Chapter 32 — Who Else but Those Two Graceful Figures?
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"It's nothing..." Zhong Yongliang did not want to say much. He waved a hand and quickened his pace.
"Come on, Liangzi, you lot got beaten up, didn't you? Who did it? Tell Brother Ming and I'll fix him for you." Seeing the sorry state of these few, Zou Ruoming hardly needed to guess that they had lost a fight, and so he spoke with great ferocity.
Zhong Yongliang knew Zou Ruoming's skill well enough: the best fighter among the school's Four Young Devils, and one who had dealings with people in the underworld besides — a genuine tough who was no stranger to knives and guns.
But what had happened today was too humiliating, and Zhong Yongliang did not want too many people to know. So he waved a hand. "It's nothing. The few of us were just sparring, and things got a bit heavy-handed..."
Since Zhong Yongliang insisted on saying nothing, Zou Ruoming could hardly press him further. Watching the three recede into the distance, Zou Ruoming shook his head. "Ah, your own people beating your own people? Beating them half to death? Now why don't I believe that?"
"Boss, where do you live? Let's walk home together after school?" Kang Xiaobo was still in a state of high excitement, filled with heartfelt admiration for his new boss.
Wei Zhao's heart gave a jolt. The matter of him walking with Gu Mengyao in the evening absolutely could not be known to others. He himself did not care, but Gu Mengyao certainly would not want it.
At that thought, Wei Zhao said, "My home is very far. You go on ahead. I'll leave a bit later."
"Then I'll wait for you. We can at least walk together to the school gate." Kang Xiaobo was reluctant to part, wanting to talk with Wei Zhao a while longer. Never in his life had he imagined that Zhong Yongliang might one day be beaten so badly he could not get up.
"All right then..." Wei Zhao knew that if he put him off any further, it would rouse Kang Xiaobo's suspicions. In any case, they would only walk together to the school gate; once Kang Xiaobo had gone far enough, he could get into Uncle Qing's car.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had long since packed up and left the classroom. Wei Zhao deliberately staggered his timing from theirs, dawdling a while before he shouldered his bag and walked out of the classroom with Kang Xiaobo.
"Boss, let me tell you a secret..." As they left the classroom, Kang Xiaobo suddenly lowered his voice and spoke in a whisper.
"What secret?" Wei Zhao looked at Kang Xiaobo, somewhat baffled. What was this kid being so mysterious about?
"I live very close to the commoner campus belle, Tang Yun..." Kang Xiaobo gave a sly grin, then said, "Actually, I often see her riding her bicycle home."
"Damn." Wei Zhao smacked the back of Kang Xiaobo's head. "What's with you, always thinking about that sort of thing? What kind of secret is that? So you live near her — what's that to me?"
"You really have no interest in her?" Kang Xiaobo asked, unconvinced.
"It's not that I have no interest; it's that I've never even seen what she looks like. You want me to be interested in someone who doesn't exist for me — that's impossible." Wei Zhao said, somewhat amused. "All right, hurry home. I need to go too."
"Okay, Boss. See you tomorrow." Kang Xiaobo waved to Wei Zhao and vanished into the stream of students leaving school...
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