The Immortal Who Returned from the Netherworld Road – Chapter 9

Ch 9: Feelings of Classmates

Returning to school, it was already the fourth class. This class happened to be P.E., and all the students in Senior Year 2 Class 7 were active on the playground.

As Xi Yang had just entered the campus, he saw Wang Xin running towards him. He saw her running breathlessly, her face full of anxiety.

“Xi Yang, where did you go? Teacher Wen is looking for you!” Wang Xin said anxiously, panting.

Xi Yang quickly asked, “What’s wrong? What happened that’s so urgent?”

Wang Xin took a deep breath, calmed down slightly, and replied, “It’s about your things being smashed! Zeng Xing’s parents came, and he just left not long ago. Teacher Wen has been waiting for a long time.” After saying that, she grabbed Xi Yang and turned to walk towards the Teacher’s Office.

Xi Yang frowned, feeling a little puzzled, but still followed quickly.

Arriving at the door of the Teacher’s Office, Wang Xin knocked gently on the door, and a gentle voice came from inside: “Come in.”

Wang Xin opened the door and motioned for Xi Yang to go in by himself.

Teacher Wenrou was sitting at her desk correcting homework. Seeing Xi Yang come in, she put down the pen in her hand and got up to close the door.

Then she said to Xi Yang, “The matter of your things being smashed has been investigated. The surveillance in the dormitory corridor saw Zeng Xing and Xu Jia doing it together. They agreed to pay compensation at the original price, a total of 500 Dragon Country Currency.” As she spoke, she took out five hundred Yuan from the drawer and placed it on the table.

Xi Yang picked up the money, his eyes flashing with gratitude, his voice full of sincerity: “Thank you, Teacher!” He secretly rejoiced in his heart that the money solved his food and clothing problems like sending charcoal in the snow.

Looking at Xi Yang’s grateful expression, Teacher Wenrou sighed helplessly, her tone with a hint of blame and worry: “Oh! These are just small things. The most important thing right now is your studies. As a student, you neither do your homework nor listen to the lectures properly, and you wander around all day long. How can you be worthy of your parents spending a lot of money to support your studies with such behavior?”

Xi Yang felt a headache when he heard these words. Then, there was a series of reprimands like a gust of wind and rain. Although Xi Yang had experienced countless hardships, he still felt his scalp tingle in the face of such accusations.

After being reprimanded for a while, the bell for the end of class finally rang.

Teacher Wenrou’s heart softened when she saw Xi Yang’s thin appearance, and her tone became gentler: “Forget it, go have lunch first.”

Xi Yang walked out of the office with a sigh of relief, as if he had just experienced a torture. He shook his somewhat dizzy head and walked towards the cafeteria.

Since returning from the Netherworld Road, in order to better integrate into this modern society, he has accepted various different ideas. This was his first time experiencing this kind of teacher-student relationship.

Arriving at the school cafeteria, it was a three-story building. A large iron shed was built in front of the cafeteria, and students were lining up under the large iron shed to get food.

Xi Yang glanced at the food in the cafeteria from a distance, and immediately lost his appetite. He saw that the stir-fried green vegetables were yellowish, and the so-called meat dish ━ stir-fried pork with chili peppers ━ also had few pieces of meat.

With just these two dishes, the green vegetables cost five jiao per spoonful, and the meat dish was as high as one Yuan!

In the past, Xi Yang only dared to order green vegetables. He needed to order nine meals of green vegetables a week, and the remaining five meals could only rely on the dried pickled vegetables with chili peppers he brought himself.

He was about to turn around and leave when he heard Han Cheng’s voice from the line: “Xi Yang, come here, stand in front of me, hurry up!”

Xi Yang looked around, found Han Cheng standing in front of the line, and smiled, “I’m

I don’t have much appetite! You eat it yourself!”

Han Cheng sighed when he heard this, “Okay!”

Xi Yang turned and walked towards the teaching building.

Arriving at the classroom of Senior Year 2 Class 7, only Wang Xin was left inside, writing her homework seriously. The other students had already gone to the cafeteria to eat.

Xi Yang walked to his seat and sat down, taking out jerky from his bag and eating it while looking at Wang Xin and asking, “Don’t you usually eat lunch?”

Wang Xin stopped writing when she heard this, raised her head and glanced at Xi Yang, and sighed: “I don’t have your talent, and my learning ability is not as good as yours, so I can only study desperately! My parents told me that if I don’t get into high school, they will marry me off! I have no choice!”

Xi Yang couldn’t help but turn his head to look at her when he heard this, feeling a burst of emotion in his heart, but he didn’t know how to comfort her. After all, what could he do about this kind of thing!

The two of them fell into silence.

Wang Xin continued to write her homework seriously, occasionally flipping through the textbook, and the scratch paper on her desk had already been densely written on.

After a long time, Xi Yang silently placed the jerky in his hand on Wang Xin’s desk and said softly: “Eat a little, your body is the capital of the revolution! And with your grades, getting into high school shouldn’t be a problem, don’t put too much pressure on yourself.” After saying that, he got up and left the classroom.

Wang Xin stopped writing when she heard this and looked at Xi Yang with a smile, “Okay! I’ll take your good words!”

She picked up the jerky on the table and gnawed on it, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes unconsciously.

After walking around the playground a few times, he saw Han Cheng running towards him with a lunch box in his hand.

He ran breathlessly to Xi Yang and handed the lunch box in his hand to Xi Yang, “I know you’re in a bad mood, but you still have to eat something. This meal is on me, eat a little!”

Xi Yang took the lunch box, his eyes lingering on Han Cheng. In the Netherworld Road, he saw mostly deceit and betrayal, and he was always being plotted against. No matter how hard he struggled, it was still difficult to break free from the layers of shackles, which almost suffocated him!

This simple friendship between students was an unattainable emotion.

Han Cheng looked at Xi Yang’s gaze and touched his head embarrassedly, “What’s wrong? Is there something on my face?”

Xi Yang smiled, “It’s nothing, I just remembered something!” Then he looked around. It was noon, the sun was scorching hot, and there was no one on the playground. They came to the big tree at the edge of the playground and sat down.

While opening the lunch box, Xi Yang handed him a cyan crystal stone the size of an egg from his pocket, “Take a look at this kind of stone, how much is it worth?”

Han Cheng was shocked when he saw this. He touched the crystal stone, looked at it against the light, and said, “Xi Yang, where did you get this? This crystal stone is amazing, almost close to the quality of a high-grade crystal stone. Although it’s not big, it’s worth at least one million Dragon Country Currency.” After saying that, he looked around and, not finding anyone paying attention to them, quickly put the cyan crystal stone away and wrapped it in a piece of white cloth.

He leaned close to Xi Yang’s ear and asked, “Did anyone see you get this crystal stone?”

Xi Yang quickly shoveled a few mouthfuls of food into his mouth when he heard this, eating all the food in the lunch box. Then he said, “No!”

Han Cheng looked around cautiously and said in a low voice, “Xi Yang, it’s not safe for you to hold this stone! I suggest you sell it as soon as possible! If someone sees it, I’m afraid it will cause a lot of trouble.” Then he put the stone into Xi Yang’s pocket.

Xi Yang naturally knew the principle of not revealing wealth. But the problem was that he didn’t know who to sell it to. He said embarrassedly, “I naturally know this, otherwise I wouldn’t have brought it to you to see in the first place!”

Han Cheng nodded, “That’s right! It’s a pity that my family can’t afford it, otherwise I would definitely have bought it for you! It’s just that there aren’t many people in our Xizhao Town who can afford this stone and won’t cheat us!” He stroked his chin and thought for a long time, then said, “I’ve got it, do you know Liu Jiazhou from Class 4?”

Xi Yang asked, “Can his family afford it?”

Han Cheng nodded, “If you want to say who in the entire Xizhao Town can buy this stone, Liu Jiazhou’s father, Liu Zhengtian, is definitely one of them. I’ve heard that he is upright and never resorts to those petty tricks!”

Xi Yang nodded, not because he believed his words, but because he happened to know Liu Jiazhou!

Han Cheng patted Xi Yang on the shoulder, “Xi Yang, you have to decide this matter yourself, I’m leaving first!” After saying that, he picked up the lunch box and ran away in a puff of smoke.