Rushing rain rented a second-floor house in the lane near the school, and after the price was negotiated in all aspects, he ended his "visit" from the rosary's house and moved over.

There are four households living in this alley. Except for the landlady and the old lady, the others are all students. The rent is not too expensive, which is why the rain has settled here.

The second floor where she lives is actually the top floor, and bamboo poles are used to dry clothes.

In fact, this is already a renovated old house in S City, but it has a history of more than ten years.

The old house is damp and full of cockroaches, and every day when you open the drawers, there will be surprises.

In the middle of summer, it is humid and hot, and it is a time when mosquitoes, rats and ants are raging. Because of her childhood experience in Jinxi Town, she is quite experienced in dealing with torrential rain, so she bought sticky rat boards and cockroach medicine and placed them in places where they are easy to infest.

Even on the second floor, the floor of the room was damp, and the rain had spread old newspapers in the closet, hung up dehumidifying packets, and sprinkled a thin layer of lime powder all over the corners.

In addition, I bought a rice cooker and a pair of chopsticks, and cooked some barley soup every day to relieve dampness and relieve the heat.

Occasionally, she would arrange a pot of sour plum soup to relieve the heat, but there was no refrigerator and it was not easy to preserve, so she generously distributed it to the landlady and the old lady.

According to the landlord, in addition to her, there are two other tenants, a man and a woman, both students of No. 9 Middle School. But during the summer vacation, they all went home.

"Why did you come out to rent a house at this time?" The old lady said, "The room on the second floor has not been installed with air conditioning, but in order to save electricity, students rarely open their rooms. ”

"I'm fine." Torrential rain said.

When in Jinxi Town, there is also no air conditioning. At that time, one long summer after another, didn't they all come?

The landlady went back to the room and gave her a fan that had been idle for a long time. When Rushing Rain saw it, he couldn't help but say, "This is an old thing." It didn't work without it this past summer. ”

The landlady was a little surprised and boasted: "Quite bright." (Clever and clever)"

Rushing Yu smiled: "Thank you, Grandma." ”

The life of the torrential rain is relatively regular. After getting up in the morning and washing up, pour the prepared ingredients into the rice cooker, and then take advantage of the cool morning to wash the clothes and dry them on the bamboo pole at the window. Torrential rain still bought a small table fan, she was afraid of electricity, except for when she slept at night, she didn't use it much.

After the clothes were dried, she sat cross-legged on the mat, her books spread out on the black-lacquered table by the bed, shaking her pampas fan while she prepared step by step.

The book was borrowed by Zhai Yi at the beginning of the summer vacation.

Unlike before, the pages are full of notes. The level of detail of Zhai Yi's notes is comparable to that of a complete reference book.

After evening, when the weather is no longer as hot as noon, the rain often chooses this time to start transcribing those notes.

Once she had settled it up, the rosary offered to come and have a look.

"It's an old house over here, and it's very, very hot."

"My house is also an old house. I'm used to it. ”

Anyway, it's not far away, Rushing Rain thinks, Rosary wants to come, just let her come.

As a result, the rosary came and after reading it, I cried.

"Let's change places." The rosary said, "Either stay at my house." ”

"I don't think it's that bad here." Torrential rain helped her wipe her tears, turned on the fan and pushed it in front of her alone, "Look at you, sweat is flowing into your eyes." ”

The rosary glared at her. "You're in this house, I dare say you're going to meet rats."

"Well, not only rats, but cockroaches too." Rushing Rain smiled and said to her, "Speaking of rats, let me tell you something interesting. The sweet potatoes I bought two days ago were going to be porridge the next day, but they were half gnawed the next day. But when the instant noodles were placed on the side of the sweet potato, it didn't move. She wrinkled her nose and scolded: "-Little Red Guy, you still know how to maintain health." ”

The rosary was amused by her. Then he smiled and laughed, and felt sour in his heart. Torrential rain looked like she was fine, and she was too embarrassed to say anything more frustrating.

At night, she sat in front of the computer, feeling the full air-conditioning in the bedroom, and she couldn't help but send a QQ message to Zhai Yi: "I've been to see where Torrential Rain lives." She is very peaceful, but there are always four words that come to my mind - lonely and miserable. ”

Zhai Yi over there didn't know if he didn't see it or didn't know how to reply, and fell into a long silence.

If it weren't for Jin Zhijie's choice of summer vacation time to do stupid and bad things, Rushing Rain might not have had the patience to fight this battle with them. Having said that, if the rain could be avoided by him on weekdays, he would not have such a chance.

They chose to compromise and were inseparable from Kim Ji-jae's inability to endure the torture of spending the night in the detention center.

In mid-August, both cases were finalized.

The "desertion case" won the case and reached an agreement with Kim Zhijie through private mediation. The two cases were together, and a total of 170,000 yuan was paid.

Under the operation of lawyer Zheng and related institutions, the neighborhood committee will keep it on behalf of him. Torrential rain no longer goes home, but according to the law, Jin Minghai must also pay her tuition and living expenses before she becomes an adult.

"Where do we have money in our family?!" Hearing what the neighborhood committee said, Aunt Liu cried and cried, and her eyes were full of resentment when she glanced at the torrential rain.

Jin Minghai also had a gloomy face.

Torrential rain understands the truth that moderation is enough. Even if she left her bank card number according to the regulations, she didn't expect Jin Minghai to really make money on a monthly basis.

If it is given, she remembers it; He won't give it, and she won't come back to ask for it.

What she owes her, she has already reclaimed. Some injuries go both ways, and here and there, they can't be erased.

It is a fact that Jin Minghai abandoned her for 12 years, but it is also a fact that the three years of claiming it back to her side have been good to her.

In her own "small treasury", Jin Minghai usually gave her pocket money more generously, so she saved it. Added up, there are nearly 30,000 savings.

Two years of tuition and living expenses depend on it. Rushing rain thought, save a little use, and you will definitely be able to persist until the end of the college entrance examination.

And when she goes to college, she can go to work-study. If it goes well, in her sophomore year of college, she will be an adult. Compensation payments can also be withdrawn.

Everything will only go in a better direction.

As for that home, she would never go back.

Rushing rain walked in front of Jin Minghai, his lips pursed, but in the end he said: "Dad, the law says that 'parents and children can never be connected', so why not emotionally?" But I really, don't want to go back to that home. You take care of yourself in the future, and I will take care of myself too. When you are old, if you need me, I will take care of your old age......"

Jin Minghai's eyes were red, with tears, and he was about to speak, but Aunt Liu snatched the talk, "Who wants you to take care of it?" You, broom star, it's best not to reappear again for the rest of your life. Your father's old age can live in peace! ”

Rushing rain finally looked at Jin Minghai, turned around and left, without waving goodbye.

Hearing movement in the corridor, Zhai Yi quickly opened the door.

I only saw Jin Zhijie's family of three.

While Zhai Yi breathed a sigh of relief, it was difficult to hide the loss in his eyes. Originally, he was so glad that he could be next to Torrential Rain, and now he sincerely hoped that she would never come back here.

Contradictory and incomprehensible feelings, he knows, no one can understand. Including himself.

When the enemy meets, he is very red-eyed. Jin Zhijie was about to rush up with an arrow step, but was quickly stopped by his mother's eyes. Under the displeased gaze of his stepfather, he reverted to the obedient appearance he had just hung his head.

As a young man, Zhai Yi believed that justice should never be afraid of evil.

He had looked at it over and over again, the messages on QQ before the rain incident, and the video call records that were not picked up. I was so angry that I couldn't help myself. The four words of the rosary have also been circling in his mind - lonely, bitter, ling, and beg.

Why should a person who has done nothing wrong suffer such a fate? These are ripping Zhai Yi's heart all the time.

If...... If he doesn't receive the call in time, what will happen to the torrential rain?

When he thought of this, he couldn't forgive himself at all.

"What, don't you dare to come over?" Zhai Yi, who has never liked to cause trouble, raised his chin at this time, and his eyes were provocative, "Scumbag, I will see you once in the future and beat you once!" ”

"You ......" Jin Zhijie couldn't help but have a seizure.

Before the words fell, Zhai's mother heard the voice. She calmly and coldly glanced at Jin Minghai's family of three, forcibly dragged her son into the house, and closed the door with a "bang".

"Don't cause any more trouble." Zhai's mother called her son's name with a warning, "Zhai Yi, breaking into other people's houses and fighting with weapons, we help you minimize the impact, it doesn't mean that you are not at fault in law." However, in view of the cause of the incident, we forgive you and will not pursue it. But you, don't deliberately make trouble anymore, otherwise it won't be your father's turn to make a move, and I will clean you up. ”

His mother changed her former kindness and kindness, and the majesty she displayed made him dare not make a mistake.

"But when I think about it...... Torrential rain she is my friend, a neighbor who has lived together for three years and goes to school together, she ...... I'm homeless and I can't do anything......"

The son is only 16 years old, and it is the time when he has a sense of justice and youth. Torrential Rain was also a friend he cared about very much, and he had lived next to him for three years, so it was not surprising that he would blame himself for such an incident.

Mother Zhai sighed, "This girl is not the same kind of person as you. Zhai Yi, not everyone can be born in a happy and equal family...... There is so much suffering in the world that you have gone, but you have not seen it.

What Torrential Rain finally won was a good ending for her. I believe that she herself is very aware of this. You are too simple, and you haven't been through much hard work, so you can feel that your conscience is tormented......" She patted her son's back and said earnestly: "Zhai Yi, you have fulfilled your duty as a friend." ”

That night, Zhai's mother discussed with Zhai's father: "Obviously he didn't do anything wrong, but his son blamed himself and couldn't extricate himself. Perhaps, we should move to a different environment......"

Father Zhai is also thinking about this problem these days, and when he heard that his wife's thoughts coincided with his own, he couldn't help but nod and said in a deep voice: "You should move." Move as soon as possible! If I had been able to make ...... The sooner you leave that environment, you won't be ......"

Zhai's mother knew what her husband was talking about, but because she knew that it was his heart knot, she just gently put her hand on the back of his hand and did not take over the topic.

The next day, I started to contact the agent to look at the house and start packing up the house. Zhai Yi was informed of the decision to move by his parents, and he nodded and said "Got it", and said nothing else.

"Do you want to go to H City for two days?" Zhai's mother folded her clothes while facing her son who was lying on the sofa in a daze, "The summer vacation is almost over." Haven't you always wanted to see the Death Expo? It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. ”

"School will start in ten days, forget it." Zhai Yi couldn't keep his spirits up.

"If it's not that we're busy moving, let's go and see it together as a family of three!" Mother Zhai pushed him, "We'll give you money, you go with your friends!" ”

Friend? Before, I wanted to ask Torrential Rain and the rosary to go together. Right now......

"Forget it." Zhai Yi said, "School will start soon, and everyone who should go has been there." Yang Wendong called me and said that he took a lot of photos and showed them to me after the start of school. ”

"What about the rosary?" Zhai's mother said, "You can go with her, her cousin, and Lu Jian at the same level as you?" ”

Zhai Yi glanced at his mother, "Even Lu Jian is the cousin of the rosary, you know." ”

"It's not like you told me about it." Zhai's mother said.

"Did I mention it?" Zhai Yi couldn't think of it at all.

"Back to the point", Zhai Mu said, "Go?" It's good to be distracted. ”

"Then I want ...... A little more pocket money. Zhai Yi said, "I want to live comfortably in the hotel, I guess because of the World Expo, the hotel will be difficult to book——"

"I've already contacted your Uncle Fang, the one who often came to the house to find your father to paint when I was in H City." Zhai Yi nodded, indicating that he remembered, and Zhai's mother continued, "He has an empty house, which is close to the World Expo Pavilion. You went, and you stayed there. ”

"I don't want it." Zhai Yi refused.

"You also said, the hotel must be difficult to book."

"Then you give me more funds, otherwise, I won't go."

In ten days, school will start.

Rosary suddenly called, "Torrential rain, do you want to die together...... I'll ask you to come along. ”

"I'm not going." Rushing Rain's words are exactly the same as when he replied to Zhai Yi, "I wish you a good time." ”

"If you don't go, my parents won't let me go at all." Rosary said.

"Where's Lu Jian?" Rushing rain said, "And Zhai Yi." ”

"Lu Jian has been there a long time ago." The rosary said, "Zhai Yi...... If you don't go, how can he go? ”

Torrential rain didn't know what to say, and repeatedly said that he would not go, not to mention, school would start in a few days.

"World Expo! I don't know when the next time I will do it in China! The rosary said, "I didn't make it to the Olympics, and it was enough for me to regret it for the rest of my life." ”

"Forget it, I'll look for the ...... I'll go to him and help me figure it out. "The rosary is ready to be reeled.

He? The rain reacted, and the person in the mouth of the rosary was referring to whom.

"Forget it, I'll go with you." "But, it's just the two of us." ”