The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 24 Please promise me one thing
Mr. Yan Qingzhi teaches very quickly. If you don’t understand something, you can ask him after class, but he will never repeat the lesson a second time in class. Most of the time, his attitude towards Li Diudiu is still cold and indifferent.
Li Diudiu thought, maybe it was because he had disobeyed again and again. After all, Yan Qingzhi had warned him several times to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo.
Do you really want to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo?
Li Diudiu doesn't care what others think. He wants to stay away from Xiahou Zhuo. Okay... maybe next year.
When school was suspended at noon, Li Diudiu was going to the cafeteria to eat, and Sun Rugong quickened his pace to catch up with Li Diudiu.
"Li Chi."
Sun Rugong called out, and Li Diudiu turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"
Sun Rugong calmed down and said, "I only have one request for you. First, don't take it. I've already asked. The four of us will all return to the big class smoothly. No one will be eliminated. So it doesn't matter what place you take. Consider it that I owe you a favor. You will definitely be able to use me in the future."
Li Diudiu smiled and said, "You are finally a little more normal."
Sun Rugong smiled and said, "There's no need to become enemies. After we return to the classroom, we'll be facing strangers, right? So we still have to take care of each other, right?"
Li Diudiu hummed: "You are right, but I don't want to agree to you."
He looked at Sun Rugong and said seriously, "If you had said these to me before you had Sun Biehe sneak attack me, I would have nodded in agreement. I am indeed a person who does not have much desire to win, so I don't have the idea of having to take first place, but it's too late now."
After saying that, he walked forward. Sun Rugong's expression kept changing. After a while, he muttered to himself... You will regret it, Li Chi.
The next day was another day off from school. Li Diudiu was ready to go out early in the morning with the things he had prepared. Xiahou Zhuo, who was always so carefree, strolled over from a distance, yawning as he walked.
"Does it have to be so early?"
He glanced at Li Diudiu, put his hand on Li Diudiu's head and then moved his hand horizontally to his own body to compare, looking a little surprised.
"Why do I feel like you've grown taller?"
Li Diudiu asked, "Isn't it normal that I've grown taller?"
"You've only been here for twenty days and you've grown taller."
"You do the math. Compared to your appetite, I've probably eaten for eighty days."
Xiahou Zhuo felt that what Li Diudiu said made sense. Li Diudiu had indeed grown a lot taller. He vaguely remembered that when he first saw Li Diudiu, his height was just below his shoulders, but now he was obviously taller than his shoulders.
"You said you would take us somewhere. Where?"
“There’s really no fixed place.”
Xiahou Zhuo held the back of his head and walked forward: "Whatever, there are not many fun places in Jizhou City, just find a place at random."
Li Diudiu suddenly understood why Xiahou Zhuo insisted on following him today and said he wanted to take him to a fun place. It was because Sun Biehe and the others must have known that Li Diudiu would leave the academy today.
"Are you afraid that I'll be beaten to death?"
Li Diudiu asked.
Xiahou Zhuo curled his lips and said, "They probably don't dare to beat someone to death, but they can cripple you."
In fact, Xiahou Zhuo really wanted to take Li Diudiu to a special place, but he suddenly changed his mind before coming because he felt it was a little too early.
Not long after Li Diudiu and Xiahou Zhuo left the academy, Sun Biehe also left the academy with a group of people. As he walked, he ordered, "Keep an eye on him. I don't believe he won't be alone. If you can't find a chance to deal with him, then come with me tonight to deal with his master."
"okay!"
"Just tell us if you have anything to say. We are all brothers after all."
"Yes, yes, just tell us to do it."
A group of younger brothers followed Sun Biehe and echoed him. Perhaps they themselves did not know how ugly they looked at this moment.
On the street, Xiahou Zhuo bought two strings of candied haws and handed one to Li Diudiu. Li Diudiu took it, looked at it, but didn't eat it.
Xiahou Zhuo suddenly reacted, turned around and called the man selling candied haws, and directly bought all the candied haws targets and carried them away.
"Want to leave some for your master to eat?"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "Next time, please speak up when I neglect something."
Li Diudiu shook his head and said, "How can this be considered negligence on your part? Because there is absolutely no need for you to buy more."
Xiahou Zhuo: "Shut up, I don't like your face that knows everything so clearly."
Li Diudiu smiled and said, "Master said that we should know right from wrong and know when to advance and when to retreat."
Xiahou Zhuo asked, "How do you look like you have learned anything from your master?"
At this moment, several men in green clothes at the entrance of the alley nodded slightly to Xiahou Zhuo. When Li Diudiu was not paying attention, Xiahou Zhuo waved his hand, and the men in green clothes immediately retreated.
Li Diudiu was only focused on the candied haws in his hand and didn't notice the men in blue at all.
"You've never eaten it?"
Xiahou Zhuo asked.
Li Diudiu nodded: "I've seen others eat it."
Xiahou Zhuo sighed: "Why are you such a person?"
Li Diudiu asked: "What kind of person am I?"
Xiahou Zhuo thought for a long time but couldn't find the right words. He really felt that Li Diudiu was a little strange. Everyone knew that Li Diudiu was a poor man. In Xiahou Zhuo's words, Li Diudiu and his master were the poorest people in Jizhou City.
But Li Diudiu doesn't have the air of poverty.
Xiahou Zhuo finally understood that there was no such thing as poverty.
Everyone has a different temperament. Some are innate, while others are acquired. Different material environments will give people different temperaments. Li Diudiu's temperament did not change after he entered the academy. He has never had the air of poverty.
Even when Li Diudiu said that he had never eaten candied haws but had seen others eat them, he did not give people a sense of inferiority.
Xiahou Zhuo suddenly asked, "If I help you think of a way to prevent those people from easily touching you, does that count as you owing me a huge favor?"
"too big."
Li Diudiu shook his head and said, "I can't bear it."
Xiahou Zhuo said: "I don't want you to be tainted with lowliness, so I try not to help you when I can. I don't want you to think that you can ask others for help for everything, as long as you are humble. People can't be humble all the time. I don't want you to lose your backbone."
He looked at Li Diudiu and said seriously: "But this matter is very important to you and me. I need you to owe me a favor, because only if you feel that you owe me, can you do it well."
Li Diudiu said, "Didn't you help me do something? How come I have to do something now?"
"Because after I help you, I need you to return the favor."
Xiahou Zhuo smiled and said, "But don't worry. I won't leave Jizhou City until next year. I'll tell you about this next year."
Li Diudiu nodded and said, "All right, but I'm curious about something."
"You ask."
"How did you get hurt last time?"
Xiahou Zhuo said: "Everyone has their own weaknesses... I don't have many friends in the academy, but it's not that I don't have any. Before I met you, the person I thought I could trust was called Wang Yunhai, and we used to talk about everything."
"His family background is average, not that good, at least not as good as mine. But think about it, I don't care about these things when making friends. Anyway, no one in the academy is as rich and powerful as me."
"That day, Wang Yunhai suddenly came to me and told me that he saw my mother go to the clinic on his way to the academy. She looked very bad, as if she had some emergency illness. So I rushed to the clinic in a hurry and didn't have time to tell anyone..."
"When I entered the clinic, I was hit with a stick and then my head was covered."
Xiahou Zhuo said: "It's a pity, those guys are not very capable. I was hit by a stick first and they couldn't beat me even though I was covered. However, I didn't expect that those thugs were just testing me."
Xiahou Zhuo glanced at Li Diudiu and said, "Did I ever tell you that I'm an illegitimate child?"
Li Diudiu nodded and said, "You said so."
Xiahou Zhuo continued, "I also told you that they wanted to kill me because my father did favor me a little more. They were too afraid of me and were afraid that I would take away the family business."
"Of course my father also knew what his sons were thinking. Not only his sons, but his women also thought the same. The gangsters that day were just testing me. When they were sure that no one was following me in secret, the killers showed up and went to kill me."
"But at this moment, the people who were secretly protecting me caught up and killed the assassin, but those thugs had already fled before that. My people wanted to kill them as well, but I stopped them. It was unnecessary."
Xiahou Zhuo raised his hand and rubbed his temple, as if he had a headache.
"That's about it."
He smiled and said to Li Diudiu: "People like me have weaknesses, but I have more power behind me to block these weaknesses. You are different. My weakness is my mother, and your weakness is your master."
Li Diudiu suddenly realized: "If they can't touch me, they will touch my master."
Xiahou Zhuo shrugged his shoulders: "Hasn't the bad guys always been like this? There's nothing strange about it. It's just that you haven't experienced so many evil people, so it's normal that you can't imagine it."
"what do I do?"
Li Diudiu asked anxiously.
Xiahou Zhuo said, "If you promise what I just told you, I will ensure that nothing will happen to your master."
Li Diudiu immediately said: "I agree!"
Xiahou Zhuo said, "You agree to anything? It may not be a good thing, but it may also be a good thing."
"I'll agree to anything!"
Li Diudiu answered with a firm voice.
Xiahou Zhuo immediately smiled and held out his finger: "Make a pinky promise. That's your promise."
Li Diudiu looked at Xiahou Zhuo, who was seriously trying to make a pinky promise with him, and subconsciously asked, "Just a pinky promise? Doesn't it seem careless?"
Xiahou Zhuo said: "Because I trust your character, you should also trust mine."
Li Diudiu stretched out his finger and hooked it with Xiahou Zhuo's: "Okay, pinky promise!"
Xiahou Zhuo laughed loudly, then raised his other hand as if pointing to the sky. Li Diudiu didn’t quite understand what this action meant.
In the dark, several men in blue saw Xiahou Zhuo raise his hand and then turned and left.
Not long after, about half a mile away from Xiahou Zhuo and Li Diudiu, Sun Biehe and his men had been following them quietly. Just as they turned the alley entrance, a group of men in blue clothes rushed in from outside the alley, put them all in sacks, and beat them up.
At the same time, outside the inn where Master Li Diudiu lived, two young men who were staring at the inn were dragged into the alley and were soon beaten beyond recognition.
