Chapter 99: Something Felt Slightly Amiss

After dinner, Lu Beiqin took Shen Chutang and left.

Old Master Shen said, “If nothing comes up, Beiqin, bring Chutang over for meals whenever you can. The countryside sent over a lot more vegetables; there’s more than we can ever finish.”

Lu Yuebai stood to the side, too afraid to say a word, terrified that one slip of the tongue would expose him.

Shen Chutang was very understanding. “Grandpa, please keep those vegetables for yourself. He and I will definitely come back often to see you.”

Only then did Old Master Shen nod. “Good. Our Chutang is still the most obedient.”

Once they were in the car, Shen Chutang headed to school, and Lu Beiqin drove her there.

“I’ll come pick you up tonight.”

Hearing that, Shen Chutang could not help asking, “Aren’t you driving for Shi Shaoxun? If you keep coming here to pick me up and take me back like this, won’t they have something to say?”

Lu Beiqin replied casually, “Shi Shaoxun has two drivers. I can switch shifts.”

Shen Chutang nodded and did not doubt him.

After arriving at school, Shen Chutang went straight to work as usual. In the morning she had them do a test paper, and in the afternoon she analyzed it with them.

The teachers of each subject also said that the students had made great progress, though because their foundation had been so weak before, they still needed time to catch up.

Still, Shen Chutang had already contacted the professors who tutored them during evening study hall, and they all said that by the midterm exams, it would definitely be no problem for the students to surpass the average score of Class F.

Considering how the children had behaved during this period, no longer running and roughhousing in the hallways after class, and how fiercely the whole class had thrown itself into studying, anyone passing through the corridor during break could not help but lower their steps.

After work, just as Shen Chutang was about to leave, a boy rushed in through the doorway.

“Teacher, the students from Class Z are fighting again! In the alley!”

Shen Chutang was puzzled. The students from Class Z ought to have been hurrying to eat dinner and waiting for evening study hall tutoring.

“Teacher, please hurry. The students from Class Z only listen to you; no one else can talk them down. If you don’t go now, they’ll definitely end up bloodied. It’s already the third year of senior high school—getting injured really won’t do!”

Hearing this, Shen Chutang finally nodded. “Lead the way.”

She was taken to a narrow alley, where she saw several thugs surrounding a few girls from Class Z. Luo Shencheng was not there, and only Lv Wendong and Xu Gaoyuan remained.

The two of them were not black-belt taekwondo practitioners like Luo Shencheng, and with girls there as well, they would certainly be at a disadvantage in a fight.

They themselves did not fear getting hurt, but they could not allow the girls beside them to suffer because of them.

Several girls from other classes were standing nearby. The moment they saw Shen Chutang arrive, they immediately rushed up.

“Teacher, you’re finally here! Hurry and stop them!”

A crowd of people jostled and shoved Shen Chutang, urging her to step in at once.

Shen Chutang stepped forward. “What are you doing?”

The instant Lv Wendong saw Shen Chutang, he felt as if he had found a pillar of support. “Boss, they just deliberately stopped Guan Zhenzhen and Xue Yunlan and demanded their contact information. When the girls refused to give it, these people would not let them leave!”

The punks in front of her looked vaguely familiar to Shen Chutang. Weren’t these the same ones she had dealt with last time?

Her gaze drifted lazily over them. “So it was you insisting on blocking the girls and asking for their contact information?”

The punks turned pale the moment they saw Shen Chutang. What kind of teacher had such terrifying fighting power?

One of them glanced past Shen Chutang toward the back. Seeing the gesture from that direction, he immediately forced a smile and said, “A misunderstanding. It’s all a misunderstanding. We just wanted to make friends with them. Since they don’t want to, we’ll leave.”

With that, the punks fled at once.

Shen Chutang faintly felt that something was off. Thinking of the way that punk had just looked at her, she immediately turned to look behind her.

At that moment, a girl walked over holding a phone. “Teacher, is this your phone? It fell just now.”

Shen Chutang took the phone and glanced at the girl in front of her. The girl’s expression was perfectly natural. “Teacher, what’s wrong?”

Shen Chutang looked behind her again, only to find that the student who had called her over to settle the trouble was gone, and so were the people who had just been shoving her forward.

“Nothing. Thank you.”

Frowning, Shen Chutang unlocked her phone. She had set alert programs on all important applications; if anyone tampered with the data inside, the phone would automatically back up the information to the cloud, after which the data on the phone itself would be destroyed.

But now, none of the important programs on the phone showed any sign of having been touched.

And from the moment she had been pushed out to deal with the matter until the phone was returned, only one or two minutes had passed. Even if those people had wanted to do something to the phone, they should not have been able to act that quickly.

Seeing that Shen Chutang’s expression had turned strange, Lv Wendong could not help asking, “Boss, what’s wrong?”

Shen Chutang shook her head. “Nothing. You go back and prepare for evening study hall.”

Though Lv Wendong and the others were puzzled, the evening session would include tutoring from professors from Jing University, an opportunity that money could not buy. None of them dared delay it, and they immediately prepared to leave.

Shen Chutang looked at the phone and opened her messages and contacts.

Everyone else’s information was encrypted, but Lu Beiqin’s alone was not.