Chapter 4: Guo Jing II

  In a corner of the world where there is a miserable loser, another corner often has someone who is ecstatic. They just usually don't know about each other's happiness and sorrow.

  Linghu Cong believed that happiness and unhappiness conformed to a certain law of conservation, with the sum of the results always being zero in the entire world.

  Yang Kang said: "Pshaw, you're a pure idealist. So tell me, what law does the distribution of your happiness follow? Is it purely random?"

  Linghu Cong immediately made a Buddhist greeting with his hands together and said: "The donor has understood, the donor has understood, it's all just following one's fate."

  Qiao Feng slipped away to the sports center to review "Hero's True Colors" I, II, III. When Huang Rong stretched her waist from a fake sleep, indicating that she was awake. Guo Jing didn't dare look at her and concentrated his mind on the chemistry textbook, poor him almost became cross-eyed.

  Huang Rong felt relieved and her earlier slight resentment disappeared as she smiled and asked Guo Jing, "You bought Fanta? I'm just thirsty."

  Guo Jing was completely unaware that Huang Rong was just talking to him and frantically shook his head, saying: "Jiao Feng... Jiao Feng..."

  Huang Rong cast him a sidelong glance, silently scolding him for being foolish, when she caught sight of Guo Jing's manual. Since entering the library, Guo Jing had not turned another page in his manual, and Huang Rong clearly remembered the page number.

  "You still dare to play tricks on me..." Huang Rong's heart suddenly had a playful and pleasant feeling, because she was very happy. She raised her head, and unexpectedly, Guo Jing even had cold sweat on his forehead.

  "Hot?" Huang Rong said.

  "The air conditioner is too hot, the air conditioner is too hot."

  "Dummy!" Huang Rong said, "It's summer now, the air conditioner is blowing cold wind, can't you be a bit more cultured?"

  "This was the first time Huang Rong scolded Guo Jing as stupid in front of him, and before Guo Jing could react, Huang Rong pulled his arm and said: 'Let's go eat baozi outside the south gate, okay?'"

  Then Huang Rong didn't give Guo Jing a chance to respond, and with a few quick jumps, she dragged him out of the library.

  The two boys sitting close together looked up at each other again, each with a hint of a smile on their lips, like two helpless big grey wolves.

  That night, Guo Jing rode his old donkey with Huang Rong to eat, and they rushed down the big slope next to the old biology building, accompanied by Huang Rong's screams, no different from holding a loudspeaker broadcasting: "Take a look, take a look, don't miss it..."

  In short, Wang Yuyan, a friend of Huang Rong's, saw it. The quiet and elegant Wang Yuyan hastily covered her skirt and jumped to the side of the road, dodging the fierce Mongolian iron cavalry and remembered Guo Jing's appearance. That night, everyone in the girls' dormitory who knew Huang Rong knew that the top physics student had already been taken, and at a meeting in the bedroom, Guo Jing's personal data was pieced together in a jumbled manner, almost to the point of drawing his portrait - of course, the final product showed a monster who looked a bit like Schwarzenegger and a bit like Karakoram. The main reason was that Wang Yuyan did not know Guo Jing at that time, while the girls who knew Guo Jing were still unable to link him with Huang Rong.

  It wasn't until a week later that Wang Yuyan quietly asked about Huang Rong, and Huang Rong hesitantly said: "I don't know who you're talking about, anyway I went out to eat buns with Guo Jing that day..."

  Watching Mu Nianci laugh mysteriously on one side, Huang Rong shrunk her head and slipped away.

  The evening wind blew gently, and after Huang Rong smiled and encouraged him, generously paying for a full meal of one catty of baozi and three bowls of spicy wonton soup for Guo Jing, this foolish kid finally came to his senses a bit.

  It can be said that I suddenly realized.

  When the old broken donkey stopped in front of the girls' dormitory, Guo Jing finally gathered his courage and said: "Hey Huang Rong, are you going to the library tomorrow?"

  "Go."

  "Then I'll come pick you up..."

  One of the most dangerous things in the world is to be careless in making friends, and Guo Jing was very unfortunate in this regard. Under the coercion of Linghu Chong and the temptation of Yang Kang, with Duan Yu fanning the flames on the side saying "Big Brother, I really admire you", Guo Jing had no choice but to confess the entire process completely.

  Then Ouyang Ke turned over and went to sleep, covering himself with the quilt. Linghu Cong immediately suggested that this incident be written into Guo Jing's class diary. Lin Pingzhi smiled subtly, while Duan Yu's gaze showed that he indeed admired Guo Jing extremely.

  Yang Kang sat up from the upper bunk, waving his hand with great leadership charm and said: "Comrades, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard. In order for Lao Da to thoroughly deal with the little demon girl, everyone should contribute their own pick-up techniques."

  The first Guo Jing Love Life Seminar was quietly held in a dormitory of Bianjing University on May 9th, the first year of Jiayou, at one o'clock in the morning. The attendees were Yang Kang, Duan Yu, Linghu Chong, Lin Pingzhi and Guo Jing himself. Ouyang Ke absented himself for some reason.

  The battle plan was as follows:

  The first proposal was put forward by Duan Yu: "Buy flowers and ask her what kind of flowers she likes, or just send roses directly."

  Guo Jing hesitated: "But it's just a festival gift of flowers I'm giving her, isn't that okay?"

  "Come on, boss, you have to understand the psychology of girls," Linghu Cong hummed, "Why would she wait for you next Valentine's Day?"

  Lin Pingzheng, who was known for his extensive knowledge and strong memory, vetoed the proposal: "I heard that someone used to send flowers to her dorm every day in the past, but she would directly throw them away. What era is this method from?"

  "Alas," said Yang Kang, "I reckon Guo Jing won't throw away the flowers he's given, but the problem is that once this starts, it can't be stopped. Several hundred yuan for a bouquet of roses - isn't this trying to bankrupt Guo Jing?"

  The second battle plan came from Linghu Cong's proposal.

  The characteristics of the angry youth are that they like to put forward shocking opinions, in order to emphasize their uniqueness. Linghu Chong struck a very wild pose and said: "Girls are simple! They're just girls, you can get them on bed and guarantee they'll follow you for the rest of their lives!"

  "He's going to blow." Duan Yu knew Linghu Cong's habit.

  "What if he's accused of rape?" Yang Kang said, "The boss has locked him up, are you going to help him fetch water?"

  "Aren't we going on holiday soon? When there are fewer people, let Guo Jing climb up the water pipe from the girls' dormitory and jump into their dorm at midnight, taking advantage of the lights being out," Linghu Chong fully utilized his imagination, "this way, he won't be afraid of being recognized."

  "Damn! What if I've got the wrong bed?" Yang Kang said.

  "Stop, stop," Lin Pingzhi hastily said, "We're not trying to prevent Guo Jing from being recognized now, but rather want Huang Rong to forever recognize Guo Jing. Second brother, you think too much and are getting dizzy."

  "Yang Kang is right," Duan Yu chuckled, "what if we've got the wrong bed? Mu Nianci is also in Huang Rong's dormitory..."

  Yang Kang's pillow came crashing down from the top bunk.

  Plan three continues with Leng Hu Fuqing contributing: "Heroes rescue beauties, no, heroes rescue beauties."

  "Huh?" Duan Yu didn't react in time.

  "Alas, Brother Dog," Linghu Chong sighed, feeling that Duan Yu's experience with women was too shallow, and he had been infatuated for so many years in vain.

  "Little devil," the angry youth said with a serious tone, "now imagine a dark and windy night when Sun Wukong and Niu Mo Wang are both asleep. There's this girl wearing a low-cut backless dress walking vigorously along the small path by the Youming Lake..."

  "Hold on, why does it feel a bit like you?" Duan Yu said.

  "No!" Linghu Chong waved his hand, "If it were me, I would walk naked along the banks of Youming Lake. Now it's our Huang Rong classmate... At this moment, a wolf howl came from afar, and a black shadow suddenly darted out from the side of the road, its eyes gleaming with lust as it pounced on Huang Rong..."

  "Huang Rong is skilled in empty-handed combat," Guo Jing hinted.

  "No," Linghu Chong waved his hand again very professionally, and we should now call him Director Linghu.

  Linghu Da said: "Now we can't wait for Huang Rong to make a move, Big Brother you must rush out first..."

  Linghu Duan handed a 5-centimeter-long plastic-handled fruit knife to Guo Jing: "You just take this knife and randomly chop at that lecherous flower heartthrob until Huang Rong watches in a daze and falls into your arms, Boss, your lifelong happiness will be guaranteed."

  Yang Kang suddenly understood and said to Duan Yu and Lin Pingzhi, "That makes sense, but don't we still need a very bold and righteous rascal now?"

  Linghu Cong hastily said: "What's wrong with you three staring at me?"

  "Second Brother," Duan Yu went up and patted Linghu Chong's shoulder, saying, "Make a sacrifice this once. We have such a strong bond of friendship, you shed some hot blood in exchange for Eldest Brother's lifelong happiness, it's worth it, that's glorious."

  Lin Pingzhi also said: "Right, right, who has a talent as high as Lao Er?"

  Yang Kang said: "Fox Chong brother... I am willing to contribute five three-learning chicken legs for you this time, and shed blood to dedicate."

  "Yan Kang, brother..." Leng Qiu sprang up from bed and shook hands with Yang Kang on the upper bunk. Yang Kang was called Yan Kang in the household register, keeping the same surname as Wan Yan Hong Lie, "You're willing to take out your chicken legs, what can I say? However..."

  Linghu Cong slapped his thigh and said generously: "If the boss had appeared a little later when that scoundrel was bullying, I would have given him five chicken legs as a gift!"

  This conversation did not fall into the ears of the school security team, but was heard by the building manager who came up at night to take a stroll. However, the building manager just swayed back and forth with his hands behind his back and went downstairs again. He wasn't foolish enough to think that Linghu Cong really had ambitions to be a pervert, he had only heard Linghu Cong say two days ago that he wanted to blow up the Secret Service Institute to practice his skills, compared to which, blocking the road and being rude to female students was just a small burst of inspiration for Linghu Cong. Moreover, the real danger was on the other side of the corridor, Tian Boguang, a first-year student in the chemistry department, had been discussing in detail for three consecutive nights the possibility of hiring a certain martial arts master to use his finger magic to assassinate the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.

  After all, Guo Jing did not buy flowers or rescue the beauty, but let Huang Rong get on his bed. This idea was realized, but Huang Rong just sat there and flipped through Linghu Chong's "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", making the angry youth hate it even more.

  Guo Jing and his dormitory's fixed number of people seemed to have suddenly increased to seven, every day at noon Huang Rong would inevitably sit on the back of Guo Jing's old broken donkey, leisurely swinging a pair of long legs to go get food, then buy half a catty of sauce beef specifically to feed Guo Jing. Every day when it was almost dark, Huang Rong would jump up and down and run upstairs to say "Guo Jing, I've occupied the seat, let's go study!" And every night, Guo Jing often didn't return until midnight, because he had gone with Huang Rong to eat a midnight snack. Yang Kang and the others were furious about this, every time they bought noodles and waited for Guo Jing to come back and boil water to cook them, only to remember that this originally diligent water-fetching young man had already gone with Huang Rong to eat a midnight snack.

  What's even more unbearable for everyone is that when there are no classes, Huang Rong spends the whole day playing "Samurai Spirits II" on the computer in their dormitory, and she's a master among masters. Huang Yaoshi had someone specially teach her how to input commands, and as a result, Huang Rong can execute moves with the keyboard more smoothly and fluently than anyone else, defeating Yang Kang, who was originally invincible, and Lin Huichun, who ranked second in the weapon rankings, forcing them to flee in disarray. She once set a record of 20 consecutive wins, after which Yang Kang never dared to boast about his martial arts skills again...