In the afternoon, the wind and clouds changed color, and gusts of wind blew from the east, bringing with them a few gray clouds.

Xiao Jinyu wants to take Zhuang Yuncheng to the factory to see the new weapons, and Zhuang Yuncheng asks Fluttershy if she will go, but she will go too. Bai Chenxuan is here, Yun Yun naturally stays at home, and Zhuang Yuncheng doesn't want her to know these things. He ordered Ju An a few words, and took Zhuang Die and Xiao Jinyu out.

"Fluttershy, did you still use that gun last time?" Xiao Jinyu asked.

"It's quite suitable, it's just that this kind of weapon that comes out of the chamber and sees blood can be used casually, and there are not many bullets."

"These bullets are all imported originally, and a gun is only equipped with these few rounds, and now we can't produce such bullets and guns, so this gun is just a matter of playing with it and taking precautions." Xiao Jinyu hurriedly said, "I just heard the news that a batch of new pistols from Sweden has secretly entered Beijing, and I don't know what is special." ”

Xiao Jinyu walked all the way and talked all the way, and the Zhuang Yuncheng brothers and sisters listened to it interestingly.

An afternoon was spent in conversation and laughter, and it turned out that Xiao Jinyu had other plans, and quietly told Zhuang Yuncheng that someone invited him to play tonight. He wanted to coax Zhuang Yuncheng into playing.

The two walk to the side and whisper, but Fluttershy doesn't know what they're up to, and only plays with fluttering dogtail grass on the side of the road.

"I don't know your friend, what are you going to do?" Zhuang Yuncheng decisively refused.

"You know each other when you meet, and besides, you should deal with those people." Xiao Jinyu said with a grin.

"What good people? Just mess around? ”

Xiao Jinyu suddenly changed color, and said coldly: "I usually associate with these people, I am this kind of person, am I not worthy of being friends with you?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng regretted not falling, hating himself for being fast-mouthed, he didn't mean it this way, but he couldn't find a reason to say it casually, so he annoyed him, and hurriedly explained: "You know I don't mean that, don't force people to make it difficult." ”

"I can understand what you say, but I don't know what you think in your heart," Xiao Jinyu said, "I just ask you if you want to go." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng puffed out his cheeks, his heart was depressed, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

"Forget it, go back to your own house." Xiao Jinyu said lightly, turned around and left.

"Go, go, go." Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and said, "It's just that I'm going to abandon her again, I'll go talk to her." ”

Xiao Jinyu was naturally happy, and even said, "Go ahead, go ahead." ”

When Zhuang Die saw him coming over with a bitter face, he knew that he had something to say.

Zhuang Yuncheng told him the truth, and Fluttershy only told him to go home early, and nothing else. Walking to the market, Fluttershy goes home on her own, and Zhuang Yuncheng and Xiao Jinyu leave.

That night was the birthday of a friend of Xiao Jinyu, the son of a senior member in the government, Xiao Jinyu was drunk, so he called Zhuang Yuncheng to block the wine, a few young people, you pushed me, half said and half persuaded, so that Zhuang Yuncheng also drank a lot, and a few hours passed between the staggered time.

At eight or nine o'clock, the moonlight was bright, Zhuang Yuncheng looked up at the night sky, and the bright two or three months hung in the sky. He shook his head, knowing full well that what he was seeing was an illusion, but the shadow of the moon lingered before his eyes, and he was sure that he was drunk, and he flinched when a gust of wind blew.

"No...... Gotta go back. He meditated in his heart.

Xiao Jinyu suddenly rushed to his side, spilled a glass of wine on his body, Zhuang Yuncheng squinted at him, got up and swayed away.

"Where are you going?" Xiao Jinyu grabbed the placket of his clothes, spit out a few words very quickly, and spewed a puff of wine.

"Do you want to tell you when you pee?" Zhuang Yuncheng didn't care about the smell, tilted his body, rolled his eyes and walked away.

Xiao Jinyu didn't care, just a few people rushed over to grab him and poured wine again.

walked to the toilet and saw that the back door was hidden, so Zhuang Yuncheng went out from here.

He staggered into the alley, and when he saw that the exit was in front of him, he was dizzy and wanted to sit down and rest. But he told himself in his heart that he had to hurry home, so he held on to the wall and moved to the exit step by step.

"Ah......" After a few steps, he breathed a sigh of relief, stopped, bent over his back against the earthen wall to rest, and unconsciously he slowly slid down along the wall until he sat on the ground, he wanted to get up, but he couldn't get up, so he had to close his eyes and rest.

Then his consciousness began to blur, and the acid water welled up his throat, and he vomited all over the ground without realizing it.

After a long time, he is awakened by a loud noise, his head buzzing, and he suddenly wakes up, and when he realizes that he is still sitting on the floor instead of his own bed, he remembers Fluttershy's instructions before he leaves and feels guilty of himself.

Zhuang Yuncheng stood up on the ground, looking at the night sky, the moon had not yet risen overhead, "It shouldn't be too late." He thought, the cool breeze of the night blew all over his body, his spirit was better, the buzzing in his head disappeared, and he heard someone inside talking about who had drunk too much, and had fallen into the dung pit in the latrine.

Zhuang Yuncheng sighed to himself and staggered away.

When the moon rose overhead, he finally saw the gate of his house, and walked up a few steps up the ladder on his legs, which seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and he walked to the door, and fell on the door. When Fluttershy hears the voice, she immediately opens the door from the hall, and when the door opens, she holds her breath and sees that it is Zhuang Yuncheng leaning on the door frame, her eyes half-closed and half-open.

At this point, the willpower that supported him to go home suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly grinned and fell forward. Fluttershy helps him up and asks, "No wonder you came back at this time, how much alcohol did you drink?" ”

"Not a few...... It's not a lot, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to come back. ”

"Looks like you're quite sober and know to come back." Fluttershy scoffs.

"Of course I'm coming back......" he closed his eyes and stopped talking.

Fluttershy lifts him into the house and helps him lie down when he wakes up again, but instead turns around her and puts his arms around her, resting on her shoulder, still squinting and rubbing his face against her neck, "I went drinking by myself and came back in the middle of the night, aren't you bored at home alone?" He muttered.

"Stained ...... It's so itchy," Fluttershy felt her neck tingle, and she smiled and said, "It's a bit boring, Yun Yun went with her cousin to meet her aunt and uncle, but luckily she's gone, otherwise she would be so angry to see you like this?" ”

"Oh, that's good, what about you, you're not angry...... '" His voice grew quieter and quieter, and Fluttershy felt his body sink and her hands lowered, and she hurriedly held him up and let him slowly fall on the bed, seeing that he was already asleep.

Zhuang Die only helped him take off his shoes and coat, and when he saw that the bed was so big, he moved him to the side of the bed, made a vacancy, and lay down to sleep here. She hugged the quilt and covered him and herself under the same futon, and felt that it was strange to have a person lying next to her.

When he woke up the next day, Zhuang Yuncheng's head hurt slightly, and he only remembered what happened before he drank last night, and he forgot most of the things that followed.

He smelled himself drunk, and his whole body was in a mess, and he took a shower before breakfast.

"What about Yun Yun? Why don't you get up to finish eating. Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

Zhuang Die suddenly smiled and said, "You forgot." ”

"Forgot what?"

"Don't remember what I said last night?"

"I don't remember a word." Zhuang Yuncheng asked, "Tell me, what did you say?" ”

"Yun Yun went to her uncle's house."

Zhuang Yuncheng pondered for a long time, thought about it, and didn't speak. The two of them quietly ate breakfast.

After the meal, Mr. Zeng Fulai, the bookkeeper, paid the money.

"Is it going to be used so quickly this month?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked puzzled.

"Because there are a few big things this month, I spent more than ever." Zeng Fu said, "It's all kinds of household use again, and it's the lady's birthday ,......."

"This money is really spent like running water," Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and said, "Give me the account book and see where the money is spent." ”

Zeng Fu went to get the account book, Zhuang Yuncheng sighed: "I didn't expect that now I have become a person who worries about money and deals with the account book." ”

Zhuang Die smiled slightly.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Naturally, I smiled when I was happy, and you asked about this." Fluttershy responds to him with a hint of mockery.

Zhuang Yuncheng pouted and didn't ask.

Zeng Fu took the account book, Zhuang Yuncheng took it, and after a cursory flip, he exclaimed: "Such a thick book!" ”

"yes." Zeng Fu said.

Fluttershy leans over to take a look, and Zhuang looks through the dates to see the latest month's accounts.

"On the first day of the fourth month," Zhuang Yuncheng muttered, "just flip it over from here." ”

He looked at the pages one by one, and could not help but feel that the accounts remembered well, and the amount of each expenditure was clear. Flipping back again, he froze and paused, pointing to this question. "There are so many pens and paper at home that I can't use them up, so why do I spend money to buy them?"

Zeng Fu looked down and said, "Yuzhuang'er said that he ran out, so he came to pay for it and bought it now." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng doesn't care, this thing is not expensive, it is also used daily, and it is not worth anything if you buy it by mistake.

He continued to flip through the pages, and on the thirteenth day of April, there was an expense on it - the eldest lady was sick, and she would pay the doctor's consultation fee and medicine fee, one or two pieces of silver.

"Were you sick that day?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

Zhuang Die shook his head with phoenix eyes and said, "I've never been sick." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng said in thought: "Yes, I have never seen you sick," and he asked Zeng Fu again: "What's going on?" ”

Zeng Fu looked at it, fortunately, the time interval was not very long, he thought about it carefully, and said, "Yuzhuang'er came to say." ”

"This-" Zhuang Yuncheng was speechless, flipped back again, and saw another item - buy two ducks.

"Except for Yun Yun, who loves to eat the sour and vinegar-soaked duck, we don't eat duck meat, and besides, she is at school these days, why did she buy this again?"

"This—Aunt Qin came to support it." Zeng Fu said.

"Call her." Zhuang Yuncheng's face was not good.

Zeng Fu was about to go, but Zhuang Yuncheng said, "Don't go, Fluttershy, you can go." ”

Fluttershy agreed to call her, Aunt Qin panicked, and hurriedly said: "It was Yu Zhuang'er who said that Miss Young Master wanted to eat duck, so I paid the money to buy it, but it was not empty at that time, so Jade Window said to help me buy it, and I handed over the money to him, and then he said that Miss Young Master would not eat it, and he had already returned the money to Zeng Fu." ”

"I didn't receive it." Zeng Fu blushed for a moment and was busy arguing.

Zhuang Yuncheng frowned deeply, glanced at the two of them back and forth, and said, "Go down, leave the account book for me to take a closer look, and then ask you when I understand it; Also, don't tell anyone about it, or it's all your fault! ”

Zeng Fu, Aunt Qin was scared and sweated, and hurriedly retreated.

"Although there is not much money, isn't it a thief to just do this kind of thing?" Zhuang Yuncheng sat for a moment and said, "Follow me." ”

Fluttershy follows him into his room, where Jade Window comes from behind the door and sees Zhuang Yuncheng entering the room and goes to pour tea.

"You go out and play." Zhuang Yuncheng said.

Yu Zhuang'er was only ten years old, and when she heard such a sentence, she was so happy to go to the big threshold to play with Ju'an, and ran away.

Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy carefully checked the accounts, asked the relevant people, and found that there were seven or eight inconsistencies, and they were all caused by Jade Window. "I'll have to wait for Yun Yun to come back to make a confirmation, let's pick her up after lunch, besides, I'm going to school tomorrow."

"Hmm."

"I don't check my accounts, and I'm rarely at home these days, so people mess around." Zhuang Yuncheng dropped the ledger and leaned on his back.

In the afternoon, he asked Ju An to take Yun Yun back, Zhuang Yuncheng pointed to this item and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Yun Yun took the account book and looked at the one that Zhuang Yuncheng was referring to - buying fat powder and hairpin rings.

"Did you really buy this?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"No, what are you doing on your face?" Yun Yun threw away the account book and said, "Also, I'm in school, and it's not appropriate to wear these various things." ”

Fluttershy looks at Yunyun's face, plain, and doesn't rub the powder, or wear the rings or anything like that.

Zhuang Yuncheng asked Zeng Fulai to ask, and he said that this item was bought by Xi'er with money.

"Xi'er?" Yun Yun said, "I'll ask her." ”

"Don't ask, let's figure it out, and if you go to school tomorrow, I'll too-" Zhuang Yuncheng stopped abruptly, and stayed for a moment before he said slowly, "I...... I don't want to go to the newspaper anymore. ”

The two sisters looked at him with wide eyes and asked, "Then what do you want?" ”

"I've been working there for more than two months, and now I'm just finding out that it's boring and unprofitable, and all I'm thinking about is how to make up stories, I don't want to make up stories anymore, I want to do something real." Zhuang Yuncheng was engrossed in looking into the distance, as if he had sketched a picture of the future in his eyes, and he said, "When I first came back, I didn't know much about current affairs, but now that I understand, I know what I can do." ”

Yun Yun waved her hand and shook it in front of his eyes and asked, "What do you want?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at her, "Why are you interrupting me?" He muttered.

Yun Yun Yang Yang felt bored at the corner of her mouth, so she went back to her room to review her homework.