Chapter X
Mingyou called Aunt Li before going back, hoping that she could persuade her mother again, and if her mother could agree, he could also take Aunt Li back to the city together.
Such conditions are naturally very tempting, but I don't know if it will work.
When he left the hotel, the hostess was very kind to help him carry his simple luggage to the back seat of the car. Greet him: "Mingyou, come back and have a better look when you have time." ”
"Okay."
Mingyou drove away from the hotel, and the desolation along the way became more and more distant from the familiar Helong town in his memory.
There was a section of the road after driving out of the town, the road was much smoother, and vaguely, there seemed to be some movement in the car, and he confirmed from the rearview mirror that there was no one else in the car. But the sound kept coming out, affecting his concentration.
So, simply pull over and check what's there.
He stepped out of the car, the movement became clearer, and he walked to the trunk and opened it only to his surprise to find a man hiding inside.
"You are?" Mingyou took a closer look, "Ahsan? ”
Seeing that the trunk had finally been opened, Ahsan immediately turned up from inside and tried to get out.
"It's finally time to come out." She muttered, but was not surprised that she was in the trunk.
"How did you get in there?" As soon as Mingyou asked, she remembered the chat with the proprietress before, and she was unexpectedly interested in her car......
"Don't think about it." Ahsan interrupted his thoughts and laughed, "My mom did it." ”
Mingyou was also surprised to see that she didn't care at all: "You know? ”
"Of course I know, she secretly gave me sleeping pills and stuffed me in the car, I know it." She closed the trunk lid and sat on it, "I didn't take any medicine, I didn't fall asleep, I'll give you a signal when I get out of Helong Town, you see, you're here to open the door for me." ”
Mingyou adjusted his breathing, looked at the girl in front of him, and was helpless: "Then I'll send you back." ”
"Go back?" She laughed, "Then you're so sorry for my mother's hard work." ”
"And you're going to go to town with me?"
"Go." She replied, "I'll just go and have a look, and then you'll send me back, okay?" ”
"But......" Mingyou hesitated, "you don't have an ID yet." ”
"It's okay, I'm not eighteen yet." After saying that, she jumped down, opened the car door and sat in the car, and didn't forget to greet Mingyou, "Come on!" ”
Mingyou sighed, and didn't know what to do with her, so he had to leave first.
"Do you know what your mother meant?" Mingyou asked her as he drove the car.
"Of course I do." She replied casually in the back seat, her hands turning over something, "She has been alone for so many years, and all hope is in me." ”
"Then you don't read?"
"Reading?" Ahsan laughed again, "I haven't studied for a long time, and there's nothing left in Helong Town." ”
Mingyou looked at the road in front of him and thought for a while: "That...... I'll send you to school. ”
"Don't." Unexpectedly, Ahsan refused, "I can teach myself, I'm very smart." ”
"Then what are you going to do with me in the city?"
"Nothing." Ahsan whispered in his ear, "You don't have to worry about me. ”
Mingyou shook his head helplessly. This little girl, whom he didn't know at all, was going to follow him into the city, but he didn't prepare anything, and she wasn't very obedient, so she suddenly had a headache.
"What kind of medicine is this?" Ahsan pulled out a packet of medicine from his bag, the label had been torn off, and she opened it and sniffed it.
"Don't move!"
Mingyou was in a hurry, and a foot of the brake almost threw her out, but fortunately Ah Sang held on, but the pills scattered in the car.
"Ahh Excuse me! Ahsan said, "I didn't mean to. ”
Mingyou looked at her, and his slightly coquettish expression didn't suit her at all, but he wouldn't bother with a little girl. Just stop the car and slowly pack up the pills.
"People in the city, can't live without an ID?" Ahsan asked suddenly.
Mingyou picked up all the pills and covered the medicine bottle.
"Not exactly."
"So what is a person without an identity?"
"Marginal people."
"Oh." Ahsan thought for a moment, "It's also a free person." ”
Mingyou sat back down and was about to start the car, he took a closer look at Ahsan in the rearview mirror, her innocent expression not knowing how much was really stupid or disguised.
"If you come into town with me, I hope you can restrain yourself a little." Mingyou's tone was a little harsh, "A new set of laws will be introduced soon, and everyone will be ranked, and all actions will be monitored." ”
"That's right......" Ahsan leaned back in his seat, not paying much attention to his words, but just informed, "Okay then." ”
Mingyou took Ahsan home, and he cautiously went upstairs to open and close the door.
"Do you live alone?" Ahsan didn't mind at all, and lay down directly on the sofa, "It's so comfortable." ”
Mingyou just glanced at her sideways, put his things away, and then put the medicine bottle back in his pocket.
"I still have work to do, I don't know what you have planned?" Myeongwoo came to her door and watched her hang upside down on the couch, enjoying its softness.
Ahsan looked at his expression, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with her, so she sat down from the couch, yes, sat down on the floor, tilted her head and said, "You can be in my absence, I won't cause you trouble." ”
Mingyou sighed again: "However, I didn't prepare for you to appear here. ”
"It's okay, it's okay." Ahsan laughed generously, "I won't stay long. ”
"But your mother ......"
"My mother?" Ahsan waved his hand, "You don't need to pay too much attention to her, when she decided to send me here, it was actually equivalent to giving up on me." ”
"Why do you say that?"
"Because no one wants to go back." Ahsan propped up his head with one hand, as if he understood.
Mingyou looked at her, and was still somewhat uneasy about her: "You are not related to me, so I don't know how to help you get an ID, that is to say...... It can be a little tricky......"
"Don't worry." Ahsan replied, "Why don't you imprison me for four years, and in four years I'll be an adult and marry you?" ”
"What?" Mingyou was taken aback and looked at her naughty appearance, what kind of joke was this.
"Hahaha." Ahsan opened his voice and laughed, "Playing with you, how could I fall in love with you as an uncle." ”
Mingyou really didn't have much to do with her, so he had to do it first.
"I don't have anything you can use here, or you make a list and I'll place an order for you." As he spoke, he pulled out his phone.
"Give it to me." Ahsan held out his hand, "I'll do it myself." ”
"Will you?" Mingyou was a little surprised.
"Of course." Ahsan took the phone and operated it very skillfully, "But I don't have an ID, the payment can only rely on you, my mother gave me a bank card, I just don't know where there is a bank to withdraw money." ”
Myeongwoo doesn't know her better and less, and she doesn't look like a child living in a small town.
"Where did you learn this?" Mingyou slowly sat down across from her, "Does your mother give you a cell phone?" ”
"Of course." She replied naturally, "She likes to watch TV and knows no less than I do." ”
"That's why she wants you here?"
"Hmm." Ah Sang continued to operate the phone without raising her head, and after a while, she completed the list and gave it back to Mingyou, "Okay." ”
Mingyou paid for her and waited for the commissioner to deliver it to her door.
Within half an hour, someone rang the doorbell, and a robot outside the door brought them a package, which was what Ahsan needed.
"So fast." Ahsan couldn't help but praise.
"Hmm."
Mingyou put the things away, and then said, "I'll order a takeout for you to eat, you can sleep in my room today, and I'll sleep on the sofa in the living room......"
"No, no, no." Ahsan interrupted him again, "I sleep on the couch, I sleep." ”
"Huh?" Mingyou looked at her.
"It's okay, I sleep a lot." Ahsan said with a smile and went down on the sofa, "Your sofa is very comfortable." ”
Mingyou didn't say anything more, just thinking about how this child should be arranged in the future.
After dinner, Ahsan was not idle, asked Mingyou a lot of irrelevant questions, and then covered himself with a blanket and prepared to sleep.
"Alright, I'm going to sleep." Mingyou wasn't ready for this turn, so he saw her snickering in the blanket she was covering: "I pretended to sleep last night, but I didn't sleep well, so I'm sleepy." ”
"Okay." Mingyou stood up and wanted to go back to the room, "Then I won't disturb you." ”
"Uh-huh." Ahsan agreed, and pretended to close his eyes.
Mingyou turned off the light, went back to his room, lay on his bed, looked at the closed door, and always felt that the person outside the door was too strange to know what would happen when he woke up the next day.
He pulled open the drawer on the bedside table, which was so neat that it contained only a few things and a photograph. That old photo from my mom.
He, He Qing and Lin Yan.
Where are the three former best friends, now both of them?
Memories are like photographs, faded in color. He Qing's smiling face is still so elegant and charming, but her silver bell-like laughter can no longer be heard, and everything beautiful about her seems to be frozen in this photo, and all his memories are sealed in the photo together.
He put the photo back in the drawer, next to a pill box, which was empty. It was the anti-inflammatory pill box that I had eaten when I was smashed before. He touched his hand inside, but didn't touch the other medicine boxes, and then remembered that when he took it out a few days ago, and when he brought it back, he put it in the cabinet outside......
Forget it, let's not eat it tonight......