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When the sound of Zhang Jiangyang's bicycle faded away, He Zhao patted Luo Hao on the back: "I will forget what happened tonight, and Zhang Jiangyang and Yi Shi will also forget."

Luo Hao, who was tense and did not speak, suddenly relaxed, and suddenly felt something dripping from his eyes. He raised his hand and wiped away the tears, but did not stop but wiped more and more, and he simply cried out, crying more and more Loudly: "I'm on a horse! Why is it so useless! It's so embarrassing! I don't know why I'm so cowardly! I...I..."

Luo Hao was crying and cursing, scolding himself for scolding people in No. 29, He Zhao listened patiently, and when he was almost crying, he comforted him and said, "I don't feel ashamed, what's the matter, you were beaten by your mother before Hit, I have seen naked buttocks fleeing into my house."

Luo Hao choked up: "I was only five years old at that time! I was still a child!"

After hearing this, He Zhao suddenly felt like laughing, but he held back and continued to comfort him: "You are also a child now, a big child."

"That video... that video..." Luo Hao wiped away his tears, "They won't let me go if I don't do what they say, and I'm still rushing to cram school!"

"That's right, you can't waste time with them. You are a man who can bend and stretch." He Zhao rummaged through his schoolbag, but couldn't find a tissue. Seeing Luo Hao's face full of tears and snot, he sighed, "Why don't you just use your clothes?" Wipe it."

Luo Hao picked up his schoolbag that had been thrown in the corner, took out a tissue from it, and said sullenly: "Actually, I am very timid and timid. When they stopped me, I regretted it. I was so scared. Legs are weak."

"You see them bullying people and provoking them. I think you are very brave. Really, most people don't dare to take care of them. And those people are the real counselors who bully the weak and fear the hard. Don't they end up frightened and shit?" He He Zhao comforted.

Luo Hao sniffed: "I just feel that it hurts my self-esteem and makes me feel ashamed. Didn't you go to have a barbecue with He Chongshan and the others? Where are they?"

"I finished eating early, but they didn't come. I received a call from Zhang Jiangyang." He Zhao said.

"You came here by yourself?" Luo Hao was stunned for a moment, a little moved, "Zhaoer, you are too kind to me, I...I really don't want to cause you trouble."

"Why didn't you say that I was causing you trouble when you helped me with my lessons and homework? Don't cry? Just leave if you don't cry. This place is very eerie." He Zhao looked at him, "Go to my house Wash up and go home, my mother hasn't come home yet, if you go back like this, your mother will be scared to death."

"Well," Luo Hao followed He Zhao a few steps outside like a wronged daughter-in-law, "Brother Zhao, I really..."

He Zhaoneng had finished all his consoling words. Seeing that Luo Hao was recovering in a hurry, he interrupted jokingly, "I'm so touched, why don't you just give me a kowtow."

Luo Hao paused for a moment, and changed his words: "Brother Yi who is riding a horse is so handsome, if I were a woman, I would definitely not marry him in this life."

"It's a good thing you're not a girl, otherwise Brother Yi would regret helping you. He probably doesn't like your style," He Zhao said.

Luo Hao: "Then what should he like?"

He Zhao: "How do I know?"

He Zhao bowed his head and typed to ask Zhang Jiangyang where they were. Zhang Jiangyang didn't reply to the message and probably didn't check his phone.

He Zhao was thinking whether to make a phone call, but as soon as he came out of the alley in the north, he saw Zhang Jiangyang and Yi Shi. Zhang Jiangyang was pedaling his broken mountain bike and kept turning around, while Yi Shi was leaning on the lamppost and bowing his head. Playing with the mobile phone, it seems that he is waiting for them.

Luo Hao shrank back behind He Zhao with some embarrassment, Zhang Jiangyang looked up and saw them, and swooped over on his bicycle, stopping right in front of the two of them: "Oh, what's so embarrassing, I was beaten before. When I was hospitalized, I was beaten on the ground, and one arm was broken, so I’m fine too.”

He Zhao: "Hey, you're quite proud? Use your broken arm to take the fat man home and wash it."

Zhang Jiangyang glanced at Yi Shi, and said doubtfully, "Didn't you say you're going to eat?"

Luo Hao lowered his head, not wanting them to see his swollen eyes: "I'll treat you guys to dinner another day, and I'll get the pocket money for next month."

He Zhao suddenly remembered and asked, "Did you give Qian that inch?"

Luo Hao hesitated and said, "Mmm..."

"Lying grass, how can you still blackmail when you fight?" Zhang Jiangyang asked, "How much money did he take from you? I'll get it back for you!"

He Zhao: "Forget it, don't get entangled with them."

Luo Hao hesitated: "5...5 thousand..."

"what!!"

He Zhao and Zhang Jiangyang shouted almost in unison.

"No, no, no," Zhang Jiangyang put his legs on the ground, letting Luo Hao support his shoulders and step on the bazooka behind the mountain bike, "This must be paid back."

He Zhao nodded: "It must be taken back, it must be taken back."

Yi Shi glanced at him expressionlessly.

He Zhao stretched out five fingers: "What are you looking at me for? Five thousand!"

Zhang Jiangyang kicked his legs, and the mountain bike carrying Luo Hao wobbled forward: "Wori, fat man, it's time for you to lose weight."

"Didn't you get up in the middle of the night and do push-ups? That's not enough?"

"Of course I can, why can't I, I'm afraid my car won't work..."

The two of you are getting farther and farther away from each other.

He Zhao asked respectfully, "Hero, do you think we are going to eat or go back?"

Yi Shi put away the phone: "Go back."

The two walked a few steps, and He Zhao opened his mouth after deliberation: "I know you are not a person who can talk nonsense, but I still want to tell you, I hope you don't tell others about tonight, the fat man is very Sensitive people, if someone finds out, they will probably jump off the building in shame and anger."

Yi Shi answered quickly and concisely: "Okay."

He Zhao smiled, and looked at Yi Shi from top to bottom: "Speaking of which, heroes often fight, right? The fights are very smooth. I said how could you meet people who are all love & peace like you."

Yi Shi has no expression on his face: "I am like this?"

He Zhao pointed to the wide road: "Yes, it's your tone and eyes. Fortunately, the road is wide enough, otherwise it wouldn't be enough for you to pull. But, you were so handsome just now, so handsome that a fat man wants to marry you, so he just started A little heavier."

"If the other party is not scared enough to run away, he will come again next time." After a few seconds, Yi Shi said this.

He Zhao pondered, this sentence contains a lot of information, is this a talk from experience?What did you have to go through to have this kind of experience?Moreover, his quick and natural skills are not something ordinary people can have.Could it be... He Zhao suddenly imagined the scene of Yi Shi sitting on a high seat with a cigarette in his mouth, his juniors surrounded him respectfully, and kneeling at his feet were a group of opponents with bruised noses and swollen faces who were frightened by beatings, the legendary high school student?

He Zhao was a little curious, but Yi Shi probably wouldn't want to discuss this topic with him in depth, so he just said, "Not bad."

Yi Shi: "You can learn boxing for a few years."

He Zhao blinked his eyes, so the good skill is not because he fights a lot, but because he has learned boxing?Do ordinary middle school students go out of their way to learn wrestling?Yi Shi doesn't look like he would take the initiative to cause trouble, isn't he really too handsome and too cold to be picked on by others?Wouldn't it be the hardest thing to bear the grace of a beauty?That's how it's done in American dramas.

Yi Shi said nonchalantly, "If you want to ask anything, just ask."

He Zhao glanced at him, did he look so obviously curious?But Yi Shi obviously didn't look sideways at him.

However, Yi Shi's tone was cold, but he didn't seem to resist. He thought for a while and decided to return to the question he wanted to ask at the beginning: "Why did you go to the haunted house?"

There was silence for a while, and when He Zhao thought that Yi Shi didn't want to answer, let it go and changed the subject, Yi Shi whispered, "That's my grandmother's former residence."

He Zhao was startled: "Your grandma..."

"Passed away," Yi Shi's tone was so indifferent, "She's not in good health and can't sit on the plane for so long, but she always wants to come back."

He Zhao immediately apologized sincerely: "I'm sorry, I didn't know... I shouldn't have said it was a haunted house."

Yi Shi: "It doesn't matter, I just want to take a look."

"So... is this your first time in this city?" He Zhao turned his head to look at him curiously, "Then what do you think of this city?"

Yi Shi spit out two words without hesitation: "Maze."

He Zhao bent his eyes: "Many people seem to say that, no wonder I saw you for the first time. When I was on the bus, I felt that you were full of confusion. There was a kind of 'Where did I come from, where should I go? Where's the deepness of ''."

Yi Shi didn't speak, as if recalling something, he looked at the young man who lowered his head slightly.The surroundings are very quiet, the wind blows slightly the boy's loose school uniform, brushing over the thin collarbone and back, tall and straight and beautiful, the street lamp casts a slender shadow under his feet, suddenly there is an indescribable sense of fragility, and he seems a little lonely .

He heard He Zhao say softly: "Contrary to you, I have basically never left this city. I used to be neighbors with Fatty, which was near your grandmother's hometown. Later, when I moved here, the farthest was just across a district. , I should never leave here for the rest of my life.”

Yi Shi was a little surprised, He Zhao always had a fresh energy in his body, the lightness and ease unique to teenagers, like a gust of wind, the three heavy words "a lifetime" came out of his mouth, which was a bit abrupt.

After a while, Yi Shi's lips moved: "Why?"

"Why..." He Zhao seemed to be thinking about this question seriously, rubbed his nose, and said, "Because it's too difficult."

He is familiar with the city, but he often has the same feeling as Yi Shi, that the city is like a maze, as if it will always trap him.

"Let's not talk about that, are you moving in tonight? Where are your things?" He Zhao asked.

Yi Shi: "Someone has already sent my things over."

He Zhao nodded and asked, "Do you need help?"

Yi Shi: "No need."

He Zhao clicked his tongue in his heart, this refusal was decisive and resolute, without any hesitation, and there was no room for others.

After a few seconds, Yi Shi added: "I have very few things."

He Zhao responded, "Okay."

Near the residential area is a brightly lit area, thousands of lights, little by little, the brightness is different, but the same warmth.

"By the way, I always forgot to ask you," He Zhao said, "How long do you plan to rent?"

Yi Shi: "Should at least go to the college entrance examination."

He Zhao's tone was very relaxed: "It's been a long time, I always thought you were leaving soon."

Yi Shi froze for a moment, then looked at him again.

"Because..." He Zhao didn't look at him, and continued to walk forward, "You don't seem to want to get involved with the surroundings, like a bystander looking at this place and us, with a feeling of pulling away at any time. You still have to If you live for such a long time... In fact, the people here are very warm and easy to get along with. The mother-in-law downstairs, the uncle's family across from you... The people in our community are very nice, and so are the people in the class. Sometimes they treat you very well. A little overly curious but not malicious, you might try reaching out to them and see, it might not be that bad."

Yi Shi looked down at him, and after a while suddenly asked, "What about you?"

He Zhao didn't understand: "Me?"

Yi Shi pursed his lips: "The first person I met when I returned to China was you."

To be honest, He Zhao was a little surprised. He always thought that Yi Shi was not willing to have too much contact with others, including him.On the surface, it seemed that Yi Shi was willing to have a few more words with him, but that was because they were at the same table, and he kept a measured distance all the time.

Is it possible that Yishi, like a small animal, will recognize the first person he sees after breaking out of his shell as his mother?It seems to be called imprinting behavior, a way of learning in a specific sensitive period.

It is indeed funny to associate the tall and thin boy in front of him with the newly shelled animal, but He Zhao consciously suppressed the urge to laugh.He had a premonition that if he laughed now, Yi Shi would regret what he just said, and might even become angry, because after only a few seconds of silence, he saw Yi Shi's long and thin fingers curled unnaturally song.

I don't know if he was infected, and He Zhao was also a little embarrassed. He always felt that everything he said seemed hypocritical, so he picked a few words that were the least awkward and said them naturally: "I call you brother, you Haven't you felt my enthusiasm yet? I've always been called brother by others."

Who knows, he tried his best to maintain this rare moment of tenderness, but Yi Shi didn't. He said, "Before tonight, I didn't understand why they called you brother."

The tone was cold, but He Zhao keenly caught the unobvious sarcasm in it.

He Zhao clicked his tongue: "What why? Of course it's because of my height, my handsomeness and my charisma."

Yi Shi glanced at him: "Tao?"

He Zhao was immediately aroused by his harsh words, and he was very unconvinced: "We are from the south. Do you know how many people are envious of my height and long legs? To be fair, who else in our class is better than you and Fatty He Daxian?" I'm tall? If you don't play, He Daxian still wants to arrange for me to grab a rebound! I'll give you another chance, you can modify your wording, hey, this classmate, don't pretend you can't hear me, do you hear me?"

Yi Shi: "I heard you, you're not short."

He Zhao: "???"

Turning a corner, we arrived at the entrance of the community. There is a small convenience store next to it. It is run by an old couple and has been open for nearly 20 years.

He Zhao trotted over, took out two bottles of Coke from the refrigerator very naturally, and put them on the counter: "Grandpa Qian, buy two bottles of Coke."

He was obedient and kind when he called grandpa, and he also had a full set of obedient smiles.

Grandpa Qian was staring at the small TV. Hearing this, he pushed his glasses, looked at the TV screen and helped him scan the QR code, and said casually, "Xiao Zhao is out of class?"

He Zhao scanned the QR code to pay, then glanced at the TV: "Yeah, wow, I finally suspected this villain."

Grandpa Qian smiled and said, "What? You also watch this TV series?"

He Zhao smiled and said, "My mother is watching, grandpa, I'm leaving first."

He Zhao jumped back to Yi Shi with the Coke in hand, and handed one of the bottles to Yi Shi who was waiting for him.

He Zhao unscrewed it and took a big gulp happily: "I'm thirsty to death."

Then he lightly touched the bottle of Coke in Yi Shi's hand with Coke, and smiled.

"Although it's a little late, Yi Shi, you are welcome to the maze, you are welcome to Class 3, and you are welcome to stay in my house."

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