After eating breakfast, the time was still early, and there was nowhere to go, so Li Bayi proposed to go around the campus of NTU. Wang Zhi and Liao Wenbing readily agreed.

Nanzhong University is located on the shore of the Green Lake, on the side of Taihua Mountain, and the campus environment is extremely beautiful. When Li Bayi entered the school, as soon as he entered the gate, he was shocked by the ninety-five stone steps and the four towering pillars at the end of the stone steps.

Huize 100 schools, to the public world. This 80-year-old building is quaint and full of vicissitudes.

According to the old students who took Li Bayi to report, this "Huize Courtyard" was built by Tang Jiyao, the founder of the school, in 1922, and the stone steps were designed according to the proverb in the Book of Changes. It means that the flying dragon roams in the sky, which is conducive to seeing the big people.

Li Bayi was in awe, and for a while, he was full of reverence and expectation for Nanzhong University.

In fact, Li Bayi, who was in his previous life, was the most fond and proudest of NTU's "freedom of thought and inclusiveness" philosophy.

While other schools have to study in the evening, NTU is a maverick and allows students to choose freely. You can go to the classroom for elective classes, you can listen to someone's lecture in the lecture hall, you can stay in the library all day, or you can go to the movies and fall in love. Anyway, as long as you have enough credits, no one will care about you.

However, when he returned to his alma mater after 25 years and re-examined his university life, Li Bayi's heart was very complicated.

On the one hand, he felt that the education at NTU was seriously detached from the social reality of the current republic, and that the Western liberal ideas, liberalized market economy, and press freedom advocated by the teachers were completely different after entering society. He always felt that he was out of place with real life, and he always felt that there was nowhere to use his strength, and there was nowhere to use his strength.

On the other hand, the liberal school spirit made him too out-of-the-box in thinking and too idealistic, and he was good in school, but if he was in business or politics, he was very few. The people who came out of NTU have the loftiness and arrogance of intellectuals, and even more so the unreality of utopians.

is like Li Bayi, who is a typical person with high eyes and low hands. To put it mildly, it is a giant of thought and a dwarf of action.

After 25 years of experience in his previous life, many of the brothers and sisters Li Bayi knew were born in Nanda University, academic tyrants, and after graduation, they did not follow the routine, full of ambitions, or joined the business world, or entered the official career, they all wanted to achieve a great cause, worked hard, struggled, struggled, and finally did not know everyone and achieved nothing.

"This is the Zhigong Hall, the tribute court of the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the talents of the three southwestern provinces have to be concentrated here for the exam. The three of them walked all the way, looking all the way, Li Bayi introduced the history and cultural relics of Nanda to Wang Zhi and Liao Wenbing, as well as the great achievements of Tang Jiyao, the overseer of the southwest.

"Our school was the most glorious time in the forties and fifties, when the world-famous mathematician Xiong Qinglai was our principal, attracting countless well-known scholars to gather at NTU, such as mathematician Hua Luogeng, physicist ***, writer Li Guangtian, master of Chinese culture Liu Wendian, historian Fei Xiaotong and so on. They all taught or studied in our school. At that time, the British Encyclopædia Britannica also listed our university as one of the fifteen world-famous universities in the Republic. ”

Twenty-five years after leaving school, although he has achieved nothing, and although he has doubted countless times that there are problems in the school's teaching, he still can't hide Li Bayi's love and reverence for his alma mater.

The two elder brothers who had no chance to study in college were full of interest when they heard this, and they were in awe of every grass and tree of NTU, just like a pilgrimage.

The Bell Tower, the Museum of Culture and History, the Examination Shed of the Gongyuan, the Shaw Library, and the Yingqiu Courtyard under construction, Li Bayi took them around, and the sun had risen at this time. The military coat felt hot and heavy on his body, so Li Bayi went back to the bedroom and took off his clothes.

Along the way, Liu Jun came up several times to please Li Bayi, but Li Bayi ruthlessly refused, and directly shredded his illusions: "Don't try to impress me with words, I already know who you are, you better think about your situation." If you don't pay off the money you stole from me within three days, you'll have to put your fingers on it, and there's no room for negotiation. ”

At nine o'clock, the four of them came to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on Yuanxi Road, and under the supervision of Li Bayisan, Liu Jun quickly took out all the money in the passbook, and there were only 3,000 and dozens of yuan in total, plus the original search from Liu Jun's wallet, even half of the loss has not been recovered.

Li Bayi put the money in his bag, looked at Liu Jun and said, "How can you give me the remaining five thousand yuan?" ”

Liu Jun snorted for a moment, wanting to say something, but seeing Li Bayi's indifferent look, the two soldiers next to him were eyeing each other, and finally had to say: "A friend sent me money, I found a way to find it for you." ”

Li Bayi said coldly: "I don't care if you steal, rob or cheat, anyway, these two brothers and I will follow you in the past three days, you have to get me another five thousand yuan, otherwise you know the consequences." ”

"You follow me, I can't get you money." Liu Jun was a little embarrassed.

"I said, before you pay off my money, even if you, we will have someone follow you, don't try to play any tricks, and don't think about running away." Li Bayi directly cut off Liu Jun's careful thoughts, "As for how to get money, that's your business, I'll just wait for the result." ”

Liu Jun had no choice but to take Li Bayi and the three of them to the Institute of Education where a friend of his was there, Liu Jun and his three friends were muttering, and Li Bayi led Wang Zhi and Liao Wenbing to sit on the sofa and chat.

When it was time for lunch, Wang Zhi and Liao Wenbing escorted Liu Jun, Li Bayi found a restaurant, ordered two meats, one vegetable and one soup, and the three of them sat together to eat lively, but there was still no share of Liu Jun.

Liu Jun's face was very ugly, and he sat on the side and yawned. Li Bayi knew that his drug addiction was about to attack, but he deliberately pretended not to see it.

Seeing that Li Bayi and the three of them were eating slowly, Liu Jun couldn't hold it anymore, so he said to Li Bayi that he wanted to go back to his residence to get something.

Li Bayi and Wang Zhi glanced at each other and motioned for Wang Zhi to deal with it, and Wang Zhi scolded rudely: "Get aside and wait, didn't you see that we were eating?" ”

Seeing Wang Zhi's fierce appearance, Liu Jun had no choice but to stand at the door and wait.

After eating, the four of them took a taxi back to Liu Jun's temporary residence in the Linkan community, and as soon as they entered the house, Liu Jun hurriedly went to rummage for drugs @ products. When he was about to smoke, he was snatched away by Wang Zhiyi.