Chapter 108 - An Underachieving School Hunk and Bully (15)
Chapter 108: An Underachieving School Hunk and Bully (15)
Translator: asassin
When Song Wen sees Gu Cheng, it looks like he has seen his family.
“Brother Cheng!”
Gu Cheng stops for a second and passes him a bag in his hand with a little dislike: “Here are dishes packed for you. Nobody has touched it.”
Song Wen’s eyes are close to brim with tears since he has taken a terrible beating from his parents, half of his living expense has been deducted and what’s worse is that he missed the meals served by the canteen.
Poor Song Wen suffers from both hunger and a broken heart.
“Brother Cheng, from now on, you are family!”
Gu Cheng waves his hand: “Give me a break. I don’t have a brother as dumb as you are.”
Song Wen: “…”
He has a piece of red-cooked pork in his mouth, hearing what Gu Cheng has said, and he mutters: “You go too far. We’ve been friends for two years. Do you hate me that much?”
“How come you only realize that now?”
Song Wen chews on a drumstick angrily and refuses to talk to Gu Cheng any more.
At this moment, Ah Zhao walks into the classroom.
Her steps are light and she’s humming a tune as she walks. Clearly, she’s in a good mood.
Song Wen greets her when he sees her: “Did you go to the canteen for a meal? How do you like it?”
Ah Zhao gives it a thought and exclaims: “The students of our school are good runners.”
Good runners they were. When the bell for the end of class rang the classroom turned empty before Ah Zhao realized what happened.
Song Wen is curious: “Weren’t you in a hurry at lunch time in your previous school?”
Ah Zhao has no idea about that. She searches the memory that belongs to this body before she says: “Back then I wasn’t a resident student so I ate at home.”
Right now, she doesn’t board at school either. She eats at school simply because she doesn’t feel like going back home.
Song Wen lets out an “Ah” sound: “Then you didn’t have a good lunch, did you?”
Though the food in the canteen of Second High isn’t famous for its good taste, there are levels of bad tastes. For example, between pork with green peppers and boiled potatoes, everyone will choose the former, which leads to a situation where those who are there late won’t have a chance to choose.
Ah Zhao smiles: “I met a very kind aunt who gave me sweet and sour spareribs and braised fish since she knew I was late. Oh, she gave me veges as well.”
Song Wen: “…”
Sweet and sour spareribs? Braised fish?
He turns to a classmate by his side: “Is there anything as fancy as that in our school canteen?”
That classmate shakes his head: “In dreams, maybe.”
Seeing that they don’t believe her, Ah Zhao says hurriedly: “It was that forty-some chubby aunt who has a kind smile with curly short hair. Don’t you know her?”
They recall that there is such a woman in the school canteen.
However, when Song Wen compares the aunt with a kind smile in Ah Zhao’s word to that in his memory, he looks at the boy beside him face to face. Both boys see confusion in the other’s eyes.
Is Ah Zhao talking about the ugly shrew who is in charge of the canteen of Second High, who has a penetrating voice when it comes to scolding, who sometimes gets food for the students herself and displays perfectly how to shake the ladle in a way that no student can get a piece of meat from her?
Having heard their description, Ah Zhao is shocked: “How come? She’s a nice lady.”
Song Wen is beyond grief and indignation: “How come she treats different people so differently?”
Ah Zhao thinks about it and says with a deep meaning: “That’s why I told you to study hard and improve your grades. See, as a top student, I’m better off than you guys in any field.”
Song Wen covers his chest without a word and feels sick at heart.
After that, one thing suddenly occurs to Ah Zhao: “Where’s your homework? Let me see it. Do you have any problems?”
Song Wen: “…”
And Gu Cheng who is watching the fun by their side: “…”