Chapter 21: Part-time Jobs
Meng Xiao lost contact.
Yang Yi couldn't contact Meng Xiao, he picked up the old phone to charge it and turned it on, which contained hundreds of missed messages from Meng Xiao.
Yang Yi went back, but Meng Xiao didn't answer.
He went to the University of Arts to look for her, but he didn't see her go to class for several days, and he didn't see her in or out of the dormitory.
Yang Yi had never officially met Meng Xiao's roommates, and he had met them from a distance before, which was not enough for him to recognize them from the thousands of female students.
Yang Yi stood guard at the door of the dormitory for a few days, asking several classmates in a row before finding Meng Xiao's roommates.
The three girls were going to eat together in the restaurant, and they were talking and laughing happily, but they all stopped when they saw him, and their faces were full of vigilance.
"What do you want to do?" Li Ran, who was more bold, asked, they all knew Yang Yi, and they had seen him stay here to pick up Li Ruoxi two days ago, deliberately pretending not to know him.
"I ...... Classmate, I want to ask what Meng Xiao has been doing lately? Yang Yi opened his mouth, he actually wanted to ask where Meng Xiao was, but he was worried that they would know that they couldn't find Meng Xiao, and he didn't want her roommate to misunderstand that they had a conflict.
Ye Siyu couldn't help but laugh out loud, and joked: "Oh, don't you dare to talk nonsense, Li Ruoxi's boyfriend came to care about us Meng Xiao, and Meng Xiao's reputation will stink when it spreads, how else do we Meng Xiao behave?" ”
The other two took a step back, Yang Yilai took Li Ruoxi a few times, plus Li Ruoxi once gave many classmates the milk candy that Yang Yi bought from France, and he did not shy away from calling Yang Yi boyfriend and girlfriend, so the fact that the two are boyfriend and girlfriend is now known to the whole hospital.
Poor Meng Xiao, that stupid girl, who has been together for three years, has no reputation for half a month, and has been promoted by Li Ruoxi as a "predecessor", and she doesn't even deserve a name.
These Meng Xiao may not know yet, and they dare not tell her.
"I have nothing to do with Li Ruoxi, and my girlfriend is only Meng Xiao." Yang Yi frowned and explained.
"If you can pick up and drop off in person, Young Master Yang can say that it's okay, then Meng Xiao, who has no name, can't even be put on the table." After Yang Yi didn't pretend, the momentum of the eldest young master was too strong, only Ye Siyu could catch him talking, and Ye Siyu didn't politely reply to him.
"That's right, a village girl in a poor and remote country, she is a favor to her, and she will be more expensive when she puts it on the table." Ye Siyu sneered, talking about Meng Xiao, but Yang Yi felt that she was talking about herself.
"Meng Xiao's girlfriend is so pitiful, her boyfriend is good to others." Li Ran had the courage to complain, she had also received that milk candy, and she was disgusting to death.
Everyone in the whole system has a share, and those who don't know think it's candy.
The three of them didn't want to entangle, Li Ran reminded that the roasted ribs in the restaurant were gone, and the three of them went in the direction of the restaurant, and Yang Yi didn't forget to give him a roll of the eyes when they passed by.
What can you do if you have a good family background, a dog is a dog.
There is a relationship that is obvious to all, and he can not admit it, Meng Xiao is so good to him, he is not in a hot fight with Li Ruoxi.
The more Li Ran thought about it, the more sad he became, and the roasted pork ribs had no taste.
"Let's bring some back to Meng Xiao."
She has been making steamed buns in free soup for the past few days, and she only eats one steamed bun a day, she really can't stand it.
"Then the poor ghost has a high self-esteem, you bring it to her, she can eat?" Ye Siyu said disdainfully: "Besides, do you know that she came back today?" Hurry up and eat yours. ”
Li Ran and Zhou Yao sighed, Meng Xiao hadn't come back for three days.
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Four o'clock in the morning, downtown.
Meng Xiao moved the last box of wine into the bar and placed it neatly, wiped the bar with a rag, there were guests at the table having fun today, and the time dragged on until now.
Rubbing his shoulders, Meng Xiao prepared to get off work.
Coming out of the back door of the bar, the smell in the back alley was not good, the street lights were weak, and Meng Xiao walked cautiously to avoid stepping on dirty things.
In the dark, there was a sound of rustling from time to time, and Meng Xiao had long been accustomed to it if he didn't listen carefully.
In the first half of the night, "crazy people" gather at the front door of the bar, and in the second half of the night, they date "lovers" in the back door alley.
"Someone ......"
"What are you afraid of, there are people everywhere here......"
Meng Xiao didn't squint, threw the bag of garbage in his hand into the trash can, and carried the leftover fruit from the back kitchen in the other hand.
Meng Xiao ate while walking, and was entitled to breakfast this morning.
The city was still lit up at four o'clock, and Meng Xiao trotted all the way to the vicinity of the studio at half past five.
She asked the school for a month off, substituted all day in Xiao's studio, and went to the city center bar at 8 o'clock in the evening to help the kitchen, which can earn almost 20,000 yuan a month.
High-income cities drive high consumption, and the only thing she can do is to minimize consumption and save all her income.
Yang Yi's bracelet must be returned, she does not bear this stigma.
Mama Yang bought the 100,000 yuan for the painting, and if she needed it, she would return it to him.
At half past five, the dormitory building had not yet opened, and Meng Xiao had been resting in the ATM room near the studio these days, and it was no surprise that he would live there today.
Meng Xiao sat down against the frosted anti-theft glass, hugged herself to sleep, Yang Yi made countless calls and messages on her mobile phone, she didn't look at it, set the alarm clock and went to sleep.
Xiao's studio gave her one day off a week, and if she persevered today, she would be able to sleep well in her dormitory bed tomorrow.
The alarm clock rang at half past seven on time, Meng Xiao got up, bought three steamed buns nearby, borrowed the faucet of the boss's house to wash his face by the way, and then went to Xiao's studio to take classes.
After work at six o'clock, she still has to go to work in a bar.
……
Yang Yi couldn't find Meng Xiao at all, her roommate didn't tell him, she didn't reply to the phone calls and text messages she called, and she didn't see anyone downstairs in the dormitory.
He went to find Meng Xiao's department head, only to learn that Meng Xiao's younger brother had an accident, and she took a month off to go back to take care of her younger brother.
One month, which means that you will not return to school before the summer vacation of this semester.
He asked the head of the department for the address of Meng Xiao's hometown, and drove there in person.
It was a very old community, a six-story building made of red bricks, and the sour smell of mold could be smelled from several meters away.
Here is the house left by Meng Xiao's father, which is now in the name of her stepbrother. He had thought about helping her get it back, but because of the concealment of his identity, he never did it.
At noon, the kitchen of the family starts to work, and the students in their uniforms go home.
Yang Yi sat in the car and smoked, looking at the window of Meng Xiao's house in a daze.
"Ah Xun, come out and buy groceries by yourself? Why don't you see your sister today? Not far away, a middle-aged man approached the injured boy, who had a blue nose and swollen face, one foot and one arm in a plaster cast, and he was struggling to jump forward with crutches.
The middle-aged man was carrying two white plastic bags containing a whole bag of raw noodles and not a single vegetable.
This should be Meng Xiao's younger brother, Yang Yi clamped the cigarette in his hand.
"Uncle, my sister has something to do at school, so she won't come here for a few days." Meng Xiaoxiao's sunshine did not have a trace of haze.
The middle-aged man shook his head, sighed at the difficulties of his sister and brother, and instructed: "You have to study hard, and you will earn money to repay your sister in the future, and it is not easy for her to be a student, and it is really rare to repay you 200,000 yuan." ”
Thinking about their small city, 200,000 yuan is a huge amount of money, Meng Xiao must be sad when he is alone outside.
"Hmmm! I know, uncle. Meng Xun nodded, as if swearing.
The two of them went upstairs together and disappeared from Yang Yi's sight.
Yang Yi's heart ached, he hated the actions of her stepbrother's family, and wanted her to stay away from them, coupled with the anger of his grandmother's bracelet, so he didn't lend Meng Xiao the 100,000.
He wanted her stepbrother to know that Meng Xiao didn't have oil and water on him to squeeze, but he forgot that since Meng Xiao was willing to borrow money, he would definitely take care of her brother.
Now, the silly girl must be selling her strength somewhere to make money.
She's not at school, she's not in her hometown, where is she?
The middle-aged man who had just sent Meng Xun up came down and was about to go home, and Yang Yi hurriedly got out of the car to catch up with him.