Chapter 6: The Boys

It was already 12 o'clock when Lin Xue got home, she opened the refrigerator and took out a few dishes and a pack of noodles, yesterday Liu Ruxi went to the supermarket to buy a lot of vegetables and came back, and there were many varieties, almost filling the entire refrigerator. She washed the vegetables and cut them into small pieces, put them in boiling water with the noodles, and after 5 minutes, a pot of delicious and nutritious vegetable noodles was ready, and she tasted it, and it tasted very good.

After eating noodles and washing the dishes, she played with her mobile phone boringly, she suddenly didn't want to stay at home anymore, because she was afraid that she would think of Xiaobai again, and she didn't want to think of Liu Ruxi's face because he had already left.

Lin Xue's home is in Anding Street next to Xinyuan Commercial Building, the first floor of this street is full of shops, there are clothing stores, children's clothing shops, dessert shops, tobacco shops, hair salons, as well as restaurants and coffee houses, Lin Xue's house is a children's clothing store on the left, and a restaurant on the right, called Shunhe Restaurant, Shunhe Restaurant is very small, only half of the 97 underwear store on the first floor of Lin Xue's house. This restaurant has been open for eight years, Lin Xue was in the second grade of elementary school, and the signboard of the restaurant has been sunburned white, and it can be seen that the original signboard was white on a blue background, but now the blue has become very light.

It's a cloudy day, no sunshine, and on the right side of the door of the restaurant sits a boy of 6 or 7 years old, covering his face with his hands, his shoulders shaking, and he is crying silently.

I don't know why Lin Xue thinks he is crying, not laughing, people on the street come and go without looking at him, which makes Lin Xue feel: People in this world have become so indifferent.

She walked up to the boy in an old sweater and worn-out jeans, she gently patted his skinny shoulder with her hand and asked, "Kid, what's wrong with you?" Are you okay? ”

The boy raised his head slowly, his eyes were red, his face was full of tears, he sniffled, and replied in a dumb voice: "Sister, my schoolbag is rotten, I can't carry it at all, I want my father to buy it for me, but my father doesn't want to, he still beats me~ Later, I woke up, and he didn't answer me~" After speaking, two lines of tears welled up in his eyes.

Lin Xue looked at the boy, the boy's hair was a little long, covering his ears, his eyes were round, his nose and mouth were small, but his face was yellow, and he looked a little malnourished. When Lin Xue was in elementary school, Lin's mother would buy her a lot of beautiful clothes and stationery, even if her family was not rich, Lin Xue was a little sympathetic to the boy, she said to the boy: "Sister gives you money and you can buy it yourself, okay?" The boy's eyes lit up, Lin Xue took out the wallet from the schoolbag, there were only 150 yuan in it, Lin Xue gritted her teeth and decided to help people to the end, she handed the boy 100 yuan and said, "This money should be enough for you to buy a schoolbag, right?" The boy nodded excitedly, he carefully took the money, and whispered thanks, Lin Xue smiled at him, she chatted with the boy for a while, and learned that the boy is the son of the owner of this Shunhe restaurant, named Li Mingyu, who is in the first grade of primary school this year, his home is on the third floor of the restaurant, and the second floor of the restaurant is the kitchen and the ingredients. His dad drank a lot of alcohol every day and didn't care much about the restaurant. The restaurant has two employees and a chef, and the restaurant usually does not have many customers.

Lin Xue looked at her phone at half past one, she and the boy said goodbye to each other and went to school. She walked to the classroom at exactly 2 o'clock, and there were still 10 minutes to sing at noon, she quickly slipped over to sit next to Li Meifang, and she said to Li Meifang: "Xiaofang, you came so early?" Li Meifang said: "I was bored in the dormitory, so I came to the classroom and sat down." Li Meifang and Lin Xue chatted about the TV series she is chasing now, it is actually the bloody "The Comeback", Li Meifang thinks that the president in it Xiao Yuan is very handsome, Lin Xue responded casually, and recommended Li Meifang to watch her favorite horror movie.

When the afternoon singing time came, Bai Jing, a member of the entertainment committee of last semester, took out the announcer in the class and called out a song "Beijing Welcomes You", leading everyone to sing, Bai Jing is not white at all, she is black and thin, tall, thick eyebrows and big eyes, high nose and small mouth, with short black hair, she is a female man, and her friends love to call her Brother Bai. After everyone sang 4 songs in a row, they started to class, a beautiful teacher taught the class, her surname was Wang, she was beautifully dressed, and her face was exquisite.

Lin Xue has always felt that it is very strange for the secondary school department to arrange the class schedule, for example, the first and second classes this afternoon are marketing classes, the first and second classes this morning are corporate financial accounting, and the third and fourth classes are online tax declarations, and their weekly class schedules are arranged like this.

A class is 40 minutes, and the break time is 10 minutes, Lin Xue persevered, the third and fourth classes in the afternoon are self-study classes, and 99% of the students will not stay in the classroom to study obediently, and the same is true for other classes, the class teachers are very loose, and they will go home as soon as they arrive. After the second class, Lin Xue walked out of the school gate with the flow of people.

She suddenly didn't want to cook tonight, so she decided to go to Shunhe Restaurant next to her house for dinner. She walked for more than 20 minutes, and when she arrived at the restaurant, she looked at the menu and asked for an 8-piece tomato fried rice, she finished eating, and she didn't see the boy Li Mingyu, as soon as she walked out of the door, she saw Li Mingyu standing on the left side of the door, she took a picture with him, Lin Xue asked him: "Li Mingyu, have you eaten?" Got a school bag? Li Mingyu said aggrievedly: "Today I took the money and went to buy a schoolbag, and the aunt ignored me, so I left."

Lin Xue thought: It may be that the woman looked down on people, and when she saw that there were no adults around the boy in old clothes, she thought that he had no money.

She said to Li Mingyu: "Where did you tell my sister that schoolbag was bought?" What color style? ”

Li Mingyu immediately answered, and handed Lin Xue the 100 yuan: "Sister, the schoolbag is on the second floor of the Lanxi vegetable market, where there are a total of five shops that buy schoolbags and stationery, and there is a stationery store one by one, which has a sky blue schoolbag with a cute yellow bear printed on it, and I saw a small white sign that said 48 yuan."

Lin Xue said: "Li Mingyu, now that the Lanxi vegetable market is closed, I will buy it for you as soon as I get out of school at noon tomorrow, okay?"

Li Mingyu pursed his lips and said, "Okay, thank you, sister."

Lin Xue nodded and waved at him to prepare to go home, when he said behind Lin Xue: "Sister, I don't want to go home, can I go to your house to play?"

Lin Xue thought about it, anyway, she didn't plan to go to the evening self-study, she was also at home alone, so she agreed.

She didn't want to study at night, at most she was registered by the class leader, and she was named by Teacher Jiang for self-study on Monday night, which would only affect the final selection of scholarships, and she didn't plan to compete for scholarships, so she felt that it didn't matter.

She opened the small door on the first floor and took Li Mingyu to the second floor, she opened the lock on the door on the second floor and let Li Mingyu in, who knew that Li Mingyu's face was pale, and he said to Lin Xue: "Sister, my body is very uncomfortable, I want to go home and rest."

Lin Xue hurriedly asked him, "Where are you uncomfortable?"

Li Mingyu said weakly: "I don't feel well all over~"

Lin Xue said, "Okay, I'll send you home." Li Mingyu nodded, Lin Xue sent Li Mingyu back to the restaurant, and she watched him walk back to the restaurant and went back to her home.

The next day, Lin Xue got up on time, she had breakfast and went to school, last night, Teacher Jiang used the evening self-study time to arrange the students to move the desks and sit according to the seating chart, the extra tables and chairs were moved to the back of the classroom, the desks in front are still four groups, but there are only four rows.

Lin Xue looked at her phone at half past seven o'clock, feeling that there was enough time, she walked up to the podium and looked at the seating chart on it, with the name of each student printed on it, and the total number of students in the upper right corner: 30 people.

She quickly found her name, her table mate was actually Li Meifang, she walked to the second row of the third group, she said to Li Meifang sitting on the right: "We really have a fate!"

Li Meifang said: "Yes, I think so too, I helped you move your desk here last night."

Lin Xue said to her: "Xiaofang, you are so good to me~ thank you!"

Li Meifang smiled and patted Lin Xue's right arm: "It's good to know!"

Lin Xue looked at Li Meifang and recalled that she also had some very good true friends when she was in elementary school, but she didn't know if she was cursed, her friends in elementary school didn't get along for long, and those bad teenagers in junior high school were not her bosom friends at all, she didn't know if her friendship with Li Meifang could last long.

As soon as school was out at noon, after Lin Xue and Li Meifang separated, they left school and went to the Lanxi vegetable market, the first floor of the Lanxi vegetable market sells cooked food, vegetables, fish, meat, and the second floor sells clothes, shoes, bags and stationery, Lin Xue almost walked around, and finally found a stationery store, she saw a woman about forty years old frowning and sighing, the woman saw her and hurriedly smiled and asked, "What are you looking for?" Lin Xue stopped looking at her and said, "I'll buy a schoolbag." So she walked to the place where the schoolbag was placed, she picked up the sky blue schoolbag and looked at the price tag: 48 yuan.

She settled the bill, walked out of the stationery store, and was just about to go downstairs, two middle-aged women sat at the door of the store and chatted with melon seeds, and the fat woman said, "Have you heard?" At noon yesterday, the schoolbag floated to the cash register, and the most strange thing was that there was a 100 yuan floating next to it! The thin woman said, "I've heard about this for a long time, and after a while the bag floated to its place by itself, and then the 100 pieces floated down the stairs by itself." The fat woman said: "Many people have seen this, the money is not like it was blown by the wind at all, no one dares to take it, the proprietress pretended not to see it at the time, and today she will find a Taoist priest to see it!"

After Lin Xue listened, the hand holding the schoolbag trembled, she felt very scared, they only saw the schoolbag and money and didn't see Li Mingyu, so what is Li Mingyu?

She glanced at the cute schoolbag, she recalled Li Mingyu's face full of tears, she was moved by compassion, she planned to give the schoolbag to him, and no longer have anything to do with him.

She slowly rubbed to the first floor of the house, she saw Li Mingyu sitting at the door of the restaurant, he quickly found Lin Xue, he ran over and asked, "Sister!" My school bag! Thank you sister! Lin Xue took a step back because of his approach, her hands trembled a little, she handed him the schoolbag and said, "Li Mingyu, this is the schoolbag you want." Li Mingyu quickly took it and thanked him again, Lin Xue looked at this cute boy, and couldn't bear it: "Li Mingyu, I'm sorry, my sister can't play with you in the future, because my grandmother doesn't want me to play with children, and she doesn't want me to play with people younger than me."

Li Mingyu was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly darkened, he looked at Lin Xue and said softly: "Oh, that's it, that's good, goodbye, sister, sister, I thank you for buying the schoolbag for me."

Lin Xue watched him walk back to the restaurant, there was no shadow under his feet.

Lin Xue suddenly felt that he was very pitiful, Lin Xue knew what he was, Lin Xue ignored the strange eyes of the people around her, and walked home.

She went back to the second floor and closed the door, and looked at the golden rune paper pasted on the door and the window, she remembered that this was begged by Lin Ma in the hands of the master, and pasted the rune paper on the door and window in the house, and the whole space was not entered. No wonder Li Mingyu wanted to go back to the second floor that night, and he felt uncomfortable.