Chapter 7: Panic
The azure sky outside the window put on a black coat, the clouds chased the stars, the moon was selling the evening breeze, the street lamps emitted warm light to warm every passerby who came home late, while the lights in the classroom were completely the opposite. They emitted bright white light, because they wanted to illuminate the future. The moths outside the window also seemed to want to chase the future, but they got the wrong way and were circling around the bright lights.
A few of them got dizzy and fell on Chi Jinjin's draft book. Chi Jinjin picked up the book and shook it off. Since it was evening self-study, there was no teacher in the classroom. It was noisy and no one knew what was going on.
"Stop arguing~"
Wang Xiaomo shouted perfunctorily while chatting with Shen Moli.
Chi Jinjin was lost in thought as she stared at her draft book, her mind filled with images of Nan Xuqiu.
He was like a dandelion. She just touched him lightly, and from then on he was everywhere in the sky.
The pen in her hand began to move involuntarily. When she came to her senses, she found that she had actually written three big words "Nan Xuqiu" on the draft book.
She didn't know why she wrote his name, so she scribbled it out guiltily, then turned the page and scribbled on the back as well.
"What are you making so much noise for!" Wang Weiguo suddenly appeared at the classroom door and shouted angrily, "Our class is the noisiest in the whole building. Don't you know how to review well during evening self-study? If you keep making noise, get down and do morning exercises!"
The classroom, which was noisy just now, suddenly became silent and everyone became quiet.
I don’t want to think about it anymore.
Chi Jinjin patted her face, took the exercise book and started to do the exercises.
Time always passes quickly when doing exercises, and soon the bell for the end of get out of class rang.
Tang Shi held Chi Jinjin's hand as they walked back to the dormitory. She asked, "Jinjin, we have a day off this weekend. Shall we go shopping?"
"Yeah, okay." Chi Jinjin nodded in agreement, even though she didn't need to buy anything.
As Tang Shi was looking forward to it, the gears of time finally slowly turned to the weekend.
"Let's go, Tang Shi." Chi Jinjin took the key and came to the door of Tang Shi's dormitory.
Tang Shi turned around and glanced at her, saying, "Jinjin, aren't you going to change your clothes? Don't wear your school uniform when you go out."
Chi Jinjin looked down at herself and thought that Tang Shi was right. It would be better to wear casual clothes when going out.
"Then I'll go change my clothes." Chi Jinjin ran back, took off her school uniform, and changed into a purple short-sleeved shirt and black sweatpants.
Tang Shi's call came from outside.
"I'm here." Chi Jinjin ran out of the dormitory with two black plastic bags in her hands.
Tang Shi glanced at him, and as she went downstairs with Chi Jinjin, she complained, "You throw away the dormitory garbage every day, you're almost like the old lady in your dormitory. Are all the other people in your dormitory useless? Especially that Shen Moli, I haven't seen her clean up."
"I can't help it. I won't throw it away, and they won't care. If I keep leaving it there, I'll lose dormitory points. Besides, the weather is getting hotter, and it will easily smell. I'm doing this entirely for myself." Seeing that she was a little angry, Chi Jinjin smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about these irrelevant things. Where are we going?"
"I don't know, but since neither you nor I have been to City A, let's just walk around." Tang Shi suggested.
Chi Jinjin nodded enthusiastically, and after throwing away the garbage downstairs, she took Tang Shi's hand, and the two of them happily walked out of the school gate.
Chi Jinjin got on a bus that was not available in the village and sat down by the window. She looked at the scenery outside the window excitedly. The wind blowing past her ears brought the sounds of the whole world. Some people were singing, some were hawking, some were honking, and the crowds of people were surging and the traffic was very busy.
Unlike the countryside, everything in the city seems to be moving at 1.5 times the speed, but it accommodates all life trajectories. Every street and every building has its own world.
What passes by the window is not only the prosperity of the city, but also the daily life of the world. The car is crowded with unfamiliar faces, the sun shines warmly on the lazy half day, and the opening and closing car doors are full of stories and time.
Chi Jinjin looked into the car and couldn't help but wonder, has Nan Xuqiu ever ridden in this car before? Has he ever sat in this seat before?
"Jinjin?" Tang Shi called her, but she didn't respond, so she leaned close to Chi Jinjin's ear and called again, "Jinjin!"
Chi Jinjin came back to his senses and asked blankly, "What's wrong?"
"Why are you always distracted lately?" Tang Shi asked.
Chi Jinjin hurriedly explained, "No, I was just thinking about how to solve a problem."
"Oh, sister, don't think about these things when you're out having fun. You're almost becoming a nerd!" Tang Shi held her forehead with her hand, looking like she had a headache. She stood up, took her hand, and said, "Let's get off the car and take a walk on the road."
"Yeah." Chi Jinjin got out of the car with her.
The two of them jumped happily on the long street. Tang Shi took her to the mall. After the mall, the two of them rushed into the food street. The various kinds of food opened Chi Jinjin's eyes. Not to mention eating all the food, just looking at Chi Jinjin would make her full.
"Come, try this now."
Before Chi Jinjin could see clearly what it was, Tang Shi stuffed something into her mouth. She immediately felt a chill spreading from her mouth to her stomach, and two streams of white smoke came out of her nose.
"What is that?" Chi Jinjin asked, covering her mouth.
"Dry ice balls." Tang Shi replied and put one in her mouth. White smoke immediately came out of her nose just like hers, making Chi Jinjin laugh heartily.
Chi Jinjin felt very lucky that in this strange city and on strange streets, there was a familiar person.
After strolling through the food street, Chi Jinjin said tiredly, "Tang Shi, take a break."
Tang Shi, however, was still full of energy and said with a smile, "How long have we been walking around? I told you to run more often, but you got lazy. Look at your physical strength, you're so weak."
"You are a sports student, how can I compete with you." Chi Jinjin said breathlessly, and found a place to sit down while speaking, not caring whether it was elegant on the roadside or not.
Tang Shi joked, "You have a big brain but simple limbs."
Chi Jinjin snorted coquettishly.
"Bastard! Shut up!"
Suddenly a voice was heard.
Chi Jinjin and Tang Shi immediately looked at each other.
"Was that the sound of Song Ci just now?" Tang Shi asked in surprise.
Chi Jinjin nodded, "It seems so..."
She turned around and looked at the alley behind her. The sound just now came from there.
"Let's go and take a look." Tang Shi suggested curiously.
"Ah?!" Chi Jinjin said in horror, "Tang Shi, are you crazy? No, no, no, I won't go."
The little bully is here, they should run away quickly.
"Let's go and take a look. Maybe he is being beaten. Let's go and see how miserable he looks." Tang Shi said excitedly.
Chi Jinjin kept shaking her head. If they were being beaten, she shouldn't just watch. If the little bully knew that they had seen him in such a miserable state, he would definitely skin them alive when he got back to school.
"Tang Shi, let's go quickly." Chi Jinjin stood up and persuaded.
But Tang Shi was a person who loved to join in the fun, and she would not listen to Chi Jinjin easily. Instead, she pulled her arm and said, "Jinjin, just take a look, let's go."
"No, I won't go. I don't want to go!" Chi Jinjin stepped back.
Tang Shi grabbed her hand tightly and pulled her forward. Chi Jinjin was not strong enough to overpower the serious Tang Shi, and she was afraid of making too much noise and being heard by them.
So he was dragged over by Tang Shi.
After walking through the alley, I found an old basketball court at the other end.
Tang Shi pulled Chi Jinjin and hid behind a tree. He peeked over and saw Song Ci and Ji Yang. There were four or five people standing opposite them. They looked like people from society and had scary tattoos on their faces.
"I heard that it was you who beat up my little brother? Do you know who I am? Do you know who owns this land?"
A bald man opposite was chewing betel nut. He grabbed Song Ci's collar and questioned him fiercely.
Song Ci sneered and said to the man, "I've walked into this place today, so it belongs to me. I don't care who you are."
"Brother, how old are you? Go home and ask your mother for milk, you ignorant high school student." The bald man loosened his collar and laughed at him.
But the next moment, Song Ci punched him in the face.
The bald man was stunned, and so were his men. Until the man spat out a mouthful of blood, he was completely enraged and immediately yelled at the men behind him, "Kill them for me!"
The next moment, Ji Yang and Song Ci started fighting with those people. Song Ci kicked the bald man to the ground, grabbed his collar and hit him on the head. One of the bald man's subordinates strangled Song Ci's neck from behind, but Ji Yang punched the subordinate in the next moment.
"It's so lively." Tang Shi watched with great interest, even more excited than when she was shopping with Chi Jinjin just now. She has always been a person who enjoys watching the fun.
But Tang Shi didn't know that at this moment, Chi Jinjin's eyes were not on Song Ci and the others at all. From the moment she arrived here, her eyes were all on Nan Xuqiu who was standing beside them.
Chi Jinjin didn't expect that Nan Xuqiu was here too.
He was not wearing his school uniform today. The swaying shadows of the trees swayed over his book, and the sunlight was crushed by the gaps between the dense layers of green leaves and fell on his white shirt.
The people behind were already fighting, but Nan Xuqiu was leaning against the lamppost next to him, leisurely flipping through the book in his hand, not at all disturbed by the noise behind him, as if he were separated by two different times and spaces.
He is always like the moon after the rain, finding the temperature that suits him best between the heat and the cold. He is full of stars but has no hostility. He is not happy about the spring breeze and not annoyed by the summer cicadas.
And at the age of seventeen or eighteen, when things were turbulent and she was worried, she met a man as gentle as Jiangnan, and she could never take her eyes off him again...
It took Tang Shi a long time to realize that Nan Xuqiu was there too.
"Senior Nan isn't going to help?" Tang Shi wondered, then added, "But someone as gentle as him shouldn't be able to fight. It's better for him to stand aside."
The bald man's gang of followers could no longer withstand the brutal beating from Song Ci and Ji Yang, and they all knelt on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.
The bald man had several teeth knocked out. He covered his swollen face and said unwillingly, "How dare you kill me by beating me like this? I'll sue you to death!"
Nan Xuqiu closed the book in his hand, turned around and walked over to the group of people with a smile. He took out his phone from his trouser pocket and slowly opened the photo album. Then he slowly knelt on one knee and held it in front of the bald man to show him. He asked, "Do the things in the photos look familiar to you? Do they look like the casino you opened privately? Do they look like the pinhole cameras you placed in the hotel? And this guy who has been secretly taking pictures of girls' skirts so many times, does he look like you?"
Slender fingers slid across the screen, and photos appeared in front of the man.
"You, how do you have these?" The man was shocked and reached out to grab the phone.
Nan Xuqiu raised the hand holding the phone, stood up, and said, "Uncle, if you sue, who do you think will go to the police station first, us or you?"
The man looked up and saw him looking down at him, a smile on his lips.
"Brother." The younger brother beside him whispered, "I, I remember now, they seem to be Song Ci, Ji Yang, and Nan Xuqiu from the first high school..."
"Fuck you, why didn't you tell me earlier!" The bald man was furious and cursed in a low voice.
Then he hurriedly smiled and said to them, "Brother Ji, Brother Song, Brother Nan, I was blind and didn't know you were the three masters. I beg you to be merciful and forgive me this time."
Ji Yang looked at Song Ci and said, "You decide."
Song Ci said coldly to the man, "Get out of here right now and never show up in front of me again."
"Yes, yes, yes." The man wanted to get up.
Song Ci scolded again, "Who the hell told you to stand up?"
He pointed to the ground and said fiercely, "I'm telling you to get out of here!"
The man finally understood what he meant. He was extremely angry and wanted to stand up and tear Song Ci to pieces. But when he glanced at Nan Xuqiu behind Song Ci, and thought of the handle he had on her, he could only endure it. He slowly lay down, rolled on the ground, and rolled out.
"Lao Nan, you can do it." Song Ci turned around and put his hand on his shoulder, saying, "I didn't even know that old man did so many shameful things. How did you find out?"
"Want to know?" Nan Xuqiu smiled, took his hand off her shoulder, patted the dust off her shoulder with some disdain, and said gloomily, "It's a matter of brainpower, it has nothing to do with you."
"Your words sound..." Song Ci frowned suspiciously, "Why do you sound like you're scolding me?"
"I'm not scolding you, I'm praising you." Ji Yang said, holding back his laughter and stretching out his fist in front of Nan Xuqiu.
Nan Xuqiu smiled knowingly and bumped fists with him.
Song Ci touched his cheek with the tip of his tongue, raised his hand to wipe the blood off his face, and when he turned his head, he caught a glimpse of Chi Jinjin.
Chi Jinjin immediately withdrew her gaze, frightenedly pulled Tang Shi next to her, and ran away quickly.
Ji Yang and Nan Xuqiu followed Song Ci's gaze and saw the two girls running away in a hurry like frightened deer.
Ji Yang laughed and said, "See, I told you you were scary, look how scared this girl is."
"Tsk." Song Ci said disdainfully.
Nan Xuqiu smiled faintly as he watched the purple figure disappear into the alley.
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