As one of the best high schools in Shencheng and even the province, Shencheng No. 1 Middle School has evening self-study, students leave school at 6 p.m. every day, have an hour and a half of meal time, start evening self-study at half past seven, and end at 9:50.

As the sun set over the hill, the quiet campus became lively with the sound of a rapid electric bell, and the students walked out of the classrooms one after another, and after a while, the originally empty corridors became crowded.

Compared with the classrooms of the first and second years of high school, the classrooms of the third year of high school are much quieter, and the first class of the third year of high school, which is regarded as the top class.

When the bell rang for the end of class, only a few people got up and left their seats.

Gu Meimei is one of them.

Every afternoon after school, she and her boyfriend Zheng Fei go to a restaurant near the school for dinner.

Someone got up faster than Gu Meimei.

Pei Donglai.

The moment the bell rang, he stuffed his report card into his desk and left alone.

Looking at Pei Donglai's lonely back, Qin Dongxue, who was originally doing the question, hesitated, put down the pen, got up, and chased after Pei Donglai in the surprised and jealous eyes of many students.

"Pei Donglai."

Out of the classroom, seeing that Pei Donglai was about to go away, Qin Dongxue shouted at Pei Donglai's back.

Qin Dongxue's call sounded in his ears, and Pei Donglai subconsciously stopped and looked back.

Under the sunset, Qin Dongxue's rare ponytail lay quietly on her shoulder, the expression on her slightly green but beautiful face that made people palpitate was complicated, and her beautiful autumn eyes showed a little worry.

The next moment, the eyes of the two met in the air, and Pei Donglai squeezed out a clean smile: "Is there something wrong?" ”

Looking at that clean smiling face, Qin Dongxue was in a trance.

She couldn't help but think of the former Pei Donglai, even though he was regarded as the pride of the sky, but ...... No matter who you face, you will show a smile, not pretentious, not deliberate, but appear very clean and sincere.

In a trance, Qin Dongxue walked to Pei Donglai's side, stared at the increasingly thin face in front of him, groaned, and said, "Pei Donglai, although I don't know why you became like this, but ...... I'm sure you'll be able to pull yourself together. ”

"Thank you."

Feeling the sincerity in Qin Dongxue's tone, thinking that in the past year, Qin Dongxue was one of the few people who did not laugh at him, Pei Donglai's heart warmed and he sincerely thanked him.

Gu Meimei went out and found Qin Dongxue and Pei Donglai standing together, somewhat puzzled, and when she heard Qin Dongxue's words when she got closer, she was suddenly a little annoyed in her heart - now, all the teachers and students in the school think that Pei Donglai collapsed because she rejected her confession, but her nemesis Qin Dongxue said that she didn't know the reason, can this not make her angry?

Annoyed, Gu Meimei sneered and said, "Yo, I really didn't expect that classmate Qin Dongxue, who usually pretends to be like a saint, would also comfort people, it's really the sun coming out in the west." ”

"I'm going to do the question, goodbye."

In the face of Gu Meimei's cynicism, Qin Dongxue ignored it completely, but smiled and said goodbye to Pei Donglai.

"Goodbye."

Pei Donglai also treated Gu Meimei as air, and after saying goodbye, he turned around and strode away.

"It's the same as 2580,000, do you think you are still Pei Donglai a year ago?"

Looking at Pei Donglai's departing back, Gu Meimei snorted coldly, completely ignoring Qin Dongxue and passing by her.

Gu Meimei's words sounded in her ears, Qin Dongxue raised her eyebrows slightly, but ignored them.

Sensing Qin Dongxue's frowning move, Gu Meimei wanted to be sarcastic, but a picture that was destined to be engraved in her heart for the rest of her life suddenly flashed in her mind a year ago, and she suddenly seemed a little lacking in confidence and left with her tail between her legs.

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With the rapid development of the economy, the so-called rich areas have appeared in major cities across the country, and the corresponding slum areas have appeared.

As the provincial capital of Liaoning, Shencheng also has a slum.

The so-called slums are a collection of abandoned houses, mostly built in the 80s, mostly inhabited by outsiders.

Pei Donglai's home is in the slums.

The slum is not a short distance from Shencheng No. 1 Middle School, nearly an hour by bus, so Pei Donglai stays at the school and only goes home on weekends.

When the last rays of the setting sun gradually faded into the horizon, Pei Donglai uncharacteristically returned to the slums.

As far as the eye can see, the slums are full of low-rise houses, telephone poles are disordered, and most of the roadside are small restaurants like food stalls, or a few pink-atmosphere hair salons with a few women dressed like fairies standing at the door, and it seems to be separated from the bustling city center by a few worlds.

It feels like Pei Donglai's situation in the first class of high school today.

Pei Donglai's home is located in a small dilapidated two-story building in a courtyard in the middle of the slum, and he and his only relative live in two rooms on the second floor.

"Yo, Donglai, today is not the weekend, why are you back?" When the landlady saw Pei Donglai walking into the yard, she was stunned at first, and then asked with a smile.

Different from Gu Meimei's sneer, the landlord's aunt's smile gives people a taste of intimacy, as if facing their own relatives.

In fact, the landlord aunt has always taken great care of Pei Donglai, first, Pei Donglai is young and sensible, and every time she comes back, she will help her work, and Pei Donglai's academic performance is very clear, and she often thinks that she bragged in front of outsiders, and it feels like her child.

"I haven't been back for a while, I miss my dad, come back and see." Pei Donglai did not show the negative emotions in his heart on his face, but showed a clean smile as usual.

"That's it......" The landlady suddenly realized, and then said: "Come east, your father has been coming back late every night recently, so let's cook two more dishes in a while, and you come to my place for dinner." ”

"No need Auntie, I'll cook my own food and eat together when my dad comes back." Pei Donglai smiled and refused.

The landlady couldn't cry or laugh: "What do you say about your child, what are you polite to your aunt?" ”

Having said that, the landlord and aunt know very well that Pei Donglai is a very assertive child, and the things he decides will not change.

As if to confirm the landlord's guess, Pei Donglai smiled, didn't say anything, and went up the dilapidated staircase to the second floor.

Back at home, Pei Donglai first cleaned up the house briefly, then washed rice to cook, and after the meal was ready, he sneaked out to buy two bottles of Erguotou while the landlord and aunt were not paying attention.

Putting the meal and the second pot on the table, Pei Donglai did not turn on the lights, but waited for the return of his only relative in the dark night.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, the sound of car tires rubbing against the ground was heard downstairs, and a taxi stopped in the alley outside the door.

A moment later, the iron gate of the courtyard was pushed open, and the sound of steady footsteps sounded downstairs.

"Cripple Pei, your son is back today, go up quickly." The landlady hadn't slept yet, when she heard the noise, she opened the door curtain, and said with a smile when she saw that it was Pei Donglai's father.

Stunned to hear the words of the landlady, the pupils of the man called Pei Cripple dilated slightly, and then smiled innocently at the landlady, and walked towards the stairs with a slight stagger.

"Dad."

At the same time, Pei Donglai opened the door, shouted at the man downstairs, and ran downstairs quickly to support the man.

The man did not refuse Pei Donglai's kindness, nor did he ask Pei Donglai why he went home abnormally, but let Pei Donglai help him upstairs.

Soon, the two returned home, and the man saw the food on the table without a single chopstick and his beloved Erguotou, and opened his mouth, revealing a smile with a little honesty and stupidity: "Why don't you eat first?" ”

"I want to have two drinks with you, so I'll wait for you to come back and eat together." Pei Donglai smiled, poured half a basin of clean water for the man, and then started to heat the meal.

The man didn't say anything, just smiled, washed his face, then walked to the table and sat down, picked up a bottle of Erguotou, bit it with his teeth, poured himself a full cup first, paused when he poured half a cup for Pei Donglai, and finally filled it again.

A few minutes later, Pei Donglai brought the hot meal back to the table, saw that the wine glass was full, and scolded with a smile: "Cripple, aren't you afraid that I will drink too much?" ”

The man is not Pei Donglai's biological father.

This point was said by the man himself when Pei Donglai was a child.

From childhood to adulthood, as long as there are no outsiders present, Pei Donglai will call men lame, and men have no dissatisfaction with this.

And Pei Donglai calls a man lame on the surface, which seems disrespectful, but in fact, the status of a man in Pei Donglai's heart is far more important than the status of an ordinary father in the heart of his son!

Even...... Since he was sensible, Pei Dong chose to take off his clothes and run naked with time, and study hard because of an oath.

"I don't care if my parents are dead or alive, in short, in this life, I will recognize you as a cripple and my father. In this life, even if I fight hard, strong. Violence is a society raised by a son of a bitch, and it also wants you to live a good life. ”

On that day, the boy who had come out of the mountains drank with the man for the first time, was drunk and unconscious, and shouted this vow in a dream.

He was only twelve years old that year.

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ps: There is a shift at twelve o'clock in the evening, buddies and sisters remember to collect and smash tickets~~;