Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

"This is Xiao Cheng! I'm thin again, I need to eat more later, don't let Zhou Ning eat it all!"

Li Cheng was familiar with Zhou Ning's mother, and they chatted a few more words.She finally looked at Lin Pai, the words seemed to fall into her throat, she was stunned before hesitantly said, "You are Xiaoye? It seems to have turned white, why do you seem to be shorter..."

"Mom, mom, mom! He's not Fu Yanye..." Zhou Ning hurriedly grabbed his mother's arm and explained to her, "His name is Lin Pai, and he transferred to our class this semester. He is a university bully and number one in the school!"

"Hello, Auntie..." Lin Pai nodded politely to her.

Hearing that Lin Pai was number one in the school, Zhou Ning's mother shook off her son with eyes shining, patted Lin Pai's arm affectionately, and looked at him lovingly, "Play with our Zhou Ning more in the future, he If you have any problems with your studies, you can help him, and if you want to eat, just tell auntie, and auntie will bring you more next time!"

"Okay..." Lin Pai nodded with a smile, "Thank you, Auntie."

"Mom! We're going to eat hot pot!" Zhou Ning urged her away from Lin Pai, "I can cook one less dish at night, I'm sure I'll be full at noon."

"Okay, okay, okay, let's go! Don't eat too much..." Zhou Ning's mother stood in the guard room and watched them leave. The more she looked at Lin Pai, the more she felt pleasing to the eye.

In the old place in the equipment room, the water in the pot was bubbling. Lin Pai was in charge of watching the pot. He poured the hot pot base into it, stirred it with two chopsticks, and waited for the water to boil again without saying a word. boil.

Xu Rui came over with the freshly washed bowls and chopsticks, put them on the table, then took out a tissue to dry his hands, grabbed Lin Pai's hair on the back of his head and leaned over to ask him, "Are you unhappy?"

"No." Lin Pai pressed his forehead against his index finger to push him away, continued to stir the pot and said, "Don't grab my hair."

Xu Rui let go of him, and sat down next to him, "The four of us used to hang out together. Auntie didn't have any impression of Fu Yanye, and she didn't know you, so she admitted her mistake."

"Ah."

"What do you mean by 'um'?Lin Pai, don't say anything, I, I..."

"What about you?" Lin Pai turned his head away and looked at him quietly.

"I am afraid."

"What are you talking about?" Zhou Ning and Li Cheng came over with the ingredients and sat opposite them. Zhou Ning poked in the pot with a colander and rubbed his hands excitedly, "The soup is almost boiled. Put the meat in!"

"It's boiled, let's put it away." Lin Pai raised his chin at him, signaling that it's time to cook, then turned around and took out an orange from the bag next to him and handed it to Xu Rui.

The four of them buried their heads in eating for a while, barely filling their stomachs, and it was time for the intermission.

Zhou Ning rubbed his hairy belly, exchanged a look with Li Cheng, then turned to ask, "Brother Rui, I think there are some things we need to clarify, and we can't let big things destroy our pure friendship!"

"Let's talk, look at your posture, if you don't know, you might think that you are going to read the imperial decree." Xu Rui nodded, and handed the peeled orange to Lin Pai, but Lin Pai seemed to be interested in the peeled orange peel. I am more interested, holding it in my hand and studying it.

Li Cheng raised his hand to his mouth, leaned into Zhou Ning's ear and whispered, "All the eunuchs who read the edict..."

"Fuck you!" Zhou Ning waved Li Cheng away.

He took a deep breath, as if he had made a huge determination, "As for the sports meeting last time, the two of us discussed it quietly, but it's actually not a big deal at all. Lin Pai is together, we can accept it!"

Just as Lin Pai stuffed two pieces of orange into his mouth and almost coughed it out of his throat, Xu Rui calmly handed him a tissue.

"By the way, Brother Rui, did Brother Perfunctory find you later?" Li Cheng didn't pay much attention to Lin Pai's cough, and then Zhou Ning said, "He's actually fine, and later he told the few of us present that he Don't go out and chew your tongue."

Lin Pai wiped the corners of his mouth and recalled, "I remember there were people in other classes besides us?"

"Hmm..." Li Cheng nodded, "There are also two boys in his class, but I've been perfunctory, so they won't gossip around."

"Yes!" Zhou Ning picked up the hairy belly and dipped it into the sauce plate, "But we are not discriminating! I told you this to reassure you, after all, it is your privacy!"

"I know..." Xu Rui stood up, touched the glasses of the two of them with his Coke, raised his head and poured more than half of the cup of Coke, "Thank you..."

Zhou Ning and Li Cheng raised their cups, and Lin Pai followed suit——

"I hope my mother won't deduct my lucky money during the Chinese New Year!"

"I hope my dad won't be soaking in his herbs all the time!"

"Then I hope everyone gets what they want!"

"I hope that Lin Pai will always be the first in the exam happily!"

"cheers!"

The hot pot was gurgling and boiling, covering the glass with a layer of water mist. They clinked glasses in the steaming heat, and the young man's heart splashed flowers with the shaking liquid.

"Hic—" After the second half of eating, the induction cooker was turned off, and the table was in a mess. Zhou Ning hiccupped on the back of the small sofa, and Li Cheng also put down his chopsticks, sat next to him, and collapsed on the sofa together.

Xu Rui was still sitting in his original position, and handed Lin Pai half an orange. Lin Pai shook his hand, expressing that he really couldn't eat any more.

Xu Rui took back the oranges and ate them by himself, "I just tried to buy a train ticket online, and it was said that my identity information exists, exists... the risk of being stolen, let me go to the station window to buy it, we will go later, or tomorrow go?"

"Well... wait a while." Lin Pai nodded, and Xu Rui felt that he was a little more obedient after eating, "Are you busy tomorrow? I want to see if there are tickets for tomorrow. Go early and go early." back."

Xu Rui glanced at the two people who were slumped on the small sofa, and whispered in Lin Pai's ear, "I'll be there whenever you want."

"Brother Rui! What are you whispering?" Zhou Ning's sharp eyes caught Xu Rui's small movements.

"I said you'll be paralyzed for a while. Clean up this place. Lin Pai and I are going to the train station in the afternoon, and we'll get off work at the station when it's late."

"Why are you going to the train station?" Zhou Ning suddenly used his rich imagination, sat up all of a sudden, and asked in shock, "Are you going to elope?"

"Brother Rui, do you want to elope with you?"

Zhou Ning went back paralyzed after listening, "Brother Rui, let me ask one more question, the last one..."

"ask!"

"You two..." Zhou Ning pointed between Xu Rui and Lin Pai, "Is there really nothing wrong?"

Xu Rui bumped Lin Pai with his elbow, pointed at Zhou Ning interestingly, and said to Lin Pai, "He asked us if we were alright?"

"No." Lin Pai said without thinking.

"Did you hear that? No." Xu Rui spread his hands helplessly at the two of them.

Zhou Ning and Li Cheng smiled meaningfully at each other and shook their heads.

34. Chapter 34

The nearest railway station to Heshan Town is located in the urban area of ​​Nanxing City, only a few kilometers away from the Passenger Transport Center responsible for short-distance transportation.

They came out of the passenger transport center and called a disabled vehicle on the side of the road.This kind of car is boxy, like a human-powered tricycle covered with a layer of iron, plus an engine. There is only a driver's seat in the front row and a horizontal bench in the back row in the car. It's up to each other.

Although the disabled car has this name, the people who drive this kind of car in this area are not disabled. Most of them are old and lack competitiveness in the labor market. They don’t have farms at home or don’t want to go back to farm, so they rely on a disabled car to solicit customers. provide for the family.

Xu Rui is used to this kind of car, he can come across it every day when he goes to school or on the street.

At that time, the penetration rate of scooter in each household was still very low, and there was no taxi business in a remote place like Heshan Town, so the supervision of disabled vehicles was also very broad.

There was a time when the car was even a hot business, but by now, people have gotten used to its decline.

They squeezed into the narrow back seat, and the roar of the engine followed them everywhere. Even if they were driving on a flat road, they had to bump along with the car body.

After finally arriving at the train station, they jumped out of the car from both sides.After paying the fare, they walked towards the boarding point, and the roar of the engine sounded again, gradually drifting away behind them.

"Does your grandma know that you are traveling this far?" Xu Rui asked him.

Lin Pai nodded, "Of course I know, isn't it just because of her that I made this trip? Otherwise, I will use this as a trick next time."

"I read on the ticket that the train departs from Nanxing City at [-]:[-] p.m. and arrives at Shi'an City at [-]:[-] p.m. tomorrow. Your father has traveled far enough..."

"That's the address I left many years ago, and I don't know if it's moved..." Lin Pai pulled out a photo from his mobile phone album, and it was a handwritten address note, which had been kept on him all the time. At grandma's place, she was so worn out, "It's so far away, maybe you have to accompany me for nothing."

"You treat it as a business trip, I treat it as a tourist."

There are not too many people in the waiting hall at night, and they still have seats to sit after checking in.

Lin Pai held the ticket in his hand all the way, and he had to look at it from time to time. As soon as he sat on the rest chair, he studied the ticket again.

"Don't look, it won't grow wings." Xu Rui held his hand and pressed it to his lap, pointing to the huge display screen showing the timetable at the entrance of the station, "We can get on the bus in a few minutes. "

Lin Pai squinted his eyes to look at the display screen, and could only see red, green, and green on the black screen. He glanced at Xu Rui guiltily, and saw that the other party was leaning on the back of the chair, looking at the timetable with ease. changes, he