desolate

When following the rice cooker classmate into the new dormitory, Zhou Ze still couldn't accept the living environment soaked in the smell of three kinds of instant noodles.

But things have come to this, he has no choice.

Walking through the uneven concrete floor, Zhou Ze moved his luggage to his bed, and then secretly looked at the other people under the same roof.

The rice cooker's former name is Ding Yibao, he lives in a certain village under the jurisdiction of Pingjiang, and he is a fellow villager with the other two in the dormitory. He seems to be the easiest one to get along with among the three roommates.In addition to helping him pay the key deposit, he also told him where to buy daily necessities and so on.

Reciprocity, the one hundred bills that Zhou Ze gave him did not let him find it.

As for Airplane Head and Jar Head, apart from knowing that one of them is Li Hefei and the other is Guo Chao, they didn't even greet each other seriously.

"Chao'er, hurry up and give me a sip, I'm going to die, didn't you see?"

"I don't have blue anymore! Who told you to rush forward without blood?"

Li Hefei and Guo Chao started playing games after eating noodles, and had no intention of getting acquainted with their new roommates.

Zhou Ze is not the one who is just looking for trouble. After cleaning the dormitory briefly, he started to pack his clothes on his own.In fact, he doesn't have many clothes, but the dormitory is too small, if you put a suitcase, there is no place to set your feet.

There are four metal cabinets in the wardrobe in the bedroom. Zhou Ze opened three of them from top to bottom. They were all full, and the last one was locked.

Ding Yibao grabbed the back of his head and leaned over, pointed to the one with the lock and said, "Sorry, sorry, this is mine."

Zhou Ze paused: "Then I..."

Ding Yibao secretly pointed to Li Hefei and Guo Chao: "Those are the things of Brother Fei and Brother Chao, why don't you discuss it with them?"

Seeing those two swear words and golden sentences frequently, and constantly surrounding each other as the center, from direct to collateral three generations, Zhou Ze hesitated for a full minute, thinking whether he would be affected in the past now.

Fortunately, the match was over very quickly, and while the two of them were about to start their next move, Zhou Ze hurried over.

Guo Chao didn't look up, just rolled his eyes to look at him: "What are you doing?"

Zhou Ze asked: "Can you spare a cabinet, I want to put clothes."

Guo Chao didn't even roll his eyes this time: "You do it yourself, don't you see that we are playing games?"

Li Hefei lit a cigarette as if no one was around, and said, "Don't mess with me!"

Staring at the clumps of fabric in the three cabinets that couldn't be seen as pants or clothes, Zhou Ze really didn't know how messy he could mess them up.

The new roommates who are difficult to get along with, the living environment that is always full of smells, and the upper bunk that looks precarious.Zhou Ze didn't move those metal cabinets, and still put the suitcase against the wall, but it would be more troublesome every day.

He couldn't think of anything worse.

Zhou Ze sat in his seat. It was already dark outside and the rain had stopped for a long time. He could still feel a little hunger before, but now he was only exhausted.

He touched his pocket, and then asked Ding Yibao: "Where is the bathing place?"

Ding Yibao was watching a bad movie, laughing wildly: "...what?"

Zhou Ze had to repeat: "Where do you take a bath?"

Only then did Ding Yibao answer: "Go out and turn left, the bathroom will be at the end of the walk."

Zhou Ze couldn't even say thank you this time, so he grabbed his change of clothes and went out.

After passing through several dormitories in a row, he finally saw the so-called bathhouse—it had a toilet-like compartment, the overhead lamp was broken by steam, and kept flashing, and several half-sized moths fluttered in the air. .

Zhou Ze picked the last cubicle and stuffed a cigarette into his mouth as soon as he entered.The flame jumped up, burning the dark and cramped space.

He sank in the smoke, like a child at a loss. When he was at a loss, he had to take out the mobile phone in his pocket, but after swiping it twice, he was still at a loss.

Suddenly, the person in the next compartment knocked on the baffle between the two compartments: "Brother, do you have shower gel? Soap is also fine, borrow it."

Zhou Ze was stunned for a while before realizing that he was calling himself: "Ah... yes, wait."

He grabbed it casually in the basin and passed it over.

"Ah... I'm sorry." Zhou Ze didn't notice that he still had a cigarette in his hand, and half of the ash fell down accidentally.

"Tsk..." The man reached out to take the bottle unhappily.

Zhou Ze withdrew his hand and choked out the cigarette angrily.

After a while, the next door knocked on the baffle again.

"Brother... You gave it wrong, this is for shampooing." The other party's voice was full of helplessness.

Zhou Ze hurriedly changed it for him again.

He even admired himself for being able to wash in such a mess after taking a bath.

When they returned to the dormitory, Li Hefei and Guo Chao had already finished the game time and were half lying on their respective beds. But before Zhou Ze was lucky that the dormitory was finally quiet for a while, he first realized that the atmosphere in the room was not right.

He scanned around, and sure enough, he saw Ding Yibao winking at him, and his bed was in a mess.

"what happened?"

"Brother Chao and Brother Fei lost a cigarette... What, have you gone to smoke?"

Ding Yibao's nose is as sharp as a dog's. Although he took a bath, he could smell Zhou Ze's scent whenever he spoke.

Zhou Ze was silent, walking between the two dark-faced people.

Guo Chao said, "Hey, you're new here."

Zhou Ze looked at him: "What's wrong?"

As soon as Guo Chao came up, he hooked his shoulders and put his back together: "Sorry, we didn't deliberately find fault, but we were afraid that you took the wrong one..."

Zhou Ze frowned and avoided his grip: "If you don't have cigarettes... I can order takeaway for you."

Li Hefei went up to touch his pocket directly: "That's so embarrassing, don't you have it in this pocket? Lend me first, thank you..."

He had just shaken out two cigarettes when his hands were suddenly empty.

The smoke was snatched back by Zhou Ze.

"..."

Guo Chao smashed the drink bottle in his hand - he missed it and threw it against the wall. With a "boom", it smashed a piece of wall.

"What do you mean? Challenge?"

Zhou Ze's hand tightened, and he grabbed it subconsciously, forgetting to think about the consequences.

Uncle Liu, the housekeeper, is deaf, and Guo Chao is not worried about being heard.

Zhou Ze was standing by the bed, still holding a cigarette in his hand, he didn't dodge or dodge when the water bottle was thrown at him, he didn't even blink his eyes - it seems that a harmonious dormitory life is destined to be out of reach.

bang——

The dormitory door was kicked.

"Arguing with your mother." The person outside the door cursed.

Guo Chao originally wanted to go straight to the line, but when he saw the man's face clearly from the window, he fell silent.

Pei Ye from Class Six.

"..."

Zhou Ze also saw him. Unlike in the afternoon, the other party had changed into a large black sweater now, his hair was still a little wet and messy, as if he had just got up from the bed, and his cheeks and eye sockets were unnaturally red.

Behind him were a few little tails from the next bedroom, who seemed to come out of curiosity when they heard the movement.

"We have to fight." Pei also directly threatened.

"This is about our dormitory..." Li Hefei didn't want to have conflicts with him.

At this moment, old man Liu came out from nowhere, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Stop arguing, go back to the dormitory, the lights are going to be turned off!"

Two seconds later, bang, the lights went dark, and the world was clean.

"You wait."

In the darkness, I don't know who said the last sentence.

Thanks to Pei Ye's blessing, Zhou Ze had a quiet first night, and they didn't make any trouble until they went to school the next day.

It's just that when he went out in the morning, Li Hefei who was sleeping on the lower bunk seemed to sit up and look at him.

Zhou Ze went out early, after five o'clock, the sky was bright, the huge campus was empty, even the little yellow dog raised by the security guard hadn't woken up, and was huddling in the corner of the wall piled with waste cardboard boxes, and there were still leftovers on the ground from yesterday. If the water accumulates, the toes of the shoes that walk by will cause circle after circle of ripples.

When he came to the classroom stepping on the cold and hard ground, there was unexpectedly a person sitting inside.

— To be precise, lying down.

The keys to the classrooms in No. [-] Middle School are placed on the eaves of the classroom doors. Whoever comes first will open the door. Anyway, every classroom is equipped with surveillance cameras, so there is no need to worry about safety.Zhou Ze deliberately asked someone in advance, but he didn't expect that he was not the first to come.

"Ah..." Zhou Ze paused, "It's so early?"

The black unknown thing lying there moved, and then raised its furry head from the surrounding arms.

Pei Ye yawned sleepily, looking listless: "...Why are you here so early?"

...Didn't I ask you?

Zhou Ze choked for a moment, but still answered: "I haven't finished my homework."

Pei Ye was also taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect anyone to discuss homework with him: "What homework?"

Zhou Ze sat down at his desk, and then took out a stack of papers in his schoolbag: "There are three reading comprehension and text recitation in Chinese, a set of papers in mathematics, exercise books in English, and homework in politics, history and geography. Post-practice..."

Pei Ye's expression became more and more distorted: "...what?"

Zhou Ze raised the papers and books in his hand: "Well...you haven't come these days, maybe your papers haven't been distributed, but the exercise book..."

Pei Ye said, "That's all right."

Zhou Ze originally thought that even if the master was not in a hurry for the next step, he should ask him to copy his homework, but he fell asleep instead.

... There are no papers, but you still have the exercise booklet.

Zhou Ze turned back to his upper body sullenly, and faced his empty math problem again.

The empty classroom gradually became quiet. Except for Pei Ye's heavy breathing and the clock's needle movement, Zhou Ze could only hear the rustling sound of the pen tip in his hand rubbing against the paper. Today is cloudy again, but compared to the previous The feeling of being dull and heavy for a few days is not the same. The smell of water after the rain is spread by the soil and plants, and floats in from the half-opened window sill.

An hour had passed since Zhou Ze finished the last question. The morning reading started at 45:[-], and students gradually appeared on the campus at [-]:[-].

Because the stomach is not filled with food in time, it starts to send messages of hunger to the brain.

Zhou Ze closed his pen cap, put on his sweater hat and walked out of the classroom.

There is a row of breakfast shops at the entrance of No. [-] Middle School. The taste is not very good, but fortunately there are many varieties. Zhou Ze bought two vegetarian buns and soy milk. I bought two buns and soy milk.

As soon as Pei Ye was mentioned, Zhou Ze remembered the appearance of him standing outside the window yesterday, with a large sweater hanging on him, showing the unique thinness and uprightness of young people.

It was also at this time that he reacted belatedly. When he was talking to Pei Ye just now, his voice seemed muffled, with a lingering sickness.

Zhou Ze turned around and bought some cold medicine.

By the time he returned to the classroom with a few plastic bags, the place had been flooded with homework.

"Squad leader, you have a lot of adults, don't worry about the younger ones, just lend me your math homework to copy!"

"Don't bother me! I haven't finished memorizing the book yesterday!"

Even Xu Dazhi, who has always been a gangster, has become a dog's leg... Oh no, he has always been a dog's leg.

Zhou Ze carefully slipped past him, but before he could retract his other leg, the dog's leg stuck to him.

Xu Duozhi blinked his eyes briskly: "Zhou Ze, are you here? Have you finished your homework? Lend me to copy it."

Zhou Ze disarmed and surrendered: "Okay, okay, let go first, wait for me to return to my seat..."

Xu Duozhi let go of his hand obediently when he heard that there was something going on.

Zhou Ze was able to catch his breath, and quickly gave Pei Ye his breakfast and medicine.

The latter was just woken up by the sound of copying homework in front, and was sitting on the seat with a face as black as carbon, staring at the crowd in front of him unhappily.

But in comparison, a hot breakfast made him feel helpless.

Zhou Ze pushed the bag in front of him: "Thank you yesterday, I just heard that your voice was not right, so I bought it by the way."

For some reason, Pei Ye suddenly remembered the coat that was left at his home.

"Zhou Ze, what are you doing..." After Xu Duozhi got the English homework from the school committee, he didn't forget to care about it while crying, "Huh? Brother Pei, are you sick?"

Without waiting for anyone to respond, he took another step forward and said: "Then let's not disturb his sleep, go to your place and say..."

Zhou Ze followed him and smiled wryly: "What do you want? Mathematics...the last question is a bit out of line, you'd better not copy..."

"Okay, then I won't copy, your paper will be handed over to you after I finish copying it!"

"Well, thank you."

……

Pei also leaned against the wall, and the steamed stuffed bun stood there in front of him, and the transparent plastic bag was steamed into a layer of mist.After a while, he shifted his gaze from Baozi to Zhou Ze.

Surrounded by Xu Duozhi and several other people around his table, several mouths were chattering together, and Pei Ye felt annoyed just looking at it, but Zhou Ze still responded one by one, as if he had full patience.

Is he a nice guy?