It wasn't until he ran back to his residence that Lu Chen's beating heart was a little more settled, and he leaned against the wall and took a few deep breaths before walking to the gate of the courtyard to open the door and enter the courtyard.

"Hey, Lu Chen is back?" Just stretched out his hand and didn't touch the door, but the voice of a middle-aged man sounded behind him.

There's no one around, huh? Lu Chen looked back in shock, and Qian Duoduo's father was standing there at the corner of the yard at some point, smiling innocently at him.

"Uncle Qian." Lu Chen politely shouted and wondered in his heart, why didn't he see the other party just now? And what is he doing here? "Are you here for me?"

"Oh, no. I wanted to ask if my family had any trouble with this. ”

"Oh, that's a lot of money. No, he's probably at home now, are you looking for him? ”

It turned out that he was looking for a lot of money, and he actually put this stubble, after all, it has been three days since he left home that day, and his family is in a hurry anyway, right?

Lu Chen thought in his heart and pushed open the courtyard door and greeted Father Qian warmly, "Uncle, are you going to come and take him away?" He's pretty honest here....."

"No, I'll just ask him how he's doing here. I'll go first, goodbye. ”

I thought that the other party wanted to come here to pick up his son, but before he could finish speaking, Father Qian said hello and left, and the appearance of leaving seemed to be in a hurry.

Lu Chen didn't think too much about it, he went into the yard and planned to go back to sleep, the stimulation he received today was too great, what the hell is that?! and why Secretary Liu and Liu Qiang became so strange. And also......

When I first approached the yard, I heard some noisy noises, and I don't know if it was from a neighbor or if Qian Duoduo rebelled in his own house. Pushing open the door, the mess in the room directly made Lu Chen feel like he had been robbed.

The chairs were overturned, the basin racks were also topple, and there was a small puddle on the dark gray concrete floor. Although there were not a few things on the table, it was also a mess at this time, whose clothes were thrown to the ground at random, and the bedding on the bed was also a mess.

Lu Chen was angry and wanted to curse, looking for the perpetrator of everything in the house, and finally in the corner of the room, Lu Chen saw Qian Duoduo squatting in the corner with a water cup in his hand.

"A lot of money!" Finally found the "prisoner", Lu Chen walked over and asked angrily, "What's going on?" What did you do? ”

"I'll clean it up in a moment." Qian Duoduo squatted in the corner, holding the enamel jar in his hand, "Gu Dong Gu Dong", drank the water in a few sips, didn't look at Lu Chen, and didn't mean to stand up, and asked for a jar of raw water from the bucket used to store water next to him and poured it into his stomach.

"Didn't you say don't drink raw water?!" Lu Chen really couldn't look at it, and reached out to grab the jar in the other party's hand. But he was held in his hand by the other party, as if he was afraid that Lu Chen would snatch it away and never let him drink water again, so he raised his head and drank all the remaining water into his stomach.

In this way, after Lu Chen watched the other party drink the water of the five tea jars one by one, he finally couldn't bear to snatch the jar in the other party's hand again.

"I ..... I'll clean it up in a moment, for sure. Don't snatch it .... Let go, let go..."Qian Duoduo still grabbed the tea jar that had lost the paint, as if it was his most precious thing, and kept begging for mercy to ask Lu Chen to let go of the hand of the box to fight.

"What's wrong with you?!" Lu Chen exerted almost all his strength to snatch the jar in the other party's hand again, this time he snatched it, but... But with Qian Duoduo, he leaned forward directly and fell to the ground.

Also because of the other party's fall, Lu Chen saw that on Qian Duoduo's shoulder, the two blue and purple spots in the exposed place were abrupt and a little concerning.

"What's on your shoulder?" Lu Chen wanted to lift the other party's collar and take a look for himself, but before his hand touched the other party, Qian Duoduo suddenly tightened his hand, like a little girl who had met a bad guy, and looked at Lu Chen nervously.

"It's nothing, I'll clean up the house, you go out first."

"Why don't I just stay in the house?!" The other party's reaction finally aroused Lu Chen's suspicions, and after careful observation, he found that Qian Duoduo was different from usual.

With short unkempt hair, reddened cheeks, and bloodshot eyes, did you cry just now.....

Lu Chen remembered the strange smell he smelled when he first entered the house, and then looked at the person in front of him.

"A lot of money." Lu Chen spoke, "Did your father just come?" ”

Qian Duoduo shook his head and immediately nodded, and replied in a low voice, "Here, he wants to call me home with me, but I don't want to quarrel so I mess up the house." ”

Was it just a fight? Seeing that the other party looked like he had done something wrong, Lu Chen still said what he wanted to say the most.

"Stand up."

"....." The other party did not get up and looked at him blankly, as if he had not heard his own words.

"Stand up, a lot of money!" Lu Chen was a little impatient, and said word by word, reaching out and forcibly pulling the other party up from the ground. The jacket was not zipped up, and the exposed skin was bruised and bruised.

"This 。。。。。。。" Seeing such a scar, Lu Chen couldn't help but be stunned.

Qian Duoduo didn't overdo it, so as not to let the other party see his expression at this time, and silently let Lu Chen reach out and pull away his clothes, revealing the sins on his body to the sun.

"Toto... Lu Chen looked at Qian Duoduo's bruised handprints on his waist, "Your father just came." ”

Qian Duoduo shuddered for a while, and didn't make any moves, just silent, his brain was in chaos at this time, he didn't know how to face it, how to say it, he could only be silent without saying a word.

His clothes were put back on and zipped, and Qian Duoduo was just about to turn around when he heard Lu Chen say what he didn't want to hear.

"Did your dad do 'that' to you?"

........

What does he mean? Disgusted with myself or....

Qian Duoduo finally turned his head, looked at the other party's eagle-like eyes, sighed and held back his emotions and said, "Don't worry about that, I'll clean up the house." ”

After speaking, he ignored the other party, bent down to help up the basin stand that had fallen to the ground, and put the basin that had fallen back on the basin stand.

Lu Chen sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the busy back of the other party, and his already tired brain now became even more chaotic. There's just so much going on today.

"A lot of money."

"Hmm." Duoduo softly agreed.

"A lot of things happened today." Lu Chen said.

"......" Qian Duoduo was silent.

"I want to get some sleep first, and when I wake up, I have something to say to you." Lu Chen said hesitantly, some uncertain emotions had been entangled in him.

"Okay."

After restoring the house to its previous cleanliness, Qian Duoduo gently took the door and sat in the courtyard. The yard, which had just been swept in the morning, was now covered with a layer of yellow, dull, lifeless yellow.

Pick up a leaf casually and play with it in your hand, the damaged and yellowed leaf is like yourself, and I still haven't resisted my father today, and it will be the same in the future. is obviously responsible, but God has made himself so thin. What kind of expression would Lu Chen have when he looked at his body just now? It must be a face full of disgust, although he didn't see it, but he didn't think about it, he should hate himself very much, just like the people in the town. Before going to sleep, he told himself that he would talk to himself when he woke up, what was it? Probably... Tell yourself not to talk to him after you leave.

Listening to the sound of gently closing the door, Lu Chen, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes. couldn't sleep, Qian Duoduo's scarred body kept shaking in front of his eyes, and when he first thought that the other party was being bullied by his father, he didn't feel much, he just felt that the other party was a little pitiful.

But now, when I just saw that scar, what was more than shocked was that I was distressed, I felt sorry for that injury, I felt sorry for the person who was bullied, I wanted to hold the other party tightly in my arms to comfort him, and I wanted to protect each other, but I and he had only known each other for a few months...... And why did you have such feelings?

His mind was even more confused and he couldn't figure out a clue, Lu Chen repeatedly asked in his heart and thought about the cause of these feelings, and suddenly he remembered his friend in reality, the two men who came together.

Am I .....? Lu Chen shook his head and vetoed his thoughts.

"A lot of money....."

The door was pushed open from the inside, and Qian Duoduo wiped his face in a panic and turned his head to look at the other party.

"You're awake."

"Does it still hurt?" Lu Chen slowly walked to Qian Duoduo's side, squatted down and looked directly into the other party's eyes.

"Does it hurt or not?" Qian Duoduo asked, his puzzled expression looking a little dumbfounded.

"Body, body still hurts."

"Shall we not mention that? Didn't you say you had something to say to me? Qian Duoduo obviously didn't want to mention the unpleasant thing just now, and the awkward and irritable expression appeared on his face and slowly disappeared.

"Hmm." Lu Chen organized the language in his heart, and determined his thoughts for the last time.

"A lot of money." As soon as he opened his mouth, Lu Chen hesitated again, "I really don't know how to say this kind of thing." ”

"Lu Chen." Seeing that he couldn't wait for the other party to speak for a long time, Qian Duoduo opened his mouth, and his tone was steady without a trace of waves, "Lu Chen, are you saying that I should go home?" ”

"It's not." Lu Chen shook his head and continued to look into the other party's eyes, he knew that Qian Duoduo had obviously made a mistake about himself, "I mean to say." ”

Lu Chen took a long breath, "Qian Duoduo, you can live here for a long time, it doesn't matter if you stay forever." ”

“........”

Lu Chen saw surprise and deep doubt in the other party's eyes.

"Why?" Qian Duoduo asked.

"I want to protect you." Lu Chen said, his tone firm.

......, he said to protect me.... Is this pitying yourself?