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I walked in front of Chen Jin, nodded to the few people sitting at the table with him who turned their heads to look at me curiously, and then turned my gaze to Chen Jin's direction.

"Excuse me, how much was the last haircut and coloring?"

He was silent, looking at me without blinking.

I sighed, lowered my eyes, took out my wallet from my pocket, and handed him a few hundred-yuan bills.He didn't answer, I put it on the table directly, then turned and walked out.

As soon as I reached the corner of the street, there was a rush of footsteps behind me. Before I could turn around, a hand grabbed my arm tightly.

I was dragged and turned around, Chen Jin pursed his lips tightly and stared at me.

"What does that mean?" he snapped, pulling my arm with one hand and holding the bills in the other.

"Didn't I make it clear? This is the money you paid for your haircut," I paused. "Is it not enough? How much worse? I don't want to owe you a penny."

Chen Jin is really handsome, and the way he frowns doesn't affect his beauty at all.It's a pity that I don't know what beauty is, and now I feel uncomfortable looking at him. No one will be happy if someone says that kind of insulting words, let alone someone I once trusted so much.

You can also say that I was hit by a sore spot.

But what can I do.My grandfather was terminally ill, and he sold me not to cure him, but because he couldn't let go of his only grandson.

He just hopes that I will be carefree in the future and have someone to accompany me.

Fortunately, he passed away peacefully in the end. As long as he can feel at ease in heaven, I can come to country Z alone without complaint.But if I could choose, I wouldn't ask Yan Minglang's money.Now that my grandfather has passed away, I need a family member, and Yan Minglang needs a partner.Yan Minglang and I both need each other, so what's wrong with being together?

He doesn't know anything at all, and yet he insults me with that kind of talk.

I don't want to explain to him at all.There is no need to explain anything to the person who speaks such words.

Eric once joked with me, saying that I was adopted.I didn't feel bad at all because I knew it was just a joke between friends.But what Chen Jin said, I can only feel his malice.

I don't know why he always thinks of me so badly, as if it would be good for him if I were really bad.I scratched my head and couldn't figure out how I offended him.

Chen Jin was startled when he heard what I said, and after a while he suddenly sneered.

"Don't be so honest with yourself, didn't you 'lose' my wallet before?" He bit hard on the word "lose".

I nodded and tried to withdraw my hand, but he held on tightly.I frowned and looked at him: "Let go, I'm standing right here, I won't run away."

He let go hastily, looking vaguely embarrassed, I didn't look carefully.

I reopened the wallet and took out all the cash in it.It was about 800 yuan in total. I handed him the stack of money, but he still didn't accept it.

I took a breath, and pulled his wrist back and walked forward.

He didn't even break away from me.

I was a little surprised, didn't think about it, and took him for a while to see a shopping mall.

I took him to a counter that sold wallets.

I have a general impression of his wallet. I picked a similar style, and I barely have enough money on me.

After buying that wallet, I stuffed it into Chen Jin's hand.

"Is it okay?" I asked, "Is it okay to settle now?"

He took the wallet and glanced at it a few times, and rubbed his thumb twice.

For some reason, I suddenly remembered that when I bought a tie clip for Yan Minglang that day, he didn't even look at it, and I didn't even see a trace of the tie clip.

If he had looked at it even more at that time, I would not have been entangled in such a small matter in my heart.

Just thinking wildly, Chen Jin didn't know what he said, I didn't hear clearly.

"what?"

He frowned and opened his empty wallet: "Where's the money?"

I don't understand: "Money?"

"When I gave you the wallet, there was still a lot of money in it, right?"

I opened my eyes wide in astonishment, and said in disbelief, "Why are you doing this, haven't I already returned the money to you?"

As if he had caught me again, he lifted his chin slightly and looked down at me with disdain: "Shaw, do you mean I'm blackmailing you?"

"I obviously already gave it to you! On the day you were playing in the gym, didn't I ask the girl who took me to find you to help me return the money to you?"

He shook his head and sighed, as if I was hopeless: "Don't lie."

I was shaking with anger.

I think he is trying to get on with me on purpose.

Now that I know the benefits of being rich, I really want to throw 1 yuan in his face and let him go as far as he can in the future.But now I can only stare at him, speechless.

We just stared at each other, and many people passing by would take a curious look.

I really feel ashamed.

Anyway, I have already returned the money to him, and I have a clear conscience. No matter how bad he is, he should not send me to the police station except for saying something that makes me uncomfortable.

I simply walked away.

However, he refused to let me go, keeping a distance of two or three meters, and followed me through the streets and alleys.

I ignored him, and looked for the hard-to-find language school by myself, comparing the Chinese map, the English map, and the buildings around me.

When I turned around and turned back several times to find my way again, he finally couldn't help asking me: "What are you doing?"

I ignore him.

Maybe because he was bored, he walked up to me, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and looked down at the mobile phone I was holding in my hand.

I walked a few steps quickly and distanced myself from him.

After a while, Chen Jin caught up again.

"Are you really gay?" He asked me suddenly.

He already asked me this question last time.I do not want to answer.What does it matter if I am GAY or not?It only made him more convinced that I was a hopelessly immoral person.

"How did you know that you are gay, did you know it since you were a child, or did you find out later?"

I still ignore him.

Really inexplicable person.Does he think I need to satisfy his curiosity?

"Does GAY make his heart beat faster when he sees a man? But no matter how beautiful a woman is, he doesn't want to take a second look?" Seeing that I ignored him, he came over and grabbed my arm, "Hey, answer me."

I annoyed and said loudly: "If you are curious about GAY, please go to an expert in this field to clarify your doubts for you?"

He suddenly changed his face.

"Yeah, I'm gay, but gays don't fall in love with any man, anyway, I just hate you when I see you."

Chen Jin's face suddenly became ugly, he let go of my hand, gave me a hard look, turned his head and walked away.

I turned back and continued on my way.

The Chen Jin who once showed a dimple with a smile in front of me was like a phantom that never existed. I wondered whether such a him ever really existed.Or are they two different people at all?

How can a person suddenly change so much?

I can't figure it out, and I don't bother to think about it.I may have always wanted a reason for him to hate me before, but now there is no need for anything.

Anyway, since he asked me how much Yan Minglang would give me a month, I had already given up on him.I wish I had never known him, so at least I wouldn't feel bad thinking about him now and then.

After a week, I finally found the language school.There are a lot of "foreigners" in the school, and some of them even have a standard Z country face like me, but they also want to learn Chinese.Only then did I know that there are so many foreigners in this city.But why have I never encountered it before.

In this group of people, I finally feel that I am no longer an alternative.I even have a classmate who is from Australia like me.His name is Paul Marchesi, and he asked me to call him Paul. He is over 60 years old, about the same age as my grandfather, and I feel very friendly when I see him.It is said that his daughter-in-law is from country Z, and his son has also worked in country Z for a long time. He finally decided to retire this year, left Australia, and settled in country Z.

After paying tuition for one semester, there wasn't much left of the money I had saved.I signed up for the remedial class in the afternoon, because Yan Minglang said that I would not be allowed to learn Chinese, and I didn't want him to know for the time being, lest he lecture me again.

Some things that sound particularly absurd, he can always say high-sounding.

After I started the class, I felt like my long hair was going to go bald.Chinese is really difficult, and the characters seem to be irregular at all, and I am going crazy when I write them horizontally, vertically, scribbled, and stroked.I deeply understand that I really have no talent at all in learning Chinese.Not to mention talent, it seems to be a little worse than others.

I'm not even as quick a learner as Paul.

He always comforted me by saying that it was not because I was stupid, but because he had a good language environment. At home, his son, daughter-in-law and grandson could speak Chinese to him.

He said: "Relax, Shaw, it will get better slowly. After all, you are just starting to learn Chinese. This is a very profound language. It is inevitable that it will be hard to learn. There is a saying in country Z called 'everything Difficult at the beginning' means that everything is the most difficult at the beginning, as long as you get through it, everything will be fine."

I think Paul is really similar to my grandfather. They would teach me and encourage me with the most gentle tone. I am very grateful to Paul. Gradually, I respect and love him as a grandfather, and he will treat me like a grandfather. Take care of me like my own grandson.

With such a gentle grandfather, I think Paul's grandson must be as happy as I was once.