Chapter 110: The Transformation of Puberty
"Lu Mingfei! We're out of soy sauce at home, go buy me some!" Aunt's voice like thunder rang out next to Lu Mingfei. He glanced at Lu Mingze who was sleeping soundly beside him, put down his pen and stood up.

"Mingfei still needs to review, I'll go." Uncle's voice suddenly rang out, which made Lu Mingfei stop what he was doing and listen carefully to the movement outside the door in the room.

His uncle's house was an affordable housing unit, so the sound insulation was not very good. So sometimes, what they thought were secret conversations were no different in Lu Mingfei's eyes than if they were spoken in front of him.

“If he studies harder, he’ll only be able to get into a second-tier university. If he were half as smart as Mingze, he wouldn’t be thinking of working hard just now!” Lu Mingfei found Lu Mingfei’s aunt’s somewhat harsh comment ridiculous. He subconsciously turned his head and looked at Lu Mingze again.

Yes... your Lu Mingze is indeed smart. His height and weight are both 160 kg. I'm afraid that the excess nutrition in his brain has gone to other places.

"If he has that intention, just let him study hard... Have you forgotten what he said a few days ago? And the injuries he has suffered these past two days, how is he going to explain this to his father when he comes back!" As soon as the uncle said this, the aunt seemed to be speechless.

"What does it have to do with us? It's all his fault. Have we had less food or clothes for him all these years? Even if he has no merit, he has worked hard! That ungrateful boy even said that he would move out if I disturbed him during his studies again. What would people say about our family if this gets out?" After a pause, my aunt started to complain to my uncle in a low voice.

It has been a week since Gu Ye and Chu Zihang left. On the day after Gu Ye went to the United States, Xia Mi also left Shilan Middle School. Her classmates told her that she was favored by an experimental high school in Yanjing, so her parents arranged for her to transfer for her future.

The successive departures of friends made Lu Mingfei almost think that everything that happened was just an illusion like that little boy. Fortunately, Su Xiaoqiang still treated him the same as when Gu Ye was around, otherwise Lu Mingfei would have really become autistic.

During this week, Lu Mingfei kept his promise and took good care of Su Xiaoqiang in his own way. He would brush off any ill-intentioned or opportunistic people with all kinds of irrelevant words.

Although this was indeed useful, it also made Lu Mingfei hated by some guys. Two days ago, he was blocked in an alley near the school. Lu Mingfei, who originally wanted to beg for mercy, remembered what Gu Ye had said before, and for the first time in his life, he did not give in.

Lu Mingfei endured the beatings, kicks and insults. Even though his body was in pain, he didn't say a word. He just stared at the group of guys with his eyes, which made them scared.

They all thought Lu Mingfei was a lunatic. Who would stare at someone without saying a word after getting beaten? Not to mention that Lu Mingfei's eyes looked like a lion's, full of aggression. It felt like he was saying, "If you can't kill me today, I will definitely retaliate next time."

From then on, no one bothered Lu Mingfei anymore. Even Zhao Menghua and his two followers treated him as a invisible man. This made Lu Mingfei taste the sweetness of resistance for the first time.

In fact, he didn't think so much that day. He just felt that Gu Ye didn't forget to take care of him even after he left. Even his parents who had been away from home for many years didn't do this, right? So Lu Mingfei didn't want to disappoint Gu Ye.

Lu Mingfei is just a bad guy with a worthless life. Even if he is beaten to death, no one will be sad except his parents and friends like Gu Ye. But if he doesn't change, there may be no chance of being forgiven by Gu Ye next time.

Fortunately, the change did work. Lu Mingfei finally understood why Gu Ye said that he had to be more ruthless than them to deal with those bad kids. It turned out that they were really afraid? So after he returned home, he made a condition to his aunt for the first time, asking her not to delay his review because of trivial matters. Of course... When this sentence was just said, the whole family was in an uproar. But after Lu Mingfei asked about the money his parents sent and said he was moving out, his uncle and aunt were silent. Even if Lu Mingze wanted to say something, he was scolded by his uncle.

After all, that money was not a small sum. Thanks to that money, Lu Mingfei and Lu Mingze could both go to a private aristocratic high school. Also thanks to that money, their uncle and aunt could buy a small-displacement BMW. Their uncle had money to buy some imitations of brand-name goods, and their aunt had money to lose at the mahjong table. Also thanks to that money, their cousin Lu Mingze got the nickname "Prince Ze" at school.

All this was based on the premise that Lu Mingfei was still staying at his aunt's house. Lu Mingfei only realized now that sometimes being too cowardly really makes you look easy to bully. Now that he is a little more assertive, won't they give in? If it weren't for the small house, Lu Mingfei would have wanted to sleep in a separate room from Lu Mingze.

"Keep your voice down... Mingfei has been emotionally unstable recently. It should be because of puberty. He will know how difficult our life is in the future. I'm going to buy some soy sauce first. Don't order Mingfei around anymore. After all, he is still the child of the Lao Lu family." After giving Aunt a warning, the uncle left. The room fell silent again, leaving only the sound of Aunt cutting vegetables.

"Thanks to you for making me understand, Brother Gu... it's a pity that I understood it too late." Sitting back at the table, Lu Mingfei turned on the computer. On the computer screen was a photo of himself, Gu Ye and Su Xiaoqiang. This was the photo that Su Xiaoqiang insisted on taking with the two of them when they first went to the Internet cafe.

In the photo, Gu Ye was smiling brightly, with one hand on his head, ruffling his hair, while Su Xiaoqiang was staring at Gu Ye's profile. Maybe she had a crush on Gu Ye since then? It's a pity... I don't know how long it will take for them to meet again.

Lu Mingfei knew that even if Gu Ye came back during the summer and winter vacations, the chances of meeting him would be limited. If things continued like this, they might become strangers after Gu Ye graduated from university. Lu Mingfei was very afraid of this happening. Would there still be such true friends in the future? Lu Mingfei didn't want to gamble on this possibility.

"Kassel College..." Opening the official website of Kassel College, which he had already investigated, Lu Mingfei saw a line of small words "Chicago Fraternity School".

Try harder and apply to study abroad next year. Isn't Lu Mingze's grades not that good? It seems that my aunt also has the idea of ​​sending him abroad. If I want to be the "pioneer", I'm sure she won't refuse.

When I get closer to Brother Gu, I will have the opportunity to go out and play with him... No matter what superpowers he has, he has always been my good brother, right?
Yanjing, inside the subway station.

There were no pedestrians in the empty subway station. Xia Mi was sitting on an old subway train. The train was moving forward at a high speed. Outside the window, the red number 0 on a stone like a boundary marker was unusually conspicuous.

Zero should not appear in common numbers. This strange number was invented by ancient Arabs and is a huge breakthrough in the history of mathematics. It is more of a generalization and a concept of nothingness than a number. It represents... non-existence.

"This counts as moving, right? You better be a good boy, my brother." Opening the plastic bag in her hand, Xia Mi lowered her head and examined it carefully. In addition to a few bags of potato chips, there were also a few discs of Stephen Chow's movies.

"Be patient for a while. Once I find their location, you will be free..."

(End of this chapter)