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Zhu Zhi and Chen Zhan have known each other since childhood due to the acquaintance of their parents.

Both of them are the kind of "other people's children" that other parents say, but the difference is that Chen Zhan is more like a white swan combing its feathers in a spring lake, and Zhu Zhi is more like hiding in a big tree. The ugly duckling looks enviously at the swan.

When she was young, Zhu Zhi was very gluttonous, eating one meal at a time, gradually eating herself into a little fat man.

In addition, Zhu Zhi had a strong interest in mathematics since he was a child, and he buried his brain in the book for a long time and refused to move. Slowly, his eyes became myopic because of the books, and he put on myopia glasses early.

Although smart, he is particularly dull when it comes to dealing with people. The snacks he saves are often snatched away by others, and he doesn't know how to resist. He just sheds tears silently.

But after entering elementary school, Zhu Zhi's life changed.

When he was a child, Chen Zhan was much taller and stronger than other children of the same age. He rushed in front of a group of children, punched them one by one, grabbed one of the boys by the ear, and said fiercely, "Where are the snacks?"

The little boy was in pain, and obediently delivered the snacks hidden in his arms to Chen Zhan's hands.

Chen Zhan snorted coldly, snatched the snacks, shook the little boy hard, and shouted at him: "I tell you, don't bully her anymore, she is my maid, if you bully her, you just Bullying me! Did you hear that?"

"I heard it." The children who were beaten to pieces by Chen Zhan scattered and fled.

When only Zhu Zhi and Chen Zhan were left, Chen Zhan turned around and stared at Zhu Zhi who was pushed to the ground. Her chubby little face was still stained with wet tears, and her glasses were smashed. fall to the ground.

There was a hint of hatred in Chen Zhan's tone: "You are really useless, being bullied by them!"

Just after being bullied by others, when she heard Chen Zhan scolding her like that, Zhu Zhi's eyes were stained with tears as soon as she receded, and she pursed her lips and wanted to

"You cry again? Do you dare to cry for me?" Chen Zhan raised his hand, pretending to hit him.

Zhu Zhi quickly raised his hands to protect his head, dodged subconsciously, and tried hard to hold back the tears that were about to fall.

Seeing Zhu Zhi begging for mercy, Chen Zhan lowered his arm, tore open the snack bag that originally belonged to Zhu Zhi, and said, "You are really useless!"

Zhu Zhi looked up at Chen Zhan's action aggrievedly. He was pushing the potato chips into his mouth one by one, but he didn't dare to say anything.

"If you are like this, how can you be my follower in the future?" Chen Zhan was chewing on potato chips, and his words were vague.

Although he didn't fully understand what Chen Zhan was talking about, Zhu Zhi could hear the word "follower" clearly.

When I was in the first grade, I happened to be assigned to the same class. Because their parents were always close, Zhu Zhi and Chen Zhan also met each other often, and the two children became familiar with each other.

Apart from bullying Zhu Zhi, Chen Zhan just made fun of Zhu Zhi, making her cry.

Zhu Zhi didn't dare to say anything, and could only express his dissatisfaction through louder and louder cries.

When Chen Zhan ate the potato chips in the packaging bag and there was only one-third of the broken potato chips left, Chen Zhan handed the bag to Zhu Zhi: "Here."

Zhu Zhi smiled through tears, took it happily, looked down, and saw that there were still a little crumbs left, and tears welled up again involuntarily.

"Why are you crying again! It's just a bag of potato chips! You are so stingy! Big deal... Big deal, I'll buy you a hundred bags next time!"

Hearing this sentence, Zhu Zhi smiled through tears, and raised his face: "One hundred packs?"

"If a gentleman speaks, eight horses will not be able to chase him back!"

Zhu Zhi laughed and muttered in a low voice: "It's a gentleman who can't chase after a word, right?"

When his shortcomings were exposed, Chen Zhan became annoyed: "It's eight horses. I said eight horses, it's eight horses!"

Zhu Zhi raised his head and looked at Chen Zhan's angry face, but he didn't dare to continue speaking, holding the crumbs of the bag of potato chips tightly in his hand, as if he was afraid that Chen Zhan would snatch it away again.

"Okay, my lord doesn't care about villains, little maid, I want to drink juice." Chen Zhan ordered.

Zhu Zhi struggled to get up from the ground, patted the dust on his body, picked up the glasses on the ground, put them on his face, still tightly holding the bag of potato chips in his hand, and was about to walk in the direction of the school canteen.

Suddenly, Chen Zhan stopped him: "Wait, what's wrong with your glasses?"

Zhu Zhi tried to look at the eyes in front of him with both eyes, but they became cross-eyed, and said slowly: "Oh, it must have been broken just now."

She vaguely saw a large crack on the lens of the glasses.

"Then what do you do?" Chen Zhan asked.

Zhu Zhi replied without hesitation: "Go home and tell mom, mom will buy it for me again..."

Before Zhu Zhi could finish speaking, Chen Zhan interrupted her angrily: "You are so useless! You were obviously bullied by those bad kids just now!"

Zhu Zhi nodded and said nothing.

The little Chen Zhan sighed, with an old-fashioned look, stretched out his finger, and nodded Zhu Zhi's forehead: "You are really useless!" Then, he took Zhu Zhi's arm and walked towards the teacher's office.

Zhu Zhi was pulled by the arm, hesitated again and again, and still expressed his great doubts: "Did you go wrong? The small shop is not in this direction."

Chen Zhan stopped, turned his head, and said angrily, "Which small shop are you going to? Let's go to the teacher!"

Zhu Zhi was completely dumbfounded by Chen Zhan's next superb performance.

As soon as he walked into the door of the class teacher's office, Chen Zhan's tears started to fall down, as if he didn't want money.She was the one who was bullied, but Chen Zhan cried harder than she did.

The pretty baby little Chen Zhan's face was covered with tears, his nose was red and red, and his face was full of grievances. Not only the head teacher of his own class, but almost all the teachers in the office gathered around and expressed concern.

After a while, Chen Zhan said while sobbing: "They, they bullied us...and, they even broke her glasses!" As he spoke, Chen Zhan raised his finger and pointed to the dingy Zhu Zhi beside him.

Without further ado, the class teacher first called the group of little boys who had just been beaten to death by Chen Zhan to the office, gave them a good meal, and then called the parents one by one.

Finally, with the compensation from the parents of the students, Zhu Zhi got a new pair of glasses.

But Chen Zhan looked at the new glasses very dissatisfied: "It's not as good as the original one."

Zhu Zhi was very happy, and pushed his mirror frame across the bridge of his nose, momentarily overjoyed: "But I am very satisfied."

"What did you say?" Chen Zhan hated people questioning her the most, especially her little follower in front of her.

"Uh." Zhu Zhi froze, not daring to speak.

"One hundred packs of potato chips, don't even think about it!"

"Ugh...!"

In this way, the two of them spent three or four years in peace. Although they were being bullied by Chen Zhan all the time, Zhu Zhi didn't have any dissatisfaction in his heart. Instead, he felt that Chen Zhan beside him was beautiful and very happy.

The closest relationship with Chen Zhan was her, and she was named "the best follower" by Chen Zhan. Other than that, they were all what Chen Zhan called "lower follower".

Zhu Zhi accompanied Chen Zhan to participate in a dance competition for Chen Zhan as usual.

The contestants take turns to perform on stage one by one, and the order is determined by the draw of lots before the contest.

The content of the performances of the young contestants was also temporarily determined by the lottery before the competition, which undoubtedly added great difficulty to a group of children.

Chen Zhan's lottery sequence was relatively high, and the title drawn was: Swan.

The time, place and people are right, this topic is very suitable for Chen Zhan, and the judges have a very good impression of Chen Zhan, who is smart and clever, and they scored higher one by one.

After Chen Zhan finished his performance, he walked down from the stage proudly, took the warm water from Zhu Zhi, and reckoned in his heart that the champion of this competition was without a doubt.

"You look so good." Zhu Zhi gave out a kind of admiration. When he looked at Chen Zhan, his eyes seemed to be shining with stars.

After hearing this, Chen Zhan raised his head even higher.

Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of a gaze from the front row from the corner of her eye. She looked over, and the girl was not afraid at all. She stared straight at Chen Zhan with a calm expression on her face. After a while, the girl turned her head and continued to stand. performers on .

Looking at the girl's eyes, Chen Zhan didn't know how to describe the feeling in his heart.

Her unafraid and unavoidable gaze annoyed Chen Zhan;

But the calm expression on her face like stagnant water aroused Chen Zhan's endless curiosity.

She has been secretly paying attention to this girl, and she can't help but glance at her between talking with Zhu Zhi.

The sun shines through the window, hitting the side of the girl's face, and the thin hair curled up by her ears seems to be glowing.

Finally, it was the girl's turn to play.

"Hello judges and teachers, I am contestant No. 41, and my name is Zhou Zhou."

"Zhou Zhou." Chen Zhan under the stage recalled the name in his mouth.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Zhi asked curiously.

Chen Zhan said, "No."

"The topic I drew was, Qiu Chan."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the audience, and more of it was the dissatisfaction of the few judges sitting in the front row: "Who came up with this question? You are a child, why did you come up with this question?"

Chen Zhan asked Zhu Zhi beside him: "What is Qiu Chan?"

Zhu Zhi patiently explained: "It's the cicada in autumn. It sings in summer and dies in autumn."

The game time started, and the background music corresponding to this topic sounded.

Zhu Zhi on the stage ignored the discussions around her. She slowly raised her arms above her head, raised her toes, and slowly began to dance.

As time passed, her movements changed from slow to intense. With the passionate music, her arms were swinging faster and faster, like cicadas singing on the branches in midsummer.

Suddenly, the intense music stopped abruptly, and Zhou Zhou's body on the stage suddenly fell to the ground, making a loud noise on the stage. A judge sitting in the middle was startled by Zhou Zhou's action and stood up.

The next second, the melodious music rose slowly again, and Zhou Zhou gradually stood up with the support of his legs, his eyes fixed on the sky above his head.

Just when she stood upright, she suddenly lowered her body again, causing the judges in the front row to feel anxious again.

It’s just that this time Zhou Zhou didn’t fall to the floor with his whole body. He gradually rose up, then fell suddenly, rose again, and fell again, just like a cicada that fell off a tree in autumn and wanted to climb up the branch again. .

Finally, the end of the song.

Zhou Zhou raised his arm and slowly pointed to the auditorium. At the end of his fingertips was Chen Zhan.

Zhu Zhi looked at Chen Zhan's expression from the side: "Why are you blushing?"

Chen Zhan didn't answer her, and in many subsequent questions about Zhou Zhou, Chen Zhan didn't answer her.

Ever since Chen Zhan knew that Zhou Zhou was in the next class, he played less and less with Zhu Zhi.

Gradually growing up, Zhu Zhi also gradually felt that Chen Zhan's feelings towards Zhou Zhou were different from those towards himself and other people.She felt bad about it.

But she didn't know what the cause of this sadness was, as if she saw a question but couldn't think of an answer, Zhu Zhi felt anxious and sad.

In order not to fall into this kind of pain, Zhu Zhi chose to escape, and went to another city with her parents' work to start a new life.

Most importantly, there was no Chen Zhan.

Three years have passed by in a flash, and I have made new friends around me, and I have a new life of my own. Originally, Zhu Zhi thought that he could erase that inexplicable feeling.

But she received a call from her crying after she was drunk.

"Zhu Zhi, I'm so sad that I want to die, why is she doing this to me?"

When she heard Chen Zhan's cry, the pain in Zhu Zhi's heart rushed to her like a tumbling wave.These three years were just her escape.

She laughs at herself:

"After all, there is no escape."