Chapter 3 Penguin Number Addition
“Junior schoolmate, hurry and leave, it’s dangerous here.”
Bai Qianyu, clearly unaware of Su Jiu’s identity, mistook Su Jiu’s dazed expression for fear. She quickly took off her gloves, grabbed Su Jiu’s wrist, and tried to pull her out of the encirclement of Lin Lie’s cronies.
“Huh?”
Su Jiu was dumbfounded when Bai Qianyu’s slightly warm small hand grabbed her. She had just come to buy some barbecue, and she ran into the male protagonist’s sister?
Seeing Su Jiu still愣着 (dazed), Bai Qianyu glanced at Lin Lie’s cronies, who had already reacted and were slowly approaching. She frowned slightly, thinking to herself, this is bad.
She then had no choice but to coldly scold the people around her, “Let this junior schoolmate leave. I was the one who injured Lin Lie, it has nothing to do with her.”
Su Jiu finally reacted. This should be the plot from the original work where Bai Qianyu was injured and hospitalized by the Lin family.
If the male protagonist Bai Ming hadn’t rushed back overnight with a secret medicine given by his university professor, Bai Qianyu’s chest injury with accumulated blood might have prevented her from even taking the Gaokao.
As they pulled, Su Jiu turned around. She lowered her head slightly, contemplating a question: if she helped Bai Qianyu out of trouble now, would it count as abandoning the darkness and turning to the light?
“Heh, you’re protecting her like this, you must know her, right? Go! Tie them both up.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Lie’s gaze fell on Su Jiu’s beautiful face, his throat involuntarily bobbed. He hadn’t noticed before that this junior schoolmate was so lovely.
With bright eyes and white teeth, a charming smile like a peach blossom, though young, she was as beautiful as a morning glory, with seven parts cuteness and three parts proud charm.
He could beat them and then let this junior schoolmate go, making her grateful to him…
His heart was constantly in turmoil, and only this thought repeatedly surged into his mind. After all, Su Jiu had been living a secluded life here for so many years, and Lin Lie didn’t know her specific identity.
“Brother, just watch me.” One of the skinny youths, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, rubbed his hands together and grinned slyly. With just one step forward, his muscles bulged, and his body suddenly became as tall and mighty as an iron tower, exuding a very imposing presence.
“Isn’t this Shihouzi who was sent for re-education half a year ago for assault? Rumor has it that relying on his coagulated blood being nearly eighty, he once ran amok in school and injured many people. Wasn’t he sent to juvenile detention?” A male student wearing glasses suddenly spoke up from not far away.
“The Lin family is indeed powerful, to be able to pull out such a wicked individual and make him Lin Lie’s bodyguard. I heard that Shihouzi can punch through granite with one blow, and he’s already close to the minimum standard of a junior warrior. It seems these two junior schoolmates are in dire straits.” Another male student wearing a basketball jersey shook his head and quickly cowered, clearly content to watch the show but unwilling to play the hero.
Some students around had already recognized Shihouzi. Seeing his movements, some girls even lowered their heads, unable to bear to watch, and quickly dialed the number for the Law Enforcement Hall.
“I’m sorry for implicating you.”
Bai Qianyu took a deep breath and looked at Su Jiu apologetically, preparing to mobilize her internal energy to directly fight Shihouzi. Even with the Lin family behind him, they would never dare to kill someone in broad daylight.
If she fought them, she might even get some compensation afterward, and she could share some with this junior schoolmate.
Just then, her gaze landed on that junior schoolmate. Su Jiu’s delicate face was devoid of any expression, as if she had seen many such scenes.
Her eyes were too calm, like the quiet mountain village at dusk, so serene.
But was mere calmness enough?
“Aren’t you afraid of the Law Enforcement Hall?”?
While Bai Qianyu was lost in thought, Su Jiu looked at Shihouzi, who was approaching with a sinister grin. Her expression remained unchanged as she turned around and casually blocked Bai Qianyu behind her.
This was no longer a matter of the male protagonist’s sister. As a teacher in her past life, she could not stand by and watch a girl being bullied by a group of bad students; this was one of her unshakeable bottom lines.
“This…”
Shihouzi’s face showed some hesitation upon hearing about the Law Enforcement Hall. He was clearly somewhat fearful of the official organization, having once been in the system.
“Idiot, what are you afraid of! Don’t tell me you’re worried I can’t bail you out? First, grab the one who injured me, Bai Qianyu!” Lin Lie said with disdain, shouting.
“Roar!”
Upon hearing this, Shihouzi seemed to have received a special decree. After a moment of deliberation, he nodded repeatedly, then let out a deep growl towards Su Jiu, like a roar. His sturdy body was like a small mountain, and with each step, it felt as if the surroundings were shaking.
Of course, this was just an illusion. The surroundings were not a snowy mountain, so why would they shake because of him, a martial artist who wasn’t even a junior warrior?
This was his intimidation technique learned from his time roaming the wilderness.
Shihouzi looked at Su Jiu and the other girl, his small eyes filled with amusement. He loved this feeling, like a cat playing with a mouse.
“Two young chicks who haven’t seen blood yet, today, I’ll let you see the martial skills I’ve developed through my wilderness battles.”
Saying that, he extended his palm, preparing to grab Bai Qianyu.
But his gaze suddenly landed on Su Jiu in her stylish outfit in front of Bai Qianyu, her eyes as indifferent as water, as calm as an abyss.
“You actually didn’t dodge, you’re seeking death!”
Shihouzi’s pupils contracted, and he roared, turning his palm to strike at Su Jiu. He didn’t understand the concept of cherishing a woman’s beauty. With one move, he exerted immense force.
After all, the Lin family had his back.
Just as his palm was about to touch Su Jiu’s body, and everyone closed their eyes, she finally moved, a playful expression on her face.
“Tsk, you call this a martial skill? Brother, you need more practice…”
Su Jiu slightly shifted her body, her right hand lightly extending a fist to meet the incoming palm, as slow as buying vegetables with money. “Boom!” A blast of air erupted as the fist and palm collided, kicking up sand that obscured the view for everyone as they tried to discern what was happening between the two in that pose.
“That junior schoolmate is going to lose an arm… It’s all my fault.”
Everything happened in a flash. Bai Qianyu had no way to stop it. She could only watch helplessly as the two collided.
Just as she was about to separate them and take Su Jiu to the hospital, the sandstorm dispersed…
What was revealed was a horrifying scene. The surrounding students began to vomit. Even the resolute Bai Qianyu felt her stomach churn.
Su Jiu was covered in blood, her face appearing exceptionally eerie with the blood, and in her hand, she held a limp large hand. Opposite her, Shihouzi lay on the ground like a dead dog, breathing shallowly.
Lin Lie and his cronies were all stunned. Even as school bullies, they had never witnessed such a bloody scene.
As Lin Lie retched, he was certain that this girl who looked like a junior schoolmate was a very high-level warrior, perhaps even a Battle General! Thus, he quickly grabbed his cronies and fled in shame.
After all, as they reached the warrior level, with the increase in their rank, the aging process would be gradually slowed down.
Seeing this, she threw the large hand to Shihouzi, turned, and smiled faintly at Bai Qianyu, saying softly, “I really didn’t know he was so fragile. Sorry for messing up your barbecue stall.”
She inwardly thought: It would be best not to interact too much with her.
Then, she took out about five hundred Long Guo Currency from her pocket and, despite Bai Qianyu’s strenuous efforts to stop her, stuffed it into her purse, saying softly, “Take it, it’s my fault.”
Looking at Su Jiu, whose face and hair were covered in blood, Bai Qianyu suppressed her nausea and replied politely, “Thank you, I’ll treat you to a meal next time.”
Honestly, without Su Jiu, she really didn’t know what she would have done. Perhaps she would have been beaten into the hospital, or maybe she would have become Lin Lie’s canary.
Su Jiu shook her head, called an ambulance for Shihouzi, and was about to leave. Although she, as the Mayor’s daughter, didn’t fear minor dealings with the Law Enforcement team, today’s events were too tiring for her as a slacker. If that guy died, even if it was self-defense, the subsequent procedures like making statements would be too troublesome.
“Can I add your Penguin number? It would be convenient to treat you to a meal to express my gratitude another day.”
After walking a few hundred meters, Bai Qianyu’s somewhat hurried voice came from behind her. A slender hand holding a bottle of iced black tea appeared beside Su Jiu.
