mild compromise

For me, it is right to drink water and think of its source. "Xiao Chenghao smiled humbly, it sounded like a polite remark, but it was indeed his true heart.

When Xiao Chenghao raised his head and was about to take a closer look at the teaching building, Hao Ran stood on the top of the building with four simple and crude red characters of "Chenghao Building", which made him feel ashamed.

"Principal Zhang...what's the matter with the name on the roof?"

"Of course it's named after you! This way everyone will remember your donation." Principal Zhang laughed, as if he was very satisfied with his idea.

A few more black lines hung above Xiao Chenghao's head.

"Can you remove those words?"

"Do you think it's not conspicuous enough?"

"No, you misunderstood me. I donated to the school out of my own will. I didn't want to show off my reputation. You are too high-profile in doing so."

Xiao Chenghao's answer made Principal Zhang a little embarrassed, "But it's not easy to remove the word after it's put up." He stroked his chin and thought for a while, and then said: "Since you said so, then it's okay, I'll find it when the time comes. Someone came over and tore down the words on it."

The bell for the end of class rang, and the campus, which was still silent a moment ago, suddenly became noisy. Some students who were going to the playground for class passed by Xiao Chenghao, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at this tall, handsome man in a suit. A few girls stood not far from him and whispered. The scorching stares made it hard for Xiao Chenghao to ignore, but he knew that they were definitely not speaking ill of him.

It seems that some things have not changed, the students are still wearing the same ugly blue and white sportswear for ten years, Xiao Chenghao couldn't help but sneer.

Principal Zhang was puzzled when he saw him snickering alone, "What's wrong?"

"No, I suddenly remembered some funny things from the past."

Xiao Chenghao's trip back to school is mainly because of the school celebration next week.Xiao Chenghao is one of the successful graduates, but compared with other outstanding alumni, his counterattack process is more contrasting. Because of this, President Zhang hopes that students can learn from Xiao Chenghao. Get more encouragement from your own personal examples.

"That's it, so I would like to ask you to come on stage and give a speech to everyone on the day of the school celebration." Principal Zhang expressed his request to Xiao Chenghao with sincere eyes.

It's not difficult to give a speech on stage, but...

"Can I arrange the content of the speech myself?"

Seeing that Xiao Chenghao had no intention of refusing, Principal Zhang clapped his hands happily, "No problem, of course no problem! You can do whatever you want, and do what you want."

After finalizing the school celebration speech, Xiao Chenghao planned to go back early, but Principal Zhang insisted on inviting him to dinner. The hospitality was hard to turn down, Xiao Chenghao only nodded in agreement.

The dinner was in the box of the teacher's cafeteria. Principal Zhang told Xiao Chenghao that there was another director dining with them. Just after the words were finished, the door of the box was pushed open from the outside. The middle-aged man had just stepped over the threshold. Xiao Chenghao He recognized him right away, stood up from the chair, strode forward, stretched out his right hand to hold him, and said in a somewhat excited tone, "Mr. Hu, long time no see!"

"It's been so many years, you kid is doing pretty well!" Seeing the former student again, Hu Bin couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart, and held his hand for a long time.

The two greeted each other for a while, then returned to their seats and sat down, chatting while eating.

Hu Bin used to be Xiao Chenghao's physics teacher. Over the years, the school's teaching staff has changed a lot. Some teachers changed jobs, and some left the school to develop elsewhere. Hu Bin chose to stay down.

"Time flies so fast. Back then, you were a child who made people worry every day." Talking about the past, Hu Bin sighed with emotion, "At that time, Lao Guan often praised you in front of me, saying that you were a very talented person. A child with potential, if he carves well, he will become a great weapon in the future, I was half-believed at the time, but now it seems that Lao Guan really has a unique vision, and he is sure to catch one by one."

Speaking of Teacher Guan, Hu Bin couldn't help but sigh heavily, "It's a pity, the couple is really unfortunate, they left so early, alas."

Xiao Chenghao didn't speak, and was silent for a while, then he asked Hu Bin: "Mr. Hu, did you hear any news about Meng later?"

Hu Bin shook his head, "After he was picked up by his uncle, he changed schools. Later, his uncle moved again, but he couldn't contact them. What about you, Cheng Hao? Have you found Guan Meng?"

Xiao Chenghao thought of Guan Meng's great changes now and today's Weibo hot search, deliberately made up a lie: "No."

He took a piece of stewed mutton for Hu Bin, "Mr. Hu, you have worked hard, come, eat more."

Hu Bin waved at him with a smile, "Okay, you're welcome, I'll do it myself."

After dinner, Xiao Chenghao said goodbye to Principal Zhang and Hu Bin, went back to his residence to get some daily clothes to take to the hotel to change, opened the door and entered the room, Xiao Chenghao went straight to the bed and sat down, he opened the bed From the drawer next door, he took out a photo frame. Under the dim lamp, Xiao Chenghao stared at the photo in the frame, dazed for a long time.It was a group photo of four people. The background was in the living room. The couple in their 15s sitting at the dining table were his former teacher Guan Lianyi and his mother Guo Ting, Xiao Chenghao, who had cut hair, and a [-]-year-old The boys on the left and right put their shoulders on each other, standing behind Guan Lianyi and Guo Ting, their heads touched each other, and they looked at the direction of the camera with happy faces, and their relationship seemed to be very good.

Xiao Chenghao stared at the group photo, and called out to the boy in the photo with a very soft voice: "Mengmeng".

ACT8

Whenever Xiao Chenghao recalls his high school days, there are always two words in his memory that go hand in hand—suffering.

In the noisy Internet cafe, there is a pungent smell of smoke and a strong smell of instant noodles. Xiao Chenghao is sitting in front of the computer, wearing earphones, smoking a cigarette while teaming up with others to play CS. His teammate has just been shot in the head , now in an extremely upset mood, Kai Mai swears at Xiao Chenghao.

"You're a f*cking idiot, you fucking bastard, I asked you to help cover up where the hell did you go? Can you play games? Stupid, bastard!"

"Fuck!" Xiao Chenghao raged back at him: "Who are you calling stupid? You don't have all the tactics of checking, covering, and feigning attacks. You just know that you are rushing up to grab the head. If you die quickly, you will also expose the location of your teammates. With your IQ, you still come out to play games, go back to your mother's womb and don't hinder the world!"

The two scolded each other across the network cable, Xiao Chenghao became emotional, kicked his legs, and pushed his knee against the main machine under the table, and he could not help but let out a painful moan in his throat.

"Xiao Chenghao!" Suddenly someone called his name in the Internet cafe, but Xiao Chenghao didn't hear it with his earphones on, until someone patted his shoulder from behind, Xiao Chenghao turned his head impatiently: "What are you doing?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, someone pulled his arm violently and pulled him up from the chair. When Xiao Chenghao saw the person coming, he realized that it was his class teacher Guan Lianyi.

Guan Lianyi once served as Xiao Chenghao's physics teacher when he was in the first year of high school, but he became his class teacher only last month.Not long after the second year of high school started, Xiao Chenghao started skipping classes frequently and even stole the wallets of his classmates.Guan Lianyi called Xiao Chenghao's home and wanted to call his parents to the school to discuss how to deal with the matter, but no one answered, and Xiao Chenghao's family could not be contacted for a long time. After looking for the address in the address book, he was told that Xiao Chenghao had already moved away.

Guan Lianyi spent a month asking around, until today, he found the problem student in this dilapidated small Internet cafe.

"Follow me back to school!" Guan Lianyi put on a gloomy face and dragged Xiao Chenghao away from the Internet cafe.

Xiao Chenghao struggled to break free and pushed Guan Lianyi away, "I won't go back to school."

"You are a student, and the task of a student is to study. Look at you, what do you look like doing nothing in this kind of place every day?" Guan Lianyi pointed at him and reprimanded, "Today I called your father and told him Not to mention your skipping classes and stealing money from classmates, if you continue like this..."

"It's useless for you to tell him." Xiao Chenghao interrupted Guan Lianyi, with an indifferent tone: "My dad doesn't care about these things, anyway, he said he would let me drop out of school, what do I love now? , you can't control it."

"Xiao Chenghao, come back!" Seeing Xiao Chenghao, Guan Lianyi turned around and ran, trying to catch up, but the strength of a middle-aged man in his forties was not as strong as that of a younger one. Guan Lianyi could only look at him breathlessly. Watching Xiao Chenghao's back seesaw farther and farther away from him.

Xiao Chenghao wandered aimlessly on the street until after nine o'clock in the evening before slowly returning to his residence.

The house was pitch dark, Xiao Chenghao turned on the light and walked into the kitchen. There were some leftovers from noon in the rice cooker. He opened the door of the refrigerator, and it was empty inside, not even a plate of overnight food. Xiao Chenghao had no choice but to Stir-fry the leftovers with soy sauce, he has long been accustomed to such a bad life.

Xiao Chenghao walked out of the living room with the hot fried rice in his hands, and a strong smell of alcohol penetrated his nostrils. His father came back at some time, drunk and lying crookedly on the floor of the living room.Xiao Chenghao frowned, walked past him holding his nose, pulled a plastic chair and sat cross-legged, bowing his head to eat his own food.

After taking two bites of the rice in the bowl, it was suddenly knocked to the ground by a slap.

"What are you doing?!" Xiao Chenghao glared at the drunk Xiao Hong angrily.

"Eat, eat, eat, eat all day long!" Xiao Hong burped, pointing to