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Zuo Zewen and the teacher exchanged ideas on solving problems until the bell rang after school. After returning from the competition classroom, only Chen Qiye was left sitting in the classroom of (2).

Zuo Zewen thought that Chen Qiye was brushing up questions, and when he approached, Chen Qiye bowed his head and stuffed shortbread into his mouth without saying a word, and the place was full of seaweed fragrance.

Zuo Zewen was a little surprised: "Why don't you go back to the dormitory?"

Chen Xiye swallowed the food in his mouth and didn't look up: "Auntie the dormitory manager said that you can't eat smelly things in the dormitory."

Zuo Zewen was happy.He witnessed the whole process of Chen Qiye's hot face sticking to Qin Ge's cold buttocks, and he also remembered that the tube of seaweed cakes was long, at least ten, and now Chen Qiye only had two left.

"Didn't you have dinner?" Zuo Zewen was inexplicably amused, "You don't have to eat so much at once, right?"

"This is freshly made and sold. The shelf life is only three days. If you don't finish eating it tonight, you have to throw it away." Chen Qiye picked up another one, took a big bite, and his cheeks bulged to fill up the dimple.

"Then I'll help you eat one." Zuo Zewen was greedy, predicting that Chen Qiye would not refuse, so he reached out to grab the last one.Chen Qiye sniffed, and Zuo Zewen realized that the end of his eyes were red, as if he was about to cry.

Zuo Zewen silently withdrew his hand.He was not good at comforting people, so he stood for a while, then picked up his schoolbag and left.Chen Xiye was the only one left in the classroom. Not only did he finish eating the cakes, but he also collected the cake crumbs scattered on the table and paper and ate them clean, without any waste.

Then he turned off the lights and windows and left through the back door, bypassing class (1) and walking a long way back to the dormitory——the lights in class (1) were already dark, but he still didn't want to pass by.He even made up his mind that since Qin Ge somehow ignored him, he would hide away and not even set foot in the corridor outside the window of class (1).

He persisted for a week.This kind of thing does not require deliberate training. When he was still in Hangcheng, he was studying in the junior high school of Hangcheng Middle School. Since then, he left Chen Wang and began to live in school. He is like an athlete in the system. His life is simple and his goals are clear. Three points and one line, now it's just a different route.

He has also returned to the right track, and the daily plan on the memo pad is filled with ticks left after successful completion.His leisure and entertainment are so lacking that he doesn't even have a smartphone, but the mobile phone is just a tool for him to call and send text messages, and the Nokia brick machine can also satisfy.

And if you really want to talk about the sense of accomplishment, solving the unique correct answer will make Chen Qiye feel happier than three kills and five kills in the game.He relapsed into the glamor of math, and didn't turn it on until Saturday night to text his mother.

He doesn't have many friends, and every time he turns on the phone, the new text messages come from 10086, but this time there is an unknown text message.Puzzled, Chen Qiye clicked on the text message, and there was only one sentence in it - call back after reading.

There is a video link attached at the bottom of this message. Chen Qiye couldn't use the keypad to watch it, so he turned on the computer in the classroom and entered the link. As soon as the title popped up, his heart that had no sense of existence sank down. Close the page before the video report loads.

He sat in front of the computer, next to his ear, the second hand of the clock on the wall "tick" "tick", neither fast nor full, the regularity was so unnatural.

He turned on the phone screen and called back the number that sent the text message. The other party quickly picked up the complaint and said, "Little Ye Zi, you made my brother and I wait so hard."

Chen Qiye recognized that voice, it was Li Min who blocked him two weeks ago.

Chen Qiye asked, his voice dry: "What do you want?"

Li Min asked Chen Qiye to go out of school and asked him to meet in a coffee shop.The two sat down facing each other, Li Min lay crookedly on the sofa, and Chen Qiye's back was stiff.

Li Min looked Chen Xiye up and down, and smiled maliciously: "You and your father looked alike when you were young."

Chen Wang is the interviewee in that video.Six years ago, Hangzhou Channel's "Old Uncle Has Something to Say" once received a request for help from a married woman. She suspected that her husband was cheating and asked her old uncle to help catch the adulterer.

"My Old Mother Has Something to Say" was originally a program to capture novelty, and the news at that time was still open. The photographers and reporters actually went to the hotel and took pictures of Chen Wang and the man's husband.Everyone preconceived that Chen Wang was a mistress, but they didn't expect that Chen Wang was also a victim to some extent, and almost made a move on that man, asking him what kind of sex he would come out to date even though he was married.

He didn't shy away from the camera at all when he dressed, and before leaving, he didn't forget to remind the man's wife to get a divorce quickly. Your husband doesn't even love women, let alone love you.

In that video, Chen Wang was full of momentum. There was no splash in the interview. A few years later, by some coincidence, he suddenly became popular in a certain gay forum. Chen Wang was even said to be genuine.

But some of the people who followed the post were from the same city as Chen Wang, so please don't rush to boast, this person's private life is very messy.The person who had made an appointment with Chen Wang also came to recall the past, saying that Chen Wang was also a half cat, he had been to Chen Wang's house, and that person also had a child.

Li Min said, "That child is you, isn't it?"

Chen Qiye stared at him: "I have nothing to do with this person."

"How can you say that, you have half of his blood on your body." Li Min sighed, "This is fate, no matter how dirty he is, he is still your own father."

Chen Qiye was so excited by the other party's verbal insult that he closed his eyes, opened them again, and asked, "How did you find this?"

It was not the first day that Chen Qiye knew about the existence of this report. After all, Chen Wang had been so indulgent before, so it was normal for something to happen.However, after being photographed, he did restrain himself a bit. At first, Chen Qiye was worried that he would be affected, but everything remained the same, because his life did not intersect with Chen Wang, and no one like Li Min bitten him. put.

Chen Qiye's Adam's apple twitched: "Zhao Zhuo asked you to do this?"

"A well-meaning person took my job, so I'm doing it alone." Li Min meant that Zhao Zhuo didn't know about it, and he raised his eyeballs, as if he was thinking: "You said... If I send this video to Once Wenlin Middle School posts on the post bar, you will be more famous."

Chen Xiye didn't go around in circles with him: "How much do you want?"

Li Min pretended to be curious: "Why are you so straightforward?"

"I have a bursary."

"That's it, then... let's pay three to five hundred." Li Min decided to use Chen Qiye as a long-term food ticket.He is a social gangster who has not yet fledgling, but he also knows that it is wrong to kill the chicken to get the eggs, and the meat must be cut slowly.

Chen Qiye said, "I don't have that much money now."

Li Min said: "Don't worry, give it to me at this time next Friday."

"I'm going to the league next week and need-"

"I don't care about that. Bring the money and see you at this coffee shop." Li Min had the upper hand and interrupted without a doubt.He was very satisfied with Chen Xiye's cooperative attitude, and wanted to pretend to shake hands with the person opposite, but then retracted thoughtfully.

"You might as well go to your school to find someone," he smiled cryptically, "there are a lot of rich kids in that school, if you just follow one, you'll definitely get more money than a scholarship."

Chen Xiye was about to throw up: "You are so disgusting."

Li Min smiled, feeling that Chen Xiye was shameless: "Where can you get clean? Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and the son of a mouse can make holes."

He lowered his voice and said viciously to Chen Qiye: "Your blood is also dirty."

Chen Qiye stopped talking to Li Min, and left the coffee shop to go back to school, all in a daze.He didn't tell his mother about it, and it was impossible for him to tell his teacher. If a person like Li Min was pushed into a hurry, he might not know what he would do. If he really exposed this matter, where else could he transfer to another school.

He couldn't concentrate at all. After the students returned to school, he looked at the topic and couldn't control his ears to listen to other people's whispers.Zuo Zewen got the answers to the preliminary physics test right at home, and failed to get several big questions right. Du Xinyi, who was sitting in the front row, was accustomed to this person's mental explosion after the exam, and said: "There is nothing to be discouraged. We're in the rematch in two weeks."

Zuo Zewen unilaterally regarded Qin Ge as his old enemy, and asked, "How did Qin Ge do in the exam?"

"He said he handed in half a blank paper." Du Xinyi shrugged, not sure if Qin Ge's words were accurate.

"A blank paper is a blank paper," Zuo Zewen complained. "Anyway, he won the provincial two last year, which is enough to apply for the school recruitment quota for self-enrollment. If I don't win the award this time, I won't have a chance."

Hearing this name, Chen Qiye finally had a glimmer of hope.Qin Ge has a good network and a good family background, and everyone will give him face. If he is willing to help, this matter may not get worse.

But Qin Ge ignored him.

Although he couldn't figure out the reason, Qin Ge didn't recognize him as a friend anymore.

The preliminary competition of the National Mathematics Contest for Middle School Students was held last semester. Chen Qiye was able to rank in the top five in Hangzhou. He spent the last week before the league in mid-September in a chaotic and restless way. Awaiting trial.

Across the wall, Qin Ge's life is not much better.The progress of the innovation class is fast, and the first semester of the third year of high school has entered the review stage. Every day is full of test papers and exercises, and every teacher analyzes yesterday's homework in class.Occasionally, he would be distracted, and his eyes would wander from the blackboard to the window, through the noisy cicadas and the light between the leaves, and look at the competition classroom not far away, where he once briefly fed a girl named Chen Qiye. teenager.

Qin Ge also kept a diary for several weeks.Jiang Zhishu gave exactly the same advice as Chen Qiye, since Qin Ge's writing always aims to make up the number of words, it is better to cultivate the desire to express from the beginning, writing some journals is also good.After returning home from school, Qin Ge opened the diary in front of the desk, wrote the date and "Friday", and wrote in a new line: Today the classroom is more than half empty...

Unlike the physics league, which still has a rematch, tomorrow's math league will directly determine the provincial prize, and then select about 20 people from the provincial first prize to prepare for the national final.Many students in the two innovative classes were qualified to participate in the league in the preliminary competition last semester, and they needed to go to another county-level city in Tanzhou to take the unified exam, so the school chartered cars and booked accommodation for the participating students. Let them familiarize themselves with the examination room environment one day in advance.

As Qin Ge wrote in his diary, his mind wandered elsewhere.He took out his mobile phone to scan Moments. All his classmates had arrived at the hotel and were having dinner with class (2). Twenty or thirty people sat on both sides of a conveyor belt with small hot pots. Ma Sirui, who was at the front, even took a selfie Rod took a group photo for everyone.

Qin Ge looked at the various grimaces in the group photo, first smiled, and then felt that something was missing.

Then he looked at everyone's faces carefully, and counted the number of people minus those in his own class. He was sure that Chen Qiye was not in the photo.

Why doesn't he eat hot pot together?Qin Ge couldn't think of a reason, Chen Qiye loved food so much, and this restaurant was self-service, so he had no reason to miss it.

The more Qin Ge thought about it, the more something was wrong, so he called Ma Sirui, who was eating vigorously: "Who, Chen Qiye?"

Ma Sirui's voice drifted away, probably to ask the students in class (2), and then became normal again: "Chen Qiye doesn't seem to be here."

"What does it look like?" Qin Ge asked Ma Sirui to give him an accurate answer. Ma Sirui's voice drifted away and then returned, repeating the words of a classmate (2), "He's still in school."

"what?"

"Well," Ma Sirui didn't think what was going on, and said vaguely with food in his mouth, "He said he had an appointment with someone else this afternoon, so he didn't take the school bus, and he would come tomorrow morning by himself."

"He—" Qin Ge walked out of the study and came to the balcony, wanting to say where a person like Chen Qiye could "have an appointment". The white shirt and navy blue school trousers are mixed with the blue uniform of the vocational high school.

Qin Ge's heart sank, and he suddenly thought of something bad.

He said to Ma Sirui: "Help me ask what is Chen Qiye's phone number."

Ma Sirui booed: "Hey, who scolded him away in the competition classroom, why is the reflex arc so long, I just remembered now——"

Qin Ge didn't have time to tease Ma Sirui: "Do you still want to eat that seaweed pancake from last time?"

Ma Sirui quickly sent Qin Ge the contestant information form, which contained Chen Qiye's phone number. Qin Ge called and called Chen Qiye twice before answering.

"...Hello?" Chen Qiye saw this string of numbers for the first time, thinking that Li Min changed the number out of vigilance, and walked back from the ATM and said, "I just got the money, at 06:30 See you at that cafe."

"Who are you going to give money to?"

Hearing the voice, Chen Qiye stopped in his tracks, and involuntarily clenched his hand holding the button.Qin Ge asked again: "Who are you going to see?"

Chen Qiye looked around in a panic, as if Qin Ge was by his side.

But he was so lonely on this crowded street that he had nowhere to hide, only the bright red sunlight elongated his shadow.

"No, no one, I—" He didn't know how to explain, so he simply hung up the phone, and when Qin Ge called again, he all pressed the reject button.

He also lost the drive to walk.He stretched out his left hand and raised it high, as if to catch a beam of sunlight, but the palm was empty, only the color of the blood vessels in his wrist was more obvious under the sunlight, and the blue and purple pierced into his eyes together with the light.

What also pierced him was Qin Ge's voice, which was youthful and steady, echoing in his ears, as if asking, do you really want to live this kind of life?

His cell phone rang again.

Chen Qiye stared at the caller ID, it was Li Min's number, he connected, Li Min asked, "Why haven't you come yet?"

"Something happened..." Chen Qiye said, "Let's change places."

Li Min was silent for a few seconds: "Don't play tricks on me."

"The foot of the mountain you took me to last time has not yet installed surveillance cameras. See you there in 10 minutes."

Chen Qiye hung up the phone.

Then I made up my mind to go back to the ATM, and deposited back the 300 yuan I had withdrawn before.