Chapter 25: Nothing but the teacher's dog.

  Carefully putting away the letter, he opened the classroom door and looked outside before finally letting out a sigh of relief; "I never thought that this teacher-student romance I've only seen on TV would actually happen to me, I really don't know if this is happiness or what."

  He patted his face, shaking off the obscene thoughts in his mind, and walked to the window at the end of the corridor. Looking out at the playground, he saw that there were not many students from Eighth High School. However, these students seemed insignificant compared to the vast playground. From a distance, the playground was still not packed with people, and there were many empty spaces, looking very sparse. Ling Fei suddenly felt a sense of desolation, as if he could catch birds with a net. Standing by the window, he lit a cigarette and kept sighing.

  The students on the playground were gathered in twos and threes, laughing and playing together, a youthful atmosphere spreading across the playground. Chu Feng and others sat on the grass opposite the football field, smoking and watching the students play from afar, with a hint of cold smile at the corner of their mouths.

  It seems they think they have an obvious difference with these students.

  Jiang Xingxiao had a cigarette in his mouth, lying on the grass with his head tilted back, and turned to Chu Feng: "Chu Feng, do you think we should participate in this basketball game?" Chu Feng flicked off the ash from his cigarette; "Why not? Don't you want to chase those girls? This is your chance to show off, let's join."

  Chu Feng's words had a hint of irresistible meaning, of course, this was also just to cater to Ling Fei.

  Jiang Xingxiao didn't say much, except that he seemed eager to try. Fang Zhan Yan sat up straight, picked up his laptop from the grass and said calmly: "The methods Wang Chen told us last time, we need to implement them quickly. Since we've started on this path, we can't stop until graduation. Chu Feng, isn't that what you said?"

  Fang Zhan-yen glanced at Chu Feng with a hint of profundity, but didn't want to provoke the class monitor either, so he just continued typing on his laptop.

  Chu Feng shook off the cigarette ash from his fingertips, seemingly deep in thought. He lifted his head to gaze at the sky and silently said to himself: "If it weren't for Ling Xiao, perhaps I would still be that coward who only knew how to hide and dodge."

  Thinking of this, he slowly stood up, took a last drag on his cigarette, and flicked the butt far away. The ember flew onto the rubber track, sparking a string of fire sparks that were instantly swept away by the wind.

  Chu Feng lifted his head and said, "Now, I can face any challenge."

  Jiang Xingxiao interrupted Chu Feng's daydream at an inopportune moment; "I'm telling you, Chu Feng, class is about to start, what should we do?" Chu Feng lit another cigarette and said with a pretentious tone; "Tonight, the few of us will go out and have some fun, for now, let's just obediently attend class!"

  Wang Chen was still sitting on the grass, holding that Snooker Quick Look book with great interest, completely unaware that the three people beside him were about to leave.

  Suddenly, Fang Zhan-yen casually mentioned, "By the way, has anyone seen Wang Jia-wen that kid? I don't think he's here today."

  Chu Feng stretched his waist and gazed at the students constantly pouring into the teaching building, twitching his mouth; "You ask Wang Chen, he's quite close to Wang Jia Wen."

  Upon hearing this, Fang Zhan Yan glanced at Wang Chen who was engrossed in reading a book and sighed, "I said, let's go, Master Daqiu." Wang Chen was taken aback, looking up blankly.

  Fang Zhan-yen looked at Wang Chen's silly expression and let out a helpless sigh, grabbed his laptop and headed towards the teaching building.

  Chu Feng followed closely behind, Jiang Xingxiao threw away his cigarette butt and also followed.

  Wang Chen came back to his senses, carefully put away the Snooker cue and slowly got up to follow.

  Back in the classroom, there were still only a few people at this moment. Chu Feng returned to his seat and caught sight of Lin Wan Shi, Qian Yao Rou and several other girls sitting together, seemingly discussing something.

  Chu Feng felt a faint sense of unease in his heart; "Wan Shi, what are you guys doing? Can't I come with you?"

  "Hey, you're a grown man and still want to listen to our girls' gossip, aren't you ashamed?" Qian Yujing said with a hint of mockery.

  Chu Feng didn't mind, usually the girls in his class were all quite well-behaved, and everyone was used to their giggling and chatter, these few sentences didn't hurt anyone.

  Chu Feng continued to thicken his face and smiled, "What's wrong? Classmates in the same class, can't even listen to a few words?" As he spoke, Chu Feng stood up from his seat, stepped on Wang Jiawen's seat next to him, and jumped to the front of several girls, casually finding a seat to sit down, with a rogue-like appearance.

  Lin Wan Shi coldly said: "Chu Feng, you'd better not interfere with us. Just do what you're supposed to do and it'll be fine. Interfering too much won't do you any good either."

  "Are you threatening me?" Chu Feng's face turned dark as he asked in a low voice.

  "You can think of it that way." Lin Wan Shi said with a slight smile and a soft voice.

  Chu Feng stood up, looked at Lin Wan Shi deeply with a hint of profundity; "Wan Shi, we've been classmates for so long, I don't want to see you suffer too much either. I advise you to give up now, it's still possible. You can't beat Ling Teacher."

  "Hmph, it's always you who leads the charge and shouts slogans when we're teasing Teacher. I never thought that now you've become a teacher's pet, Chu Feng. You don't deserve to stay in Class 3."

  Lin Wan Shi said coldly.

  Chu Feng didn't say much more, the class bell had already rung, this lesson was physics, and Teacher Ling wouldn't be back, so Chu Feng decided to just get through this lesson first.

  "After class, I have to greet the teacher first." Chu Feng returned to his seat, frowning and thinking in his heart.

  ……

  In the head teacher's office, Ling Fei was talking to Yang Yu'an about something, and Yang Yu'an had a smile all over his face. "I said, Little Ling, you haven't come for more than a month, and several of your elder brothers thought you were done."

  Ling Fei sat in front of his desk, fiddling with a pen and laughed: "How could that be? Yang Ge, do I look like that kind of person to you? I'm the type who won't turn back until I've knocked a hole in the south wall. Since I chose to become a teacher, I must not regret it."

  As he spoke, Ling Fei put the pen into the pen holder and turned to ask: "Yang Ge, I'm planning to move to the teacher's dormitory. Do you think there are any rules or something?"

  Yang Yu'an lifted his head, and the hand holding the scroll also paused; "You want to live in the dormitory? Ah, that place is not very good, the only advantage is that it's a bit closer to the girls' dormitory..."

  Yang Yu'an smiled a few more times after finishing speaking.

  "Damn it," Ling Fei cursed in his heart, before responding, "Yeah, something's come up at home and I won't be able to stay here anymore. I was thinking of checking out the dorms."

  Yang Yu'an put down his pen, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and thought for a moment before speaking; "It's not that there's nothing to worry about, but you have to be careful with Liu Daqiang. He's also a big shot in school, so be careful he doesn't make things difficult for you. By the way, I heard that Liu Daqiang is applying to the board of directors, and since you don't have a teacher qualification certificate, he wants to get rid of you."

  Ling Fei curled up the corner of his mouth and didn't take it to heart, while also feeling relieved in his heart "It's better not to have any rules, otherwise living in a dormitory would be restrictive"

  "By the way, where are Chen and the others?" Ling Fei asked, seeing that the large office was empty except for Yang Yu'an and himself.

  Yang Yu'an smiled slyly; "You don't know, Old Chen's wife used to be a decent woman, but somehow she got hooked on gambling and lost everything. Old Chen was at his wit's end, every month's salary went to paying off debts, not to mention the huge amount of debt she owed."

  Ling Fei nodded, but didn't continue the conversation. As the saying goes, a good official can't get involved in family affairs, and this kind of trivial matter wasn't his responsibility either. He wasn't idle enough to join in on this commotion.

  Suddenly, Ling Fei remembered that he had been in this school for so long and had never been to the Chinese department office. He stood up and said goodbye to Yang Yu'an, asking a few questions about the situation and location of the Chinese department office before pushing open the door and walking out.

  The Chinese Department office is on the fourth floor. There are fourteen Chinese teachers in the school, and some of them also serve as class advisors, so the Chinese Department office is usually very quiet. Ling Fei doesn't care if it's quiet or not, anyway he didn't go there to chat with people.

  Standing in front of the language department office door, Ling Fei knocked on the door, and a tired male voice came from inside: "Come in."

  Ling Fei didn't say much, pushed the door and walked in, took a glance at the office, three men and one woman, among whom was a middle-aged man with furrowed brows sitting at the front desk by the wall. He was the one who had let Ling Fei in.

  The teachers in the office were all busy with their own trivial matters, and no one went to see him. Only a female teacher who looked like she was in her thirties glanced at Ling Fei several times.

  "Hello everyone, I'm Ling Fei, the new language teacher and also the class advisor of Class 3, Grade 1."