Chapter 478: Qiao Mu Private High School

Fang Dian is a man who says he often hits people by accident, but it's amazing how this man's balls fly like they have eyes and generally only hit two kinds of people -

--someone she likes and someone she hates.

At one point Bai Liu wondered if Fang Dian had done it on purpose, but after being forced to watch the game a few times, Bai Liu had to admit with regret - that she had been forced to watch the game.

He couldn't see it.

Fang Dian, a bewilderingly magical human being, is always up to something magical that Bai Liu doesn't understand.

For example, now.

"Are these the ice-cream sticks you've been saving in secret?" Fang Dian, who was about half a head taller than Bai Liu in high school, naturally pinned Bai Liu's head with her cackle and mysteriously pulled out a bundle of sticks from the pocket next to her skirt, "I found them in the compartment under my bed, you're good at hiding them."

Bai Liu swept a dozen ice-cream sticks from Fang Dian's hand, and he was eerily silent for a moment.

When he was in high school, many ice-cream and ice cream manufacturers ran a campaign called "one more", which was like the "one more bottle" campaign that drinks like to run nowadays, where if you finished your ice-cream stick and the wooden stick had the words "one more" on it, you could get another ice-cream stick from the kiosk with that stick.

Lu Yizhan and Fang Dian are always lucky, most of the ice-cream they buy comes out with [one more] and they leave this stick with [one more] written on it to Bai Liu.

Instead of eating it, Bai Liu would save it up and tie it up in a bundle, hiding it somewhere he felt safe - like the compartment under Fang Dian's bed.

Because Lu Yizhan would also hide things inside, such as money for Fang Dian's birthday present, Bai Liu would sometimes follow Lu Yizhan.

The two suspects in the possession of the "stolen goods" have now both been arrested at the same time by Detective Fang Dian.

"Lu Yizhan actually hid a hundred dollars under my bed." Fang Dian pondered, "Was he going to save up to buy me a present?"

"......" Bai Liu's face was impassive, "There's no need to ask me if you guessed."

"I'm more curious as to why you're suddenly digging through the plywood under your bed, it's heavy and dirty, don't you ever clean it?"

Fang Dian laughed and scratched the back of his head, "I had a feeling you guys would be sneaking something in there so I lifted up the bedpan and flipped it over, but I didn't expect to find it, haha."

Bai Liu: "......"

Lu Yizhan, do you really want to spend your life with such a horrible woman?

"But I didn't expect you to save these sticks in secret, I thought you'd already be eating them yourself." Fang Dian, intrigued, brings the sticks up to Bai Liu and asks, "Why?"

Bai Liu's eyes drifted away, "Save it to sell for money."

"Lies." Fang Dian dismissed without thinking, shaking her head after a moment's thought, "How much would this sell for? If you're going to do it, you're going to do it big, it's not enough to make you want money."

Fang Dian stared at the neatly tied bundle of ice-cream sticks in her hands and suddenly let out a sudden realization: "These ice-cream sticks can be redeemed cumulatively, you don't want to save up ten of them and treat Lu Yizhan and me to two expensive popsicles, do you?"

Bai Liu, who has been hitting the psychological nail on the head: "......"

There was no use in arguing in front of Fang Dian, and Bai Liu calmly admitted: "You can't redeem the expensive popsicles, it's only $2.50 a head at most."

"Holy shit, that's awesome!" Fang Dian rubbed her hands together excitedly, "Two and a half dollars, that's a lovely lot to eat!"

"I haven't had a lovely multi yet!"

Bai Liu paused, "But you bought it for me."

"Really?" Fang Dian looked up confused, "Is there such a thing? I don't remember."

Bai Liu.

Again.

Fang Dian is so good at this kind of trick that you can't tell if she means it or not, so that you can't even find a way to measure what she gives you in return with a trade.

The $2.50 cutie was bought for Fang Dian when he was given a scholarship last time.

Bai Liu was punished by Xu Wei for sweeping the toilets that day, and while he was in the toilets, he was blocked by his classmate Bao Kangle and the boys in his class.

He calmly picked up his desk, which he had kicked I don't know how many times, wiped his desk clean where he had scrawled a lot of [orphan] and [bitch] markers, arranged his soaked textbooks to dry on the windowsill, and walked slowly down the darkened school building after lights out, his mind wavering as he thought about what Xu Wei might look for him tomorrow and say to him.

[Why did you break another set of desks? Xu Wei would have scolded him, "Do you know how many desks and benches you've broken in this class? Do you know how many desks and benches you've broken in this class? You've been scribbling on your own desk, don't you know that's forbidden by the school rules?

At this point, Bai Liu couldn't tell the woman who couldn't think with her head that no one in the world should enjoy scrawling the word [orphan] on their desks over and over again, nor would anyone smash their desks out of shape as if in a group fight over and over again.

This kind of thing is generally enjoyed by some over-energetic, low-value underage people.

If Bai Liu had told Xu Wei this, the matter would not have ended.

She will raise her voice and keep questioning you: [You mean you're being bullied?

Her eyebrows were tipped with sarcasm and a sneer: [What kind of families and backgrounds are the students in our class, I believe you yourself know clearly, you don't have any friendship with them at all, if you didn't do anything to provoke them, they would come to bully you for no reason?

[Why don't they bully you instead of others? Why don't you look at yourself?

[- Is it that you have too many reasons in yourself to find them?]

What followed was a half an hour of picking fights and name-calling, until Bai Liu would bow his head and admit that it was his own fault, and then Xu Wei would take a long, triumphant breath and wave his hand as if he had won: "Go to class."

[Next time something like this happens, look for your own reasons first.]

So Bai Liu simply admitted later that I had broken it, that I was a bad student, that the orphanage would cover the cost of my damage and that I didn't have to pay for it.

This left Xu Wei with nowhere to go but to tell Bai Liu to watch out next time and get out of here.

That evening, while Bai Liu was thinking about all this nonsense, he unbuttoned his school uniform so that the wind could blow into his collar and dry his clothes, and when he reached the bottom of the school building, he saw Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan waiting for him there.

Bai Liu pauses in his steps as he walks past.

They were holding up a cute multi cone with a pair of cheap looking birthday candles in the shape of [18].

The candle's light illuminated their faces, which were tired but still shining with smiles, and the faint glow provided by the candle was warm and bright in the darkness of the building behind Bai Liu.

Fang Dian's smiling face peeks out from behind the cone, and she smiles as if the whole hallway is lit up for a moment.

"Bai Liu, we've escaped down the mountain to find you!"

Lu Yizhan took his school uniform jacket off quickly, he covered Bai Liu's thin shoulders, again helpless and anger hidden: "I have not told you many times, when you encounter this kind of thing, come to me? I've spoken to the security guard on the hill, he can release you if you come ......"

"Not necessarily." Fang Dian nudges Lu Yizhan, who is up in arms, to step forward and look Bai Liu in the eyes, asking him seriously, "I know it's difficult for you to go up the mountain, but if you need to, Lu Yizhan and I can both skip class and come down to deal with these problems with you."

"Do you need it?"

Bai Liu looked back into Fang Dian's eyes and he was quiet for a long time: "I don't need to."

Lu Yizhan interrupted Bai Liu in a hurry: "It's already like this! Why are you still trying to be tough!"

"Hmm." Fang Dian acted as if Lu Yizhan didn't exist at all as she nodded to Bai Liu, "Then wait until you need it."

Lu Yizhan turned his head sharply to Fang Dian: "Wait until he needs to talk? If this goes on, Bai Liu will be forced by them to turn ......"

"Change what?" Fang Dian wondered from the bottom of her heart as she looked over at Lu Yizhan with an open and clear gaze, "I really don't think Bai Liu will change anything because of this situation, it's not much of a situation, it's just a bunch of idiots screwing around."

"I don't think just that little thing is going to change Bai Liu, and besides, Bai Liu will talk to us if he needs to, it's not like he's fighting this stuff alone."

"We will always be on his side, Lu Yizhan."

As soon as Lu Yizhan was still, his emotions subsided, and in a daze, he released his right hand that was tightly jammed around Bai Liu's shoulder and hung his head, "...... I see, I was thinking out of the box."

"You know you've grown up with Bai Liu and you're worried about him, but you can't treat Bai Liu like a child forever." Fang Dian crossed her arms and sighed in a mock manner, but with a smile in her eyes, she reached out her index finger and nudged the back of a downcast Lu Yizhan's head, "He'll grow up too."

"He'll go from being a very good little kid to being a very good adult."

"Don't you think it's an interesting change?"

Fang Dian looks up, she smiles and raises her arm, pushing the ice cream in her hand in front of Bai Liu.

The candle on the ice cream was more than half melted, and the light from the candle became more and more visible, shining shakily on Bai Liu's emotionless face.

His damp hair is dripping with water, and his dark eyes reflect Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan standing in front of him.

"Happy 18th birthday and happy bar mitzvah, Bai Liu ."

"Blow out your candles, make a wish and then have a bite of your birthday ice cream!"

Bai Liu closed his eyes, then slowly blew out the candle and ripped it away as he took an open bite of the soon-to-be-melted ice cream.

Fang Dian came up next to him, eyes shining, and asked him, "What's the smell?"

"Strawberries." Bai Liu paused, "Didn't you buy them? Didn't you see the wrapper?"

"Just one question." Fang Dian persisted, "What did you wish for, me and Mr. Lu or not?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a long, long time, and he opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end just took another cold bite of ice cream, "Nothing was promised."

"If wishing on some so-called god would make it work, there would be no need for you and me to take the entrance exams."

Fang Dian sighed with her cheek: "You're so realistic, Bai Liu, wishing is just an excuse, I don't believe you didn't make a wish.

Bai Liu was quiet again for a long time, another drop dripped from the end of his hair, then he lowered his eyes to the ice cream that was melting to the point of deformation in his hand and whispered.

"I make a wish ...... that next year you will buy me ice cream that is not strawberry."

"It's so hard to eat."