Chapter 61: Find a place to live
There are a lot of things that can be played in the Jiangcheng business district for 200 yuan, but if you want to have fun, you have to save some money... Qiu Yuan didn't do much research in this area.
If Bai Xiaoyu wanted to play for an afternoon, Qiu Yuan chose the most time-saving and labor-saving method and took her to watch a foreign popcorn movie.
When Qiu Yuan was watching a movie with Bai Xiaoyu, it was much easier than watching a movie with Wanxiang girl.
When watching a movie with Lin Wanxiang, Qiu Yuan's brain cells could die as much as they could, and they all thought about how to deal with Lin Wanxiang's dumb riddle.
Bai Xiaoyu is much more relaxed here, she is a good playmate when she lets go of her hostility towards Qiu Yuan, she understands what Qiu Yuan said, and she will also pull Qiu Yuan to complain about a bunch of routine plots in the movie.
"You're going to have a car chase later, right? Foreign movies are boring with this set. ”
"I knew this person was a villain, and there were too many plots hinted at earlier."
"This heroine has no role in the plot at all, just dragging her feet..."
At the beginning of the movie, Bai Xiaoyu still had a cold face, and she didn't want to talk to Qiu Yuan at all, but the more she wanted to say in the middle of the movie, the more things she wanted to say, and finally Qiu Yuan chatted with her for a word or two, and she couldn't help but start chatting with Qiu Yuan about the plot.
In the end, the more we chatted, the more fun I became, and I temporarily removed the cold face I had on Qiu Yuan before.
Bai Xiaoyu was also very careful not to disturb the audience next to her when she complained about the plot, so she lowered her voice very low, and subconsciously came to Qiu Yuan's side as she spoke.
This made Qiu Yuan deeply experience Bai Xiaoyu's brutality, and the arrogant side seemed to be only for himself.
She still attaches great importance to all kinds of etiquette in public, although Bai Xiaoyu's sitting posture sometimes unconsciously puts her little feet on the chair, but in other aspects she still takes into account the feelings of others.
After all, she is still a little girl who is only seventeen years old, and I don't know what pressure she has endured because of her mother over the years.
After the movie, Qiu Yuan took Bai Xiaoyu to other entertainment venues in the International Trade Center, but Bai Xiaoyu's physical condition was not very optimistic, and she was already trying her best not to let Qiu Yuan notice her weakness.
Qiu Yuan didn't point it out, because pointing it out would only make her continue to make trouble, and the friend atmosphere that she had finally created would dissipate in an instant.
In this way, Qiu Yuan and Bai Xiaoyu walked out of the shopping mall of the International Trade Center and came to the street outside, the sky outside had completely darkened, and the time was nine o'clock in the evening.
Bai Xiaoyu showed some signs of fever, and the whole person looked a little groggy.
"Where do you sleep at night?" Qiu Yuan inadvertently asked this question.
As a result, Bai Xiaoyu, who was still a little sleepy just now, instantly entered a combat state when she heard this, she looked at Qiu Yuan with a vigilant face, she had been chatting too happily with Qiu Yuan when she was watching a movie before, so she began to rely on Qiu Yuan a little.
Then Qiu Yuan's words emptied the little trust and dependence that Bai Xiaoyu had just had on him.
But Qiu Yuan had to ask this, Bai Xiaoyu's physical condition no longer allowed Qiu Yuan to continue to take her around.
Anyway, during the movie, Qiu Yuan had already received 320 yuan in nursing fees.
"You think I'm going to take you to the hotel?" Qiu Yuan had a smile on his face that made Bai Xiaoyu uneasy.
"You... If you dare, I'll fight with you! Although Bai Xiaoyu's voice was weak, it still had the feeling of a little tiger whining.
"What can I do? We can't sleep on the streets, can we? ”
Qiu Yuan had asked Bai Xiaoyu if she could go to her fellow schoolmate's accommodation today, but Bai Xiaoyu chose to be silent about this question, and her silence was equivalent to answering no.
"It's okay to sleep on the street..."
Bai Xiaoyu would rather sleep on a park bench than go to the hotel with Qiu Yuan, she said and turned around and wanted to leave, but after taking a few steps, her body shook and almost collapsed.
Fortunately, Qiu Yuan quickly grabbed her hand, Bai Xiaoyu struggled after standing firm and wanted to break free of Qiu Yuan's hand, she thought she was going to struggle, but Qiu Yuan let go after making sure she stood firm.
This made Bai Xiaoyu stunned for a while.
"I thought of a place where one of my female friends lived, right in our school." Qiu Yuan confirmed that she didn't have a fever when he held Bai Xiaoyu's hand just now, and then said a place to live that he had already thought of.
"At your school?"
Bai Xiaoyu felt a little relieved when she heard that place, maybe in her concept, the school was a safe place, but whether it was safe or not needed for her to be confirmed when she arrived at that place.
"I need to ask first."
Qiu Yuan took out his mobile phone, opened Zhao Hanwei's WeChat, and sent a message.
"Lao Zhao, the child I used to be a tutor had some trouble with the family, and now I am looking for a place to live, can you help me ask your sister if she would like to take it in?" ’
The only temporary place Qiu Yuan can think of is Zhao Hanwei's sister's attic, Qiu Yuan came to Jiangcheng from other provinces to study, and he has no relatives here, so he can't secretly carry Bai Xiaoyu to the boys' dormitory, right?
It seems that the girls' dormitory can also be, but... No matter how you look for the female classmate in the class, it seems to make the situation very, very troublesome.
In summary, the safest place is still Zhao Hanwei's sister's residence.
'Teacher Bai Ya's child? ’
'yes. Qiu Yuan remembered that Zhao Hanwei's sister and Bai Ya should have known each other, after all, Zhao Kewei was also the starring role of "The Old Man from Far Away".
I said hello to my sister, you can take her directly, my sister will take care of her." Zhao Hanwei replied.
Get!
Qiu Yuan didn't think about carrying Bai Xiaoyu to the hotel tonight, and it was impossible to let this girl go to the hotel unless he tied her up.
"Go?" Qiu Yuan showed Bai Xiaoyu the chat records between himself and Zhao Hanwei.
Bai Xiaoyu may really not be able to hold it now, and after seeing that the other party knows her mother, she still decided to accept Qiu Yuan's proposal.
Qiu Yuan directly called a taxi to take Bai Xiaoyu to the gate of Jiangcheng University of Arts, and Qiu Yuan glanced around suspiciously before getting out of the car.
But after thinking about it carefully, Qiu Yuan didn't do anything unfortunate, now it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, and there were no students at the school gate, so he took Bai Xiaoyu out of the car and walked towards Zhao Hanwei's sister's residence.
"You're going to take me to the girls' dormitory?"
Bai Xiaoyu followed Qiu Yuan on the path of Jiangcheng University of Arts, guessing where Qiu Yuan would let her live.
What is the girls' dormitory? More exciting than the girls' dormitory.
Qiu Yuan didn't answer Bai Xiaoyu, the street lights where Zhao Hanwei's sister lived were still not repaired, and there were no people around, which made Bai Xiaoyu more and more uneasy.
In the end, when Qiu Yuan took Bai Xiaoyu to the door of the express station, the supermarkets and fruit shops on both sides of the express station were also closed, and there was not a single student to be seen on the entire road.
Zhao Hanwei's sister Zhao Kewei had been waiting at the door of the express station for a long time, and she was still wearing the clothes she wore when she was a courier, so even if Bai Xiaoyu had watched "The Old Man from Far Away", she probably wouldn't recognize her.
"She's Teacher Bai Ya's daughter?" Zhao Kewei looked at Bai Xiaoyu and asked.
"Do you know my mother?" Bai Xiaoyu felt that the courier in front of her was a little familiar, but she couldn't say how familiar she was.
"Acquaintance." Zhao Kewei didn't mention much about her relationship with Bai Ya, but pointed to the stairs to the attic, "Come with me, it's no problem for you to stay here for one night today." ”
Although Bai Xiaoyu was a little suspicious, for the sake of the other party being a girl, she still followed Zhao Ke to the attic.
Zhao Kewei may have known that there were guests coming, so he cleaned up the attic in advance, but the attic is always an attic, and it was originally designed to be used as a place to put sundries.
Not to mention the small place, the roof is very low, a fluorescent lamp hangs on the roof that emits a warm glow, and there is only enough space for a bed and a chair in less than ten square meters, and the whole attic is full of a cramped, shabby, and shabby feeling.
Bai Xiaoyu, a lady who is used to living in a villa of more than 300 meters, will inevitably feel aggrieved when she suddenly deigns to live here.
But Bai Xiaoyu was very strong, she didn't complain about the poor living conditions here, and she didn't even show any aggrieved expression, but just asked Zhao Kewei very carefully, "Can I take a bath here?" ”
"Yes, this is the place to take a shower." Zhao Kewei pointed out the bathroom she used to Bai Xiaoyu, she walked into it and looked around, but found that she didn't find what she was looking for.
"What about water heaters and showers?" Bai Xiaoyu asked.
"Water heater?" Zhao Kewei suddenly laughed when he heard this, "I'm sorry for the eldest lady of the Bai family, this small place doesn't have such high-end things, if you want to take a bath, take a hot water kettle to boil water first, and then put that bucket in a water cup to wash." ”
That's too down-to-earth, isn't it? Qiu Yuan remembered that this was how she bathed in her hometown when she was a child, and a child like Bai Xiaoyu who grew up in the city didn't seem to be able to accept this way of bathing, but she still endured it.
I followed Qiu Yuan outside to play today, her whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and her clothes were sticky to her body, making her unbearable.
Qiu Yuan silently watched her honestly use the water heater to draw water, and then after the water boiled, it was all poured into the bucket, so well-behaved that she didn't look like the rude and willful girl before.
But after Bai Xiaoyu locked the bathroom door alone, Qiu Yuan realized that she was not as strong as she imagined.
The sobbing sound came from behind the door little by little, it was not that she didn't want to cry, she just didn't want to cry in front of Qiu Yuan.
Her strong self-esteem made her endure until now, and vented all the grievances she had accumulated in the recent period.
Bai Xiaoyu was still trying very hard to restrain her sobbing voice, but it was useless, the attic was so small that even the sound of people's breathing could be heard clearly, let alone her sobbing.
Qiu Yuan can understand this grievance, this is like a dormitory during military training, suddenly living very comfortably at home, but being pulled to the dilapidated collective dormitory of the military training base for training.
"What the hell is going on in her house?" Zhao Kewei asked out of curiosity.
"I'm afraid it's her mother who wants to sell the house in order to make a new movie..."Qiu Yuan started first, and Zhao Kewei understood what it meant.
Bai Ya's recent developments Zhao Kewei is also paying attention, if Bai Ya wants to make a new movie desperately in this state, Zhao Kewei feels that she has only the road to bankruptcy.
Bai Xiaoyu has been listening to her mother all these years, saving money, and not causing trouble to her mother, in order not to want the only family she has to be sold.
"What about you? What are you following her for? Zhao Kewei turned her attention to Qiu Yuan's body, and she looked at Qiu Yuan's eyes very strangely.
"Me? If you insist on saying it, it's to fulfill her wish. Qiu Yuan was about to go downstairs while he was talking, "I'll go buy her dinner..."
Now is the time when Bai Xiaoyu is most helpless, and it is also the time when she needs people's attention the most, and now maybe Qiu Yuan is the only chance to get closer to Bai Xiaoyu.