Just in Time Chapter 12
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 12: Mockery
Yun Fang was not sleeping deeply, half-asleep and half-awake, listening to the bus stop announcements.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard someone calling him, “Yun Fang?”
Yun Fang opened his eyes and saw Song Cun’s surprised face.
Yi Chenliang was also woken up by Yun Fang’s name. He found himself leaning on Yun Fang’s shoulder, immediately straightened up, put his hands on his knees, and looked upright.
“Coincidentally.” The weight on his shoulder suddenly lightened, and Yun Fang moved his numb shoulder.
Song Cun held the railing with one hand and did not sit down. His gaze swept over Yi Chenliang and he smiled, “This classmate looks unfamiliar, Yun Fang, aren’t you going to introduce me?”
Yi Chenliang felt a bit awkward. Even though he felt that he and Yun Fang were clear and innocent, there was still a strange sense of guilt.
He still remembered that this curly-haired guy had confessed to Yun Fang before.
Don’t misunderstand, he, such an upright and handsome young man, only likes beautiful girls.
“Yi Chenliang, my deskmate.” Yun Fang introduced simply.
Song Cun smiled and nodded at Yi Chenliang, “Hello, I am Song Cun, Yun Fang’s childhood friend.”
“Hello.” Yi Chenliang nodded somewhat puzzled.
Can the term “childhood friend” be used like this?
Yun Fang pointed to the empty seat in front, “There are still several stops to go, you can sit down.”
Song Cun said, “No need, it’s sunny over there, I’ll just stand for a while.”
“Oh.” Yun Fang stopped talking.
Song Cun was standing right next to Yi Chenliang’s seat, his gaze fell on Yun Fang’s face, “Yun Fang, so you really went to Class 10?”
“Hmm.” Yun Fang nodded.
Song Cun’s smile was a bit bitter, “I finally made it into Class 1, and then you left.”
Yi Chenliang felt a lot of pressure sitting in his seat, thinking that the two of them might need to chat alone, so he cleared his throat and said, “You sit here.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was about to get up, but Yun Fang held him down by the neck.
“I’m falling behind in my grades now and want to focus on studying.” Yun Fang said calmly, “If I said something before that made you misunderstand, then I apologize, I’m sorry.”
He didn’t want to get involved in the emotional issues of his previous life, and he would never fall for a boy, so he simply refused, so as not to delay others.
Moreover, his current grades were not good enough to date.
Song Cun’s smile couldn’t hold up, and he said somewhat lost, “You’re still blaming me.”
Yi Chenliang listened to their cryptic conversation, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles. He felt that he shouldn’t understand, but he seemed to understand.
He didn’t want to be in the bus, he wanted to go under the bus.
What did he do wrong to have to watch two men hooking up?
Yun Fang’s words were standard scumbag lines, “You’re overthinking.”
Song Cun glanced at Yi Chenliang, “I hope so.”
After Song Cun finished speaking, he went to sit in the empty seat in front of the bus, looking lost.
Yi Chenliang was inexplicably looked at by his gaze just now, and couldn’t help scratching his head like a straight man, saying to Yun Fang, “Was he provoking me just now?”
Yun Fang was silent for a moment, “I don’t think so.”
Yi Chenliang was very arrogant, “I can beat ten of him with one punch.”
“You can’t even beat me.” Yun Fang closed his eyes tiredly.
Yi Chenliang glared at him angrily, “You wait for this Lao Tzu.”
(TL: Lao Zi or Lao Tzu= “I”, “Me”)
“You haven’t even grown all your hair yet, who are you calling old.” Yun Fang didn’t even bother to lift his eyelids, “Call me when we get to the station.”
Yi Chenliang was so angry that he was grinding his teeth, he felt that Yun Fang was becoming more and more annoying.
In the afternoon class, Yun Fang was especially sleepy, feeling that his brain was a bit slow, but he was still taking notes strongly. He saw Yi Chenliang propping up his head with one hand and his eyes couldn’t open, but the pen in his hand was still moving.
He couldn’t help but look at Yi Chenliang’s notes, and was stimulated by the strange lines on it.
Yun Fang elbowed Yi Chenliang’s arm.
Yi Chenliang suddenly opened his eyes with a start, looking at the words on the notebook with a puzzled expression, obviously not knowing what he had written.
Yun Fang silently pushed the notes towards him.
Although Yi Chenliang’s grades were average, his learning attitude was quite upright. After yawning, he quickly copied it and pushed it back to Yun Fang.
Yun Fang continued to listen to the class and take notes.
Then he looked down and saw a note pushed over by Yi Chenliang. On the note was a stick figure with its hands on its waist, its eyes were two bold vertical lines, inexplicably arrogant.
A rough speech bubble was drawn on the round head, and inside it were two English words.
“Thank you.”
Yun Fang laughed as soon as he saw it, took a red pen and drew a stick figure with a square head with its hands on its hips. He even added inverted 八 eyebrows and a drooping mouth to it, making the little square man look fierce. Then he wrote two words in the speech bubble: “Polite.”
Yi Chenliang took a few notes and then saw the note pushed over. He stared at the square-headed stick figure for a while and couldn’t help but add a pair of glasses to it with a red pen.
It looked silly and cute.
Yun Fang was busy taking notes and didn’t notice. Yi Chenliang was very proud and collected his masterpiece.
During the big break, someone called Yi Chenliang out to play ball. Yi Chenliang was so tired that he was lying on the table. He waved his hand to refuse and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
Yun Fang was struggling with sleepiness and did half a page of exercises, but still couldn’t help but lie down and sleep.
The two of them lying on the table had surprisingly similar sleeping positions, just like copy and paste. The passing female students couldn’t help but take a few more glances.
“Good heavens, they look like twins.”
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Yun Fang didn’t attend evening self-study at school. After the last class in the afternoon, he left the school gate and saw Tang Yi waving at him from a distance.
Yun Fang quickened his pace to go over, “Actually, you don’t need to pick me up, I can take the bus back.”
“There’s not much business in the shop, so I closed early.” Tang Yi wanted to take his backpack, but Yun Fang didn’t let her.
“I’ll carry it myself.”
Tang Yi didn’t insist, “Yuan Yuan plans to transfer to No.1 High School, he might have to live at our house for a while.”
Yun Fang was stunned, “Who?”
“Your cousin from your third aunt’s family.” Tang Yi patted him with an embarrassed expression, “When Yuan Yuan comes, don’t quarrel with him again. You two used to be so close, take this opportunity to make up.”
Yun Fang followed Tang Yi’s words and chatted with her for a few sentences, figuring out who this “Yuan Yuan” was.
Yun Fang’s third aunt’s son was called Sun Yuan, who was about the same age as him. He used to go to a middle school, but he didn’t score enough to go to a high school in the town. Later, his third uncle used connections and bribed, and finally got him into the art class of No.1 High School.
Sun Yuan’s home was inconvenient in the town. Because he was a transfer student, the accommodation procedures couldn't be done for a while, so he thought of living at Yun Fang’s house first.
And according to Tang Yi, Sun Yuan seemed to have had a quarrel with Yun Fang before, and it was very stiff, but the adults obviously didn’t take it seriously.
When he got home, Yun Fang saw Yun Heyu cleaning up the small bedroom that had been emptied out. The small bedroom had a double bed, which was used by Yun Fang’s grandparents when they occasionally came to stay. Now it was prepared for Sun Yuan as a bedroom.
“Sugar, he won’t stay for too long.” Yun Heyu was obviously afraid that he would not agree, “Wait for your third uncle to get his accommodation procedures done, he will live in school, and won’t disturb you.”
Yun Fang nodded, “It’s okay.”
Seeing his mature and aloof look, Tang Yi thought he was sulking. She couldn’t help but pinch his face and laughed, “Sugar be good, Mom will make you sweet and sour ribs.”
Yun Fang was caught off guard by the pinch on his face, and he froze in place.
Seeing his look, Tang Yi found him even cuter. She reached out and rubbed his face hard, “Oh my, how handsome my son is.”
Yun Fang slowly and firmly removed her hand, went into his room, closed the door, all in one go.
Then he heard Tang Yi’s happy laughter, “Why are you shy with your own mom!”
Yun Fang rubbed his hot ears hard and angrily took out his homework to do.
These were Yun Fang’s biological parents, not his.
If Tang Yi and Yun Heyu knew his true identity, they would probably run as far as they could.
He couldn’t accept their closeness and love openly, he didn’t deserve such good parents.
The only thing he could do now was to work harder to make himself as excellent as Yun Fang, to reassure them.
Time always flies fast. Yun Fang had been in Class 10 for three days now, and he finally could barely recognize all the students in the class.
The little round-faced classmate who helped Yi Chenliang deliver water before was called Ji Shumo. He said that he was previously charged protection fees by a small gangster, but Yi Chenliang saved him when he passed by, and since then he unilaterally recognized Yi Chenliang as his big brother.
Ji Shumo boasted to Yun Fang about Yi Chenliang’s glorious deeds, as if he had finally found a listener, and was so excited that he used his hands and feet, “My brother Yi just punched that little purple-haired guy into the wall ten centimeters deep with a left hook, then swept three people with a sweeping kick, followed by an elbow strike that directly knocked the gang leader down, and then calmly picked up his schoolbag and left–”
“It can be described as ‘after the event, brush off the clothes and go, hiding the achievements and name’!” Ji Shumo punched his palm, “Don’t worry, study god, with Brother Yi as your deskmate, no one will dare bully you.”
Yun Fang put the completed test paper in the book, and slowly coaxed the child, “Wow, Yi Chenliang is so powerful.”
Yi Chenliang finished using the restroom and walked in the door just to hear Yun Fang’s strange and insincere praise, he looked at Yun Fang with a constipated face, “Are you mocking me?”