Chapter 41

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Strange put the clothes away neatly, picked up the panda mask, which had a very cute Kung Fu Panda face, with a very funny expression. Nalan Ruyue couldn't help but smile, thinking: Brother is really childlike.

She put the mask back in its place, cleaned the room, and then took the clothes Liu Menglong had changed out of yesterday and walked out.

On the first floor, while Nalan Ruyue was washing clothes, Yue Chang finally yawned and walked out of her room, wearing a light blue tank top with white water droplets and a white short skirt, revealing her white and tender thighs. She walked in slippers, stretching lazily: "Ah~~ Huh... I slept so well! Good morning, Sister Ruyue."

Nalan Ruyue smiled slightly, typed a few words on her phone, and handed it to Yue Chang: "Good morning, are you hungry?"

"Speaking of which..." Yue Chang covered her stomach, which growled twice. She blushed and stuck out her tongue cutely: "Sister Ruyue, I'm hungry."

Nalan Ruyue smiled and typed a few more words on her phone: "I'll heat up breakfast, go wash your face first!"

"Thank you, Sister Ruyue." Yue Chang hugged Nalan Ruyue, their faces touching, rubbing against each other affectionately: "Hehe~~ Sister Ruyue's face is so smooth." Her soft, cute voice was adorable.

Nalan Ruyue smiled slightly, gently pushed Yue Chang away, pointed to the bathroom, and turned to go to the kitchen. Yue Chang also went to the bathroom.

Soon, Yue Chang sat at the table, eating the heated-up steamed buns, and said with a few mumbles: "Sister Ruyue, your cooking is really good." She turned her head and looked at Yue Xi, who was sleeping soundly on the sofa, deliberately lowering her soft voice: "Even better than Xi Xi!"

Nalan Ruyue smiled slightly and made a thank-you gesture. Yue Chang and Yue Xi had long understood such simple sign language.

"Sister Ruyue, can I ask you a question?" Yue Chang picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of her mouth, looking at Nalan Ruyue seriously.

A hint of confusion flashed in Nalan Ruyue's eyes, and she nodded.

"Do you like Big Brother?"

Nalan Ruyue's eyes widened, as if she had been startled, and her face turned a bit red. Facing Yue Chang's intense gaze, she lowered her head, picked up her phone, and started typing a long message...

After another day of work, Liu Menglong saw that his Architect profession had reached 68% proficiency at the Advanced level, which made him very happy. After leveling up in the early morning, his strength and speed had increased slightly. Now, he could finally reach a 10% proficiency increase each day. At this rate, it would take just a little over three days to upgrade his Architect level to Master.

After reaching the Master level, the final level would be the Perfect level. It had taken him over ten days to go from Advanced to Master, and if he wanted to reach the Perfect level, he would probably spend the entire summer at the construction site.

Liu Menglong was a physical education teacher at Tianfu No. 3 Middle School. After the summer, he would have to report to the school. His students were all middle schoolers, but Tianfu No. 3 Middle School was not a good school. Most of the students were descendants of the former Tianfu Army, and growing up in such families, the boys were naturally aggressive, and even the girls were no less fierce. Single fights and group brawls were as common as eating and drinking.

But while they were aggressive and fought, bullying the weak was almost non-existent at Tianfu No. 3. Collecting protection money was even more impossible. Once, three members of a small gang tried to collect protection money from Tianfu No. 3 students, but they were surrounded by hundreds of half-grown kids with bricks and chairs, and after a group beating, the three unlucky ones spent a year in the hospital. They were said to have become completely dependent on their parents after that, unable to even eat or use the toilet properly.

After that group beating incident, no gang dared to collect protection money at Tianfu No. 3. Some parents even sent their children to Tianfu No. 3 to avoid being bullied.

However, while the students at Tianfu No. 3 were not bullied, the faculty was quite ordinary. Liu Menglong, a mediocre physical education teacher, was also easily replaceable. This was partly because physical education teachers were not very useful in ordinary schools, and the good ones all went to sports schools. Only the mediocre ones stayed in ordinary schools.

Due to the poor faculty, Tianfu No. 3's high school entrance exam pass rate was less than 60%, and this had not improved in over ten years. As a result, many parents, despite knowing that their children would not be bullied at Tianfu No. 3, were hesitant to send them there.

Such a 'terrible' pass rate, what's the point!

Thinking about his job as a physical education teacher, Liu Menglong was considering whether to quit. It wasn't because of the low salary; with the system, he didn't need the money. The key was that being a physical education teacher didn't seem like a life career. Even if it were, what benefits could even the best physical education teacher bring?

National-level physical education teacher benefits? Killing a thousand wouldn't be enough.

Beep—beep beep beep—

A series of car horns broke Liu Menglong's thoughts. His eyes narrowed as he saw that there had been an accident ahead, with many people gathered, causing traffic to become congested. Some impatient drivers honked their horns, making the situation even more chaotic.

Lowering the window, Liu Menglong stuck his head out and asked the car in front: "Bro, what's going on up ahead?"

"Who knows, it's a traffic accident. Hey—, are they moving up ahead? My wife is waiting for me to come home for dinner!" This guy seemed to have a bad temper.

Curious, he slowly inched forward, really inching, as the car speed was no faster than a bug's.

As he approached the scene, Liu Menglong heard a sobbing cry in the noise, a cry filled with panic, disbelief, grievance, and intense anger.

"I'm telling you, crying won't help. You hit me today, and if you don't pay me, you won't be going anywhere." An old lady's voice reached his ears. Combined with the young, sobbing voice, Liu Menglong immediately thought of one word—fraud.

"You... you're lying. It was you who fell down, and I only helped you up because I felt sorry for you. How can you do this?" A slightly young girl's voice reached his ears, causing a stir at the scene.

Hearing this, Liu Menglong was almost certain of the situation. It was definitely an old lady who had fallen, and a young person, being 'naive,' had helped her up, only to be scammed.

However... Liu Menglong frowned, feeling that the girl's voice was somewhat familiar.

In no time, Liu Menglong drove to the accident scene. At a glance, he saw an old lady with gray hair lying on the ground, her hands tightly gripping the legs of a 14-15-year-old girl. No matter what others said, she refused to let go.

The old lady was thin and had a mean look, while the girl she was holding had a sweet face, with a cute twin-tail hairstyle, wearing a white short-sleeved T-shirt and blue denim shorts, revealing a pair of white, tender legs. She wore a pair of playful red sandals, looking cheerful, but her eyes were red and swollen, and her face was covered in tear marks, as if she had been greatly wronged.

Recognizing the girl, Liu Menglong's face darkened. He parked the car by the roadside, got out, and pushed through the crowd to the accident scene.

"Lin Jie!" Liu Menglong called out. The crying girl immediately turned her head, and upon seeing Liu Menglong, her face lit up with surprise: "Teacher Liu!"

Liu Menglong nodded, walked to her, and looked coldly at the old lady, asking, "What's going on here?"

This girl, Lin Jie, was Liu Menglong's student, the PE committee member of Class 2, Grade 1 before the summer, and would be a second-year junior after the summer. Despite her young age, she was already 1.67 meters tall, making her very tall for her age, especially in Tianfu, where people were generally shorter. This made her stand out in her class, and her height played a decisive role in her being chosen as the PE committee member.

The relationship between a PE teacher and a PE committee member was closer than that of ordinary teacher-student relationships. Lin Jie was a girl who liked basketball, and Liu Menglong also enjoyed it. During free time in PE class, Lin Jie often challenged Liu Menglong to one-on-one matches, and although the result was always the same, she never got tired of it. Over the year, Liu Menglong and Lin Jie became basketball buddies, and sometimes they would meet on weekends to play basketball at an outdoor court.

Seeing his student and basketball buddy being wronged, Liu Menglong stepped forward resolutely!

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