Chapter 26: Calling Each Other Brothers

  When Li Sansheng and Er Long Lao Meng fought, they never went to the police station. At that time, the police station was far from being a civilized law enforcement agency, and they wouldn't reason with you. For those who were taken in for fighting, the police would beat each of them until they promised not to fight again, even if it meant no one could enter the police station.

  Fortunately, there was an acquaintance in the village who was a figure at the police station. Li Sansheng and Er Long Lao Meng were scolded every time they went in, but they didn't follow the usual practice of being taught a lesson. Later, Li Sansheng and his friends learned to be smart and play it cool, otherwise they might have been reported by those lovely passersby again and ended up being caught and taken away, which would have been a loss of face.

  When I was in high school, when I hung out with Hei Zi and those guys, fighting was fearless. If you could knock someone out for a month, you wouldn't settle for just half a month. The students at Qinling Academy all had impressive backgrounds, so there were fewer opportunities to fight, unless it was absolutely necessary. Mostly they liked to play dirty tricks on each other, until everyone was dizzy and didn't know who was playing whom. Li San Sheng did plenty of despicable things for Hei Zi and Yu Er.

  If it really comes down to it, Li San Sheng is absolutely the most ferocious and reckless. From a young age, he has never been afraid of fighting, and every time he's been in a fight, he's always come out on top. As he would say himself, "You all have many people backing you up, but I'm just a lone orphan with no one to rely on, so I don't have as much to lose." If they can't take him down today, Li Da Ye will definitely make sure to cut them down and destroy their roots tomorrow.

  In Qinling College, everyone is afraid of the family standing behind each person when fighting, and they don't dare to use their full strength. However, if it's in the city district, these second-generation rich kids won't have the leisure to play with you. They'll try to beat you to death, and even if someone dies, their family will come out to clean up the mess.

  But fighting in the lower districts is more about dealing with those small-time hooligans or gangsters who are really ruthless. Those bastards aren't any less fierce than the pretty boys from Qinling College. They're all professional fighters, and they've been through a lot, including hospital stays. Except for a few girls who got hurt, every time it's Li San Sheng who runs out in the end. Although no one says anything, everyone knows that some things are better left unsaid among brothers.

  One time, under the city wall, in the De Fu Xiang bar street, they ran into a group of nouveau riche from Shaanbei. Each of them had one or two bodyguards who were former soldiers. Because Li Sansheng and his friends had teased Yu'er and Xin Xin, who were already notorious, it was only natural that they got into a fight with the nouveau riche. At first, when the bodyguards hadn't joined in yet, Li Sansheng's group was doing well, relying on their youthful vigor to overpower the nouveau riche. However, within a few minutes, the bodyguards jumped in, and the situation changed instantly. Among Li Sansheng's group, only Heizi and he himself had any real fighting power. The others, Wangzi and Dada Qingwa, were basically no match for these former soldiers. It was clear that they would lose, but if it weren't for Li Sansheng and Heizi holding their ground, the whole group would have been defeated already. They couldn't win, so they retreated. However, the nouveau riche who had initially suffered a loss clearly didn't plan to let them off so easily. They told the bodyguards that they were responsible for taking care of this matter, and to do it thoroughly. As soon as Li Sansheng heard this, he realized that if things went badly tonight, they would be in trouble. He quickly ordered everyone to retreat, with Heizi covering their rear as they fought their way back.

  After everyone ran out, only he and Heizi were left. Li Sansheng saw that the situation was not good and quickly retreated with Heizi to the door. Just as they reached the entrance, Li Sansheng suddenly saw someone on the other side pull out a sharp cleaver and swing it at Heizi with great force. If the knife had landed, Heizi would have been either killed or crippled. Li Sansheng used all his strength to push Heizi away and kicked the bodyguard in the stomach. His body was almost parallel to the ground, but he still couldn't avoid the bodyguard's knife. The knife slashed across Li Sansheng's back. Without time to check how badly he was hurt, Li Sansheng was pulled by Heizi as they ran out. Outside, Wangzi and others had already hailed a taxi and were waiting. They finally escaped.

  At last glance, except for a few girls, the rest had already been injured. Li Sansheng's injury was the most serious, and he was sewn up with more than ten needles in the hospital, and then lay in bed for several days before recovering; this is just an unremarkable page in their magnificent history.

  Later, Hei Zi used the power of his family to make those violent households from that night's incident one by one suffer a downfall, which can be considered as avenging Li San Sheng.

  At this time, Li Sansheng, who was taken to the student office by the school guard, didn't think it was wrong at all to beat Zhao Ziwu. If the school wanted to punish him, let them do it, but it's best if nothing else happens and everyone is happy.

  Li Sansheng looked at the student affairs director, Wang Li, who was known as one of the "four major name shops" in school. He was not tall but plump, and his hair on top of his head had already thinned out by half before he turned 40. It was unknown whether it was due to excessive indulgence or poor physical constitution. Since entering this office, Wang Li had never stopped criticizing Li Sansheng. Li Sansheng put on a "I know I'm wrong, I'll definitely change" attitude, but no matter how much Wang Li lectured him, he just pretended not to hear. These things had been going on since childhood, and he was already used to it.

  "Li Yuzhi, do you know how much negative impact you've brought to the school?" Wang Li stood aside, smoking and looking at Li Sansheng with a guilty expression, as if he had done something wrong. However, in reality, Wang Li was quite pleased that Li Sansheng had beaten up Zhao Ziwu. Zhao Ziwu's gang had always been disobedient and caused trouble for the school, but the school had never been able to deal with them effectively. When Wang Li heard that a student had taken down his gang, his initial reaction was "this kid should have been taught a lesson a long time ago".

  Principal Li San had a mind to let it go for the perpetrator, and just giving him a major demerit would be enough. If it were an ordinary student, he would have been expelled long ago.

  "Director Wang, I know I was wrong. I guarantee that I will never do this again." Li San smiled humbly and pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his bag, which he didn't even remember when he had packed from the dormitory. It was Lu Guangzhong's Zhonghua brand. He pulled out one cigarette and handed it to Wang Li with a smile, then quietly put the remaining half-pack on the table. From his pocket, he also pulled out a lighter and lit Wang Li's cigarette. All of this was done smoothly, without any hesitation.

  Wang Li looked at him with a favorable impression, especially towards Li San Sheng, this sensible student, and smiled saying "Looking at you, your body isn't great, but these hands and feet are quite fierce, put them to good use"

  Li Sansheng didn't dare take out his Chinese cigarette and smoke it himself. After all, he was still a prisoner of the lower class and had to watch people's faces.

  "When I was young, I practiced a bit of Bajiquan with others," Li Sansheng said humbly, but in his heart, he was guessing how Wang Li would deal with him.

  Wang Li sat down, looked at his watch and saw it was already past 9 o'clock, and there were not many people left. He pulled out a cigarette and tossed it to Li San Sheng, smiling as he said: "Actually, you beating up Zhao Zi Wu's gang is something that many people in school secretly applaud. Those guys are usually lawless in school, if they had fallen into my hands I would have finished them off too, so you can say you avenged me. It's just that your methods were a bit heavy-handed, and two of them ended up being hospitalized."

  Li Sansheng muttered in his heart, "It's all their fault, who made them so weak? Luckily I showed mercy."

  Before long, the two men had a common topic. Li Sansheng was a cunning guy who knew how to get along with others, and he started chatting with Wang Li about his horse's ass, calling him brother and whatnot. In no time, Li Sansheng and Wang Li were gossiping away in the office, talking about which school had the most scandals, which female teacher was having an affair with which leader, who was being disloyal, and so on. Wang Li was also a big mouth, and Li Sansheng just went along with whatever he said, if Wang Li said something was good, then it was good, if Wang Li said something was bad, then it was bad.

  Li Yu Zhi

  Just as Li Sansheng and student affairs director Wang Li were chatting like old friends, Li Sansheng saw his beautiful class leader finally arrive late, but with a not-so-good-looking face. Li Sansheng guessed that it was because he had disturbed the beauty Li Mengqi's appointment with some rich young master.

  Li Mengqi was having dinner with colleagues outside when the student affairs office and teaching office called, saying that Li Yu Zhi from her class had gotten into a fight with students at the school activity center. Li Yu Zhi had beaten two classmates so badly they were hospitalized. This matter was serious. At first, Li Mengqi didn't believe it because in her impression, Li Yu Zhi was always a quiet and well-behaved student who seemed like a simple and honest rural kid. Although he had been skipping class recently, she still thought he wasn't the type to get into fights. She rushed back from outside the school and as soon as she entered the student affairs office, she was at a loss for what to do with the situation in front of her.

  Li Yu Zhi surprisingly wasn't severely punished by Wang Li, the director of student affairs, one of the four major powers in school. The two were even chatting and smoking together like brothers. Li Meng Qi's brain hadn't reacted yet and she still didn't understand what was going on.

  "Teacher Li has arrived." Wang Li said, seeing the famous beauty of the school, Li Mengqi, walk in. He couldn't call Li San Sheng "brother" anymore, so he extinguished his cigarette and stood up.

  "Director Wang" Li Mengqi didn't have a good tone towards Wang Li, this man's reputation isn't very good.

  "Director Wang, what's going on?" Li Mengqi was still in the dark and didn't know the specific situation, although Lin Xue'er from her class had told her, but she still didn't understand.

  Wang Li saw the beautiful woman and was delighted, also intentionally helping Li San Sheng to recount the whole process. At least after listening, Li San Sheng felt that his pack of Chinese cigarettes had not been snatched by a dog, and Wang Li was still quite righteous, saying many good words on his behalf.

  "Is Li Yu Zhi like this?" Li Meng Qi asked with a frown and a hint of anger.

  Li Sansheng nodded, roughly thinking it was probably like that anyway.

  "How can you be so impulsive, you're still a student, what if something happens? If Zhao Ziwu beats you up, the school will handle it. You usually look quite honest, how come you're so ruthless when you start fighting?" Li Mengqi started lecturing Li Sansheng without even taking a breath, as if Li Sansheng had done something that outraged heaven and earth.

  Li Sansheng looked at the naive and innocent teacher, could only helplessly nod in agreement. If he were to be beaten up by that guy today, who knows what kind of connections his family might have, and in the end, it would be him who gets abandoned by the school. Li Sansheng was all too familiar with the darkness of this society; even walking down a main street could get you stabbed from behind, and he had seen such things happen more than once or twice.

  Li Sansheng's attitude made Wang Li, who was sitting on the side with a flirtatious gaze at Li Mengqi's figure, feel that if this guy didn't act in movies, China would lose another future movie emperor. The acting skills were worthy of applause!

  "Director Wang, what should we do now?" Li Sansheng was a student in Li Mengqi's class, so Li Mengqi naturally wanted to help Li Sansheng handle this matter well. Wang Li, on the other hand, was the director of the Student Affairs Office, and he had the final say in such matters. Although she didn't want to have too much contact with Wang Li, there was no way around it.

  "This one?" Wang Li said hesitantly on purpose, although he still had a good impression of Li San Sheng, but apart from this matter, he couldn't bring himself to compromise. Zhao Zi Wu's family wouldn't agree, and many people at school would have opinions about it too. More importantly, he wanted to make things difficult for this beautiful teacher.

  Li Sansheng had already mentally greeted Wang Li's ancestors for eight generations and knew the tricks he was playing in his heart.

  "Director Wang, Li Yuzhi has been behaving well normally, and today it's also because Zhao Ziwu took the initiative to act first." Li Mengqi continued to plead with Li Sansheng, which made Li Sansheng feel grateful. At least he didn't try to distance himself from the situation like other counselors would, leaving everything for the school to handle.

  Wang Li was about to speak when the students from the office pushed open the door again. Wang Li looked up and was startled, it turned out that the big boss of the school had arrived. Wang Li immediately threw down Li Mengqi and Li Sansheng and ran over with a humble smile on his face, even more humble than Li Sansheng. The speed at which he changed his expression also amazed Li Sansheng.

  Li Sansheng was still depressed, wondering which great Bodhisattva had come over to make Wang Li, one of the four most famous shops, so diligent. He turned his head and was also stunned.

  Because this person is the ultimate BOSS of the school, the honorary principal of the school, and the former president of Jiaotong University.