Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 170 - 169: Brother Zhuangshi Specializes in Dealing with Riffraff

Chapter 170: Chapter 169: Brother Zhuangshi Specializes in Dealing with Riffraff

Lin Nianhe and Wang Shumei took a detour back to the village school where Principal Wu was still trying to persuade Li Dahe.

Principal Wu’s voice was slightly hoarse, indicating the persuasion wasn’t going smoothly.

"Anyway, it’s a no-go. It doesn’t matter what anyone says, I have to be responsible for all three hundred people, young and old, in the village." Li Dahe looked at Principal Wu, earnestly nagging, "Principal Wu, you’re an educated person. I can’t outreason you, but tell me, what if—just what if one of our girls from our team is harmed by them, what then?"

Principal Wu kept hitting the palm of her left hand with the back of her right hand, her brows knitted tightly: "Captain Li, how old are these two young comrades? You can’t be biased against them just because something happened in Victory Team in the past. Even if they’re from the same team, people are different..."

Li Dahe waved his hand to cut her off: "Just tell me, what will we do if something happens?"

Principal Wu glared at him: "If something happens, I’ll take responsibility!"

"How will you take responsibility?"

"You... They haven’t done anything wrong now, Li Dahe, you can’t be unreasonable..."

"How am I being unreasonable? Isn’t it too late if something happens after they’ve done something?"

"..."

Lin Nianhe stood by the gate, watching their argument unfold, unable to suppress a smile at the corner of her mouth.

One believes in education without discrimination, a good principal; the other wants to nip even one in a hundred thousand risks in the bud, a good captain. How could two people who are both right argue to a conclusion?

She cleared her throat to attract their attention.

Li Dahe immediately turned to Lin Nianhe: "You little rascal, causing trouble on your first day back? Do you believe I can dock all your points?"

He managed to hold back his temper when talking to Principal Wu, but when scolding Lin Nianhe, he had no psychological pressure, just like scolding his own little bastard.

Just as Lin Nianhe opened her mouth to speak, she heard Principal Wu say: "Nianhe, this is our primary school’s business, why did you tell him?"

Lin Nianhe: "..."

Great, all the frustration is now being directed at her.

If Dou E didn’t time travel, she’d be the most wronged person in this era.

She spread her hands, turned her head away, and with a nod of her chin towards someone hiding behind the wall, she signaled for him to come out.

Her gesture left Principal Wu and Li Dahe somewhat confused, instinctively turning their gaze in that direction.

Zhao Zhuangshi swaggered out from behind the wall, first nodding and bowing to greet Principal Wu and Li Dahe, then squinting at Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian, who were standing aside, at a loss.

He sauntered up to them, intending to establish authority with a slap each, but seeing the gauze-wrapped head of Cao Shijian like a work of art, he directed both slaps at Wu Genmao’s head instead.

Wu Genmao was smacked left, then right, and just as he thought to resist, Zhao Zhuangshi said: "Just you two represent Victory Team, huh?"

That familiar voice, familiar slap!

Wu Genmao’s eyes widened in terror, his legs instinctively beginning to ache.

He remembered, this was the guy who led the chase after them the night before!

Zhao Zhuangshi licked the corner of his mouth with a ferocious grin and slapped him again: "Speak up!"

Wu Genmao nodded feebly, "Yes, yes, the two of us are from Victory Team..."

"Just you two wanted to snatch a wife from our village and take her back, huh?" Zhao Zhuangshi’s eyes bulged like cow’s eyes, bloodshot as if shooting fire.

Wu Genmao immediately felt wronged: "No! I didn’t! Neither of us did!"

Cao Shijian, having eaten his fill and taken a bath, was now spirited and interjected: "What do we need a wife for? We just want to work hard, so that later on we can..."

Wu Genmao broke out into a cold sweat from the scare and quickly added: "So that later on we can make something of ourselves!"

"Ah," Zhao Zhuangshi looked them over and tapped his chest with his thumb, "You know who I am, right?"

"Uh..."

"Listen up, my name is Zhao Zhuangshi." With hands in pockets and head cocked back, he looked down his nose at them, "Remember this, whoever dares to court our village’s young ladies or widows, I’ll set their entire village on fire!"

Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian shivered in unison.

Both were five years younger than Zhao Zhuangshi, having grown up on legends of Brother Zhuangshi.

With the lasting impression and yesterday’s agony, the wannabe thug Wu Genmao could only nod tearfully: "Brother Zhuangshi, rest assured, we wouldn’t even think of touching a sow, I promise!"

"Mhm."

Zhao Zhuangshi swaggered off towards Li Dahe, muttering to himself, "I knew it, they’d have to be crazy to show off on my turf."

Just as he stopped in front of Li Dahe, Zhao Zhuangshi’s ruffian facade disappeared, and he turned on a sheepish smile, saying, "Uncle Li, they said they weren’t here for brides."

Li Dahe’s expression was dark.

He now wanted not only to get rid of those two boys from Victory Team but also this one in front of him.

Zhao Zhuangshi keenly noticed Li Dahe’s twitching leg.

He immediately stepped back, deftly moving behind Principal Wu before Li Dahe could kick him, asking her, "Principal, Uncle Guan said there’s not much to do in the cattle pen and asked me to work at the school. What should I do?"

Principal Wu glanced at Lin Nianhe, who was still on tiptoes at the gate, and couldn’t suppress the upward curl of her lips.

She said, "You’ll go clear the fields at the back, work hard. The school kids’ veggies are counting on it."

"Got it." Zhao Zhuangshi promptly turned around, taking Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian with him.

This time, Li Dahe did not stop them.

He paced back and forth with furrowed brows and his hands behind his back, then turned to Lin Nianhe: "Was this rotten idea also yours?"

Lin Nianhe looked innocent: "Would you believe me if I said I just happened to run into Zhao Zhuangshi on my way back?"

"Believe you?" Li Dahe rolled his eyes, "How could you ’happen’ across him when he’s working in the cattle pen?"

After pondering for a moment, Lin Nianhe earnestly replied, "Then it must be Zhao Zhuangshi not taking his work seriously and sneaking off!"

Li Dahe: "..."

Wang Shumei murmured softly, "Now I believe what you said before... you really are devious."

Her voice was so faint, only Lin Nianhe could hear it.

Pretending not to hear, Lin Nianhe, with hands behind her back, entered the school, cheerfully saying, "Uncle Team Leader, you can be at ease now, right? With Principal Wu’s guidance and Zhao Zhuangshi keeping watch, we’ll be extra careful; they won’t stir up trouble."

Li Dahe hummed noncommittally and made no further comment.

But from that day on, he would drift to the village school when he had the chance, assigning Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaoshan to help with the reclaimed field - officially to assist, but really...

The farming Zhao Zhuangshi had done was perhaps even less than Wen Lan’s, and he had never touched the grueling task of clearing fields; Wu Genmao and Cao Shijian, after two years on the outside, found it hard to wield the shovel once again.

And so, Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaoshan transformed from onlookers to the main workforce of the field-clearing, completely engrossed in digging and oblivious to whatever else was going on.

This infuriated Li Dahe so much that he would curse them as blockheads even in his dreams.