After bidding farewell to Du Ziming, Wei Ziqi's life returned to tranquility. Finally, no one bothered him anymore. The peace made him feel physically and mentally at ease, and he enjoyed a long period of quiet days.
As the summer vacation approached, a transfer student joined their class.
It was actually Yin Chuan, who had transferred to Nancheng at the beginning of the first year of junior high school and met them by chance in the hot spring.
No one knew what this boy was up to. He transferred from another city to Nancheng, and then from Nancheng to the imperial capital. He had changed three schools in three semesters. Didn't he feel tired?
However, when they suddenly saw an old classmate, Miaomiao happily greeted him.
Meeting someone from one's hometown in a foreign land always felt kind. Although they weren't very familiar with each other in the Nancheng school before, they had at least seen each other around, so they were at least familiar faces.
"Yin Chuan, why did you suddenly transfer to the imperial capital?" Miaomiao leaned on the back desk and asked curiously. Her big eyes with long eyelashes fluttered like a delicate Barbie doll.
"My mom said that the teaching resources in the imperial capital are much better than those in Nancheng, which can improve my academic performance. She managed to get a student quota here and forced me to come. Actually, I didn't want to come either. I had just gotten used to the new school, and now I have to adapt all over again. Moreover, I have to live on campus here. I've never lived on campus before, and I don't know what to do."
Yin Chuan lowered his head and answered in a low voice.
He was always like this. His voice was as soft as a mosquito's. When answering others, he didn't dare to look them in the eye. He was introverted and shy, so he didn't have many friends even in Nancheng before.
"It's okay. If you need any help in the future, just tell us. We'll help if we can."
Miaomiao nodded slightly and patted his shoulder, trying to cheer him up.
Yin Chuan smiled, and two dimples appeared beside his pursed lips.
"We're almost in the third year of junior high school. Your mom transferred you here just before the final exams. It won't really improve your academic performance."
Wei Ziqi felt a bit strange. The timing of Yin Chuan's transfers was always so inexplicable. For example, when he first transferred to Nancheng, it was at the beginning of the first year of junior high school. He didn't choose No. 3 Middle School when filling out the application form but instead went through the trouble of transferring there.
This time, it was almost the final exams, and suddenly changing the environment, and with each school having a different teaching progress, it would be impossible to take the exams.
"My mom is just like that. Actually, I'm quite happy to be able to transfer here. Before, my parents were always around. Every day, besides going to school and having classes during the day, I had to take extra lessons in the evening. After the extra lessons, my mom would watch me do my homework. I always felt like I had endless homework and schoolwork. So I really hated studying. But if I didn't study well and did badly in the final exams, I would get beaten when I got home. So I didn't dare not study at all. Now that I've transferred here, far away from my mom, she can't beat me right away when I do badly in the exams. So I can relax a bit. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that I'll go crazy one day."
Yin Chuan sighed deeply. When it came to this topic, his words poured out like a flood, complaining about all the不如意 in his daily life.
According to Yin Chuan, his mother's way of educating him was extremely absurd.
She was extremely strict about his academic performance and believed in the idea that "spare the rod, spoil the child." Moreover, his mother's possessiveness and over - protection were excessive. She would interfere in who he made friends with, especially girls. In his mother's eyes, he shouldn't be in contact with girls at his age to avoid puppy love. So there absolutely couldn't be any girls around him, and even if there were, he couldn't talk to them for more than three sentences.
Miaomiao and Wei Ziqi felt suffocated just listening to such management.
Was this really a way of educating a child that anyone could come up with?
Educating a child like this, no matter what the child's personality was like, they would probably be driven crazy.
"So after I enrolled that time, I actually wanted to play with you guys, but my mom didn't let me. And since classmate Lin Miaomiao is a girl, my mom didn't allow me to talk to girls for more than three sentences except for studying."
The more Yin Chuan talked, the more aggrieved he felt, and the more he talked, the sadder he became. He even started to tear up.
It seemed that this child had really been憋屈 for so many years. Transferring schools was probably a good thing for him. At least he could temporarily get out of his parents' control and no longer live such a suffocating life.
"It's okay. Anyway, your mom isn't around you now. You can play with us as you like. As long as your studies don't fall behind too much and you finish your homework on time, you can play however you want during your spare time. We usually only come to class in the afternoon. We have other studies to complete in the morning. So if you want to find us, you can only come in the afternoon."
Although Wei Ziqi didn't understand Yin Chuan's mother's absurd actions, he felt deeply sympathetic and kindly extended an invitation.
"Okay, I'll remember. Thank you." Yin Chuan nodded stupidly and excitedly.
Judging from his way of life, this should be his first time making friends.
So such behavior was understandable.
After school in the evening, Miaomiao suddenly received a call from her father.
Dad said that he had communicated with Grandpa Sun, and Miaomiao could return to Nancheng in advance during the summer vacation.
Hearing that she could go back in advance, Miaomiao jumped for joy. She hadn't seen her dad for a long time and had been eager to fly back. But every time she talked to her dad, he always said to wait a little longer.
Now that she had her dad's approval, Miaomiao couldn't wait to take a plane home right away.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Yao slowly closed his eyes and lay in bed, resting.
There was still a medicine bottle hanging beside the bed. The liquid in the bottle dripped into his vein drop by drop, and his face looked a bit pale and extremely weak.
During the time after Miaomiao left, Lin Yao hadn't been idle. Instead, he had been extremely busy. Whether it was the black - market, the white - market, or the gray - market, as long as it was within the scope of Nancheng, he had intervened and carried out a major cleanup, arresting many corrupt elements.
There were also many people who, taking advantage of his being more laid - back and not wanting to interfere with others during this period, had started to engage in shady business.
After dealing with these people, he still hadn't found the mastermind behind the attempt to kill Miaomiao in the farmhouse. And for the captured young man, besides the 500,000 yuan he had transferred to his family, there had been no large - amount of funds flowing into his account or his parents' accounts.
Helping the police deal with so many people and doing so many things was just to have a deterrent effect and to warn the rat hiding in the dark.
Now on the surface, Nancheng had returned to its former clean state. After such a big move, the person in the dark should not dare to attack Miaomiao easily. He could now let Miaomiao come back with peace of mind.