In the days when I was forced to make up lessons by the school

"Hey...Little squad leader, don't tease me, I'll go by myself," Yu Li shook his sore wrist, unable to shake it, "Where are you taking me? Do you hear me let go?" ...or I will beat you!"

Qi Zhan remained silent, and Yu Li couldn't really beat him up, so he simply relaxed his body and let him go.

He reached out and fumbled in his trouser pocket, "Where are my cigarettes?"

Yu Li doesn't have much of a cigarette addiction, but he likes to smoke one after a fight or when he's in a bad mood.

When I was in Secondary Two, I thought it was cool, like an adult, but now it is an unhealthy little habit.

Sometimes I have one pack a week, and sometimes I can’t get rid of one pack for several months, but now, my pockets are empty.

The two walked forward, Yu Li saw that the road was becoming more and more familiar, and finally grabbed him at the door of Shuiyunjian, "What do you want?"

"Go take a bath. You're going to catch a cold." Qi Zhan looked at Yu Li's ears that were already a little red from the cold, and tried to pull him in with his hands, and he could already faintly see the window of their house.

"I'm not going!" Yu Li shook his hands violently, "My house has hot water, heating, and someone to take care of it. Why do I want to take a shower at your house? Let me go! Don't think that I really dare not hit you..."

Yu Li's strength was great, he was really struggling, Qi Zhan couldn't catch him, and he could faintly see a circle of red marks on his wrist that he had made by himself, so he let go of his hand with some distress.

"Then you come back and study." Qi Zhan looked at him, his black pupils reflected a half-glazed texture under the warm orange street lamp.

"Here you are again, how did you know that I am suitable for studying..." Yu Li muttered, "Besides, do you think this is so easy? It requires a lot of preparation in advance, okay?"

"I can wait for you." Qi Zhan insisted, "I can help you go back to the No. [-] Middle School library to study, I can help you find empty classrooms that are empty, and I can give you tutoring, as long as you are willing to come back."

He paused, he didn't know what he thought of, and the corner of his lips raised slightly, "Take it as...protection fee..."

Yu Li's eyes widened in surprise, and he even suspected that this person had been dropped.

Did he know that what he just said basically violated the school rules?

"If I really want to go back to school, I will figure out a way myself, why do you insist on me..." Yu Li squeezed the back of his neck a little annoyed.

It was like this every time, a light and flirtatious sentence, but it made his heart beat unceasingly.

Doesn't this person know how cruel it is to smash hope after giving it?

"Because you belong here." Qi Zhan's expression was serious, and a slight bulge could still be seen on his childish face, which was soft.When he said this, it gave people an inexplicable urge to be convinced.

Yu Li opened his mouth, but he couldn't utter those sarcastic words after all.

"Let's go kid! Thank you for your clothes. I'll wash them and return them to you later." Yu Li hurriedly turned around, not looking at the man's firm eyes, and waved his hand empty-handedly, "Wait for my call."

His thoughts were confused along the way, and by the time he got home, it was already close to 10:30.

Yu Li took a cold shower with a small basin as usual, but there was no hot water, no heating, and no one to take care of him.

It's obviously the temperature I'm used to, but today I feel a bit chilly. I don't know if it's because I've been wet for a while, which has lowered my body temperature.

After washing, I wrapped myself in the quilt for a while, and then I was slowly surrounded by the warm heat, but when I was about to fall asleep in a daze, the face of the child always appeared in front of my eyes.

He talks less, is rigid, doesn't like to laugh, and likes to preach at every turn.

But surprisingly not annoying.

If I can go back to the third middle school...

Even if there is only a slight possibility?

The next day I went to shop as usual. The dispute yesterday did not attract anyone’s attention. Yu Li scribbled on a stack of old newspapers with Sudoku games printed on them. Some newspapers were so dirty that they could not read. He didn't hold back either.

He specially collected these for fun, and was scolded by Song Shuxian for this, but he never really threw away these "broken things" behind his back. For an ice cream.

Qi Zhan's school uniform was washed and hung in his room. The outer layer of thin autumn clothes and long sleeves is nothing. To keep warm, such a school uniform can be zippered and a cotton vest of the same color can be added inside. It is very warm. Li felt cold for an instant.

I don't know how the child dragged him for such a long distance with a blank face, and still refused to enter the house immediately.

After thinking about it, Yu Li smiled again. He looked up at the time and thought it was almost time, so he went back to his room, changed his clothes, closed the shop and went out.

Walking unhurriedly along the way, about 10 minutes later, I knocked on a quaint wooden door at the end of an alley.

There is nothing unusual about this door from the outside, and it perfectly blends into the winding alleys with a sense of age.Even pushing open the door, you can still see a courtyard with trees and flowers planted in the courtyard, which looks so elegant that some people thought it was the former residence of some great writer.

But walking down one of the stairs, the field of vision suddenly widened.Shocking roars lingered in his ears, and the tip of his nose smelled a strong and pungent smell of alcohol and tobacco, the smell of perfume on a woman's body, and the smell of sweat.

This is an underground boxing arena.

The kind that can't see the light.

A year ago, when Yu Li was most confused, he stumbled into this place by mistake. He originally had the will to die in a daze, but he gradually practiced it.

However, he has a strong learning ability, and his reaction speed and dynamic vision are extremely developed. It took less than half a year from the initial one-sided beating to being able to fight back, to winning the next game and becoming the champion.

And if you win the game, you get money, ranging from [-] to [-] depending on the opponent. During these days, Yu Li has saved a lot.

But he doesn't come here very often, everyone knows that there is a guy who fights terribly here, and he always wants to see and see.

But sometimes even the owner of the boxing ring can't get in touch, even if he loses the ring leader, it doesn't matter, anyway, he will regain it when he comes next time.

"Yo! You boy, why are you here so often recently? You don't need me to call, so self-conscious? It's rare..." A man took Yu Li's shoulders from behind, and the two brothers took him in nicely.

This man's name is Lei Jun, he is in his thirties, he is also a practicing family, and he came from other provinces.

No one knows the exact identity, anyway, with him, no matter how brutal or fierce, he has to follow the rules.

"Brother Lei." Yu Li smiled, clean as a student, revealing a kind of innocence that is out of tune with the surrounding environment, "Isn't this a lack of money?"

"What's wrong?" Lei Jun glanced at his face, "I'm short of money and tell my brother that we are brothers, what's wrong?"

He basically relied on Yu Lizhen for this game, and he was taken special care of him, at least he never missed a point of money for each game.

Yu Li shook his head, "No, I'm ready to be a good man."

"Get lost!" Lei Jun slapped him on the shoulder dumbfounded, "Don't talk like I'm going into the sea, Brother Lei, I don't do that kind of business."

"Seriously?" Lei Jun asked.

"Well," Yu Li nodded, "save some pension money."

Lei Jun squinted his eyes, and carefully looked at this big boy who was smiling a bit shyly, and suddenly found that the sense of world-weariness and depression lingering in him had dissipated a lot, and his eyes brightened a lot.

like...

Rediscover purpose and hope.