The atmosphere became awkward, and the two were silent for a long time, and finally broke the silence: "Okay, you are a scholar, you are right in whatever you say." ”

"Okay, okay," Li Kewen scratched his head helplessly, "Since you want to get better grades so much, let me tutor you." ”

"Really?" Xiruo's eyes sparkled.

"Really, it's free," Li Kewen said with a smile, "There is an empty classroom in the teaching building, and I will give you a lecture there during evening self-study or on weekends." ”

"Hey, I said Kewen," he tilted his head and tilted his hair to the side, "Are you trying to chase me?" Although the school does not allow students to have that kind of wonderful affection for the opposite sex, the first bloom of the flower girl makes Xiruo have a little subtle affection for this boy who is completely different from the people around him.

"No, you're wrong," Li Kewen shook his head, "I already have a girl I like, she's from my hometown." ”

"Childhood sweetheart?"

"Hmm."

"Oh······" Xi Ruo pursed his lips dissatisfiedly, then pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Okay, then please trouble Li Daba to tutor me, anyway, it's free, don't do it in vain." ”

Then in the next period of time, Li Kewen explained the example questions of each subject to Xi Ruo, Xi Ruo knew for the first time that he and Xueba, ah no, it is the difference between Xueshen, a question that seems to be extremely complicated, under Li Kewen's explanation, it suddenly became so simple and clear, almost no difficulty, just like that, Xi Ruo's grades improved rapidly, and when choosing a position after an exam, she asked Li Kewen: "Kewen, where are you going to sit?" ”

"Behind," he stretched, "are you going to sit in front and eat the saliva of those teachers?" ”

So Xi Ruo also chose the back and sat with him.

On the weekend of that week, they went outside to drink tea at an Alton tea shop, which had been passed from the neighboring Republic of Theo, and which had a strong milky aroma that made people want to stop.

"Okay, look at the next question," Li Kewen pointed to the next question, and there was no response for a long time, he looked to the side, Xi Ruo had already buried his head in his arms and fell asleep, Li Kewen was slightly stunned, smiled silently, looking at her delicate forehead, delicate side face, he couldn't help but want to touch her head, in these days of getting along, he gradually had strange feelings for this beautiful girl who was covered by glasses, but he felt that this was not good, so he withdrew his hand again, suddenly, he convulsed, One of his hands barely reached into the pocket of his coat and took out a small bottle, poured out a pill from it and put it in his mouth, after swallowing it he stopped convulsing, he sat there, sighing silently, it seemed that his condition had worsened again.

On Monday, the school leaders on the stage said excitedly: "Students, let us welcome with applause the great Minister of Development of the Empire, who specially came to us from the great capital of the country, the Northern Imperial Capital, to observe the teaching of our school!" ”

The audience immediately burst into loud applause, and even many students raised their arms and shouted: "Long live!" Long live the Empire! ”

Li Kewen watched these fanatical people coldly, and said to Li Kewen softly: "Kewen······ I'm feeling a little sick······"

"What's wrong?" Li Kewen asked in a low voice.

"I have a little stomach pain, it should be my menstrual cycle······" She replied in a low voice.

Li Kewen then walked through the fanatical students and walked to the head teacher who was shouting praises to the great empire: "Teacher, if she has an upset stomach, I'll take her back to rest." ”

"No way!" The head teacher put on a pair of glasses.

"Why?" Li Kewen was stunned.

"The great imperial leader is here to speak, how can he miss the leader's speech? You can't go back, otherwise you'll miss out on the experience of becoming a 'human being'. ”

Li Kewen frowned, didn't say anything, and walked back, he said softly to Xiruo: "Xiruo, can you persevere?" ”

"It should be able to ······" She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, "Kewen, I can hold on to ······"

"Come, sit down," Li Kewen took out a few tissues and spread them on the ground, "It feels better this way." ”

"But the teacher ······"

"Ignore her," Li Kewen said, "sit down, your body matters." ”

Xiruo smiled softly, glanced at him gratefully, and was helped by him to sit on the paper, they were in the first row, and those classmates didn't seem to notice that they were sitting down, they were listening carefully to the leader's speech.

When Xi Ruo felt better, Li Kewen helped her up from the ground, and he whispered, "I'll go back and drink more hot water later." ”

"yes, I got it······" Xi Ruo said softly as if she was a coquette.

Li Kewen smiled and looked at the "great leader" on the rostrum who was dancing like a monkey.

"Students, you all have to know that love poisons your physical and mental health! So don't fall in love! The monkey-like Minister of Development said, "Students, you are the students of the great empire, you are the future of the empire, the future development of the empire depends on you, you can't be delayed by love, every minute and every second of your life has to be devoted to studying, in the future, students can become 'human masters', become a person with outstanding contributions to the empire, instead of harming the empire like 'scientific and technological molecules'!" ”

Speaking of this, all the teachers and students in the audience applauded passionately, and they raised their arms and shouted: "Kill the 'science and technology molecules', long live the Dongkang Empire!" ”

"Students, you must not enjoy the disgusting process of male and female intercourse in the future! That will poison your body and mind! The minister raised his right hand, "Students, let us swear in unison!" The purpose of the delivery is simply to perpetuate the legacy of the great empire! ”

Then the teachers and students raised their right hands together, only Li Kewen did not raise his right hand, but everyone was in passion and blood, no one noticed him, Xiruo asked softly: "Kewen, what should we do?" She didn't raise her hand.

Li Kewen glanced at her: "Let's go, let's leave here quietly." ”

The two slipped through the gap between the crowds, and on the way, the voices of those people in the playground were neat and loud: "Hooray! Long live the Empire! Long live the Leader of the Empire! "It's ridiculous and sad that the gods are like the people who prostrate themselves at the feet of the gods in myths and legends, fanatically and numbly praise the greatness of the gods, but now the gods have become the "leaders of the empire," Li Kewen thought.

Back in the empty classroom, Li Kewen took out a kettle from the classroom and handed it to her: "Come, drink water." ”

Xiruo took it, drank it carefully, and then exhaled a long breath: "It's much more comfortable." ”

"How do you feel about listening to that minister's speech?" Li Kewen asked.

"He even said ······ publicly" Xi Ruo's face turned red all of a sudden.

Li Kewen smiled and said, "It seems that the thought control has reached that aspect." ”

"Ke Wen······" Xiruo whispered, "Just now, just now, for a moment, I had a feeling that I was disgusted with love, and I didn't know why I ······"

"Xiruo, look into my eyes," Li Kewen gently put his hands on her shoulders and looked at her clear eyes, "Love is the most beautiful and praiseworthy thing in the world, remember, okay?" Don't be thought control by the people of the Empire. ”

Xiruo nodded vigorously: "I'll remember!" ”

Li Kewen breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his arm: "Xiruo, let's go to a place during self-study tonight." ”

"Evening self-study? I ······ I haven't skipped class yet······" Xiruo said a little nervously and pinched the corner of his clothes.

"It doesn't matter," Li Kewen said, "look at those people, those teachers, guess what they are doing at night?" ”

"What are you doing?" Xi Ruo asked curiously.

"They will talk in the conference room about how they love the empire," Li Kewen said with some disgust, "it is really hypocritical, obviously they are for their own humble interests!" ”

"I'll take you to a place tonight," Li Kewen continued, "and I'm sure to surprise you······"

Li Kewen took her to take advantage of the guard's inattention, slipped out of the gate, walked through the noisy crowd, and kept asking, "Kewen, where are you going?" ”

"You'll know when you go······" Li Kewen said.

Soon, they came to a place where there were few people, and Li Kewen turned his head and whispered, "I want you to see how hypocritical that Minister of Development is." ”

Walking to a hut, Li Kewen whispered, "Xiruo, lean close to me." ”

"Hmmm······" Xi Ruo blushed and leaned close to him, Li Kewen gently hugged her, and then opened the door with his other hand, and inside the door was a staircase leading to the underground, dark and quiet, like a road to hell.

Xi Ruo walked nervously on the stairs, suddenly, a bright light appeared in front of him, and then the narrow field of vision became wide, the quiet environment suddenly became noisy, and there was a sound of laughter between men and women, and at the end of the stairs was a bright room, with crystal lamps hanging on the roof, men and women sitting or lying on the sofa, lingering together, and asked in a low voice: "Kewen, where is this?" A brothel? ”

Li Kewen nodded.

Walking into a corridor, Li Kewen leaned over and opened what looked like a secret door, and pulled out something that looked like a probe from inside: "Xiruo, look at who is inside." ”

Xi Ruo's eyes looked at the probe, and he saw a man and a woman in sexy clothes lingering, and that man turned out to be the Minister of Development who was on the playground just now.

Xi Ruo raised her head suddenly, her face flushed as if she was about to drip blood: "Ke Wen, why did you take me to see this?" ”

"Let's go out and talk." Li Kewen said.

Walking out, the two arrived at the empty embankment, Li Kewen said: "Xiruo, in fact, I am a member of the 'Forward Technology' organization. ”

"What!" Xi Ruo was surprised and said, "Then why are you telling me, aren't you afraid of ······?"

"I said you are different from others," Li Kewen shrugged, "and we are a legal organization, why should we be afraid, it's just that those people in the imperial government are constantly propagating that we want to subvert people's good lives to become like that." ”

Xi Ruo was stunned for a moment and muttered, "Beautiful······ Life? ”

"Do you think people's lives are good now?" Li Kewen asked, "The workers in the factory are called free laborers, in fact, they are no different from slaves, those white-collar workers do meaningless work every day, the students' minds are controlled, and they are manipulated by the public opinion of the imperial government, let them like what they like, let them hate what they hate, without a little bit of their own thoughts, they are like machines in the factory, doing the same thing repeatedly, it is really sad!" And those hypocritical officials themselves do not live that kind of life, they live a life of luxury and decay, the purpose of their ideological control is to make the people serve their poor and luxurious life, they claim to also serve the country, to serve the interests of the people, in fact they just want the people to do all kinds of production activities for their own comfort, and our organization is suppressed because of its opposition to exposing their life. ”

"Kewen, that ······ What are we going to do? ”

"The reason why our organization has not been eliminated by the government is because there is still an army supporting us, and they need our advanced technology to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the army," Li Kewen said······.

"I know this," said Xi Ruo, "and there used to be people from above who came to the school to give speeches and said that these were all things that were going to destroy the empire's economy and people's lives. ”

"If human beings want to have a future, they must develop new energy, and the current gas energy has caused rapid deterioration of the environment," Li Kewen said, "This stock was later directly revoked, I was surprised at the time, and later learned that it was the government that made the stock company cancel, and the officials were reluctant to carry out energy reform because the development of each new technology will definitely allow a certain emancipation of the mind, and they just want people to live this numb and fanatical life, they want to maintain the status quo, the current society, has fallen into a stagnant water, It's really sad, Xiruo, you haven't been to the Northern Emperor? ”

"No, but I've heard that the scenery is beautiful." Xiruo shook her head and said.

"No, the fog over there is severe, how bad is it? For example, in the position we are standing in now, we can't see each other, and we can't see our fingers. ”

"Yes······ That's not what the propaganda says······"

"Those are all fake," Li Kewen said, "in order to cover up the truth, they also specially create fake air quality data, and the result is only to deceive themselves, you see those members of the Imperial Diet, don't they almost never bring it to the imperial capital, they all go around in the name of investigation, they just don't want to suck in the mist." ”

Xi Ruo hesitated for a moment and said, "Ke Wen, do you just want to change these things in the future?" ”

"Change?" Li Kewen smiled, "Xiruo, you are wrong, we can't change anything, although we have the support of the army, but it is only temporary, our 'forward technology' is actually still very weak, and for me, that's not what I want to do." ”

"So what do you want to do in the future?"

"Xiruo, have you thought about the meaning of life?" Li Kewen's eyes became a little deep.

"The ······ of Life Significance? Xiruo whispered, "I didn't think about it." ”

"In fact, we in the 'Forward Technology' organization have a sense of mission in our hearts, that is······ Responsibility, but there's always a ······ to that thing Mandatory is not what we want," Li Kewen took a deep breath and said, "For me, holding hands with the girl I like, kissing the mouth, snuggling together, watching the flowers bloom and fall together, growing old together, and the others, whether human beings will be destroyed or not, I don't care, living in the moment is the best choice." ”

"Like······ Girl," Xiruo said softly, "Kewen, your childhood sweetheart, is she beautiful?" ”

"Well, it's beautiful."

"That ······" Xiruo hesitated, "Do you think I'm beautiful?" ”

Li Kewen looked at her and smiled softly: "You take off your glasses and let me take a look." ”

"Yes······ I felt like if I took it off, my grades would be worse. ”

"You're so stupid," Li Kewen rubbed her little head, "It doesn't matter if your grades are good or bad, you still wear flat glasses, take them off." ”

Xi Ruo took off her black-framed glasses, looked up at Li Kewen, the bright moonlight sprinkled on the riverbank, her pupils reflected the river, like a galaxy, Xiruo looked very beautiful, but in the school the teachers all advertised that they should not let their appearance affect their studies, and the surrounding classmates were immersed in studying, most of them wore bulky black-framed glasses, and over time she became sluggish to her beauty, but now, in front of this boy, her heart for beauty seemed to be alive again, her cheeks were crimson, and she approached him, tried her best to let him see her beauty, Li Kewen felt that the corners of her eyes and eyebrows made people feel the beauty of life, and Li Kewen was a little stunned for a while.

Ke Wen······ Am I beautiful? Seeing that Li Kewen seemed to be distracted, she asked softly.

"Well, it's beautiful," Li Kewen came back to his senses and said, "Xiruo, you see, beautiful things are still beautiful no matter what the environment, you have been in such a dull school for so long, and you are still so beautiful, so I said, you are really different from others." ”

Only then did Xi Ruo realize that the atmosphere had become ambiguous, and the distance between the two was so close that they could feel each other's breathing and heartbeat.

Xi Ruo closed her eyes and quietly waited for that moment to come, but after a long time there was still no movement, she opened her eyes and found Li Kewen holding her head and looking up at the moon, she said with some disappointment: "Kewen, we should go back, right?" It's not early. ”

"Well, let's go back." Li Kewen said that Xi Ruo could only vaguely feel a little emotion, and could not feel his liking for herself, which made her ignorant girl's heart even more disappointed.

[Prologue to be continued]