Quick Travel System: Age Strategy

The first time he cooked, he got several blisters on his hands and the rice was burnt. Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened to him.

When his stepmother comes back and sees what he has done, she will scold him, but even if she sees the blisters on his hands, she won't say a word of concern.

On the contrary, they will only blame him.

Later, when she found out that Zhou Ye would cook when she was not at home, the ingredients in the house no longer existed.

She would not leave any food for him, and she hoped that Xiao Zhou Ye would starve to death at home.

During that period, Zhou Ye would drink water when he was hungry, and when he was really hungry, he would snatch food from other students in the school.

His stepmother classified his behavior as disobedience, and she would always call Zhou's father to tell him about Xiao Zhou Ye's bad behavior at school.

Zhou Ye knew all this, and when his father came home he also understood that this family still needed money to survive.

The money from his stepmother is not given to him to use and cannot be found because it is hidden away, but he can get the money from his father.

He started asking Zhou's father for money. Every time this happened, Zhou's father would get angry and say to him, "You've already given it to the family, what else do you want?"

He explained many times that his stepmother had never given him money, but no one in the family would believe him.

He was too lazy to explain. Anyway, his father would only believe what that woman said no matter what he said.

Also because he fell behind in his studies during those years and did not lay a solid foundation, he did not get into high school.

His father spent money to send him to a vocational high school. For Zhou Ye, it didn't matter where he studied because he couldn't understand the knowledge taught in class.

On the contrary, I feel that attending classes is not as fun as playing ball with my good brothers.

He likes the feeling of the wind blowing on him when he is exercising on the court in a vest, and he likes the sound of people cheering and shouting his name after he makes a shot.

This gave him the kind of attention he never had in his current home, and it was quite addictive.

As for why he wanted to date Liang Jing, it was probably out of impulse.

When he first came to vocational high school, Zhou Ye would play basketball on the basketball court to kill time when he didn't want to go home after school. One time when he was playing basketball, he heard a sound like someone was being bullied in the corner of the school next door.

At that moment, he seemed to empathize with others. He saw his own situation in the countryside before. When he accidentally knocked away his stepmother's child, everyone in the family surrounded him and accused him of harming others and doing something wrong.

Recalling his childhood, he thought that if there had been someone by his side, he might not have felt so lonely, so depressed, and so eager to escape from home.

Zhou Ye paused playing basketball and ignored the basketball that fell on the ground. Instead, he walked to the corner of the wall and looked up.

By this time, the gang had already left. The bullied girl, wearing her washed-out school uniform, squatted on the ground and cried for a while, then stood up and ran away.

Zhou Ye didn't move, nor did he call out to her to stop.

I just looked at her back silently for a while.

After watching her leave, he planned to go back to playing basketball, but just as he was about to jump off the wall, he noticed something she had left on the ground.

So she decided not to go back, and went to the school next door, picked up the name tag on the ground, and saw the name on it: her name was Liang Jing.

Putting her ID card in his pocket, Zhou Ye planned to return it to her tomorrow.

But when I found her the next day, I saw her being bullied again.

This time he decided to protect her, and for the first time, he felt an impulse in his heart.

He thought that if he and Liang Jing became boyfriend and girlfriend and let others know that she was his girlfriend, no one would bother her in front of him.

Facts have proved that he was overthinking it. There are still people who will pick on Liang Jing, and the root cause is still because of the trouble he caused.

When Liang Jing came to him and cried, he realized how naive and self-righteous he had been.

This prompted Zhou Ye to go to the neighboring school to find someone to teach Liang Jing a lesson. Unexpectedly, this friendly move made Liang Jing rely on him.

He has become my follower and I can't get rid of him.

He acquiesced to her behavior and decided to follow her. It would be safer than for her to go alone.

Thinking about how Liang Jing controlled all his belongings and didn't allow him to smoke tonight, he felt like laughing.

This was the first time someone really cared about him for his own good.

Zhou's father would only come and beat him every time he knew he had done something wrong, and he never really cared about what he was thinking.

Zhou Ye looked reluctant, but he was actually happy in his heart.

His heart gradually calmed down. Zhou Ye put down the photo in his hand, got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Standing under the shower head, I feel the impact of the water flow and the water drops falling from the top of my head, washing away all my fatigue.

In the dark room, there was only one light in the bathroom.

After a while, Zhou Ye came out wearing clean pajamas. He wiped his hair and walked to the window to sit quietly for a while. He found his childhood diary and started reading it. Many of the things in it were written when his mother was still alive.

The habit of keeping records was also taught to him by his mother. After all the ups and downs over the years, this habit has become one of the few good memories his mother left him.

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The next morning, Zhou Ye got up, washed, went downstairs, had an early meal, and asked Zhou's father for money at the dinner table.

Father Zhou was so angry that he almost jumped up. He threw the half-eaten bread in his hand at Zhou Ye and said, "You're asking me for money again? Where's the money I gave you before?!"

Zhou Ye quickly dodged to the right and avoided the bread thrown by Zhou's father.

He lifted his eyelids and looked over, then said calmly, "It's blooming."

Father Zhou was furious and slammed the table. "Spend it?! Zhou Ye! Do you think I'm a cash machine? You ask for money all the time."

"It's what you say. Are you going to give it to me or not, old man?"

Father Zhou seemed to be hurt by Zhou Ye's words. He covered his chest and said nothing.

The stepmother hurried forward and gently rubbed Zhou's father's chest twice, looking at Zhou Ye and accusing him, "Xiao Ye, how can you ask for money by talking to your father like this? Do you want to piss off your father and see what you can do!"

"What does it have to do with you that my dad and I need money? You come up and yell at me. How come you are a mad dog under the old man's feet? Haha..."

"How could you say that to me, Ono? I've always treated you like my own child!"

"This person has told so many lies that even he believes them. Only you know in your heart how much truth there is in his words!"

"Xiao Ye, I think you misunderstood me. Over the years, when your dad went out to work, I was the one who took care of you at home. Without me, would you have grown up like this?!"

"You work so hard without complaint, what a joke! I won't waste my time on you. I'm in a hurry to go to school, old man, are you going to give it to me or not?!"

Father Zhou threw his wallet over and rubbed his head, unwilling to look at him, "Take the money and get out of here! Don't be an eyesore at home."