Chapter 28: Conflict (Part One)

  "Looking for someone to hit me? Why?" Leng Bing Han stopped what he was doing, looked up at Chen Ting and asked in surprise.

  He's not afraid of fighting, with the electric thunderbolt as a treasure to protect himself, even if several special forces came, he wouldn't be afraid, let alone these little brats. With his physical strength and consciousness from previous lives, he could take care of a few more. However, as a reborn person who has been over 30 years old in both his past and present life, it's somewhat beneath him to fight with these little kids, it's humiliating and degrading to his status.

  But the key is, why did Zhao Xin want to find someone to beat him up? Even if he accidentally took his class leader position, this small grudge wouldn't lead to physical fights, would it?

  He was really puzzled and felt that he might have already fallen behind, his brain simply couldn't keep up with the consciousness and thoughts of these young kids.

  Chen Tingfeng rolled her eyes and glared at him, somewhat indignantly saying: "If you hadn't gone to find someone to beat him up, how would he have found someone to come beat you up? Although Zhao Xin is a bit arrogant and narrow-minded, he's not an utterly despicable bad person, so why would he go out of his way to cause trouble for you?"

  Chen Ting, like Zhao Xin, is also the child of a military officer. Although she doesn't like Zhao Xin's personality, they are both driven to and from school every day by the military's special car. Since they come from the same place, it's natural for them to stick together, especially since they're in the same class, making their relationship even closer. This is also how she found out that Zhao Xin had asked someone to beat up Leng Bing Xue.

  She didn't want to get involved in this matter at first, one was a small thing, fighting and killing, she disliked the most. Secondly, it had nothing to do with herself. If she hadn't owed Leng Bingxue a favor this time, she wouldn't have mentioned this matter.

  "When did I find someone to hit him?" Leng Bing Han was even more puzzled after hearing this, thinking that he needed to find someone to deal with a little kid like him. This is also underestimating me too much...

  "What's wrong, my class leader? Afraid to admit it? Not a real man, dare to do and dare to be responsible?" Chen Ting said with some disdain.

  "Damn, the key is that I really didn't do it. If I had done it, what else wouldn't I dare to admit?" Leng Bing Han couldn't help but curse a foul word, being wronged wasn't pleasant, and his heart felt suffocated.

  Chen Ting didn't understand what "rely on" meant, but looking at the cold and icy expression, it really didn't seem like a lie. Thinking about it, with his identity, what could he have done that he wouldn't dare to admit?

  Actually, what looks like a lie and what doesn't, she can't say clearly, don't know if it's because of the reason that Leng Bing Xiong has helped her before, subconsciously thinks he should be trustworthy, didn't deceive herself, this thing must not have been done by him, she is convincing herself in her heart, she believes Leng Bing Xiong.

  As Chen Ting spoke slowly, Leng Bing Han gradually came to understand the ins and outs of the matter.

  Yesterday at noon after school, Zhao Xin had lunch (elementary schools don't have cafeterias, those who live close to the school go home for lunch, while those who live far away mostly bring their own food). He was just about to wash his rice bowl when he was blocked by several senior students in the water room. Without saying a word, they beat him up, and these people were quite experienced at hitting others - they didn't hit his head or face, but instead targeted areas with more flesh where bruises wouldn't show easily. It hurt so much that it couldn't be seen from the outside. After beating him up, those senior students even warned him: if he ever dared to be impolite or disrespectful to Leng Bingxue again, or had any other wicked ideas, they would beat him up every time they saw him until he didn't dare to go out anymore.

  After those senior students left, Zhao Xin got up from the ground, rubbed the places where he was hit, and his eyes flashed with anger. In his mind, this must have been arranged by Leng Binghan to beat him up, as he had seen these people go find Leng Binghan before.

  Fighting in school is a common occurrence. If someone reports this to the teacher, the teacher will at most scold these students. In severe cases, they might ask the parents to come over. Not only can't it truly solve the problem, but you'll also be ridiculed by your classmates for not being manly, and for crying and telling on others to the teacher when something happens. You'll lose face and definitely be looked down upon. The person who hit you will still come looking for trouble after being dealt with by the teacher, unless the teacher can always stand guard beside you, otherwise you'll have to suffer.

  So Zhao Xin never thought of telling the teacher from the beginning, but this account can't be settled like this, he decided to use his own way to revenge back and let Leng Binghan also taste the feeling of being beaten.

  On the way home from school in the afternoon, Zhao Xin cried out his experience to his companions in the same car and asked for help. He also promised that if he helped him take revenge, he would give everyone 10 yuan to buy something to eat. The children of the troops have always been more united. Now someone dares to bully them, which is not giving face to everyone. What's more, there are benefits of 10 yuan, which is not a small amount. Although the family conditions of the children of the troops are relatively better than those of rural children, 10 yuan can buy a lot of things, equivalent to several months' pocket money.

  Everyone then expressed their willingness to help Zhao Xin get justice back, and decided that the next afternoon after school, they would block him on his way home from school, which was a must-pass route for Liang's rural children, and give him a good beating, take revenge, let these rural children of Liang see the truth, and make them understand that the tiger's buttocks are untouchable.

  They've done this sort of thing before, more than once or twice, and each time it's gone off without a hitch. This has also made the students from Lixian and other places no longer dare to look down on them, let alone provoke them easily.

  As for the cold and icy identity, everyone looked down on it even more. Perhaps others would be afraid of being caught in a trap, but the troops were self-sufficient and the local government couldn't control them, what was there to fear?

  After understanding the cold and icy truth, it's not worth guessing. The ones who beat Zhao Xin are definitely those who have been close to him since childhood. I don't know what they heard, but they went to find trouble with Zhao Xin. In fact, although Zhao Xin is annoying, did he ever think of going against him?

  He didn't guess wrong, it was indeed Zhang Xiaoguang, Li Hong and a few others who were in the fourth grade. They found out that Zhao Xin from Class 1 of Grade 2 was very dissatisfied with Leng Bingxue and had publicly insulted him multiple times. You should know that Leng Bingxue is everyone's pride, how could they tolerate someone being disrespectful to him? This got them thinking, wanting to take care of Zhao Xin once and for all.

  He smiled coldly and shrugged, saying indifferently: "Then let's just say I'm the one who had him beaten up. Whatever he wants to do about it, I'll play along." I didn't kill Bo Ren, but Bo Ren died because of me. This whole thing started with me, so I should be the one to put an end to it. Besides, it's not like I can go find Zhao Xin now and tell him it wasn't me who had him beaten up. Who would believe that? They might even think I'm a coward, causing trouble but too afraid to admit it, making excuses everywhere to shift the blame.

  "Are you crazy? There are so many of them, how can you possibly fight them off? If you also gather people and turn it into a group fight, things will get out of hand and more classmates will be involved. You'd better hide, the car is waiting over there, they won't stay forever." Seeing Leng Bingxue's calm and careless attitude, Chen Ting was anxious to the point of stomping her feet. She didn't want anything to happen to her companions, but at the same time, she also didn't want anything to happen to Leng Bingxue. If things got out of hand, it would be hard to clean up the mess afterwards.

  He gave him a cold look and said seriously, "Thanks for the reminder, but since this is all because of me, I have to resolve it. Escaping isn't a solution, nor is it my style! Don't worry, I'll handle it well and won't let you be troubled."

  "But..." Chen Ting hadn't finished speaking, looking at the cold and determined expression, confident eyes, and not finding a hint of tension or fear on her entire body, she didn't know what to say.

  At first, she thought she didn't understand Leng Bing Xue, her curiosity drove her to want to know more about him. At this moment, she seemed to suddenly understand something.

  "Whatever, I don't care about you guys anymore. You don't care about my business anyway!" Chen Ting sat back in her seat with a huff, complaining in a bad mood. Although she said she didn't care, her heart was still a mess.

  It was finally afternoon dismissal, and Leng Bing Han walked out of the classroom as usual, with her school bag on her back. Behind her, Chen Ting wanted to say something several times but stopped herself each time, and eventually watched Leng Bing Han's figure disappear from her line of sight, letting out a helpless sigh.

  Chen Ting's intelligence was accurate, and Leng Bing walked out of the school gate for less than 500 meters before being surrounded by a group of seven or eight boys led by Zhao Xin at a turning point. Except for Zhao Xin, who was in his second year, the rest were all in their third year or above, with most being in their fourth or fifth year, basically making up the entire main force of this small team. There are about 40 to 50 children of transportation department cadres studying at Lizhou Primary School, half of whom are girls, and there are also over a dozen first- and second-year students. Usually, whenever something happens, it's handled by this group of people, including fights.

  There are many children on the way home from school, swarming around, it seems like they're going to fight, and people gather around to watch the excitement. In this era, there's really not much to pay attention to, and besides, liking to watch excitement is also a bad habit of Chinese people. Such an event happened on the street, although it's not new, but still attracted the attention of the vast majority.

  As they approached, oh no, it's terrible. There were seven or eight sons of the battalion surrounding Leng Binghan, looking like they wanted to harm him. Most of the people around were from Lizhou, and although they were afraid of being retaliated against and didn't dare come forward to help, many still went to inform others who got along with Leng Binghan.

  Watching them gather around, he smiled coldly, hugged his hands, stood still on the spot, and quietly watched their performance. The sunset's afterglow spilled a golden light on him, looking very majestic and shocking.

  Zhao Xin originally thought that Leng Bing Xue would be so scared in such a situation, she would definitely be frightened and trembling with fear, and even without them taking action, she would repeatedly admit her mistakes and kneel down to beg for mercy. Humph, even if you kowtow on the ground and call me grandpa, it's useless, you hit me, just wait and see how you'll be punished. Zhao Xin thought to himself many times, when the time comes, I will definitely be very powerful, let's see who dares to bully me, who dares not to choose me as class monitor...

  But he was soon disappointed, as Leng Bingxue not only didn't panic, but instead looked at them with a very calm, and perhaps even slightly disdainful gaze, with a hint of a smile still playing on her lips.

  Although they are now enemies, Zhao Xin couldn't help but admit that Leng Bing's cold smile was very good-looking. But at this moment, the smile seemed to have turned into a kind of mockery and disdain, making him feel an inexplicable anger rising in his chest, yet also somehow worried and fearful. This conflicting psychology kept wrestling within him, leaving him at a loss for what to do.

  "Was it him who got you beaten up?" A tall and sturdy boy, with a somewhat disdainful tone, pointed at Leng Bing Han and asked Zhao Xin. His name was Wang Jiang, 12 years old, in the fifth grade, usually taking advantage of his physical superiority, and having some brute strength, he was good at fighting, considered the leader of the group, and everyone basically listened to him.

  "It's him!" Seeing Wang Jiangzhuang's sturdy body, Zhao Xian seemed to have regained his courage and replied loudly. He turned his head to look at Leng Binghan and said viciously: "Leng Binghan, you must have eaten leopard gall to dare find someone to hit me. If I don't teach you a lesson today, my surname won't be Zhao!"

  "What's your surname? Go back and ask your mom, what does it have to do with me?" Leng Bing said coldly with a sneer: "I don't have the leisure to care about you."

  The cold and icy words were very damaging, causing the surrounding students to burst into laughter. These children of the troops had been arrogant in school for a long time, and everyone was very resentful, with many having suffered at their hands. Cold Ice was extremely well-liked by everyone, so naturally they tended towards him, hoping he would teach these children of the troops a lesson. Although it seemed like an uneven match on the surface, unfavorable to Cold Ice, for some reason, they had almost blind faith in him.

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