Chapter 11 On Qingfei

’s way home, Li Wenyu bought two ham sausages from the store. There was a stray little white dog on the street corner at the entrance of the community. It crawled around here every day, and its white hair was extremely dirty. Looks gray.

Stray cats are often fed by children because they are less aggressive, but Li Wenyu could only see this little white dog digging through the trash can every time he passed by.

Li Wenyu squatted on the side of the road and waved to it. The little white dog was quite docile. After eating two pieces of ham, he lowered his head and sniffed Li Wenyu's trouser legs. Li Wenyu touched its head. He obediently lay down next to Li Wenyu's shoes.

It was still early, and Li Wenyu received a call from Uncle Qin on the way to the game hall, saying that a set of equipment in the game hall was broken and needed to be repaired, so he didn't have to go there today, so he changed his way home halfway.

"Oh, Xiao Yu, you came back so early today." Several neighbors were sitting under the tree at the entrance of the yard, choosing vegetables and chatting, and casually said when they saw him coming in.

Li Wenyu smiled politely and said, "School ends early today."

"Why didn't you come back with your cousin?" The woman folded the beans into two pieces and threw them into the vegetable basket. "I rarely see your cousins ​​together." "

Li Wenyu said with a smile: "There are too many people in the school, so I didn't meet them after school."

"You guys have a hard time going to school. Come up and eat." The woman nodded and waved, "Tell your aunt to come down and play cards with me after dinner. Ah."

This community is nearly thirty years old. The neighbors in Nanwang Lane are all very ordinary people. They know each other and they can say hello even if they raise their heads or lower their heads.

Li Wenyu said hello and walked forward slowly.

Behind me came the low-pitched discussion of the women -

"This child is pitiful. His parents are gone. He has followed Li Teng since he was a child. No matter how handsome he is, he has good grades, but Li Teng doesn't like him."

"No matter how good he is, he is not his biological child ." " Yes, how can Li Teng really care about him if he has a son?" "You can't be so partial. This child works outside until midnight every day. How can it be so hard?" "It wouldn't be so hard if his biological parents were still here

."

He can't be so pitiful.

"Li Teng's temper can make even his husband angry. How can he treat his children like this?"

...

Li Wenyu walked into the corridor. Inside, with the smell of ham still lingering on his hands, he slowly went upstairs and smelled the aroma of food as soon as he entered.

Li Teng was sitting next to the dining table. When he heard the movement, he looked up at the door: "You came back so early today? Why didn't you go to the game room?"

Li Wenyu glanced at the dishes and dumplings on the table, then turned around while holding the shoe cabinet. Went to change shoes: "There are equipment in the game hall that need to be inspected. Uncle Qin called me and said I don't have to go today."

"Oh," Li Teng nodded and called into the kitchen, "Mom, get another pair of bowls and chopsticks." Come out, Xiao Yu is back."

Grandma put a plate of green vegetables on the table and looked at Li Wenyu who was taking off his school uniform with a smile: "Xiao Yu came back so early today. Grandma just happened to make dumplings. Come and try them. Taste."

Li Wenyu also smiled: "I know, grandma."

He hung up his school uniform and sat down next to Ji He who had been silent: "Auntie, Uncle Qin said that the money was transferred to your card last month. Did you receive it?"

Li Teng picked up a dumpling and dipped it in the vinegar. "I got it. Did you get your test results this month?"

Li Wenyu lowered his head and said, "It's out."

Li Teng was calm. His expression changed, and he threw his chopsticks with a "pop" and stared at Ji He who stopped picking up vegetables: "Didn't you say you didn't say it? I went back and forth in the monthly exam, and I didn't remember it until I was checking the results. I'm sorry, right?" How many people did you take the test this time?"

Ji He was still a little guilty, but when he saw Li Teng like this, he became angry and threw away his chopsticks: "You think I want to do this, you don't know how to ask every day, I said You're not happy!"

Li Wenyu rarely ate at home. When he came back, he was a little overwhelmed by such a scene, so he had to move to a corner quietly.

Li Teng became even more angry after hearing this: "I'm not happy because you did poorly in the exam! Why don't you try to be more angry? I'm hundreds of people away and my face is not even bright when I go out to play cards with others!"

Ji He leaned back in his chair. He put his hands in his arms and sneered: "Don't go out to play cards if your face is not bright."

"What did you say? Say it again?" Li Teng's voice became louder again, and his eyes swept over Li Wenyu. Gang said, "Can't you learn from your cousin? Learn how to speak even if your brain can't learn it. Don't make me angry at home!"

When Ji He heard this, he immediately raised his lowered head and stared. He sneered: "What should I learn from him? He's a dummy. If you like him, just let him be your son. Why are you looking for me?"

Li Wenyu hurriedly raised his head to look at Li Teng's livid face, and intuitively felt that he I should have said something, but I opened my mouth but no sound came out.

Li Teng was furious, pointed at the door and said in a low voice: "Get out, don't eat, get out."

Ji He snorted coldly, put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked out with an indifferent expression.

The old range hood in the kitchen was still ringing. When grandma came out with the last plate of dishes, she saw Ji He's empty seat. One look at Li Teng's face and she knew there was another quarrel. She moved the plate of dumplings in front of Li Wenyu, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Yu eats first, I'll go get Xiao He back."

Li Wenyu huddled in the corner and nodded, picking up a dumpling. I didn't even have time to dip it in vinegar before stuffing it into my mouth.

Li Teng saw his grandma chasing him out, but he still muttered: "I don't know who I learned this from, I have a bad temper..."

After finishing the meal, Li Wenyu sat in the living room for a while, and kept talking. It wasn't until Ji He was coaxed back to finish eating that he stood up, packed up the dishes and put them into the sink.

The oil stains slowly spread away after being soaked in the cold water, leaving a sticky feeling on the back of his hands. Li Wenyu quickly rinsed the dishes and chopsticks clean, and then returned to the room without stopping for a moment.

There was a calendar hanging on the wall. Li Wenyu raised his hand and tore off five pages. It was too slow, every day was so slow that he could only feel a little bit of pleasure by tearing away all the time he had accumulated to survive.

The calendar came from the supermarket when I bought eggs. The rough paper was of poor quality and had no toughness at all. Li Wenyu crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the trash can. He leaned back on the back of the chair.

Go to sleep. Only when he sleeps can he act like a normal person and not be afraid anymore. He thought so, but what was he afraid of? Sleep was like a slow tide, slowly covering his nerve endings, and he forgot again.

——It

was approaching dusk, the wind was whistling around the corridor, but the snow slowly stopped, but it only changed from goose-feather snow to broken snow, fluttering leisurely, and the sky and the earth were still white.

Pei Xin stood at the railing on the third floor and looked down. In the distance, Li Wenyu came down from the office building opposite, holding a stack of books that looked heavy in his hands. The pages of the top book were blown by the wind. Li Wenyu's hair also fluttered.

There was a classmate talking to him behind him. He turned around, but his back was still straight and his figure was slim and slender. A thin wrist was hidden under the book, and the smooth lines of the wrist bones snaked into the sleeves of the school uniform. The fingers and the tip of the nose were blown red by the cold wind, as if they were carved from jade.

Jade carvings are either jewelry or prize pieces.

This person was born to be used for fun. Pei Xin curled his lips, and there was a little wave in his calm and indifferent eyes.

It rained again when school was over, and the school gate was bustling with people. Umbrellas of various colors first gathered together and then scattered in all directions.

Pei Xin was sitting in the back seat of the car, and the rain was drifting into the car. He put his right hand on the window, holding a cigarette in his hand. Of course smoking is not allowed in school, but no one said anything about the students and teachers coming and going.

He held the cigarette in his hand, and he looked at the golden sparks on the end of the cigarette, watching it burn slowly, releasing a wisp of bluish-white smoke, which then quickly dispersed in the drizzle.

Li Wenyu met his gaze from the crowd. Pei Xin tilted his head towards him and motioned for him to get in the car.

Li Wenyu said no more and quickly went around to the other side and got in the car. Rather than lingering unnecessarily, it's better to leave as soon as possible before no one notices.

He closed the car door and his right hand was immediately held. Pei Xin's hand was also cold, but slightly warmer than his. Li Wenyu struggled a little but didn't pull away, so he simply let him go.

"Are you so obedient today?" Pei Xin's voice was a little deep, and his tone was slow, with a hint of ambiguous smile.

Li Wenyu closed his eyes and did not look at him. The air was filled with the heavy smell of humidity that often occurs on rainy and snowy days, mixed with a bit of tobacco smell. It was not unpleasant, but he still frowned.

Pei Xin seemed to be in a good mood today. He didn't feel too embarrassed when he didn't speak. He just played with his right hand, stroking it along the veins on the back of his white hand, and then touched the slender knuckles.

Li Wenyu didn't look out the window, so when he noticed something was wrong with the road, the car had already stopped in front of a restaurant. Pei Xin's hand was still on his, leading him out of the car.

Li Wenyu glanced at the sign and surroundings, his eyes clearly alert: "What is this place? What are you doing here?"

"Restaurant, come to eat." Pei Xin led him inside, speaking calmly.

"I won't eat." Li Wenyu blurted out.

Pei Xindang didn't hear them. As soon as they entered, a waiter came to greet them and led them into the private room.

Li Wenyu half-browed his eyebrows and remained silent. He waited until the waiter poured them tea and left before he said with a stern face: "What does this mean?"

Pei Xin raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised: " What do you mean?"

Li Wenyu's voice was cold: "I didn't promise to eat with you."

"Really?" Pei Xin thought for a while, then he put his arm around Li Wenyu's waist. He squeezed it gently and felt the tremor as expected, "You only promised to go to bed with me, right? How about here?"

Li Wenyu stared and was about to speak, when the waiter outside He knocked on the door and came in with the food.

The two of them were in an intimate posture. Li Wenyu's face suddenly turned pale before he had time to escape, but the waiter seemed not to be surprised. He smiled and left after serving the food.

Pei Xin let go of his hands, shrugged his shoulders and said, "Let's eat."

The dining table was filled with seafood, which was exquisite and fragrant. You could tell at a glance that it was expensive.

Li Wenyu didn't move, sitting there with a cold face, reluctance written all over his body.

Pei Xin looked at him for two seconds, with a gloomy expression that seemed to be inquiring. Then he leaned back in his chair and sneered: "Li Wenyu, don't be ungrateful."

Li Wenyu raised his head and stared at the iceberg. She looked at him with her eyes, her tone was very calm, and she repeated what she said before entering the store: "I won't eat."

The people who can eat at the same table are either family members or friends. But he and Pei Xin are not. If they have to be reckoned with, they can only be enemies.

Pei Xin leaned lazily, with his back to the light-transmitting Japanese window, his slender body like a shining thin blade: "If you don't want to eat, that's fine."

His lips were hooked, but his eyes were not bent, and his tone was light: "Then take off your clothes."

Li Wenyu's eyes flickered. He had no doubt about Pei Xin's shamelessness. This is a restaurant. Although it is in a private room, it is by no means a private place. People can come in at any time.

Even if such a scene appeared in his mind for even a second, Li Wenyu's hands and feet felt cold. There were footsteps outside the door again, maybe they were passing by, maybe they were pushing the door in.

"Take it off." Pei Xin still smiled evilly, his white teeth shining brightly.

The footsteps outside the door sounded like a countdown to death. Li Wenyu thought to comfort himself, trying to numb himself. He had already given in to Pei Xin countless times, so he once again picked up the chopsticks in the face of the contemptuous and mocking eyes on the other side.

He stuffed things into his mouth haphazardly, without tasting anything. He could only see Pei Xin's proud look at another successful attempt when he raised his eyes and lowered his eyes. For a moment, he felt that he had really become Pei Xin's dog, obeying instructions and wagging its tail to beg for mercy.

Pei Xin seemed to have come here determined to humiliate people. He didn't eat anything from beginning to end, and didn't even take a sip of water. He just watched Li Wen stuffing food into his mouth in embarrassment.

Li Wenyu ate in silence for ten minutes, until Pei Xin finally stopped staring at him and stopped using his chopsticks.

"Let's go." Pei Xin slowly wiped his hands with a tissue, then threw it into the trash can, got up and walked out.