Chapter 260 : Judging a Person is Nothing More Than Seeking Common Ground While Reserving Differences

Although likes from mutual friends on QQ don't have a little red dot like WeChat, there are still notifications for comments from mutual friends on posts.

"Who is Old Ji Fu Li? What kind of super middle-aged ID is this? Is it the Class Rep's dad's nickname?"

Bai Bufan immediately noticed Lin Li's comment because of this. After reading it, he turned his head and asked in surprise.

When friends comment, their remarks are displayed preferentially, so what Bai Bufan saw was different from what Lin Li saw himself.

[Son: ...seems to be called Old Fu Li Ji or something.]

"It's Old Fu Li Ji, don't misread it. It doesn't mean the same thing at all, show some respect," Lin Li frowned upon hearing this.

Bai Bufan: "?"

He closed his eyes tightly, moistened them, and then took a closer look. It really was fucking Old Welfare Girl.

*Fuck.*

*Okay, now it's indeed changed from a middle-aged person's ID to a young person's ID.*

"So it's your outrageous nickname." To come up with such a nickname, one must have an expert at home. After Bai Bufan clicked on Lin Li's QQ profile and found out it was him, he suddenly felt it was reasonable.

And Lin Li, whose nickname was described as outrageous by Bai Bufan, twitched the corner of his mouth.

He felt a bit wronged. How dare Bai Bufan call his nickname outrageous?

—Bai Bufan's current QQ nickname was "Tax Evasion Too High Needs to be Investigated Severely."

—His WeChat was relatively normal because he didn't have an alt account and had family members in his contact list—"Nancun Group of Gays Praise Me for Being Strong and Powerful."

*(Translator's Note: A parody of a famous poem).*

Compared to him, didn't he seem very normal?

Just as Lin Li was about to scroll through other posts.

"Hey, Lin Li, this comment of yours... how should I put it, reading it makes me want to pee," Bai Bufan said to Lin Li.

Hearing this, Lin Li put down his phone, frowned, and looked at Bai Bufan, who had a hint of a smile, temporarily not understanding what kind of fart this guy was going to let out.

"Speak human."

"This comment of yours, in my eyes, is like I want to mark the classroom of Senior One Class 4 as my territory, but there are too many people now, and I'm too embarrassed to directly take off my pants and lift my leg to pee in the corner. So for the sake of face, the genius me chooses to pee with my pants on."

Bai Bufan maintained a teasing expression, looking at Lin Li with a smile:

"Peeing your pants, others might be able to see it, but they can only see it. Only you yourself know that warmth you've hidden away.

"Lin Li, you should understand what I mean, right?"

Lin Li: "..."

*Where did this roundworm come from?*

Lin Li chuckled.

Then Lin Li laughed out loud and stood up: "Of course I understand what you mean. You're saying you want to pee in the classroom. No problem, Bufan, I'll help you."

"Getting anxious at a glance, funny, too classic, really makes people unable to hold it in." Looking at Lin Li, who was somewhat angry from embarrassment, Bai Bufan had already started laughing and running away to avoid being beaten into incontinence, not forgetting to review the Six Arts of a Gentleman.

*(Translator's Note: Internet slang terms).*

...

After covering Bai Bufan's corpse with endangered plants, Lin Li returned to his seat.

There were quite a few notifications in Qzone.

[Ding Sihan, Qu Wanqiu, Chen Yuying, and 5 others liked your comment.]

—QQ comments indeed have a like function.

[Ding Sihan replied to your comment: Where did you get this gossip?]

[Qu Wanqiu replied to your comment: Where did you get this inside information?]

[Chen Yuying replied to your comment: [Fist] [Fist] [Fist]]

[Wang Yuezhi disliked your comment.]

[Wang Yuezhi replied to your comment: According to Article 25 of the "Public Security Administration Punishments Law of the Eastern Great Nation," acts of spreading rumors, falsely reporting dangers, police situations, or intentionally disrupting public order by other means shall be punished by detention of not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may be concurrently fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are relatively minor, it shall be punished by detention of not more than five days or a fine of not more than 500 yuan.]

In addition, there were replies from some unfamiliar IDs.

They thought he was dreaming, so most of them wanted to pee on his head. The only one who was a bit nicer to him said he had diabetes, so at least he could give him a taste of sweetness.

There was no need to chat under the posts of such public accounts, and no need to chat for others to see, so Lin Li didn't reply to anyone, just sent a sticker in the "Three People and One Dog" group.

The evening self-study soon began, but it was basically no different from between classes. Everyone still did what they wanted, and no one even cared about the music on the multimedia.

A rare freedom in a closed campus.

Xue Jian also came briefly for a few minutes, but seeing the scene of everyone playing on their phones, he didn't give a lecture, just said to control the volume and not be too noisy.

So the boys completely let loose, simply changed seats, and arranged an internal match.

"I can't play, I've already uninstalled Honor of Kings." Zhou Baowei sent this message in the gaming group.

Seeing this, Bai Bufan turned his head in surprise and looked at Zhou Baowei: "Baowei, what are you doing? Are you also half-quitting games like Lin Li?"

"Maybe it's to make his phone lighter. After all, he himself is already very heavy. If he can't lose his own weight, can't he lose his phone's weight?" Lin Li chimed in upon hearing this.

Zhou Baowei: "..."

*Can this also turn into a segment of humiliating me?*

"In two weeks, I've lost about half a month's time. Isn't this a significant effect!" Zhou Baowei emphasized.

Lin Li gave a thumbs up from across the room. *That's quite a loss.*

"And who told you downloading things makes the phone heavier, Lin Li," Bai Bufan turned his head and laughed at Lin Li's words just now.

"That's your own problem. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Saving things to a phone does make it heavier. I previously saved over a hundred gigabytes of porn and doujins on my phone, and a month later I found the phone getting heavier and heavier, I could barely hold it steady."

Lin Li felt Bai Bufan was like an illiterate who didn't understand digital products at all, and asked back with a sneer.

Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei: "(；☉_☉)?"

*Seems to be the case.*

*But.*

*You fucking couldn't hold it steady because the phone got heavier? I'm too embarrassed to expose you.*

"Ignore this 2B. Baowei, hurry up and download it again. Do you have data? If not, I'll turn on my hotspot for you. I haven't used up my rollover data from last month yet, you can use it to download," Bai Bufan stepped forward and urged Zhou Baowei.

"My phone is out of storage space," Zhou Baowei stated the real reason.

"Go download it in the hallway, the hallway has a lot of space. If that doesn't work, roll to the school gate," Bai Bufan pointed outside the door and said.

Zhou Baowei: "..."

*Your mom.*

"Isn't your phone 256GB? Logically, it shouldn't be that easy to fill up. Do you like taking photos a lot? Doesn't seem like it. What did you download?" Bai Bufan withdrew his hand and asked in confusion.

Zhou Baowei answered instantly: "It's the over a hundred gigabytes of porn and doujins Lin Li sent me before."

Bai Bufan: "?"

*So you two have this kind of bond behind my back?*

"My seat is between you two, my life is ruined." Bai Bufan stepped forward and directly snatched Zhou Baowei's phone. "Hurry up and delete some! Lust is a bone-scraping knife, don't bring such dangerous things to campus!"

Unable to resist Bai Bufan, Zhou Baowei sighed and reluctantly reduced the weight of his phone: "I'm sorry, ipx-934."

Hearing this, Lin Li slowly fell into thought:

"Bufan, you said... if lust is a bone-scraping knife, when Hua Tuo scraped the bone to treat Guan Yu's poison, was he playing porn for Guan Yu the whole time?"

Bai Bufan: "?"

"According to unofficial history, yes."

Bai Bufan was a Three Kingdoms expert, so he had to believe it.

The evening self-study ended in such a relaxed and playful atmosphere.

Before riding his bike home, Lin Li first went to the ramen shop he often ate at.

"What would you like to eat, friend?" There were no customers in the shop at this time. The owner was originally sitting on a chair playing on his phone. Seeing Lin Li come in, he stood up and asked.

"Scallion oil noodles with two poached eggs," Lin Li ordered first, then made a request: "Boss, do you have takeout seals? Can you give me a few?"

"What do you need this for?" The boss was somewhat confused upon hearing this.

"My takeout was stolen..." Lin Li briefly explained what happened during the day. "...So, if that thief still wants to continue stealing, I want to give him some surprises. I need some takeout seals to help with this."

"Thieves are indeed very annoying. They need to be slapped a lot," the boss felt some empathy upon hearing this. "You can take some from my pocket later."

Lin Li was an old customer, so there was basic trust. Moreover, this thing wasn't contraband; you could buy it on the market if you wanted to.

Even if he really did something bad, he wouldn't become an accomplice.

"Thanks, Boss."

"Adaxi, I support you from behind like an eagle. I have the power of a Dayun truck, and the speed of a Fuxing high-speed train." The boss patted his chest happily upon hearing this.

Lin Li took a deep breath, glanced at the Halal sign in the shop, and repeatedly confirmed his memory, then probed: "Boss, you should be Hui, right? Why this accent? You didn't have it before?"

"I've been watching too many exciting short videos in Nang language, it's gone to my head a bit, friend," the boss spread his hands and said embarrassedly.

Lin Li: "..."

"Boss, how do you speak this thing to make it sound so authentic?" Lin Li was curious.

"This is simple," the boss taught without an accent upon hearing this. "Kid, if the Northeastern dialect is placing a random word in a random position in a sentence, then this Nang language, directly translated from Uyghur, is placing a random metaphor in a random position in a sentence.

"For example, in Mandarin: Can you be more generous?

"In Nang language, you can say: Hey friend, do you pick the meat off an ant's leg to eat in your stomach every day?"

Lin Li: "..."

*Don't say it, you really don't say it.*

...

The next day, Thursday.

Putting two fully charged action cameras and a portable WiFi into his backpack, changing into a short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and casually throwing on a jacket, Lin Li rode his bike to school.

There were the 3000-meter preliminaries and finals in the morning, and the 1500-meter preliminaries and finals in the afternoon.

Although for Lin Li, even running in loafers and tight pants, he was confident he could easily take first place.

But he still had to give some face to the basic laws of this world and pretend to take it seriously.

There was no opening ceremony today, so after arriving at school, Lin Li went straight to the field.

From a distance, he saw Wang Yuezhi standing in the spectator stands doing warm-up exercises, his expression slightly stiff, looking very nervous.

There was still more than an hour before the competition started, but after all, he was a conscripted laborer, so it was understandable.

"It's over, Lin Li, it's over, it's over!" Just as he approached the class base, before he even had time to greet Chen Yuying, Lin Li heard Bai Bufan's barking.

"What's wrong?" Lin Li turned his head to look at Bai Bufan running towards him and asked in confusion.

"This morning, didn't we tell you not to bring breakfast? I went to the cafeteria to eat. I had noodles this morning, at that separate window.

"Fuck, the auntie at that window, when school just started, she still called me little handsome guy, but this morning she only called me little guy. Lin Li, don't you know what this means?"

Bai Bufan wailed in pain and despair.

Lin Li was somewhat relieved: "This means she finally kicked the bad habit of lying."

"Right, fuck, she kicked—" Bai Bufan originally wanted to empathize, then froze.

(；☉_☉)?

*So it was kicking the bad habit of lying?*

"Your uncle, Lin Li," Bai Bufan laughed and cursed, then patted his shoulder and asked: "Hey, the props you mentioned for arresting the dog bastard, are they ready?"

Lin Li patted his backpack, indicating no problem.

"We'll go back to the dorm early at noon. When the time comes, we'll close the door, release you, and start the hunt!"

"OK!" Bai Bufan rubbed his hands together.

Walking to the edge of the base, Chen Yuying's outfit today was exactly the same as yesterday's.

"Lin Li, you didn't look at my eyes first at all."

While zipping up her jacket, Chen Yuying bit her lower lip, helpless and with a hint of a smile.

"Cheapskate, then I won't let you look either," Lin Li snorted disdainfully and zipped up his own jacket too.

Lin Li's revenge was very effective, mockery is also a form of laughter.

"Yo, isn't this Yingbao's favorite Old Fu Li Ji?" Ding Sihan from not far away came over following the scent.

"Yo, isn't this the genius girl Little Ding?" Hearing this teasing, Lin Li responded with a pleasantly surprised voice, then said in a deep voice: "I will always move forward, no one can make me turn back."

"Ahhhh don't call my screen name and personal signature, Lin Li! I'll kill you!" Ding Sihan's face instantly turned red. After a battle cry, she rushed up and chased Lin Li to hit him.

The nickname in front was fine, but the signature in the back really made her go crazy with shame.

People are always like this, most afraid of being called by their real name on the internet, and afraid of being called by their screen name in reality.

While dodging, Lin Li looked at Qu Wanqiu: "Charming Little Stepmom, I actually super like—"

Qu Wanqiu: "?"

"Shut up!"

Before today's events even started, Lin Li, who had already died once, finally arrived at the base.

Wang Ze sat on a chair, looking somewhat melancholy.

Bai Bufan next to him also looked melancholy on the surface, but was actually holding back laughter.

"What's wrong?" Lin Li walked over, put his arm around Wang Ze's shoulder, and asked knowingly.

"Those two girls are too shy. This makes me happy but also makes me worry. It's been a whole night and they're still shy," Wang Ze sighed. "I made so many preparations last night, but now I don't have the chance to use them. I'm anxious."

"What preparations did you make?" Lin Li asked, somewhat amused.

"Wang Ze asked us to light him last night. After a hundred wasted shots, he finally took a perfect abs photo and immediately posted it on WeChat Moments," Zhang Haoyang pushed his glasses and added.

"Is it that disgusting?" Lin Li was amused and immediately took out his phone to take a look.

"Don't bother scrolling, you won't see it," Zhang Haoyang smiled. "Those Moments posts blocked all friends."

"Then what's the fucking point of posting?"

"Because this way, the ones blocked are us current friends, but newly added friends will be able to see it."

Lin Li: "?"

*You can operate like this?*

"You don't need to say these things so loudly, ahem," Wang Ze stood up and covered his son's mouth, then looked at Lin Li and laughed: "To show my charm, I even specially asked Wang Yuezhi to teach me some magic tricks."

Unfortunately, there was no performance at the closing ceremony, otherwise Class 4 might have had three clowns.

Seeing Wang Ze taking it so seriously, Lin Li almost wanted to tell him the truth.

But Bai Bufan next to him seemed to notice Lin Li's intention and shook his head vigorously at him from behind.

Lin Li smiled and let it go, changing the subject: "Wang Ze, magic tricks are still too ordinary. Do you want to learn magic?"

"Magic? The kind where you turn into a magical girl?" Wang Ze raised an eyebrow.

"Don't worry, no need."

"Then I won't learn."

Lin Li: "?"

"But it's the hypnosis type."

"Coach, this is exactly what I want to learn."

"I'll give you a demonstration," Lin Li chuckled, then walked towards Bai Bufan, snapped his fingers heavily, and then spoke the incantation: "Bufan, from now on, you will forget that you are GAY."

Bai Bufan: "?"

"I wasn't gay to begin with?" Bai Bufan was surprised.

Lin Li didn't speak, looking at Wang Ze but pointing at Bai Bufan, looking smug: "This is the power of magic!"

"No! You fucking! I wasn't gay to begin with! What kind of bullshit magic is this!" Bai Bufan was anxious.

"See, awesome right, completely forgotten!" Lin Li's answer was still smug.

"No? Eh? Fuck!" Bai Bufan's eyes widened.

For a moment, he didn't know how to break the situation.

"Unsolvable?!"

"No, this magic has too big a loophole." Wang Ze smiled disdainfully as if seeing a petty trick. As a master of gay jokes, he stood up and walked between the two.

"It's too simple to determine a man's sexual orientation. You just need to look at his asshole. The criterion for judgment is nothing more than 'big gay, small straight' (da tong xiao yi)."

Lin Li, Bai Bufan: "O.o?"

*No.*

*Wait.*

*What the fuck 'big gay, small straight'.*

*But it seems to make a lot of sense.*

"So this magic seems unsolvable, but as long as Bufan takes off his pants, it can be easily broken. Because as long as he has never been gay, then he is 'small straight'," Wang Ze said lightly, then looked at Bai Bufan: "Bufan, come on, start proving yourself."

"Your purpose seems a bit off, right?"

Bai Bufan smiled and raised his middle finger, having to sigh:

"Having known Wang Ze for a long time, I suddenly understand the lyrics of Zhao Lei's 'Chengdu'.

"'What makes me~~ shed tears~~ is not just last night's wine~~'"

With Bai Bufan singing this lyric, Lin Li could never look at this song the same way again.

*Zhao Lei worked hard.*

Bai Bufan accompanied Wang Ze to drink yesterday's wine. Before leaving, he gave Lin Li a look, seemingly planning to do something.

Lin Li stood in the shadow of the sun umbrella, looking at the sky and waiting for time to pass, occasionally chatting with the "three people" beside him.

"Will the athletes participating in the men's 3000 meters please go to the roll call area for roll call, will the athletes participating in..."

Chen Yuying, who was originally looking sideways at the track, suddenly turned her head when she heard the broadcast. Her ponytail drew a dark, shiny arc in the sunlight. Her reaction seemed even bigger than Lin Li's. The fine light in her pupils seemed to have captured the entire clear autumn sky.

"Lin Li, good luck, you will also have a tailwind all the way," Chen Yuying smiled and blessed him.

"A bit worried and nervous," Lin Li sighed.

"No need. No matter what the result is—" She took a half step forward, tilted her head, and crossed her hands behind her back: "You are very formidable."

"Ah, Class Rep, I'm not worried about this," Lin Li suddenly dragged out his voice and sighed again. "I'm worried about what pose I should strike for photos when I stand on the podium. I don't have this experience."

Chen Yuying was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

She slightly turned her head, the smile in her eyes flowing with her gaze: "You don't need to worry about this even more."

Taking a step back, Chen Yuying raised her hands, forming a virtual photo frame, enclosing Lin Li in the sunlight framed by her fingertips. She closed one eye and smiled brightly: "Lin Li, no matter how you look, you look very good."

The end of her sentence scattered with the wind, and Lin Li suddenly forgot to breathe.

*Xiaojing, Xiaojing, I'm sorry.*

*(End of Chapter)*