Chen Yan was born in a remote town, where people are generally poor, so many parents think that reading is the most useless thing, and it is not as cost-effective as going out to work honestly, but even so, Chen Yan's parents still use their own salary to support Chen Yan's schooling.

Fortunately, Chen Yan is also very competitive, with excellent grades in three years of junior high school, and finally admitted to a key high school in the provincial capital - Lide High School, but such results cannot be exchanged for praise from the townspeople, but instead he got a burst of cynicism. Can it be eaten as a meal? It's not as good as Xiao Wang from the next door, who went out to work early, and now he has a monthly income of hundreds or thousands.

A few hundred or thousands may not be a lot for people in big cities, but it's a lot of money for local people. Chen Yan knows that reading can change his fate, and all the efforts he has made now are to be able to live a comfortable life for himself and his parents in the future.

On the day of parting at the bus station, Chen's father patted Chen Yan's shoulder with his calloused hands and said: "Yanzi, when you go to the field, you have to take good care of yourself, look at you are now as thin as a branch, you can eat whatever you want when you get there, exercise more, Chairman Mao said, the body is the capital of the revolution!" Don't worry about the problem of not enough money, the money matter will be solved by Dad. ”

Chen's mother, who was standing on the side, had tears in her eyes and looked at her thin child distressedly. He took Chen Yan's hand and said, "Take good care of yourself." ”

Chen Yan's figure is indeed a little thin, which is caused by devoting all his energy to studying and neglecting physical exercise in the past few years.

Chen Yan was alone with his bags on his back and got into the car bound for the provincial capital. After five or six hours of driving, Chen Yan finally came to the door of Lide High School, where the four golden characters of Lide High School were shining in the sun, and there was a line of small characters below it - well-known in the province and influential overseas. Chen Yan looked at this magnificent school gate and stepped into the school with great expectations.

At first, Chen Yan thought that he would definitely have a good conversation with his classmates here, but unfortunately, it backfired! It was those abusers and cold-eyed spectators who pushed Chen Yan to a point of no return step by step.

Chen Yan took the admission letter and asked around the campus, and finally found the classroom where his class was located. On the podium of the classroom sat a middle-aged man with a somewhat strong figure, who should be the head teacher, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and black trousers, his hair was black and thick, his square face was square, and his eyes were bright under his eyebrows. Beside him, seven or eight students lined up to fill out the report.

Chen Yan followed the line in front of him, and standing in front of Chen Yan was a short boy, dressed in brand-name clothes. Chen Yan gently patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hello classmates, my name is Chen Yan, we will be classmates in the same class from now on, get along well!" ”

Chen Yan was full of smiles, looking forward to the boy's reply, but in the next second, Chen Yan's smile froze. I saw the short boy turn his body and glance Chen Yan up and down, showing a very disgusted expression and patting the place that Chen Yan had touched just now with his hand, and muttered: "What do you touch, can you afford to pay for dirty?" With a contemptuous look on his face, he turned around and took a small step forward, obviously wanting to stay away from Chen Yan.

Chen Yan was stunned, he didn't expect that his warm greeting would be exchanged for disgust. Although I am a little worn-out and have several patches on the bag I am carrying on my back, I also love to be clean on weekdays, so how can I get dirty with just a light touch? Chen Yan wanted to say something more, but after thinking about it, forget it, after all, no matter how much you dislike you, no matter how much explanation you make, it will be in vain and bring humiliation on yourself.

In this way, Chen Yan waited in line without saying a word. During this period, a few more girls came, lined up behind Chen Yan, but they all deliberately kept a distance from Chen Yan, and what was even more excessive was that they also gently covered their noses and whispered: "Look, the person in front of you stinks!" How could you be in a class with this kind of person. ”

Although the voice was very small, these words reached Chen Yan's ears word for word. Chen Yan lowered his head with low self-esteem, feeling very uncomfortable, he couldn't understand why people looked at people with colored glasses, and the children of poor families were destined to be dirty and smelly?

The classrooms were full of people coming in and out, people coming in and waiting in line, and those who had filled out the information had already left. Finally it was Chen Yan's turn, when Chen Yan filled in the information, the head teacher kept looking at him, of course Chen Yan also felt it, and couldn't help but feel a little sad, because with the first two encounters, Chen Yan felt that although the teacher didn't say anything, he must have excluded himself in his heart. After all, he is a teacher, and he still has to pay attention to his image in front of his students.

"You are a good seedling, if someone bullies you in school in the future, just come to me." The head teacher made his strong voice. Chen Yan stared at the head teacher in surprise, and at the same time felt guilty for his behavior just now with the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman. "Why are you staring at me, I'm not interested in men, if you finish filling in the information, leave quickly, don't delay the classmates behind."

“……”

Chen Yan thought to himself that this head teacher was quite humorous. After saying thank you, he walked out of the classroom with his bags on his back. This time, Chen Yan quickly found his way to the student dormitory and came to the dormitory to receive the key. Standing at the door of the 410 dormitory, Chen Yan pondered for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to open the door of the dormitory. I saw a lot of people standing in the dormitory, the dormitory was a ten-person room, but it was obvious that there were at least a dozen people in the dormitory now. Everyone in the dormitory noticed that someone came in and looked at the door, Chen Yan thought that it was all his classmates who were just jumping through the door, so he smiled and said, "Hi, everyone, my name is Chen Yan." ”

Everyone looked at Chen Yan with an indifferent face, Chen Yan's smile gradually solidified, I couldn't imagine that I was so unpopular, at this time, a boy with five big and three thick came out of the crowd, it is no exaggeration to say that this person is at least five Chen Yan's size. The man said viciously, "Boy, have you brought money to pay the protection fee?" ”

Before Chen Yan could react, another short boy appeared in the crowd, and Chen Yan noticed that the short boy was actually in the same dormitory as himself, and the short boy smiled and said, "Brother Tai, aren't you asking this question in vain?" If you look at the poor sour look he was wearing, he might have come out of some lump, and he didn't have to think about it, he was sure he didn't have any money. ”

The boy known as "Brother Tai" glared at the short boy fiercely and said, "You count that green onion, do you need you to dictate to things?" ”

The short boy trembled in fright, and the chick pecked at the rice and said, "Yes, yes, Brother Tai taught me a lesson." ”

Then Brother Tai glared at Chen Yan again and said, "One hundred yuan protection fee, to ensure that you don't have to worry about it." ”

"I don't have any money." Before Chen Yan could finish speaking, his body flew out and slammed into the door behind him, and Brother Tai kicked Chen Yan in the chest impartially. Chen Yan suddenly felt tightness in his chest, and before he could ease up, Brother Tai had already stepped forward, squatted beside Chen Yan, slapped his backhand again, and said viciously: "No money, right?" Then this is your high school life for the rest of your life. I don't care if you steal it or rob it, in short, you will hand it over to me in three days, otherwise you will understand the consequences. ”

Chen Yan covered his face with one hand and his chest with the other, his eyes were full of fear, and he didn't dare to fight back, so he had to whisper, "Got it." ”

Brother Tai stood up and kicked Chen Yan a few times, Chen Yan couldn't understand why he agreed to his request, and continued to be beaten, at first he could endure the pain and not shout out, but now a burst of screams resounded in the dormitory. Everyone shuddered, secretly glad that the person who was beaten was not themselves. Brother Tai didn't stop until he kicked Chen Yan to the corner next to him, opened the door, exhaled through his nose, and let out a heavy cold snort: "Fuck you, good dogs don't get in the way." After saying that, Brother Tai walked out of the dormitory leisurely, and three more people followed Brother Tai out, obviously with Brother Tai.

Chen Yan's heart was full of despair, from the moment he stepped into this school, he was surrounded by sarcastic words, and now he was beaten for no reason, a hundred yuan, that is a month's living expenses for himself! Chen Yan sat on the floor, tears kept flowing, at first just sobbing, and slowly turned into crying.

At this time, the short boy couldn't help it, and scolded: "What are you crying about, it's noisy!" Go home and cry when you cry. ”

Chen Yan was still crying, completely ignoring the short boy, the short boy was angry when he saw this, and rushed to Chen Yan and picked up his fist to fight, but before the fist fell, he was grabbed by a very handsome boy by the wrist, and the handsome boy easily threw the short boy's hand aside and said: "Ma Dong, you give me enough to stop, why didn't you say it when Li Taishan was shouting here just now?" Do you want to try the same experience? ”

It turned out that the short boy's name was Ma Dong, and he glared at the handsome boy menacingly and said, "Xiao Sheng, you get out of the way for me, aren't you the same, when Brother Tai beat him just now, why didn't you come out to stop him?" ”

"This ......" Xiao Sheng was speechless for a while, and said: "In short, forget it, you have to be forgiving and forgiving." Everyone is in the same class, look up and don't look down, don't make it too ugly. ”

Chen Yan stood up, wiped away his tears, said thank you to Xiao Sheng, and then lowered his head and put his luggage on his bed, and began to make his bed. Seeing that Chen Yan was no longer crying, Ma Dong snorted contemptuously, and also returned to his bed to lie down, and the rest of the people began to busy their own things when they saw that there was nothing to do. Except for Xiao Sheng, no one noticed that Chen Yan's face was covered with tears again, which were tears of disappointment.

Xiao Sheng walked up to Chen Yan's side, gently patted Chen Yan's shoulder, and comforted: "It's okay!" I'll help you out with a hundred dollars. ”

Chen Yan hurriedly wiped away his tears, raised his head and looked at Xiao Sheng suspiciously, this was the second person in this school who made him feel warm, and asked, "Why?" ”

"How can there be so many whys in life, is it possible that you really want to steal and rob!"

"But ......"

"Oh, what is it? Do you want to be beaten again? ”

"I ......"

"What are you, forget it if you promise it personally."

Chen Yan was amused by this conversation, and Xiao Sheng said again: "What are you laughing at, I'm serious." Then he said, "Just laugh, crying won't solve the problem." ”

"Thank you for your kindness, forget the money, I'll tell ...... later"