Chapter 113 (1/2)

Zheng Tan watched the boy walk into a residential neighborhood and followed hihborhood, so he stopped when the boy entered a building However, the boy paused to turn and look at hi Tan could sense kindness orat hi after so up the stairs He always took the stairs a few at a time, but today he walked slowly and would turn to check behind him every once in a while

The boy took out his keys in front of an apartment on the fourth floor He opened the door and waved to Zheng Tan

Zheng Tan listened carefully but didn't hear anyone home besides the boy He entered the apartment

It was a normal home The furniture was old and plain The apartment was even smaller than the Jiao house It was only about fifty squareTan felt a bit constrained The house had two bedroo room The boy's room was the smaller bedroom The size of the room was on par with Youzi's roo on the floor Zheng Tan walked over and glimpsed the boy's name, Fu Lei, on the cover of one book

Every stroke ritten with force and conviction, yet the handwriting was far fro Fu Lei's room when the boy laid a fish head in front of him

The dish was probably a leftover from yesterday It was old and the soup on the fish had already turned into gel

Zheng Tan turned his head

”You don't want it?”

Fu Lei didn't understand His neighbor's cat would have taken the fish and ran off with it by now

Zheng Tan walked around the roos were piled on the desk, but there was a wooden prize cup on the desk that was free froy bank nearby which was covered in dust The owner obviously cleaned it very often

”I won it when I was ten,” Fu Lei picked up the prize cup and said proudly

The kid wasTan had seen a lot of people like him They opened up to animals

As a kid, it was natural for hiot a chance It didn'the said

Zheng Tan learned that Fu Lei had indeed practiced martial arts before However, he never trained systerew up in the countryside His parents were busy, so he lived with his grandparents in their village Soe owned a dojo, and Fu Lei was one of the randparents were happy to see their grandson practice some martial arts

The cup was sculpted by their ed to beat his peers in a test and earned the prize Sadly, their master left the dojo to work in the city He uard The dojo closed after he left

Fu Lei kept practicing even after his parent brought him to the city He didn't have a bike and ran to school everyto save bus fare

This was not his first ti stopped on his way to school by bullies He solved the situation every ti He would win sometimes and lose when the other side had too ave people the impression that he was a problematic kid Most of his elementary school classmates avoided him

After he entered middle school, people who knew hied to earn a reputation, even though the school year had just begun That hy teachers let him be in the back of the classroo and would work like his rew up However, the first time he mentioned this, his father had beaten him so hard he had to stay in bed for a week

Whenever he mentioned he didn't want to study, his father would beat him, so he learned to keep quiet Because of the nine-year compulsory education system, he would be able to enter middle school no et him into the school he was in now They wanted hinored their wishes

Fu Lei'sand missed his days in the dojo

He carefully put the prize cup down Fu Lei opened a drawer and took out some ointment for the cuts on his hand

Zheng Tan looked into the drawer It was full of all kinds of ointments Did his parents buy all this because they knew their kid got in fights regularly?

He was speechless

Fu Lei sat on the floor and took out his pencils A few of his mechanical pencils were broken, so he took out the lead to place into other pencils