Unexpectedly, after the two cannon barrels exchanged fire, the result was a negative and a positive. Two minutes later, Liu Xingchen squatted next to the air-conditioning box of Ai Mengmeng's house to remove the screws.

"Are there pliers?"

"Yes." Ai Mengmeng found a thin pair of small pliers in a rusty toolbox and handed it over: "Ahh ”

Liu Xingchen took it and looked at it in the palm of his hand: "This is your family's pliers, such a small one, it is better to twist it by hand." He put the pliers aside, rolled up the sleeve tube, put his hand in, and screwed it for a long time with little effect: "The screws are rusty, and this air conditioner has been around for some years." ”

"Hmm. They bought it when they first got married, and in those days, they had to ask someone to buy the air conditioner. ”

Liu Xingchen removed the cover of the chassis and saw an amazing scene: "Oh my God, the exhaust fans are all dead, how can it not be broken." It seems that I haven't opened and cleaned it since I bought it. Are there any rags? ”

Ai Mengmeng went to the kitchen and got a rag.

Liu Xingchen asked, "Isn't that used to wipe the dinner table?" ”

"Hmm."

"Forget it, get some toilet paper."

"Hmm."

After cleaning the exhaust fan and then plugging in the power supply, it turned up, the quality of the old electrical appliances is good, all the parts are solid, and it can only be that the user is too lazy to say that it is broken. The heating effect of the air conditioner is quite good, and it doesn't take long for the temperature in the house to reach more than 20 degrees. Liu Xingchen washed his hands, put on a cotton coat, and said to Ai Mengmeng: "Let it be on, don't forget to turn it off before going out tomorrow, and go to bed early." ”

Ai Mengmeng guiltily "hmm" in her throat and sent him out the door.

At the door, Liu Xingchen turned around and said with a smile, "Give me a hug." ”

"Huh?" Ai Mengmeng looked at him unhappily with her mouth open, as if to say in her eyes: It turns out that you are doing all this for a purpose!

Liu Xingchen sighed and said, "Look at your stingy appearance, good night!" ”

Closing the door, Ai Mengmeng was still muttering: "It's not that anyone is stingy, if you do such a little thing, you will have to repay it immediately, isn't it just to clean up the fan, I will also get it!" She found that it was already hot to wear cotton clothes at home, so she took off the cotton clothes and threw them on the sofa, she felt so comfortable wearing only a pair of pajamas, she pillowed the armrest of the sofa and covered the cotton clothes, and soon fell asleep.

She dreamed of a distant and hazy scene, she was only three or four years old, her parents were very young, they were busy in the kitchen for lunch, her grandmother helped her tie a good floating fishbone braid in the house, after tying it, she ran to the kitchen to peek with her big thief eyes, her father was holding her mother behind her, her slightly stubble chin was in her mother's shoulder socket, her mother was smiling and stirring around in the pot with a spatula, she didn't know what her parents were doing at that time. But later, for some reason, my grandmother cried at the dinner table, and the ankles that my father and mother were secretly hooking under the dinner table immediately separated. To this day, Ai Mengmeng still can't interpret this bizarre dream, the morning light shines into her pupils through her eyelids, the sweet and sour dream is getting farther and farther away from the level of consciousness, she opens her eyes, it's already bright, touch the alarm clock to see, it's almost eight o'clock!

She quickly arched up, went to the refrigerator and took out a piece of toast bread, put it in her mouth and ran outside, just walked to the corner of the building and hurried back, remembering what Liu Xingchen said when he left last night, "Don't forget to turn it off when you go out tomorrow."

"Alas, it's so troublesome, I wouldn't have repaired it if I knew it!" She first ran into the kitchen and drank a sip of cold water, then pressed down the air control device, and ran out of the door quickly, running under the bus stop in one breath, panting heavily, and a bus just whistling on the road more than ten meters away.

When the next bus arrived, she walked up slowly, and she didn't rush to be late anyway. The class schedule has long been familiar with it, and today's first class is a cauliflower head class, as long as it is not a class of pig intestines, it is easy to say.

Less than ten minutes after the math class, I heard someone outside shouting "report", this is Ai Mengmeng's voice Everyone can hear it, Liu Xingchen looked at Wu Jiao, Wu Jiao looked at Liu Xingchen, and then they all looked at the cauliflower. Wu Jiao thought about it all morning, and thought that Ai Mengmeng was absent from class because of something happened yesterday, while Liu Xingchen thought that Ai Mengmeng's stomach hurt so much that she couldn't get up, and she was also uncertain one morning. How can the cauliflower head pretend not to hear. Ai Mengmeng shouted "report" again, and the classroom door was still silently closed. Cauliflower must have seen Ai Mengmeng on the door and window, even if he couldn't see it, he knew who the empty seat next to Wu Jiao was, although everyone didn't want to listen to the class, Cauliflower Head was very engaged, and he didn't hear Ai Mengmeng shouting the report in the second half of the math class, after class, Wu Jiao ran out of the classroom to see, Ai Mengmeng was gone.

Wu Jiao stood in the empty corridor staring at the two cigarette butts and was stunned for a while, she imagined Ai Mengmeng holding a cigarette, inhaling deeply, stepping on the cigarette butt under her feet, and throwing a disdainful glance at the cauliflower head, the meaning of that look should be: You don't let me in, I'm too lazy to go to class, go home and continue to sleep!

Liu Xingchen walked over and asked, "Where is Ai Mengmeng?" ”

Wu Jiao popped out of the space of reverie at this time, and said with a hint of reverie: "She seems to have gone home......"

Liu Xingchen squatted down and picked up a cigarette butt to see that it was a women's cigarette of the Jiaozi brand, which Ai Mengmeng left here, according to which he felt that Ai Mengmeng might have bumped into the pig's large intestine. It's a pity that Ai Mengmeng is now a thousand times worse than they imagined. Just when she decided to use a small half box of cigarettes to endure the boring math class, one was accidentally caught by Director Lin who came down to inspect, and she was pulled by Director Lin to the teaching office on the seventh floor before she even had time to put away the cigarette butt, and has been scolded for more than half an hour. All the directors of the teaching department are the best scolding directors, and Director Lin is never ambiguous when he scolds girls, especially girls like Ai Mengmeng, who have been taught repeatedly, with his fiery temper, he will never leave his mouth down. Ai Mengmeng has rarely been scolded and cried since she was a child, and her skin is so thick that even boys can't compare, today is the first time since she remembers.

Director Lin used to break through her psychological defense mainly these two items: first, find your parents, otherwise I will expel you. Second, isolate you from everyone, you don't deserve to be at the same table anymore.

Soon, Teacher Chang knew about it, and in order to support Director Lin's work, he came to the classroom after the second math class and asked Wu Jiao to pack Ai Mengmeng's schoolbag. Then everyone knew that Ai Mengmeng might be expelled, and the whole class had their own ideas, maybe Song Linlin was the most proud at this time.

Wu Jiao packed up Ai Mengmeng's schoolbag and handed it to Teacher Chang in extreme self-blame. Alas, she should have been advised to quit smoking.

Liu Xingchen's mind flashed his father's words in an instant, "Expulsion, I don't count if I say it, that's the principal's business" reads;. I really didn't expect that there would be a mistake in this small link, Liu Xingchen hated himself a little in his heart, it would have been good to help her fix the bicycle earlier, why did he have to wait until he became her boyfriend to be willing, he originally wanted to help her repair the tire after school tonight, but he didn't expect it to be so far behind.

In the teaching office, Director Lin shook off the bottom of Ai Mengmeng's schoolbag cleanly, except for a brand-new language book, the rest are daily necessities, fortunately, there is also a language book, or the teacher's face will be swept to Director Lin's office.

Ai Mengmeng saw her beloved makeup mirror broken in half on the ground, it was a birthday gift given to her by Wu Jiao on her birthday last year, pink heart-shaped, although it was the same kawaii as the cotton clothes her mother bought, she felt like holding Wu Jiao's heart tightly in her hand every time she used it. She knows that Wu Jiao's family background is very ordinary, in addition to the school uniform, the clothes on her body are almost all worn by her sister who has gone to college, Ai Mengmeng knows how frugal she usually is to herself, but just like the face of a birthday and dinner, Wu Jiao has never been stingy, so she knows that Wu Jiao will have a future in the future, she really wants to accompany Wu Jiao to finish high school and go to college with her, if it weren't for that, she couldn't imagine what her future picture would be.

Director Lin asked to see her parents immediately, and Teacher Chang knew a little about her parents' divorce, but the specific situation was not very clear, and since the matter had been so strict that Cheng Dù was about to be expelled, Teacher Chang had no reason to tolerate her.

Ai Mengmeng stretched her damp eyelashes: "I'll give you their phone number, as for whether they come or not, I don't know." ”

Director Lin's thunderous roar thundered overhead: "Call yourself!" I won't get used to such confused parents! I sue you! If one of your parents doesn't come, you're expelled! Fight now! The phone is over there! ”

Ai Mengmeng half-lowered her head, calmly picked up the telephone receiver, and dialed a few numbers.

I remember when I was in elementary school, once, Ai Mengmeng and a boy got into a fight because of copying homework, and then moved and beat the boy's face swollen. The head teacher called her parents, and she also asked her to call her parents by herself like today, she called her father's unit, and it was a colleague from the unit who picked up, saying that her father had already been fired from the unit, and Ai Mengmeng was only ten years old at the time, and she had the impression that her father was an honest person who abided by the law, but somehow she suddenly found no such person. Then she called her mother's unit again, and a colleague from her mother's unit said that her mother followed the leader on a business trip to the field, and came back after a few days, and after ten days, the head teacher asked her to call her mother's unit again, and the colleague in the unit said that her mother was on a business trip with the leader again, and she had to wait a few days, and then the matter was over.

At that time, Ai Mengmengte admired the two colleagues in her parents' unit, and felt that they were good at making up nonsense, until she graduated from elementary school, she indirectly learned from her uncles and aunts that her father was fired from the unit because of his improper style was true, and her mother and the leaders of the unit fooled around together all day long, which was in response to the most fashionable sentence in those years, "Men become bad when they are rich, and women become rich when they become bad."

Now that they all have mobile phones, they no longer have to worry about finding no such person in the unit, with the long beep sound coming from the phone line, Ai Mengmeng's originally calm mood has become more and more volatile. A few times later, a very unfamiliar voice came from the phone, Ai Mengmeng was stunned for a moment, and quickly looked at the call display on the landline to determine if it was a mistake, but when she realized that there was no mistake, the voice had asked several times: "Who?" Hey, hey? Who is it? ”

Ai Mengmeng said in a deep voice: "It's me." ”

Dad asked impatiently, "Who are you?" ”

Ai Mengmeng said lonely: "Mengmeng." ”

Dad's voice immediately softened: "...... Oh, it's cute, how are you, are you okay? ”

"I ...... Pretty good. ”

"Oh reads;. Is there something wrong? ”

"It's fine."

"Oh."

"Where are you?"

"I'm ...... Don't have any money again, right? I'll see you in a few days. ”

"Money, and some."

"Oh. It doesn't matter, Dad has already found a job and earns a lot, you need money if you are short of money, and your mother won't give it, so you will ask me for ......"

"Dad."

"Huh?"

"Dad, I'm in high school."

"Hehe, they're all high school students. How's it going? ”

“…… Pretty good. Ai Mengmeng gagged her mouth with her hand, and tears flowed onto the back of her hand.

"That's good, don't be afraid to spend money, Dad has money, Dad will go back to see you in two days."

"Hmm......"

"Study hard, don't mix with those bad kids, and communicate more with kids who study well, it's also good for you."

"Hmm......"

Because I haven't been in touch for too long, and there is no topic between father and daughter, my father just said a few words over and over again: "If you lack money, just say, well, Dad can afford you to go to college, oh, study hard."

Ai Mengmeng rubbed her eyes, at this moment tears had drowned her thin and pale cheeks, but she didn't let the choking sound reach the microphone at all, she took a deep breath, and said one last word into the microphone: "Then that's it, let's put it first." ”

Dad said, "Oh, yes, yes, Dad will be back in two days, oh." ”

"Got it."

After hanging up the phone, Ai Mengmeng squatted in front of the coffee table and sobbed. Director Lin and Teacher Chang looked at each other with stunned expressions. I don't know how long it took, a thick hand was on Ai Mengmeng's shoulder, and Director Lin's magnetic voice sounded above her head: "Your mother can come." ”

Ai Mengmeng shook her head: "It's useless for my mother to come, she smokes more fiercely than me." ”

"But I have to talk to your parents."

Ai Mengmeng said: "I will never smoke again, is it okay?" ”

Director Lin also squatted down, put his hand in his elbow socket, and stared at her sternly: "Then I'll give you one last chance, if I see you smoking again, I won't look for your parents, you just take your schoolbag and leave." ”

Ai Mengmeng said with a little anger: "If I don't smoke, I won't smoke!" ”

Director Lin stared at her motionless with those prosthetic eyes, and suddenly snorted self-deprecatingly, and stood up: "Teacher Chang, take your students back, you can adjust the seats at will." ”

Teacher Chang understood what Director Lin meant, that is, let Ai Mengmeng be alone, as a final warning and reminder. Back in the class, Teacher Chang immediately transferred seats to Ai Mengmeng and Wu Jiao, and the result was to transfer Wu Jiao to Liu Xingchen's side, so that Ai Mengmeng did not move, and everyone didn't know how she used to persuade Director Lin. However, since then, Ai Mengmeng has become a complete loner