"Really?" Lu Chen lowered his head and smiled, covering up the absurd remarks with a less serious tone.
The second uncle used this kind of dirty talk to escape the disaster last time. He was in a hurry and didn't think much about it, but he also understood that it was really confusing.
"No." Gui Xiao loosened his fist and pretended to be okay.
He laughed again: "Don't take it to heart. My dad is confused when he drinks. He beat Haidong last time, I'm afraid he will come in and make trouble."
The two underage children tried their best to pretend to be calm.
He touched the pockets of the school uniform's trousers, which were empty, and paused.
After he went to touch the door latch, he was sure that he would not be kicked open, and then he turned to the table to look for cigarettes. The textbooks and papers were turned over in a mess. So, he grabbed the English paper and threw his hands into the corner.
After about ten minutes, there was no movement outside.
"I'll take a look and lock the door."
He left for ten minutes and didn't come back, Gui Xiao was restless and quietly opened the door. There was really no one in the factory, only cars that had been dismantled or repaired. She bypassed the pools of water stains on the concrete floor and found that Lu Chen was sitting on the ground beside the dark green iron gate.
The cuffs of his school uniform were rolled up, revealing his naked forearm with bruises, resting on his knees. He lowered his head and held his forehead with his palm, blocking all light sources that could disturb him.
Not moving.
The northwesterly wind was much stronger than when it came in the evening. The weather forecast last night was a northwesterly wind of magnitude 6 or 7, as well as a sandstorm.
Gui Xiaoguang stood in the Gaochang factory building and felt that particles hit his face and the bridge of his nose.
After many years, there were few sandstorms in Beijing. She could still remember the time when the sand was blowing on her face, she washed her hair at home, and there was a thin layer of fine sand in the water basin...
"Are you alright?" Gui Xiao squatted down beside him and asked in a low voice, "Are you still feeling unwell? I'll accompany you to the hospital?" She saw the wound on his arm, but she was afraid that he might still have it.
He tilted his head.
"Really uncomfortable?" Gui Xiao was stunned by his gaze.
"How can you accompany me? You don't know how to drive."
"I'll take you there by bike."
As if God were mocking her innocence, the increasingly violent wind suddenly overturned the bicycle, Lu Chen squinted at the little bicycle lying alone in the northwest wind: "That car?"
Gui Xiao was choked: "... No matter how small it is, it's still a car."
But when he asked this question, he really didn't know how to sit up at his height.
Lu Chen lowered his head and smiled.
He got up, patted off the dirt on his body, walked to the corner, carried Gui Xiao's bicycle with one hand, and threw it into the trunk of the only silver car in the courtyard: "Let's go, I'll take you home."
"Oh." Gui Xiao saw that he acted neatly, and guessed that he was thinking too much.
But sitting up, thinking about whether he is an adult? Probably don't have a driver's license yet...
Along the way, the warm air was on, the windows were also open, and the wind kept pouring in from the windows.
Lu Chen was full of worries, but he didn't notice it at all. Gui Xiao was bored without anyone talking with him, and looked everywhere. Only then did I notice that the MOTO flip phone he used was thrown in the storage box. There were very few adults who used mobile phones in those days. There were only one or two styles, so she would recognize it. My uncle also gave this to my aunt on her birthday, and she was taught a lesson in private by her mother: to buy a mobile phone at 15,000 yuan, the money will be burned. It turns out that driving a garage is so profitable
The car passed through the gate and was not stopped.
Lu Chen's car has a motor vehicle pass, which Huang Ting's mother gave him specially so that he can come at any time.
He propped his hand by the car window, turned the steering wheel with one hand with his right hand, and drove into the family area.
"Lu Chen?"
"Um?"
"Are you still repeating?" Gui Xiao asked the words that had been in his heart all night.
Lu Chen looked over: "Do you want me to repeat it?"
Gui Xiao seemed to be seeing through his mind, struggled for a while, but nodded.
"Reported this morning, class tomorrow."
"real?"
He made a sound of "um", braked, raised his chin and pointed to the family building in front of him. Gui Xiao realized that it was too late, and she didn't dare to say anything more. When Lu Chen moved her bicycle down, she watched him go.
The car is pushed into the garage, locked...
No, how does he know where I live
The northwest wind was swirling in the open bicycle shed. It was a vent. Gui Xiao was blown cold, but something hot rose up in his heart, and it was like a high tide that quietly drowned her.
After that night, Lu Chen started class.
Not long after, Gui Xiao, who often went to the office to hand in papers, heard the teachers talk about him. Because he was directly promoted from the junior high school, there is only one class for each grade in the high school, there are few students, and there are more repeat students. The teachers of the junior high school also heard about it very quickly.
"No matter how good the child's grades were when he was in the first year of junior high, he was all brought up."
The teachers of the remaining subjects have been leading students for many years, but they speak for Lu Chen. After all, it is not easy for a father like that to go to school with bruises every three days. It is good to be able to read it. What's more, the entry rate of this junior high school is extremely low. There are more than 400 students in each class, and only 30 people can go to high school. It is very good for him to account for one of them.
"I asked his head teacher, the child did well in several mock exams last year, and after studying hard, he thought he would be able to successfully apply for early enrollment, but he didn't come to the exam."
"Have you been beaten again? That kid rarely wears half-sleeves in summer, and when he rolls up his sleeves in gym class, it hurts."
No wonder... It was so hot last summer and the pool hall was stuffy, and he was wearing a long-sleeved sweatshirt.
However, Gui Xiao was young at that time, just fifteen years old, and he felt distressed and distressed, but he couldn't experience it personally after all.
It's as if he didn't go to the college entrance examination that day, just because he signed up for the military academy without telling his father, he was beaten up a few days before the test, locked up in the depot for two days and three nights, and was secretly released by his mother after the first subject was over. , but still missed it.
Lu Chen wouldn't tell her about these things. Every time he heard it from friends and teachers, it always felt like a film and television drama. It was only later that I realized that that kind of life was real.
After Lu Chen's re-reading, the two could always meet at school.
Gui Xiao always felt that he liked her, but Lu Chen didn't say it, so she could only hold back.
In May, Haidong and Meng Xiaoshan broke up.
It is said that Haidong and Zhao Minshan, the most beautiful girl in Gui Xiao's grade, couldn't figure it out, so Meng Xiaoshan, who was straight-tempered, fell out with him. The two of them have been in school since the beginning. After more than three years of imprisonment, Haidong expected that Meng Xiaoshan would not be so cruel, and begged Gui Xiao to be a lobbyist. Gui Xiao agreed and rode to the small alley entrance on the back wall of his alma mater.
The hutong is narrow, and the walls of the courtyards of the residents on both sides are high, and the sunlight is blocked from entering.
Lu Chen stepped on the mountain bike and stepped on the low brick wall at the edge of the wall.
Gui Xiao was surprised: "Are you here too?" She looked at the big iron gate of Meng Xiaoshan's house, "Aren't you going in?"
Before Lu Chen could answer, Meng Xiaoshan, who was blocked at the door of the house, had already rushed out, Haidong followed behind, and pressed her against the wall: "It's not like you don't know that girl, don't talk about hooking up, and talk nonsense everywhere. She even chased after Lu Chen last year... "
Lu Chen laughed angrily, and the unsqueezed cigarette butt bounced at Haidong's calf: "What did you say?"
Haidong was almost scalded, jumped to dodge, and whispered to Meng Xiaoshan again, defending himself.
While talking, the two kissed.
Gui Xiao didn't react, and was still watching. Meng Xiaoshan smiled and took off Haidong's coat: "The child is watching." Then she covered the faces of the two and continued.
Lu Chen glanced at her with a smile: "Why are you so curious."
Gui Xiao was dumbfounded by the question. She was really curious and wanted to see how... dear.
That night, Gui Xiao was lying on the bed that he had slept on for three years, with his feet on the heater, playing Tetris with his handheld game console, and Lu Chen was full of thoughts in his head as the reward sounded constantly. It is already a very high level level, but it is a distraction, and the squares of various shapes generally fall down and seal the top - GAME OVER.
It took more than eight o'clock to answer a call, it was Huang Ting.
"My grandma has been hanging salt water in the hospital these days. My brother and I are with me. Are you coming? He asked me to call you."
Gui Xiao squeezed into the corner of the sofa, her heart was beating wildly, and she looked down at her hands...
The little finger is threaded, and so is the ring finger, um, the rest is a dustpan, it's amazing, um-
Forget it, let's go.
"In the courtyard?" she asked.
Huang Ting's own feelings are also full of blood, and she is basically not interested in other people's gossip. But he still couldn't hold back the two of them, and hinted: "I said that you hate the hospital the most, so you definitely don't come. My brother said, as long as he told you to come, you must come."
Gui Xiao pretended to be stunned, um, he answered, hung up the phone and went out.
The hospital in the hospital is small, and there are only a few wards in the inpatient department. She found Lu Chen after a few turns. He sat beside the innermost bed and lowered his hair to text. Huang Ting, who was on the phone, has long since disappeared, only Huang Ting's mother is adjusting the speed of the drip...
Gui Xiao probed.
Lu Chen saw her, pushed away the chair and got up: "Second aunt, I'm going home first."
"Go back quickly, I'll let you go." Huang Ting's mother turned her back to the door, not paying attention to the tricks of the two of them.
Lu Chen put his hands in his shorts pockets, went to the door of the ward, and glanced at a small door at the end of the corridor, which was the back door of the first floor of the inpatient department. Gui Xiao followed in his footsteps, and the two stepped out of the small door one after the other.
The hospital in the hospital is to check for fever and cold, and to deal with the emergency, so it doesn't feel like a big hospital. It's small and clean. Stepping out, she feels like walking into a small secluded yard.
Creeper climbed the brick wall, swaying its tail in the night wind.
All sounds are silent.
He took out a cigarette. He has been here these past few nights, and he can walk up to ten minutes from the family building where she lives to the window where she lives. Occasionally, he can see her half-open window when he walks there.
The firework was beside him, flickering and flickering.
Lu Chen looked at her seriously, as if he was organizing a long sentence, but it was far simpler than she thought: "Do you like me?" He asked in a low voice.
"Did you ask that?" She whispered back.
Gui Xiao was really blushing. She felt the blushing feeling for the first time, from the cheekbones to the ears were hot. hot.
Lu Chen smiled, turned his back and continued to walk forward.
Gui Xiao stood there for a while, stunned: Is this done
Suddenly, his left hand was behind his back, his palm was up, and his fingers were tucked together, meaning: give him your hand.
…
How the two got started later, the details are vague. But she still remembered that his hands were rougher than her own, and the body temperature was higher. The moment the two met, she had the illusion of being burned by a cigarette butt, and it was only when she was firmly held that she felt the truth.
***
The temperature in the car was rising, and she was hot and cold again.
The wipers mechanically swept away the snow, and the windshield became more mushy because of the ice.
Gui Xiao took a car wiping cloth and wanted to wipe it.
Putting his hand on the car door, his sight fell ten meters away to a small restaurant in the cold and snowy night. Under the store sign surrounded by a string of small light bulbs, Lu Yanchen opened the door and left without wearing a coat. When he came out, his shirt was rolled up by the wind, revealing a small waist.
Through a car window glass, she seemed to hear the sound of the soles of his boots stepping on the snow.
He stood still outside the car door, staring straight at her with dark eyes.
Gui Xiao opened the car window, and a gust of wind rushed in, blocking her breath: "Is there anything else? Captain Lu?"
"Do me a favor," he put his arm on the car window, but called by another name, "Xiao Cai."
"Ah?" Xiao Cai was completely out of condition, "Lu team, you say, you say."
"I'm really doing you a favor," Lu Yanchen didn't seem to be joking, "I want to take that child to study in Beijing, can you help me get a better school?"
"Go to Beijing and take that child?" Xiao Caicheng read the machine again, "This, this, Gui Xiao has a way."
Lu Yanchen's dark eyes finally looked at her who was close at hand: "Gui Xiao?"
It was so cold that it made my nose sore even when I breathed.
Gui Xiao looked at the translucent scene on the front windshield of the car, turned on the wipers again, and tried to de-icing: "Captain Lu's home has always been in good conditions. In fact, this kind of thing can be solved by spending money, so you don't need to come to us for help. ."
Lu Yanchen seemed to have listened to a joke, and answered unhappily: "I used to be a soldier, how much money can I have."