County Town Chapter 30: Home Guard Yuan Ye

  Yi Tian Xing stopped in his tracks, because he felt something was off.

  Those people slowly found the hard-seat carriage and surrounded Yitian Xing in the middle. One of them, a middle-aged man wearing a black T-shirt, held a photo in his hand and looked at Yitian Xing for a long time, seemingly unable to confirm. He simply handed the photo over to Yitian Xing's hands.

  "Take a look, is it you?" The group of people looked like they were up to no good, but the middle-aged man in the black T-shirt spoke with unusual politeness.

  Yi Tianxing found it somewhat amusing, who would look for someone and still need to identify themselves? However, he vaguely guessed something, took the photo, looked at it, and indeed it was as he had thought. The photo was from their second year of high school when the county middle school organized a trip to San You Dong tourism, which was also one of Yi Tianxing's rare photos, still a group photo. As he looked at this photo, he playfully discovered that among the densely packed heads in the photo, his own face had been carefully circled with a red pen.

  "It's me, who are you?"

  The middle-aged man looked at him and nodded, and didn't seem to have any more doubts. He gave a signal with his eyes to the men beside him, and they all bowed in unison. At the train carriage door, a group of burly men suddenly lowered their heads to a poor-looking student.

  "Welcome, Third Master, to the provincial city."

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  Always watching the excitement from the side, saw the train staff shrouded in clouds and mist, suddenly stunned, until the crowd left for a long time, the chin still maintained a surprising distance with the upper lip.

  The person who came was an old man from the provincial city, one of Gu Lao Tai Ye's closest subordinates. The one wearing a black T-shirt is called Yuan Ye, and he has been following Gu's family since 1978. Since Gu Lao Tai Ye returned to the county town, Gu Da and Gu Er were very strangely absent, so now all the business in the provincial city is being taken care of by him. A few days ago, he received a call from Gu Lao Tai Ye, and he was still puzzled, thinking that another San Shao Ye had appeared out of nowhere. Looking at Yi Tian Xing's unimpressive appearance, he couldn't help but wonder. However, the underworld emphasizes family rules and etiquette, and Gu Lao Tai Ye's tone on the phone was very serious, telling him to listen to this San Shao Ye's instructions carefully. It seemed that he had the idea of handing over the provincial city business to this young man, so he behaved with great respect.

  Yuan Ye thought of this and couldn't figure it out, so he turned his head to look at Yi Tianxing, who was calm, and opened the door of the bluebird sedan for him.

  Yi Tian Xing didn't get on the car. He had an innate dislike for people from the underworld, although he had recently gotten to know Lao Tai Ye and was even moved by him during their conversation, but afterwards he still returned to his usual self, filled with disgust. Although he believed that Lao Tai Ye had some reliance on him and their interactions were genuine, he always felt that it was a relationship of mutual use. At this moment, seeing a large group of big men surrounding him, he felt somewhat uneasy, not to mention being stared at by the crowd coming and going, which made him feel even more uncomfortable.

  He put on a sincere and polite appearance, and said to Yuan Ye: "Uncle Yuan, I'm going to school to register today. The recruitment brochure says that the school is at the train station's reception office, so I can go directly there, no need to trouble you."

  Yuan Ye refused to give in, and they had to drag him away by force.

  Yi Tianxing felt somewhat impatient and his face sank.

  Yuan Ye suddenly felt his heart skip a beat, sensing that the young man in front of him was emitting an aura that he couldn't quite see through. His body involuntarily tensed up. Taking advantage of this momentary distraction, Yi Tianxing headed towards the train station entrance.

  "What are you still dazing about? Go and drive the car to wait outside the station!" Yuan Ye bellowed at his subordinates, having just been intimidated by a young man's aura, he couldn't help but feel a little angry after recovering from the shock.

  Outside the station.

  Yitian walked alone in front, carrying a broken backpack, while Yuan Ye followed closely behind with over ten burly men with scars on their faces. At the end of the procession, there was also a bluebird sedan slowly crawling along at grandma's speed. It was currently the peak period for students returning to school, and the station was bustling with young men and women coming and going. Suddenly seeing such a strange procession, they couldn't help but stare curiously.

  Yi Tianxing silently cursed the old man in his heart, then turned around and said: "You can go back now, leave a contact method, if there's anything I'll naturally look for you." He himself didn't realize it, but this sentence had an air of superiority.

  Yuan Ye was taken aback, and found that this new young master seemed to dislike these formalities. After a moment's consideration, he sent the others back and replaced Bluebird's driver himself. "Third Master, will this do?"

  Yi Tianxing glanced at him and only then discovered that the middle-aged man wearing a black T-shirt had an extremely kind face, but unexpectedly this person was so persistent. He lazily went to the reception office of Provincial City University and handed over his admission notice.

  There is one teacher and several students who look like sophomores at the reception desk.

  The teacher was still quite enthusiastic, calling over a few sophomores to take his luggage, then registering and leading him to the school bus waiting at the station. From time to time, new students arrived, but everyone didn't know each other and no one greeted each other, just waiting blankly for the bus to depart. Yi Tianxing waited somewhat bored, looking back at Yuan Ye who was sitting in the Blue Bird not far away with a dull face, and felt a bit regretful again.

  Just then, the school bus started moving, and Yi Tianxing let out a light breath. Meanwhile, on the Blue Bird, Yuan Ye put his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and stepped on the gas, following closely behind.

  On the school bus, the teacher who came to pick up new students made a self-introduction. The new students only then knew that he was a second-year graduate student named Li Changsong, who also served as a counselor by convention. The term "counselor" was naturally somewhat fresh for the students who had just graduated from high school, but everyone still tried to show their respect, and Yi Tianxing's face was no exception. However, listening to that teacher's non-stop introduction to Provincial City University, he couldn't help but feel a bit drowsy.

  "The university is located in the historic and cultural city of XX, China. The school has two campuses, east and west, with a cultural road and Jiusan Road running through the middle. It covers an area of over 7,050 mu, with a building area of over 2.72 million square meters. The campus environment is elegant, with lush flowers and trees, green grass, and beautiful scenery, making it an ideal place for reading and learning."

  In the long history of running a school, our school has formed a deep cultural heritage, a solid foundation for running a school, and a provincial university spirit with the school motto "Sea纳百川, 有容乃大" (All rivers flow into the sea, and the sea is great because it can hold them all) and the school style "严谨、勤奋、求是、创新" (rigorous, diligent, seeking truth, innovative). XX, XXX have served as principals, and XX, XX, XXX, XX, XXX have studied or taught here. Among the 100 "Cultural Celebrities of Our Province" selected in 1991, 36 are alumni of our university; among the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 50 are alumni of our university. Currently, our school has... students, making it the university with the largest number of faculty and students in China.

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  Yitian Xing is actually very clear, the original Shengda was the first school in the province, but during the nationwide university reform in 1956, the engineering department was forcibly separated and a new Provincial Engineering College was established. Originally, it was two schools born from the same mother, adjacent to each other, and the separation was not clean-cut. Although they were closely related like tongue and teeth, they often quarreled, leaving deep resentment. Unexpectedly, in the 1990s, the country wanted to reform again, so they forcibly merged the two schools together.

  There's a saying that goes, "A forced melon is not sweet." How can this forced school be smooth? Just the name of the school has been tossed around for several years. The original Provincial University definitely wants to keep its golden sign with the words "Provincial University", but the Institute of Industry says it's also the oldest industrial university in the province, and it still uses its original name. Isn't that like being annexed? It can't be saved face-wise. So now the Provincial University is awkwardly renamed as Provincial City United University, still divided into two campuses, one east and one west, nominally one school but actually two separate teams.

  Yitianxingbao's major is in the West District, which is where the former Engineering College was located.

  He arrived at school, picked up his dorm number, and took a glance at the small note in his palm, "Old Six Building 247" - he asked a beautiful senior sister with a relaxed heart, then carried his luggage towards the south. Yuan Ye, who had been following him not too close or too far away, ran to his side and wanted to help him carry his bag. Yi Tianxing didn't give him this opportunity to get close, shaking his head calmly with a tranquil gaze.

  Yuan Ye was a fearless and daring "heavenly stick", but somehow he seemed to be naturally at odds with Yi Tian Xing, and yet he was intimidated by such a calm gaze, his hands hanging down beside his thighs, being unusually obedient.

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  The old dormitory building was a dilapidated three-and-a-half-story wooden structure, the middle corridor was pitch black, and it was impossible to see what was underfoot even during the day. Fortunately, Yi Tianxing had good eyesight, and he walked towards his own dormitory with creaking wooden boards beneath his feet.

  As soon as the door was pushed open, several students from all over the country were seen in the dormitory.

  A few male students became familiar with each other in a short while, and a Sichuan student sneaked out a set of mahjong from his luggage with a sly smile.

  "Want to play cards?"

  Yitianxing smiled and said, "Not today, I still have some things to do." It wasn't until several months later that he realized how foolish it was for him to miss the poker game today, because in the following days, these classmates refused to play anything related to card skills with him.

  Several others pushed the table together and said to him: "You can't run away tomorrow."

  "Hey, there's a sedan parked outside, brand new, it's been parked for the whole afternoon, I wonder if someone is waiting for someone?" asked the student from Jiangsu who was lying on the upper bunk.

  Yitian Xing crept to the window and took a look, and indeed it was that dark blue Bird.