Once Young - CH 1.8

Qin Chuan has been like this since he was a child. He always has his own way. The adults say that this is called having an idea. As for me, I don’t feel bad about anything, but I can’t say what is good.

His distaste for school was quickly put into action. He didn’t pay attention to lectures in the first grade, he played tricks in the second grade, and he skipped classes in the third grade.

That day, the English teacher was teaching us to sing “ABCD Alphabet Song” with great interest, and while singing, Qin Chuan suddenly said loudly: “Hey, isn’t this “The Star Song”?” Then he sang alone: “ABCDEFG, Twinkle twinkle twinkle, HIJKLMN, the sky is full of little stars…” The whole class was amused by him and sang a chorus with him. When Mr. Li found him, our head teacher, he was digging for earthworms with a popsicle stick under the small round locust tree in the school yard.

“Qin Chuan! Stand up!” Facing Qin Chuan who just looked up at her and remained indifferent, Teacher Li shouted angrily with his hands at his hips.

The earthworm had already climbed on the popsicle stick. Qin Chuan was reluctant to let it go. He looked at Teacher Li hesitantly and said, “Wait a minute.”

Teacher Li has never been so disrespected before. He was stunned for half a minute before she realized it. He picked up Qin Chuan angrily: “Did you talk to the teacher like this? Stand up!”

Qin Chuan sighed faintly, and held the earthworm in front of Teacher Li, “Isn’t it enough to give you one!”

This earthworm with only half of its body completely detonated Mr. Li’s small universe. He took Qin Chuan back to the classroom as a model of error and criticized him. I still remember him using a very long parallel sentence: Qin Chuan is a bad guy. An outright bad boy, because he doesn’t listen to his teacher and doesn’t learn well, he may become a thief, a rogue, a robber when he grows up, a moth of the motherland, and a worthless person.

The whole class was shocked by Teacher Li’s impassioned speech. They firmly believed that Qin Chuan would not be a good person. Although he didn’t particularly bully anyone in the class, they all seemed to hate him more than me. The monitor sitting next to me was panting hard. If she hadn’t had to sit with her hands behind her back, I even doubted that she would have rushed up and followed the teacher and berated Qin Chuan. Although I was sure that Qin Chuan was hateful, I didn’t think he should be hated by so many people. He just invited the teacher to play with earthworms. It is estimated that Qin Chuan thinks so too, so he has always stood tall in Teacher Li’s spit, arrogant and unyielding to the whole class.

This time, Mr. Li was annoyed. It was not enough to criticize and educate him in class. He decided to implement the criticism and education of Qin Chuan into his family. Teacher Li knew that Qin Chuan’s sister Qin Qian also went to school here, and that I lived in the same courtyard with them, so he asked me to call Qin Qian. But I went to the fourth grade to look around and couldn’t find her, not even Brother Xiaochuan. I had no choice but to go back to the teacher’s office to report first, and opened the door to find out that there is no need to look for it, Qin Qian, Qin Chuan, and Xiaochuan are all standing in the office. However, Qin Qian is not here for Qin Chuan, She copied Brother Xiaochuan’s homework, and was discovered by their head teacher, and she was being criticized.

So Teacher Li added a new judgment. Qin Qian was not a good girl either, and she definitely couldn’t save her brother. In the end, this arduous task fell on Xiaochuan and I, and Mr. Li sent us to his house to complain.

The four of us came out of the school together with a solemn expression, Qin Qian coughed twice in embarrassment: “Xiaochuan…”

Without waiting for her to speak, Brother Xiaochuan interrupted her and said, “Next time, don’t rush to copy your homework before class. Let’s do homework together at night!”

“Okay, okay!” Qin Qian suddenly cheered, she knew that Brother Xiaochuan would not tell Aunt Yao what happened today.

On one side, Qin Chuan was also very relaxed. Since Brother Xiaochuan wouldn’t sue, he wouldn’t even take me seriously. In fact, I originally wanted to take the opportunity to participate in Qin Chuan’s book, but Xiaochuan has expressed his position, so I can’t be too unreasonable. But looking at Qin Chuan like that, I couldn’t help holding him: “Hey, buy me a popsicle.”

“Ah?” Qin Chuan looked at me in confusion.

“I won’t talk about it if you buy me popsicles!”

“Xie Qiao, are you corrupting me?” Qin Chuan grabbed my little yellow hat.

“Qiao Qiao wants to eat popsicles, buy one for her.” Qin Qian knocked Qin Chuan’s hand off.

“Hmph,” Qin Chuan reluctantly let go of my winking eyes, “I only buy ice gourds!”

“I want to eat purple ice cream!” I exclaimed.

“You…” Qin Chuan’s eyes widened again.

Qin Qian stopped him: “I want purple ice cream too, do you want to eat Chuan?”

Brother Xiaochuan shook his head: “I don’t want it.”

“Then buy three, hurry up! Hurry up, come back and let’s play pot.” Qin Qian dispatched Qin Chuan.

“Oh.” Qin Chuan reluctantly walked to the canteen. He is not afraid of his mother or his father, he has been afraid of his sister since he was a child. Even though Qin Qian looks like a doll, she doesn’t show weakness when she moves her hands. When I was a child, I once saw her kick Qin Chuan with one foot. Their family is probably ranked according to their attack power, anyway, Qin Chuan is as honest as a little white rabbit in front of his sister.

“You wait!” Qin Chuan did not forget to threaten me when he passed by me.

“You guys go play, I’m not going.” Brother Xiaochuan flipped the schoolbag on his shoulders.

“Ah? You’re not going?” I was extremely disappointed. Brother Xiaochuan always acted alone during that time, mysteriously.

“Well, don’t sue Qin Chuan.” Brother Xiaochuan asked me with a smile, then turned his head and said to Qin Qian, “Let’s do our homework after dinner, if not, I’ll teach you.”

“Oh.” Qin Qian fainted as soon as she dictated her homework.

Brother Xiaochuan walked out of the alley by himself. It was not the way home, nor did it lead to the school or to the General’s grandpa’s house.

Where is he going?

I looked at his back suspiciously and couldn’t think of anything.