Chapter 260 Love
When Huo Xiaoguang, Li Xiaoman and their companions arrived at the courtyard, it was already completely dark. There were a few light bulbs in the courtyard, hanging under the eaves covered with spider webs. When there was wind, the light bulbs swayed, making the faces of the people in the yard flicker.

Huo Xiaoguang obviously felt that there were a group of people who disliked him. In fact, he said that the dinner everyone ate was the same as dog food. He didn't have any bad intentions, he just didn't control his mouth. However, he didn't care. He walked past Li Xiaoman and Zhao Chengming in front of him and went straight to Wang Xiaokai.

In the face of Yu Xiaorui's surprise, Huo Xiaoguang lowered his tall, strong and fat body and stared at Wang Xiaokai: "Who did you call an idiot just now?"

Wang Xiaokai didn't expect Huo Xiaoguang to have such sharp ears that he actually heard what he said. However, he always thought that he was a person of honor and status in school. He couldn't be timid in public. He stood up and said to Huo Xiaoguang: "I'm talking about you. How about it?"

Huo Xiaoguang nodded: "Do you dare to repeat it again?"

Wang Xiaokai leaned closer to Zhang Yunqi and said, "Stupid, if you didn't have a good father, you would be a waste!"

Huo Xiaoguang rushed over and stretched out his hand to hit Wang Xiaokai. Amid the uproar, Zhang Yunqi immediately stood up. What he didn't expect was that Li Yufei stopped Huo Xiaoguang at this time. She said in a light voice: "With so many people here, can you two be a little more immature?"

Li Xiaoman said: "Xiaoguang, don't make trouble."

Huo Xiaoguang glanced at Wang Xiaokai and said, "I'll fuck you when we get back to the city."

"Go back to the city if you want. I'll be waiting for you. I'm afraid you're not a human being!" Wang Xiaokai cursed, not afraid at all. Some boys present also looked at him with a new eye. He dared to challenge the troublemaker Huo Xiaoguang. Finally, after being persuaded by several girls in the class, Wang Xiaokai threw down a few harsh words, puffed out his chest, and flew through the crowded crowd like a majestic rooster and left the courtyard.

As soon as he left the courtyard, Wang Xiaokai looked around. It was pitch black and no one could be seen. He heaved a sigh of relief and shook his shaking hands: "It was really dangerous. I almost got beaten."

"What, are you scared?"

Wang Xiaokai was startled. He turned around and saw that it was Zhang Yunqi. Behind him were two girls, Chu Jian and Yu Xiaorui. They were all looking at him and laughing. His face turned green. "Why are you here?"

Zhang Yunqi took out a Furongwang and threw it to Wang Xiaokai: "I just came out."

Wang Xiaokai lit up a cigarette and said, "I'm not afraid of anything, but we should always have foresight in doing anything. Huo Xiaoguang is tall and strong, like a bear. If he talks nonsense, I can kill his whole family by myself! But if we really fight, you see, we can't do it with our weak arms and legs."

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "You still know your own advantages very well. OK, it's no big deal. Let's go for a walk together."

Wang Xiaokai immediately put his arm around Zhang Yunqi's shoulders and said, "I knew that Boss Zhang could help me deal with that idiot Huo Xiaoguang. Brothers are loyal to each other!"

"I didn't say that."

"It's okay, I knew you would do that."

The four of them were walking on a country dirt road, chatting. Zhang Yunqi and Wang Xiaokai were bickering with each other, while the two girls, Chu Jian and Yu Xiaorui, were following them leisurely. The rain had stopped completely by then, and there was a half-bright moon in the sky. The smell of iron sulfide, dust and arsenic smoke in the air had been washed away, and some green grass leaves could be seen on the road, which felt quite good.

Halfway through the journey, Wang Xiaokai suddenly said he wanted to pee.

It is convenient to go to the toilet in the wild mountains, so Zhang Yunqi and he walked up the mountain along the path and each found a short-necked tree to make compost.

When he unzipped the zipper to drain the water, Zhang Yunqi suddenly saw a skinny crow standing motionless on the short tree in front of him, staring at him with its eyes shining like black diamonds.

Zhang Yunqi suddenly had a bad premonition.

Almost subconsciously, he turned his head and looked at the girl standing on the side of the road. The girl was wearing a white cotton skirt and had a clean ponytail draped over her shoulders. She looked slender and delicate, and in the moonlight, she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Zhang Yunqi shook his head.

On the way back, they came across a convenience store.

Zhang Yunqi went over to ask and found out that there was a phone. This was probably because there were many workers from the county in the mining area who often had to call to contact the outside world, and the store had a phone business. They all called home to report that they were safe and told them not to worry. However, Chu Jian's family didn't have a phone, and it was difficult to contact them where they lived, so Zhang Yunqi asked his eldest brother Zhang Yunfeng to go to Hongshan Lane to notify Chu Jian's parents.

After the call, Zhang Yunqi thought that everyone had not eaten well in the evening and would definitely be hungry later, so he bought two large bags of biscuits, drinks and other snacks and a pack of cigarettes.

When paying the bill, the lady boss casually asked, "Are you a student from the city?"

Wang Xiaokai nodded without thinking much.

The lady boss used a calculator to count the money carefully, and finally came up with a number: "49 yuan."

Zhang Yunqi thought he had heard wrongly: "How much?"

The lady boss moved the calculator in front of Zhang Yunqi and said, "49 yuan. Can I type it again?"

When Chu Jian heard this, he was about to speak, but was pulled back by Zhang Yunqi.

Zhang Yunqi said: "No need."

Bank cards cannot be used in rural areas these days, so just in case when going out, he carried more than 1,500 yuan in cash, paid the bill to the proprietress, and left with a few people.

On the way back, Wang Xiaokai opened a bottle of iced cola and said, "The stuff in the mountains is not good. They are ripping us off because we are students from other places. It costs 50 yuan to buy such a small thing. Damn it! Why don't you just rob it?"

Yu Xiaorui said while eating French fries: "This is the only small shop open here. There is a market but no price. People are just robbing us. Unless we don't buy, we need to eat and drink. In the end, won't we have to hold our noses and be robbed? It just cost Yunqi money."

"It's okay." Zhang Yunqi didn't want to waste his breath on a matter of a few dozen dollars, and it was useless to talk about it, unless, as Yu Xiaorui said, he didn't buy it. In fact, there are so many things in this world that are openly or covertly robbing money, just like chicken feathers. In ancient times, Emperor Wu of Han minted the Shanglin Sanguan Wuzhu, which was circulated for 800 years. Recently, the lighthouse banknotes on the other side of the ocean dominated the world, the giant crocodile defeated the Thai baht, and unlimited QE, etc. Which one is not blatantly robbing the hard-earned money of ordinary people all over the world under the banner of fairness and justice?
Chu Jian suddenly said, "Is this the whole world?"

Zhang Yunqi was stunned: "What?"

Chu Jian thought for a moment and whispered, "It's unfair. I don't know if it's right or not, but some things I encountered today gave me this idea. The unfairness between people and between people and nature seem to exist everywhere, and it seems that this existence cannot be made up by hard work. This is really different from the knowledge taught to us in textbooks."

Zhang Yunqi didn't expect that Chu Jian would ask such a question. For a girl who had absorbed a lot of textbook knowledge but lacked sufficient understanding of the nature of society, he knew that his words would greatly affect the way she thought about life, because she was like a blank sheet of paper, but was good at thinking and accustomed to listening.

He said: "Maybe, but this does not prevent us from seeing the essence of life, but still loving life and seeking fairness."

When I first saw her, she pursed her lips, looking thoughtful.

Chatting, the few people returned along the country road.

When he was not far from the auditorium of Jinping Mining Area, Zhang Yunqi suddenly heard a fierce noise coming from the courtyard.

He and Wang Xiaokai looked at each other, then ran towards the auditorium, with Chu Jian and Yu Xiaorui following behind.

When they ran to the front of the auditorium, the pitch-black courtyard was already packed with hundreds of students. There were crowds of people everywhere, and quarrels were heard one after another.

Zhang Yunqi didn't know what was going on. After squeezing in and standing on a rock, he saw Li Xiaoman, Zhao Chengming, Lin Zihao, Huo Xiaoguang, Xu Wen and others being surrounded inside.

Many people pointed at them and cursed them loudly, their voices extremely angry: "Why? We just want to ask why? It's so great that their families are rich and powerful? Why does the school arrange high-end food and luxury hotels for them? We poor students have to eat vegetables and radishes and spend the night in the car? Are we students of the No. 1 Middle School in the city? Are we still human beings?!"

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(End of this chapter)