Chapter 23 Chapter 23 "Teacher Gu, am I obedient?" ...

On Monday morning, Lu Xun arrived at school when the first bell rang. As soon as he reached the second floor, he saw Qi Xiang the dog standing at the stairs and waving at him.

Lu Xun: "Are you doing it?"

Qi Xiang lowered his voice and said, "Run. Kailang has gone back to his office."

In order to make it easier to catch him, Xiao Minglang specifically asked the principal to have his new office at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor. It was just renovated last Friday and he moved in today.

Lu Xun hasn't been to school for almost a week. Qi Xiang couldn't imagine what Xiao Minglang would do if he saw him.

Qi Xiang whispered: "Brother Lu, stay out of the spotlight first, and I'll go and find out for you how Kailang is today..."

"Qi Xiang!"

Qi Xiang was startled, and turned around to see Xiao Minglang standing not far from him with a thermos cup.

"Director!" Qi Xiang quickly stretched his body horizontally, blocking Xiao Minglang's only way to the stairs.

"...What are you doing? You're like a monkey."

"I'm doing radio gymnastics."

Qi Xiang jumped left and right, making Xiao Minglang dizzy: "Stop!"

Qi Xiang positioned himself in front of Xiao Minglang in the shape of a big character.

"Stand up straight!" Xiao Minglang frowned, "I want to ask you, did Lu Xun come today?"

"He..."

"Are you looking for me?" Lu Xun, carrying his schoolbag, walked slowly up from behind Qi Xiang.

Qi Xiang turned his head quickly, heartbroken: "Brother Lu, why are you here..."

Xiao Minglang's hand holding the thermos was shaking a little.

"Qi Xiang." Xiao Minglang's voice suddenly became as gentle as water.

Qi Xiang swallowed and said obediently, "Director."

Xiao Minglang smiled kindly, "Come to my office to do exercises during the break today."

Qi Xiang struggled, "Director..."

"Or write a 5,000-word self-criticism."

"...I'll come after class."

Xiao Minglang took a deep breath and looked at Lu Xun. Just as he was getting his emotions together, he heard Lu Xun say, "What a coincidence. I just happened to have something to talk to you about."

Xiao Minglang: "?"

"Are you free now? Shall we go to your office to talk?"

Xiao Minglang: "..."

Xiao Minglang's newly renovated office is overall in gray and white tones. There are two filing cabinets against the wall, a cactus on the windowsill, a computer on the desk, and a photo frame. The layout of things was almost the same as the room he had stayed in before, except for the change in the color tone of the room.

Lu Xun looked around and said, "Your new environment is good."

"..." The thermos cup was shaking under Xiao Minglang's trembling fingers. He was about to lose his temper when he saw Lu Xun suddenly put down his schoolbag.

Lu Xun unzipped his bag and took out a workbook.

Gu Chen was wearing an invisibility cloak and was about to jump out of the bag when Lu Xun gently pinched his waist and carried him to the ground.

The physics student who was following behind paused slightly, jumped out of his schoolbag, put on his invisibility cloak, and ran out of the office without looking back.

Lu Xun glanced at the glass house in the bag, and saw Yingyu doing plank exercises with cotton arms on the floor. Lu Xun zipped up his pants and asked Xiao Minglang, "I've been having some difficulties studying lately. Can I ask you for help?"

Xiao Minglang wanted to get angry, but was interrupted several times by Lu Xun, and he was stuck in one breath.

He unscrewed the cup, took three gulps of tea, and after a long time, he let out a breath: "Let me see."

Gu Chen jumped onto the table. Exercise Book 4 is mainly designed for their current semester, because as they are entering the third year of high school, the difficulty of the questions increases sharply. Chinese is not as simple as science which has formulas. Last night, he discussed several questions with Lu Xun for a long time, and even with the help of AI, they still couldn't come up with the correct answers. The progress bars above his head didn't budge.

"These questions are a bit difficult." Xiao Minglang said after reading them, "I will explain them in class in the second half of the semester."

"Can you tell me first?"

Xiao Minglang looked at him suspiciously.

He originally thought that Lu Xun suddenly started doing his homework some time ago because he had finally gotten the hang of it and was ready to study hard, but it turned out that Lu Xun missed classes for a week and didn't even take the monthly exam. Now I am so anxious about the content that has not been covered in the exercise book.

Xiao Minglang turned to the cover of the exercise book and saw that it was indeed Lu Xun's name on it, so he turned it back: "Tell me honestly, why are you in such a hurry to do your homework, and only Chinese?" Lu Xun

: "Didn't you say that Chinese is the foundation of everything."

Xiao Minglang became even more suspicious: "Are you so obedient?"

"Because you said so."

"..." Xiao Minglang suppressed the unnecessary joy in his heart, "Be serious!"

He frowned: "Tell me the truth, are you in a premature love relationship?"

"..."

Xiao Minglang was like a cat that suddenly caught the mouse's tail, and slapped his palms on the table excitedly: "Which class?!"

Lu Xun was silent: "It's not a premature love relationship." "

?" Gu Chen felt that Lu Xun's Chinese was really not very good, and couldn't help but say with his mind, "You should just say you don't have a premature love relationship."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Xun gently rubbed his head.

He raised his head in confusion and met Lu Xun's smiling eyes.

Seeing Lu Xun suddenly smile with his hand still touching his pen holder, Xiao Minglang said vigilantly: "There are no mosquitoes today, don't try to change the subject in a weird tone!"

Lu Xun slowly put his hand down, as if helpless: "Why don't you drink some tea first, your mouth corners are blisters."

"If you make me angry again, I'm going to get blisters on my head!" Xiao Minglang was furious, "Tell me the truth, who is it!"

"...Why do you think I'm in love too early?"

"Nonsense, I've seen more students than you've eaten rice." Xiao Minglang was very sure, "It turns out that he was so lazy that he fell in love with a girl who studied well. The girl disliked the boy's poor grades and asked him to study hard and do his homework..."

Xiao Minglang took a sip of tea calmly: "Are you right?"

Lu Xun lowered his eyes to look at Gu Chen: "You dislike my poor grades?"

Gu Chen was stunned and shook his head. Halfway through the shake, I felt something was wrong. Why did Lu Xun ask him? ?

Lu Xun: "He doesn't mind my bad grades."

Gu Chen: "?"

"What did I say!" Xiao Minglang slammed the table and stood up, but knowing that Lu Xun would definitely not admit it, he decided to adopt a conciliatory policy, "Although the teacher does not encourage you to fall in love too early, it's a good thing that you can study for love, but you have to study hard and not just have the mentality of completing the task. The girl definitely doesn't want you to do that..."

Lu Xun received ideological education in Xiao Minglang's office for more than an hour, and he didn't even ask a punctuation mark. When I walked to the fourth floor, I happened to meet Gao Yu coming out of the office.

"What a rare guest." Gao Yu looked at him while holding a dozen teaching plans. "How come Master Lu has time to visit our school today?"

There was still more than a week before the midterm exam, and Gao Yu had been a little sleep deprived in the past two days. Lu Xun looked at the dark circles under her eyes and took back the nonsense that was about to come out of his mouth: "I have been here for a long time, and Director Xiao asked me to reminisce about the past."

Gao Yu's brows twitched: "Then please come and catch up with me today, Master Lu."

Before Lu Xun could answer, Gao Yu's tone suddenly turned cold: "From now on until after school, you must stay in the classroom obediently, do you hear me?"

Lu Xun: "Not today." "

?"

Gu Chen, wearing an invisibility cloak, sat on Lu Xun's neck. Hearing this, he whispered: "Teacher Gao works hard, don't make her angry."

Lu Xun raised his hand and gently pinched the back of Gu Chen's neck.

Gu Chen couldn't help but shrink back, burying his cotton chin into his body.

Lu Xun: "I'm going to visit the grave today."

Gao Yu was stunned for a moment, then turned on his phone and took a look.

4.27.

She had been busy these past two days and had forgotten the date, thinking that the 27th had already passed.

Gao Yu looked up and down at Lu Xun, a teenage boy, a head taller than her, standing there with a calm expression.

She had taken care of Lu Xun for two years and knew what this day meant to him. This is also the reason why she did not rush to visit Lu Xun’s home during the days when he was absent from school.

"You are not allowed to climb over the wall." Gao Yu said, "Come to me at noon to get the pass."

There were still two chemistry classes left in the morning, and Lu Xun and Gu Chen continued to work hard on their Chinese exercise book. After Gu Chen's careful consideration, he gradually solved several problems that he had previously thought were unsolvable. But even so, there are still a large number of questions in the second half that are difficult to answer.

“Take a break.” Lu Xun pinched the little cotton hand in front of him.

Gu Chen stared at the notebook stubbornly: "Let me think about it."

Lu Xun leaned back in his chair, looking at the chubby little face in front of him, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.

English was practiced in the glass room for an hour and a half. After finishing, I poked my head out of Lu Xun's bag, which was not tightly closed, and saw the other person smiling at a glance. It was not the usual smile that one had to force by pulling the corners of the mouth and moving the skin. His eyes look deep and focused.

English rubbed his eyes. She had spent a lot of time studying mathematics and had read a lot of good things. For some reason, she always felt that the way Lu Xun looked at Gu Chen was very similar to those in some BL novels...

"You're going now?" Lu Xun suddenly lowered his eyes.

English immediately stopped the thought in her mind and said, "Is it okay?"

Mathematics is currently writing an article about a high school campus and needs her help in drawing the character designs. In reality, she has graduated from college for three years and has long forgotten what high school boys are like. So I thought I'd look for inspiration.

Lu Xun unzipped his pants a little more, stepped back a little, and jumped out lightly.

"Did you say before that you pried open drawers at home when you were a child?"

Gu Chen raised his head from the notebook.

English was a little embarrassed: "Why are you talking about this? It happened in the past. And I only stole thirty yuan."

Gu Chen blinked.

Lu Xun: "Do you remember how to pick a lock?"

Yingyu was alert: "Why are you asking this?"

"There's something, and I want you to help me get it in 201."

Gu Chen's eyes widened: "Isn't that Director Xiao's office?"

"No." Yingyu put his hands on his hips and put on a mature look, "How can you steal the teacher's things, and I have retired for many years."

"I don't want you to steal money." Lu Xun picked up the exercise book on the table, "Help me get some study materials."

Yingyu had been listening in his bag in the morning. He knew what Lu Xun was referring to, and he also knew that he had been working day and night recently so that Gu Chen could go back quickly.

English: "Do you know where the answer is?"

"I accidentally saw it before." Lu Xun thought of the layout he saw in Xiao Minglang's office today, and guessed that the place where he put the answer should not be much different from before.

English is a bit confusing. It is not sensible to encourage teenagers to copy answers to homework, but Lu Xun has been copying for a long time, and there are indeed reasons for it.

English hesitated for a while, and finally felt that it was not ethical: "I won't go..."

"Auntie will come to do the cleaning these two days, so you guys may have to sleep together tonight."

"?"

Lu Xun leaned back in his chair lazily: "I was thinking, why don't you let you sleep in the same room with Mathematics."

English's eyelids twitched slightly: "...She likes to be alone at night, she doesn't want to sleep in the same room with others."

Lu Xun: "She doesn't want to, can't you make her want to?"

English was stunned.

Lu Xun had a faint smile on his face, which was different from the smile she had just seen. It's not the usual casual feeling, but rather a bit frightening, like a hunter who spreads a net, confident that his prey will fall into it sooner or later.

English didn't know why he had such aggressive associations with a teenage boy.

Gu Chen's face was filled with confusion, and he felt as if he didn't quite understand the conversation.

"If you don't want to..."

"Wait." Yingyu paused, "201, right? I'll be back soon."

At noon, Lu Xun went to Gao Yu to get a pass to leave. Gao Yu didn't let Lu Xun take his backpack out, so he could only put the answers he got in English into his sleeves.

"I'll be back at three."

Gu Chen sat on the desk and looked at him: "Can I go with you?"

Lu Xun paused: "Not attending class anymore?"

"Both classes in the afternoon are physics. I have learned the content in the competition class before." Gu Chen looked at Lu Xun intently, "Is it okay?"

Lu Xun looked at the hidden request under the blue eyes, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said deliberately: "I've learned it once, don't I need to review it?"

Gu Chen was silent. Originally, tomb sweeping was a rather private matter, and he wanted to go with Lu Xun because he also wanted to get to know him better. After all, he felt that they were friends now. But since Lu Xun said that, it means he still thinks it is inappropriate to take him with him. Gu Chen retracted his slightly forward leaning body and said, "Then you should go early and come back early, because there will be a new lesson in the last math class this afternoon."

Just as he was about to lower his head to turn the pages of the book, Lu Xun suddenly picked him up and put him on his shoulders.

"I said I wasn't taking you with me?" Lu Xun turned his head and Gu Chen noticed that he was smiling.

“I thought you didn’t want to…”

“You can make me want to.”

Lu Xun, who had just come back from a physics class, heard this when he passed by. He paused slightly and couldn’t help but glance at Lu Xun.

Lu Xun was so busy talking to the kid on his shoulder that he didn't notice him.

Physics only paused for a moment before he retracted his gaze and jumped into his schoolbag. As soon as I entered, I saw English clinging to the wall of his schoolbag, with his ears almost sticking out of the bag.

Physics: “…”

“Ahem.” Seeing Physics looking at her, English cleared her throat awkwardly and rubbed her slightly red ears, “I’m back.”

Physics nodded and walked to the small long table in the corner, and found several pieces of paper scattered on it. There were various derivation formulas densely written on it, and the solution was exactly the problem that puzzled him when he was attending the class just now.

The Physics student picked it up and looked through it, then asked the English student, "Did you write this?"

The English student glanced at it from a distance and said, "How would I know these? This was written in Chinese."

The Physics student carefully looked through the formulas again.

There is a copy shop not far from the school. After leaving school, Lu Xun first went to a copy shop to print out the answers, and then asked the English department to take the originals back to school. He took a taxi with Gu Chen.

Taoyuan Cemetery is located in the suburbs of Haicheng and covers an area of ​​1,000 acres. April is the season of lush grass and singing birds, and because the Qingming Festival has passed, there are not many people in the cemetery. At first glance, the huge cemetery looks like a natural forest with lush vegetation.

Lu Xun held two bunches of white gentian and walked into the depths of the cemetery without saying a word. The sunlight filtered through the gaps in the treetops, casting a flickering light on his face, making it appear somewhat mottled.

After passing through half of the forest, a hollow black lacquered iron door with low-key and gorgeous decoration appeared in front of us. Through the gap, Gu Chen vaguely saw a large patch of white flowers.

There was a face recognition device next to the iron gate. Lu Xun scanned it and the door slowly opened inward.

A sea of ​​white gentian flowers came into view, with a sweet fragrance that enveloped Gu Chen's senses. Even without any signs, he could feel that this small garden was different from the outside. Whether it is gardening layout or infrastructure, it must be more refined and attentive.

Lu Xun's mother's tombstone is located where the gentian flowers are most luxuriant. Gu Chen sat on Lu Xun's neck and looked down. In the center of the marble tombstone, there was an inscription of "Tomb of Liu Han" in a flamboyant style, and in the upper right corner was a photo of a woman. The woman had long, slightly curly hair and a small, delicate butterfly embroidered on her semi-circular collar. Her facial features were exquisite and she had a gentle, peaceful smile on her face. If you looked closely, you could see that there was something playful in her smile.

Gu Chen looked at her for a long time and couldn't help but say, "Your mother is so beautiful."

But her temperament is not quite like Lu Xun. If you have to say, Lu Xun seems more like his father.

But Gu Chen didn't dare to say this.

Lu Xun hugged Gu Chen from behind his neck and brought him in front of him: "Didn't I tell you?" "

?"

"My mother made a lot of dolls six months before she died." Lu Xun's voice blended into the wind, "You are her favorite one."

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, the corners of his lips slowly rose: "Then I am so lucky."

Lu Xun looked at the back of the blue head in front of him and rubbed it smoothly.

Gu Chen turned his head and met Lu Xun's smiling eyes, feeling a little confused.

Lu Xun held Gu Chen in one hand, bent down, and placed a bunch of gentian flowers in his other hand on Liu Han's grave. A few new green leaves had fallen from the tombstone. Lu Xun was about to pick them up when his peripheral vision suddenly noticed a blind spot next to the tombstone.

A dark purple tulip lay inside, as if it had been blown in by the wind.

Gu Chen also noticed it, and instantly he thought of the missing black tulip on the rooftop of Luxun’s house.

Lu Xun picked up the flower expressionlessly. A white butterfly ribbon was wrapped around the flower stem, and the ribbon had a faint scent of perfume.

It's not the usual citrus and herbaceous scent, but a mixture of deep ebony and biting cedar, the kind that Lu Zeyu often uses.

Gu Chen looked at the butterfly, then looked at the one on Liu Han’s collar in the photo. Exactly the same.

Lu Xun stared at it for a while, then put the black tulip back to its original corner.

After offering sacrifices to Liu Han, Lu Xun carried Gu Chen out of the small garden and walked towards the other end of the cemetery. The trees ahead were growing thicker and thicker, and there were a few tombstones scattered deep in the forest, all of which were couples' tombs. Two staff members were standing in front of one of them.

"Do you really want to demolish the tomb? Isn't this kind of operation not allowed here?"

Lu Xun paused.

"That depends on who requested it."

"No, the young couple has been buried together for more than three years. What's wrong with President Lu all of a sudden?"

"It was Madam Lu's request to bury them together. Now Madam Lu is gone." The man paused and lowered his voice, "Do you know how Young Master Lu and his girlfriend died?"

"I heard that they jumped off the building one after the other..."

"The girl jumped first." The man sighed, "I heard that President Lu felt that the girl was of a commoner family and was not worthy of Young Master Lu, so he forcibly obstructed her and made the girl depressed."

"Fuck? Did Young Master Lu jump to commit suicide for love?"

"Well, that's about the same... I heard that Young Master Lu liked that girl very much."

Gu Chen half opened his mouth, looking at the two staff members walking farther and farther away with surprise on his face.

After finally digesting what they said, he realized that the person holding him hadn't made a sound.

Gu Chen felt a little uneasy. Just as he was about to turn his head, he felt his feet, which had been in the air, suddenly land on the ground.

Not far ahead is the tomb of Brother Lu Xun and his girlfriend. Gu Chen turned around and found Lu Xun walking in the opposite direction.

Gu Chen hesitated for a moment and followed quietly.

There was no one in the deep forest. Lu Xun was holding a cell phone, and Lu Zeyu's cold voice came from the microphone: "If you can rank in the top ten in the grade at the end of the semester, I can consider not demolishing them."

"Lu Zeyu." Lu Xun's eyes were gloomy and his voice was deep, "Are you a human being?"

The other party ignored his swear words: "I still have a meeting, that's all."

Beep, beep, beep -

Lu Xun listened to the busy tone on the phone, tightly gripping the phone, with veins exposed on the back of his hand. After a moment, he seemed to sense something and turned his head. At first glance, you can see the little baby standing next to the thick tree trunk.

Gu Chen had overheard and was caught off guard by Lu Xun's gaze, feeling a little flustered. But in just two seconds, his eyes fixed.

Now that I've heard it all, I might as well just tell it to you.

"What I said yesterday was relatively conservative." Gu Chen put a little force on the cotton-padded hands on the tree trunk. "In fact, for exams, as long as you work hard, you still have a chance to be in the top ten in the grade."

Lu Xun loosened his grip on the phone a little. He walked in front of Gu Chen, slowly squatted down, looked into his eyes, his voice a little hoarse: "Are you trying to comfort me?"

Gu Chen shook his head.

"I'm telling the truth." The chubby little face was full of determination. "You have to believe in the teaching ability of the best in the grade."

Lu Xun looked at him for a moment, raised his hand, and gently pinched Gu Chen's face.

That night, my aunt went home to clean. Lu Xun took Gu Chen to a fast food restaurant between school and home to do his homework.

Lu Xun was working on his remedial workbook, and Gu Chen was beside him preparing the next remedial content.

The fast food restaurant was a bit noisy. Lu Xun was wearing a pair of grey matte earmuff headphones. He was writing with his right hand and occasionally feeding French fries to his mouth with his left hand.

After preparing a page of lessons, Gu Chen saw that the French fries were being consumed faster than RMB being thrown on the street, and he couldn't help but glance at Lu Xun.

It was just a quick glance, but Lu Xun felt as if he had a sensor installed on his head.

"What's wrong?" Lu Xun took off his headphones.

"Do you like French fries?"

Lu Xun looked at the almost empty box of French fries: "Not bad."

Whenever he was under a lot of pressure, he wanted to smoke, but he couldn't smoke in fast food restaurants, especially in front of Gu Chen, so he could only find something of similar shape as a substitute.

Gu Chen hesitated to speak.

Seeing that he wanted to say something but was holding back, Lu Xun asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Chen: "...The teacher said that eating too many French fries is bad for your health."

Not just today, during the time he was at Lu's house, he found that as long as his aunt didn't come, Lu Xun would prepare some unhealthy food to eat.

Lu Xun was silent for a moment and stood up.

A shadow passed over his head, and Gu Chen instinctively shrank back: "I didn't say that."

Then he added in a low voice, "The teacher said that."

Lu Xun saw that he shrank so much that his butt made the paper behind him lift up, and he was amused: "What, are you afraid that I will hit you?"

Gu Chen shook his head. He didn't think Lu Xun would do anything, but he felt that Lu Xun probably didn't like being told what to do. He really couldn't help it just now.

Lu Xun said nothing more and turned to walk towards the counter. Gu Chen watched him say something to the waiter, then took out his mobile phone to scan the code.

It seems that I have stimulated Lu Xun’s rebellious psychology...

Gu Chen scratched his hair, feeling a little annoyed.

Pah pah—

two small white plastic bowls fell onto the table.

Gu Chen watched Lu Xun sit down and open the lid of the plastic bowl.

A vegetable cup and a bowl of millet porridge.

Lu Xun: "Are you healthy?"

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, then nodded helplessly.

"What did the teacher say?"

Gu Chen paused and continued to nod, quickly and vigorously.

"Which teacher." Lu Xun held his chin with one hand and said slowly, "Teacher Gu?"

A trace of powder stained Gu Chen's ears: "No..."

"Teacher Gu." Lu Xun slowly leaned on the table, staring at the little kid in front of him with wandering eyes with a smile, and asked in a whisper, "Am I obedient?"

Gu Chen could see that Lu Xun was teasing him on purpose.

"...very good." Gu Chen hurriedly looked at his homework book, "Hurry up and do your homework."

The cream-colored ears had completely turned pink. Lu Xun looked at them for a long time, then looked away compassionately, "I know, Teacher Gu."

"..." Gu Chen wished he didn't have ears.

After writing for an hour, Lu Xun carried his schoolbag and left the fast food restaurant with Gu Chen. On the way back, he did not take the main road, but took Gu Chen through an alley.

On the walls on both sides of the alley, gardenias are lush and green, and their fragrance drifts in the wind. After crossing two alleys, there is a park in front.

The small park in the city is free and the iron gate is wide open. Gu Chen had just breathed in enough of the fragrance of the flowers and was very relaxed. He lazily nestled on Lu Xun's neck: "Do you want to go in?"

Lu Xun looked at the electronic map on his phone: "You can walk back from the back door."

"I came here last month and saw that the back door of this park was under repair. It seems that it will not open for another two months."

Lu Xun did not expect that Gu Chen had just been here. He called up the official public account of the park and found that there was indeed an announcement about the maintenance of the back door.

“Then just go in and take a walk and then come out?”

Gu Chen thought that Lu Xun might be tired from doing homework and wanted to relax.

"Okay." Gu Chen said, "I remember the vegetation here is quite rich."

Lu Xunen said, "Especially the cedar."

Gu Chen was stunned.

Lu Xun put away his phone and walked towards the park. He walked slowly and chatted with Gu Chen in a casual manner: "Do you like visiting parks?"

"Not bad." Gu Chen said, but then he felt that his reply seemed a bit brief and perfunctory, so he added, "I came here to accompany my brother."

Lu Xun thought of the little boy he saw in the ward last time.

"Would you like to go to the hospital in a couple of days?"

Gu Chen paused: "Okay, let's see when you have time."

Noticing the cautiousness in his words, Lu Xun said deliberately: "So thoughtful?"

Gu Chen said nothing. Ever since what happened in the hospital last time, he has been feeling a little guilty and has never taken the initiative to ask to go to the hospital again. No matter what, that incident not only nearly killed him, but also caused Lu Xun to worry about him.

"What's the progress bar now?"

Gu Chen checked it with his consciousness: "87%."

"Not that one."

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment and realized that he was referring to the one about his soul leaving his body. He took another look: "90%."

Lu Xun's footsteps subconsciously became lighter: "Then I can come out the day after tomorrow."

"Maybe."

Unlike the return progress bar, the progression of the out-of-body experience bar is a mystery, and so far only Gu Chen has awakened this bar.

Gu Chen didn’t really care about this. After all, it was not real, and he had already gotten used to his doll body.

Lu Xun: "Let's go out and play then?"

Gu Chen hesitated: "Wouldn't you think it's a bit weird?"

"Why?"

"Going out to play with a ghost." Putting himself in her shoes, Gu Chen felt that the scene was a bit like Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, "Maybe it would be more appropriate for me to do this."

Lu Xun stopped, put his schoolbag on the ground, and took the doll off his shoulder.

Being hugged suddenly, Gu Chen quickly adjusted his perspective.

Lu Xun's eyes seemed somewhat bright in the moonlight, but perhaps because his pupils were naturally darker, they gave off an unfathomable mystery.

Lu Xun gently pinched Gu Chen's cotton hand: "It doesn't feel like this."

Gu Chen blinked, a little confused: "What feeling?"

Lu Xun stared at him, with the corners of his lips slightly raised.

For some reason, although Lu Xun seemed to just smile as usual, Gu Chen inexplicably felt uneasy.

It seemed that as long as he said he wanted to, Lu Xun would say something incredible the next second.

Gu Chen felt that his association was a bit strange and was thinking about how to say it.

"What? Your brother is not here this time?" An unfriendly laugh suddenly came from a corner not far away.

Gu Chen's face froze and he turned to look towards the source of the sound.

In the corner, four men with colorful hair and bound pencil pants formed a circle, blocking someone inside the wall.

"Why aren't you talking? Weren't you very talkative last time?" One of the pink-haired people pushed the person they were blocking.

Through the gap, Lu Xun saw that the person trapped in the middle was actually Luo Xingyuan.

Luo Xingyuan was wearing a pure white long-sleeved shirt and holding a calico cat that was almost one-third as big as him.

Gu Chen's breathing suddenly became tight and he instinctively wanted to jump out of Lu Xun's hand.

Lu Xun held him tightly in his arms: "Want to do what you did last time again?"

Gu Chen paused, then turned to look at Lu Xun anxiously.

Lu Xun put him on the flower bed next to him and rubbed his hair: "Be good."

Pink Hair: "Put it down."

Luo Xingyuan didn't move.

Lanmao: "I told you to put it down, didn't you hear me?"

"No!" Luo Xingyuan bit his lower lip and stared stubbornly at the men in bound pants in front of him.

"No..." The pink-haired man began to twist and rub his wrists, while rotating his cervical vertebrae. The others followed him, just like the one-two-three head exercise before physical education class. "The last time your brother hit us, it still hurts. As his younger brother, don't you have to compensate us?"

A strong wind blew towards him, and seeing that the opponent was about to punch him, Luo Xingyuan subconsciously closed his eyes.

The imagined pain did not come.

"Fuck... it hurts, it hurts!!!"

Luo Xingyuan slowly opened his eyes and saw the pink-haired boy's arm being pulled from the front to the back, with his hand passing over his head. If you didn't know better, you would think it was a Young Pioneer saluting.

"Fuck you!" He turned his head and saw a face that was so handsome that it was shocking.

Before he could react, the handsome guy spoke first: "Get lost."

Lu Xun uttered the word expressionlessly. Pull the pink hair out hard.

The pink-haired boy staggered and almost fell, but after steadying himself, he pounced back fiercely. Seeing this, the other people in bound pants also swarmed towards Lu Xun.

Lu Xun's expression didn't even change. He seemed to have practiced light kung fu. He dodged a few times and knocked down the whole group of people in a few quick moves.

Gu Chen, who walked up secretly from behind, was surprised. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dazzling white light out of the corner of his eye.

"Be careful!"

Seeing a yellow-haired man suddenly draw a knife, the blood in Gu Chen's brain rushed rapidly.

However, Lu Xun just glanced at him indifferently. He stepped on the yellow-haired man's hand holding the knife, causing him to scream but not fall.

"Are you sick, kid?!" the pink-haired boy cursed, "Why do you have nothing better to do than to meddle in other people's business?!"

"You call it other people's business if you touch my brother?

" Luo Xingyuan: "?"

Gu Chen: "?"

The pink-haired boy was disheveled in the wind, and asked Luo Xingyuan in despair: "How many brothers do you have?!"

Luo Xingyuan looked at Lu Xun hesitantly and whispered: "One..." Lu

Xun raised the corner of his lips: "In the future, there will be two."

Gu Chen: "?"

"It's going to break, it's going to break!!" the yellow-haired boy was still screaming there.

Lu Xun frowned in disdain, raised his foot and said calmly: "Get out of here now."

"Just wait for me!"

After saying these harsh words, the girls in rainbow-colored tights ran away.

The surroundings became quiet again. Gu Chen walked to Lu Xun, looked Luo Xingyuan up and down, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was not injured.

Luo Xingyuan couldn't see Gu Chen, so he held the cat and looked at Lu Xun carefully, as if he was observing him.

Lu Xun squatted down, looked at the little boy, then looked at the cat in his arms: "Is she pregnant?"

Luo Xingyuan nodded. The calico cat rubbed his face, and Luo Xingyuan giggled.

Lu Xun: "Did you raise it?"

Luo Xingyuan shook his head: "Wild."

Lu Xun nodded, his tone was very gentle, completely different from just now: "How did you get targeted by those people?"

As if he felt that Lu Xun had no ill intentions, and because he had just beaten those people away, Luo Xingyuan gradually let go: "They are perverts! They just like to bully cats. The last time my brother and I came here, my brother had already beaten them up, but they came again today!"

Lu Xun raised his eyebrows and asked the little guy at his feet with his mind: "Can the academic bully fight?"

"...I learned some Jeet Kune Do when I was a child."

A glimmer of admiration flashed in Lu Xun's eyes: "So powerful."

"Not bad." Gu Chen recalled the scene just now, "Much worse than you."

To be honest, before today, he had no idea about Lu Xun's fighting ability. In fact, it wasn't just him. No one in the entire No. 1 Middle School had ever seen Lu Xun actually beat anyone. The reason why he became famous as the school bully was all thanks to the support of Qi Xiang and Yu Fan, who were his capable younger brothers, as well as Cui Jie's incident last semester and Lu Xun's own aura, which helped him establish his reputation.

For a while, some people with ulterior motives even spread the rumor that Lu Xun was just a paper tiger and could not be defeated at all.

But after what happened just now, Gu Chen no longer had any doubts in his mind. Although those thugs were not very strong in fighting, they outnumbered him. They fought for a long time and he even got some scratches on his body. Compared to him, Lu Xun's clothes weren't even dirty. He didn't see how fiercely Lu Xun fought, but that was why it was even more terrifying.

True martial arts masters can kill people without leaving their mark.

"Big brother." Luo Xingyuan looked at Lu Xun, remembering that they seemed to have met in Gu Chen's ward last time, "Are you my brother's classmate?"

Lu Xun: "No."

Gu Chen: "?"

"I'm his..." Lu Xun paused, his lips slightly raised, "best friend." "

..."

"Do you agree?" Lu Xun asked with his mind.

Gu Chen had never had any close friends since he was a child. When he heard Lu Xun's words, he was stunned for a moment, but after a moment, he nodded.

Just look at the fact that Lu Xun had been working day and night for his sake. If he wasn't his best friend, he wouldn't have been able to do that.

People take him so seriously, it would be inappropriate for me to be ungrateful.

Moreover, for some reason, he really liked the feeling of being with Lu Xun.

It seems that I have never had this feeling before.

Seeing Lu Xun smiling happily, Luo Xingyuan was inexplicably infected and started laughing too: "Big brother, has my brother ever mentioned me to you?"

Lu Xun paused, looked up at the big expectant eyes in front of him, and asked with his mind: "Did he say yes?"

"No."

Lu Xun couldn't help but look to the side. The expression on Gu Chen's face was very calm, completely different from the anxious expression he had when he saw Luo Xingyuan being blocked just now.

"Big brother?"

Lu Xun turned his head back and smiled slightly: "Why do you come to the park alone so late?"

"Aunt Wang came with me. She had a stomachache and went to the toilet." Luo Xingyuan was halfway through his speech when he suddenly felt something was wrong, "Big brother, you haven't answered my question yet."

Lu Xun was silent, as if he was thinking about what to say.

Luo Xingyuan seemed to sense something, and his face visibly dropped: "Brother never mentioned me?"

Lu Xun: "Has your brother ever mentioned me to you?"

Luo Xingyuan thought about it and shook his head. He once asked Gu Chen if he had any good friends at school, and Gu Chen just replied that they were all OK.

"Then if I say I'm your brother's best friend, do you believe it?"

The questions were a bit dense, Luo Xingyuan paused for a moment and nodded.

"Why?"

"Because you just saved me, and you went to the hospital to see your brother last time."

"That's good."

Seeing Luo Xingyuan's confused face, Lu Xun smiled: "True love is hidden in the heart."

Gu Chen: "?"

Lu Xun chatted with Luo Xingyuan calmly: "Your brother hasn't mentioned you much to me, but it doesn't mean he doesn't care about you."

Luo Xingyuan's eyes flashed, as if Lu Xun had hit the nail on the head.

"Just like he hasn't mentioned me to you..."

"But it doesn't mean he cares about you, big brother!"

Luo Xingyuan answered smoothly, and heard Lu Xun's mouth corners rising: "How smart."

Gu Chen: "???"