Electronic Nezha

Chapter 94 Naughty Child

Having solved our immediate problem, we strolled home. Liu Zhenhua said, "Dad, I'm hungry."

I was hungry too. Before Liu Zhenhua came back, I was afraid that the glasses shop would close after get off work, so I didn't let Yuanyuan cook. But she had already prepared all kinds of ingredients, and she guaranteed that the food would be ready in five minutes as soon as we got home.

Liu Zhenhua pointed to a meat pie shop and said, "Let's eat this."

"If we don't go back to eat, Yuan Yuan will be sad." You have a superb nanny at home, and you're eating out on the side?

“She has no heart,” Liu Zhenhua chuckled. “Although Yuanyuan’s cooking is good, it gets boring after a while.”

Actually, we had already entered the meat pie shop while we were talking...

I ordered four meat pies, a bowl of rice noodle soup for each person, and a small side of pickled vegetables. The meat pies looked so appetizing when they arrived, glistening with oil. I picked one up, opened my mouth wide, and before I could even take a bite, a phone call came in from an unknown number.

I had a bad feeling; lately, anything bad has happened with unfamiliar phone numbers.

"Hello, this is Liu Chuanfeng."

"You must be Liu Zhenhua's father?" The man opposite me spoke in a very unfriendly tone. Having heard the title "Liu Zhenhua's father" twice in one day, I couldn't help but glance at Liu Zhenhua himself, who was currently munching on a meat pie.

Before I could respond, the other person said menacingly, "Do you know that your son removed my son's car seat?"

I was completely confused: "Where?"

“I am Cui Haoxiang’s father. You can ask your son and you’ll know—he took Cui Haoxiang’s bike seat after school, and my son rode it four kilometers home with his butt sticking out!”

I was completely speechless, so I turned up the phone volume so Liu Zhenhua could hear it too.

Cui Haoxiang's father's voice was filled with anger: "Shouldn't you be disciplining your son? There's a crackdown on school bullying right now, and this is a typical case! Tell me, should I call the police or what?"

Liu Zhenhua was also surprised after hearing this. He said on the phone, "Uncle, I didn't tear it down."

"What do you mean it wasn't you? Cui Haoxiang watched as you laughed the loudest while holding up his car seat. You took the car seat away and hid it. He had to walk home with his butt sticking out, do you know that?"

"I--"

"Let your parent speak to me!"

I took the phone and said, "Old Cui, I'm listening. Don't be angry yet, let me find out what's going on first—"

"I can't wait! You have Liu Zhenhua bring the car seat to apologize to my son. If I don't see any of your people in half an hour, I'm calling the police!"

Liu Zhenhua's eyes also flashed with anger as he said to me, "Let him report it!"

I whispered to Liu Zhenhua, "Do you know where the bicycle seat is?"

Liu Zhenhua nodded, and I suddenly felt uncertain.

I said to Cui Haoxiang's father, "Here's an address, and we'll talk when we meet."

"Hurry up!" Cui Haoxiang's father hung up the phone immediately.

I looked at Liu Zhenhua, who threw the meat pie he had only taken two bites of onto the plate and spread his hands, saying, "It really wasn't me, it was Zhang Jingxuan and the others who did it."

"Then how did you know where the car seat was?"

"They always make these kinds of jokes with each other, and the places where they hide things are just a few places."

"You really didn't do anything?"

"No! I was just watching the fun from the sidelines. Then someone handed me the car seat, and I... raised it up."

I thought for a moment and said, "Send the car seat to the person first, and then explain the situation."

"Why should I deliver it if it's none of my business?"

“Because they saw you. The fact that Cui Haoxiang went home with his butt sticking out has already happened. If you are treated like this, my tone will definitely not be better than his father's. Can you understand that?”

Liu Zhenhua nodded, then said, "I didn't know they didn't return the car seat to Cui Haoxiang in the end." "So you think that's enough to explain things?"

Liu Zhenhua lowered his head and said, "I can't explain it."

"Let's go, let's find the thing first." No matter what, we can't let Cui come to school with his butt sticking out again, otherwise no matter what role Liu Zhenhua played, he'll be held responsible for everything in the end.

Now we didn't need to eat the meat pie anymore; we packed it up and took it with us. Liu Zhenhua led me to two places in the old building across the street from the school, and we quickly found a car seat in a corner of a stairwell.

We went back downstairs and got into Xiao Wu's car. Xiao Wu seemed to sense the low atmosphere in the car and tried hard to find a station playing soft music for us.

The other party sent me a short text message with only the name of the community and the building number, but no unit number or floor number. Since cars couldn't enter the community, Liu Zhenhua and I walked in. At the supermarket at the entrance, I hesitated for a moment about whether to buy some gifts or something, but then I felt that it was not appropriate to do anything that would betray our country and humiliate us before the matter was settled.

When I got downstairs, I called Cui Haoxiang's father, but no one answered for a long time. I had to call twice before he arrogantly gave me the address. I pressed the door number in front of the building, but no one opened the door for a long time. In the end, I sneaked in with someone else.

In the elevator, I was holding the car seat, trying to figure out how to get to the bottom of things, while Liu Zhenhua held his head high, looking like he was eager to confront someone.

"Try to talk less later," I reminded him.

"Reason cannot be clarified without debate!" Liu Zhenhua said this, which made me both laugh and cry. This is the scary thing about the second-generation teenagers. They look like teenagers, but they are still children. As they grow older, they will try to understand society with adult thinking. For now, they only recognize right and wrong.

Once I got upstairs, I knocked on the door for a long time. Cui Haoxiang, a chubby guy, opened the door.

"Dad, Liu Zhenhua is here." Cui Haoxiang didn't greet us when he saw us, but turned around and called out to him.

His dad was sitting on the sofa watching TV when he slowly got up and walked over. He glanced at the bicycle seat in my hand and said sarcastically, "You've come to apologize?"

Liu Zhenhua stepped forward and said, "Uncle, this has nothing to do with me. Cui Haoxiang, what did you tell your dad?"

Cui Haoxiang stammered, "I didn't see clearly when you removed my car seat, but I did see you playing with it."

Why don't you tell the truth?

Cui Haoxiang's father glared at him and said, "You're threatening my son to my face, aren't you?"

I pulled Liu Zhenhua behind me and said, "Take your time and talk it out."

Seeing that he couldn't count on Cui Haoxiang, Liu Zhenhua said to his father, "It was Zhang Jingxuan and Zhao Hanyu who dismantled the car seats. I didn't participate and didn't know beforehand; I just took a few."

"Zhang Jingxuan is the top student in the grade, how could he have time to dismantle someone's bicycle seat?" Cui Haoxiang's father said. "But this Zhao Hanyu is no good, he has the worst grades—" He then asked Cui Haoxiang, "I heard you say that he treated a group of people to milk tea after school at noon, was it just so they could gang up on you tonight?"

Milk tea? I gave Liu Zhenhua a deep look. I remembered that he brought a cup of milk tea home at noon.

Liu Zhenhua said, "Cui Haoxiang, did you see me make a move? Why didn't you say anything when Zhang Jingxuan discovered you taking apart his car seat a couple of days ago and you almost got into a fight?"

"It's his fault for not letting me copy—I still have homework to do." Seeing that things were going badly, the chubby boy went into his room and wouldn't come out.

It wasn't until now that I had a pretty good idea of ​​what really happened.

Cui Haoxiang's father glared at his son as he went back into the house, then composed himself and continued glaring at Liu Zhenhua: "What? You think you're right? The situation of school bullying is so serious right now, do you want to be expelled?"

Liu Zhenhua said, "Uncle, you should call the police. There are cameras all around the school. If they catch me tearing it down, I'll drop out of school myself."

I said to Cui Haoxiang's father, "How about this, let's call all the parents of those students and ask them what happened. If you're really angry, then do whatever you want."

Cui Haoxiang's father glared at me and said, "You're trying to trap me? How would he know where it was if it wasn't your son who hid it?"

“Your son also knows where other people hide their things.”

At this moment, a woman's voice came from inside the house: "Alright, alright, be careful with your jokes. Don't people want to sleep in the middle of the night?" Cui Haoxiang's mother appeared. She was also plump and had a face mask on as she spoke in the living room.

That sounds like an attempt to smooth things over, but it's actually a bit of a double standard. I was the one who delivered the car seat in the middle of the night!

Cui Haoxiang's father snatched the car seat from my hand and said rudely, "Don't do it again, or you'll face the consequences!" He glared at Liu Zhenhua and then slammed the door shut before I could say anything. Through the door, I could hear him deliberately shouting, "That saying is really true: behind every bratty kid is a bratty parent."

(End of this chapter)