Li Biran was actually smart and quick-witted, and he was doing well in junior high school. Although I didn't try my best in junior high school, I still tried my best. As a result, I performed exceptionally well in the junior high school entrance examination and got admitted to this very good private high school. It is also known as the aristocratic school.
Tuition and living expenses are also expensive. Although his parents were working in another place, he gritted his teeth and decided to go. Everything is for the children's future. Now that my child has worked hard and got admitted to such a good high school, I will let him go even if I have to spend a large part of my savings.
However, it was not until he had lived in the new high school for a while that Li Biran understood what it meant to pretend to be rich.
He used to go to the district high school. Although he was not a celebrity, he was still a role model. What does it matter now that we have come this far?
Most of them are either rich or noble. Either the family members are officials or businessmen. Those people buy trendy shoes that cost thousands of dollars a pair without blinking an eye. I change it every time Apple releases a new model. Sometimes Li Biran sat in his seat and listened to his deskmate chatting with others:
"Have you bought the iPhone XS?"
"I bought two, one for myself and one for my sister."
"But I also want to try the Huawei P20, that one looks good."
"Okay, okay, I'll buy one and try it out. If it doesn't work, I'll give it to my aunt."
…
Li Biran suddenly felt that the iPhone 8 in his pocket, which was still 80% new, was a little hot.
When he got home that day, he called his parents and said, "Mom, I want to change my phone."
The mother was stunned for a moment and asked, "Didn't we just change it last year?"
Li Biran said: "All of our classmates have new ones! Everyone has an iPhone XS. Why don't you buy one for me?"
The mother asked quietly, "How much does it cost?"
"About ten thousand."
“…”
Of course, his mother didn't buy him a new phone later. When his father found out, he scolded him over the phone: "We spent all the money we earned over the years to let you go to this high school. You don't want to study hard, but you want to change your phone. How can we have so much money? You are so ignorant!"
After hanging up the phone, Li Biran felt extremely angry and helpless. He felt very angry. Of course, this anger was directed at his parents who seemed indifferent to him, but vaguely, it seemed to be directed at himself and everything around him. Xie Huifang, that home was not his home at all. There is also school and those strange classmates who always seem to live in another world.
Not to mention that in the first placement test after entering school, Li Biran ranked among the bottom ten in the class. He used to think that those rich and powerful young men were all good-for-nothings, so he secretly reviewed for a while before the exam, hoping to make a splash, but the result was a slap in the face. As a result, he felt that the way the teacher looked at him was much colder than the way he looked at those with good grades and good family backgrounds...
Haha...don't fucking look down on others.
Li Biran dislikes going to school more and more. He doesn't get along with those people at all. The first year of high school is almost over, but he and his classmates seem to be becoming more and more unfamiliar. That feeling of strangeness is like falling into a quagmire, slowly sinking deeper and deeper. You watch it happen but you can't do anything about it, you can only gradually become stiff and numb.
As his grades dropped, he skipped classes more and more often and broke rules, and his parents' scolding and disappointment increased. As for Xie Huifang, Li Biran felt that she liked to give orders more and more, and treated him less and less as a human being. She is involved in everything and keeps an eye on everything, just like an excited middle-aged female spy. Every day she seems to be looking forward to finding new evidence that "this child is indeed disobedient and hopeless."
Li Biran likes hanging out in Internet cafes more and more. Whether going to school or returning to that so-called "home", he felt like he was in prison.
"Fuck, I'll kill you."
"I want to die."
"I really want to kill someone."
…
These words are often said by teenagers and even adults in Internet cafes. Even the sons of the rich and powerful in school can say it casually. Li Biran would sometimes say this when he was playing games in an Internet cafe. It actually feels great when you say these words.
And many times, when a teenager’s mind is confused and full of resentment, he always has a chaotic and indescribable impulse to do something, to break up this fucked up life of a teenager.
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Liu Ruoyu has loved reading since he was a child. He could read comic books, newspapers, textbooks, and even dictionaries quietly for an entire afternoon. My favorite thing to read is detective novels, in which the protagonists are smart, cunning, have a sense of justice, and are always in control of the overall situation.
That was a life that was very, very far away from him.
He has lived in an uncle's house since he was a child and has no parents. They died when he was very young. I heard that he died while working outside. As far as I can remember, he lived with my grandfather for two or three years, and then my grandfather died. Just live with my uncle.
My uncle and aunt set up a small breeding farm in the village, but it was never as good as others and they didn’t make much money. In some years, they even lost money. The couple often played cards, and sometimes lost thousands of dollars, even their own children. At this time, Liu Ruoyu always stood in the corner silently, but he would still get beaten.
Their children are older and are attending high school in the county, living in boarding school. Liu Ruoyu was still in junior high school in the town and lived with them. Sometimes my aunt was busy playing cards and had no time to take care of me, so she would buy 10 packets of noodles for home. There was no meat whistle, only oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. For several months, Liu Ruoyu went home and cooked noodles for himself every day after school.
The clothes are school uniforms and can be worn all year round. Wash it yourself and it will be clean and tidy. I had no money to buy books, so I could only borrow them from classmates. Later I heard that I could read e-books. He spent half a year picking up junk and bought the cheapest mobile phone.
Uncle saw the phone and asked: "Where did it come from?"
He replied: "I made it by selling mineral water bottles."
The uncle opened his eyes wide, took the phone and said, "Sure, you're grown up and can make money now." After looking at it for a while, he put the phone in his pocket and said, "Study hard, this... I'll take it away first, children should not play with mobile phones."
Liu Ruoyu stood there for a while and then walked back to his room.
There is no shortage of houses in the countryside. He lives alone in a very small and dark room that has not been decorated much, with gray walls and cement floors. He sat on the bed in silence for a while, then slowly loosened his clenched fists.
A few months later, when he graduated from junior high school, one day his uncle and aunt prepared a table of fairly sumptuous dishes, and his uncle even poured him a glass of rice wine.
My aunt smiled as usual, like a vulgar flower, and said, "Our Ruoyu has grown up so much and can earn money to buy a mobile phone by himself. He is really capable."
His uncle clinked glasses with him and said generously, "Cheers!"
Liu Ruoyu held the small wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
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