When she stumbles around a corner, she accidentally bumps into a tourist who has come to her.

"Yikes...!" The girl screamed and took a few small steps back before she stabilized her unbalanced body. She didn't care about anything, just apologized to the other party vigorously. "I was so scared that I ran back out......"

"It's okay, it's okay." The man laughed, "Are you also alone?" ”

Huh?

Xiao Qi looked at the person in front of him, the other party was a small boy, with tin foil hot, beige complexion, and a sunny and energetic face.

"Hmm... I'm alone. In the face of the opposite sex, she is always used to lowering her eyes and talking.

The boy walked over, glanced around, and proposed, "Why don't we have a company?" You just said scared, I'm not afraid of this, I'll take you, hey. ”

"Well, I... I think it's okay. ”

He is really too lively and outgoing, whether it is his appearance or words, Xiaoqi has not adapted to it for a while.

She walked forward with the man, and from time to time the boy playfully teased the simulated molds set up on both sides, with a few mocking words: "True or false! "Bite me!" Xiaoqi secretly laughed at him, feeling like a child, and she firmly believed that this person was definitely younger than herself, a generation gap.

"That's... How did you get in? She asked.

His eyes glared at him in confusion: "How else can I get in?" I walked in through the entrance. ”

"Poof, no." The girl smiled helplessly, "When I came in, I saw that the staff had obviously stopped the next group of people, how did you get in?" ”

"Oh." He rubbed his chin, "I must have come before you, I was squatting in a dark place playing with my phone at that time, and you must not have noticed me when you came in." ”

Xiao Qi recalled the scene when she first came in, and nodded: "So that's what happened." ”

The two of them walked and talked, as if they were hanging out, and the girl completely ignored the horror props and atmosphere around her.

"Tell me about yourself." The boy cleared his throat and said, "My name is Xiao Xiwen, you can call me 'seven' for short, and I'm seventeen years old this year." He fiddled with a lame Chinese-English self-introduction, and he didn't feel embarrassed at all.

"My name is Tong Xiaoqi." She tried to put away the awkward smile on the corner of her mouth.

The other party was pleasantly surprised: "Our names are very similar!" ”

"Huh? Where is it like? ”

"You see, I refer to 'seven' for short, which means 'seven', my friends call me Xiao Qi, 'Xiao Qi' is homophonic to 'Xiao Qi', haha."

The girl smiled in agreement, saying all that, this guy was just amusing himself, childish ghost.

The thrilling trip to the haunted house ended in a small talk between you and me, which surprised Tong Xiaoqi. After that, Xiao Xiwen, who is familiar with free entertainment projects, took the girl to play almost all over them.

"Don't play, don't play...!" Xiaoqi wailed in a dying state, "I'm so tired, I'm going home......"

He suddenly realized that several later projects were forcibly pulled by himself to play with the girl, and he played so much that he didn't seem to have the consent of the other party.

Xiao Xiwen looked at her guiltily: "Okay, then, I'll send you, right?" Maybe we'll drop by. ”

Xiaoqi was going to refuse, but thinking that the other party was out of good intentions, she was not very good at refusing other people's kindness, so she agreed.

Out of Happy Valley, you need to walk ten minutes to the subway station. On the way, Xiaoqi shared the leftover two slices of bread with the boys. She noticed that there were especially many people handing out leaflets and begging on this section of the road, and as soon as the girl put the last bit of bread in her mouth, she noticed an old man begging passers-by with a bowl not far ahead.

The beggar was a mother-in-law, short in stature, somewhat slightly chubby, with dark skin and nearly half gray hair. This should have been the age to enjoy Ciwu's feedback, but she was begging in public, which was really distressing.

Xiao Qi regretted that she had just eaten the leftover bread, and she was distressed that she didn't have any cash with her.

She poked Xiao Xiwen's arm and asked, "Did you see that?" ”

"What?"

"The mother-in-law in front."

"Oh, no."

The girl didn't say anything, just stopped: "I don't have any cash on me, I can't give her money, so I want to buy some bread and water for that mother-in-law, can you accompany me to the convenience store?" ”

The other party hesitated and agreed.

When Xiaoqi handed over the things to the begging old man, the old man thanked him so much that there were tears in his eyes; Xiao Xiwen stood beside him, and there was a faint expression of emotion on his face.

Bidding farewell to the old man, the two returned to the flow of people. She walked briskly, and the man looked at her a few times, and noticed that the girl's face always had a faint dimple.

"You... Isn't there anything you want to ask me? Xiao Xiwen broke this silent atmosphere and couldn't hold it back.

"Huh?" She tilted her head and winked suspiciously, "What do you want me to ask you?" ”

The boy sighed: "I always think that as long as those beggars are not disabled, they can save themselves with their hands and feet, depending on whether they are willing or not." ”

She didn't speak, biting her lip a little harder.

"I thought you would ask me, 'Why didn't you help that mother-in-law?'" He smiled wryly.

Tong Xiaoqi thought for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "Seven, do you have any stories you want to tell?" ”

The man paused, and praised her for being quite smart: "Yes... It's about me and the beggar, my father and the beggar to be exact. ”

"If you don't mind, you can say it." She grinned, "Let me know why you didn't help your mother-in-law." ”

He scratched the back of his head: "Shhh ”

"When I was a child, my father took me on a long trip, once we were walking on the road, passing by a small alley, my father took the initiative to help a beggar, who knew that the beggar had mental problems, picked up the bowl and smashed it on my father's head, and attracted a lot of people to watch the excitement...... In the end, it was the traffic police who came to solve it. ”

"Since then, I've been shy about giving to beggars, whether they're mentally ill or not."

The girl nodded thoughtfully, and was just about to say something to comfort her, when Xiao Xiwen came to a twist:

"When you handed something to that mother-in-law just now, there were tears in her eyes, I don't know if you noticed... So that's when I started to reflect on myself. ”

"Reflect on what?"

He shook his head, and Xiao Qi didn't ask any more questions.

"Xiaoqi, you are a kind girl." The girl's mind was defenseless, and the man said this.

"Huh? I, you... It's not—" She was momentarily incoherent.

Kindness, Tong Xiaoqi never felt that she could be worthy of this most innocent word.

Xiao Xiwen was amused: "What's the matter?" ”

"I'm not kind." She sighed softly, "If I had the same thing as you, I would probably be just as shy about helping beggars......"

"Kindness is 'choosing to trust the next person after being hurt by others.'" ”

"Really?" The boy snorted disdainfully, "You are willing to help that old beggar, can others say that you are not kind?" ”

Xiaoqi was speechless.

Xiao Xiwen raised his head, and his face was filled with relieved joy: "May there be no more beggars, may they be treated gently......"

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The two said goodbye because they didn't take the same line, and the girl looked at the time, and it was more than enough to get from here to Ah Zhe's side.

In the middle of next month, she will go home with her mother to wait for school to start. The end of the moon is her birthday, and Xiaoqi can't call Ah Zhe to celebrate with her, and it makes no sense to notify her.

Recalling those thoughts on the way to Happy Valley, for Ah Zhe, the girl wanted to rely on but did not allow herself to rely on it, because she was afraid that the person would leave one day. In the end, Xiaoqi secretly made a painful decision - since she was not sure who would leave first, it was better for her to cut off all this in advance.