Chapter 10: The Haze
The Dragon Boat Festival has arrived on the fifth day of the fifth month of May.
When I woke up, I remembered that Jingjing asked Anne to go shopping with me today.
Anne got up, the sun was already shining in the sky outside, and she had finished washing.
Anne began to apply sunscreen, the bottle of sunscreen was a little embarrassing for Anne, because the sunscreen will be whitened when applied thickly, and Anne is dark, Anne, who had just finished applying sunscreen, looked at herself in the mirror, a little frightened, it felt like a dark brown and burnt braised egg fell into a flour bag, which is called a white and black.
Anne looked more and more awkward left and right, and Anne couldn't understand why sunscreen was as white as painted paint, so it couldn't be divided into shades like foundation.
It looked awkward left and right, and finally washed it off.
Anne thought it would be better to put on a hat, and a few days ago, my aunt mailed a beautiful sunscreen straw hat from Yanjing.
It was specially bought for Anne by my aunt when she went on vacation to the island country before, and Anne has not had a chance to wear it since she received it.
Because I ride a bicycle every day to school, and the time on the road is in a hurry, the fast wind of the car riding is strong, and I can't wear a hat, in case the wind blows away, but how good, today Anne wants to go out and don't ride, take the bus.
So Anne simply rubbed some cream on the barrier, applied a pale pink lip balm, tied her hair into a side braid, wore a little hat, and cleaned up her head.
Anne began to look for clothes again, and after going back and forth several times, she always felt that she did not match the hat, and finally Anne chose a short skirt with a denim strap and a dark green camisole top.
Anne dressed, looked at herself in the mirror, well, this time it was much more pleasing to the eye, called Jingjing, Jingjing said that she had just woken up, and she had to take a shower, and it would take a while to clean up, so let Anne go to Jingjing's house to wait for her first.
Anne hung up the phone and walked towards Jingjing's house, Jingjing's house was in the community opposite Anne's house, and she lived in front of and behind Li Qiang's house.
As soon as Anne walked out of the corridor door, the heat wave was coming, the Dragon Boat Festival was really not a joke, the hottest time of the year really came, Anne didn't dare to go out to the middle of the road, she walked along the edge of the building, thinking that she could avoid the scorching heat of the sun.
The funny thing is that it's half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun is just in the sky, except for the north side of the building. There was not a hint of shade. Just arrived at the gate of Jingjing's community.
Li Qiang rode over. Both of them stopped, and Anne said, "Qiangzi, why are you going at noon?"
Li Qiang said, "Where are you going?" Anne replied, "Jingjing asked me to go shopping for clothes with her."
When Li Qiang heard this, his face sank, and his expression was complicated: "You come with me, I have something to tell you."
Anne said, "You say."
Li Qiang looked left and right, and pulled Annie to a corner of the courtyard of the community.
Anne was a little anxious, and said anxiously: "What are you doing, if you have something to say, why are you chattering?"
Li Qiang took a plastic bag from the handle of the bicycle and said: "This is my mother's zongzi, and braised chicken feet, I was going to your house to send it to you, my mother said, your mother is on a business trip again, you must not have anything to eat alone, my mother got up at 5 o'clock in the morning to do it, no, just done, it's still steaming, let me send it to you, let you eat it for lunch, you haven't eaten yet, right?" Why don't you go to my house."
Anne saw that Li Qiang was embarrassed, so she called Jingjing and sent a text message, saying that Jingjing should not be in a hurry, clean up slowly, and Anne would go to her after eating.
Along the way, Anne always felt that Li Qiang was preoccupied, sullen and did not speak, a few steps to Li Qiang's house, Li Qiang's house is the first floor, as soon as you enter the door, the security door is not locked, and the door inside is also wide open.
Anne and Li Qiang went in, Li Qiang's mother was still cooking in the kitchen, and Anne asked for the first time: "Where is your father?"
Li Qiang muttered: "He hasn't been back for a long time" Anne was wondering, Li Qiang's mother came out of the kitchen with a plate of pipi shrimp.
Seeing Annie, Li Qiang's mother was a little surprised, and said: "Auntie said in the morning, let Qiangzi call you to come to the house for dinner, your mother is busy with work and always on a business trip, you eat alone in the canteen or blindly, now it's okay, Auntie made several dishes today, go wash your hands."
After saying that, Li's mother plunged into the kitchen to cook again.
Anne felt a warm current in her heart, but Anne was a shy child, not very good at expressing herself, and she was obviously grateful in her heart, but she couldn't say a word in her mouth.
turned around and Anne went into the bathroom, and as soon as the bathroom came out, Anne was pulled into the small bedroom by Li Qiang.
"Annie, I'll tell you one thing, don't tell Jingjing, don't say it to anyone"
Annie: "Hadron, what's wrong with you?" Mysterious, we've been playing together for so long, I'm not Jingjing, and my mouth is not big, I won't talk nonsense, what's wrong with you? ”
Li Qiang sat on the stool in front of the desk, with his back to Anne, who felt that Li Qiang was very strange and sat on the bed suspiciously.
Li Qiang turned around and said slowly: "My dad hasn't been home for a long time, it's been half a year, do you know where he is?" Anne shook her head inexplicably, feeling that Li Qiang's words made Anne confused.
Annie: "Where's your dad?" Li Qiang looked outside carefully, stood up, and closed the bedroom door.
said: "My dad has a mistress, he and the mistress rented a house outside, and they haven't been home for a long time"
Anne was dumbfounded, Li Qiang: "Do you know who the junior is?" Anne shook her head with her mouth wide open.
Li Qiang: "That bad woman is Jingjing's stepmother"
"Ahh
Annie: "How do you know?"
Li Qiang: "I followed my dad twice, he and Jingjing's stepmother rented a house on the side of Xueyuan South Road, and the two of them have lived together for half a year."
Anne said, "Does your mother know?" Does Jingjing know? ”
Li Qiang: "He hasn't been home for so long, my mother doesn't know, but she shouldn't know who that little girl is"
Anne asked again, "What about Jingjing?" Does Jingjing know? ”
Li Qiang shook his head and said, "I don't know if Jingjing knows or not, but don't tell Jingjing."
Anne took a deep breath and nodded, and Mother Li called us to eat at the restaurant.
The two of us sorted out our emotions and pretended that nothing had happened, and went out to eat.
There are 4 dishes on the table, a plate of spinach salad jellyfish head, a plate of steamed shrimp, a plate of braised chicken nuggets, and a plate of cucumbers.
Li's mother looked at Anne and said, "Anne, you will often come to our house for dinner in the future, our family is just me and Qiangzi, and in the future, your mother will go on a business trip or something, you will come over to eat, you see that you are thin, eat more."
Mother Li said, serving a big bowl of rice to Anne, Mother Li peeled shrimp for Anne vigorously, and the plate in front of Anne was full of peeled shrimp.
Mother Li said while peeling it: "Anne, you eat more, your child's aunt is yellow and thin every time she sees you, eat more, you are growing taller now, how can you not eat enough nutrition?"
Anne felt a little sour in her heart, what a gentle and virtuous mother Mother Li is, why is Anne's mother not like this, Li Qiang used to always say that his mother would make a lot of delicious food, and always changed the tricks to make Li Qiang delicious.
What is popular, his mother always learns to cook for him as soon as possible, but she is afraid that the food outside is not clean, the raw materials are not good, and there is no nutrition.
So, Li Qiang's white and fat food, Dididi, Jingjing's text message came, telling Anne to hurry over to her house after eating for a while, Li's mother's cooking is really delicious, especially the cold jellyfish head, which is particularly crisp and fresh.
Anne hasn't eaten jellyfish head for a long time, because Anne's mother is allergic to seafood, so she never buys seafood, and the seafood next to Anne doesn't like to eat so much, it's a hairy crab, a jellyfish head, I like it very much.
Anne thinks that summer without jellyfish heads is not a good summer, and autumn without hairy crabs is not a good autumn.
After eating, Anne hurriedly said goodbye to Li Qiang.
Before leaving, my mother also said: "You go shopping, it's inconvenient to take the zongzi, and when you get home at night, your aunt will ask Qiangzi to ride you to your house."
Jingjing sent a WeChat reminder vigorously, Anne ran to go, and it was Jingjing's stepmother who went up to open the door, which scared Anne.
One is because she's wearing a black seaweed mask, and the other is because of what she just knew.
As soon as Anne entered the door, Jingjing opened her throat and shouted, "Annie, come quickly!"
Anne walked into Jingjing's bedroom, Jingjing was wearing a mask and drying her hair, pulled Anne to sit on the small sofa at the end of the bed, and closed the door.
Tear off the mask, sit on the arm of the sofa, grab Anne's ear and whisper: "I tell you, my dad is going to divorce her, and she will get out of the house in a few days"
At this moment, knock knock, Jingjing impatiently pulled her throat and said, "Come in~come"
The aunt came in with a plate of cut watermelon, and Jingjing said impatiently, "Eh, I said you can't go into my room?" I'm talking to Anne, what are you doing? ”
As she spoke, Jingjing raised her eyebrows and took the watermelon and closed the door.
handed the watermelon in his hand to Annie: "Nini, you eat watermelon first, I'll wash my face, clean up and let's go, my dad gave me 500 yuan today, I'll invite you to eat KFC after buying clothes."
After saying that, Jingjing ran to the bathroom without looking back, Anne had just eaten too much, and she couldn't eat it anymore, so she put the watermelon on Jingjing's desk.
Jingjing washed her face and came into the bedroom, closed the door and started, sat cross-legged on the bed and began to wipe the oil, rubbing the oil, and looked at Anne.
"Nini, your straw hat is so beautiful, where did you buy it? Give it a try."
With that, he reached out and picked up Anne's straw hat, put it on, and began to admire it in front of the mirror.
Anne said, "This is what my aunt bought for me, and if you like, I'll ask my aunt to buy you one too."
Jingjing gritted her teeth and said with a smile: "Ah, Nini, your aunt is really good to you, okay, you ask your aunt to find someone to help me bring one, I want to be exactly the same as you, when I buy it, I'll give you the money, eh, Nini, why don't you eat watermelon?"
Annie: "I just had lunch at Qiangzi's house, and it was too much to eat."
When Jingjing heard the name of Qiangzi, she was stunned for a moment, oh, stood up and began to comb her hair, and after cleaning up and dressing, Jingjing pulled Anne to put on her shoes and shouted: "I went out shopping."
As soon as she went out, Jingjing pulled Annie and ran out of the corridor quickly, pulled Annie's ear and whispered: "There is something, I don't know if I should tell you or not" Annie had a hunch that what Jingjing was going to say might be related to Li Qiang's father.
Anne said, "I don't want to hear it, so you better stop talking."
Jingjing said, "Have you heard?"
Anne looked at Jingjing and nodded helplessly.
Jingjing said with a big grin: "Actually, it's nothing, I just found out yesterday, I said why she hasn't been at home in the past six months, it turns out that she has been with Qiangzi and his father, my dad told me yesterday, anyway, my dad is going to divorce her, and she will get out in a few days, you said that the front and back of this building, the rabbit still doesn't eat the grass by the nest, she is too shameless, and I will be embarrassed to see Qiangzi in the future."
The hot sweat outside was dripping, and Anne urged Jingjing to stop standing here on a hot day, and dragged Jingjing onto the bus.
As soon as the bus door opened, it was like the freezer of a refrigerator was opened, and Anne shivered as soon as she got on the bus.
Okay, it's 40 degrees outside, and it's 18 degrees on the bus. In a second, after 22 degrees, Anne couldn't help but sneeze, but there were not many people on the bus.
Because there were only 2 stops on the road, Anne and Jingjing didn't sit down, they stood at the back door and got off.
From 18 degrees back to the 40 degrees in the big steamer, into the underground shopping street, Anne and Jingjing are happily immersed in the world of clothes, girls will always be slaves of clothes.
Usually it's tiring to run a gym at school, but when you go shopping, you won't be tired at all.
Jingjing said that she wanted to choose a skirt today, but after 3 hours, she had 2 T-shirts and a pair of shorts, but she didn't buy the skirt Jingjing wanted.
Anne didn't buy anything, and when she went out, she felt that it was such a hot day. Sweating, I felt a little at a loss if I didn't buy anything, and Anne regretted it when she went out, and she had to go in and buy something for herself.
The two of them turned back and continued shopping, but they didn't see the clothes they liked, and finally bought themselves a pair of red high-top canvas shoes with the mentality of not buying and suffering.
After buying it, Anne finally got down-to-earth, Jingjing was a little tired from shopping, and said that she should hurry up to replenish her energy.
The exit of the underground street is KFC, Jingjing and Anne ordered snow top coffee and big potatoes, and one spicy chicken leg burger per person.
When making the payment, Jingjing Fei said that she would have a treat today, but Anne stubbornly insisted on AA and sat down.
Jingjing said, "Nini, do you see the community on the red roof opposite?" My stepmom and Qiangzi and his father live here. ”
Anne looked out the window, sighed, and said: "Don't think about these things, anyway, we don't understand the affairs of adults, what's the matter, besides, your father will divorce her immediately, she will have nothing to do with you in the future, she can be as good as she likes, and she can't lose your people, let her go by herself, let her be good, and if she does more injustice, she will kill herself."
Jingjing looked at Annie: "Nini, thank you for listening to me, really, I usually look very noisy, I also love to talk and laugh, and I am bold." In fact, I also have a very fragile side in my heart, there are some things that I can't tell anyone but you, do you understand? ”
Anne rarely sees Jingjing have such a side, Jingjing at this moment is no longer the heartless little girl who smiles with steel braces on weekdays, Anne feels a little sorry for Jingjing.
Anne shook Jingjing's hand holding the snow-topped coffee and nodded affectionately.
Eh, it's really a hard thing to read in every family, and it seems that every family has unspeakable secrets that are not enough for outsiders.
Coming out of KFC, Jingjing was in a much better mood, and Anne silently blessed Jingjing in her heart.
I hope that all the gloom and unhappiness will leave Jingjing's life as soon as possible, and let the heartless little girl who laughed come back again~