Chapter 45: Money Makes the World Go Round (Chapter Update 12)
In her villa, Long Qinxin woke up from her coma.
“Hiss…”
The effect of the ** made her head ache. She got up from the bed and stumbled off it in a daze.
She was still wearing the hoodie from yesterday. The pepper spray was gone, but the stun gun was still in her pocket.
“…”
Her memory was fragmented. Sitting on the bed, it took Long Qinxin a while to remember what had happened yesterday.
She had made plans to go on a date with Lu Zhiyin. While waiting for Lu Zhiyin, she was attacked by a man in black. Fortunately, she managed to use the pepper spray in time to drive him away.
However, although she drove the man in black away, she herself had passed out. If nothing unexpected happened, it was probably the family driver who brought her back.
Her memories gradually returned. Long Qinxin touched the stun gun in her embrace.
“Classmate Zhiyin… saved me again.”
She murmured, thinking that if not for Lu Zhiyin’s reminder, she would probably have encountered something bad.
“No… date… date…?”
She suddenly remembered this extremely significant event. What happened to Lu Zhiyin after she was brought back unconscious?
Would her classmate Zhiyin be waiting for her at the park the whole time? Would classmate Zhiyin be angry if she didn’t show up? Would she ignore her after getting angry?
Thinking of a series of possibilities, Long Qinxin hastily left the bedroom and went to the courtyard gate. The sun hanging in the sky told her it was already afternoon.
“…It’s over… it’s all over… it’s all that damn scoundrel’s fault…”
Annoyed, Long Qinxin couldn’t care about anything else. She didn’t even change into her school uniform. She called the driver and drove straight to school.
When she arrived at school, she had just put on her shoes.
Jumping out of the car, Long Qinxin ignored the school security guards and ran back to her usual classroom.
Standing in the corridor outside the classroom, Long Qinxin’s eyes met a group of students who were currently in class.
“…Ha… ha… ha…”
Without even wanting to report her presence, Long Qinxin pushed the door open violently. She leaned against the doorframe, panting uncontrollably.
The slightly worn iron door was pushed open with a bang. Unable to bear the load, it fell vertically to the ground with a crisp sound.
“…”
The sound of the iron door hitting the ground drew the attention of the students and the teacher in the classroom.
The students were whispering, while the teacher on the podium frowned and stared at Long Qinxin without saying a word.
Long Qinxin had rushed here, wasn’t wearing her school uniform, and her hair was messy. She had no semblance of proper appearance. Moreover, she had clumsily broken the classroom door. The teacher was very angry.
He was about to politely reprimand the reclusive student who was late and then expel her from the classroom.
He opened his mouth.
“You…”
“Is this enough? Can you please be quiet.”
Because she missed her date with Lu Zhiyin, Long Qinxin was not in a good mood. She knew her behavior would displease the teacher.
She simply interrupted the teacher’s unuttered scolding, took out a handful of banknotes from her wallet, and threw them directly onto the podium.
“…”
The teacher looked at the scattered banknotes on the table and the girl hunched over at the door. He swallowed the words he was about to say.
The students below the podium were whispering louder and louder, so loud that the teacher on the podium could clearly hear what they were saying.
They were betting on whether he would accept Long Qinxin’s money.
Looking at the girl, then at the tempting red banknotes on the podium, the teacher’s face turned red, and his entire face turned a bruised pig liver color.
If he accepted the money, he would not be able to hold his head up in front of the students. If he refused… he really couldn’t bear to.
Counting roughly, there were at least two thousand yuan in banknotes on the podium, which was equivalent to half a month’s salary for this teacher.
“Come in.”
In the end, he still let Long Qinxin into the classroom.
He worked as a teacher, all for the sake of making money, and incidentally to experience the feeling of being above many students. For an ordinary person like him, this was the only place he could experience a sense of power.
As for the concept of professional ethics… he couldn’t be expected to have it as an ordinary teacher. He also seemed to not need to care about the students’ opinions of him, because no matter how much they mocked him in private, they still had to obey him at school.
Although he had figured out all the details, the teacher still felt a bit depressed.
“…”
Ignoring the depressed teacher and the students who were in an uproar because of her actions, Long Qinxin went straight back to her seat.
She turned around, and two empty seats met her eyes.
Lu Zhiyin wasn’t here… Leng Qingqiu wasn’t here either.
Long Qinxin inexplicably had an ominous feeling.
Why wasn’t her classmate Zhiyin at school? Was she bullied by that scoundrel Leng Qingqiu again, or was she sick? Or had something happened to her?
She became anxious, clenching her fists, her nails digging slightly into her flesh. After a while, she slowly calmed down.
She left her seat and went to the front of the class. The students who were in an uproar quieted down and turned their gaze to Long Qinxin, all curious about what astonishing move she would make next.
Long Qinxin, who was usually treated as transparent by the students, had now become the focus of everyone’s attention. However, she couldn’t feel any happiness.
“What’s wrong now?”
The teacher noticed Long Qinxin, who had appeared at the front of the class. He stopped tidying the banknotes on the podium and spoke with an unfriendly tone.
“Why isn’t classmate Zhiyin at school?”
Her concern for Lu Zhiyin surpassed everything else in a short period. Long Qinxin’s words showed no respect for her elder. From Long Qinxin’s tone, the teacher even felt that in Long Qinxin’s eyes, he wasn’t even considered human.
“…”
“Please answer me.”
Just as he was about to reprimand her, Long Qinxin slapped a stack of banknotes on the edge of the podium.
“…She’s on leave, a long leave.”
The teacher swallowed. He finally chose money and abandoned his usual dignity.
“On leave… why is she on leave? Is she sick?”
Long Qinxin’s worry intensified. She didn’t want to listen to nonsense, nor did she want to waste time.
As she asked another question, another stack of banknotes was slapped onto the podium.
“I don’t know. I heard from the class teacher that she was in a car accident yesterday.”
As the number of banknotes on the podium changed, the teacher’s tone also changed.
His tone no longer contained embarrassment and anger, but became calm, even showing a hint of obsequiousness amidst the calmness.
He wanted more money.
“…Car… car accident…?”
Upon hearing the teacher’s words, Long Qinxin’s heart skipped a beat, almost stopping. She instinctively thought that Lu Zhiyin’s car accident was related to her.
After she came to her senses, Long Qinxin asked many more questions, such as where Lu Zhiyin’s hospital was, and why Leng Qingqiu was also absent. For every question she asked, she would slap down a stack of banknotes, even if she didn’t get an answer.
In fact, in the end, Long Qinxin didn’t get much useful information, but she did gain something.
That was, money makes the world go round. Long Qinxin realized how great the power of money was.
“…Please ask for leave for me too, thank you.”
As the dismissal bell rang, Long Qinxin slapped the last stack of banknotes in front of the teacher. She quickly left the classroom, preparing to investigate the location of Lu Zhiyin’s hospital.
