In the middle of summer, the sound of cicadas chirps and the street market is noisy.

Xia Qing works at McDonald's, a well-known fried chicken fast food restaurant, as usual.

Now McDonald's is basically scanning the code to order food throughout the whole process, and their work tasks are focused on food preparation and calling, which has improved a lot of work efficiency compared with before, but the intensity of the work itself has not been reduced much.

Today is the day after the end of the college entrance examination.

Compared with usual, there are many young graduates in the store, and they are laughing and laughing in the store, full of youthful vitality.

In another three years, our family will be like them......

Xia Qing happily looked forward to it for a while, and then fell into anxiety about her sister's studies-

The premise is that she can successfully read the words of these three years......

At this moment, a sloppy teenager walked into the store.

He looked to be about fifteen or sixteen years old, with several obvious holes in his white T-shirt and pants, his hair was sweaty and sticky, and his face was a little dirty.

The boy entered the store and glanced around, then sat down in a seat in the corner, while a pair of parents sitting next to him hurriedly carried the child farther away.

At this time, several clerks began to discuss. And Xia Qing is the most senior among these clerks, and most of these employees will listen to her opinions.

"Sister Qing, that homeless man doesn't seem to be going to leave! Now that the store manager is not here, you say, should we call the police? ”

"He doesn't affect other customers now, as long as it doesn't affect the business, I don't care about him."

Xia Qing said softly, "If something goes wrong at that time, just go to the mall and call the security guard for help." ”

"Uh-huh, okay!"

"There's a guest here, let's prepare a meal."

As fast-food restaurants for low-income customers, McDonald's Dang and Kenda Chicken are occasionally visited by homeless homeless people.

Most of the time, they just come by to rub the air conditioner or pick up some leftovers from customers, and some try to stay overnight.

To put it simply, as long as it doesn't affect the business, there is no reason for employees to rush people.

In fact, with the gradual advancement of socialist modernization, the probability of homeless people appearing has become lower and lower.

He should be about the same age as Wu Yu, and he should be at home at the age when he enjoys the love and care of his parents......

The boy had been sitting in the corner of McDonald's shop, and from time to time he looked at the food on the table in the distance, and from time to time he watched the crowd, but as soon as someone looked at him, he bowed his head in fear.

Until evening, the boy still had no intention of leaving.

……

Xia Qing always unconsciously looked at the young man when she was serving meals, and she found that he was raising his head, staring at the gorgeous urban neon scene behind the glass curtain wall with some blankness.

The lights are on, and the night is colorful.

Of these thousands of lights, one of them was lit for him......

After work, she paid for a burger herself, then fetched a glass of free ice water and tissues, and came to the boy with a plate and tried to greet him:

"You must be hungry after sitting here for so long, right?"

The boy still had his head down, but his eyes were already drawn to the contents of the plate.

"Let's eat something first, I'll treat you."

Xia Qing handed the dinner plate to the young man, "You have to go home early after eating." ”

I hope you at least have a place to live......

After satisfying her desire to take care of her, Xia Qing was about to leave, and when she looked back, she found that the boy picked up the hamburger in the paper bag and seemed to be planning to swallow it directly in the paper bag!

"Wait, wait, wait!"

Xia Qing shouted to stop the young man, and then took it under the young man's puzzled gaze, and then asked:

"Is this the first time you've eaten this? Well...... This is called a hamburger, and first of all, you have to tear this apart......"

She carefully removed the burger from the wrapper and placed it on the plate, "Well, you can take it apart and eat it now, eat it." ”

The boy picked up the burger under Xia Qing's guidance, and after a little hesitation, he stuffed the burger into his mouth under the temptation of the aroma.

The McXiang Chicken Burger that Xia Qing ordered for him was the smallest burger in McDonald's, but even so, it would be a bit exaggerated to swallow it in one go......

"Eat slowly! Don't choke! Come...... Drink saliva first. ”

This is not the first time Xia Qing has done something similar, but it is the first time she has seen such an exaggerated eating appearance as a young man.

However, when I looked at Xia Qing closer, I noticed that this kid seemed to be ......

Pretty good-looking?

At least the facial features look very exquisite, the bridge of the nose is high, and although the face is a little dirty, it can be seen that the skin is smooth and fair, and there is a feeling like a little milk dog in a TV series, cute and cute.

"One hamburger is not enough, or you ...... again"

Xia Qing suddenly closed her mouth in the middle of speaking, sensing her abnormality, the young man raised his head slightly, Xia Qing smiled at him, and at the same time got up and retreated, no longer disturbing the young man's eating.

When she turned around, she couldn't help but sigh softly.

Obviously, my sisters can't take care of my own family, how can I still have the heart to be so good to others......

However, the kid doesn't even know how to eat a burger, and it's not a matter of lack of common sense......

Combined with his performance when he talked to himself just now, I'm afraid it's really ...... Something went wrong with the mental side too?

If I leave him like this, will he just sleep on the streets, run over by a car, or be bitten to death by a wild dog, or ......

Ahhhhh!!h I've stretched my hands too far! Where can I take care of it......

Xia Qing patted her cheek, determined not to think about the young man's affairs anymore.

After changing out of her work clothes and saying goodbye to her colleagues, Xia Qing carried her bag and prepared to leave through the front door of the restaurant.

At this time, the boy was no longer in his original seat.

Xia Qing felt a little relieved, but there was still some indescribable slight sadness in her heart.

However, her chagrin vanished the moment she stepped out of the restaurant.

Because, the young man leaned against the wall outside the restaurant, and as soon as Xia Qing went out, he immediately came over and followed Xia Qing.

“…… Ah, that," Xia Qing realized that she had been being followed by the other party, and then turned back and asked, "Is there anything else you have to do?" ”

The boy didn't answer, but just stared at her curiously with wide eyes.

However, compared to his previous dumb expression, his gaze on Xia Qing was more enthusiastic, and he felt very happy.

His eyes flashed as bright as stars, and Xia Qing's mind immediately popped up with the picture of her usual encounter with stray dogs and cats-

Xia Qing has an almost obsessive-compulsive obsession with small animals, and as long as she has food on her, she can't help but feed them.

Most cats and cats only care about eating, and leave after eating, which is completely an attitude of "eating your food is for your face", and they don't touch it, let alone masturbate;

But the stray dog will be different, it will raise its head and wagging its tail at Xia Qing frantically before it finishes eating, and keeps rubbing around.

In Xia Qing's opinion, the young man in front of him is simply the embodiment of a puppy, if he has a tail, he must be happier than anyone else at this moment.

Of course, stray dogs can be considered to be taken home for raising, after all, it is just a matter of vaccinating and cutting a few bites;

But if it's a vagabond......

Forget it.

Xia Qing made up her mind not to pay attention to the young man in front of her, and walked quickly to the bus stop in front of her, and the young man also followed behind; Xia Qing stopped, and so did the boy.

Although he followed, he was also very sure of proportion, and he would not stick too close, which made Xia Qing not easy to accuse him.

After a while, the bus that Xia Qing was waiting for arrived, she took out her mobile phone and hurriedly swiped the bus code, and then walked in quickly to find a place to sit down.

The boy didn't get on the bus with Xia Qing, he was just on the side of the bus stop, looking at Xia Qing sitting by the window.

Xia Qing met his gaze and immediately dodged it with a weak heart.

Tut......

Don't look at me like that...... I can't afford to raise you......

The door of the bus closed, the car started slowly, and the young man in Xia Qing's afterglow seemed to chase in a certain direction.

Although the boy was no longer in sight, his enthusiastic and expectant eyes lingered in her mind for a long time.

And at this moment, Xia Qing's mobile phone vibrated - she received a message from her sister Wuyu.

[Haven't you gotten off work yet? There's nothing going on the road. 】

[On the bus, I'll be back in a while...... You went to kindergarten to pick up the evening peach, right? 】

[Received, she was playing with the children in the mud with the children in the kindergarten today, and the teacher didn't care. 】

Xia Qing sent a [hahaha] cute emoji to Wuyu.

[Still laughing...... You're going to help her take a bath today! I don't care. 】

【OKOK！ Just leave it to me! 】

Xia Qing sent a muscular emoji to Wuyu, then closed the phone again and slowly closed her eyes.

After her mother died, Xia Qing dropped out of college and shouldered the obligation to support her two younger sisters with her grandfather, and three years have passed so far.

In order to treat his mother's illness, the family owed a lot of debts, that is, relying on the business of his grandfather's ramen shop and Xia Qing's salary, he could only barely survive.

Obviously, his own life is not good, but he will miss a little homeless man......

With this time, it is better to take advantage of the summer vacation to find out if there is a part-time tutor who has more money and less things to do close to home......

The tired Xia Qing was swept away by the tiredness, and then took a nap in the car for a while, and woke up when the bus just arrived at the destination station.

Xia Qing rubbed her sleepy eyes and got out of the car, this is a suburban area far from the city center, and there are not many people on the street.

But the kid standing in front of him, Xia Qing was quite familiar.

That's not ......

Xia Qing rubbed her eyes and confirmed it a few more times.

Isn't that the homeless boy!

He actually followed me here?