Ch. 175 - The Mob
Today is Saturday. Lu Xing plans to leave here on Sunday afternoon.
Speaking of which...
This place is also his hometown.
The two old folks insisted on tidying up the courtyard again, saying that they were going to have a reunion dinner tonight.
Originally, Lu Xing had planned to buy some ingredients, but he hadn't expected Chi Yueshan to be so thoughtful, bringing things directly from Haicheng.
'Nothing to do, nothing to do.'
Suddenly being idle, Lu Xing simply went out for a stroll, and by the way, to see if he was missing any daily necessities.
"What are you following me for?"
Lu Xing suddenly turned his head halfway through and saw Chi Yueshan sneakily following behind him.
Chi Yueshan was caught on the spot. She stood there in a daze, at a loss.
"I was afraid you were going to jump into the river."
She always felt that there was something wrong with Lu Xing, not a physical illness, but a mental one.
Chi Yueshan was really worried that Lu Xing, feeling that all his affairs were settled and he had no regrets, would have a whim and say goodbye to the world.
Hearing Chi Yueshan's answer, Lu Xing couldn't hold it in. He understood what she meant.
After a moment of thought.
Lu Xing took out his phone and read a passage with the voice function.
"The gardenia is coarse and large, and its fragrance is so strong it can't be dusted off. Therefore, it is not taken by refined people, who think its character is not high. The gardenia said, 'Fuck you, I just want to be fragrant like this, so fragrant that it's painful and joyous. Can you fucking manage me?'"
He locked his phone. Lu Xing looked at Chi Yueshan with amusement.
"Do you understand? A person like me has crawled through the mud and finally made it to today. I'm like the gardenia. Everyone thinks my character is not high, but I don't care what kind of fart they let out."
"I won't commit suicide."
"If one day I commit suicide or go missing, then it must be a murder. Remember to help me call the police."
Chi Yueshan stared at Lu Xing blankly and nodded. After getting this promise, she instantly let out a sigh of relief.
"Oh."
That's good.
Her world was too boring. Lu Xing was like a touch of color in it.
If she lost him, Chi Yueshan didn't dare to imagine what her world would become again.
But...
"Which book is that passage from?"
Chi Yueshan gracefully walked to Lu Xing's side and said with her head lowered in embarrassment.
"I'm not good at studying. I don't read these books much."
This was the truth. She had been sent to the opera school at such a young age. Where would she have the time to read those things?
Lu Xing didn't mean to look down on Chi Yueshan and just said with a smile.
"Reading is just something to pass the time. At most, it just lets a person know honor and shame, and understand reason."
"If you feel superior just because you've read a few stupid books, then the books have really been read in vain."
The uneasy feeling in Chi Yueshan's heart was instantly smoothed over.
From the village to the supermarket in the town, they had to pass through an asphalt road. On both sides were golden fields.
Lu Xing and Chi Yueshan slowly walked along the asphalt road.
Today there was a gentle breeze. The weather was cool. The leaves on the tall trees on both sides rustled.
Chi Yueshan took a deep breath. "The environment here is really nice."
Lu Xing walked slowly with his hands behind his back. "What, has the hermit DNA in your blood awakened?"
Chi Yueshan really wanted to say.
It's not that I want to be a hermit. It's that I want to be a hermit with you.
But then again...
Unless she was kicked in the head by a donkey, she would absolutely not say it out loud.
And so.
Chi Yueshan learned from Lu Xing and chose to change the subject. "What were you asking Chi Shui in the car? Why didn't you just ask me directly?"
Lu Xing didn't hide it either. "I was asking what posture to sleep in to have such a rich and noble sister like you."
Chi Yueshan was taken aback for a moment, then she laughed out loud and said teasingly.
"Then you should call me 'big sister.' I'm several years older than you anyway. I don't mind."
"Now, when I go to an event, people who are ten years older than me call me 'sister' or 'teacher.' It makes me feel uncomfortable everywhere."
She was not the kind of pampered person with a big temper. In the face of the surrounding flattery, she would only become calmer.
As Lu Xing listened, he said, "You've also become a female star."
Chi Yueshan pushed his arm irritably.
"You're laughing at me too!"
Lu Xing lifted the corners of his mouth. It was precisely because he knew that Chi Yueshan was not a fool and could be firm in her heart that he had marketed her.
Chi Yueshan said, "And you don't know my family's situation? Both my parents' families are in the medical industry. It's just that I'm an exception."
"If I had listened to my parents, you'd have to call me Dr. Chi now."
Lu Xing let out a laugh.
"If you had become a doctor, you'd still be in school at this age."
Studying medicine is like this.
My peers are in school, I'm in school.
My peers are working, I'm in school.
My peers are getting married, I'm in school.
My peers are having children, I'm still in school.
Hearing this, Chi Yueshan's head ached. Compared to saving the world, she was still more accustomed to the feeling of being on stage.
"So you were bullied at the opera school. Did you tell your parents?"
Lu Xing always felt that for someone with Chi Yueshan's family background to be bullied, there was only this one possibility of her not having told them.
Chi Yueshan hadn't expected Lu Xing to guess so accurately. She nodded.
"I didn't."
"My whole family disagreed with me learning Peking opera, but they couldn't dissuade me. It's the path I chose, so I have to walk it to the end."
If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't hide her waist injury in the end, she really would have endured it without a word.
"You're really not tough when you should be, and especially tough when you shouldn't be."
After hearing so much, Lu Xing only left this one comment.
Chi Yueshan understood what Lu Xing's words meant. He was just saying that she was too stubborn at that time, which led to a big loss for a small gain.
If she had just complained to her parents, it would have been impossible for her to have been ostracized for so long and finally get so seriously injured.
"But at that age, I had to save face. It looks very childish now, but you can't bully your childhood self."
"Besides, I had already said I was going to walk this path to the end. If I went to complain as soon as I encountered a setback, how embarrassing would that be?"
Chi Yueshan's appearance was soft and weak, but the stubbornness in her heart was always there.
Not to mention, the thought of facing her parents' "I told you so" expression after complaining made her feel terrible.
Lu Xing nodded. "That also makes sense."
Although Chi Yueshan didn't know if this was Lu Xing's concern, she still said.
"But after I was injured, my family called the police. All the classmates who had tampered with my things were sent in."
"And the classmates who had been cold to me before became the new targets of bullying."
Lu Xing asked calmly.
"Do you find it ridiculous?"
Chi Yueshan said silently.
"I find it very sad."
When a person is in a group, their IQ is severely reduced. In order to gain recognition, an individual is willing to abandon right and wrong and exchange their IQ for that sense of security.
But no one is definitely safe.
The role reversal is only in an instant.
Just because of this intellectually inferior mob, it left an unavoidable shadow on Chi Yueshan.
People are also quite a self-defeating thing.
Passing a corner, Lu Xing stopped. He saw a few middle school students surrounding a little girl.
Chi Yueshan subconsciously flinched.
Lu Xing sighed.
Is Chi Yueshan really as calm as she says? Is she really as enlightened and indifferent as she says?
Seeing them start to push the little girl, Lu Xing put his hands behind his back and was about to walk away as if he hadn't seen it.
Leaving only Chi Yueshan stunned on the spot, wanting to go up but not daring to.
Lu Xing glanced at her.
An elephant tied by a thin rope, even after growing up, has no courage to break free.
But.
If the poison in the wound is not cleaned out, the wound will never heal.
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