When the sky was slightly bright, the alarm clock had not yet sounded its first tone.
Like a conditioned reflex, Jiang Xueming turned off the ring on her cell phone in advance. The mechanical muscle reflex action scared Xiao Qi's whole body.
Immediately afterwards, Brother Qi saw this little man wash up, shave off his beard and repair his sideburns in just ten minutes. Finally, I picked up my big backpack and stood in front of the door.
"Walk."
After speaking, he walked straight out of the door without stopping.
Xiao Qi immediately packed her luggage and followed Xueming's footsteps.
She complained softly along the way: "You didn't wait for me..."
Xueming handed the room card back to the front desk: "You can keep up."
Xiao Qi smiled: "Hey, you trust me so much?"
Xueming opened the hotel door, walked into the busy county streets, and bathed in the hot sunshine.
"Um."
He turned his head, observed the surrounding environment, and waved to stop a taxi.
Xiaoqi squeezed into the back row and heard Mr. Xueming bargaining with the driver in local dialect.
She could only understand a little bit, probably don't take a detour, everyone is a local, the driver Mo Lai tricked Xueming, and messed up things about using illegal cars to rip off customers.
I also heard the driver and Xueming talking about old things from their hometown.
The car started from the street corner and drove back to the health center on the cement road. The place where people save lives and heal the wounded has been sold to a wealthy local businessman and will soon be turned into a nursing home.
The driver sighed all the way and said that many young people never come back after they go out.
I also saw Mr. Xueming's smiling business expression, echoing the saying "People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places."
The rice fields on both sides were so green that they couldn't be seen clearly at night. Only during the day did Xiao Qi see the dense ears and the people planting seedlings in the paddy fields.
On the low mountain in the distance, the sun had just emerged, and the warm light cast on the car window shone on her face.
The local radio station on the car stereo was playing songs from a long time ago. "Lovely Woman" had just finished playing, and next was "Daoxiang".
The water mist from the irrigation sprinkler in the vegetable field revealed a hazy rainbow light in the morning sun.
All of this made Xiao Qi feel like she had returned to the millennium era and her childhood.
She had never seen a paddy field before, and it was the first time she came back to Hengyin and Pingyang. This familiar yet unfamiliar feeling left her confused.
She couldn't help but touch Mr. Xueming's hand, just like when she was less than ten years old, holding her father's hand and trying to climb onto his motorcycle.
This time Xueming didn’t hide away——
——Because the back seat of the taxi was too cramped and he couldn't avoid it. He might not be able to touch it and touch other places later.
"What are those?" Xiao Qi looked at Tian outside the window.
Xueming: "It's a rice field."
Xiaoqi: "What are they doing?"
Xueming: "Planting rice seedlings."
Xiaoqi: "Do you have to keep your knees down and then stand up again? It's so hard."
Xueming: "If it's February, March or April, you can throw the rice seedlings. It's not that hard. Some families have bought machines, which makes it much more convenient."
Xiaoqi: "How to throw it?"
Xueming: "I also threw it when I was a child. I just grabbed a handful of muddy seedlings and threw them into the field. At this time, it is already late rice. It needs to be cultivated intensively, otherwise it will not grow well, and you have to leave time for them to grow. A little space.”
Xiao Qi suddenly became happy, "I want to plant too! How about we get off the car! Go and help now? I want to go! I want to go!"
"Be obedient..." Xueming couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't make trouble."
Xiao Qi was disappointed, but not for long. She immediately saw more interesting things.
Tricycles plying both ends of the street carry small commodities from the Hengyin market to the county market. Occasionally, you can see scalpers carrying goods.
She opened her eyes wide, trying to see clearly the people and things passing by. Then he told the driver: "Drive slower! Drive slower, Master..."
She saw a white horse, and the salesman on it was holding two big sticks filled with candied haws in one hand and walking slowly along the wild road to the county town.
There were about a dozen children heading towards the city, running wildly along the aqueduct, holding colorful pinwheels and sugar candies, like white dew, and occasionally stopping at the pipe joints and valves of the aqueduct, standing tall and making The posture of beating up little monsters.
The horses nibbled on the dewy young grass blades on the roadside, leaving behind some droppings.
Xiaoqi said again: "I want to ride a horse! I want to play! I..."
The driver frowned: "..."
Jiang Xueming said angrily: "Back to Hung Hom, I will take you to Ah Xing and ask him to make arrangements for you..."
In the distance, beside the porches of many houses built against the mountains, the sound of threshing machines shelling out shells could be heard far away. The sound was like fallen leaves being blown far away by the wind.
Xiao Qi left here reluctantly, and when she got off the car, she realized that she had already held Xueming's hand very hot.
She couldn't help but think about it in her heart - maybe when she was looking at the colorful world outside the window, Mr. Xueming was also holding the window like a child, wanting to dig out all these memories, like old photos, and take a good look at them. , will forget that the hands of the two are involved with each other.
When getting out of the car, Qi Ge naturally let go of his hand, and she kept having fun and took advantage of it.
Returning to the intersection of Pingyang Agricultural University and in front of the milk tea shop, she was still fascinated by the coquettish bitch in the cat cafe, and immediately remembered what she had said before.
Xiao Qiyi clapped her hands and said happily: "You like cats! I remember you like cats! I'm going to pick one to enchant you! Hey!"
It's like I just arrived at this milk tea shop.
Jiang Xueming walked straight to the door and said hello to the little girl who was dozing at the front desk.
"Is Boss Ye here?"
The girl at the front desk still held her phone without raising her head, and responded half asleep: "I'm squatting in the warehouse... Hey! Brother Xueming! Wait a minute, wait a minute!"
Jiang Xueming immediately took out the pack of toffee that Brother Qi had not finished eating from his backpack and gave one to him.
"I have something to do. Let's catch up on old times when I come back."
He came to the warehouse door, knocked lightly, and barged in just like he did last time.
Then I saw a picture with a lot of information.
There were three men sitting on the floor, all wearing little skirts.
Boss Ye is in the middle, wearing a gothic dress and a bow tied on his head - the other two should be good brothers who came to protect Bai Lu. They also came to drink tea during the holiday, with small tables beside them.
Talking about the clothes worn by these two brothers, one is a Hanfu long skirt with fat, thin and bumpy shapes, and the other is a Japanese JK style with unlimited youthfulness and vitality.
The three bankrupt sisters survived together.
Bai Lu didn't change her clothes. She held the big white cat in her arms and squatted in front of the flying chessboard with arrogance, gesticulating like a general who wanted to win after winning. She held the big cat's paw and drew a colorful stroke on the scoreboard. Pen.
The expression of the big white cat was vivid, and the corners of its mouth were raised unconsciously, like an old cat who had eaten several people. She was so happy.
The four people and one cat in the room all turned their heads.
They looked at Jiang Xueming.
Xueming closed the door very politely at that time.
"Sorry, I took the liberty."
Twenty minutes later, after the brothers had finished packing their clothes, Brother Ye changed back into regular clothes, took Xueming with him outside the store, set up a temporary awning, and the two of them sat down.
"Uh...actually..." Ye Bei said with a smile: "The world is like this, luck can't always be on your side."
Xueming nodded, without thinking too much, and just burst out laughing.
Ye Bei: "What are you laughing at?"
Xueming: "I think of happy things..."
Ye Bei: "Is your wife pregnant?"
Xueming: "No..."
"Then I won't ask any more questions. If you can laugh, it should be a long, long story." Ye Bei followed the topic and filled the tea cup on the table: "Look at you so happy. , is the matter done?"
"Yes..." Xueming nodded, took out the brocade box and put it on the table: "It's all done. I haven't used this box or opened it, so I just wanted to return it to you intact. "
Ye Bei didn't care, and brought some snacks to Xueming for breakfast, and handed over two oatmeal cakes: "Take these, maybe you can use them someday."
"Then I will accept Brother Ye's kindness." Xueming took the things back without being polite at all.
He remembered that the oil paper bag Mr. Chen asked him to bring contained paper money, and he was curious about what was in this brocade box. "Brother Ye, can you tell me what is in here?"
Ye Bei gnawed on the biscuit and replied casually: "The stick used for self-defense is old. It is still half an antique. It is one of my many collections and is not worth much. If you are in trouble, Now, sell it for emergency use."
After swallowing the cake in his mouth, Ye Bei said in a serious tone: "You can take it out every now and then and rub it with oil when you have time. Just use ordinary sewing machine oil. Don't let it rust."
Xueming put down the brocade box: "Then I won't open it yet. Otherwise, it will be hard to maintain after exposure to light."
After such pleasantries, Xueming felt a little embarrassed to talk about things at home. After all, the mysterious oil-paper bag was given to him by Mr. Chen and had nothing to do with Brother Ye Bei.
But Brother Ye Bei and Mr. Chen are very good friends, and there are no secrets between them.
So Xueming asked: "When I returned home at first, I saw that my parents could still talk, eat, and pick up sticks to beat me.
Mr. Chen asked me to bring paper money back and give it to the two of them. Later, they seemed like my hallucination. They seemed to have been dead for a long time and disappeared all of a sudden. The house was also dilapidated. Brother Ye Bei, do you know about this? "
"..."
Ye Bei was silent for a while, and the scars on his eyes trembled with his clever expression, as if he was winking at Xueming, "Your sister is still outside, don't talk nonsense."
Xueming suddenly realized: "Oh... I mean it's not convenient to ask... Then I will ask Mr. Chen alone and privately."
Ye Bei nodded fiercely: "Yes, yes, he did this, you go ask him. I can't tell you about your family affairs. But..."
Xueming saw Brother Ye reaching out and patting his shoulder, picking up the tea cup and putting it into his hand.
Ye Bei said: "Drink some tea and take a breath. There is still a long way to go in life! Let's move forward and don't think about these two old men. Bravery can defeat evil!"
"Hahaha..." Xueming sipped the tea soup: "Did Bai Lu teach you to say this? Brother Ye?"
Ye Bei raised his eyebrows and said with a proud look, "I taught Bai Lu to say it."
The girls at the front desk looked eager to try. They wanted to come to the table and ask Xueming how he was doing recently, but they were afraid that Boss Ye would blame them for missing work.
Xueming quickly shouted to the counter: "I'm doing well recently! Bai Lu is doing well too! It will get better and better!"
Finally, Xueming turned back and prepared to see Mr. Chen. It was time to say goodbye to Brother Ye.
"I have to go, Brother Ye, there is actually something I'm curious about..."
Ye Bei: "What's the matter?"
"I came to work in your store four years ago." Xueming recalled carefully: "You don't seem to have aged at all, you are still the same."
"We haven't grown up yet!" Ye Bei hugged each other, blew away the broken hair from his forehead frivolously, and stood up naturally: "It's still early to become a sad-faced adult!"
Xueming was in a daze for a while without saying anything. She picked up the menu again and calculated the prices of tea soup and oatmeal cakes.
Under Brother Ye's disgusted look, Xueming finally patted his face gently, as if he had done something wrong.
"I know that you are not short of money, but you are short of love."
Pack your bags and organize your thoughts.
Take the teacup and drink it all in one gulp.
Ye Bei: "Where are you going?"
Xueming: "Send Bai Lu back to school. She wants to continue studying. I want to protect her."
Ye Bei: "Remember to call to report that you are safe. I will travel to Hung Hom during my holidays. I will come to your house for dinner. Just don't charge me."
Xueming wanted to say a few more words: "If I get into trouble again, I will never see the outside world..."
"Go to the people's police in advance and call me. I will definitely come to help you." Ye Bei said with a smile: "Your hometown will find you, no matter where you are."
Xueming nodded vigorously and wrote down a backup plan on his phone to unlock new skills.
[Shake people]
He walked towards the small east gate alley of Agricultural University, intending to find Mr. Chen's paper shop, and said a respectful farewell.
"You're welcome and safe."
Ye Bei gestured with his thumb and raised it high.
"Come and be safe! Hero!"
Xiao Qi followed Mr. Xueming with Bai Lu.
The two girls talked quietly in private.
Brother Qi was suspicious, "Sister-in-law, do you feel..."
Bai Lu let it take its course, "My brother and that boss Ye are flirting with each other."
Brother Qi was still obsessed with the crime, "He and women don't seem to have much to talk about..."
Bai Lu is ordinary, "Flirting with men is a matter of routine."
Putting aside these things, Brother Qi saw the big white cat next to Boss Ye before he left.
Her eyes suddenly lit up - because that was the most beautiful cat she had ever seen in Hengyin!
Compared with the vulgar powder in the cat cafe next door, it is simply the most popular brand among cats.
Her eyes were straight, and she wanted to go up and negotiate with Boss Ye on the price.
The big white cat saw the woman's eyes from a distance, climbed onto the membership activity prize counter, got into a travel backpack, and zipped it up.
It is pulled from the inside out, and a bunch of hair is still stuck on the outside without pain.
There are three words written on the small gift window of the lottery.
[Not for sale]
