Chapter 45: Zhang Guan Li Dai

  Principal's Office.

  Compared with the hustle and bustle of the three teaching buildings, it is quiet and peaceful here, like a paradise on earth. The offices of school leaders and ordinary teachers are separate, located in the best feng shui area of Ping'an No. 1 Middle School, with an ordinary appearance but meticulous interior design.

  Director Ma is flipping through the annual work reports of Ping'an No. 1 Middle School, he has just been transferred to Ping'an Municipal Education Bureau as the director, it's the time for new officials to take office and make a big impact, so he attaches great importance to Ping'an No. 1 Middle School, which is a provincial key middle school, that's why he came to this school for a few days of inspection and investigation shortly after taking office.

  Today is the last day of his investigation, so there are no longer a large number of people following him. He came to Zhang Zhiqiang's office alone and lightly, listening to Vice President Zhang's work report.

  "Hmm, it seems that the teaching quality of Ping'an No. 1 Middle School has been quite good in recent years. Unfortunately, since its establishment, there hasn't been a single provincial high school exam champion. If I can reverse this situation during my tenure and cultivate a provincial high school exam champion, that would be a significant achievement!"

  Director Ma put down the work report in his hand and began to think actively.

  The halo of being a Gaokao champion has become increasingly popular over the years, thanks to hype. If a school produces a Gaokao champion, it's not only an honor but also a feather in the cap for relevant leaders, which can be recorded as an achievement in their career.

  But in this kind of thing, no one dares to say that it's 90% certain, the proportion of luck is very high.

  Some students, who normally perform extremely well, tend to underperform during the college entrance examination, resulting in a significant gap between their actual scores and expected scores.

  The top scorer in the college entrance examination is not easy to cultivate! Director Ma sighed and shook his head, but his mind inexplicably flashed back to that genius student Qin Lang he met at the library that day. In his heart, he secretly thought: "This kid has an astonishing memory, obviously belonging to the kind with extremely high IQ, and more surprisingly, he has excellent psychological quality, not nervous in critical situations. If he is carefully cultivated, it's not impossible for him to contend for the top scorer in the college entrance examination."

  As he thought of this, Director Ma couldn't help but look at Zhang Zhiqiang and wanted to ask about Qin Lang's situation in detail. But when he looked up, he found that Zhang was holding his mobile phone with a strange expression on his face, and he couldn't help but frown and ask: "Principal Zhang, what's wrong?"

  Zhang Zhiqiang suddenly came to his senses, thinking of what his wife had just said on the phone. He instinctively wanted to gloss over things with Director Ma and get through this awkward situation. After all, during the director's investigation period, such a scandal occurred in the school, which was really embarrassing and also showed that his work as the principal was not up to par.

  But the words reached his lips, Zhang Zhiqiang swallowed them back. Because he suddenly thought that the Qin Lang who didn't pay for prostitution mentioned by his wife was actually the talented student Qin Lang who Director Ma admired in the library that day! He had learned this from his wife while they were lying in bed two nights ago, flipping through "Jin Ping Mei".

  Zhang Zhiqiang thought this was a good opportunity. If it were another student, he would definitely cover up for the director. But this student was Qin Lang, and the situation was different. Since Director Ma admired Qin Lang so much, giving him his business card and a pen, if he now found out that this student had such low moral character, it would be like slapping himself in the face, losing all dignity. If Zhang Zhiqiang stepped forward to help Director Ma save face, wouldn't Director Ma owe him one?

  After weighing it in his mind, Zhang Zhiqiang felt that exposing this matter would have far more benefits than drawbacks. At most, he was derelict of duty, but Director Ma was the one who had recognized a "pig" with discerning eyes. With Director Ma taking the lead, he wasn't afraid of any responsibility.

  He then spoke with a pretended air of embarrassment: "Director Ma, I just received news that something shameful happened in our school, which brings shame to all teachers and students."

  "Huh?" Director Ma looked at Zhang Zhiqiang with suspicion, thinking that if it was a scandal, Principal Zhang would have covered it up already. He asked: "What exactly happened?"

  Zhang Zhiqiang said with embarrassment: "It's like this, there is a student in the school who has been to a prostitute and didn't pay. Now that fallen woman has come to the school to make trouble, causing extremely bad influence. The phone call asked me to go over and handle it. Director Ma, such an incident happened in the school, it's my dereliction of duty, I'm here to apologize."

  "What? Such a thing actually happened?" Director Ma's face turned black in an instant, and he slapped the table and stood up: "Which student is it? Expel him immediately. This kind of scum will never be allowed to stay in school."

  "This..." Zhang Zhiqiang hesitated for a moment.

  "What's wrong? Can't this student have any background?" Director Ma saw Zhang Zhiqiang hesitate, slammed the table and scolded: "No matter what background, such a morally corrupt student must be severely punished. The campus absolutely cannot tolerate the presence of such a degenerate, ruining the campus atmosphere."

  Zhang Zhiqiang stifled a smile and made a difficult expression: "The student's name is Qin Lang."

  Director Ma's body stiffened for a moment, and after a long time, he asked Zhang Zhiqiang in a low voice, "Which Qin Lang?"

  "It was that student in the library that day!" Zhang Zhiqiang saw the huge change in Director Ma's expression and almost burst out laughing, he tried his best to hold back his smile and replied.

  Director Ma's face changed color for half a day, thinking that he had just planned to cultivate Qin Lang carefully, but in the blink of an eye, this uncooperative kid made such a scandal, and his anger surged up, his face burning as if he had been slapped.

  "Go and take a look." Director Ma walked out of the office first with a gloomy face and expressionless.

  ……

  The entrance of Class 30 in High School.

  Wang Fengmei continued to display her acting skills, pointing at the increasingly close "Qin Lang", changing her tone and scolding him, "I've been in this line of work for so long, but I've never seen anyone as shameless as you. I work hard all year round, struggling to make ends meet, do you think it's easy? The boss takes a cut from above, and below we have to eat, drink, and pay taxes, only then can we get a few dollars in fees? You often come to take care of my business, I've already given you the best treatment, but you still dare to play this trick on me? If you don't return the money today, I won't leave, from now on I'll sleep at your school, whenever you pay back the money, that's when I'll leave."

  Prostitute? Whore?

  The onlookers around couldn't help but snicker, thinking that this woman was too talented to be a prostitute. With her level of intelligence, she should be working as a journalist and earning a salary instead.

  A loud rumble!

  The gloomy sky suddenly burst forth with the first spring thunder of the year.

  The rain is getting heavier, spring rain is as precious as oil.

  Wang Fengmei's eyes lit up, seizing the opportunity to point at the sky and say to the surrounding crowd: "Look, you all look, heaven is crying for me, heaven is shedding tears for my injustice. Heaven will take charge of me! The money of migrant workers has started to be guaranteed, why can't we sex workers get guarantees? We are all making a living with our bodies, we are all selling our labor, and cannot be treated differently!"

  The whole room burst into laughter.

  Qin Lang narrowed his eyes and watched the woman's performance. To be fair, if this woman wasn't targeting him at this moment, he would definitely applaud her performance. She was a born actress who could seize any opportunity to enhance her acting atmosphere at any time and place.

  He pushed aside the last bit of obstruction in front of him and stood still one meter away from the woman, the cheap perfume mixed with cigarette smoke wafting over, making his instinctive disgust and rejection cause him to subconsciously take a step back, which instead highlighted Qian Dabing who was following behind him.

  "Return the money, return it quickly." Wang Fengmei stared at "Qin Lang", stretching out her hand.

  Qin Lang's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he suddenly felt a bit off. The woman in front of him had stretched out her hand towards him, but the focus of her gaze was not on him.

  Strange, what is this woman doing? Qin Lang was somewhat perplexed. He followed the direction of her gaze and was shocked to discover that it was actually pointing at Qian Dabing beside him.

  Could it be...

  Qin Lang suddenly thought of Qian Dabing's abnormal behavior over the past few days, and a thought flashed through his mind: Could it be... that the "Qin Lang" in this woman's mouth wasn't himself, but rather Qian Dabing?

  For a moment, Qin Lang also couldn't figure out what kind of change had occurred here. He quietly probed the woman in front of him: "May I ask, how much money does Qin Lang owe you?"

  Wang Fengmei finally glanced at Qin Lang with a sideways glance, but quickly returned to Qian Dabing's body, gritting her teeth and saying: "You ask him and you'll know, my hanging price is 2,000 yuan per shot, he came four times that night, totaling 8,000 yuan. However, he is an old customer, I always give him a discount of 20%, which is 6,400 yuan. It's hard-earned money, every penny is the blood and sweat I earned with my own strength! Return the money, return the money, hurry up and return it to me!"

  The students and teachers surrounding him all gasped in shock. Thinking to themselves, with a face like that, how dare he charge two thousand for one shot? You think you're some kind of top-notch celebrity or something! Damn, at this rip-off price, anyone would run away!

  Of course, some girls heard such coarse words and naturally blushed with shame.

  These onlookers still hadn't caught the problem with Wang Fengmei's words, but Qin Lang, who had a mind to probe, immediately picked up on it.

  At this moment, Qin Lang was finally certain that the woman in front of him had indeed mistaken him for someone else, and was actually looking for Qian Dabing, but was calling out his name instead.

  He couldn't help but turn his head and glance at Qian Dabing, who was following closely behind him like a dog, with a mischievous grin on his face, completely unaware of anything out of the ordinary.

  "Wow, four cannons! I didn't expect that from you, Qin Da Shuai. However, your taste is too heavy. Even if you're going to prostitute yourself, at least find a decent-looking one." Qian Dabing seized the opportunity and started stirring up trouble.

  But at this moment, Qian Dabing's heart was filled with jealousy, and he cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, this idiot can do four rounds in one night, I took medicine that night to do four rounds with Mei Yuanyan, but this idiot is so fierce? No wonder Mei Yuanyan can't forget about this idiot, no wonder I worked hard all night and couldn't completely conquer her. It turns out that it's all because this idiot is too capable, and he surpassed me."

  With a heart full of jealousy, he was thinking of ways to frame Qin Lang and take revenge for the resentment in his heart all these days. So, he didn't pay much attention to the woman's gaze. Moreover, this bitch was too ugly, he took one look at her and didn't have the desire to look again, not knowing that this woman had been staring at him all along. He couldn't even hear the abnormality in the woman's words.

  In fact, it's not just Wang Dabing, even Liu Taohua, who is close at hand, also didn't hear the problem in Wang Fengmei's words. These people are all preconceived notions, and they have determined that the culprit is this "Qin Lang" who is shouting loudly from Wang Fengmei's mouth, so they won't deliberately pay attention to the details.