Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

When the sun goes down, there will be many old people walking in the back mountain, but there should be few people now.

Xu Rui slowed down his pace and walked towards the back mountain. The path stretched around Heshan Middle School. The road was not wide, but after going around half a circle and arriving at the back of Heshan Middle School, the field of vision would open up. There are several small platforms , there are some public fitness facilities on it.

After bypassing a quarter of Heshan Middle School, Xu Rui heard some heavy footsteps coming towards him. He continued to move forward, and gradually heard heavy panting, but there was no sound of talking or laughing, as if there was only one person.

After a few steps away, Lin Pai appeared in Xu Rui's sight. He was no longer as tall and straight as when he was speaking under the national flag stage, but his back was slightly arched. There were a few more bruises on his face, and he lowered his hand to his side, with a little blood on the back of his hand. Although there was a look of alienation between his brows and eyes, he was surprisingly firm.

Lin Pai also heard footsteps. He raised his eyes vigilantly and saw that it was Xu Rui. Then he regained his indifference. He looked back at the road he had walked and asked, "Come to me? Or are they?" "

"How many people?" Xu Rui asked back.

"Five." Lin Pai said flatly.

Xu Rui tilted his head and took a closer look at Lin Pai's face. The cheekbone on the left cheek, which was a bit bruised in the morning, now had new injuries, and the skin was scratched a little. Maybe he fell down and rubbed on the ground, looking dirty. There is also a wound on the right corner of the mouth, and the rest are bruises without bleeding.

"We'll talk about their affairs tomorrow. I'll take you back first." Xu Rui changed direction as he spoke, intending to go back with Lin Pai.

"No, I can do it myself." Lin Pai shook his head and declined Xu Rui's kindness.

Xu Rui turned to look at Lin Pai's back. Fortunately, he walked quite steadily, and he shouldn't fall to the ground, or he would have to carry it again.

Curiously, Xu Rui quickened his pace, walked towards the back mountain, walked half a circle around the small road built around Heshan Middle School, and Xu Rui came to one of the platforms.

There are five people lying on the ground here, some are covering their stomachs, some are covering their heads, and one is sitting on the concrete floor at a loss, looking as if he has been beaten. This person is Xu Rui. Ah Hao, the follower who was always wandering behind Zhao Kun, looked at the injuries on his face, and they didn't take much advantage of Lin Pai.

"What's going on, you guys!" Zhao Kun rushed over from another direction, seeing the distressed appearance of the usual followers, and even wanted to go up to make up for it, he looked like an old father who hated iron and steel.

He looked up and saw an intact Xu Rui standing opposite him, so he walked around several people on the ground and walked to Xu Rui's side. He put a palm on Xu Rui's shoulder and pressed his shoulder blade so painfully, "Why? You Are you ready?"

Xu Rui raised his hand and grabbed his wrist, lowered his shoulders and broke free from his grip, and said with a smile, "It's nothing to do with me, I just came here too, and I saw such a spectacular scene when I first came here. "

Zhao Kun almost wrote the word "doubt" on his forehead. He stared at Xu Rui slyly. Xu Rui waved his hand helplessly, pointed at Fang Zhenghao who was sitting on the ground and said, "If you don't believe me, ask them."

"Brother Kun, he really didn't do anything, he just came a little earlier than you..." Fang Zhenghao said in embarrassment, his voice was as low as a mosquito.

"Who did that? Lin Pai?" Zhao Kun turned around and yelled at Fang Zhenghao, saliva flew out, and asked in disbelief, "He beat you five like this alone?"

Fang Zhenghao didn't dare to speak anymore, he wiped the saliva splashed on his face with his dingy palm, and nodded with his neck curled up.

"Damn! A bunch of trash!" Zhao Kun raised his foot and was about to kick it. Thinking that it was his own, he turned temporarily and kicked the fitness equipment. The equipment is made of painted metal, which is painless. Zhao Kun Without venting his anger, he slapped Fang Zhenghao on the back heavily with his backhand, causing the latter to cough repeatedly.

Zhao Kun has trained a whole body of tendons. Looking at it from the front, the trapezius muscle has developed to the extent that it covers his neck. He put his hands in his trouser pockets. Just this simple movement looks like he is about to fight.

He was too lazy to look at the five people with gray noses. Zhao Kun slowly glanced across the ground and reached Xu Rui's feet. Falcon suddenly noticed the trace of food.

Xu Rui hooked the corner of his mouth, not smiling, he followed Zhao Kun and took a few steps to the side, so that the conversation could avoid the group of people behind.

Zhao Kun took out a cigarette and lit it, and passed one to Xu Rui. Xu Rui squinted at it. It was a very common type of cigarette in canteens. It came in gold and blue packaging. Xu Rui shook his head and didn't reach out to pick it up. , he took a big puff on his own, and exhaled smoke from his mouth and nose, Xu Rui subconsciously moved two steps to the side.

"How do you plan to solve this matter?" Zhao Kun smoked half of it in a short time. He threw the remaining cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out with the sole of his shoe.

"How to solve what?" Xu Rui raised his chin and nodded back. Fang Zhenghao and the others had already patted their clothes and stood up. Ok?"

"I said, what is your relationship with that little boy? Starting from the Internet cafe, you follow him wherever he goes. You didn't get involved in these things before."

Perhaps it was the effect of nicotine, Zhao Kun's tone softened a little, and he put away his fierce posture.

"Student, he is so famous, you should have heard of it, he happened to be at the same table as me." Xu Rui said indifferently.

"Just fart there, your class is all in the seventh row, and there is no deskmate at all." Zhao Kun ruthlessly exposed Xu Rui.

"Tsk, the next table is also half of the same table." Xu Rui's tone was still smiling, making it difficult to tell whether he was joking. He raised his hand and patted Zhao Kun on the shoulder, turned around and was about to leave .

"Xu Rui..." Zhao Kun stopped him, "You let me play with someone else, I can give you this face, but you have to give a decent reason."

Xu Rui turned around for a moment, then said with a smile in his eyes, "I've fallen in love with him."

"I believe your nonsense!" Zhao Kun said a few curse words, lit another cigarette for himself, and began to puff.

Xu Rui flicked the smoke that floated in front of his eyes, walked behind Zhao Kun and said in a low voice, "You are not targeting him, you are just bored and want to find someone to play with. Brother Kun, you are already in your third year of high school, and things are making a big fuss Well, make a mistake, if you don't graduate, the past two years will be wasted."

"You've come forward, so there must be no problem..." Zhao Kun turned to face Xu Rui. He was half a head shorter than Xu Rui, and all the smoke he spit out was sprayed at the height of Xu Rui's mouth and nose. The boy who asked the old hag to give me a small report during the semester..."

"Who is it?" Xu Rui asked without thinking, and took two steps back.

"It means that I gathered a crowd to fight and caused me to be criticized by the whole school!"

Zhao Kun shook his head while talking, and lit the cigarette restlessly in the air with his finger holding the cigarette, disrupting the originally neat smoke ring, as if to say "the past is too bad to look back".

"Oh! It seems that there is such a No. [-] person..." Xu Rui paused for a while, as if he was trying to recall this person, "It was the little dwarf who hid in the toilet and cried, and threatened to know me very well. one, right?"

Zhao Kun nodded his chin, only cared about smoking, and didn't speak.

"I don't know that person..." Xu Rui didn't hide anything, and said with a smile, "Nowadays there are a lot of bluffing and cheating outside, and I didn't expect to meet someone who was under my banner. Brother Kun, you can't say anything Believe it all!"

Through the smoke, Xu Rui saw a subtle change in Zhao Kun's face. The bases of his ears were red, but his face was mixed with blue and white, which was very lively.

That was just after the start of last semester.Although Xu Rui was only in the first semester of high school at that time, during the winter vacation, their high school training team had a fight with Zhao Kun and a group of people for grabbing the basketball court.

To be more precise, they first competed in a ball game without any rules. Xu Rui and Fu Yanye teamed up to win thoroughly. There was a hand-to-hand fight on the court, and Xu Rui exchanged the price of dislocating his wrist for the highlight moment of being the last one on the court.

Since then, Zhao Kun and Xu Rui have never violated the river water.But at the very beginning, he was unavoidably still a little nervous, so that when the little man played Xu Rui's banner, he didn't even think about it, and believed it was true.

"I really don't know him, so you can do whatever you want." Xu Rui put one hand in his pocket, waved the other hand at them, took a few steps back, turned and left, with a faint smile in his eyes.

10. Chapter 10

Xu Rui stepped on the morning self-study point to the school, drank the last sip of soy milk, and threw the plastic packaging in the trash can at the back door of the classroom. Passing behind Lin Pai's seat, he saw that Lin Pai had taken out his English book and was about to follow English class representatives began to read early.

Lin Pai was wearing all black today, and the brim of the hat on his head was pulled down very low. Following his movement of flipping through the textbooks, Xu Rui noticed that his right forearm was wrapped with several circles of bandages, and then he remembered that he was on the back mountain path yesterday. When I saw him, he was wearing a thin black coat. Now I think it was to cover the wound, otherwise who would wear a coat in the hot weather.

The sound of reading aloud gradually started, Xu Rui stood by the desk, unhurriedly hung his schoolbag on the back of the chair, then rummaged in the drawer, found an English book and put it on the table.

After he finished these, he suddenly changed direction, bent down with one elbow