control violence

After Chen Duo finished speaking, Zhou Yi didn't speak anymore. He guessed that Chen Duo was too tired from working the night shift, and he was impatient to argue with himself again.

Chen Duo is really similar to him in some respects. Deng Rongqi said that Chen Duo was punished by the police every now and then because he kept fighting with others. Taking money to help others beat people, the nature of the work is no different from Zhou Yiqian's collection of usury, it is the money owner who pays and they work hard, and they are the ones who are hurt and stabbed.

Although this way of earning a living is dangerous and dishonorable, it has an outstanding advantage, and the money comes quickly.

Jobs that take life as a bet often pay quickly.

Zhou Yi is not clear about Chen Duo's family conditions, but he can tell at a glance that he is short of money.

The boys of his age in the school were always molesting primary school girls, or playing games with their feet in the dormitory. Parents put money into the meal card every month, and few of them were willing to go out to work to support themselves.

Look at Chen Duo again, just watching Internet cafes at night can't satisfy him, he goes out to fight with his life without even sleeping during the day.

Zhou Yi even wondered if he owed a lot of debts behind his back, and he was busy making money every day at the age of seventeen or eighteen.

Zhou Yi woke up first the next morning. He got out of bed and went to the bathroom to wash up, then left the dormitory and went downstairs to have breakfast.

He went to the table in the far corner of the cafeteria as usual, and just picked up the hot burrito when the phone rang.

Zhou Yi glanced at the caller ID, cleared his throat, and pressed the answer button, "Hello."

"Dad's birthday is the day after tomorrow, so don't come home," Zhou Qi straight to the point as always, using clear and straightforward words: "There are relatives who will come, and it's inappropriate for you to show up."

"Understood." Zhou Yi replied without emotion. It's not a day or two since the family thinks he's embarrassing them.

Zhou Qi hummed indifferently, and then said: "I have paid attention to the part-time jobs for students near No. [-] Middle School. If money is tight, just tell me, and I will give you the address to apply for."

"I still have some in my passbook, which is enough to pay the tuition fee." After Zhou Yi refused, he paused and said calmly, "Thank you, sister."

Zhou Qi didn't say anything more, and hung up the phone without saying hello.

Sometimes time flies really fast. This is actually the second time that Zhou Yi was rejected by the whole family, and it has been two and a half years since the first time.

He remembered how he was kicked out the first time. His mother blocked the door with slippers, saying that if he dared to take a step back, she would slap him to death on the spot.

Zhou Yi still remembers that the family was in chaos for a while. The ceramic factory that his father had run for most of his life was closed down by the government. Generally, those who opened large factories would be fine if they didn’t check. The heavy fines made Zhou's father almost bankrupt. At that time, Zhou Yi was tired of studying, and the atmosphere of the whole family was so depressed that it made people on the verge of suicide.

In the end, Zhou Qi was the only one who fought hard for his family. Just four days after Zhou Yi was expelled from the technical school, Zhou Qi lived up to expectations and received an offer from Cambridge.

In fact, what made Zhou Yi feel a little uncomfortable was not how fast the time passed, but that after the time really passed, he still stopped at the same place.

Without any growth or change, I just stood still and watched friends and relatives pass by me.

Some have been walking forward to see farther and better scenery; some have gone backwards and even retreated behind themselves.

But no matter which direction others go, there will always be changes. When Zhou Yi felt that he had walked a long way and experienced many things, he suddenly realized that he was just standing still.

He didn't go back to the dormitory at noon. After copying a few wrong questions in the classroom, he put the three-piece suit in his pocket and went to the corner of the most remote staircase in the corridor. This place leads directly to the roof of the building, and there are not many students coming and going.

After sitting on the stairs and smoking one slowly, he kicked the butt into a small hollow in the corner and took a second cigarette in his mouth.

As soon as the cigarette was lit, a rusty door next to it was opened, and it was Chen Duo.

"

I can always smoke here, right? "Zhou Yi shook the cigarette between his fingers at him, with a slightly embarrassed expression.

"If you can smoke, I don't care about it here," Chen Duo said, "You'd better sit down and move up six steps, and you will be in the mirror."

Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment, and looked up. There was a camera with a red dot on it, staring directly at the back of his head. He quickly covered the smoke on his hands like a reflex.

"What are you afraid of, keep smoking, face it." Chen Duo couldn't help but sneered when he rarely saw him being cowardly.

"Are you feeling too lonely standing on the stage by yourself and want to ask me to accompany you?" Zhou Yi said.

"What?" Chen Duo looked at him, not understanding what bird language he was speaking.

"I see you go up to the rostrum to review every day," Zhou Yi squinted at him, "I almost vomited."

The school raises the national flag every morning. After singing the national anthem with a big grin, the dean Chang Fukang goes up to the rostrum with a stinky face to read and criticize. Up to now, there have been four days of school, and Chen Duo has not missed any day. He performed on stage once a day. , I still read the same review book.

"I'm about to throw up myself." Chen Duoxin said that he could memorize it on the spot, but felt that it would make Chang Fukang cry.

Zhou Yi glanced at the open door behind Chen Duo, and asked, "Is there a rooftop behind you?"

"Yes," Chen Duo said, "Usually many people smoke inside, but now there is no one, so let's go in and have a look?"

Zhou Yi nodded and walked in with him.

The rooftop space is quite spacious, and there are not many sundries. There are three abandoned desks, the tabletops are covered with cigarette ash, and there are burnt pits from burning cigarette butts. There are two rows of empty beer bottles stacked neatly beside the guardrail.

"Why doesn't anyone come to smoke at this point?" Zhou Yi asked, he suddenly remembered something he did in junior high school, "Hey, brother, you contracted this land?"

"Let Ge Zhaolin take over the contract." Chen Duo lit a cigarette and drank it. "Lunch break and evening self-study are not allowed. It's his exclusive time with his partner."

Zhou Yi smiled, "I thought only kids in junior high school would like to find this kind of excitement, chewing each other on the rooftop with their partner."

"Big kids in high school like it too," Chen Duo exhaled a smoke ring from his mouth to play with, and muttered to himself, "It's because everyone likes to find some excitement when they have nothing to do."

Zhou Yi looked at the smoke ring dissipating in the air, a little surprised, "I can't see it, you old smoker."

Chen Duo doesn't look like someone who can smoke, and the aura he gives off doesn't have anything to do with a gangster. To put it another way, the facial features look like Chen Duo's, and he uses a butcher's knife to kill people in the vegetable market , others would think that it might be the little fresh meat in the entertainment industry who was filming with a borrowed scene. If the same situation were replaced by Zhou Yi, a bandit leader would enter the village.

Chen Duo ignored his ridicule, changed the subject and said, "Did you quarrel with someone last night?"

"No, it's not a quarrel, I insulted him unilaterally." Zhou Yi said calmly.

"If you think they are annoying and delay your study and rest," Chen Duo said, "Let me give you some unreliable advice, listen?"

Zhou Yi hummed.

"Go to school and pick a famous boy, and beat him up." Chen Duo paused, and added: "The premise is that you don't like him."

"It's really unreliable." Zhou Yi smiled.

He understood what Chen Duo meant. In Tenth Middle School, where everyone is trying their best to prove that they are not easy to mess with, the most looked down upon is the honest man with his tail between his legs. Summarize the school ethos in seven simple and crude words: the harder the fist, the better. Niubi.

"Really, in Shizhong'er, if others respect you, it's not because you're good at all." Chen Duo smiled wryly for no reason, and tried to relax as much as possible: "It's because you hurt people too much, and they couldn't bear it."

Zhou Yi didn't know how to respond.

Chen Duo's mood was a little different from usual when he was on the rooftop. He had an inexplicable feeling that there was something else hidden behind Chen Duo's words, but he couldn't tell what it was, probably because he already knew Chen Duo well. Not much.

But Zhou Yi has been

He thinks that Chen Duo should be a person who doesn't like to confide his thoughts very much, and sometimes he even thinks that Chen Duo is a little frighteningly indifferent, with little emotion on his face, like a person who...has no interest in living.

The two of them fell silent, and the atmosphere became a bit awkward, so embarrassing that Zhou Yi had the illusion that the two of them were standing on the roadside of the barbecue restaurant again.

The loudspeaker on the roof suddenly rang.

First, the electric sound was played for a few seconds, and then a song was bluntly connected, which was the song "Summer Wind".

The school radio room is probably convulsed, and this song is usually only played occasionally after the school bell is rang.

The loudspeaker was too close to Zhou Yi, and the loud sound stunned him a little. He quickly ran a few steps away, and then stopped suddenly.

Why does the voice from this speaker sound so familiar?

He turned his gaze to Chen Duo, and tentatively said a little uncertainly: "...the sound of the cover song is a bit nice, isn't it?"

"Well, it sounds good," Chen Duo nodded straightforwardly, "I sang it."