I'll Have My Seatmate Beat You

Gu Qinan asked: "What is a house elf?"

Zhan Ming replied: "Dobby, the elf in Harry Potter, remember?"

Gu Qinan shook his head: "I haven't seen Harry Potter."

Contemporary teenagers, have they ever seen Harry Potter?

Not only Lin Xiaobin, but even Zhan Ming was very surprised.

Gu Qinan asked, "Have you all seen it?"

The three of Zhan Ming nodded.

"Oh." Gu Qinan said naturally, "Then I'll go back and have a look."

Lin Xiaobin asked: "No, you haven't even read Harry Potter? What do you usually watch?"

"I don't watch TV." Gu Qinan said, "I seldom read story books, only the must-read classics listed in the language books."

Lin Xiaobin was surprised: "You don't play games, so what are you doing during the holidays?"

"Do the questions." Gu Qinan said.

Zhan Ming: "..."

Wu Yuan: "..."

Lin Xiaobin: "..."

The three of them gave up communicating with Gu Qinan, Gu Qinan was a little embarrassed: "I'll watch it when I get back this weekend."

On Friday night, Zhan Ming went to work as usual. After ten o'clock, he sat on the electric motorcycle and took out his mobile phone to read the news.

Little Brother 1: @小儿3 It’s Friday night, it’s eight o’clock, have you finished your meal?Have you started watching Harry Potter yet?Take a good look, Brother Bin is going to torture you, if you answer wrong, you will know how powerful it is!

Xiao Nanzai: There are a total of 8 volumes, too many, and I can't read them all in more than ten hours.Can I read while doing my homework?

Little Brother 1: Who told you to finish it all in one sitting...can't you watch one movie a day?

Xiao Nanzai: Oh.But I still want to read it while doing my homework.

Brother 1: Can you concentrate on doing things?Why should something so enjoyable as watching a movie be done with homework?Forget it, I will read Harry Potter again myself.

The chat messages ended here, when Zhan Ming checked the messages on his phone, Gu Qinan appeared to speak again.

Xiao Nanzai: I finished watching the first part, there are no house elves.

Little brother 1: The second part is ready, please do your best.

When Zhan Ming returned home and lay on the bed after washing, Gu Qinan hadn't spoken yet.Lin Xiaobin kept asking him in the group, did he see the house elf?

It was after eleven o'clock when Gu Qinan sent a message saying "I saw it". Lin Xiaobin teased him, "Does it suit you very much? You are like Brother Zhan's house elf."

Gu Qinan remained silent.

Zhan Ming played a game and felt something was wrong after the game.

Why didn't Gu Qinan speak anymore?

Fell asleep?

Angry?

Zhan Ming recalled how Gu Qinan was trembling in the cafeteria.

Zhan Ming thought about it, and chatted with Gu Qinan in private, Gu Qinan replied quickly, and didn't sleep at all.

Shake, shake: Angry?

Xiao Nanzai: Do I really look like a house elf?

Then Gu Qinan posted an introduction to the house-elves found online, which included sentences such as "House-elves are slaves of wizards", "a lowly race", and "cannot disobey the orders of their masters".

Well, I was really angry.Zhan Ming was a little dizzy, he said it casually, he really didn't think that much.

Shake ah shake: I said it casually, there is no other meaning.

Xiao Nanzai: Oh

Shake, Shake: ...Really

Xiao Nanzai: It's okay, I am quite similar to a house elf.

rock Me:?

Xiao Nanzai: They are submissive, timid, and not good-looking.

Zhan Ming is really full of question marks, he is just a house elf, isn't he cute, how could Gu Qinan emit so much.

Shake, Shake: Have you finished watching the movie yet?

Shake Shake: Dobby is cute and brave.

Shake ah shake: No, can you stop thinking so much?I just mentioned it casually, and I think the elf is very cute.

Shake and shake: This is a rhetorical device, the focus is not on what a house-elf is like, it's just a metaphor.

Xiao Nanzai: I understand.

Zhan Ming felt that he had already typed out all the words for this year, and Gu Qinan didn't know whether he really understood or pretended to understand.

Just at this time, Lin Xiaobin asked Zhan Ming in the group about his weekend plans.

Shake, shake: Come out for dinner tomorrow, see what you do after eating.go?

Brother 1: Go!

Brother 2: Go!

Shake, shake: Gu Qinan, you come too.At twelve noon tomorrow, Xintiandi Square.

Xiao Nanzai: good

Gu Qinan was the first to arrive, standing in front of the fountain in the middle of Xintiandi Square.

Zhan Ming was standing in front of the shopping mall building to hand out leaflets. He had good eyesight and immediately spotted Gu Qinan.

Gu Qinan didn't wear a school uniform today, but a dark blue short T, which made him look even whiter.Standing so far away, Zhan Ming can spot him blindingly white at a glance.

Zhan Ming thought, does this kid never play outdoors?

Gu Qinan soon spotted him too, ran over and asked him what he was doing.

Zhan Ming waved a stack of leaflets in front of his eyes: "Part-time job."

Gu Qinan reached out and took one. Looking carefully, it was a flyer for weekend parent-child activities in the shopping mall.

"Let me post it for you." Gu Qinan said.

Zhan Ming looked at him, fearing that others would think he was a child laborer, so he replied, "The distribution will be over soon."

Gu Qinan stood beside him, talking to him in a long-winded manner.

"Brother Zhan, why do you work so many jobs? You work at night and on weekends, so what do you do when you study?"

Zhan Ming saw his worried expression on his small face, thought it was a little funny, and said, "I don't study."

Gu Qinan really looked confused: "Then your parents don't care about you?"

Zhan Ming handed out three or four leaflets before replying, "It doesn't matter."

When it was almost twelve o'clock, Zhan Ming's leaflets were distributed.He took the money and took Gu Qinan to the side of the shopping mall building.

Gu Qinan followed him and asked, "Shouldn't we wait for Lin Xiaobin and Wu Yuan?"

"They know the location." Zhan Ming replied.

They didn't go far, just walked to another street next to it. This place is different from the Xintiandi Plaza, which is crowded with beautiful restaurants. They are all small shops, close together and steaming.

At twelve noon, there are many people.

Zhan Ming took Gu Qinan into a skewer shop and asked Gu Qinan, "Can you eat spicy food?"

Gu Qinan shook his head: "I don't know how to eat. Is there a place here?"

Zhan Ming had already called, he ordered a mandarin duck hot pot, called Lin Xiaobin in the group to hurry up, and dragged Gu Qinan to get the food.

Gu Qinan held a vegetable basket and stood in front of the big freezer curiously, looking at this and that.

Zhan Ming had a lot of meat, and said to Gu Qinan, "Take whatever you like."

So Gu Qinan took a bunch of vegetables and chicken wings, very happy.

The two returned to their seats, Zhan Ming put the things into the pot, looked at Gu Qinan like a child, and said, "You look like you've never been out before."

Gu Qinan poked the chicken wing that went down into the clear soup pot, and said happily: "My mother won't let me eat these things!"

Zhan Ming nodded: "Okay, next time I'll take you to eat fried chicken and fries."

Zhan Ming was joking, but Gu Qinan really showed yearning, and asked: "Really? Really? Do you want me to eat it?"

Zhan Ming was speechless: "You really are a kid, you are such a grown-up, and you still like to eat fried chicken?"

"I rarely eat it, and I haven't eaten it a few times!" Gu Qinan said.

While the two were talking, Lin Xiaobin and Wu Yuan arrived.

Lin Xiaobin yawned all over the place, and Wu Yuan and he grabbed a lot of vegetables and meat, and they piled up on the table like a mountain.

Gu Qinan was surprised: "Can you finish eating?"

Lin Xiaobin pointed at the mandarin duck pot and shouted: "Who ordered the mandarin duck pot? This is an insult to Chuan Chuan!"

Zhan Ming: "Me."

Lin Xiaobin immediately took a few skewers of beef from the spicy pot and put them in the Zhanming bowl: "Hello, Brother Zhan, please eat quickly, Brother Zhan, please."

Zhan Ming took a few strings of beef from the clear soup pot and put them in Gu Qinan's bowl, and said, "Brother Nan, please eat."

It was the first time in Gu Qinan's life that he was called Brother Nan, and he laughed in surprise.

He took a bite of the beef and exclaimed, "Wow, it's delicious!"

Seeing his hopeless appearance, Lin Xiaobin was heartbroken: "You eat spicy pot, you eat spicy pot, if it's not spicy, can it still be called Chuan Chuan?!"

Seeing that everyone eats spicy food, Gu Qinan couldn't help being curious, so he also took a bunch, took a bite, and was so spicy that tears came out.

"It's so spicy and delicious." Gu Qinan sighed.

Then Zhan Ming stared at Gu Qinan in astonishment as he said it was very spicy while eating the spicy pot.

Gu Qinan seemed to be going out for the first time, looking at the bean curds, corn, meat, and chicken wings in the pot, they were all novel.When Zhan Ming served him a bowl of QQ noodles, his novelty reached a peak.

"This noodle, slippery, QQ!"

Both Lin Xiaobin and Wu Yuan burst out laughing.

Lin Xiaobin asked: "Did your mother lock you up at home, not allowing you to go out, not allowing you to eat junk food outside?"

Gu Qinan shook his head and nodded again: "She encouraged me to go out, but she didn't allow me to eat food outside, saying it was unhygienic."

Lin Xiaobin said with emotion: "Look at the child being held back."

Wu Yuan: "I'm all overwhelmed."

Four people, one meal lasted past two o'clock.

When he came out of the Chuan Chuan shop, Gu Qinan was too full to walk.

He felt that he couldn't even stuff a single vegetable into his stomach.

Wu Yuan asked: "Where are you going? The Internet cafe is open?"

Lin Xiaobin suggested: "Go to the movies, the latest action movie is up."

So the four set off to the cinema.

When watching the movie, Gu Qinan was too full, didn't take a nap and was sleepy, he didn't like to watch this action movie either, it was so boring just beating and beating.

So Gu Qinan fell asleep directly, sound asleep, until the movie was over, Zhan Ming called him, and he woke up in a daze.

After four o'clock, everyone sat by the fountain outside the square for a while, discussed the plot of the action movie, and laughed at Gu Qinan for watching him fall asleep.

"The child is young." Zhan Ming said.

Lin Xiaobin and Wu Yuan both fell down laughing.

Gu Qinan muttered in dissatisfaction: "I am at the same level as you, at the same level!"

Next, Lin Xiaobin and Wu Yuan were going to go to the Internet cafe to have an affair. Zhan Ming said that he would go to work in a milk tea shop at six o'clock, but he would not go.

Gu Qinan didn't even want to go.

So the troops split into two.

Zhan Ming drove a small electric motorcycle and drove Gu Qinan to the subway station.

Gu Qinan had never killed time like this before. He played all afternoon, did not do questions, did not go to interest classes, but just played casually with his classmates.

When I was in elementary school, it was too small.

When he was in junior high school, he skipped a grade and was busy with his studies and training classes.

high school...

No. [-] Middle School had classes six days a week, and the remaining day had endless homework, and he had to do Mathematical Olympiad problems.Not to mention him, other people in the class are not in the mood to play at all.

Everyone is very nervous and everything is done quickly.

Unlike Zhan Ming and the others, they can eat a meal for two hours, chatting about meaningless things while eating.

Gu Qinan sighed.

Zhan Ming's ears were sharp, he heard it, and asked him: "What's wrong?"

"It's so fun!" Gu Qinan said loudly.