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The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"It seems only Brother Black Panther can handle this guy. We're no match for him at all." Yesterday Zhong Yongliang had still been somewhat resentful, believing that Wei Zhao's victory over the three of them owed at least something to catching them off guard. But today they learned the truth: Wei Zhao was terrifying, his strength top-notch. From that far away, he had actually used a basketball to knock Zou Ruoming unconscious.
"That's right." Zhang Naipao nodded in deep agreement. "It looks like we'd better not provoke this one. The guy's a violence freak."
Wei Zhao naturally had no idea that the person he had just struck down was Zou Ruoming, ranked number two among the school's Four Great Villains. Even if he had known, he would not have gone any easier. The Four Great Villains? He would turn them into the Four Dead Villains.
Wei Zhao arrived at the door of the senior year, Class Five classroom, then knocked on the door.
"Come in," came the voice of the homeroom teacher, Teacher Liu, from inside. This period was Teacher Liu's math class.
"Teacher Liu, something came up at home, so I'm late." Wei Zhao pushed open the classroom door and said politely. He had already informed the dean of students, but he did not want to use that connection to throw his weight around with Teacher Liu. After all, a county official is no match for the one who governs on the spot, and he would still have to get along under Teacher Liu in the future.
Teacher Liu had already been briefed by Director Wang that morning, so he said nothing more at the moment, only nodding. "All right, come in."
Wei Zhao walked into the classroom in a most proper and orderly fashion, then returned to his own seat.
Shen Yushu stared in some astonishment at Wei Zhao striding along as briskly as if on wings, and said to Gu Mengyao beside her, "Sister Yaoyao, how come I feel like he isn't hurt at all? He took a bullet in the leg, didn't he? And yet he walks so fast?"
"Who knows with him," Gu Mengyao said, slanting a glance at Wei Zhao and curling her lip. "Probably love is in the air." Somehow, without meaning to, Gu Mengyao's thoughts had drifted to that scene yesterday in the hospital between Wei Zhao and Qiu Lingshan.
"That little vixen Qiu Lingshan — and to think she puts on such an air of lofty purity," Shen Yushu said, the same scene from yesterday having likewise come to her mind, her tone distinctly aggrieved. What aggrieved her even more was that her own brother should have fallen for a woman like that.
To be sure, in Shen Yushu's eyes Wei Zhao was at least passable — strip away the prejudice and he counted as a rather handsome man, and a rather capable one too — but he still did not compare with her own brother. And so she took it very much to heart that Qiu Lingshan should have set her affections on Wei Zhao.
Wei Zhao, naturally, had no idea that the two young ladies up in front were discussing him. He took out his mathematics textbook, flipped to the page Teacher Liu was currently reviewing, and quietly began to listen to the lesson.
All the courses had already been completed; the daily lessons now consisted of reviewing previously learned material. But although Wei Zhao had never attended school, he had, under Old Man Wei's prodding, taught himself the high school and university curricula, so listening to Teacher Liu lecture posed him not the slightest difficulty.
Wei Zhao was no child prodigy; he merely had a somewhat better memory than most people, and with the internet now so developed — any material or tutorial downloadable at will — self-study was no great hardship.