Chapter 124 — They Came Knocking
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"Liangzi, what are you thinking about?" Zhong Yongliang was still stewing in resentment when a slap landed on his shoulder. He turned around to find Zou Ruoming standing there.
"Oh, Brother Ming, nothing..." How could Zhong Yongliang ever admit his own embarrassments?
"Oh... well..." In fact, Zou Ruoming couldn't be bothered to ask Zhong Yongliang about his petty troubles. He had other business: "Liangzi, let me ask you something. That Wei Zhao in your class, where exactly does he come from?"
Zou Ruoming hated Wei Zhao to the bone, and compared to Zhong Yongliang, his loathing went even further. He had been on the verge of winning the girl and forcing Tang Zhi to make her choice that Friday, only to have it all ruined by that thing called Wei Zhao. It made Zou Ruoming seethe.
Still, he hadn't dared act rashly. He'd been slapped by Wei Zhao and hadn't dared say a word about it! Because of what happened with Brother Heibao before, Zou Ruoming was somewhat stunned!
He wanted to see how someone with Zhong Yongliang's family background would handle the matter. So he hadn't gone directly to cause trouble for Wei Zhao. Although his family was comfortably well-off, their business wasn't as large as Zhong Fabai's. It was just that his brother, Zou Ruoguang, was a local strongman in the North District, with some ruthless men under him.
But what disappointed him was that, after waiting several days, the Zhong family hadn't made any response. After Brother Heibao went in, there was no word about getting him out either; presumably he was going to be sentenced. This left Zou Ruoming puzzled - what kind of background did Wei Zhao really have?
"Wei Zhao? Just a migrant worker!" Zhong Yongliang said with disdain. He had never once considered that his own father had been a migrant worker himself, so he'd inadvertently insulted his old man along with it.
"A migrant worker?" Zou Ruoming thought his ears had gone bad. How could he be a migrant worker? A migrant worker coming here to attend high school? What kind of international joke was that?
"He transferred in later. His hometown is supposedly somewhere deep in the mountains. On the day he first enrolled, he was wearing tattered rags, not far off a migrant worker." Zhong Yongliang's eyes lit up as he explained. Then he suddenly realized - why was Zou Ruoming asking about Wei Zhao out of nowhere? Could it be that he wanted to make a move against Wei Zhao? He hadn't heard of any grudge between Zou Ruoming and Wei Zhao either!
"Is that so..." Then how come you took such a big loss the other day and didn't do anything to get back at him?" Zou Ruoming didn't quite believe Zhong Yongliang's words. After all, if Wei Zhao really was just a migrant worker as Zhong Yongliang claimed, how could he remain so passive after suffering such a huge defeat?
"Don't even mention it..." Zhong Yongliang shook his head with a bitter smile. "Just for calling Brother Heibao out on my own, I got chewed out by my old man. You know how it is - my dad doesn't approve of me causing trouble at school. And I'm no match for that Wei Zhao kid myself. He's got rural training, monstrous strength; there's nothing I can do against him!" Zhong Yongliang could hear it too - something was clearly going on between Zou Ruoming and Wei Zhao, though he didn't know the details. But that didn't stop him from stoking the flames. If Zou Ruoming moved to teach Wei Zhao a lesson, he certainly wouldn't object.
"So that's how it is... in other words, Wei Zhao has no real social connections?" What Zou Ruoming feared most was that Wei Zhao had a formidable family background and that messing with him would come back to haunt him.
"I didn't see any..." "Hey, Brother Ming, why do you keep asking about this kid?" Zhong Yongliang pretended not to understand what Zou Ruoming was getting at.