Chapter 21: CH 21

It was time for morning exercises, and the music of radio gymnastics was playing on the radio, and the sonorous and powerful “one two three four” and “one two three four” of the announcer echoed throughout the school. Under the majestic march, Lu Rong and Ji Wenfeng made eye contact.

Ji Wenfeng put his arms on the railing, and lazily challenged him: “Don’t you like the hairstyle I did for you?”

Lu Rong thought: this is not strictly speaking true, Ji Wenfeng did not do it for him, on the contrary, he did it for Ji Wenfeng. Wenfeng’s proud hairstyle required a lot of labor on his part.

However, Lu Rong didn’t intend to use the sharp-tongued character design. If he couldn’t bear the domineering young master, and also acted sharp-tongued and mean, it would become similar to “Meteor Garden”, so he just turned his face away quietly and angrily, pretending to feel unbearable humiliation.

Ji Wenfeng looked at him showing such a look of unspeakable suffering, and felt happy in his heart, but his face became more and more cold as frost: “You must not like what I give you.”

Lu Rong: “…?”

Ji Wenfeng walked past him, patted him on the shoulder in warning, and said in a voice that could only be heard by two people: “Let me see you wearing a hat next time, and this month’s rent will be doubled.”

Then Lu Rong slowly and firmly took off his hat.

The more Ji Wenfeng looked at his new hairstyle, the more delighted he was, and he couldn’t help rubbing his head. As soon as he touched Lu Rong’s soft fine hair, he realized that his actions were so tender, wouldn’t it let this kid see that he liked him? No, he couldn’t let him take him so cheaply. Ji Wenfeng tightened the corners of his mouth, and after a series of caresses, he pushed Lu Rong’s head lightly, walked around the corner and secretly rubbed his fingers – the hair of this kid felt pretty good.

Lu Rong, who watched Ji Wenfeng leave, looked down at the hat in his hand, lost in thought.

Ji Wenfeng wanted him to show off his new hairstyle, what was his mentality?

Lu Rong thought of two words: show off.

Ji Wenfeng wanted to show off his taste in fashion and gain public recognition. He regarded himself as his property and wanted to repackage him from scratch. If everyone thought that Lu Rong had become handsome because of this, it would be because Ji Wenfeng had a bright face.

But he really didn’t want to show off in school with such a Japanese and Korean Shamat hairstyle.

Gu Yijun was touched by his miserable life experience, and mercifully asked him to postpone rectification for a week. If he did not correct, he would definitely be in trouble with Zhu Renliang. Lu Rong imagined Zhu Renliang holding his ear and shaking his head, and just then Ji Wenfeng pushed the door open and came in: “He is mine.” That would be the end of it. He, Lu Rong, wouldn’t be able to get along in Chengnan High School anymore.

How to do it?

Lu Rong got an idea when the body turning exercise was over.

He walked into the classroom of Class 6, placed the hat in his hand on Yan Gou’s desk, then walked back outside the classroom of Class 8, and combed his hair against the window.

He decided to do as Ji Wenfeng ordered for the time being.

Wasn’t he just a handsome guy? Wasn’t he good enough?

When Lu Rong walked into the classroom, Guo Jing, who had a plastered leg, exclaimed, “Who are you?!”

Fang Chang finished his exercises and went upstairs with Li Nanbian: “Guo Jing’s leg is in a plaster cast, so it’s hard for you to move. Take care of him.”

Li Nanbian was speechless: “Why me?! I sit so far away!”

Fang Chang: “Don’t you care about your classmates and like to help others?”

Li Nanbian: “…” Did he have these good qualities?!

Fang Chang was surprised: “The day before yesterday, Lu Rong had a stomachache, and you still rushed to see him with me.”

Facing Fang Chang’s questioning eyes, Li Nanbian swallowed his explanation. For the safety of all members of the villain group, Boss Lu ordered them not to get too close to each other to avoid suspicion. Especially Lu Rong and Li Nanbian, they seldom talked privately in class, and they didn’t even go to the bathroom together, so no one knew that they were best friends.

Fang Chang explained: “I wanted to find Lu Rong, but Lu Rong had a concussion.”

Li Nanbian pricked up his ears: When did the boss get a concussion?

Fang Chang: “…you just feed Guo Jing and help him with his homework—oh yes, you have to help him go to the toilet.”

Li Nanbian: “He weighs 180 catties!”

“This is friendship weight.” Fang Chang taught him seriously.

Inexplicably, Li Nanbian had extra work, and walked into the classroom feeling distraught, and found that Lu Rong was crowded with people, seeing this he thought that everyone must be making graffiti on Guo Jing’s plaster leg again. Fang Chang led Li Nanbian into the crowd and wanted to announce that Li Nanbian would take over Guo Jing’s care.

As a result, when they squeezed to the front, both of them were shocked.

Li Nanbian: “Handsome guy, who are you?!”

Fang Chang: “You don’t have a concussion at all!”

Girl A: “Lu Rong actually looks pretty good, why didn’t I realize it before?”

The rotten girl in the front sat proudly: “You still lack eyes that can discover beauty.” Nowhere was she like her, as soon as she entered school, she discovered that Lu Rong was a potential stock.

Girl B: “No, it’s because of the hairstyle. It means that hairstyle is really important to a person’s appearance.”

Girl C played with the ends of her hair: “I really want to perm my hair—Lu Rong, which shop did you go to?”

Lu Rong sat on the seat with his eyes wide open, playing with his pencil case silently, opening it, closing it, opening it, closing it, his expression was so calm and indifferent, as if he no longer existed in this world.

All the girls: “…”

The girls exchanged glances with each other, and the same meaning could be seen from each other’s eyes: he has become handsome, but he still has mental problems.

Fang Chang looked at Lu Rong in disbelief for a long time: “You lied to me.” He turned around and left, “I won’t care about you anymore, you can explain to the class teacher and the dean yourself.”

Lu Rong took advantage of his kindness, he even helped him greet other teachers, but Lu Rong didn’t share with him the barber shop where the perm was done so naturally, so Fang Chang felt injured.

After Li Nanbian had waited for him to leave, he looked at Lu Rong: “Are you okay?”

Lu Rong raised his hand and made a gesture of ok, indicating that everything was under control.

Li Nanbian glanced at the huge monster named Guo Jing beside him: “I have something to do.”

Lu Rong pushed the pen and paper in front of him, and Li Nanbian anxiously wrote down Fang Chang’s instructions. It could be seen how difficult the task of taking care of Guo Jing was for the capable Li Nanbian. After all, he was also the sales champion of the villain team. How could he have the energy to take care of Guo Jing?

Guo Jing quickly asked with a round, white face: “What are you writing?”

Li Nanbian tore up the paper and hid it in his pocket: “…it’s nothing.”

Guo Jing: “…?”

Li Nanbian looked at Lu Rong and Lu Rong nodded to show that he understood, Li Nanbian heaved a sigh of relief, and went to sit in his seat. He had endless trust and admiration for Lu Rong, there was nothing unfixable as long as Lu Rong stepped out, then all he needed to do was wait for Lu Rong to step out.

The moment came soon, and Lu Rong sent a WeChat message asking him to negotiate with Fang Chang in this way.

Li Nanbian cast his body down: “Okay, I’ll go now!”

Lu Rong: “No, wait a little longer, wait for Gu Yijun and Fang Chang to exchange words.”

Li Nanbian: “What kind of words?”

Lu Rong didn’t explain.

Yan Gou over there also sent a photo of the hat: “?”

Lu Rong: “It’s yours.”

Yan Gou: “Thank you boss!”

Lu Rong: “You’re welcome.”

….

The next class was Chinese, Gu Yijun, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, walked into the classroom with textbooks in his arms. Fang Chang immediately said loudly: “Oh, Lu Rong, your hair is permed really well!” After speaking, he secretly laughed. This was what happened to the people who took advantage of his kindness and were still uneasy about altruism, ha ha.

Lu Rong had already guessed that he was going to sue, and smiled slightly: Fang Chang, Fang Chang, no wonder you are going to be shamed, you wicked little snitch.

As soon as Gu Yijun heard someone mention Lu Rong’s hair, he quickly lowered his head and opened the textbook to prepare for the lesson. He just wanted to escape the red envelope and Fang Chang’s yelling made his conscience hurt.

Fang Chang saw that the head teacher didn’t respond at all and suspected that the classroom was too noisy and he didn’t hear it. He continued his efforts and yelled at Lu Rong: “The one you are perming is the Korean-style air bangs, right?”

With such a shout, half of the class went to see Lu Rong’s Korean-style air bangs, and half of the class turned to look at Fang Chang——Squad leader, why do you know so clearly?

Lu Rong sat in the back row. No one knew that he had already captured the class teacher in advance. He sat there with his eyes open, flipping through his pencil case.

Gu Yijun finally felt that he needed to solve this matter. So, he called Fang Chang outside.

Gu Yijun: “Lu Rong has to keep this hairstyle this week, you help him cover it.”

Fang Chang cast his gaze outside the teaching building, raised his head to the sky at forty-five degrees, he didn’t quite understand why things turned out like this.

Gu Yijun said sadly: “When Lu Rong was just born, his father was arrested and imprisoned for crimes. Relatives in his father’s family helped his parents to handle the divorce procedures so that they would not have to support their mother. She raised him alone, and she is going to get married this weekend. She used the only money left in the family to pick out a new suit for him, and even had his head permed, hoping that everyone would be harmonious and beautiful during the photoshoot.”

Fang Chang gasped: What did he do?! He actually wanted to harm Lu Rong like this just now?! He’s just a kid who wants to wear Korean air bangs for his mother’s wedding!

Fang Chang solemnly promised Gu Yijun: “I will protect Lu Rong.”

The two men looked at each other with noble human sentiments.

When the two of them came in, Lu Rong observed Fang Chang’s expression. As soon as Fang Chang met his gaze, he lowered his head in shame. Lu Rong told Li Nanbian that he could talk to him about Guo Jing now.

After class, Li Nanbian walked up to Fang Chang: “Squad monitor, can you leave the matter of taking care of Guo Jing to Lu Rong, he doesn’t have a concussion, and he is Guo Jing’s deskmate.”

Fang Chang: “No! Lu Rong is so pitiful, don’t bother him anymore.”

Li Nanbian thought that the boss was not pitiful, but he continued according to Lu Rong’s instructions: “Taking care of Guo Jing is theoretically considered a part-time job and taking care of patients in the hospital is paid. When I distribute leaflets outside, it’s 50 yuan an hour, at worst, we will also give Lu Rong 50 yuan a day, so he and Guo Jing will be taken care of at the same time. Is there any class membership fee left?”

Fang Chang: “Uh…” There was still a little class membership fee, but…

Li Nanbian whispered: “How about 40?”

Fang Chang asked: “Is Lu Rong’s family…”

Li Nanbian answered: “It’s very poor.”

Fang Chang said: “Okay.”

Fang Chang’s heart relented, considering that this job was already thankless, and the whole shift should have taken turns, but taking turns was bound to lead to carelessness, and it might wrong Guo Jing, who had brought honor to the class. If the contract was given to a person and the money was also given, the injustice would have a head and the debt would have an owner, and it was suitable for fixing accountability.

Li Nanbian took advantage of the victory to pursue: “If Lu Rong takes care of Guo Jing, then Lu Rong doesn’t have to go to the classes that Guo Jing doesn’t attend.” Such as physical education, art, and music.

Fang Chang: “…in theory.”

Li Nanbian: “Thank you, squad leader, he will definitely be willing.”

Li Nanbian obtained resources from Fang Chang, and sent a group WeChat message when he returned: “Now there is a job, 40 yuan a day, without doing exercises, physical education, art, music, who wants to do it?”