Just in Time Chapter 10
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 10: Troublesome
The most terrifying thing was not the criticism from the teacher due to a significant drop in grades, but several teachers surrounding you with worried eyes, showing concern in every possible way.
And they unanimously determined that it was other reasons that caused you to “deliberately” not do well on the test.
“If you want to change the learning environment, that’s okay.” Old He patted his shoulder with some worry and said, “I have already greeted the head teacher of Class 10, and your math and chemistry teachers also teach Class 10. You don’t have to worry at all, it’s just like before.”
Yun Fang: “…”
Thank you.
Yun Fang really breathed a sigh of relief when he came out of the office.
The terrifying aura of a study god.
Fortunately, his acceptance ability had always been strong, and given the current situation, it was definitely more appropriate to study in a regular class than in a top class. At least the progress would not be so fast, and he would have plenty of time to make up for his shortcomings.
The head teacher should have told Tang Yi and Yun Heyu about this score a long time ago, but neither of them mentioned it, everything was as usual, which made Yun Fang feel a bit embarrassed.
In the evening, Yun Fang sat at the desk and began to carefully analyze the test papers. Among the three major subjects of Chinese, Mathematics, and English, his English was the best, barely scoring 130 points, Mathematics 95, and Chinese 91. For the other six subjects, he scored a total of 134 points, with each subject scoring 50. Among them, he barely got 30 points in Physics, 28 in Chemistry, and the others like History, Geography, Politics…it was really, too horrible to look at.
He looked at the bright red crosses on the test paper and began to silently correct the wrong questions.
Although the score was terrible, Yun Fang didn’t feel too surprised. He knew his own weight from the beginning, let alone he hadn’t touched a textbook for more than twenty years. Even after cramming, he could at most make up for some basic knowledge and weigh his current level.
Next was to find the weak points and focus on breakthroughs. In the second year of high school, one had to choose between liberal arts and science. Compared with the two, his advantage lay in science, and if one found the right learning method for mathematics, physics, and chemistry, one could quickly improve their scores. Although his English grades were good, if he chose liberal arts, he would definitely not be able to show his advantages. On the contrary, in science, it could become a trump card in the later stage.
Yun Fang set his goal to study science, and the next step was to focus on breaking through mathematics, physics, chemistry, and Chinese. The three subjects of mathematics, physics, and chemistry were interrelated, and mathematics was the fundamental subject, which was the most important and the subject he would focus on improving next.
As for Chinese, Yun Fang had a headache. Apart from memorizing, he really couldn’t find a better method.
Yun Fang finished correcting the math test paper, and then casually pulled out another test paper to correct. He kept correcting until midnight and arrived at school the next day with two dark circles under his eyes.
Wu He reluctantly helped him move his books, “Study god, you must hurry up and take the next monthly exam!”
Yun Fang said in his heart that it was difficult, but he still nodded, “I’ll try.”
Chen Qianyang also helped him pack his books, “Don’t worry, Yun Fang is just going to experience the relaxed learning life of the ordinary class. After he has had enough fun, he will definitely come back.”
Yun Fang stared ahead with a gloomy look, wanting to punch a kid.
Class 10 was just above Class 3. Wu He helped him move his books upstairs. Not only did he attract the attention of the students in Class 10, but he also received a warm welcome from the head teacher of Class 10, Old Fang.
“Student Yun Fang, there is an empty seat over there, you can sit there for now.” Old Fang pointed to the last row by the window, “We will change seats in a few days, you will have to bear with it for now.”
“Okay, thank you, teacher.” Yun Fang thanked him politely and moved his books over.
As soon as Yun Fang entered the classroom, he recognized that the half-dead person sleeping by the window was Yi Chenliang. He couldn’t help but sigh that no matter in his previous life or this life, the level of study would not deceive people.
It was now a big break, and the classroom was noisy. Yun Fang put his books on the desk and started to pack up. The person lying on the desk only showed the back of his head and a small half of his clean neck, motionless.
Yun Fang put the book into the desk hole and said with some amusement, “Aren’t you tired of lying down like this all the time?”
Yi Chenliang did not respond.
“Little friend Yi Chenliang, aren’t you going to say hello to your new deskmate?” Yun Fang poked his exposed neck with a wicked sense of humor.
Yi Chenliang suddenly sat up straight, covering his neck and glaring at him fiercely, “Are you sick!?”
Every time Yun Fang saw him angry, he felt like watching a kitten puff up its fur. He was not only not afraid, but also wanted to laugh.
Yi Chenliang saw him looking at himself with a smirk and a belly full of bad water, and his anger suddenly erupted, “I don’t want to be your deskmate.”
Yun Fang pointed to the desk hole, “I have packed up my books.”
Yi Chenliang didn’t think the two were related at all. Just as he was about to bypass him and leave, the class bell rang. Yun Fang grabbed his arm and pressed him down on the seat, “We’ll talk about it after class.”
At this time, the English teacher came in, and Yi Chenliang sat on his seat without moving, holding his breath.
Yun Fang opened the English textbook, turned his head and asked him, “Where are you in English?”
Yi Chenliang liked to sleep in English class the most, and he didn’t know what lesson they were exactly. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn’t tell him, and he ignored him directly.
But a little girl in front heard it, turned her head and quietly told Yun Fang, “We’ve learned up to unit three.”
“Thank you.” Yun Fang thanked her with a smile, and the little girl blushed and turned back.
Yi Chenliang heard the little girl whispering to her deskmate, “The study god is so handsome, and he even said thank you to me.”
Yi Chenliang was even more upset, a four-eyed nerd with glasses, a bookworm, a pretty boy.
The English class was quite boring, but Yun Fang still took notes seriously. As soon as the bell rang for the end of class, he started doing the homework assigned by the teacher. He was hesitating whether to invite Yi Chenliang to do it together, but he saw him dart out of the classroom.
Okay bah. Yun Fang began to bury his head in writing English words.
The little girl who had spoken to him before wanted to come over and talk, but seeing his “I love studying, strangers please do not disturb” state, she dared not speak.
Yun Fang had only done half of his English homework when class started again. He had to put away his homework, but when he turned his head, the seat was empty.
This class was physics, and Old He came in with his textbook. Seeing Yun Fang, he smiled at him.
Yun Fang felt his scalp numb from his smile, and he honestly lowered his head.
He really couldn’t handle physics competitions, so don’t look at him with such hopeful eyes.
Feeling guilty.
After the physics class was over, Yi Chenliang was still nowhere to be seen. The next class was free study, and Yun Fang decided to go find him.
He asked several students in a row and they all said they didn’t know. In the end, it was the round-faced student who had helped them deliver water last time who told him, “Brother Yi said he had a stomachache, and it seems like he took leave to go home.”
Yun Fang didn’t know whether Yi Chenliang was really having a stomachache or pretending to be sick to avoid him, but he still decided to go and see. He skipped the free study period, ran out of the school, and took a taxi to Dongyang Street, Xinnan Alley.
When he arrived, it was almost twelve o’clock. Yun Fang thought for a while, and still got some stomach medicine from a nearby pharmacy, and brought some porridge, and went to the small courtyard in a familiar way.
The iron gate was wide open, and the shouting and cursing of men and women came from inside.
“You little bastard, are your wings hard!?” The woman’s loud voice came straight through, “Where did you get the money to rent a house outside!? Your younger brother is still waiting for the money to save his life, and you are wasting money here!”
“Xiao Liang, you be obedient, follow your parents and come home quickly.” The man’s pleading voice sounded very pitiful, “Your mother and I have been looking for you for several months before we found where you live. Where can you live on your own?”
Yun Fang walked into the yard and saw clearly the man and woman standing under the jujube tree, and Yi Chenliang standing straight with his back to him.
He almost forgot.
He still had a pair of nominal parents, Yi Mingzhi and Song Lili.
Yi Mingzhi and Song Lili had been married for many years without children, so they adopted six-year-old Yi Chenliang from the orphanage. At first, the two of them were very good to him, until two years later, Song Lili became pregnant and gave birth to Yi Chenze. Yi Chenze had congenital heart disease since he was a child, and the family almost spent all their savings for his illness. Later, for money, Song Lili wanted to sell him.
Yi Chenliang was less than ten years old at that time, kneeling on the ground and begging her desperately, but Song Lili did not soften at all, and even contacted the buyer. Yi Mingzhi also defaulted on this matter, but in the end, was persuaded by relatives that it would not sound good if it was spread out, but from then on, Song Lili seemed to have become a different person, either beating or scolding.
Until Yi Chenliang was admitted to Wucheng No.1 High School, it was already considered a very honorable and sensational thing to be able to get into No.1 High School in the small village. However, Song Lili and Yi Mingzhi were heartbroken about the tuition fee of several thousand yuan and did not let him go.
Yi Chenliang stole his own page of the household register and ran out, bought a fake ID card on Dongyang Street, worked for an entire summer vacation, used the wages and the scholarship given by the school to pay for a semester’s tuition, and handled the enrollment procedures himself.
He remembered that at that time, he went to school during the day and went to “pick up” iron pieces with a group of gangsters at night. Because of the uneven distribution of spoils, he offended Wang Youwei. Wang Youwei stole his hard-earned tuition for the next semester. In a fit of anger, he accidentally killed someone with a knife and went to the juvenile detention center.
After that, he never had Yi Mingzhi and Song Lili in his memory again.
But now Yi Chenliang did not go to the juvenile detention center, Yi Mingzhi and Song Lili actually came to find him.
“What’s the use of you going to school!” Song Lili was still scolding, “You can earn tens of thousands if you go out and work for a year, and your younger brother is still waiting for the money to save his life! Yi Chenliang, can you have a little conscience!”
Yi Chenliang let her scold him expressionlessly, “You have raised me for eight years, and after I finish my studies and earn money, I will pay you back.”
“Earn money in the future?” Song Lili was so angry that she laughed, “You sound nice! No, you have to pay it back now! Go home with me, I found you a factory to dig coal, fifty thousand a year! You work for eight years, and then do whatever you want!”
“Xiao Liang, you are not too young anymore, you should understand some things.” Yi Mingzhi sighed, “You know what our family situation is, can you come back and help your parents? I, I’ll kneel down and beg you!”
Yi Mingzhi knelt on the ground with a thud, looking at him with red eyes, “Can you save us and save your younger brother?”
“What are you doing! How can you kneel to him!” Song Lili desperately wanted to pull him up but couldn’t move, so she could only turn her anger towards Yi Chenliang, “Yi Chenliang! What do you want to force us into? Do we have to die before you are happy!?”
Yun Fang saw the blue veins bulging on the back of Yi Chenliang’s hand, put the medicine and food on the iron pieces stacked next to him, walked over and stood in front of Yi Chenliang, blocking him behind him.
Yi Chenliang was surprised in his eyes, then frowned, and asked hoarsely, “What are you doing here?”
“You didn’t attend physics class, Old He asked me to ask if you have any opinions on him.” Yun Fang glanced at Yi Mingzhi who was kneeling on the ground indifferently, “But I see you seem to have a little trouble.”
“You go back to school quickly, don’t come to add chaos to me!” Yi Chenliang pulled him, but was grabbed by him in return.
It was cold and still trembling. Yun Fang felt a little sour in his heart.
A fifteen-year-old child, facing two such adults, is really unfair.
Why can’t they love him?
This question, the previous Yi Chenliang thought for eight years and didn’t understand, but now Yun Fang understood it very thoroughly.
Some things can’t be forced, it’s disgusting to oneself and others.
“Just in time, this little classmate here, you can judge for us, his younger brother is about to die! He is still living a leisurely life here!” Song Lili grabbed Yun Fang’s sleeve and refused to let go, “You can see it, go back and tell your classmates and teachers at school! See if he still has the face to continue studying!”
“Why shouldn’t he be embarrassed to study?” Yun Fang shook off Song Lili’s hand and looked at her with cold eyes, “He earns his own money and supports his own studies, there is no problem.”
Song Lili was choked by him unexpectedly, and angrily said, “He should give us the money he earned! His younger brother is still waiting for the money to save his life!”
“You are only his nominal parents, he is still a minor, and you still have the obligation to raise him.” Yun Fang stared at her and took a step closer, “As a result, you not only abandoned him, but also turned around to ask him for money, and even forced him to become a child laborer. By the time you will be taken to the court, you will see who the judge will convict!”
Song Lili angrily said, “He is my son! Why should he sue me!”
“Didn’t you stop taking care of him after he turned fourteen?” Yun Fang asked.
“He didn’t starve without us!” Song Lili cursed fiercely, reaching out to grab Yi Chenliang, but was pushed to the ground by Yun Fang.
Yi Mingzhi hurriedly went to help her, but was beaten and scolded by Song Lili, “You little bastard dare to push me, are you still a man? Beat him up!”
Yi Mingzhi stammered, “This is someone else’s child, if we hurt him, we have to pay…”
Yun Fang didn’t want to listen to this couple’s quarrel anymore, he took out his phone and waved it, “I recorded everything you just said, I called the police before I came in, now we wait for the police to solve it.”
Song Lili and Yi Mingzhi looked at each other uneasily, Yi Mingzhi forced a smile at Yi Chenliang, “Your mother and I just came to call you home, why, why did it involve the police? Then you think about it again, if you think it over, come home.”
“That’s right.” Song Lili grumbled dissatisfied, staring at the phone in Yun Fang’s hand, looking like she wanted to snatch it but was hesitant.
“The phone costs two thousand yuan.” Yun Fang put the phone in his pocket, “The police can come at any time.”
Song Lili glared at him fiercely and walked away with Yi Mingzhi.
Yi Chenliang broke free from Yun Fang’s grip, and said thank you hoarsely.
Yun Fang turned his head and saw that his face was so pale it was frightening, he couldn’t help but frown, “Are you okay?”
Yi Chenliang shook his head, “They won’t come again, you should go back to class.”
After saying that, he turned around and headed inside.
Yun Fang stood in the yard for a moment, picked up the medicine and porridge on the iron pieces, and walked into the bedroom.
The bed was covered with a very simple straw mat, and a colorless sheet was piled up. Yi Chenliang was curled up on the bed with his back to him, one hand covering his stomach.
Yun Fang picked up the hot water bottle next to him and poured a cup of water, took a sip, it was warm, it should have been boiled yesterday.
“Yi Chenliang, get up and drink some water.” Yun Fang stood by the bed and called him.
“Leave me alone, let me be by myself for a while,” Yi Chenliang said weakly, his voice trembling.
If it were anyone else, Yun Fang would have turned and left upon hearing this. But seeing Yi Chenliang looking as pitiful as a little puppy, he found himself unable to move.
He sat down by the bed, reached out to pull the person, but couldn’t move him.
“I bought you some stomach medicine and porridge. Have some porridge before you take the medicine,” Yun Fang said in a softened voice, “Otherwise, the porridge will get cold.”
Yi Chenliang was silent for a while, “Thank you, you can go now.”
“I’ll leave after you finish eating,” Yun Fang coaxed him, “I promise.”
“Can’t you understand human language!” Yi Chenliang suddenly sat up from the bed and yelled at him.
Yun Fang was startled by him, his temper flared up and he wanted to beat this ungrateful brat, but seeing his red-rimmed eyes, his anger dissipated.
So this is what he looks like when he cries.
Yun Fang couldn’t remember the last time he cried. At first glance, he found it quite pitiful.
He picked up the bowl of porridge and the cup of water, and asked Yi Chenliang without changing his expression, “Drink water or porridge?”
Yi Chenliang unconsciously sniffed, feeling very embarrassed, he grabbed the bowl of porridge and started drinking in big gulps.
The bowl was big enough that he could bury his head in it to drink, and his tears wouldn’t be seen.
If he were alone, he definitely wouldn’t cry, and he wouldn’t feel uncomfortable. But there was this annoying person suddenly blocking his way, holding his hand, giving him water and porridge, and even knew that his stomach was hurting and let him take medicine.