Xie Feibai's father, Xie Houming, is the president of Huagu Group, one of the leading state-owned investment companies in the city. He has worked his way up step by step and must be very strong at home. Because of his status and the fact that he controls the purse strings, there is no telling how many bigwigs in the city will come to visit him. The world of these adults is opened up to the teenagers in advance. Some of them will be doubly mature and behave in an old-fashioned way, but there will probably be someone like Xie Feibai who is rebellious, thinks he has seen all the grayness in the world, and is world-weary. Over time, he develops a kind of vengeful cynicism.
Xie Feibai was slapped by Xie Houming today. It was probably because Xie Houming, who had just returned from a business trip for a week, was not happy with his earrings and scolded him about his miserable future and fate. Xie Feibai retorted that even if he lived like you, with hypocritical social events and drinking parties all day long and two-faced people around him, what was the point? He might as well die. Xie Houming slapped him at that time, and Xie Feibai ran out. His mother couldn't persuade him to come back, and she was helpless to be caught between the two of them.
The world was cold to him. Families like Yu Xiao and Cheng Ran who were still struggling to climb up would probably envy Xie Feibai's family and background. However, for Xie Feibai, because he had seen the principal and teacher smiling and cautious in front of his father, and even giving gifts to his son, the awe-inspiring thing of teachers had already collapsed in his heart.
Because of his good family background, he was never short of suitors and he had one girlfriend after another. So the love that the boy longed for at this time was nothing more than a product of hormone secretion in his eyes and was within his reach.
As for friendship, he used to have a very good friend. Once, when he was playing at the friend’s house, he took a nap in his room when he was tired. Halfway through, the friend’s father came back and hit a snag with Xie Houming. Thinking that his son was the only one at home, he started to curse at Xie Houming. Xie Feibai, who was listening to all this in the room, didn’t really care. The key point was that the other party suddenly said, “Go check with that bastard and see what his father has to say about Project No. 4. Last time you said that the idiot didn’t explain it to you clearly... So your dad had to return other people’s things after accepting them.” So, many past conversations about his good friend that he didn’t care about at the time, resurfaced. It turned out that they had other intentions all along... It turned out that he was a "fool"... He turned the door open and went out, and what he saw was that his good friend was desperately making faces at his father, and his father’s face suddenly froze as pale as dust.
Then he reported the fact that his friend's father was engaged in insider trading. Later, his friend's father was suspended and his family moved out of the company. This is Xie Feibai. No one can use him as a gun. He will retaliate against anyone who provokes him.
But after that, he no longer believed in friendship. Friends from childhood to adulthood might use you behind your back. When you are in the center of a storm, how can you still have friends? Moreover, he no longer wanted to experience the feeling of being stabbed and torn apart.
So today Xie Feibai would not feel any gratitude towards Cheng Ran and the others, and he didn't even need their help at all.
In his opinion, the two people were just acting on their own and didn't think of him as a person. It was not his turn to ask the two people to help him. The one who was looking for death was Du Bin. If it wasn't for the fact that Cheng Ran made a bet with the teacher and was reported to the whole school, which made him feel a little interesting, he would definitely kick the two of them one by one. They had a lot of fun peeping before.
Xie Feibai came to the public phone in the canteen and made a call. The number was from a building materials shop at the other end. When the call was transferred to the person he was looking for, Xie Feibai said, "Brother Zhao... Someone broke my head, um... um, okay... that's it."
The Zhao brother on the phone was a boss in the building materials business, and he was actually a social person. Sometimes, Xie Feibai felt that dealing with these social people was much more straightforward.
The next day, Du Bin was beaten outside the school gate. It was said that a group of people from the society blocked the school gate after school. They caught Du Bin in a small alley, knelt on the ground and slapped him. The five people who were with Du Bin at the time were also beaten several times each by the wall. They were all middle school students. How could they fight those young hooligans at this time? However, the other party did not use any cruel methods. It was just that Du Bin was beaten a little bit. According to people who saw it, he had a mouthful of dog shit in the end. After this incident, the school added security guards at the school gate after school, and also specifically warned students to go home early after school.
In fact, this kind of thing, although not very frequent, happened quite often in that era.
But after that, Xie Feibai's reputation as the boss of No. 1 Middle School was further solidified, and no one dared to challenge him directly anymore.
When Cheng Ran heard Yu Xiao talking about this, he frowned slightly and did not comment further.
Less than a week after his rebirth, Cheng Ran was still following his plan every day. The content in class every day was too slow for him, so he didn't need to listen. He would carry out his review plan during class time.
The life in the previous life made Cheng Ran full of mechanical execution of the plan, but the previous life was for life, fierce competition, the already solidified social resource allocation, huge innovation costs and extremely low success rate of breaking out, and the world that was constrained by various rules and ordinary people found it difficult to stand out. It was like a million-ton wheel chasing and rolling behind you. You couldn't relax a nerve, even if your feet were as heavy as lead, you had to trudge forward, otherwise you would be crushed under the wheel. Those drinks handed to you, those tones and orders that you couldn't refuse, controlled your life and eventually killed you.
And now, he has returned to his youth, a moment when everything in this world can still have a brand new beginning.
The greatest freedom in the world is the power to choose, and he hopes to have such power through step-by-step efforts.
The execution power now comes from the heart, and it is a surging energy. If you can't start from small things after rebirth, I'm afraid that even if the tide comes, you may not be able to take advantage of it.
Well, rely on yourself, start from the details, and do everything around you well.
Cheng Ran could feel that he was rebuilding the entire junior high school system, and the efficiency was amazing. He even felt a sense of heartache that if he had such a speed, the past time would have been wasted. It was like a building. Others first dug the foundation, built the frame, poured concrete, and built it layer by layer. But he was like fast-forwarding the game, and the building was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This feeling of exhilaration is like a superhuman enlightenment.
Cheng Ran knew that he was just secretly happy. Based on the content he had reviewed before, his brain still had the memory foundation. He just mobilized it through review, making the junior high school knowledge appear in his mind in a clear manner...
Time flies when I am fully engaged. The last stage of middle school is approaching. The date of the final art performance is gradually approaching. Every afternoon after school, boys and girls who have performances will still take out half an hour to an hour to rehearse. In many empty classrooms and places in the school, you can see people practicing dancing, singing, and rehearsing skits. Everyone hopes to leave a good impression on everyone on this stage when graduation is approaching, which can also be regarded as a footnote to their middle school career.
Today, Yang Xia was rehearsing in the auditorium. There were still many boys who stayed after school to see her, and some of them who were on good terms with her were very attentive. They bought her soda, helped her move equipment on the stage, and in short, they were all trying to get her attention and favor.
Unexpectedly, Yang Xia searched the auditorium and didn't see Cheng Ran. She thought he was one of the boys who were staring at her.
Cheng Ran felt that it was time for him and Yu Xiao to build their own cultural wall. Although they had nearly two weeks to do it, they still had to think of a theme first.
Yu Xiao and I passed through the narrow gap between the cypress trees and the wall and entered the space enclosed by the building boards. With a few boxes of chalk in our hands, we stood in front of the cultural wall, not quite knowing where to start.
"Cheng Ran, have you looked at the sky recently? In the evening, in the summer night sky, isn't there a bright star..." Yu Xiao thought of an interesting topic and said proudly, "That's Comet Hale-Bopp! It was discovered by two amateur astronomers in the United States in 1995. If it is placed in the same orbit as Halley's Comet, Hale-Bopp will be thousands of times brighter than the former! When it was discovered, it was still in the orbit of Jupiter. According to the prediction at the time, in 1997, which is the nearest period, it will pass over the earth, and this process will last for dozens of days. In other words, this comet will become brighter and brighter... It will become the great comet of the century that many people will never forget!"
Cheng Ran was very impressed by this comet, because this comet was indeed a wonder of the century. People in both hemispheres, no matter they were children or teenagers, on their way to work or vacationing at the beach on a summer night, many years later, when they had started a family and entered middle age or old age, they could still recall the shock that the comet brought to them at that time, as well as those times that would never return.
Inexplicably, Cheng Ran developed an indescribable sense of intimacy and nostalgia for the star in the sky above his head that was gradually becoming brighter. He was even shrouded in a sense of mysticism. Perhaps it was the appearance of this miracle that affected some unknown things, thus leading to his rebirth.
But all in all, "Haile-Pope"...see you soon.
I am looking forward to our reunion in this different world.
The next time you return will be more than two thousand years later.
And in this world, absolutely no one can meet you twice.