City No. 1 Middle School does not hold classes on Saturdays.

Located in the center of the city, Duchun Road, an old street, is exceptionally quiet today, along the direction from east to west, with the wall of Shiyi Middle School on the right and a dazzling array of shops, breakfast shops, restaurants, stationery shops, and bubble tea shops on the left.

The north direction of No. 1 Middle School is the former city cultural center, surrounded by green shade, the environment is beautiful, most of them are twenty or thirty years old houses, the black and rough cement walls are full of green creepers, the trees around are decades old, the old camphor trees and plane trees, the forest is towering, and there is the charm of the ancient city.

Lin Ming embarked on this road with a piano bag on his back, this is the road that An Ran once walked, and it is also the road that Lin Ming will take in the future.

Although the No. 1 Middle School does not hold classes on Saturdays, Zhao Hao did not set the meeting time for the daytime because, sadly, other schools do hold classes on Saturdays. And as a poor student who got into a relationship, Zhao Hao was enrolled in four cram schools by his parents on Saturday, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, and his life was quite hard. Also treated like him are Fan Lei and Huang Anwen, who are in the same cram school. As for Liu He, Zhang Shao'an, and Zhou Yunkai, the three top students, as the spokespersons of other people's children, the gap between people is here. Not only do they usually have a lot of pocket money, but they also have free time on weekends, and no one even cares about playing games online. Life is quite comfortable.

However, these three people are still very self-disciplined, on Saturday Liu He will go to find a music professor to learn music, Zhou Yunkai went to the Provincial Public Security Department to watch the criminal file, Zhang Shaoan has recently been engaged in the National Olympiad Mathematics Competition, and is also working hard to do mathematics, this guy's mathematical ability is said to have learned the level of the third year of science and engineering, which is quite powerful.

As for Sun Yifei, although his grades are worse than Zhao Hao, Fan Lei, Huang Anwen and others, this is a sports student, the captain of the school basketball team, and he participated in the training of the provincial team in the summer after graduating from junior high school.

Lin Ming walked on this road, the sun shone down, passed through the branches of the trees, and reflected countless mottled spots on the path. The wall of the first middle school in the city is the kind of cement that is built one by one, and the middle can pass the manpower. Through this wall, you can see the playground of No. 1 Middle School, and the entire school is shrouded in towering green trees.

In the distance, a group of people were standing at the gate of the No. 1 Middle School in the city. The sun in Cloud City in May was not poisonous, but it was already feeling stuffy, and the group of people, some wearing the uniforms of other schools, some in casual clothes, gathered together in twos and threes, and surrounded several youth groups.

These people are not fighting, but they are simply getting together. The central circle is Zhao Hao and them, and the Eight King Kongs have always been the center of their circle, which has nothing to do with their parents' official positions or how capable they are. It's that they've been together since childhood, and even if they grow up, it's hard to integrate into the Eight King Kongs. Usually you may make friends in various classes, but when you really go outside, it is these eight people who have the deepest feelings. Over time, the three or four friends who spread out of the Eight Vajra will basically be centered on them. Because even if you don't play with them, the people in King Kong won't care, anyway, they have more friends.

The people who came today were all on good terms with Zhao Hao, and Lin Ming's friends in their own social circle didn't call over. Like Gao Xiang and Cao Yingwu, although Gao Xiang is Fan Lei's cousin, Cao Yingwu followed the Eight King Kong in junior high school, but they are far away from Zhao Hao's circle, and they basically have no intersection, and Zhao Hao will not call them.

"Brother Ming." Seeing Lin Ming coming, several teenagers from junior high school who followed Zhao Hao shouted and made way for him. Lin Ming took a look, these people basically knew each other, and they were divided into three groups in total, one group was a teenager who had followed them since junior high school, and they couldn't be regarded as Ma Zai's followers, and the relationship was a little closer. A group of friends in the yard who have a good relationship are even more familiar with these people. There is also a group of Zhao Hao's classmates in high school, and their current relationship with King Kong should be at an unfamiliar stage, but in fact, Lin Ming not only knows them, but also remembers several of their names or nicknames. Because in the second and third years of high school, these people often followed Zhao Hao out to play with them.

Lin Ming walked in, today's Zhao Hao is the protagonist, he is wearing a white shirt, a tie, his hair is clean, his hands are in his pants pockets, and he is smiling happily.

Zhao Hao and Lin Ming have always been responsible for the appearance of the Eight King Kongs, compared with Fan Lei and Liu He, who are miserable, one in the sky and one underground. Zhao Hao's skin is wheat-colored, his eyebrows are very thick, the bridge of his nose is high, and his facial features are angular.

Lin Ming prefers to be handsome and delicate like a girl, with willow eyebrows and big eyes, smooth and white skin, and in the era of more than ten years later, he will call a boy like him with little fresh meat. When he was a child, because he looked like a girl, Lin Ming was forced to wear a skirt by An Ran and them.

"Teacher Lin." Zhao Hao saw him and greeted him. Lin Ming walked in, Zhao Hao looked him up and down, and said exaggeratedly: "No, Mr. Lin, you really learned music from Liu He, carrying a big guitar on your back." ”

Before Lin Ming could speak, Liu He proudly put his hand on Lin Ming's shoulder: "That is, learning music has a lot of temperament and connotation, and the wisest decision Mr. Lin has made in his life - is to learn music from me." After only half a month of study, under my wise guidance, Mr. Lin wrote his own songs and songs, and the album was released immediately. ”

"Really?" Zhao Hao was surprised.

Lin Ming interrupted with a smile: "Don't listen to Liu He's nonsense, what about Fan Lei?" ”

"They bought cigarettes." Zhao Hao turned his head and said in the direction of a store outside the school gate: "No, that's not coming." ”

Lin Ming looked over, Fan Lei walked over happily with two bags of iced black tea without bottle caps in both hands, his height was not high, only one meter and six, compared with sixteen years later, except for the pimples on his face, there was basically no big change, the same black and not slippery, like a lively chimpanzee, but it was about ten centimeters shorter than later generations, and his skin was not as dull and rough as later. Huang Anwen, who was next to him, also carried a bag of iced black tea in his left hand, and a bag of betel nuts on his right, his pockets were stuffed to the ground, and judging from the shape of the outside, it was obvious that he had several packs of cigarettes. In fact, Huang Anwen is taller than Fan Lei, but he is as thin as a bamboo pole, as if he will fall down when the wind blows, standing next to the sturdy Fan Lei forms a stark contrast. However, what is unexpected is that Huang Anwen is not bad-looking, with a fashionable chestnut head and a blue casual suit, somewhat like the juvenile version of Zhu Xiaotian in F4, but the only drawback is his eyes, a pair of squinting eyes, which slightly destroys the beauty.

These two people, plus Zhao Hao, are the three most skinny people in the Eight King Kongs. Ninety percent of the fights that the Eight King Kongs fought in those years were basically caused by the three of them.

"Holy, this is one of you?" Liu He ran over and unceremoniously took a bottle from the bag, and when he saw that all the iced tea had no lid, he was shocked: "Have you used up your luck for eight lifetimes, why don't you buy lottery tickets?" ”

"Your dad and I are kidding? One bottle, 21 shots. Fan Lei triumphantly handed the two bags of iced tea to one of Zhao Hao's followers and asked them to divide it by themselves, and Huang Anwen's own bag handed Zhao Hao and Lin Ming one bottle each, and there were about seven or eight bottles in it, which were kept by Zhou Yunkai and them.

"Huh. Pen! Liu He stroked a middle finger: "If I had the luck of your dog son, I would have gone to buy a lottery ticket a long time ago." ”

"Then you go buy it."

"Eh, your dad and I are self-aware, I don't have that luck, I don't waste money."

"Garbage."

The two exchanged a few more words.

When they were working as a BB machine, Huang Anwen looked at his watch and asked Zhao Hao, "Kaizi, they are not here yet?" ”

"It should be about the same, Kaizi told me last night that it might be late. Their basketball team is training intensively, and now they are at school, and they will come out soon. Anye's Mathematics Olympiad class will end at 6 o'clock, but he is not far from us, and it is estimated that everyone will arrive at 6:30 o'clock at the latest. ”

An Ye is not talking about An Ran, but Zhang Shao'an. Among the 8 people, Zhang Shao'an is the oldest, he was born on the 4th day of the first month of 87, and his personality is also quite calm, and he speaks and acts like an old grandfather, so he is called An Ye. He and Zhou Yunkai are faintly the two leaders of the eight, and the rest of them will listen to their opinions on basic matters.

As for An Ran, An Ran didn't have to go to cram school on weekends, but her mother signed her up for a dance, and it was over at five o'clock in the afternoon, and she had to go back to take a shower and change her clothes, and come over with a few other girls in the yard. Zhou Yunkai is because the Provincial Public Security Department is quite far away from the city's No. 1 Middle School, unlike Lin Ming, who is in the Cultural Square, and it is only a few stops away by bus.

Huang Anwen handed five or six boxes of cigarettes to Zhao Hao and asked him to disperse by himself. He kept a packet for Lin Ming and Fan Lei, Liu He is a non-smoker, but this betel nut chewed and searched a pack from Huang Anwen's pocket and chewed it.

When Huang Anwen lit a cigarette, Lin Ming took over the fire, and the sound of a basketball hitting the ground was heard.

Lin Ming took a puff of cigarette and looked back at the gate of the first middle school, a group of tall people walked out of the school gate, led by a strong man, close to one meter nine, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a very strong figure. Fan Lei's skin is already very dark, but he is even darker, with knotted muscles all over his body, like a blacksmith.

That person was Sun Yifei, nicknamed Iron Striker, and when he saw Zhao Hao and them, he threw the basketball to the rest of the basketball team, and beckoned to sign for separation. Then he turned around and trotted over while wiping the sweat from his head with his jersey.

The crowd naturally parted ways for him, and Sun Yi flew to the ground and spat and shouted, "Get a cigarette." ”

Huang Anwen handed him a cigarette and said, "Aren't you afraid that your lungs will blow up?" ”

"I'm fine." Sun Yifei patted his chest and snapped. Don't look at Lin Ming's punch that broke Sun Yifei's hand back then, but if you really want to talk about the hardness and impact of the body, Sun Yifei is still the most powerful in the Eight King Kongs, fighting like a humanoid beast, rushing over with a flying kick, which can kick people four or five meters away, and the power is very great.

Zhao Hao distributed the cigarettes to the friends he brought, and when he heard this, he turned around and smiled: "Come on, just your body, you were hammered by Lin Ming and your bones were broken, don't have to ask our brothers to go to the hospital to see you like last year." ”

Sun Yifei rolled his eyes and said: "I exercised too much, and the calcium couldn't keep up, which caused the bone to crack slightly, plus the motor neuron disorder, so I was broken by Lin Ming's punch, but fortunately, his punch made me discover this problem early, otherwise when the neurons are really blocked, it is possible to cause paralysis." ”

Playing basketball is a whole-body sport, not only the lower body must be stable, but the upper body must also be strong and beneficial. As the captain of the city's No. 1 middle school team and the main center, Sun Yifei exercised his upper body limbs in the gym through equipment as early as junior high school, but premature strenuous exercise also caused a series of hidden physical dangers. Lin Ming's punch back then directly hammered Sun Yifei's arm off, in fact, Lin Ming knew that he didn't use all his strength at all, at most it was a heavy punch, and ordinary people could withstand it. They were just joking around at the time, and Lin Ming himself didn't expect that punch to have such an effect, but Sun Yifei's arm was still broken. As a basketball player, the importance of the right arm goes without saying. At that time, Sun Yifei thought that his sports career was over, and his resentment towards Lin Ming could be imagined. However, after going to the hospital for examination, Sun Yifei was dumbfounded, excessive exercise had already caused a huge burden on the upper body, Sun Yifei's right arm was slightly cracked, motor neuron disorders and other problems.

Such a problem is almost fatal for an athlete. If the treatment is delayed for a few years, let alone the athlete's career, it may not even be able to be an ordinary person with sound limbs, and the worst result is that the whole body is paralyzed and he becomes a waste person lying on the hospital bed all year round.

Therefore, Sun Yifei is actually quite grateful to Lin Ming in this matter.

Everyone lit cigarettes and gathered to chat and fart, and after a while, a taxi stopped in front of everyone. A young man with a calm face and a look of no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, but with an old demeanor and a very mature appearance. That person is Zhang Shao'an, faintly headed by the Eight King Kongs. Everyone usually listens to him in many things, because Zhang Shaoan is fair, and his EQ and IQ are very high, so they are more convinced of him. It's not that there have been conflicts in the Eight King Kong before, two friends get together, if they don't have the same personalities, they may have conflicts, let alone eight. But every time the eight of them had an internal dispute, he found Zhang Shao'an, and he had a way to mediate.

can convince the other seven disrespectful demon bosses of the world, and they all faintly take him as the leader, you can see his ability. It is no wonder that Zhang Shao'an has made the greatest achievements in the future, because of the gold medal in the International Mathematics Olympiad, he was directly admitted to the world's first university, and after graduation, he engaged in the Wall Street financial industry with excellent mathematics scores.

"An Ye."

Zhang Shao came down, and Lin Ming and a few people came over.

"Happy birthday Haozi." Zhang Shaoan took a bag with Adi printed on it from the taxi and handed it to Zhao Hao: "I just passed by the pedestrian street and saw a dress that suited you very well, so I bought it, I hope you like it." ”

In 02, a set of Adi was not cheap, and the students of the No. 1 Middle School in the city had become popular for a long time, and such a set of clothes was worn in the school, which was a very decent thing. Although Zhang Shaoan's grades are excellent and he has a lot of pocket money, no matter how much he saves, it is still quite reluctant to buy such a set of clothes for nearly 1,000 yuan. It can be seen why Zhang Shaoan can occupy a dominant position in the Eight King Kongs, usually for the sake of his brothers, he is willing to spend these small money, and he never cares about too many things. When encountering things, he is decisive and very judgmental, and he can always handle the details appropriately, so that the brothers are like a spring breeze in their hearts, and they are indeed natural leaders.

"Is that polite?" Zhao Hao took the bag and was very moved. At the beginning of this year, when Zhang Shao'an celebrated his birthday, let alone giving gifts, because it was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, many people went back to their hometown for the New Year, only Lin Ming, a local in Yuncheng, and Liu He, who spent the New Year in Yuncheng, accompanied him, which made Zhao Hao and them quite unhappy.

"Forgot to buy a gift." Liu He patted his head.

Fan Lei and Huang Anwen also looked embarrassed.

Zhao Hao smiled and waved his hand: "They are all their own brothers, there is no need to be like this." ”

Lin Ming took out a box from his pocket and handed it to Zhao Hao: "Well, I also bought a watch." It's not worth much, and it's time to change your watch. "This watch was bought near the Cultural Square, Lin Ming didn't have much money, and this was still the gift fund I asked my mother for before leaving today.

"As for it? I didn't give you any gifts on your birthday, but I was very happy when you came to stay with me. Zhao Hao took the box, opened it and took a look, it was a delicate mechanical watch, and the market price was close to one thousand.

As the son of an official eunuch, although he doesn't have much money on weekdays, he has seen a lot and knows how expensive this watch is, Zhao Hao was surprised: "This is Casio's mechanical watch?" It seems to be 998, I see that the second generation of our rich classmates are wearing it, and they have shown it off to me, no, it is too expensive, I can't accept it. ”

As he spoke, he was about to return the watch to Lin Ming, Lin Ming smiled and said, "I bought everything, and I can't return it, so you can take it." ”

"Where did you get this money?" Zhao Hao knows Lin Ming, unlike Zhang Shaoan, who can save a lot of pocket money on weekdays because of his excellent grades. So he thought that Lin Ming stole his mother's money to buy it, because Lin Ming had a criminal record before, and in order to steal the family's money online, even if the amount was not large, he was often beaten to death by Fang Lan.

Now it is close to a thousand, which naturally makes Zhao Hao suspicious.

"I earned it myself, don't worry, I didn't steal my parents' money." Lin Ming glanced at the distance, raised his chin and said, "Quickly put it away, Kaizi is here." ”

When everyone heard this, they turned around and saw Zhou Yunkai walking leisurely in the distance.

Zhou Yunkai wears a pair of gold-wire glasses, Si Swenwen, and looks like a good student. But the seven brothers who have played since they were young and big actually know that this product is serious on the surface, but in fact, it is a bad stomach, and it is right to find Zhou Yunkai with bad tricks. Back then, in Changyi Junior High School, in addition to Ba Kong, there were two other groups of people who were rampant and domineering in Changyi, bullying classmates, doing things like looking for classmates to ask for protection money, and they were famous hooligan bastard students. Later, Zhou Yunkai made a plan to provoke a real fire between the two gangs, and as a result, the two gangs fought at two ends for three days, and finally expelled all the schools.

Because of this incident, the group of Eight King Kong became the bosses of Changyi Junior High School, and almost no one in the nearby middle school dared to fight with them.

And Zhou Yunkai also officially became the dog-headed military advisor of the Eight King Kongs, and like Zhang Shao'an, his status in the Eight King Kongs is one of the best. If you have to rank words in the hearts of the other six people, Zhang Shaoan is obviously a leader-type figure, and Zhou Yunkai is the mastermind behind the scenes, and the two are almost indistinguishable.

"Sorry for being late, I've been studying the Nazhuang serial case the year before last for a while, and I'm a little fascinated and almost forgot the time." Zhou Yunkai also brought a gift, which was a pair of Nike shoes. As if they had discussed, each of them gave a thing that the boys generally liked.

Zhao Hao is grateful again, unlike Lin Ming, Zhang Shaoan and Zhou Yunkai are the darlings of the family, and they have a lot of pocket money, so Zhao Hao can accept it with peace of mind. But Lin Ming is different, so Zhao Hao was afraid that he would run to steal his parents' money in order to buy him a birthday gift, which would hurt him.

A taxi came in the distance, and a couple of girls came down. The first one was called Yuan Wenwen, and she was a yard partner of the same age as Lin Ming. Zhao Hao stretched his neck to look for An Ran, but what disappointed him was that all the girls came down and didn't see her.

"Wenwen, what about Enron? Just wait for her. Zhao Hao was a little anxious, he had already arranged for his friends to make a lot of preparations at night, ordered a big bag at the high-end KTV in the city, waited for Anran to come over, and then confessed in public.

If the protagonist is absent, then this confession will not have any meaning.

Yuan Wenwen said: "An Ran sprained her foot while dancing, and a few of us just sent her to the hospital, she told me to let you go play first, she can't come." ”

"That's right." Zhao Hao looked lost.

Lin Ming's heart was like a mirror, and while he was slightly relieved, he couldn't help but feel slightly lost like Zhao Hao.

In the previous life, Enron did not sprain his foot.

So, Oscar owes her a little golden man.

Lin Ming breathed a sigh of relief because he was ready to face Zhao Hao's anger tonight, and the loss was that even if he was safely avoided today, one day this matter would still break out. like a thorn in the midst of them. The so-called long pain is better than short pain, and if it can be solved today, this is actually the best opportunity.

When An Ran came to Lin Ming yesterday, he didn't tell him that he would find an excuse not to attend Zhao Hao's birthday today. It is foreseeable that this is not a temporary idea, but I don't want to embarrass Lin Ming. This is a girl in the show, even if she is in trouble, she would rather carry it by herself than let Lin Ming be caught in the middle.

But.

"You've never asked my opinion." Lin Ming smiled bitterly.

Zhao Hao saw that An Ran did not come, and he was very disappointed. But it was impossible for everyone to be there, so the birthday party was canceled for safety. So he still cheered up and said, "Now that everyone is together, let's go first." First go to Fumanlou for dinner, and then go to Haoledi KTV to sing. ”

Zhao Hao walked towards the alley first, he was the protagonist of the night, and everyone followed behind him. Lin Ming put his hands in his pockets, carried the acoustic guitar on his back, and turned around to look at the gate of the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Then he glanced back at his brother in front of him.

He trotted all the way to the middle of the brothers, on his left was Liu He, Zhang Shao, An, Sun Yifei, and on his right were Zhao Hao, Zhou Yunkai, Fan Lei, Huang Anwen.

Many years later, the Eight Vajra never really reunited.

In the future, some of these people went abroad, and some people went from all over the world, except for a greeting during the New Year's holidays, the eight people would only occasionally come back to sit on their birthdays. But there will always be a few people who can't come back. On Lin Ming's birthday that year, only Liu He, Zhou Yunkai and Huang Anwen were present.

This kind of gathering will become less and less frequent in the future. Until everyone graduated from high school, went to college in other places as adults, and then went north or south to find a job, and traveled all over the country year after year, just because of their dreams and livelihoods, they became one of the 250 million floating population in the country.

The backs of the eight people will also drift away in the future.

Lin Ming, who had seen the picture of the future, looked at the seven friends who were laughing beside him, and the gaze in his eyes gradually became deep and blurry, and there were some tears. He wished he had a camera in his hand to freeze the picture in this moment.

This moment, he hopes, is forever.

Thereupon.

He said loudly, "Brothers." ”

Zhao Hao looked at him.

"Let's go!"

For the reunion of this moment, but also for the parting in the future.