Qingruo gave Xu Nianyang two-thirds of the bottle of pure milk every day, and gave Xu Nianyang all the bottles of strawberry milk every week.

As the sun set, the boy grew a lot taller in the past two months, and Qingruo finally didn't have to deliberately curl his knees.

The alley seems to have become a regular meeting place for them, once a day.

It's summer vacation, Qingruo's parents are busy at work, and the nanny at home takes care of her to eat, and it doesn't matter if Qingruo sneaks out for a while at noon or after dinner, the home is close, and children always have the right to be naughty and willful.

Qingruo put the milk in his hand, looked at his black hand and blinked his eyes and gently pulled the hem of his clothes, "Brother, can I cut your nails~"

As he spoke, he took out the nail clippers he brought out of his bag, the beveled nail clippers, and the cartoon patterns were printed on them.

Xu Nianyang was leaning against the wall in old and short clothes, the two of them were so close that he could lightly smell the fragrance of milk and fruit on her body.

Poked the straw and held the milk in one hand, stretched out one hand casually, and the voice was lazy, "Hmm." ”

Qingruo glanced at him vaguely, I don't know why, since we met her the next day, she felt that Xu Nianyang's aura was weird.

Once she enters the time and space, she will completely integrate into this time and space, and she will not have any contact with the headquarters except for the target person, until she leaves this time and space, so she can only speculate on the relationship with Xu Nianyang from the information she knew before, which may not be accurate.

But now Xu Nianyang has no ill will towards her, and is even a little relieved, which is enough.

Perhaps because of the first friend, the world is no longer monotonous and dark.

Qingruo reined in his mind and held his terrifyingly thin hand with his fleshy little hand, his nails were black, his fingertips were full of calluses, and many of the calluses had some broken skin on them.

Qingruo tried to make himself clumsy like a child, and he wouldn't hurt him.

After cutting it, he looked up nervously and asked him, "Brother, does it hurt?" ”

Xu Nianyang shook his head slightly, took all the scenes in his sight into the depths of his mind, and opened his mouth to give subtle guidance, "Nail clippers a little more obliquely, right." ”

I don't feel like it's better to let a nine-year-old kid cut it yourself.

Qingruo finished cutting one hand, the long black nails were gone, and some of the pink fingertips inside him showed his sight, and with the excessively slender hands, there was a beauty of phalanges.

Xu Nianyang drank one-third of the milk left, changed the hand she had cut and pinched, fed the straw she had drunk directly into her mouth, and stretched out her other hand to let Qingruo cut her nails.

From Qingruo began to bring milk to him, except for the strawberry flavor, Xu Nianyang drank two-thirds of the pure milk himself, leaving one-third for her, Qingruo took it for the first time and wanted to throw away the straw and drink it directly, but found that the breath around Xu Nianyang became very depressed, so he stopped his actions and stuffed the straw directly into his mouth.

He was happy.

Qingruo lowered his head and pecked the milk inside with a straw in his mouth, while cutting his nails, there was still a little milk left after the nails were cut, Xu Nianyang took back the bottle and drank the last sip of milk by himself, and threw the box away.

The little girl pouted, stuffed her nail clippers back into her small bag, and ran over to pick up the box on the ground and threw it at the garbage heap not far away.

Because he cut his nails, it was a little long since he came out today, Qingruo returned to him and took out the pocket money saved today from his bag, three yuan, three pieces a piece.

Handing it to him, Yan Sù explained to him with a small face, "Brother, I want to have breakfast tomorrow morning, you know?" ”

Xu Nianyang put the money in his pocket, felt that she was really stupid, bent his fingers and knocked her on the head, leaned against the wall and asked her lazily, "You and other friends are like this?" ”

The word friend is even more casual and ironic when he says it.

Qingruo shook her head, "No, only my brother." ”

He liked the word only, slightly raised chin, eyes slightly narrowed, "Huh? The last sentence is repeated. ”

The little girl smiled sweetly and obediently, and her voice was full of mellow milk as soon as she opened her mouth, "Only my brother." ”

Xu Nianyang tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Go back." ”

After Qingruo said goodbye to him, he ran back, Xu Nianyang leaned against the wall and watched her little figure gradually disappear, reached out and looked at his ten fingers that were cleanly cultivated, and touched the corners of his mouth with his fingertips.

Obviously drinking the same bottle of milk, why is it so fragrant in her mouth?

The Xu family is on the fourth floor of the old-fashioned residential building behind the alley, there is no elevator, the corridor is narrow and shaky, and there are all kinds of sundries piled up in the corners.

The sound insulation of the old-fashioned residential building is not good, Xu Nianyang only walked to the third floor and heard the cursing voice of Xu's mother in the house, "Where did the one who couldn't die die, I don't know if I came back to wash the dishes, and I will kill him when I come back." ”

Father Xu scolded lightly, "Okay, just come back and let him wash, Yangyang is doing his homework, you be quiet." ”

Mother Xu was silent, Xu Nianyang slowly swayed to the door, Mother Xu was standing at the door of the small room and asked Xu Chaoyang softly, "Yangyang, can my mother wash your fruits?" ”

Before adopting him, the Xu family and his wife had always wanted to have a child, and even thought of the name, Xu Chaoyang, so his name was Xu Nianyang, and he hoped that the child would come sooner.

As soon as he pushed the door, Xu Mu strode over and raised her hand to hit him, scolding and scolding in her mouth, "Xiao Yezhong, where did you die again?" ”

Xu Nianyang took a step back to avoid her hand, didn't give her the corner of his eye, lowered his head and entered the kitchen, his voice was low, "I'll wash the dishes." ”

Mother Xu frowned and wanted to follow up, but was stopped by Father Xu, still with the same sentence, "Yangyang is doing his homework, be quiet." ”

Mother Xu gave up.

After losing her job, Xu's mother stayed at home to take care of Xu Chaoyang, derailed from society for a long time, and the conditions at home were not good, she was no longer the woman who would adopt a child well, full of swear words and viciousness, she couldn't see others getting better, and looked forward to her son becoming the richest man in the world in the future.

Xu Chaoyang has been spoiled since he was a child, the nine-year-old child has already shown his bad habits, Xu's mother was reluctant to discipline Xu Chaoyang, and vented all her dissatisfaction on Xu Nianyang, 80% of the injuries on his body were beaten by Xu's mother, and the other 20% were either from Xu's father, or from Xu Chaoyang, or from those children in the alley.

Xu Chaoyang wants to be windy and rainy at home, but he is a bully and afraid of hard outside, but his personality is dictated, he always wants to provoke others, and when he causes trouble, he pushes Xu Nianyang out.

At that time, Xu Nianyang was afraid of being beaten by Xu's mother, and he protected Xu Chaoyang every time, not because he felt sorry for Xu Chaoyang's younger brother, but because those children were not as heavy as Xu's mother.

Xu Chaoyang has been exposed to his parents since he was a child, and his attitude towards Xu Nianyang is like treating a dog raised at home.

There was a half-sized bowl on the table, with a small ball of rice in it, and these vegetable leaves were placed next to it, some of which looked like they had been chewed, Xu Nianyang was already too familiar with it, it was something that Xu Chaoyang didn't want to eat, and it was dinner left for him.

He opened the window and fell down from the window.

Xu Nianyang was washing the dishes, Xu Mu came in with three apples, Xu Nianyang stepped aside, both of them didn't look at each other, Xu Mu washed the apples, turned the water down a little, and scolded him in a suppressed voice, "Why is the water so big, are you going to die or □□, don't you need money for water?" ”

Xu Nianyang didn't refute or answer, Xu's mother scolded and scolded, washed the apples and took them out.

There is always a morbid depression in this home, and everyone is like a beast with only *, not like a sane human.

Xu's mother's pathology is reflected in the violence and fatal doting on Xu Chaoyang, Xu's father's pathology is that on the one hand, he wants to change his current life state, and on the other hand, he does not want to work hard to get by.

Xu Chaoyang, that is a little beast that has been raised.

The room is not big, Xu Nianyang's previous room was moved out to become Xu Chaoyang's study, and there is no extra room, Xu Nianyang can only go to the balcony when Xu Chaoyang is doing homework in the study.

On a day in August, at seven or eight o'clock, the wind was very warm but not hot, Xu Nianyang stood on the small balcony, next to the piles of sundries, and the left pocket was a fruit candy, which was given by Qingruo, and he never ate it. In the right pocket is a piece of money, and her daily pocket money is with him, and he has not counted how much he has saved now.

Xu Nianyang leaned half-leaned, propped his elbows on the balcony, and held his chin with his palms and looked into the distance in a daze.

A quarrel broke out in the house, don't think about it, Xu Chaoyang didn't do his homework, he must have played a game console inside, and was discovered by Xu's mother who went in.

After a while, Xu's mother was going to beat him.

Yes, Xu Mu came out with a stick specially designed to beat him, and without saying a word, she pumped on him, scolding while smoking, "You're going to die, you come here to stand, won't you teach Yangyang to do homework?" ”

Xu Nianyang glanced sideways into the room, Xu's father was standing with a game console and gently enlightening Xu Chaoyang, and Xu Chaoyang, who was bowing his head, did not admit his mistake at all.

Perhaps, Xu Nianyang also thinks that he is to blame.

Mother Xu beat for a while, got tired, pulled him into the house by the ear, kicked him twice, and said to Xu's father, "Don't talk about Yangyang, let him do his homework." ”

kicked Xu Nianyang to the study again, "Xiao Ye Chong, you give me a good job of teaching Yangyang to do his homework." ”

Xu Chaoyang obediently promised that Xu's father would return the game console to him.

The two of them entered the study one after the other, Xu Chaoyang locked the door of the study, stepped directly on Xu Nianyang's bed on the side with his shoes, took the apple that was placed next to him and nibbled on it twice, played the game console with his legs crossed leisurely, and raised his chin to the table, "No, my homework is there, go do it, count some time, and do it before school starts." ”

Xu Nianyang stared at his feet on the bed twice, and the depths of his eyes were full of creepy ruthlessness.

Suddenly, he hooked the corners of his mouth and walked to the desk and sat down, picked up the pen and studied the notes of the third grader and began to do homework.

Xu Chaoyang ate half of the apple, didn't want to eat it, put it on the windowsill casually, waited for Xu Nianyang to do his homework and call him, responded impatiently, ended a game before getting up and walked over to take a look, put the game console back in his schoolbag, and happily carried his schoolbag and held the homework book to go out to his parents to accept the results.

walked to the door and looked back at Xu Nianyang, "There is still half an apple left, you can eat it." ”

The tone of almsgiving.

Xu Nianyang smiled lightly and nodded.

Xu Chaoyang went to the living room, where he immediately laughed and praised him for being well-behaved and smart.

Xu Nianyang tilted his head and thought about it, he couldn't help but be sarcastic, did the Xu family couple really not know how this homework came about? It's just that I just want to deceive myself.

After a while, Xu Mu came over, pushed open the door and turned off the light directly, looking at the yellowed apples on the windowsill behind him and said, "Why don't you let Yangyang finish eating the apples?" Without waiting for Xu Nianyang to answer, he had already closed the door of the room directly, "Then you can eat." ”

"Bang."

The whole room was plunged into darkness.