Chapter 142 Qi Yan, I will protect you from now on
Qi Yan felt that his life over the past decade or so had been unremarkable. Violence, poverty, and prejudice had accompanied him throughout his childhood and adolescence.
He didn't have much to tell as a story, so he thought for a long time before saying, "When I was a sophomore in high school, I tried to start a business."
Gu Nan suddenly became interested, and his sleepiness was driven away. He forced his heavy eyelids open and asked, "What business?"
Qi Yan knew that Gu Nan was attracted by it and smiled. "The snack business is to resell snacks from outside the school to other students..."
Qi Yan attended Qinglan No. 1 High School, a famous school in the capital and even in the whole country, known for its extremely high admission rate and extremely strict management system.
After Qi Yan finished the junior high school entrance examination, Qi Feng was unwilling to let him continue studying. However, he worked hard and achieved the best result in the city in the junior high school entrance examination. He was admitted to No. 1 Middle School with three years of free tuition and an annual subsidy of 10,000 yuan.
Of course, the ten thousand yuan would never go into his pocket. The money distributed by the school would be taken away by Qi Feng and Xu Yuelian to play cards. After finishing his first year of high school, he couldn't even afford a school uniform.
He was the only one among thousands of students in No. 1 Middle School who did not have a school uniform. Every Monday during the graduation ceremony, he would be looked down upon by many classmates.
Because the dean of studies caught those who were not wearing school uniforms, he wanted to deduct class points. Once the points were deducted, the red flag for the week would be gone. The class teacher's performance was affected, so he got angry at the students. The students then went to find Qi Yan, the culprit, and put pressure on him.
But putting pressure on him was useless. It wasn't that Qi Yan didn't want to buy it, but he had no money. Studying and earning food expenses at the same time had already taken up all his time and energy.
At the end of the semester, he looked for a job in a shop during the winter and summer vacations. As soon as he got his salary, Qi Feng tried to steal his money. He couldn't beat him, so he could only watch Qi Feng invest all his money in the card room and lose it all.
Later, for some unknown reason, he suddenly realized that he could not save any money by working back and forth like this, and there was no hope. So he used his meager food allowance to buy some snacks from shops outside the school, and secretly brought them into the school to resell.
The shop owner bought the goods for one dollar and sold them to him for one dollar and fifty cents, and then Qi Yan sold them to his classmates for two dollars, taking the approach of small profits but quick turnover. Every day at noon and after class in the evening, he would go from dormitory to dormitory to sell his goods.
His snacks are all cheap and not irreplaceable. The only advantage is that they are delivered to your door and can be ordered in advance.
In order to sell his stuff, Qi Yan tried hard to pretend to be talkative, smiling, enduring ridicule and sarcasm, and saying flattering words. Sometimes he even felt as if he had really integrated into the collective and become one of them.
During that period, he made some money with his boldness and carefulness, but this kind of reselling behavior was a taboo in school rules. Some people disliked him and reported him.
When he returned to school that afternoon, he had just purchased goods from his boss and was caught by the dean as soon as he entered the school gate.
The goods were confiscated, the student was punished, and the whole school was criticized.
At the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, he stood under the flag stand and was surrounded and scolded by students from the entire school.
The school cancelled his annual subsidy of 10,000 yuan. The head teacher called Qi Feng and Xu Yuelian to the office and conveyed the school's ultimatum: if they committed the same offense again, the tuition exemption policy would be revoked.
In the corridor outside that office, Qi Yan was once again surrounded by teachers and classmates and experienced violence.
Classmates in school uniforms surrounded him and Qi Feng in three layers, watching Qi Feng grab his head and slam it to the ground, and kowtow to the head teacher to admit his mistake, hoping that the head teacher could speak to the school leaders and not cancel the 10,000 yuan subsidy.
The head teacher was held up and tried to stop it, but was stopped by Xu Yuelian who was begging in a sad voice. He was so angry that his face turned blue.
At that time, Qi Yan really wanted to jump off the corridor and die.
It’s a pity that the floor was not high enough, so I couldn’t die if I jumped down, otherwise the grass on the grave would be several feet high now.
Perhaps his brain was protecting him. Looking back, he could not remember how the incident ended that day. He only remembered that from then on his classmates avoided him, his homeroom teacher and subject teachers avoided him, and the school leaders and the student union also deliberately ignored him.
It seemed as if he had become invisible in the school overnight.
Occasionally, I heard some whispers about him, which were nothing more than "Qi Yan's father is a lunatic, Qi Yan is so pitiful" and so on.
He spent the next month in a daze, his mind and body seemingly torn in two.
Half of me is saying: Go die, there will be no pain when you die. Half of me is saying: Don’t die, it’s not time yet.
When? He couldn't think of it.
His result in that monthly exam was very bad. He dropped from first place in the grade to more than 600th. On the day the results came out, the head teacher talked to him and tactfully reminded him that if he could not get into the top 100 schools next time, the tuition-free policy would be withdrawn.
Qi Yan looked at the anxious face of his head teacher. He was not thinking about how to improve his grades, but was wondering if he would see a very interesting face if he died in front of his head teacher.
Whenever he thought of the teachers' horrified expressions, he would tremble with pleasure.
He knew he was sick, but no one could save him.
He continued in a daze, and miraculously, he ranked among the top 100 in the monthly exam a month later.
Because the monthly exam was very difficult, many classmates said: Qi Yan is really a genius. He can get so many points without attending classes or reading books.
Qi Yan held the miserable report card in his hand and suddenly woke up. He was not useless. He could study and there was still hope in his life.
He picked up the lessons he had missed and successfully regained first place in the next monthly exam.
If this is the end of the story, although the process is tragic, it can still be an inspirational HE story.
But returning to first place is not the end, but the beginning of another round of bullying.
The bullying of a poor student with excellent grades by the second-generation kids has just begun.
But Qi Yan didn't want to talk about it anymore. It was probably the same old stuff: tearing books, getting beaten, being put in solitary confinement, and being extremely bored.
He had already walked a long distance out of the hospital. The person on his back had stopped making any sound long ago. He thought Gu Nan had fallen asleep.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly said, "Do you want to carry me all the way back?"
Qi Yan was stunned, his steps stopped, and he was speechless for a moment: "..."
"Sister hasn't slept yet." His voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible.
"Yeah." Gu Nan slowly hugged Qi Yan's neck tightly, rubbed the back of his neck, buried his face in the warm down hat, and said in a muffled voice, "How can I sleep after hearing such a tragic story?"
Qi Yan continued walking, still maintaining a steady pace, "Not bad."
Gu Nan: "It's over."
"Well, it's over."
Gu Nan leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Qi Yan, I will protect you from now on."
Qi Yan shook the person on his back without saying anything.
He felt that he no longer needed Gu Nan's protection.
Because he also has someone he wants to protect.
He also wants to be a shield and support for others.
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