52: 52 Chapter Bitter Pills, Return to East University (Compensate 1 Chapter) 52: 52 Chapter Bitter Pills, Return to East University (Compensate 1 Chapter) (Given that readers didn’t like the previous chapter, Author Germ is making it up with an extra chapter.
However, this chapter is also pretty routine, and the case will erge in roughly three chapters, so please bear with us…
o(╥﹏╥)o, Writing about cases every day would kill all my brain cells…)
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Zhang’s Martial Arts School, the main hall.
Zhang Wei hadn’t expected that Zhang Xinyan could still be saved.
The kid’s constitution was incredibly robust, practically an iron board.
No, that’s not right.
Xia Qianyue’s triple air kick could even pierce through iron, so this kid was truly like steel.
Although he was lucky to survive, Zhang Xinyan wasn’t having an easy ti, still lying on a bamboo mat in the yard.
“Co on, Xiao Yan, open up and take your dicine.”
The old woman from the martial arts school, Lu Ma, approached Zhang Xinyan carrying a bowl of brewed traditional dicine.
The bowl of dicine emitted a faint green glow, and even the steam that wafted from it had a pungent dicinal scent.
When Lu Ma brought the bowl to Zhang Xinyan, his face contorted into a chrysanthemum.
“No, I don’t want to take the dicine, I don’t want it…”
Zhang Xinyan started to struggle, showing a strong resistance.
“Silly boy, if you don’t take your dicine, how will your injuries heal?”
Lu Ma was still kind-faced and said with a smile, “Good, Xiao Yan, your sister brewed this by hand for you.
She’s fine after drinking it.
With such severe injuries, you have to take it.”
With that, she beckoned Zhang Wei and the others.
“Co on, everyone help, help hold down Xiao Yan, he’s still sowhat resistant to taking his dicine.”
“Okay!”
“No problem!”
“Leave it to !”
Huang Mao and the guy with glasses, upon hearing this, hurried forward to firmly hold down Zhang Xinyan’s arms and legs, and one even fetched chopsticks to pry open Zhang Xinyan’s mouth.
“Quick, Lu Ma, pour the dicine in!”
The guy with glasses even promptly reminded her to get moving.
That bitter bowl of traditional dicine was then poured by Lu Ma into Zhang Xinyan’s mouth all at once.
Glug, glug, glug…
Zhang Xinyan, with his limbs pinned down, began to shake violently, his legs kicking wildly, his expression twisted, as though he was enduring imnse pain.
Zhang Wei could tell that the dicine was incredibly potent; Zhang Xinyan’s face had beco grotesque.
“How strange, why are they all so enthusiastic?”
Watching Huang Mao and the others firmly locking down Zhang Xinyan, Zhang Wei was a bit puzzled.
But soon, his confusion was dispelled.
“Brother Zhang Xinyan, you’re really helping us out here!”
“This dicine is great stuff, it circulates the blood and dissolves bruises, strengthens the body, and regulates the internal energy.
Aside from its awful taste, everything else about it is good, so have a bit more!”
“If you don’t down several bowls of it, then the rest is ours to drink.
Your sister brews traditional dicine for us once a week, and the taste is simply hellish.
Today you’re helping us, and we’ll all rember your kindness!”
“Co to think of it, don’t just swing by once in a while, how about you co every week and down the dicine for us!”
“That’s right, for our sake, just suffer a bit today.
It’s better that you suffer alone than all of us suffering together, isn’t it?”
Zhang Wei finally understood.
This traditional dicine was the “benefit” of Zhang’s Martial Arts School, sothing Zhang Xinwu prepared for everyone to drink.
But as none of them were genuinely practicing martial arts, they were highly resistant to the traditional dicine, because it was so bitter.
In Huang Mao and the others’ view, the dicine was a torture device for interrogation, a death decree from Pan Jinlian to Wu Soone, the ng Po Soup from the underworld; basically, it wasn’t sothing ant for human consumption.
Hence, a dead Daoist friend does not a poor Daoist make.
Since one of them was injured and needed to take dicine, why not just pour all of it into him, right?
Perfect!
Zhang Xinyan beca that sacrificial lamb.
After the bowl of dicine went down, Zhang Wei could clearly see Zhang Xinyan’s facial muscles still twitching, his face turning a bit unnaturally red.
“Is it that exaggerated…”
Zhang Wei murmured to himself, thinking that the dicine was too fierce.
If this were ancient tis, it might have even replaced the tiger bench and chili water torture.
“Zhang Wei, ti to take your dicine~”
But just then, a shout ca from the inner hall.
They saw Xia Qian coming with a bowl of dicine identical to the one in Lu Ma’s hands, cheerfully approaching Zhang Wei.
“Zhang Wei, let tell you, this is a secret family recipe from Sister Xiao Wu, a tonic for strengthening the body.
Drink it and you’ll feel fantastic!”
Xia Qian excitedly arrived beside Zhang Wei, starting to praise the dicinal soup in her hands.
Feeling the bitter dicinal scent at the tip of his nose, Zhang Wei’s face turned green.
“Silly person, this dicine, you…”
“Mhm mhm, I drank it, although it’s a bit bitter, but after drinking it I felt my body was really comfortable, and my Dantian was warm and toasty.
You should try it quickly~”
Xia Qianyue thought Zhang Wei was asking whether she had taken the dicine and imdiately replied.
“Let tell you, after Sister Xiao Wu took the dicine, her injuries from earlier have already recovered.
Not only that, but she can energetically practice pile striking too, see how good this dicine is?
While it’s still warm, hurry up and drink it.”
As she spoke, she brought the dicine up to Zhang Wei’s face again.
Looking at Xia Qianyue’s expectant expression, Zhang Wei turned his head to look at Zhang Xinyan and Huang Mao and the other guys.
Zhang Xinyan’s eyelids were already turning white, and he had lost consciousness, while Huang Mao and the others had turned their heads away, not daring to look at him.
“Fine, I’ll drink!”
Feeling that Xia Qianyue truly had his best interests at heart, Zhang Wei decided to grit his teeth and bear with it.
He picked up the bowl of dicine, pinched his nose, and gulped it down in one go.
Gulp gulp…
After swallowing a bowl of dicine, Zhang Wei felt as if his mouth was no longer his own.
A bitter taste surged up in his throat, turning his stomach upside down.
Zhang Wei’s facial features twisted along with it, and within just a few short monts, he went through a myriad of expressions.
“Silly person, why is this dicine so bitter…”
Although he was alert in his heart, after drinking it, he still felt he was too naive.
“Yes, the taste is indeed a bit bitter, but there’s a saying ‘good dicine tastes bitter,’ I also pinched my nose and drank it down.”
Xia Qianyue didn’t think much of it, and after taking the empty bowl from Zhang Wei’s hand, she smiled at the guys with glasses and said, “You guys didn’t drink it, did you?
Sister Xiao Wu brewed two stoves of it today, there’s a portion for each of you, let bring it to you.”
Saying that, she actually skipped back to the kitchen in high spirits.
“Brothers, run!”
No one knew who shouted it first, but the guys with glasses, Huang Mao, and the rest all rushed out of Zhang’s Martial Arts School in a flurry, disappearing in a trail of smoke.
It seed that the dicinal tonic was like a flood and savage beast.
When Xia Qianyue returned to the hall again, she saw it was empty, Huang Mao and the others were nowhere to be seen.
“What to do, there are so many bowls of dicine, we can’t waste them, right?”
She looked at the four or five wrist-fulls of dicine in her hands, feeling a bit unhappy.
“Zhang Wei, how about you…”
“No, I still want to live!”
Feeling Xia Qianyue’s gaze, Zhang Wei quickly waved his hands; he didn’t want to die yet.
In this mont of crisis, Zhang Wei could only sweep his gaze across the room, eventually pointing at Zhang Xinyan lying on the ground.
“Look there, that kid was kicked by you three tis earlier, he must have been badly injured, just pour these bowls of dicine into him!”
“Oh, right~”
After hearing this, Xia Qianyue finally rembered her bout with Zhang Xinyan and quickly walked over to him.
“Sorry, little brother Zhang Xinyan, I’ll rember your kindness…”
Watching Xia Qianyue picking up the unconscious Zhang Xinyan and preparing to feed him the dicine, Zhang Wei already mourned for him in his heart.
30 minutes later.
Wow—
Feeling his stomach churn, Zhang Xinyan rolled over, sat up, and started vomiting on the spot.
He felt a swelling sensation in his stomach, its bitterness indescribable.
All he could faintly rember was a woman seeming to have forced him to drink several bowls of “poison,” as if she wanted to murder him.
He looked towards the hall and saw the “murderer” laughing and chatting with his sister.
Zhang Xinyan’s face was so angry it turned green.
He swore that if not for certain reasons, he would never want to step foot in Zhang’s Martial Arts School again in his life.
And on another side.
After drinking the dicine, Zhang Xinwu’s injuries had recovered thanks to the dicinal strength, and now she was chatting with Xia Qianyue about martial arts.
Both won were actually martial arts fanatics, and now they were chatting excitedly as if they had found kindred spirits.
Even Zhang Wei could not get a word in edgewise.
It was like when two seasoned drivers t, discussing which local hair salon had the best prices, which KTV had the prettiest hostesses, and which club’s female therapists had the best professional conduct—how could an honest person understand?
Their conversation lasted all afternoon.
As dusk fell, Xia Qianyue finally rembered the business at hand.
“Zhang Wei, the party is tomorrow, and I wanted to discuss so things with you…”
“What’s there to discuss?
Just co with .
I’ve already bought your clothes anyway.
See you at our school tomorrow!”
In the end, Zhang Wei made the final decision and quickly settled the matter.
Only then did Xia Qianyue leave reluctantly, looking back three tis with each step, and waving goodbye to Zhang Xinwu.
It seed that the girl truly took to Zhang Xinwu and Zhang’s Martial Arts School.
Simple-minded Xia Qianyue had t martial arts enthusiast Zhang Xinwu, and after one bout, they sparked a friendship.
Finally, seeing it was late, Zhang Wei also bid farewell to Zhang Xinwu and returned to Lin Mansion.
As for Zhang Xinyan’s issue, it was their family’s business after all.
Since Zhang Xinwu was reluctant to talk more about it, it wasn’t right for Zhang Wei to pry.
…
The next day.
After a full night’s rest, Zhang Wei woke up early.
Seeing the good weather, he sent a ssage to Xia Qianyue on his phone and then set out for East University.
Although the graduation ceremony was in June or July, this end-of-year party was also a big deal.
It was said that East University Law School’s party would invite so well-known lawyers from the Dongfang Capital Lawyer Circle to attend, many of whom were alumni of East University.
If one could network with big shots from the law firms at the party and leave a good impression, it would be a great advantage in their future work for the graduating students.
Every year, it was said that soone would make a na for themselves at the party and get an offer from a top law firm.
Of course, Zhang Wei wasn’t sure about this, but he knew it was a rare chance to witness the Dongfang Capital Lawyer Circle.
Zhang Wei was eager to see how many impressive predecessors there were from East University Law School, and perhaps et so future rivals.
When he arrived at East University, it was nearly 10 a.m.
Zhang Wei waited at the school gate, checked the ti, and casually opened WeChat.
Soon enough, a ssage from Xia Qianyue ca in.
Xia Qianyue: Zhang Wei, I’ve arrived!
Seeing the ssage, Zhang Wei smiled to himself.
At the school gate, a taxi stopped, and soon after, a beautiful voice ca from inside the car.
“Zhang Wei!”
Xia Qianyue, dressed in a black business suit, waved excitedly at Zhang Wei.
Today’s Simpleton was nothing like the usual ‘Simple-minded’ persona; instead, dressed in a business suit, she presented a completely different deanor from her everyday self.
Her pretty looks and neat and tidy appearance attracted many passerby’s glances.
“Zhang Wei, how long have you been here?”
“Not long, I just arrived.”
“What are we going to do next?”
“Let’s go wait in our classroom.
Although the party starts in the evening, we aren’t VIPs.
The school asked us to arrive early; they probably have so announcents to make!”
As he spoke, Zhang Wei gentlemanly extended his arm.
Her cheeks blushing slightly, Xia Qianyue put her hand on Zhang Wei’s arm like a lady.
Arm in arm, they strolled through East University’s campus like a couple off to a dance.
East University Law School held four years of mories for both of them.
It was also here where Xia Qianyue had t Zhang Wei.
However, Zhang Wei himself was indifferent to these mories because he was no longer the person he used to be at that ti; those were the days of the original host.
Sotis, Zhang Wei couldn’t help but feel sorry for the original host’s fate.
If the youngster hadn’t died, perhaps he could have made sothing of himself.
But he was clearer on the fact that the original host’s soft personality and weak will made it impossible for him to handle even slight adversities, let alone beco a top lawyer.
A top lawyer, above all, needed resilience, and that was sothing the original host lacked.
As Zhang Wei was reflecting, they arrived at the law school’s classroom.
Zhang Wei was a criminal law student, belonging to the Criminal Law Departnt.
Originally, criminal justice had its own school, but it was later rged into this large departnt, so there were many students in it.
Zhang Wei’s class was Class 2, with nearly 40 students.
When they arrived at the classroom, only about ten students were seated inside.
Zhang Wei had no intention of getting familiar with his forr classmates, as he feared that not being the original host might expose so issues.
But he was overthinking it.
The original host hadn’t been sociable, and during the four years of university, he hardly mixed with classmates.
He had almost no one to talk to throughout the school.
Apart from his dorm mate Luo Xiaobu and Xia Qianyue, the Simpleton, no one else had much of an understanding of Zhang Wei, except for what had transpired during the lawsuit against Jia ili.
So when Zhang Wei walked into the classroom with Xia Qianyue, the other students just glanced up and didn’t pay much attention to him.
On the contrary, it was the youthful and beautiful Xia Qianyue who caught the attention of quite a few male students.
“Zhang Wei is here?”
“That’s Zhang Wei?”
“Didn’t expect him to really show up, Yuan Dong must hate him to death by now, huh?”
“That’s what Yuan Dong gets for getting involved with a woman of loose morals!”
“Oh, co off it, didn’t you have your eye on Jia ili back in the day?
Grapes are sour when they’re out of reach, right?”
Although they were about to graduate from law school, their conversation tended to be gossipy, and they still hadn’t shed their student identities.
Zhang Wei led Xia Qianyue to a corner of the classroom, which was his spot.
As ti passed, students began to trickle into the classroom.
So of them looked worried, and Zhang Wei knew they hadn’t passed the legal examination, which explained their gloominess.
For law school students, passing the legal exam is the first step to becoming a lawyer and entering the judiciary.
But so people can’t even make it past the first step, and that’s a problem.
If you can’t make it the first ti, the second or even third attempt will only be more challenging.
Because you have to work, you have to live, and all those things demand a piece of your mind.
At school, you can focus on studying, on your review, making lots of preparations for the law exam.
But once you leave school, preparing for an exam again is likely less efficient than when you were inside the campus.
Year after year, the highest pass rates for the law exam are among students, possibly reaching 30%-40%, whereas those retaking it have only about a 10% pass rate.
The law exam covers a lot of content; even if it’s not very deep, it’s comprehensive, and you have to review thoroughly to cope with it.
Once into society, it’s inevitable that various matters affect your review and prevent you from covering all bases, which then affects your exam performance.
Zhang Wei had no sympathy for these students who didn’t pass the law exam.
Serves them right!
That’s for not studying hard enough and spending all their ti gaming or on their phones, or else watching female strears all day long.
Speaking of female strears, Zhang Wei imdiately thought of Luo Xiaobu.
The guy was a typical college student, embodying all these faults, but sohow he had still passed the law exam.
“Could it be that I inspired him?” Zhang Wei touched his nose, sowhat doubtful.
Speak of the devil, Luo Xiaobu had just arrived.
“Zhang Wei, you’re here!”
As a good roommate, Luo Xiaobu spotted Zhang Wei at the back of the classroom right away, his excitent palpable, almost breezing as he walked.
Luo Xiaobu, now having passed the law exam, completely overshadowed many of his classmates, his smile even wider than usual.
Most crucially, in the past few days, he’d gifted a hefty sum to a female strear he’d fancied for a long ti, making it to the top three on the donation list, and recently the strear had finally agreed to et with him, the generous donor.
Among life’s greatest joys are reuniting with old friends in a new place, entering the bridal chamber, and achieving success.
Passing the law exam was akin to achieving success, and the strear agreeing to a et-up was like entering the bridal chamber; having attained two of the greatest joys, how could he not be happy?
“What, the female strear agreed to et you?”
Zhang Wei couldn’t help but blurt out as soon as he saw Luo Xiaobu.
Upon hearing this, Luo Xiaobu’s face changed, then he hastily sat down next to Zhang Wei, looking serious as he said:
“Zhang Wei, how did you know about that?
Who leaked the news?”
“No way, how much did you gift her?”
Zhang Wei was also surprised; he had rely made an offhand comnt, partly in jest, and didn’t expect to hit the nail on the head.
“I gifted a little over 20,000…” Luo Xiaobu was sowhat embarrassed to say.
After hearing this, the corner of Zhang Wei’s mouth twitched, and he shook his head inwardly.
It’s because of you folks that the prices are getting driven up!
In the past, a taxi driver could go get a special service at a hairdresser’s for 300 yuan, a half-service, and with an additional 200 yuan, he might be able to go all out.
Nowadays, you gift 500 yuan worth, and all you get in return is a “Thank you for the gift, big brother” or “Love you, muah”, and there you are, all excited, ready to gift more.
Luo Xiaobu spent twenty thousand, and only then did the female strear agree to et; even after eting, nothing is guaranteed.
If the experienced guys heard about this, they’d probably curse up a storm!
“Radish, I advise you to settle down and find a decent girl to marry, stop wasting your ti on these strears…”
Zhang Wei patted Luo Xiaobu on the shoulder, earnestly advising him.
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