Our youth is over

Chapter 8
"At that moment, I only had one thought in my heart, that is, whether Jiang Chengrui loves Qiqi or not, whether people in the world love this girl or not, I have to love her."

1
He Pili spoke very well on the podium, and I passed a small note under the podium to Jiang Chengrui who moved to the seat behind him.

Someone poked my back a few more times, and I sneaked my hand down the desk to take the napkin newly handed over by Xiao Jiang.

"I have something to do tonight, so I'll be home late, you can play with Qi Qinghan, don't go back early, see you at the old place at seven o'clock and go home together, if my mother wants to call you, just say I'm with you."

It was like this again, I rolled my eyes helplessly, rubbed the napkin tightly, and suddenly thought of something, and while He Pili was writing something on the blackboard, I spread out the tissue and began to write.

"Did you return the clothes for me?"

After finishing writing, I quickly passed it to Jiang Chengrui, and got a response soon.

"Just throw it on the podium of their class."

The short answer, accompanied by a sinister smile, gave me a sudden headache, thinking why I had a brain twitch again, how could I ask Jiang Chengrui to help me hand over Lu Xia's clothes to He Yebei!Classmate Xiao Jiang has always been displeased with He Yebei, so how could he not secretly play tricks.

I can't even imagine the expressions of He Yebei and his classmates seeing a pile of girls' clothes on the podium of their class. I think, if I appear in front of He Yebei, he will definitely want to crush me to death.Fortunately, I am no longer as stupid as I was before, I would secretly go to see him, and I didn't even have to ask He Yebei to make up lessons that He Pili asked for.

In the past half a month, I have never been to the sixth floor of the third floor, never.

It was another Friday, and as soon as the last class in the afternoon was over, I packed my things and looked back inertially, only to find that Jiang Chengrui was no longer there.

Xiao Jiang is a little strange recently. We used to go home together after evening self-study. Now he let me go first, saying that he has something to do, but he is afraid that I will be in danger on the road alone, so he specially asks a friend to send me back.Ask him what he is up to, that guy will pretend to be mysterious and say nothing.The weekend is even worse, and I haven't seen anyone since Friday.

Ask Qiqi if something happened between her and Jiang Chengrui, causing Jiang Chengrui to hide with me in order to hide from Qiqi, Qiqi also replied in the same confusion, what could be the matter, since Jiang Chengrui ran away and blew himself up as gay After that, she didn't dare to confess to him anymore to force him.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn’t come up with a reason, so I just didn’t want to, and rushed out of the classroom to look for her in Qiqi’s class with my schoolbag on my back, only to find that Qiqi was not there, and her classmates said that she was called away by someone from the third year of high school .

I instantly guessed who Qiqi was with.

Qiqi is the female leader in our school, every school has a few students who are not good at learning and love to mess around, both men and women, Qiqi is such a girl.She was doing well around the neighborhood, mainly because there was someone covering her behind. The person covering Qiqi was our third year high school student, Cheng Qiang, the most troublesome rogue student in the school. His subordinates called him Brother Qiang. I heard that he He hangs out with the boss of a certain circle in the outside world, and the big brother in the circle calls him Xiaoqiang, or Cockroach Qiang.

When I played with Qiqi before, I met him, and Qiqi helped to introduce him. In my impression, the all-powerful boss in the school is a very kind-looking fat man, and there are two deep dimples at the corners of his mouth when he smiles.

Until later, a series of painful facts told me that the face can never see through the color of a person's heart. The darker things are hidden deeper, the harder it is for people to see the surface.

At one point, Jiang Chengrui always complained about Cheng Qiang's nickname, saying "what kind of person gets what kind of name", a group of low-level things, even a code name looks like shit.

Although a certain person is also an ignorant student, but I really don't know where Xiao Jiang's sense of superiority comes from. He often feels that he is superior to Cheng Qiang and Qi Qi.

When he first entered high school, Jiang Chengrui was often beaten up by the last or several rogue students because of his poisonous tongue. Later, Qiqi liked him, and many people tried to save Qiqi's face and didn't touch him much.After almost a year in school, Xiao Jiang slowly drifted away, followed by a bunch of gangsters who were willing to work hard for him, and with his own circle of influence, gradually he was the only one who bullied others.

Many times, I have always felt that Jiang Chengrui's brothers followed him because of his money, because Jiang Chengrui usually spends a lot of money, is generous to others, and his family conditions are very good. He is the only child of his uncles and aunts. He eats worse than others, plays less well than others, and is very generous in giving money.

I don't like Jiang Chengrui messing around like a ruffian, just like I hope Qiqi can live like a normal girl in my heart.The bloody memories of those Young and Dangerous movies in Hong Kong when I was young have always stayed in my mind deeply. I am afraid that one day, I will see Xiao Jiang or Qi Qi lying in a pool of blood like the people in the play, and let me do whatever I want. I can't even get up.

The whole school knows which class Cheng Qiang is in, and there are often notices of his punishment on the school radio.

I ran straight to the senior three building, and I happened to see He Yebei and his classmates walking down the stairs on the left side downstairs with their schoolbags on their backs.

The man was still wearing a clean white shirt, looking aloof and out of the ordinary, who could only watch from a distance and not be playful. When he saw me, his delicate brows were habitually frowned, and the expression of disgust was on his face again.

My heart stopped, I immediately turned my head away, turned around and ran towards another staircase.

No matter how stupid I am, I can see how much that person hates me.

He ran to the third floor in one breath, went to Cheng Qiang's classroom to find Qiqi, and found that everyone in his class had almost left, only a few students were left cleaning the classroom.

Seeing me looking at the door, a boy wearing glasses came over with a broom and asked me who I was looking for. I told the truth, and the man said "Oh" clearly, saying that Cheng Qiang brought Qiqi and a group of people early gone.

This answer made me flustered inexplicably, and I ran downstairs in a mess.

Since playing with me, Qiqi seldom gets together with Cheng Qiang and the others, unless there is something important in their circle and she is required to attend, otherwise Qiqi will stick to me.

I know that although Qiqi didn't show it on the surface, she paid attention to what Jiang Chengrui said in her heart.Jiang Chengrui always blamed Qi Qi for leading me badly, Qi Qi didn't want to be scolded by Xiao Jiang, and she didn't want to really lead me bad, so she slowly withdrew from the previous chaotic circle.She is trying to be better, trying to become the kind of girl Jiang Chengrui likes, but Jiang Chengrui can't see it.

I don't know what happened to Qiqi's side, I was busy making Qiqi's phone calls all the way, and rushed all the way to the newly opened ice rink that Qiqi often went to play recently.

I had a bad premonition in my heart. I always felt that the originally clear sky was suddenly torn into a black hole, and it was dark and terrifying, sucking people one after another into the black hole, including Brother Qiang. , Qiqi, and many, many people, and all of them are connected together with wires, forming a huge net.

I was wrapped in that net, and I felt an unspeakable sense of suffocation.

I hope that everything is just me worrying about it.

2
Like a lost child, I stood at the gate of the newly opened ice rink in the city, holding my mobile phone tightly in my hand.

On the way here, I finally got through to Qiqi.Qiqi said that today is Cheng Qiang's birthday, and a group of them came to the KTV on the second floor of the skating rink to celebrate his birthday.

I breathed a sigh of relief, but because I didn't see Qi Qi, I didn't dare to feel completely at ease, but Qi Qi smiled and said on the phone: "Xiao Bei, come and find me, I'll go back with you."

Then I came here, the bad place that Jiang Chengrui said would spoil me.

I tightened the shoulder strap of my schoolbag, took a deep breath, walked quickly into the dark door, and walked straight to the second floor.

For a long time afterwards, I blamed myself. If I hadn't insisted on looking for Qiqi that day, wouldn't I have met Lin Zhishen, and Qiqi would not have gotten involved with Lin Zhishen because of me. In the end, she Nor would it be so tragic to leave.

But when I blame myself and feel sad, Qiqi will always wipe the tears from the corners of my eyes with her bloodless hands, and say in a sad and empty tone: "Xiao Bei, why is it your fault? You are worried about me." Come on, you are the only one who loves me!"

It is such a sentence of "the only one" that makes me never let Qiqi go, and I will never forgive those people who hurt her...

"Hey! Stop! I'm calling you, I'm deaf and can't hear you!"

The way ahead was suddenly blocked by someone. Two men with dyed hair went around from behind me to the front, blocked the stairs, and looked at me coldly.

I don't remember where I provoked these people. I looked at them in a daze, my heart hung up instinctively, and my nerves were extremely tense.

"What do you want to do?" I asked with difficulty in my throat.

This is not the first time I have encountered gangsters, but it is the first time I have faced such a scene alone. I used to have Qiqi or Jiang Chengrui by my side. I don’t need to be afraid at all, because they will never let others hurt me .

"I didn't hear you calling so many times just now! Go downstairs, our boss has taken a fancy to you, and he is in a bad mood right now, so go down and have a few drinks with him."

One of the gangsters threw the half of the cigarette in his mouth on the ground, frowned and wiped out the sparks with his feet, tilted his head and said to me.

My first reaction at the time was which boss was so blind. I am not Qi Qi who is amazing at first glance, nor Lu Xia who is pure like a fairy. Jiang Chengrui has complained countless times that I want No breasts, no buttocks, and a bun face. When you get fat, your face looks big. In this life, you have no chance to be a beautiful woman. There is no such thing as being too ugly. It is the kind of ordinary one that can't be seen at a glance in the crowd. Kind of, how did he get picked on?

Immediately, I held on to the handrail of the stairs and let the two gangsters grab my schoolbag, but I didn't want to go down, yelling: "I won't go! They are still underage!"

"What are you talking about! You are a minor and you still go to this kind of place, look at the high school uniform you are wearing, you must be over 16 years old, how can you be a minor!"

I was hit on the head once, and a gangster stared at me angrily.

I frowned in pain, looked at him resentfully, and shouted angrily: "You can tell that you are illiterate when you look at it, who said that you are an adult at the age of 16, and the law of our country stipulates that anyone under the age of [-] is a minor. Anyway, I’m not going, let me go, don’t let me go and call for help.”

I yelled and struggled, and the gangster who grabbed me lost my head. One held me down, and the other stretched out his hand to hit me. My heart was overwhelmed, and I raised my leg and kicked hard at the gangster who raised his hand. The schoolbag was thrown to the other, and when they let go of me in pain, before they had time to catch their breath, they rushed upstairs quickly, looking back at the people who were chasing them while running, shouting "help" desperately.

After taking a few steps, I tripped over my own feet and fell to the ground.

Those two gangsters chased after them, showing their crooked teeth at me with grim expressions, laughing so disgustingly, I didn't have time to feel nauseous at all, because panic that I had never felt before had swept over me and almost swallowed me whole Lose.

A pair of slender legs suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, I reached out and grabbed them without thinking, and begged, "Help me", and then I heard Qi Qi's helpless sigh.

She said: "Xiao Bei, you are really stupid, you even fell in such a mess when you were running."

It was as if I had caught a life-saving straw, looking up at Qiqi's bright and delicate makeup, the panic in my heart dissipated instantly, and turned into excessive surprise.

I seem to have a kind of certainty in my subconscious mind, I feel that Qiqi is very powerful, and with her around, I will be fine.

It wasn't until later that I realized that Qiqi was not as strong as anyone thought, no matter how strong she was, she was still a girl, and girls were born to need protection.Qiqi is actually very weak, so weak that she can't even protect herself.

There was a group of people standing behind Qiqi, and I recognized the fat guy Cheng Qiang who was the leader at a glance, waved to him on the ground, smiled awkwardly and called out "Brother Xiaoqiang".

Cheng Qiang smiled at me honestly and pulled me up from the ground.I patted the dust off my body and hid behind Qiqi.

In front of Qiqi, I'm used to being a coward.

"Qiqi, those two were just about to arrest me to drink with their boss, saying that their boss has taken a fancy to me, what kind of eyes are these?" I gripped Qiqi's fair arm and complained anxiously.

Qiqi glanced at me funny, then looked coldly at the two gangsters who hadn't left yet, with her arms folded on her chest, the girl stepped forward and asked, "Which circle are you from? How dare you bully me?" My sister."

"Heh, the tone is really not small, little sister, which circle do you belong to, do you know who we are?"

"Trash." Qiqi rolled her eyes in disdain, and said, the faces of those two gangsters turned pale instantly.

I clapped my hands and applauded, sighing in my heart that Qiqi is Qiqi, and she spoke so loudly. Before I shouted a few times, my hand was grabbed by someone, and Cheng Qiang behind me said to me with a serious expression. : "Xiao Bei, those two belong to the black circle, so they are not easy to mess with."

After finishing speaking, Cheng Qiang made another look at the boys beside him, and some of them stepped forward and pulled Qi Qi back.

Qiqi kicked her legs, raised her beautiful brows impatiently, and said angrily: "Why are you pulling me?"

The boys didn't answer, they dragged Qiqi down the stairs, and I was pulled by Cheng Qiang and followed.

"It's just a misunderstanding. Xiaobei is young and ignorant. You should find someone else to accompany you." Cheng Qiang stopped in front of the two bastards and greeted him with a smile.

Those two people still looked at us with grim smiles, without the slightest intention of reconciliation, and there was an uproar downstairs.

Qiqi's screaming, other people's cursing, the sound of fists hitting the flesh, the man's growling in pain...

My ears were full of noise, and my mind was buzzing chaotically. Cheng Qiang had already dragged me downstairs immediately, witnessing the chaos in Qi Qi's circle for the first time.

A group of people rushed out from nowhere and beat Cheng Qiang's men.They looked very strong, Cheng Qiang's people were beaten and screamed, Qiqi was dragged by a strange man, her face was flushed, she could only yell all kinds of ugly words with red eyes.

"Which circle did you say you belonged to? Which circle is your sister? Why can't you touch her?" Wen Wenrun's voice sounded, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

Looking around, I found a boy in a white shirt and black-rimmed glasses sitting on the sofa in the hall downstairs, talking.

Cheng Qiang said that those people belonged to the black circle, and logically they were the young men in the society, but the boy in front of him was obviously student-like, and he couldn't hide it no matter how he tried to hide it, maybe he never wanted to hide it.

Black trousers, white shirt, black-rimmed glasses, white complexion, magnetic and gentle voice, this is my first impression when I see Lin Zhishen, apart from the background of gangsters who are not well-dressed, I would never believe Lin Zhishen just by looking at him Such a boy would be a member of the black circle.

Only boys like He Yebei can have such a clean breath, but aren't people like He Yebei all good students who study obediently in school?
"Lin Zhishen, don't be too crazy. If it wasn't for jealousy of your father, who do you think you are?"

Qiqi angrily cursed at the boy who stood up from the sofa, this is not the first time I heard the name "Lin Zhishen", I heard it once at He Yebei's house, because that name I have a deep memory of the sensitive atmosphere created.

I looked at Lin Zhishen with his hands in his trouser pockets in astonishment, and my thoughts were in a mess. I was wondering what kind of connection this boy had with He Yebei and Lu Xia.

I'm looking at him, and he's looking at me.

After a while, I heard his laughter.

He said, "Qi Qinghan, is she your sister?"

Qi Qi roared again: "What are you pretending, isn't it that you let someone catch her, say you fell in love with her, and asked her to accompany you for a drink? Lin Zhishen, if you want to be good at this, just say it, I'll find another one for you, don't touch Xiaobei!"

Lin Zhishen's smile condensed, and he narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Who said I fell in love with her?"

"When the hell did I let this young tooth accompany me to drink?"

The next sentence came out with a roar, and immediately, the two gangsters who had just chased me ran down the stairs, explaining with a panicked expression: "Brother Shen, don't we just see that you are in a bad mood and think it's someone's fault?" I just saw her and thought you would like this kind of thing, so..."

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After two loud slaps, there was a deathly silence in the air.

Lin Zhishen put down his hands coldly and said, "Get lost."

I don't know why, but I immediately thought of Lu Xia. Could it be her who said "who and so" in those two people's mouths?

When I self-righteously thought that there was some emotional entanglement between Lin Zhishen and Lu Xia, I saw him pacing up to Qi Qi, raised Qi Qi's chin with his hand, narrowed his eyes and said: "Qi Qinghan, I heard that you like you very much What about Xiao Jiang at school."

Qiqi stared at him angrily, and said, "None of your business."

I looked at Lin Zhishen with an unfathomable expression in a daze, not knowing what he was doing when he suddenly mentioned Jiang Chengrui, but I heard him suddenly pointing at me and smiling at Qi Qi: "You kiss me, and I will let your sister go." .”

I stared blankly at Lin Zhishen who was smiling gently and Qiqi who was stunned beside him. At that time, I couldn't understand Lin Zhishen's smile or understand his words. I thought that he was also that kind of flirtatious little girl The gangster takes pleasure in teasing beautiful women, so he asked Qiqi to kiss him.I even thought that he might like Qiqi.

It wasn't until later that I finally saw the cruelty behind Lin Zhishen's smile. He didn't take pleasure in anything, because he himself was a sad person and didn't know what happiness was.

Qiqi finally kissed Lin Zhishen. When they embraced each other, I saw Qiqi cry, and my heart was stung by Qiqi's tears, and I deeply realized Qiqi's love for me.

At that moment, I only had one thought in my heart, that is, whether Jiang Chengrui loves Qiqi or not, whether people in the world love this girl or not, I have to love her.

3
The evening breeze was cool, messing up the broken hair on his forehead.

I followed Qiqi cautiously, the guilt in my heart couldn't be stopped, I desperately wanted to comfort Qiqi who was feeling depressed, but I didn't know what to say.

Lin Zhishen kept his promise and let us go. Cheng Qiang and the others dispersed like birds and beasts.

(End of this chapter)