Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3 The Mysterious Middle-aged Man
Fang Qiu put his schoolbag back in his dormitory and then went straight to the canteen to grab a bite.
Meanwhile, a post titled Student Rebuking Benz Vulgar Tycoon, Making the Bodyguards Apologize and Pay Compensation Like a Lamb quietly appeared on the campus BBS.
The post contained a series of photos which described in detail how a student had called the father and son and their bodyguards riding a Benz to stop, how he body-blocked their way when they ignored his words, and how eventually he made the two sturdy bodyguards flinch purely with his uprightness, forcing them to apologize and distribute money as compensation.
The photos in the post made a very detailed record of every tense moment that had just occurred.
However, due to the rain, those photos were not very clear, so the viewers could only capture a blurred image of Fang Qiu but not his true appearance.
If it had not been so, Fang Qiu would have no chance to step out of his dormitory unnoticed anymore.
But this post sparked heated discussions on the whole campus BBS the moment it appeared.
Numerous comments flooded in.
”Awesome. Never thought in Dajiang Chinese Medicine University you could meet such a kick-ass student! Give you my full support!”
”This great man actually did what I wanted but not dared to do, how impressive! Admire you! Admire you!”
”My idol! He is definitely my idol! Begging for his clear pictures! Factual data!”
”Me too!”
”Please calculate the psychological shadow area of the rich father and son and their bodyguards!”
Some comments were also seeking confirmation of the realness of the post, for they could hardly believe there still were such righteous students like him in the present society.
”Is it real? Could someone just make it up?”
”I also think most parts are exaggerated. How could a student like him still survive in society today?”
However, soon those who could not accomplish it and also suspect no one else could do it were slapped by the truth.
”You can't do or dare not do doesn't mean others can't! I'm actually one of the students being sprayed with mud and water. Here are my clothes, and here is the 500 yuan!”
Below those words, there were two pictures. One was the clothes smeared with mud, the other was the 500 yuan which was a bit damped by the mud and water on the hands.
”I'm one of them, too!”
”I'm, too!”
More and more students on the scene also posted their pictures, instantly drowning all the voices of doubts and suspicions.
With the photos, witnesses, and the money, which were probably the main evidences, everyone finally bought it.
Discussions on the BBS continued hotly.
More and more people were asking for Fang Qiu's information.
Everyone was very interested in such a man full of the sense of justice on campus.
But all these did not affect Fang Qiu at all.
After taking lunch, he had a short break and began to plough through the books he had just borrowed from the library.
”The youngest, why do I have a feeling that the student confronting the Benz vulgar tycoon on the campus BBS is you?”
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Hao, the third oldest guy in the dorm, who had just finished taking his lunch break, got out of bed and asked Fang Qiu while pointing at the pictures on the BBS site on his computer.
Fang Qiu merely gave a smile and went back to read without comment.
There were four students living in this dorm. According to their ages, they named themselves the oldest, the third oldest, the fourth oldest, and the fifth oldest. As for the second oldest, in light of its unpleasant correlations with some Chinese words, they just skipped it.
Therefore, Fang Qiu was the fifth oldest, the youngest of them.
Sun Hao murmured ”the more I look at it, the more it is like you” before retreating to continue browsing the BBS.
Zhou Xiaotian, the fourth oldest, who was lying in bed playing with his smartphone, suddenly turned over and poked his head out to look at Fang Qiu and asked, ”The youngest, I heard that you will play the flute tomorrow evening. Good for you! Hiding your talent so deeply. Show us some of it!”
”Yeah! You kid truly know how to hide yourself. Quick, play a song and entertain us!”
Sun Hao also quitted browsing his computer and directly turned around to stare at Fang Qiu with some sort of mischievousness.
Zhu Benzheng, the oldest, who had been reading at the desk behind Fang Qiu, adopted a more straightforward method. He simply turned his chair around and gazed at Fang Qiu silently, anxiously waiting for him to play.
”You guys, well, OK, I'll just play one piece!”
Seeing the scene, Fang Qiu put down his book in resignation and said brazenly, ”Today, I will let you hear what is the real sound of nature!”
”Humph...”
The three snorted at the same time.
Fang Qiu took a brief moment to organize his feelings, and then clasped both hands and started to play a song.
Five minutes later, the three were all wearing the same intoxicated expression.
At this, Fang Qiu knew that for now, he could no longer stay in this dorm quietly, so he put all the books he had borrowed from the library back into his schoolbag and headed out towards the library.
”Snap!”
The sound of the door shut close woke the three up from their intoxication state.
The three simply gazed at one another in utter amazement.
After a long time, Sun Hao, the third oldest, asked gingerly, ”Say it, after tomorrow night, our youngest can get how many love letters? Will they be enough to cram the whole of our dorm?”
Zhu Benzheng, the oldest, and Zhou Xiaotian, the fourth oldest, seriously considered it for a moment and then nodded at the same time and answered, ”Probably more than that.”
”My goodness, how come our dorm cultivated such a bewitching guy. He isn't the youngest, but the most bewitching!”
Sun Hao looked as if he had lost his heart and soul. He clenched his chest and said, ”How can we find girlfriends in the future? Look at the face of the youngest, look at the techniques he has to attract girls. We're all living in his shadows now. When we walk along with the youngest, no girls will have eyes for us!”
”That can't happen. We shall never walk along with the youngest after tomorrow night.”
Announced Sun Hao very seriously.
Hearing those words, Zhu Benzheng and Zhou Xiaotian both nodded resolutely.
Sun Hao still thought this was not enough. He added, ”That alone won't do. I have to ask the youngest to teach me how to play the hand flute. Even if I cannot be a brilliant player like him, as long as I master thirty per cent of his techniques, I'll be able to pick any girl I like!”
Zhu Benzheng and Zhou Xiaotian nodded simultaneously again, their eyes gleaming.
As the three were plotting secretly, Fang Qiu was strolling in the rain in Jiangnan.
The rain of Jiangnan was light as silk and soft as cotton.
The pleasure of walking in such rain was beyond words.
He walked slowly all the way.
Soon, Fang Qiu arrived at the circulation desk of the library and handed over the books and his library card to the middle-aged librarian at the gate.
The middle-aged man obviously remembered Fang Qiu.
He had borrowed so many ancient books soon after the semester started, which made him hard to forget.
Seeing that Fang Qiu returned all the books he had borrowed that morning, the middle-aged man smirked and asked, ”Is it because those books are so involved and abstruse that you no longer want to read them and turned them back?”
”No, it isn't.”
Fang Qiu shook his head and answered, ”I've finished my reading.”
”Finished?”