Late May.

The weather in Los Angeles is even hotter, and you only need to wear short sleeves when you go out, and the weather in central California always seems to be so pleasant.

Of course, this refers to the vast majority of the year, and it won't be long before the summer is the most hated by the locals, and in the mid-eighties, air conditioning was still a rarity in the Chinatown area.

The main reason is that the installation cost is too expensive, and the electricity bill is also distressing, and many Chinese people living in Chinatown would rather blow the electric fan to stay up, anyway, the hottest day is just a few months.

More than ten days have passed since Su Mu accidentally listened to the strange radio station, when the school radio no longer often makes a clattering sound, indicating that after the end of this solar storm, he has never heard those strange broadcasts again, and quietly asked other students in the school, and also looked through some newspapers in the newsstand in recent days, except for a satellite because of this solar storm, he did not get any strange news related to this.

Putting the small notebook of recorded content on the shelf, Su Mu continued to live his own stable life, five dollars a day of pocket money, occasionally more, going to school, leaving school, doing homework, participating in extracurricular activities, writing reading notes, etc., soon made him forget the strange things since the past few days and concentrate on his studies again.

Students who give up college have a leisurely life every day, and the study pressure is not heavy, but students with more ambitious ideals must already start preparing in this ninth grade, and Su Mu is also one of them.

The reason why he works hard every day is just to get a satisfying job in the future so that his family and himself can live a good life, which doesn't sound difficult, but it's not easy to do at all.

Ms. Susie never talked to Su Mu about the SSAT test after the last time she talked to him.

Due to family difficulties, he felt that as long as he worked harder, even in a school like Castellal, he could eventually be admitted to a good university.

The so-called "change of fate" is at most just to become a middle-class like Du Zhong's father, or a higher millionaire, worth tens of millions of dollars, but they can be called a rare existence, rich but not necessarily get the corresponding social status, considering the huge base of millions of Chinese in the United States, it is really pitiful, 99% are at the bottom of the society......

At seven o'clock in the morning, the calendar hanging on the wall showed that it was already May 26th, and after hurriedly eating breakfast, Su Mu picked up the five-dollar bill from the table and stuffed it into his pocket, which was today's lunch money, and casually shouted: "I'm leaving! The school bus is coming!"

Reluctance to let her son eat a cold lunch every day, so the mother who insisted on letting Su Mu spend money on hot meals poked her head out of the kitchen and replied with a smile: "Be careful on the road, you have everything with you, right?"

Don't play too late at night, remember to come back early, today is your birthday, I'll cook a delicious table in the evening, how about grilled lamb chops? ”

"Okay! When I have money in the future, I will take you to a restaurant to eat every day!

After a while, I should give out a scholarship, Mom, I'll buy you a gift? What do you think of bell bottoms, they look good in other people's clothes. ”

"Don't, those kinds of pants are too ostentatious, I'm not used to wearing them, I'll help you save your daughter-in-law when the time comes." "The son is sensible, the husband is honest, and Su Mu's mother is not rich, but she feels that she is already very good, and she is smiling at the moment.

Su Mu didn't say much, nodded and went out, Fa Xiao Li Ping'an was already standing at the door, holding two hot buns in his hands, and said to him: "Brother Mu, come to one? My family just steamed a few baskets yesterday, and the filling is full of meat!

"I came out after eating, you can keep it for yourself, eat while walking, and it will be troublesome if you can't catch the car." Su Mu said with a smile on his face......

Today seemed to be the same as usual, but halfway through the school bus to the school, there were many LAPD vehicles with flashing police lights, and even FBI people were dispatched.

When approaching the school, the driver received wireless communication, Su Mu only saw him talking, with a nervous look on his face, he was too far away to know what the driver was talking about, and he was about to arrive at the school gate, and he could see many police cars driving into the campus.

There was a lot of chaos in the car, with students talking to each other about what was going on, and some people opening windows to try to question the students standing on the side of the road.

The driver pulled over to the side of the road and shouted in English, "Shut up!"

Let's go back now, I'll make a U-turn at the intersection in front of us! Today's school is closed, and school is scheduled for tomorrow! I'm responsible for sending you back safely, don't run around, the teacher will call and ask your parents!"

The cars were all students below the tenth grade, Su Mu was old, and it was easier to manage than the high school students, and when they heard the driver's words, the happy half-grown children broke out into enthusiastic cheers.

And Su Mu, he saw an ambulance rushing out, just passing by the school bus, even the windows were stained with blood, the glass was transparent, and he vaguely saw a woman who didn't know whether it was a nurse or a doctor, standing up in the car.

I was quite curious, and said to Li Ping'an, who was sitting next to me: "Don't you often brag to Mr. Bernard, go and ask him what's wrong?"

Mr. Bernard refers to the school bus driver, Li Ping'an has a more outgoing personality, and occasionally chats with him on the way to the school bus, after looking at Su Mu, he nodded excitedly, stood up and leaned next to the driver's seat, and said: "Why is there no class all of a sudden, Mr. Bernard, my textbooks are still in the classroom, and my homework will be handed in today!"

"Bullshit! Just now a student came into the school with a gun, it seems that someone was injured, fortunately you are far away, the traffic jam on the road delayed time, go home and thank God!"

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Su Mu heard it, with a sudden realization expression on his face, and there was a slight fear in his eyes, but there was not much shock.

This is not the first time that a similar incident has occurred at Castellar Middle School, and this is the third time in the past few years of study, this kind of situation is not uncommon in the United States, and now Los Angeles is not a good place to be safe, people often say that Los Angeles is the city of angels during the day, and it becomes the capital of crime at night.

Growing up in a poor Chinatown, which child doesn't "thrive" listening to stories of guns and blood and tears, good schools rarely encounter such things, but unfortunately Castellar is not a good school, the quality of students is uneven, and most of them are bad students who are difficult to discipline.

These students are not yet at the age of legal gun ownership, but their parents generally have, most of them are hot-blooded teenagers who secretly take it out, and some of them even think it's cool to carry guns, Su Mu has met a lot of guys who like to bully others for fun.

Li Ping'an's expression was uneasy, and he said with a happy expression: "Fortunately, we live far away, otherwise we might have just happened to meet the school in advance, I guess someone died again, so many police and ambulances came, things must have made a big fuss." ”

Su Mu also thinks so, the last time he experienced a similar tragedy, there were not so many policemen.

The poor always live a life of fear, the living environment is too bad, it can be regarded as a great thing if they don't meet it, they don't have time to mourn for strangers for the time being, occasionally find corpses in the alleys, and they can't catch the murderer for a few years, and even get into trouble because of a little thing, he has heard the news that a Chinese shopkeeper was killed in order to rob more than fifty dollars.

The school bus driver decisively turned his head, and was about to send the students in the car home, and walked forward for more than 100 meters, only to see a group of girls standing on the side of the road, and a middle-aged woman who seemed to be a female teacher beckoning, Su Mu's eyes stayed on a young girl.

The other party's hair is brown, slightly with natural curls, the side face is extremely exquisite, the lines are not so tough, very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese, big eyes, long eyelashes, and a thin figure, this is Kate mentioned by Li Ping'an last time, she also lives in Chinatown with her parents, and has lived there for several years, Su Mu has had a crush on this girl for a long time.

Probably aware that someone was staring at him, when Kate looked at Su Mu's location, he suddenly looked away, his expression couldn't see anything, but his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and it was not only Su Mu who was excited, but the other students in the car also began to coax.

It is a man's nature to love beauty, and almost every area has a public lover, and among the young children of the younger generation in Chinatown, Kate is considered to be the most beautiful girl in their country.

It's not that there are no black students or Mexican students openly pursuing her, and every time this happens, it's like provoking all the Chinese students in the school, and it's not less because of her fights.

In Su Mu's words, it can be said that a young age is a disaster......