SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 23

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Gu Fei suddenly disappeared during politics class without even grabbing his bag. Their politics teacher was so infuriated that she rushed to the teacher's office and started yelling at the top of her lungs at Lao Xu who, inadvertently, came to the classroom after school was over.

"Jiang Cheng." He blocked Jiang Cheng, who was just about to leave with his bag.

"I don't know," Jiang Cheng replied, knowing full well that Lao Xu wanted to ask him about Gu Fei, but he honestly knew nothing of the matter.

"There has to be a reason for him to suddenly run off," Lao Xu stated.

Jiang Cheng only knew that Gu Fei had picked up a call and said that he would return immediately, but he didn't hear anything else after that.

But. He didn't want to tell Lao Xu that portion. Who knew what was going on with Gu Fei or whether or not he was willing to let Lao Xu know - he didn't want to shoot his mouth off.

But clearly, Zhou Jing did not put in as much consideration as he did. When Lao Xu turned to ask him next, he commented without a thought: "He picked up a phone call and said he was going home, then ran off. Maybe something came up at home?"

"Really," Lao Xu frowned. After Zhou Jing left, he grabbed onto Jiang Cheng once more. "Even Zhou Jing knows, yet you don't?"

"Does it matter whether I know or not? Don't you already know now?" Jiang Cheng took his bag and walked outside.

"Can you help bring Gu Fei's bag back to him?" Lao Xu called out from behind.

"No." Jiang Cheng looked back, "Xu Zong, if I ever ran off halfway through school without taking my bag, don't you even dare think of getting someone to help bring it back to me."

"Why?" Lao Xu asked.

"Because it is incredibly annoying," Jiang Cheng replied. "Not everybody is willing to have someone touch their things, nevermind bringing it to their home. Really, if he wanted to take it, then he would've come to get it himself. The school can even let in a bunch of hooligans, do you think they'll be afraid of letting in their own students?"

Lao Xu stared at him, as if he couldn't properly respond.

Jiang Cheng didn't say anything else either as he turned around and left.

Lao Xu was like an old mother - caring too much. But what people this age did not need the most was precisely this type of pampering love from a mother hen-like person.

Especially Gu Fei who—you could tell at a glance—was already used to being alone.

Jiang Cheng believed that Lao Xu would definitely give Gu Fei a call later, but Gu Fei most certainly wouldn't answer him. This type of teacher-student relationship truthfully could not be improved with Lao Xu's current level of EQ.

Thinking of this aspect, Jiang Cheng suddenly found himself missing his former homeroom teacher.

Just as the memories started to flood in, he immediately raised his head and inhaled a breath of cold air, quickly cutting off the memory.

At lunch, he honestly wanted to go eat stuffed flatbread at Wang Jiuri's place but felt that if he went by himself and saw Captain Jiuri, he wouldn't be able to find anything to say. He also didn't want Captain Jiuri to keep pulling at him to excitedly discuss tactics.