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Gu Fei was sitting behind the cash register, playing with his mobile phone while looking at Li Baoguo who had already made his third round in front of the shelves.Li Baoguo didn't have any goals, so he just turned back and forth, looking at Gu Fei from time to time.

Li Baoguo stole things more than once, so every time he came, Gu Fei would stare at him directly, but now that Jiang Cheng came suddenly, he stared a little bit or not.

Li Baoguo is not a thief. Sometimes when he gambles away his money and wants to buy something, he will pay on credit first. The main people living here are poor people at the bottom of society. Find a way to steal some more...

"Da Fei," Li Baoguo put his hand into the pocket of his big padded jacket and then pulled it out. He went to the freezer to get a bag of fish balls and walked to the cashier, "Here, I'll pay you in two days? Follow up Go back to those places?"

"Yeah, okay." Gu Fei took out a notebook from the drawer, found the page of Li Baoguo, and wrote on it, "One bag of fish balls, one bottle of beef balls, big ones..."

"What? I didn't ask for wine." Li Baoguo said with some embarrassment.

"That bottle in your pocket." Gu Fei glanced at him, "Uncle Li, drink less, I can't even remember things clearly."

"Oh, oh," Li Baoguo laughed a few times, and patted his pocket, "Yes, I took a bottle of sophomore...and give me a bag of Changbai Mountain."

Gu Fei returned and gave him Changbai Mountain in a package of ten yuan, and then wrote it down.

"The handwriting is really good," Li Baoguo leaned over to look at it, "Hey, do you know my son?"

"Of course Li Hui knows him." Gu Fei said.

"It's not Li Hui, my youngest son, Cheng Cheng," Li Baoguo put his elbows on the cashier counter, "I just recognized him, and I couldn't afford to give him away when I was a child... He is also in No. [-] Middle School, you know him."

"Well, I seem to know." Gu Fei nodded.

Li Baoguo chuckled: "He studies very well, unlike Xiaohui, he is a top student, top students, you know that? You bastards are poor students, right? My youngest son is a good student."

Gu Fei smiled: "Yes."

"Remember it? In a few days, I'll ask Cheng Cheng to bring you the money." Li Baoguo looked at the notebook again, and pointed with his finger, "His handwriting must be better than yours."

"...Yes." Gu Fei continued to nod.

After Li Baoguo went out in a good mood, he looked down at his own writing on the notebook.

He couldn't be sure about other things, but Jiang Cheng's handwriting... could only be hehehehe, and it definitely belonged to the kind where even if all the words were written correctly, points would be deducted for being too ugly to irritate the teacher.

When it was almost noon, my mother came in with an insulated lunch box: "I made some braised pork."

"Didn't go out today?" Gu Fei stood up and propped up the small table next to him, "Have you eaten yet?"

"Where am I going! Where else can I go!" Mom looked unhappy, "Who should I go out with so as not to cost half his life! I don't want to eat!"

"Couldn't you find someone who doesn't owe money?" Gu Fei said.

"Is there anyone in your eyes who deserves to be drawn? When will you be able to see the goodness in others!" My mother said very dissatisfied, "You don't like this one, and you don't like that one. Your mother is widowed and you are pleasing to the eye, right? Bar!"

"Seeing other people's body is as good as that person's body." Gu Fei opened the lid of the lunch box, took the small lunch box, and pulled half of the braised pork into it.

"Where's Er Miao?" Mom asked.

"Going to play, just save some for her," Gu Fei said, "Come back and eat when you're hungry."

My mother sighed: "Amazono has always been like this, but her personality is still like that... I see that her head is getting bigger, what should I do in the future."

"Then don't watch." Gu Fei sat down and began to eat.

"You go there today." My mother looked at him and said suddenly.

"Where are you going?" Gu Fei ate a piece of meat, but he actually knew what his mother was talking about.

"You don't remember what day it is today!" Mom slapped the table, "You don't remember how long your father died!"

"It's been a long time since I died." Gu Fei said.

My mother stared at him without saying a word. After a while, she took out a tissue and began to wipe away her tears.

Gu Fei never wanted to understand what kind of feelings his mother had for her husband. He quarreled every day when he was alive, beat him after the fight, and begged God to let this man die early and reborn soon after the fight. just cry.

Sometimes I would cry very sincerely, heartbroken.

"I went to the cemetery two days ago." Gu Fei said while eating.

"It's useless, I said the cemetery is useless in the past!" Mom looked at him, "Go where the dead go! How many times have I said it! Otherwise, I will not live in peace! If you don't want to go, I will go by myself!"

"I'll go in the afternoon." Gu Fei sighed.

"Burn some paper," my mother wiped her tears, "That idiot is so good at losing money, he probably begs for food over there."

"You'll be in the store this afternoon," Gu Fei said, "Don't touch the money. If you dare to touch the money, I'll tell Hades that all the coins I burn are counterfeit."

"...Crazy!" Mom stared at him.

The lake where my father died was quite far away, on a wasteland where it was said that a small park would be built, but no one was there. Because there are no residential areas nearby, few people usually go there.

In the past two years, even the water is almost gone, and no one will go there. In winter, there will be no one to see.

If the lake had no water like it is now, and if the water on the lake had frozen harder that winter... Dad would not have died.

but.

When summarizing Li Baoguo to Jiang Cheng, he was a little dazed, and for a moment he thought he was introducing his father to others.

Sometimes I dare not think about it, I dare not face my heart that I wished him to die so much, I dare not face my heart until now I feel that if I do it all over again, he still wants that man to die.

His heart and this lake are places he doesn't want to approach.

If it wasn't for his mother asking him to burn paper every year, he would never be near here.

Go out from the house and turn left, go around the small factory and go straight ahead. There are no turns or forks in the road. When there is no way to go, you will arrive.

After coming around from the small factory, there was no one on the road, and the eyes were full of dilapidation and loneliness, as if they had entered another dimension.

Gu Fei lowered his hat, covered his mask, and then took out the earmuffs to put them on. Maybe it was because there were no buildings here, or maybe it was because he was afraid. He felt cold and felt that the wind could penetrate into his body from anywhere, There was a chill outside.

There is not much snow this year, but because no one sweeps it, the ground is still covered with a layer, and the slight creaking sound makes people feel panic when stepping on it.

After walking for a while, he looked down at his feet, and suddenly found a series of footprints on the ground.

He froze for a moment, then turned his head and took a look on the way back and forth. There were indeed two sets of footprints, some went in and no one went out.

Someone actually went to the lake in this season.

He frowned.

He didn't want to be seen about burning paper by the lake, and he didn't want people to think he was guilty.

He has no guilt, all he has is fear.

Although the surface of the lake is not big, the wind blew a lot faster after walking to the lake, which made people's eyes hurt.

He walked through the sparse woods, walked to the lake by stepping on piles of wild grass, and his previous footprints disappeared in the crushed ice stubble.

He looked around and saw no one there. He hesitated for a moment, staring at the lake where the bottom of the lake was exposed in many places, but there was no one there.

Of course, even if someone stepped on the broken ice and fell in the past... Now this lake can't drown anyone, it can only freeze to death.

He found a tree, squatted down against the trunk, threw the bag in his hand on the ground, took out a cigarette and lit it.

He wanted to wait a little longer, he didn't want to walk along the lake again, this location was a must for getting in and out, he wanted to wait for that person to come out before starting to burn the paper.

But after waiting for almost 10 minutes, if he didn't move, he would have been frozen, and no one came out.

"Fuck." He hesitated, pinched out the cigarette, and picked up the bag.

I can only go further inside, one is to see who has passed, and the other is to find a more hidden place.

After walking a few hundred meters inside, Gu Fei heard a crisp sound coming from the middle of the lake.

At first glance, it is not the kind of ice surface that cracks naturally, but it seems that someone has stepped on it or something has hit it.

He quickly turned his head to look in the middle of the lake, but he didn't see anyone or anything else, everything was still.

He suddenly felt a chill on his back, and turned his head suddenly to look behind him.

No one, nothing... suspicious looking.

Before he turned his head back, there was another crisp sound on the lake, and he turned his head suddenly again, feeling as if his head was about to snap off.

I still didn't see anything, but this time the sound was a little more muffled than before.

He took a few steps back slowly, and leaned against a tree. Although he was a little childish, it was true that he had something solid on his back to make his heart feel more at ease.

This time he kept his eyes on the lake.

After only a few seconds, he saw a small stone-like thing flying out of the withered grass by the lake a hundred meters away from here, and hit the ice.

This time the sound was not crisp, but a dull "poof".

Someone throw a stone?

It is so boring?

But looking at the speed of the flying thing, it doesn't seem like it can be thrown out by hand.

Gu Fei pulled his clothes and slowly leaned in that direction.

After walking less than 20 meters, he saw a swaying figure in the recess of the lake rock in front of him. Although the withered grass almost a person's height blocked his view, he could still see that it was a person.

Not a ghost.

He was actually scared into tachycardia by a person who was probably too bored to throw stones by the lake.

Although he thought he was ridiculous, he still breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't go any further, but retreated into the woods, wanting to wait for this person to leave, and also wanted to see what this person was doing.

The man didn't notice anyone coming, and bent over as if picking up something, then stretched one arm forward, and pulled the other arm back.

A black object flew out with a whoosh and hit the ice.

"puff".

Gu Fei immediately saw that this person was playing with a slingshot, and felt that this person's clothes... looked familiar.

He stared at the person in the crevice of the withered grass a few more times, and was stunned.

Jiang Cheng?

The clothes on his body were the ones Jiang Cheng wore when they were fighting, and there were two palm-width gray and white stripes on his chest, which were so ugly they exploded.

He looked around, there was no one else, how could Jiang Cheng find this place by himself?

Then play slingshot against the ice?

What a flirtatious academic master... I don't study at home during the good time, and come here to play with the slingshot.

Gu Fei lit a cigarette again, and looked at Jiang Cheng.

What Jiang Cheng used should be small stones, but now that the river is frozen, it is not easy to find stones. Every time he bends down, he has to pick for a long time, and sometimes he even kicks them a few times.

Gu Fei looked at it for a while and felt that Jiang Cheng seemed to be in a bad mood again. When he kicked him a few times, his movements seemed to be fighting, and it could be seen that he was angry.

But after seeing four or five stones thrown out by him, Gu Fei was a little surprised.

He took out his glasses from his inner pocket, put them on, stared and looked again.

Jiang Cheng aimed at the same spot, about 30 meters away from the shore, and he was able to hit it every time. That spot had already been hit by an ice pit.

Pretty awesome.

There are quite a few people who play slingshots. Among the people Gu Fei knows, there are quite a few who brag about how accurate they are. There are quite a few who claim to be 70 meters to shoot chickens.

But it was the first time he saw with his own eyes that someone could actually drive stones into the same hole a dozen times in a row.

Jiang Cheng beat for a while and stopped. He bent over and picked and kicked. He didn't get up straight for a long time. He probably couldn't find the stone.

After turning around in place for several times, he walked towards Gu Fei. Gu Fei quickly moved back and squatted behind a tree.

"Fuck!" Jiang Cheng didn't find the stone for a long time, so he yelled in some displeasure, the voice was loud, coming along with the wind, Gu Fei could hear it clearly.

There are no more stones, so let's go.

But Jiang Cheng didn't leave, he lowered his head and stared at the ground, kicked it a few times, and found a small piece of rock after kicking away a piece of snow.

Gu Fei sighed.

Jiang Cheng took a few yuan and put it in his coat pocket, looked towards the lake, then turned around.

After settling for a few seconds, he turned around and raised his hand, hitting a stone.

With a snap, it hit a thin steel bar protruding from the ground in the distance.

Depend on.

Gu Fei was a little surprised, if he didn't wear glasses, he wouldn't have seen where the steel bar was.

Jiang Cheng turned around and took a few steps to the side, then turned around abruptly again, the stones that flew out hit the steel bars again, and exploded into pieces.

"Oh! Also!" Jiang Cheng applauded, then raised the slingshot in his hand, waved it around, and bowed several times in a circle, "Thank you, thank you."

Gu Fei suppressed his smile, and slowly stepped back for a certain distance. If Jiang Cheng found him here, the two of them would probably be able to level the trees in this area.

"Contestant Jiang Cheng decided to increase the difficulty again! He decided to increase the difficulty again! Wow—" Jiang Cheng took out two stones from his pocket while talking enthusiastically.

This time he didn't turn his back to the steel bar, but aimed straight ahead, and then pulled his hand.

Gu Fei heard two sounds almost at the same time.

when.

puff.

He threw two stones out at the same time, hit one, and missed the other, hitting the ground.

"Oh, it's a pity," Jiang Cheng said while taking a stone out of his pocket, "Director Cha, do you think he made a mistake this time or was not up to his skill?"

fork guide?

It took Gu Fei a long time to realize what Director X is.

"I think his technique still has room for improvement." Jiang Cheng pulled the slingshot again, "He seems to want to change the challenge method... This time, should we lower the difficulty or continue..."

As soon as he let go of his hand, a stone flew out. Before Gu Fei could see it clearly, he immediately pulled it again, and the second stone also flew out, followed by a third one.

Dangdang.

All three hit.

Gu Fei looked at his back, if it wasn't for the current scene, he really wanted to applaud Jiang Cheng.

Not only is it accurate, but the movements are quite chic.

If Li Yan is here, after watching the silenced version of this scene, he probably won't say he doesn't like it anymore.

But after such an awesome performance, Jiang Cheng didn't applaud himself, nor did he wave and bow, and just stood there without saying a word.

After a while, he bowed his head and slowly squatted down, holding his head with his hands.

Gu Fei was stunned.

Are you so devoted to acting...?

But soon he saw Jiang Cheng's shoulders twitch lightly a few times.

This is crying.

Gu Fei finished the last two puffs of his cigarette, pinched it off at his feet, got up and continued walking inside.

He has no interest in watching this kind of scene, it's okay to watch for fun, peeping at other people's injuries, watching a person who always cries like a cannonball is not interesting.

This lake has an end, and you can't go around it if you walk along it. There is a mountain in front of you that looks like a rotten sweet potato, and you can't pass it.

Gu Fei found a small patch of grassless land, and it took him 10 minutes to light the fire.

Then take out the bundles of paper money in the bag and throw them into the fire.

There are golden ones, yellow ones, and flowery ones, with denominations ranging from nothing to hundreds of billions.

Gu Fei looked at the rising flames, and stretched out his hands to roast them.

At this time, I probably need to say something. Others will probably say that the money is good, we are all fine, don’t worry about it, if you don’t have enough money, just talk about it, and if he wants to say it, he really doesn’t know what to say.

Silently watching the flame change color, rise up in the thick smoke, wave in the wind like a wave, and then gradually become smaller, and finally only the blue-black smoke remains.

Gu Fei took a twig, pulled it, black confetti floated up with sparks, and then everything returned to calm.

He stood up, kicked the loose snow over from the side, covered a patch of black ash, and turned away.

Every year after this day, Gu Fei felt that he was relieved. The days returned to boredom, guarding the store, guarding Gu Miao who was running around the street like a rabbit, going to school to take boring classes, and playing mentally retarded games , Watching Lao Xu trying in vain to save him from the so-called darkness.

Jiang Cheng didn't cry for long by the lake that day, and when he turned back after burning the paper, Jiang Cheng was no longer there.

But when I ran into him at school, I didn't see anything unusual. I was still pulling my whole body with thorns, and I still listened on my stomach in class, or listened with my eyes closed, and occasionally half-closed my eyes to take notes.

The two of them did not interfere with each other in class, and they had nothing to say.

It's just that every time Gu Fei thought of his performance by the lake, he was always worried that he would laugh out loud.

"Da Fei," Zhou Jing leaned against their table, "Da Fei? Da..."

Jiang Cheng impatiently picked up the book in his hand and slammed it on his head, suppressing his voice: "If you have something to say, just say it! You really haven't been beaten up because of this!"

"Fuck!" Zhou Jing covered his head and glared at him, then looked at Gu Fei, "Da Fei, when I went to Mr. Xu's office today, I heard him say that the school will hold a spring basketball game next month."

"I don't know." Gu Fei said.

"Are you going to participate? Our class is counting on you. If you don't participate, you will definitely lose." Zhou Jing said.

"Don't bother me." Gu Fei pointed at him.

Zhou Jing turned around and lay down on his desk.

Jiang Cheng suddenly lost his mind, next month?Spring basketball?

Is March considered spring?

Thinking of the basketball game, he suddenly felt a little emotional.

When I think back to the days when I played basketball at school, I will bring up some other unpleasant memories, but I just can't stop, the kind of memories of running happily on the court.

Compared with now, those memories are bright.