Shen Fei watched Zhou Jiyou call from the sidelines, she called the other party's name directly, and couldn't tell whether it was a relative or a friend, so she could only guess that she was in a good mood through her stretched eyebrows.

The person who took the initiative and was the first to contact must be a very important person to her.

It had been a long time since the sun had woken up, and her golden eyelashes had fallen on the eaves of the town's high walls, and her nostrils were full of heat.

On the glass counter, the electric fan mechanically turned her neck, and when it blew to Zhou Jiyou, the wind lifted the broken hair on her forehead and danced lightly.

She said into the microphone, "How do you know it's me?" ”

At the other end, Shen Ke smiled loosely: "There is a spirit in the heart." ”

Zhou Jiyou didn't praise at all: "I don't listen to this." ”

Shen Ke said: "Little ghost, you can't be cute." ”

Zhou Jiyou snorted lightly: "Why." ”

Shen Ke sighed and admitted: "Who knows your number when I am here?" The landline phone is preceded by an area code, which I recognize. ”

Zhou Jiyou felt rare and joked: "You Bai Xiaosheng." ”

Somehow, Shen Ke suddenly stopped talking.

Zhou Jiyou frowned: "If you don't squeak anymore, I'll hang up." ”

"Xiaoyou......" Shen Ke's voice deepened, "I'm sorry." ”

Zhou Jiyou knew why he apologized, but Old Man Shen insisted on bringing her to Ciling Town, but he couldn't dissuade her. It's no wonder he's going to blame.

She pursed her lips, turned the page, and whispered, "Five days to go." ”

"Well, there are five days left." Shen Ke paused and said, "In five days, I'll pick you up." ”

Zhou Jiyou grasped the point: "You want to come?" ”

Shen Ke chuckled: "What, don't you want to see me?" ”

Zhou Jiyou ignored his deliberate quip and said, "The mountain road is not easy to walk, are you sure you want to come?" ”

Shen Ke laughed angrily: "Little ghost, you look down on me." ”

The corners of her lips curled imperceptibly: "Okay, I'll wait for you to pick me up." ”

Shen Ke also raised the corners of his mouth over there, and after a second, he asked, "Do you have anything else to say?" ”

Zhou Jiyou thought about it, his eyes swept to Shen Fei at right angles on the counter, took the microphone down a little, looked at him and asked, "Do you want to know if your sister is in me...... What is going on in my home? ”

Shen Fei's eyes were like a silent light bulb, rubbing the ground and brightening, and then, he blinked slightly.

He didn't need to say anything, Zhou Jiyou had already comprehended in an instant, raised the microphone and asked Shen Ke: "How is that girl?" ”

Shen Ke understood who she was referring to, and said with a sneer: "Sweet mouth, everyone knows how to please everyone, especially the old man." ”

Zhou Jiyou's pupils shrank, his casual expression slowly converged, and he glanced at Shen Fei, faintly: "Yes." ”

Shen Ke said: "Xiaoyou, she is a good example for you to learn, she should be like her when dealing with the old man, obedient, afraid of him, flattering him, and taking him as the head of everything as a matter of course." Even if you pretend to be one. ”

Zhou Jiyou scoffed: "She is her, I am me, why should I learn from her." ”

Shen Ke sighed lightly and advised: "Xiaoyou, if you can soften your temper, you will live better than now." ”

"I'm not having a bad time right now." She was irritable, "Long distance, save me some phone bills, I'll hang up." ”

Stubborn temper. Shen Ke was helpless, coaxing the child's tone: "Okay, you hang up, wait for me to pick you up." ”

Zhou Jiyou didn't say goodbye, and put the microphone back. Raising his eyes, he looked at Shen Fei with a hint of expectation.

She replied to him with three words: "She's fine." ”

Shen Fei's nerves relaxed, his mouth opened slightly, and he wanted to ask anything but didn't ask.

The proprietress calculated the length of the call and quoted the cost, but Zhou Jiyou remained motionless, as if she didn't hear it.

She looked at Shen Fei, and her mind was full of what Shen Ke had just said - she had a sweet mouth, and she knew how to please everyone, especially the old man. She is a great example for you to follow.

With a sneer in her heart, she pulled the corners of her mouth and said, "Why isn't your mouth sweet?" ”

There was a coldness in his eyes and tone.

Shen Fei felt the five yuan in his pocket and was about to take it out and hand it to the proprietress when he heard the words, and his movements stopped.

Zhou Jiyou himself felt that this question was inexplicable, his eyes moved from his face, pulled the zipper of his shoulder bag, took out a short wallet made of pure fabric, and opened it.

The wallet is like opening a big mouth, spitting out all the banknotes hidden in it for people to see.

Shen Fei's fingers clenched, and the five-yuan bill crumpled in the pocket of his gray pants.

Zhou Jiyou found the smallest denomination of twenty yuan and handed it to the proprietress .

The proprietress sat in the counter, her gaze was lower, and when she saw that the little girl was rich, she pretended to stand up and wanted to take a look inside, Zhou Jiyou pinched the two ends of the wallet and retracted her strength, her eyes projected from under her eyes, and the proprietress didn't see anything and didn't say anything, but she felt a cold throat.

She took the money, smiled and solicited business, saying, "Would you like a drink or a snack or something?" Check it out? ”

The words were a bit long, and Zhou Jiyou didn't want to waste energy to listen to it by himself, so he glanced at Shen Fei.

Shen Fei lowered his eyes, not knowing whether he was in a daze or looking at something, and still maintained the posture of holding his trouser pocket with one hand.

Zhou Jiyou didn't count on him, looked at the proprietress and said bluntly: "You just have to find money for me, I don't understand what you say." ”

The proprietress was stunned, a person in her forties, who had met such a child for the first time, and she was not without the heart to take care of the business, opened the wooden drawer on the edge of the table and gave her change.

"Wait."

The proprietress turned her head in confusion.

Zhou Jiyou took two bottles of mineral water from the freezer, "Count this as well." ”

Walking out of the store, Zhou Jiyou stretched out his left hand and handed Shen Fei a bottle of water, Shen Fei looked at her silently and didn't answer.

Seeing that his right hand was still in his trouser pocket in a strange posture, she raised her eyebrows slightly, held the mouth of the bottle, and poked the bottom of the cold and wet mineral water bottle on his arm, forcing it to be strong: "Do you want to?" ”

Shen Fei reflexively shrank his arm, and when he looked at her again, there was a trace of confusion and confusion in his clear black eyes: "You didn't plan to let me pay for it at all, did you?" ”

Zhou Jiyou was in a bad mood and annoyed him, so the bottom of the bottle stretched forward again and leaned against his arm again.

She was expressionless: "Do you want it or not?" ”

Shen Fei didn't hide this time, the cold qi released from the bottom of the bottle soaked his skin little by little, freezing the pores of his entire arm and trembling.

He looked at her silently, hesitated for two seconds, and then asked, "Why were you angry before?" ”

A thick stack of red banknotes in the wallet, but for a mere five dollars, why?

Zhou Jiyou was so annoyed that two annoying questions suddenly popped up, and the mineral water bottle that poked his arm fell to the ground.

"Sick." She gave him a cold look, unscrewed the remaining bottle of water, and poured it into her mouth as she walked.

Water droplets condensed on the surface of the bottle rolled on the cement pavement and were covered with a layer of plaster. Shen Fei picked it up and chased after her with the mouth of the bottle.

A few mouthfuls of ice water rolled down his burning throat, chilling his heart. He was side by side with her, Zhou Jiyou's eyes were slanted, and his eyes glanced at him indifferently.

No one spoke, as if in some kind of silent stalemate.

As the sun continued to rise, the weather became hotter and hotter, and the backs of both of them were soaked with sweat.

After walking for a long time, Zhou Jiyou actually didn't have much body to wander around, she turned her head, broke the silence between the two, and asked, "Is there a quiet and unmanned place where I can sit for a while?" ”

Shen Fei was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "You come with me." ”

All the way forward, the two stopped in front of the big iron gate of Ciling Middle School.

Zhou Jiyou said: "This is what you think is a quiet place where there is no one? ”

Shen Fei's short hard black hair was full of sweat, shiny and shiny. He said "um" and walked towards the gatehouse on the east side of the iron gate. The back is straight, like a hot* tree.

The students were still on summer vacation, and looking through the closed iron gate, Ciling Middle School was indeed quiet and quiet, and there was no one in sight.

The old janitor made a pot of strong tea, sat in the porter and listened to the crosstalk on a small black radio.

Shen Fei knew him, and through the open window, he called Grandpa Zhang.

Lao Zhangtou felt surprised: "It's Shen Fei." It's not school yet, why are you here? ”

Shen Fei said, "I'll come to the school to have a look. ”

Lao Zhangtou saw a beautiful little girl suddenly appear outside the window, although her hair and face were wet, but her facial features were really good-looking.

Shen Fei followed his surprised gaze and turned his head to look behind him, and said to Lao Zhangtou lightly, "We are together." ”

After getting Lao Zhangtou's consent, Shen Fei walked in front and led Zhou Jiyou through the north and south doors of the gatehouse and entered the school.

Ciling Middle School is not large, with a total of two teaching buildings, one for the junior high school and one for the high school.

The playground is at the back of the teaching building, there is no artificial turf and plastic track, just a large area of wasteland. For more than a month, no one cared about it, and the weeds grew wildly. The low red brick wall is surrounded on three sides, and outside the wall is a dirt path and a village courtyard.

The two sat under the shady wall to the east, where there was a long red stone bench with cherry blossoms.

Zhou Jiyou stretched his legs, his left foot on his right foot, his hands behind his back, and looked up at the sky. Pale blue, vast.

Shen Fei put his knees together, pressed his palms on the edge of the stool on both sides of his thighs, and lowered his eyes to the ground. Gray-green, overgrown with weeds.

After a while, Zhou Jiyou said, "Eh." ”

Shen Fei turned his head to look at her, his gaze silent and silent.

"Aren't you from this school, what's interesting about your school, let's hear about it."

Shen Fei's eyes paused for a second: "No." ”

"Just say anything."

"Not really."

“……”

Zhou Jiyou opened his eyes and stopped looking at him.

The view of the surrounding flat land is full of dense weeds, untended and uneven.

Shen Fei exhaled an invisible cloud of heat, was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "When the school starts in September, all the students in the school will go to the playground to pull weeds. Bad luck came across a dead mouse and a dead sparrow. If you're lucky, you'll be able to pick purslane and psyllium. ”

The voice is calm and quiet, low, and it is still the dull Mandarin that does not distinguish between ln and nasal before and after, which sounds extremely awkward.

Zhou Jiyou reacted sharply and snorted: "Okay, I believe you." She turned her head to look at him, the corners of her mouth turned up, "Your school is not only boring, but also quite scoundrels, do you treat you as free labor?" ”

The little side face turned around, and the smile was too shallow to catch.

Shen Fei was dumbfounded, but he didn't say anything.

She turned her gaze and landed on the stone bench with the mineral water bottle that had not been touched at all: "If you don't drink it, throw it away, don't you have to worry about it all the time?" ”

He was slightly stunned, and handed the bottle to her.

"What are you doing for me?"

"You're almost done."

"I'll buy it when I'm done."

"......" he said again.

Zhou Jiyou almost imperceptibly deflated the corners of his mouth and ignored him.

Shen Fei bit his dry lips, hesitated for a moment, unscrewed the mineral water, brought the bottle to his mouth, and took a sip.

Leave the freezer for too long and the water is at room temperature. It was the first time he had drunk the water he had paid for, and there was an indescribable bitterness in the slight sweetness.

Five days later, Zhou Jiyou got up early in the morning by himself.

For some reason, she couldn't sleep all night, her consciousness was in a state of confusion, she woke up and fell asleep, and the rats on the roof kept hovering in her ears.

At the last breakfast of the Shen family, Shen Fei was even more silent than usual. Grandma Shen couldn't say anything like "I will have the opportunity to come to the house to play in the future", so when Zhou Jiyou was packing her luggage, she wrapped a bundle of eggs with straw for her to carry.

Zhou Jiyou didn't want it anyway, Grandma Shen had a straight face: "Obedient!" ”

“……”

At this moment, whether she admits it or not, the wave of heat surging in her heart is indeed real.