Wang Jianhua said: "Okay, let's just give it a small beating."

Li Jinxuan had to say: "It's just for fun, no money is required."

Deng Juhua said: "If they don't have money, they have no intention to come. Don't look at Xu Huijie as an official. Gambling can be huge, tens of thousands of dollars. It seems that Li Jinxuan usually doesn't gamble big, so

Ten yuan and twenty-thirty."

So, they started fighting by default.

Li Jinxuan played with fear and caution, no matter how good his cards were, he would not play, but just "shine shoes" for the camp step by step.

He only had more than three hundred yuan in his pocket. You must not make a fool of yourself, he repeatedly told himself in his heart, and he hesitated to pull out a card every time.

But this game of cards is really like real life. The less confident you are, the more you lose. In just a moment, he lost more than five hundred yuan, and his back felt as hot as countless needles pricking him. He secretly gritted his teeth and worked hard.

He tried to pull him back, but he was defeated like a mountain. He fought and lost all the way.

In the middle of the game, Wang Jianhua began to urge: "After this set is played, pay, and then play again after paying."

Deng Juhua, who only lost more than 300 yuan, said: "Seeing that you are in a hurry, why should I give you less money?"

After the game, she actually took out four bills from her purse and threw them on the table: "I lose three hundred and six, you can take it."

This time, Li Jinxuan was stumped. He stood stiffly upright on the stool and could not move. His face turned purple and his hands could not help but tremble.

He really couldn't put his hand into his pocket, but he couldn't say it. This was really worse than death. And at this time, it was hard for him to lose his cards and say not to play.

"Take the money." Wang Jianhua urged again softly. He won the most.

Li Jinxuan jumped up and had to close his eyelids and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

There was a very awkward situation at the table, and the atmosphere in the living room was a little tense.

Liang Zhengkang, who was watching from the side, noticed something was wrong with Li Jinxuan and quickly said: "Oh, let's fight first and then we'll talk after the fight. What's the rush?"

Then he started to draw cards again. Beads of sweat shone on Li Jinxuan's forehead.

Liang Zhengkang first went to the toilet, then quietly turned from the opposite side and stood behind Li Jinxuan. After standing for a while, he grabbed a stool and sat down next to him.

Suddenly, Li Jinxuan felt a movement in his trouser pocket. He turned around and saw Liang Zhengkang quietly stuffing a wad of banknotes into his trouser pocket.

His tense heart immediately relaxed, he looked at him with infinite gratitude, and said to him in his heart, I will never forget your kindness in saving my self-esteem.

"After this game, don't play anymore." Teacher Hong came to announce, "It's time to eat."

After the last game, Xu Huijie threw away his cards and said, "Forget it." He also felt something strange about Li Jinxuan.

But Deng Juhua didn't give up: "It didn't happen, but I won 520 yuan."

Li Jinxuan took out the wad of banknotes from his trouser pocket, counted out ten banknotes in a very manly manner, and threw them into the center of the stage: "I lost a total of nine hundred and sixty-six, you can find it yourself."

Several spectators took a deep breath. Qian Chunhong said with some confusion: "Li Jinxuan is silent, but he knows everything clearly in his heart, huh?"

Everyone laughed.

It was even more lively during the meal. After dinner, several classmates stood aside furtively and said something.

After a while, Xu Huijie came over and whispered to him: "This time, let's each give a red envelope to Teacher Hong."

Li Jinxuan asked: "How much do you give?"

Xu Huijie said: "You can give me whatever you want, five or six hundred is enough."

What a risk, Li Jinxuan thought to himself, if Liang Zhengkang hadn't secretly slipped me two thousand yuan, I would have really been embarrassed this time.

After stuffing red envelopes one by one, Wang Jianhua suggested going to the ballroom to dance. Xu Huijie said: "Let's go sing karaoke."

So, they went to the most upscale entertainment center in the city, asked for two private rooms, and started singing and talking. No one was idle.

Teacher Hong took him aside, asked him some information and said, "To be honest, no matter what your current situation is, I still have the best impression of you, and I believe you will have greater potential."

After Li Jinxuan heard this, he felt even worse than his criticism.

Finally, Teacher Hong asked for his opinion: "How do you feel about Cai Xiuping?"

He declined politely: "I don't want to think about it yet."

Teacher Hong said: "I also think you are not suitable. Nowadays, as long as you have money, you can find women no matter how young you are. Really, I am almost an old man, and there are still little girls who are interested in me."

This class reunion was exactly the opposite of the second brother's original intention. Not only did he not mention anything about returning to his hometown to find a job, it actually strengthened his determination not to change his situation and never come back to see them.

Li Jinxuan returned to Shanghai on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the wounds on his body were all scarred. When he returned home this time, he seemed to have experienced a baptism of soul. His heart was filled with determination to fight hard, and his body was like a fully inflated rubber ball.

, I just want to fly.

He has lived in and out of this peasant villa area for several years. The landlord saw that he had no money and moved him from the large room upstairs to the small room downstairs. The rent has already been reduced from 400 to 300.

But he still often can't afford it. After moving in this time, he already owed three months' rent.

At this time, the landlady was demanding rent every day, so he had to hide outside during the day and wait for them to go to bed at night before sneaking in secretly.

But tonight, the living room on the ground floor was always brightly lit, and that familiar slender figure kept appearing and disappearing in the shadow of the lamp. Why didn't she go up? He was several villas away, hidden in the shadows, and kept peeping in, in the villa

He was walking in circles on the path between them. He was hungry and thirsty, exhausted, and his sore legs could no longer support his heavy body.

This morning, before dawn, he sneaked out. First he went to You Xingbao's company to ask for money, but after taking more than two hours of driving to get there, he didn't meet the new person in charge of their company.

people.

He had no choice but to go to the street and walk around aimlessly. When he was tired, he looked around for a place to sit. After searching for a while, he finally found a seat in the business hall of a bank.

The security guard of this bank was relatively friendly and walked over without warning, chasing him away with suspicious eyes. Li Jinxuan took out a newspaper from his bag, pretended to read the newspaper, closed his eyes and dozed off. But after a while, something happened

I was awakened by the noise and walked out feeling very uncomfortable. I paid three yuan for a box lunch.

After much thought, he couldn't figure out where to go in the afternoon, so he found a stone bench in a street park. He sat under the bright sun and stayed up until dark before taking the bus back.

When he walked to the door of the villa he rented, he saw the lights on in the living room. He quickly turned his head and turned around to exit the community.

He walked into a large supermarket and pretended to pick something, walking and stopping among the shelves. Finally, he stood stupidly in front of a hanging TV in the audio area with a few migrant workers, looking up.

Head watching TV.

It wasn't until the supermarket closed that he walked out helplessly. He walked into the villa area again and became extra careful. He knew that no matter how tired he was, he couldn't sit down in the community, let alone wait and see, otherwise he would arouse the suspicion of the joint defense team.

Suddenly, two uniformed joint defense team members who were patrolling the community noticed him and walked towards him.

His heart was beating wildly, and his scalp was numb. But he immediately stopped himself: You are not a thief, why are you panic? He held his head high and walked towards them without looking back.

The joint defense team members looked at him with venomous eyes, but finally did not stop him when they passed by.

Once again, he used his calmness to save the day.

The lights in the living room finally went out.

Li Jinxuan turned around a few more times before walking quietly to open the door.

"Clang." The sound of unlocking startled him.

He stood quietly for a while. Seeing that there was no movement on the scarlet curtains on the third floor, he sneaked into the yard like a thief, opened the door of the living room in the dark, then opened the small door of the side room next to him, and rushed in. Without turning on the light, he locked it.

He came to the door and fell down on the bed, moaning from exhaustion.

He lay there for more than ten minutes, making sure no one came down, then he stood up and turned on the light, trying to make a pack of instant noodles to eat. But there was no boiling water in the thermos. He opened the door and sneaked into the kitchen, and came back with a bottle of tap water. He closed it tightly.

I boiled the door with hot chopsticks, made a pack of instant noodles that cost 7 cents, and ate it.

After eating, his hungry stomach made a few sounds of comfort.

This room is separated from the living room on the ground floor and is about 7 square meters. There is a simple small bed on the north side, and an old writing desk is against the west wall. There are two broken boxes under the bed and two broken boxes on the table.

Dozens of books. There are also some miscellaneous items such as washbasins, towels, soaps, and umbrellas.

This is all my property. Li Jinxuan was lying on the bed, looking at the small world that still belonged to him, and started talking to himself as usual. What will you do tomorrow? What should you do?

He asked himself repeatedly. After thinking about it, he still couldn't answer it, so he fell asleep.

He woke up very early. He wanted to leave the dormitory before the landlord got up, but he tried hard many times without success. He was so tired and shaky that he couldn't get up. His ears were very sensitive, and every small child in the villa could not get up.

The sounds can all be heard clearly.

He heard the landlady getting up, then going to the toilet, brushing her teeth and washing her face, getting dressed, and then walked down slowly. Li Jinxuan held his breath and lay motionless on the bed.

Now, he only got up when she went to work. He hoped that there would never be a knock on the door at this time.

"Dong dong." There was a knock on the door.

Immediately afterwards, there was the crisp cry he was most afraid of hearing: "Li Jinxuan, open the door, how is the rent?"

Li Jinxuan's head suddenly grew bigger. He quickly got up, put on his trousers and went to open the door. Then he sat back on the edge of the bed, lowering his head like a student who had made a mistake, and said nothing.

"Where's the rent? You promise to pay it this week." The landlady walked up to him with her beautiful oval face and stretched out her fair right hand to him.

Li Jinxuan blushed and couldn't say a word.
Chapter completed!