Chapter 9: Fighting

“OK, please turn the book to the second page.”

Then there was a rustling sound of flipping books in the class, trying to tell the teacher in this way that we are listening to you carefully.

The teacher on the podium was Fang Xiaojing, our substitute English teacher. She came to our school from the provincial capital for internship. She has been substituting for us since we entered the second year of high school, and has been doing so until now. However, she will not teach us soon. Except for me, I guess no one in the class knows about it yet.

If everyone knew about it, they would be sad like me, right?

English class is probably the only course I voluntarily listen to carefully, because there is no pressure and fear of the teacher. She always has a smiling face on the podium. She will not throw chalk heads to those students who are absent in class, nor will she open her mouth to call the roll, let alone ask you to stand up and listen to the class. At most, she will walk over and knock on the corner of the desk intentionally or unintentionally to remind you, so no one in the class doesn’t like her.

“Classmates, I know you have a lot of homework on weekends, so I didn’t assign you any homework to lighten your burden. But our class’s English scores have fallen too much, so I decided to add more burden to you. I will give you a mock test tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Do you think it’s good?”

“No”

“No, teacher”

... As soon as the English teacher finished speaking, there was a howl in the class. Because we know her, we dare to do this.

If it were a teacher of other classes, it would be good if they didn’t give you the test paper directly. It would be like the English teacher, who would discuss with you first and ask you “Is it good?”

Dream on.

Especially me, I just shouted “No”, and the English teacher looked over to me. Because I was the closest to the desk, she heard it clearly.

I was so embarrassed to be looked at by the English teacher.

“Student Gu Xiaonuan, I heard you shout “No” the most happily. You stand up and tell me why it’s not good.” The English teacher smiled and pointed at me.

“Teacher, you are wrongly accusing me. I just shouted once, but I was closer to you. I heard that Guo Chao was the one who shouted the most happily.” I started to defend myself before I stood up, and finally threw the blame to Guo Chao, the left protector on the left side of the desk.

“Gu Xiaonuan, you are talking nonsense. I clearly heard that you shouted the most happily, but I didn’t shout.” Guo Chao turned his head and glared at me, and then looked at the English teacher. I almost believed it with his innocent look.

“Okay, okay, both of you sit down.” The English teacher clapped his hands, picked up the test paper on the desk, divided it into two, and then gave half to me and half to Guo Chao, “Please both of you hand out the test papers to everyone.”

From this, it can be seen that the English teacher respects each of us students very much. No matter what we are asked to do, he will add a series of auxiliary words such as “Thank you, classmate”, “Thank you for your hard work, classmate”, etc.

From the day she first taught our class, the sentence “Hey classmate, what’s your name?” has always been fresh in my memory. At that time, I felt that this English teacher was of great quality, and her words were like spring breeze, which would not make people feel disgusted at all.

The papers were quickly distributed, and when we returned to our seats, the English teacher smiled and nodded to me and Guo Chao, and then said to the whole class: “I know that everyone has a lot of homework every day, so how about we give you three days to finish this paper, okay?”

“Okay”

“Okay”

“The English teacher is really nice”

The class was full of joy, and the English teacher was also full of smiles and satisfaction. She liked and enjoyed the feeling that our classmates liked her, as if she had been recognized and loved by her classmates.

The time of English class always passed so quickly, and before I felt anything, I heard the bell outside the classroom.

“Bey, css.”

“Bey, mr. Fang.”

The English teacher smiled and waved at us, her long flowing hair draped over her shoulders, and she turned and walked out of the classroom.

I stood in front of the table, looking at Teacher Fang’s back. In fact, I really wanted to chase her out to ask if she really wouldn’t teach us next semester, but in the end I didn’t chase her. It wasn’t because I didn’t have the courage, but I didn’t want to accept that this was true. My mother wouldn’t use this to scare me.

I lay on the desk weakly, my mind was a little messy. Too many things happened in the past two days, causing me to be a little inattentive in class, and I was distracted from time to time. Every day I was thinking about the broken things of men and women fucking. Although I know that this is really wrong, I really can’t control my brain.

“Gu Xiaonuan, toilet”

“You go, I won’t go”

“Let’s go, let’s go out for some fresh air”

“I’m too lazy to go”

As soon as I finished speaking, I was dragged up from the stool by Guo Chao, and I looked at him with an unhappy face.

“You have to drag me along when you go to the toilet”

“Isn’t it because you don’t want to go down alone?”

Although “Mao Bing” complained, I still walked out of the classroom with him.

The break time between classes is ten minutes, which is enough time to go to the toilet. If you walk down the stairs slower, you may not be able to make it to class, because the teacher always enters the classroom a few minutes in advance. I have to say that it is ruthless. It takes up time after school, and it also takes up the break time.

Of course, there are exceptions.

As soon as I walked to the toilet door, a strong smell of cigarettes mixed with the stench of the toilet almost choked me to vomit. I didn’t have much urge to urinate, so I didn’t want to go in directly. “Hurry up, I’ll wait for you over there.” After saying that, I ignored Guo Chao and stood opposite the toilet door.

Looking at the people coming in and out of the toilet door, they were basically all students, without a single teacher. I guess the teachers also think it smells bad here.

I waited for a minute or two, but still didn’t see Guo Chao coming out of the toilet. “Maybe he fell into the toilet,” I muttered, and prepared to go into the toilet to look for him.

I fanned the smell of cigarettes in front of my nose, and endured the disgusting smell and walked into the toilet. Before going to the toilet, I also held my breath and ran in hurriedly, and came out quickly after peeing. I always pooped at home, never at school.

When I walked into the toilet, I first shouted “Guo Chao”, but I didn’t hear him respond. The light in the toilet was also relatively dim, and there was a noisy sound from the exhaust vent. This was simply not a place for people to stay. I don’t know how those smokers can smoke. They smoked into their lungs with big puffs, which must be filled with ammonia.

“Fuck your mother, why don’t you be tough?”

As soon as I walked to the end of the toilet, I heard a burst of abuse from inside, and the curse was very ugly.

In order to avoid trouble, I took a look and prepared to stay away. I never get involved in fights. But when I looked carefully, the figure being pushed and shoved in the crowd looked so much like Guo Chao. He was tall and thin, with an oval head and a short haircut.

I walked forward a few steps, stood on the steps of the toilet pit, and immediately confirmed that the person being pushed against the wall was Guo Chao. His sky blue school uniform had been dragged into a mess, and there were several big footprints on his pants. His face was swollen, and he leaned against the wall with his head hunched, looking very pitiful.

“Fuck you, will you dare to do it again in the future?” Another slap hit Guo Chao’s head hard. Although there were not many people surrounding him, there were at least four or five people. The toilet was dim, and I couldn’t even see who started it.

As soon as I saw that they were about to attack Guo Chao again, I didn’t care about the fear in my heart. I couldn’t just watch Guo Chao being beaten by a group of people. Although I didn’t have a particularly close relationship with him, we were in the same class after all. I couldn’t get over watching him being beaten.

“Little bastard, I ask you if you will dare to do it again in the future?”

“Fuck, don’t talk”

“Fuck him”

... Continuous ugly curses were clamoring around, and fists and slaps fell on Guo Chao’s body like rain, but Guo Chao still held his head and didn’t fall down, because everyone knew that once he lay on the ground, he would definitely be kicked, and they didn’t know where to kick him.