Dong Jiu has always been very provincial, but he is not the kind of person who picks the door, especially to friends. As long as it is allowed, Dong Jiu is also willing to get together with Xu Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Wanyi.

After all, he hadn't seen each other for so long, and he missed Xu Xiaoxiao a little. Although he is very busy every day, when he is free, he cares more and more about what news is on his mobile phone, and he will also look at Xu Xiaoxiao's circle of friends, whether he has updated anything, and wants to understand her life.

Every time he realized that something was wrong with his actions, he couldn't restrain his hand, and always wanted to care, more care. He thought it was just a way for him to make friends and wanted to cherish it more.

"Ding—"

It didn't take long for another message to come from the mobile phone in Dong Jiu's palm.

He immediately put down what he was doing, unlocked the screen and turned on the phone.

It was sent by Zhuang Wanyi.

Wanyi loves to pet cats: "Then let's make an appointment with a location." ”

Dong Jiu was not disappointed, and was about to type a good word to send out, Xu Xiaoxiao immediately replied with a message in seconds.

"I want to go for hot pot! Hey. ”

Seeing this, Dong Jiu was about to send out the good words, but he stopped abruptly. I deleted the word and typed it again.

"Okay."

Seeing these two words stay in the dialog box, this is sent. Dong Jiu was a little busy at work, so he put his mobile phone in his pocket, changed into work clothes, and started to work.

A few voices came from my ears, "Enjoy slowly." This gives him peace of mind to get to work.

After so many days, Dong Jiu has gained experience in working in this place, and he is not so slow and timid in doing things, but is still a little neat.

He's here to work on winter vacation, and the treatment here is okay.

On the other side, Xu Xiaoxiao chatted with Zhuang Wanyi in the group for a long time.

Zhuang Wanyi replied, "Then let's go eat hot pot." ”

"Hee-hee, where are you going to eat?" Xu Xiaoxiao is still a second back.

"What about Dong Jiu? Let him decide, I can do it. Zhuang Wanyi didn't know which store to go to eat, and Xu Xiaoxiao didn't know either, so she had to throw this pot to Dong Jiu and let Dong Jiu decide.

"What about Dong Jiu? At work? ”

Xu Xiaoxiao realized that Dong Jiu was not there, but he didn't reply after saying a good word.

When she finished typing, she took Dong Jiu with her hand.

Seeing that he didn't reply, then he was really at work, and he should be very busy at this point.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiaoxiao no longer had any intention of chatting, and began to think about what Dong Jiu was doing, whether he was happy or not, and whether he was tired or not.

She really wanted to ask Dong Jiu, but he was not here now. Xu Xiaoxiao was a little happy and a little looking forward to the thought of meeting him in a few days. She didn't know what she was expecting, but she especially missed her time at school for this moment.

"I want to start school, I'm so bored at home," Xu Xiaoxiao said.

"Me too, how good I am at school, I am scolded every day at home." Zhuang Wanyi can be said to be able to sit and never stand at home, and she can lie down and never sit.

The neighbor's children had heard it countless times, but she was unmoved.

Xu Xiaoxiao is the same, but her mind doesn't seem to be as simple as Zhuang Wanyi's, not only because of her parents, but also because she misses it a little.

"yes, I wish school was going to start soon." Xu Xiaoxiao is still a second back.

After speaking, Xu Xiaoxiao felt that the chat between the two people was in the group, which was a little inappropriate, although Dong Jiu was not an outsider.

Jokingly said again.

"It's just two of us, why are we talking in the group?"

"yes, just the two of us."

"Let's go for a private chat."

After these conversations, Dong Jiu was as busy as ever, Xu Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Wanyi also had endless topics to talk about, and they had been chatting, as for what to talk about, there were games, gossip incidents, and things they had been obsessed with recently, as well as Dong Jiu.

Soon, Dong Jiu's work was only busy for this period of time, and after this time period, he was not very busy.

But today is a bit special, until three o'clock in the afternoon, there are still people eating in the store, so he can't get off work yet, but someone is watching, so he can't take out his mobile phone to look at the news.

His mobile phone had been vibrating in the bag before, which showed that Xu Xiaoxiao was chatting with Zhuang Wanyi, but it never rang again, and he was very anxious to see what the two of them were talking about.

Catering is like this, other people's holidays are their busiest time, and they can't complain about the guests. Do the most tiring work and get the least salary.

……

Soon, the people at that table didn't eat for long, Dong Jiu still had time to rest, and immediately took out his mobile phone from his pocket and flipped through the chat history.

"It's up to you to decide, and it's up to you." Dong Jiu quickly typed out a string of words and sent it out.

Zhuang Wanyi was the first to reply, "That's up to Xu Xiaoxiao to decide, after all, she proposed it." ”

After speaking, she also gave Xu Xiaoxiao, because Xu Xiaoxiao told her that she was going to play a game, so the two didn't chat again.

Zhuang Wanyi went to take a nap for a while, woke up and swiped Douyin for a while, only to see Dong Jiu reply, so she immediately asked Xu Xiaoxiao, and wanted Xu Xiaoxiao to reply, she had to be able to see her.

Xu Xiaoxiao saw the news here, and immediately replied.

"Then let's go to Jiji Red Hot Pot, it's cheap over there, and the dishes are good. Wait until I'm done playing. ”

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't reply after saying this, Zhuang Wanyi immediately joked.

"What? Dead waiting for resurrection? ”

Dong Jiu only replied with a good sentence, and did not say much, and the message content of the dialog box stopped at Dong Jiu's good word.

After a while, Xu Xiaoxiao opened WeChat and prepared to chat with the two.

"I'm done."

"Do I have that kind of food? I'm playing the group back news, okay! Look at how good I am. ”

Xu Xiaoxiao said with a grin, although it was indeed waiting for resurrection, but she didn't admit it! If there really is something, she will put down the game to solve it. In her cognition, the game can be lost, but if something happens to her friend, she can't afford to wait.

Zhuang Wanyi didn't continue the topic, and posted, "I'll go see the package." ”

Dong Jiu was busy washing the dishes and didn't see these messages, but with the vibration in the mobile phone, a lot of smiles inadvertently appeared on his face.

"There is a package for 3-4 people, I think this is enough." Zhuang Wanyi took a screenshot of the picture and sent it over, which was the content of the dish.

There are fat beef rolls, fat lamb rolls, tender beef, bullfrogs, baby cabbage, spinach, wide noodles, crispy meat, fish fillets, etc... There are also two kinds of pot bottom two choices and two large bottles of Sprite 7-Up Coke choose one of three.

"This is fine, I'm fine." When Xu Xiaoxiao saw these dishes, she began to be greedy, and added, "I've already started to imagine the day we ate hot pot!" ”

"I hope you don't drool when you dream about it at night."

After a while, Dong Jiu also came out to chat for a while, and said that he had no problem with the itinerary.

The three of them spent the past few days without incident, and soon ushered in the day when their three good friends got together.

Eight o'clock in the morning.

"Wake up, I'm going to hang out with my friends today." A gentle voice sounded in his ears, Dong Jiu came back quite late last night, and fell asleep after taking a bath.

Well? It's Mom.

Dong Jiu rubbed his eyes slightly and woke up.

"Got it, Mom."

Dong Jiu has always been worry-free, so after hearing this, he left his son's room.

Seven o'clock is already very early for winter, so Dong Jiu didn't get up in a hurry, stretched out his hand to touch the mobile phone on the side, and then retracted it into the quilt.

turned on the phone and sent a good morning to Xu Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Wanyi, knowing that the two of them didn't get up so early, so they didn't bother them, it was still early before the departure time, and after listening to the song for a while, they got up.

After Dong Jiu got up, he tidied up the room, thinking that the two of them should get up, so he turned on his phone.

"Good morning."

"See you at the old place."

I didn't expect to meet a sentence from Xu Xiaoxiao.

Dong Jiu's reply was also very timely.

"Okay smile, I'll go now."

"Okay."

Dong Jiu didn't reply after seeing this word, and soon went out.

Soon, the three of them met in the old place.

The first one to arrive was Dong Jiu, followed by Xu Xiaoxiao.

"Dong Jiu, I haven't seen you for a long time, you've lost a lot of weight?" Xu Xiaoxiao said first, in fact, Dong Jiu's changes are still quite big, now he is a little more mature, he is very tired in catering work, and it is normal to lose weight.

"No, hahahahaha."

Dong Jiu was a little surprised when he heard this, in fact, he himself noticed that he was getting thinner day by day, and he obviously noticed that his current body seemed to have lost a lot of weight compared to the time school started.

Of course you will be happy to be praised, Dong Jiu said embarrassedly.

Today's Xu Xiaoxiao put down her hair and wore a black shirt top, and her smile was a little sweet.

Xu Xiaoxiao didn't continue the topic, took out her mobile phone from the small bag she was carrying and made a call to Zhuang Wanyi.

"Hey, laugh, laugh." Zhuang Wanyi's side was connected in seconds.

"I'll wait for you here with Dong Jiu, hurry up." Xu Xiaoxiao urged, she only drank a little porridge in the morning, so she couldn't be hungry now.

"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'm almost there." As soon as Zhuang Wanyi finished saying this, Xu Xiaoxiao had already hung up.

The speed of hanging up the phone is really fast, Zhuang Wanyi couldn't help but sigh.

The girl said quickly, then she must not believe it.

Dong Jiu and Xu Xiaoxiao talked about some catering problems again, and Xu Xiaoxiao arrived.

"Hey, hey, didn't you say it's fast?" Xu Xiaoxiao pursed her lips angrily, but she still stepped forward and grabbed Zhuang Wanyi's hand.

"Okay, smile, gather at twelve o'clock, you guys came early, and I happened to step on it." Zhuang Wanyi said.

"It's okay, let's go eat hot pot." Dong Jiu said.

The three of them walked on the road at the same pace, although they chatted on their mobile phones for many days, but how could they meet and chat for more days.

"Eh, do you like to eat bullfrogs?" Xu Xiaoxiao asked in order not to make Dong Jiu feel that it was a little redundant when the two of them were chatting.

"I'll be fine."

Dong Jiu is not a picky eater, so he will eat a little more or less.

"That's good, do you prefer Sprite or Coke?" Xu Xiaoxiao asked again.

On the side, Zhuang Wanyi also spoke, "Let's choose the bottom of the pot with mandarin ducks, some things must be spicy to be delicious." ”

"Uh-huh, yes." Dong Jiu and Xu Xiaoxiao said in unison.

The dishes were quickly served, Xu Xiaoxiao and Zhuang Wanyi were both spicy and unhappy, so even if there was a spicy pot, their bowl was red and spicy, in contrast, Dong Jiu's bowl was very bland, with only a little coriander floating on it.

"Dong Jiu, don't you eat spicy food?" Xu Xiaoxiao asked.

"I don't know how to eat spicy food, you eat it, don't worry about me."

"I see you like cilantro."

"Yes, it smells good."

Xu Xiaoxiao nodded, as if she had found a confidant, "I also eat coriander cutely, before I was at my house, Wanyi didn't eat coriander, and my mother didn't cook much" After speaking, she glanced at Zhuang Wanyi with disgust.

"What are you looking at, you can't stop your mouth when you eat."

Dong Jiu grinned and smiled.

"Dong Jiu, aren't you working, which store is it?"

"Just the intersection in front of you, just turn left"

Xu Xiaoxiao nodded, and the three of them ate to themselves without saying a word.

When she was almost done, Zhuang Wanyi stretched her waist, "Eh, can you play games?" ”

"What kind of game?"

"Of course it's the king, do you want to play?"

Xu Xiaoxiao nodded: "Go online."

Dong Jiu shook his head: "I don't play, I'll watch you play."

Xu Xiaoxiao turned his head around, "It's very simple, do you want to download one and try it." ”

Dong Jiu scratched the back of his head and handed the phone to Xu Xiaoxiao, Xu Xiaoxiao searched in the app store, pressed download, and a banner box with insufficient memory popped up, Xu Xiaoxiao pressed the return button: "Eh, this network is not good, or forget it." Xu Xiaoxiao returned the black screen of the phone to Dong Jiu.

Zhuang Wanyi shook her phone: "No, my network is very good"

"But it takes more than an hour to download the king, but it's troublesome, so forget it."

"Okay." Zhuang Wanyi put away her phone with some disappointment.

Dong Jiu took out his mobile phone, clicked on the app store by himself, searched for the game Glory of Kings, pressed download, and also prompted the message that the memory was not enough came out, his finger paused at the top of the mobile phone screen, and pressed the back button when nothing happened. He once again saw the gap between him and them, his mobile phone was sent when he was charging the phone bill, and it was only sixteen G, which was not as good as their current 32G and 64G. He was very grateful to Xu Xiaoxiao for protecting his little self-esteem. He feels a little inferior, but he is also jealous, jealous of the gap between other people's lives and his own, just like the money for their family to buy vegetables for one day, Dong Jiu's family can buy it for three days, or even four days.

Envy is envy, inferiority is inferiority, Dong Jiu feels that sooner or later he will be able to pay off all his debts and live such a life.

"What are you talking about, it seems that there is nothing to talk about" Zhuang Wanyi leaned on Xu Xiaoxiao's shoulder coyly.

"Why don't you go out shopping? The clothes look pretty good over there."

Sure enough, the girls are all the same, Zhuang Wanyi's eyes straightened when she heard the word shopping, "Go, let's go." ”

"Dong Jiu, what about you, are you going shopping with us, or are you going home or what are you going to do?"

"Aang, I can do it."

Xu Xiaoxiao nodded: "Then come with us for a walk, after all, we two weak women need your protection."

"Let's go, then."

"Let's go" Zhuang Wanyi seems to be the happiest, she especially likes to go shopping, because she can always buy a lot of beautiful dresses, and she has never been to this street, and she is also full of curiosity.

Dong Jiu accompanied them to go home after shopping at nine o'clock, in the aisle in the community, looking over, the lights in Dong Jiu's house were on, Dong Jiu frowned, it stands to reason that her mother should be setting up a stall at this time, how can she be at home, let alone have guests at home, so many years, my mother and relatives and friends have cut off contact, except for my grandparents, no one has come back, but now it is so late, my grandparents have already gone to bed, so who will it be.

Dong Jiu's mind flashed the appearance of many people, bad! Dong Jiu ran up and ran home, "Bang bang, open the door, open the door".

As expected, it was not his mother who opened the door, it was Liu Wenjie, who borrowed their loan sharks.

"Coming back? Do you want to drink water and rest?" Liu Wenjie patted him on the shoulder.

Dong Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, among the loan sharks borrowed, Liu Wenjie is the most humane, he will not start smashing things, beating people, he will only reason with you, like now, he came alone, poured water for him, cared about him, he knew the situation of Dong Jiu's family, never like how much debt they have to have, as long as they have how much money each month, just take out a little and transfer it to him, if it can't be transferred this month, he will also smile and say: "It's okay, just do more next month."

So thinking about it this way, he must have something urgent to come over this time.

Dong Jiu sat down on the sofa: "Uncle Liu, this ......"

"Uncle came here this time to urge you," Liu Wenjie interrupted Dong Jiu's words. "I also told your mother just now, my uncle has some problems with investment recently, and the capital turnover is not very good, so he needs some money, and you also know that if your uncle is not in a hurry, he has plenty of money, and he will not urge you to repay the money, so you see, pay back 15,000 yuan this month."

"Uncle Liu, this 15,000 is a bit not enough, let's pay 10,000 first, and I will pay you 10,000 at the end of this month, you see ......"

"It's only 5,000 yuan, it's not a lot, I haven't urged you much, right, and I haven't smashed things, I've always been good to you, you say yes"

"I know, I know, but fifteen thousand, we still need some time to save up, Uncle Liu"

"It's just 12,000, and it can't be missing"

"No, Uncle Liu, I beg you, you also see the situation in our family, and it is a little difficult to ...... ten thousand."

"Okay, Brother Liu, we'll put the 12,000 dozen on your card at the end of the month, it's hard for you to run this trip, you go slowly." This time it was Chen Xuefen who interrupted Dong Jiu's words, and when Liu Wenjie was sent away, Chen Xuefen sat down and looked at Dong Jiu: "What did my mother say to you before, did you give it all back to me."

Dong Jiu shook his head: "I remember, you said, no matter what, we can't ask for help, we can't be looked down upon, but mom ......"

"Okay, just remember, it's your dead father who owes them, not us, you understand?"

"Mom, I see"

"Just understand, I'll go wash up."

Chen Xuefen went back to the room to sleep very early today, and Dong Jiu also went back, this ten thousand two is still more tricky, the money was allocated well, but it was messed up by this sudden change.

Sometimes, life is like this, there are accidents everywhere, there are surprises everywhere, Dong Jiu feels that he is lucky, there are many accidents, countless, but there are few surprises, but each of them can make him stop for a long time, like Xu Xiaoxiao, he didn't know that at this time, the feeling for Xu Xiaoxiao was more than friendship.

The next day, Dong Jiu got up very early, with two dark circles under his eyes, and the situation last night made it difficult for him to sleep all night, and he began to think of trying to make up money to see who could lend him money.

When he walked to work in the store, he was a little distracted, Su Ze noticed his abnormality, originally a person like him who didn't gossip, there was no need to ask, but after thinking about the gift at that time, coupled with his sister's careful education, he felt that it was better to ask.

"Hello, what's wrong with you" Su Ze asked very politely, it was this facial paralysis expression that made people look more impolite.

"It's okay, it's okay." Dong Jiu waved his hand.

Su Ze nodded and left, this makes it clear that the other party is unwilling to tell himself, so why does he have to go up to ask for it, anyway, he has no interest in knowing.

When Dong Jiu came back to his senses, he remembered the scene where Su Ze asked him what was wrong just now, and blinked, is Su Ze concerned about me? It seems so, but he didn't tell him, but he can't say it, and if this thing is revealed, he may lose the few friends he has now.

Xu Xiaoxiao came back from shopping that day to stay at Zhuang Wanyi's house, and left the next morning. And the big news when she went home was that Ye Lan's father was a good friend of her father, and she entered that high school, and it was also because of Ye Lan's father's help that the two families got together to make an appointment.

The women were chatting about fashion gossip, the men were drinking and talking, and the two little ghosts, Ye Lan and Xu Xiaoxiao, were bored sitting in their chairs.

"Xu Xiaoxiao, right?"

"Senior, remember my name?"

Ye Lan nodded: "The image is very profound, and the smoking incident is still fresh in my memory."

Xu Xiaoxiao almost didn't choke on drinking water, this person is too good at choking.

"Senior sister, what do you think of our school?"

Xu Xiaoxiao shook his head: "It's not good, it's too loose."

Ye Lan raised her eyebrows: "What do you say?"

"Do you know, if it was my previous junior high school, people like Chen Zhen would have been persuaded to quit a long time ago, and they would only use violence to solve problems, like a campus overlord."

Hearing this, Ye Lan frowned, expressing her disagreement, "Actually, none of you know Chen Zhen, he is a person, but he looks like a fool on the surface, and his life is actually not like this at all." ”

Xu Xiaoxiao shook his head: "I don't believe what others say, sometimes it is false, I only believe what I watched, he kicked Dong Jiu several times."

"Hahaha, senior sister, you protect Dong Jiu so much, what is the relationship between him and you?" Ye Lan didn't continue this topic with great interest, but changed the topic.