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During the tutoring that day, Ye Zhen cooperated obediently like never before. Even Chu Ci's cruel behavior of asking him to silently write the table of chemical elements and the sequence of metal activity did not cause him to resist at all.

Ye Zhen bit his pen and wagged his tail desperately: "Chu Ci, Chu Ci, do you feel good when you smoke Kurosawa? Next time, just hold it down and let me smoke it?"

Chu Ci: "..."

Ye Zhen simply stuffed the chemistry book under the pillow, and threw himself on Chu Ci to entangle him: "You have been waiting outside the door, so you can rush in immediately when I call, right? Uncle Chu, you must have practiced it, right?" ? I've wanted to smoke that skewer for a long time, how did you feel when you smoked him? Ah? How did it feel?"

"It's like the feeling when I forced you to write a chemistry problem." Chu Ci pinched the soft skin on the back of Ye Zhen's neck to lift him up, and said expressionlessly, "Student Ye Shisan."

Ye Zhen flicked his tail flatteringly.

Chu Ci said softly, "How many chemical elements have been discovered so far?"

Ye Zhen tilted his head and thought for a long time, and finally said uncertainly: "Hmm... Meow?"

Chu Ci threw him back on the bed with one hand, and said condescendingly: "110 eight kinds! A total of 94 kinds exist on the earth! When I smoked Kurosawagawa, I felt the same as now, not at all happy! I just feel helpless!"

Ye Zhen hurriedly got up and sat down, with both front paws on the ground, looking up at Chu Ci with starry eyes.

It's a pity that this pose doesn't work for Long Jiwei, nor does it work for Chu Ci.Chu Ci slapped Ye Zhen's head with a book, and said angrily: "How can the Ninth Department want someone without a high school diploma! Even if you are lucky enough to get through the back door and become a civil servant, you will still be a small employee for life! Do you want to be called around until you retire? It's really useless!"

Ye Zhen said aggrievedly: "I didn't want to be a civil servant in the Nine Offices."

"Then what do you want to do?"

"..." Ye Zhen tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked uncertainly, "Are... a gangster?"

Chu Ci: "..."

Gangster movies and criminal investigation dramas from Hong Kong and Taiwan are popular in modern society, which have caused an irreparable and bad influence on a young student who came through time travel.

Chu Ci sat on the edge of the hospital bed, and said coldly, "Student Ye Shisan."

Ye Zhen was shocked.

"I heard that you once planned to go to Japan to block the gate of the mountain family?"

Ye Zhen once described this plan to Xuanlin, and he described it very seriously, but Xuanlin laughed so hard when he heard it that he almost choked to death on peanuts because he laughed so hard.

Xuanlin's comment on this is: "Hahahahahahaha, you want to go to Japan to block people's doors? Can you speak Japanese? Do you know the way? Do you know how to get out of the airport? What if you are caught as a stowaway What should I do? Are you going to pick up trash and sell it for money in Japan while looking for where to open the door? Hahahahahaha, this kid is too sweet, I am so happy... Cough cough cough cough..."

Although Chu Ci didn't smile, his tone was strikingly similar to Xuan Lin's when he spoke: "Do you speak Japanese?"

Ye Zhen: "..."

"Do you know the way?"

Ye Zhen: "..."

"After leaving the airport, do you know where the door of the house opens?"

Ye Zhen: "..."

"Then why do you go to Japan to block people's doors?" Chu Ci opened the book calmly, and concluded: "Science and technology are the primary productive forces. After you have studied chemistry, passed the high school entrance examination, and entered the nine institutes, then work hard to save money." With enough money, after ten or eight years, you can go to Japan to settle accounts with the Shandi family."

Ye Zhen: "..."

Ye Zhen lifted the table and snarled like a cat whose tail has been stepped on: "Are you kidding me! I plan to go find them immediately after I leave the hospital! I can't wait for a day!"

Chu Ci said indifferently: "If you can't wait, you have to wait. You can't rush for revenge."

"What do you know, I could have succeeded, if it wasn't for that Kurosawa..."

"You can't even beat Kurosawagawa. What if someone uses a pistol or even bombs against you?"

Ye Zhen stopped talking.

"Ye Shisan," Chu Ci gently put his hand on the back of Ye Zhen's hand, and said in a low voice, "Those who want revenge must learn to be patient, because you are weak, while the Shandi family is strong. It is not so easy to go back to Japan. Although this is a Chinese territory, but..."

He paused for a moment, as if he changed his sentence temporarily before leaving his mouth.

"—Injustices are happening in this society every day, bullying the weak, and the judiciary is dark... You haven't seen it, you haven't seen it. Hasty impulse will eventually kill you."

Ye Zhen sniffled and looked at him distrustfully.

Chu Ci said coldly: "I won't say such things to every child. Trust me, this is my advice to you as an elder."

He lowered his head to flip through Ye Zhen's chemical homework exercise book, which was like ghostly drawn symbols. His profile was beautiful and his expression was plain.

Ye Zhen stared at him for a long time, then said sullenly: "You don't understand."

"Oh?"

"We're not the same, after all you're living in..." Living in this era.

Ye Zhen cursed in his stomach, but he didn't say it out loud.

Chu Ci looked up at him for a while, then suddenly sneered: "How could I not understand?"

He raised his hand and unbuttoned his shirt—it was already spring, and the heating in the ward was strong. He was not wearing anything under his shirt, and he saw two long scars crawling on his thin and flat abdomen, the color of which was deep red. , ferocious and tragic.

He rolled up his left cuff, only to see an old wound more than two inches long horizontally on his wrist, which was almost the same color as his skin.

Ye Zhen was stunned: "What is this?!"

"Revenge to kill." Chu Ci carefully buttoned the buttons back one by one, and said coldly: "—I mean me."

"what--?"

"Later, someone was seeking revenge and was blocked in the alley and stabbed twice. They said that if I survived the two stabs, then the previous enmity would be forgotten. As you can see, I survived. "

Ye Zhen pointed at his wrist tremblingly, and asked, "What's going on?"

Chu Ci buttoned his cuff buttons, but didn't answer.

"Do you know my name?" he asked suddenly.

"Chu, Chu Ci."

"No, my surname is Li on my ID card. Do you know why?"

Ye Zhen shook his head vigorously.

"Because legally speaking, Chu Ci is already dead. This person named Chu Ci died of terminal gastric cancer two years ago, and the treatment failed. I just borrowed someone else's identity here, and that fabricated identity is so fragile. And it is easy to expose, so that I can't buy a house in my own name, go abroad, apply for a job, start a company and sign a contract... I can't do many things that ordinary people can do."

A person who was almost imprisoned - Ye Zhen suddenly had this thought in his mind.

Fortunately, he didn't say this, if Chu Ci heard it, it must be a very cruel sentence.

Chu Ci put his hand on the open book and looked at him quietly, with a sad look in his eyes.

"Ye Shisan, although Long Chu didn't tell me in detail, and I don't know your details; but as someone who has experienced it, my current situation should be a good reference for you. If you want revenge, you must at least be prepared. Your current preparations are obviously far from enough."

That day Chu Ci didn't ask Ye Zhen to write the table of chemical elements silently, because Xuanlin came to change shift soon.

Chu Ci picked up the books that Ye Zhen had thrown all over the floor, tidied them up, put them back into Ye Zhen's schoolbag, and said flatly: "You are still young, don't worry, take some time to think about what I said. "

He said goodbye to Xuanlin politely, and gently closed the door of the ward from the outside.Xuan Lin watched him leave all the time, and only then gloated and asked, "Mr. Chu is educating you again?"

Ye Zhen frowned and nodded for a while.

"Because of God, can't do math problems? Can't memorize the table of chemical elements? Hahahaha, I knew that Teacher Chu has a good way of training people. He has been training Han Yue all day long..."

"He didn't train me." Ye Zhen said sullenly, "He didn't."

"Huh? Then how did he ravage you? Cover your face with a chemistry book and do this, that, that, or that? Or hit you on the head with a compass, and then force you to eat geometric models?"

Ye Shisan said angrily: "I didn't eat the geometric model!" Then he rolled up the quilt impatiently, no matter how curious Xuanlin asked, threatened and lured, he couldn't get out half a word from his mouth.