Zou Shun's current dormitory life is too far from his expectations.

originally thought that if he rented a house, he would have a lamp that would never go out, and he could write his homework until late at night accompanied by the running water, but the house was not his alone, and in such an environment, how could he be given the opportunity to write his homework, and how could he calm down and write his homework in the environment of singing every night.

Originally, I thought that after renting a house, there would be more space, fewer people, and it would be more comfortable to live, but this was purely a dream, Shang Hu and Gu Tianyuan often brought some messy people over, and when they came, they regarded this place as their own home, and lived more comfortably than the owner of this house. Those people looked around, knowing Xu Lihong's name, they didn't dare to provoke them, and when they saw Zou Shun and Feng Zongwei, they seemed to have a little temper, and when they saw Wanfu Wangui, they were happy in their hearts, and they were arrogant to them for a while. When Zou Shun saw the bullied Wanjia brothers, he was afraid for a while, if he didn't dare to face Meng Chao head-on, maybe he was the one who was suffering now.

I originally thought that renting a house could have a quieter environment, so that I could have enough sleep and energy, but the program that must be in the basement every night is Hi Song, although many people are incomplete in five tones, but this does not affect everyone's high passion, and I can't sing the whole song? Okay, then sing the climax. Can't even orgasm? Okay, let's read the general meeting. At first, Zou Shun followed them for a few nights, but after a few days, he got tired and retired from the ranks of hi songs. It can be said that Zou Shun is very lucky, he has the ability to refuse and dare to say no to what he doesn't like. But Feng Zongwei and the Wan family brothers were powerless when they wanted to get out, and even if they withdrew, what could they do? It's better to get by.

Originally, I thought that renting a house would allow me to have a more free environment, so that I would not be hungry when I woke up hungry in the middle of the night. But the freer the environment, the more self-control is needed, at the age of twelve or thirteen years old like Zou Shun, the standard for judging right and wrong has not yet been fully established, and the outlook on life, values, and worldview are still groping, where can I resist the temptation of this world, with those dozens of yuan, it should be a week's living expenses, but it is often sold out in just two days. Renting a house provides too much convenience for spending money, whether it is an Internet café, an ice rink, or a variety of food restaurants, they are all open to these children.

Off-campus vendors also specialize in creating a strong bond with students – on credit. This is even more convenient than the WeChat Alipay payment that became popular a few years later, as long as you choose a good thing and tell the boss to keep an account, the account will be recorded, and you don't need to scan the code. If you talk about the matter of credit in detail, I am afraid that you will have to talk about it for a long time, there are many interesting facts about credit that are talked about by students, and the story of the battle of wits between creditors and debtors has been staged. Like Feng Zongwei, he paid more than 100 yuan on credit - almost two weeks of his living expenses, and finally the shopkeeper came to him with ink and forced him to write an IOU and press his handprint. Feng Zongwei didn't show anything on his face at that time, but Zou Shun knew that he was very panicked.

Thirteen years old, it should be the age to go to school carefree, but he was burdened with debts, and it was difficult for anyone to accept it, and looking at the appearance of the shopkeeper, it seemed that if Feng Zongwei did not pay it back, he would go to court. Of course, fools know that it is impossible to file a lawsuit for such a small amount of money, unless the shopkeeper is really idle and has nowhere to put the money, after all, a lawsuit is not simply a matter of handing over a piece of paper.

Some credit masters will transfer to other stores after they have lost their accounts on credit, and each store will also have corresponding policies to exchange information with each other to resist such bad customers. Later, those students had to live a life of avoiding debt collection.

There are many more stories, on the road of credit, countless students went forward and followed, went farther and farther on this road, and finally fell into it and couldn't extricate themselves.

Young people are not sensible and do not plan, overdraft their living expenses, overdraft their bodies, overdraft their youth, and overdraft their future. And those shopkeepers, taking advantage of the ignorance of the children and giving them a little "convenience", firmly locked up a child, because he could not owe money to this family and often went to the other family's house to spend. Many children come with money on the first day, and they have to hand over more than half of it to pay off their debts, and the rest can only last for a day or two, and the rest of the days have to continue on credit, and from then on into a bottomless dark circle.

This is the situation around Zou Shun, surrounded by all the things that corrode people, as long as the mind is slightly distracted, as long as the will is slightly shaken, he will be swept into this whirlpool, unable to move, at the mercy of others.

After coming to junior high school for more than three months, the weather is getting colder, Zou Shun's life is on the right track, the so-called on the right track, does not mean that his life has become scientific and regular, but that he has adapted to his own life.

At seven o'clock in the morning, a rooster crow broke out of the basement, of course, this is not a real rooster, but Wanfu's mobile phone alarm clock, at this time, Zou Shun and a group of people had to stretch out their hands and feet helplessly from the hot quilt, reluctantly leave their bed, shiver and get dressed, mechanically walked to the toilet, still shivering and soaking hot urine, until the cold towel touched their skin, they really woke up, hastily brushed their teeth, bought some snacks and went to class.

The self-study has passed, and the first class has passed, but in the second class, Zou Shun's upper and lower eyelids began to fight, at this time he will use his usual tricks, holding the pen in his right hand, the thumb and four fingers of his left hand are at ninety degrees, the four fingers are propped up on the forehead, the thumb is close to the temple, and the four fingers just cover the eyes, and the tired eyes can take a nap under the cover of the four fingers. Zou Shun always thought that the teacher would not be able to discover the mystery, indeed, no teacher has ever broken through his trick, as for whether they found it, it is unknown.

Finally survived the fourth class, Zou Shun was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, they were at the age of growing their bodies, but they only ate a few biscuits or a few fried potatoes every morning, unless they were iron warriors, otherwise they would not be hungry.

After lunch, there is a noon self-study, and the afternoon self-study should be supposed to take a nap, but most of the students in the school go to bed early at night and get enough sleep, so the afternoon self-study is still brushing the questions. And Zou Shun, he can't go to bed early every night, even if he has gone to bed, he will be noisy by them and it will be difficult to sleep, so afternoon self-study is Zou Shun's gospel, fall asleep with a book on his pillow, he likes to open the book and put it on the table, so that he seems to sleep comfortably, of course, the consequence is that Zou Shun's books are often wet with saliva, and they smell a little fishy.

The afternoon class was more relaxed, and Zou Shun went more smoothly. The most interesting time of the day and the most story-telling time is the evening self-study. When Zou Shun first entered junior high school, he was tempted by the outside world, and he also changed his way to escape late self-study with the most dick students in the class, which was risky, because he didn't know when the head teacher would come, even if he had a good relationship with the disciplinary committee, but it would be useless when the head teacher came, even so, Zou Shun and they would still take the risk of skipping the evening self-study.

But now it is different, Zou Shun slowly understands the world outside the school, and slowly loses interest in it. He no longer skips evening self-study, even if someone asks him to surf the Internet, because Zou Shun understands that those people don't invite him because they have a good relationship with him, they just want to find a companion.

There are countless interesting things that happen in the self-study class, and I don't know how much paper I have to write down if I write them down well. Many people are not writing homework or reading books in self-study classes, but chatting in whispers or passing notes. The madness between classes is also a major feature, although the weather is very cold, but everyone's enthusiasm is not diminished at all, the breath of youth is filled in every pore of the night, everyone is thinking about how to express themselves, how to absorb the eyes of the opposite sex, everyone is happy in this game of youth.

After the next night's self-study, the nightlife really began, while there is two dollars in your bag, you can eat two pieces of fried potatoes if you save a little, go to the barrel of Laotan sauerkraut beef noodles if you are extravagant, and go to the second sister's store to order a few strings of barbecue, get some beer and drinks, etc.

Everyone came back full of wine and food, and naturally there was inevitably a burst of nonsense, Xu Lihong chatted about which girl fell in love with him again, and played ambiguous with himself, Gu Tianyuan talked about which little bastard he didn't have long eyes and beat up, Shang Hu, he talked about which teacher he didn't like, when they were talking nonsense, they naturally needed an audience, the Wanjia brothers had no human rights in their eyes, and they were the best candidates to listen, as for Zou Shun, it was better to chat with Xu Lihong, at least interesting, but he really didn't want to participate in the remarks of Gu Tianyuan and Shang Hu.

Feng Zongwei can talk to a few of them the most, and many topics can be discussed with them for a long time, so he has the best relationship with them, and he has promised that if someone does not give Feng Zongwei face, Feng Zongwei will go to them, this sentence also reflects to a certain extent that Feng Zongwei is very powerful.

In the first semester, Zou Shun thought that Yin Fuyou in the next class was the most powerful student in the school, and it was not ambiguous at all that he wanted to beat anyone. By the next semester, all this changed, another student in Zou Shun's class - Li Guang - grew up with Feng Zongwei Fa Xiao, the boy who ate fried ice with Feng Zongwei at the beginning of the school year, usually looked at him without any characteristics, somehow, in the next semester, he suppressed Yin Fuyou's momentum, and usually Yin Fuyou had to call Brother Guang when he saw him.

Of course, Feng Zongwei's changes are not small, in the next semester, he can already have a long time with Yin Fuyou, in addition to the two of them, there is also a more powerful person in the third class, for a while, the third class has become the center of influence of the grade, usually many people dare not come to the third class to spread wild, that being said, in fact, powerful people are very closely connected, beating a person will often inquire about his background first, as long as he does not provoke a few bigwigs in the grade, people will not care which class he is in.

Zou Shun, whose life has gradually settled down, has developed a habit of visiting Luohong Bookstore and going there every weekend. He thinks the name of this bookstore is particularly good, "Falling red is not a ruthless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers." Gong Zizhen's poems are used in the name of the bookstore, which is particularly appropriate, the volumes of books are just similar to the pieces of red, one turns into dirt, cares for the plants, and the other dedicates himself to lead the people.

The poem at the door of the bookstore is also particularly interesting, "Quietly hold new books to understand the taste, and forget the passing years in a good place." But if you ask Zou Shun what a good way to do it, it will be difficult for him to answer that he is ugly, so he only thinks it is good. You can imagine a picture, on a hot and cold afternoon, bring a bowl of tea, place it on the table, hold a scroll, or stand quietly by the window to read slowly, or lean against the bookshelf to study carefully...... In this situation, how can you not be moved? It's a pity that Zou Shun definitely doesn't have tea at hand, but he can spend three yuan to buy a bottle of iced black tea, which is refreshing and refreshing.

In fact, Zou Shun's heart has long been rooted in the seedlings of the bookstore, as early as elementary school Mr. Guo has described to them the sacredness of the bookstore, "The most beautiful place in the world should be a bookstore or library, where you can get in touch with the purest ideas in the world." This sentence has always been engraved in his mind, how grateful he is to God, when he was ignorant, there is such a teacher appeared in his life, taking him to explore the unknown world.

Every Sunday, because he has to go back to school for evening self-study, he leaves home to go to school after lunch on Sunday, and when he arrives at the rental house, there are still four or five hours before the evening self-study, these four or five hours, he basically soak in the bookstore, a book, a story, an emotion, a kind of thought, always can bring him spiritual insights, often make him linger in it, forget himself.

Zou Shun is a slow reader, and in his opinion, every book has something to praise, and in his subconscious, books are authority, so far away. As the length of his book list increases, he will slowly change, but that will be many years later.

By chance, he read a sentence in a book: In fact, readers are a very stupid group, and if he is a little conscious, he will write his own book.

Of course, a bookstore is always a bookstore, it is not a library, the purpose of a bookstore is to make a profit, and the purpose of a library is convenience. Although Zou Shun enjoyed the process of reading very much, he always felt that there was a pair of cold eyes staring at him, perhaps this was a suspicious illness caused by bad intentions, but every time he left, he still had to bury his head low, not daring to look at the shopkeeper sitting at the door. There is only one reason for all this, that is, Zou Shun's pockets are really deflated, although the living expenses given by the family are not lower than the average in the school, but what money can a twelve or thirteen-year-old child who is renting a house save? It's a blessing not to go on credit and owe a lot of debt.

This Sunday, Zou Shun came to the bookstore as usual, picked up the book he hadn't finished last week and continued to flip through it, he read it very slowly, as if every word in the book was worth savoring. But today he is a little special, he reads books with confidence, and he feels that he should read books so confidently.

In fact, the reason for all this is that he has put in the money he has saved for three weeks, and the forty-two yuan in his pocket makes him full of confidence.

Zou Shun saw that the time was almost up, picked up the book he had loved for a long time and walked to the counter.

The owner of the shop is a woman, it is said that she is in her forties, but Zou Shun has never dared to believe that she is in her forties, a goose egg face is very standard, the face is like a protein, it is difficult to see the slightest wrinkles, a hair is high on the top of the head, very majestic, giving people a sense of inviolability, but the words and deeds reveal a trace of laziness, the figure is well-proportioned, wearing a lotus white silk cheongsam, blue lotus inlaid embroidered on it, quite ancient.

Zou Shun approached her, the original self-confidence was unconsciously eroded, and all that was left was inferiority, guilt, and shame, he gently put the book on the counter, and asked cautiously and nervously: "How much is this book?" ”

The shopkeeper's lips opened lightly, and instead of answering, he asked, "You want to buy it?" ”

Zou Shun was frightened by the coldness in her tone, and couldn't speak, so he had to nod.

Seeing that he was so nervous, the woman softened her tone and asked, "Can you tell me why you want to buy this book?" ”

Zou Shun obviously didn't expect the other party to ask such a question, thought for a while and said, "Because I like this book." ”

Your answer is too broad, have you read part of this book or understood it? Why do you like this book or what do you like about it? Is it the character, the plot, or its ideological connotation? The shopkeeper's tone was extremely gentle, just like the two of them just now.

Zou Shun was suddenly asked, he re-examined the set of "Ordinary World" lying quietly on the counter, it was originally a book that the teacher strongly recommended the students to read, and he also read some chapters, and he was deeply touched, so he decided to buy this book. But now he didn't know how to answer, what did he like about this book? Figure? I've just started reading this book, what do you know about the characters? Plot? I've only watched it a little bit, and I'm not familiar with the plot. Ideological connotation......

Zou Shun found that the only problem was that he knew too little about the book. Suddenly, as if he had discovered a new world, he said to the shopkeeper, "If I know everything about this book, why should I buy it?" ”

This sentence seemed to ask the shopkeeper, she was stunned for a second, suddenly smiled, smiled softly, and at the same time tapped her lips with her right hand, half covering and half hiding, Zou Shun didn't expect her to laugh too, she smiled like the ice of winter slowly melting under the sun, warm and warm, Zou Shun was a little obsessed for a while.

The shopkeeper knew that he was a little out of shape, and said in a straight tone: "You little ghost is quite clever, okay, I see that you are not familiar with this book, and I don't know if it is useful if you buy it, this book is not one or two grades different from the books you usually read, but it is not easy to understand......

Zou Shun interrupted her: "Are you saying that this book is very poor?" ”

The shopkeeper was speechless for a while, relieved himself, and said, "I mean those books are far behind, and the authors of the novels you usually read are not worthy of lifting shoes for Lu Yao." Hey, is there a problem with what I say, or is there something wrong with your comprehension? I just praised you for your cleverness, it seems that I have something wrong with my speech. The shopkeeper began to talk to himself.

Zou Shun's face was full of doubts, thinking of the books he had read before, he felt that he was already a classic, and he might not be able to write that kind of article for another ten years, is it so unbearable? Zou Shun raised his own question, only to get the owner's eyes, "As far as the books you read before, many of them are just records of running accounts, or a few lines of poetry are embedded casually to pretend to be elegant, in fact, those people don't have much ink." There are also some advertorials, which are specially tailored for little hairy children like you who don't know the world, but there is not much nutrition. She saw the horror and uneasiness in Zou Shun's eyes, and comforted him: "But you don't have to worry too much, you can read any books at what age, which is understandable, if you are asked to read those ancient texts and Confucian classics now, I am afraid it will only be difficult to swallow and consume your desire to read." In the case of this book, you may just be looking at the story and thinking it is fun, but it will take a lot of time to really read it. ”

When Zou Shun heard this, his heart was a little relieved, but he still couldn't help but wonder: "If I can't read this book now, then is it necessary for me to read it?" ”

The shopkeeper seemed to expect him to ask this question, smiled and said: "Classic books are not something that can be eaten thoroughly, often have to be read many times, the first time you may not understand well, this can't say that you can't read, only that you read very few things, but not not at all, as time goes by, the growth of the mind, the increase in reading, the increase in experience, you will slowly understand the works of a person, and you will naturally be able to read it." As for whether it is necessary to read it, then you have to ask yourself whether it is acceptable to read a book without much experience. ”

The relationship between the two suddenly became much closer, and the shopkeeper had already put down the face that rejected people thousands of miles away, and put on a look full of interest, obviously, she was still very interested in a little hairy child like Zou Shun.

After listening to her words, Zou Shun pondered carefully for a while, convinced that he understood what she meant, and took a closer look at the book on the counter, as if he had made up his mind, and said: "Anyway, maybe I can't read it now, but I believe that one day I will definitely be able to read it." So, I'm going to buy it! ”

The shopkeeper looked at his determined appearance, nodded lightly at the subtle movements that were invisible to outsiders, and said, "Since that's the case, it's not easy for me to say anything." But......" She paused here, as if deliberately attracting Zou Shun's attention, and continued: "But I see that you are still a student, I'm afraid your family didn't give you money to buy this kind of book, right?" If you like to read, you can come back often, and you don't have to buy it, just give it back to me. It's just that you have to promise me one thing, if you like one thing, then stick to it, and those who give up halfway are the most useless. And...... And I'll be happy if you call me aunt in the future. Her words contained too much information, Zou Shun couldn't react at once, so he had to be stunned in place, seeing that he didn't react, the shopkeeper couldn't help laughing, "What?" When I am your aunt, do you suffer a lot? ”

Zou Shun saw that there was some anger in her tone, although it may have been pretended, but when he reacted at this time, he immediately said: "There must be no problem with the title, many people I call aunt." Just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that if I don't buy books and only read books, then how can your store be opened?" Zou Shun voiced his concerns.

"Giggle...... as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, the shopkeeper couldn't help laughing, laughed so hard that he couldn't help it, holding his stomach and trying his best to control it, as if he wanted to laugh out loud but had to be reserved, Zou Shun was very embarrassed by her appearance, but he was helpless.

After a while, she stopped laughing, but the corners of her mouth still overflowed with a smile: "You mean that you will buy a lot of books here, and your aunt will make a lot of money on you?" Zou Shun heard that she had already called herself aunt, but he didn't have a sense of disobedience, when he understood his aunt's words, he couldn't help but blush, indeed, how many books can he buy here? This semester, I'm afraid I can only buy this one.

The aunt saw his embarrassment, "What are you polite to your aunt?" Am I going to starve to death without you? In the future, I don't have to hide it when I read books, I like to watch other people read books. Zou Shun couldn't help blushing again when she heard her say her past embarrassment, but fortunately, it was not too early for her aunt to read it at this time, and said: "This "Ordinary World" is a good book, you can taste it carefully, although you may not be able to read anything now." This book is just a gift from your aunt when you call me out. Don't interrupt me, listen to me, you like to read now, so keep liking it, if you read something new from the book in the future, it would be good if you could come and communicate with me often. It's not too early, so let's go to self-study! ”

Zou Shun felt that there were still many things to say, so he was "driven out" by his aunt, and by the way, he also stuffed the book in Zou Shun's schoolbag. Zou Shun took two steps, turned around, and saw that his aunt waved her hand lightly to herself, although she had a stomach of words and a stomach of questions, she had to leave. Zou Shun really wanted to talk to her aunt again, but she seemed to have a lot of things she didn't want to mention, maybe she was too tired today.

Feeling the heavy books on his back, Zou Shun was a little reluctant, he originally wanted to buy books, but he never wanted his aunt to break the bank, and he couldn't help but be ashamed when he thought of it.