Why it never ends

"Charming?" Ding Yuqing raised her eyebrows. She glared at Hesta with clear anger in her eyes, "...If you want to ask me out to meet friends again in the future, do you think I will agree?"

"Ah... Yuqing!"

The two of them started trotting down the street, one behind the other. No matter how Hesta apologized, Ding Yuqing just lowered her head and walked quickly. To be fair, the anger towards Hesta had long since dissipated, but Ding Yuqing still remained silent.

She thought about everything that happened tonight, and Xiang Hanshan's mean face popped into her mind from time to time. At this time, Ding Yuqing always clenched her fingers stubbornly and quickly turned her attention elsewhere.

She remembered how she saw Hesta and Lin Jiao standing under the streetlight from a distance earlier. At that time, the two people were standing half sideways opposite each other, chatting intermittently. Their body shapes were like that. He is tall and straight, with a heroic spirit in his expression.

At that time, she stopped involuntarily and watched for a short while.

That kind of attitude... is indeed somewhat charming.

……

On Saturday, Lin Jiao and Hesta picked up Eleven and Qiqi from the children's center.

This time, after obtaining Hesta's consent, Eleven happily sat on Hesta's shoulder. Qiqi was still very reserved. She followed a few people silently all the way and only refused to hold Lin Jiao's hand when crossing the road. hand.

"What are you going to see today?" Eleven held Hesta's head, "I want to see something with a fighting scene!"

"It's not a movie," Lin Jiao said, "it's a drama."

"What is a drama?"

"It's a live performance on stage, and the audience sits directly below and watches."

"Oh, is it like a troupe singing?"

"Absolutely." Lin Jiao looked at Hesta and switched to common language, "Thank you for being willing to come out with me today."

"You are sure you can find a place for Eleven and Qiqi, right?" Hesta teased, "Don't sit down and someone shows up to chase them away——"

"Definitely not today," Lin Jiao answered immediately, "The seats for the three of you are in the middle of the fourth row. I asked a friend to change them."

Hesta smiled and raised her hand to adjust the position of Eleven on her shoulder, "How is Hanshan?"

"what do you mean."

"Did something happen to her yesterday?" Hestad glanced sideways, "You can't vent your anger on Yuqing for no reason, right?"

"She... probably doesn't like the friend you brought last night." Lin Jiao said softly.

"You don't like me that much either?"

"Haha, it should be said that I don't like your behavior of breaking the rules. But you probably won't bring friends over easily in the future."

"If all the friends I bring will be targeted like this, then of course I won't bring anyone else." Hesta replied, "But why did she-"

"Not everyone will be targeted like that, she just doesn't like to see outsiders like Ding Yuqing." Lin Jiao said softly, "If you must ask me to take sides, I will still stand with Hanshan - after all She was maintaining our 'club stuff'."

Hesta looked at Lin Jiao again, "...what item?"    "Items that can only be used by members of our club," Lin Jiao explained, "This kind of item can be physical, such as cars, funds, etc. within the club. A venue can also be a certain activity or a certain service - such as our weekly meditation, the time we use to listen to each other and support each other. The latter is what you want to bring your friends to experience, right?"

"Hanshan told me that this is a deliberately established stratosphere." Hesta said softly.

"That's right," Lin Jiao said softly, "I assume there are two clubs in front of you now. One is open to all comers and has a relaxed atmosphere, and the other has a strict screening and elimination system... Which club do you think will be more attractive? ?”

Hesta frowned slightly, but did not answer.

"The former, huh?"

"If you are talking about the student club, it should be," Hesta said softly, "Who would take the initiative to cause trouble for themselves on such a matter——"

Lin Jiao laughed, "I knew you would think so - but you are wrong. Whether it is a student club or not, it is the same. The more stringent the rules within the organization and the more stringently they are enforced, the more followers it will have." The more, or rather, the more people try to follow it.”

"……Yeah."

"The energy required to build any kind of stratosphere is huge," Lin Jiao said softly, "but in any club there will be people who take the opportunity to come and come for a ride. These people only enjoy the club's goods, but they may not How much you recognize the value of the club itself - only by finding ways to screen out such people can the club condense into a more solid form and provide more powerful club items to all members. I have no intention of targeting the friend you brought yesterday What she meant was, just by standing there, I knew she was not from the same group as us."

"If you mean what she was wearing last night—"

"Clothing is just one of the symptoms," Lin Jiao said with a smile, "Some core elements will never change."

Hesta was speechless for a moment.

"You may disagree," Lin Jiao continued, "but in fact -"

"I was just thinking that I haven't received any rules so far," Hestad interrupted Lin Jiao, "The only requirements you have made are not to be absent from work for four consecutive weeks and not to take people with you at will -"

"That's because you new batch of people have just joined the company, and we have already screened them according to certain conditions when we accepted them. There are some things that you don't need to say openly at the beginning, but if you say them, it will easily get you into trouble. Lin Jiao said softly, "However, compared with our own small group, the poetry club is indeed much looser. We expected it to be a place where we can relax ourselves."

……

The four soon returned to the University of Technology.

Lin Jiao led the way, and they quickly arrived at a small auditorium. This place can accommodate about 300 spectators at a time. In addition to activities such as drama club performances, some colleges with smaller numbers of people usually hold welcome or farewell parties here.

At this time, the auditorium was already crowded with people. Lin Jiao led Hestad into the backstage of the auditorium through the side door, and reached the empty auditorium first.

"You guys take a seat first," Lin Jiao said with a smile, "I'll go backstage and walk around."

"I want to go backstage too!" Eleven stood up immediately, "Can you take me with you?"

Qiqi heard the words and although she didn't speak, she stood up from her seat and looked at Lin Jiao with bright eyes.

Hesta understood the general idea half-listening and half-guessing, and stood up, "...Then let's go together, is that convenient?"

"You can, you can," Lin Jiao looked at the two children in front of him, "but you two can't run around. Most of the sisters backstage are very busy now."