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Zhou Si came from a big city and was a child of the top leader in the county, and his top leader father had a limitless future, so the teachers of Fuxing Elementary School supported Zhou Si openly and secretly, and often gave some favors to curry favor with him. The son of the county party secretary.

Although Zhou Si doesn't like all kinds of things in Ye Family Village, he hides his disdain better and better, and occasionally he will show his fox's tail in front of Ye Ran with complacency.On the bright side, he studies well, has a wide range of knowledge, and his food and clothing costs are several grades higher than those of the children in Yejia Village, but he treats others with modesty and courtesy, and has no airs at all.Gradually, in Fuxing Primary School, Zhou Si also had his own group of buddies and admirers.

This day during the big break, the class was noisy, Zhou Si handed in homework for each subject, and was about to play basketball with a few boys he was close to, but saw Ye Ran walking towards her.

Ye Ran stretched out his hand and opened his palm, it was five dime coins, he said: "Song Feixiang's class fee, he went to Jiang Ling to memorize the text, please let me give it to you."

Zhou Si didn't suspect him, and took the coins.There was a boy at the other end telling him to hurry up, Zhou Si turned around and was about to leave, but somehow turned back and said: "Next time, let him come and pay by himself, otherwise no one will be able to tell if it is lost."

Ye Ran said: "He is very familiar with me."

Zhou Si snorted, and said, "Who are you unfamiliar with?" After speaking, taking advantage of her height, she rubbed the hair on Ye Ran's head vigorously.

Ye Ran hid and said: "Why do you keep rubbing my hair, my mother said I'm not tall."

Zhou Si was happy in her heart, she smiled and closed her hands, and said: "You are only so old, and you will grow in size in the future. But, I think you can't grow up to me."

Ye Ranzui didn't intend to argue with Zhou Si, turned around and went back to his seat, and continued to flip through "War and Peace" quietly brought from under the bed in his parents' room with relish—he didn't read the rest of the ending.

There are all kinds of "treasures" piled up under the bed of Ye Ran's parents, including beautiful posters, handsome men and beautiful women hugging each other tightly, making Ye Ran blush a little.There are also English novels that Ye Ran can't understand, and the letters on them are the same as the heavenly scriptures.Once, Ye Ran even found a vinyl record, which he had never seen before. It was completely different from the tapes distributed by the school and the video tapes borrowed by the neighbors, so he ran to ask his grandmother.

When Du Jieying saw the record held in his son's hand, there was a moment of confusion and sadness that flashed across his face, and he scolded Ye Ran, telling him not to rummage through adults' things.But Ye Ran is only nine years old after all, and the more adults reprimand him, the more curious he becomes.However, no matter how much he finds out, he can understand some Chinese and foreign novels with his knowledge.

"Ye Ran, last night I did the trick of monkey climbing a tree last night! Let's go and kill Liu Yu and the others!" After the Chinese class, Qian Cheng, who was at the same table, excitedly pulled Ye Ran to challenge The "King of Balls" of Fuxing Elementary School is the most yo-yo player in the class next door.

"I feel sick to my stomach, let's play first." Ye Ran lay on the desk, covered his face with Chinese books, and said sullenly.

Qian Cheng approached Ye Ran, saw his frowning, and asked with concern: "Are you okay, or I will accompany you to find Teacher Yang to ask for leave and go to the health center?"

"It's okay, it's okay, you can find someone else to form a team, Xiao Feng is also very good."

Just now in Chinese class, Ye Ran was still reading miscellaneous books with great interest, why did he have a stomachache after class.Although Qian Cheng was a little puzzled, he went straight to the next class with a heart, took his own fluorescent green yo-yo, put it in his pocket like a baby, and faced off with the king of balls.

When Qian Cheng disappeared, Ye Ran straightened up, took out "Crime and Punishment", and plunged into Tuo's twisted world.

"He put the ax on the floor beside the dead man, and at once felt in her pocket, trying not to get himself stained with the gushing blood--it was from the right pocket where she had taken the key last time. He was perfectly clear and sane. The confusion and dizziness had disappeared, but his hands were still trembling. Then he remembered, and was even very careful not to get blood on everything..."

Ye Ran held his breath while reading, but suddenly the book in his hand was taken away.

He raised his head and saw Zhou Si's condescending face with a half-smile.

Ye Ran wanted to take the book back and stretched out his hand, but Zhou Si hid the book behind his back, making him lose his mind.

Based on the principle of taking care of new classmates, Ye Ran suppressed his unhappiness and said, "Do you also like Dostoevsky? I still have several books by him at home."

"Idiot or The Brothers Karamazov, which one do you want, I will lend you."

Zhou Si sat on the seat in front of Ye Ran's table, and began to flip through "Crime and Punishment" page by page, but didn't speak.

Ye Ran saw that he was flipping through the pages carefully, and thought he was focusing on this book, and said, "I can't lend you this book, only to see that Raskolnikov killed the landlord there. How about lending you "The Brothers Karamazov"? I really like this book, especially the chapter on the Inquisitor, which is a classic."

"Don't you have a stomachache?"

Ye Ran didn't change his face and said: "It hurts, it comes and goes, and now it doesn't hurt anymore."

Zhou Si was playing with the automatic pen on Ye Ran's table, circling it a few times in his hand, then changed the topic, and said, "Song Feixiang's class fee was paid by you."

Ye Ran shook his head calmly.

Zhou Si approached Ye Ran and smiled, "Guess how I know."

"I scraped together the class fee and handed it over to me last Friday. I wondered, why didn't I pay it. In fact, you, a good student, paid for the class fee. right?"

Ye Ran said: "You...didn't tell him, did you?" He had rolled in the mud with Song Feixiang, and wore a pair of crotch pants. Afraid of being underestimated by others.He made up his own mind to help others pay for the class. If Song Feixiang found out and hurt the self-esteem of his little friend, it would be self-defeating, and it would be ridiculous.

"Guess what."

Ye Ran lowered his head and thought for a while, and said: "This kind of thing...it hurts people's self-esteem...I also see that his family is really tight..."

He reached out and grabbed Zhou Si's small arm, making a low posture.

Zhou Si originally just wanted to tease Ye Ran, look at his anxious look, after all, this person is usually the most calm one, he does things without rushing, and there is rarely any movement on his face.Unexpectedly, Ye Ran, who was a little anxious, grabbed his arm.The child's joints have not yet opened, Ye Ran's body is thin, but his hands are fleshy.

The spring outside the window was chilly, and Zhou Si was very comfortable with these soft little hands resting on her.Although he knew that this was Ye Ran's unconscious physical touch, and it was a very common thing among boys who were fighting, but Zhou Si felt an indescribable enjoyment in his heart, even a little bit of throbbing.

Ye Ran was staring at himself, those clear eyes became more and more beautiful the more he looked at them.When Zhou Si was a child, he was once taken out to sea by his father's child, lying on the deck at night, listening to the hunting sea breeze, and the night sky full of stars, he was fascinated by it.It wasn't until he met Ye Ran for the first time that he realized that some people can hold the Milky Way in their eyes.

"Did you tell Xiao Xiangzi about this?" Seeing Zhou Si staring at him blankly, Ye Ran waved his hand awkwardly, and quietly wiped the sweat from Zhou Si's hands on his pants, feeling uncomfortable all over.

Zhou Si just came back to his senses and coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment.In just a few seconds, Zhou Si who returned to his soul was the same unreasonable and unforgiving him: "I'm not stupid, I don't bother to explain such things. It's you—" He frowned.

"You didn't earn this money yourself. You used your parents' money to give warmth. Have you asked your parents?"

Ye Ran didn't know how to refute what Zhou Si said, so he ignored him and opened the Chinese book to preview the text.

Zhou Si on the opposite side chattered endlessly: "So don't treat yourself like Lei Feng."

With a "snap", Ye Ran threw the book on the table, and was about to go outside the classroom. When he was leaving, he kicked the chair on the front table, Zhou Si felt his buttocks vibrate with such strength.

"Hey, I'm getting angry from embarrassment." Zhou Si shook his head, "My stomach doesn't hurt anymore." He stood up, put his hands in his trouser pockets, hummed a recent popular song, strolled back to his seat, and leaned back on the chair , raised Erlang's legs.

On a certain weekend in April, Ye Weixin was invited by Zhang Qiang to have lunch together in the canteen of the county government, and he had to bring Ye Ran with him.Zhang Qiang has been promoted from the second in command of the county finance bureau to the county magistrate.He and Ye Weixin used to be classmates in junior high school. About five or six years ago, Ye Weixin went to Gansu on a business trip. He had lunch at a fly restaurant in Lanzhou at noon, and went to the small shop next door to get a bottle of Erguotou. Chatting with the boss, the man's accent is a bit heavy, it's the local accent that Ye Weixin is familiar with.Ye Weixin turned his head and recognized it for a long time before he realized that the down-and-out man in an old jacket in front of him was Zhang Qiang, a junior high school classmate.

At that time, both of them were in their thirties, and they were very excited to meet their old acquaintances in a distant land.Ye Weixin asked the boss to get a bottle of Wuliangye, added a few meat dishes, and had a nice chat with the old friend.

It turned out that Zhang Qiang had been admitted to university. There were many brothers and sisters in his family, so he had no money for him to study, so he dropped out of school and went out to make a living. He carried gas tanks, swept the streets, worked as a security guard, and carried goods at the pier, and then went to Zhejiang. I was studying tailoring, but I heard that my 70-year-old mother didn't survive the winter solstice before I was a teacher.

Not just after the funeral, Zhang Qiang, with a few friends he met in Zhejiang, planned to go to the Northwest with the few hundred dollars he had saved from frugality. On the train in the 80s, there was a smell of feces and urine from chickens, ducks, and people. Zhang Qiang was bored in the carriage for a long time. When he stopped in Hunan, he got off the train and wanted to breathe, but he was surrounded by a few big men .That big man had a green dragon on the left and a white tiger on the right. Zhang Qiang had no choice but to honor his eldest brother with all his money, and finally begged him to leave some money for his travel expenses home.The big brothers nodded, understood Zhang Qiang, and left him 20 yuan to go home.

What can I do at home, other than find someone to borrow money.Zhang Qiang never thought about going home. With the 20 yuan in his pocket, he headed west all the way to Lanzhou.The train arrived yesterday. Zhang Qiang picked up a dark place by the curb at night, made do with the night, prepared to have a full meal at noon, reunited with friends later, and started a big business.

After so many glasses of beer wine, the two of them confided in each other, they forgot the time, and the conversation got more and more interesting. Looking at the long street outside the store, they realized that it was getting late.Ye Weixin fumbled for the wallet, paid the bill, and drew some [-] notes to give to Zhang Qiang, but Zhang Qiang shook his head and refused to accept it. Ye Weixin laughed and said that Zhang Qiang would do big things in the future, and how could he do big things without the capital.In the future, the day when I beg him is in the future, and I will be a classmate, so don't push around for this small amount of money.

Even if a man does not flick his tears lightly, Zhang Qiang's eyes are inevitably wet. He secretly made up his mind that the kindness of a drop of water will surely be repaid in the future, and he has already regarded Ye Weixin as a brother of his own.

Farewell to Lanzhou. It has been three years since the two met again. Under the recommendation of the nobleman, Zhang Qiang became a driver for the leaders of the provincial capital. He has a sweet mouth and is clever. , what other people thought of, he thought of ideas better than others.The leader admired this young man very much, so he suggested that Zhang Qiang take an evening school diploma, and then use his connections to transfer him to the grassroots level of W County, and gradually became the county magistrate.

Ye Weixin's hardware business is also thanks to Zhang Qiang's efforts to attract clients everywhere.The relationship between the two is not a problem.

On this day, Ye Weixin was preparing to go to Zhang Qiang's appointment, when he suddenly remembered that Zhang Qiang repeatedly told him to bring Ye Ran, saying that he was meeting a big man.He caught Ye Ran who was sleeping late, greeted Du Jieying, and went to the county government.

The county government building is a European-style building newly completed the year before last. It is surrounded by a large area of ​​artificial turf and is made of white marble.

Zhang Qiang once proudly showed off to Ye Weixin: "What is political achievement, this is political achievement. If I, Zhang Qiang, were not clever, the poor literati in the office would not be able to build such a beautiful building in 100 years. They come to your county The government is here, seeing your dilapidated building, who wants to invest money in your poor place? What is the county government building? It is the facade of our county and our business card to go out!"

Ye Weixin himself thinks that road construction is more important than office buildings at the moment, and the only way to get out of W County is by the ferry boat at the Yejia Village Ferry, so how can people and property outside get in.However, there is nothing wrong with the office building being beautifully built. After all, it should not be underestimated.He understood Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang was already waiting for the Ye family father and son in the office.Seeing him in a suit and leather shoes, shiny leather shoes, and a gray tie, Ye Weixin secretly wondered what kind of big man Qidao is today, even Zhang Qiang, who is most annoying in private, also wore a tie, with the top of his head I don’t know how much mousse has been sprayed on the few bundles of hair, and the oily shine sticks to the scalp, looking stiff.

Zhang Qiang seemed to understand the old classmate's thoughts, and said: "Lao Ye, the person we will meet later, the root hair is thicker than both of our waists, and it is rare to meet. If this thigh is hugged tightly, You won't have to worry about it for the rest of your life. Otherwise, why would I make such troubles, you know me, I can't wait to wear a pair of big underpants in meetings on weekdays."

Ye Weixin smiled and said, "That is, you are very unusual today."

Zhang Qiang approached Ye Weixin and said his name.Ye Weixin was startled, and said, "Is he a relative?"

The old god Zhang Qiang shook his head on the ground, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Dear son, come to our county to be this. Tell me, has God opened his eyes."

Ye Weixin said: "There are so many people who want to cling to him, I'm afraid it's not easy to manage this relationship."

"Hehe, that's why I told you to bring little Ah Ran here." As he said, Zhang Qiang patted Ye Ran's shoulder, laughing until the fine lines around his eyes swelled up, revealing a few big yellow teeth, the gaps between the teeth were smoky Burnt black.

"That only son is in the same class as your son. I heard from Master Zhang that he has a good relationship with Ah Ran, and he often praises Ah Ran in front of that person."

Ye Weixin frowned and said, "It's better not to drag children into the adult's affairs."

"Hey——Lao Ye, what do you mean dragging a child? The meal later, but Mr. Zhou asked his father to invite him, saying that he just transferred to our place, thanks to Ah Ran's care. It just so happened that Secretary Zhou also I want to meet the big taxpayers in our county, but I am just a messenger."

"When people see him, they don't know how much it will cost to manage it. It may not be possible. Now he is taking the initiative to invite you to have a meal. It's a blessing from God. Why are you so awkward? Usually you are very shrewd, and your abacus is louder than anyone else. Why did you lose your head at a critical moment." Zhang Qiang became more and more anxious as he spoke, for fear that Ye Weixin would refuse.

Ye Weixin knew in his heart that Zhang Qiang wanted to use his excuse to gain access to Zhou's house, but he couldn't find an excuse to refuse.It's a good thing that the son of Secretary Zhou's family likes Ah Ran. The children are simple-minded, and the friendship established at this time is the cleanest. The Zhou family has a deep background, with many friends and multiple paths.As for Secretary Zhou, let's meet him first to see what kind of character this person is, and he is not on the right track.

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