Xie Xuanming stood at the door of the bank, with a packed homeless man lying at his feet. He glanced at his watch, it was eight fifty-five, five minutes before the bank opened.
Xie Xuanming had been standing here for 20 minutes. During this period, he went to the convenience store next door to buy a bread for breakfast. As soon as he got it, he didn't eat a bite because of the hangover stomachache, so he gave it to the homeless man.
Ji Sheng woke up in the middle of the night, his memory was stuck before he fell into a coma, he didn't even know how he fell into a coma, he thought he was drunk. With a dazed and ignorant face, he didn't understand Zhao Wenhua's dirty mind at all, and he opened his mouth to ask if he had qualified for the competition. Seeing him like this, the few remaining people couldn't tell him the real situation. They could only vaguely tell him that Xie Xuanming and Zhao Wenhua had conflicts, and their qualifications for the competition were probably in vain...
"Ah?" Ji Sheng was stunned. He turned to look at Xie Xuanming, and was shocked and angry when he saw his wounds all over his body. "Did they bully you? How did they beat you like this?"
Ji Sheng's face was full of anxiety for not knowing the situation, and Sheng Kongzhi shook his head slightly at Xie Xuanming from the side.
Xie Xuanming received the hint and remained silent, Sheng Kongzhi opened his mouth to make amends: "Xiao Xie is angry but you were given alcohol, so..."
"Huh?" Ji Sheng's face changed slightly, he was silent for a few seconds, frowned and condemned, "Just because of this? What's wrong with me drinking a few more drinks as an adult? Xie Xuanming, why are you so impulsive, you do it with little things? You even fight with a group of people , come back with injuries all over!"
He was so angry that he stood up from the bed, shook twice and then fell back. Sheng Kong knew that he had quick eyesight and hands to stabilize him, and asked him to calm down in a low voice.
The unspeakable truth, Ji Sheng's poor state under the effect of the medicine, Sheng Kongzhi's caring attitude, Su Jing's unintentional words before, and the lingering fire of alcohol.
These things stuck in Xie Xuanming's throat, stuck like a fishbone, the dry and sharp pain made his veins throb, and an evil fire surged into his heart for no reason.
He suppressed his anger and said that he wanted to talk to Ji Sheng alone.
As soon as Sheng Kongzhi went out, Xie Xuanming opened his mouth almost angrily and roared.
"Don't you fucking know that you refused?" Xie Xuanming's face was ugly, "I'm still out of my mind, I didn't come back in time yesterday, you might, no, you must have been forced into something."
The hoarse and broken voice made Xie Xuanming look like an unreasonable child, and Ji Sheng's shocked and bewildered expression made him feel embarrassed after knowing it.
After Xie Xuanming finished cursing, he gasped and glared at Ji Sheng.
In fact, he already regretted it a bit. After all, Ji Sheng didn't know the situation... He just learned that he was no longer qualified for the competition, and before he could get angry, he was given a lesson by the culprit...
Xie Xuanming felt that if he were Ji Sheng, he would have to slam the door and go out now.
He couldn't bear it, he kept his fierce eyes, but he gradually became uneasy in his heart, hesitating and afraid of Ji Sheng's anger.
However, Ji Sheng didn't. He only looked at Xie Xuanming in surprise, feeling that the things that could make him angry might not be as simple as he imagined.
However, rather than asking for the truth, Ji Sheng first chose to take care of the underage who blew his hair.
He relaxed, his face returned to his usual casualness, smiled and came over to hook Xie Xuanming's shoulder, and squeezed his face twice in a teasing and comforting way.
"The sun is coming out from the east, and our good baby actually included two dirty words in one sentence. Come on, hurry up and say hello to old Sheng Susu and the others."
Ji Sheng reacted so unreasonably, Xie Xuanming froze as if he had punched cotton.
After reacting, Xie Xuanming pushed Ji Sheng away like a frightened bird, and walked away.
To be precise, it is not appropriate to use the word "flee away", it should be said to flee.
Xie Xuanming's face was burning with pain, he got angry at others for no reason, but he was forgiven so much that he realized his naivety, he had no face to face Ji Sheng, so he could only hide in the house in embarrassment, curled up on the bed and kept tangling what to do, should he apologize , how to apologize...
People always find themselves worthless when they show favor.
Xie Xuanming was trapped in a deformed family since he was a child, and he has never been forgiven or tried to show weakness to others.
He is not familiar with this set of social processes at all, so he can only clumsily decide to exchange materials for emotions to meet the real needs of those who need to please at this stage.
That's why he came to the bank early in the morning.
At nine o'clock, the bank opens.
Xie Xuanming went in, walked straight to the ATM machine, and lowered his head to touch his pocket.
The last time he was at the bank was after his mother died and the man gave him a card.
That was the first time Xie Xuanming went to the bank, and there were a lot of zeros in the account.
Looking at the long string of numbers, Xie Xuanming suddenly thought of his mother. Money is the best care product, and the man's lavish spending prolongs the mother's teenage life, making her spend decades as brilliant as it is.
Eventually it withers like a flower.
Xie Xuanming didn't want to use the money.
The man's generosity made him look more and more cheap and pathetic.
But he doesn't care now.
Compared with unnecessary dignity, the reason for needing money is clearer.
But the assets were frozen.
Xie Xuanming was silent for a few seconds at the prompt on the screen, and was told after switching to manual service that he could only withdraw up to 10,000 from his card at the moment.
The man who claimed to be his father probably wanted to teach the rebellious child who didn't want to go home, but he was afraid that Xie Xuanming would starve to death, so he didn't forget to leave a narrow escape path when he struck.
Ten thousand yuan.
Narrow back road.
Xie Xuanming wanted to laugh for no reason.
The "basic living expenses" paid by the wealthy may be huge sums that other people can't touch, such as turning dozens of bars a night, staying up all night to make power-leveling orders, and handing out leaflets for ten hours on a 30-degree sunny day.
"Take them all out, thanks," he said.
Xie Xuanming went to the convenience store next door to buy an ice cream and took a plastic bag with him, packed the banknotes loosely, and left.
When going out, he broke the card and held it in the palm of his hand.
People really can't be poor.
Xie Xuanming thought casually with an ice cream in his mouth.
After being poor for a period of time, breaking the card like this is actually a bit painful.
But it feels really good to be contemptuous of money.
He ate the ice cream in twos and twos, and with a wave of his hand, he threw the wooden stick and the card that had been broken into two into the roadside trash can.
Xie Xuanming returned with a full load and knocked on the door of Ji Sheng's room.
Ji Sheng just woke up after returning to the cage, opened the door with sleepy eyes, staring blankly at the person coming.
It wasn't until Xie Xuanming opened the bag and a stack of red banknotes came out that he suddenly woke up with a jolt.
"Aren't you..." Ji Sheng stared wide-eyed, and said in astonishment, "Are you going to extort medical expenses from Zhao Wenhua?"
"No." Xie Xuanming said, "I took it from the card. I originally wanted to withdraw 15,000...but I...frozen the money at home, and now I can only take out so much. I just take it out and get an album for Qingchu."
10,000 yuan in cash piled up brightly red, the impact was too strong, Ji Sheng took a while to look away and said, "You can't have Qingchu."
"Why?" Xie Xuanming said, "Everyone is saving money for the album, and I want to help."
"...You can sing well, don't worry about money."
"No." Xie Xuanming was serious, "Aren't I a young man?"
"It's not a question of not being a member." Ji Sheng scratched his hair irritably.
A puppy randomly picked up on the road suddenly brought back a gold medal, wagging its tail and proudly said that although I can’t tell, I am actually a noble puppy, let me steal the family’s assets and buy you high-end canned food...
Ji Sheng's head was full of black lines, and Xie Xuanming stared at him without blinking. His beautiful eyes under the bruises were shining, just like a dirty puppy waiting for praise.
Ji Sheng didn't want to eat soft meals with puppies, Ji Sheng just wanted the puppies to bark nicely, so he invited him to join him.
After thinking about it, Ji Sheng sighed: "The money has been given to Qing, what should you do?"
"I can make money." Xie Xuanming said earnestly, "Distribute leaflets and make a list of bar resident singers. I can do whatever you can."
"You're still in school." Ji Sheng frowned, "You'll be in your third year at the beginning of school."
"I don't want to go up." Xie Xuanming wrinkled his nose, showing a bit of rebellion in line with his age, "I don't go up."
"It's not a question of wanting to do it or not." Ji Sheng was stunned for a moment, his face changed, "You're just being angry."
"No." Xie Xuanming was upset, and said stiffly.
Don't treat me like a child, he wanted to say.
However, Ji Sheng spoke first and snatched his words.
"I am worried about you."
Ji Sheng frowned, and looked at him seriously: "Xie Xuanming, you have no plans for the future at all, this won't work, it's very worrying."
He said, inexplicably getting a little angry.
"You may think that I have 10,000 yuan in my card, and I can use it as I want. It's a trivial matter that I spend it impulsively today and earn it tomorrow, but it's not... This reflects your perfunctory attitude towards life. , you are only seventeen years old. It’s okay to skip class and not learn to play the band, but if you want to drop out of school, it will exceed the quota of "willfulness". This is not good and it is not allowed. If you leave, you are no longer welcome, you will quit the team tomorrow, or today, go back to school and teach me honestly!"
Xie Xuanming's Adam's apple rolled down.
Ji Sheng's tone was stern, and he put on a full-fledged attitude of an elder, teaching people long-windedly.
As a rebellious seventeen-year-old boy, Xie Xuanming felt that he should be upset.
But in fact, Xie Xuanming is very happy, he is very happy.
On the one hand, he suspected that his head was broken yesterday, and he was so happy to be scolded, but on the other hand, he couldn't restrain his joy.
Ji Sheng was worried about him.
Xie Xuanming's heart skipped a beat, and Ji Sheng's words were like the first wave of sea water exposed when the port melted, and the ice came up, bringing the breath of spring.
Xie Xuanming suddenly realized why there are so many rebellious teenagers who like to do stupid things in the world.
If rebellion and immaturity can be exchanged for worry and love, Xie Xuanming is willing to be called a bastard for the rest of his life.
Ji Sheng paused to catch his breath in the middle of a long speech, and he was ready to continue educating the little lead singer in front of him who had learned to be a bad boy in less than a month.
Unexpectedly, before he could speak, the rebellious boy who was as stubborn as a rock just now suddenly sniffled and said softly, "Okay, I got it."
Ji Sheng was so full of thoughts on the topic of education that he got stuck in his throat and choked.
Xie Xuanming lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, a little embarrassed and aggrieved: "I'm sorry."
Ji Sheng stared blankly at Xie Xuanming's raised eyes, the bruises around his eyes, wounds on the corners of his lips, and band-aids on his face all made him look a bit pitiful.
After the poor Xie Xuanming apologized, he said softly: "It's my fault to get angry in the morning, and it's also my fault to get angry and say that I dropped out of school. I was wrong. Brother Ji, don't be angry."
Xie Xuanming's words were like a ball of cotton, stuffed into Ji Sheng's heart, and he suppressed his anger completely unreasonably, but the floating cotton choked him up and made him feel uncomfortable.
damn it.
Ji Sheng thought.
This kid is really good, and he realized the true meaning of the world in just a few tens of seconds.
What is more terrifying than a seventeen-year-old dead stubborn mad dog is a seventeen-year-old dirty puppy.
In the former, you can still wave a big stick at him angrily, in the latter, he will roll in front of you, and you have nothing to do with him.
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