11. Later, he thought: “Being able to ‘spend piles of money’ and ‘toy with women’, isn’t that exactly what the ‘xiaorenshu’ call being ‘bold and generous’ and ‘romantic’?” He was utterly fascinated, even rushing to listen to these “stories” during the ten-minute breaks between classes. Bad thoughts, from then on, rose up again. He even stopped participating in the Young Pioneer Days and spent all his time huddled together with Wang Youcai. When teachers and classmates criticized him, he acted as if he had heard nothing at all. Only Wang Youcai and the “stories” described in the “xiaorenshu” deeply bewitched him.
