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"I don't have to tell Teacher Yuan, and I don't have to inform my parents," Tao Rui said while packing her things, "but you can't hide it, even a blind person can see the injury on your face."

"Does it look serious? On your face." Xu Zhifan stood up and wanted to take a look in the mirror of the sink, but after standing up, he had to stand there for two seconds, and the wounds on his body hurt.

"It's not bad, even though it looks scary, there's nothing wrong with the bones," Tao Rui sighed, "You must have been kicked in the face. Can your friends not ask you?"

"They know," Xu Zhifan walked to the mirror and took a look, then returned to the chair and sat down, "I'll stay here for a while and think about how to tell them."

"Did something happen?" Tao Rui poured him a glass of water. "If it's a big deal, I suggest you tell the school or your parents. After all, you are only a sophomore in high school. Some things can be handled, and some things can be handled.

It won’t work.”

"My dad knows," Xu Zhifan said, "Something happened to my family, and it was not me who caused the trouble."

"See, you're not a troublemaker," Tao Rui breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "If you have a character like Kou Chen, I really don't dare to believe it."

Xu Zhifan smiled.

If it were another person or a different family, how would they deal with such a thing?

have no idea.

This is my family's business. There is no point in assuming. No matter how you assume, it has already happened. You can't avoid it. There is only one way to deal with it.

"Has your ex-boyfriend's matter been resolved?" Xu Zhifan asked.

"What, you want to change the subject?" Tao Rui smiled, "After handling it, I told his parents. Our two families know each other, so I didn't want to make a big fuss at first. It would be too embarrassing."

"Yes," Xu Zhifan nodded, "I don't know what to do with people who know each other like this, friends, old neighbors..."

"Want to talk? We don't know each other very well," Tao Rui said. "Maybe it will feel better if we tell you. Of course, if you don't want to, we can talk about something else."

"Are you talking about your new bag?" Xu Zhifan glanced at the bag she put on the table.

"The eyes are fine," Tao Rui took the bag, "It's a limited edition, this is it. I'm familiar with the counter girl, so I grabbed it."

"Did you come out to work just to buy some snacks?" Xu Zhifan said with a smile.

"No, I'm lucky because my family is in good condition. Earning more or less doesn't have much impact on me. I don't have to put income first," Tao Rui said, "But I also want to have my own life.

, to work or not to work, that’s what matters.”

Xu Zhifan gave a thumbs up.

Back to school today, dinner is available in the cafeteria. Everyone usually rushes to school before dinner. Lao Yuan said that they are like puppies, they need to be crowded together to eat.

The group of seven, except Xu Zhifan, was all here. When they were going to the cafeteria, Huo Ran took out his cell phone: "I'll send a message to Xu Zhifan."

"Don't say it," Wei Chaoren said, "If he doesn't want us to know, we should just pretend to be stupid?"

"So you are so stupid," Kou Chen poked the back of his head, "you just sent a message to ask because you wanted to pretend to be stupid. Normally, if he hasn't arrived at school yet, do we have to ask?"

"Oh, yes," Wei Chaoren nodded, "you still have exquisite brains."

"It's considered exquisite," Huo Ran said while sending a message, "it's just that it's all grown up."

The group of people laughed, and Wei Chaoren sighed: "I thought your mouth wouldn't be ruined once I got to know you."

"This shows that if you are not familiar with him, he can destroy you to ashes." Jiang Lei said.

"You're about the same," Wei Chaoren said, "You just didn't speak."

-We went to the cafeteria, where are you?

-We'll be there soon. I'll go directly to the cafeteria.

"He said to go directly to the cafeteria." Huo Ran put away his cell phone.

"With the injury on your face?" Xu Chuan asked.

"It's impossible to escape anyway," Huo Ran said, "I guess I can't make up any excuses."

It's true that I haven't come up with any reasonable explanation.

When Xu Zhifan walked into the cafeteria with a wounded face, he waved his hands as soon as he saw them: "Let's make food first, and then we'll talk after we finish eating."

"I'll help you fight, and you go and grab a seat," Huo Ran said, "What do you want to eat?"

"Same as Kou Chen." Xu Zhifan said.

"Why?" Huo Ran was stunned.

"He eats meat more fiercely than you." Xu Zhifan smiled.

"I want to eat braised pork trotters today," Kou Chen announced, "and braised pork, steamed pork with rice flour..."

Huo Ran quickly took Xu Zhifan's card and ran to the dining counter. These hard dishes would be snatched up within ten minutes.

"And more," Kou Chen lined up behind him and stared inside, "Fuck, I want to eat the meatloaf too."

"Can you finish eating?" Huo Ran sighed. After the people in front of him finished collecting the food and left, he handed over Xu Zhifan's card, turned his head and said to Kou Chen, "Report it."

"Long time no see, auntie, pork trotters, steamed pork with rice flour, and meat cakes." Kou Chen said.

"Aren't you going to eat some vegetables?" the eldest sister inside asked while picking up vegetables.

"Green vegetables?" Kou Chen frowned and thought for a long time, "Half of Chinese cabbage."

Huo Ran laughed at this, handed over his card, and ordered two meat and vegetables.

"I have another one here, just like the one before." Kou Chen took Xu Zhifan's plate of food and handed his card in.

"You are not allowed to fight for me!" the eldest sister said.

"Sister," Huo Ran hurriedly leaned down to the window, "We helped Zhifan fight, Xu Zhifan, as you know, the one with particularly good academic performance, the one who helped you mop the floor very clean last time, he is injured today and cannot stand.

live."

"Hey, how did you do it... Okay," the eldest sister picked up a dinner plate and clicked on the meter a few times, "Is it the same as the one just now?"

"Yes." Kou Chen nodded, stretched out his hand and scanned the card reader.

Beep.

Insufficient balance.

Huo Ran, who was turning around to leave with two plates of food, was stunned.

"No money?" Kou Chen scanned the card again.

Insufficient balance.

"Then swipe this card." Kou Chen took Huo Ran's card from his hand before he could speak.

Huo Ran wanted to say something, but the dinner plate in his hand was too heavy, especially Xu Zhifan's plate, so he had to quickly walk to the table with the plate in hand.

"...Is this two people's food being beaten together?" Xu Zhifan was stunned when he saw the dinner plate.

"You said you wanted to be like him," Huo Ran said with a smile, "He also eats so much... He has no money in the card and still has money to fight so much."

"Who? Kou Chen has no money in his card?" Jiang Lei came over with a plate, "Can he still have no money?"

"The money in his card is leftover from last semester and has not been recharged this semester," Xu Chuan said.

"That's what it means to be rich. You can eat all you want and treat guests for a semester, but you still have money left in your card." Wei Chaoren said.

Kou Chen came over with a dinner plate, put Huo Ran's card in front of him, and sat down next to him.

"You take Huo Ran's card?" Xu Chuan was stunned, "Can't you recharge it nearby?"

"It's too late to recharge. Didn't you notice that the guy behind me is a fucking man," Kou Chen said, "I went to recharge and came back and I'm still eating shit."

"Can you finish eating?" Xu Zhifan looked at the dishes on his plate.

"If you can't finish it, give it to me." Kou Chen said.

"...I'll give it a try, I'm a little hungry." Xu Zhifan said.

Huo Ran looked at Xu Zhifan. In fact, a group of people all stared at Xu Zhifan after they came back from taking food.

Xu Zhifan had a bruise at the corner of his eye, a scratch on the corner of his mouth, the back of his hand was swollen, and there were blood marks on the side of his wrist similar to those rubbed on the ground.

This is when someone beats him up and he has no way to fight back, so he can only lie on the ground to protect himself from being beaten more seriously.

Or he didn't want to fight back.

"What's going on?" Huo Ran asked, "It's like this. We can't pretend we can't see it."

"Aunt Hu's son is back," Xu Zhifan said. "Her daughter came to remind me today, and I almost guessed that she would block me on the road."

"How many people?" Kou Chen asked.

"I don't know," Xu Zhifan said, "I lay on the ground and didn't raise my head, so I didn't see clearly."

Kou Chen said nothing and frowned. The spoon he held in his hand was pressed by his thumb and silently bent into a right angle.

"Kou Chen," Huo Ran reached out and held his hand, squeezing it, "Don't be impulsive."

Kou Chen still didn't speak, he just threw the spoon in his hand on the table, took the spoon from Huo Ran's dinner plate, and ate with his head down.

Kou Chen likes to use a spoon when eating. Now he was immersed in eating and the spoon kept hitting the bottom of the plate. Dang Dang, it could be heard that he was very unhappy.

"I'm fine..." Xu Zhifan said, "I just went to the school doctor's office for a checkup, and there's no big problem..."
To be continued...