Early in the morning, Qin Sheng wrapped up tightly in a disguise and arrived at the courtyard house where Ren Xiaosu and the others were staying.
He handed a student pass to Ren Xiaosu and said in embarrassment, “I wanted to apply for a new student pass for you, but the dean of Qinghe University did not agree. He said that no suspicious persons are allowed to enter his school at the moment in case his students come to any harm. The old dean can be a little stubborn, so not even we Riders are influential enough to ask for a favor.”
“Something like that happened?” Ren Xiaosu asked, “There are actually things that a Rider can’t handle in Luoyang City?”
“Yes, there’s two places where our words don’t matter. To be precise, it doesn’t matter who’s speaking.” Qin Sheng explained, “One of them is Hope Media, and the other is Qinghe University. Hope Media’s Chief Editor Jiang Xu and Principal Hu Xingzhi of Qinghe University are both very principled people. We also respect the two of them very much.”
“Then what about this student pass?” Ren Xiaosu asked.
“It’s my cousin’s student pass,” Qin Sheng replied. “Luckily, he has a similar face to yours, although he wears glasses. When you go through the security gate at school, just tell them you didn’t put on your glasses and that you look a little different from your ID photo. That’ll be good enough for them. You have to enter the school at 8 every morning and leave school at 8 PM. Be on time. Our undercover agents only work these two shifts.”
Ren Xiaosu nodded. “OK.”
It looked like Qin Sheng had arranged everything for him. Ren Xiaosu was a little embarrassed that he had to trouble Qin Sheng to arrange so many things for him at such a critical time.
However, Ren Xiaosu noticed Qin Sheng wanted to say something. He asked Qin Sheng with concern, “Is there anything else?”
“Oh.” Qin Sheng awkwardly took out a schedule and said, “This is my cousin’s class schedule.”
“What do you mean?” Ren Xiaosu was stunned.
“Look, since he gave you his student pass, he can’t go to school anymore. You have to take his place in class and get marked for attendance,” Qin Sheng said helplessly. Actually, his cousin just wanted to ditch. Now that he had someone attending school on his behalf, he couldn’t be happier. He could stay at home and play video games all day.
However, Qin Sheng felt embarrassed because this man in front of him was the future commander of the Northwest. Making the commander help with attendance was too much.
“Sure, no problem,” Ren Xiaosu agreed. Since they were helping him, he could not possibly reject such a trivial request. Besides, Ren Xiaosu also wanted to attend some college classes to see what it was all about.
After Qin Sheng finished going through the important matters, he was about to leave when Ren Xiaosu suddenly asked, “When will those people make their move?”
“I don’t know.” Qin Sheng shook his head. “We’ve killed a bunch of them these past two days. Perhaps, our harshness has shocked them. So, many of them have started lying low for now. However, Teacher said they’ll definitely take action. They’re just waiting for the right opportunity.”
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Ren Xiaosu would be going to Qinghe University alone. Zhou Yingxue tried to persuade Qin Sheng to get her a student pass as well, but Qin Sheng rejected her request. After all, she did not look like a student in the slightest.
When entering Qinghe University, the troops enforcing the lockdown outside the school did not even raise any doubts about Ren Xiaosu’s student identification.
This was not his first time at Qinghe University, but the campus was still a maze to him.
But what left him most speechless was that every class was actually held in a different classroom. In other words, he found himself losing his way before the start of every class.
“There’s only one class in the morning?” Ren Xiaosu looked at the schedule in his hands and thought the Qinghe University students had it easy. No wonder these people had the time to do all sorts of activities since they were mostly idle.
Ren Xiaosu walked around campus and inspected his surroundings. He was hoping to spot that familiar figure he was looking for, but he got nothing.
When he finally located the classroom for the class and went in, all the students in class turned around to look at Ren Xiaosu. Someone said, “Mate, this is the Humanities and Political Science class. Did you come to the wrong place?”
“Wait, do y’all know Zheng Hang?” Ren Xiaosu asked, checking his class schedule.
“Yes.” A girl said, “He’s a classmate of ours.”
Ren Xiaosu grinned and said, “Oh, I’m in the right place then. I’m here to attend class on his behalf. When does the teacher usually mark attendance?”
The students in the classroom were stunned. A male student shouted hyperbolically, “That Zheng Hang is way too lazy. He actually spent money to get someone to show up for attendance? Hey, how much do you charge for getting marked for attendance?”
These words stunned Ren Xiaosu. How did this get linked to charging a fee? Could there really be people in Qinghe University offering an attendance point scheme as a business?
He grinned and replied, “30 yuan per class.”
“That’s quite a fair price.” A male student joked, “But with two to three classes per day, I’m afraid that only a nouveau riche kid like Zheng Hang can afford it. I’m so jealous.”
At this moment, the sound of a cane tapping on the ground came from outside the classroom. The class immediately quieted down. A male student shot Ren Xiaosu a look to get him to sit down.
But it was too late. The tapping of the cane had already reached the door. When Ren Xiaosu turned around, both him and the person outside were stunned.
The person who came to class was the chief editor of Hope Media, Jiang Xu!
There were many visiting professors at Qinghe University. These professors were all people with extremely high social standing and academic attainment, so much so that they could be called the authorities in their fields.
And Jiang Xu was one such visiting professor who taught at Qinghe University. He was even personally invited to teach by the university’s dean, Hu Xingzhi.
Ever since the incident at Stronghold 61, Jiang Xu could not help but think of Ren Xiaosu. It was not just how those two numbers really stood out, but also because he always felt that sorrowful phrase about the era should not have been spoken by a young man that age.
What kinds of experiences had he had to come up with something like that?
However, Jiang Xu did not expect to actually meet Ren Xiaosu again in class. He had not seen him in class before. Although Jiang Xu had a lot of students, this young man had a unique aura about him, so he would definitely remember if he had seen Ren Xiaosu in school before.
Jiang Xu asked slowly, “What’s your name?”
Ren Xiaosu thought this was bad, but he still forced himself to say, “My name is Zheng Hang.”
Jiang Xu did not expose him. Instead, he walked up to the teaching podium. “It just so happens that I still don’t have a class representative for this class. In the future, Zheng Hang, you’ll be my class representative. Your duties will include tasks like collecting homework.”
The students observed a moment of silence for Zheng Hang.
How did Zheng Hang manage to find someone show up for attendance and end up getting appointed as the class representative all of a sudden? Who knew what kind of miserable life would be waiting for Zheng Hang. If Jiang Xu found out that Zheng Hang had gotten someone to stand in for him in class, he might even get held back for several years.
