Two months later, Zhang Liu, who was helping in the kitchen, mopped the floor with a mop and said to Zhang Fang, who was lying on the kitchen counter to calculate math problems: "Which problem have you done?" ”

Zhang Fang hurriedly said, "It's almost done!" It's almost done! ”

Zhang Xiu hugged Zhang Ya next to her, at this time Zhang Ya had gradually begun to try to walk, but she couldn't walk well, her body twisted and twisted, so that Zhang Xiu couldn't hold it a little, and Sister Qin, the female chef who was also busy next to her, saw this scene and said: "You put her directly on the table, you don't have to hold her all the time, it's so tiring." ”

Two months is enough for Zhang Liu to be half-acquainted with everyone in the hotel, although Zhang Liu is silent, basically not close to the newcomers who come in at the same time, and he is immersed in work every day, but it seems that this kind of Zhang Liu is very "good" in the eyes of others, but it is the fate of some elders.

Just like that day, Zhang Liu was working in the kitchen, and Sister Zhang, the dormitory manager of the dormitory, led his second sister, who was crying with blood on her mouth, and said to Zhang Liu: "Your sister, it's too escaped, the handrail of the ladder sitting outside the dormitory slid down, and it was planted when it was almost to the end.

Zhang Liu put down the mop in his hand, squatted down to check Zhang Fang's lips, and found that although he looked at the bleeding a lot, he only broke a little skin, the blood vessels near his lips were rich, and the skin was thin.

Zhang Liu borrowed a few pieces of toilet paper from the female chef Sister Qin, and said while wiping Zhang Fang's blood, "Naughty again?" It's so unruly, you see that it hurts to break it. ”

Zhang Fang looked at the bright red blood on the white toilet paper, a little frightened, looked at Zhang Liu with tears in her big eyes full of fear, and said, "Brother, will I die?" Like Mom? ”

Hearing Zhang Fang mention the word "mother", Zhang Liu's hand paused.

Why did he pause?

Because when Zhang Fang shouted the word "mother", his heart was beating wildly, beating wildly more than the normal frequency, and a feeling that did not belong to him at all churned and shouted in his chest, at this moment he seemed to be split into two halves, half of his three lives, like a cold old man who had experienced a lot of trouble, and watched the surroundings without mercy, half in anger and shouting, in anger and resentment for the injustice of his sister, such a strange state of mixed feelings Zhang Liu has never encountered, leaving him speechless for a moment.

Zhang Fang, who was crying, was also unconsciously quiet, and looked at Zhang Liu with some timidity and sobbed and said, "Brother......"

Zhang Liu came back to his senses, slightly adjusted his breath and suppressed the strange love in his chest, and this attempt to suppress it, the tumbling love xù disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if the qiē just now was just Zhang Liu's own conjecture and illusion, and he breathed steadily, Zhang Liu looked at Zhang Fang who was looking at him timidly, and said, "No, it's just a little bit of skin." ”

Zhang Liu's pause and stiffness, the inside story, only he knows, and in the eyes of onlookers, Zhang Fang froze when he mentioned his mother Zhang Liu, and stopped the bleeding for Zhang Fang, Zhang Fang obediently stopped crying, Zhang Liu asked, "What about my sister?" ”

Zhang Fang said timidly: "My sister is watching my sister at home." ”

Zhang Liu said: "Go back to the dormitory, don't run around." ”

Zhang Fang didn't dare to lose his temper at this time, but he didn't seem to be obedient, lowered his head and pouted, and muttered: "It's boring in the house, I don't want to go back." ”

Sister Qin, the female chef who had been speaking beside her, suddenly spoke up at this time and said, "You stay here, as long as you don't make a mess and don't touch things." After saying this, he turned his head and asked Zhang Fang, saying, "Have you eaten?" ”

Zhang Fang glanced at Zhang Liu, then turned to look at the female chef and said, "No, my brother brought us food after work." ”

When Sister Qin heard this, she looked at Zhang Liu and said, "You are a young man...... How many sisters do you have? Then I thought that Zhang Fang said just now that her sister in the dormitory was looking at her sister, so she said, "Your three sisters? Are you a big boy with three taels of rice and three sisters to eat enough? ”

Zhang Liu opened his mouth to stop Sister Qin and said, "I'll make two meals." ”

Sister Qin was very surprised when she heard this, and said: "That person in the cafeteria Lao Xu can still be so good......" Before she finished speaking, she saw Zhang Liu behind Zhang Fang shaking her head at her, and then Sister Qin suddenly understood, and this understanding suddenly felt sour in her heart, and looked at Zhang Liu's eyes with a little redness.

Sister Zhang, the dormitory manager who had not spoken on the side, also spoke at this time, and said to Zhang Fang: "Come here, I'll send you back, you are here to delay your brother's work." ”

Sister Zhang is not Zhang Liu, Zhang Fang will make requests to Zhang Liu, but she can't do the same to outsiders, Zhang Fang still understands this matter, so she glanced at Zhang Liu and found that Zhang Liu didn't speak and obediently followed Sister Zhang.

When Zhang Fang left, Sister Qin asked Zhang Liu, "What about your family?" What about your parents? ”

Zhang Liu pulled the mop and then mopped the floor, saying, "It's all gone." ”

Sister Qin's eyes were a little red, she looked at Zhang Liu, and said, "You have been here like this for the past two months?" What do you eat? How can you do so much work every day, how can your body hold up without eating? ”

Zhang Liu didn't know how to answer, after living for a long time, he naturally knew a truth - behind telling a lie, you have to prepare countless lies to cover up, especially for many people around you who have been with you for a long time, lies are useless, because no matter how careful you are, you will expose the original truth in the details of getting along for a long time, so Zhang Liu thought about how to give a reasonable explanation without telling a lie without letting the people around him think that he was a monster, and after thinking for a while, Zhang Liu replied: " I have to eat. ”

This is the truth, he has eaten, and now his cultivation is that the little aura left in his body is not enough to support him from eating, so when he needs to replenish energy to a certain extent, he soaks some rice in the mouth with water, even if it looks like a very light and clean food, it is also with filth and filth, and continues to consume the little spiritual energy left in Zhang Liu's body, plus the original environment of the imperial capital is very bad. Resisting the erosion of the air is also a slow, continuous, and continuous process of consuming the aura.

Such a day of "only going out and not entering" made Zhang Liu a little anxious, and if it continued like this, not only would he not be able to get back his cultivation, but he would slowly consume it, and finally become an ordinary person, but these feelings were not exposed, and from the outsider's point of view, this young man was still silent, diligent and cold.

Sister Qin naturally didn't know about these twists and turns in Zhang Liu's interior, she just believed the "truth" she guessed, sighed, and said to Zhang Liu: "Come and help bring your sister over in the evening, there is a lot of food in the kitchen, not bad for these pairs of chopsticks, the canteen Lao Xu is too stubborn, you ......" Speaking of this, Sister Qin turned her head to look at the chef and shouted, "Lao Hu, okay, add a few pairs of chopsticks, anyway, they are all children, and they can't eat much." ”

The chef who was made "Lao Hu" by Sister Qin didn't speak, but quietly listened to the conversation between Sister Qin and Zhang Liu while fanning the wind with the pu fan in his hand. ”

The rest of the kitchen was quiet, and no one objected.

Then there was this scene: every night, Zhang Xiu hugged her third sister Zhang Ya and Zhang Fang to the hotel kitchen to eat.

When Zhang Liufa paid his first month's salary, he bought some daily necessities, pens and notebooks, and taught Zhang Xiu and Zhang Fang literacy and arithmetic.

Sister Qin took out two small bags of fruit shops from the kitchen cabinet, stuffed them to Zhang Fang, who was lying on the table doing the arithmetic problems given by Zhang Liu, and Zhang Xiu, who was looking at Zhang Ya, and said, "Don't always be busy doing problems, eat something!" While stuffing food for the two children, he turned back to Zhang Liu and said, "How old is your eldest sister?" Isn't it time for elementary school? Speaking of this, Sister Qin continued on before Zhang Liu could answer, "But I want to study in elementary school in the imperial capital...... Hey......"

Sister Qin had already asked and answered herself, but Zhang Liu didn't answer again.

Go back to the dormitory at night, take the three younger sisters to wash and go to bed after washing, Zhang Ya is now sleeping with Zhang Liu, Zhang Xiu saw that the child was too tired to sleep, and fell asleep, but Zhang Fang was still tossing and turning in bed, and from time to time she still tried to talk to Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu ignored her, and was about to enter the dream in a daze.

Zhang Liu fell into a black dream in the noise of Zhang Fang's whispering chatter, but not long after falling into this dream, Zhang Liu suddenly realized that he had arrived in a dark and silent place, walking on an endless huge black mirror, and noticed something unusual, Zhang Liu suddenly turned around, and saw a boy with apricot eyes and goose egg face and meow lips behind him, looking at him with a pair of eyes full of numbness and malice.

This teenager is "Zhang Liu"?