Chapter 29: Classmates Reunion (VIII)
What is the definition of love?
The 17-year-old Hu Xilin didn’t know.
He was born in a dirty alley, and his father's roar and his mother's cries could always be heard from his parents' room.
The uneducated father always thought that a door could block out the sound of fists hitting flesh, and the cowardly mother always thought that smiling and saying it was okay could cover up the fact that she was bruised and battered.
They always think that children won’t understand.
Hu Xilin grew up alone, surrounded by beatings and scolding day after day.
He was thin due to malnutrition and was ostracized because he was taciturn.
It seems that his parents' attitude towards him never has a transition period. One second he is in a dark childhood where they let him grow up wildly, and the next second the college entrance examination is approaching. They hope that their child will become a pillar of the country without any guidance.
They suddenly began to look at their children with a critical eye.
They asked Hu Xilin why he was so lonely and why he had no friends, but they didn't realize that they had actually missed the most important part of the child's life.
Hu Xilin became a person who couldn't love.
It was at this time that he met Qi Fan, the person who made him extremely jealous.
Qi Fan has everything that he doesn't have. He is 1.87 meters tall, handsome, and has a superior family background, so he can enjoy the unique privileges even if he doesn't work hard. He is a local tyrant in school, and he is always surrounded by a group of younger brothers. At the same time, he never worries about having no money to spend. Once, Hu Xilin saw him order a large table of dishes in the cafeteria, but he poured them all out before he even touched them.
At that time, Hu Xilin was experiencing growing pains due to insufficient nutrition during adolescence.
Hu Xilin and Qi Fan were in the same class. Although the two had almost no interactions, what Qi Fan didn't know was that Hu Xilin had begun to hate him long before he met him.
Later, when the bad boy Qi Fan was robbing someone on the road, he blocked Hu Xilin who was on his way home from school.
Hu Xilin's hands were held by Qi Fan's two younger brothers, while Qi Fan leaned against the wall. He took a puff of cigarette and slowly blew out a smoke ring. He stretched out his slender neck like a swan ready to be killed. He stared at Hu Xilin for a while, then seemed to find something strange and said, "Hey, isn't this the freak in our class?"
Hu Xilin pursed his lips and said nothing.
Qi Fan seemed to be impatient waiting for his answer, so he raised his hand and punched him. Hu Xilin's head was knocked to one side by the punch, and the blood from his nose flowed down his philtrum and into the gap between his lips. For the first time, he tasted the pain and a hint of unknown happiness.
This realization frightened him.
He understood that, although he was at the other extreme, he had grown up to be a psychopath just like the man he called his father.
Hu Xilin began to follow Qi Fan, even though Qi Fan only treated him as a dog to use.
But Hu Xilin didn't care, as long as his necklace was in Qi Fan's hands.
Later, Qi Fan began to pursue the class beauty in a big way, and was rejected in a humiliating way. But Qi Fan was surprisingly not angry. He just skipped classes and smoked a cigarette in the playground for an afternoon, and then after school he continued to be a bad boy as if nothing had happened.
He said, "Tsk, she's just average looking, and you really think I must have her." It was as if he was just like other boys in the class, following the crowd to pursue the pretty girl.
But Hu Xilin, who always kept an eye on Qi Fan, knew that this was not the case. In fact, he had never been so serious.
After graduating from high school, Hu Xilin and Qi Fan went to the same university. Hu Xilin started to exercise. He was 1.9 meters tall, but because he was thin, he looked like a bamboo pole. His muscles accumulated day by day and he became stronger. More and more girls expressed their admiration for him.
Hu Xilin silently refused one by one. He just silently acted as Qi Fan's dog.
He didn't deserve love, he thought, he only deserved to go to hell with Qi Fan.
Until the little class beauty appeared again.
When Hu Xilin accompanied one of Qi Fan's ex-girlfriends to the hospital for an abortion, he met the class beauty whose hair had already fallen out.
Xiao Banhua has pancreatic cancer. The family’s money is almost gone and they are ready to give up treatment.
Hu Xilin told Qi Fan the news: "Zhenzhen is going to die."
He looked at Qi Fan with pleasure, his expression as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting after he heard the news.
"He is indeed still in love with the class beauty." Hu Xilin thought.
Hu Xilin then realized that he had never stopped hating Qi Fan over the years.
He hated that he was still capable of love.
Qi Fan smoked all night and finally decided to be with the class beauty and pay for all her surgery expenses.
But the words changed their meaning when they came out of his mouth. Qi Fan said, "Selling your body in exchange for your life is not a losing deal, right?"
The class beauty agreed to be with Qi Fan, but she didn't want him to pay for the surgery. Hu Xilin remembered that she smiled very gently and said, "Qi Fan, you are really a fool."
But they actually did nothing. Most of the time, Qi Fan just silently peeled apples for the class beauty in front of the bed.
At first, Qi Fan peeled an apple just like he was peeling a potato, which was ugly and laborious. But as time went by, he was able to peel a continuous strip of apple peel from beginning to end without breaking.
But Zhenzhen's health was getting worse day by day . She said: "Stop smoking and fighting, and make some contributions to society."
Qi Fan said: "For scum like me, it is a blessing to society if we die early."
Zhen Zhen just smiled and called him, "Idiot."
The class beauty did not survive that winter.
Qi Fan smoked for an entire afternoon like he did in the past, and then continued to go to school as if nothing had happened. But something had changed. He began to study hard, and he gradually became an elite who did not need to rely on his family background.
If only the story stopped here.
However, the reality is that Hu Xilin met Sheng Min, who had been secretly running some catering business after graduation.
Sheng Min told Hu Xilin that he had a way to bring the class beauty back to life.
Hu Xilin didn't know why he believed it for some reason, and he even brought Sheng Min to Qi Fan.
Perhaps he didn't hate Qi Fan to the point of wanting to make him so sad.
They really grew Zhenzhen with just a handful of Zhenzhen's ashes and a pill given by Sheng Min.
At first, with the mentality of just giving it a try, under Sheng Min's guidance, he planted the ashes and small pills together in the garden of the mountain villa.
Who would have thought that in just one day, a towering tree would grow where the pills were planted.
On the third day, the small class flower slowly grew a head, then limbs. On the seventh day, the mature small class flower fell from the tree.
She was naked, looking at Qi Fan and yelling, "Fool."
That was the first time Hu Xilin saw Qi Fan cry.
But gradually, Hu Xilin and Qi Fan both discovered that it was not the class beauty.
The class beauty will not strangle a bird on the windowsill without any expression, nor will she eat the raw meat in the refrigerator without changing her expression.
It was a monster in the guise of a little class flower.
But Qi Fan still couldn't bear to kill the monster that looked like Zhenzhen.
Until tonight.
Xihe held Zhenzhen's head expressionlessly.
The butler and Hu Xilin blinked their eyes, then collapsed to the ground exhausted as if they had finally relaxed. Lu Ren then discovered that both of them had varying degrees of injuries, with the butler being the most seriously injured. His collar was covered in blood, and there was a fresh tooth mark on his neck.
Xi He held his head with one hand and took out his mobile phone with the other hand and sent a voice message: "The elixir of immortality has been recovered successfully." After that, he put away the phone, walked forward without looking around, and prepared to leave.
Before Lu Ren had the chance to ask what was going on, he saw Zhenzhen's headless body standing up behind Xihe, with her hands shaped into claws, and attacking Xihe's back directly.
Lu Ren exclaimed: "Be careful."
Xi He understood what she meant immediately after hearing this, dodged quickly, drew out his Tang sword and clashed with Zhen Zhen's sharp nails.
Zhenzhen's other hand attacked Xihe's chest. In order to avoid it, Xihe turned his body to the left, but he didn't expect that the head in his right hand suddenly opened its mouth and bit his wrist, actually tearing off a piece of flesh.
Xihe loosened his grip in pain, and Zhenzhen's body took his head back.
Zhenzhen successfully installed her head, then she turned around with her stiff neck to adjust to her new head, then licked her lips, as if savoring the taste of Xihe's flesh and blood: "I was wondering why it smelled so familiar, it turns out to be someone from Buzhou Mountain Jiesi."
Buzhou Mountain Boundary Office?
Lu Ren heard a new word. It seemed that Jiao Jiao had mentioned the matter of Jiesi in Luosha Ghost Market before, so it seemed that Xihe should also be the law enforcer among the monsters.
The wound on Xihe's hand healed in an instant. He rubbed his wrist and said to Zhenzhen, "You only have two choices. One is to go back to Bazhai with me, and the other is to die here."
"You're quite arrogant. Let's see if you have the ability to do it."
The two refused to give in, and after only a glance, they fought again. When these two killing gods fought, they really didn't care whether other small shrimps present would be injured. For a moment, the visible and invisible furniture in Qi Fan's room flew everywhere. Lu Ren was hit by a comb, a mirror, and a bench, and he screamed.
Zongyi couldn't stand the beating and shouted, "Stop fighting. Go to the dance studio!"
Then, Xi He and Zhen Zhen, as if responding to Zong Yi's words, jumped straight out of the roof and into the garden.
The room finally The rain outside had stopped. After the rain, the sound could be heard far away. The sound of Zhenzhen and Xihe fighting could be clearly heard in the distance.
Lu Ren and Zong Yi got a chance to catch their breath, and quickly helped Qi Fan, Hu Xilin and the housekeeper up, asking what happened. Qi Fan then explained that this Zhen Zhen was not the Zhen Zhen from high school, but he had planted this Zhen Zhen.
Zong Yi clapped his hands after hearing this: "Good fellow, I didn't expect that Master Qi also needs to breed his own girlfriend. It seems that solving the problem of unbalanced population ratio is urgent."
Lu Ren was too lazy to listen to his nonsense, so he took out his cell phone to see if there was any signal. He saw that the small exclamation mark in front of the message he had sent to Si Yuan was gone, and the message was sent successfully.
Lu Ren was thinking that Si Yuan must be busy, and before he could reply, he was interrupted by a loud "bang" from not far away. This loud noise really scared everyone present.
Lu Ren stood at the window, silently observing the situation downstairs, and then he saw Si Yuan.
Si Yuan was wearing a white shirt and casual pants, and he looked as lazy as if he was taking a walk after dinner. But one of his hands was covered in blood. He stood between Xi He and Zhen Zhen, and pierced Zhen Zhen's heart with one hand. He pulled his hand back, and took out Zhen Zhen's heart together. He looked at the heart nonchalantly and said to Xi He, "You have regressed. You can't even find where the immortality elixir is."
Seeing this, Lu Ren quickly ran downstairs to meet Si Yuan, while Zong Yi was busy taking care of the remaining elderly, weak and sick people.
He ran into the garden, shouting as he ran: "Si Yuan!"
Si Yuan also saw Lu Ren running towards him: "You've come just in time." He pointed to the human head tree behind him and said to Lu Ren: "The fruits grown from the residue of the immortality medicine taste very good. Remember to bring them back."
