Chapter 138: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 138

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Dashan had raised his living expenses, which made him feel that school life finally had something to look forward to.

This Sunday afternoon he arrived at school, and after evening self-study ended, he went to the small shop and bought a bowl of lotus root slices for fifty cents to eat as a late-night snack.

The small shop's business was booming.

A sea of people, all buying food.

From this it could be seen that the school cafeteria's rice and dishes were truly awful beyond words.

Otherwise how could everyone possibly all come to the small shop to buy things?

Wang Dashan finished a bowl of lotus root slices, and the time was already approaching ten o'clock at night; the dormitory was about to turn off the lights.

He was just preparing to return to the dormitory.

But at this moment he discovered that at a corner next to the small shop, more and more people were gathering; someone unknown started jeering, and a large crowd was bustling with excitement.

The very center of the crowd seemed to have a brawl; there were miserable screams and loud laughter. Wang Dashan didn't know what was happening; he hurriedly turned around and left, not wanting to stir up trouble.

The town's middle school had many shady characters; the majority dropped out before reaching Junior High Year Three, and only a small portion could enter High School. With Wang Dashan's grades, even if he finished middle school, it would likely be hard to test into High School.

However, although he was mischievous, he also knew his limits; he didn't want to get mixed up in brawls, and didn't want to walk together with those delinquent teenagers who dyed their hair a chaotic mess.

He just played inside the school, absolutely not getting involved with delinquent teenagers.

The next morning after the flag-raising, the school leadership gave a speech; after finishing the speech they announced a disciplinary notice.

Several students who had gathered and brawled next to the small shop the previous night were invited onto the stage, and before the entire school's three thousand-plus students, they were severely criticized and punished.

Those several students standing up there, when being criticized by the school leadership, shook their heads and swayed; a few were even secretly laughing, completely not taking the school's disciplinary action seriously.

The Principal was very angry about this, pointing at that student who was still secretly laughing and scolded harshly:

"Huang Zhiqiang, do you know the severity of the matter? A person like you is simply one rat turd spoiling a pot of congee. I'm telling you, don't think acting like this is impressive. Once you go out into society, you'll have a good time of it! What the school can't teach you, society will teach you later!"

That student named Huang Zhiqiang actually dared to publicly talk back:

"Rest assured, once I go out into society, I'll definitely make a name for myself. When the time comes, I'll return in glory and fiercely slap the faces of you people!"

The entire school's teachers and students were in an uproar over Huang Zhiqiang's behavior.

Everyone felt this guy was just too bold!

Quite a few frivolous students all regarded Huang Zhiqiang as an idol, privately shouting "Qiang Ge is mighty."

Wang Dashan looked at Huang Zhiqiang on the stage, his face also full of stunned surprise.

He didn't know whether Huang Zhiqiang doing this was good or bad, but he had to admit, this person was indeed quite brave.

This person Huang Zhiqiang, although he had no real connection with Wang Dashan, Wang Dashan remembered him.

He really wanted to know whether Huang Zhiqiang would later make a name for himself or not.

Time flew by; a month passed.

News of Huang Zhiqiang dropping out of school spread through the middle school.

When he left, it was with boundless fanfare; there were actually quite a few frivolous students who went to see him off, as if dropping out was a very glorious thing.

Many years later, when Wang Dashan saw Huang Zhiqiang again, he discovered he was working in a factory, doing the most bitter and exhausting work, earning pitifully little money. Only then did Wang Dashan profoundly understand the deep meaning of the Principal's words: "What the school can't teach you, society will teach you later."

However, Huang Zhiqiang seemingly still hadn't fully understood. In the factory he was still frivolous, still a thorn in the side, violating factory discipline every three days and getting docked pay, and he didn't care.

But these are all later stories; we won't mention them for now.

Wang Dashan's studies were very poor, and he was very mischievous, but he didn't fight, and didn't walk together with outside hoodlums.

Every day after school he ran straight to the playground to play basketball, play ping-pong; when evening self-study was about to start, only then did he hurriedly go shower and eat, then rush in just before the bell for evening self-study.

This day the PE teacher came to the class and told everyone a matter:

"Who among you wants to study sports? Sports talent students can enter High School with lower scores, but training is very bitter!"

"Teacher, I, I want to learn!"

Wang Dashan was the first to raise his hand, extremely active and enthusiastic.

Compared to enduring the suffering of studying, he was more willing to endure the suffering brought by sports training.

After all, his childhood was spent going up mountains and down rivers; sports training didn't count as anything.

Just like that, Wang Dashan and several other classmates together became sports students.

From then on, every afternoon two class periods would be set aside for sports training.

Wang Dashan's build was very thin, but not weak; he belonged to the lean-and-wiry type.

Extremely suited for long-distance running.

His first time running three kilometers, he took first place.

The PE teacher was very optimistic about his development in sports.

Wang Dashan returned home on the weekend and told his parents this matter.

Li Xiulan and Wang Zhanggen both expressed suspicion:

"What use is learning sports?"

Wang Dashan then said:

"The teacher said, if sports grades are good, it's easier to test into High School!"

Li Xiulan then said:

"Then learn it. Whether you can enter High School we won't say; as long as you can persist until Junior High Year Three, that's already not bad!"

Actually, whether it was Li Xiulan or Wang Zhanggen, both felt from the bottom of their hearts that their own eldest son was impossible to test into High School.

Wang Dashan had been the tail of the class since childhood, and his exam grades had never been good once.

They only hoped Wang Dashan could finish junior high school completely, and not drop out too early.

Dropping out too early would likely lead him to learn bad things outside, and being too young, even if he went out to work, factories wouldn't want him.

Wang Dashan carried out physical training full of passion, and he truly wasn't afraid of the hardship of training.

In the blink of an eye his physique became sturdier, his height reached over 1.7 meters, his appetite grew large, he didn't pick at the unappetizing rice and dishes in the cafeteria anymore, actually eating a large plate every time, and he had to buy an egg from the small shop every day to eat; this was what the PE teacher told him, fearing his nutrition couldn't keep up.

That week when he returned home, Li Xiulan saw his skin had darkened considerably, and couldn't help but feel heartache, telling him not to go to training if it was too hard, and not expecting him to test into high school, just finishing junior high properly would do.

This instead stimulated Wang Dashan:

"Mom, I definitely can test into high school, you rest assured! The teacher told me to eat an egg every day, my living expenses are a bit insufficient, why don't you give me some more living expenses?"

Li Xiulan immediately looked full of suspicion:

"Ten yuan isn't enough? Did you go out to fool around outside school?"

Wang Dashan cried laugh-not-get:

"I train hard every day, where would I have time to go fool around outside?"

Li Xiulan however said:

"I heard someone opened an underground internet cafe in Town, not a few students climb walls out at night to surf the internet, not returning home at night, you can't follow those people to learn bad things!"

Wang Dashan hurriedly said:

"You rest assured, I have my own sense of propriety, I won't go learn from them!"

Li Xiulan however didn't increase Wang Dashan's living expenses, but instead said:

"Since you have to eat eggs every day, just bring them from home, there are plenty of free-range eggs at home."

Wang Dashan cried laugh-not-get:

"Mom, I can't eat raw eggs, cooked eggs can't be kept for five days that long!"

Li Xiulan however said:

"You give the raw eggs to your PE teacher, let him help you boil one every day!"

Wang Dashan full face speechless:

"I have thin skin, I can't do such a thing!"

Li Xiulan just said:

"You can't do it, right? Then on Monday I'll personally go find your PE teacher to discuss it, I don't believe he won't agree!"

Wang Dashan hurriedly stopped her:

"Mom, don't be like this, if you do this I'll be even more ashamed!"

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