Chapter 71 Jiuyi's Nightmare Memories (Part 2)
Zhen Jinli walked forward and poked the trunk to confirm the current condition of the banyan tree.
She turned her head to look at Chen Ji and said, “Are you sure you wanted to discount the banyan tree just now?”
Shen Ji was also confused for a moment, then nodded and said, “Yes.”
Suddenly, he seemed to notice something, and quickly pulled Zhen Jinli away and stepped back.
"careful!"
There was a courtyard wall behind him. Zhen Jinli was caught off guard and was pulled by Chen Ji, and immediately she was hit against the wall.
I heard the sound of a tree trunk breaking behind me. With a "creak", the trunk broke.
Then with a "bang", the tree trunk fell to the ground.
Zhen Jinli turned around and saw this scene, then looked at Chen Ji happily.
"How is it? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
Shen Ji looked at the fallen banyan tree behind her, his expression a little complicated at this moment.
Zhen Jinli found that Chen Ji seemed to have grown a little taller, and couldn't help but reach out and gesture on his forehead.
After Shen Ji came back to his senses, his face flushed: “Teacher?”
Zhen Jinli gestured and asked, "Chen Ji, how tall are you now?"
Why does it feel like he is a little taller than her now?
Shen Jing's mother was cooking in the kitchen. When she heard the noise, she came out and was shocked to find that the banyan tree that had grown in the yard for many years had fallen down.
"Oh my god, why did this tree fall?"
Shen Ji was too embarrassed to say that he broke it, so he had to explain.
"Maybe the tree fell because insects ate away its core."
Zhen Jinli suppressed a smile and tried to cover it up, "Yeah, I just leaned against it, but I didn't expect the tree to break."
Mother Chen Jing didn't care about the broken banyan tree anymore, as she could just chop it up and use it as firewood.
She enthusiastically wanted to keep Zhen Jinli for dinner, and Zhen Jinli agreed, thinking that he could observe Chen Jing for a while longer.
After dinner, Zhen Jinli taught Shen Ji a few more grappling techniques. Only after he had mastered them did she leave the Shen family.
Chen Ji looked at Zhen Jinli's leaving back, a complex emotion flashed in his eyes.
Why did he feel that the grappling techniques taught by Teacher Zhen were so familiar, as if he already knew them?
Also, why did she say that if he wanted it, it would come true?
All of this was like a mystery that troubled Shen Jing and left him puzzled.
Forget it, he will wait until tomorrow to ask Teacher Zhen.
***
During the break the next day, the class monitor distributed the homework that had been corrected yesterday to everyone.
A tall boy, upon seeing Chen Yin's exercise book, immediately picked it up with two fingers and threw it away as if he had touched something dirty.
"Bad luck, don't get infected with the sissy virus."
The boy next to him was hit by the silent exercise book and threw it away with a look of disgust.
"Hey, don't touch me! It's disgusting!"
He even deliberately took out a tissue and wiped his hands, as if touching anything related to silence would make him as effeminate as him.
In order to observe more of Chen Ji's situation, Zhen Jinli basically hung around outside the classroom during breaks and happened to see this scene.
Chen Jing was ridiculed and despised by his classmates, his face turned red, and the self-confidence he had built up with great difficulty collapsed.
This is the current situation of being silent in the class, being ostracized and hated by classmates.
It's like meeting him will bring misfortune.
Zhen Jinli originally wanted to go up and scold those bullies who used verbal violence against Chen Ji, but after thinking about it, she decided to hold back for the time being.
She calmly came into class with the lesson plan, and when the get out of class was about to end, she asked everyone a question.
"Everyone has heard the story of the ugly duckling, right?"
The students answered in unison: "I've heard of it."
Zhen Jinli's lips curved slightly as she asked, "Then do you think that before the ugly duckling turned into a white swan, the other ducks were right to laugh at and despise it because of its peculiarities?"
"No!" The students shook their heads.
"Very good." Zhen Jinli nodded.
"So, do you think Zhang Tianqi, Wang Haijie, and the others were right to mock Shen Jing because of his preferences and temperament?"
The classmates didn't expect Zhen Jinli to have such a turn of events and were stunned for a moment.
As for the two students whose names were directly called by Zhen Jinli, their cheeks turned red and they were so embarrassed that they wanted to find a hole to crawl into.
For a moment, the students looked at each other, and the atmosphere in the class became a little subtle.
After hearing what Teacher Zhen said, it seemed like they were indeed doing something wrong.
In the past, everyone took it lightly, and even the students who were bystanders and assisted the evil without realizing it, seemed to sense something was wrong.
They are used to excluding those who are different from them, and have an instinctive resistance and disgust towards things that do not conform to their own cognition, so they impose this resistance and disgust on Shen Jing.
Zhen Jinli gave just enough pointers and left the rest to the students to figure out on their own.
Only by creating a class atmosphere with correct values and a sense of right and wrong can we effectively curb this bullying force targeting the silent.
Suddenly, someone muttered something in the corner of the classroom.
"He's not a white swan, he's just a black duck at best, and he'll lead others astray."
Shen Ji’s face turned pale when he heard this, and his fists gradually clenched.
Zhen Jinli lowered her eyes, as if thinking about something, then raised her eyes and glanced at the classmates below and said.
"How about this, whoever can beat Chen Jing in arm wrestling will not have to do their English homework tonight."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's eyes lit up.
Although I don't know why Zhen Jinli made such a request, but who is Chen Ji? He's just a sissy, and any boy can definitely beat him.
In order to avoid having to do English homework tonight, the boys surrounded Chen Ji after class, not letting him leave and insisting on arm wrestling with him.
Chen Jing refused to show weakness and fought them one by one.
His strength was already quite strong, and most importantly—
He was not a fourteen-year-old boy at all, but a twenty-four-year-old adult man.
Of course, those little kids who are only in junior high school are no match for him.
Looking at the boys being defeated by him one after another, Chen Ji seemed to realize that his self-confidence was returning bit by bit.
At the end, he glanced at the other boys and said confidently.
"Are there any of you who still refuse to accept the result? Come over here and let's have a fight."
Zhen Jinli felt very relieved as she watched his appearance gradually become mature and his temperament gradually become cold and silent.
The boy's silent features became increasingly similar to the silence in reality.
He would soon be able to become truly silent and recall things in reality.
***
During lunch break, Chen Jin came to the teacher's office to talk to her.
"Teacher Zhen, I have a question for you."
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(End of this chapter)
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