lin Ruofei clearly saw what Gao Qiang was holding, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Wow! What a huge fly swatter!"

Gao Qiang, holding a fly swatter, approached the fence, placed the paper packet containing the money flat on the wooden board at the top of the stick, and then said to the slightly chubby girl:

“Here’s three thousand five hundred yuan. You can send it to Uncle Jin along with the ten thousand yuan you have. If you can’t reach an agreement with Old Man Lin’s family, you can ask Uncle Jin to borrow from the neighbors. Borrow as much as you can, and we’ll help him pay it back later.”

"I really... I really don't know how to thank you enough..." the slightly chubby girl said sincerely, "I always make you clean up after my brother..."

"Look at you, why are you being so polite with me?" Gao Qiang said, supporting the paper packet containing the money with one hand while first pushing the fly swatter vertically over the iron fence. "We're all from the same village, helping each other is only right!"

After the fly swatter slipped over the iron fence, Gao Qiang straightened it and then carefully used both hands to extend it towards the slightly chubby girl on the other side...

Afterwards, Lin Ruofei learned from Gao Qiang that, according to legend, this lush green meadow was originally a barren wasteland in the early days of the school's construction, and it was the closest point between Yucai Boys' School and Yucai Girls' School.

Shortly after Yucai Boys' School was built on Juxian Mountain, a huge rock suddenly and inexplicably rolled down from the mountaintop one night and came to rest there. The school leaders later consulted a feng shui master who said that Yucai Boys' School and Yucai Girls' School must be "closely connected" for both schools to prosper.

After discussing it, the leaders of the two schools demolished sections of the original red brick walls on this site and replaced them with iron fences, signifying 'ventilation'. From then on, the wasteland slowly grew green grass, and Yucai Boys' School and Yucai Girls' School began a legendary era of 'producing outstanding talents'.