The follow-up work of the fraud case is too much. Lin Dongxue is exhausted every day when he comes home, and often doesn't even want to eat.
On this day, after finishing a day of work and returning to the residence, when I went up the stairs, I saw the landlord’s aunt sitting on the steps panting, holding a shopping bag in her hand and her other hand on her chest.
The landlord lives in Lin Dongxue's downstairs. The rent is paid through WeChat every quarter. He rarely talks, and only greets when he meets by chance.
Lin Dongxue asked, "Mother, are you feeling well?"
"It's okay, I was a little tight when I went upstairs, just sit down and rest for a while."
"I'll help you carry it!"
"Thank you then."
Lin Dongxue helped her carry food and went all the way to the house of the landlord's aunt. The room was deserted and deserted. It seemed that she was the only one living in, and the photo of her wife was hung on the wall.
The landlord’s aunt sat down at the table and asked Lin Dongxue to make a bowl of brown sugar water. After drinking, her complexion improved.
"Auntie, do you have no children?" Lin Dongxue asked.
"There is a son."
"Why have I never seen him before? He works in a field?"
"I'm not afraid of you jokes. He was in jail. When he was young, he didn't do his job properly. He fooled around with a bunch of friends and friends all day. Persuaded him to surrender. Later, the court sentenced manslaughter and sentenced it to 20 years. This year is already the seventeenth year. The Chinese New Year is about to come. I will make some dumplings and send him."
When the aunt said this, she didn't show too much sadness, probably because she had already accepted the reality in her heart.
Lin Dongxue didn't know what to say, so the aunt asked her: "You have lived upstairs for almost a year, and you still don't know what you do?"
"I... I do sales." Lin Dongxue lied.
"Oh, or if you stay for dinner, thank you today."
"No! I still have business at home."
Zhixin Middle School, the same evening.
Most of the students in the school have gone home, and only one classroom is still lit. Several students who participated in the "Multi-fish Cup New Concept Composition Competition" have completed the examination papers and are checking for typos.
The invigilator looked at his watch and said: "Time is up, rewinding, everyone has worked hard, go home early."
Tao Yueyue put her schoolbag on her back and left the classroom. There was a sound of footsteps behind her, and a voice was yelling: "Tao Yueyue, wait for me."
Tao Yueyue turned her head and saw a girl with double ponytails and blushing face trotting over. She recognized her classmate Wei Zengmai. Wei Zengmai was the representative of the Chinese class. She had never talked with Tao Yueyue once.
Taking the initiative to speak up, Wei Zengmai looked a little nervous, but pretended to smile relaxedly: "Are you here to participate in the composition competition?"
"The teacher asked me to participate in more activities." Tao Yueyue replied lightly.
"I don't see that you still have such attributes, I thought you were always cold!"
"Cold?"
"Yeah, yeah, we all think you are colder, unlike your peers... Sorry, did I offend you? Oh, can you accompany me to the toilet? There is no one in the school building. I am a little scared."
Tao Yueyue looked at the empty school gate. Chen Shi didn't come to pick her up again today. He gave her a bus pass and said with earnestness that she should learn to be independent. In fact, that was just an excuse for adults to be lazy.
Tao Yueyue said: "Let's go!"
Walking into the classroom with no one, Wei Zengmai nervously grabbed Tao Yueyue's clothes. Tao Yueyue teased her: "What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of ghosts?"
"Hey!" Wei Zengmai shivered with fright, "Don't talk nonsense!"
"I heard people say that in the past there seemed to be a student who committed suicide here..."
"I don't listen! I don't listen!"
Tao Yueyue gave a vicious smile when she saw Wei Zengmali's body trembled with fright.
After going to the toilet nervously, the two of them walked out. Wei Zengmai said in a low voice, "I found that you are actually quite easy to get along with. You can call my nickname... Although I don’t like this nickname very much, but if you are a friend, It's ok."
"Miso?"
"Hey!" Wei Zengmali agreed, "Do you believe there are ghosts in the world?"
"Do not believe!"
"Then what is the most terrible thing you have ever encountered in your life? Let me say first, once my dad took me to a meal, I actually ate the one in braised pork..."
"Dead finger?"
"Don't talk nonsense!" Wei Zengmai raised her small fist and hit her, "It's a pig hair, it's a long one, wow, it's super scary... What about you, the most terrifying thing you have ever encountered in your life is what?"
"I saw with my own eyes that my mother was killed by a single man!"
Maybe she realized that the girl was an idiot, Tao Yueyue gradually relaxed her guard and talked about her own experience.
Her calm tone added a bit of weirdness to what she was saying, Wei Zengmai's face was earthy in fright, and she asked timidly, "Really?"
Tao Yueyue pretended to have a relaxed expression and blinked and said, "I lied to you!"
"Haha, so are you, how can you say that to your mother."
"But she is indeed gone."
"Really, it's so pitiful, it's your father who picks you up?"
"It's uncle."
"So you are an orphan?"
"Yeah... You are not allowed to pity me."
"No, no, in fact, it's okay to have parents. My parents are super annoying. It doesn't matter if you change them." Wei Zengmai botched comfortingly, although her words are not very pleasant, but her kindness is Taoist. Yueyue still got her heart.
There was a cat cry, Wei Zengmai stopped and searched around, and saw a small little milk cat emerge from the classroom, calling for them.
"It's so cute!" Wei Zengmai was adorable all of a sudden, and knelt down to touch his unfading lanugo.
Tao Yueyue also squatted down, looked at the kitten, and said, "Is it hungry?"
"I have leftover salted duck eggs in my schoolbag at noon." Wei Zengmai took off the schoolbag and searched for it, found a salted duck egg in a sealed package, bit it open with his teeth, and peeled it to the kitten.
The kitten seemed hungry and greedily ate the duck egg yolk. Wei Zengmai said, "It's really picky. Like Voldemort, I don't eat egg whites."
The kitten barked louder after eating. Wei Zengmai said, "Is it not full? Kitten, kitten, you finish eating the duck eggs!" Then, she picked up the protein and fed it, and the kitten desperately Dodge.
"Maybe you don't like it, I have a ham sausage here." Tao Yueyue said.
Take out the ham sausage from the schoolbag and feed it to the kitten. It ate very happily, but after only one-third of it, he refused to eat it, and began to cry again.
The kitten staggered away, and there was a pool of dirty water on the ground from mopping. It leaned in and licked it with its tongue and drank.
"Wow, how can you drink dirty water! What a shame!" Wei Zengmai picked it up and put it aside. The kitten got up in the dirty water again, and she hugged it away again, "I really don't know what you are thinking. "
"Is it thirsty?" Tao Yueyue guessed.