Chapter 1: Are you sick?

  Because they still had military training in the afternoon, Tang Zhong and his friends didn't drink too much wine at noon.

  When I returned to the dormitory, I found that many people were waiting at the door of room 307. They were discussing enthusiastically and loudly, as if something exciting had happened.

  "Hey, make way! Make way!" Hua Ming, this big blockhead, was most suited to opening the road. He charged forward on his horse, shouting loudly: "I say, brothers, you're blocking our path. We can't get into the house!"

  "He's back! He's back!" someone shouted excitedly.

  "Which one? Which is Tang Zhong?"

  "That guy with glasses is him. Wow, he's really my idol ----- one person beats six people, and they're even the school basketball team guys, so domineering."

  Tang Zhong's forehead suddenly appeared with a few black lines.

  Has this matter been made public?

  He just beat up a few people, that's all.

  Tang Chong indeed only beat up a few people. The problem is, the ones he beat weren't ordinary people. They were the school's notorious bullies who often beat others.

  What caused even more of a stir was that he allegedly picked people up one by one and threw them into the ink washing pool.

  This has never happened since Nanjing University was founded.

  "Second Brother, everyone has come to see you." Liang Tao said with a smile. At lunchtime today, Liang Tao toasted Tang Chong three cups of wine and apologized for his rash behavior on the first day he came to report. Tang Chong accepted Liang Tao's apology and accompanied him in drinking the three cups. From then on, the relationship between the two finally got back on track.

  For Liang Tao, becoming Tang Zhong's friend is much more fortunate than being his opponent. Although they have only been in contact for two days, the various abilities shown by Tang Zhong have already made people secretly shocked.

  "A dragon hidden in a deep pool." He remembered this phrase. So, he shouted "Second Brother" with a willing heart.

  "If we put Tang Zhong in a cage and charge five bucks for each viewing, wouldn't our living expenses be taken care of?" Hua Ming said quietly.

  "Everyone can disperse now." Tang Chong said with a smile. "As you all saw, I'm not some handsome guy ----- so, everyone can rest assured."

  Most of the onlookers were boys from the same building, who quickly found the dormitory where the male protagonist lived after hearing about what happened at noon today, and then ran over to wait for their return.

  Now hearing Tang Zhong say this, they all smiled kindly one by one.

  "That's great. We've finally vented our anger."

  "Big brother, can you do kung fu? Teach us!"

  "Right, from now on we'll be hanging out with you-----"

  After closing the door of the room, people finally felt a little quieter.

  As soon as Hua Ming entered the door, he started running to take care of his rabbit Xiao Qiao Qiao and said: "Lao Er, not bad. I see that those guys all admire you - my title of 307's first charming man is about to be snatched away by you. From now on, it will just be 307's first handsome guy."

  Liang Tao was furious and said: "You are the number one handsome guy in 307, where did you put me?"

  "Side by side." Hua Ming opened his mouth and smiled. "We're tied."

  There was a knock at the door.

  Liang Tao was worried it would be those fame-seeking onlookers again, so he shouted through the door: "Who is it?"

  "It's me, Lu Yifei." The person at the door replied.

  "Lu Yifei? Our class monitor?" Hua Ming turned around and asked.

  "It seems so." Liang Tao said. He looked at Tang Chong and asked: "Will you open the door?"

  "Please let him in," said Tang Chong.

  So Liang Tao opened the door and said with a smile: "The class leader has arrived, I don't know what brings you here?"

  "I'm here to worship the hero." Lu Yifei said with a smile. He was not tall, wearing glasses, and had two small dimples when he smiled. He was a very elegant and clean boy, giving people a great impression.

  "It's just that they passed it too fiercely." Tang Zhongqian said humbly. "They had just finished playing ball and didn't have much strength, so we four brothers took advantage of the situation."

  Tang Zhong didn't want to get the reputation of 'one against six', so he also pulled in Hua Ming, Liang Tao and several others as human shields.

  "Hehe, to dare to fight with the school team, you still need some courage." Lu Yifei said. "I don't have anything else to do. I just came to recognize the door. I'm in 304, if you guys have time, come to my dorm and sit for a while - if you smoke, I still have some local specialties from Xifeng. The taste is not bad."

  "Thank you." Táng Zhòng said with a smile.

  "Alright, you guys rest then. I won't disturb you anymore." Lu Yifei waved his hand and walked out of the dormitory.

  "What's this singing about?" Liang Tao asked inexplicably.

  "Hehe, didn't you know?" Hua Ming said with a smile. "He wants to be the class monitor."

  "When was he the class monitor? Isn't he already not the class monitor now?" Tang Chong didn't understand either.

  "Now I'm just a temporary class leader appointed by the counselor. Our psychology department's freshmen need to be divided into three classes, and now the boys in the three classes are still mixed together for military training - after the military training is over, each class will have to elect a class leader. In college, being a class official is still very popular, organizing all sorts of activities, and when the school has some kind of reward quota, it's also chosen from among the class officials. Moreover, getting fully trained in school is also very helpful for finding work after graduation. Our school is still a bit behind, if it were Renmin University or Beijing University with their strong political atmosphere, their student council presidents would enter government departments and get promoted faster than others after they graduate -" Huaming explained.

  "Being appointed as temporary class leader by the counselor just after entering university proves that this kid either has connections or knows how to get along with people. Because now, more than 90% of temporary class leaders will become the actual class leader later on - no choice. Everyone is familiar with him, and he's the one who notifies us about things and runs errands for tasks. In any case, everyone will vote for him."

  "What does this have to do with Second Brother?" asked Liang Tao. Although their family's old man was a government official, when it came to these conspiracies and intrigues, he was far less perceptive than Hua Ming.

  "Because he has a sense of crisis." Hua Ming said looking at Tang Chong. "The second child gave him a sense of crisis awareness."

  "I didn't prepare to be the class monitor anyway." Tang Chong said. Today's fight with others has caused such a big commotion, and Bai Su probably wants to talk to him about it too. He really doesn't have the mood to do anything as class monitor --- he actually misses being the warden of Henshan Prison.

  "The problem is, he doesn't know this," said Hua Ming.

  Tang Chong smiled and lay down on the bed for a nap.

  After the initial excitement was over, everyone started complaining bitterly.

  Daytime training, nighttime training, attention, at ease, left turn, right turn, military boxing... Originally everyone was looking forward to touching the guns. But soon they were disappointed. This year there is no shooting range training project.

  Now everyone is thoroughly desperate about the military training. However, it has only been a few days since the training started, and the Long March of 10,000 miles has only gone halfway, with a long way to go.

  The instructors were well aware of the students' psychology, and as the afternoon military training was about to end, Instructor Li Tieshu loudly said: "Tonight at 8 o'clock, assemble on the school's large playground."

  "Ah-----", the students wailed in unison.

  "There's no training tonight. Just singing and dancing." Li Tieshu chuckled. "Male-female duet."

  "Ah-" The boys let out another wolf howl.

  "You can take the evening off. Those who don't want to come don't have to." Li Tieshu said with a smile, and that plain face actually revealed a few hints of slyness.

  "We won't take a leave of absence. We absolutely won't take a leave of absence." The boys all chimed in.

  "Disperse." Li Tieshu waved his big hand and said.

  After dinner, Hua Ming and Liang Tao rushed back to their dormitory, competing to use the bathroom first.

  The two played rock-paper-scissors to see who would lose and win, after Liang Tao used scissors to cut through Hua Ming's cloth and got the chance to enter the bathroom first. After that, Hua Ming carried his own rabbit Xiao Qi in the dormitory, walking back and forth, muttering to himself: "Xiao Qi Qi, dear Xiao Qi Qi... what should I do with you? How can I take you over?"

  Li Yu sat in front of Tang Chong's Apple laptop playing games, while Tang Chong lay on the bed reading a magazine. After listening to Hua Ming's chatter, he asked: "What to do with it?"

  Hua Ming pulled over a chair and sat down in front of Tang Chong with a plop, asking: "What do you think is the most charming part of me from head to toe?"

  "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

  "The truth."

  Tang Zhong pointed at the rabbit in his hand and said, "It's him."

  "Exactly." Hua Ming slapped his thigh. "Great minds think alike. I was thinking the same thing. Think about it, if I hadn't brought Little White Rabbit over, would those girls have even noticed my existence tonight?"

  "But what reason can I use to take the rabbit over? If the instructor sees it, won't he skin me alive?"

  Tang Chong was thoroughly defeated by Hua Ming and said: "This I can't help you with."

  Then, drive Hua Ming away and let him solve this headache problem by himself.

  Liang Tao came out of the bath, blew his hair, shaved, and applied various cosmetics to his face. After changing into clean clothes, he took out a bottle of Dior perfume from his small leather suitcase and sprayed it under his armpits.

  "Do you have body odor?" Tang Zhong asked.

  "No," said Liang Tao. "I'm afraid that at night the weather is hot, and the armpits have a bad smell ----- besides, girls all like clean and refreshing men with fragrance on their bodies."

  "Needless to say," said Tang Chong.

  "It's absolutely necessary." Liang Tao came over to educate Tang Chong in a tone of someone who had been through it before. "Think about it, our department originally has many wolves and little meat, just those twenty or so girls, how many boys will be fighting for one girl? It's not that we must hook up with her, but as a boy... if all the girls are snatched away by other boys tonight and we end up with nothing, sitting stupidly somewhere watching others have fun. Where would we put our faces?"

  Tang Chong got out of bed and opened the wardrobe to find some clean clothes. He also said to Liang Tao, "Later, can I borrow your perfume?"