Wuyang Town Middle School, near the gate, inside Ermao Restaurant.
Chen Hai and Lin Lan stepped into it one after the other.
"Chen Hai, what do you like to eat?" Lin Lan asked.
"That kind of fast food that costs one yuan a piece, I can just have any one!" Chen Hai responded.
In this kind of small restaurant, the fast food sold is the kind of big pot dishes that have been prepared in advance.
Compared with cooking alone, there is less oil and water, and the taste is also much worse, but it is simple and cheap.
In today's schools, closed management is not popular yet. The food in the canteen is not cheap, but the taste is really not good!
It is for this reason that Chen Hai and Lin Lan came outside.
These small restaurants near the school are usually overcrowded unless it is a holiday.
In the classroom, the two of them were delayed for a while, but the Ermao restaurant was still full.
Judging from Lin Lan's appearance, she seemed to want to cook two dishes, but seeing that her boss was too busy, she had to give up temporarily.
There were no spare seats inside the restaurant, but outside the restaurant, there were many people squatting with lunch boxes and eating.
Eating in the cafeteria tastes bad, but in restaurants outside, you can't find a place to sit, which is why it's not good.
In a small county like Wuyang Town, there are many bicycles, but it is difficult to find a few real small cars.
There are no cars on the road, so you can squat outside a restaurant to eat without worrying about eating ashes.
"Lin Lan, after the college entrance examination, will you go back to eastern Guangdong directly?"
"I don't know yet. When my parents left a few days ago, they said they would pick me up. When they come, I will leave!"
"I heard that they asked me to study abroad because of their connections. I wonder how this matter has been handled?"
"Congratulations on studying abroad, Lin Lan!"
"What's there to congratulate? I'm overseas and I'm not familiar with the place. If it weren't for my parents' kindness, I wouldn't be able to refuse it directly. I don't want to go to those ghost places!"
"After I return to eastern Guangdong, I should change my name back to my real name, and I won't be called Lin Lan anymore!"
"If it's not Lin Lan, what's your name?"
"My adoptive father's surname is Lin. Originally, my surname should be Yang, Yang Huilan!"
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Neither Chen Hai nor Lin Lan are hypocritical people. It is not unacceptable to squat on the roadside and eat fast food.
While eating fast food, the two of them chatted.
In the morning, after learning about her life experience from Lin Lan, Chen Hai still felt that her life was rough.
But now, while chatting with her, Chen Hai felt that his whole person was sour and he felt extremely lost.
There are still two or three months before the college entrance examination, and Lin Lan has already arranged her future and is preparing to go directly to study abroad.
But what about him? He can't go to college, and he doesn't want to stay at home and work on the land. If he has to dig food in the fields, his only way out is probably to go south and find a job in a factory there.
When he thought of this, he suddenly felt that there was a lot of distance between him and Lin Lan, as if they were not in the same world at all.
When they first started chatting, the two of them were still chatting and laughing. Afterwards, Chen Hai only focused on eating and fell silent.
"Wang Laoliu is really lucky. He went to the mountain to cut down trees and actually picked up a big snake!"
"The snake carcass is more than ten meters long and weighs at least a hundred kilograms. He originally planned to drag it back and stew it in a pot first, and marinate the remaining meat first!"
"But as a result, I met a big boss driving a small car on the way. People said that such a big snake is relatively rare, and the snake meat must be very nourishing."
"I gave Wang Laoliu a stack of banknotes, and the big boss bought the snake corpse back directly."
"Those are ten old people's heads, worth a thousand yuan. It would be great if I had the luck of Wang Laoliu!"
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Not far away, several strong men squatting on the side of the road with lunch boxes, looking like hardworking men, were eating and messing around.
At the beginning, Chen Hai didn't pay attention to them.
When he heard from them that a certain guy had picked up a big snake more than ten meters long and sold it for a thousand yuan, his thoughts suddenly became complicated.
"A big snake more than ten meters long must have become a spirit!"
"How could such a big snake die suddenly, leaving only its corpse on the mountain?"
"Last night, I turned into a leech and devoured only the soul of the snake demon. But where is the snake demon's body? I didn't even look for it!"
"Could it be that the snake corpse that Wang Laoliu picked up was the body of the snake demon that died in my hands..."
The more he thought about it, the more Chen Hai felt that his guess was the truth.
"That snake demon should also be in the realm of night wandering."
"Its demon soul died on the cliff, and its body must have been near that area at the time."
"After I solved the demon soul, what the hell did I leave? At that time, why didn't I know and search around there?
"That's a full thousand yuan. Did I miss hundreds of millions?"
He felt regretful in his heart. When he thought about the one thousand yuan that was stolen by someone else, Chen Hai felt his heart bleed.
If he hadn't been in public at this moment, he would have wanted to slap himself hard.
He was already a little depressed, but now he seemed to be filled with a sense of loss.
"Chen Hai, we've finished eating. Do you want to go back to the classroom together?"
Lin Lan, who had finished her meal, also saw that something was wrong with Chen Hai's current state. She tentatively opened her mouth and invited him.
"It's still early before the afternoon class."
"Lin Lan, you go back to the classroom alone first. I have something else to do. I'll go back later!"
Chen Hai spoke and declined politely.
Now he is very upset and just wants to be alone.
"Chen Hai, are you okay?"
"What can I do? I can eat, drink, jump and run. I really have something to do. I'll go back to school later."
"Okay! Chen Hai, I'll go back to the classroom first!"
Since Chen Hai had already said this, Lin Lan naturally couldn't continue to follow him.
After saying hello to Chen Hai, she pouted and walked towards the school gate.
Aimlessly, Chen Hai wandered around alone.
Wuyang Town is such a big place, with only two streets, one horizontal and one vertical, and it's barely lively.
When he walked to the entrance of an alley, Zhang Yong, wearing a dark blue school uniform and a crew cut, jumped out from behind him and stopped in front of him.
"Chen Hai, do you know why I'm looking for you?"
"I'm telling you, Lin Lan is the girl that Brother Bing likes, so please stop trying to figure her out."
"I'm looking for you now just to warn you, toad, don't try to eat swan meat. If I see you approaching Lin Lan again, I'll beat you up once. Do you understand?"
Zhang Yong has a very bad attitude.
When he said these words, his finger almost pointed at the tip of Chen Hai's nose.