Chapter 21: The Old Man
Liu Menglin sat in front of the computer and exhaled a long breath. She tinkered with the mouse a few times, took a screenshot of the results, sent it to someone from QQ, and then slowly took off the headphones.
The refreshing short hair sets off her beautiful face even more small and exquisite, but the expression on the melon seed face is very indifferent.
"It's really fun when the sun is in the sky. She muttered to herself.
Ding zero zero!
The phone rang, Liu Menglin grabbed the phone impatiently and unceremoniously pressed the reject button.
The name of the caller ID is, Xu Liang.
Liu Menglin is nineteen years old this year, and her youthful body is wrapped in a wide hip-hop suit, and she can't see her lines clearly. But judging from the rounded shoulders and buttocks like a Jingxin watermelon, the figure is definitely first-class.
Under the smoky makeup, the big eyes are shining with a cute watery light, and the cherry mouth is painted dark red, which is particularly individual.
Leaving the game, Liu Menglin became a little depressed. Frustratedly, she threw her phone on the bed next to her, and she got up and went to the living room, opened the fridge and grabbed a cold beer.
As a sophomore, Liu Menglin did not live in a dormitory, but lived alone in her bachelor apartment.
This house is hers, and it is the property purchased for her in Dongchuan City, the provincial capital, by her mother's wise decision and long-term vision in her early years.
Usually there is no class, Liu Menglin will nest alone in this house, with a two-story LOFT apartment on the bottom, which is decorated in an industrial style.
Gray, white and black, it seems that it does not match the gender of the owner, but this contradictory collision makes this person in this room even more mysterious.
"By the way, I haven't added him as a friend yet!" Liu Menglin had just taken a sip of beer and suddenly remembered this.
The rookie in today's team, although he has a bit of technical skills, his intuition is very accurate.
Yes, Liu Menglin attributed the excellent hearing in the scorching sun to intuition. Four times in a row, let her destroy four opponents, it's simply amazing.
She smacked up the stairs to the upstairs room, clicked the mouse, and searched for the name in the game. However, the name is gray, and the player has gone offline.
"If you can really win the first place three times in a row, I don't care about you, I'm afraid that you are a plaything and lose your mind!" 's father Liu Guoqiang's angry roar is still in his ears.
"Then give it a try!See if I have a talent for e-sports, or if I'm really a plaything!" Liu Menglin roared back stubbornly.
"Wow! Three firsts, screenshot to me! Also, you can't fail at the end of the semester! Do both, I won't care about you!" Liu Guoqiang tore the button on his neckline, crossed his hands on his waist, and turned red with anger.
She couldn't stand his appearance, a workaholic, treating everyone as her subordinate, and when she came home, she always circled around various documents and the spirit of the meeting. It was because of him that my mother became ill and was completely angry.
Liu Menglin insisted on adding friends in the scorching sun, looking forward to this first-class rookie being able to go online as soon as possible and cooperate again.
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"Uh~" Jiang Xiaohu took the ice cola tremblingly, and the corners of his mouth twitched.
The black girl cashier lowered her head, fiddled with the corners of her clothes with both hands, and said shyly: "This Internet café is opened by my father, I am an only daughter, and I don't have a partner yet." ”
Do you want to be so straightforward? Jiang Xiaohu thought to himself.
"Hey, that's weird. Jiang Xiaohu smiled awkwardly, "Your conditions are so good, the young man chasing you must be in Yuqian Town, right?"
"Don't drop ......," the brunette shook her head.
"Oh~" Jiang Xiaohu nodded, and said in his heart that this girl was quite sincere.
"It's all lined up in the county seat. The black girl said again.
The corners of Jiang Xiaohu's mouth twitched again, and he smiled, there was nothing more to say.
"I see your name, your name is Jiang Xiaohu? My name is Cuicui, Zheng Cuicui. The black girl said, "My family lives in the alley behind, and the two households facing the Internet café are my family's houses." ”
Jiang Xiaohu was dumbfounded, he had long known that this family was rich, so he was so rich? You must know that there are two floors at the bottom of the Xiangrihong Internet Café and two or three hundred machines. This is a shop facing the street, and it is in the town, so it is especially valuable.
They still have two houses in the alley behind them? Jiang Xiaohu felt so sour in his heart, and said secretly: "In the future, Lao Tzu will also be a millionaire." ”
Zheng Cuicui quietly touched his elbow and said in a low voice: "Are you free tonight?"
"No~ My family lives in Jiangbian Village, didn't I tell you, it's very poor, very poor, and no girl wants to marry into it. Jiang Xiaohu shuddered and said deliberately, "I'm poor, I grew up drinking the northwest wind when I was a child." Hey, I won't tell you, my mom is calling. ”
He took out his mobile phone, pretended to answer the phone, and then waved at Zheng Cuicui and fled in a hurry.
Zheng Cuicui didn't even keep him, and in the end she could only regretfully stomp her feet and drool at his back.
"Death! The whole Honghua Town is just one Internet café for me, I don't believe you won't come to the Internet in the future!" Zheng Cuicui said in her heart, "But it's so handsome, even if you run away, you are so temperamental." Don't worry, Xiaohu, I don't think you're poor, you can plug the door upside down!"
Thinking about it, her face turned red, black and red.
said that Jiang Xiaohu originally planned to come here for the night, who would have thought that the little boss here would be so sexy. In desperation, he put on his bicycle and wandered around the neighborhood. Thinking that he would have an appointment with that poster tomorrow, and then thinking about the distance between his home and the county seat, he was worried.
Honghua Town is the most marginal town in Luliu County, more than 40 miles away from the county seat, and there is a mountain beam in it, and there is only one bus a day. From Jiangbian Village to Honghua Town, there is such a long mountain road, if you set off directly from home tomorrow, won't you exhaust him to death?
Feeling the remaining thirty or forty yuan in his pocket, Jiang Xiaohu was worried. Do you want to stay in a hotel?
He pushed the cart and walked down the street, but there were a few hotels open. But maybe it's because he's young and bullied, maybe it's the price now, the cheapest room for a night, it's actually 35 yuan, the room is so small that it can only put down a one-meter-2 bed, the door is the bed, and the head of the bed is the window.
Living in this kind of place, suffocating to death, and dying is expensive. Jiang Xiaohu thought about it, but decided to go home, the golden nest and the silver nest were not as good as his own kennel.
Riding a car, Jiang Xiaohu rushed home, and next to the huge garbage bin at the intersection that was about to leave the town, he saw an object.
It was an old man, to be exact.
The old man slumped next to the trash can, his eyes closed and his hands and feet twitching.
Looking at his dress, he doesn't look like a homeless man begging for food. Besides, even a homeless man can't watch him get sick and die.
He hurriedly got off his bicycle and ran over to help the old man up.
This old man is not young, I am afraid that he is more than seventy years old, and according to his age, he is about the same age as Jiang Xiaohu's grandfather.
"Grandpa, are you okay?" Jiang Xiaohu patted his face, he was feverish and his hands were hot.
The old man muttered an address, which turned out to be a resident of Honghua Town. Jiang Xiaohu agreed and said to him: "Then you hold on, I'll take you to the hospital first." ”
He locked his bicycle next to the garbage can, and then carried the old man on his back to the town health center.
The health center is very small, next to the town government compound, and the location is in the middle of the town, which is very eye-catching. When he came to the health center, Jiang Xiaohu was frightened by the crowded people: "Wow, what time is it in the afternoon, and there are still so many people in the health center?"
The town health center is very small, and there are few formal medical workers, so Jiang Xiaohu can register the old man. But after registering, it was their turn to go for a consultation, but the doctor was off work.
Jiang Xiaohu helped the old man and watched a chubby middle-aged woman come out of the office, carrying a bag and perming curly hair, which was very fashionable in a small town.
Everyone nearby was greeting her: "Doctor Liu, are you off work?"
"Oh, Dr. Liu got off work so late, it's really hard!"
Those who say this are all employees of the health center. And Jiang Xiaohu, as well as the patients behind him, were anxious.
Jiang Xiaohu took out his mobile phone and looked at it, it was only five o'clock, and then looked at the hospital rules and regulations posted on the wall, it was clear that he was off work at half past five. There was still half an hour left, and the doctor actually locked the door and left.
He stopped the doctor Liu and said, "You are Dr. Liu, right? We have been queuing for a long time, can you help us take a look?"
At that time, Dr. Liu was chatting with a small nurse with a smile: "...... In other words, I made a special trip to the county seat ......"
Hearing Jiang Xiaohu say this, Dr. Liu turned his head and glanced at him, then continued to walk with his bag, without stopping, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight.
She didn't ridicule or refute, only that gentle glance, Jiang Xiaohu will never forget.
It was contempt, it was disregard, it was extreme contempt for him. Yes, for people like you, I don't even bother to scold.
Nineteen-year-old Jiang Xiaohu stood there awkwardly with a red face and red ears. Although the people around him didn't care about this, at most they glanced at him, thinking that he was young and ignorant, but he felt that the eyes of the whole world fell on him. Sarcastic, contemptuous, embarrassing.
At that moment, Jiang Xiaohu swore that one day, he must let this Dr. Liu kneel in front of him and admit his mistake.
He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and swore an oath. At this time, the situation of the old man next to him became more and more bad.
Jiang Xiaohu suddenly slapped his head and scolded himself for being a fool: "Fool, Jiang Xiaohu, don't you have a map of mountains and rivers?
According to the address given by the old man, Jiang Xiaohu carried him on his back again and went home.
When he arrived at the place, Jiang Xiaohu found that this household was really shabby. The low courtyard walls are covered with grass, and the wooden gates are decaying and are estimated to be decades old. Three tiled houses, one of which had a big hole in the roof.
However, although the yard is dilapidated, it is also clean. When you enter the door, there are farm tools on the left hand side, and a neat pile of pressed cardboard boxes on the right hand side.
Jiang Xiaohu remembered that when he picked up the old man, he also had a bunch of cardboard boxes and bottles beside him, which seemed to be picking up rags.