Lin Xing walked aimlessly along the streets of the urban village, until the sunset and the thick twilight.

He looked at his long shadow under the dim street lamp, and his heart felt like a thorn stuck in it, and he felt painful and sore.

Already hungry, Lin Xing casually walked to a convenience store to buy something to eat.

He had never liked to eat any snacks, and after looking around, he only took a piece of bread.

I don't know how to think of Qin Xi's words in my mind.

"Lin Xing, I'll take you to eat something."

"Is ravioli okay?"

The street food that I used to despise the most, but at this time, I suddenly really wanted to eat it.

He inhaled hard and was about to turn away when he caught a glimpse of a row of thermos pots on the shelves not far away.

Today he asked Qin Xi to throw away that very ugly bottle.

She didn't look like a rich man, as you could tell from her white-washed dress and her schoolbag with an unknown number of stitches.

An inexplicable feeling of guilt welled up in my heart.

Lin Xing walked to the row of shelves, and his fingertips stroked the thermos flasks of different colors.

Finally, it rests on a milky white bottle with jasmine printed on it.

"Handsome guy, this bottle is the best material in our store, and the color is also good-looking, especially girly, and it is the most suitable to buy for your girlfriend."

The middle-aged female boss didn't know when she came behind him, and praised in a high voice.

Lin Xing frowned, he wanted to refute the word "girlfriend", but he felt that it was a waste of words to talk about it with strangers.

"Is it okay to keep warm?"

"Twenty-four hours a day, the storage is hot water, if not, you can come back and change it with me."

Lin Xing took it off the shelf, remembered Qin Xi's weak appearance, and said more, "Are there wolfberry red dates?" ”

"Yes, yes," the proprietress bared her teeth, "Is your girlfriend in bad health?" ”

Lin Xing grinded his back molars, "tsk", and didn't bother to refute her.

"Oh, handsome guy, your girlfriend is so blessed."

He doesn't speak.

……

Lin Xing walked out of the convenience store with the piece of bread and the kettle in the plastic bag, thought about it, and walked in the direction of the alley where Qin Xi was abused.

Inexplicable emotions weighed on him, forcing him to want to stop it all.

Although, Lin Xing doesn't know what position he is starting from.

At first, he walked slowly, but after a few minutes, his pace became faster and faster, almost like the wind on the soles of his feet.

Halfway through the road, not far away, Lin Xing saw the girl who was staggering towards this side.

Her back was hunched, her hair was messy, and her white dress was dirty.

Qin Xi's mask didn't know when it was gone, even if the lights were dim, the traces on his face were still so obvious, and he couldn't help but show it.

When the girl saw him, she was stunned for a moment, as if she had paused in place for a few seconds before coming towards him.

The breeze was blowing, and Lin Xing smelled the smell of dirt on Qin Xi's body, and there was a trace of unpleasant smell, like the burning smell of garbage.

The girl spoke, "Lin Xing, haven't you left yet?" ”

"What do you smell like?"

Qin Xi seemed to have just reacted, and lowered his head to smell the hem of his clothes.

"I just passed by the garbage station, and something was burning over there, probably smoked."

It's always a step too late.

She didn't find the thermos cup her father left for her in time, and could only watch the white smoke drift into the sky.

When it really comes to this time, my emotions are stable, and I won't cry weakly like I did at the beginning.

Cry...... Doesn't solve anything.

"Oh."

Lin Xing carried the plastic bag behind his back, not knowing how to open the opening.

Qin Xi saw the bread he was holding in the palm of his hand and said, "Haven't you eaten yet?" ”

The boy didn't speak.

"There's a wonton restaurant that I eat there a lot, do you want to try it?"

Lin Xing raised his foot and kicked away a stone, "Let's go." ”

The wonton shop is less than 50 meters away, and the shop looks greasy, and the owner is shirtless in the summer with a dirty, crumpled apron, sweat constantly falling down his forehead and neck.

The evening breeze was blowing, Qin Xi chose a table outside, she took out a tissue to wipe the stool opposite, and smiled at Lin Xing, who was standing there with a little embarrassment, "Sit down." ”

Qin Xi pursed his lips, and while Jiang Li went to order food and pay, he spread a few more tissues on the stool before he reluctantly sat down.

After a short while, the girl returned and sat down across from him.

Lin Xing stared at Jiang Li's slightly swollen face, and for the first time felt what it meant to be "weak in heart".

In the past, he liked Qin Xi to be quiet the most, but at this time, the girl's lack of speech became a strange burden for him.

After a while, it was Lin Xing who opened his mouth first.

"Lin Huan, what's wrong with you today?"

"Not much, a beating." The girl looked very open, "I can stand it." ”

"Oh."

There was silence again.

"Little girl, two bowls of wontons are ready!"

Qin Xi turned around and went to the pot to pick up the wontons, she scooped up a spoonful of coriander and spicy peppers, and put them in her bowl. After a moment's hesitation, he turned to look at the boy again.

"Lin Xing, do you eat coriander?"

In the thick night, a young and scattered voice floated over, "Don't eat." ”

"Where's the spicy?"

"Don't eat it."

Qin Xi held a bowl of wontons in each of his left and right hands, walked to the table, and pushed the bowl of wontons with clear soup and little water to Lin Xing's side.

He picked up two plastic spoons from the chopsticks basket and put one into Lin Xing's bowl.

Lin Xing is so big, and he has never seen such a thin and extremely sharp spoon, he picked it up and looked at it in front of his eyes, and always felt that eating a bite of wonton would scratch his mouth.

But when he raised his eyes, he saw Qin Xi holding the bowl of spicy wontons and eating them very deliciously.

Is it so delicious?

Lin Xing swallowed his saliva, looked at his bowl of wontons again, scooped it up slowly, and tasted it.

Then he frowned and put it down, and didn't eat it.

Qin Xi took a few big bites and found the abnormality of the young man opposite, "Isn't it delicious?" ”

"Not hungry."

Qin Xi sighed, moved his bowl of wontons in front of him, and scooped them into his bowl one by one.

"Can you finish eating?"

Qin Xi said, "I don't want to waste. ”

Children from poor families have always been more diligent and thrifty, and this is the gap between them.

Lin Xing didn't know how to write "thrifty" since he was a child.

Neither of them spoke again.

In the silent night, only Qin Xi swallowed the chaotic voice, and after a while, Xu was really bored, and the young man spoke,

"Gone."

“…… Okay, see you tomorrow. ”

He didn't reply.

Qin Xi looked at Lin Xing's departing back, and when he turned his head back, he found the plastic bag that the young man had left on the table.

"Lin Xing, you haven't taken something."

"Don't."

The boy was getting farther and farther away, and he didn't look back, and the words were scattered in the thick of the night, and he could barely hear them clearly.

Qin Xi pursed his lips and moved the translucent plastic bag over.

He glanced inside.

Milky white thermos mug with many white jasmine petals tattooed on it.

Next to the thermos cup is a box of wolfberry red dates.

Qin Xi took out the cup.

It's still new, and the label hasn't been removed.

She raised her eyelids and looked thoughtfully in the direction Lin Xing had left.