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Xia Cheng is a child prodigy, the newspaper said.

More than a decade ago, paper media was still prevalent, and almost everyone had a copy of the local evening paper.

As the pride of the local area, Xia Cheng once occupied most of the pages of the Evening News.

I haven't read any of those reports, but I have a good relationship with him, because he once appeared under my job.

When I was a child, I slipped my mouth during meals, and my father corrected me over and over again, but he never changed.In the end, my father compromised and put the popular local evening paper between my rice bowl and the dining table.

Xia Cheng's immature face on the colored newspaper was covered with oily rice grains.

This is the difference between a child prodigy and an ordinary person. When I leaked my mouth while eating, people have already reported it.

And the first time I really heard this name was when I was in elementary school.

At that time, I was a little older, and I was gradually able to remember someone's name frequently appearing in the mouths of teachers and parents.

His name is unwilling to be lonely, it never appears alone, and it is always accompanied by various praises.

Those praises with rich words and sincere feelings are probably my initial literary accumulation.

In addition, Xia Cheng's name frequently appeared on the banners at the school gate.The content is similar to: "Warmly celebrate our school Xia Cheng's achievement in..."

Because of this, when I was young, I didn't even recognize my own name, but I learned to write his name first.

So I came to a conclusion, that is Xia Cheng is awesome.

In my immature cognition back then, only Ultraman and my father were awesome.If he's not my dad, then he must be Ultraman.

What Ultraman defeated was a little monster, but what he defeated was a brat like me.

Countless parents, after seeing Xia Cheng's excellence, no longer let their bear children be unreasonable and willful.The mischievous nature of bear children is buried in various cram schools and interest classes.

Years later, when I thought about this incident, I suddenly understood that Xia Cheng, who can defeat the brat, is much more powerful than Ultraman.

Because he is in the class next to me, so I have no contact with him.Even if I saw it at school, I couldn't recognize it.

It wasn't until the fourth grade that he suddenly transferred to our class that I finally had the honor to admire the true face of the child prodigy.

To be honest I'm kind of disappointed because he looks so ordinary.

In my opinion at the time, child prodigies didn’t need superhuman abilities, but they had to have more eyes than humans anyway, otherwise they were worthy of the word “god”.

So in the beginning, I didn't have the desire to know him actively.

Only occasionally a question flashed in my mind: Xia Cheng was doing well in his own class, why did he suddenly transfer to another class?

After this question flashed past, it was silent in the depths of his brain.After all, it's someone else's business, so I won't take it to heart.

Later I found out that child prodigies are always alone.He always does not wear a red scarf, is often late for class, never hand in homework, and so on.

I secretly defined him, thinking that all his behaviors were not worthy of the word "excellent".Even if you are smart and have good grades, your ideology and morality must not pass.

The child prodigy seems to be privileged, and the teachers don't care about him or treat him too much.It's just that when he won a certain honor, he showed a gratified smile.

As the class monitor, I often go to the teacher's office, and I occasionally heard the teachers comment on Xia Cheng: "He has a very good head, but he doesn't obey the discipline and is not easy to discipline..."

Obviously, the teachers never thought about the truth behind Xia Cheng's rebellious behavior.

Until one day I was late for school, decided to take a shortcut, and saw a few senior students gathered together from a distance.Only when he got closer did he realize that they were besieging Xia Cheng.

I subconsciously turned around and hid, trembling with fright.Facing the fists and kicks of the seniors, he didn't admit defeat or beg for mercy, but bit the arm of one of them tightly.

The person who was bitten screamed fiercely, and the rest of the people attacked harder, threatening Xia Cheng to let go.

But no matter how they beat and threatened, Xia Cheng never let go.His eyes were stern and determined, and he vowed to bite down that arm before giving up.

The seniors were also frightened, so they stopped fighting in the end, and several of them partnered up. It was only because his jaw was dislocated that he let go.When those people left, they were cursing and swearing, Xia Cheng lay on the ground with his mouth open, motionless.

Then I called the nearby adults and took him to the hospital.

The result of this incident was not that the seniors were punished, but that Xia Cheng completely became a bad boy.In the past, they were just undisciplined, but now they start fighting and causing trouble.

No matter how dazzling and bright the halo of a prodigy is, it can't cover a bad boy with misconduct.

The teacher said solemnly: "Why don't people beat others, but beat you!"

Around that time, my impression of the teacher plummeted.I think they will follow the scriptures at best, and they are not worthy of such a great thing as teaching and educating people.

As the class monitor, I have a strong sense of responsibility and justice, and I feel obliged to unite my classmates.

Appropriately, I began to take the initiative to approach Xia Cheng.In most cases, it's a hot face with a cold butt.

After all, I'm a child, so I'm sure I can't always be enthusiastic about a cold ass, and gradually give up.

Later, Xia Cheng reported again. He represented our school to participate in the National English Contest for Primary and Secondary School Students.Passed all the way, and finally represented our province, all the way to the finals.

It is said that in that competition, there were competitions, oral exams, and even unscripted speeches in pure English.

With such demanding requirements, it is difficult for children from a small place like us to stand out.Unless they are children from first-tier cities, it is difficult to cultivate children who meet the competition level based on the limited educational resources and educational awareness in small places.

Xia Cheng did it, not only did he do it, but he also won the championship.

The gap between the child prodigy and the bear child is revealed again.

Back then, I was stuttering at memorizing 26 letters, but Xia Shentong could already give unscripted speeches in English.

He was once again the city light.

When the group of newspaper reporters came to our school to interview, Xia Cheng didn't know why, and pushed a girl down in front of the crackling and flashing cameras.

The focus of the news at that time also changed from how Xia Cheng won glory for the city to lamenting that the child prodigy had degenerated into a problem child, who ignored school rules and bullied the campus.

At that time, our school was a five-year school.We in the fourth grade were still ignorant and progressed to the fifth grade step by step, and Xia Cheng had already started to enter the junior high school.

Oh, by the way, he's a year younger than me.

After I finally climbed to junior high school, I realized that Xia Cheng had skipped another level.We used to be classmates, and when I was in the first year of junior high school, Xia Cheng was already in the third year of junior high school.

When I see him again, he is basically at the top of the school's bulletin board.

In the summer vacation when I was about to enter the third year of junior high school, a big event happened.The police cracked major drug trafficking cases and arrested drug trafficking organizations.

Two important figures in the organization fled, and one of them was my father.

As for my father's work, I was not very clear about it until I entered junior high school.But I never imagined that the life of rich clothes and good food since I was a child was actually earned by illegal means.

My father's crimes in the newspapers are too numerous to describe.But I stood on the opposite side of justice, hoping that he could escape successfully.

Then my wish came true and he escaped the law because he died and his body was found on the outskirts of the city.

In some parts of the suburbs, weeds are very high.If it weren't for the temperature of more than 30 degrees in summer, which caused the corpse to rot rapidly and emit an unpleasant corpse smell, he would have to continue to expose the corpse to the wilderness.

Because I am the son of a drug dealer, I can attract a lot of "discussion" wherever I go.Naturally, the class leader was not suitable, and I also received "special attention" from the whole school.

My father was an orphan, and when he died, I became an orphan too.

None of my mother's relatives wanted to adopt me.Someone who is said to be my uncle came to go through a lot of formalities.

My father's account was frozen, and my uncle also left me a sum of money, which also disappeared.

To me, money is just a pile of waste paper, except for paying tuition fees.

No one wants to sell to a drug dealer's kid, and not only that, but also get spit on every now and then.But there are still some good-hearted people who remember that I am still a child and I am innocent.

In the same year, I met Xia Cheng again.His title has also been upgraded from child prodigy to genius.

The school rented more than a dozen buses and organized outings for all the teachers and students of the school.No one was willing to take a bus with me, so the teacher had no choice but to put me in the high school car.

But the high school students are not necessarily more sensible than the junior high school students, and they started booing when they saw me get in the car.

Speaking of this, I have to thank the unpopular media back then.After the accident, my photos were published without my consent, and I became a household name for a while.

That is to say, they bullied me when I was young. Now, I will definitely infringe them.

It just so happened that I got into the car of Xia Cheng's class. Of course, as soon as I got in the car, there was still endless abuse.

The booing was so loud that someone couldn't sleep.Standing up from the seat with a cold face, he patrolled around arrogantly like an emperor, and the carriage was instantly quiet.

He said coldly with an orderly tone: "If you don't want to go, get out of the car." Then he pointed at me, "Come here."

It's a pleasure to see old classmates, but it doesn't seem very decent to see them under such circumstances.

At that time, I no longer had the interest to go out, and Xia Cheng himself was very quiet, we were silent all the way, we didn't have much to say.

Back then, I had long been a street mouse, and my heart was in danger of collapsing at any time.

At that time, I didn't want to hear what others said about my father. Thanks to this, I learned to block other people's words.Whenever I can't hear a voice, someone must have said something I don't want to hear.

I know that I am a coward, and I am powerless to refute all kinds of swear words.I only know to bury my head like an ostrich, trying to avoid harm.

From then on, I would run into Xia Cheng on the way to and from school.Only then did I know that he lived in the same community as me.

Xu met many times by chance, and once again he took the initiative to greet me.But with a panicked look on my face, I was sure again and again that he was talking to me.

"You won't forget your old classmates, will you?"

"No." I shook my head and denied, for a person like him, if you want to forget, he is the only one who forgets me.

Xia Cheng suddenly sneered, "Zou Yang, how does it feel to fall into the mud?"

"what?"

Xia Cheng said: "When you were the class monitor, your serious and responsible demeanor was really an eyesore."

The first time a genius spoke to me, he used the word "obtrusive" to evaluate me.

At school, apart from bad words and isolation, I was not physically harmed.Compared with those, the real problem is more cruel, my money is almost spent,

The so-called uncle never appeared again.Regardless of whether I can continue to study, the point is that I will starve to death soon.

Just when I was ready to pick up garbage and start a business, Professor Fu appeared, and he solved my follow-up life and study problems.Back then, I really saw the light from Professor Fu.

However, Professor Fu said, "Xia Cheng, please let me take care of you."

At that time Xia Cheng was very rebellious, but for me, he compromised with his family and embarked on the life track that he had fought countless times.

Thinking about it carefully, most of the turning points in my life have nothing to do with Xia Cheng.

This kindness, I silently recorded in my heart.

Professor Fu's family has a brat named Fu Zixiao, who has the willfulness unique to a happy family.He especially likes to cause trouble everywhere, and he can always admit his mistakes and act like a baby just right before the adults get angry, making people feel angry.

Such a little devil has the most simple kindness of a child. When he saw me for the first time, he kindly called out: "Brother".God knows how touched I was at the time, wishing I could give my life on the spot.

Even though he found out about me later, he never developed a grudge, and still played with me.So I also swear that I will protect that child with my life.

The child I guarded with my life hates a person the most, and his name is Xiang Shiran.Such a kind child, if he hates a person, it must be the person's problem.I firmly believe in this, and I have great hostility towards this child I have never seen.

Xia Cheng is different, he looks forward to Xiang Shiran growing up.Later I found out that although there was no relationship between them, according to their seniority, Xiang Shiran had to call him Uncle.

Obviously Xia Cheng is not satisfied with this relationship, and bluntly says that Xiang Shiran is his wife.

Because of this incident, I have always privately felt that Xia Cheng is a pervert.I know they have nothing to do with each other, but Xiang Shiran was probably under ten years old at the time.

Later, an accident happened, and the child I guarded with my life suffered irreparable damage.In fact, it was Fu Zixiao who made the move first, Xiang Shiran didn't cry, this was probably the first time Fu Zixiao was severely scolded.When everyone was concerned about Xiang Shiran, Fu Zixiao ran out of the door at some point.

After a week, Fu Zixiao was found.He became obedient and sensible, never got into trouble again, and lost his childish smile.

He began to sleepwalk, and almost every night, he would huddle in a corner and sob, and when someone approached, he would scream loudly and back away until he went into shock.

That wayward and kind child will never come back.

I blame everything that Fu Zixiao has encountered on Xiang Shiran's head, and the adults are the same.

The author has something to say: It seems that the term "prodigy" has been used for a long time, but what I want to tell is the story of that period.