Chapter 52 — Brother Black Panther: Starting Today, Five Updates a Day, Begging for Recommendation Votes, Begging for Collections
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By the time Wei Zhao entered the classroom, the lesson was already more than half over. Soon the bell rang for the end of class, and Teacher Liu assigned the homework before leaving the room.
Kang Xiaobo turned around and looked at Wei Zhao, complaining a little: "I say, Boss, you scared me to death. I thought you weren't coming today."
"What? Afraid Zhong Yongliang and those three will come after you? They didn't show up either, did they?" Wei Zhao laughed. Indeed, if Kang Xiaobo had been alone, he could never have dealt with Zhong Yongliang and his crew, so his worry was only natural.
"What do you mean they didn't show up? They came this morning. Zhang Naipao still had band-aids plastered on his face," Kang Xiaobo said. "But for some reason they just took a turn around and left. You don't suppose they left because they saw you weren't here?"
"Oh? They came?" That was somewhat beyond Wei Zhao's expectations. But whether they came or not, or came and then left, made no difference to him. "Let them do as they please."
"That's true, they're no match for you, Boss. But what worries me is that they might go looking for someone," Kang Xiaobo said with some concern.
"Looking for someone? What do you mean?" Wei Zhao did not quite understand.
"I mean, when they can't beat someone themselves, they go find help from the underworld," Kang Xiaobo explained. "Boss, you had better be careful."
"They have connections with people like that?" Wei Zhao frowned when he heard this. As he saw it, however arrogant Zhong Yongliang might be, he was still just a student, and his ways of doing things were confined to the schoolyard. Yet from what Kang Xiaobo was saying, these people had ties to the underworld, and when they could not win a fight they called in outside help.
"Of course they do. Zou Ruoming, one of the four great young thugs of our school, has a brother who runs with the underworld," Kang Xiaobo said. "Last time he fought the boss of No. 2 Middle School, he brought his brother along. Damn, his brother was stripped to the waist, a real brute, covered in tattoos, and his men were all carrying steel pipes and machetes. The boss of No. 2 hadn't even started fighting before he was scared shitless, kneeling on the ground begging for mercy."
The more Wei Zhao heard, the more he frowned. He had not imagined these students could be so brazen; it was somewhat beyond his expectations. Had yesterday's lesson been a little too light?
"Let's go, time for the break exercises. We can talk on the way." Kang Xiaobo waited until most of the people in the classroom had left, then stood up and said to Wei Zhao.
He and Wei Zhao sat at the back of the class, so they had to wait until almost everyone else had gone before they stood up and walked out of the classroom.
"What do the break exercises here consist of?" Wei Zhao asked. Yesterday during the break exercises he had been summoned to the toilet by Zhong Yongliang, so he had not taken part.
"You didn't go yesterday... oh, right, I don't think I saw you yesterday." Kang Xiaobo thought for a moment. "The break exercises are a set of radio calisthenics the school made up itself. Very simple, you'll learn it in one go. There's a PE teacher up front leading."
After leaving the classroom, Kang Xiaobo led Wei Zhao quickly to their class's spot. Kang Xiaobo was tall, so he stood at the very back; Wei Zhao was not short either, and stood beside him.
At last, at the school gate, Zhong Yongliang met Brother Black Panther.
A burly, bald man jumped down from a white Nissan van, followed by two thugs of similar build.
"Young Master Zhong." This bald man was Brother Black Panther.
Zhong Yongliang nodded and said to his two underlings, "Hurry up and greet Brother Black Panther."
"Brother Black Panther," Gao Xiaofu and Zhang Naipao hurriedly said in greeting.