Chapter 4 The Self-Deceiving Liar

After a brief period of surprise, Lin Xiamian quickly calmed down.

He took the initiative to introduce: "Brother, this is my classmate and the competition team. Her name is Lu Yuanyuan."

Lin Xiaodong exchanged glances with him.

Lu Yuanyuan looked like that kind of little girl. She lowered her head and greeted Lin Xiaodong a little embarrassedly, "Hello."

"Hello, hello," the young man was very enthusiastic about his future sister-in-law, "Come in, I just bought a crayfish, let's stay and have a meal together?"

"No, no, I'm here today to discuss the topic of the competition with Lin Xiamian..."

"Oh, you're welcome, anyway, there are too many lobsters, not enough to order more." Lin Xiaodong rarely returned, he waved his hand boldly, "I'll treat you today!" Although it is usually the case.

Lin Xiamian looked at him suspiciously: "Brother, have you won the lottery?"

"How is that possible. Your brother and mine have always had bad luck, and it's not like you don't know."

"That's why..." Lin Xiamian noticed Lin Xiaodong's feet, and his voice suddenly rose an octave, "What's wrong with your legs!?"

"Hey, bad luck, I was hit by a car on the road." Lin Xiaodong lied casually and said with a smug expression, "It wasn't a big deal, so I twisted my foot, but that big head paid me a fortune. A lot of money."

"How can you be so careless," Lin Xiamian helped him sit on the sofa with a distressed face, "How much did you lose?"

"twenty……"

As soon as Lin Xiaodong wanted to tell the truth, he immediately realized that paying 200,000 for a foot was too outrageous.

So he changed his mind immediately, "Twenty thousand yuan!"

"so much?"

Lin Xiamian's eyes widened, 20,000 yuan was a huge sum of money for their family, "Which one is taking advantage of this?"

Lin Xiaodong said nonsense: "Just... Gu Xi! You know what? The well-known CEO of the Gu Group, he is rich, and 20,000 yuan is a drizzle for him."

Lin Xiamian was skeptical.

However, his focus was quickly diverted by the conversation between Lin Xiaodong and Lu Yuanyuan.

"You actually can play guitar?" the girl asked in surprise, it seems that boys can play guitar is really a bonus skill for the opposite sex, "Can you play a song? I want to hear it. ."

Lin Xiaodong replied with a smile, "Okay."

He was about to walk to the corner to get the guitar, when Lin Xiamian suddenly stepped in front of him.

"Brother," he said calmly, "you haven't played that guitar for a long time. Let me wipe it for you first."

Lin Xiaodong raised his eyebrows: "No, I'll do this kind of trivial thing myself."

"elder brother!"

The young man raised his voice a little, and after noticing the surprised look in Yi Fang Yuan's eyes, he calmed down again. He took a deep breath and said, "Okay, then, I'll go get you a towel."

Looking at the back of Lin Xiamian leaving silently, Lin Xiaodong took the guitar into his arms, sat down cross-legged on the floor, and began to lower his head to tune the strings.

"My younger brother grew up with me. He was spoiled by me, and he was easily jealous." After a while, the young man suddenly raised his head and smiled at Lu Yuanyuan, "Smiling."

Lu Yuanyuan always felt that something wasn't right, but she subconsciously replied, "It's alright."

Hearing Lin Xiaodong and the girl laughing at Yanyan outside, Lin Xiamian clenched his fingers on the drawer slowly, and suddenly regretted his decision to bring his classmates home.

He didn't want to see his brother smiling at others like that.

Lin Xiaodong had learned guitar before, and he played the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky", and was satisfied that his skills were not too rusty. At the end of the song, Lu Yuanyuan applauded excitedly and praised, "You play really well."

"Thank you." Lin Xiaodong said politely, then looked at Lin Xiamian, who was sitting on the side with a sullen face, "Xia Mian, what do you think?"

"Of course my brother plays the best."

After speaking, Lin Xiamian couldn't wait to stand up: "But I'm a little hungry, let's eat first."

Lin Xiaodong spread his hands: "Okay, listen to you."

After dinner, it was still dark. Two high school students were sitting at their desks discussing topics. Lin Xiaodong, who had nothing to do, slumped on the sofa, staring blankly at the orange-red sunset outside the window.

There were two children's fierce arguments in the ears:

"This place needs derivation. You have drawn the auxiliary line incorrectly, so it is difficult to understand."

"No, your method is too easy. The teacher said that the correct steps should be like me..."

Lin Xiaodong retracted his gaze, he stared at the high school uniforms on Lin Xiamian and Lu Yuanyuan, and suddenly remembered, as if not long ago, "Lin Xiaodong" in this world was just like them, a student studying in the classroom.

The hour hand pointed to half past seven.

After saying goodbye to them, Lu Yuanyuan was about to leave. Lin Xiaodong asked Lin Xiamian to send them off, but the unlucky child insisted that her home was very close and she was unwilling to live or die.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaodong didn't say anything.

Just ignored him all night.

In the end, this little bastard couldn't hold back after only two hours. After taking a bath, he dawdled to his side, trying to find a topic: "Brother, don't be angry."

Lin Xiaodong turned over: "I can't hear, I fell asleep."

Lin Xiamian: "..."

After a while, he leaned over and said, "Brother, I actually saw Gu Xi today too."

"Go away, I've seen it." Lin Xiaodong said without raising his eyes.

"It's true!" Lin Xiamian became anxious. "The principal of our school organized a dinner party. Didn't the Gu Group set up a scholarship in No. 1 Middle School? At noon, the principal took me and Lu Yuanyuan and a few competition classes. I went to the restaurant and had a meal with Gu Xi, saying that I thanked him for his generous support, and I even toasted him."

Lin Xiaodong finally got some interest, he got up and asked, "Where did you eat?"

"Yunjiang Hotel."

"..." Lin Xiaodong thought to himself, my dear, the place where your kid and Gu Xi ate was less than a kilometer away from your brother's porcelain touch.

"What does the surnamed Gu look like," he asked casually, "does he have a beer belly?"

Lin Xiamian shook his head honestly: "No, he's only twenty-nine, how could he have a beer belly. And he's really handsome. Lu Yuanyuan also said that he is his ideal type."

"Then did he say anything to you?" Lin Xiaodong said. "This kind of rich man's eyes are always on the top of his head. It's normal to be cold. No matter what he says, don't worry about it, can you hear me?"

"Actually, his attitude towards us students is quite gentle," Lin Xiamian said, suddenly remembering a small episode during the meal, "but he seems to... pay special attention to me."

During the meal, Gu Xi looked at him several times, and Lin Xiamian even looked up to see the man staring at his face.

Otherwise, the principal would not let him toast Gu Xi as the student representative.

Hearing this, Lin Xiaodong narrowed his eyes.

In the plot introduction given to him by the system, there were only two key characters: Lin Xiamian, and the big guy who had a crush on Lin Xiamian.

But Lin Xiaodong still doesn't know who the big guy's name is. For this reason, he also specifically asked the system reason, and the answer he got was that there was a big problem with the data in the headquarters. solve.

For this explanation, Lin Xiaodong said that he had nothing to say.

However, is this Gu, the big guy who fell in love with Lin Xiamian at first sight in the plot?

Lin Xiamian is in high school right now, and they meet at the dinner table... Does that mean that the plot has already begun? Gu Xi already fell in love with Lin Xiamian?

Lin Xiaodong now finally understands a little bit why the pre-traveling system has to repeatedly tell him that the main storyline cannot be changed.

It was rare for him to be kind, and he persuaded earnestly: "You are still in high school and under the age of 18, if you fall in love with such a rich and powerful old man, you will be eaten as a little white rabbit with no bones left. of."

Lin Xiamian: ?

"No, what are you talking about, brother," he couldn't help laughing and crying. "It's just a meal together, how can it be involved in a relationship?"

Lin Xiaodong snorted, people have already fallen in love with you at first sight, and even if you don't want to, the boss will definitely use various means to make you change your mind.

"The same sentence, after the college entrance examination, who do you want to talk to." He said, "But now, stay away from that surnamed Gu." Otherwise, you won't even be able to get into college.

"Got it." Lin Xiamian said obediently.

"But brother, Gu Xi has given out scholarships to every student present. There are quite a few. Would you like to see it?"

Lin Xiaodong watched him sprint to the living room, pulled out an anonymous bank card from his schoolbag and handed it to himself. He couldn't help frowning and asked, "How much is there?"

"It's also 20,000 yuan." Lin Xiamian said, "Brother, take it for me."

This was a lot of money, but Lin Xiaodong didn't refuse. Anyway, he was saving for Lin Xiamian to go to university.

For the sake of this huge sum of money, Lin Xiaodong reluctantly said two good words for Gu Xi: "It's a generous shot."

Lin Xiamian nodded: "He's the big boss, and he doesn't usually have anything to do with us. This time he just got the light of Teacher Zhao."

"What on earth does this teacher Zhao do, and how can he still know Gu Xi?"

"I don't know either. It is said that the family has a relationship, so it was brought online." Lin Xiamian sighed, "Brother, I know you care about me, but you don't have to be too nervous. What does Gu Xi want? No, you have to look at a poor high school student like me?"

"You're not bad looking," Lin Xiaodong said. "Students are the easiest ones to be deceived. You see, I never worry about that."

Lin Xiamian wanted to say that you don't have to worry because you look so much like me.

But he looked up at Lin Xiaodong's green and yellow hair, and silently swallowed the words that came to his lips.

If it wasn't for a problem with his eyesight, Gu Xi was indeed unlikely to fall in love with Lin Xiaodong.

But he didn't want to share it with anyone, Lin Xiamian thought to himself.

Brother's good only he knows.

Before turning off the lights, the system asked, "Aren't you going to tell him the news that you made 200,000?"

"Let's wait for him to finish the college entrance examination," Lin Xiaodong said lazily, closing his eyes, "Just treat it as a surprise for him."

But Lin Xiaodong didn't expect that before that, Lin Xiamian gave him a bigger "surprise".

Not long after they received these rewards, the bald head and the group of brothers he brought with him suffered disasters one after another. The wounded, the disabled, the heaviest one, is still lying unconscious in the hospital. , it is estimated that the money earned is not enough to cover the medical expenses.

Fortunately, the bald head was clever and escaped when he was surrounded by people, only breaking one arm, otherwise the end would not be much better.

"It must have been revenge."

One night, he invited Lin Xiaodong to drink at a street stall, sighing while drinking.

"This business is very deep, I don't even know which employer leaked the news, and my brother became what he is now."

The bald head drank a lot of wine, Lin Xiaodong sat opposite him, filling his glass silently when it was empty.

After a long time, he asked, "Are you ready to wash your hands?"

The bald head showed a bitter smile: "Brother Long advised me to stay, but Xiaodong, I am different from you, I have a wife and children to support. I can't let them worry about me at home every day, let alone let them be implicated. "

"I understand," Lin Xiaodong said. "If someone moves my brother, I will definitely fight with that guy."

The man who blushed drunk and smiled: "Sure enough, Xiaodong, you only show such a serious expression when it comes to things related to your brother."

Lin Xiaodong raised his eyebrows: "Do I have it? Usually I'm very serious when I play billiards."

"It's not the same," the bald head shook his head with his tongue out. "You brat, you're clever! But you're also stupid. You can't tell the truth from the false. This is the case with high...smart liars. When they lie, they believe it. "

After he finished speaking, he fell asleep on the table with loud snoring from his nose.

Lin Xiaodong sighed.

He called DiDi for the bald head, and put a 20,000 yuan anonymous bank card into the bald head's pocket, along with a note "Give a good treatment to my brother", and went back with his legs.

Before arriving home, he received a text message from a bald head:

"Xiaodong, you have to be careful. Those people will definitely not let you go alone. If you don't do it now, it doesn't mean in the future. I will shamelessly accept the 20,000 yuan for my brother. If you have any difficulties, please tell me at any time. After the golden basin has washed his hands, he will definitely come out to help you."

At the same time, the familiar prompt sounded again:

"Ding, good person card +1."

Lin Xiaodong leaned in the corridor, stared at the text message and smiled quickly.

He only replied with one word: "Okay."

Now in September, the school has started, and Lin Xiamian is living in the school under his "coercion and inducement". Lin Xiaodong doesn't go out very much recently, and he relies on takeout for his meals. He really can't think of how those people can retaliate against him.

——Until he was called to Lin Xiamian's school by a phone call.

"To be honest, it's really complicated to see you again," the dean sat in the office, looked up at the young man in front of him who was obviously thinner than when he was in school, and asked softly, "Lin Xiaodong, how have you been recently? Sample?"

Before Lin Xiaodong came to No. 1 Middle School this time, he deliberately bought a hat to put on his head, but he still couldn't hide his dazzling yellow hair.

Hearing the teacher who taught him ask this question, he coughed a little embarrassedly: "...It's okay, it's okay."

But the dean has taught for decades, how could he not see that the boy who chased after her with the papers and wanted to be admitted to Communication University as a music producer can never come back.

Obviously he likes reading so much, but in the end, he still gave the opportunity to his younger brother.

She hated the iron and said: "Lin Xiaodong, Lin Xiaodong, what should I say to you? You are so stupid! Did you know that if you were still on the competition team, our school would not have to deal with the third middle school at all? What kind of provincial place is a team of this level competing for? Although your brother's grades are not bad, they are far from the top of your list!"

"Ding, good person card +1."

Lin Xiaodong raised his head in surprise. He really didn't expect that even though he didn't do anything, he could still get a good person card from the teacher who taught him before.

It seems that the fact that he dropped out of school is indeed a knot of the dean.

"Forget it, this is the end of the matter, the two of you have made your own decision, and I won't say anything more," the dean looked at him, sighed, and finally changed the subject, "Tell me about you. My brother's business. I also know the situation of your family, so I will call you this time."

When it comes to business, Lin Xiaodong finally regained his spirits.

"Teacher, what is this kid doing?"

The dean looked at the young man in front of him who still knew nothing about the seriousness of the matter, and there was a hint of deep pity in his eyes.

She said: "Lin Xiamian...he has escaped the evening self-study for a month to work off-campus. According to the discipline of the school, we have the right to expel him."

Lin Xiaodong was stunned.

He really did not expect that Lin Xiamian, who usually looks like a good student, would have such courage.

But before he could regain his senses, the dean of education continued: "It's okay if you just do it, for the sake of your family's special circumstances, I will help him to intercede, and we can criticize and educate within our school. Neither will he be remembered. But, do you know where he works?"