midsummer night

There is a long corridor from the living room to the dinner room, and there are oil paintings bordered by golden wooden frames on both walls.

Gao Qingnian walked beside Lu Chengfeng, followed by a circle of executives, He Xiyuan was slightly behind by two steps.

Lu Chengfeng said to Gao Qingnian: "I seem to have seen your analyst somewhere else."

Gao Qingnian turned his head with a smile, Lu Chengfeng followed his gaze to look at He Xiyuan, and asked, "Where did you go to university?"

He Xiyuan answered very naturally: "Old Jersey, Magdalen College."

Lu Chengfeng looked at him with a slightly surprised expression: "My university is also in Old Jersey."

Gao Qingnian knowingly asked, "Where did President Lu study for his undergraduate degree?"

Lu Chengfeng slightly parted his thin lips and replied, "Princeton."

Gao Qingnian: "Lu is always a real elite. I only went abroad for the first time after graduating from university."

As if he hadn't heard Gao Qingnian's false praise, Lu Chengfeng continued to ask He Xiyuan: "What about before university?"

He Xiyuan glanced at Lu Chengfeng's eyes, then lowered his gaze slightly and replied: "I was in China before university. I grew up in Xiadao, and I attended Xiadao International School in junior high school."

Lu Chengfeng stopped, and the higher-ups behind him didn't know why, and almost bumped into him.

Lu Chengfeng looked at the young man on the upper level of the steps behind him, and there was a hint of surprise in his deep eyes.The corner of his mouth turned up, and he said to He Xiyuan: "So we have met, and I also studied in Xiadao International for six years in middle school."

He Xiyuan looked at Lu Chengfeng and replied with a smile, "Yes, I should call you senior."

Gao Qingnian's joy couldn't be expressed. He turned his head to look at He Xiyuan and then at Lu Chengfeng, and said, "This is really a coincidence. Mr. Lu, don't you think so, Xiao He? I've never seen such a coincidence. You didn't mention it, Xiao He."

Lu Chengfeng turned around and continued to walk forward, occasionally looking back at He Xiyuan, and asking him which year he graduated, He Xiyuan answered each one, and Lu Chengfeng talked to him in a very relaxed tone, even a little pleasant.

Did the other party recognize him?Did he remember himself back then?If he remembered, what kind of image would he have in Lu Chengfeng's memory?The lower-grade Omega student who always went to the upper grades to find him to sign and talk to him. He has ordinary looks, ordinary conversation, and ordinary family background. He wears old school uniforms and canvas shoes, and never dares to look him in the eye.

He Xiyuan was born in a very ordinary middle-class family when he was a teenager, and his parents were born in the era of excessive childbirth.

Half a century ago, society was in turmoil, and the birth population fluctuated and declined.In order to encourage births and maintain population growth, the government encourages births while suppressing birth control.

Contraceptives are prohibited from being sold without a prescription in places other than hospitals, and hospitals are not allowed to provide Omega with pregnancy termination operations unless there are special circumstances such as fetal malformation or maternal critical illness.

Omega is the subject of surveillance by the authorities. The birth information of Omega babies is registered into the official database as soon as they are born, and the enrollment is supervised by the local government.Omega in countless farming areas went through estrus during high school and college. The school health department cooperated with the government matching database to quickly search for and arrange marriage between Alpha and Omega. The latter often needs to interrupt their studies and eventually belong to Alpha's family.

He Xiyuan's mother was born in a farming area where the industry was abandoned and she was the youngest child in the family.At that time the Omega sex-population ratio was on par with Beta and Alpha.His grandmother was an only daughter Omega, born decently, but a decent birth did not bring a decent life.

Grandmother and mother are the same as countless generations of Omega before, after belonging to the Alpha family, they took up the family business, gave birth to daughters and raised children.He Xiyuan didn't even know who his grandmother's mother was, what her name was, and what she looked like.

Different from his parents, He Xiyuan was born in the era when the policy of overall planning and excellent education turned, and he was the only child in his family.

In recent decades, most Omegas can apply to implant a suppressor in the gland after giving birth to their third child, and the probability of pregnancy during the estrus period has also been greatly reduced.Numerous Alphas have publicly opposed the coordinated breeding, believing that the government has interfered with the Alpha's personal birth plan, and if there are only Omega offspring, it is basically a default that the family assets will be inherited by no one in the future.

Of course, in the eyes of Alpha, only Alpha is human.

As a result, Omega levels have declined dramatically for both adults and babies over the decades.When countless Omegas are still in the womb, the mother terminates the pregnancy, resulting in the sex ratio of Alpha and Beta far exceeding that of Omega.

In addition to hospitals or genetic testing, there are countless channels to know the sex of the fetus, and it is not difficult to terminate the development of an embryo.In just a few decades, tens of millions of Omegas that should have survived silently disappeared from the population, like a bloodless massacre.

But He Xiyuan's Alpha father has no obsession with the child's gender, he hopes that He Xiyuan can have a stable and prosperous life.

In his memory, after he turned ten years old, his father often needed to travel frequently due to work, and most of the time he was away from home.Even though he can see his father once a week, the environment and family atmosphere still oppress his body and spirit all the year round. His mother, or parents, as long as he studies hard, saves them trouble and worry.

He Xiyuan was admitted to Xiadao International School, the best middle school in Xiadao at the age of 12. His parents were very happy.

Hailing from an urban remote school district, he began preparing for the admissions test for this elite public school three years before enrolling.Thousands of candidates in their early teens took the test for several hours, taking a test that was not recorded or published on the market.The topic is Unpredictable Germanic languages ​​and logical reasoning.

He prepared early and fully, and he was sensitive and fond of language, so he passed the entrance examination.

His parents couldn't be happier.From then on to the more than ten years after he graduated from graduate school, others always told his parents: "Xiyuan really doesn't need you to worry about anything."

So his parents took it seriously.He only made requests, occasionally asked about his grades, and didn't care much about his life, as if he assumed that He Xiyuan would not be far behind in a superior learning environment.After all, Xiadao International's so-called poor students are top-notch students in other public schools.

Due to his family's neglect of care, He Xiyuan's youth began to be carefree, but the further he went, the reality became more serious.He realized more and more that he did not belong to the school he was studying at.

One year after he attended junior high school, the school closed the city's unified enrollment.All the students are drawn from several major school districts in the city center, and the school districts on the edge of the city also have very few places, which is better than none.

But when he was 12 years old, he didn't know what would happen later. He was not as sensitive to the environment outside the radius of ten kilometers around him as he was when he was an adult.He Xiyuan lives in the worry-free bubble drawn by the school boundary, unaware that children from marginal school districts have begun to be blocked from their upward path.

That year, he went to the campus near the city center for the first time to see the mango trees, poinciana and pine trees planted beside the playground.He sits in the auditorium watching the original soundtrack with freshmen and observes the lunches prepared for students in the cafeteria.

Around his peers complained: "Is this food edible?" He tasted it and thought it tasted good.

He Xiyuan was easily satisfied in his youth.Before the invasion of the social class gap, before the gender confrontation, most Omegas are content with life.

In the first year after entering the school, He Xiyuan met Lu Chengfeng.

He was still a freshman that year, carefree, and didn't want to queue up in the crowded cafeteria at noon, so he bought a burger and went for a walk on the lawn by the lake outside the campus.

On weekdays, even if it was his birthday, his parents seldom took him out to eat Western-style fast food, and did not let him go out of school at noon. They only ordered him to go to the cafeteria to finish his homework and take a lunch break.So, he sneaked out at lunchtime that day.

He likes the environment by the middle school lake, the crispy wide fries in the cafeteria, the lawn in the afternoon, the breeze by the lake, and the green mangoes falling on the ground after the rain.

He Xiyuan was born in the cold and wet early spring, but the pheromone has the taste of midsummer, like tangerines and lemons that are about to ripen.The smell of tropical fruit makes him feel peaceful, like bathing in the summer wind.

I met Lu Chengfeng just before the end of midsummer.

At the end of summer and early autumn, the clouds are thick and it seems that it will rain.There were no fishers by the lake, and there were a few senior Alphas and Betas in the distance, who looked very tall from a distance.

He sat at the stone table under the tree, holding a paper bag containing hamburgers in his hands, and gnawing on it with peace of mind and happiness.The temperature is not high, the weather turns cloudy, and the chirping of cicadas weakens.

He Xiyuan sat on the grass by the lake, half-eaten the hamburger in his hand, and when he was about to stand up and walk back to school, he felt footsteps behind him.

It was a middle-aged male Alpha, with a slightly aging body, pushing an old bicycle, looked at He Xiyuan and said, "Little friend, come and do me a favor."

He Xiyuan didn't know why.But he was kind-hearted, approached the strange man, and asked, "How can I help you?"

The other party continued: "Help me take a look."

He Xiyuan had no idea, and asked again: "Where are you looking?"

The other party said, "Look below."

Then He Xiyuan saw his hand move to the crotch position, just about to take out something with one hand.

The Alpha pheromone in the air suddenly became viscous and cloudy, like rotting plants and polluted fish in the lake.

He Xiyuan paused, at a loss, the hair on the back of his neck stood up, and his glands seemed to be frozen.He felt as if he had fallen into a vacuum in an instant, and he couldn't even smell the citrus scent, he just froze in place.

Until the sound of footsteps sounded from the edge of the dense forest, the middle-aged Alpha turned his head hastily.

Several senior students came out from the shade of the tree, and one of them said to the middle-aged Alpha: "Oh, exhibitionist, keep digging? Why don't you dig it out? Come, come, let everyone watch together."

Several others laughed.The Alpha was about to turn around and walk away when a senior Alpha grabbed his shoulders, kicked his knees, and knocked him to the ground.

The Alpha pheromone in the air did not dissipate, but He Xiyuan slowly regained his strength, and still stood where he was, his face turned pale.

The senior Alpha who was pressing the middle-aged Alpha turned around to look at him, and asked, "Are you okay?"

The tone was flat and positive, not a question, because he was sure that He Xiyuan was fine.

Senior Alpha's skin is slightly fair, with deep eye sockets, and his expression is sullen when he looks at He Xiyuan.He Xiyuan didn't answer, just nodded.

He said to He Xiyuan: "Go back to school first, explain the location to the guards, and let them come over and take this man away."

He Xiyuan nodded again, and said, "Okay."

The other party seemed worried, and turned to his companion and said, "Forget it, you step on his neck and lock your hands behind your back." Then he stood up and kicked the middle-aged Alpha on the ground in the side, and heard a cry of pain Finally, he motioned to He Xiyuan: "Let's go, I'll go back with you."

Another senior Alpha shouted from behind: "Chengfeng, hurry up and bring someone back, it's going to rain."

Lu Chengfeng waved his hand back to show he knew.

Then He Xiyuan followed the other party all the way.From the perspective of 13-year-old He Xiyuan, Lu Chengfeng is tall and broad-boned, with slightly curly hair.Although his expression was cold, he was the most beautiful Alpha he had ever seen.