Chapter 19: Social Death
"Let us live a chic life with Hongchen as a companion, gallop to share the prosperity of the world, sing the joy in our hearts to the wine, and vigorously grasp the youth ......"
"You carry the burden and I lead the horse, usher in the sunrise and send away the sunset, step on the bumpy road, fight the hardships and dangers and set off again, and set off again......"
Whenever "Huanzhu Gege" and "Journey to the West" start to be rebroadcast on TV, you know that summer vacation is here again.
A few days after the holiday, the World Cup finally came to an end.
The final was between the Matadors and the Orange, and the two sides battled hard until the 116th minute, when Andres Iniesta sealed his throat with a stunner.
The championship belongs to Spain, and it is well deserved.
When Lu Bowen was discussing in the QQ group, he had officially announced that his future nickname would be changed from "Linzhong Buffon" to "Linzhong San Cassie".
The time of the final is half past two in the morning, and Lin Yi will certainly not watch the live broadcast.
He watched the replay the next day, and by the way, he remembered that his net worth had reached six figures.
In fact, he could have won more by taking a more aggressive bet, but he still played steadily according to the plan he had made at the beginning.
He's only sixteen, and he still has a lot of time to go.
Except for make-up classes, there are no other plans for the summer vacation for the time being, and after that father-son conversation, he has decided to make high school students his "main business".
So on this day, he carried his schoolbag and came to the Xinhua Bookstore in Xicheng Square to pick up a few tutorial books.
Teaching materials may be a pillar of the publishing industry and have irreplaceable value for schools, teachers and students.
This is not to say that the level of preparation of the textbooks is not high, but that the textbooks are prepared for teaching, and the supplementary materials are for exams.
What's more, the amount of training is far from enough.
Teaching materials are usually stacked in the core of the bookstore, which is the easiest to find, and is divided according to the different stages of elementary school, junior high school and high school.
Next to it are TV commercials that circulate every day with good stars, good backs and the like.
This was the "Internet celebrity product" of that era.
Lin Yi found the materials of high school mathematics, physics and chemistry, and when he was flipping through them, he heard a small call next to him:
"Lin Yi?"
He turned around and looked, it was a girl in the same class, named Feng Wenqian, Zhang Jiaqi's former roommate.
She is about 1.6 meters tall, with short ear-length hair that is common in school, and a small round face that is quite cute.
Today, wearing a loose T-shirt and knitted pants, it looks very homely.
Lin Yi suddenly thought that Gu Caiwei seemed to be one of the few girls in the class with shoulder-length hair, because it took more time to take care of long hair.
So this is also one of the evidence of her guilt as a "bad student" in the mouths of some girls.
The thought just flashed, and he bowed his head and greeted Feng Wenqian:
"What a coincidence, why are you here?"
"My house is nearby, come and read a book."
She shook a book in her hand, and Lin Yi saw that the cover read "Ye Jiaying Says Poems of the Early Tang Dynasty".
In these years, the so-called literary and artistic young women have "three major customs" on the desk:
Lin Huiyin's "You are the April day in the world", Cangyang Gyatso's "live up to it", and Nalan Rongruo's "If life is only as first seen".
As everyone knows, at this age, it is at the first meeting, why should it be just like that?
It's not that the poem is bad, but it will fall down when it is rotten on the street.
Lin Yi and Feng Wenqian have no deep friendship, remembering that this girl seemed to be studying at the Communication University in her previous life, and after graduation, she heard that she became a reporter.
"What about you?"
"Oh, I'll come over and pick up some tutorial books."
"I can't see that you work so hard, and you still buy books to study by yourself during the summer vacation."
"There's no way, I smashed the final exam, I was reprimanded by Lao Zhao and called my parents, and I have to go to Feiyue tutoring in two days."
The two of them don't actually know each other very well, and they are just nodding acquaintances at school.
However, it was rare to meet outside the school, so we chatted a little more, and Feng Wenqian also shared her experience of using tutoring books.
After Lin Yi picked it, he thought about it for a while and took the information of the second year of high school in the same series.
He looked around and saw that the bookstore was so small that it didn't even have a seat, and the people who read the books either stood or sat against the shelves.
Between the bookshelves in the back, there are also some idlers who come to cool off against the air conditioner, simply lying on the wooden floor, sometimes lifting up their clothes to reveal their bulging bellies.
He looked at the table below, it was already past eleven o'clock, and said to Feng Wenqian: "Thank you for your suggestion, I will invite you to have a meal." ”
"You wait for me, I'll settle the bill first."
He walked to the counter at the entrance of the bookstore, and the cashier skillfully picked up a few books and scanned the barcodes separately, and put them into the plastic bag with "Xinhua Bookstore" written on them.
Lin Yi touched his pocket and was suddenly stunned, he found that he only had a bus card in his pocket.
Didn't bring a wallet!
Before Lin Yi came back, Lin'an's electronic payment network was already very perfect, Alipay swept the whole city, and he hadn't used cash for three or five years.
Since he came back, he has been swiping his student card at school, and he hasn't spent money at home, so he hasn't changed this habit.
The cashier's aunt had already guessed this expression when she looked at him, and kindly reminded:
"Classmate, I see you just chatted with the girl over there for a while, do you know each other, why don't you borrow some first?"
It seemed that there was only that, Lin Yi stubbornly walked over and said, "That, did you bring money, can you lend me two hundred?" ”
Feng Wenqian was a little surprised to see him go and return, but she still neatly took out a small wallet with a cartoon pattern and took out two hundred-yuan bills for him.
"I'll go over with me, and buy the book by the way."
Lin Yi and Feng Wenqian returned to the counter to settle the bill, and waited for her to finish buying the book before saying, "Let's go, let's go to Kaifeng next door and eat something." ”
There weren't many people in the store today, Lin Yi still remembered what he said just now that he wanted to have a treat, and when he was in line, he turned around and asked:
"Tie it together? What do you want? ”
Feng Wenqian was a little funny: "Are you going to use the money I borrowed to invite me to dinner now?" ”
It may be a psychological effect, as if for a moment, the customers around you are looking at you with strange eyes.
Lin Yi felt a little socially dead.
Of course, he didn't insist, they each asked for a single set meal, and found a table by the window to sit down.
Lin Yi ate quickly, and after he stuffed the last fries into his mouth, he found that Feng Wenqian was still nibbling on the burger in small bites, as quiet as a little hamster.
He thought for a moment, "Are you still here in the afternoon?" ”
"Hmm...... Let's read the book for a while. ”
"Why don't you wait for me to get home and get the money for you? Just a few stops, I'll be back soon. ”
"No need, just pay it back when school starts."
Lin Yi actually felt that it was too troublesome, but he didn't have the habit of owing money.
It doesn't seem polite to leave right now, so I'll just sit down for a while. He took out the tutorial book he had just bought, flipped to the selected chapters, and read it carefully.
After Feng Wenqian finished eating, she wiped her fingers and mouth with a tissue, and waved her hand to signal the waiter not far away to come and take away the plate.
She turned to look at Lin Yi, not alarmed by the movement just now, still looking at the book intently, probably frowning slightly when she encountered an intractable problem.
In terms of appearance, Lin Yi is most praised for his youthfulness.
The afternoon sun shone through the glass on half of his face, and the knuckle of his left index finger unconsciously touched the tip of his nose, Feng Wenqian remembered this little habit.
She didn't speak, opened the book "Ye Jiaying Says the Early Tang Dynasty Poems" she had just bought, and read it quietly.
The girl's movements of flipping through the book are very gentle and gentle.
Lin Yi didn't know that he had turned a lot of pages, and when he raised his hand to look at his watch, he found that it was already more than three o'clock, and he felt that the time was about the same:
"I'm ready to go, are you going back?"
"Let's do it together."
Feng Wenqian just took a book, closed it and held it directly in her hand.
The two waved goodbye at the bus stop.
There was a group of children in the square who were having fun on a single row of roller skates, and Feng Wenqian stopped to look at it a few times before continuing to walk home.