"I don't need to tell Teacher Yuan, or I don't need to notify my parents," Tao Rui said while packing up, "but you can't hide it. You can see the wound on your face."
"Does it look serious? My face." Xu Zhifan stood up and wanted to look at the mirror in the sink, but after standing up, he had to stand there for two seconds, the wound on his body hurt.
"It's okay, it's just scary looking, there's nothing wrong with the bones," Tao Rui sighed, "Is he kicked in the face, can your friends not ask you?"
"They know," Xu Zhifan walked to the mirror and took a look, then went back to sit in the chair, "I'll stay here for a while and think about how to tell them."
"Did something happen?" Tao Rui poured him a glass of water, "If it's a big deal, I suggest you tell the school or parents. After all, you're only a sophomore in high school. Some things can be handled, some things can be handled. No way."
"My dad knows," Xu Zhifan said, "something happened to my family, not me."
"Looks like you're not a troublemaker," Tao Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "If it's Kou Chen's character, I really wouldn't believe it if I said that."
Xu Zhifan smiled.
Change a person, change a family, how would they deal with such a thing
do not know.
This is the matter of one's own family. It is meaningless to assume that it has already happened. There is no way to avoid it. This is the only way to deal with it.
"Have you dealt with your ex-boyfriend?" Xu Zhifan asked.
"Why, do you want to change the subject?" Tao Rui smiled. "It's dealt with, but I have to tell his parents. We both know each other, so I didn't want to make a big fuss at first, it was too embarrassing."
"Yeah," Xu Zhifan nodded, "I don't know what to do with this kind of acquaintance, friend, old neighbor..."
"Want to talk? We don't know each other very well," Tao Rui said. "Maybe it would be easier to say it? Of course, if you don't want to, let's talk about other things."
"Talking about your new bag?" Xu Zhifan glanced at the bag she put on the table.
"The eyes are fine," Tao Rui took the bag. "Limited edition, just this one. I'm familiar with the cabinet sister. I got it."
"Did you go to work just to buy some snacks?" Xu Zhifan said with a smile.
"No, I'm lucky because my family conditions are good. Earning more and earning less has little effect on me. I don't need to put income first," Tao Rui said, "but I also want to have my own life. , to work or not to work, that is the point.”
Xu Zhifan gave a thumbs up.
Back to school today, the cafeteria can have dinner, and everyone usually rushes to the school before the meal starts. Lao Yuan said that it is like a puppy.
Except for Xu Zhifan, the group of seven was all there. When they went to the cafeteria, Huo Ran took out his mobile phone: "I'll send Xu Zhifan a message."
"Don't post it," Wei Chaoren said. "If he doesn't want us to know, we'll just play stupid, right?"
"That's why you're a brain," Kou Chen poked the back of his head, "I just sent a message because I wanted to pretend to be stupid. Normally, if he hasn't arrived at school by this time, should we ask?"
"Oh yes," Wei Chaoren nodded, "you still have delicate brains."
"It's not even delicate," Huo Ran said while sending a message, "it's just long and complete."
A group of people laughed, and Wei Chaoren sighed: "I thought it wouldn't hurt if you were familiar with you."
"This means that if you don't know him well, he can damage you to ashes." Jiang Lei said.
"You're almost the same," Wei Chaoren said, "you just didn't speak."
- we went to the cafeteria , where are you
- I'll be there soon, I'll go straight to the cafeteria
"He said go directly to the cafeteria." Huo Ran put away his phone.
"With the wound on his face?" Xu Chuan asked.
"I can't escape anyway," Huo Ran said, "I guess I can't make up any reason to come."
There really is no reasonable explanation.
When Xu Zhifan walked into the cafeteria with a wound on his face, he waved his hands as soon as he saw them: "Let's eat first, then we'll talk about it when we're done."
"I'll fight for you, you go to occupy a seat," Huo Ran said, "what to eat?"
"Just like Kou Chen." Xu Zhifan said.
"Why?" Huo Ran was stunned.
"He eats meat more fiercely than you." Xu Zhifan smiled.
"I'm going to eat braised pig's trotters today," Kou Chen announced, "and buckled pork, steamed pork..."
Huo Ran hurriedly took Xu Zhifan's card and ran over to the dining table, these hard dishes would be robbed within ten minutes.
"Also," Kou Chen queued behind him and stared inside, "Damn, I want to eat meat patties too."
"Can you finish?" Huo Ran sighed, and when the person in front finished cooking and left, he handed over Xu Zhifan's card, turned his head and said to Kou Chen, "Report."
"Long time no see, auntie, steamed pork with pork trotters and meat patties," Kou Chen said.
"Aren't you going to eat some green vegetables?" the eldest sister inside asked while cooking.
"Green cabbage?" Kou Chen frowned and thought for a long time, "Half a portion of Chinese cabbage."
Huo Ran laughed, handed over his card, and asked for two meat and one vegetable.
"I still have one here, the same as the one just now." Kou Chen took Xu Zhifan's plate of dishes and handed in his card.
"Don't fight on your behalf!" said the eldest sister.
"Sister," Huo Ran hurriedly leaned over to the window, "We helped Zhifan fight, Xu Zhifan, you know, the one with good academic performance, the one who helped you mop the floor last time, he was injured today and can't stand. live."
"Yo, how did you get it... Okay," the eldest sister picked up a plate and tapped the meter a few times, "It's the same as the one just now, right?"
"Yes." Kou Chen nodded, reached out and scanned the card reader.
beep.
Insufficient balance.
Huo Ran, who was turning around and preparing to leave with two dishes, was stunned.
"No money?" Kou Chen swiped his card again.
Insufficient balance.
"Then swipe this card." Before Huo Ran could speak, Kou Chen took his card from his hand.
Huo Ran wanted to say something, but the plate in his hand was too heavy, especially Xu Zhifan's one, so he had to take the plate and walk to the table first.
"...Is this a fight between two people?" Xu Zhifan was stunned when he saw the dinner plate.
"You said you wanted to be the same as him," Huo Ran said with a smile, "he also eats so much... Kali has no fucking money and still has so much money to play."
"Who? Kou Chen has no money in his card?" Jiang Lei came over with a plate, "How can he still have no money?"
"The money in his card is left over from last semester, and it hasn't been recharged this semester." Xu Chuan said.
"That's how it is with money. Hu eats and drinks with guests for a semester, and there is still money left in the card." Wei Chaoren said.
Kou Chen came over with a dinner plate, put Huo Ran's card in front of him, and sat down next to him.
"Did you take Huo Ran's card?" Xu Chuan was stunned, "Can't you recharge next to it?"
"It's too late to recharge, you didn't see that I was a fucking man behind me," Kou Chen said, "I'll recharge and come back and eat shit."
"Are you finished?" Xu Zhifan looked at the dishes on his plate.
"If you can't finish it, give it to me." Kou Chen said.
"...I'll try it, I'm a little hungry." Xu Zhifan said.
Huo Ran looked at Xu Zhifan, but in fact, the group of people all looked at Xu Zhifan together after returning from the dishes.
The corner of Xu Zhifan's eyes was blue, the corner of his mouth was bruised, the back of his hand was swollen, and there were bloodstains similar to rubbing against the ground on the side of his wrist bone.
This is because he was beaten so hard that he couldn't fight back, and he could only lie on the ground to protect himself from being beaten more seriously.
Or he just didn't want to fight back.
"What's the matter," Huo Ran asked, "it's all like this, we can't pretend we can't see it anymore."
"Aunt Hu's son is back," Xu Zhifan said. "Her daughter came to remind me today, and I almost guessed that she would block me on the road."
"How many people?" Kou Chen asked.
"I don't know," Xu Zhifan said, "I didn't look up when I lay on the ground, and I didn't see clearly."
Kou Chen didn't speak, frowned, the spoon in his hand was pressed by his thumb, quietly bent to a right angle.
"Kou Chen," Huo Ran reached out and squeezed his hand, "Don't be impulsive."
Kou Chen still didn't speak, just threw the spoon in his hand on the table, took the spoon from Huo Ran's plate, and ate with his head down.
Kou Chen likes to use a spoon to eat. At this moment, he is so immersed in eating that the spoon keeps pounding on the bottom of the plate. Dangdang, he can hear that he is very upset.
"I'm fine..." Xu Zhifan said, "I just went to the school doctor's office for a check up, and there's nothing serious..."
"What if there is a big problem?" Kou Chen interrupted him.
Xu Zhifan smiled and said nothing.
"Their family is unreasonable. Did you fucking let Auntie Hu go to MLM? Did you cheat money from his family?" Kou Chen suppressed his voice, "Did you fucking kidnap her?"
"I think so too," Xu Zhifan said, "but now to deal with this matter, you have to stand on the other side and think about it.
"No one can be sure that it is Aunt Hu that your mother took away." Huo Ran said.
"Yes," Xu Zhifan lowered his head and nibbled at the pig's trotter, "but if it is true..."
"If it's true, then you let her son beat him, okay," Kou Chen said, bending Huo Ran's spoon, and pinching it, making it a U, "Then According to this line of thinking, if it is not your mother's idea, their family will wait."
"That's right," Jiang Lei nodded, "Wait, is there no one in Xu Zhifan's family?"
Xu Zhifan turned to look at him.
"At this moment," Wei Chaoren slapped the table, "We are all family members."
Xu Chuan had been trying to say something, but when he said this, he couldn't help laughing.
Several people suddenly laughed.
"Hey." Xu Zhifan sighed while holding on to the wound on his face, "I really can't laugh right now, please do it, it hurts my face."
After returning to school, there was no way to trouble Xu Zhifan anymore, but Huo Ran was a little worried about his father and grandmother.
When a group of people went to the opposite dormitory to play cards at night, Huo Ran stopped Xu Zhifan, who was about to go there: "What's going on with your dad? Is your family okay?"
"Well, I sent a message to ask my dad," Xu Zhifan said, "he said no one was going, I guess... Li Ling will stop him."
"Do you feel sorry for her?" Huo Ran said.
"I can't tell," Xu Zhifan said in a low voice, "she is also angry, but she is calmer than her father and brother. I think even if this matter is resolved successfully, she will be a stranger to her in the future."
"Don't put too much pressure on yourself, you are no strangers," Huo Ran said, "You two are kindergarten classmates. She told you when she was in elementary school that you refused to take study as a priority, and then there was nothing. There are too many contacts, and it is almost like a stranger."
Xu Zhifan laughed: "You have a very unique angle to explain people."
"Originally, you are a precocious person who thinks too much," Huo Ran said. "You should learn from Kou Chen, scold when you are scolded, beat when you are beaten, and pretend when you are forced..."
Xu Zhifan pressed his face and couldn't stop laughing.
"Don't act like a man, follow the footsteps of a teenager, it's no big deal to be impulsive and ignore it," Huo Ran thought for a while, "Young and frivolous."
"Understood." Xu Zhifan nodded.
"I know it's useless to talk about this," Huo Ran walked towards the door, "but I still feel like I want to say something, just tell us if you have anything, don't think it will drag your friends, seventeen or eighteen friends, it's different, it's different from twenty Seven-eight, thirty-seven-eight are different, after a few years, we will never be able to make such pure friends again."
"You've never been able to say that before." Xu Zhifan followed behind him.
"I've encountered too many things these days," Huo Ran said, "I just feel a little bit, and I feel free to express it."
Xu Zhifan patted him on the shoulder.
Huo Ran felt that his words were not accurate enough the next day. Among these friends, one of them was very special.
Just like this one in front of me.
"Auntie," Kou Chen stood in front of the dining table, "I want chicken thighs, meat patties, diced spicy chicken and Mapo tofu."
"Don't you want a vegetarian dish? Go with it." The eldest sister asked.
"Mapo tofu is a vegetarian dish," Kou Chen said.
"There's so much meat in it," the elder sister said.
"The minced meat is a vegetarian dish." Kou Chen replied with certainty.
The elder sister smiled and prepared the dishes for him.
beep.
Insufficient balance.
"Use this one." Kou Chen took the card from Huo Ran's hand, swiped it, and put the card back in his hand.
Huo Ran looked at the back of him happily leaving with the vegetables in his hand, feeling that he had nothing to say.
Such friends are the most special kind.
must be classified into a single category.
"You remember to recharge." Huo Ran said, "Do you still have money there? Are you out of money?"
Kou Chen didn't speak, he took out his mobile phone while eating, clicked on Zhifubao, let him check the balance, there was less than 10,000, then clicked on WeChat, opened Kou Xiao's chat box, and there was a stream of transfers and red envelopes.
"If you have money, don't worry." Kou Chen said.
"Oh." Huo Ran nodded.
At dinner, Kou Chen was still standing behind him, and Huo Ran turned to look at him.
"Why, go forward." Kou Chen pushed him.
Huo Ran didn't speak, and moved forward slowly with the person in front.
There was an ominous feeling in my heart.
"Auntie, double-cooked pork, braised pork ribs, mutton with spring onions, mashed potatoes." Kou Chen reported the name of the dish.
beep.
Insufficient balance.
As soon as Huo Ran heard the news, he ran away with the plate in his hand.
But with a dinner plate in his hand, he couldn't move too quickly, Kou Chen stretched out his hand and took away his card.
"Why haven't you topped up yet?" the eldest sister said, "Are you out of money?"
"No," Kou Chen smiled, "Huo Ran and I are using the same card now."
Huo Ran looked back at him.
"Let's go." Kou Chen happily picked up the dinner plate and shook his head at him.
Huo Ran felt very helpless. Kou Chen's determination to eat big households was very firm. From the beginning, he took the card in his hand, then took the card from his pocket, and finally took the card directly into his own pocket.
"Aren't you going to recharge?" Huo Ran was lying on the table, listening to Lao Yuan talking about the holiday arrangements for New Year's Day.
However, they had already arranged for themselves a few New Year's Days. If they didn't go home, they would stay at school to accompany Xu Zhifan.
"Charge." Kou Chen said.
"When will it be charged?" Huo Ran asked.
"Can you still be rich with your card?" Kou Chen clicked his tongue.
"...Oh." Huo Ran sighed.
"It's still an old saying," Lao Yuan said. "Everyone should pay attention to safety during the holidays, don't just play, and review a little. The final exam is coming soon. You have to pass this level to have a good New Year, right?"
"Ah..." The whole class sighed in a long voice.
"I have something to tell you in advance, about parent-teacher meetings," Lao Yuan said. "I know everyone hates parent-teacher meetings..."
"So there is no parent-teacher meeting in our class?" Kou Chen immediately asked.
"You think beautifully," Lao Yuan laughed, and the people in the class sighed again, and Lao Yuan knocked on the table, "The parent meeting cannot be cancelled, but we can change it... I told the teachers of each subject. For a moment, this parent meeting in our class neither praises nor criticizes, nor does it summarize, nor does it answer any questions from parents about their children’s performance in school…”
The class started to talk a lot.
"Then what are the parents' meetings?" Kou Chen whispered, "Isn't the parents' meeting just beating and scolding children for a mobilization meeting?"
Huo Ran laughed for a long time, and patted his leg: "My family is really not, you mourn."
"Everyone can write a letter to the parents, you can say whatever you want, no signature is required..." Lao Yuan said.
"The letter to the parents is not signed... Doesn't my mother know it's me?" Jiang Lei was at a loss.
The whole class burst into laughter.
Lao Yuan also laughed for a long time: "Listen to me! If you don't sign the letter, you won't send the letter to your parents. If you mess up, send it to other parents. What dissatisfaction do you have, what expectations do you have, or even anger, to yourself and to your parents? , can write... This time, we let parents really see what other children's children are like."
"Fuck me? This is a bit interesting," Kou Chen was stunned, "I wrote a letter to scold my dad... It's cool to think about it... What are you scolding?"