Chapter 52 Moth
After a while, the woman left in a hurry.
Lin Lang hid on the rooftop for a long time. When the footsteps faded away, he rushed in with two steps and grabbed Xu Jiqing's collar anxiously, "What did you promise?"
"What did the police say? What did the principal's office say? Are they willing to protect you?"
"What you just said to her is bullshit. How can the scumbag Li Rui's parents be good people? Just pretend nothing happened. A case should be filed and he must be fired."
"That's a ban. You're a sophomore this year, Xu Jiqing."
Lin Lang was almost going crazy.
He had never heard of the bonus, but considering Zhang Jianyuan's stinginess, how much money could he give to Xu Jiqing, 10,000 or 20,000, or 30,000 or 40,000?
Even after doubling the money, I could only buy the princess a skirt.
Su Xia could probably fill a wardrobe with skirts of this price, but how many league opportunities would Xu Jiqing have?
Does he really think that he can only get into a provincial team at best?
What cell phone, what secret photos, have anything to do with Xu Jiqing? Why should he exchange his bright future for them?
Xu Jiqing: "It's not for money."
"Damn you," Lin Lang grabbed his hair suddenly, and thought of Xu Jiqing's last words. He didn't know what to say for a moment, "You are so happy——"
Does she know that you like Su Xia so much?
He wanted to say.
But just as he uttered a few words, he was fixed in place by the calm and silent gaze of the young man in front of him, and felt that the words were extremely pale.
The classroom window was open and the bleak autumn wind blew up the curtains.
Xu Jiqing was standing in front of the window, his eyes like deep pools, and his serious expression was no different from before, making Lin Lang feel as if he had just met him today.
"There will still be a chance to compete next year," he said.
But Su Xia can't live in the shadow all her life.
A month later, a year later, no one will remember who took the photos.
The reservoir was drained and the mobile phone was salvaged by accident.
He planned everything, hoping to use his own blood to cover the phone that Li Rui was holding up to the bathroom window.
Everything you do.
From the beginning to the end, it was just to keep her in the dark.
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Three days later, before the morning exercises, the announcement of the "attempted murder case" that had caused a sensation throughout the school was finally posted.
Class 4 was close to the stairs. As soon as the stamped document was posted on the bulletin board, half of the students in the classroom rushed down to see it.
Just a paragraph, not long.
After investigation, the school finally confirmed that the incident was a mutual fight. The two parties reached a settlement through negotiation and decided not to prosecute or pursue responsibility.
Li Rui was given a demerit, Xu Jiqing was given a verbal warning, and both parties were disqualified from participating in this year's mathematics league.
The math class representative was skinny and squeezed out from the crowd in a short while.
Even as they were about to reach the playground, she was still reminiscing and chattering with the boys around her, "Second-generation people are indeed second-generation people. Even in this state, they were still able to be saved. Xu Jiqing is pure misery. He was envied for his academic performance, and he had to suffer such a loss after being beaten."
"You have a good attitude. Just two days ago you were calling me Brother Rui, but now you've surrendered to the enemy."
"I'm not blind," the class representative glared, "What was Xu Jiqing like when he returned to school?"
"Who says what you see is true?"
The boy scoffed at him, "Social news on TV is always like this. They start by playing the victim, stirring up the crowd to speak up for him, and then they're all waiting for him to get tough and exact revenge, but then they're stunned by his wealth and power. All they ask is a negotiated settlement and no further action."
"You feel sorry for Xu Jiqing, but maybe he's secretly happy that his scam was a success and he got a large sum of money."
Su Xia was in a hurry to read the notice, so she kept holding the blackboard eraser she had taken during her duty and forgot to put it back.
She was not tall and did not run very fast. She had just squeezed into the crowd and could see clearly, so she hurried over.
When she heard these words as soon as she arrived at the exercise position, she was so angry that she picked up the blackboard eraser covered with chalk dust and slapped the boy hard on the back.
The school uniform of No. 1 Middle School is blue and white.
It was covered with chalk dust that had accumulated over several semesters and was so dirty that it was almost unbearable to look at.
The boy turned his head away, slapping and coughing.
Dust flew everywhere, and everyone around looked over. Su Xia ignored him and hit him several more times. "I'm going to strangle you half to death and give you a lot of money. Are you going to steal it?"
"you……"
"Xu Ruiyang! Su Xia!"
Teacher Ding walked not far from them and pointed at them sternly. The boy had no choice but to swallow his pride and shut his mouth unwillingly.
During the entire break, Su Xia put the blackboard eraser in her coat, her arms flapping around, and she looked absent-minded.
When she finished her work and returned to class, she pricked up her ears and heard people around her talking about this matter. Most of them sympathized with Xu Jiqing. She thought she would be happy, but she was still in a heavy mood after being depressed for the whole morning and did not feel relieved at all.
It's so difficult.
She originally thought that if she went to the county hospital, Xu Jiqing would have someone to accompany her and there would be a witness.
In this life, he had her, Lin Lang, and Teacher Ding. Even the doctors who attended to him were kind people. He was sure his trajectory would be different from his previous life. The next time she heard his name, perhaps Xu Jiqing would have already made the provincial team, taking one step at a time towards his eventual recommendation, rising smoothly and steadily.
But reality told her that saving someone was not that easy.
A flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a tsunami, but she was just a small moth. No matter how hard she flapped her wings, she could only blow off a leaf.
In her second year of high school, Xu Jiqing was banned from the competition just as she remembered.
Walking to the window of the administrative building, Su Xia stood on tiptoe and took a look inside as usual.
Xu Jiqing was facing her sideways, wearing a snow-white short-sleeved school uniform, his back as straight as before, his left hand concentrating on writing the test paper, no different from any other day of preparation for the competition.
Su Xia felt very uncomfortable.
The next class was Teacher Ding's. After the pre-bell rang, she couldn't help but take out her cell phone, opened the chat box that hadn't sent any new messages for a long time, and tapped twice and paused twice.
Teacher Ding only sent those childish words after he reached the door.
I know everything.
[That's too much. Don't worry, I'm going to find my mom.]
[Who is in charge of the registration? Is there still time? ]
She waited a day.
It was not until I got home from school, took a shower and got into bed that I received a reply from Xu Jiqing.
I negotiated with them.
Su Xia was puzzled. [Why?]
The other party paused for a few seconds.
I’m short of money.
Su Xia pursed her lips and asked without hesitation, "How much is it?"
She turned over and got up, sitting down in front of her dressing table, opening the drawers of her jewelry boxes one by one, touching the pearl necklace and then the watch. She felt that these things were a bit flashy and impractical. She was anxious to contact the second-hand luxury goods dealers because they might force her to lower the price, so she went to rummage through the bank cards in her wallet.
This small wallet was a birthday gift given to her by Su Xiaojuan on her birthday one year.
The softest top-grain lambskin is stuffed full of black cards from various private banks and high-end luxury stores, and the large bill slot contains Swiss francs that were not spent on the last trip.
A whole stack of 1,000 yuan notes with the largest denomination.
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