Liangxi Town, located in the northwest border, has a population of tens of thousands, and its business is relatively prosperous compared to the surrounding cities.

Yongxing Supermarket is the largest supermarket in town, and it is crowded with customers who come here to buy daily necessities and food.

In one corner of the supermarket is the bargain handling area, where a lot of cheap food is piled up, and there are more people in front of the shelves than in other areas.

A man in a dark trench coat stopped there, picked for a while, and finally picked up a bag of bread. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of another kind of bread next to him that was cheaper, and he hesitated to choose the cheaper one.

"Don't pick and choose all the time? Hurry up and check out if you take it. The clerk next to her was a middle-aged woman, and she had been noticing that this person was always picking food here, and often picking more and buying less, so she felt a little emotional.

Coming out of the supermarket, the man was walking down the street with his purchases, and when he passed by the door of a flower shop, he stopped and wandered his eyes around the flower shop.

"It's been half a year...... under the hood of the trench coat, the man's face was mostly covered, and his voice was so low that it was almost inaudible, but his heart was suddenly touched.

"Jia Ning, Lao Gu, Xiao You and Xijun...... Are you all okay now? ”

With a sigh, the man finally turned his face away, withdrew his gaze from the flower shop, and continued to walk forward.

Back downstairs in the apartment, it was an old-fashioned street building, the man rented the upper floor, and downstairs was a grocery store owned by the old landlord.

The sun was shining outside, but the stairwell inside the house was dim, there was no light in the corridor, and the man could only see the way with the light from the glass at the door.

He was just about to climb the stairs when his gaze turned to the dimly lit corner at the bottom of the stairs.

"Come out." The man said in a deep voice.

In the dark, a little girl who looked like seven or eight years old came out, she looked at Ding Xiu, took off the headphones on her ears, and whispered, "I didn't steal." ”

The man ignored her and turned to go upstairs.

The little girl chased after her and shouted, "It's true, I didn't steal anymore." ”

"What are these?" She stared curiously at what the man was carrying.

The man took a candy out of the bag and handed it to her, and the little girl immediately smiled and went on to talk about something about herself.

"Today I helped a male classmate, and everyone asked me if I liked him, how could I like him." "And oh, my teeth are shaking, uncle, have you ever had a tooth extracted?"

When the man heard her talk about her teeth, he took back the candy from her hand.

"Ah~" The little girl wailed, regretting that she had just said the wrong thing: "I knew it would be like this......"

The walls next to the corridor were mottled, and there was a smell of dampness in the hallway, so the man entered the room and closed the door, leaving the little girl outside.

The little girl seemed to be accustomed to it, and she ran to a window that had been opened next to her, and she leaned on the outstretched windowsill and looked inside, and said, "Why do children have to pull out their teeth, I really don't want to pull them......

The man sat down by the window of the house, which had a small hole in it and was used to deliver money. He opened a small pawnshop here, which was his livelihood in the town.

The man was Ding Xiu, and he took off his hood, revealing his original face inside. Compared to when he was in Brilliant City, not only does he have much longer hair, but he also has a lot of stubble on his lips and chin.

It had been half a year since he left Brilliant City, and in the first four months of this half-year, he had traveled thousands of kilometers just to avoid the sight of the Qin family, and finally chose to settle down in this small town on the northwest border and rented an old-fashioned small building.

The little girl is the daughter of the tenant at the door, and Ding Xiu only knows her name as Xiaomi. Millet has no father, and her mother is a dancer in a town pub who rarely comes back, and when she does, she just brings some food for her daughter.

Millet is often hungry, and usually relies on the old man and Ding Xiu to get some food, so this girl is very willing to get close to Ding Xiu.

"Uncle, this is for you." Xiaomi took off the music player hanging around her neck and passed it through the small hole in the window along with the headphones.

Ding Xiu opened the drawer and pulled out a bill from it for her.

"Why 100 Brie?" Xiaomi took the money and was stunned for a moment, Ding Xiu gave her a lot of these.

"I didn't pay you back 50 last time." Ding Xiu said.

Xiaomi thought about it, but didn't remember that Ding Xiu still owed him money.

She smiled at Ding Xiu, "I packed a lot of new songs into it, you listen." ”

"The songs you listen to are weird." Ding Xiu's voice was neither salty nor light.

Xiaomi pouted: "How can there be." ”

She was just about to turn around and leave, when she suddenly saw bread in the bag that Ding Xiu had brought back. The little girl's eyes lit up, and her stomach screamed.

"Uncle, I like bread too." Xiaomi said with a smile, with a hint of cunning between her delicate eyebrows.

Ding Xiu was tidying up the things on the table, and when he heard her words, he raised his head and glanced at her.

The cut bread was brought to the table in the back room, and Ding Xiu fried two eggs.

Looking at the gobbling millet, he asked, "Can you tell me why you sold the player for listening to songs for money?" ”

"Most of it goes to mom...... I'll keep a little bit more for myself, I'm going to do a manicure. You see~" she said and raised her hands and showed the patterns on her fingernails to Ding Xiu.

Those patterns are all children's smiling faces, which seems quite childish to Ding Xiu, but Xiaomi is very proud. She continued: "I'm the best nail art in the class, uncle, do you want me to make one for you too?" Recently, it has also become popular for men to do it. ”

Ding Xiu didn't reply to her words, and saw that she was about to run out of dishes on her plate, so he gave her his own omelette.

"Uncle, are you a member of the gangster society?" With some worry in her grateful eyes, Millet said, "Everyone said that, and mom said that you also have scars on your hands...... Let me be careful of you. ”

Ding Xiu's hand holding the chopsticks paused slightly.

Mi noticed the strangeness of his expression, rolled his eyes, and asked, "How did you get it?" ”

"Do you think I'm a bad person too?"

"Maybe." Xiaomi didn't know how to answer, she was actually quite entangled in her heart.

Ding Xiu nodded, his gaze a little gloomy.

There was a sudden knock on the iron door outside, and then Xiaomi heard her mother's shout.

"Stinky girl, are you here?"

"It's my mom! Uncle, say I'm not here. Xiaomi stood up in fright, pleaded with Ding Xiu, and quickly hid under the table.

"Open the door!" Xiaomi's mother shouted outside the door, and when she saw that no one was opening the door, she ran to the window to look around.

She saw Ding Xiu coming out of the inner room and asked, "Is Millet here for you?" ”

"Not there." Ding Xiu replied to her.

"She's definitely here with you, otherwise why don't you open the door?" The woman outside the house seemed a little unyielding.

Seeing that Ding Xiu still didn't mean to open the door, she shouted into the window: "Xiaomi, I know you're inside, get out of here, otherwise I'm welcome." ”

"She's really not here, if you don't believe it, come in and find it yourself." Ding Xiu suddenly opened the door uncharacteristically, and turned sideways to let her in.

The woman hesitated.