My Underachieving Seatmate Doesn't Need Any Comforting

Chapter 39

Chapter 39

At this time, Qiao Shao had no idea what was happening. He was just thinking of reviewing what he’d learned during noon break. Confucius was right when he said that ‘one must recall the past to understand the future’.

He was flipping through a book when Chen Su’s cell phone rang. Qiao Shao thought nothing of it and continued to ponder this confusing physics problem.

Chen Su picked up his phone and stood by the window to take the call. “Mom, I’m ...”

The next second, Chen Su’s voice rose several octaves. “What!”

Qiao Shao raised his head and looked towards him, a little worried. What is it? Did something happen with Chen Su’s family?

Wei Jiayu, who was burrowed in his bed, playing games, was also startled. Disgruntled, he looked towards Chen Su “What’s are shouting about? Thanks to you, Laozi’s three kills are gone!”

Chen Su was in a state of absolute surprise. “That’s impossible, why ... Why would any parent issue such a big red envelope?”

Hearing here, Qiao Shao’s heart jumped. He had a bad feeling about this.

It can’t be...

He had just insisted that his dad keep a low profile ...

Comrade Da Qiao surely wouldn’t dig such a big pit for him!

Chen Su hung up the call and drew in a breath after looking through his phone.

Qiao Shao couldn’t concentrate on his book anymore and asked, “What’s wrong?”

After being out of it for a few seconds, he showed his phone to Qiao Shao. “Someone sent a red envelope in the parents’ group, my sister had taken my mother’s phone to play when she accidentally opened it, and then ...”

Qiao Shao saw the nickname—the Old Man in the Mountain.

It’s his dad! !! !!

Chen Su’s ended, “My sister grabbed two thousand yuan.”

Qiao Shao almost fainted.

This was too mysterious. Wei Jiayu was stunned, he said, “Looks like your class has got itself a local tyrant.”

Even for the parents’ group of their class, parents would sent one or two thousand at most.

Who was this parent in Year One Class One who didn’t regard money as money?

It’s over! It’s over! It’s over! This thought kept running through Qiao Shao’s mind. His life in East High was now over, Chen Su’s going to blacklist him for sure.

Until he heard what Chen Su said next: “...I don’t know whose parents it is but he might have sent it by accident.”

Qiao Shao’s heart thumped. He was like a drowning man who had caught onto some driftwood. He hurriedly said, “I, I’ll go &#k2026;”

He stammered. “I’ll go and call my dad so he won’t scramble for it.”

He took his cell phone and rushed out the door. He quickly dialed his dad’s throwaway number.

Assistant Chen saw that it was the young master and calmly answered the phone. “Shao Shao, President Qiao is in a meeting. It was me in the group just now ...”

“Uncle Chen?” Upon hearing just half of it, Qiao Shao, more or less, had an idea of what happened!

Chen Hao said, “President Qiao told me to send a greeting to the parents’ group. He told me to be low-key, so I only issued a small red envelope.”

Qiao Shao now understood everything.

He’d only issued 8888 yuan, which was indeed low-key, but the problem was...

Comrade Da Qiao, I know you’re busy. But couldn’t you have made your instructions clearer?

And also......

Chen Su’s younger sister really had the gambler’s luck! She had grabbed a quarter of the amount meant for more than 150 people!

Qiao Shao couldn’t handle this anymore. He quickly said to Chen Hao. “Listen to me, Uncle Chen, I’m going to hang up and you will leave the group immediately. If anyone tries to add you, ignore it!”

Chen Hao froze.

Qiao Shao stressed, “Please do it, otherwise I’ll be done for!”

This remark was too grave. Chen Hao managed to rise to this position because he was an expert in weighing up someone’s words and observing their facial expressions. He heard the seriousness in Qiao Shao’s tone and immediately said, “Okay, I’ll leave the group.”

Qiao Shao hung up the phone and found that there was no longer an “Old Man in the Mountain” in the group.

He naively thought he had escaped.

Qiao Shao saw that the WeChat group had already exploded.

Actually, in this kind of parents’ group, parents would often send small red envelopes, maybe ten or eight yuan for something for them to play with.

Teachers will never join in the scramble, but the parents didn’t care. If they were bored, I’ll send and you can snatch and it will be a way to deepen their ties.

Although there were only forty-nine students in Year One Class One, but there were both students, parents and even teachers in the group, so there were around 150 people in total.

It just so happened that it was lunch time and a lot of people didn’t have anything on. When they saw a red envelope in the WeChat group, they snapped it up thoughtlessly.

Then...they were stunned!

The group has already in a heated discussion.

“What is going on?”

“Whose parent was so generous?”

“Was it accidentally sent by their kid playing with their phone?”

In the blink of an eye, most of the red envelopes were already snapped up, and some people then calculated the amount and said, “This is already six thousand yuan. Just how much was it?”

Others said, “This is the first time I’ve seen such a big envelope...”

Others asked, “Doesn’t WeChat limit the red envelopes to two hundred yuan?”

Another clarified, “That for person to person red envelopes. Since there’s a lot of people in a group, the limit is also quite high. My husband’s boss issued out a 5,000 yuan worth red envelope in the company group for their end of year party.”

Then a parent sighed, “Then the parent must have sent it accidentally.”

Qiao Shao saw that no one could tell who this parent was and returned to the dorm room with a sigh of relief.

As soon as he entered the room, he heart Chen Su telling his mom over the phone, “Mom, send a message in the group chat and have the teacher find out which parent sent it. We’ll return the money to him.”

Qiao Shao froze.

He heard Chen Su say, “No matter what, we can’t accept such a large amount of money.”

Qiao Shao was panicked, and wanted to shout, ‘Don’t look anymore! Just treat it as hush money!’

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, watching the commotion, Wei Jiayu glanced at Chen Su–

Four-eyed Chen was beyond poor but he had some moral integrity, that’s for sure.

Chen Su hung up the phone, and Qiao Shao saw that Chen Su’s Mother had already sent out a message about returning the money.

As she said this, quite a few parents agreed. “Yeah, let’s find whose parent this is and return the money to him.”

Then someone praised Chen Su’s Mother, saying that she was really lucky.

The group chat was so lively, but Qiao Shao’s back was drenched in cold sweat.

What to do? What to do? Why won’t this matter just die down!

At this time, someone found out, “That’s strange, Old man in the Mountain has left the group.”

“Why did he leave?”

“I don’t know. Why’d he leave after sending out such a big red envelope?”

This time it was even more suspicious. Everyone in the group was suddenly sending out comments, full of curiosity and their own conjectures.

At this time, Old Tang finally appeared.

He hadn’t been watching the group, but some parents had called him, and he hurried to see the situation.

Tang Yu said, “Everyone, please calm down. May I ask which child’s parent issued the red envelope?”

Normally, the parents would change their names to easily recognizable ones. For example, Chen Su’s mother was Mama Chen Su.

But the parent who issued the huge red envelope hadn’t changed his WeChat name.

All the parents were trying to catch Tang Yu up to speed.

“Teacher Tang, the man’s name was Old man in the Mountain. He seems to have left the group though. Look for him in your friends section.”

The head teacher usually had the WeChat contacts of all the parents.

Tang Yu looked through his friends list but despite looking through it from top to bottom, he couldn’t find Old Man in the Mountain.

Strange, whose parent was he? Surprisingly, he wasn’t added onto his friends’ list?

Tang Yu said in the group, “I’ll ask the students when I return to class in the afternoon to confirm whose parent it is.”

Qiao Shao, who was watching on the sidelines, calmed down a bit. Fortunately, he hadn’t added Da Qiao’s throwaway account to the list.

Maybe he could get away like this...

Unexpectedly, there was person in the group who came out with a clever idea. “Speaking of, I thought I saw a prompt about that member being added to the group.”

“There was?”

“Yeah, right before the red envelope was sent.”

“Look and see who added Old Man in the Mountain to the group.”

Qiao Shao saw this sentence and it was as if he had been struck by lightning.

He had forgotten about that...

Done for! He’s done for!

Although there were a lot of comments in the log, that wouldn’t stop them from combing through it.

The result came out—

“Qiao Shao? Is it the transfer student in our class?”