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Zhang Qiang drove the brand-new red flag car and took the Ye family father and son to the newly opened five-star hotel in the county—Jiangzhou Hotel.The waitress in the hotel was wearing a dark red tight uniform, her face was like a peach blossom, and her figure was graceful. Ye Ran saw Zhang Qiang staring at a certain part of the waiter leading the way, his eyes were naked and undisguised, and he couldn't help but feel even less fond of this uncle. .

The three of them arrived at the Liuyuan hall, and after waiting for less than 10 minutes, they saw the box was pushed away, and the waiter led a tall, thin man in a beige casual jacket. Talking, his face can't be seen clearly, but the aura of his whole body is like an unsheathed sword, it is the calm and prestige of a person who is used to the superior all the year round, calm and unhurried, extremely leisurely.

This family of Zhongming Dingshi has been built for many years, with clear mountains and rivers, hiding the universe and wandering around, so that such a person can be raised.

The man raised his face, a pair of long and narrow black eyes were as bright as the diamonds on a ring, his eyes were like torches, they were so transparent that he had experienced everything, so that people dare not look directly at him.His eyes were full of mist, with a hint of pity for sentient beings.

"Oh, Secretary Zhou, why don't you call me, I'll come to the door to meet you. I'm ashamed to let you find this place by yourself." Zhang Qiang bent over and shook Zhou Huaizhu's hand deeply.

Zhou Si on the side said: "Uncle, I don't like to hear your words. My father and I are not fools. In such a big place, we are afraid that we may not be able to find a private room."

Even Zhang Qiang, a shameless person, was ashamed by Zhou Si's words.

Zhou Huaizhu smiled and said, "You child is the most impolite." He patted Zhang Qiang on the shoulder: "Don't argue with him, I will deal with this kid myself later."

Zhang Qiang smiled and said: "How can it be, Tong Yan Wuji, I can't speak, and I offended Young Master Zhou."

"This must be Mr. Ye." Zhou Huaizhu stretched out his right hand, "I have long admired your name, Boss Ye."

Ye Weixin also stretched out his left hand and shook hands with him deeply: "I was supposed to visit Secretary Zhou, but now I am sorry to bother Secretary Zhou to take time out of his busy schedule to invite me."

Zhou Huaizhu laughed, and said: "It's not that my kid insisted on making me bleed, thank you Xiaoye for taking care of him during this time."

Ye Ran was free now, and called out "Hello, Uncle Zhou" in a tepid way.

Zhou Huaizhu glanced at this unremarkable boy, and with just one glance, he was captured by Ye Ran's almond eyes.He thought of a distant old man, a traumatic past, flickering like a candle in the whirling years.Until today when I met a pair of extremely similar eyes, the long-lost misty old days came to my mind, but it seemed that a hundred years had passed.

"Hello, Xiaoye." Zhou Huaizhu couldn't help but soften his voice, staring deeply at Ye Ran's eyes, and all the mist in his eyes dissipated.

Ye Ran was taken aback by Zhou Huaizhu, and shrank his head to hide behind Ye Weixin.Zhou Huaizhu just realized that he had lost his composure, and smoothed things over with a smile: "I'm a tough-looking person, and I scare the child."

Ye Weixin also felt a little weird, this Secretary Zhou stared at Ye Ran for a long time, with a dazed expression.But he said: "Ah Ran, this kid grew up in the village and has never seen the world. Secretary Zhou laughed at him."

"I think this child is a good seedling. If you work hard to cultivate it, you will have great promise in the future." Zhou Huaizhu sipped the tea made by Maofeng, "Student Xiaoye's mother is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, right? Can teach the child well?" So spirited."

"Her hometown is Huzhou, she has read a lot of books, and she went to university in Hangzhou." Ye Weixin couldn't help but bow his head and smile when he mentioned his wife, "I didn't know why she wanted to marry me at the beginning, but now I still feel like a dream. Treat me well."

Zhou Huaizhu's eyes darkened.

Seeing that Zhang Qiang was a little cold, he laughed and made jokes, stirring up the atmosphere.After a lunch, the host and guest enjoy themselves.

Ye Ran has been throwing away pencils lately. There were four or five Zhonghua brand pencils in the tin box, and he lost one every few days in the past three weeks, so that when he opened the tin box this morning, he found that there was only one left. The tip of the pencil was about to be used up, and I couldn't help feeling a little puzzled. I thought about it but couldn't remember where I lost the pen.

"Hey, I forgot to bring my pencil case, lend me a pen."

"Aren't you at the same table, the front, back, left, and right tables, don't you have any extra pens?" Ye Ran couldn't understand how Zhou Si walked through half of the classroom so hard, just to borrow a pencil for himself.

Every week, the four groups in Class 501 have to change seats in turn. This week, Ye Ran’s seat is in the fourth group at the innermost side of the classroom, while Zhou Si is in the first group at the outermost side, separated by two groups of people. .The classroom is not spacious at all, and students with slightly longer arms and legs can't stretch out when they sit down. Sometimes someone turns around and knocks on the corner of the table, yelling and screaming.

"The one you borrowed from me last time feels the best to use, and the writing looks good. I want that one."

"lost."

Zhou Si didn't believe it, grabbed Ye Ran's iron box, opened it, and found that there was only a short nib left in the empty pencil box, and a dirty eraser, all alone.

"Why is there only one left? I found you last week, and there are still three." Zhou Si asked strangely.

"I don't know either. I've lost one every few weeks, and I don't know where it fell. When I go back, I have to reach out to my mother for money to buy a pen." Ye Ran simply lay down on the desk, fingers clasped The potholes on the old desks.

A pensive look flashed across Zhou Si's face, but only for a moment, he said with a playful smile: "Otherwise, I'll lend you some envoy first. Uh...you are in an emergency, and I won't take your money anymore. How about a dime a week in interest?"

"A box of pens is only two yuan, so I won't ask you to borrow them."

"This is the discount rate, understand. The money in your pocket is always worth more today than tomorrow."

Seeing Ye Ran lying there, not intending to answer, Zhou Si reached into his trouser pocket and took out a crumpled ten-yuan note, which must have been mixed with keys and coins, and went to Ye Ran. Ran stuffed his hands.

"Forget it, forget it, you don't want interest. Take it, pay it back early. Really, where can I find such a righteous friend like me?"

After school on Friday, Zhou Si lifted the strap of the backpack on one shoulder, put his right hand obliquely into his trouser pocket, and wandered towards Ye Ran again.

"What are your plans for now?"

"I made an appointment with Qian Cheng and the people in the next class to play basketball." Ye Ran grabbed a handful of fruit candy from the big pocket of the beige hooded jacket, stretched it out in front of Zhou Si, spread out his palm, and beckoned him to take it .

Zhou Si picked up a piece of candy corn, and took the rest of them bluntly, and stuffed them into the inner pocket of the coat's chest.While exaggeratingly chewing the sticky candy corn, he said with a smile: "Is this the interest on borrowing money? It's too little, not enough."

Ye Ran gave him a white look, and said: "When I was going to school in the afternoon, I stopped by and told Grandpa Tao that I would play basketball with my classmates after school in the evening, and I might trouble him to open the gate to let us out later. He grabbed a handful Give me the sugar. I recently changed my teeth and I can’t eat sweets, so I’ll give it to you.”

It was an uncle's candy for a long time, Zhou Si felt that the sweet corn candy in his mouth had become tasteless, like chewing dry wax.

"Which Grandpa Tao?"

"It's Grandpa Tao in the security room at the school gate."

"Oh, the one with the dark circles under his eyes and the evil eyes?" Zhou Si remembered several times when the driver at home came to pick him up from school, and when he passed the security room at the door, he could always see a few little boys and girls sitting inside. Surrounded by a [-]-inch color TV watching TV series, an old man in his fifties sat next to him, and the lights were not turned on in the room, only the light from the TV shone on his face, which was pale and pale, making him horrified panic.

"Grandpa Tao has been in our school for almost ten years, and nothing has gone wrong. You just transferred here and don't know anything, so stop talking nonsense."

"Okay, I don't know anything."

The two talked about it for a few minutes, Zhou Si saw that the students around were almost gone, and said to Ye Ran with a solemn expression: "Didn't you keep losing your pen a while ago, it was taken by Wu Dongsheng in our class." He weighed it I chose not to use the word "steal".

Ye Ran was a little surprised at first, because Wu Dongsheng looked very honest because he was a classmate for five years.In an ordinary class, there are always some students who are neither top-notch nor backward, just like the grass growing on its own in the corner, not swaying, but living in its own small world.Many years later, the school put up banners welcoming several generations of alumni back to school, and reported their names while drinking wine. A table of old classmates probably couldn't even remember their childhood appearances clearly. It turned out that there was such a person.

Wu Dongsheng is one of these students who have no sense of existence.Now Zhou Si found that his hands and feet were not clean, Ye Ran was surprised, but still a little suspicious

"How did you know?"

"Physical education class the day before yesterday, I wanted to go back to the classroom to get water, and I happened to see him taking your pen outside the window in the corridor." The evening in May was still a little cold, Zhou Si sneezed while talking, and he twisted embarrassingly. He turned his head and tapped the corner of the table with his fingers uncomfortably.

"I remember that you always snatched my water in physical education class. Why did you become so enlightened the day before yesterday and ran back to the classroom to get water?"

Zhou Si groaned and refused to say anything, Ye Ran chased after him, and he simply pinched the delicate flesh on the back of Ye Ran's neck: "Oh, what do you care about me going back to the classroom, anyway, I just saw him take you pen, this matter is gone.”

Ye Ran was wearing a round-neck jacket, and Zhou Si was stroking and pinching her naked skin, feeling very uncomfortable.He shook his head vigorously, shook off Zhou Si's restless hand, and said, "It's fine if you don't talk about it. Anyway, just don't tell anyone else about it, let's pretend we don't know about it."

Zhou Si was like a tabby cat whose tail was stepped on, the fur all over his body exploded: "Last time I helped someone pay for the class, this time I want to be their pencil supplier again."

"What do you want."

"I'll settle the score with him for you, let me do the wicked thing." Zhou Si raised his hand and rumpled Ye Ran's hair into a messy bird's nest.

Ye Ran shrank his head to hide from him, and whispered: "He...maybe he has his own difficulties."

"I'm also in trouble. Hurry up and pay me back the money, plus [-] cents in interest, because I was unhappy just now."

Ye Ran thought for a while, and rummaged through the inner pocket of his schoolbag for a long time, and found a few one-dollar bills and a few coins. He counted them in the palm of his hand, pushed them to Zhou Si, and said, "A total of Six yuan and fifty cents, I will return it to you first, and I will find a way to give you the rest, and I will give it to you next Tuesday at the latest. I don’t want to care about the lost pencil, just let it go, okay?"

He didn't know how to persuade Zhou Si, who was so determined to "do justice for the heavens", just relying on his instincts, imitating his grandmother's little cousin who acted coquettishly asking for sweets, stretched out his hand and gently tugged at Zhou Si's sleeve, She swayed softly a few times, a sign of lowering her body and begging him.

Ye Ran got close, and Zhou Si's nose smelled of Ye Ran's body fragrance, which was clean and healthy.He took a deep breath, his right arm rippling like an electric shock.

When did Ye Ran beg him this way, but now, for a classmate whose name he has almost forgotten, he seems to be a different person, thinking of soft words to ask him.There was a sour taste in Zhou Si's heart. The harder Ye Ran begged and the more obedient his attitude was, the more sour he felt in his heart. What's more, he had made up his mind not to follow Ye Ran this time, and now he was determined to be good. Help this classmate Wu Dongsheng grow his memory.

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