Learn one small skill every day

Chen Tianzhuo is quite career-oriented.

When will the match officially begin?

"We're planning to play at the vocational school's sports field this Saturday. Do you think I look good enough now?"

Bai Miao watched for a while and said, "Keep practicing like this, winning shouldn't be a problem."

"it is good!"

Chen Tianzhuo threw a punch with even more force.

On the way from leaving school to Jinsheng Teahouse, Bai Miao saw Zhang Ze being blocked at the intersection by several girls.

Fifth-grade girls develop faster than boys, so it looked like Zhang Ze was surrounded.

Judging from their clothes and appearance, these girls are probably delinquents like Chen Xi.

"You won't even give me your QQ number? Aren't you looking down on me?"

It turns out it was the school beauty from next door who came to confront me.

Even surrounded by a crowd, Zhang Ze remained fearless. He adjusted his glasses and said, "Is that all? I have other things to do. Could you please move aside?"

"We won't allow it, so what?"

Knowing that Zhang Ze would be in deep trouble if a fight broke out, Bai Miao did not stand idly by, but went over to help Zhang Ze out of the predicament.

"Zhang Ze, it's time to go. Your uncle's car is parked over there."

Zhang Ze reacted quickly: "My dad's already here? Then tell him I'm being surrounded by a bunch of people from No. 2 Middle School."

"You wait, I'll come find you again tomorrow."

Hearing that an adult had arrived, the group of delinquent girls dared not continue to make things difficult for Zhang Ze. They glared at Zhang Ze fiercely, and also noted Bai Miao's name before leaving in small groups.

"Thank you."

Zhang Zeshu breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's okay, it's really annoying to be targeted by people like that."

Zhang Ze said with some helplessness, "It is indeed annoying, which is why I want to study in the city. The environment in the city is better, at least I won't be blocked by people on the street, and there will definitely be fewer of these troublemakers in the school I want to attend."

They said they'll come looking for you again tomorrow. What are you going to do?

"Nothing can be done. Tomorrow I'll ask my brother for a baton and put it in my bag. Let's see if they dare to come."

"You have an older brother? I remember your family works for the government, they don't care if you have two children?"

“My cousin, when he was in school, if he encountered this kind of harassment, he would carry a stick with him and beat up anyone who didn't know what was going on. Over time, no one dared to mess with him anymore.”

Zhang Ze sounded somewhat excited: "I originally wanted to keep a low profile, but these people wouldn't let me, so I had no choice but to teach them a lesson with my stick."

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"What's wrong? Do you think there's anything wrong with my behavior?"

"No... I was just overthinking it."

"That's settled then. I have to go back to my piano lessons. See you tomorrow."

Watching Zhang Ze's receding figure, Bai Miao suddenly thought that he should have some brothers and sisters too, right?

It's not possible that all parents' generation had only one daughter; it's normal to have a cousin or other male relatives.

But why do I have no related memories, and why have I never heard my parents talk about their family?

Bai Miao knew he couldn't help but think about his parents again, so he shook his head and went to Jinsheng Teahouse for dinner.

"Aunt Zhang, I have a question."

Over the years, Bai Miao and the teahouse owner have become quite familiar with each other.

"Xiao An, was the food not good today?"

"No... I wanted to ask, do my parents always play cards here?"

The proprietress thought for a moment and said, "No, it's probably because they started coming here to play cards more often after you started second grade. I don't know where they played before that."

"Oh...I understand, thank you Aunt Zhang."

First grade... Something must have happened in first grade.

After reaching this conclusion, Bai Miao suddenly felt much more at ease.

It must have been Shengshoutang who did it!

Regardless, Bai Miao first shifted the blame to Shengshoutang.

This way, I can focus on dealing with Shengshoutang.

Over the next two days, Bai Miao carefully inspected every corner of the school, not even missing the newly built buildings and the cafeteria.

Bai Miao had also used his aura-gazing technique to examine the food in the cafeteria, and sometimes he would use psychoanalysis to check the psychological state of the instructors.

This made Bai Miao drowsy during class, and with Chen Xi's nagging, Bai Miao fell asleep in class several times.

Fortunately, by the time he reached fifth grade, Bai Miao's mental strength had exceeded 10 points, making it much safer for him to use various skills that required mental strength.

It's unclear whether Shengshoutang is planning a war of attrition or trying to wear down Bai Miao's energy in advance, but Bai Miao hasn't discovered anything in the past week or so.

It was hidden too well.

Fortunately, Bai Miao wasn't just waiting idly; with each passing day, he was one step closer to drawing the LV10 skill.

Once you've unlocked multiple level 10 skills, you'll know who the true king of attrition warfare is.

Bai Miao thought to himself.

Chapter 245 News of Death

Another week passed quickly, and Bai Miao successfully obtained the hopscotch skill to LV9.

Bai Miao already found the hopscotch at level 9 to be outrageous.

Because it has, to some extent, truly become a hopscotch skill.

The original rules of hopscotch are to move according to the drawn squares, and the key is to land within the square area.

Upon reaching LV9, Bai Miao discovered that if he was on a rooftop, he could use the hopscotch skill to jump to the rooftop next door.

And regardless of the difference in elevation, as long as there is no gap between the two houses when viewed vertically, it is acceptable.

Although it's impossible for houses to actually be built together, there will definitely be gaps in the middle, the LV9 hopscotch game determines that as long as Bai Miao can jump across the gap horizontally, it is considered an adjacent house and can be moved on the roof.

Even if someone jumps from a high building to a lower one, they won't experience any impact upon landing because this process is completely ignored; the only result is Bai Miao jumping off the building.

In other words, as Bai Miao's jumping ability improves, the distance Bai Miao can move will also increase.

Improving agility and strength greatly helps with this skill.

If it's LV10, does that mean I can move around on the rooftop at will?

Bai Miao didn't know what LV10 hopscotch would look like, but judging from the performance of LV9, it already allowed Bai Miao to perform extremely high maneuvers in his own neighborhood.

Of course, there are limitations. If there are no houses, you can only move using the grids drawn on the ground in advance.

To prevent any potential dangers, Bai Miao used chalk and a carving knife to make hopscotch squares on the adjacent streets.

This also allows for flexible relocation to other neighborhoods.

Just like a cunning rabbit with three burrows, Bai Miao left different squares in different locations.

Even if others see the marks left by Bai Miao, they will only think that children have played hopscotch here.

Saturday has arrived, and today is supposed to be the day Chen Tianzhuo competes for the leadership position. Chen Tianzhuo has invited Bai Miao to come and observe, but Bai Miao has declined.

It's still somewhat inappropriate for me to be there in this kind of situation.

That place is probably full of hoodlums, and they all know each other.

Anyway, Chen Tianzhuo has been practicing the things I gave him very well these days, so winning is definitely not a problem.

But to Bai Miao's surprise, an unexpected incident still occurred.

This news was brought to him by Chen Xi.

"Do you remember Chen Tianzhuo? I told you about him last week."

During the first class meeting on Monday morning, Chen Xi was playing with her phone while talking to Bai Miao.

“I remember you said he wanted to fight with the sixth graders to decide who was the boss of the elementary school.”

"he died."

Bai Miao's heart skipped a beat, and Chen Xi also turned his head to look at Bai Miao, seemingly enjoying the shock on Bai Miao's face.

Chen Xi thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of being a primary source of information.

As for Chen Tianzhuo's death, she was only a little scared at first, but she quickly put it out of her mind and then used the news as a topic of conversation.

"Isn't it terrifying that fighting for the top spot can cost you your life?"

"Wh...what happened?"

“Zhang Feiyu pulled out a knife. He was being beaten by Chen Tianzhuo, but in the end, he lost his temper and pulled out a knife and stabbed Chen Tianzhuo in the chest. You don’t know what that scene was like... I’ve had nightmares about it for two days.”

Bai Miao was filled with mixed emotions after hearing this.

Is Chen Tianzhuo really gone just like that?

To Bai Miao, Chen Tianzhuo was just a child, someone he had raised for so many years.

The repeated calls of "Big Brother" echoed in Bai Miao's ears, making his face turn terribly gloomy.

Bai Miao regretted not being there on Saturday; he knew he would have reacted before Zhang Feiyu pulled out his knife.

But in the end, I never expected that a simple fight would escalate to the point of involving knives.

When elementary school students get carried away, they really don't care about anything else.

"Don't make that face. Zhang Feiyu has also been arrested by the police, and he's definitely going to juvenile detention."

Chen Xi sighed, "It's a pity. I originally thought Chen Tianzhuo was quite good."

Bai Miao calmed himself down. The dead cannot be brought back to life. In a way, his teaching Chen Tianzhuo boxing techniques was also a catalyst for this outcome.