When Lu Zhicheng received a call from home, he was helping Wang Xu draw a circuit board.
He put down the mouse and walked outside.
Wang Xu was browsing the news. Seeing him go out, he put down his phone and said, "Where are you going? Someone will come to check and accept tomorrow, why don't you hurry up?"
Lu Zhicheng is tall and extremely thin, like a bamboo pole.
As a result of staying up all night working on projects, the fundus of my eyes was blue and black, the eyeballs were covered with bloodshot eyes, and my complexion was sallow.
He opened his dry and chapped lips, and his voice was tired and hoarse: "I know, I called from home. After answering the phone, I will come back and continue painting."
"Hurry up." Wang Xu nodded and continued playing with his phone.
Lu Zhicheng stood in front of the corridor with his hands on the railing.
A gust of wind seemed to knock him down.
"Mom, what's the matter?" he asked.
The voice on the other end was very old, and if he could figure out the appearance of the speaker, it must be an old woman with white hair.
"How are you doing at school?" she asked.
Lu Zhicheng replied: "I learned very well."
She coughed, and then asked: "How many points did you score in the exam? Is there a hundred?"
Lu Zhicheng was silent for a few seconds, and then said, "One hundred points."
Mom didn't finish elementary school, so she didn't know what college was like, let alone grade points. In her mind, as long as she gets 100 points in the test, she is the best.
"As long as you have it." She sighed in relief: "Chengcheng, you must study hard. You are the first college student in our village, and you are the hope of your parents... cough cough... you must listen to the teacher... cough cough. "
"Mom, I know." Lu Zhicheng frowned: "Do you have a cold?"
"I went to the mountain to carry firewood yesterday and caught some rain." She coughed twice again: "Don't worry, I took medicine."
Lu Zhicheng bit his dry lips.
I wanted to tell her to go to the hospital, but I couldn't say it, even if I told her, my mother wouldn't go.
"Isn't natural gas installed at home?" Lu Zhicheng advised him, "Don't burn firewood."
She smiled: "Now everyone in the team has gone out to work, and there is no one picking up the firewood all over the mountain. It's a pity to see it."
In fact, he was reluctant to part with the money, and Lu Zhicheng didn't have the heart to expose it.
"How is Dad?" he asked.
My father was diagnosed with uremia last year and has been doing kidney dialysis. The family's savings have been used up, and all the relatives around have borrowed it.
There was a long silence on the other end, as if the phone was cut off.
"I'm calling about your dad," she said.
Lu Zhicheng asked nervously: "What's wrong? Is it bad?"
"Today I went with your dad for kidney dialysis, and the hospital said that if you don't settle the money, you won't be able to do it next time." She sighed helplessly, "What should I do?"
The ending sound trembled with a little cry.
Lu Zhicheng thought for a while: "Tell the hospital to pay a part of it next month, and the school will give out scholarships, and I'll figure out the rest."
There are 8,000 national awards, plus 5,000 for the inspirational scholarship, which can let the hospital take a break.
The other end choked up and said: "It can only be like this."
"Is there anything else? If there is nothing else, I will continue to study." After ten minutes out, Lu Zhicheng was afraid that Wang Xu would be dissatisfied.
"It's okay, you go to study, you must pay attention to your health." His mother told him.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Zhicheng returned to the office.
As soon as he sat down, Liu Xiaodong came back from outside.
"The list of national awards is out," he said.
Lu Zhicheng quickly asked, "When will the money come?"
Liu Xiaodong watched him stand up excitedly, his expression changed, and he faltered: "I don't know, maybe it will be next month?"
Lu Zhicheng heaved a sigh of relief, now it is the end of the month, which means that he will definitely get it before the summer vacation.
"That..." Liu Xiaodong hesitated to say it.
Lu Zhicheng asked, "What?"
"Your name doesn't seem to be on it." Liu Xiaodong said in a low voice.
"Not my name?" Lu Zhicheng couldn't believe it, and said to himself, "How is it possible?"
"Our major is Shen Zhan." Liu Xiaodong said.
Lu Zhicheng's pupils shrank slightly: "Shen Zhan?"
"Yes." Liu Xiaodong nodded: "I just saw it, Shen Zhan, Electronic Information Engineering."
"Isn't he absent from class?" Lu Zhicheng asked.
The evaluation of the national award is very strict, with full marks for attendance, high grade points, and awards above the provincial level.
He is satisfied with all these, and his grade points are the first in the whole class.
Although not as good as Shen Zhan, a sophomore, he often misses classes.
When he submitted the application, he was 100% sure that he would win the national award, and Wang Xu also said that he would try his best to help him win it.
"I don't know about that." Liu Xiaodong shrugged.
Lu Zhicheng rushed out of the classroom.
Wang Xu came out of the toilet, shook the water from his hands twice, and saw Lu Zhicheng rushing to the Wanglou crossing in a hurry, and stopped him loudly: "Where are we going again?!"
Lu Zhicheng ignored him, ran downstairs and went straight to the counselor's office.
The counselor's name is Li Chengming, in his thirties, with a master's degree from overseas returnees.
"Mr. Li, why is Shen Zhan the national award?" Lu Zhicheng cut to the point.
Li Chengming was working on a document, raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
"The list of national awards has come down. Why is Shen Zhan the one?" He paused and asked more bluntly, "Why not me?"
Li Chengming pushed his glasses and said, "It's decided by the courtyard. Shen Zhan is indeed more qualified than you."
"More qualified?" Lu Zhicheng snorted lightly: "How many times have you been absent from work, are you still eligible to win the national award?"
The tone of questioning was not very respectful, Li Chengming frowned and said: "Shen Zhan often participates in competitions, and delayed classes are not counted as absences."
"But there are absences even when there is no game!" Lu Zhicheng choked his neck and retorted.
Li Chengming was silent for a moment, and explained: "It should be some unimportant classes, and I have discussed it with the teacher."
The name Shen Zhan, not to mention the Institute of Electronics, is well known in most of Huaqing.
"Why!" Li Chengming clenched his fists.
He was squeezed by Wang Xu, staying up all night to work on projects, and he didn't dare to miss a class during the day, and he even took the optional key classes at the end of the semester, for fear that he would not get a scholarship if he was absent.
Why
Li Chengming is young, and students talk to him with this attitude, and they get angry.
He sneered: "With him, he won honor for the school and led the team to win the world-class electronic award that Huaqing University has never won."
The veins on Lu Zhicheng's forehead burst out, and his cheeks became even scarier.
"So what if he wins the award? He's absent from work!"
Seeing his agitated expression, Li Chengming pursed his lips into a line, and said after a while: "This was not decided by me, it was judged by the courtyard." After speaking, he buried himself in making the form.
Lu Zhicheng stood there for about ten seconds.
"Is there anything else?" Li Chengming looked up.
Lu Zhicheng squeezed his fist, walked out of the office, and decided to go to the dean.
The counselor's voice came from behind.
"It's useless for you to find the dean, it has already been announced."
Lu Zhicheng slammed his fist on the iron railing, and his joints hit the metal, making a crisp sound of "boom", and the whole railing trembled.
He went back to Wang Xu's office.
Liu Xiaodong was sitting at his place drawing a board.
"Lu Zhicheng is here, Xiaodong, go and adjust the program." Wang Xu looked at him and asked scoldingly, "Where did you go? You didn't even agree, did you not take me seriously?"
"Teacher Wang." Lu Zhicheng looked at him, and said with a serious word: "You said that as long as my grade point is high enough, you will definitely be able to help me get the national award."
"Didn't get it?" Wang Xu thought about it for a while, it seemed that Shen Zhan was given to the courtyard, his voice suddenly became gentle, and comforted Lu Zhicheng: "It's fine if you don't get it, 8,000 yuan is not much."
"If you follow me to do projects, 8,000 yuan is not enough. After graduation, the annual salary will be at least 300,000 yuan." Wang Xu began to brainwash again.
"Just this project..." Lu Zhicheng gritted his teeth, "Could the teacher pay for some hard work?"
Wang Xu snorted, with a look of resentment: "You still haven't listened to what I said. The most important thing for students is to study. How can you concentrate on academics when you are full of money? Don't worry, you can wait until you graduate. I will recommend good jobs to you."
He added: "In comparison, all the money you want now is small money."
Lu Zhicheng stood still and did not speak.
Liu Xiaodong twitched the corners of his lips, thinking in his heart that Lu Zhicheng was crazy to want to take money from Wang Xu, thank God that Wang Xu didn't take money from them.
But they didn't have any money, and the students Wang Xu led were all from the countryside without exception.
"Go and draw the circuit board." Wang Xu said.
At this moment, Lu Zhicheng really wanted to blow his head off.
But he didn't have the courage.
He bit his lip, let go of his last dignity, and begged in a choked voice: "Then Teacher Wang... can you, can you lend me some money?"
"What?" Wang Xu seemed to have heard something terrible, his eyes widened, and he quickly waved his hands: "No, no. It's not that I don't want to lend it to you. The school has regulations that prohibit money disputes between teachers and students. of."
As expected, Lu Zhicheng's expression faded.
Wang Xu cared about him pretending to be a kind teacher: "Why do you want money? Aren't you in a student aid position? Hundreds a month."
"My father is sick." Lu Zhicheng lowered his head, his voice was low and weak.
"Sick?" Wang Xu put down his phone, got up and walked over, and pressed his shoulder: "Isn't there a drip chip? The classmates will help."
Lu Zhicheng took his hand away, and said indifferently: "I still have to go to the dean."
As soon as the voice fell, he turned around and walked out.
"Remember to send the circuit diagram to my mailbox before tomorrow morning." Wang Xu shouted.
Lu Zhicheng sneered and quickened his pace. The feeling of powerlessness swept over his body from the moment he left the counselor's office, and reached the extreme after asking Wang Xu for help to no avail.
It seems that I have no energy to walk.
The reality is so cruel. In order to change the family situation and life, I have to study hard for more than ten years.
After finally getting into Huaqing University, just when he thought his future was bright, he was oppressed by the teachers day and night, and the college was biased and unfair.
Very hopeful and desperate.
Lu Zhicheng exhausted his energy and walked to the dean's office, and was told that the dean was on a business trip in the afternoon.
He stood at the door of the office, blowing in the wind, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he stood quietly.
Until I saw Shen Zhan.
Six forty.
Shen Zhan came out of the laboratory, followed by Lin Qingxuan.
"Are you going to find the idiot?" Lin Qingxuan asked.
Shen Zhan stopped: "You are a fucking idiot."
"Tsk, don't let me talk if I'm stupid." Lin Qingxuan shook his head.
Shen Zhan had no desire to talk to him, so he walked straight forward.
"Where are you going? Is it the West Second Gate?" Lin Qingxuan asked.
Shen Zhan still ignored him.
"I'll go to the West Second Gate too." Lin Qingxuan said, "I went to watch ghost movies with the dog, I scared him to death today."
Shen Zhan said lightly, "Stop peeing."
"Fuck, how is it possible." Lin Qingxuan patted his chest and proudly said: "Brother Xuan, I watched ghost movies since I was a child, and I am afraid of everything and I am not afraid of ghosts."
Lu Zhicheng walked over from the opposite side.
Lin Qingxuan greeted him from a distance: "Hey, Lu Zhicheng, are you going to the laboratory?"
Lu Zhicheng saw it, but didn't respond to him, with a cold face.
Lin Qingxuan pouted.
Then he watched him walk over, directly blocking Shen Zhan's way.
"Shen Zhan, can you give me the national award?" Lu Zhicheng originally wanted to use the word "return".
Lin Qingxuan was stunned for a moment, and looked at him with a crazy expression: "What's wrong with you? You're crazy."
In fact, Lu Zhicheng is not likable at all, because he looks too shabby, like a skeleton man, despite his appearance, his personality is also annoying.
Everyone in the laboratory tried their best to help him out of Wang Xu's clutches, but he didn't appreciate it because of his funny and sad self-esteem.
"Let?" Shen Zhan smiled.
Lu Zhicheng was a little shorter than him, raised his head and said, "Give me the National Award."
This time it is a declarative tone.
Shen Zhan has always been very tolerant towards people, but he really hates when others speak to him in an orderly tone.
This will upset him.
He narrowed his brows and eyes, and his voice was still loose and lazy as usual: "I'm sorry, in my Shen Zhan world, there is no word let."
In fact, it wasn't Lu Zhicheng who said it, he didn't even know that he had won the national award.
Ever since he was a child, he has won too many awards, usually of the highest level, so Shen Zhan has become very casual.
"You're not short of this money." Lu Zhicheng said.
"I'm not short of this money." Shen Zhan took his hand out of his pocket, pushed his shoulder away, and said calmly: "The school judged it, if you are not satisfied, go to the school."
"I've looked for it, but it's useless." Lu Zhicheng took a step to the side and blocked his way again: "8,000 yuan is very important to me, very important."
"If you are short of money, apply for a bursary." Shen Zhan pushed him away again, his voice a little heavy.
He didn't push hard, Lu Zhicheng stood still.
That posture, it seems that he will not give up until he gets the national award.
Shen Zhan was a little annoyed.
It was exactly 6:40 when he left the laboratory, so far, Lu Zhicheng had pestered him for at least five minutes.
According to the distance from here to the second west gate, calculated at the maximum walking speed, if Lu Zhicheng continued to block his way, being late would be an inevitable result.
He didn't want to be late.
I don't want Lin Jiayin to wait pitifully.
"For the last time, get out of the way." Shen Zhan closed his eyes and his voice sank.
Self-esteem was trampled to pieces.
Waves of long-squeezed anger burst out of Lu Zhicheng's bones.
Whatever the fucking state scholarships!
Fucking trash school rules and regulations!
He just wants to do one thing now.
"What the hell are you pulling and pulling!" Lu Zhicheng punched him.
Shen Zhan caught his fist, grabbed his wrist with his backhand, and pushed his knee forward.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Zhicheng fell to the ground.
He struggled to stand up, panting heavily, clenched his fists like an angry thin bamboo pole.
On the other hand, Shen Zhan stood calmly.
With his hands still in his trouser pockets, he looked at him with a half-smile and almost whistled.
"I fucking pulled it." He smiled.
Lu Zhicheng clenched his fists and rushed forward.
Lin Qingxuan took a step back, leaving a place where Lu Zhicheng could lie down.
The villain in my heart sighed and shook his head again and again: Little brother, rest in peace.
Lu Zhicheng's weak body is really impatient to be beaten.
Before Shen Zhan strikes, he has to consider the severity. If it is too light, he can't beat people to death.
It's hard.
I didn't like violence at first, and I was worried that Lin Jiayin was thinking about it.
Shen Zhan grabbed his collar and fell to the ground. Just after taking two steps, Lu Zhicheng got up again and wrapped him around him like crazy, hugging his legs.
Shen Zhan frowned, with disgust on his face.
"Do you want to get beaten up and change the day? Today is really not free."
Lu Zhicheng spat out a mouthful of blood, and said bitterly, "Don't think I'm afraid of you!"
As he spoke, he jumped up again.
This time it's not fists, but fingers, fighting like a woman.
Hold.
Shen Zhan never thought that men would come here too.
The right cheek was scratched by the nails, and I felt the pain of scratching the skin.
"Call me when he's dying." Shen Zhan turned his head and said to Lin Qingxuan expressionlessly.
Lin Qingxuan nodded, covering his face with his hands.
I dare not watch the next bloody scene.
He received a call from Qi Goubi on the way.
The other end scolded his head and covered his face, "Fuck it, Lin Qingxuan wanted to confront him, but seeing that Lu Zhicheng was about to die.
He hurriedly said, "Shen Zhan is fighting, I'm busy saving people," and hung up the phone hastily.
Lin Qingxuan just dragged the man to the open space beside him to lie down.
Shouts came from a distance, calling Shen Zhan's name, with an obvious crying voice.
It was almost dark, and this place was relatively remote, with few street lights.
It was vaguely seen as two people, one tall and one short running towards them at high speed.
Lin Jiayin was out of breath from crying, crying and shouting and panting.
I saw a man standing in front of the flower bed, tall and straight, straight and slender.
She ran over at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.
Shen Zhan staggered and was almost knocked down by her.
A fluffy head was arched in her arms, and she kept crying, crying and talking: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo …”
"I'm fine." Shen Zhan put his palm on her head and comforted her softly.
On the other side, Qi Zheng walked up to Lin Qingxuan and looked at the person lying on the ground.
It was dark, and so was the floor.
The man was lying straight on the ground, if his eyes were not open, Qi Zheng would have thought he was dead.
"Didn't you say that Shen Zhan was beaten?" Qi Zheng asked.
Lin Qingxuan smiled: "Who told you that Shen Zhan was beaten? It is impossible for Shen Zhan to be beaten if the king of heaven is beaten."
Qi Zheng said "Oh", and pointed to the person lying motionless on the ground with his eyes open: "Who is it?"
Lin Qingxuan said angrily: "It's from the laboratory."
"What time is it?" he asked.
Qi Zheng said angrily: "It's too late, it's your fault, call me Dad quickly."
"Call your mother to force you." Lin Qingxuan glared at him, "The bet is changed to tomorrow."
The two began to spray each other again, completely ignoring the person lying on the ground.
Lin Jiayin was crying, thinking of something, she broke away from Shen Zhan's hand, and looked at him with a small face: "Where is the injury?"
Shen Zhan raised his hands lazily: "Look for yourself."
Lin Jiayin looked around him carefully, and was relieved after making sure that nothing happened.
But she was still worried, she sniffed, her voice was still crying, "show me a dance."
"..."
Shen Zhan didn't move.
"Hurry up!" Because of crying, the nose was blocked, and the originally anxious mood sounded like a baby at the moment.
Shen Zhan was defeated.
Seriously gave her a bouncing one.
Lin Jiayin put her arms around his waist and buried her face in his chest.
Cried again: "I'm so worried about you."
"What are you worried about?" Shen Zhan asked.
Her face was buried, and her voice was muffled: "Qi Zheng said that you were beaten, and Lin Qingxuan is saving you."
"Do you believe it?" Shen Zhan asked again.
Lin Jiayin nodded in his arms.
Shen Zhan pulled him away from his chest, leaned over slightly, and squinted his eyes: "Is that why you don't believe me?"
"What?" Lin Jiayin was confused.
Shen Zhan smiled with the corners of his lips curled up, and pointed his chin towards the man lying on the ground: "Should I show you another beating?"
"No, no." Lin Jiayin took his hand: "It's not good to fight."
Suddenly there was a scolding.
"How many of you? What are you doing!"
A beam of bright light flickered twice, and an uncle in a fluorescent green security uniform came over, followed by two security guards not far away.
It's from the school patrol.
"Fuck." Lin Qingxuan let out a low cry, and bent over to help Lu Zhicheng.
Lu Zhixiang was limp on the ground as if he had no bones, and he didn't exert any strength.
"Dog, help!" Lin Qingxuan shouted in a suppressed voice.
Qi Zheng put one hand in his pocket: "Call me Dad."
"Fuck you." Lin Qingxuan knelt down and said to Lu Zhicheng, "Do you want to be punished?"
This sentence is like the resurrection pill.
Lu Zhicheng stood up by himself, before letting Lin Qingxuan help him.
"What are you doing here?" Uncle Security shook everyone's face with a strong flashlight.
Shen Zhan covered Lin Jiayin's eyes with his hand.
Lin Qingxuan took a step in Lu Zhicheng's direction, and Lu Zhicheng himself lowered his head.
"Nothing, we are from the laboratory. We just came out and are going to eat." Qi Zheng came out to smooth things over.
The security uncle obviously didn't believe it: "Then why are you standing here all the time?"
Lin Qingxuan said coldly: "Uncle, do you know Shen Zhan?"
"Shen Zhan?" Uncle Security gave me the expression that you were teasing me: "Who doesn't know about Shen Zhan, even the old lady who sells insoles at the school gate knows, isn't the exhibition window at the main gate full of his awards? And... "
After talking about it a lot, Uncle Security came back and said, "No, why are you mentioning Shen Zhan?"
Lin Qingxuan pointed to the side: "He is Shen Zhan!"
"..."
The light hit Shen Zhan's face.
He looked at the security uncle expressionlessly.
"The young man is even more handsome than in the photo!" Uncle Security turned away the light, "Okay, let's go."
Lin Jiayin pursed her lips, Shen Zhan took her hand and squeezed her palm.
Lin Qingxuan also breathed a sigh of relief, and turned to look at Lu Zhicheng who was standing in the left rear.
However, in the next second, that familiar glare came.
It hit Lu Zhicheng's face exactly, as if it was premeditated.
"Hey, I caught the fight." The security uncle who suddenly turned around said with a smile.