Shen Kuo and Zhong Kai sell discs under the overpass on a shift system. Zhong Kai guards the booth during class, while Shen Kuo guards the booth after school.
During that time, the business was extremely booming, and he could earn hundreds of yuan almost every day, which was definitely several times that of Shen Kuo's past part-time jobs.
So Zhong Kai is right, these days, business is the kingly way, don't look at the small business now, look at the next twenty years, maybe they will make a fortune in the future with small business.
But Shen Kuo also gradually discovered something was wrong. The people who came to buy discs recently seemed to be mostly men.
Not only that, but when they bought discs, they looked very strange, looked forward and backward, and sneaked around, as if they were doing some shady business, and they were more cautious than entering a red-light hair salon on the street.
Several times, Shen Kuo watched them disassemble the discs, picked them up and down, and bought more than ten discs at a time.
One day, he finally couldn't help asking a man who bought twenty discs: "You just bought it yesterday, and now you've bought so much, can you finish watching it?"
The man said repeatedly: "I can watch as much as I can, I'll watch ten movies in one night!"
The corners of Shen Kuo's eyes twitched, these guys are eating watching DVDs!
At first, Shen Kuo was puzzled, until Lu Zhen came to fight with him out of nowhere. He hurried to look for Zhong Kai under the overpass, and saw a thin middle-aged man arguing with Zhong Kai——
"Can't you just give me the disc I want!"
Zhong Kai showed a cunning smile, and patted his chest: "Of course not. I have rules for selling discs here. If you pick up a good disc or a bad one, it's all down to luck, and it shouldn't be returned or exchanged."
"You are so cheating! You really have no business and no evil!"
"The only thing I can guarantee is that if you buy ten discs, at least two of them must be the content you want to see. My business is based on principles."
The thin man seemed to compromise: "Okay, you can give me ten cards, if there are none in them, I will settle the score with you!"
"If you don't come to me, I'll give you one for free!"
When the thin man was about to pay, Shen Kuo walked over, grabbed Zhong Kai by the collar, and asked coldly, "What are you selling?"
Zhong Kai was startled suddenly, and explained: "Hey, Brother Shen, I didn't... I didn't sell anything, I sold serious movie discs."
Shen Kuo had already guessed what he was doing behind his back, snatched the ten discs from the skinny man's hand, rummaged through them, and found something wrong. Among them, three discs had been unpacked, and the repacking was very rough. Looks like it's not the original disc.
It's a good move to steal the beam.
Before Shen Kuo even had time to question Zhong Kai, at this moment, several law enforcement officers from the industry and commerce department came towards them together with uniformed policemen.
"I go!"
Zhong Kai hurriedly cleaned up the booth, but later saw that it was too late, so he simply lost the booth and ran away.
But it was too late, as soon as he ran, the police immediately caught up: "Stop!"
A police car also came from the other end of the street, blocking Zhong Kai's way.
The small peddler thought it was the city management again, so he hurriedly closed his stall and fled. The scene was chaotic.
"Why do you arrest me! What have I done!" Zhong Kai shouted loudly, "Let me go!"
"There are reports from the masses, you are selling illegal YHSQ discs! Come back with us for investigation!"
"Who sells yhsq discs, don't wrong the good people!"
…
From the beginning to the end, Shen Kuo did not move his footsteps, so that the law enforcement officers almost regarded him as a guest: "Industrial and commercial law enforcement, idlers wait to get out of the way!"
Shen Kuo said lightly: "I'm not just waiting around, this booth is mine..."
The law enforcement officers had probably never seen such an illegal peddler who took the initiative to confess, they were stunned, and immediately took Shen Kuo away.
Zhong Kai knew Shen Kuo's temperament, and it was impossible for him to let Zhong Kai alone take responsibility for something like this.
Zhong Kai struggled desperately, and shouted excitedly: "It has nothing to do with him! Don't catch him, he doesn't know!"
"Whether it matters or not, it will be clear when we return to the game."
They ransacked the CD booth, took photos and left evidence, and then put Shen Kuo and Zhong Kai into the car.
Lu Yan swam over leisurely on her bicycle, just in time to see the scene where Shen Kuo was pushed into the car, and the ice cream cone in her hand dropped.
A second before Shen Kuo got into the car, he raised his head and saw her, his eyes darkened.
Shen Kuo was locked up for one night and then released, because this matter really had nothing to do with him.
However, he also bought half of the shares in this stall, so he lost all his money during the plagiarism.
Not only that, the local media followed the arrest scene at the time, and the incident hit the headlines of the newspaper the next day. At that time, there was no mosaic. Together.
The incident exploded in the school like a drop of water in boiling oil.
All the girls shy away from Shen Kuo, and the boys often have meaningful expressions on their faces when they look at him.
Shen Kuo still cared about me, going to and after school every day, looking for work to earn money, and didn't care about what others thought of him.
The gossip at the school intensified—
"Oh my god, Shen Kuo actually sells that kind of discs! It's unbelievable!"
"It's unbelievable. For money, he can do anything. You forgot that the fire in Lu Zhen's karaoke room last time was said to have something to do with him."
"When you see him in the future, stay away from him!"
"Thinking about it, it's really disgusting, Feifei, thanks to you who helped him speak before, now you know what kind of person he is."
Shu Mengfei was like a bright mirror in her heart, knowing that this matter had nothing to do with Shen Kuo.
But of course she couldn't justify anything for him. The word yhsq was like a scourge at the time. Anyone who got involved with it would not be able to wash it off by jumping into the Yellow River.
She echoed, "I didn't think of it before. He looks like a gentleman."
"Fortunately, you ignored him. Really, Lu Zhen is better. Although he is stubborn and unruly, at least he is still a gentleman."
Shu Mengfei smiled and said nothing.
"I heard that this time it was Lu Zhen who reported to the industry and commerce department."
"I can imagine it, Lu Zhen must still have more feelings for Fei Fei, now tear off Shen Kuo's disguise, hoping to make Fei Fei change his mind."
"Fei Fei, why don't you make up with Lu Zhen."
"Yes, he has done so much for you."
At this moment, a faint sneer came from behind—
"There are some people who put gold on their faces. You are a harem. All the boys in the school regard you as a treasure, right?"
The girls turned around and saw Lu Yan standing by the Wutong trail pushing a bicycle, wondering how much she had heard.
Shu Mengfei's face turned pale.
"What are you talking about?"
"You also know that you can't talk nonsense." Lu Yan got on the bicycle and raised her voice: "Shen Kuo didn't know about the disc matter. Your nonsense talk is slander."
"Whoever is talking nonsense, the newspapers are full of news."
"that is."
Sometimes, people can only see the "truth" they want to see, Lu Yan rolled her eyes, not wanting to waste time talking with them.
When she passed Shu Mengfei on her bicycle, for some reason, Shu Mengfei suddenly staggered and fell to the ground.
"Ouch!"
Shu Mengfei's elbow was scratched, she raised her head aggrievedly, and looked at Lu Yan with a trace of sadness on her face.
The girls around hurriedly supported Shu Mengfei, and asked Lu Yan, "You... what are you doing?"
Lu Zhen touched the ground with her toes, stabilized her bicycle, and looked back at her: "Hey, don't touch Ci, I didn't touch you."
It's just lip service, she's not going to start a fight with a girl.
"I'm fine." Shu Mengfei said quickly, "Don't blame her, I believe Lu Yan didn't do it on purpose, it's just a carelessness."
The more she said this, the more the girls around felt that Lu Yan was bullying.
"Fei Fei, you are just too kind to me, you must have done it on purpose when you see her like this!"
"That's right, the more you back down, the more arrogant she will be!"
"Don't say that." Shu Mengfei looked at Lu Yan: "I believe Lu Yan will apologize to me, right, Lu Yan."
"Lu Yan, please apologize quickly, or we will sue the Academic Affairs Office for bullying your classmates!"
"Press your head and apologize." Lu Yan sighed, and sneered, "It's been many, many years, and I haven't seen such a flourishing white lotus blooming so brilliantly."
No wonder Lu Zhen once said that his girlfriend is the most pure in the world. A girl like Shu Mengfei is really "pure" in the eyes of a straight man.
"What do you mean?"
Lu Yan raised her chin and looked at Shu Mengfei: "Do you understand the white lotus, I praise you as a flower!"
Shu Mengfei knew that it was impossible for Lu Yan to praise her, so she must have scolded her around the corner!
"Lu Yan, I know, because of your brother's affairs, you have always disliked me...but I broke up with him peacefully, I...I really don't know what I did wrong, and you hate me like this."
Seeing that Shu Mengfei was being bullied by Lu Yan, the girls around cried, and they said angrily, "Lu Yan, you really went too far!"
"Today we have to vent our anger on Fei Fei and let her know that we are not easy to bully!"
The girls rushed forward, grabbed Lu Yan's clothes, and tried to drag her off the bicycle.
"Let go! Don't touch me!"
"Are you afraid? If you are afraid, apologize to Feifei!"
"Damn..."
Relying on their numbers, they dragged Lu Yan out of the car, pulled her hair, and gouged out her face.
Shu Mengfei pretended to be weak, and waved her hands again and again: "Don't be like this, don't fight, just talk if you have something to say!"
Even though she said that, she didn't intend to step forward to stop her at all. Instead, there was a gleam of pleasure in the corners of her eyes, and she let the girls rush and shoved, tearing Lu Yan's ponytail apart.
At this moment, the girl who was pulling Lu Yan's hair suddenly let out a scream.
Everyone stopped and looked at the girl.
She was strangled by a tall boy, her face was extremely pale, her eyes full of fear.
It turned out to be... Shen Kuo.
All the girls gasped.
Shen Kuo pinched her with one hand, lifted her up directly, and lifted her feet off the ground.
His eyes were fierce, and his whole person became full of hostility.
Finally, one second before the girl couldn't bear it and was about to faint, Shen Kuo let go, and she fell heavily to the ground, coughing violently, coughing up tears.
Shen Kuo walked over, picked up the pink bicycle on the side of the road, and looked at Lu Yan.
After a big battle, the little girl's cheeks were flushed unnaturally, her carefully combed ponytail was also disheveled, and there were a few red marks on her fair hands, making her look extremely embarrassed.
She had never fought with anyone before, and stood by, sniffing, a little aggrieved.
Shen Kuo's eyes sank slightly, and after a long time, three words came out of his itchy throat: "Is it hurt?"
"No." Lu Yan muttered unconvinced: "They don't want to hurt me."
Shen Kuo turned his head and stared at the girls including Shu Mengfei, his gentle eyes instantly retracted, replaced by a piercing chill—
"You... want to die and tell me."
He looked at the girl who was almost dying, and a sinister sneer curled up on the corner of his mouth: "I don't know what it means to be sympathetic."
The girls were eloquent just now, but now they were shivering like quails, afraid to say a word.
They were afraid of Shen Kuo, they were really afraid to the bottom of their hearts.
While wiping her tears, Shu Mengfei said to Shen Kuo: "It's all a misunderstanding, Shen Kuo, don't be angry, it's all my fault, I didn't hold them back, that's why Lu Yan was almost hurt..."
Shen Kuo glanced at her with his long and narrow black eyes, her heart trembled, and the sobs suddenly stuck in her throat.
It seemed that all the things hidden in her heart could not escape his eyes, and under the disguise, her ugliness was revealed.
Shu Mengfei is really not reconciled, why, why can he look so gentle when looking at Lu Yan, but when facing himself, he is so indifferent.
He and she... are obviously the same person, but what is Lu Yan, a rich girl who doesn't understand anything, why should he treat her so well.
Shu Mengfei wanted to say something more, but Shen Kuo didn't give her a chance, she slightly parted her thin lips, and murmured a word—
"roll."
Leave no room.
…
After everyone left, the sycamore trail suddenly became quiet, only the rustling sound of the leaves blown by the wind.
"You showed up just in time! That move was too cool, let's see if they dare to treat me like this again..."
She hadn't finished her chattering, when the boy suddenly reached out and untied the rubber band on her head.
The black hair fell like a waterfall on her fair shoulders, tickling her collarbone.
Lu Yan raised her head in confusion, only to see that he lowered his eyes, bit the rubber band, pulled it away, and tied her hair up again.
Rough five fingers passed through the ends of her hair, scraping lightly, and the hair flowed out from between the fingers.
"Shen Kuo, what are you doing..."
"do not move."
Feeling his meticulous movements, Lu Yan's mind went blank, and her cheeks flushed.
Besides her father Lu Zhen, Shen Kuo was actually the second man who tied her hair.
He was bound very tightly, and his movements were very jerky, so Lu Yan felt her scalp was tense, but...
His heart is very tender.
Early the next morning, Lu Yan asked the head teacher for leave and went to the business department.
In the front office of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, many vendors came to go through the formalities. Lu Yan walked around the hall, feeling a little dazed.
At this time, a staff member in uniform came over and asked her, "Little girl, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for a leader."
The staff looked calm and smiled: "I haven't seen someone who looks for a leader as soon as they come to the door. Which leader do you want to find?"
Lu Yan didn't know either: "Just two days ago, didn't you copy and inspect the DVD involved? I want to find the leader in charge of this matter."
The man raised his eyebrows: "Coincidentally, I was responsible for that matter. Why, you also bought that kind of CD?"
"No, no!" Lu Yan waved her hands again and again, explaining her reason for coming.
…
Two days later, several personnel from the business sector came to the school and explained the situation to the principal and teachers in the principal's office.
"The matter involving the optical disc has nothing to do with Shen Kuo. His accomplice admitted that night that he did it by himself, and Shen Kuo didn't know about it. However, the newspapers and media have already reported this incident, which has caused great damage to Shen Kuo's reputation. We came here this time because we also hope that the school can return this classmate's innocence."
When the principal saw Director Liu from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce coming in person, he also realized the seriousness of the problem. He immediately called the classmate in charge of the radio station and issued an announcement to clarify for Shen Kuo.
Coincidentally, when they left, they saw Shen Kuo beside the basketball court. Shen Kuo was holding the basketball and looking at Liu Ju from afar.
Liu Ju walked towards Shen Kuo, and patted him on the shoulder as if treating a junior.
Shen Kuo stubbornly avoided it.
Clarification so what, he is not rare.
Bureau Liu was very impressed with this stubborn and stubborn boy.
"Don't expect me to thank you." Shen Kuo turned around and was about to leave.
Bureau Liu stopped him: "Of course the person you want to thank is not us. A girl came to the business department two days ago and promised us that Shen Kuo acted in an upright manner and would never do anything illegal. I hope we can clarify it to the school. In this matter, restore your reputation."
Shen Kuo suddenly stopped in his tracks.
open and aboveboard...
Why is she so sure. And why vouch for him.
"These things have been done, and they have been done, and it is useless for anyone to guarantee them; on the contrary, if they are not done, we will not let anyone suffer unjust injustice."
Director Liu came over and patted Shen Kuo on the shoulder: "You are as old as my son, but you are more promising than him, and you have borne the burden of life at a young age."
There was a hint of teasing in the corner of Shen Kuo's eyes.
He doesn't need the sympathy and pity of these people yet.
Director Liu knew that this young man seemed silent, but he was actually rebellious, like a hard rock on a cliff.
"Even if there is a cliff and abyss behind you, life will always move forward, don't give up on yourself."
Director Liu looked at him and said in a deep voice, "Because in this world, there will always be someone who understands you and believes in you without hesitation."
After they left, the campus radio station broadcast the short news to clarify for Shen Kuo again.
A gust of wind blows by, the treetops above the head rustle, and the sun shines through the gaps in the shadows of the trees, casting mottled light and shadow on the ground.
Shen Kuo turned around and threw the basketball in his hand into the basket.
Even if there is a cliff and abyss behind, life will always move forward.
Perhaps, he should also believe in himself.