Chapter 766: I Have Been Wandering For A Long Time
A cup of cold cola was placed in front of Fu Zhi's desk.
Fu Zhi raised his eyes and saw the seventeen-year-old boy.
The boy was wearing a white school uniform with a dark green collar. His peach blossom eyes were slightly closed, showing a bit of murderousness.
His gaze passed Fu Zhi and looked at Li Changgu who was standing next to Fu Zhi, his expression gloomy.
"For me?" Fu Zhi asked him.
The boy pursed his lips, nodded, and walked back to his seat.
He just vaguely heard Fu Zhi and Li Changgu chattering.
What five dollars, what ice cola.
When he got up from the dormitory today, he saw Li Changgu looking timidly next to his school uniform.
Originally, for such a theft, he should have turned hostile to Li Changgu and taught him a lesson, but for some reason, when he looked at Li Changgu, he always felt a sense of intimacy, and even thought that if he took it, he would just take it. If he didn't take it, it would be a bargain for others.
So...wait, isn't Li Changgu also someone else here with him? !
Looking at the ice cola on the table, Fu Zhi unscrewed the bottle cap and started drinking it.
Li Changgu was scratching his head and said, "Leave a sip for me, Mom. I haven't had a sip of Fat House Happy Water for two months!"
Fu Zhi really only left one bite for him.
Li Changgu held the drink bottle in the corner and drank it reluctantly.
Fu Zhi reminded him, "After this meal, hit the road, buy a pair of rubber gloves and work hard, get through this semester first, and then go home when your divine power recovers."
Li Changgu heard that before slaughtering pigs, hunters would give the pigs a sumptuous beheading meal.
He felt that what he drank was a execution meal, and when he got home, he didn't know how his mother would beat him.
Li Changgu was depressed.
Li Nanli, who was sitting slightly above Fu Zhi, turned around and glanced at the two people.
It was the height of summer, with cicadas chirping, and a young boy and girl were sitting very close to each other, whispering in each other's ears.
The scent of jasmine flowers wafts outside the window, and the air seems to carry a lingering ambiguity.
The page of the book paused, and his eyes became deeper.
Gu Yanqi's laughter suddenly rang in my ears, "Fu Zhi, Li Changgu, this handsome man and beautiful woman, they are childhood sweethearts, are they doing a sweet story in school?"
"Hey, don't mention it, Li Changgu, his last name is also Li, Nan Li, do you know him?" Jiang Jinshu finished his meal, walked in from outside the classroom, pointed in the direction of the two people and said, "I see you pay a lot of attention to them."
"Let's go to the ophthalmology department." Li Nanli turned the pages of the book without changing his expression. His voice was cold and indifferent: "I'm reading a book. I don't have time to pay attention to others."
The reasons are sufficient and well-founded.
but--
Gu Yanqi squinted his eyes and leaned closer to the book page, "No way, Nan Li, are you so awesome now? You can read the book even if it's upside down?"
Li Nanli: “…”
If you can't speak, can you shut up?
Why didn't your mother make you a mute!
Their voices were so loud that even Li Changgu, who was originally talking to Fu Zhi, was affected. He looked up and whispered, "Oh my God, was my dad just looking at us? Was he thinking that there was something fishy going on between us?"
He won’t be able to wash himself clean by jumping into the Yellow River, right?
What is this?
My dad suspects that my mom and I are having an affair!
This world is magical!
"Don't let your imagination run wild." Fu Zhi put the book into the hole on the table and said in a light voice, "There is no us in this world. He is only in the third grade of junior high school. He is so young. What's the point of talking about love?"
But the fact is that there are indeed many junior high school students who have love affairs behind the back of the principal.
Fu Zhi's schoolbag was stuffed with love letters.
Even though she was an outlier in the whole school - so poor that she had to eat dirt.
But with this pretty face, she is so likable.
She carried a washed and worn schoolbag and had her hair tied in a neat high ponytail, revealing a small section of her fair swan neck. She looked fragile and delicate, attracting all the girls in the school to follow her example and tie their hair in a high ponytail.
Fu Zhi occasionally felt that such an absurd life was full of drama. She gave birth to a little fairy, and the little fairy brought her back to Li Nanli's youth.
It is worth mentioning that Li Nanli was not in a glorious position at that time.
Compared to her restricted poverty, the boy's yellowed canvas shoes and his occasional work in a milk tea shop all revealed his poverty.
Fu Zhi was not sure for a moment, whether she did not know Li Nanli's past or her memory was distorted.
Young Li Nanli lived a hard and difficult life. If the boy's back had not been so straight and upright, like an unbroken poplar, she would have seemed unable to recognize him.
There are very few girls in school who confess to him.
Until one day, when Fu Zhi came out of the bathroom, he met a few girls.
The girl in the lead was the daughter of the principal of Changhong School. She was as noble as a white swan with its feathers spread out, and was walked forward surrounded by a group of girls.
"Qingqing, I heard that your family is planning to get you engaged to Li Nanli?"
"Is this true? You're going to marry that kind of person."
The door of the bathroom was only three meters wide. As Wang Qingqing and Fu Zhi passed by each other, she smelled the fresh orange scent from the girl.
People in the school say that Fu Zhi, as a new student, is very good at dressing herself. Even when she wears the same loose school uniform, she just casually rolls up her sleeves and it creates a different style.
They all live in the same school, and if the pretty girls are not friends, there will always be unclear comparisons and undercurrents between them.
Wang Qingqing knew that Fu Zhi and Li Nanli were classmates. She said proudly, "Engagement? I dare not get engaged to a man whose mother is a mistress."
Li Nanli is the undisputed school idol of Changhong. The more Wang Qingqing shows disdain for him, the more she can show her own vision.
Just like successful men always want to find beautiful women to show off their reputation.
The same goes for Wang Qingqing.
She glanced in Fu Zhi's direction and saw that the girl's pace had slowed down as expected.
The girls around her praised her and said, "That's right! I heard that her mother is the adopted daughter of the Huo family. She stole the marriage of the Huo family's real daughter, drugged Mr. Li, and went to the Li family with a big belly to force a marriage."
"A mother with distorted values will definitely give birth to a son with distorted values."
"My dad said that President Li doesn't like them anymore. Just look at Li Nanli working outside and you'll know how unpopular he is. I heard that the real daughter of the Huo family has also returned to China. Sooner or later, President Li and Huo Ningxin's marriage will fall through. By then, Li Nanli will be nothing after stripping off his noble skin."
"It's really pitiful to think about it. Being friends with people like Gu Yanqi and Jiang Jinshu who don't have much wealth, when you run out of money in the future, you won't be able to survive by relying on your friends."
“…”
In fact, Wang Qingqing didn't dislike Li Nanli, but the recent events in the Li family have made a lot of noise, and it is really hard for her to have any love for the young boy who has lost his status as the young master of the Li family.
"Stop talking," Wang Qingqing said irritably, "I will definitely not marry such a loser! Who wants to be with an illegitimate child? Her mother is an adopted daughter. I don't know if she got sick in the orphanage and gave birth to a son with a disease!"
Fu Zhi, who had eaten a lot of big melons, was ready to leave.
But the other party had just finished saying this.
Fu Zhi decided not to leave.
She turned around and said, "Wang Qingqing."
"What are you doing?" The other party turned around and asked impatiently.
"you."
…
Something big happened when I entered Changhong Junior High School.
The top girl in their school, the arrogant and domineering Wang Qingqing and her group became Fu Zhi's followers.
"It's Fu Zhi, who looks so poor that he has to sell blood and falls down at the slightest breeze. I don't know what method he used to make Wang Qingqing and the others obedient."
Gu Yanqi, who was sitting in the milk tea shop, was chattering around Li Nanli like a bee, "I heard that Wang Qingqing and the others talked about you in the bathroom. I don't know what they said made Fu Zhi unhappy, so Fu Zhi beat her up."
The young man who was making coffee had a cold look on his face and no expression.
Until the next sentence from the other party, he said slowly:
"It's all going viral in school now. Everyone says Fu Zhi likes you."
With a "bang".
The disk in the boy's hand was knocked to the ground.
“…”
Very good, today’s work was in vain again.
No matter how much money you make, it can never make up for the money you lose.
Gu Yanqi helped him pick up the plates and wondered, "Why are you so uncoordinated today and you don't speak?"
"say what?"
"She likes you! The school's most popular beauty likes you, and you're indifferent? Don't you want to show your affection?"
The girl's porcelain-white face appeared in Li Nanli's mind.
And she was standing not far away, waving at him, "Li Nanli."
He lied without changing his expression: "Boring."
He said one thing and meant another, but his heart was actually beating very fast. Even though it was just a rumor, he realized very clearly that he liked her.
Maybe it was a midsummer afternoon, or maybe it was a stormy night, when he saw her, the heart in his chest couldn't help but beat faster.
For the first time, I understood what it meant to be frantic.
For the first time, she clearly understood that a man of his status, at his age, did not have the capital to give her a stable life. His complicated family affairs and the tangled relationships with the previous generation made him realize that he was not qualified to like someone.
If it was Li Nanli ten years later, he would be decisive in killing, powerful and wealthy.
He could easily express his love.
But ten years ago, Li Nanli was just a humble grain of sand in the dust during the chaotic years.
After his violent heartbeat, he could only suppress the joy in his heart, humbly and carefully hiding his love, and cutting off his love.
His father disliked him, and he could only barely survive the oppressive life at his grandparents' house.
——
——
Fu Zhi discovered that something was not right with the young Li Nanli.
In the past, during breaks, when she was squatting at the door of the canteen and staring at the fat otaku's happy water, Li Nanli would casually walk past the canteen, casually buy another bottle, casually give it to her, and then leave like a cool guy without saying anything.
However, three days ago, he stopped buying her happy water.
This realization made Fu Zhi very unhappy.
Even though there is no Fu Zhi in the Li Nanli in this time and space, and the Li Nanli in this time and space does not know Fu Zhi, she still feels inexplicably aggrieved.
She was restricted from making money, and she wasn't like the heroines in novels who could use golden fingers after traveling back in time.
Li Changgu ran to the factory to move bricks. In such an unfamiliar world, Li Nanli was the only person she was familiar with.
Decades of married life made her instinctively dependent on him.
She was in a bad mood, and Wang Qingqing and the others also complained bitterly, fearing that if they said something wrong, Fu Zhi would slap them to death.
So a group of girls gave advice to Fu Zhi.
"If you want to capture a man's heart, you have to capture his body! As long as you are compatible in bed, he will be able to leave you."
"Hey, Sister Zhi, you are such a good fighter. Are you afraid that Li Nanli will not obey you if you throw a fist at him?"
"If you ask me, Li Nanli is the same. He ignored such a beautiful woman and was obsessed with money!"
"Shut up!" Fu Zhi pinched the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache from their noise.
As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, Fu Zhi integrated their ideas.
Decided to block him in the milk tea shop.
*
Changhong Junior High School.
Inside the Zhuangyuanfu milk tea shop.
What would normally be a normal business on weekdays was extremely busy tonight.
Boys in school uniforms swarmed into the milk tea shop like hornets.
They smiled gently and earnestly, "Zhizhi, Zhizhi, what do you want to drink? I'll treat you."
Fu Zhi was far away from Li Nanli.
She sat at the door, facing the air conditioner.
Obviously in such a noisy environment, Li Nanli couldn't hear what she said.
However, the girl's cold and gentle voice came from a distance, and she said slowly: "Can you treat me to a cup of strawberry smoothie?"
In the noisy environment, he only heard her voice.
It was as clear as the song of a lark. Fortunately, the light was against him, so he couldn't see the expression on her face for the time being. He could only judge the smile on her face from the tone of her voice.
But he was in a really bad mood.
Fu Zhi was like the rose he found in the desert, beautiful and delicate, but he was passing through the desert and there was no soil suitable for roses to grow.
So he watched from afar, little knowing that the beautiful rose could also attract travelers who had fine soil and tried to grow it.
He was jealous and sad.
But he knew better than anyone that this rose growing in the desert belonged only to itself, and even his jealousy was beyond the limit.
"Fu Zhi, I'll treat you to milk tea too. I'll treat you to milk tea every day. Can you date me?"
Young people who can come to Changhong to study are either rich or noble.
Pick any family you like and they all run a company to make money.
They eagerly wanted to buy an entire milk tea shop for Fu Zhi.
The boss was happy about today's business. "I want to invite this girl to be a model in our store. This is really good at attracting business for me. What do you think, Nan Li?"
He didn't think much of it.
Not even very good.
Especially when the other party was about to put his hand on Fu Zhi's shoulder, he didn't think twice, walked down from the workbench, pushed through the crowd, and grabbed Fu Zhi's wrist.
His eyes and eyebrows were red, and he called her name impulsively, "Fu Zhi."
She interrupted the reply she was about to give to the other party.
I even wondered if she would really fall in love with someone else because of a milk tea shop.
After all, she likes milk tea so much.
"Ah, I'm here."
Fu Zhi looked at him with a smile, and glanced at him. Although he was angry, he still controlled his strength to hold her hand. He asked knowingly, "What's wrong with you? Are you angry? But I helped you attract a lot of business."
Don't want a lot of business.
No commission either.
——I don’t want any of them!
He pulled her wrist and pulled her out of the door, saying with red eyes: "Don't drink the milk tea given to you by others, and don't fall in love with others."
"Wait for me, okay?"
"Is that okay?"
Wait for me, I will soon be able to fight against everything in front of me.
I live in a dirty quagmire and am trampled underfoot by others, but I cannot be humble forever. No one is born to be humble.
Sooner or later, I will like you.
I will become a very good person in the future. In the future, I will tell you about my love that I have never expressed to you.
Fu Zhi felt that she had really turned bad.
Look at herself, she almost made the young Li Nanli cry.
But perhaps because she was spoiled by the future Li Nanli, she pinched her fingertips and pretended to be hesitant, "Do I still need to wait? Others don't need me to wait."
The boy's face turned pale after hearing her words, his lips trembled slightly, and he couldn't utter a word.
He pinched the milk tea stains on his clothes, clearly understanding and ashamed of his poverty.
It takes a lot of money and effort to grow a delicate rose, and it is not something that can be achieved just by love alone.
There are countless people lining up to raise this rose, but he wants the rose to give up its comfortable life to block his uncertain future.
He drooped his eyelids and thought, after this year I will join the army, and I will definitely carry out the most dangerous missions and earn the most money for you.
But promises are not as good as real money.
At this moment, I actually began to hate his deformed family and the chaotic relationships among his elders.
"However," he was disheartened. At this moment, he suddenly heard the girl in front of him say with a smile, "If it were you, I would still be willing to wait if you bought me milk tea every day."
"You have to become a good person, Li Nanli."
The moonlight was bright that night, weaving into dreams and illuminating the muddy swamp.
Someone stood in the light, smiled at him, and said that he would become a very good person in the future.
He heard his heartbeat.
Another girl asked with a bit of malice, "Oh, by the way, if you pull me out now, what will happen to the milk tea shop?"
What else can I do?
Li Nanli thought helplessly.
Thanks to her, he must have been fired.
However, even if what happened today had not happened, he should consider changing jobs. Because there is now another hungry mouth behind him.
Of course, Li Nanli didn’t know at this time that there were actually two more hungry mouths to be fed.
It was holiday, and he sent her back to the building where the living environment was not very good.
Just as he was thinking about what to say, a group of thugs holding iron bars suddenly jumped out from a distance. When they saw Li Nanli, their eyes lit up and they shouted, "Beat him!"
What happened next was somewhat out of control.
Fu Zhi wanted to go up to help, but she saw with her own eyes the shackles that this world had placed on her. Her body became transparent in the dark environment, like a bystander.
Watching Li Nanli being outnumbered and being sent to the hospital unconscious.
Finally, Huo Ningxin hurried over and burst into tears in front of his bed.
Fu Zhi felt the law of time and space, and a solemn divine voice sounded in his mind: "The trajectory of the world cannot be broken. Intruder, you can only watch, listen, and feel as a bystander. You cannot change the development of this world as it should be."
Fu Zhi saw that Huo Ningxin at this moment was far from the glory she would be in the future. She was dressed like a housewife, with no makeup on, and looked very tired.
Standing opposite her was a woman who looked very similar to her.
Wearing a red dress, high heels, and delicate makeup on her face, she looked at Huo Ningxin coldly as she cried, "Are you heartbroken already? Huo Ningxin, let me tell you, as long as you don't divorce Brother Sicheng, I will make your life miserable with that little bastard forever!"
"Huo Niannian, is it you? Did you hire someone to beat up my son?!" Huo Ningxin looked up from the hospital bed with hatred in her eyes. Her son was her last bottom line. Anger dominated her thoughts. Without thinking, she raised her hand and hit the other person.
Fu Zhi saw Huo Niannian with a curled mouth corner. He could have obviously avoided it, but he was slapped and fell to the ground.
The next second, the door of the ward was opened.
A man who looked very similar to Li Nanli broke in.
A couple followed behind him, both looking at Huo Ningxin with disbelief and blaming eyes.
"Ningxin, what are you doing?" The moment Li Sicheng went to help Huo Niannian, Huo's parents blamed Huo Ningxin, "How could you push your sister? Where have you learned your manners? You disappoint me so much!"
"Mom and Dad, don't blame my sister. I shouldn't have come here... I've been occupying your home for so many years, it's normal for my sister to hate me." Huo Niannian fell into Li Sicheng's arms, sobbing softly.
"Huo Niannian, are you disgusting?" Huo Ningxin was so angry at her pretentious attitude that her fingertips were shaking. "Mom and Dad, she hired someone to beat up Nan Li, so I beat her. She deserves it! She..."
"Enough! Ning Xin!" Unexpectedly, the two elders of the Huo family interrupted him as soon as he said this.
"We know you resent Nian Nian. When you got lost, we brought her back from the orphanage and raised her. We told others that she was our only daughter. Later, we found you and you agreed to advertise that you were adopted and Nian Nian was our biological daughter so that the marriage between the Huo and Li families could continue."
"Do you really think we don't know that you promised me everything at the beginning, but you beat and scolded Nian Nian several times behind my back?! Ning Xin, your mother and I felt sorry for you being lost for so many years, but Nian Nian is also the apple of our eyes. If she hadn't eased your mother's pain of losing you, this family would have broken up long ago!"
"It would have been fine if you had snatched Nian Nian's marriage, but now you're still stubborn and you've attacked your sister. No wonder the teacher at Nanli School called and said he had a fight with his classmates. You're just following suit!"
"I think in a few years, Nan Li will be like your mother. Whenever he sees a girl he likes, he will drug her and force her to be with him!"
The ruthless words of the Huo family's parents were shouted into Huo Ningxin's ears.
Fu Zhi and Huo Ningxin have been together for so many years, and Huo Ningxin treats her as her daughter. She actually knows that the Huo family had an adopted daughter named Huo Niannian, but she has never met this person.
In my impression, Huo’s parents dote on Huo Ningxin to death... No, that’s not right.
Rather than saying that they spoiled her to death, it would be better to say that the Huo family's parents later looked at Huo Ningxin and always felt that Fu Zhi owed Huo Ningxin and were crazy about making up for her.
Why is my mother-in-law called a mistress? Why does Li Nanli have to go out to work even though he is the heir of the Li family?
As a bystander, Fu Zhi seemed to have seen it clearly.
Huo Ningxin's defense was interrupted.
It's like this every time, without exception.
Her parents assumed that she was jealous of her sister, and were also certain that she had drugged and snatched away her sister's marriage.
But they knew clearly that if she had not been lost, this marriage would have been hers.
As for the medicine, she didn't care about anything else. She looked up at Li Sicheng, "I didn't give you the medicine. I really didn't. It was Huo Niannian. She knew that my parents would restore my identity if I married you. She was afraid that she would lose the inheritance rights of the Huo family, so she deliberately designed to harm me and make my parents feel guilty. She wanted you to feel guilty. She——!"
"That's enough! Huo Ningxin, the way you quibble is really disgusting."
The nausea of being drugged by a woman was still vivid in his mind. The complicated feeling he had when looking at Huo Ningxin at a loss was soon drowned out by the nausea in his stomach.
He never thought that time could change a person beyond recognition.
He knew Huo Ningxin when he was three years old. When he was six years old, he took Huo Ningxin out on the street and accidentally let the little girl get lost.
He felt guilty and blamed himself like crazy, and couldn't forget the kindness and cleverness of the little girl.
Later, the two elders of the Huo family brought Huo Niannian. At first, he didn't like the little girl who replaced Huo Ningxin, but the little girl was kind, sensitive and very sensible. Gradually, he put all his guilt towards Huo Ningxin on Huo Niannian and treated Huo Niannian even better. It was during this kind of interaction that he fell in love with the little girl's kindness and gentleness.
After Huo Ningxin was found, he tried to be nicer to her, but every time he saw Huo Ningxin bullying Huo Niannian in private.
The longing buried deep in my heart completely disappeared.
Especially after Huo Ningxin forced him to marry her, his disgust reached its peak.
"Uncle Huo, Aunt Huo, I'm going to take Nian Nian to see a doctor first. Please take care of me here."
His son's condition in the hospital was unknown. As a father, Huo Sicheng left with another woman without a second thought.
Even the two elders of the Huo family hesitated for a moment before saying, "Let's go together."
Before leaving, Mrs. Huo sighed to Huo Ningxin and said, "Nian Nian is your sister and also my daughter. You are both the apple of my eye. You should have supported each other, but you snatched her marriage away. If she doesn't blame you, you should be grateful to her. Originally, your father and I wanted to leave the company to you and Nan Li, but seeing how you are now... Ningxin, why have you become so scary?"
"If we had known earlier, we shouldn't have brought you back. Rather than letting us know that our child is so vicious, it would be better for him to die outside and leave us a beautiful fantasy!"
The door of the ward was closed with a bang.
Fu Zhi saw Huo Ningxin collapsed to the ground.
She didn't even have the energy to take care of her son, and she was crying and laughing like a madman.
She was nothing like the decisive and decisive mother-in-law she became a few years later.
She is now controlled by love and family affection and cannot defeat Huo Niannian who has given up her morals.
Fu Zhi felt very distressed when seeing this.
She never knew that Li Nanli had lived in such a family before.
His elders don't love him, and he is surrounded by dangers.
And she watched helplessly like a spectator everything he went through, unable to help him in any way.
(End of this chapter)
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