Chapter 79: Cover
Zhong Chushan moved the haystack by the wall, revealing an opening.
This opening was originally not big, it was a dog hole, later for the convenience of going out, they smashed it a bit bigger when no one was paying attention, with their current figures, they could pass through by bending over.
Zhong Chushan entered first, then made squeaking sounds. Chen Buyu entered second, and Zhou Wangshu was last. After all three came in, Zhong Chushan covered the opening again.
The three sneaked back to the dorm quietly, before reaching the dorm they heard voices, one of them was Xiao Yanci, the others were Xiao Yanci’s lackeys. As for Jiang Yihui, he hadn’t caused trouble for Xiao Yanci recently, it was as if he suddenly figured it out and planned to get along peacefully with him.
Jiang Yihui was the most useful weapon against Xiao Yanci, with this weapon not working well, Xiao Yanci had more opportunities to trouble them. For example now, he came to check the dorms on a whim again.
“Go around, flip into the room from the back window.” Chen Buyu said in a low voice, “Hurry, don’t let them discover us.”
Although sneaking out now wouldn’t result in punishment of sweeping the outhouse, being punished to copy was also very painful, especially since Xiao Yanci targeted Zhou Wangshu, his punishment would be more severe.
“Open up, checking the room.” One of Xiao Yanci’s lackeys, Wang Yunfeng, knocked on Chen Buyu and Zhou Wangshu’s door and shouted.
No response.
Wang Yunfeng turned back to look at Xiao Yanci: “Brother Xiao, they didn’t respond, should we go in directly?”
A head poked out from the nearby room, saying to them: “They sleep early, don’t disturb them! I can vouch, they are resting inside.”
Another of Xiao Yanci’s lackeys, Zhang Bufan, snorted coldly: “Your words are not credible, we must see with our own eyes. Brother Xiao, I’ll open this door, if they complain, let it come at me.”
Xiao Yanci said indifferently: “Since the teacher let me manage the academy’s internal affairs, I must take it seriously. Open it, I’ll take responsibility if anything happens.”
Wang Yunfeng got the go-ahead and pushed the door hard. However, the door was locked from inside, and it didn’t budge after two pushes. At this point Wang Yunfeng already believed they were inside, after all, whether someone was inside could be seen from whether the door was locked from inside. But they had received a tip from someone else that Zhou Wangshu and Chen Buyu were not inside, so today they had to see with their own eyes.
Just as Wang Yunfeng was preparing to climb through the window, the door opened from inside. He didn’t stand steady and fell into the room.
Chen Buyu yawned, looking dazed: “What are you doing? I just barely fell asleep, you’re so noisy.”
“Since you’re inside, why open the door only now?” Wang Yunfeng got back up, “Where is Zhou Wangshu?”
“Isn’t he right there?” Chen Buyu pointed at Zhou Wangshu sitting on the bed.
Zhou Wangshu lifted his small face, with an innocent expression: “You guys not sleeping in the middle of the night, and not letting others sleep either?”
Wang Yunfeng turned and went out, saying to Xiao Yanci: “Brother Xiao, they…”
“I heard.” Xiao Yanci frowned, “Looks like we were fooled.”
“They actually dared to trick us.” Wang Yunfeng said, “Don’t worry Brother Xiao, in a bit I’ll deal with that boy, see if he dares to toy with us again.”
Chen Buyu shouted loudly toward the direction Xiao Yanci left: “You fucking have a problem, not sleeping in the middle of the night, and not letting me sleep. You say check and you check, say leave and you leave, is the academy opened by you? Tomorrow I’m definitely filing a complaint with the teacher, if this continues, I’ll go study at another academy, I won’t take this grievance.”
“Brother Xiao, if Chen Buyu really complains to the teacher, the teacher will definitely be angry. Chen Buyu’s family pays a lot of money every year to repair the academy, the teacher definitely won’t want to let him go.”
“No problem, I’ll explain to the teacher.”
“True, Brother Xiao is the teacher’s favorite, the teacher definitely won’t bear to punish you. Then we’ll go sleep too.”
After Xiao Yanci left, Chen Buyu immediately closed the door.
At this time, Zhou Wangshu came out from under the covers, still wearing the clothes from earlier. He sniffed the smell on his body, with a disgusted look, and immediately took off his outer garment.
Earlier it was too rushed, didn’t have time to take them off before getting on the bed.
Zhong Chushan came out from Chen Buyu’s bed, he was also wearing the clothes from earlier.
He looked out the window, confirmed they left, and said: “Luckily he didn’t check my room right away, otherwise I would have been exposed.”
“If he checked over, we’d say you went to the outhouse. You take off your outer garment, come out from the outhouse wearing underwear, what more could he say?” Chen Buyu said, “But from what they said, us going out was reported. We were so careful, yet still discovered. Tomorrow see who gets beaten, that person is the snitch.”
“Too late, let’s sleep!”
In the middle of the night, Zhou Wangshu woke up from a dream startled. When he opened his eyes, they were full of ferocity. But upon seeing the pitch-black room and the clear cold moon outside the window, he calmed down.
He had another nightmare.
In the dream it was full of corpses, those corpses were all his closest kin.
He walked dazedly, shuttling among the corpses, endlessly calling them. He told them to get up to play with him, teach him to ride horses and shoot arrows, teach him to play chess and play music.
“I will avenge you.” Zhou Wangshu murmured, “I swear, I will definitely avenge you.”
The teacher had just prepared today’s teaching aids, when he heard Chen Buyu and Zhong Chushan’s voices, the vein on his forehead throbbed. He wanted to find a place to avoid them, but there was only one door here, nowhere to hide.
Recently the academy was a bit unrestful, conflicts always happening among the scholars, these two were the biggest problems among them. However, these two had affluent family backgrounds, he couldn’t drive them away. After all, the academy needed to operate, those rich people wanted to send their incompetent sons here to kill time, no matter how much headache it gave him, he couldn’t chase away the god of wealth delivered to the door.
It was just that recently they really loved causing trouble too much, making it almost impossible for him to cope.
After Chen Buyu and Zhong Chushan came in, a loving expression appeared on the teacher’s originally bitter face: “You’re here so early, is there something?”
“Teacher, if you keep indulging Xiao Ci in bullying us, we’ll leave the academy, we won’t study here anymore.” Chen Buyu said angrily, “That Xiao Ci must have gone stupid from studying, running over every night to check, we just barely fell asleep, he disturbs and we can’t sleep the whole night, look at my eyes, aren’t they all black, it’s all his fault.”
“This old man knows, I’ll talk to Xiao Ci later.” The teacher wanted to gloss over it.
“Just talking to him how? Xiao Ci wields a chicken feather as an arrow, we ordinary scholars where can endure his torment? Teacher, if you let him keep acting wildly, we’ll leave.”
The teacher gritted his teeth and shouted outside: “Someone come, tell Xiao Ci, from today hand over the academy’s internal affairs, no more night checks at the academy in the future.”
