Devil’s Warmth

Chapter 17: 17. Protection

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In the winter of 2003, snow fell on the entire community, and the green hills instantly turned white.

All kinds of news on TV have been dominated by Chang Xue.

"In the old days, the'Jade Girl' became a junior, and Hong Kong tycoons abandoned his wife for her."

"Chang Xue fell off the altar, and Gao Leng's image collapsed."

"Chang Xue's new movie is facing a box office crisis."

All kinds of bad news have a great influence. After dinner, people watch such news in front of the TV. Fans of Chang Xue couldn't believe the news, and were still trying to clarify that the person involved, Chang Xue, has never appeared.

I don't know who was Changxue. The public relations for this matter were not done in the end. Like a volcano eruption, the news that Changxue had become a junior was spread all over the streets. The "Jade Girl" for nearly a decade no longer exists, and Chang Xue has since retired from the Hong Kong Star arena.

Zhao Zhilan stared at the overwhelming news and various newspapers, she couldn't help but sighed, "Fate, sometimes it's really hard to tell."

The decline of Chang Xue meant that Zhao Xiu's most proud capital was gone, but a strange embarrassment appeared under this background.

Zhao Xiu has always been shaping Fang Minjun’s image as Chang Xue. Now that Chang Xue is forced to quit the entertainment circle, it is estimated that Zhao Xiu will no longer want Fang Minjun and Chang Xue to associate.

Beiyao looked at the news, frowned and thought, if Fang Minjun didn't look like Chang Xue in the end, it might be a good thing for Fang Minjun.

But Fang Minjun has moved out of the community, and now it’s winter vacation. I don’t know what Fang Minjun’s situation is like.

Bei Yao was a little worried about her. Although Fang Minjun was colder, she was not a heinous villain after all. She remembered that Pei Chuan had cell phones and telephones at home.

There was heavy snow outside the house, and Bei Yao went to Pei Chuan's home with her winter homework.

Pei Haobin opened the door and stretched his eyebrows: "It's Bei Yao, it's cold outside, come in."

"Thank you Uncle Pei."

"Xiaochuan is in the room, I'll call him. You Aunt Jiang is not here, Bei Yao sits as you please."

Bei Yao repeatedly thanked him.

Pei Chuan's house is clean and tidy, and Pei Haobin has been a soldier, so everything in the house is neatly arranged. This is the second time Beiyao has visited Pei's house since she was a child.

Pei Chuan doesn't like the invasion of the private realm, so Bei Yao has always respected his taboo.

Pei Haobin was careless, but didn't think so much. The innermost door was caught off guard and opened by Pei Haobin. As soon as Bei Yao turned her head, she saw a Pei Chuan who had forgotten for many years.

There was heavy snow outside the window, and he was in front of the desk, assembling a strange instrument that she couldn't understand.

The juvenile's figure is still slightly thin. He is sitting in a wheelchair with a long black blanket covering his legs.

He turned his head and saw Bei Yao who was holding the book.

The air was quiet for a moment.

Bei Yao knew for the first time that he did not wear a prosthesis at home. As long as he is in front of people, Pei Chuan always wears a prosthesis, so that people forget, he never gets better.

The sensor in Pei Chuan's hand made two beeps, and he looked down and flicked his fingers with distinct knuckles. It shattered.

Pei Haobin said: "Xiaochuan, Bei Yao is here, you guys have fun together, dad has something to go out."

Pei Haobin didn't have time to change his clothes, so he hurried out.

"What do you dare to do, come here."

Bei Yao was very embarrassed. She was as cramped as she was when she was a child. After entering his room, she couldn't help but relax her breathing.

"Can't do homework?"

"No." Bei Yao hugged "Winter Vacation Homework" tightly and asked him, "Can you contact Fang Minjun?"

Pei Chuan raised his eyes and uttered coldly: "Be nosy."

"She grew up with us, don't you worry about her?"

Pei Chuan paused, he thought it was a bit funny. Bei Yao thought of him too well, who is Fang Minjun and why does he care about her life or death? However, in her serious eyes, he subconsciously felt that he couldn't tell her these words.

"Do you have her phone number?"

"no."

"address?"

Bei Yao lowered her head and blushed a little: "No."

Pei Chuan glanced at her, she was like a little quail, so embarrassed that she wanted to bury herself.

He turned the wheelchair and went to the landline in the living room.

Bei Yao also stepped behind him.

The boy's finger pressed a few numbers on the landline button, and then she squatted down and looked up at his expectant eyes. He kept his eyes open and whispered: "Hello, Teacher Li, this is Pei Chuan. Can you give me the phone number of Minjun's home?"

"Well, the reason? The last time her family moved, something left in our house, and she must be notified to take it back."

"Okay, thank you teacher, I wrote it down."

He hung up the phone, pressed a few digits again, and gave the receiver to Bei Yao.

Bei Yao took the phone, and the other end was connected quickly. It was Zhao Xiu's voice: "Hey? Whom are you looking for?"

"Aunt Xiu, this is Bei Yao, can I talk to Min Min?"

"Wait, I'll call her."

After a long time, when Bei Yao was a little uneasy, the girl's hoarse voice came from the other end: "Hey."

"Minmin, this is Bei Yao."

Black pupil Pei Chuan looked at the little girl who called.

Her long slightly curly hair was draped behind her, and she wore a light blue cotton suit. She grabbed the small lock button on the dress, and looked a little nervous. Pei Chuan heard her say: "Minmin, this year's winter plum blossoms in the community, and it is very fragrant. The sausage my mother made is delicious. Can I bring it to you at the beginning of school?"

"... When shall we go to the playground together? I heard that City C has built a big new playground. I have never been to the playground when I grow up. Can you go with me?"

"Don't cry." She said softly, "You are Fang Minjun, not Chang Xue."

The little girl's cold face was crying hysterically now, and there was a fruit knife hidden in her pocket. When Bei Yao called, she actually wanted to cut it off.

Fang Minjun's name, more than ten years of honor and disgrace, seems to be linked to Chang Xue. Now that the faith has collapsed, Fang Minjun can hardly breathe.

However, this phone call made her cry happily.

Yes, she is only twelve years old, and she has not been to the new playground, and she hasn't seen the blooming appearance of the winter plum trees that have not bloomed at the gate of the community. She was afraid of pain, and she was reluctant to die. She was hoping for someone to save her, but she never expected that this person would be Bei Yao, who had been crushed by herself because of Chang Xue since childhood.

Fang Minjun was gradually comforted.

Bei Yao hung up the phone, only to see Pei Chuan's countless eyes colder than before.

She touched her pocket and whispered, "I'm sorry, I have used your phone for so long, and I will give you the money."

She touched a piece of fifty yuan, which was almost all the property of her small vault.

Pei Chuan sneered: "You are so generous."

He took the fifty-dollar banknote and played with it: "Who is Fang Minjun? Is this all your money? Or, do you treat everyone like this?"

Bei Yao felt inexplicable.

Fang Minjun is not hers, but she thought for a long time, if she were Fang Minjun, her mentality would collapse. If this matter continues, it may be very serious. If it's not serious, Bei Yao will naturally not care about Fang Minjun, who has never dealt with him.

Pei Chuan squeezed the banknote with two fingers and gently applied force. It went into the trash can.

Bei Yao subconsciously let out a "Yeah", squatted down and picked it out. The moody boy has pushed the wheelchair to the room.

"Pei Chuan, Pei Chuan..."

The door slammed shut before her eyes.

Beiyao looked at the closed door in front of her, and for the first time gave birth to a little grievance. After all, she was only twelve years old, and she still needed someone to coax her. She often didn't understand why Pei Chuan was angry, just as she didn't understand how to make this deep-minded young man happy.

Bei Yao tried his best to back down and give him everything he thought was good. But these things may be like this paper currency. If he disdains, he will throw it into the trash can in a blink of an eye.

She blinked, a little bit to cry, and finally didn't knock on his door, left Pei's house, and closed the door of the house for him.

Bei Yao stepped on the snow, making small and lovely footprints one step at a time.

Behind the curtain on the fourth floor, Pei Chuan looked down at her.

Are you impatient with him like this

Therefore, he, Fang Minjun, or Chen Hu and Li Da have no difference in Bei Yao's mind.

Pei Chuan heard her coax Fang Minjun. God gave her a soft and sweet voice, and when she softly coaxed people, it made her heart melt. How she used to coax herself, today is how she coaxes Fang Minjun, in the future it may be Chen Hu, Li Da, anyone.

He knew that he was so angry for no reason, and even seemed nervous, but he couldn't control the ridicule that came up from the bottom of his heart.

It seems that someone is saying, look, Pei Chuan, in her eyes, you are just a poor child who needs help.

Pei Chuan obviously shouldn't be angry, he is just a handicapped who shouldn't have any friends. But at the corner that day, I heard Chen Hu and Li Da's words, and a seed was planted silently in his heart.

Boys are usually not as precocious as girls, but when Pei Chuan hasn't entered the second year of junior high, he is ignorant and young to realize that he feels different when facing Bei Yao.

And she didn't know, she didn't know anything.

He watched the little footprints in the snow drift away, his pale fingers gripping the wheelchair arm tightly.

~

Bei Yao opened her small printbook, and it contained secrets that she couldn't tell anyone since she was a child.

From the future, I hope I will treat Pei Chuan better and better. Beiyao knew the truth of the Thousand Years of Favor, so she locked the small print book in a brand new small box so that no one would open it.

It didn't take long for the spring to begin. City C was getting cold and warming up quickly. Bei Yao quickly changed into a thick padded jacket and put on a light spring coat.

Hua Ting was the happiest in the beginning of spring. She was surprised to find that all the girls in the class, just like herself, had begun to develop. As if the spring breeze took a gentle breath, the girls gradually bulged in front of their chests, and she was no longer alone in particular. At this time, without Bei Yao, Hua Ting walked with a straight back.

Bei Yao has just begun to develop, and Xiao Baozi often feels a little pain. She was very careful not to touch them.

Hua Ting blushed and whispered in her ear: "Yaoyao, are you here yet?"

"no."

"Oh, I was shocked when I came some time ago, almost crying, thinking I had a terminal illness."

"No, that's when you grew up."

Hua Ting asked her: "What are you doing? String so many beads."

"Make a peace knot." The girl's innocent brows were gentle, she said with a smile, "Pei Chuan's birthday is coming soon."

The late spring is Pei Chuan's birthday. Although he has a strange temper recently, he is no longer willing to go home with him after school, and did not take the initiative to reconcile after losing his temper last time, but she is not angry with him.

"Pei is not happy" is already so stingy, if she is also stingy, it would be fine!

Hua Ting snorted: "Why are you so good to him, he is not good to you at all." And I didn't see Pei Chuan being so good to Yaoyao.

Bei Yao put the beads on: "He will be fine when he grows up."

"Speak as if you know it."

She didn't know, but it didn't prevent her from being kind to him.

The girls in the class changed, but Fang Minjun suddenly lost weight. Now Fang Minjun's appearance coincides with the person in memory, thin and high cheekbones, but one winter, Fang Minjun suddenly no longer looks like Chang Xue.

She is not pretty anymore, she has a fading breath on her body, but she has gained some popularity.

The aura around Fang Minjun was once embarrassing, but Fang Minjun himself pretended not to care.

Hua Ting propped her chin: "I didn't like her before, but now she is quite pitiful. Chang Xue did something wrong, and she didn't do it wrong."

Bei Yao nodded in agreement.

"Do you know that there were people discussing whether the school flower is Fang Minjun or Shang Mengxian. When Fang Minjun came back this semester, everyone thought it was Shang Mengxian. Where does Fang Minjun look like a school flower?"

Shang Mengxian? Bei Yao thought the name was familiar.

Bei Yao has been studying for a year earlier, and many people around her have changed many things. She racked her brains to think about distant memories, only to realize that there was indeed such a person.

She was two levels younger than Shang Mengxian in her previous life.

When she looked better in her third year of junior high school, someone once quietly told her: If you were the way you were then, you would definitely not be in the turn of Shang Mengxian. You are countless times better than her!

However, Bei Yao, who was still childish with a baby girl on her face, sighed. It doesn't matter if she looks good or not, she should first give Pei an upset birthday.

~

At the end of spring and beginning of summer, Shang Mengxian, who was in the second year of junior high school, assumed the title of school flower.

A fourteen-year-old girl with a beautiful appearance, a little more charming than her peers. Shang Mengxian has benefited the most from the decline of Fang Minjun. She has received a lot of love letters from her desk recently.

"Shang Mengxian, let me just say, what is Fang Minjun, isn't it a bit like a celebrity? Now that the celebrity is gone, Fang Minjun is so skinny and ugly. The Ge Bo who liked her before now sees her pretending not to be. Yeah, hahaha you don’t know how funny it is."

Shang Mengxian put down the mirror and smiled.

"But well." My friend said, "Ge Bo told me that in their first seventh grade, everyone liked Fang Minjun, but there was someone who hadn't even looked at Fang Minjun and kept his face cold."

Shang Mengxian was a little interested: "Oh? Who?"

"Pei Chuan in their class, I heard that the boy has no legs, but the calf is a prosthesis. Do you know what a prosthesis is? It just makes it like a real leg, which can be walked on."

Shang Mengxian's expression showed a trace of disgust.

"But with such a handicapped person, he can't even look down on Shang Minjun, is that funny? Do you think he doesn't like it or dare not like it?"

For girls of this age, the topics of interest have changed from snacks and games to who likes whom and who has a good impression of whom.

Shang Mengxian said in a contemptuous tone: "Mostly because Fang Minjun is not charming enough, and he is so tugging all day long, I want that Pei Chuan to confess to me whether he believes it or not?"

My friend covered his mouth and smiled and said, "Of course I believe you are so good-looking. What will the disabled boy do to you?"

Shang Mengxian also laughed. She did not go home first after school in the afternoon, but waited on the road where Pei Chuan left school.

After bypassing the blooming pomegranate flowers on campus, Pei Chuan subconsciously glanced at the rock that Bei Yao often sits on.

There were small summer flowers all around, and he saw a shadow behind the flowers.

Pei Chuan slowed down, he walked over from there, waiting for the girl to follow.

"You are Pei Chuan, right?" A brisk and playful tone came from his side.

He frowned imperceptibly, only to realize that the man was a girl he didn't know.

Shang Mengxian followed, faintly scanning Pei Chuan's calf, covering the look in his eyes.

"My name is Shang Mengxian, and I belong to the first grade of the second grade. I heard that your house is building a small park, right? Can you take me to see it?"

"Can not."

The smile on Shang Mengxian's face stiffened for a second, her eyes were disdainful, but she suppressed the impatience in her heart when she thought that if the other Minjun scorned people, she would please herself like a pug in the future.

"It doesn't matter, it's the same if I go by myself." She walked in front of him intentionally or unintentionally.

In the summer, she wore a miniskirt, showing slender and beautiful legs.

Shang Mengxian's shirt is rosy red with gorgeous short sleeves, showing half of her shoulders. She has a style that a girl this age doesn't have. Shang Mengxian is sure he will be attracted to herself, with graceful and careless steps.

A slight mockery appeared on Pei Chuan's expressionless face.

~

Beiyao went to the school commissary first after school. The red bead knot she made was very beautiful, but it didn’t seem to be a good idea to send it like this. She thought about it and spent three dollars to buy a packaging bag and put the knot. Put it in carefully.

Bei Yao hurried to the pomegranate flower, and Pei Chuan was no longer there.

"Don't wait for me." She sighed softly, put her little schoolbag on her back, and hurriedly walked home. On the way to home from junior high school, a new park is being built recently. I heard that it will take two years to complete the construction. This is annoying to the children in the community. There is a regret that "the school always renovates when we graduate". The same goes for the park.

When the park is repaired, the teenagers and girls will go to high school.

There are brilliant wild flowers on the road. In the summer sun, Bei Yao slaps the wind with her small hand. She walked in a hurry, and it didn't take long before she raised her eyes and saw Pei Chuan's back.

His spine was straight, and his pace seemed a little more relaxed because of his unhappiness.

Young Qingjun, but a young girl followed him. Bei Yao was stunned, holding the gift and stopped. The tree squeaked and squeaked, and Bei Yao wiped the sweat from her head and sat on the rock under the cypress tree.

She watched them walk away.

With Ping An knot in her arms, Bei Yao doubted for the first time that the words in that small print were true

This cold-hearted Pei Chuan, would he take care of someone like his heart, as the notes said? She is now twelve years old in mind. Although she has a few years of memory, she is not yet the age when her love begins. Pei Chuan has new friends again. She looks like a very beautiful girl. She is really happy for him.

Bei Yao had enough rest, and then walked back slowly along this road.

Pei Chuan didn't know that Bei Yao was behind him, he thought she had gone home early.

Shang Mengxian next to him was talking: "Does your teacher Zhang speak with an accent? Will the ending sound rise?"

Pei Chuan glanced at the old residential building not far away, and gave a faint "um".

His fingers inadvertently fiddled with the lock of the iron door next to him, and the door opened easily, and the iron door jingled.

Not seeing him speak all the way, and suddenly hearing his response, Shang Mengxian was so surprised that he didn't notice Pei Chuan's movements. She thought triumphantly, why don't you just care about yourself? It is estimated that he was peeping at himself along the way. Shang Mengxian smiled, and just about to speak, suddenly rushed out of the community a ferocious and barking mangling dog.

The dog ran rampage, and came to the iron gate in a blink of an eye.

If the door is closed, it's okay, but it's a pity that Pei Chuan "unconsciously" fiddled with the door, and the dog rushed out, raising his head and barking.

Shang Mengxian screamed in fright: "Go away, dead dog, get away."

As she yelled, she hid behind Pei Chuan. Want to push him to deal with that mangy dog.

A coldness flashed in Pei Chuan's eyes. Just as he was about to stagger, he saw Bei Yao holding a gift bag in the distance.

He froze suddenly.

This road is the way home for him and Bei Yao. Bei Yao has always been a little afraid of the dog that barks at the sight of people at Granny Zhou's. Grandma Zhou loves Bei Yao, and for this reason she also specially installed an iron gate.

The old man deliberately instructed the children in Beiyao's community not to open the iron door lock. Her dog is fierce, and it is not good for her to bite people.

But Pei Chuan opened it just now.

He didn't know how much Bei Yao saw, but a coldness rose from the soles of his feet. Pei Chuan concealed his despicableness, but he had to admit that since he was very young, he has long lost the quality of kindness.

The price of his father's kindness and justice was his legs.

The dog barked twice and was about to rush forward. Shang Mengxian's panicked screams were harsh, but in the early summer of May, he seemed to be frozen in place, unable to hide.

Bei Yao ran towards them.

She couldn't even care about the gift, picked up the stone on the ground and threw the dog: "Go away, don't bite."

Her hands were trembling and hit the dog, and the dog uttered a cry, then turned and barked at her.

Bei Yao picked up a handful of stones, no matter what he was not, she threw it on the dog desperately.

She stood in front of him and screamed at the dog tremblingly: "I'm not going to beat you yet!"

The dog finally ran into the iron gate with its tail clamped.

Bei Yao is not as tall as Pei Chuan, she clasped the iron door on tiptoe.

"Pei Chuan." The girl said anxiously, "Did it bit you? Is there any pain?"

Pei Chuan looked at her with dark pupils. For a long time he whispered: "No."

Bei Yao frowned and looked at the girl behind him who was older than herself. She looked familiar. Is she Shang Mengxian in the second grade? Bei Yao was a little angry. She walked over and saw Shang Mengxian pushing Pei Chuan out of the scene. Although she understood Shang Mengxian's fearful mentality, Bei Yao couldn't forgive her for doing so.

Shang Mengxian was about to collapse. She was planning to seduce this crippled person before dumping him, but who wants to get a dog out of the road? Thinking of the image of herself just screaming, Shang Mengxian almost wanted to hit the wall.

She quickly said: "I will go home first today."

Bei Yao and Pei Chuan walked home together. She was upset, and Myolie's eyes were clattering, Pei Chuan lowered his eyes, looked at the things she was carrying, and asked her, "What are you holding?"

"Well, my birthday present to you, Pei Chuan, happy birthday! Congratulations, you are one year older again!"

He took it and saw that she looked the same, and understood that she hadn't seen anything.

Bei Yao hesitated: "Pei Chuan, your new friend is not good at all, she wants to push you out."

He was noncommittal: "Yeah."

"You don't want to play with her, okay?" When she said this, she was very nervous, after all, it was Shang Mengxian, a school girl recognized by all boys. Although in one or two years, she might look better than Shang Mengxian, but now she is a little girl with baby fat.

Pei Chuan whispered: "Okay."

She thought she had "instigated" him, and coughed slightly with a little shyness.

The setting sun dragged her warm shadow away, and she stepped on the shadow of the tree with childishness.

Pei Chuan put his hands in his pockets and looked at her back.

If he didn't say it, she would never know that he was a viper, not a lamb. She is so repulsive of people with vicious minds. If one day she knows that she and Shang Mengxian are indistinguishable from each other and even more vicious, what will she do