Yanshi is gray most of the time in early spring, but Sunday morning was a rare sunny day.
Jiang Chen had breakfast with his parents, went back to his room to get ready, and prepared to go out.
Yang Si didn't have work today. After what happened yesterday, she realized that family harmony and happiness are the most important thing. Jiang Chen happened to be out, so she wanted to push Jiang Zhuo to the park to bask in the sun and let more sunshine into this house shrouded in haze.
Jiang Zhuo had no objection. He had never left the house since the accident. At first he was not in the mood to go out, but later he came to his senses and realized that he did not want to trouble his wife and son. Now his wife and son were very happy, so he naturally would not object.
In 2004, most houses in Yan City did not have elevators, and it was not easy for the Jiang family, who lived on the fifth floor, to go out.
Jiang Chen carried his father on his back, Yang Si held the wheelchair, and the family of three went downstairs carefully step by step.
The laughter of the children outside and the occasional noises coming from the neighbors' homes made the steps seem short, and although silent it was not dull.
When they reached the first floor, Jiang Zhuo behind Jiang Chen suddenly sighed and said, "Chenchen has grown up."
His words seemed to open up the family's chatterbox.
Yang Si said with a smile: "Isn't it? It seems that all of a sudden, it has grown from such a small thing to a person who can stand tall and proud."
Jiang Zhuo's smile also regained some of its usual cheerfulness: "Yes, he looks like me, worthy of being my son."
"That's hard to say." Yang Si disagreed: "Chenchen is so well-behaved and sensible because you look like me. When you were young, you were reckless and not as calm as my son."
"Yes, you are like that." Jiang Zhuo did not argue with his wife and said with a smile, "But you are smart like me, and you have been a good student since childhood."
"How come he's smart like you?" Yang Si disagreed even more: "How can your grades in school compare to your son's? My son is smart because he works hard and he inherited my genes!"
Jiang Zhuo felt a little aggrieved: "How does my son look like me?"
Yang Si also felt as if nothing she said was justifiable, so she vaguely answered her husband: "He is a good basketball player, isn't he like you?"
Jiang Chen listened to his parents' long-awaited argument, and the smile in his eyes gradually spread. The family of three walked out of the corridor, and the bright sunshine dispelled the last trace of haze.
After sending his parents to the park, Jiang Chen took a bus at the nearby bus stop.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the city of Yan already had the rudiments of the crowdedness of later generations, but without the fast pace of later generations where one would be left behind if one was a step slower.
The car drove slowly, and there were old men carrying cages, students in school uniforms, and young people talking on the phone. Some were talking and laughing, while others were quietly catching up on their sleep. It was harmonious and retro.
For Jiang Chen, this scene could indeed be described as retro.
Although he also came from this time, his memories of his first life were more about the tall buildings and the hustle and bustle of people coming and going. In his second life, the current scene was completely gone. Aircraft had become a common means of transportation for everyone, and special documents were required to travel on the ground.
He looked at everything with curiosity and freshness, with a relaxed smile on his lips that he himself did not even notice. Little did he know that in the eyes of others, he was also a part of the morning scenery.
The handsome and fair-skinned boy held the hanging ring and stood quietly by the back door window. Just by looking at his profile outside the window, his generous and open temperament was enough to attract attention.
Jiang Chen was completely unaware of everything around him. When he heard the station announcement, he followed the crowd and got off the bus.
Yan City Third Hospital was not well-known in Yan City at that time. It was not until later times when medical resources were tight that its spinal surgery and vascular surgery came to prominence. The biggest reason why spinal surgery became known to everyone was Shi Fengyue.
It is difficult to judge Shi Fengyue based on the secular moral standards. There is no doubt that he has profound medical skills and outstanding talent in this area, but as a doctor, he has no sense of responsibility to save the dying and the wounded, and only regards curing diseases and saving lives as a challenge and interest.
He would not take cases that did not interest him, cases that were not challenging, or cases when he was in a bad mood. His stubborn and self-centered character caused criticism and resistance from most people for a period of time. Some people even went to the hospital with banners, demanding that scum like him get out of the medical profession.
But these had no effect on him. He continued to do his own thing, and people continued to come to him to ask for surgery.
What a joke. Only Professor Shi can save lives from surgeries that other doctors cannot perform. Are they going to sacrifice their lives for the public opinion of the outside world?
After a while of public opinion, the public saw that it was useless to him and gradually dispersed. Whatever happened was still the same, but Shi Fengyue became famous because of this. Later, there were rumors that Professor Shi was very young and so handsome that he was hated by everyone, making the general public very curious about this genius with a very unique personality. It also spawned a wave of crazy fans who specifically blocked the hospital just to see if he was really that handsome.
As a result, during that period, Yan City Third Hospital hired a dozen extra security guards and had to stipulate that patients were not allowed to stay in the hospital outpatient department without registering for medical treatment. This was how this absurd phenomenon, which seemed like star-chasing, was curbed.
However, Shi Fengyue himself was not affected at all. He resigned from Yan City Third Hospital after working there for less than three years. It was said that he was tired of doing surgeries and was looking for other interesting things to do. No one knew whether the rumor was true or not. As for what he did after resigning, Jiang Chen no longer paid attention and didn't know.
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen stopped in front of the outpatient building, sighed in his heart, and then walked in. Finding Shi Fengyue was not the most difficult thing, but getting him to agree to perform surgery on Jiang Zhuo was the most difficult thing.
In the inquiry hall on the first floor, the nurse at the service desk was very enthusiastic. After learning the name of the doctor he was looking for, she quickly helped him look up the name in the system. However, as Jiang Chen expected, this person was not currently listed among the doctors.
Jiang Chen was not disappointed either. This was something he had expected, because what he remembered was a vague period of time, not a specific time point. It was not necessarily a bad thing for him that Shi Fengyue had not come to the hospital at this time, because the surgeries that Shi Fengyue performed became more difficult in the later stages of his career, and the fewer surgeries he would be interested in. He had just started seeing patients at this time, so the possibility of him agreeing to take over Jiang's father's surgery was higher.
On the way home, Jiang Chen suddenly remembered that his parents might still be in the park at this time, so he got off the bus two stops earlier. Unexpectedly, he met Shen Xu when he walked out of the bus stop.
Shen Xu was also surprised to see Jiang Chen, and immediately jumped up and waved: "Jiang Zi!"
"Why are you here?" Jiang Chen glanced at the school gate behind him, a little curious. Chen Xu was not a good student who would come back to school to study or do homework during the holidays.
"I didn't bring my homework with me yesterday, but my parents came back. I rarely see them all year round, but when they came back, they asked me if I had done my homework. I said I had, and they had to check it for me. They acted like they cared about my studies. If they really cared about my studies, would they not even have time for my parents' meeting?" Chen Xu complained with a pout, and said unwillingly, "They saw that I didn't have any homework, so I had to go back to school to get my homework."
Jiang Chen glanced at him and said calmly: "Of course your uncle and aunt care about you. If they don't make money, how will you eat?"
Chen Xu knew Jiang Chen would say this. From childhood to adulthood, whenever he complained about his parents, Jiang Chen would tell him seriously that his parents were doing it for his own good. He had gotten used to it and didn't take it to heart.
"Why are you getting off here?" Chen Xu changed the subject: "Isn't it two stops before your neighborhood?"
Jiang Chen's neighborhood is two stops away from the school, less than 20 minutes' walk. The park is quite large and spans three stops. The South Gate is near his neighborhood, the East Gate and the library are in the middle, and the North Gate is near the school, so he got off two stops in advance and walked from one end to the other to look for Jiang Zhuo and his wife, making it less likely to miss them.
Jiang Chen said briefly, and Shen Xu was very happy to hear it, and said: "Uncle should go out more and bask in the sun, which will make you feel good."
"Come on, I'll go get your homework with you." Jiang Chen nodded and said, "We'll leave after we get it."
Chen Xu immediately looked bitter: "Forget it." He still wanted to go to the dormitory to find his boarding classmates to copy.
How could Jiang Chen not know what Shen Xu was planning? He glanced at him calmly and asked, "Are you going or not?"
"Walk……"
The school was empty and quiet on Sunday. Except for the occasional sounds of senior high school students taking extra classes on the fifth and sixth floors, there was basically no one on the other floors.
Jiang Chen and Shen Xu got the key from the old man in the message room, and quickly entered the classroom and retrieved Shen Xu's homework.
When going downstairs, Shen Xu hung his head, looking listless.
As soon as they reached the stairs to the second floor, they found that there were people in the stairwell. There were a few boys standing there, and they seemed to be laughing and talking about something.
Jiang Chen and Shen Xu looked at each other. Before they could see the situation clearly, they heard a muffled groan from the flesh being injured by fists coming from the inside of the encirclement. Then someone said with a smile, "How about I hit you?"
Chen Xu's eyes widened, and he instantly forgot about the sadness of doing his homework. He stretched his head and said, "F*ck, you are so arrogant. You dare to hit someone in the stairwell!"
The teaching building of No. 1 Middle School has a total of six floors. It is "concave" in shape, facing north and south. There are classrooms on the east and west sides, with three classes on each side. Each grade occupies two floors. The second grade of high school occupies the third and fourth floors, while the first grade of high school occupies the first and second floors.
However, the first and second year students were on vacation at that time, and the third year students were taking extra classes upstairs, so it was hard to say which year these people were in.
Chen Xu has always been a person with a wide range of social contacts. He only took a glance and formed an impression of a profile. He said to Jiang Chen, "They should all be freshmen."
Jiang Chen seemed to be lost in thought. He felt that the voice of the person who had just spoken was a little familiar, but when he searched his memory for information about this person, he found nothing. It seemed that in his first life, he had no familiarity with any of the younger students.
Seeing Jiang Chen didn't say anything, Shen Xu also frowned. It's not that he didn't want to get involved in this matter, but the current situation is special.
Although it is the weekend now, the teaching department is not on holiday. If it were a weekday, it would be fine. It is not uncommon to join in the fun when seeing little brats bullying others. But right now, Jiang Chen is being encouraged by Zhang Sanmao to catch his faults. As long as Jiang Chen gets involved, even if he just stands with them, Zhang Sanmao will definitely turn black into white if he finds out. It would not be surprising if he directly accuses Jiang Chen of bullying his freshman.
The two of them just stood at the stairs, and the group of people in the stairwell naturally saw them.
One of them whispered to the tallest boy next to him: "Brother Sun, those two upstairs seem to be sophomores and juniors, what should we do?"
The boy called Brother Sun looked up, and when he saw Jiang Chen and Shen Xu clearly, his eyebrows wrinkled a little. When he looked up, Jiang Chen also saw him clearly. He had slanted eyes and a narrow forehead. He didn't look like someone who was easy to mess with. Although he had no impression of him, he felt a sense of familiarity.
As the two sides looked at each other, the boy who was being beaten coughed, and suddenly a scream rang out.
Jiang Chen and those people looked at the same time, and saw the fat man in the innermost was swinging his arms wildly. A thin little boy was hanging on his arms. The boy's head was hit against the wall several times, but he didn't let go at all.
"Fuck!" Feeling ashamed when his own man was bitten, the man with the drooping eyes immediately kicked the boy and said, "Let me go!"
Shen Xu yelled "Fuck!", jumped up and rushed down.
He didn't intend to meddle in other people's business just now. Besides being concerned about Jiang Chen, he also didn't see the condition of the child inside. He thought that with such a thick cotton jacket between them, he wouldn't suffer many injuries in a fight. In comparison, Jiang Chen was more important. At this time, seeing the boy being held by the head and slammed against the wall like this, he couldn't help it.
He ran down the stairs in two steps, pushed aside the tallest boy, and shouted angrily: "You want to kill me?"
Sun Zhi was pushed and was about to lose his temper, but when he saw Jiang Chen slowly coming down the stairs, he clenched his fists, and he didn't know what he was thinking about, but he endured it.
"Are you okay?" Shen Xu pulled the boy up. After seeing the wound on his head and the bruises on his face, he turned around with a cold face and said, "You are in the first year of high school, right? So arrogant?"
"What? What can you do to me, arrogant?"
Sun Zhi raised his chin. He was tall to begin with, over 1.80 meters tall. Standing in front of Shen Xu, who was less than 1.7 meters tall, he was full of momentum. With him as a leader, the other first-year high school students also stood up straight, looking very imposing.
Jiang Chen stood in front of Shen Xu. He had an upright posture, broad shoulders and long legs. Although he was actually two or three centimeters shorter than Sun Zhi, he looked no different. He said calmly, "Huang Zhiqiang was patrolling on the fourth floor two minutes ago and is expected to come down soon. If you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave later."
Huang Zhiqiang, the director of the teaching department of No. 1 Middle School, is nicknamed Mad Dog Huang. He loves to catch students who fight or fall in love prematurely. His catchphrase is "I see you!". Anyone who is caught by him and brought to the teaching department will not be allowed to pass if he does not have a self-review of at least 3,000 words and will be checked for plagiarism. His strictness is comparable to that of a university graduation thesis. He is a feared figure in No. 1 Middle School.
Sun Zhi was stunned, and his followers were also afraid. They looked at each other and wanted to disperse immediately. Being scolded was a small matter, and even if it was a demerit, they would accept it, but none of these were as serious as writing a 3,000-word self-criticism!
Jiang Chen was calm and composed, his eyes moving calmly over everyone, and when they landed on Sun Zhi, there was a hint of meaning in his eyes.
Sun Zhi subconsciously wanted to take a step back. He gritted his teeth, turned to the boy in the corner, said "Wait", and immediately ran away with the other classmates.
The corridor suddenly became empty.
Shen Xu checked the boy's injuries and asked worriedly, "Do you want to go to the infirmary?"
The boy kept his head down, and did not look up when Chen Xu asked him questions. He said sullenly, "None of your business."
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows, pulled Chen Xu away, and said calmly: "This kind of thing has two consequences. Either ask your parents or teachers to solve it, or become stronger so that no one can bully you. If you can't do anything, just go to school. If your grades are good, your class teacher will naturally protect you. For that kind of person, whether you just tolerate it or go to extremes, it is not a good choice."
The boy suddenly looked up, and when he saw Jiang Chen's cold expression, his face turned red.
After a few seconds, he said, "It's none of your business!"
After saying that, he pushed Shen Xu away and went downstairs by himself.
Chen Xu rubbed his arm that was pushed down, and said with a click of the tongue: "This brat is quite fierce. Why didn't he show such toughness when those people beat him just now? Damn it, I was wrong to help him."
Jiang Chen thought of the utility knife that the boy had safely hidden in his sleeve, his eyes flashed, but he said nothing.
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