Good Morning, Miss Undercover

58

I thought to myself......he took a loan in Macau, how did he end up in Bangkok? How could a pure-hearted teacher be able to cope with the atrocities and rough treatment of the triad gangs?

Out of concern, I made a phone call to Li Fang and asked him for help to check whether Principal Yang's son came back these few months. Li Fang was outside with his 'god-sister' having an affectionate rendezvous, vaguely answered and hung up his phone.

A night, I had a talk with Fei Ge and mentioned Principal Yang's case and Fei Ge was very anxious but was helpless to do anything.

During high school, she was also a regular in the principal's office. The last time I and Fei Ge was there because Stone had caused a big uproar so much so that many teachers and students of other schools also knew that in A-Middle School, there was a two-person group called 'Black Sheep'. They had even badly influenced a good student in A-High.....they really had a bad reputation. The sports school teacher almost kicked Fei Ge out of school and her mother anxiously rushed to the school to plead for her. Unexpectedly, Principal Yang had already appeased the sports school teacher and repeatedly assured that Jiang Ge Fei student had changed for the better. In future, she would certainly be able to add luster to the motherland's sports career. The sports school teacher gave up and finally did not kick Fei Ge out.

So Principal Yang could be considered both, I and Fei Ge's savior and these few years we had visited him twice. Because when we were young, we had been too naughty and now as we had grown older, we felt shy and could not brazenly go back to our alma mater, lest our former teachers would speak behind our backs. "Those are the two most arrogant students in the school's history. Don't be deceived by their well-behaved appearance, rebellious to the bone, only studied here for three years, all the teachers did not have a good night's sleep with nightmares and they still have the nerve to come back!"

In a flash, time had passed, things had remained the same but people had changed. That year, because of the fight, the problematic students now have a bright future and the gradually aging Principal Yang in his twilight years had to encounter such tragic fate. It was a case of a good man not rewarded with kindness, how can one not sigh?

After hanging up the phone, I still felt upset, *tuk, tuk, tuk* knocking on the tabletop, I waited for the man's call. From nine o'clock to ten o'clock, the phone was quiet, he did not call but my mother's soul-chasing call came through first.

"The son of a Chinese Professor from your Uncle Alan's school is coming to A-city for a business trip. He will be arriving in two days' time and since he is not fluent in Chinese, you have to meet him."

"Mother, why is a foreigner here without a translator, ah? What has it to do with me?"

"This old lady says you have to receive him, means you have to receive him. Why are you so long-winded?" My mother on the other side started to roar like a lioness. "Besides, who said he is a foreigner. Mother has met him. Obviously, he has black hair, yellow skin, other than having an American accent and he also has Chinese essence. Mother is telling you, this young man has a successful career, good character and is a Princeton graduate. Although he is a bit short but concentrates is the essence and Mother likes him at first sight."

"Since you like him so much, then you can kick my Uncle Alan aside and forget about him. Anyway, my mother, you are still attractive, you can get a few jabs of Botox to smoothen your wrinkles. Who knows.....the American guy may find you attractive too."

"Fang Liang Liang, don't talk back to your mother. Don't think this old lady is thousands of miles away, you are free to do whatever you want. No way! Whether you like it or not, you still have to go!"

"Mother, recently I am busy, cannot spare the time or else I will get a friend to receive him, okay?"

"Fang Liang Liang, are you pretending to be obtuse? Think of this, if the two of you are married, the both of us would not be so far apart. You see, your mother is here in Seattle, this ghostly unfamiliar place which rains all year round and can only make a phone call when I miss you. During the night, I can only shed two drops of tears and your mother is feeling lonely and empty, ah."