Probably because the injury affected his mood, Chi Xiaochi was dreaming again.
In the dream, he and Lou Ying were feeding the dogs at the corner on the east side of Tongzilou.
In the afternoon of July, the sun's vigorous heat made people's back numb and itchy. Chi Xiaochi sipped half a salted ice popsicle in his mouth, and held Lou Ying's bowl in his hand. In the bowl was the beef strips that Lou Ying made at noon. Mixed with hot rice, the aroma is fragrant.
The little yellow dog liked this hearty meal very much, and it was deliciously hot and delicious.
Chi Xiaochi took the opportunity to call it: "Dog meat."
Dog Meat snorted in a hurry.
Chi Xiaochi turned to Lou Ying and said, "Look, it's happy that I call it dog meat."
Lou Ying looked at the half-year-old boy helplessly: "It's because you fed it. You called it buried, it also... "
Dogmeat seemed to hear someone calling his name, so he said, "Ow."
Chi Xiaochi: "Wow, so unconscionable. Don't eat it."
He made a gesture to snatch the bowl away, but the dog meat noticed that it was not good, so he stuck his face in the bowl and chewed a few mouthfuls.
Chi Xiaochi was just playing around with it, he lifted the bowl, and the mouth of the bowl leaned towards it, so that the blind little yellow dog could eat more easily and smoothly.
He maintained this posture, squinting and smiling at Lou Ying.
But behind Lou Ying, a taller figure suddenly appeared, almost swallowing Lou Ying in.
The man's face could not be seen clearly due to the backlight, but his tone was quite gentle: "Xiaochi, you are feeding the dog again."
Chi Xiaochi stood up holding the bowl, and glanced at Lou Ying very quickly, as if he had done something wrong: "...Mr. Zhu."
The person he called Teacher Zhu was about forty or fifty years old, tall and elegant, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and carrying some cheap daily necessities.
He had a very gentle attitude towards Chi Xiaochi: "When will you come in the afternoon? Or the old time?"
Chi Xiaochi tried to be as concise as possible: "Well, three o'clock."
Teacher Zhu said, "Don't forget to bring your math book from the second year of junior high school. Today we will talk about functions."
Chi Xiaochi: "Yeah."
After Teacher Zhu left, Lou Ying watched his back for a long time, frowning slightly.
Chi Xiaochi was so nervous that his fingers were itchy, and he rubbed the back of his hand against the seam of his shorts and trousers. He didn't even look at Lou Ying, squatted down, and continued to feed the dog meat with a bowl in hand.
After a long while, he finally heard Lou Ying's voice: "Are you studying with him now?"
Chi Xiaochi made a dull "ah" sound.
Lou Ying looked at his nervous little appearance and reached out to rub his hair.
After waiting for another long time, I found that Lou Ying really didn't seem to have any plans to investigate further, but Chi Xiaochi couldn't sit still: "...Why don't you ask."
Lou Ying: "Ask what?"
"My parents asked me to make up the class from Teacher Zhu's house.... They won't let me find you." Chi Xiaochi was so guilty that he tapped with his toes on the soft-baked yellow soil.
Just as he was about to say, it's okay, I won't listen to them, Lou Ying cut off his words.
"I know, it's because of the tape recorder a few days ago?" Lou Ying curled the corners of his mouth, "If that's the case, it's really my fault."
Chi Xiaochi put down the bowl with a bang.
The dog meat was so frightened that he stopped chewing, and his glass-like eyes rolled around blankly, unable to see what happened to his two food masters. He only swayed his bald tail in place, and found that the bowl had not been taken away. , followed by the fragrance, and carefully continued to lick the rice grains with the taste of beef at the bottom of the bowl.
Lou Ying looked at the temperamental Chi Xiaochi, only to find it funny and soft-hearted.
He has always regarded this child as his younger brother.
He said, "Okay, don't bury in fear."
Chi Xiaochi was not happy: "No more."
Before Lou Ying could say anything, Chi Xiaochi got excited first: "...Why are they?"
A few days ago, something happened to Lou Ying.
He has a good relationship with Boss Huang at the nearby junk station. The boss will bring some electronic products to Lou Yingxiu when he collects junk. The TV in Boss Huang's house and the red and white machine played by his son are all second-hand goods that Lou Ying has repaired. Of course, he didn't let Lou Yingxiu in vain. Once there was something he didn't need, he would give it to Lou Ying.
Boss Huang opened a small shop selling second-hand electrical appliances. There are semiconductors, small game consoles, hair dryers, electric fans, heaters, speakers, MP3, etc. repaired by Lou Ying. Provided, the money earned will be divided into three and seven.
Lou Ying loves machinery first, but also has selfishness in order to practice his hands. He is dependent on others, and he must have some sources of his own income, so as not to cause trouble to his aunt's family.
He has always spent money in moderation, plus the wages of working in pet stores and hardware stores, as well as the various side businesses he has developed in private, the accumulation of assets on the book even surpasses some middle-aged people in the package.
It is precisely because he has his own small treasury that he can often take Chi Xiaochi out to play, allowing him to eat two cones at a time.
However, half a month ago, Lou Ying put a newly repaired semiconductor on the window sill, but it attracted the attention of Aunt Chu who also lived in the package.
...that's the semiconductor she threw away a month ago.
I don't know if she forgot that she had thrown things away, or whether she was angry that Lou Ying made money from the things she threw away. She declared to the public that Lou Ying looked cute, but she would steal other people's things and sell them for money.
Of course, she also said intimately that Lou Ying, a child who lost his father and mother since childhood, has no family to teach him, and loves to take other people's things, which is quite normal.
After the rumor spread, it caused a lot of trouble for Lou Ying.
Lou Ying's aunt is busy with the family every day. Lou Ying is also a child who does not cause trouble, so she has always been assured of her nephew.
However, the side effects of "rest assured" are not understood.
After a quarrel with her husband, she found Lou Ying and asked him to find and throw out all his "made-up" things, and can't take other people's things casually in the future.
Lou Ying only returned the semiconductor without apology, and also returned the receipt written to him by Boss Huang, proving that it was a waste product from a waste station.
He has always been calm in character, and has no intention of making Aunt Chu ugly in public. He just uses the receipt to imply to her that this thing was thrown away by herself, so please pay attention to her words.
Aunt Chu was enraged because of this, and the gossip about Lou Ying spread even more vigorously.
There are only three floors in the building, and the rumors can go up and down in half a day. The rumors of Lou Ying stealing things are getting more and more outrageous. Chi Xiaochi’s parents also heard it and asked Chi Xiaochi at the dinner table to stop playing with the thieves. , No matter how good the academic performance is, the morals are corrupt, and there is no salvation.
Hearing the rumors, Chi Xiaochi was so angry that he threw his chopsticks and almost rolled up his sleeves and hit the Chu family's door.
Coincidentally, Lou Ying went to find him with the textbook that Chi Xiaochi had left at his house, and cut him off halfway.
Asking where he was going, Lou Ying put his arms around Chi Xiaochi's waist, put him on his shoulders, and quickly went upstairs.
After putting him down, Lou Ying advised him: "Don't make trouble. After all, it's just a semiconductor."
Chi Xiaochi was so angry that he pushed him on the shoulder: "No way! I'm going to find her! It's not over!!"
Lou Ying took him back again, and he couldn't help it, so he could only hold him in his arms, rubbing the back of his neck and coaxing softly: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, you don't think I'm angry."
Chi Xiaochi burst into tears with anger: "No way!"
Seeing that this little crying bag with shallow eye sockets was about to cry, Lou Ying pulled him to sit down beside the building, took apart a bag of jumping candy, poured it into his hand, and put the pink candy crumbs together. his mouth.
Chi Xiaochi, who was sobbing and crying, obediently opened his mouth and let him pour the sugar into his mouth.
Lou Ying's palms had the lemony fragrance of hand soap and the fragrance of candy, which made Chi Xiaochi eager to take a sip, but he gave up.
The candy crumbs blew up in the warm mouth, and the crackling made his cheeks numb, and Chi Xiaochi could only close his mouth. While he was quiet, Lou Ying said calmly, "Don't worry too much about them. We won't stay here in the future."
With tears in her eyes, Chi Xiaochi turned to look at him: "'We'?"
Lou Ying didn't know why he subconsciously bound Chi Xiaochi to himself, but after thinking about it, there seemed to be nothing wrong.
He folded the corners of the remaining half of the bag of jumping candy and stuffed it into Chi Xiaochi's pocket: "Well, we."
Chi Xiaochi was reluctantly persuaded, but his parents had strictly demanded that Chi Xiaochi was not allowed to go to Lou Ying again, and asked Zhu Shoucheng, a middle school teacher who lived next to Chi's house, to help him with his homework this summer.
Chi Xiaochi never told Lou Ying about this, because he was afraid that he would think too much.
At the same time, he had a little secret expectation.
He was very interested in Lou Ying's proposal about "we". He wants to catch up with Lou Ying's footsteps and go to Lou Ying's high school, so that he can be closer to "us".
But Lou Ying still looked at Chi Xiaochi with the eyes of a child: "It is indeed my fault."
"There is..." When a fart was about to come out, Chi Xiaochi saw Lou Ying's eyes, and his mouth and heart softened, "...you are not wrong."
Lou Ying was surprised: "You can actually come to me less in the future, and don't have a head-on conflict with your parents. You have a year to go to high school, so there is no need to have a conflict with your family... "
Chi Xiaochi's face turned red with anger, took away the bowl that had been licked clean by dog meat, raised his feet and left.
Lou Ying: "Hey, Xiaochi..."
Chi Xiaochi walked to the entrance of the corridor and replied loudly, "Dead! I can't find you anymore!"
Lou Ying's gentle and helpless voice sounded from behind: "... come back."
Chi Xiaochi's heart was beating angrily, he wanted to leave in a hurry, but who would want Lou Ying to cry out, he softened his heart again, but he couldn't hold back his face, so he walked back arrogantly, picked up and was licking lazily. The little blind dog with claws put the bowl back into Lou Ying's hand: "The dog meat belongs to me. The dog food bowl belongs to you."
Dog meat: ? ?
Lou Ying grabbed his shoulder and explained patiently, "I mean, you don't have to find me, I will find you."
Chi Xiaochi, who wanted to hold on for a while, was stunned.
Lou Ying asked gently, "Is Mr. Zhu good at tutoring?"
Chi Xiaochi: "…"
Lou Ying's tone remained the same: "How does it compare to me?"
Chi Xiaochi hugged the dog meat and bit his head: "It's much better."
Lou Ying: "Then tonight, the two of us will go to the top floor for tutoring together, won't you come?"
Chi Xiaochi was nervous and happy, a little flower had already opened in his heart: "I won't come anymore."
Lou Ying smiled and took out a piece of chocolate half melted by heat from his pocket. Because of the body heat of the young Chi Xiaochi, he was afraid that he had given it to Chi Xiaochi early, so that a piece of chocolate would be completely melted by his body temperature, and he would be powerless.
He stuffed the chocolate into his breast pocket, and acted skillfully, just like he had done countless times before: "Eight o'clock at night, on the rooftop, I'll be waiting for you."
…
The real Chi Xiaochi opened his eyes.
He fixedly stared at the ceiling immersed in the dark night, looking a little dazed.
061 noticed that he had woken up: "Xiaochi?"
Chi Xiaochi asked in a hoarse voice, "...Is it eight o'clock?"
"It's only three o'clock." 061 said, "Why don't you sleep for a while."
The tone of 061's speech coincided with the voice heard by the person in his dream. Chi Xiaochi was stunned for a while, and subconsciously touched his chest pocket. When he felt it empty, it caused a tingling in his chest.
My chocolate is gone, he thought.
The frantic heart beat on the injured rib like a drum, but it gradually subsided as the daze time passed.
Chi Xiaochi rolled over and hugged the sleeping leopard, trying to find the feeling of holding dog meat in his dream.
061 seemed to feel something and asked him, "What did you dream about?"
"Zhu Shoucheng."
061 was startled, the name really sounded: "Who?"
"You don't know." Chi Xiaochi buried his face in his boss's stomach, rubbed it comfortably, and said calmly, "The first person I killed."
061: "…"
He didn't remember any resume he had in Chi Xiaochi's life.
But he knew now was not the time to get to the bottom of it, so he asked, "Want to see a movie?"
Chi Xiaochi came to the spirit: "Well, look."
One person, one system, watching a movie on one screen, the leopard woke up for a while, hugged Chi Xiaochi, took two sips, and fell asleep beside him again.
After a two-hour movie was completely finished, Chi Xiaochi calculated that the time was almost up, so he got up and washed briefly.
Just as he was putting the hot towel on his face, there were hurried footsteps outside, along with Sun Yan's whispered but anxious "What are you doing, Vice Captain Gu?" and a fierce knock on the door.
Chi Xiaochi put the towel back on the towel rack, then walked to the door and pulled the latch.
Gu Xinzhi was almost planted in, but staring at Chi Xiaochi, his eyes glowed with a terrifying green light like a wolf, making his heart numb.
Chi Xiaochi calmed down and said to Sun Yan, "Wait outside."
Although he was puzzled, the soldier's nature of obeying orders still made Sun Yan close the door and be on guard outside. After all, Gu Xinzhi's mental state was very worrying to him.
After the idle people left, Gu Xinzhi pinched his arm, and his voice was full of ecstasy and trembling: "Qiuyun, is it really you?"
Chi Xiaochi instantly assumed the identity of Ding Qiuyun.
In other words, it was the identity of Ding Qiuyun who was "reborn" and remembered everything that happened in his previous life.
He sat down beside the bed, stroked the boss's tail with one hand, and answered his nervous question indifferently: "What do you think?"