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The two returned to the main army just as Zheng Gengyang was looking for people.

"... Seven, eight, nine... Hey, that's not right, how many people did we come out this time?"

"Ten."

"There are nine here, who else is missing?"

Hearing that there were fewer people, everyone gathered together and looked at each other to see who was missing.

Originally, Fang Zhi would not participate in this kind of thing like finding out who is not there. After all, the relationship is there, and he can't even recognize the person. But this time there is a familiar person in the team who is not there at this time.

He frowned and scanned the crowd, and after confirming that he didn't see the person, he said, "Xu Dai, Xu Dai is not here."

As soon as he said it, everyone remembered it.

"Yeah, where's Xu Dai? It seems that he hasn't seen him since he came out of the examination room."

"I don't know, I haven't paid much attention to him."

"It seems that he handed in the papers early and left...Call and call!"

Everyone was in a hurry for a while, and they also sent WeChat messages and made phone calls, but after more than ten minutes, they did not wait for any response from Xu Dai.

"What's going on? Didn't we all agree to gather and go together?" Li Xiao clicked on WeChat again and dialed a voice call to Xu Dai, but the constant busy tone from the handset made him panic.

The others also showed anxiety, and began to discuss in a hurry.

"Could it be back to school first?"

"You have to tell us to go back to school first, and leave without saying a word and let us look for him like headless chickens? Are you kidding us?"

"Don't say that, he has always been good, so he wouldn't do this... Maybe his phone is out of battery? Why don't we look for it in No. [-] Middle School first? In case he gets lost, or is looking for Why not us? After all, No. [-] Middle School is quite big, and I couldn’t even find the examination room when I first came here.”

"Not really. Those of us who competed have been to No. [-] Middle School at least two or three times. Although we are not particularly familiar with it, at least we know the way out."

……

No matter how intense the discussion was, people would not be discussed. In the end, Xu Xie interrupted this meaningless behavior: "Okay, now it is more important to find people... In this way, we will divide them into two groups, one group will return School, a batch of people are looking for in the No. [-] middle school, and wechat contact you for the specific situation, what do you think?"

After such an encounter, everyone lost their interest in having fun, and after hearing what Xu Xie said, they all agreed.

A few people were quickly divided into groups, Zheng Gengyang took the lead to leave the group going back to school, and the rest of them agreed to gather at the school gate, and spontaneously went to various places to find people together.

Fang Zhi and Xu Xie walked together to the Huxin Pavilion they had been to before.

Ever since he found out that Xu Dai was gone, Fang Zhi's complexion has not been very good-looking, and his steps are getting faster and faster, looking a little anxious.

"Go slowly, don't be in such a hurry." Xu Xie trotted a few steps to catch up with him, "There are so many of us looking for it together, we will definitely find it."

Fang Zhi pursed his lips, and his steps gradually slowed down, but he still had a coffin face on his face, and his steps were heavy and heavy, as if he was going to collect debts.

The two walked around the cobblestone road in the green forest by the lake, saw no one, and were about to leave for the next place, when they suddenly heard roars under the shade of greenery.

"It was clearly agreed at the beginning! What do you mean by going back on your word now?!"

After a second interval, another voice sounded: "I told you from the beginning that we have the right to unilaterally terminate the agreement."

"Then what should I do next? The rematch is over and there will be a final! What do you want me to do?!"

"After this time, we don't plan to do it. What to do after that is your business, and it has nothing to do with us."

This place is remote, and the two people who spoke probably didn't expect someone to be here, so their voices became louder and louder, so that it sounded like they were arguing.

Fang Zhi and Xu Xie looked at each other, pointed to the source of the voice, and mouthed to Xu Xie: Xu Dai.

The two changed positions with light movements, and soon saw the other two from the gap between the branches and leaves.

One of them was indeed Xu Dai, and the other, to Fang Zhi's surprise, was actually a boy who was half the height of Xu Dai and looked only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The boy straightened his glasses, and compared to Xu Dai's yelling, he started to yell calmly, even with a kind of joke on his face: "If you really can't accept it, we will give you a refund."

"Refund? Who cares about that little money?!" Xu Dai was so anxious that his entire face flushed, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.He took a step forward and grabbed the boy by the collar, his eyes were tearing open, "I don't care, you have to find a way for me! You have to be responsible! You were the ones who brought me here, and now you just want to send me out for any reason. Don’t say you can’t steal the questions, don’t you claim a 100% success rate?!”

The young man frowned, and impatiently patted Xu Dai's hand away from his collar: "Where did you hear this news? We never said anything about a 100% success rate. Do you think it's very easy to steal a question?" Is it simple? First of all, we need to understand in advance... Forget it, what do I say to you, a layman... Xu Dai, let's talk objectively. First of all, we didn't bring you in, you came to us. Secondly, We helped you this time, and you got what you wanted, so this transaction is over, as for whether there is another transaction, it is up to us to decide."

Xu Dai lowered his hands dejectedly, bowed his head in silence for a few seconds, and suddenly said quietly: "...Aren't you afraid that I'll expose you all?"

"Whatever you want." The young man shrugged needlessly, with a brisk tone, "If you expose us, we will expose you. At worst, you will die and the net will be broken. No one will play."

The eavesdropping duo hid in the dark and listened to their conversation verbatim.

Fang Zhi and Xu Xie looked at each other again, clearly seeing the shock and bewilderment of encountering the big secret in each other's eyes.

The two of them didn't know what to do for a while, but the two over there suddenly wrestled together without warning.

The scuffle was too loud, which attracted the tracing team from No.[-] High School who was looking for Xu Dai not far away.

Seeing someone approaching from a distance, Xu Xie dragged Fang Zhi who was still squatting on the ground in a daze, and hid in the woods.

The din faded away, and the occasional shouts of "stop", "Xu Dai", and "here" were quickly forgotten.Fang Zhi's head buzzed, and Xu Xie held his hand all the way into the deepest part of the woods unconsciously.

The two ran to a big banyan tree covered with red silk strips before stopping.

Next to the big banyan tree is a wooden sign with a few lines of small letters engraved on it, which briefly introduces the banyan tree. The main idea is that this banyan tree has a history of one hundred years. Bring good luck.

Xu Xie scanned the introduction, looked up again at the red thread hanging full of trees, and suddenly called out to Fang Zhi: "Fang Zhi! Come and see!"

Fang Zhi hadn't recovered from the incident of Xu Dai's stealing the question, he was in a daze, and Xu Xie called out before returning to his senses.

He walked to Xu Xie's side, followed his gaze and looked up: "What are you looking at?"

No. [-] Middle School deserves to be No. [-] Middle School. If you look around, the names of famous schools across the country are written on the red ribbon.

"Don't look at those, look at this." Xu Xie pulled Fang Zhi and motioned him to look in the direction of his finger, "Did you see it?"

Fang Zhi looked up - among the red ribbons all over the tree, there was a red ribbon that was a little smaller than the others, which looked particularly inconspicuous.In contrast, the words on it are much smaller than those on other ribbons. Even though Fang Zhi has good eyesight, it took him a while to see the words clearly.

He looked at it without thinking, and read out: "Zhu, Xu, Jing, Kao, Shang, Li, Xiang, Da, Xue, Body, Side, Yong, Yuan, You, Me."

"Let me tell you a secret." As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xie who was beside him answered, "This is written by Brother Lin."

Fang Zhi blinked, a little shocked: "Lin Yufeng?"

"Yes." Xu Xie said, "His alma mater is No. [-] Middle School. The tradition of No. [-] Middle School is that during the [-]-day swearing-in meeting, everyone has to write the name of their ideal university and give it to the school, and then the school will find someone to hang it here. It turned out that he was lucky enough to write the name of the person he had a crush on. Afterwards, when the teacher accepted it, he didn’t dare to hand it in, so he asked us to climb the tree with him in the middle of the night and tie the red ribbon.”

Fang Zhi visually measured the height of the big banyan tree in front of him, and was skeptical: "Can this climb?"

"One person will definitely not be able to climb up." Xu Xie gestured at the height of the banyan tree, "We stacked up a few Arhats."

Fang Zhi imagined the scene for a while, and couldn't help laughing out loud: "Is this the trick to trick you here to do coolies?"

"Yes." Xu Xie said helplessly, looking up at the red ribbon fluttering in the breeze, "But he also said at that time that Xu Jing is his ideal, and he wants his ideal to be blessed. That's it In a word, the blood boils among us youngsters who have only just entered junior high school, scrambling to come over to help, and it doesn’t feel like coolies at all.”

Fang Zhi didn't have much contact with Lin Yufeng, but the young man in his impression was mature and stable, and he didn't seem like someone who would say such things.

He couldn't help being curious: "What happened next?"

"What later?"

"He and his ideal future."

Xu Xie was amused by his statement: "After that, there is no later. Didn't everyone say that it is difficult to have a secret love? After graduating from high school, there is no contact between them."

Probably because he didn't expect the ending of the story to be like this, Fang Zhi's face obviously collapsed.

The tree-full ribbons are still swaying with the wind, and the fulfilled or unfulfilled expectations and blessings are hidden in the red waves that have been set off, and they are frozen into eternity in the same way.

Xu Xie stared at the banyan tree for a while, then touched Fang Zhi: "Boss Fang, let's write one and hang it up."

Fang Zhi was taken aback: "What to write?"

"You can write anything, ideal university, the blessings you want, the things you want to do, the people you want to beg..." Xu Xie paused, "This tree is amazing."

Fang Zhi pointed to the ribbon hanging by Lin Hefeng on the tree, and pierced him in a second: "Are you sure?"

Xu Xie had his own way of dealing with Fang Zhi, and immediately put on a pitiful expression: "Brother, Brother Fang, my dear..."

"Stop, stop!" Fang Zhi reflexively felt a headache when he heard him yelling at his brother in a strange way, "I don't have any props to write, where can I find you a red ribbon?"

Xu Xie looked around for a while, but she didn't know what she saw, so she said "wait for me" and ran away.

Five minutes later, Fang Zhi dully shook the little red flag that Xu Xie stuffed into his hand: "...Where did it come from?"

"Here, over there."

Xu Xie pointed in a direction, and Fang Zhi looked along - on the railing of an unknown wall in the No. [-] Middle School, two small red flags were missing in a neat row of fluttering red flags, which looked like someone had two front teeth cut out.

Fang Zhi didn't know what to say for a moment, he was stunned for a while, and then mumbled two words: "...talent."

"Thank you." Xu Xie took out two pens from his trouser pocket and handed one to Fang Zhi, "Come on, hurry up, we have to go back to school."

Fang Zhi took the pen: "Can this fountain pen write on it?"

"The other side of it is a marker pen." Xu Xie had already squatted on the ground and began to write, "Let's say first, we each write our own, you are not allowed to read mine, and I am not allowed to read yours."

Fang Zhi laughed angrily, muttered "Who cares about you", then walked half a circle around the tree, deliberately found a place away from Xu Xie and squatted down.

He said he wanted to write it, but Fang Zhi didn't come up with a reason until his legs went numb.

He has always emphasized that everything depends on human effort, and he never pins his hopes on so-called blessings. He is so unfamiliar with this aspect that he doesn't even know how to write.But seeing Xu Xie's high spirits, he didn't want to spoil his interest, so he wrote the words "everything goes well".

Over there, Xu Xie was still writing, and Fang Zhi took a sneak peek at it from a distance—good guy, the red flag is about to turn into a black flag.

It was so far away that I couldn't see what was written.Seeing that Xu Xie didn't intend to stop writing, Fang Zhi shouted: "Hey! I'm done!"

"Wait...it's done." Xu Xie patted his buttocks and stood up, waving the flag at Fang Zhi, "Now I have a question, how do we hang this on the tree?"

Fang Zhi walked back to Xu Xie's side, raised his hand and hopped to reach for the branches, but he was still half an arm's length away from the lowest one.

He tried to jump another five or six times, and the best one was barely touching his fingertips, which made the leaves rustle.

"I come."

Boss Xu had had enough of watching the show on the sidelines, he squeezed Fang Zhi away, and was gearing up to take off: "Look, brother will show you something."

Fang Zhi saw that he was full of posture, with a confident look, he stood aside with his arms folded, raised his eyebrows, and signaled Mr. Xu to please start his performance.

"It's good."

Xu Xie took a few steps back, visually measured the distance between himself and the tree, and started running.

A gust of wind roared past along with the black shadow, and in the next second, Fang Zhi saw the young man's vigorous figure appearing in midair.

Probably no one would not be tempted by Zhang Yang's youth, at least at this moment, Fang Zhi once again felt a sudden tremor from his heart.

Until Xu Xie touched the end of the branch and fell to the ground, Fang Zhi's mind was still replaying the stunning scene under the curtain of the magnificent sunlight just now.

"Why are you stuck? Are you so handsome?"

Some people can't open their mouths, and a lot of tenderness can be destroyed once they open their mouths.

"Thinking too much." Fang Zhi rolled his eyes silently, took off the red flag pole of the red flag in his hand, and guarded Xu Xie from peeping, and went forward to tie the only remaining red flag surface to the branch.

It was inconvenient for Xu Xie to hold the branch with one hand, and after a while, he reluctantly handed the red flag in his hand to Fang Zhi: "Help me fasten it... close your eyes, don't look at it."

Fang Zhi gave him a speechless look, but his eyes closed obediently.

After tying the red flags of both of them, Xu Xie let go of the hand holding the branch. After the sound of "咻", the branch bounced back, and the red flag on it was submerged in the contrast between red and green.