No. 77 Things You Don't Know

  Before long, a boy in yellow sportswear walked in. He was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with a pale complexion and a timid look in his eyes. He wasn't very tall, and his build was slender. His hair hadn't been dyed in bright colors, giving him an innocent and harmless appearance.

  He walked in, saw the scene in the house, and his face immediately turned pale. He looked at the group of little bald heads with a terrified expression, trembling with fear, and said: "Tiger brother... Tiger brother... I... I didn't go to your place..."

  Wang Jian also turned his head at this time and nodded towards the child: "Are you Huang Yue?"

  Huang Yue was stunned, his legs went soft, and he immediately collapsed to the ground, scared to the point of peeing his pants by Wang Jian, looking very pitiful.

  Wang Jian discovered under the light that this Huang Yue... was almost identical to Da Wei, just like his own son. He looked very much like a girl and had an even more beautiful voice than Da Wei's, a gentle and soft female middle tone that didn't match his age at all. If you only listened to his voice, anyone would think he was a mature and elegant woman in her late 20s, and wouldn't suspect him of being a 17 or 18-year-old boy.

  This made Wang Jian confused, the Huang Yue he had originally imagined was a delinquent youth with a bad attitude, hair dyed like feces. Dealing with this kind of youth would generally follow the same procedure as Tang Jun and Cheng Hui, beating him up and then taking him away.

  But this guy is actually so weak and feeble-looking, he looks like a girl...

  "Are you male or female?"

  Huang Yue heard Wang Jian's question and was also stunned: "Male... male."

  "Are you and that sissy outside father and son?"

  He had just finished speaking when the window was knocked loudly, and Dawei shouted from outside: "Damn it!"

  Wang Jian waved his hand at Da Wei, then turned his gaze back to Huang Yue: "I'm your class teacher."

  Huang Yue was stunned, staring at Wang Jian with his mouth agape, but unable to utter a single word. He rapidly blinked his large eyes several times, taking half a day to finally connect Wang Jian and the class teacher together.

  "You're still so arrogant..." Wang Jian stood up and walked over to him: "I'll be waiting for you in the classroom tomorrow, if you don't show up, you'll have to deal with the consequences yourself."

  "I'm not going." Huang Yue was unexpectedly firm, even though his legs had gone soft, he still had a kind of unyielding determination: "I want to make money."

  "Hey, kid." Wang Jian squatted in front of him, narrowing his eyes as he looked at his face. He reached out and pinched his chin, forcing him to lift his head: "Do you know who you're talking to?"

  "No! I want to make money!"

  Huang Yue was so scared by Wang Jian that he almost peed his pants, but in his eyes, there was still that resolute determination.

  At this time, Xiao Guang Tou Wuzi rushed in from outside and shouted: "Master! Brother Hu! The cops are coming into the alley, should we retreat?"

  "Master!" Xu Hu cried out anxiously: "If we don't leave now, there will be trouble."

  Wang Jian didn't say much, stood up and quickly followed Wu Zi out of the alley with Huang Yue. If they were a step slower, they would have run into the police officer. That would have been a big trouble.

  After running out, Wang Jian was dragged to a roadside stall by a group of bald and muscular men who insisted on treating him to barbecue. Wang Jian actually didn't want to eat, but he had never been able to refuse people with good intentions. Putting aside the fact that these men were calling each other "master", just their enthusiasm made Wang Jian feel quite comfortable.

  "You tell me, why do you want to make money."

  Eating roasted mutton, Wang Jian asked Huang Yue very seriously again: "I don't think you should be making money now, what about your parents? Do they know you're selling drugs?"

  "I don't know..." Huang Yue lowered his head. Not eating or drinking, he just kept his head down: "Nor will I ever know."

  Wang Jian suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, Huang Yue's such a weak personality, really not on the same wavelength as himself. The current situation was like being unable to fight or scold, if he said something more provocative, this kid would probably cry...

  "So you have to tell me, why do you want to earn so much money?"

  "It's no use telling you."

  "My patience has its limits."

  "I don't want to talk to you."

  "This is your last chance!"

  Huang Yue looked scared, but still stubbornly shook his head. Until Xu Hu beside him couldn't bear it anymore. A wine bottle suddenly burst open at Huang Yue's feet: "Master told you to speak up, if not, tonight we'll make you brothers have a good time."

  "Shuang shuang?" Huang Yue's face showed confusion.

  Xu Hu suddenly gave a sly smile, his ferocious and sinister appearance was already frightening. Now with this slyness, he looked even less like a good person. He smiled as he used the index finger and thumb of his left hand to form a circle, then used the middle finger of his right hand to rub back and forth inside the circle.

  Huang Yue's face turned extremely ugly, tears welled up in her eyes, and she bit her lip tightly, not saying a word.

  Wang Jian gave Xu Hu a strange look: "What's with this tone of yours?"

  Xu Hu hadn't even responded when, beside him, Dawei, who had been eating with his head down, suddenly raised his head as if stimulated, pointing at Wang Jian: "If you drag me into this again, I'll tell you, I'll stab you to death with a single chopstick."

  "Impossible, Master. I'm a family man, just trying to scare this kid."

  Between Huang Yue's stubborn refusal and Wang Jian's limited options, he could only sigh: "I can only send you to the juvenile detention center again."

  He said this sentence, originally just to scare Huang Yue, but unexpectedly this sentence seemed to hit his nerve, he suddenly knelt down, tears like the surging Taihu Lake, unstoppable.

  "Let me make some money..."

  He cried so miserably that the people eating midnight snacks around them looked at Wang Jian and his group with strange eyes, but it was because of this large group of bald men in the arena, no one dared to come and cause trouble.

  "There must be some unspoken secret." Da Wei, who had eaten his fill, wiped his mouth: "Still, street stalls are the best, screw those high-end restaurants."

  "Don't ruin that pretty face of yours with foul language." Wang Jian nodded seriously: "You should learn from others, look at this beauty, she's a lovely girl."

  Dawei glared at Wang Jian fiercely: "You're going against me, huh?"

  "No, it's just that you're too eye-catching."

  Dawei also didn't bother to argue with Wang Jian anymore, stood up: "Let's go, let this kid take us to his home for a visit."

  Wang Jian thought for a moment and felt that Dawei's words made sense. After all, such a weak child was allowed to take the path of selling drugs, there must be something else that others didn't know about, which could lead to this situation. Since he wouldn't say anything, going to his home would definitely reveal some clues.

  Without saying a word, Wang Jian picked up the crying Huang Yue and stood up to bid farewell to Xu Hu and others. Xu Hu was also a straightforward person, leaving only one sentence "Master slow down, contact by phone" and let Wang Jian leave.

  The three of them got into Dawei's car and headed towards Huang Yuejia along the route that Wang Jian had forced out under duress.

  Huang Yue's home was located in the old city district on the east side, which was like a scar stuck to all luxurious cities, roughly considered a slum area. Although it wasn't flooded with sewage, everywhere showed a sense of decay from the 1960s and 1970s.

  After turning more than a dozen corners, it finally stopped at the door of a bungalow in a corner. This house was not the legendary green brick and tile house, but a so-called temporary residence. Hollow bricks, asbestos tiles, anyway, only one level higher than the worker's shed.

  "Is this your home?"

  Huang Yue bit his lip and nodded. But, as it turned out, this appearance of his was indeed the demeanor of a young jade, and being able to pretend to be like him was actually a kind of state of mind. Now, in Wang Jian's eyes, Da Wei and he were actually not on the same level... After all, Da Wei was still a pure man at heart, but this little guy... from inside out, he was made of water.

  Wang Jian knocked on the door. A weak and powerless voice came from inside:

  "Who is it?"

  "Huang Yue's homeroom teacher."

  "Coming! Coming!" The voice in the house sounded very happy. Then, after a rustling sound, the door was slowly opened.

  When the door opened, Wang Jian saw a woman with a withered face, her eyes sunken and her body thin as a stick, exuding an aura of defeat, almost exhausted.

  After she opened the door, she saw Wang Jian, Dawei and Huang Yue behind him, and her expression became obviously flustered. She asked cautiously: "Teacher... come in and sit down?"

  Wang Jian nodded and slipped into the room.

  The room was very cramped, not much bigger than Wang Jian's garage, and inside there were only two hardboard beds. There was also a very broken TV on the dirty table, and on the table there were two plates of leftover food, black and unrecognizable.

  "What's Huang Yue done now?"

  "No." Wang Jian shook his head and looked at Huang Yue: "He..."

  Huang Yue was stared at by Wang Jian, his whole body tensed up, and he shook his head vigorously with wide eyes.

  His grades have improved a lot during this period, and I came for a routine home visit. I just became the class teacher not long ago and don't know much about the students in the class yet, so I came to take a look.

  "Hey, teacher... look, our home is poor, do you want to drink water? I'll let Huang Yue go buy two bottles for you." She said as she rummaged through the bottom of her pillow and pulled out a few coins, counting out six yuan and handing them to Huang Yue: "Go, buy two bottles of drinks for the teacher."

  Huang Yue nodded and was about to leave, but Wang Jian grabbed him: "No need, I'll just sit for a bit before leaving."

  "Teacher, can I make a request? Huang Yue's school is far away. If he has to stay late for self-study in the future, could you let him sleep on the floor in the classroom? He usually gets back home almost at midnight every day."

  "No need, school has cancelled evening self-study starting today." Wang Jian glanced at his wrist without a watch: "It's getting late, I'll head back first."

  "Teacher... stay for a while longer."

  "I still have to rush to another family." Wang Jian smiled and waved his hand: "That, Huang Yue come out for a moment, I don't know the way out."

  "Hurry up and send off the teacher, what are you still dazing about?" Huang Yue's mother hit him lightly on the back of his head, scolding: "You child, how can you be so disobedient?"

  As she spoke, she also followed Huang Yue to send Wang Jian to the door: "I'm not feeling well... can't walk a few steps, next time teacher comes, let me know in advance, I'll prepare some dishes for you."

  "Alright, see you later."

  After leaving Huang Yue's house, Wang Jian just smoked and didn't speak. On the contrary, Huang Yue lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Thank you..."

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  Come on, brothers!