“New school uniform ah. Are you a new transfer here?” A square-faced man with a scar on his forehead lit a cigarette for himself, and through the smoke, he squinted his eyes, which looked like they were squinting even when they were fully open, and looked at Yin Gu.
“Yes.” Yin Gu was blocked at a dead end by three thugs who were not as tall as him. Hearing this, he laughed and brushed off the cigarette ash on his school uniform with a normal expression.
“Then you don’t know that this area of the school is under the jurisdiction of the three of us brothers?” The square-faced man blew a puff of smoke at him in a pretentious manner.
“I don’t know.” Yin Gu said with a smile.
The round-faced man on the left spoke up: “Your No. 1 Middle School is very chaotic, with a bunch of brats fighting and killing each other every day. People like you, who are obviously incompetent, will definitely be bullied. If you pay the protection fee today, I will immediately guarantee that no one in the entire No. 1 Middle School will dare touch you! If you don’t pay…”
He sneered in what he thought was a very cool manner, but his face was too round, and it looked like his fat was twitching as if he were having an epileptic seizure.
“It’s this good?” Yin Gu said. He didn’t know whether his deskmate had paid or not. No, he didn’t know whether his deskmate had asked these three people for protection fees or not. He asked casually, “How much?”
“Not much, just three hundred a week!”
“But I only have 200 yuan as pocket money a month.” Said Yin Gu.
“Huh…? Are you kidding me?” The square-faced man was stunned for a moment and grabbed Yin Gu by the collar. “Fuck! Ask around, who in No. 1 Middle School doesn’t know me, and who dares to talk to me like that? You little is looking for death!”
“Wow, who are you, ugly guy?” A curious exclamation suddenly came from the alley: “Why haven’t I heard about you before? Was I wrong to inquire?”
“F*ck, who the hell—” The round-faced man held back his words when he turned around and saw the people at the alley entrance. After a long while, he said with an unpleasant expression, “Yu Chengsong, stop meddling in other people’s business.”
Yu Chengsong casually leaned against the wall with his shoulder. He waved his hands when he heard that and said with a smile, “No, no, no, I absolutely don’t care. You should collect the protection fee from him quickly so that I can beat him up. After I beat him up, then it will be Zheyu’s turn. We’re all waiting in line.”
Once you pay the protection fee today, I will immediately guarantee that no one in the entire No. 1 Middle School will dare touch you…
The three hooligans suddenly felt as if their faces were thrown to the ground and stepped on twice by Yu Chengsong.
The leader of the gangsters was called Li Cheng, and he was an old acquaintance of Yu Chengsong. He was only three years older than him. He also got angry when he heard this: “Yu Chengsong, you do your thing and I do mine. Don’t looking for trouble with us big brother, I warn you—”
“I’m looking for it,” Yu Chengsong sneered, looking at the three of them. “What can you do to me?”
Zhou Zheyu clapped his hands.
This is the strength of the top A. If a fight really breaks out, Yu Chengsong won’t even have to do anything. Once the pheromone is swept across the three A’s on the opposite side, they will fall flat on their faces.
Li Cheng gritted his teeth and glanced at Yin Gu, who was blocked in the alley by them, as if he wanted to see what was so special about this face that it was worthy of being protected by someone as nonchalant as Yu Chengsong.
But he couldn’t tell anything about him except that he was good-looking.
He held it in for a long time and finally gave himself a way out.
“Fine! Yu Chengsong, I’ll give you face today! Since this little is your lover, we big brothers won’t touch him.”
Zhou Zheyu: Huh???
He looked at Yu Chengsong, who was smiling but didn’t say anything. He then looked at Yin Gu, who was smiling even more and didn’t say anything either.
F*ck, a lover?
Li Cheng took his men away.
“Are you frightened?” Yu Chengsong threw a piece of candy into his mouth and raised his hand to throw one to Yin Gu.
“I’m scared to death.” Yin Gu raised his hand to catch it and walked over with a smile.
“I’m the one who’s scared to death!” Zhou Zheyu looked at them and asked, “Are you two serious? Flash marriage ah?”
“Yeah, didn’t we give birth to a big son like you already?” Yu Chengsong glanced at him and turned away. “Stupid.”
“Do you know the person just now?” Yin Gu followed and asked.
“In the previous term, he failed a grade for two years. Finally, he inherited his father’s ancestral business, the Gangster Group.” Said Yu Chengsong.
“This powerful?” Yin Gu put the candy in his pocket and laughed. “But he is very afraid of you ah, why?”
“Maybe it’s because I look too much like his father.” Said Yu Chengsong.
Zhou Zheyu looked at Yin Gu and said, “What are you doing here? This road is not safe. But you don’t look like an Oga with your height though. Why are they blocking you?”
“Maybe… because I look too much like a rich second-generation.” Yin Gu said.
Zhou Zheyu: “……”
You two have discussed this, right?
No. 1 Middle School finished at 4:50, while Yu Chengdi’s elementary school finished at 3:00, so no matter how quickly Yu Chengsong returned home, Yu Chengdi had to spend more than an hour alone with their mother.
Yu Chengsong feels like he is opening a blind box whenever he returns home everyday. Today is a penalty, tomorrow is scolding, the day after tomorrow is quarreling, and the day after tomorrow is…
In short, once life becomes exciting, it cannot stop.
When he reached the door of his house, Yu Chengsong felt his pocket and realized that he had forgotten to bring his keys.
He knocked on the door. No one opened it.
Knock again.
Still no one.
He took a step back, raised his leg, and kicked the door hard. With a “clang”, a layer of white lime on the wall fell off visibly.
With a clang, the door cracked, and then Yu Chengsong pulled it open, only to be confronted with Yu Chengdi, whose face was bruised and swollen.
“F*ck.” Yu Chengsong laughed, but the smile didn’t reach his eyes. “What kind of look is our little idiot having today ah?”
“It has nothing to do with you.” Yu Chengdi tried to cover his neck and face, but perhaps he realized that this action was not only useless but also extremely stupid, so he put his hands down again.
Yu Chengsong frowned slightly, pushed him, and strode in. His tall figure was full of murderous intent. Yu Chengdi was so scared that he grabbed him and whispered, “It’s not mom!”
“En?” Yu Chengsong paused, turned his head to look at him, burst into laughter, and whispered, “I just want to go to the kitchen to eat. You shouldn’t be thinking that I’ll go find justice for you, right? You little idiot, why are you so cute?”
“You—” Yu Chengdi’s face flushed. He glared at him, then ran back to his bedroom with red eyes.
The smile on Yu Chengsong’s face disappeared. He went back to the house, threw down his schoolbag, turned around, and walked out.
If it wasn’t their mother, then it could only be his classmates. There was a bully in Yu Chengdi’s class who used to bully him.
Of course he couldn’t beat up a 10-year-old kid, but he could beat up the kid’s brother.
Yu Chengsong walked downstairs, took out his cell phone, and dialed a number. The other party answered quickly and spoke cautiously.
“…Brother Song?”
“Do you know what I’m looking for you for?” Yu Chengsong lit a cigarette with his back to the wind.
“My brother, he…”
“Do you remember what you told me last time?”
“Brother Song, please don’t be angry. I-I’ll ask him! I don’t know what that little bastard did behind my back. Brother Song, I really don’t know. Give me a chance, and I’ll go…”
“I told you last time that if it happens again, I will make a move on him directly,” Yu Chengsong said, narrowing his eyes. “Do you remember?”
“Brother Song! I—”
“Go, beat him up. It won’t count unless he cries. Whether you did it or not last time, you know it in your heart clearly.” Yu Chengsong lowered his voice and spoke each word with emphasis: “Or do you think that just because you can’t bear to see your brother get beaten, I can?”
“I was wrong. I’ll teach him a lesson right now! Brother Song, I’ll bring him to you and apologize little brother in person tomorrow. Please don’t—”
“It’s the last time.”
“Thank you, thank you Brother Song, thank you Brother Song!”
Yu Chengsong hung up the phone, felt the cold wind for a while, then turned and walked towards the entrance of the community.
There is a barbecue stall there, the food tastes average, but it’s enough to entertain the kids.
Yu Chengsong pushed open the door, carrying a bag of barbecue. Just as he was about to shout, he saw the unfortunate child kneeling beside the sofa.
This time, there was no need to ask who did it.
His mother’s angry voice came from the kitchen.
“You only got 60 points in the English test. I can write more correctly than you, even if I close my eyes! All the books you’ve read just went into the dog’s stomach1Meaning that it was a waste.! You’re always fighting with others. You’re becoming more and more like your brother—you useless thing! Get down on your knees! Get up only when you get all your homework correct!”
Their mother became more and more angry as she spoke. She came out with a mop and shouted, “I shouldn’t have given birth to you back then!”
“Shouldn’t have given birth to him? Isn’t that one in that room also dead?” Yu Chengsong looked at her and said with deliberate sympathy, “Oh, that’s not right, Yu Chengyuan is indeed dead, he died a long time ago. Plop.”
“…Yu Chengsong!” His mom’s eyes widened, as if she had heard something taboo. Her hands, which were holding the mop, were shaking visibly. Her voice was as sharp as a handful of nails, piercing their eardrums. She screamed, “Shut up! Go to hell! Go to hell! Go to hell! You are a jinx. This family will never be well with you around! Why don’t you just die? It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault! It’s all your fault!!!”
Yu Chengsong grabbed Yu Chengdi by the collar and lifted him up, mocking him: “This little classmate, you are so useless, you can’t even beat a crazy woman.”
Yu Chengdi wiped his tears and glared at him, biting his lips hard to stop himself from crying.
“Take it, I’ll eat it later, you watch it.” Yu Chengsong put the barbecue in his hand, turned to look at his mother, and said with regret, “Without me, this family can’t be better either. After all, the dead can’t be resurrected. And look in the mirror, big beautiful lady. Look at your current state. Yu Chengyuan’s life is much better than that previous one already. He still hasn’t been scared to death by looking at your face every day, little hero.”
“You shut up! Shut up!!!” The mother’s eyes bulged out, and she finally couldn’t stand it anymore. She raised the mop and hit him with such force that the veins on her arms were bulging.
Yu Chengsong sometimes really doubts whether he really jumped out of this belly or not. He couldn’t have been given as a gift when she topped up her phone bill, right?
He raised his hand and slapped the mop away, pointing to the master bedroom. “Don’t hit me. I can’t guarantee what I will do if I get hurt. Even if I count all the people in this house, young and old, there are still not enough for me to kill.”
He looked at his mother, smiled, and said, “Do you regret not squeezing me to death that year? It’s too late to regret it now.”
His mother’s face looked very wonderful. Yu Chengsong seemed to be able to see the four big words “I regret it very much” in those eyes that had long lost their luster.
“Let’s go, little noobie,” Yu Chengsong pushed Yu Chengdi’s shoulder and walked forward. He didn’t look at his mother’s expression again. It seemed like he was asking Yu Chengdi, or someone else, “Is what brother said right? Isn’t it too late?”
Yu Chengdi sniffed, hugged the bag in his arms tightly, and said nothing.
