Absinthe

The vacation was very short. On Saturday night, Hao Ai and Zhong Xiu made plans for tomorrow. They went to the botanical garden on Sunday morning, and then went back to school together for evening self-study in the afternoon.

Zhong Xiu didn't understand what was so interesting about a place like the botanical garden. In Hao Ai's words, he wanted to take autistic children into nature to feel the breath of spring.

Thinking about it carefully, the places where the two dated are actually quite strange.

In school, their most frequent meeting place was the chemistry laboratory, Zhong Xiu was doing experiments or brushing up questions, and Hao Ai was also held down by him to review knowledge points.During the holidays, the two usually find skateboarding spots to skate, and occasionally go to brush the streets, stepping on skateboards to walk through the streets, quite casually, the nearby streets are almost torn by them, and when they are tired, they go to the curb Sit down, stop when you don't want to skate, and go to the theater to watch a movie at night.When it comes to watching a movie, Hao Ai really chooses the movie he likes and watches the movie carefully. After the show, the two go around and walk to the back door of the theater. Hao Ai will happily discuss the plot with Zhong Xiu. He really has nothing Conscious dating.

Zhong Xiu deliberately searched the Internet for a botanical garden play guide that seemed useless, but it didn't come in handy in the end.

Hao Ai sent him several crying emojis on WeChat.

"What's wrong?" Zhong Xiu called him directly and asked him.

Hao Ai's tone was very irritated: "My uncle went to other places for research this week, and my aunt also has to go to work. My mother is going to hold a parent-teacher meeting for Tang Ziyang tomorrow!!"

Tang Ziyang is Hao Ai's little cousin. Zhong Xiu heard him mention it a few times, but he never had a chance to meet him.

"Why is the parent meeting held so early?" Zhong Xiu asked strangely.

Before they started the mid-term exam, Tang Ziyang's school was about to hold a parent meeting.

"It's an elementary school, so it's normal to be older than us." Hao Ai said.

"I think Tang Ziyang's class teacher and classmates may have opinions on him in the future if he appears in their school like me." Hao Ai doesn't care about other people's eyes, and the classmates at school are also used to his appearance, and they feel very uncomfortable. Cool, but for those who meet him for the first time, it is inevitable to associate him with bad boys.

At that time, the whole school will know that Tang Ziyang has a very different kind of bad boy brother.

Hao Ai expressed his concerns while struggling.

Don't you just want me to accompany you?Zhong Xiu thought amusedly.

"Then I'll go with you, and I'll hold a parent-teacher meeting for him then."

Hao Ai smiled: "I'm just waiting for your words."

Early the next morning, Hao Ai set off from his grandma's house directly to Tang Ziyang's school, and his aunt said that he would send Tang Ziyang there in advance.

Hao Ai wore a black baseball cap, and deliberately tucked his hair into the cap, but a little bit of hair was still exposed.

"Ai Ai!" At the school gate, Tang Ziyang rushed over as soon as he saw him. Hao Ai's motorcycle was too easy to identify.

Hao Ai twisted one of Tang Ziyang's ears with his hand, but without much force, he threatened: "Brother, why are you so big or small?"

Tang Ziyang had no choice but to call out "brother."

Tang Ziyang led the way for Hao Ai and asked him to park the motorcycle in the shed, and the two walked to the teaching building together.

Zhong Xiu was already waiting at the gate of Tang Ziyang's class.

"I'm coming." Hao Ai saw him as soon as he walked into the corridor, and walked towards him with a smile.

Tang Ziyang raised his face to look at Hao Ai, and then looked curiously at Zhong Xiu.

Zhong Xiu was dressed very well, with a textured black shirt over a white T-shirt, a good student's attire, but even so, people couldn't take their eyes off it.

Hao Ai rubbed his head and said, "What are you looking at? Call someone."

Tang Ziyang imitated Hao Ai's tone: "What's my name?"

"Brother Zhong Xiu."

"Oh," Tang Ziyang called him with a puffy face, "Brother Zhong Xiu."

Zhong Xiu smiled at him: "Good."

"Be good, your skin is dead." Hao Ai looked disgusted.

Tang Ziyang saw a classmate with whom he had a good relationship, and ran over to play with him in a hurry.

"Were you like this when you were young?" Zhong Xiu asked looking at Tang Ziyang's bouncing back.

"That's not the case. I was very good when I was young."

"Well," Zhong Xiu smiled lowly and nodded: "Be good now."

Zhong Xiu held a parent-teacher meeting in the classroom, while Hao Ai was waiting for him outside the corridor.

The parent meeting was almost over, and Tang Ziyang came back with his classmates.

"Brother, what are you going to do before you go to school this afternoon?"

"Go skateboarding, what's up?"

"What's so fun about skateboarding? I want you to play games with me." Tang Ziyang said.

Hao Ai refused indifferently: "No."

"Is that okay? I want to play games!"

Zhong Xiu came out of the classroom after the parent meeting, Tang Ziyang was still pestering Hao Ai to play games with him.

The three walked to the parking shed.

"Don't you like skateboarding?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"I don't like it." Hao Ai answered for him.

"Why?" He thought skateboarding would appeal to curious kids.

Tang Ziyang curled his lips: "It's too dangerous, I'm afraid of falling."

"Tsk," Hao Ai said, "Can young people be a little adventurous?"

Tang Ziyang looked at Hao Ai seriously with his small face up: "I'm not a young man, I'm a kid."

"You are a super annoying kid." Hao Ai said.

"I'm a super cute kid, and you're the one who hates me!" Tang Ziyang said.

Hao Ai turned around and asked, "Zhong Xiu, who is cuter between us?"

"..." There is nothing cuter than a sixth-grade kid. Zhong Xiu saw Hao Ai's serious face, and finally said, "You are cute."

"You two are together! Bullying people!" Tang Ziyang said dissatisfied: "I don't know who broke the bone the year before last."

Hao Ai twisted his ear lightly again, gritted his teeth and said, "...No broken bone! It's a soft tissue contusion, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!"

It’s all because grandma and aunt made such a fuss. In order to prevent Tang Ziyang from playing skateboards, they spared no effort to smear Hao Ai, and used him as a negative example in front of Tang Ziyang:

"Don't learn from your brother. Playing a skateboard for three days will cause a small injury and five days a serious injury. How dangerous it is."

"Look at your brother, who hangs around with a group of bad boys all day long. How good he was in his studies before. When he entered high school, he didn't even get a triple-good student."

Hao Ai was always at the top of the grade in junior high school, but he was no longer at the top in high school.The teaching resources and environment in small places are not good, and there are many talents in key high schools. He was here, and he still studied hard at the beginning, but his grandmother still stubbornly believed that Hao Ai stopped studying hard after entering high school, so his grades It just plummeted.

Hao Ai is not a genius, but just an ordinary person.I grew up in the most ordinary school, did not attend any cram school, and did not receive good educational resources. It is not easy to be admitted to a key high school with my ability.

They still felt that he didn't get in the top few exams because he didn't work hard enough.

Forget it, whatever.Gradually, Hao Ai also began to give up on himself.

"Which place did you rank in the exam this time?" Hao Ai asked Tang Ziyang on purpose, he decided to be a hateful adult in the eyes of a child.

Tang Ziyang straightened his waist and replied proudly: "The second grade."

"Really? So powerful." Hao Ai was not stingy with praise.

"En!" Tang Ziyang nodded vigorously.

Zhong Xiu didn't focus on this, he asked Hao Ai in a low voice: "Did you often fall when you skateboarded before? I see that you have many scars on your legs."

"Is it not normal to fall?" Hao Ai was a little helpless, "I don't believe you haven't fallen."

Skateboarding is an extreme sport. Falling is really normal. If you haven’t fallen, you can’t count as skateboarding. If you fall, get up and pat the dirt on your body before continuing to play.

"You still have to pay attention to safety and don't be brave."

Hao Ai couldn't help nodding: "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!"

Hao Ai was riding a motorcycle with two people on the back seat, and Tang Ziyang was sitting between them, riding very slowly.

Tang Ziyang acted like a baby: "Brother, I want to eat snacks."

"You have tooth decay." Hao Ai said.

"I didn't!" Tang Ziyang roared, stomping his feet.

"You have it!"

What two childish ghosts.Zhong Xiu thought helplessly.

Hao Ai sent Tang Ziyang back to his uncle's house. As soon as Tang Ziyang entered the door, he ran straight to the cage in the living room.

My uncle has a dog at home, and he is usually kept in a cage when no one is at home, and he is released when someone comes home.

Tang Ziyang took out the dog food and poured it into the small bowl in front of the puppy. It poked its head out and smelled it.Then Tang Ziyang ignored it and ran to his room to get the game console.

Zhong Xiu asked Hao Ai: "Do you want to have a cat or a dog in the future?"

Hao Ai thought for a while and said, "I don't even want to, I want to raise a bastard, so I don't need to buy a big house for him to have fun with, take him for a walk, bathe and vaccinate him, and prevent him from scratching me, so worry free. "

"..." Zhong Xiu knelt down and stroked the dog silently, feeling that what he said made sense.

"What about you? What do you want to raise?" Hao Ai asked.

"I want to raise you the most, but I need to buy a big house." Zhong Xiu looked up at him.

Hao Ai laughed out loud with a "puchi" and said, "I still need you to support me?"

"You can let me raise it." Zhong Xiu stopped looking at him, and began to bow his head and pet the dog again.

"I'll show you my bank card balance and see who is raising whom?"

"All right, all right, you can support me." Zhong Xiu was not interested in how much money was in his bank card.

Isn't it almost seven digits? When Zhong Xiu saw the string of numbers for the first time, he was really surprised.

Before the two of them went out to eat or buy things, Zhong Xiu paid the first step every time. After a few times, Hao Ai was not happy: "I am really rich! If you don't believe me, I will show you the balance of my bank card!"

Later, when he was asked to check the bank card balance, the last few digits increased slightly.

Hao Ai told him that he would return the card to Wei Guanzhou when the money in it was enough, and Zhong Xiu didn't know how much money he needed to save enough.

After playing games with Tang Ziyang for a while, the two of them went to the supermarket to buy snacks for him. They also stockpiled food for themselves and brought the snacks to school.

Zhong Xiu asked Hao Ai while putting things in the trolley one by one:

"Beef jerky?"

"eat."

"potato chips?"

"eat."

They stayed at Tang Ziyang's house all afternoon, and when it was time for evening self-study, the two of them walked slowly to school, still carrying large bags of snacks in their hands.

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