Chapter 657: 657

Chapter 657 Elementary School

“Hmm… what you just said seems to be true . And I’m actually a little convinced . ” Bai Qing thought for a while and realized that Zhang Heng’s reasoning sounded very logical, making it difficult to refute .

“Don’t take it too seriously,” Zhang Heng said .

“If you are right, I really pity Teacher He . ”

“This is life… We all have our own difficulties to face . ” Zhang Heng fiddled with the gel pen in his hand .

“It sounds old-fashioned, but you are right,” Bai Qing sighed and placed her chin on the desk, “My dad and my mom have been giving me a headache recently . ”

“Headache… and why would that be?” Zhang Heng’s expression changed, and he clamped the rotating gel pen with his index and middle fingers .

“I think I told you about it before . My dad has begun socializing less with his client, and he now comes home early . However, they quarreled again last night, and this time, it was a long argument . They didn’t want to let me listen to what they were fighting about, and when I went to the bathroom at night, I saw my mother crying in the living room . She just sat there, and her surroundings were pitch black . ”

“Did you comfort her?”

“No, I went back to my room,” Bai Qing said .

“Huh?” Zhang Heng snorted softly . “From the time I found out about their dispute, they had always been quarreling over trivial matters . I guess this is how they run their marriage . When my mother was young, many men had their eyes on her . She would party every day, but in the end, I guess that she wanted to live a stable life, and she married my dad . After they were married, however, she kept getting the feeling that she was married to the wrong man . At that time, my dad was just a small-time technician . His world revolved around technology, and he knew nothing about romance .

“My mother had always told me that if it were not for me, they would have gotten divorced . As I got older, they argued less frequently . At that time, my dad went through a rather large change . He began learning how to socialize . Later, he quit his job to start his own company, and when the business had become stable, he started coming home late . So my mother began to suspect that he had an affair… So is this what marriage looks like?”

“Well, many marriages do indeed look like this . ”

“Then, marriage is a scary thing . ” “You shouldn’t be worrying about this sort of thing yet . A friend once told me, don’t worry about things that haven’t happened yet,” Zhang Heng said .

“Don’t you boys ever wonder who you will marry in the future?”

“About that, it’s a useless thought at the moment… We will know when the time comes,” Zhang Heng said . “Eh…”

The bell rang, and the teacher opened the door and walked into the classroom .

Immediately, Bai Qing straightened up herself . “Ah, did I talk too much? I haven’t even told any of these to my best friend . ”

“You’ll feel better after you let it out of your chest . And as I said, you can tell me about your dad’s abnormal behaviors anytime you want,” replied Zhang Heng .

“So that you can continue to study the subject of emotion serving as a trigger for crimes? I’ll pass . Although my parents always quarrel, they are not going to kill each other . ” Bai Qing finished the last sentence quickly, pulling out her biology textbook from her schoolbag .

Zhang Heng had almost completely forgotten how he spent his high school years . Whether it was the phoenix trees outside the window or the sound of playing from the playground, they now seemed so foreign and unfamiliar .

And he did not remember too much about Bai Qing as well, who was sitting next to him, paying attention to the class . There were no such things as aliens in the real world . Although the relationship between the two was amicable, they were classmates, and they did not go beyond that . She did not meet him at Wanda Plaza . The two had never eaten KFC together . Zhang Heng had also never listened to Bai Qing discuss her family matters .

After going to college, the two gradually lost contact with each other, just like most of his other friends in high school . Everyone met new friends in college, and each began to have new circles . Most of them did not meet up after that, and Zhang Heng only remembered that Bai Qing was enrolled in Fudan University .

Zhang Heng spent another day falling asleep in class . At the end of the last period, all the students in the class were almost gone . Bai Qing’s gel pen was still scribbled on the paper, and she handed her finished homework to Zhang Heng after a while . Once she entered her learning state, she would become as efficient as a machine .

“Well, this is the last one . ”

“Thank you . ” Zhang Heng took the homework from her and put them in his backpack . After thinking about it, he had been copying her homework for some time now . And Bai Qing even treated him to a KFC meal . He felt awful about it, so he took out his phone and checked on something

“Are you free Friday night?”

“Huh?”

“I will take you to a place after school . ”

“Oh . ” Bai Qing nodded . She did not know why she said yes to Zhang Heng . Her mother had been telling her to keep her distance from boys to protect herself . Traveling with a boy at night was something that her mother would never agree with . Perhaps it was because Zhang Heng had always given her a sense of security . Besides, he had “saved” her once, and it was hard to put her guard up against him . Thus, she unconsciously agreed to Zhang Heng’s proposal . “Oh, by the way, you can bring a friend with you . And I will bring a friend too . ” Zhang Heng realized that Bai Qing might feel uncomfortable if she was the only girl that went with him . “Okay . ” Bai Qing picked up her schoolbag as she bashfully bit her lower lip, “Then… see you tomorrow . ”

“See you tomorrow . ” After school, most students would either go home and slog on homework or make plans with each other . As for Zhang Heng, he had to work on the investigation immediately .

Zhang Heng hadn’t gained much information about the river, and he quickly realized that perhaps he had been heading in the wrong direction . Perhaps he should no longer be focussing on the three children but on what they found or discovered instead . What caused those creatures to attack them? Maybe their past lives could yield some answers? Zhang Heng found a school that one of the kids used to attend . He tore a piece of paper from his exercise book and wrote down the name of the school . An elementary school should have ended all their classes by now, but fortunately, the class teacher’s name was printed on the news . So, Zhang Heng took a taxi to the elementary school .

At that time, all the students had basically left the school and had returned home . The school’s gates, however, remained unlocked .

king for only a few steps, Zhang Heng was stopped by the security guard . “What are you here for?” the guard asked .

“Oh, I booked the badminton court at 7:00 in the evening, and my friend has already arrived,” Zhang Heng said calmly and confidently .

Many elementary and junior high schools had indoor gymnasiums . To generate some extra revenue, the indoor gymnasium would be opened to the public during non-schooling hours . Zhang Heng had checked everything out when he was in the car, which was why he knew exactly what to say at a time like this .

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