After Cai Ye completed the transfer procedures, Lu Rong started to study in the town primary school, surrounded by new classmates he didn't know, and occasionally met a child from Longquan Village on the playground.
When the village was moved, most of the villagers went to Yulu Village, while some who had relatives in Longtan Town, or those who bought real estate like rich men, chose to settle in Longtan Town, and the children also entered the town. primary school.
As a kid from the same village, he would always be more affectionate. He would stop Lu Rong and ask him if he thought the new school was bad, did anyone laugh at him for not seeing the new pencil case, or when he read the text in Mandarin, everyone around him laughed. .
Lu Rong always shook his head and said no.
He hasn't dated his new classmates yet, and he's not interested in the new style of pencil case. What's more, his Mandarin is very good. When he reads the text, his pronunciation is more standard than that of the children in the town.
The children in the same village lamented sadly, they really want to go back to the village primary school.
On the third day of school, during inter-class exercises, Danwa, who was transferred to another grade, found him on the playground.
"Lu Rong, you should always be more careful."
Lu Rong blinked: "What's wrong?"
"We had a few fights with Fatty Chen in the town, and they said they would bloodbath our students from Longquan Village," said a child.
Lu Rong had heard about this, and within a few days of entering the school, Danwa and the others had fought several games with Fatty Chen and his group of students.
In the past, the children in Longquan Village seemed to be fighting all the time. In the fields, on the grain-drying field, on the way to school... there were scuffles everywhere, and they played together affectionately after a few minutes of fighting, so he didn't take it seriously.
Danwa said: "This is different from fighting in the past, you have to be more careful, it is said that they have worshiped the master and are practicing martial arts these days."
"I didn't pay homage to the master, I was learning from TV dramas." A child interjected.
Another echoed: "Yes, they are practicing martial arts according to the Legend of Double Dragon of the Tang Dynasty."
Eggy Baby was shocked: "That won't work, we have to practice martial arts with TV dramas."
"Let's watch the Condor Heroes practice, and practice the Depressed Ecstasy Palm." Someone gestured with his hand.
The children began to discuss and told Lu Rong not to reveal it, and Lu Rong solemnly agreed.
After school, as soon as he left the school gate, he saw a group of senior boys in front of him, the leader was fat and strong, and it was Fatty Chen who was fighting Dan Wa and the others.
Thinking of Danwa's instructions, Lu Rong bypassed the group of people and walked forward against the wall.
"That man, that man from Longquan Village, stop." A shout came from behind.
Lu Rong's heart skipped a beat, pretending he didn't hear it, he lowered his head and quickened his pace.
After a crackling sound of running, several boys who were a head taller than him blocked the way.
"Are you deaf? Can't stop telling you to stop?" A boy with a long face stretched out his finger and tapped Lu Rong's shoulder.
Lu Rong was pushed back half a step by him, grabbed his schoolbag tightly and did not speak.
Another boy said: "He is so white and looks like a girl, so he is a savage from Longquan Village, right? Are you mistaken?"
"That's right, I've written down all the savages in Longquan Village, and he's one of them." The long-faced boy said.
Fatty Chen, who was the leader, pushed the others away and walked up to Lu Rong: "I heard that your group of savages worshiped their master and are learning martial arts. Is there such a thing?"
Lu Rong hesitated for a moment, then shook his head.
"Don't believe him, I heard they were discussing today, I really begged Master to deal with us, and Master only has one hand." The long-faced boy said angrily.
Fatty Chen's small eyes were squeezed into the fat on his face, and he looked at Lu Rong coldly: "Where do they practice martial arts? Where did the master find it?"
Lu Rong picked at the strap of his schoolbag on his shoulder, buried his head and stared at his toes in silence.
"Give me the schoolbag." Fatty Chen suddenly reached out to pick his schoolbag.
Lu Rong took a step aside, allowing him to miss out.
"Do you still dare to hide?" A few boys next to him rushed up aggressively: "Hand over the schoolbag, we need to check it."
It is said to be an inspection, but actually I want to turn it over, maybe I can get a pocket money of one or two yuan.
Lu Rong ignored them, and wanted to squeeze out from the gap between the two boys. They reached out to block it, and grabbed Lu Rong's schoolbag to hold it tight.
"I'm going to ask the teacher to sue you." Lu Rong got a little angry, and twisted her delicate eyebrows, her round eyes were full of annoyance.
"Oh, I'm going to ask the teacher to sue you." The boys began to imitate him in a strange way.
"Go and sue, go and sue, as long as you dare to sue, you will become our number one hunting target, and we will issue a hunting order for you."
"The little savage is quite interesting."
"Didn't you savages go to Yulu Village? Why are you still staying in our town?"
Lu Rong didn't care about the order to hunt down the small rivers and lakes, and just moved forward to earn a living. The hand behind the person holding the schoolbag did not let go, the zipper snapped open with a puff, and two books and the pencil case fell out.
After falling, the pencil case spread out, the pencils were scattered all over the floor, and there was also a piece of hard paper folded squarely.
As soon as Lu Rong turned around, the long-faced boy quickly grabbed the hard paper and spread it out quickly.
"The money order, boss, this is the money order." He shouted excitedly, his voice becoming a little sharp: "Boss, it's more than one hundred yuan, there are more than one hundred yuan."
Everyone's eyes lit up. They originally wanted to get a couple of yuan from Lu Rong, but they didn't expect that there was a remittance slip of more than one hundred yuan hidden in this little savage's pencil case.
Fatty Chen snatched the remittance slip into his hand, carefully read the words on it, his small eyes narrowed with a smile: "Hey, you accompany us to the post office—"
"Give it back to me." A yell interrupted him.
Lu Rong's face flushed red, he took the schoolbag out of someone else's hand, walked straight up to Fatty Chen, spread his palms and said, "Give me back the money order."
Fatty Chen said: "We don't want too much, split it in half—"
"Give it back to me." Lu Rong interrupted him again, his voice was no longer soft, and he stretched out his hand stubbornly.
Fatty Chen has always been domineering in the small town, and no student has ever dared to treat him like this. For a while, he felt a little embarrassed, and slowly suppressed his smile and lowered his face.
The long-faced boy reached out to grab Lu Rong's shoulder: "My little friend, we only split in half. Why are you so excited? You didn't take all your money."
Lu Rong pushed him aside, the long-faced boy didn't expect him to be so small and strong, he was pushed back a few steps, and sat down on the ground.
"Boss." He yelled at Fatty Chen with some grievances.
Fatty Chen stretched out his right hand and handed the remittance slip to Lu Rong, meaning to return it to him.
Lu Rong reached out to pick it up, but just as the piece of paper was about to fall into his palm, Fatty Chen suddenly stretched out his left hand, and with a bang, he tore the remittance slip in half in the air.
Swipe, swipe, and a few more strokes, and slam into the sky.
In Lu Rong's frozen sight, the remittance slip turned into several scraps and fell to the ground.
"Boss." The boys around all exclaimed.
Fatty Chen clapped his hands and said, "Let's go, find a place to practice martial arts."
He was only happy when he saw the remittance slip at first, but immediately calmed down. If so much money is taken away, this little savage will definitely sue the school. If he wants to return all the money, he will definitely have to invite his parents, and his father who runs a big truck will beat him up again.
Since this little savage made him unhappy, he couldn't simply return the money order.
A few people walked forward with their shoulders crossed, the long-faced boy turned his head and looked at him, and said, "That little savage is crying, picking up scraps of paper while crying."
The words are full of deep reluctance for the remittance slip.
"Yeah, boss, why did you tear it up? What if he goes to sue?" Another boy asked carefully.
Fatty Chen said: "No one else saw it here. He went to sue. Let's not admit it. Who can prove that I tore it up? But if you want to take the money, there are surveillance cameras in the bank, so you can check it out." .”
"That's right, the boss is right." A group of people echoed.
"Let's go, let's go practice martial arts."
In a quiet corner, Lu Rong squatted on the ground to pick up the pieces, carefully put them into the pencil case one by one, raised his sleeves from time to time, and wiped away the tears hanging from his pointed chin.
After finding all the fragments, he started picking books.
Those are newly released books. The rich man used an old calendar to make a cover and wrote his name with a pen. He wiped off the dust on the cover, and put each one back into the schoolbag.
When he came to the fork in the road home, the puppy squatting at the intersection greeted him, wagging his tail happily, and pounced on him. Lu Rong only patted the puppy's head and whispered, "Let's go home."
After dinner in the evening, Mr. Cai started to watch TV. He went back to his room, took out the stack of fragments in the pencil case, spread them out on the table and put them together carefully. Wait until the last gap is also filled before gluing it in place.
He didn't dare to put the pasted remittance slip into the stationery box, so he searched around the house, finally put it into an empty tin biscuit box, and stuffed it in the deepest part of the closet.
Fatty Chen and the others saw Lu Rong during the exercise between classes the next day.
Lu Rong didn't have any abnormal reactions, he just gave them a cold glance with his big eyes, and then walked past the playground.
"This little savage doesn't seem to have filed a complaint." The long-faced boy was a little worried at first, but he wasn't nervous anymore.
"Does he dare to sue? We're going to issue a killing order for Xiao Jianghu." Another boy said.
After school was over, those boys went to the head of the town again, where there was a small uninhabited courtyard, where they had been locked up for the past few days to secretly practice martial arts.
The sun was setting and the sky was getting darker. A few children who were drinking and talking were a little tired after fighting for a while, and they were ready to go home for dinner.
The long-faced boy walked in front and stretched out his hand to pull the door, but it didn't open. He tried to pull it a few more times, but the door still wouldn't open.
"Boss, the door seems to be locked." He turned his head and said in surprise.
Fatty Chen pushed him away and walked forward, slammed the door and slammed it loudly. He frowned and asked, "Who was the last one of you to come in just now? Who closed the door?"
A short boy raised his hand: "I came in last, but this door can be opened even if it is locked inside."
"Someone followed us and locked it from the outside." The long-faced boy panicked.
The short boy thought for a while, then suddenly raised his voice: "Could it be a savage from Longquan Village who did it? That one called Danwa."
"Yes, it must be him. He looked at us several times after school." Another person echoed.
There was no movement outside the door, and several people spoke harshly, but no one responded.
"Boss, what should we do? It seems that we locked our door and ran away." The long-faced boy asked.
The short boy's voice was timid: "If I don't go home again, I will be beaten."
"Me too."
"My dad is at home today, and I dare not go back too late."
Fatty Chen was also a little guilty, and started looking for tools around the room to see if he could pry the door open.
An old man lived in this yard, and his son was working in Shenzhen. After the old man died, the house was vacant here, and the back became a secret base for several people.
Except for a few pieces of old furniture in the house, all valuables were taken away by other people. Fatty Chen turned around, let alone tools, he couldn't even find a nail.
There was only a skylight at the top of the whole house. Several children moved the furniture over and stepped on it to push the window, but the window was nailed to death and could not be pushed open no matter what.
The sun is setting and the night is coming.
Several boys sat on the ground, looking up at the high skylight.
"How can we get out?" A boy asked hoarsely.
Because they had been sticking to the crack of the door and shouting out for a long time, their voices were a little hoarse.
"It's okay. If we go back later, the adults will look around and find us." Fatty Chen said.
The long-faced boy said with some fear: "My mother must have been looking for it. The teacher and the school have asked about it. I will definitely be beaten when I go home."
"What if they can't find us? Will we die here? And the old man died in this house..." A boy looked around the house and said tremblingly.
The short boy who had been looking up at the skylight was about to say something when he suddenly saw something stuck on the glass of the skylight.
—A small black ball with a hairy stick attached to it, and there are red patterns on the stick.
The short boy rubbed his eyes.
No, that's not a stick, it looks like some animal's hooves.
"Ah!" He yelled in surprise, and rushed to push the people around him: "Hey, what is that, what is that on the skylight?"
Everyone looked up at the skylight and shouted loudly.
"Is that a wolf? Is that a wolf?"
"Wolves are not like that, and they don't climb that high."
"What would that be? Would it jump in and bite?"
"No, it's through the glass."
As if aware of being discovered by someone, the weird hoof slowly retracted, and when the group of people breathed a sigh of relief, an animal face was stuck on it in an instant.
"Ah!!!!" There were horrified screams in the room.
Looking at the creepy animal, they suddenly opened the corners of their mouths with their hooves, and stuck out their tongues downward.
"Ah!!!!!!" Under the glass skylight, the shrill scream almost knocked off the roof.
Lu Rong, who had turned into a fawn, lay on the roof, listening to the heart-piercing screams below, felt that this was not enough, rolled his eyes again, and kept knocking his upper and lower teeth.
The short boy burst into tears on the spot.
Just when Lu Rong pulled down his lower eyelid with his hoof and rolled his eyes wider, all the boys including Fatty Chen started to cry loudly, and the wail resounded throughout the small courtyard.
After a while, a boy looked at the skylight with teary eyes, slowly stopped crying, and tugged at the person beside him: "It, it's gone."
Everyone looked up when they heard the words, and found that the scary and weird monster had disappeared from the glass.
At this moment, a cardboard box shell was placed on the glass, with words written in black pen on it, with two pinyin interspersed in the middle.
"You are not allowed to kill the students of Longquan Village, or I will look for you again."
The long-faced boy read that sentence tremblingly.
"Don't dare, we dare not."
"We don't dare to bully the students of Longquan Village anymore."
After a while, the door clicked, as if the lock had been unlocked, and everyone screamed and hugged each other again.
After waiting for a while, there was no more movement at the door, so Fatty Chen walked over tremblingly, stretched out his hand and opened the door.
Since then, Lu Rong went to and from school without incident, and Fatty Chen and his gang never provoked him again.
When Danwa and the others met him, they also said puzzledly that they were planning to fight, but the group of boys in the town hid when they saw them, so the fight couldn't be done.
The puppy squatted at the fork in the road every day waiting for him to leave school, and ran home together when he saw someone.
There is a reason why Lu Rong hurried home, waiting for a call.
But that landline had been placed next to the pillow for half a month, not to mention Shen Jize's call, and he never received a single call.
It takes more than ten minutes to walk from the new home to the school. Golden leaves cover the entire fork, and there is a rustling sound of leaf veins breaking when stepping on it.
The voice reminded him that autumn was here, and winter was not too far away.
And the agreement between him and Shen Jize to meet during the winter vacation is getting closer, closer...