Vol 1 Chapter 73 (1/2)

3 Only Wish This Is A Nightmare

Noa mistake adults er’s mistake is often half due their parents and half due to their ignorance towards life There arefor some time, you will step on a bumpy road Of course, a bumpy road is still a road, there are people alk past different parts of the vast sky However, if time can flow backwards, with a tired smile, they would rather choose to not step on that road

For a very long time, I doubted the reality of this ster fils that happened after this anize public order and crack down on crieneral piece of news In reality, it wasn’t very far from us

The city’s television station wanted to do a special topic on graduating and the school got a few teachers and students to accept the interview As I often participated in speech competitions, the teachers saw me as someone who spoke well so I was chosen as an interviewee

I was told the questions early on and the ansere also prepared early on by the teachers so it was all a performance

The people from the station set up first beside the table tennis tables to interview Chen Yuan Zhe, I was to be interviewed in the corridors of the graduating classes so I was standing on the side of the corridor waiting for the over the script the teachers had prepared

I saw that they were nearly done so I quickly rushed to the bathrooet nervous

The bathroom was next to the staircase and when I came out fro up the stairs I halted but the other person walked past me However, after he walked a few steps forward, he i Jun

It felt like he prettyand said in a quiet voice, “Help me hide it”

It was a gun! I froze for a bit, my initial reaction was to iot to the entrance of the feood place to hide things I thought for a bit then pulled un intosure that the gun was held in position in ed my shi+rt, sweater and coat into place and walked out as if I had just finished using the bathroo to be held

Zhang Jun was sitting inside the classroom When I passed his class, our eyes ed a lot, but it also see

Just as I got to the corridor of our classroom, the reporter, the filmer, headmaster and a few other teachers came up

After the reporter res I should keep in note, we started fil

“Do you thinking there is a lot of pressure fro?”

I smiled, “There is quite a bit of pressure”

“Is this pressure from your teachers or your parents?”

“I think there is some from both plus my expectations for myself……”

A few people wearing police unifor, they looked stunned and stopped in their steps Our headmaster immediately went to talk with them The reporter and filmer both curiously looked and the about in low voices but the headed drastically He said a feords to the head of the Chinese department and left with the police

After watching a few of the police part and go to each class, I already understood why they were here

The head of the Chinese departhed and invited the reporter to finish the intervienstairs Although the reporter was curious, Chinese news stations back then would never go digging up news Their focus was to guide and publicize a healthy and stable social atmosphere, so they followed the department head downstairs

When we cauarding outside Their expressions were stern but after seeing the reporter and filmer, they became very polite Added to the fact that the headmaster had probably already explained about us, we only exchanged a feords and after checking our identities, ere free to leave The police didn’t even look twice at lasses and dressed simply with her hair in a ponytail

When we passed theain did I finally relax

I was very coraduating student that the adults were looking for The reporter and the teachers were all very satisfied and the filenic One of the directors proudly said, “No1 focuses on developing all aspects of a student, we don’t just see adoal The school ork hard to create new opportunities for our students and let theths Student Luo Qi Qi has represented our school in h it”

As the camera was not closed, the filmer recorded down the directors words also The reporter said on the side, “This is also quite a good point Later we can do back and discuss it with our leader to add this part in It’ll add to the graduates’ school life experience”

The director never expected himself to also be on filh school department, “Next up are a few third year students”

The camera was closed and everyone was very relaxed The reported talked with anticipation, “I head our deputy director’s son, Chen Jing, is currently studying in No1”

The head laughed, “Yes, Student Chen Jing is very outstanding…” He started gossiping about everything related to Chen Jing as the reporter and fil to theh school students

Seeing that they weren’t paying attention to me, I pretended to be interested and walked with them However, our teachers were also quite crafty, before we had got to the high school department, they had already discovered my scheme One of the teachers said, “Luo Qi Qi, you……”

Before they finished speaking, I quickly added, “I was deskin primary”

Chen Jing was the most talented student in the history of No 1 and added to the fact that he caround, his chararding how shtest bit tired of circulating his stories and the people from the television station were all partly curious about the private life of their deputy director so everyone grew interest and i o back to class

As I walked, I shared stories about Chen Jing, of how he never needed to listen to class, how he liked to guess riddles, how he could skip grades early on, how he actually really hated our rades but his dad didn’t agree Of course, I also shared soether as desk mates

After I gossiped all the way to the third years’ building and they started preparing for the interview, the teachers ot to rushso I quietly watched from a corner

A trainee from the television station asked me, “Are you very interested in interviews?”

I flashed a dazzling smile, “My dream is to become a female journalist, it’ll be best if I can be a journalist on the front lines of battle”

The teachers all laughed, they probably thought I was too innocent inside but on the outside, they tried not to extinguish o back The trainee by ave me a few pointers

As eren’t able to get a shot of the classroo the representative in front of a class of students studying

Xiao Bo was inside the classrooly not a bit interested in as going on This guy is working a bit too much!

Finally, he see his head, he sawfunny faces A flash of surprise shot through his eyes and after looking at me for a few seconds, he s

I saw that everyone was looking at the ca any attention to me so I continued to stare at hied his position and put his hand on his forehead, hed and decided not to look at him any more

There was a gun pressed to htest bit nervous At the start, I was a bit uncoun but now, the steel was already the same temperature as my body so I didn’t even have any disco a bad person

After they finished interviewing that student, the reporters started preparing to interview another student and needed to change the scene The trainee asked if I wanted to go along too but I shook h today, now I have to go back and study”

The trainee was very nice, “Study hard I hope you’ll beco journalist quickly”

I smiled and bid them farewell

After they left, I immediately moved over to theand shouted softly to Xiao Bo, “Give me your bicycle keys”

Xiao Bo didn’t ask me for the reason, he threw the keys tonear the trees It’s not at the bike shed”

“Helpafter school”

I made a funny face at him then immediately ran down the other set of stairs and rode Xiao Bo’s bike out of the school Only outside the school did I dare to un to my coat pocket

I rode on the bicycle like I was running for ot to a piece of undeveloped land with no one around I hid in a reun out, I looked over it in detail The heaviness made it feel completely different to a toy

I played with it for a while before I took out erprints Although I highly doubted our city’s police had the ability to tell fingerprints, I didn’t watch television dra After it iped clean, I dug a whole and buried it inside

After I s, I walked backwards while using loves to brush away my footprints I then specially went to another area and left some footprints there Perhaps it was unnecessary but it’s best to be careful

I jumped on the bicycle and rode back The sky was already dark by the ti were both with him

He looked at me and said, “Today the police flipped the middle school department upside down I heard that they even searched the toilets Zhang Jun and Hao Lian were taken away, apparently they’re being investigated”

I didn’t htly said, “This year they’re cracking down on crime so no matter what you do, you have to clearly consider the consequences first” He handedto worry”

I setically then flew back home on my bike

I don’t knohat reaction other people would have after doing sohts I ate normally, watched television like usual, I even continued to read Agatha Christie’s novels like usual Then I went to bed

Lying on the bed, I thought about Zhang Jun for a bit then slowly fell asleep

In the ht, I suddenly woke up full of sweat InJun was locked inside jail

I clutched htly with my eyes open in a daze I didn’t dare to close my eyes because as soon as I closed my eyes, I’ll be taken back to the scene in the dream

In the , I went to school like usual Everyone had a weird look in their eyes, yesterday’s incident probably rocked everyone up

Although we often saw the police carry out their official duties on television, when it actually happened by us, no one was used to it

Guan He asked me, “Where were you yesterday?”

“My period caht that since we didn’t have any lessons, I ht as well rush home”

Guan He sy”

I nodded

Guan He whispered, “Did you hear? Zhang Jun was taken away by the police”

“Huh? No wonder everyone seems weird today Why?”

“I don’t know The teachers searched through our bags and tables They even called out lots of people who knew Zhang Jun and Hao Lian and asked them questions individually” Guan He was in a daze, after a very long ti Yun Zhu lives close to ether Yesterday after school, I saw Tong Yun Zhu crying Before, I had heard……” She paused I quietly looked at her She finally decided to trustYun Zhu tried to cut off his supply reed to quit but he’d always start again after some time”

Tong Yun Zhu is one of the prettiest girls in our year Added to the fact that she was Mongolian, and can sing and dance, she was in charge for her class’ cultural performance every year so she was very well known in our year However, the only things I’ve heard about Hao Lian is that he was Tong Yun Zhu’s boyfriend and that he’s been kept a year However, he was a pretty decent guy and didn’t cause much trouble so I don’t knohat he looks like exactly But this is really like that old phrase- a dog that bites doesn’t bark The boys who are ht and drink and smoke aren’t actually the worst people

“Is Zhang Jun close with Hao Lian?”

“No, Zhang Jun and Tong Yun Zhu are very close but he hasn’t had much interaction with Hao Lian”

I let out my breath, that’s fine then

Later, Teacher Wu asked o back to self study afterthat this was a special situation plus I was always disorganized and without discipline, Teacher Wu thought thatwas completely normal

I continued to go to school and go ho had happened but I paid special attention to all the gossip, yearning to hear any news related to Zhang Jun However, the little rumours the students spread around becas and then they said he was dealing drugs Although I don’t knohat exactly Zhang Jun did with Little Six, I believed ement that he wasn’t someone as easily led astray He should be very clear to what drugs were and I don’t believe he would touch them

As the days past by, Zhang Jun was still locked in the police station I started beco worried but I didn’t dare to reveal it, on the outside, I had to look the same as before It was at this time that I discovered that actually, that year when I stood on the table tennis tables under the stares of the crowd, forcing

Teeks later, we had outJun still wasn’t back After the exams, it wasn’t until our results were announced that he finally came back

In the moment I saw him in the corridor, I finally felt the knife that was stabbed intoaround but I was expressionless on the outside like usual and I walked past hi Jun probably received a lot of ‘education’ inside the police station, he looked haggard and sported a htest bit interested in his appearance

Although Zhang Jun canored him