Chapter 18: Follow behind
Looking at her poor granddaughter, who wears old clothes all year round, Zhao Zhenfang really can't afford to buy good-looking clothes for her children.
The clothes Ye Tang is wearing now are old clothes from the neighborhood, an outdated white T-shirt, white and a little yellow, with the English "biautful girle" (a wrong version of beautiful girl) printed on the chest, cheap sequins on the letters, and the school uniform pants of the 87th Middle School on the lower body.
There are two sets of school uniforms in Eighty-Seven Middle School, which are easy to change and wash, sweatshirt jackets and trousers all year round, and if it is the hottest time in summer, there is also a short-sleeved T-shirt with blue stripes on the cuffs and neckline, which is not much better than the white T-shirt on Ye Tang.
"The students of No. 1 Middle School are actually of this quality!?" Cen Jin was surprised.
Ye Tang didn't say anything, it seems that Cen Yannan didn't tell his mother that her injuries were beaten by students from No. 1 Middle School.
"Who said that rich people are good? God knows what the way some people's money comes from, it is glamorous on the surface, but it is dirty and foul in secret," Cen Jin continued to complain, "That girl estimates that her parents are spicy chickens, and the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked." ”
"No matter what kind of crowd, there are good people and bad people, and there are good people among the rich," Ye Tang corrected Cen Jin's prejudice, "It's just that grandma met a superb one today." ”
Cen Jin didn't expect Ye Tang to be more serious than her, she glanced at Ye Tang strangely, and then said to Zhao Zhenfang, "Anyway, if you encounter this kind of thing in the future, don't pay attention to it, deduct the money, in case you encounter danger, get injured, or even take your life, it's not worth it." ”
"Yes, seeing so many drivers braking suddenly, I also regret it, scared into a cold sweat," Zhao Zhenfang didn't want to have a car accident, she also wanted to spend more time with her granddaughter and save more money for her.
This topic ended here, and the three of them hurriedly ate a somewhat cold lunch, and they were not in a good mood, so much so that Cen Jin forgot to tell Zhao Zhenfang about Ye Tang's amazing performance in the mahjong room.
At three o'clock in the morning on Tuesday, Zhao Zhenfang set off on time and went to her work area.
As soon as she went out with her front foot, Ye Tang quietly followed her with her back foot, and her steps were very light.
Ye Tang didn't sleep at all, and he didn't take off his clothes, just waiting for this time.
Cen Yannan was out until the early hours of the morning, and only went home at this time - his mother's mahjong room was the hottest business at night, and it was open all night, usually closing at four or five o'clock in the morning, which was the same as his work and rest time.
Cen Yannan was wearing a school uniform, carrying a schoolbag on one shoulder, with headphones in his ears, and his hands in his school uniform trouser pockets, he walked very slowly, humming a tune softly in his mouth, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry to go home, and the faint light of the street lamp stretched his slender shadow longer.
When he was about to get home, Cen Yannan suddenly saw a familiar figure in front of him, his eyesight was very good, in the dark night, twenty or thirty meters apart, he could still see the white gauze on the back of the other party's head - after Ye Tang removed the stitches, the doctor also applied ointment to her wound.
Cen Yannan was puzzled,
What is Ye Tang doing when he goes out at this time?
Is she sick again?
He took off the headphones, threw the schoolbag to the door of the mahjong room, and hurried to catch up with Ye Tang.
The three mahjong tables in the mahjong room were full, and when everyone was playing high, the sound of rubbing and chatting was so loud that no one, including his mother, noticed that he had returned.
At three or four o'clock in the morning, City A is very quiet, most people have already fallen into a deep sleep, and occasionally they can hear the insects and some slight birds chirping at the end of summer, this quietness is more familiar and enjoyable for Ye Tang.
At the beginning of her parents' death, she was in great pain and could not accept this reality at all. She began to pursue extreme hustle and bustle, going to the casinos of Monaco, studying Muay Thai in Thailand, and martial arts in the United States...... She thought that the more noisy and noisy she was, the more she could distract her.
However, as it turned out, it was not.
She had to turn to extreme silence, and she gradually came into contact with extreme sports, because these sports must be in the middle of nowhere, skydiving, skiing, cross-country, sailing, she tried them all.
In the end, she found that sailing, diving, and swimming in the sea was the most peaceful for her, probably because her parents died in the sea.
She raised her eyes and looked at the back of the old man in front of her, a warm color welled up in her cold eyes, and now she was her only relative!
Zhao Zhenfang came to the shift change place and handed over to her colleagues who worked the evening shift, and the other party was also a very old man, and the two chatted for a while. While chatting, Zhao Zhenfang changed into eye-catching orange overalls, put on a hat, held a broom and a dustpan, waved goodbye to colleagues, and started working.
Wherever she swept, Ye Tang followed, some places were very dirty, and they had to be cleaned for a long time, so Ye Tang found a place where Zhao Zhenfang couldn't see, such as behind a big tree, at the corner of a high-rise building, and on the side of the subway entrance, quietly watching Zhao Zhenfang work. She brought a black garbage bag and picked up the garbage she saw to reduce Zhao Zhenfang's burden.
She didn't know that behind her, there was a teenager staring at her.
Cen Yannan was just curious about what Ye Tang wanted to do at first, but it turned out that she was just silently following her grandmother, like an invisible shadow accompanying the old man step by step.
He was relieved, he thought, Ye Tang is getting better, but he is more sticky to his grandmother, this is a good thing, he should go home to sleep, and he has to go to school during the day.
But his feet didn't listen to his instructions, so he had to follow behind Ye Tang and secretly look at her - there seemed to be a kind of magic in this girl who suddenly woke up and had a great change in personality to attract him.
I don't know how long later, a white color appeared in the sky, a faint daylight sprinkled onto the surface, the glass of the building emitted light, and the color of the sky slowly changed from dark blue to bright yellow.
As the day dawned, the streets began to see more people and cars.
Cen Yannan dozed off against the corner of the high-end office building, he didn't sleep all night, he was really sleepy, but whenever his eyelids were about to close, he immediately forced himself to open his eyes, and saw that Ye Tang was still not far away, such a cold and lonely figure, she didn't leave, how could he sleep peacefully?