[R18] Pretending to be a scumbag – “Pretending to Be a Scumbag” Chapter 41 [English]

Chapter 41

People in the School of Electrical Engineering all wear gray sportswear with blue vertical stripes on the sleeves. The school uniform is their symbol. People in the No. 2 Middle School will walk around when they see them near the school to avoid getting into any unnecessary trouble.

Shen Jie covered his pockets the whole time and sat there secretly looking at the store and the people at the tables next to him.

Just as He Chao was flipping through the menu, someone at the table next to him knocked on the table with a wine glass and said in a very angry tone: “Another box of beer!”

Shen Jie moved his eyes back to his table and saw Brother Chao also looking at the drinks.He Chao pointed at the menu and said, “Would you like some mung bean soup?”

Xie Yu’s fingertips rested under He Chao’s fingers, less than half an inch away: “This is it.”

“Drink mineral water again,” He Chao said, “your life is too boring.”

Shen Jie watched helplessly as the two people decided what to drink and started to choose dishes. He felt like an invisible man. After a while, he said, “Don’t you…have anyone asked me? What should I drink?”

“You can order whatever you want to eat or drink,” He Chao said without raising his head and turned to ask Xie Yu, “Would you like this?”

I shouldn’t have come to this meal. You two can go and eat.

Shen Jie held his chopsticks in a complicated mood.

The table next door was very noisy, and there was a constant sound of opening beer bottle caps. There was also a girl among them, wearing a miniskirt, a row of pierced ears, big hoop earrings, and a loud voice.

“Sister-in-law, when will Brother Jun come? Hurry up and call me to urge him,” a drunken man said, shaking the bottle, “We have been drinking for almost two rounds. If he doesn’t come, he will… burp.”

Da Yuan Earring picked up the mobile phone on the table and said cheerfully: “Okay, I’ll urge you.”

Shen Jie actually didn’t have much to choose from when it came to food, but the two people opposite him were too much. He Chao ordered a bowl of noodles and specifically stated that he didn’t want coriander. Shen Jie couldn’t hold it back and interrupted and asked, “Why don’t you want it?”

After saying he, he regretted it.

Because He Chao said: “The children don’t want to eat.”

Shen Jie: “…” I’m full. I’m full even before I finish the meal.

And who can remember Xie Yu’s long list of taboos?

Xie Yu didn’t have a very good appetite. He sat in the sun for a long time today and ate a few chopsticks of green vegetables and half a bowl of noodles. After eating, he put down his chopsticks and went to the front desk to pay the bill.

As soon as he got up, another person came into the small restaurant.

Xie Yu saw a figure out of the corner of his eye and didn’t pay much attention. He lowered his head and fiddled with his phone to scan the code: “One hundred and two?”

The proprietress typed the calculator on the order and calculated it again, for fear of undercharging her. Then she nodded and said, “No, yes.”

“Brother Jun!” The people at the next table stopped eating and stood up to applaud. “I’m late. I blew these seven bottles! I’ve been preparing them for you for a long time. I can’t excuse you for not drinking.”

That man was also wearing the uniform of the School of Electrical Engineering, with a loose sportswear covering his body. Although he was tall, his appearance was ordinary, and he would not be recognized among the crowd. The only distinctive feature was probably the scar on his forehead, which stretched from his hair to the tip of his eyebrows.

“Brother Jun,” Shen Jie didn’t dare to raise his head and whispered, “The one in the electronics department who stabbed someone with a knife?”

Shen Jie didn’t look up, so he didn’t see the unnatural expression on He Chao’s face, or the hand that was about to pick up the food suddenly stopped. In the end, he simply put the chopsticks on the table and stopped eating.

Shen Jie was still thinking casually: “I think I heard about this man when Wanda talked about the top ten people in electronics. He is quite fierce. It is said that he has more than seventy brothers under his command. He squats on the lid of the trash can to watch when others fight, so he is nicknamed Brother Junk.”

Before Shen Jie finished speaking, he noticed that “one of the top ten figures in electronics” was standing beside him and was motionless. He suddenly froze. He could only peek down from the space between his wrist and elbow, and looked down to see a pair of Nike sneakers: “…”

Shen Jie wondered if he had spoken too loudly and was heard, and then began to think about the three of them. With the fighting power of Brother Chao and Brother Yu, they were no match for them.

While still calculating the combat power, I heard Brother Jun call out: “He Chao?”

When Xie Yu came back after paying the bill, he saw such a scene.

An unknown person in an electrical school uniform held a bottle of beer in his hand. He stood opposite He Chao. He placed the mouth of the bottle on the edge of the table and used force on his wrist. The bottle cap opened and fell to the ground.

The bottle cap rolled twice crisply on the ground.

Then the man handed the beer bottle to He Chao, with unclear meaning: “A favor?”

He Chao didn’t answer and said with a smile: “Old friend, I haven’t seen you for three years, so there’s no need to be so enthusiastic.”

Neither of them clearly expressed any hostility, and the provocation in their words could hardly be heard if you didn’t listen carefully. However, Xie Yu leaned against the wall and watched for a while, and at a glance he could see that He Chao’s smile was superficial and hypocritical.

“Brother Jun,” someone at the table next to him asked, “What’s wrong? Do you know him?”

Then they all said, “Look, the school uniform is from No. 2 Middle School.”

Just now, He Chao had his back turned to them. When he walked in, they were all drunk and didn’t pay attention. Now he took a closer look. Someone who knew the “outstanding figures” of No. 2 Middle School was shocked: “I’ll go, isn’t this He Chao of No. 2 Middle School?”

After saying that, the man lowered his voice again and added: “…The one over there, Xie Yu?”

Brother Jun didn’t ask He Chao to drink anymore. He raised his head and drank it all by himself. Amid the cheers, he raised his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth, holding up the empty wine bottle and said, “I wouldn’t even remember it if you didn’t tell me. Three years, time flies so fast.”

Brother Jun took two steps forward: “Since you have such a good memory, do you still remember what I said at the beginning? I said don’t let me see you again, remember?”

The atmosphere was relatively ambiguous just now, but this time it was made clear that they were going to cause trouble.

The eight or nine people at the two tables over there stopped watching the excitement and stood up directly. When the chairs moved back, they clattered on the ground with a harsh sound.

He Chao placed the palm of one hand on the table and was still wearing the love and peace shirt. However, the words “love and peace” seemed a bit ironic in this situation, just like the people in the Blackwater Street group chat shouting ‘I’ll fuck your mother and I’ll kill your whole family’ all day long, but they chose a group name that said they don’t want to fight or kill.

After a while, He Chao said: “If you have anything to do with me, let them go first.”

As one of the “hes” in He Chao’s mouth, Shen Jie was still holding chopsticks and didn’t know what to do. Even a fool could see that the atmosphere was not right. He put down his chopsticks and said, “No, how can a brother just walk away at this time? Brother Chao, don’t be afraid. You are upright. We still have Lao Xie who can fight seven of us one by one.”

If it were normal times, He Chao would definitely pat him on the shoulder and say: Is that what you called Lao Xie?

But He Chao only said: “What the hell, this matter has nothing to do with you, hurry up and leave.”

“Brother?” Brother Jun smiled, and these two words seemed to hit some of his laughter points. He laughed exaggeratedly, holding his stomach and bending down. It took him a long time to stop. He raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, “… this little classmate, you regard him as your brother. Do you know what your brother Chao is best at?”

Brother Jun spoke, his tone became slower and slower, and finally he uttered a sentence after a few seconds: “He is best at stabbing brothers in the back.”

He Chao said nothing.

In other words, the whole place suddenly fell into an inexplicable silence.

These two people stood face to face. It was obvious that some story had happened in the past. There was a lot of information, and the visual inspection was quite exciting.Even Shen Jie couldn’t help but wonder, why stabbed his brother?

Only Xie Yu leaned against the wall and watched for a long time, as if he were watching a play. Then Shen Jie, an old Xie who was not interested in gossip at all and could talk to seven people, said lazily: “Stop talking nonsense. I don’t want to hear it. Are you coming one by one or together?”

Brother Jun: “…”

In the end, the fight ended, and Xie Yu’s ability to provoke others was second to none.

I don’t know who was the first to lift the table, and the food and wine bottles were smashed to pieces.

Xie Yu swung the chair and hit him. He saw Shen Jie being surrounded by three people on the side.

These guys are pretty good at it, there’s nothing challenging about it.It’s just that the girl inside is a bit troublesome. I can’t touch her for fear of accidentally injuring her.

Since the proprietress of the small restaurant dared to open a shop near an electronics technology, she had seen the world. She sat motionless at the front desk and continued to press the calculator, starting to calculate how much compensation she would ask them for later.

He Chao was dueling with Brother Jun. At first, He Chao obviously held back his energy and basically didn’t fight back much. However, the other party didn’t intend to let He go just like that. It was like venting his anger, and each move was more vicious than the other.

He Chao’s temper was not so bad that he became a Buddha and ascended to heaven. After a few rounds, he became a little annoyed: “Is that enough?”

Brother Jun said something unknown at a volume that only he and the two of us could hear, and then He Chao went up with a fist in the air.

“Your mother is a rotten person, He Chao.” Brother Jun was punched in the abdomen. He fell down and rested his arms on the chair. After saying that, he raised the corners of his mouth and smiled meaningfully, “…you are in No. 2 Middle School now?”

After He Chao punched back, it seemed that he had exhausted all his strength, and the past events that kept shouting in his mind made his whole mind a little confused.

There was a twitching tendon in the corner of his forehead.

He stood there without moving for a long time, until Xie Yu called him: “Let’s go.”

On the way back, no one spoke.

Xie Yu is really not interested in this matter… It can’t be said that he is not interested. If He Chao is willing to talk, he can reluctantly listen to it. For others, he probably doesn’t even want to listen.

Xie Yu thought of this and suddenly realized when did He Chao become an exception here.

Shen Jie reached the fork in the road and had to say goodbye. Then he broke the calm and waved to them: “I’m going back first. Please be careful on the road.”

“Is your injury okay?” He Chao put his hands in his trouser pockets and stood under the street lamp, “…what will you tell your mother when you go back?”

Shen Jie touched the small wound on his face: “It’s okay, I just said it was a fall.”

He Chao stretched out his hand from his trouser pocket and waved at him: “Then go back and pay attention to your safety.”

Xie Yu looked at He Chao’s profile and felt a little dazed.

This man was clearly in an emotional state, but he was still worried about whether Shen Jie would be scolded when he returned.

The evening self-study class is almost over, so there is no point in going back to the classroom. If you are caught, you will have to be scolded.The two of them simply went back to the dormitory. Before entering the dormitory building, He Chao suddenly said “I’m sorry.”

“Sorry for what?”

“Just, today’s meal,” He Chao scratched his hair, “eat like this.”

When He Chao walked to the door of the dormitory, he looked almost as good as usual. He even smiled and told He that the children should go to bed early.

Xie Yu asked him: “Is everything okay?”

Hearing Xie Yu say these three words, He Chao was stunned for a moment, and then said: “Ah, it’s okay.”

It sounds like it’s true.

If Xie Yu hadn’t gotten up in the middle of the night and walked half the corridor to the bathroom and saw He Chao sitting on the stairs smoking, he might have really believed it.

The handsome man was sitting on the highest step, holding a cigarette between his fingers. When he smoked, the light at the end of the cigarette suddenly lit up, flickering in the black light.

The stair sensor light was not on, and there was only an extremely weak light coming from the corridor.

Then the handsome man lowered his head, slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, and skillfully extinguished the remaining half of the cigarette. He was about to get up, and looked up to see the cold kid standing at the top of the stairs.