Qingruo gave Xu Nianyang two-thirds of the daily bottle of pure milk, and gave Xu Nianyang all of the weekly bottle of strawberry milk.
As the sun went down, the boy grew a lot taller in the past two months, Qing Ruo finally didn't need to deliberately curl his knees anymore.
The alley seems to have become their regular meeting place, once a day.
It's summer vacation, if the parents are busy with work, the nanny will take care of her for dinner, and it doesn't matter if she sneaks out for a while at noon or after dinner, the family is close, and children always have the right to be mischievous.
Qing Ruo put the milk on his hand, watched his black hands blink and blinked and gently pulled his clothes, "Brother, can I cut your nails~"
As he spoke, he took out the nail scissors he brought out from his small bag, the angled nail scissors, with cartoon patterns printed on them.
Xu Nianyang was leaning against the wall in old and short clothes, and the two of them were so close that he could easily smell her scent like milk and fruit.
He poked open the straw and held the milk in one hand, and stretched out the other hand casually, with a lazy voice, "Yeah."
Qing Ruo looked at him vaguely, and for some reason, she felt that Xu Nianyang had a strange aura since they met the next day.
Once she enters the time and space, she will completely integrate into this time and space. Except for the target person, she has no contact with the headquarters until she leaves this time and space. Therefore, she can only speculate on the relationship with Xu Nianyang from the information she knew before, which may not be accurate.
But now Xu Nianyang has no malice towards her, and even feels relieved, that's enough.
Perhaps because of the first friend, the world is no longer monotonous and dark.
Qing Ruo restrained her mind, and held his terribly thin hand with her fleshy little hand. The nails were pitch black, and the fingertips were full of calluses, many calluses were covered with broken skin.
Qing Ruo tried her best to make herself clumsy like a child without hurting him.
After cutting it, he raised his head nervously and asked him, "Brother, does it hurt?"
Xu Nianyang shook his head lightly, took all the scenes in his sight into the depths of his mind, and opened his mouth to give subtle instructions, "Turn the nail clippers a little more, that's right."
I don't feel that letting a nine-year-old child cut it is not as good as doing it myself.
After Qingruo finished cutting one hand, the long black nails disappeared, and some pink and tender fingertips inside were exposed to the eye. With the overly slender hands, there was a kind of phalanx beauty.
Xu Nianyang drank one-third of the milk, so she held it with the hand she had finished cutting, and fed the straw she had drunk directly into her mouth, and stretched out the other hand for Qing Ruo to cut her nails.
Qing Ruo started to bring milk to him. Except for the strawberry flavored ones, Xu Nianyang drank two-thirds of the pure milk by himself and left one-third for her. Qing Ruo wanted to throw away the straw and drink it directly after taking it for the first time. He found that Xu Nianyang's breath became very depressed, so he stopped and stuffed the straw into his mouth.
He is happy.
Qing Ruo lowered her head while pecking at the milk inside with a straw in her mouth, while cutting his nails. After clipping the nails, there was still a little milk left. Xu Nianyang took back the bottle and drank the last sip of milk by himself, throwing the box away.
The little girl pouted, stuffed the nail clippers back into the small bag, ran over to pick up the box on the ground, and threw it to the garbage dump not far away.
It took a long time to come out today because of cutting his nails. Qingruo returned to him and took out the pocket money saved today from her bag, three yuan, three pieces for one piece.
Passed it to his hand, and told him with a serious face, "Brother, I want to have breakfast tomorrow morning, do you understand?"
Xu Nianyang put the money in his pocket, thinking that she was really stupid, he slapped her head with his fingers, leaning against the wall and asked her lazily, "You and other friends are also like this?"
He said the word "friend" more casually and ironically.
Qingruo shook her head, "No, only brother."
He liked only this word, raised his chin slightly, narrowed his eyes slightly, "Huh? Say the last sentence again."
The little girl smiled sweetly and obediently, and her mouth was full of mellow milk flavor when she spoke in a waxy voice, "Only brother."
Xu Nianyang twitched the corner of his mouth, "Go back."
After Qingruo said goodbye to him, he ran back. Xu Nianyang leaned against the wall and watched her small figure gradually disappear.
Even though she drank the same bottle of milk, why does her mouth smell so delicious
The Xu family is on the fourth floor of an old-fashioned residential building behind the alley. There is no elevator, the corridors are narrow and trembling, and various sundries are piled up at the corners.
The sound insulation of the old-fashioned residential building is not good. Xu Nianyang had only reached the third floor when he heard Xu's mother cursing in the house, "Where did that immortal man die? Don't you know if you come back to wash the dishes? When you come back, beat him to death."
Xu's father reprimanded lightly, "Okay, just come back and let him wash it. Yangyang is doing homework, please keep your voice down."
Xu's mother stopped talking, Xu Nianyang walked slowly to the door, Xu's mother was standing at the door of the small room and asked Xu Chaoyang softly, "Yangyang, can mother wash the fruit for you?"
Before adopting him, the Xu family couple always wanted to have a child. They even thought of a name, Xu Chaoyang, so his name was Xu Nianyang, hoping that the child would come sooner.
As soon as the sound of him pushing the door came out, Xu's mother took a few big strides and raised her hand to hit him, cursing and drooling, "Xiao Yezhong, where did you die again?"
Xu Nianyang took a step back to avoid her hand, without giving her the corner of his eyes, and walked into the kitchen with his head down, his voice was low, "I'm going to wash the dishes."
Xu's mother frowned and wanted to follow up to beat her, but Xu's father stopped her and said the same thing, "Yangyang is doing homework, keep your voice down."
Mother Xu just gave up.
After she lost her job, Xu's mother stayed at home to take care of Xu Chaoyang. She had been derailed from society for a long time. Coupled with the poor conditions at home, she was no longer the kind woman who adopted a child back then. It's a little bit better, and I look forward to my son becoming the richest man in the world in the future.
Xu Chaoyang was spoiled since he was a child, and the nine-year-old child has already shown his bad habits. Xu's mother was reluctant to discipline Xu Chaoyang, and vented all her dissatisfaction on Xu Nianyang. Eighty percent of his injuries were caused by Xu's mother. Twenty percent came from Xu's father, Xu Chaoyang, or the children in the alley.
Xu Zhaoyang likes the wind and the rain at home, but he is a bully outside, because of his personality, he always wants to provoke others, and pushes Xu Nianyang out if he gets into trouble.
At that time, Xu Nianyang was afraid of being beaten by Xu's mother, so he protected Xu Chaoyang every time, not because he felt sorry for Xu Chaoyang's younger brother, but because those children were not as serious as Xu's mother.
Xu Chaoyang has been influenced by his parents since he was a child, and his attitude towards Xu Nianyang is like treating a dog raised by his family.
There was a half-sized bowl on the table, with a small ball of rice in it, and these vegetable leaves beside it, some looked chewed, Xu Nianyang was already too familiar with it, it was what Xu Chaoyang didn't want to eat, it was left for him for dinner.
He directly opened the window and fell from the window.
Xu Nianyang was washing the dishes, Xu's mother came in with three apples, Xu Nianyang stepped aside, the two of them didn't look at each other, Xu's mother was washing the apples, turned down the water, and scolded him in a low voice, "The water boils so What are you doing, are you going to die or eat shit, water doesn’t cost money?”
Xu Nianyang didn't refute or answer, Xu's mother scolded and washed the apples and took them out.
There is always a morbid depression in this family, everyone is like a beast with only desires, not like a rational human being.
Xu's mother's morbidity is manifested in violence and deadly doting on Xu Chaoyang, and Xu's father's morbidity is that on the one hand, he wants to change the current living conditions, but on the other hand, he does not want to work hard to get by.
Xu Chaoyang, that is a spoiled little beast.
The house is not big, Xu Nianyang's previous room was moved out to become Xu Chaoyang's study, there is no extra room, Xu Nianyang can only go to the balcony when Xu Chaoyang is doing homework in the study.
On an August day, at seven or eight o'clock, the wind was very warm but not too hot. Xu Nianyang stood on the small balcony, next to piles of sundries, and in his left pocket was a fruit candy, which was given by Qing Ruo, and he never ate it. The pocket on the right side is one yuan. He keeps her pocket money every day, and he has not counted how much he has saved now.
Xu Nianyang half leaned over, propped his elbows on the balcony, rested his chin on his palms and looked into the distance in a daze. If Qingruo had pointed him out, her family seemed to live in that direction.
There was a quarrel in the room. Don't think about it, Xu Chaoyang didn't do his homework, so he must be playing a video game inside, and was discovered by Xu's mother who went in.
After a while, Xu's mother is coming to beat him.
Yes, Xu's mother came out with a stick specially designed for beating him, and without a word, she slapped him, scolding, "You are going to die and you stand here, won't you teach Yang Yang to do homework? "
Xu Nianyang turned his head and glanced into the room. Xu's father was standing with a game console and was gently teaching Xu Chaoyang, while Xu Chaoyang, who lowered his head, did not seem to admit his mistake at all.
Perhaps, Xu Nianyang also felt that he was to blame.
Xu's mother beat him for a while, and when she was tired, she pulled him by the ear and kicked him into the room, and said to Xu's father, "Don't talk about yangyang, let him do his homework."
He kicked Xu Nianyang to the study room again, "Xiao Yezhong, teach Yangyang to do his homework."
Xu Chaoyang obediently promised that Father Xu would return the game console to him.
The two entered the study one after the other, Xu Chaoyang locked the study door, stepped on Xu Nianyang's bed on one side with his shoes on, took the apple next to him and gnawed a couple of bites, and played the game console with his legs crossed leisurely, He raised his chin towards the table, "No, my homework is over there, let's do it, count the time, and do it before school starts."
Xu Nianyang stared at his feet on the bed, and the depths of his eyes were full of creepy viciousness.
Suddenly hooked the corners of his mouth, walked to the desk and sat down, picked up a pen, learned the notes of the third grader, and started to do homework.
Xu Chaoyang ate half of the apple, and didn't want to eat it, so he put it on the window sill, waiting for Xu Nianyang to finish his homework and call him, he answered impatiently, and after the game ended, he got up and walked over to have a look. Putting the computer back into the schoolbag, I was happily carrying the schoolbag and holding the homework book, ready to go out to check the results for my parents.
Walking to the door and looking back at Xu Nianyang, "There is still half an apple left, you can eat it."
The tone of charity.
Xu Nianyang nodded with a faint smile.
Xu Chaoyang went to the living room, and there were immediately laughter and praises for his cleverness.
Xu Nianyang tilted his head to think about it and couldn't help being sarcastic. Do the Xu family couple really not know how this homework came about? It's just that I just want to deceive myself and others.
Not long after, Xu's mother came over, opened the door and turned off the light, looked at the yellowed apple on the window sill behind him and said, "Why don't you let Yang Yang finish eating the apple?" After closing the door of the room, "then you can eat."
"Boom."
The whole room was plunged into darkness.