crossing the northern latitude

"Is there enough money?"

"enough."

"Is Aunt Mei, who works at home, okay?"

"pretty good."

"Is your grandma okay?"

"Good."

Lu Yan and his uncle Xie Yu talked like this for a long time.

It's normal to make a phone call, but today's time is wrong. In the past, my uncle wouldn't call at this time. He answered the phone in fear of something urgent, but the other side kept chattering with him about the family affairs.

"Your mother's condition is still not very good recently. The day before yesterday she drank too much and almost swallowed the whole bottle of medicine. If it wasn't for Auntie who went in to deliver milk to her and found out early..." Xie Yu paused, "We have thought about the decision Let her stay in the hospital for a while. You are sensible, so I will tell you too... Don't worry too much, I will call you on the weekend and let her listen. "

"She probably doesn't like being in the hospital."

"That can't be helped, she needs a good treatment and rest." Xie Yu sighed, "I will take good care of her."

This time Lu Yan didn't answer for a long time.Facing the blackboard newspaper, he looked down at the short English sentence in the corner. The middle sentence was bolded with red chalk and read "There is but one secret to sucess -- never give up!"

"Are you listening?"

"Yeah." Lu Yan wiped off "never" with his hand expressionlessly, "Thank you uncle."

"Should be."

Xie Yu paused, then changed his tone and asked, "I heard that you don't get along well with your classmates in class?"

Lu Yan knew that the teacher probably called Xie Yu.

"Fortunately..." He obviously lacked confidence, "Let's go."

There was a sigh, and then fell silent.During that silence, Lu Yan fully understood what his uncle meant, as if he was too disappointed to say more... Indeed, Xie Lin's situation is enough for him to worry about now, and he is completely causing trouble for the family.

"What do you do?" Xie Yu always speaks directly, "Isn't there enough freedom for you? You used to make trouble, but when was it not me to take care of you? You made a fuss about learning literature, did I say once? Senior three It's time to calm down, do you want your grandma to go to school and listen to the teacher say you are right? I think you still don't understand your situation. "

Lu Yan rubbed the chalk dust on his fingers, but didn't dare to answer.

"If you fight again, don't even think about coming back to see your mother during the Chinese New Year."

In the end, Xie Yu said "Think about it yourself", and put down the phone.

Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and then was patted on the shoulder - Meng Tunan handed over a lollipop.

He took it over: "So kind."

"Hmm..." Meng Tunan looked worried, "Who are you calling?"

"My uncle."

"Oh." Meng Tunan glanced at him and quickly looked away.

Lu Yan felt that his expression was strange: "Do you have something to say?"

Meng Tunan nodded and shook his head: "...it's nothing, forget it."

Weird.Lu Yan remembered something: "When I came out in the morning, I met your mother shopping for vegetables, and told me to go get the sauced beef she made, and I'll take it when I go back after school."

"Just go get it yourself."

"Are you busy at noon?"

Meng Tunan: "I... play ball, you can take it when you go back."

Who ran to play ball at noon.Lu Yan glanced at him: "No, what should I do if I go to your house alone and your mother leaves me for dinner? I'm so embarrassed to be alone... Then in the afternoon, we will go back together in the afternoon."

"afternoon……"

Before Meng Tunan finished speaking, Lu Yan had already answered: "Yes, you also want to play, that night."

Ball, ball, he looks more like a ball.

"...In the evening." Meng Tunan hesitated, "It's fine, but I have to practice calligraphy tonight...it may be very late, otherwise I will send it to you."

Lu Yan realized something was wrong: "You don't like to come to my house, why did you change your temper?"

Mrs. Peng is very superstitious about Feng Jian. She believes that Meng Tunan is not compatible with her grandson. De Mengtunan didn't like going to Lu Yan's house very much.

Before Meng Tunan could decide what to say, Yang Cheng and several boys came in through the back door in the next second.Lu Yan saw Meng Tunan took a step back, and his expression became a little flustered, like a subconscious reaction.

He was instantly stunned.

Meng Tunan seemed to be aware of Lu Yan's injury at that moment, and hurriedly explained: "...I won't play anymore, let's go back together."

"No, you're busy with your work." Lu Yan felt that his reaction was decent, "I don't want any more beef."

He was still holding the strawberry-flavored candy when he turned around.At first I wanted to throw it away, but I always felt that Meng Tunan would be sad if he saw it, so he could only hold it tightly in his palm.He could only tell himself not to be sad, it is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and it is not Meng Tunan's fault.

But depression is inevitable, so Lu Yan angrily threw the candy to Li Xiaoyuan who had an inexplicable expression at the front table.

Li Xiaoyuan didn't understand, so: "...why give me this?"

Lu Yan thought about it.

"I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry?"

"something."

Did this person learn from Meng Tunan... If there is something embarrassing to say, he will give him food and drink.Li Xiaoyuan frowned, trying to draw a clear line: "Your matter...has something to do with me?"

"It's okay." Lu Yan shook his head, "It's my business."

"...Why do you let me down."

Lu Yan replied honestly: "I don't want you to be too disappointed with your surroundings, but I may also be silent, sorry."

"...You didn't apologize to me."

Lu Yan looked at her: "You'd better believe it, everything will be fine."

These words are so pale, Lu Yan thought...everything will be fine, and he can use such words to comfort others.

Perhaps no one is omnipotent.

But what if it's dad?What would Lu He do?Will it die down?Surely it will.

In the end is not as good as him.

Li Xiaoyuan took the candy and replied in a low voice, "I want to thank you."

"no need thank me?"

Li Xiaoyuan looked at the candy and said, "I... can't hold on any longer. To be honest, I'm still afraid that you will be disappointed in me."

This remark made Lu Yan startled, he felt that something was wrong with Li Xiaoyuan.

"……what?"

Li Xiaoyuan shook his head, as if he didn't know how to answer.After being silent for a while, she pointed to the book spread out in front of Lu Yan, and turned the subject abruptly: "What kind of book is this?"

"...Geography magazine, Meng Tunan put it in my schoolbag before, just look through it."

"Can I have a look?" Li Xiaoyuan seemed very interested.

Lu Yan could only hand it to her.

Li Xiaoyuan took it, flipped through a page at random, and said thoughtfully, "This fish is quite interesting."

Lu Yan probed over to look: "What kind of fish?"

And Li Xiaoyuan has already closed the book and handed it back to Lu Yan: "A fish that looks like me."

The two were still talking, Yang Cheng walked over aggressively, and made him look outside to talk.

Lu Yan was too lazy to ignore him, so he simply pretended not to see him.Li Xiaoyuan winked, and quickly stood up and took a cup to fetch water.

After she left, Yang Chengcai said, "I have an appointment with you this afternoon."

Lu Yan was impatient: "No time."

Yang Cheng: "Don't, let's break things up so we won't be sick of each other all day long."

"It's disgusting to break it apart."

"So let's talk about it."

"No time."

"Are you scared?" Yang Cheng folded his hands, "It's okay to be afraid. Now you come to the podium and call me daddy three times before apologizing. I'll take it as our business. Otherwise... if you don't come, we'll just walk away." Look. Your house is in an alley on Xixiu Street, right?"

In the past, Lu Yan would have gladly accepted the challenge.Unfortunately, after answering his uncle's phone call, he was threatened that he would not be allowed to go back to see Xie Lin if he continued to fight.

He struggled for a while and didn't know how to answer Yang Cheng.There was no waiting there, and he said: "The second class in the afternoon, the toilet below is waiting for you." The person left.

This pile of shit made Lu Yan absent-minded all morning. He thought of many plans, how could he win without beating the other party to death.The result was of course pessimistic. Lu Yan knew that if he wanted to end this matter, he would have to admit it, otherwise, based on the severity of his attack, the matter would only end forever.

Admitting love is tantamount to surrendering to evil forces, not admitting love is tantamount to slapping uncle in the face again, he wants to win and lose, but he can't have both.

He was absent-minded all morning, and when he was packing his schoolbag after class, he was still thinking about it. He didn't notice that Meng Tunan came over, and even tore off the corner of his clothes.

He stood up and saw Meng Tunan.I didn't want to talk about it, so I answered coldly: "Why."

"……go home together."

"I heard you're going to play."

"Stop playing, don't go home at noon, come to my house to eat and play two rounds."

"No, you go play with them, I have something to do." After speaking, he stood up and left.

Meng Tunan was full of guilt, and said that he didn't know how long it would take to coax this time.But then he looked up and got angry, why did Li Xiaoyuan have the candy he gave to Lu Yan on the table?

Another sense of crisis looms.Without hesitation, he stepped forward and spoke to Li Xiaoyuan: "That... your candy." He took out the other two lollipops, "Can I exchange these two for yours?"

Li Xiaoyuan is still confused about what kind of operation this is, but Meng Tunan has quickly completed the forced buying and selling.Before leaving, he hesitated for a while, and said to Li Xiaoyuan: "Don't be patient all the time, be smart once in a while... Also, smile more." After finishing speaking, she walked away quickly without waiting for her answer.

After getting the key props, he quickly caught up with Bambi, held Alps and asked, "Why do you give to others what I gave you?"

"..." Lu Yan said indifferently, "I don't like sweets."

"Fart, last time you ate three at my house!" Meng Tunan gritted his teeth, "Okay, so you really like Li Xiaoyuan!"

Lu Yan was already annoying and didn't bother to explain, so he rolled his eyes when he heard this: "Don't come with me." After speaking, he distanced himself.

"You have a guilty conscience!"

Lu Yan glanced at him, "Whoever has a guilty conscience knows it in his heart."

He left after saying that, Meng Tunan chased him all the way, but Lu Yan took a taxi outside the school and left without even looking back at him.

Both of them spent the morning with a heavy heart.After dinner, Meng Tunan didn't care that Mrs. Peng and her dog were at home, so he hurried to Lu Yan's house to confess his mistake and coax the uncle.

But when he arrived, he couldn't find anyone, and Lu Yan wasn't there. What he got was the barking of the ugly dog ​​of Lu Yan's family, and Mrs. Peng's cold sentence: "Leave after eating, go to school and study hard, we Yanyan is different from other children."

He said in his heart that this Bambi is cruel, and he doesn't leave any room for others.

But I still can't let go.Meng Tunan paid close attention to Lu Yan all afternoon, and the strange thing is that there is nothing unusual about him, and Yang Cheng and his group seem to have nothing to worry about.

Are you really all right?Meng Tunan was distracted throughout that geography class, always having a bad premonition.

Then, as in the past, Deputy Sun said that there would be a meeting for self-study.The number of people in the class decreased by half in a short time. Those who made an appointment with the Internet cafe went to a group, and those who made an appointment with the court went to a group. There were not many people left to read, and Lu Yan was one of them.And Yang Cheng and a few boys walked away with basketballs in their arms, chatting and laughing, and it didn't look like there was anything wrong.

Someone asked Meng Tunan to go to the Internet cafe, and he hesitated for a long time without saying whether to go or not, until he saw Lu Yan stand up.

"I won't go." Meng Tunan's heart tightened, and he refused decisively, "Next time."

According to his observation, Lu Yan seldom skipped this class, he just read a class book honestly, and he was rarely able to make an appointment with him, so he skipped today?There must be tricks.

Meng Tunan quietly followed up, following very carefully, until the outside of the "treasure land".

Lu Yan usually wouldn't come to this place if he had nothing to do...

At this time, Meng Tunan was already vaguely sure that he was going to fight.Sure enough, after a while, Yang Cheng and his gang rushed in aggressively.

At that time, Meng Tunan didn't have the courage to stand with Bambi and was hated by those bad students. He didn't have a character that would rather be broken than complete, he likes to have both things.

Fearing that something might happen to Bambi, Meng Tunan came up with the idea of ​​running back to find someone in a panic. When he saw the party secretary passing by with a popsicle, he immediately grabbed him: "Yang Jiao, help me go to the school office and call a teacher, just say There was a fight in the toilet next to the grove, and it was about to kill someone, so I went to pull it first..."

"Ah? Why don't you call yourself?"

"I'll go and see first..." Meng Tunan was in a hurry, "Hurry up, I won't be able to pass the college entrance examination if you lie to me! You can call the security guard or be a teacher!"

Seeing that Meng Tunan's expression was genuine, Yang Jiao was so frightened that she ran to the office area.Meng Tunan quickly rushed to lurk outside the toilet. What he thought in his heart was to play by ear, and he couldn't rush out rashly. It depended on the situation to rescue Bambi, and waited for the teacher to come... But Lu Yan's yell made Meng Tu Nan wasn't sure if he could hold out until the teacher came.

"Dude." There was a cough inside, "Remember me?"

As soon as the sound came out, Meng Tunan shuddered.As soon as this pretentious voice was heard, it was Huangmao Xiaoran, from that technical school... This kind of thing, Meng Tunan didn't have anything to worry about in school, but it would be complicated when it involved people outside.

Lu Yan didn't know what reaction he gave, and fell silent inside.

"You know why I asked you to come here." This time it was Yang Cheng who spoke, "Let's clear things up?"

Lu Yan: "Yes."

"You beat my brother, and you still find him unhappy all day long." Huang Mao tapped the ground with a stick, "I want you to explain. How to end it?"

"I'll just stand still and call back." Lu Yan quickly replied, "Just don't mess with Li Xiaoyuan, I don't care about anything else."

Bambi took the wrong medicine today?Meng Tunan outside fell into confusion, feeling that Lu Yan meant to admit defeat, but this is not his temper!It's his style to kill all directions, so what's going on today, he still doesn't curse?

Lian Yangcheng heard that Lu Yan was wrong today.But mentally, he interpreted this as fear, and stepped forward to push Lu Yan: "Aren't you crazy? Why are you cowardly today?"

Lu Yan didn't say a word.He didn't have time to answer, he was busy beating up the group of people in front of him in his mind... There are quite a lot of moves, some combos in those games he played with Meng Tunan... some Sanda coaches taught him to throw through the legs and over the shoulder... and There are those fighting skills that Dad taught.In the imagination, the group of people had already been beaten to a bloody mess, Lu Yan somehow saw his mother again, standing in the middle of the imagination, she was crying.

Are you waiting for yourself to go home?

He could only close his eyes, and replied: "Come on, if I don't fight back today, I will pay you back. Just don't provoke Li Xiaoyuan in the future."

But Yang Cheng became suspicious, thought for a while, and began to verbally attack: "You guard that rag all day long, why, do you like her?"

Lu Yan didn't bother to pay attention to him, closed his eyes and continued to fight him in his mind.

There were so many of them, Yang Cheng was sure that Lu Yan was intimidated, and continued to insult others arrogantly to find face for himself: "I think you are really worthy. Hey, do you know that Li Xiaoyuan in our class? Her father drank to death, and A lunatic mother, raised by a father but not a mother, I think you and her are a perfect match, both..."

These words were so low-level that Lu Yan immediately couldn't hold back his anger, thinking why should I put up with this idiot?

He clenched his fists tightly, planning to stuff the man's head into the latrine no matter what today, and then talk later when he feels comfortable.

But before he could make a move, Lu Yan saw that Yang Cheng's collar was grabbed by someone, and punched him hard——

Meng Tunan pulled Yang Cheng, so angry that the veins on his forehead popped up, and shouted loudly: "Are you fucking talking in human language? You don't have a father or a mother, do you?"

Meng Tunan is different from Lu Yan, he grew up with Dingyan, and this group of people need to be careful when confronting him.The air was stagnant for a while, and everyone watched Yang Cheng and Meng Tunan wrestling, not knowing whether to step forward.

Lu Yanren was dumbfounded, looking at Meng Tunan who suddenly appeared in disbelief, and even forgot to step forward to help.

The yellow hair is not from the school, he is a wild way, how can he see himself at a disadvantage?With a sullen face, he threw a stick on Meng Tunan's back: "Beat them to death!"

Lu Yan rushed forward and held Huang Mao down.

And Meng Tunan, who planned to stay out of it, has become the center of this farce at this time. He bites Yang Cheng to death, and strikes hard and fast...

What was even more surprising was that Jiang Bo broke into the toilet in the next second and stopped him loudly: "What are you doing! Let go!! Meng Tunan! I will let you let go—"

It is worth mentioning that the teacher was called by Meng Tunan, and the person who was caught... was also Meng Tunan.