Zhou Kai was like a toy whose battery had been pulled out, stuck in place on the spot.
He covered the back of his head and opened his mouth blankly.
Those who play basketball with Lu Xiao are basically from the school basketball team.
A group of tall and burly boys surrounded Zhou Kai and the other five people tightly.
Zhou Kai was visibly timid, and stammered: "Xiao, Brother Xiao...how could it be you..."
He retreated reflexively, but bumped into Jiang Jin who was stepping forward.
Lu Xiao put the basketball on her index finger and turned it around twice casually, as if playing.
The tone of the speech was calm and assertive, "When did this place become your territory?"
Jiang Jin shoved him with his shoulder, with a fierce expression on his face: "You don't exist as a fucking brother, you collect protection money from people in our class, your brain is covered with shit?"
Ye Cheng was startled. He hadn't told anyone about this, but somehow it spread.
In fact, it can be seen from Gua Qun that the thirteenth high school gang has a strong sense of territory.
When it comes to matters of face, these people are not trying to help him, they just simply don't want to let it go.
"Brother Xiao, brother Jin, this really has nothing to do with me, it's not my idea!" Zhou Kai hastily argued.
That attitude is completely different from just now.
Lu Xiao casually threw the basketball to the person behind him and walked up to him.
He was nearly half a head taller than Zhou Kai, looking down at him like he was looking at an ant.
Zhou Kai's calf trembled uncontrollably, his face twisted.
"It's not your idea, then it's Zhang Qi's." Lu Xiao sneered, "Take a word, let Zhang Qi come to me by himself, don't do some f*cking things behind the scenes. I will touch you next time." Here, break your dog legs first."
Ye Cheng's eyelids jumped twice quickly.
Zhou Kai tremblingly said: "I, I see, Brother Xiao, if there is nothing else... I'll go first."
He wanted to turn his head away impatiently, but was held down by the shoulder.
"stop."
Lu Xiao's malicious voice directly made his legs go limp.
"... Brother Xiao, is there anything else?" Zhou Kai turned his head tremblingly, seeing that his expression was about to collapse.
Lu Xiao raised her eyebrows: "You punched me last time, how are you going to repay it?"
Ye Cheng's heart skipped a beat.
Sure enough, he knew that this man would take revenge.
In the past, Lu Xiao was tricked by a partner once, and then he set up a series of tricks for someone, forcing that person to almost jump off the building.
The old man ate fast and recited Buddha's name on weekdays, and asked Ye Cheng to persuade him to calm down many times.
However, at that time, Ye Cheng was overwhelmed by emotion, and always helped him speak well and cover up in front of the old man.
Until one time, the other party was cornered and asked someone to hit their car on the highway.
After that time, Lu Xiao finally restrained himself.
It turned out that there were traces of his violent temper, and he had been so violent since he was a child.
Zhou Kai was about to cry, he put his hands together and begged for mercy: "I apologize to you, I really didn't mean it, there won't be a next time..."
Jiang Jin and the others laughed.
"If an apology is useful, why do you need the police? You beat Brother Xiao and ran away without saying a word. Now you think about it and apologize? I'll fuck your mother."
Lu Xiao made a gesture, and everyone fell silent.
"I'm too lazy to fight with you." He raised the corners of his lips, and Zhou Kai's eyes lit up.
But what happened next made him unable to laugh.
"How about this, you stand in the middle of the playground with this basketball on your head until school is over."
Everyone laughed wildly, Jiang Jin booed and whistled.
There were several physical education classes in the science class this afternoon. Let Zhou Kai stand on the playground with the ball on his head, which undoubtedly made him lose face in the science class.
The five people behind him looked at each other in blank dismay, which was worse than beating him up.
The sudden shame and humiliation made Zhou Kai clenched his fists, his eyes were red and his whole body was trembling.
Jiang Jin patted his face and said: "Isn't it very arrogant when collecting protection fees? It's kind of like asking your master to vent your anger on you."
Lu Xiao said coldly: "If you are disobedient, you know the consequences."
Zhou Kai's pupils constricted, as if remembering something more terrifying.
After a few seconds, he lowered his head to pick up the basketball thrown on the ground, drooped his shoulders, turned around and walked towards the playground.
"Hahaha, trash, cowardly group."
"That's it, you still want to rule the thirteenth middle school? Don't ask who is your father."
A group of people made a lot of noise and left in groups.
Lu Xiao walked past Ye Cheng with her pockets in her pocket, and was stopped when she was about to walk by.
Ye Cheng looked at him and said, "Thank you."
Lu Xiao didn't say a few words to him at all, at most they were nodding acquaintances in the same class, and he didn't know where Xie came from.
He nodded casually and started to leave.
Ye Cheng said again: "Can you, don't fight with that Zhang Qi."
Lu Xiao looked at him sideways. Ye Cheng was as tall as his eyebrows, and they could basically look at each other when they stood facing each other.
The person in front of him had the tone of an arrogant and good student, preaching to him sternly.
This posture doesn't seem to be thanking him, but rather looking for trouble.
Lu Xiao felt it was extremely absurd, and even laughed angrily: "None of your business."
He gave Ye Cheng a bad look, then strode away.
Ye Cheng couldn't help thinking, damn it, she's really rebellious.
It's so difficult.
After the physical education class, Ye Cheng was called by Xu Chao to the office.
At first, he thought that some rumors had reached the teacher, but it turned out that Xu Chao just asked him to find someone to publish the blackboard newspaper together.
"This issue of the blackboard newspaper is going to participate in the selection, you'd better get it out today." Xu Chao arranged, "I think your handwriting is beautiful, you should have practiced calligraphy, right?"
Ye Cheng nodded absently: "I learned it for a few years when I was young."
Xu Chao patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction, and said, "Thank you for your hard work. You can ask Jiang Jin to be with you. He is an art student studying fine arts. The two of you will get it done soon."
The last class in the afternoon was computer class, and the two took the privilege from Xu Chao to stay in the classroom and post on the blackboard.
Jiang Jin was very keen to skip class, so he happily brought paints and brushes.
While drawing the first draft on the paper, he chatted with Ye Cheng: "I can't tell, you're pretty good at typing, I heard you beat Lai Zi upside down in the toilet."
Ye Cheng took out his glasses from his schoolbag and put them on. He is nearsighted over 100 degrees, so he basically doesn't need to wear glasses at ordinary times.
For the convenience of writing chalk characters and reading manuscripts later, I put them on in advance.
He replied casually: "Fighting is not the only way to measure ability, nor can it resolve any contradictions."
Jiang Jin sneered disapprovingly: "You are memorizing politics here. I thought you were quite bloody, but you really came from a monastery."
Ye Cheng snorted softly: "If you really treat Lu Xiao well, you should persuade him not to fight with Zhang Qi."
He thought that Jiang Jin would dismiss it, but saw him put down his pen and said with a stern face: "You know a fart, don't turn on the microphone if you don't understand, ok?"
If it were someone else who spoke in this way, Ye Cheng would probably not bother him again.
But he was a little curious as to what the origin of that Zhang Qi was.
"Then you give me some science?" He followed Jiang Jin's words.
Jiang Jin glanced at him vigilantly: "Why, you care so much, you want to join us? But you are really good at fighting, and you are tough enough when things happen. No wonder Brother Xiao didn't make things difficult for you."
Ye Cheng suddenly had an idea.
Perhaps, the best way to resolve the enemy is to integrate into the enemy.
He tried his best to put on the posture of a high school student, and asked seriously: "Are you still accepting people? Do you need to pay the protection fee first?"
Jiang Jin was choked, coughed and said: "What the hell, you think we are from Lao Qi's group, Brother Xiao doesn't charge protection fees."
"Then how can I join?" Ye Cheng asked with rare perseverance.
Jiang Jin was caught in the test for a while, scratched his hair, and simply showed his cards: "What do you want to do? I don't think you are a person who likes to mix society."
Ye Cheng rested her chin with the back of her hand, and said frankly: "I want to know more about you Brother Xiao, and I'm curious about what kind of feud he has with Zhang Qi."
Jiang Jin's cheeks twitched, and he always felt that the first half of his sentence was weird.
"You want to know this? Actually, it's not a secret." He hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Brother Xiao used to have a good friend who was a boring gourd. Later, he was bullied by Zhang Qi and Zhou Kai, so he couldn't bear to transfer to another school." gone."
He paused, and then said: "In the first year of high school, Zhang Qi and the others were so crazy that they even charged the protection fee for the third year of high school, and even caused some people to drop out of school. After Men Hulu left, Brother Xiao became completely angry and beat him up. I was lying in the hospital for two months, and since then everyone started calling him Brother Yi."
"You know why they are all afraid of Brother Xiao, but no one has told the teacher that he is not good. Because if there is no Brother Xiao, the thirteenth middle school would have been messed up." Jiang Jin said seriously.
The current Siyuan Building is divided into the East Building and the West Building. The East Building is Zhang Qi's site, and the West Building is under the cover of Lu Xiao.
Ye Cheng listened quietly, and indeed, as he said, Lu Xiao was very popular in class.
No matter whether it was the unanimous voting for him in the joint school grass ballot, or whether everyone obeyed him in the physical education class, it could be seen.
Many people are afraid of him, and many people like him.
It turns out that in Lu Xiao's life, there are so many loves and hatreds that he has never participated in.
He vaguely remembered that Lu Xiao mentioned that he knew a brother who was a good student in high school, and he could help him with his lessons, but unfortunately he transferred to another school and left.
At that time, Lu Xiao was still joking, saying that if those buddies didn't leave, maybe I could be admitted to a university with you. Then, my university will chase you down.
Ye Cheng felt that he was bragging, and mocked that even if you put all your heart into studying, it is impossible to be admitted to Peking University, and it will be in the next life.
Now that he heard these "past events" with his own ears, he unconsciously felt a strange feeling.
While talking, a figure came in from the back door.
Jiang Jin looked over and almost bit off his tongue.
Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Lu Xiao lazily walked into the classroom, glanced at them, and threw the computer book on the table.
"Brother Xiao... aren't you going to class?" Jiang Jin said something about him behind his back, looking at him with a guilty conscience.
Lu Xiao leaned on the back of the chair, rubbed the back of her neck, and said, "I'm so bored."
Jiang Jin shrugged his shoulders and agreed: "It's quite boring, and I can't play games."
After a while, he put the drawn manuscript on the table behind, and started publishing blackboard newspapers with Ye Cheng.
Standing on a chair, the two first sketched the lines with chalk, and then painted with paint with a brush.
Because the area to be painted is large, Ye Cheng also picked up the brush to help him paint it together.
Jiang Jin has the bottom line of an art student, he would rather be dirty than let the painting be dirty.
Twenty minutes later, their hands were covered with colorful paint, and the whole table was ruined.
Lu Xiao straddled the chair in reverse, facing them and playing games with the switch.
From time to time, I raise my head and comment on Jiang Jin's painting skills, where the chroma is not enough, and where the shadows are too heavy.
Jiang Jin took a breath, jumped down from the chair, and said to Ye Cheng, "I'm going to change the water in the basin, you should continue painting first."
As soon as he left, Lu Xiao stopped talking and played games quietly with her mouth shut.
Ye Cheng drew with his back to him, and the two ignored each other.
The fans in the classroom occasionally made a little noise, and the chirping of cicadas filled the quiet gap in the middle.
The faint scent of unknown flowers floated from the window, floating up and down among the empty seats, and the pages of the book were turned from time to time with the breeze.
Ye Cheng suddenly turned around and said, "Lu Xiao, can you help me take off my glasses."
It was the first time he called his name directly in front of him, which was a bit bold.
The lips were pursed slightly, the tip of the tongue was pressed against the roof of the mouth, and two familiar words slipped out of the throat with ease.
It seems that I have practiced it thousands of times, and even I feel that it is a bit too natural.
Lu Xiao raised her eyes and saw his silver-rimmed glasses hanging on the tip of her upturned nose, precariously sliding down.
He frowned and looked at it for a while, then said angrily, "Are we familiar?"
It's not that Lu Xiao is unkind, it's that he really doesn't understand what's wrong with this transfer student.
He had only met him a few times, but every time he spoke in the same tone that he had known him for eight hundred years.
Moreover, he always made some requests that were a bit out of line in his opinion.
He looks carefree on the surface, but he really hates physical contact with people he doesn't know well.
Not to mention things like pushing glasses, it sounds like it's about to reach the level of "intimacy".
Ye Cheng opened her colorful palms. In order to keep her glasses from falling off, she could only slightly raise her head and did not look at Lu Xiao.
He honestly replied: "Not familiar."
At least, he was not familiar with the seventeen-year-old him.
Looking at it from Lu Xiao's perspective, he was just facing his delicate chin and a small protruding Adam's apple.
Because of the movement of raising her head, Ye Cheng's water-colored lips were slightly parted, and the tip of her tongue could be vaguely glimpsed.
Lu Xiao suddenly felt short of breath, and replied impatiently, "Are you challenging my patience?"
He didn't quite understand what the throbbing of the collision was, but he just felt that he wanted to beat up the transfer student.
It's too much of an eyesore.
Sweat broke out on Ye Cheng's face, and his glasses slipped down more and more.
He said without moving, "No."
Lu Xiao: "...then you say a chicken."
Ye Cheng said helplessly: "But my glasses are about to fall off."
There was a tone of anxiety and aggrieved tone in his voice.
But it might just be an illusion, he probably won't feel anxious or wronged.
However, this sentence was like a limp thorn attached to a rose vine, scratching Lu Xiao's chest lightly and lightly.
He was silent for a moment, and finally stood up unbearably, and walked towards Ye Cheng with a grumpy expression.