the world in which he exists

The leaflets were not finished, only about one-third of them were distributed, and a thick stack was left in the bag.

Twenty minutes before get off work, Gu Chaoming took off his hood and returned to the store with the remaining leaflets.

The hair on the forehead was attached to the forehead, and Gu Chaoming reached out to brush away the sticky hair.

The shop assistants who were working saw him dripping with sweat, and glanced at him unreservedly, not very kindly.Gu Chaoming got used to it, and later he could get his salary and leave this place without seeing them again.

Take your time through the dining room to the lounge.Pushing open the door of the lounge, some employees are lazy in the lounge.

The man raised his head from the sofa where he was resting, Gu Chaoming opened the door and met his eyes, a little embarrassed.

Seeing that it was him, the man lay down again and continued playing with his phone.

The two act as if the other does not exist.

Gu Chaoming ignored him and walked in directly, and put the headgear on the table in the lounge.When pulling the zipper on the back of the doll suit, I heard the sound of the person turning over on the sofa.

Gu Chaoming didn't exchange a few words with the people in the store, and even if he had a problem with him, there were only one or two people, but the old employees here like to cuddle together, and if you mess with one, you basically mess with a bunch of them.

Gu Chaoming was speechless.

After changing out of the doll clothes, I felt much more comfortable in an instant, and pulled the sweat-soaked short sleeves to ventilate.The clerk was finishing a game of Fighting the Landlords, and he seemed to have lost, when the sound of game failure came from behind him.

The card was not won, the man put away his phone and stood up from the sofa, stretched his waist and walked straight out of the lounge.From the moment they entered the door to when the person went out, there was only one eye contact during the whole process, without words, the same as before.

The man who left was a little prescient, and the store manager came in within a few minutes after he left.

Seeing Gu Chaoming with sweaty hair, the store manager said "Thanks for your hard work" and threw him a bottle of water.

Gu Chaoming took a few sips of Gudonggudong.

The second thing I took over from the store manager was salary.

After paying his salary, he walked out of the store, and the first ray of night breeze blew, Gu Chaoming felt much more relaxed. When he got in the car, he clicked on the dialog box and read the message from Su Bing. Gu Chaoming tapped his fingers on the keyboard.

Gu Chaoming: "I'm off work and just received my salary."

Su Bing replied in seconds: "Congratulations, you don't need to go to that ghost place anymore, the clerk is disgusting."

Both Su Bing and Cen Xili knew how those shop assistants treated him, and Gu Chaoming had no intention of talking to them.Su Bing was so impatient, he urged Cen Xili, who didn't want to cause trouble, to have dinner with them in their restaurant that night.

After arriving at the store, Su Bing deliberately showed that he knew him very well. This is my buddy. He looked like there was someone behind him. He put his hands in his pockets and picked out the expensive ones with the menu. After ordering a large table of dishes, he was afraid of others. I didn't know he was rich, but Cen Xili came only after dinner, and Su Bing was left alone to eat the whole table.

"We agreed to eat together, why did you come over after eating?" Su Bing quietly asked Cen Xili while waiting for the food.

He forced Cen Xili, who had already had dinner, to have another meal.

"Anyway, you don't like breakfast, so just make up for this morning's meal." Su Bing said and picked up another chopsticks dish for Cen Xili.

It actually tastes good?

Seeing Su Bing scolding the clerk in the store now, Gu Chaoming still couldn't help laughing when he recalled this incident.Gu Chaoming scolded Su Bing for being stupid and rich in money, and Su Bing felt that he was very righteous.After Gu Chaoming got off work, the three of them went to the supper stand to eat skewers together, complaining about the shop, and didn't go home until Cen Xili felt like throwing up when he saw the barbecue in the middle of the night.

At the time, I didn't think much of it, and at the supper stand, you made fun of me every sentence.Now that I think about it, I was still too childish. Poor Xi Li sneaked out from his family at night to accompany Su Bing to eat this revenge meal.

Cen Xili is the one with the best grades among the three of them, and was once in the top [-] of his grade.

Standing in front of the ranking list and seeing Cen Xili's results, Su Bing knew that Cen Xili's hard work for so long was not in vain, so he kept rubbing Cen Xili's head excitedly: "Did you take the wrong medicine before the exam, top [-], okay?" ! Treat me! Don't try to escape!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, You Xin, look, Cen Xili can also be on the list~" Chen Haiyang was afraid that others would not know, so he pointed out loudly to You Xin, his voice was weird and contrived.

"I don't know if it was copied or not. It's so rare that a mere top [-] still takes a photo. It's not a big deal for us You Xin to be in the top [-] every time."

They are all in the same class. Everyone knows what Cen Xili's grades were like before, and he was just out of the hundred.

Cen Xili's progress from such a grade to the top [-] in his grade was not achieved overnight. After continuous efforts during the period, his grades improved step by step.Both Gu Chaoming and Su Bing knew how much Cen Xili had paid for his grades, and Su Bing was afraid that he would be bald, but it seems that Cen Xili's hairline is still very competitive.

Cen Xili's hard work is obvious to all, but Su Bing didn't believe that Chen Haiyang, who was in the same class, didn't see it, and Chen Haiyang wrote down Cen Xili's hard work in one word in order to show off his quick tongue.

Seeing Chen Haiyang's mean mouth opening and closing, Gu Chaoming thought how could God give such a person a chance to grow his mouth?

Su Bing just wanted to sew Chen Haiyang's mouth shut so that he would not be bitten by a mad dog again.

You Xin, who was named, stood quietly at the side without saying a word, his eyes swept across the ranking list lightly, and then turned lightly and landed on Cen Xili who was not far away.

Cen Xili was a bit shorter than You Xin, and You Xin's eyes moved downhill from the ranking list, obviously moving down, and his chin was also slightly lowered because of his eyes.

Cen Xili never considered being short as a shortcoming, but in front of You Xin, his shortness became one of his many shortcomings.

Maybe God wanted Cen Xili to be special.Among Cen Xili, Gu Chaoming and Su Bing, both Gu Chaoming and Su Bing exceeded 1.8 meters in height.When there are three people walking, there must be one short. The three of them stand in a row, forming a natural concave character, and Cen Xili is the concave part in the middle.

However, You Xin, like Gu Chaoming and Su Bing, didn't know whether it was a genetic mutation or her parents' inheritance, and her height shot up like a bamboo shoot.

The god of luck took care of You Xin in every possible way.You Xin is tall, with a good face. He is also the captain of the basketball team and the chairman of the student union. He has excellent grades and has never been in the top ten of his grade.

Although You Xin is not as short-mouthed as Chen Haiyang, but You Xin's proud height and Cen Xili's shortness make You Xin look downcast and contemptuous.

The silent stare is very uncomfortable to watch.

What irritated Su Bing and Gu Chaoming the most was that Cen Xili raised his head to meet You Xin's "rewarding" eyes every time.

Hearing from Chen Haiyang that You Xin was also in the top 2, Su Bing looked at the ranking list and found You Xin's name at the No.[-] position.

I have to admit that it is a fact that other people's grades are ahead of yours.Although Su Bing also ridiculed whether Cen Xili took the wrong medicine and was able to pass the exam so well, but it was him, he was good, and others were not. When will it be Chen Haiyang's turn to talk about his family, Xili?

Su Xiaoma's calf protection is not an ordinary one. Seeing You Xin's unattainable eyes and deliberately looking down on Cen Xili, she became very angry. She wanted to teach You Xin and Chen Haiyang a lesson, and teach them how to Talk and behave.

Su Bing looked over Cen Xili, who was short in the middle, to look at Gu Chaoming, and Gu Chaoming turned his head with a tacit understanding.

The two teenagers looked at each other across the air, and when they met, they immediately understood each other's meaning.Gu Chaoming and Su Bing thought the same, and were very displeased with You Xin's condescending attitude.

For You Xin, the two of them have always had a common hatred.

After the eyes of the two met, before Su Bing could make a move, Cen Xili grabbed his arm.

Su Bing looked down at Cen Xili, and Cen Xili advised him not to be impulsive with his eyes.

In order to avoid trouble, Cen Xili dragged them away.

Cen Xili knew them both well, and they also knew Cen Xili well. They knew that Cen Xili was a tolerant character, and they would rather endure ten thousand breaths than cause any trouble.

Cen Xili could bear it but Su Bing couldn't. When Su Bing was dragged away by Cen Xili, he still didn't forget to turn his head and stare at You Xin and Chen Haiyang.

Pulling Gu Chaoming and Su Bing back to the teaching building, a provocative and fruitless battle between the two sides cleared up.

As soon as they went upstairs, the three of them stood in a concave shape in the corridor again.

"I don't know how much water is in You Sanjin's grades." Su Bing said angrily.

Even though Gu Chaoming hates You Xin, he is also a sensible person.You Xin's grades have always been very stable, dominating the top three and never wavering in the quiz and big exams. He has a part in various competitions, big and small, a typical three-good student.You Xin's parents for arts and science subjects also came to the school several times to discuss with the teacher. Others' subjects are all a matter of ticking an option. When it comes to You Xin, the choice of essays and science is comparable to filling out volunteers for the college entrance examination.

Gu Chaoming persuaded Su Bing: "Don't talk nonsense, You Sanjin's grades should be worthless."

Although Gu Chaoming hates You Xin, he also agrees with You Xin's strengths. I have to say that Gu Chaoming once envied You Xin's grades when he was still in the same class. .

But no matter how envious, brothers are more important, scolding is still necessary, who made You Xin a "hypocrite".

Throwing the past out of his head, Gu Chaoming took out the key and opened the door of the house. Gu Chaoming was greeted by a dead darkness, and the inside of the house was still the same as when he went out.

It hasn't changed at all, except that there is an extra Gu Tao.

Without going to the door of Gu Tao's room, Gu Chaoming could hear his loud snoring.

Sleep very hard.

Amidst the usual grunting, Gu Chaoming finished packing and returned to the room.

In the dead of night, the silver-white moonlight poured in from the open window and fell on the bed.

Gu Chaoming drew the curtains to block out the moonlight, and slowly lay down on the bed a little stiffly. He could only sleep on his side to avoid touching the wound.

Gu Chaoming's room is like a pond, and Gu Chaoming is a lonely fish living in this pond.Someone upstairs lit two drops of gray-black ink, the ink diffused and dyed, and became lighter as it went to the side. Gu Chaoming lay at the bottom of the pool and watched the two lumps of ink expand and grow bigger.

When I woke up the next day, the humidity on the roof was as usual.

For more than ten years, this small square roof has opened his eyes. Gu Chaoming got up and opened the curtains in the blink of an eye. The summer morning sunlight burst out of the window instantly, filling the whole room.

Just as the morning sun was shining on his body, Gu Chaoming heard the sound of the door opening outside.

Gu Tao woke up, quite early.

Gu Chaoming judged from the sound outside the door that Gu Tao was awakened by urination, because Gu Tao ran directly to the toilet after opening the door.

Don't want to see him, but always have to.

After Gu Tao finished using the toilet, Gu Chaoming opened the door to brush his teeth and wash his hands.

Gu Tao didn't know what he was doing in the living room, he wandered around, rummaged on the sofa, and then went to the TV to look left and right.

Gu Chaoming ignored him and brushed his teeth, his mouth was full of toothpaste foam.

Gu Tao searched around the living room and room to find a lighter, but to no avail, and asked, "Chao Ming, where is my lighter?"

Being able to talk to him like this, and even call him Chaoming, it seems that Gu Tao has not noticed his thoughts, and he has turned over what happened yesterday for no reason, thinking it is normal.

Gu Tao is like this, sometimes he doesn’t go home for ten days and a half months, sometimes he stays at home for a whole month, he skips some things if he wants to, beats you when he wants to hit you.

There is no reason, he is the reason.

Brushing his teeth, Gu Chaoming saw Gu Tao leaning against the door frame of the toilet from the shattered bathroom mirror in front of him.

lighter?It should be in the pocket of the coat he wore yesterday, and his coat...

Gu Chaoming tilted his head slightly, and indicated with his eyes that Gu Tao's lighter was in the washing machine.

He vomited on his body yesterday, Gu Chaoming didn't have time to wash the clothes he left behind, so he just cleaned up the vomit and threw it into the washing machine.

Gu Chaoming turned his back to Gu Tao. Gu Tao didn't understand what he meant by tilting his head, thinking that Gu Chaoming was ignoring him again, so he rushed to his head angrily, and immediately increased his volume: "Speak, why are you pretending to be dumb all morning? Same."

Suddenly there was a roar, and a thunder on the ground exploded in the small toilet in the early morning.Gu Chaoming was so frightened that his hands trembled unpreparedly, and the head of the toothbrush poked his gums.

sharp pain.

The pain caused Gu Chaoming to curse secretly in his heart.

In the early morning, Gu Chaoming didn't want to choke with Gu Tao, so he endured the sharp pain, lowered his face and raised his chin visibly towards the washing machine beside him.

Only then did Gu Tao understand, ran to the washing machine and took out his clothes, and fumbled for a lighter from his pocket.

Gu Chaoming took a sip of water, spit out the toothpaste foam in his mouth and said to Gu Tao: "The washing machine is broken, I have to go to school, you wash the clothes yourself."

Gu Tao responded a few times casually, and it didn't count as a fool. He took the lighter and went to find the good cigarettes he bought for his birthday, as if it was his own son.

After Gu Chaoming took a shower, he took off the Band-Aid that he forgot to throw into the trash can and laid it on the sink yesterday, as if reminding him with concern: "You have an injury on your hand, remember to put the Band-Aid on today."

Gu Chaoming raised his hand to look at the injuries on his finger joints. He had forgotten that he didn't feel anything when he washed his face and brushed his teeth in contact with water.

There is no need to paste it.

Gu Chaoming crumpled the small bandage into a ball, held it in the palm of his hand, and looked up to see the broken bathroom mirror in front of him.

It was broken by him, and the mirror was torn apart with one punch.

He remembered very clearly that day when he rushed to the toilet in the middle of the night, his chest heaved violently and his breathing was disordered. The cold water stopped his panic and drove away the voice that had been following him in the dream.

The cold water irritated the skin, and under the faint moonlight, Gu Chaoming stood up straight in the dark, and saw his pale and frightened face from the bathroom mirror.

It was the first time he had such a dream, a dream that left him drenched in cold sweat after waking up.

The hands are full of bright red, and the neighbors around him are tightly surrounded by a circle, all the light is blocked out, and only the darkness is allowed to pass.Their voices echoed in his ears like annoying flies, more like sharp knives piercing him.They looked at him strangely, pointed at him, and whispered to each other.

"He's the kid who killed his own father."

The figures in front of him were all black, and they talked about him, and those discussions were not as terrible as the blood stains on their hands.

You are a murderer!

Gu Chaoming woke up from the dream.

Darkness is the most loyal follower, and has been following Gu Chaoming to the toilet.

The voice still refused to stop, and the mirror in front of him became Gu Chaoming's vent. He punched the mirror, and the fist felt pain, and liquid flowed out from the place where the fist touched the mirror.

Hearing the voice, Qu Yingyi hurried to the toilet, saw Gu Chaoming's injured hand and the broken mirror, and asked him anxiously, "What's wrong? Why did you smash the mirror? Does your hand hurt?"

Gu Chaoming only said that he had a nightmare.

He never mentioned the contents of his dreams to others, nor did he talk about his thoughts with others, allowing these voices to take root in his heart.

The mirror has not been changed, Gu Chaoming walked out of the toilet holding the crumpled band-aid, while Gu Tao was enjoying the happiness brought by cigarettes.

Gu Chaoming threw the band-aid into the trash can, and for a second his eyes fell on the cigarettes Gu Tao bought yesterday.

Gu Tao thought that he wanted to smoke too, took the cigarette case and shook out one, and handed it to him: "Smok, your mother is not here, don't be cowardly."

Gu Chaoming glanced at him, but didn't answer: "I don't smoke."

"You don't know how to smoke? I know you smoke, so I won't tell your mother. Your mother can't control it even if she wants to in the hospital."

Gu Chaoming was indifferent, he didn't know how Gu Tao could understand "not smoking" as "can't smoke".

Seeing that Gu Chaoming didn't pick it up, Gu Tao thought he didn't dare, so he put the cigarette back into the cigarette case: "I don't even have the guts to hide from your mother to smoke a cigarette."

Until Gu Chaoming was about to go to school, Gu Tao was still smoking his birthday cigarette on the sofa.

The room was full of second-hand smoke, Gu Chaoming closed the door without looking back, and kept Gu Tao's smoke behind the door.

Most of the students on the bus were wearing the same school uniform as him. After the driver braked to a stop, the door opened and the students on the bus came out one after another.

As soon as Gu Chaoming got out of the car, he saw Cen Xili who was about to enter the school.Just as he was happy that his sight was far away, he saw You Xin who was riding to school with Chen Haiyang behind Cen Xili. They were separated by about 200 meters, and they could catch up quickly by bicycle.

In order to protect Cen Xili from being bullied by Chen Haiyang and the others, Gu Chaoming ran to Cen Xili's side at a speed of [-] meters and hugged Cen Xili's shoulder.

The wheels rolled over the road, and Chen Haiyang didn't say anything this time. Seeing the two of them next to each other, he put his finger to his lips and blew a whistle for watching a show, and rode past with a playful look.

Gu Chaoming glared at him.

Chen Haiyang and You Xin were in front of each other, because You Xin's eyes were not so "unattainable" when they were standing on the bike.

You Xin held the handlebar in his hand, arched his back, and his school uniform restlessly refused to cover his arched back.The warm sunshine in the summer morning was against the boy's figure, and the wind blowing his hair as he rode his bike.

When passing by, the young man's eyes "rewarded" first fell on Gu Chaoming's arm holding Cen Xili, and then turned to Cen Xili's face.

Cen Xili raised his eyes to meet You Xin's gaze on his face, and as soon as he met You Xin, he immediately withdrew his eyes and stepped on the pedal to leave.

You Xin's eyes turned and shifted, Gu Chaoming clearly felt how quickly You Xin's last eyes were retracted, as if he didn't want to take another look.

For You Xin's eyes, the irritable Gu Chaoming just wanted to curse, but You Xin had already entered the school by bike, and only saw You Xin's school uniform bulging in the wind.

Cen Xili in his arms didn't struggle, but Gu Chaoming looked down to see the unnaturally disappointed expression on his face.

Gu Chaoming patted Cen Xili on the shoulder, and Cen Xili raised his head.

Cen Xili's eyes were like spring water, and the blink of an eye made one think of the speed at which maple leaves fall in autumn.

Cen Xili didn't want Gu Chaoming to worry about him, so he raised his head and smiled slightly at Gu Chaoming.

The maple leaves all over the mountains and plains, dyeing the forests are all fluttering and turning in a gentle autumn wind that runs through the maple forest.

Gu Chaoming comforted Cen Xili: "Don't think about it, You Sanjin is just like that."

Cen Xili lowered his eyes as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't speak.

After a moment of silence, Cen Xili asked, "What's wrong with your mouth?"

Gu Chaoming almost forgot that he still had injuries on his lips, Cen Xili said that he licked his injured lips unnaturally, and he found a reason to reply: "I'm angry."

"Can you get angry like this overnight?"

Facing Cen Xili's pressing questions, Gu Chaoming was instantly defeated. He smiled helplessly and reached out to rub Cen Xili's head: "Xili, can you stop being so smart."

"Your dad is back?"

Gu Chaoming nodded.

"Then you didn't hurt anywhere else?"

Cen Xili had seen Gu Chaoming's scars before, and also seen that man's brutality.

That was the only time I went to Gu Chaoming's house with Su Bing in the first year of high school, and Gu Tao happened to come back from outside.Obviously Gu Tao entered the door with a friendly face, but when Gu Chaoming saw Gu Tao, he rushed the two of them home like a devil.The next day, Cen Xili saw Gu Chaoming's injured face, and then realized how terrible Gu Tao was.

"No, don't worry." Gu Chaoming smiled easily.

Cen Xili glanced up and down to check if there were any other injuries on his body, and Gu Chaoming cooperated with him by spreading his hands and circling around.

The hurt that Gu Tao brought to him and Gu Chaoming kept hidden, afraid of being discussed.Obvious and visible injuries were passed down as a symbol of glory for his "Conquests in the South and North". Only Cen Xili and Su Bing knew the reason behind it.

Walking down the teaching building of the high school, seeing the yellow flowers blooming in the green of the flower garden beside the teaching building, Gu Chaoming thought of the dumb boy wearing a white hat he met yesterday after school.

There are many such little yellow flowers in the school, which is not uncommon.Gu Chaoming raised his head and looked towards the teaching building like yesterday, seeing a piece of golden sunshine, and the whole teaching building was bathed in it.

In the morning, the teaching building is very lively. The corridors are full of students carrying schoolbags. Every figure on campus is silently telling their vigorous vitality.

When the brilliant youth meets the scorching sun in the early morning, the vitality of every youth exudes white light.

Gu Chaoming doesn't like having Gu Tao's home, but he likes the school where the sun is bathed in the morning, and the people who accompany him at school, even the old Chen who always asks him when to take off his hat looks so interesting.

The school did not know when it became a refuge for him to escape from the oppression of his family and from Gu Tao.

In the morning sunshine, Gu Chaoming's mood was baked by the sun until it returned to the brightest color in the color card.

Seeing the people around him looking upstairs, Cen Xili also looked up, but didn't find anything special: "What are you looking at?"

Gu Chaoming smiled, and talked to Cen Xili about the boy with yellow flowers yesterday.

The two talked from downstairs to the classroom, put down their schoolbags and Gu Chaoming took Cen Xili's homework: "Su Bing hasn't come yet, copy it for me first."

Cen Xili persuaded him: "Gu Shuai, you should do it yourself, you don't know everything."

Lao Chen arranged the two to sit together, and even talked to Cen Xili, asking him to supervise and motivate Gu Chaoming to study.

Gu Chaoming copied the homework and replied casually: "Do it next time."

Cen Xili looked at him, sighed slightly and did not speak again.

The pen in Gu Chaoming's hand didn't stop, he copied an English word wrongly, the English word he didn't know, the pen in his hand couldn't help but stop.Cen Xili persuaded him to study more than this time. Gu Chaoming remembered the math exercises he would not have done yesterday, opened Cen Xili's exercise book, and was full of problem-solving processes.

Forget it, let’s keep copying.

Not long after, Su Bing, who wanted to copy Cen Xili's homework like Gu Chaoming, came. Su Bing tossed his schoolbag and walked towards them.The cleaners forgot to hit the chair yesterday, so Su Bing walked around the empty desk behind Gu Chaoming and accidentally bumped into the chair on the empty desk.There was a brief whine as the chair was kicked out of place.

Su Bing pushed back the shifted chair, and said with some disgust: "This table is really troublesome."

Gu Chaoming copied the homework: "I don't know who sat here yesterday and said that this seat is good."

"I won't be able to sit in this seat in the future. There will be no empty tables for the freshmen, so I won't be able to make love with you." Su Bing said, spreading his arms from behind while hugging one.

Su Bing's arm straddled Gu Chaoming's entire shoulder, covering the injured and uninjured parts.The sudden pain made Gu Chaoming almost want to curse, Gu Chaoming frowned in pain, grabbed Su Bing's arm with his hand that didn't hold a pen and dropped him on the shoulder, turned his head and said "Get out" from his chest with a very sincere heart. Su Bing.

"Why is Gu Shuai so angry early in the morning?" Seeing that Gu Chaoming's expression was a bit wrong, Su Bing put away his joke, "What's wrong?"

Cen Xili was a little surprised that Gu Chaoming still had an injury on his shoulder, and Cen Xili couldn't see the injury on his shoulder under his clothes. Only then did Cen Xili understand why Gu Chaoming had been carrying his schoolbag on one shoulder in the morning.

Cen Xili signaled Su Bing with his eyes.

Gu Chaoming said: "It's nothing, just leave it alone."

With Gu Chaoming's words and Cen Xili's gesture, Su Bing immediately understood what was going on.

Su Bing sighed slightly, Gu Chaoming continued to copy his homework as if nothing happened, Su Bing stood behind Gu Chaoming and reached out to grab Gu Chaoming's collar, trying to check the injury on his shoulder.

Before Su Bing even turned down the collar of Gu Chaoming's school uniform, he received Wu Shan's sneaky gaze.

Wu Shan, Wu Shan, obviously his parents want him to be kind, but his surname is Wu, he really lives up to his name.

You Xin and Chen Haiyang from the Department of Arts and Sciences left, and he was left alone. Wu Shan also played the leading role alone. Without knowing it, he likes to use his verbal skills to spread rumors behind.

Su Bing, like Gu Chaoming, glared at Wu Shan who came over without hesitation, and Wu Shan looked away guiltily.

Su Bing snorted and continued to check Gu Chaoming's injuries.