Chi Xiaochi sat at his desk while sucking on the mung bean popsicle.
The screen window was closed, filtering out part of the heat of the hot air and blowing it on the back, although it was not so comfortable, it was better than nothing.
Zhu Shoucheng took a thermos and poured a glass of boiled water for Chi Xiaochi: "Don't drink it, let it dry first. It's cool and boiled, and it's comfortable to drink."
Chi Xiaochi said, "Thank you, teacher."
Zhu Shoucheng, who had poured the water, sat opposite the temporary desk that had been turned into a dining table, staring at Chi Xiaochi, staring at Chi Xiaochi a little hairy.
He didn't know what Zhu Shoucheng wanted to do, but instinctively felt very uncomfortable.
… not the usual oppressive discomfort.
Facts have proved that Zhu Shoucheng is indeed in a different state than when he usually tutored him.
He asked Chi Xiaochi enthusiastically, "Is the popsicle delicious?"
Chi Xiaochi's mind has always been sharp, and after realizing it was wrong, his words were much less: "Well. Very good. Thank you teacher."
Zhu Shoucheng: "Can you get through on your phone?"
Chi Xiaochi: "...No."
Zhu Shoucheng: "My family can't either. Do you know the reason?"
Chi Xiaochi: "If your house doesn't work either, the line in the entire building may be broken... It should be the line at the telephone office."
"Oh—" Zhu Shoucheng smiled again, showing his teeth, "Xiaochi is really smart."
The tone of his voice made his spine go numb.
Chi Xiaochi raised the corners of his mouth stiffly, moved his shoulders unnaturally, threw the clean popsicle sticks into the trash can, and pulled a roll of paper to wipe the light green sweet juice on his hands.
Zhu Shoucheng suddenly raised his hand to touch Chi Xiaochi's face.
Chi Xiaochi dexterously avoided: "... teacher?"
Zhu Shoucheng pointed to the corner of his mouth and smiled: "There's something dirty."
Chi Xiaochi said dryly, "Thank you, teacher."
After being quiet for a while, Zhu Shoucheng stood up and closed the wide screen window.
The thin "brush" sound of the edge of the screen sliding over the roller made Chi Xiaochi get goosebumps.
He stopped writing and turned his head to look at Zhu Shoucheng.
Zhu Shoucheng turned around and bumped into Chi Xiaochi face to face.
He smiled and pointed to the empty mid-air: "There are mosquitoes."
After all, he took it for granted, and reached out and pulled the inner glass window.
The lock on the inside of the window was an old lock, half of it was rotten, and it couldn't be locked from the inside at all, and Zhu Shoucheng didn't take much care of it.
When he sat down again, he did not return to his seat, but sat down next to Chi Xiaochi.
He should have eaten hot and dry noodles at noon.
Chi Xiaochi smelled chopped green onion, garlic and miso on him.
Zhu Shoucheng brought his face close: "Is there any question that I can't do?"
When he opened his mouth, the taste of fermented garlic filled his mouth.
Chi Xiaochi dodged halfway, his face turned pale: "Teacher, isn't it hot for you to sit here?"
"It's hot." Zhu Shoucheng said, "You have strong firepower, and it's good to be young."
Chi Xiaochi frowned: "Teacher, I want to do the question."
Zhu Shoucheng said, "Do it. You do it."
Chi Xiaochi was tortured intolerably by the unease that came from his heart, suddenly got up, and was about to leave with his homework and textbooks in his arms.
Unexpectedly, a pair of strong arms slammed him from behind, pinching him tightly in that embrace full of the smell of fermented food.
A hand that smelled strongly of pen water covered his mouth and nose.
Zhu Shoucheng pressed against Chi Xiaochi's ear, and said in a low voice and eagerly, "...Xiaochi, your legs are very white."
Chi Xiaochi, who was dragged from the living room to the bedroom by covering his mouth and hugging his waist, seized every opportunity to make a noise, kicking his legs if he couldn't stomp, or biting with his mouth open if he couldn't, like a little mad beast who was annoyed.
Zhu Shoucheng repeated in his ears "you're good", "don't tell your parents, they won't believe a word", "if you make trouble again, you won't be an obedient good boy", etc. He couldn't listen to a word. go in.
Zhu Shoucheng had obviously never encountered such fierce resistance, and was at a loss for a while.
Just when he was stunned, Chi Xiaochi kicked and smashed the Clivia on the small desk in the bedroom.
The sound of the vase disintegrating made Lou Ying, who was preparing for Chi Xiaochi's review downstairs, put down his pen.
He raised his head and looked towards the ceiling.
"… Koike?"
This building was built early, at least 20 years old, and the sound insulation is extremely poor, but Lou Ying couldn't tell for a while whether the sound came from Xiaochi's house or the neighbor Zhu Shoucheng's house.
Hearing the faint sound of "Xiao Chi" coming from downstairs, Zhu Shoucheng was also stunned, and immediately restrained Chi Xiaochi, and swiftly pressed his mouth with a pillow, the black tower-like body pressed against Chi Xiaochi, The weight of one hundred and eighteen pressed Chi Xiaochi to the point of immobility.
It was the first time in his life that Chi Xiaochi had such intimate contact with a person. He felt sick and nauseated as if smeared with oil, and cried out, the smell of the middle-aged and elderly man's head oil came back into his mouth one after another through his breath, provoking him. His chest was suffocating, and his strength was also lost.
Chi Xiaochi's heart was beating extremely fast, and the blood in his limbs had the illusion that it had stopped flowing under great pressure, and his fingertips and toes gradually became numb and numb.
Brother Lou, save me...
I am here…
Zhu Shoucheng was afraid that someone would break his good deeds, so apart from suppressing Chi Xiaochi, he didn't dare to act rashly.
Not long after, footsteps came from the entrance of the corridor.
The footsteps sounded all the way to the Chi's door.
Immediately afterwards, it was Lou Ying's signature gentle tone: "Xiao Chi? Are you at home? Did you break something?"
Zhu Shoucheng turned his head to look at the clock and breathed a sigh of relief.
It was two fifty, and it was not yet three.
He remembered that when he met the two of them at noon, in front of Lou Ying, he agreed with Chi Xiaochi that the tutoring time was three o'clock in the afternoon.
Now, Lou Ying won't want to come to trouble himself, will he
Lou Ying called the door two or three times, but the door was still closed and no one answered.
Zhu Shoucheng showed a relieved expression.
But the next second, the door of his own house was knocked from outside,
Lou Ying's slightly worried voice came from outside: "Mr. Zhu, are you there? Did something fall from your house just now? ... Mr. Zhu?"
Chi Xiaochi struggled even more fiercely, making a small whimper.
Zhu Shoucheng was in a hurry and couldn't care less, and even Chi Xiaochi's nose was covered tightly.
The feeling that the oxygen was cut off in an instant squeezed all the remaining strength of Chi Xiaochi.
Lou Ying, who was outside, couldn't knock on the door, so he turned to another nearby house and continued to knock on the door.
During the day, all the adults who are doing their jobs go to work, those who are not doing their jobs turn off the fans, and they can't stay at home, so they go to the game arcade and department store to cool off.
Some students go out to remedial classes, some go out to have fun, and almost no one wants to stay in this hot building to sweat.
Sure enough, Lou Ying failed to knock on the door of any nearby house, so he had to go home.
Hearing the sound of footsteps approaching and leaving, Zhu Shoucheng breathed a sigh of relief, took off the pillow, hugged Chi Xiaochi, who was already unconscious, and gently caressed the boy's soft, snow-white cheeks with his cocooned fingertips. Greedily kissed Chi Xiaochi's shoulder.
He was about to enter the state, when the footsteps resounded and the jingling of keys sounded, scaring Zhu Shoucheng to go to Qipo, and took a pillow to block Chi Xiaochi's mouth again.
During this period, Chi Xiaochi inhaled some fresh air, and Chaos's consciousness became clearer.
He opened his eyes, no longer struggling and shouting blindly, but showed complete tameness, and quietly waited for his strength to recover, looking for a chance to escape.
He remembered that he always forgot his home key back then, so he simply made an extra copy at the time of re-engraving and left it with Lou Ying in case of emergencies.
Although the door of Chi's house was opened, Chi Xiaochi couldn't be optimistic about it.
He was not dragged away by Zhu Shoucheng, all the furnishings in the house are normal, there is no trace of fighting, and it will not be reminiscent of...
Suddenly, Chi Xiaochi thought of something, and there was a slight light in his eyes.
The sound was indeed difficult to locate, and Lou Ying could only use this to judge that someone in a household on the second floor had dropped something.
Lou Ying has always been cautious. He knocked on the door first to confirm the situation.
After no one around responded, he realized that something was wrong.
If it wasn't for Chi Xiaochi's hands and feet to break things, who would it be
People must be awake to break things. Even if a person falls asleep, waving his hands and kicking his legs in his sleep, he breaks things, but if there is such a big movement, it is impossible to continue to sleep.
Of course, it's also possible that strong winds knocked things down.
But if there is such a strong wind, Lou Ying, who is at home with the window open, can't be unaware.
... So, Brother Lou, he must have found something wrong.
Naturally, Zhu Shoucheng would not think so much as Chi Xiaochi.
He felt that after Lou Ying opened the door to confirm that Chi Xiaochi was not there, it was time to leave.
…
After Lou Ying opened the door, no one was really there and everything was intact.
But this only confirmed an ominous premonition in Lou Ying's heart.
There was nothing broken in the Chi family, so it should be Mr. Zhu Shoucheng's house or the neighbor's house on the other side of the Chi family's house, but there was no answer when knocking on the door...
Is it a burglar in broad daylight
Or something else
Lou Ying walked around the room twice, thinking about what to do next.
It's a bit rude, but for safety reasons...
The Chi family is on the second floor of Tongzi Building.
Below the windowsill, there is a cement edge of about ten centimeters.
Lou Ying stepped on the open window of Chi Xiaochi's house, turned out, and stepped on the edge of the cement with one foot.
The first person he went to was the Zhu family.
There is only a thin wall between Zhu's house and Chi's house, so Lou Ying didn't spend much effort and came to the window of Zhu's living room.
The tightly closed glass window made his brows slightly frown.
Who would keep the door closed like this in this sweltering weather
And when he saw that textbooks and Chi Xiaochi's stationery bag were scattered on the table in the living room, and a cup of hot water was still steaming on the table, a vague thought appeared in Lou Ying's mind, and then there was a bang. exploded.
The sound of the window pulling from the living room suddenly caused Zhu Shoucheng's blood to flow back instantly!
He thought of the book that Chi Xiaochi had placed on the living room table, which he had not had time to clean up, his heart almost stopped beating, he let go of the hand that was holding Chi Xiaochi, and ran out—
... He left half of his arms open like this, and bumped into Lou Ying face to face at the door of the bedroom.
Zhu Shoucheng opened his arms and held onto the door frame of the bedroom, trying to block Lou Ying's way forward: "Xiao Lou, how did you get in?"
But he was self-defeating, and when he raised his arm, Chi Xiaochi, who was struggling to get up behind him, was completely exposed.
Chi Xiaochi was completely powerless, and rolled off the bed with a thud.
Seeing Lou Ying, Chi Xiaochi's grievances and fears flooded his head, and he opened his mouth with a trembling cry: "Brother Lou! Brother Lou, save me—"
Lou Ying came from a big city and had read some similar news in the newspaper. Now that he saw Chi Xiaochi's little shorts that were almost torn off, what else could he not understand
His always gentle eyes were stained with three-point violence.
Seeing that everything slipped into an uncontrollable situation, Zhu Shoucheng became anxious: "This is all a misunderstanding. Me and him..."
Lou Ying didn't want to talk nonsense with him, she raised her knee sharply and hit him in the crotch.
Zhu Shoucheng's face was twisted in pain, and when he covered the wound and screamed in pain, Lou Ying took a chance and got into the bedroom, lifted Chi Xiaochi from the ground, held his trembling hand, and comforted softly: "It's okay, It's alright, Brother Lou is here."
Zhu Shoucheng suffered from pain and was forced to a dead end again, and the purple blood in his eyes also split apart.
He must never let these two go out!
After choosing carefully for so long, I finally fell in love with Chi Xiaochi, on the one hand, because of his good looks, and on the other hand, because of his parents' indifference and indifference to Chi Xiaochi.
Zhu Shoucheng dared to guarantee that even if Chi Xiaochi said it out, no one would believe him because of his monkey-skinned character.
But Lou Ying is different.
This kind of thing, once there is witness, he is completely finished!
He dashed up and grabbed Lou Ying's shoulder to separate the two.
Lou Ying saw Chi Xiaochi's blushing face and the suspicious saliva marks on his shoulders at close range. He was so angry that he also became ruthless. He slapped Zhu Shoucheng's hand and hit him on the chin!
He shouted, "Xiao Chi, run!"
The pain aroused Zhu Shoucheng's animal nature, he pinched Lou Ying and fought with him all the way out of the bedroom.
Zhu Shoucheng has the advantage of height and weight, and is a strong adult. Lou Ying is only a 16-year-old boy. Even if he often repairs machinery and builds beautiful and well-proportioned muscles, he is not a troublemaker after all. , I don't know any fighting skills, and I don't have any experience, so I slowly fell behind.
Seeing that the scuffle was getting more and more intense, Chi Xiaochi knew that with his drowsy state, he couldn't get up to fight.
Relying on the physical strength he had just accumulated, he stumbled all the way to the door, pulled the door bolt with all his strength, gained all his strength, and shouted: "It's on fire!! Put out the fire!!"
Hearing Chi Xiaochi's cry for help, Zhu Shou was in chaos when he was established.
Even Zhu Shoucheng himself didn't notice, he and Lou Ying scuffled all the way to the window.
... And when Lou Ying opened the window and came in, he didn't have time to close the window again.
Chi Xiaochi also turned around at this moment.
He saw with his own eyes that Lou Ying was thrown out of Zhu Shoucheng's body, and most of his body was knocked out of the window, and then he lost his center of gravity and fell back...
He just disappeared from the window.
His body, tugging at Chi Xiaochi's heart, disappeared with a hula, leaving a big empty hole in Chi Xiaochi's chest.
Snapped.
thump.
wow.
No one knew why that day, a tricycle full of empty cardboard boxes would just park under Zhu Shoucheng's window.
When Lou Ying fell headfirst, the back of his head hit the iron edge of the rear compartment of the tricycle, and fell to the ground again. The cardboard boxes piled up to the height of one person slanted down, burying Lou Ying's body completely.
… Chi Xiaochi completely forgot how to walk.
He didn't remember how he rolled downstairs, how he got to Lou Ying's side, and how he threw away the messy cardboard box.
After removing the cardboard box, seeing Lou Ying's face and open eyes, and touching his chest and heartbeat, Chi Xiaochi's breath in his throat relaxed slightly.
But only a few seconds later, Lou Ying coughed out a lot of blood.
Chi Xiaochi was stunned.
The bright red eyes kept his brain from turning.
"... Brother Lou."
Chi Xiaochi didn't dare to shout too loudly or pull him, for fear that he would lose the last bit of vitality.
He became timid in an instant, and a hand touched his forehead lightly and his lips again, as dazed as its owner.
"Lou brother..."
Chi Xiaochi knelt on the ground and looked up at the place where Lou Ying fell.
He thought, just two floors, just two floors.
It's alright, it must be alright...
"Hurry up and call!" Zhu Shoucheng's roar interrupted his self-deception, "Call 120! Quick!!"
Chi Xiaochi looked at him blankly, and pieces of information flashed intermittently in his mind.
telephone.
His phone is broken. The same goes for Zhu Shoucheng's family.
The line at the telephone office is faulty.
Phones are broken throughout the building.
120 is to call 120 to save Brother Lou.
Going to borrow a phone.
Do you want to leave Brother Lou to Zhu Shoucheng
No, you can't.
But if you don't go, who else can go
Is it Zhu Shoucheng
What if he ran away.
In case he deliberately delays time...
Not daring to waste any more time, Chi Xiaochi swayed to his feet and ran into the distance without saying a word.
He was like a child who had just learned to run, and within five or six steps, he fell to his knees on the jagged gravel road, with blood oozing from his knees and palms.
Chi Xiaochi didn't know the pain, he stood up again without saying a word, and ran away in the hot and dry air, as if to run away from the blood that was gradually spreading, to escape this terrifying nightmare.
From the old security window in the corner of the first floor, there were two curious faces of elementary school students.
They are twins, only six or seven years old.
When the parents left the house, they locked the two sisters in the house.
Chi Xiaochi's shout and the huge movement when he fell from the building attracted their attention.
The door could not go out, so they had to watch from a distance through the window.
They saw the boxes all over the floor, Teacher Zhu who was squatting, and Lou Ying who was lying down, but seeing that they didn't move for a long time, they lost interest and continued to play their tangrams.
Zhu Shoucheng's nostrils were full of blood, most of which were blood from his nose.
He was half-kneeling in front of Lou Ying, wiping the bloody nostrils with the back of his hand, and the gibberish code was overlapping in his mind.
However, soon, he identified a piece of useful information from the garbled code.
Lou Ying on the ground still had a slight breath, his eyes were half-open, he didn't know whether he was awake or in shock.
Zhu Shoucheng looked at Lou Ying like this, and the thoughts in his heart gradually became clear:
- He can't live.
Lou Ying must not live.
Zhu Shoucheng reached out and held a rock the size of an egg, hesitated for a moment, and stuffed it under the back of Lou Ying's head on the rock.
Immediately afterwards, he wiped off the nosebleed on the front of his clothes with trembling, and spit a few mouthfuls of saliva in the palm of his hand, rubbing it evenly, and making sure that his hands were clean, he took out a roll of money from the inner pocket of his clothes. It was simple. After counting it, it was gently stuffed into Lou Ying's trouser pocket.