Chapter 507: Qiao Mu Private High School

Seven days later, school started and the students arrived in a state of disarray, only to be greeted by a senior pep rally that afternoon.

After class, Bao Kangle suddenly walked up to Bai Liu's desk and said stiffly, " Bai Liu ...... you come out with me for a moment."

Bai Liu glanced up at the bulging 'brick' on Bao Kangle's chest: "Going somewhere?"

"The gents over by the teachers' office at ......." Bao Kangle said in a shaky voice, "The teachers have gone down for a meeting, there's no one there, and there's no surveillance."

"Well." Bai Liu got up with a flat expression, "Let's go then."

The teacher's office was empty, and Bao Kangle, a frequent visitor to the toilets, took Bai Liu to the last cubicle and, taking a deep breath, handed him something wrapped in his arms.

"Twenty thousand dollars." Bao Kangle's hand was shaking, "...... the money my mother received from the headmaster, it should be that amount, you count it."

Bai Liu simply nodded, "That's the amount."

With that, he turned to walk away, but Bao Kangle hesitantly called out to him, " Bai Liu!"

Bai Liu turned his head, "Is there anything else?"

"I stole this money ...... from you." Bao Kangle said with red eyes, his whole body shaking, "If, if my mum finds out ......"

He swallowed and looked at Bai Liu with bemused eyes, "I'm not going to give you up either, and you're not going to say anything, okay?"

Meanwhile, the teacher's office.

Xu Wei had gone down to tend to the grounds, but for some reason, her right eye began to pound wildly and she became a little distracted and dizzy, so she propped herself up on the armrest and returned to the teacher's office, only to have her phone ring as soon as she pushed open her office and sat down in her desk chair.

Xu Wei's heart skipped a beat and she picked it up subconsciously, "Hello?"

A slow man's voice came over the phone, " Mr. Xu, I'm not very happy with the way you've done things this time."

-- is the headmaster.

Xu Wei's breathing became labored: "...... What's wrong, Principal?"

"In order for you to investigate the matter of your class Bai Liu, I paid you a deposit of one hundred thousand dollars upfront, didn't I?" The headmaster said in a cold voice, "But your son investigated for half a day and nothing came out of it, not a single clue was given to me, not even an excuse that could make this troublemaker drop out of school."

"Then this is the end of our cooperation."

Xu Wei jolted and raised her voice, "Principal, that's not what you told me at first!"

"You clearly said that all of the two and a half million would be given to me as soon as I backed Bai Liu out of Gao Kao Lake!"

"Is that what I said to you?" The headmaster said nonchalantly, "Why don't I remember?"

Xu Wei is frozen in place in a trance.

The headmaster said, " Mr. Xu, you are still young and have plenty of opportunities to make money."

"I won't pursue the 100,000, consider it spent in vain, what happened before is still known to you and me, and known to heaven and earth, so do your job well."

"Click." -- The headmaster hung up the phone.

Xu Wei fell to the ground in a trance.

She withdrew all of the 100,000 last weekend, leaving a few thousand at home, and spent the rest.

She bought a lot of clothes and bags that she had wanted for a long time, as well as skincare products and high heels, which were the latest pop-ups that she had held off buying for a long time because of her previous drop in income, and all her neighbours and colleagues around her had them, even the poor as hell biology teacher in the next class, and she was the only one who didn't!

She was the fastest to replace them every time before!

And she thought at that time that she was about to get her hands on two and a half million dollars, so it was nothing to spend this amount of money on herself, so she didn't even hold back when she spent it, basically buying whatever was expensive.

Xu Wei took a deep breath and, in a rare moment of regret for spending money so quickly, she called her husband in a panic: "Hello ...... are you home? How much money do you have in that paper bag on my bedside table?"

"10,000?! How come there's only 10,000 left?!"

The husband intoned a grumble, "You bought 90,000 of these?"

"How can that be! I only bought 70,000 of them!" Xu Wei screamed hysterically, "And twenty thousand! Did you take it and use it!"

When she spent money on things before, she didn't feel any pain when she spent 60,000 to 70,000 together, but now that she has to pay it back, any less is like plucking out her flesh.

"Who uses your money!?" The husband was also furious, "I know you look at money to death and haven't touched yours!"

As he spoke, his husband's voice rose as if he had realized something: "I thought you said you'd set aside 50,000 to pay the mortgage this quarter! Why did you spend 70,000! The mortgage will be deducted soon this month, you fucking ......"

"I left 30,000!" Xu Wei interrupted her husband, "There's another 20,000!"

"How should I know!" After the husband yelled, his voice calmed down as if he had suddenly come to his senses, "Wait, Bao Kangle came into this room this morning and left with his back bowed and what looked like something in his arms."

" Kangle ?" Xu Wei slowly stood up, her eyes looking as if she was somehow guided towards the still lit teacher's office toilet.

At this point, all the teachers have gone down, so the toilets are ......

Xu Wei hangs up the phone and walks over with a shake.

Outside the gents, Xu Wei paused as she heard a shaky male voice.

"Don't let my mother find out that I lost a bet with you and took her twenty thousand dollars for you."

"She watches her money so closely that she'd go crazy if she found out her 20,000 was gone."

Xu Wei turned her head slowly, her eyes bloodshot, looking straight at Bao Kangle as she took the paper bag from her pocket and handed it to Bai Liu.

And Bai Liu took it in an unusual manner, "Hmm."

"You guys ......" Xu Wei burst out, the features on her face twitching and her expression almost twisted, "What's going on?!"

Bao Kangle blanched, "Mum, why are you up here!"

Fifteen minutes later.

The students looked curiously towards the office where the woman's harsh hissing and cursing continued to come from, and the teachers who kept walking past in the corridor, looking at each other and whispering about.

"What's going on at ......? Not going down to the meeting?"

"The meeting was delayed, it said a student stole money from a teacher and is being investigated, tens of thousands of dollars."

"That sounds like Mr. Xu from class 17, doesn't it?"

"Was it her money that was stolen?"

"Who has the nerve to steal money from a teacher?"

In the gents of the teacher's office, the paper packets wrapped around the money were torn to shreds, red hundred dollar bills fell all over the floor, and the toilet looked like it had been through a big fight, the door was smashed open, leaving several marks kicked out by high heels on the door.

A red-eyed Xu Wei was pulled away by some male teachers, but she continued to point at Bai Liu, who was standing at the far end of the gents, and cursed: "Bai Liu, how much did you force our Bao Kangle to pay you!"

"Have you been bullying him on campus and forcing him to give you money!"

"Are you fucking dumb! Say it! How much is it! Give it all back to me!"

Bao Kangle was anxious as he stood and looked at his stopped mum while looking at Bai Liu who didn't say a word and whispered, "Mom, it's not like that, I didn't give him a lot of money, the 20,000 I just ......"

"It's just for me." Bai Liu looked up calmly, "He lost a bet with me and the chip was the twenty grand."

Xu Wei was briefly still, but soon, realising that with the headmaster around, there was no way Bai Liu could stir up anything about Gao Kao Lake, she turned her head as if she had found some train of thought and looked straight at Bao Kangle next to her :

"Bai Liu made you do it, didn't he! He forced you to bet with him!"

Bao Kangle looked up at his mother in dismay, "No mum, it's you ......"

Xu Wei rudely interrupted Bao Kangle, a nervous greed in her eyes, "If it's established that Bai Liu forced you to bet with him and forced you to come and steal my money for him, an amount as large as twenty thousand dollars, then he's breaking the law and must be expelled from school, or he can even be reported to the police and sent to jail."

If she can force Bai Liu to drop out of school, she'll have the headmaster to answer to, the two and a half million ......

Xu Wei's chest heaves violently as she presses Bao Kangle, "Isn't it!"

In a moment, all eyes fell on Bao Kangle's face, who took two uneasy steps back, his eyes darting between Bai Liu and Xu Wei as he realised what was going on.

If he didn't admit that Bai Liu had made him do it, it would have been a big deal, a small deal, and he would have been beaten up by his mother at most and it would have been over.

If he admits now that Bai Liu forced him to do all this, then he can get away with it, but Bai Liu will have to ......

Bao Kangle subconsciously looked at Bai Liu.

Bai Liu was looking at him, just as he had looked at Bao Kangle that night, struggling in the water, Bai Liu's eyes and expression were calm and not at all emotional.

After struggling in the water, Bao Kangle got Bai Liu's hand, so will Bao Kangle, now struggling, reach out and push Bai Liu into the lake?

"Mom." Bao Kangle spoke up shakily, looking at Bai Liu, "It was me, it really wasn't Bai Liu who forced ......"

In the middle of his sentence, there was a sudden, sharp stabbing pain right in the middle of the back of his neck, and Bao Kangle's eyes suddenly went blank and his sentence was cut short.

A blood spot appeared on the back of Bao Kangle's neck, and in that spot a transparent puppet silk half a finger's length could be seen twitching slightly, as if someone was manipulating the puppet silk from space.

--The end of the puppet silk that Bai six had pierced through the back of Bao Kangle's neck was left inside Bao Kangle's body.

Bao Kangle was in a trance, and he seemed to hear that god again that night, that man looking longingly at Bai Liu's departing Bei Yuan, whispering in a low, laughing voice in his ear.

[Bai Liu, people like you who are good people and choose not to kill Bao Kangle will be rewarded.

The puppet silk behind Bao Kangle's back trembled, his mind went blank for a moment, he raised his hand and pointed at Bai Liu with lazy eyes: "Yes, that's right, it was Bai Liu who forced me to steal money for gambling!"

"He forced me to gamble and said he'd kill me if I didn't pay up! He also forced me to jump into Gaucho Lake and almost drowned me!"

"He's a murderer!"

At 3pm, in the playground, the pep rally, which had been delayed by more than half an hour, still went off without a hitch.

This time, however, it was not the exceptionally gifted students who spoke at the beginning.

The students below had sensed something was wrong when they watched a whole bunch of teachers, even the headmaster, crowding around a student who was being pushed and shoved under the flag stand by a group of people, obscuring his face from view, but every teacher around him was reprimanding him harshly, even to the point that there were teachers calling the police from the sidelines.

Fang Dian, who was sitting in the line of students below, looked at the situation and had a bad feeling in her heart, she looked around and pulled a student who came from under the flag stand, "Who is that student under the flag stand?"

"Sister Dot." When the student saw that Fang Dian was the one pulling him, he didn't hear her clearly and thought she was asking about Lu Yizhan, so he subconsciously replied, "The student below the flag stand is not Lu Yizhan. "

"I know, I was the one who spoke on stage, but I haven't been told to go up yet." Fang Dian raised her chin, "So ask you what's going on with that student?"

"That student ah." This student mountain honors class, said subconsciously a little disgusted, "ordinary class, it is said that seems and the same classmates gambling also forced the same classmates to steal money to him, more than 20,000, but it so happens that this student is a teacher's son, was found, now the police are investigating, said to first give withdrawal discipline."

Fang Dian's heart beat wildly as she asked, "What is this student's name?"

" Bai Liu ." The man answered her.

Without looking back, Fang Dian made a mad dash for the flag stand below.

Bai Liu was shoved up to the flag stand by a group of teachers with a freshly printed review, the headmaster holding his shoulder, holding a microphone and standing by with a feigned grim face, "Students and teachers, before the pep rally, we have a major sanction to announce."

"Bai Liu, a student in senior class 37, was unmotivated and took the wrong path, forcing his classmates to gamble up to $10,000! "

"It is unimaginable that a place like Qiao Mu High School, which is so dedicated to learning and teaching, can teach such students! This is a disgrace to Qiao Mu High School!"

The headmaster took a deep breath, "So, as a disciplinary measure, we will be expelling the student from the school."

"- We will keep this disciplinary action on the file of fellow student Bai Liu forever, so that any school can see it and every school can know what a bad classmate this student was!"

The whole school was in an uproar, and the students were suddenly discussing.

"Wow shit, wouldn't that mean no school would want him? How else is he going to get into high school then?"

"I don't know, it seems to be that student from the orphanage, I guess the orphanage wouldn't have been able to pay for it, it wouldn't have been able to afford school."

"All through senior year eh, this is too bad ......"

"What's so tragic about forcing people to gamble, they deserve it!"

The headmaster let out a long breath as he glanced at Bai Liu next to him, "Now please ask Bai Liu to read his review."

"Read the hell out of it! No!" Fang Dian, who had rolled onto the stage, dodged the review that the headmaster was about to stuff into Bai Liu's hand, and without even looking at the headmaster, she grabbed Bai Liu's arm and dragged him away, "Let's go."

The teachers at the flag stand were taken aback by the sudden rush of Fang Dian to the stage and tried to stop him.

" Fang Dian! Your speech is one behind! Why are you rushing up there!"

"I know." Fang Dian looked up, her tone was calm, "I'm not giving a speech, I'm taking Bai Liu away."

These teachers were confused for a moment: "Go?! What are you leaving for? There's a class to be taught later!"

"I'm not going to class." Fang Dian looked up, her gaze held the anger of a beast whose territory had been violated, "Didn't you tell Bai Liu to drop out of school?"

"I'm back with him."

"Are you crazy Fang Dian!" Fang Dian's class teacher stepped forward in shock, "You're top of the class! You're about to take the entrance exams, why are you getting involved with a punk who's got a record!"

"You're not even on the same side of the road, come on over here!"

The teacher waved anxiously at Fang Dian.

Fang Dian looked up at the teacher who was genuinely worried about her, and her tone softened a bit: "Teacher, being first in my age and taking the entrance exams are not that important to me, I can get them anywhere I want, so I can just repeat the year and start again, I can still be first in the city."

"But Bai Liu is my friend and I just like to walk a path with him."

Fang Dian's eyes were determined and she smiled a little, "If we don't go together now, we might have to go off on a tangent later."

"I beg your pardon."

Fang Dian tugged Bai Liu's arm and walked past the dazed teacher without a backward glance.

Fang Dian was very calm in the situation, she first sent Bai Liu back to the dormitory, packed a package for him and said while packing, "There's something strange about this, don't panic, I'll stay at school and help you see what's going on."

"But don't stay at school for now, I'll send you back to my house first and get you notes, in the meantime you can study at my house to prepare for the entrance exams, some of my classmates know some contacts, I'll ask them for you and see how this is going to be handled."

Bai Liu sat on the edge of the bed with a towel over his head, wiping away the water that had been thrown on him by who knows who, he looked at Fang Dian very quietly as she gathered his things and spoke abruptly, "Don't you like to associate with those people?"

"What was the situation then and what is the situation now?" Fang Dian sounded natural, "Things are urgent understand."

"Like when you just threatened those teachers about dropping out?" Bai Liu asked back in a flat tone.

Fang Dian laughed a bit, "Pretty much, at least first to get them to calm down and weigh up whether it's a good idea to drop a city topper just to cover your ass before the entrance exams."

Bai Liu was quiet again, "I really bet."

Fang Dian nodded: "I know, you seem to be able to do the gambling thing, but not the other way around."

"I bet 20,000." Bai Liu continued after a moment of silence, "It's normal to get dropped from school."

"You can drop out if you really don't want to, I don't have a problem with that." Fang Dian jumped and sat on the table opposite Bai Liu, propping her jaw up and looking at him with a smile, "But you can't just drop out like that."

"Because I know you miss it."

"I can't accept that this is the result of you studying so hard and so seriously for a year. I hope you must have a good exam."

Fang Dian rubbed Bai Liu's head, "Come on, forget about it, just go home and rest."

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time before he looked up, his wet hair hiding his pale face, and his voice was soft: "Sister Dot, I want a popsicle."

Fang Dian is quiet for a moment.

Apart from joking around, Bai Liu seldom calls her Sister Dot and rarely asks her to do anything.

But at this moment, looking at such a Bai Liu, Fang Dian would rather she hadn't heard the voice of Sister Dot.

She took a deep breath and said, "Okay, Sister Dot will go down and get it for you now, just wait."

By the time Fang Dian came up with a bag of popsicles, all she saw was an empty dormitory.

Bai Liu was gone, the little luggage bag she had just packed for Bai Liu was gone, only a hundred left on the table crushed by a cup, and a note pressed next to the hundred ---- [borrowed earlier, now returning to you, Sister Dot].

The following line reads: [Don't drop out because I'm not good value for money].

Fang Dian looked at the hundred, she breathed hard, then slowly, slowly put down the bag of popsicles.