Chapter 90: Youth Without Regret ⑥
Luo Xu’s eyes swept over the girls who had hit Nie Qiu yesterday, and he suddenly smiled. The girls shivered and lowered their heads.
“Since we’ve said all that, I believe you all know what we’re going to say, right?” Wang Chao Lei and Ma Xin walked behind Zhang Haiyang.
Li Kai and Luo Xu knew what Zhang Haiyang and the others were going to do, and they also knew what Zhang Haiyang and the others were going to say, but they did not stop them.
The group exchanged glances and then shouted in unison: “You, Class 5, are inferior to our Class 10! You, Class 5, have no guts! You, Class 5, are cowards!” So what if it’s provocation? So what if we look down on you? When the people from Class 10 said this, their eyes conveyed this meaning.
Some of the boys in Class 5 couldn’t sit still and jumped up. One boy even rushed to the lectern, “Damn it, what do you mean?! You come to our Class 5 to provoke us, are you looking for a fight?”
Zhang Haiyang spat, “Losers, hit me if you dare!”
As soon as Zhang Haiyang finished speaking, the boy raised his hand and punched Zhang Haiyang. Zhang Haiyang staggered back a few steps, spat out blood from his bitten lip, and lunged forward to punch the boy!
Seeing this, the people from Class 10 and Class 5 all rushed forward to help their classmates. The boys from Class 5 charged into the crowd from Class 10 and started fighting.
Because Class 10 had more people, the boy who first hit Zhang Haiyang quickly fell at a disadvantage. The boys and girls in Class 5 sitting in the classroom couldn’t sit still when they saw their classmates at a disadvantage. They all stood up and rushed into the fighting crowd. Some were fighting, some were breaking up fights, some were crying, some were making noise, it was chaos.
“Ah, someone’s bleeding!” Suddenly, a girl’s scream rang out. Everyone stopped what they were doing. The teachers and the principal who had arrived also stopped and looked towards the source of the sound.
A girl was holding a stool, and blood was dripping from it. A boy lay on the ground, and blood… slowly flowed from the boy’s head, thick and viscous, a drop, two drops, more and more.
The principal was startled and shouted, “Call, call an ambulance, quickly, take him to the hospital!”
The people who had been fighting also panicked. Some were making phone calls, while the principal held the boy’s back with one hand and was about to lift him with the other. A girl took out a stack of paper from her desk, pulled out many sheets, and pressed them against the boy’s wound. The boy clutched his wound, groaning in pain, “Mom.”
Not to mention the girl who hit the boy, even the onlookers were terrified. Those who were closer to the boy also stepped forward to comfort him. The boy who was hit was from Class 10, and the girl who hit him was from Class 5. The people from Class 10 were very angry, but they also knew that they couldn’t continue at this point, not because the teachers and principal were present, but because the boy’s injury had made them all afraid.
When fighting in a group involves both boys and girls, most boys try to avoid hurting girls, but girls may lose their reason out of fear. Therefore, in situations with many people, boys are usually the ones who get hurt. Yesterday, Luo Xu and the others fought with the girls who bullied Nie Qiu. Because there were fewer people, and everyone stopped because they were girls, no one was seriously injured except for Nie Qiu, who had been hit from the beginning.
Several school leaders took the injured student to the hospital. The homeroom teachers of Class 5 and Class 10 each took their students back to their classrooms.
After the students had gradually taken their seats, Teacher Yang stood on the lectern. He remained silent for a long time without speaking, nor did he yell. However, all the students in the class felt that it would have been better if he had yelled at them. They were all prepared to be yelled at, and even resigned themselves to their parents being called or to being punished. But after entering the classroom, Teacher Yang said nothing. He just had a dark expression and stared at them.
Teacher Yang was truly angry. Yesterday, the police station had also summoned him, but because he lived quite far away, by the time he arrived at the police station, Zhang Haiyang and the others had already left. He also knew that because of this monthly exam, many students from various classes had become jealous and dissatisfied, and he also knew that Nie Qiu had been beaten.
He could understand the thoughts of those who benefited from Nie Qiu and defended him. But with something like this happening, how could he, as a homeroom teacher, not be angry?
During this time, Li Kai tried to stand up and speak several times, but Teacher Yang forced him back with his gaze. In the end, the entire classroom fell silent. Some people bravely met Teacher Yang’s gaze, while others lowered their heads, not daring to look at him.
Teacher Yang took a deep breath and said loudly, “Very good, very good! Is it that great to do a little better on one monthly exam? Do you think you’re so amazing?”
For the students of Class 10, they had never seen Teacher Yang like this. In their eyes, Teacher Yang had always been gentle. Even when they didn’t like to study before, Teacher Yang had never lost his temper so much.
Zhang Haiyang stood up indignantly, “We don’t think we’re amazing. We just went to get justice for Nie Qiu! It’s a fact that we scored better than Class 5, but they shouldn’t have said such things to our classmates so easily, nor should they have hit our classmates whenever they felt like it. When they scored better than us in the past, we never hit anyone from their class! Why should they bully our classmates?”
Teacher Yang also knew that he had encountered this situation before. Some homeroom teachers whose classes were better than his, but whose exam results were worse than his class, would often say sarcastic things to him when they saw him. But they were all adults, so they would just politely brush it off and move on. But students were different; they were still young and impulsive.
In this matter, it seemed both sides were at fault, and perhaps Class 5 was more at fault. Yesterday, when he was at the police station, he had watched the surveillance footage of which girls had hit Nie Qiu. It was the people from Class 5 who made the first move! Nie Qiu didn’t seem like someone who would initiate provocation. However, today’s incident was different. It was his students who were in Class 5, fighting with others. In this case, the greater loss would naturally be his class.
Teacher Yang took a deep breath, suppressed the worry in his heart, and looked at the students in the classroom who were somewhat injured. “Those who are injured, come with me to the hospital for a medical examination.” After he finished speaking, he turned and walked out.
The group left in the classroom looked at each other. Was it that easy? Was it that easy for Teacher Yang to not scold them? Was it that easy for Teacher Yang to not punish them?
