Age of Legends

Chapter 3: Dreams
In the classroom which was quiet for a moment, Zhang Chen walked in, crossed the aisle, and sat down in his seat.

Perhaps he took the whole process too seriously.

Perhaps he was showing an indescribable aura, and there was not a single fluctuation on his face, which made the scene freeze for a moment.

Zhou Ming glanced at him and continued teaching. The classroom returned to order until the end of the get out of class, as if the incident had never happened.

But when Zhou Ming left the classroom with the book, he glanced in the direction of Zhang Chen and thought, forget it, a half-baked person like Zhang Chen in the class will probably go to a third-rate university in the future, or go straight into society or something, and is not worth saving.

Moreover, this kid is quite tall, just about 1.8 meters tall. If we really fight, I may not be able to win, and it will also be embarrassing for me, so I'll just let him go for now.

As Zhou Ming walked out of the classroom, Wang Shuowei, who was in the "sightseeing chat area" at the same time, came over, put his arm around Zhang Chen's neck, and squeezed him hard, then looked at him with some admiration, "You look pretty cool today! You look really proud!"

Wang Shuowei is his best friend. They knew each other when they were kids. They lived in the compound of the city TV station next door. They grew up together. When he was young, his father even forced him to acknowledge him as his godfather.

His father is Wang Bowen, a host of the city radio station. He used to host the financial channel and was quite famous in the 1970s and 1980s. His mother also worked in the same unit, but later ran off with a Hong Kong businessman. His father never recovered after that, but he did not ruin his son. He did not mix in society and did not have any bad habits. At most, he was a little playful, just like Zhang Chen.

Moreover, his father probably felt that he owed him something, so he was never short of money. Therefore, Wang Shuowei had always worn good clothes and eaten good food since he was a child. He wore Nike and Adidas, and even often got to experience foreign gadgets such as Sony CDs, film cameras, and Nintendo game consoles first. Zhang Chen benefited a lot from following him.

As the saying goes, one should be grateful to those who have benefited from him, so Wang Shuowei seemed to have the demeanor of a leader in front of him. In addition, Zhang Chen called his father godfather, so Wang Shuowei also secretly promoted Zhang Chen as his younger brother to others.

Wang Shuowei later got into the gaming industry, but failed and ended up in debt of tens of millions. He became autistic and refused to see Zhang Chen. One year, on a whim, he sent a WeChat message to Zhang Chen, saying that he had found a delicious barbecue restaurant near his home and would treat him to a meal when he returned to Rongcheng.

There was no further news after that.

Wow, it turns out this barbecue is waiting for me here.

Zhang Chen pulled down the hand that was around his neck. At that time, the boy always took pride in challenging the teacher's authority, as if this showed that he had courage that no one else had. However, he did not realize that some more mature and sensible people would only think that this behavior was childish and silly.

But Zhou Ming is different. First of all, he is the class teacher. No matter how stupid and unruly a student is, he will actually be more restrained in front of the class teacher. His mischief is usually directed at the subject teachers.

Secondly, Zhou Ming has his own ways of bullying and dealing with people. He established his authority since he entered the school in the first year of high school. Those children of officials also know that their fathers have to be friendly when they invite Zhou Ming to dinner. No matter how spoiled they are, they have to shrink back, because if Zhou Ming reports them, his father will really beat them up.

This shows the value of Zhang Chen's actions just now.

In their opinion, this was a clear injustice to Zhou Ming, but Zhang Chen had the courage to break this injustice and suppressed Zhou Ming with his momentum.

So not only Wang Shuowei, but people around him also came over, gave him the thumbs-up and made jokes.

When the figures around Zhang Chen were floating, Zhang Chen keenly noticed something. He looked through the gap between two people towards the central front row of the classroom, and then saw a pair of slender and smart eyes.

Those eyes were typical phoenix eyes, with the tails slightly upturned elegantly, sometimes looking lazy and sometimes sharp.

At this moment, the pair of eyes was staring at him sharply. When Shen Nuo saw Zhang Chen, his nose and eyebrows suddenly wrinkled, the corners of his lips curled up, and he made a silent "tsk!" threatening gesture towards him.

However, this threat was neither fierce nor scary. In fact, to Zhang Chen, who had experienced a lot of experience, it even seemed like a delicate and dignified young girl.

Hiss...what's going on?
Wang Shuowei, who saw everything, said, "You were beaten by your mother because of her the day before yesterday, but you don't remember it today? But it's true, it's her birthday, who told you to install a bunch of viruses on her computer in order to play games, causing it to crash and even breaking her crystal column ornaments!" The case has been solved. No wonder Huang Huifen said today that she has forgotten the pain after the scar healed, and she is not convinced and doesn't remember the beating. It turns out that the source is here.

Now I think of it, Shen Nuoyi, can barely be considered as someone who grew up together with these three departments and four academies.

The so-called three companies and four courtyards refer to the three companies at the intersection of Zhengheng Street and Zhongba Street, namely, NanGuang Group, a trading company, and a department store.

The four courtyards are the TV station compound, government agency dormitory, Cultural Bureau compound and Industrial Design Institute dormitory.

Most of the children in this living area attend nearby schools, from government kindergartens, factory kindergartens, primary schools to middle schools. They are classmates and know each other, and there is a lot of interaction between them.

In later generations, there is a six-degree-of-separation rule, which says that there are only six people between you and anyone else in this world. If we put it here, about two or three people can sort out the relationship.

Moreover, there was no commercial housing economy like in later generations in that era. Most people had fixed residences, and their parents’ units basically allocated them houses. Therefore, the structure of children in a certain area did not change much. They had many acquaintances from childhood to adulthood and could become familiar with each other.

Since NanGuang Company and the TV station compound were close to each other, the children from both sides mostly ran back and forth between them.

Zhang Chen met Shen Nuoyi when he went to Wang Shuowei's house to play in sixth grade.

Of course, before this, the name Shen Nuoyi had always been in his ears. Since childhood, Shen Nuoyi had been one of the goddesses among the children of the three departments and four courtyards. She had grown into a beauty when she was young. When she was in kindergarten, there were little boys who would grab White Rabbit milk candies and her mother's gold ring from home for her. She was once on the "hot search list" of neighbors.

As for elementary and middle school, she was already very popular. She usually took the center position in various school competitions, dances and shows and had many suitors, needless to say.

However, she does not have the facial structure to be charming and beautiful. Instead, she has a masculine appearance. Her slender and upturned eyes have a heroic air. She is beautiful in a way that can hold her own, rather than just being a vase.

The first time I met Shen Nuoyi was at Wang Shuowei's birthday party, where he invited countless friends, big and small. The little brat Zhang Chen had never seen him for many years, but had only heard of his name.

But that day seemed so ordinary, they were running outside playing the game of cops and robbers.

When Shen Nuo got tired of playing, he sat on the flower bed to rest.

Zhang Chen lagged behind that day, and seeing her like a fairy, he also came forward and sat down beside her. After she was stunned for a moment, she suddenly stretched out her hand, "You must be Zhang Chen, right? I always hear Wang Shuowei talking about you, you are quite funny!"

God has mercy on me. Zhang Chen never thought that she would be remembered by Shen Nuoyi because of her funny behavior. I don't know what Wang Shuowei usually said to her, Wang Shuowei, I am your father!
However, I didn't expect her to be so generous and her hands were so soft.

Later, Zhang Chen would often recall this first meeting.

Once I dreamed that she was still the same as she was back then, sitting on the flower bed, like a fairy.

Before he could walk over to sit next to her, he was woken by the alarm clock.

Big dream.

A big dream.

(End of this chapter)