Chapter 5: Say You Love Me (1)
Some people say that the most beautiful thing in life is when you first see it, but Lu Xi, our most beautiful thing is the moment you turn around and leave - Ji Ruo
The first time I met Lu Xi was on a sunny and breezy morning, when the birds were singing in the trees, the flowers were swaying on the side of the road, the cleaning aunts were working hard, the white-collar workers were driving by, I was wearing flip-flops, carrying a bag diagonally, pinching the bean juice in my right hand, fiddling with my hair with my left hand, and holding a dog bun in my mouth, walking towards the school religiously step by step. Looking at the few pedestrians on the road, I have to sigh that there are really not many students like me who love learning, but I hate the children who get up early every day and are greedy for darkness, and study "novels" seriously as long as they have time, the school not only does not give rewards but also let the head teacher give me an ultimatum, and yesterday afternoon the old antique called me to the office and said" Ji Ruo, there is a mock exam soon, if you still fail half of the subjects this time, you will give me a roll and leave, we don't raise you in the third class, I hope you will do it yourself, get out, don't let me see you again. So, I turned around and walked out of the office with steady steps.
In order to prove my remorse, I stayed up late last night to read the novel, and only slept for an hour before embarking on the journey to school, and when I turned the fifth alley, I saw such a bloody picture: a group of delinquent teenagers beating a poor boy. In line with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the virtues advocated by the state, as well as the morality of society and the kindness of human nature, after hesitating for a second, I resolutely turned around and left, and realized the profound truth that "this road is dangerous, and it is better to walk less". This was my first meeting with Lu Xi, and we missed it in a hurry without seeing each other's true faces.
As fate would have it, you would have met a stranger twice in one day. The second time I saw Lu Xi was at the same alley, on the same day, the only difference was that the weather at that time was dark and windy, and it was empty. Lu Xi was like a beggar, his clothes were incomplete, his face was disfigured (although I thought at the time that disfigurement was equal to plastic surgery for him), and he shrank around the corner, reminding me of an abused puppy.
"Dog, are you hungry, my sister will reward you with a bun to eat, and go home after eating." "I left him the leftover buns from the day before yesterday and was proud of myself, this is a model of waste utilization! I didn't know at the time that I would have such a deep entanglement with this teenager. In the next few months, Lu Xi, I miss this night, I miss you who will still be flattened by the sea, and I miss you who will still huddle in the corner and wait for me to take care of you.
One Saturday, Lu Xi and I rushed to the "Zhang's Xiao Fried" near the school for a big meal, and then I went back to school, and he continued to go unknown. It's a long, long story about how we became friends, and after 0.1 seconds of careful thinking in my brain, I summed up the essence of one sentence: we are familiar with each other.
Lu Xi is an aspiring young man like me, we talk about ideals and the future together, and the most talked about is novels, some of which are other people's and my own, although I have always been talking about it, he is listening. I sued him, I appreciate that those big brothers in the underworld can be chic and comfortable, if they are not happy, they will cut two people, and if they are happy, they will cut two more people. I said, Lu Xi, I want to be like the protagonist in my novel, if I am not the boss of the underworld, I will not marry. Then he was complained by Lu Xi, he said, Ji Ruo, congratulations, you can't get married for the rest of your life. When I went home that night, I performed the thirty-second ritual of cursing Luxi.
Looking back now, I suddenly realized that that day, that young man named Lu Xi once looked at me with a look that I didn't understand, and there was firmness and determination in that look. The silence of swearing to die, the young man named Lu Xi once seriously repeated the five words "underworld boss......