After the family fell, I wanted to lie down

Liu Ziheng said, "I came here to deliver food. The door of the academy was closed tightly and no one was allowed in. The matter was urgent and I waited for you but you didn't come back, so I just set the cottage on fire. This way, the academy will open its door."

Ye Muyang and the others nodded in admiration and praised, "Ziheng is still smart."

Liu Ziheng smiled modestly and said, "It's just a minor mistake. From this perspective, Zhu Nian will not be released. They may even arrest more people."

Yucai said, "That was a tragic scene. I saw that Father Zhu was almost dead."

Ye Muyang shouted, "I'm so angry. This is so inhumane. Is there any law?"

The other teenagers also nodded in agreement.

"This is too much, what should I do?"

Liu Ziheng said, "What can we do now?" Everyone looked at Yingge who was sitting next to them.

Yingge said, "Since there's no way to solve this problem with a small fight, we can only do it on a large scale."

Ye Muyang couldn't hold his temper and shouted anxiously, "What do you say we should do? Tell me quickly!"

The other teenagers also urged him on.

Liu Ziheng said, "Brother Yingzi, we all know that this matter is very serious. Even the prefect Liang couldn't solve it. This shows how difficult it is. We are all students. After all, we are outnumbered. Are you sure? Or should we have a good look at each other?"

Yingge understood what he meant. These words were more intended for the other people present than for him.

Even the prefect can't solve the problem, and they are still commoners now. If they then go and provoke the officials who have come to the capital... Have you thought about the consequences of this matter?

Everyone present could understand what the young man said. The expressions of Ye Muyang and others kept changing. This was a decisive choice, and it was a matter of great importance. It was not as simple as what to eat today or tomorrow.

His expression showed excitement of doing something big, but also confusion and helplessness about what was about to happen. Caotang fell silent for a moment.

The silence made everyone feel a little awkward for a moment.

Yucai noticed that the atmosphere was a bit strange, and for a moment he felt himself to be reckless, as if all these things were caused by him.

Seeing this, Liu Ziheng inexplicably felt that their silence was disrespectful to Yingge, and tried to break it with something else. "This matter is not urgent. Why don't we help clean up the cottage first?"

Yingge said, "Let's eat first."

Liu Ziheng suddenly realized, "I forgot. We are all hungry. We are tired and worried. Let's go to the market and have something good to eat."

Ye Muyang also said, "Okay, okay, I haven't had a drink in a long time."

The other teenagers also looked excited. The previous awkwardness was swept away. They went to the street arm in arm as usual, found the nearest restaurant, sat down to eat and drink.

The pot of wine in front of them made them feel very sorry. After drinking it, the wine increased. "Mr. has a very sensitive nose. Let's drink less, otherwise he will find out..."

"It's not just the gentleman's nose. Mo Xiang and the others also have very sensitive noses. The two doormen have noses like dogs."

"However, today we helped Yingge put out the fire, so it's normal for Yingge to treat us to a drink, and everyone can understand that."

Everybody was chatting and laughing. Liu Ziheng saw that there were not enough dishes on the table, so he called the waiter to add more dishes, and reminded the teenagers present not to delay the afternoon class. Xiao Taohong sat at the table, looking at the full plate of dishes in front of her, her eyes full of stars.

In late autumn, from the restaurant, you can still see the lights of Qinghe College in the distance. At that time, there were rows of horse-drawn carriages picking up students after class. Students playing and joking on the way home, talking about how much homework the teachers had assigned them today and how little time they had to play, as if nothing had changed...

Ye Muyang suddenly held the wine glass in his hand and stopped laughing. "Although our lives have not changed, some people are indeed different from before."

The sudden opening startled the group of young men who were laughing. Someone seemed to have not heard clearly and asked, "Brother Muyang, what did you just say?"

Liu Ziheng has a low alcohol tolerance and was a little tipsy when he said, "It's just that there isn't enough wine. If it's not enough, add more. Don't worry."

Ye Muyang suddenly threw the wine glass to the ground with great force.

The young men were all shocked by his action, and Liu Ziheng was even a little displeased, "Ye Muyang just drank some wine, what do you want to do? It's not that serious."

The waiter who heard the noise waited anxiously on the side, watching this farce. It was very common for a group of teenagers like them to fight and then play together. The other teenagers were not angry, but the teenager who smashed the wine glass did not speak, and just kept looking down at the wine glass on the ground.

"Should we do something instead of doing nothing now?" He asked the question with a firm expression as if he was answering himself.

The group of hip-hop teenagers fell silent in an instant, as if the masks they had used to maintain their playfulness had been torn off with blood.

Yes, how can it be the same? While they are eating and drinking with gusto, trying to prove that everything is still the same as before, some people are suffering in prison.

Can we simply use eating and drinking to prove that nothing happened and that everything can return to its original state?

A young man said, "Zhu Nian's sister hasn't worn new clothes for three years, but Zhu Nian has never been short of writing brushes, inkstones, and paper for studying."

"Zhu Nian has average talent and no great ambitions. His ambition is to make a living as a scholar after he finishes his studies."

Yucai said, "He likes Cuju very much and he talked to me about it before, but he knows he can't play it because his sister has a hard time taking care of him, as does his father, and he has to study hard..."

Liu Ziheng said, "Everyone's fate is different, so don't think too much about it. We don't want to..."

Ye Muyang interrupted him before he could finish his words, "We have to take care of this matter!"

Yingge said, "This matter is difficult to manage, and it is also very dangerous to manage..."

Ye Muyang said, "We have to care about that, he is our classmate, this is fair."

The other boys' eyes sparkled and they also said, "Yes, this is unfair."

Yingge said again, "There are so many unfair things in the world..."

Ye Muyang said, "There are indeed many unfair things, but since we have seen them, we can't just ignore them. Otherwise, why do we study? Do we learn so many moral etiquettes, but don't we practice them?"

Liu Ziheng looked a little surprised. "You know all this?"

Ye Muyang looked a little disdainful and said, "You look down on me, don't you? I'm not a idiot. After all, I study every day. I will also end up like this next year." After saying that, he didn't want to pay attention to Liu Ziheng anymore. Instead, he wanted to look at Yingge on the side. "Yingge, we can't just let this go. Tell me, do you have any rules?"

Yingge looked at him, then at the other young men present. Seeing that they were all looking at him, he nodded solemnly and said, "Actually, I've thought about it."

"I have to do it too. The Zhu Nian family has learned so many things these days. We all say that he is not that kind of person. We can't just watch those people in Shangjing wrongly accuse a good man and ruin his family's life."

"Yingge, just tell me what we should do."

Yingge said, “What we have to do is the same as before, and it is what we can do, but it is also a little different from before.”

She knocked the table with her chopsticks and said, "First of all, you must swear not to tell anyone about what happened today, not even your parents or relatives."

Ye Muyang and several others nodded and took the lead in raising their fingers to swear.

His gesture was the same one they made when they first discussed Zhu Nian's affairs. Unexpectedly, he still remembered it. Yingge then stretched out his hand and overlapped it with the others behind him.

"What happens in Xiaolin Hall does not leave Xiaolin Hall."

They whispered. After being released, Yingge was about to say something but was stopped by Ye Muyang. He turned around, picked up the wine pot and said to Xiao Taohong, "Xiao Taohong, go get some wine. Make sure you get some good wine." Then he whispered, "Don't let those people get close to us, to prevent them from eavesdropping."

Xiao Taohong said "oh", got up with the wine jug and went to find the waiter.

The waiter exclaimed, "The drinks in our shop are never diluted with water." He turned around and looked back at the teenagers who were quarreling just now. Oh, these teenagers are really sunny and rainy.

After careful inspection, the wine was finally approved, and the waiter brought the selected wine over.

The bell for class rang again and again, and the teenagers sitting together immediately jumped away.

"Class begins."

"Go quickly, go quickly!"

They ran out in a hurry. Liu Ziheng threw down his purse and took the wine jug from the waiter.

"Save it for the evening."

After saying that, he ran away like a gust of wind.