Chapter 37: Do You Know How to Stab? p1
The school gate was in a state of chaos and uproar.
On a Friday afternoon, the school gate was always congested, packed with people. The guards at this time of year had to wear a thin jacket to direct and patrol outside, and they were often drenched in sweat.
They were afraid that some parents picking up their children, as well as some non-students, would sneak into the school to cause trouble.
But today, it was even worse.
The guard was still informing the school that there was a fight at the school gate, and that a few social youths had surrounded a female student from the school.
Before he could say more, he dropped the phone and ran out.
“Make way, make way! Parents picking up their children, please leave quickly! Don’t linger at the school gate! It’s all blocked up!” the guard shouted at the top of his lungs, but the chaos and noise of the scene drowned out all other sounds.
When there was a show to watch, and it had nothing to do with them, they would get closer to take a better look. Anyway, it wasn’t their trouble, and it didn’t cost anything to watch. A group fight like this was not a common sight.
The students who had originally walked far away turned and ran back when they heard there was a fight. Those who couldn’t see clearly, someone even climbed a tree, the school wall, and some with nimble hands and feet even climbed onto the small guardhouse.
One person watched, and then another, and then another. In a short while, the small guardhouse was packed with people, all craning their necks to look down, with an excellent view.
Peng Zhen was the first to be thrown down by Zhou Wanfeng. He was told to stay on the ground and not get up. He understood what Zhou Wanfeng meant. By taking him down first, she was actually helping him.
If Brother Hao and his group found out that he had secretly informed on them, they would probably come after him later. He had originally wanted to play dead and lie there, but the surrounding students didn’t know what was going on. They didn’t leave, but instead watched boldly, getting closer and closer, forcing him to get up, clutching his arms, and squeeze out of the crowd to run away.
Liang Shuai was a stubborn and hot-tempered person. All he wanted was to get back the face he had lost last time. But Peng Zhen knew very well that Zhou Wanfeng didn’t even have them in her eyes. His previous self-righteousness, the way he bossed around people his own age, had made him feel very powerful. He bullied some honest and timid students, and they didn’t dare to tell the teacher, so he gradually became bolder.
People are afraid of being famous. When you go out, you’ll be targeted by some people. Flies don’t bite a seamless egg. This saying is not wrong at all. Once a person goes down the wrong path, it’s really hard to turn back. Even if you want to turn back, the people who have gathered around you won’t be willing.
Brother Hao had targeted them. He seemed to be helping them, but in reality, he was just using them as his lackeys, only thinking of them when he was short of money.
Peng Zhen had slipped away. He vaguely felt that this was an opportunity. Zhou Wanfeng was very strong, so strong that it was frightening, and not just because she could fight. The eyes are the window to the soul. When he bullied people, he would look at their eyes. He had seen the fear, the timidity, the suppressed anger in their eyes.
Zhou Wanfeng’s eyes were like a bottomless abyss, bone-chillingly cold. The longer you looked at them, the more you would feel a different kind of fear. The you in her black pupils was more like the prey she had targeted. She could easily tear you to pieces.
“Oh my, a fight! So many people against one! Where are the school teachers?” a parent said, seeing four or five boys surrounding a thin girl. It was a heartbreaking sight.
But as they continued to watch, their eyes suddenly widened.
When the girl struck, everyone could see that she was a professional.
Zhou Wanfeng stood in a fighting stance, her eyes darting left and right. A boy on the side bounced on the balls of his feet twice, then suddenly jumped up and kicked at Zhou Wanfeng. The surrounding crowd cried out in alarm. They saw Zhou Wanfeng move with lightning speed, even faster than her opponent. She raised her knee and pressed down on his leg. Bang. After a sound, she retreated, then raised her leg again, spun around, and kicked him in the face.
Someone approached from behind and threw a punch. Zhou Wanfeng turned her head to dodge and blocked the attack with a back elbow, then retreated.
Liang Shuai looked around. There were many familiar faces, many he could call by name, and many who had been hit by his fists. The cowards who had been beaten by him in the past and didn’t dare to fight back or curse back were now all standing on the side, and he knew the look in their eyes too well.
Liang Shuai roared, cursed, and charged at Zhou Wanfeng.
Brother Hao, who was watching from the side, was about to shout “don’t be impulsive.” He could see that this girl was agile and skilled. To go at her one by one was just asking for trouble.
Sure enough, Liang Shuai aimed a left hook at Zhou Wanfeng’s abdomen, trying to knock her down with brute force.
Zhou Wanfeng immediately slid to the right, dodging the attack and at the same time, grabbing Liang Shuai’s left wrist with her left hand. Seeing his wrist being grabbed, Liang Shuai panicked.
Zhou Wanfeng’s hand was clearly very thin, but it was as sharp and firm as an eagle’s talon. To be grabbed by her was like being clamped by a pair of iron tongs. She was especially good at twisting the wrist, like a snake, not letting go.
Liang Shuai couldn’t break free and cursed, “I’ll f*ck your mother’s XX!” Before he could finish, Zhou Wanfeng pulled down with all her might. Liang Shuai stumbled, and Zhou Wanfeng slammed her right elbow down on his left upper arm.
And that wasn’t all. Immediately after, Zhou Wanfeng’s right hand grabbed Liang Shuai’s jaw. The force was so great that Liang Shuai couldn’t even curse, only managing to make a muffled sound. At the same time, she slammed her right knee up, hitting him squarely in the lower back.
This series of moves made the students watching feel a surge of excitement. The movements were so smooth and fluid, it was actually beautiful to watch.
From the corner of her eye, Zhou Wanfeng saw people attacking her from both sides. Her gaze darkened. She pulled Liang Shuai back, and with a shake and a lift, from his wrist to his elbow, to his entire body, Liang Shuai couldn’t even react before he was pushed forward by Zhou Wanfeng to block the blows.
Punches and kicks came from behind.
Zhou Wanfeng quickly took something out of her pocket and held it in her palm. Her left hand grabbed the other person’s arm, and her right hand formed a fist and delivered a heavy punch.
“Ahhh!” A piercing scream. The person quickly pulled away, shaking his wrist, only to see blood gushing from his other hand, quickly turning his entire palm into a bloody mess, dripping onto the ground.
There was blood.
Only then did Brother Hao and Liang Shuai see that Zhou Wanfeng was holding a fountain pen in her right palm.
She shot a cold glance at the person who was wailing in pain, then her gaze fell on Liang Shuai. She shouted sternly, “What right do you have to come looking for me? When you were ganging up and bullying other students at school, did you not think that you would be beaten back? There are so many students here. I don’t know many of them, but they all know you.”
Brother Hao saw that the crowd at the school gate was growing. He frowned and signaled to the others. The few who had been outside all came up.
Zhou Wanfeng’s gaze was sharp and vigilant. “Because you’ve bullied them, cornered them in the restroom, kicked them in the face, burned their clothes with cigarette butts; just to see them cry out in fear; forced them to kneel and call you ‘daddy’ and ‘ancestor’; stepped over their heads, urinated on them…; robbed the first-year students of their money, and beat them up if they didn’t give it to you. Do you think everyone else was born from a rock? Their parents’ treasures, to be bullied by you like this? Their parents don’t know. If they knew, they would come to the school with a knife and chop you up.”
“I’ve been too light on you. I should have let those students’ parents know how you bully their children at school…” Before she could finish, she saw Liang Shuai take out a folding knife from his pocket.
Seeing the blood and the knife, the onlookers were scared and all turned and retreated.
“Ah, he’s got a knife!”
“Why aren’t the teachers here yet? Has anyone called a teacher?”
But some didn’t move. Some parents didn’t move. While protecting their own children, their eyes were still on the girl who was fighting with a straight back.
“What are your school’s teachers doing? So many people are hitting her. Are they all playing dead?”
A parent who was watching couldn’t take it anymore. The child looked skilled, but there were more than a dozen of them. He was worried.
“What are you doing? Fighting at the school gate? Go away, go away! The school teachers will be here soon,” the guard said with a serious expression, shouting and waving his hand to chase them away. But he couldn’t get to the female student.
The female student was surrounded. When he tried to squeeze through, he was pushed away by two young men. They glared at him and scolded, “What are you doing? Try that again!” The guard was pushed and shoved when he tried to go forward again.
The two young men raised their chins, their faces filled with arrogance. “Go and cool off somewhere. Don’t try to be a hero here.”
And then the guard and the two young men started to push and shove, and the scene became chaotic again.
Zhou Wanfeng was alone, against five, six, seven. She had just side-kicked one person when someone from behind wrapped their arms around her upper body. She bent down, and with her hands, she lifted the person’s legs and pulled them forward, making him lose his balance. She should have followed up with a kick, but a knife was swinging at her from the side.
Zhou Wanfeng quickly turned her head. It was a good thing she was agile and had quick reflexes.
There were too many of them, and the constant attacks were starting to make Zhou Wanfeng pant.
“Damn it, you bunch of bastards, bullying a girl at the school gate. I can’t stand it anymore,” a student’s father said, taking off his jacket, rolling up his sleeves, and clenching his fists to pull them apart.
The parents around them started to point and scold. “What are you people doing? Coming to the school gate to fight? So many of you bullying a girl, do you have any shame?”
“You were also born of parents. Don’t you have sisters, or cousins? How would you feel if your own family was bullied like this?”
“You’re not learning anything good at such a young age. You’ll be a menace to society when you grow up. You’re already using a knife at such a young age. What will you do in the future?”
Another parent who couldn’t stand it anymore went in to stop them.
“Mom, she’s not a troublemaker. Do you remember what I told you before? She’s Zhou Wanfeng from the first grade, the class president of First Grade, Class Nine. She’s very righteous. A boy in her class was cornered and taught a lesson by this group of people. She was the one who went and saved him.”
A female student with a ponytail pointed at Zhou Wanfeng and explained to her family, her eyes sparkling with admiration and worship, especially when she saw Zhou Wanfeng throw a boy taller and bigger than her to the ground. She was so excited that she clenched her fists.
“Zhou Wanfeng is super awesome. She got fourth in the entire grade in the monthly exam. This group of people are shameless. They cornered her on her way home from school with seven or eight people, wanting to teach her a lesson, but she beat them away. When they got back to school, it was even worse. They smashed her desk, threw all her books in the water, and even destroyed her bicycle.”
“No, I’m from First Grade, Class Eight. I know that Liang Shuai and his group forced a boy from Class Nine to steal money, but the boy was unwilling. Anyway, this group of third years have been ganging up and bullying people at school all the time. Someone in our Class Eight has been robbed by them, but they don’t dare to tell the teacher or their family, for fear of retaliation. Only Zhou Wanfeng is particularly tough and not afraid of them at all.”
“That’s right. I also think Zhou Wanfeng is very righteous, even more formidable than the school teachers. I want her to be the class president of our class too.”
The students in the crowd were all discussing it. Many of the parents who had come to pick up their children now heard what their own children were saying, and they looked at Zhou Wanfeng, who was fighting, with a different light.
“Child, you stand outside. Mom will go and help her. A good child like this can’t be bullied.”
“Exactly. So many of them bullying one person. Her parents are not here. They would be heartbroken.”
“Mom, be careful.”
“Dad, go for it! Beat them up!”
“Go, Zhou Wanfeng!”
“Zhou Wanfeng, beat them to death!”
“Zhou Wanfeng, you’re awesome!”
“Zhou Wanfeng, you’re my idol!”
The atmosphere of the scene suddenly became heated. Some parents didn’t go up, but they pointed at Brother Hao and his group and started to scold them fiercely. As parents, the thought of their own children being bullied at school, being beaten by so many people, made their blood boil.
They lowered their heads and said to their own children seriously, “Baby, you remember this. If you’re bullied at school, you must tell your parents right away. Don’t hide it. Your parents will gather the whole family and go to the school to get back at them for you.”
“Child, you listen. From the moment you were born, your father’s life is yours. If you’re beaten or bullied, it hurts more than if I were beaten myself. I’ll go to jail to get the person who bullied you. So don’t be afraid. Your father will protect you.”
With the help of the parents, the dangerous situation of Zhou Wanfeng fighting against five, six, seven people was instantly resolved. Hearing the cheers from the crowd, she glanced at the school’s main road.
She saw Ding Gaoming running towards her with a mop stick, and Du Yong’an from the political and educational affairs office, who was usually stern and steady, now rushing over.
“Make way, make way!” Jiang Yi was the first to run in with a stick. Ding Gaoming, Zhu Junling, and Chen Yisen were a couple of steps behind. They heard Ding Gaoming’s loud voice shouting, “Class president, let’s fight these sons of bitches!”
Zhou Wanfeng’s cold gaze was fixed on Brother Hao. Liang Shuai was at most a pawn. Without this person’s instigation, he would never have had the guts to come.
Ding Gaoming was shouting that he wanted to go in, but he saw the class president, Zhou Wanfeng, glance at him. After looking at him, her gaze shifted to the back, and then she looked at him again.
Ding Gaoming’s footsteps faltered. A flash of lightning went through his mind. He got it. He looked at the foolishly brave Chen Yisen and Zhu Junling, who were charging forward. Ding Gaoming pulled them back and went straight to the place the class president had indicated.
The class president… that look, was she telling them to block them, to not let them run away?