Chapter 73 Chapter 73 He used me as a card to beat.
Ji Maili returned to school before the second class that afternoon. Seeing Tao Dacheng standing at the door of their classroom, looking inside, Ji Maili patted him and asked, "What are you doing at the door of our classroom?"
Tao Dacheng turned around, pointed at him sternly, and said, "You're done. You're really done now. Chen Lu asked me to keep an eye on you during the second period this morning. Not only did you skip classes all morning, but you even went to the sports school to hang out. Aren't you afraid of him getting mad?"
Ji Maili thought he had already arranged for Chen Lu's spy, but he didn't expect Chen Lu to arrange a second one. He glanced at his dead phone and suddenly asked curiously, "How did you know I went to the sports school?"
Tao Dacheng sneered, "How should I know? Why don't you check the group chat? It's full of photos of you at the sports school! Chen Lu hasn't asked me to come find you since noon, so he must have seen it. Just wait until he comes back to deal with you!"
Just like Li Jun said, the people from the sports school did have contact with the girls in their school. The photos of him going to watch the game in the morning were uploaded to their school group, and it was lively all afternoon.
Ji Maili wasn't afraid of Chen Lu dealing with him, but when he heard Tao Dacheng say that Chen Lu hadn't let him come to see him since noon, he was afraid that Chen Lu would get angry, so he reached out to Tao Dacheng and said, "Lend me your phone. I'll call him."
Tao Dacheng handed him his phone: "Class is about to start, call me after class."
Ji Maili took his phone and left: "I've already skipped the whole morning, this one class won't make any difference."
Tao Dacheng wanted to call him but before he could, Ji Maili ran away with his cell phone. Tao Dacheng really admired this kid's ability to go all out.
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In the art classroom of the old building, Ji Maili sat on the windowsill and dialed Chen Lu's number. The call was answered quickly. Chen Lu asked, "Are you also skipping classes like him?"
Ji Maili said, "It's me."
Hearing Ji Maili's voice, Shen Lu on the other end of the phone remained silent.
Ji Maili explained without getting to the point: "My phone is out of battery. I borrowed it from Tao Dacheng."
Chen Lu said in a cold tone: "You have to skip class to make the call? Do you think that since you have already skipped class, this one won't make any difference? Ji Maili, do you love skipping classes so much? If you go to class obediently, you will be suffocated to death!"
Ji Maili was stunned by this series of questions. His mind couldn't catch up, and his mouth moved first: "Of course! It's not like you only knew I don't like studying on the first day. You're just suffocating me. I just skipped class. What's wrong? Why are you so fierce? I called you and you dialed the wrong number. I won't call you anymore. Leave me alone!"
Shen Lu was worried for the whole afternoon, fearing that he would go to the sports school to cause trouble and get beaten. In the end, he was indeed told "Leave me alone". Shen Lu said coldly: "Okay, I won't hang around anymore. You can have fun and study if you want."
Ji Maili hadn't meant to say this. He was about to speak to calm things down when he heard the other end of the line suddenly go quiet. He picked up the phone and took a look. The call had actually been hung up...
Ji Maili looked at the phone blankly. Did he hang up accidentally?
No, it wasn't him who hung up the phone, it was Shen Lu!
Ji Maili wanted to call back, but felt it was too embarrassing to do so. The class bell had already rung for a while. Ji Maili returned to the teaching building with a dusty face, swaggered to the door of Class 1, and regardless of the fact that the teacher was giving a lecture, he stood at the door and called out to Tao Dacheng.
Tao Dacheng was so confused - Brother, we are in class, what are you doing?
The teacher who was teaching the class frowned and glanced at Ji Maili. Tao Dacheng was implicated and sneered at. He ran out of the classroom in front of the whole class and pulled Ji Maili aside: "What's wrong with you? Are you missing a soul?"
Ji Maili said listlessly: "Give me back your phone."
Tao Dacheng looked at the phone he handed over and said, "Can't you return it after class? You really are my living father."
Ji Maili was just missing a soul. When he left, it was as if he had three souls but seven spirits missing. After returning to the classroom, he borrowed a power bank from Zhou Luyang to charge his phone. He checked his phone every five minutes, but he didn't receive any message from Chen Lu until school was over.
After school, Li Jun sent him a message, saying that he and Sha Zu had made an appointment for a barbecue and asked if he wanted to go with them.
Ji Maili felt that these two guys were fucking crazy. They were taken to the police station for the fight before, and now they not only had a barbecue meal together, but also wanted to eat barbecue. What the hell are they eating!
Ji Maili was so annoyed that he replied: [Go]
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The barbecue place was near the small square. Ji Maili happened to see Tao Sijie spinning around in roller skates when she passed by.
Tao Sijie didn't see him at first, so Ji Maili walked over and blocked her way.
Tao Sijie almost couldn't stop the car and crashed into him: "Brother Mai Mai!"
Ji Maili held her head and said, "Come out and play if you've finished your homework."
Tao Sijie said: "I finished it at school."
Ji Maili asked her, "Do you want to go have barbecue with me?"
In order to prevent Shen Lu from getting even more angry when he found out that he was having barbecue with Sha Zu and the others, he decided to bring someone’s ID to prove that he was really going there for barbecue and not to arrange a fight.
When Tao Sijie heard there was food to eat, her eyes lit up: "Let's go, who's treating?"
Ji Maili tugged at her pigtails and said, "You don't have to treat me anyway."
Li Jun and his friends had already arrived at the barbecue restaurant. Li Jun brought a few people who often hung out with him from the sports school. Ji Maili had fought with them before, but he couldn't remember their names.
Those people were stunned when Sha Zu came. Now that they saw Ji Maili coming, they were even more shocked. They didn’t know whether they would have a fight to the death after the barbecue.
Just as the group was in an awkward standoff, Sha Zu's younger brother suddenly jumped down from his stool and called out to Tao Sijie, "Fourth sister."
Ji Maili: “???”
Li Jun and his gang: “…”
Sha Zu looked at his unruly brother, then glanced at the little girl who came with Ji Maili, and asked Ji Maili, "Is this your sister?"
Ji Maili still remembered this kid. The last time Tao Sijie kicked him, his attitude towards Tao Sijie was not like this.
Tao Sijie glanced at him and asked, "Why are you here too?"
Lin Dongdong was more than half a head taller than Tao Sijie, like a little meat dumpling. He helped her move the stool in a flattering manner: "I came here with my brother." After saying that, he glanced at Ji Maili: "This is not your brother, is it? I have seen your brother before, and he doesn't look like this."
Tao Sijie sat on the plastic stool that Lin Dongdong pulled out: "This is my other brother."
Lin Dongdong immediately looked at Ji Maili: "Hello, brother."
Zazu was speechless and patted the back of his brother's head. "Why didn't you say anything when I asked you to greet someone just now?"
Lin Dongdong rubbed his head: "Don't hit me on the head."
Ji Maili sat down on the other side of Tao Sijie. He looked at Sha Zu's brother and was wondering why the boy didn't seem to recognize him. Tao Sijie suddenly whispered, "Brother Mai Mai, he didn't seem to recognize you."
Tao Sijie looked at his face and said, "That's right. Last time, your face was covered with scars and I couldn't tell what you looked like. Now that the scars are gone, you look much better."
Ji Maili's mouth twitched, and he took a string of chicken wings and stuffed them into her mouth: "Thank you for reminding me, eat yours quickly."
After the barbecue, it was past nine o'clock. Ji Maili sent Tao Sijie home and ran into Tao Dacheng at the door of Tao's house. Tao Dacheng asked, "Who did you eat with that made you stay up so late?"
Tao Sijie quickly answered: "Lin Dongdong and his brother, and a few people from the sports school."
"Lin Dongdong? Sha Zu's brother?" Tao Dacheng looked at Ji Maili in astonishment. "You went to a barbecue with Sha Zu? And brought my sister along?"
Ji Maili said: "We just went to eat barbecue, there was no fight. If you don't believe me, ask your sister."
Tao Sijie raised her hand: "I can testify that there was indeed no fight, we were just having a barbecue, and Brother Mai Mai didn't even drink any alcohol, he just drank a beverage!"
The young witness was very reliable. Ji Maili rubbed her head and left.
On the way home, Ji Maili couldn't help but call Chen Lu, but the phone prompt said that the other party's phone was turned off. Ji Maili stopped in disbelief... It can't be that Chen Lu, this stingy guy, actually turned off his phone!
The next day, Ji Maili went to school early and blocked Tao Dacheng, who was coming to class with a bun in his mouth, at the door of a classroom.
Tao Dacheng suspected that he hadn't woken up yet: "What the hell, you came so early."
Ji Maili asked him, "Did Chen Lu contact you last night?"
"Didn't he tell you?" Tao Dacheng said, "Mobile phones aren't allowed at the competition venue. They should have been collected yesterday afternoon."
Ji Maili looked at Tao Dacheng with a bewildered expression.
Tao Dacheng looked at him, thinking of how distraught he looked when he came to return his phone yesterday: "Did he teach you a lesson yesterday? Because you skipped class to go to the sports school, and you skipped class to call him, and then you didn't hold back and got into a fight with him?"
Ji Maili: “…” Chen Lu must have called him, otherwise how would he know!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Tao Dacheng looked at him and shook his head while holding the half-eaten bun. "It's over. The people who participated in the competition were all inhuman. If Chen Lu had fought among them, he might have gotten a good result. Now, he's already angry before the exam. It's strange that he can do well in the exam if he keeps holding his anger."
Ji Maili was a little panicked: "Then, what should I do? How can I contact him?"
Tao Dacheng stuffed the bun into his mouth and said, "I can't contact him. Unless he finishes his exams, you can just wait here for his bad news."
Ji Maili: “…”
Thinking that Chen Lu might not do well in the exam because of him, Ji Maili regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. He couldn't bear it and had to quarrel with Chen Lu at this time!
The more Ji Maili thought about it, the more he blamed himself. He sat upright in his seat in the classroom for the entire class, staring at the podium, which scared the teacher of the first class.
As soon as the bell rang, Ji Maili ran out of the back door of the classroom.
Tao Dacheng was about to go to the bathroom, but he bumped into Ji Maili as he left the classroom. "Why are you here again?"
Ji Maili didn't even have time to catch his breath. He said "It's okay" and left.
He came again after the second class, and left after just saying hello to Tao Dacheng. This went on for two whole days. Ji Maili came after class and left as soon as he came. At first, Tao Dacheng was just surprised, but after a while, he felt that Ji Maili was possessed by a ghost.
On the morning of the third day, when Ji Maili came again, Tao Dacheng grabbed him and asked, "What on earth are you doing? You keep running here after class, and Chen Lu isn't here. Are you afraid that he'll come back suddenly and not tell you?"
Ji Maili pushed away Tao Dacheng's hand that was on his school uniform: "I just want you to testify for me that I have been in school these days and have not skipped classes."
Tao Dacheng: “…”
He never thought that it could be done this way. He looked at Ji Maili, curious about the structure of the young master's brain. Unfortunately, he had no interest in anatomy, otherwise he would really like to pry it open and take a look.
Ji Maili spent this week in a daze. Except for skipping classes on the first day, he was in school from morning to night. He even ate in the cafeteria. He was unusually honest.
Chen Lu got his phone on Saturday night. As soon as he turned it on, it was flooded with messages, only a few of which were from Ji Maili, and the rest were from Tao Dacheng.
The messages sent by Tao Dacheng were all complaints. The freshest and hottest one was sent an hour ago - a photo of Ji Maili eating dumplings at his house.
[Chen Lu, please come back soon! I can't stand it! He's been coming to our classroom door every class for a week straight, just to prove he didn't skip class. Not only does he use me as a punch card, but he also comes to my house on weekends and forces me to be your spy.]
[He's tormenting me to the point of driving me crazy. When you come back, you must make amends for my broken heart!]
Chen Lu couldn't help laughing when he saw Ji Maili in the photo, who was still talking to Tao Sijie with a bulge in his mouth.
How can it be so cute.
Chen Lu hung up on Ji Maili that day just to teach him a lesson. Otherwise, he would continue to not know the seriousness of the situation. If he was beaten again one day and he was not around, that fool would have no one to cry to.
He didn't expect that his phone would be taken away just after he hung up the phone. These days he had been worried that Ji Maili would be anxious if he couldn't contact him. Now it seems that he is indeed anxious.
Shen Lu replied to Tao Dacheng, "I'll go back tomorrow."
Tao Dacheng showed Ji Maili Shen Lu's dialog box in a proud manner and was punched by Ji Maili.
Ji Maili didn't hold back his punch, causing Tao Dacheng to cough several times while clutching his chest. "Cough, cough, cough, where are you going?"
Ji Maili glanced at his phone, but there was still no movement. He picked up his coat and left: "Go home."
On the way home, Ji Maili felt very aggrieved. He just skipped class, so why was he angry with him for so long? He even sent a message to Tao Dacheng and didn't even send him one.
The more Ji Maili thought about it, the more frustrated he felt. When he got home, he couldn't help but send a message to Chen Lu: [Did you do well on the exam?]
Chen Lu replied half an hour later: [Not bad.]
Ji Maili saw that Chen Lu had replied to him, and his mood suddenly improved a lot: [Is it convenient to video chat? ]
This time, Shen Lu replied quickly: [It’s inconvenient.]
Ji Maili: “….”
My mood, which had just started to improve, suddenly dropped.
Chen Lu: [The dormitory is crowded and noisy. I'll arrive tomorrow afternoon and report to school before I find you.]
However, when Ji Maili looked at Chen Lu's message, he still felt that he was angry, otherwise even if they were arguing, he would not have sent him any voice messages but only typed messages.
The door to the room was not closed. Ji Huan walked past the door and took a look inside. She saw Ji Maili sitting cross-legged on the bed, staring at the phone on the bed. She raised her hand and knocked on the door: "What are you doing, fortune-telling?"
Ji Maili glanced at her and said, "I'm thinking about it."
Ji Huan: "What are you talking about?"
Ji Maili said, "I'm trying to figure out who's at fault this time, sister. I skipped class that day and was caught by Chen Lu. I called to apologize, but he yelled at me and even hung up on me. Who do you think was wrong in this matter?"
Ji Huan really didn't want to meddle in his business, but he was afraid that if he ignored this idiot and meditated all night long, he would still be right. "You skipped class and you think you're right. Only Chen Lu would be willing to pay attention to you. If it were me, I wouldn't even bother to be mean to you."
Ji Maili thought about it and felt that what Ji Huan said made sense. Shen Lu didn't care about everyone. Why didn't he be mean to others when others skipped classes? Why did he be mean to him? It was because he liked him.
Thinking of this, Ji Maili chuckled.
Ji Huan rolled his eyes in disgust, said "you're sick" and left.
Ji Maili immediately picked up his phone and without hesitation typed "I'm sorry, Chen Lu, I was wrong" and prepared to send it to Chen Lu. After thinking about it, he deleted all the typed words. He had to apologize anyway, and he would ask for punishment in person tomorrow!
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