Chapter 19: A Summer Night in the Courtyard
It was very late when Li Junfei returned to his home, a self-built community in the old city.
This is a bungalow courtyard, the pattern is like a courtyard house in Beijing, but it is not as big as a courtyard house, only a three-courtyard house, and a gate. Main room, left room, right room.
A courtyard that is not too big or too small. The garden is scattered, a clump of bamboo is verdant and luxuriant, and on the side of the courtyard, it adds a lot of leisurely atmosphere.
The mother and daughter who live in the main house, Aunt Liu, the head of the household, are alone with their daughter Tao Xiqian. Tao Xiqian was ten years old and went to college at a normal university.
The east side is where Li Junfei lives, and the west side is used as a kitchen and a grocery room.
Aunt Liu has no wife, only this old house, making a living by selling vegetables, and pulling her daughter hard, the good thing is that the hard days are finally coming to an end, her daughter Tao Xiqian is already a sophomore, and when she graduates and comes out to work, she doesn't have to get up early and work so hard.
Originally, the west side of the courtyard was also rented to a family that sold fruits, dragging children and daughters. Later, because of family planning, the family moved away, and Aunt Liu, who was orphaned and widowed, didn't want to be too crowded, so she stopped renting.
Li Junfei has rented for more than half a year, and after a long time, he knows the roots, knows that he is mellow and kind by nature, and works as a security guard in the local large enterprise Qin's Group, and he is rarely at home on duty, so he is relieved to let him continue to rent.
The kitchen light was on, Li Junfei probed, the water sounded, and Tao Xiqian was bending over to brush the dishes. A milky white loose T-shirt on his body, covering the denim hot pants on his lower body, only revealing two white and slender **, and his long black hair was casually pulled behind his head.
Li Junfei looked at Tao Xiqian's youthful and angry figure, and whistled "shhhh
As soon as Tao Xiqian raised her head, she had a pretty face, like a peach blossom after the rain, fresh and lovely. Seeing Li Junfei leaning against the door, looking at himself with frowns, he smiled and blurted out, "Brother Feizi, you're back." β
Li Junfei snorted, Tao Xiqian saw his pair of thief eyes looking straight at the little cutie bulge on his chest under his thin T-shirt, his face couldn't help but redden, and his eyes lit up, "Brother Feizi, okay, I'm wearing a suit, I said why is it different." β
"How about it," Li Junfei stretched out his arm and spun around in place, "Your Feizi brother is still quite handsome and chic, and the jade tree is in the wind." β
"Well, it's good-looking" Tao Xiqian's eyes rolled.
Wiping the handle, Tao Xiqian took out a small bowl from the cupboard.
"I haven't eaten dinner yet, I'm left with fish today. My mom made braised fish and left you a big fish head. β
"Oh, that's good, I can eat braised fish head again." Li Junfei swallowed his saliva and handed the bag in his hand to Tao Xiqian, "Here you go, your favorite." β
"Duck neck," Tao Xiqian shouted happily and took it.
Tao Xiqian is young, but the big white rabbit on her chest is not small, the loose t-shirt is lifted high, her delicate body moves, and her chest trembles and trembles.
"Hey, why are you still carrying a bottle of wine?" Tao Xiqian saw the wine and food in Li Junfei's hand and asked with a pout.
Li Junfei smacked his lips: "It's still foreign wine, bull head and horse noodles, as well as seafood, pike crabs, and prawns." β
Tao Xiqian's big eyes flashed as she looked at Li Junfei, a shallow pear vortex on her cheeks, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, I'm still rich after being promoted." β
"Hey, promoted again, rich again, how's it, quack, don't jump. The boss saw that I was so good, and invited me to dinner at the hotel at noon, I knew that you were a little gluttonous cat, and secretly packed a copy for you. β
Tao Xiqian was amused and giggled, the little girl had already reached the age of the first love, and she had a good impression of herself, the big brother in the courtyard, and every time she saw it, she always laughed constantly.
Li Junfei looked at Tao Xiqian's eyes, full of affection, as if he realized something, and no longer opened his mouth.
Aunt Liu had to get up early to sell vegetables and go to bed early. After a while, Tao Xi quickly cleaned up the wine glasses, plates, dishes and chopsticks, and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard, and the two drank each other in the moonlight.
Aunt Liu's skill in making fish is a must. Li Junfei was addicted to eating. Tao Xiqian was nibbling on the duck's neck next to her, smiling.
"Tell me quickly, how you got lucky and got promoted." Tao Xiqian flashed her big eyes and asked Li Junfei.
"Hey, teasing you. I'm a doorman, I have to have a degree or not, and I have no ability, so why should I be promoted and make a fortune. This suit was lent to me by the company leader when I temporarily helped someone drive today. Li Junfei said dejectedly.
"Oh, but the size fits well, and it looks good." Tao Xiqian tilted her body, snuggled up and down Li Junfei, straightened the top and bottom of the suit with her hands, dusted off the collar, and smoothed the fabric.
A faint sense of warmth from family and relatives hit, and Li Junfei was a little intoxicated.
"Hey, Aunt Liu's skills in making fish are so good, I think it's better than Yao Fatzi in the food stalls." Li Junfei smacked the fish passage.
"Well, if you want to eat, I'll make it for you tomorrow, I've got the true inheritance." Tao Xiqian pretended to whisper mysteriously.
The two drank wine, chatted, and enjoyed the rare time of this summer night.
"Xi Qian, why haven't you come back?" Aunt Liu's voice came from the room. Presumably she woke up and heard the voices of her daughter and Li Junfei.
"Hey, here we are." Tao Xiqian responded, quickly cleaned up the garbage under the table, and quietly grimaced at Li Junfei, Li Junfei waved his hand, Tao Xiqian glanced at Li Junfei nostalgically, got up and went back to the house.
In the room, a woman in her forties was sitting on her bed watching TV. This woman has fair skin and delicate facial features, and she should have been a beautiful ruffian when she was young, but her long-term hard life has left too many traces of time in the corners of her eyebrows and eyes.
"Mom, why are you up again?" Tao Xiqian covered her mother with a blanket and asked.
"Xi Qian, is Jun Fei back?"
"Hmm."
"Alas, Junfei is a good boy, but unfortunately he has a bad background, a doorman and security guard, I am afraid that he will have to work hard in this life."
Tao Xiqian sat on the edge of the bed and didn't make a sound, she understood what her mother meant.
"Xiqian, you are still a student, you have to study hard, and when you graduate in the future, your mother doesn't want you to find anything official or rich, just find a similar one, have a good job, and be safe and stable, Mom doesn't want you to be like Mom in the future, and have such a hard time."
"Oh, Mom, you're here again, I'm going to sleep." Tao Xiqian heard enough of the clichΓ©s and got up to go to bed.
"Ugh." Aunt Liu sighed.
On TV, the evening news was being broadcast, and the provincial leader Xia Zhongming inspected the work. Looking at the man's high-spirited face on the TV, Aunt Liu sighed, pressed the TV out, and fell into deep memories.
At three o'clock in the morning, in my sleep, a strange breath suddenly hit, although it seemed to be deliberately restrained and suppressed, but it was still captured by Li Junfei, who was empty on the spiritual platform. Li Junfei lay still and did not move, still maintaining the rhythm of his sleeping body. A keen sense of perception and touch began to wander inside and outside the house.
The strange existence seems to have sensed something, neglected it, and disappeared.
Li Junfei flew and quietly pushed the window and jumped out. In the moonlight, the branches outside the courtyard shimmered. Li Junfei grabbed a handful of bamboo leaves from the corner of the courtyard, shook his wrist, and shot towards the tall branches at the edge of the courtyard.
The branches shook, as if a phantom flashed, and there was no sound.
Li Junfei turned over and jumped out of the wall, and there was silence everywhere, and there was nothing to be seen.
Li Junfei was puzzled. Thinking of the traces of slight movement in the room in the previous section, he pondered for a long time, flipped out his mobile phone, gently pinched the jade piece he was wearing around his neck, opened the jade piece, and took out a metal object the size of a peanut. With a slight pinch, the metal peanuts silently stretched and spliced into a boxy, matchbox-sized box.
Li Junfei plugged the box into his mobile phone and dialed a long string of numbers.
The blue light flashed on the metal box, and after a while, the old Nokia phone clicked, and a string of strange characters popped up on the limited-width screen, and at the same time, a scanning interface was reflected on the metal box.
Li Junfei put his left eye up, the green light on the box flashed, the mobile phone screen lit up, a cursor flashed, and Li Junfei typed a few words: Supreme Secret Order: Track the recent trajectory of the Amazon mercenary organization.
A line of words instantly turned into a string of garbled characters and disappeared.
I received the phone, and it was not dark. Li Junfei glanced at the dark courtyard, got dressed and got up, and quietly opened the door.
The wee hours of the morning are the quietest time in the city. The street lights were silently on. The streets were empty. The city, like the people, is asleep.
Li Junfei walked slowly, looking at the old city that left too many memories of his childhood. Gradually, the streets began to have morning cleaners, travelers who traveled long distances, and vendors who got up early to set up stalls.
After crossing the food stall street, Li Junfei saw a woman's back on a slope not far away, pushing a tricycle uphill with great effort. The car was too heavy, and the woman bent down and pushed it halfway up the slope, but she was about to reach the top of the slope, but she was overwhelmed and slid down rapidly, and the woman was staggered.
Li Junfei hurriedly walked over and blocked the car. The woman looked up and thanked Aunt Liu.
Aunt Liu's hair was messy, the hair on her forehead was wet with sweat sticking to her face, and she was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, all of which were dust.
"Junfei, why did you come out so early." Aunt Liu wiped her sweat and asked.
"Oh, there's something going on at the company, I'm going to take over the morning shift." Li Junfei lied. "Aunt Liu, how can you batch so many dishes, you are alone, how can you make it."
Li Junfei pushed the car up the slope and handed it to Aunt Liu.
"This fruit sells well, so I got some more fruits. At the end of the day, I can sell it for an extra thirty or forty yuan. Aunt Liu tidied up the car, took out a big apple from the car, and stuffed it to Li Junfei.
Li Junfei shirked it, Aunt Liu forced it to him, bowed down, and rode away.