Qin's mother's shop has two large storefronts, half of one is the counter of the shop, behind it is the toilet kitchen, and the next one is where she and her daughter live. It's pretty spacious. Qin's mother tidied up the house neatly, and an old desktop computer was placed on a small desk.

Qin's mother has two rooms upstairs but they are empty, and the stairs are from the outside, Qin's mother only said that there is a very spacious upstairs downstairs, and there are some useless furniture piled up upstairs, and they haven't gone up much, which is similar to the situation upstairs of the food stall.

Lu Li looked at the computer, it was a virus, and he helped Qin's mother to get the anti-virus software, kill the poison and update the software.

went out to call someone, and found that Qin's mother took the basket of clothes in the toilet and soaked it in a big wooden basin.

Someone wanted to buy something, so Qin's mother went to see the store.

Lu Li took advantage of the time to get on the Internet, all he wanted to do was to enter his mailbox, see a bunch of spam advertising emails and various media questions and interviews, and no one has replied to the countless emails he sent asking for help in the past eight months.

Lu Li searched for his father's name on the browser, and the computer ran a little slowly, but soon a whole screen of news and links reporting Lu Jingyun's imprisonment and all kinds of cynicism came out.

There are also all kinds of news in search of him. Now, my dad is in prison, and everyone wants to find him and see how depressed he is.

Lu Li turned off the computer and felt uncomfortable.

Uncle Guang saw that he had come out of Qin's mother, and he didn't have the heart to play cards.

The barbershop owner played cards, and as soon as Uncle Guang heard that the computer had been repaired, he stopped playing cards and said that he was going to video with his son.

That expectant smile is the expression of a father who loves his son. Lu Li didn't seem to have seen such a smile on Lu Jingyun's face.

Then soon there was a quarrel between aunts and uncles snatching computers in the grocery store.

Lu Li suddenly said to himself: "Do they like each other? Such a quarrel, just Qin's mother said that they have been arguing for seven or eight years?" Lu Li only felt incredible.

Qi Ji didn't know when he stood behind Lu Li and put his hand on his shoulder, with a look in his face: the kid finally saw the eyes, and smiled at Lu Li.

"Just now, Qin's mother and you gossip upstairs, right?" Qi Ji asked.

"Qin's mother said that if you have a little more money, plus you don't have a son, she and her daughter are willing to marry you together. Lu Li removed the hand from his shoulder. Go back to the garage.

"Tsk, I'll just say, all the men, women and children in the town regard me as the lover of their dreams. Qi Ji followed behind him and said shamelessly: "But, tsk, if I have money, I'd better take care of you first." ”

Lu Li didn't look back, but rolled his eyes widely.

However, he did see that there was a separate compartment in the garage, which was probably the car that Qin Ma said Qi Ji was fiddling with.

Tuesday.

Lu Li was woken up early in the morning by the noise outside.

Xuan Xuan had already woken up, and the sound of water sounded in the upstairs bathroom. The roll-up door has been opened.

Lu Li then remembered that Qin's mother said that the entrance was the market on Tuesday.

It didn't take long for Xuanxuan's footsteps to run on it for a while, and then there was a crackling sound of four feet, which should be Xiao Huang.

Qi Ji bought breakfast and came back. Seeing Lu Li's face of not waking up with his hair up, holding a plate in one hand, he deliberately walked to the edge of the sofa and rubbed Lu Li's head with his free hand.

Lu Li promised that if it weren't for the breakfast he was going to eat in his other hand, he would have flipped Qi Ji to the ground.

"I let the breakfast shop make pure pork xiaolongbao, come up to eat some and then sleep, downstairs noisy. Qi Ji rubbed enough, and went upstairs by himself. As usual, it was the sound of Xiao Huang being called out of the room, and it was also the sound of chairs and stools being set up upstairs.

Xuan Xuan seemed to be very excited today, he ate breakfast in a few bites, and then went to the house and took out a piece of paper and stuffed it to Qi Ji: "Dad, this is what we want to buy, don't forget it, roll paper, towels, toothpaste and underwear-"

Xuan Xuan shouted his underwear very loudly, and the xiaolongbao in Lu Li's mouth was about to squirt out.

"Ahem-" Xuan Xuan patted him very seriously and said, "Dad's underwear is gray, mine is white, Uncle Qi Guang is blue, and Grandpa Hong is black." I counted it last week. I think I should also buy 7 pairs of underwear for Uncle Lu, so that I don't have to compete with my father for underwear to wear......! Uh, the white one can be chosen. Dad, buy a white one for Uncle Lu. ”

Xuan Xuan said it like something big.

This also Lu Li thought of the fact that he was wearing other people's underwear, and all of a sudden, he had no appetite.

Qi Ji glanced at the piece of paper casually, said that he knew, and continued to stuff it into his mouth, Lu Li definitely saw that he was crooked and laughing.

Xuan Xuan had already run back to the house, wrote several strokes on the paper, and then took it out and said to his father: "Dad, don't forget, I asked you to buy socks last week, if it weren't for Qin's mother reminding you, you and Uncle Lu would be barefoot this week! Dad remember to buy me fried chestnuts, grandma's pears are also delicious, Uncle Lu hasn't eaten them yet, I wrote them all on it, Dad must buy them, must, must!"

The worried child was busy early in the morning, and the little yellow dog ran after him on the buttocks.

After Xuanxuan told him three times, he finally went to school. Someone downstairs shouted Qi Ji.

- "Boss Qi, the mattress you asked for was delivered to you!"

……

In the afternoon, Xuanxuan trotted all the way home.

Qin's mother was chatting with the barbershop's proprietress with melon seeds, and when she saw Xuan Xuan running away and sweating profusely, she shouted: "Xuanxuan, slow down, your father didn't forget to buy you the fried chestnuts you want to eat, and there are strawberries today, go back and eat them." ”

Xuan Xuan was happy when he heard it, and first went to Qin's mother to kiss his relatives.

"Dad—Wow. As soon as Xuan Xuan entered the garage, he saw Simmons cushions with a double bed against the wall, and he forgot to go upstairs to find something to eat.

"Dad, this is great! You bought it?"

Qi Ji was sitting on the ground, his legs were spread and the tires were screaming, he glanced at his son and said, "This is for your Uncle Lu to sleep." ”

"Ah, Dad, this bed is so soft! it's as soft as Qin's mother's bed. Xuan Xuan poked Simmons, who was still lying horizontally on the wall, with a curious expression.

Qi Ji frowned: "You kid has a long body, sleeping Simmons is not tall, sleep on your wooden bed." ”

"But I want to sleep in this soft bed!" the imp is always curious about new things.

"Then you sleep downstairs alone at night. Qi Ji knocked, lost the wrench in his hand, and grabbed the one with a larger size on the side and continued to work.

Xuan Xuan was already holding Simmons mattress in big characters and shaking his head: "I don't want to sleep downstairs alone, I sleep with Uncle Lu at night, he is soft!"

"What did you say?" Qi Ji thought he had misheard.

So Xuan Xuan repeated: "I slept with Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu is soft and fragrant, and his skin is slippery!"

Xuan Xuan looked at his father's expression as he spoke, and saw Qi Ji glaring at him, so he hurriedly ran upstairs to eat the fried chestnuts that his father bought for him.

Soon the food stall next door was also very busy.

On Tuesday, the food stalls were at their best, with more than a dozen tables of customers sitting inside and out, and it was very lively. The qualifiers are playing on TV again, today is the last round of the national football team, and you can't qualify anyway if you win or not, so there are few guests watching the game, smoking, chatting, drinking and talking about their own children's loud voices, everywhere.

Lu Li has also been working for a week, and the food serving business is quite skilled, but there are many people, and the outside is fine, the kitchen is full of stir-fry smoke, and the smoke of the customers in the store makes him uncomfortable.

There was actually a lot going on during the day today.

The first time he saw the market in Red Sea Town, the twenty or thirty meters long roadside outside was filled with villagers from several surrounding towns. For the first time, Lu Li saw the clothes he bought, and saw socks and underwear for ten yuan a dozen, as well as all kinds of bells and whistles but very cheap daily necessities.

Qi Ji gave him 200 yuan, saying that it was an advance for his salary, and the original words were: "Look at what you need to buy some." Then he looked at the long white sleeves on Lu Li's body, shrugged his nose and said, "It's awkward for you to wear my clothes." After speaking, he took Xuanxuan's list and set up the stall bosses one by one.

Lu Li never thought that one day he would be reduced to the clothes he chose from a few hemp bags to wear on his body. I asked the boss, and the boss said that some of the clothes were picked up by the rich people's homes, and some were not wanted by people in the city, so they went to recycle. Lu Li stood in front of the clothes stall for a long time, but he didn't squeeze into the pile of women squatting there to choose clothes.

"It's cheap to buy here, I don't like to take Xuanxuan to the county seat next week, take you to buy it by the way?" Qi Ji said behind Lu Li.

Lu Li thought about it, and waited for a few aunts to pick out a few floral clothes and leave, and then he mustered up the courage to choose clothes.

"I see that I can take more T-shirts that fit, I can wear them to work, and Qin's mother can change them if the pants don't fit, oh, by the way, I bought the underwear for you, and Xuan Xuan asked you to buy the white one, OK?" Qi Ji's voice was loud. Lu Li felt that everyone in Zhenkou was looking at him.

Lu Li couldn't pick out any clothes, and the last two pants, three tops and two T-shirts all added up to only forty yuan. Qin's mother came late, and she praised Lu Li's eyes very well, but he helped wash some stains on his clothes.

The mattress in the morning was 300 yuan, and Lu Li heard Qi Ji negotiate the price with the boss, but Qi Ji paid the money and didn't mention anything to him.

In the afternoon, Lu Li hung three rows of clothes that Qin's mother had washed for them on the terrace, Qi Ji half-lay on the staircase handle on the terrace, threw him a bottle of Coke, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, I thought that you would have a temper and not wear old clothes, and cut corners in your work, but now it seems that - tsk, approachable, work, it's okay." ”

Lu Li smiled awkwardly. Looking down at the flip-flops, casually rolled up trouser legs and top with holes in the cuffs, I felt that I looked exactly like the townspeople. That's what he wants, isn't it? There's something he can't accept, so he hides.

"I spent eight months imagining what it would be like if I lost a qiē, and now it's so much better than I thought it would be at worst. Lu Li laughed at himself.

"Don't worry, you're still beautiful. Qi Ji was holding a beer in his hand, and he had already finished it in a few sips and went downstairs. "The mattress downstairs is too big for you to sleep on, put it down at night before going to bed. Qi Ji said lightly downstairs: "Tut, I originally wanted to buy a single one, but Lao Zhang got this big one, anyway, the size of the second-hand is the same price, it's cheaper for you." ”

Lu Li felt that Qi Ji was a very good person, just like Qin's mother said.

Qi Ji is very hard. At night, he is busy until the food stalls close, and he is always the last to take a shower and close the door at home.

In the morning, Xuanxuan got up, he also got up, worked in the garage for a day, and if someone in the town had something to help, he went with just a phone call.

Lu Li had only seen Qi Ji dozing off on the broken sofa where he slept at night, Qi Ji was tall, lying on the sofa horizontally, his legs were outside, his head was covered with a Xuanxuan cap, and one hand fell casually outside the sofa.

……

And Qi Ji is really good to him. But he always said it reluctantly.

Knowing that he slept on the sofa, he got a mattress.

Knowing that he is allergic to seafood, there are always meat dishes that are not seafood in his daily dishes.

……

In fact, Qi Ji is very good to everyone.

To be exact, Lu Li felt that the people in this town, at least the people around him, were very good to everyone.

It's more like a paradise.

Compared to the opulent world in which he had lived for 26 years, compared to the world of sordid power-for-money transactions he had seen in the past eight months.

It's really another simple place.

Lu Li felt that he had nothing to complain about and be dissatisfied with.

It's nice if you can go on like this.

That night, Uncle Guang was making two plates of chopped pepper fish heads ordered outside in the kitchen.

Lu Li was a little uncomfortable by the spicy smell of chopped peppers, and he forcibly took out the two pots of vegetables in one pot.

Outside, Qi Ji was leaning in front of the lottery machine, and was coaxed by everyone to play with Mr. Hong, blowing smoke rings.

In the TV, the national football team has fallen behind 0-3, and everyone is scolding and drinking, and it is very lively.

Qi Ji drank wine with the man named Uncle Zhang all night, and Lu Li could hear the man's voice, which was the person who sent the mattress in the morning.

Qi Ji drank a little high, and everyone coaxed him together and refused to admit defeat, obviously even the hand that lit a cigarette for Old Man Hong was a little unstable. Pull the old man to fight with the old man.

Lu Li was standing on the edge of Qi Ji's table, he wanted to go outside to get fresh air, but the tables on the side moved their stools over, waiting to see a good show. Lu Li can't go anywhere.

He heard Uncle Zhang say: "It was said that our old man Hong is the No. 1 smoke ring master in Honghai Town, today let's see if the juniors can defeat our old smoking gun!"

The surrounding villagers were in a hurry.

Soon someone shouted, "Go!"

Lu Li saw Old Man Hong and Qi Ji take a puff of cigarettes, and then the ground was full, and there were smoke rings coming out of their mouths from small to large.

Everyone was shouting rhythmically in unison: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8......"

At this time, the cheers of the audience could also be heard on the TV outside.

It was the national football team that scored a goal.

It's just that few people pay attention to TV, and everyone is counting smoke rings.

――“17，18，19……”

"Hmm-" It was Old Man Hong who spit out the cigarette in his mouth first.

Qi Ji is still continuing: "20, 21, 22, 23......"

Seeing that Qi Ji had won, he spit out the cigarettes in his mouth, and his fingers drew an arc casually, and Lu Li saw that the smoke rings that had not yet broken had turned into a line incredibly, floating in the direction of Qi Ji's fingers.

It's beautiful and magical.

It's just that Qi Ji's last hand stopped in front of him, and Lu Li only felt that there was a haze in front of him.

All of a sudden, he couldn't breathe.

Everyone present was frightened by the next second of the picture.

Here, the old man and Qi Ji are still hooking up and touting each other.

The little brother who was standing in the room before was still doing chores, suddenly squatted down with his chest covered.

Qi Ji heard the noise around him, and helped Lu Li, who was squatting down, up.

Everyone was taken aback. Qi Ji frowned and dragged the person outside. found a chair for Lu Li to sit down, the man blushed, buried his head in his arms, and lay on the table as if he couldn't breathe. I've been holding my breath.

"Hey, don't be scary, what's wrong with it?" Qi Ji went to pat Lu Li's back to help him breathe, but it seemed that the more he patted the person, the more he gasped.

Lu Li couldn't speak, pointed to the front, and covered his chest again, as if he was even more uncomfortable.

I don't know who shouted: "Is this asthma, my daughter next door to her seems to be like this, sometimes she wheezes like this in the middle of the night." ”

"What then?" Qi Ji asked in a loud voice.

"His daughter is not good, usually it will be fine in a while. ”

"I'll take him to the hospital next door, you eat first. "Qi Ji had heard of asthma. He had smoked in front of him before, and this man had gasped once. It's just that he coughed twice.

Qi Ji was a little remorseful, hugged Lu Li with a full hug, and found that this person was much lighter than he imagined.

At this time, Uncle Guang chased after him and shouted: "Qi Ji, I watch those who have asthma on TV, don't you just have medicine to spray in your mouth?

Qi Ji hurriedly asked the person in his arms: "Where is your medicine?"

Lu Li's hand still pointed ahead, it was still too uncomfortable, so he grabbed Qi Ji's vest and pulled it tightly.

Qi Ji suddenly thought of something, carried the person straight to the sofa in the garage, and looked for things everywhere.

didn't see what he wanted, so he shouted to the second floor: "Xuanxuan, do you remember that Uncle Lu brought a bag when he came, do you know where to put it?!"

Before he finished speaking, Qi Ji had already reached the second floor.

"I know!" Xuan Xuan went under the bed and pulled out a bag. Hand it to the anxious father: "Uncle Lu asked me to keep it for him." ”

Xuan Xuan took Xiao Huang to the house again to accompany him to do his homework. Qi Ji was too lazy to call his son to continue to do his homework, and walked downstairs while digging out his bag.

It's a black briefcase, and the bag is full of stacks of Qi Ji I don't know what it is.

Qi Ji shook his head and heard other voices, and opened another bag.

Sure enough, he found a medicine that looked like the nozzle that Uncle Guang said - a small yellow bottle was put on a plastic, Qi Ji stuffed the medicine into Lu Li's hand, and the man took a lot of effort to spray the medicine in his mouth.

It's only a few tens of seconds. Lu Li's breath became stable, and the sweat on his body took a long time to ease.

Qi Ji was also relieved.

He saw Lu Li sit up, and saw the briefcase in Qi Ji's hand, as well as Wen Jiàn and his belongings that had been sprinkled on the sofa, and his face seemed to be splashed with a layer of white paint. Miserable white.

"Well, are you okay?" Qi Ji was also in a hurry just now, and detained the entire bag.

He saw a few big characters in those texts, which seemed to be Lu Jingyun's court verdict. What fell out was also the mobile wallet and Lu Li's bottle of medicine.

"Asthma is offended. Lu Li straightened his face and cleaned up those texts.

The wallet was spilled on the ground, and Qi Ji could see that Lu Li's face was solemn when he saw the spilled thing, and he hurriedly helped him pick it up, but he also saw the photo in the transparent compartment of the opened wallet-

The person in the photo is Lu Li, fatter than now, wearing a clean shirt and trousers, smiling like the most beautiful sunrise on the beach he has ever seen.

In the photo, Lu Li is held in the arms of a man.

Behind them is the sea......