Still, Wait For Me

Chapter 4: Past Matters & Arrogant Words

Chapter 4: Past Matters & Arrogant Words

Xu Tingsheng's home was in the rural outskirts of town. So, along with the majority of rural students in Libei Junior High School, he was a resident of the school dormitories.

The hushed nighttime conversations which Xu Tingsheng had reminisced fondly upon for many years thereafter were currently proceeding once more. Lying in his room, hands behind his head, staring at the ceiling in the darkness as he listened, he heard of some matters related to himself.

For instance, Huang Yaming said, "That junior girl has been spending her days mingling with an undesirable bunch of hooligans lately."

Xu Tingsheng thought for a moment: "Who?"

Huang Yaming leapt to his feet, "The hell, that's too cold hearted! It's that 10th grade student who jumped out and stopped you on the road on our first day of 11th grade! What was she called again?... I forgot; anyway, I'm just asking if you still remember her."

The conversation got loud. Hostel manager Old Yao appeared outside, knocking the door and yelling, "Any more noise and this old man will set a fire to burn you all to death!"

After that, the sound of a lighter wheel being spun could be heard, and everyone in the dorm felt their blood run cold.

Old Yao had the appearance of The Beast, but <Kung Fu Hustle> had still yet to air at this time, and everyone had still yet to discover this. He enjoyed carrying a large mug in his hands while patrolling to enforce the bedtime of the students. The large mug would be filled to the brim with high quality white wine which he would drink as he patrolled, his voice correspondingly growing louder as he drank.

After Old Yao had become drunk, he would patrol throughout the entire night, during which all sorts of words might be spoken, all sorts of things might be done.

The school had wanted to fire him before, but he had hung a noose at the door of the principal's office, and so he had stayed.

Xu Tingsheng recalled that on their graduation night, he and Huang Yaming had flung a string of firecrackers into Old Yao's work room.

With it having grown silent outside the door, Huang Yaming resumed his lively bustle, throwing a cigarette to Xu Tingsheng from across the room as he continued, "Liqun brand, I bought two sticks of it at a store today... I suppose you've remembered that girl? Do you care at all?"

Xu Tingsheng recalled that currently, the school store did indeed sell cigarettes, the store's boss purportedly being a relative of the principal. Here, the teachers were catching smokers like there was no tomorrow, while over at the shop, he was selling the cigarettes openly and blatantly.

In the last few years of his previous life, Xu Tingsheng's smoking habit had developed to the point of having to smoke a pack a day, but having reborn, he seemed to have been rid of that desire for nicotine. Unexpectedly, some days having passed, the thought of smoking had yet to cross his mind.

Xu Tingsheng asked for a lighter, and lit up his first cigarette of after his rebirth.

Huang Yaming tossed a lighter over, asking where Xu Tingsheng's own was. Xu Tingsheng replied that he couldn't find it. He really couldn't. Who would be able to find a lighter they hid more than ten years back?

During this time, there was a rumour that smoking affected 'that' ability, and this rumour had caused quite a panic amongst the boys. Xu Tingsheng and Huang Yaming had privately discussed this issue in depth, and Huang Yaming had unconcernedly remarked, "No problem, it just happens that I am particularly strong in that area."