Chapter 6: Childhood (5)

Zhang Mingqiang began to use his influence in the class to isolate Liu in all aspects.

Playing the game of fate deliberately did not take him, and asked other classmates not to play with Liu Lu.

Every day, the teacher distributes the fruits to the students, and he will also use his own means to tell Liu Lu to only get the smallest and worst.

When queuing, everyone else will also be inserted in front of Liu Lu, so that Liu Lu, who was originally in the front position, was 'was' in the last position.

All kinds of exclusion and isolation behaviors seem to the teachers to be just a joke between children, harmless, and they don't bother to ask after a few times.

At the beginning, Liu Lu didn't care about Zhang Mingqiang's 'childish' behavior, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, and still lived according to his own behavior.

In his opinion, Zhang Mingqiang's behavior is naïve and innocuous and careless to himself.

Liu Yunhai and Zhang Meng are the two classmates who have the best relationship with Liu Lu in the school, and the three of them have similar family backgrounds and similar addresses. We go to school together and get along very closely.

In the first few weeks of Zhang Mingqiang's targeting of Liu Lu, Liu Yunhai, who was the best friend with Liu Lu in the class, stood firmly by his side, completely ignoring Zhang Mingqiang's warnings, either explicit or implicit. When no other boy was willing to play with Liu Lu, he became the only male playmate by Liu Lu's side, and with Zhang Meng, a cheerful and lively girl, the small circle of three people had a lot of fun.

Zhang Mingqiang's influence at this time is limited to the boys' circle, and he is still a little powerless against Zhang Meng, a girl, for the time being, so he simply lets it go. But he still has some ways for Liu Yunhai, a guy who used to be very envious and flattering to himself, but now he completely ignores himself and goes to accompany Liu Lu.

Zhang Mingqiang took the comrades around him and began to take the initiative to contact Liu Yunhai, and often brought some snacks and toys from home, which were very expensive for Liu Yunhai to play.

Originally, he had used this trick on Liu Lu, but Liu Lu didn't buy it at all. Since Liu Lu has never expressed his envy and desire for these things, Zhang Mingqiang is helpless. But Liu Yunhai is different, he looked at his expression of having these things, and he had already told him the answer.

After a period of deliberate overtures, Liu Yunhai gradually lost the little rejection of accepting Zhang Mingqiang's items at the beginning, and was then pulled into his 'aristocratic' circle.

In Zhang Mingqiang's small circle, Liu Yunhai felt very comfortable. Due to Zhang Mingqiang's deliberate care, for a period of time, he even felt a little proud, not only with a lot of delicious snacks and exquisite toys, but also with a strong sense of satisfaction from everyone's attention.

After a period of time, in the game activities, when everyone collectively rejected Liu Lu, he was also 'gracious' at the invitation of Zhang Mingqiang, and slowly broke away from the small circle of Liu Lu and Zhang Meng, and participated in the larger and richer circle of many classmates.

"Liu Yunhai, why are you like this? Zhang Mingqiang They targeted Liu Lu like that, as Liu Lu's good friends, shouldn't we be by his side? Why have you been hanging out with Zhang Mingqiang and them lately? In this regard, at the beginning, the little girl Zhang Meng was very angry and reprimanded Liu Yunhai several times.

"Xiaomeng, don't complain about the sea, Zhang Mingqiang and they are also our classmates, there is nothing to target or not. We, as good friends of the sea, should not stop the sea from doing what he likes, which is not good. The sea has its own preferences, and we should respect the sea for his choices. And Zhang Meng's accusations were all dissuaded by Liu Lu, and he comforted Liu Yunhai many times.

"Liu Lu, we are still good friends, I will still play with you, I just haven't played with you for a long time, I didn't mean to alienate you, don't be angry." Liu Yunhai was also a little embarrassed at this time.

"No, I'm not angry, you can just like it." In Liu Lu's opinion, although Liu Yunhai and himself are the best same-sex friends in the class, he has no right to ask him to stay with him in everything.

Not only does he not have this right, but Liu Yunhai also does not have that obligation.

Although Liu Yunhai will not be as alienated from Liu Lu as Zhang Mingqiang and them, he will still go to and from school with him, and occasionally play with him. But as time passed slowly, a few weeks later, in Zhang Mingqiang's circle, Liu Yunhai gradually had several good partners, and when he was usually in school, his contact with Liu Lu began to gradually decrease.

Originally, there was a small group of two boys and a girl, and only Liu Lu was the only boy left.

The small circle of three people basically doesn't give anyone else any strange feeling, but after becoming a boy and a girl alone, the eyes of the classmates looking at them gradually began to be a little weird.

Although the specific reason is weird, at their age, it is basically not clear, but when they see Liu Lu and Zhang Meng always playing together alone, other people will still show obvious strange eyes and expressions.

Zhang Meng is nine years old, although his personality is very cheerful and lively, but he is watched by his classmates with strange eyes every day, and he gradually begins to feel a little uncomfortable, so he subconsciously tries to minimize the time spent alone with Liu Lu.

"Xiaomeng, you play with me every day, you're about to become a tomboy, and my mother also said that I'm a lot more fat now, a bit like a girl, hehe, you also have more contact with those female classmates in the class, I can also try to integrate into the circle of boys, don't worry about me, we're still good friends, aren't we? Good friends should care about each other, and they shouldn't ask each other to do things they don't like, right? Liu Lu felt Zhang Meng's alienation from him and the faint guilt that arose from it, so he took the initiative to put forward a proposal that was suitable for both parties.

“…… Alright then, Liu Lu, let's all come on. If you need my help with anything, feel free to call me. Zhang Meng was very happy with Liu Lu's suggestion. The troubles that have plagued her for a period of time are of course the best to be solved in this way.

With Zhang Meng's departure, during the school period, Liu Lu was left alone, facing the cheerful scene of other classmates playing together, he gradually realized his own shortcomings, not only caused confusion to himself, but also innocently implicated his friends.

Liu Lu's attitude towards getting along with others around him began to change slowly from the original spectator and indifference, and gradually showed great enthusiasm, and worked hard to integrate into them.

For Zhang Mingqiang, Liu Lu also began to consciously get closer. When he shows off his pride, he shows enough envy and a touch of jealousy, and in contact and conversation, he also shows appropriate little admiration and goodwill.

Not only to Zhang Mingqiang, the child king in their circle, but also to other classmates, no matter what the other party's family background is, when he expresses himself, Liu Lu will appropriately show enough envy and other emotional expressions to make the other party happy.

But it's never too exaggerated and flattering.

Everyone has their own criteria for evaluating things, and it is completely different from what they do to others. If you are too flattering, the person may be happy on the surface, but behind the scenes, they will often despise your behavior, and the bystanders, for various reasons, the vast majority, will be very contemptuous and disgusted by this excessive flattery.