Chapter 12: The Price of Rebellion: Fu Guanxian's Misadventures
Fu Guanxian had guessed correctly. After Xiang Yang's father found out, within an hour, Fu Jinting, who had just returned home from a business dinner, had a serious talk with him, ranging from his skipping class to his attitude towards life and responsibility.
Fu Guanxian wasn't afraid of anyone, but when he saw his father looking at him with a blank expression and talking to him seriously, he felt a little apprehensive.
After enduring the long 30 minutes, he finally heard Fu Jinting say, “After this, I don't want to hear or see you doing anything similar again. Otherwise, next time I won't let you off so easily.”
Fu Guanxian, who had been silently blaming Xiang Yang in his heart to get through those long 30 minutes, immediately changed his gloomy expression upon hearing this, and asked with a smile, “Dad, so I'm safe this time?”
Fu Jinting glanced at him and smiled. This smile made Fu Guanxian feel uneasy.
Sure enough, in the next step, Fu Jinting stood up, unbuttoned the cuffs of his shirt, slowly rolled up his sleeves, and then said lightly, “I'll only give you 20% of your allowance for the next three months.”
“Ah?” Fu Guanxian was stunned. Usually, his father gave him very little allowance, saying it was to cultivate his diligence and thrift. At least the amount was really just enough for Fu Guanxian.
However, he thought for a moment, even if it wasn't enough for the next three months, he still had hundreds of thousands saved up, so he could manage.
But Fu Jinting saw through his thoughts in an instant, “Besides the allowance I give you, I will freeze all your other funds. And don't even think about getting any money from your grandparents or your uncle and aunt, I will make sure they don't give you a single cent.”
Fu Guanxian felt like his father had just completely shattered his worldview. He wailed, “Dad! Am I even your real son!”
“If you don't think you are, I support you leaving with nothing.”
A wise man knows when to yield.
Fu Guanxian quickly said, “Hee hee, Dad, I was just kidding! Just kidding!”
When Fu Jinting left his room, he took one last look at him and warned, “You better behave, or I have plenty of ways to deal with you. If you make your mother worry about you, I won't let you off easily. You better learn your lesson this time.”
Fu Guanxian twitched his lips and respectfully sent his father out. After the door closed, he grumbled with dissatisfaction, “Am I even your real son! You're being completely abusive!”
The next morning, Fu Guanxian wanted to wait for Xiang Yang at the school gate, but after waiting for more than ten minutes, she still didn't show up. Just before class, he went to look at her classroom door, and found her backpack on her seat, but she was nowhere to be seen.
Based on past experiences, Fu Guanxian thought she must have gone to the teacher's office. He peeked at the office door, but he didn't see Xiang Yang, and he got caught by his head teacher.
“Fu Guanxian, come in!”
Fu Guanxian, hearing this voice: “...”
He silently cursed Xiang Xiaoyang's name in his heart a few times, then put on a smiling face and rushed into the office.
“Did you finish the self-criticism?” The head teacher asked him. Yesterday, after leaving the principal's office, the head teacher, who knew about his skipping class, called both of them to the office and lectured them for a whole class period.
“Hehe.” Fu Guanxian thought: I'll just smile and say nothing.
After making the phone call last night, Fu Guanxian, who had been thinking about how to deal with his parents, had completely forgotten about this matter.
The head teacher immediately saw through his smile and knew the truth, “You didn't write it?”
“I did!” Fu Guanxian saw his head teacher's face change and lied, “A classmate borrowed my homework yesterday, I put the self-criticism in with it, Teacher, I'll go get it now!”
“If I don't see your self-criticism before morning reading class ends, Fu Guanxian, you know the consequences.”
“Teacher, I'll go get it back now!” After saying that, he quickly slipped away.
Fu Guanxian returned to his class, and Lian Rui immediately asked him, “Did you finish the self-criticism?”
“No.”
Lian Rui gave him a thumbs up, “You Guanxian, you're really bold!”
Fu Guanxian threw his backpack on the desk, his face dark and he didn't bother to reply.
Lian Rui, lacking in awareness, continued, “Didn't you say yesterday that you could get the self-criticism done without lifting a finger?”
Speaking of which, he was so annoyed! Fu Guanxian took out his notebook and black ballpoint pen, flipped it open, and said with a sullen face, “I was tricked.”
Lian Rui immediately laughed without any restraint, “Hahaha! It's a good thing I didn't listen to you yesterday, you said you'd help me get it done, but you couldn't even get your own done!”
Fu Guanxian was irritated, “Go go go! Don't bother me while I'm writing!”
Lian Rui just laughed and watched him from the side, clearly relishing his misfortune.
Fu Guanxian blamed all this on Xiang Yang.
However, lately, Fu Guanxian, who was constantly being watched by the principal, the headmaster, and the head teacher, found that he hadn't seen Xiang Yang at school.
This girl, she's got some serious hiding skills!
For the rest of the semester, Fu Guanxian not only lost the fun of playing basketball after school, but he also had to go to the principal's office for self-inflicted torture every day.
Fu Guanxian found that the principal's punishment methods were truly twisted. He had to go to the principal's office every day after school to fill out test papers. And the principal even treated them differently.
On the first day, they were assigned to two different classrooms.
The principal's office was on the sixth floor. This floor, besides the multimedia classroom, had no other classrooms. So, except for students who needed to use the multimedia classroom for class, there were rarely any students up here.
On the first day, after finishing the test papers, Lian Rui said excitedly, “Guanxian, I found out that the principal gave me test papers, and I actually know how to answer many of the questions!”
Fu Guanxian looked at him in surprise and asked, “The first multiple-choice question, what did you choose?”
“B! Isn't it asking about the concepts in the textbook? I know that!”
Fu Guanxian glanced at him and didn't say anything.
“Hehe, the test papers are different.” Fu Guanxian discovered the truth. The test papers the principal gave him were actually from the second semester of the second year. It was good that he had already studied ahead, otherwise, he would have been a hero who handed in a blank paper.
The principal said that if he lost more than ten points on each test paper, then the next day after school, he would have to fill out two test papers.
Fu Guanxian cursed in his heart: Twisted! Twisted!
After being tortured for a week, he was tortured again today, and Fu Guanxian dared to make an appointment with Lian Rui to play basketball.
The winter sky darkened quickly, Lian Rui asked him, “Won't your driver wait for a long time?”
“I told him to go back first, let's play our hearts out, I haven't played basketball for a week, my hands are itching.”
Lian Rui, being a good friend, accompanied him. There weren't many students on the basketball court, and it wasn't until dusk fell and the school's streetlights came on that Lian Rui called a stop, “Guanxian, let's go!”
“Bang,” the basketball accurately went into the hoop. Fu Guanxian ran over to catch the ball, then said happily, “Let's go!”
The days passed idly, one after another. Half a month later, the head teacher told Fu Guanxian to read more books and practice writing essays of different themes this week, and he would represent the school to participate in the middle school essay competition in the city next Thursday.
Fu Guanxian had participated once last semester, so he said with a hint of disgust, “Can you change someone? Teacher.”
Why does he always have to be the one to do this boring thing!
The head teacher said decisively, “No! Our school only has three spots in the competition this time, the principal said, we will choose one student from each grade, the fairest and most just way, the top three from each grade's midterm exam will participate.”
The top student?
Fu Guanxian thought for a moment, would that certain timid little person who hadn't been seen for a while also be going?
Fu Guanxian “hehe“d in his heart, finally knowing why he had been so bored lately!
His eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly changed his attitude 360 degrees, and said with a smile, “Teacher, don't worry, I will definitely live up to your expectations and come back with last place!”
“Fu Guanxian!” The head teacher was so angry he wanted to punch him.
He had already finished speaking and slipped away.
“Fu Guanxian! If you get last place, you'll be waiting to recite to me every day for the rest of the weeks!”
The reason why Fu Guanxian agreed so readily was because he knew that before the official competition, the school would arrange for a particularly experienced teacher from the third year to give the participating students a simple essay guidance.
The time was after school.
Therefore, Fu Guanxian got a three-day break from the principal.
Lian Rui also benefited from this, and he excitedly said to Fu Guanxian, “It's a good thing you're going to the competition, I finally don't have to be tortured by the principal's test papers anymore! The principal is really ruthless! I can barely manage math and Chinese, but I didn't expect that the principal even has test papers for English, politics, history, and even biology and geography, it's really ruthless!”
Fu Guanxian didn't care, “Hmph, he's being ruthless to you? What about me? I'm filling out test papers from the second semester of the second year.”
However, Fu Guanxian would soon find out that after the essay competition, he wouldn't have to fill out test papers from the second semester of the second year anymore, because the principal would switch to test papers from the third year for him.
Lian Rui was stunned, “Next semester? Fu Guanxian, are you even human! You can still get close to full marks on next semester's test papers?”
Fu Guanxian glanced at him, “If I don't do this, am I supposed to be stupid enough to fill out two test papers every day?” Do I even want freedom anymore!
Lian Rui looked at him, his eyes filled with admiration!
“God!”
On the other hand, Xiang Yang, who had once again shouldered a heavy responsibility and gained the honor of participating, was very happy to carry her backpack to the multimedia classroom on the upper floor after school. She had a dedicated teacher to guide her, so she cherished it very much.
As she was walking, she suddenly bumped into Fu Guanxian, who was just about to go upstairs, at another staircase.
Fu Guanxian saw her, and compared to her surprised expression, the smile that suddenly appeared on his face seemed more playful.
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Translator's Thoughts:
“I'm always on the lookout for new books to translate. If you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them! What kind of books are you currently enjoying?”
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