At nine o'clock, a crisp class bell rang on time. Everyone in the classroom stared at the wooden door at the front of the room, as if waiting for someone to push it open and come in to announce our unconditional "release".

At this time, sitting in the back row, I saw through the window next to me that Mr. Wang, who had been wandering in the corridor, took a deep breath of the cigarette in his hand, threw the cigarette butt at his feet and stepped on it fiercely, before turning around and walking towards the door in front of the classroom.

At this moment, I quietly felt the sound of my heartbeat, looking at the wooden door that I had kicked open countless times, and the nervousness and confusion that weighed down my eyes swelled astringently.

"Squeak!"

The door that was kicked and broken by the boys in our class I don't know how many times, and the door that was repaired again today was gently pushed open from the outside by Mr. Wang. The moment he walked into the classroom, I could clearly feel that all eyes were on the young teacher, looking at the man who was both a teacher and a friend.

The young teacher Wang stood in the doorway and took two deep breaths before slowly walking to the podium, turning to look at us, the first batch of graduates in his teaching career, and then gently squeezing the sentence out of his teeth.

"You ...... Graduated!"

Contrary to many people's expectations, when Mr. Wang finished saying this, the classroom did not boil, nor did it have endless noise, but fell into the silence of the middle of the night, everyone felt each other's heartbeat, felt each other's heavier and heavier breathing, as if no one was willing to take the lead in breaking the silence.

I don't know how long it was, and I don't know which girl couldn't help crying out loud first. When the silence in the classroom was suddenly broken by boundless cries, everyone rushed to the front podium like a tide, and threw the little man with tears in his eyes but a smile high into the air.

My college career, no!

Looking at the surging crowd in front of the podium, I ignored my sour nose, patted my cheeks on both sides fiercely, and beat back the tears that were about to flow. I stood up, pressed the back of the chair behind me, rolled over and climbed onto the desk in front of me, and then stepped on the desk in front of me and squeezed in the direction of Mr. Wang.

In the end, Mr. Wang was almost carried out of the classroom by our group of boys, and when the leaders of the school, who only knew that they were sitting in the office drinking tea and chatting on weekdays, opened the office door and came out to see what happened in the corridor.

Our group of boys, who were almost crazy, completely ignored the strange eyes of the leaders and Teacher Wang's constant requests to let him down, until all of us rushed out of the main entrance of the school like a crazy tide and had to put Teacher Wang down.

Teacher Wang straightened his messy suit, pointed to the Grandview Hotel not far away, and shouted, "Room 501!

Then, before we could react, Mr. Wang took the lead in attacking this four-star hotel, and it seemed that he was afraid that we would lift him up and rush into the hotel again.

When the security guard of the hotel trembled and took out the walkie-talkie to ask for support, Mr. Wang had already led the leading troops to rush into the elevator and kill 501 directly.

The lobby manager of the hotel was a little dumbfounded when he saw us thirty or forty people rushing in at once, and when He Liang and I ran to his side out of breath, he came to his senses and pulled us aside and asked, "Chubby, are these people your classmates?"

He Liang held my shoulders and said to the lobby manager panting, "Old ...... Old...... Uncle...... Private room preparation ...... Are you ready?"

He Liang is my best friend, the two of us have known each other since we were bare-bottomed babies, and we have been classmates since elementary school and college, and we have hardly acted separately. If it weren't for the fact that He Liang already had a girlfriend, I believe many people would classify the two of us as homosexual.

Since He Liang's father is the executive chef of this Grandview Hotel, we both have to go to his father's place every day after school to eat, and over time, we both know more about the situation of this Grandview Hotel than many waiters.

Today, we are here for a casual meal, which was also proposed by He Liang, the class leader, to Mr. Wang, and asked his father to reserve the big private room in 501.

"Little fatty, aren't you going to have a casual meal? But how do I look like devils entering the village? You people don't look like students at all!" The lobby manager on duty today was He Liang's uncle, and when he looked at the crowd that poured into the elevator one by one, he immediately frowned and asked He Liang.

"Uncle, you don't know this, right! The students are so crazy now, besides, we are no longer students now, why do we have to look like students!" He Liang said and pulled his uncle's arm, smiled and leaned into his uncle's ear and whispered: "Uncle! Today is the loose meal of our class, you tell those waiters that you can't take the opportunity to kill us! Otherwise, when I officially go to work in a few days, see how I clean them up!"

"Slaughter or don't slaughter people, haven't you counted it in your kid's heart? Hurry up and tell your classmates not to run around, if I stab the basket, I won't be able to protect you!" Uncle He Liang glared at He Liang fiercely, and then shouted at the walkie-talkie in his hand: "Come two people, go and get these students who eat loose meals into the 501 bag." ”

He Liang took advantage of his uncle's turn around, quickly reached into his uncle's coat pocket, and quickly took out a pack of unopened soft China. Then, without waiting for his uncle to react, He Liang ran to the elevator with a smile and commanded the later classmates, so that everyone could enter the elevator in an orderly manner.

"Dead chubby, steal my cigarettes again!" He Liang's uncle glared at He Liang, who was grinning, and then reached into his jacket pocket and fumbled for it, took out a jet-black ZIPPO lighter, turned around and handed it to me, and said with a smile: "Catfish! Take it! This is the limited edition you want!"

I took the lighter handed over by Uncle He Liang, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was the Zippo lighter produced in 1994 that I had been looking for for a long time, but I had never found, this Zippo lighter was a limited edition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy D-Day. It is a replica of 1941 and has a black cracked paint coating that was characteristic of the Second World War era.

Although I don't smoke, I still love these all-man toys, especially these so-called limited edition lighters. To collect these limited edition Zippo lighters, I spent almost all my pocket money on them. Among them, it also includes all the scholarships and various subsidies in the four years of college, as well as some extra money to earn by secretly going out to tutor people behind my father and mother's back.

I held the Zippo lighter in my hand tightly, and said to He Liang's uncle with a smile: "Uncle, how can I be embarrassed to ask you for such a valuable thing!

Uncle He Liang looked at my clenched fingers with a smile, and scolded with a smile: "Stinky boy! Don't be sloppy with me, I don't know you yet! Seeing this kind of lighter is closer than seeing money, can you still get something? If you really don't want it, give it back to me, anyway, several people are waiting in line to buy it! Sell it to them and get some cigarette money." As he spoke, Uncle He Liang was about to reach out and grab the lighter in my hand.

Just like Uncle He Liang said, how can I return the things I have in my hands! Besides, I have been shopping for this lighter for a long time, and today I finally got it, and I can't let go of anything easily.

Before Uncle He Liang's fingers touched the lighter in my hand, I quickly retracted my hand, put the lighter into the pocket of my jacket, smiled at Uncle He Liang, and said, "Since Uncle is so gracious, then I thank Uncle Uncle!"

But when I wanted to turn around and run away, Uncle He Liang put his arms around my neck, and I only heard him whisper a laugh in my ear: "Catfish! Take such a valuable lighter from me, thank you and it's over?"

I tilted my head to look at Uncle He Liang's ambiguous eyes, smiled and pretended to be stupid and asked, "Then uncle, what do you want to give in return?" I'm a poor student, and I don't have anything of value!

"Huh...... I didn't say I wanted anything of value from you!" Uncle He Liang's smile became even more ambiguous, his already small eyes were almost narrowed into a slit, he leaned into my ear and whispered: "I have time to find your aunt out for a get-together!

As soon as I heard that this old boy asked me to trick my aunt out again, I quickly shrank my neck and broke free from under Uncle He Liang's arm, and then kept shaking my head to say that I couldn't agree to this request, and quickly took out a lighter from my jacket pocket and said to him: "Old ...... Uncle...... Just let me go! The last time I tricked my aunt out for dinner, after I went back, my aunt gave me a political lesson all night, saying that I was a traitor and a traitor! And told me not to associate with you in the future! This time I really don't dare to lie to her again!"

"Anyway, you have received this limited edition lighter, and you must also help with my affairs, and you must invite your aunt out to me when the time comes! Uncle He Liang did not pick up the lighter in my hand, but patted me on the shoulder vigorously, and then walked away with a proud face.

Looking at Uncle He Liang's back, I lowered my head weakly, looked at the limited edition lighter in my hand and couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that I fell for this old boy again, who made me unable to withstand the temptation of this limited edition!

Just when I was hesitating whether to run over and put this lighter into Uncle He Liang's pocket, I heard He Liang not far behind me shouting at me: "Catfish, what are you doing in a daze? We'll wait for you to be alone, hurry up!"

I turned around and looked at He Liang next to the elevator, walked to his side with my head drooping, punched him hard, and muttered: "He Fatty! It's all your fault! I have to eat here for a casual meal, and I was caught by your uncle again!"

He Liang looked at the lighter in my hand and couldn't help laughing: "You deserve it! Who let you have this hobby." This time you know the pain! Brother, you just accept your fate!"

I lowered my head and prepared to walk into the elevator with the last few classmates, but He Liang on the side took my arm and said with a smile: "Dude! I must be overweight when I go in so fat, you can stay and wait for the next elevator!

I looked at He Liang's frowning expression, and knew that he had something to tell me, so I had to stand beside him and wait for the next elevator, just when the elevator door was just closed, He Liang asked in a low voice: "What did you think about what I said? I will officially go to work next Monday!"

"I'd better stay away from your uncle!I can't do this foreman!" I shook my head after hearing He Liang's words, and said helplessly.

In order to keep He Liang's father, a first-class chef, and their He family's ancestral recipes, the owner of this Grandview Hotel secretly gave He Liang and their family all kinds of benefits. This time, I heard that He Liang was about to graduate, so I took the initiative to tell He Liang's father that he would arrange for He Liang to be the assistant minister of the human resources department in the hotel.

As soon as He Liang heard that there was such a good opportunity, he immediately agreed, and he also persuaded me to come here to work with him, saying that brothers should be blessed and share hardships, and with his father's face, we can toss here casually.

However, my father always felt that I should work in government departments and institutions so that I would have a future, so he did not agree to let me work at this Grand Inn. Actually, I also think that using the face of He Liang's father to work here is really a bit of a big favor.

Although our two families have been old neighbors for decades, He Liang and I have been classmates for more than ten years. But it's better not to owe this thing favors, or you won't owe it, otherwise you'll be in trouble when others use you. Besides, the owner of the Grand Inn's hotel also said that if I come, I can only be the foreman of the waiter first, and I will have the opportunity to find a more suitable position for me in the future. This is obviously embarrassed to refute He Liang's father's face, so he forced me to arrange a position. Therefore, I rejected He Liang without even thinking about it.

However, today I rejected He Liang's proposal, and tomorrow should I go there to find a job?