back edge

One, three, five, Saturday and Sunday are the days when Xie Jingnian has to work part-time. He came to the entrance of the supermarket with his schoolbag on his back.

There were a lot of people shopping at this time, and a man in overalls was busy packing things. His eyes lit up when he saw Xie Jingnian: "Xiao Xie, go and change quickly, I'm too busy."

Xie Jingnian quickly changed his clothes and fought with him at the cash register.

This person is Zhao Kang, a college student in his twenties, and a part-time supermarket worker like Xie Jingnian.

Xie Jingnian is 1.7 meters [-]. He is half a head taller than Xie Jingnian. He has long arms and legs. He always bumps into Xie Jingnian's head when holding plastic bags.

Zhao Kang reached out and rubbed Xie Jingnian's head, and said, "Xiao Xie, go inside, I always run into you."

Xie Jingnian switched places with him, and it happened that a girl was paying the bill at his place.The girl was wearing a school uniform, and she looked like a student from the No. [-] Middle School next door.

She was wearing a ponytail and looked sweet and cute. Her big eyes glanced at Xie Jingnian from time to time, and she would lower her head and blush as if embarrassed after watching it.

Xie Jingnian packed his things and smiled at her: "It's 27 yuan in total. Is it cash or WeChat Alipay?"

The girl stared at Xie Jingnian's face, and her words were a little awkward: "Now... cash."

The girl took out money from her wallet and handed it to Xie Jingnian: "Well, I, I think you are very good-looking, can I... want your contact information?"

Xie Jingnian did have a pretty face.Especially his pair of eyes, the pupil color is very dark black.When he was not smiling, he was cold and calm, but when he smiled, the ice and snow melted in an instant, and he was very gentle.

He doesn't like to laugh, the owner of the supermarket wants him to laugh.So in addition to checking out his job, he also added a smirk.

Xie Jingnian smiled and rejected her: "Sorry."

The girl took the good things, blushed and shook her head: "It's okay, I've worked hard, goodbye."

Zhao Kang turned his head and winked at him: "Our little Xie is really pretty."

Xie Jingnian said helplessly, "Brother Zhao, don't make fun of me."

"I'm telling the truth." Zhao Kang said while looking for money, "I think I was tender when I was your age, and there were many girls who sent me love letters every day."

Zhao Kang is not bad now, apart from looking a little rough, he is still very handsome.

Xie Jingnian asked: "Is there no one now?"

"Ham, now girls like the kind that are cool, flamboyant and have personality."

Cool and cool.Xie Jingnian suddenly thought of the man on the motorcycle. He also looked in his twenties.Xie Jingnian doesn't know whether he is attractive or not, and whether he has a personality, but cool is really cool - in various senses, such a person is indeed very attractive.

He was busy until after eleven o'clock in the evening, Xie Jingnian changed back into his clothes and stood aside waiting for Zhao Kang to lock the door.

Zhao Kang pulled down the shutter door and said to him: "Xiao Xie, you can go first, don't wait for me, we are not on the way."

Xie Jingnian said goodbye to Zhao Kang, and walked for more than ten minutes before arriving at the gate of the community.

He glanced at the window, the light was off, and then he went upstairs.

Pushing open the door, Xie Jingnian smelled a smell of alcohol, worse than in the morning.He walked a few steps in, and faintly heard a woman's cry.

Xie Jingnian frowned, and was about to exit a while later, when the woman's cry became louder—it seemed to come from his room.

Xie Jingnian's heart sank, he took a deep breath, and walked in with his fists clenched.The light was very bright, and at a glance, two naked figures could be seen entwining each other on his bed.

Xie Jingnian threw down his schoolbag, and before the two of them noticed, he tore Xie Lao San off the woman's body and threw it on the ground.

The woman screamed loudly, covered herself with clothes, and kept rubbing back and forth on the bed.

Xie Jingnian's eyes were red, and Xie Laosan's painful curses and the woman's sharp and unpleasant screams could be heard in his ears.He only felt a burst of coldness like maggots attached to the bones, making him feel sick.

He pointed to the door and said to the woman, "Go out."

The woman put on her clothes indiscriminately, looked at Xie Jingnian's face, and carefully moved off the bed.

Xie Jingnian's mind was in a mess, his temples throbbed, as if they were about to explode.

The room was not big, the woman went out and Xie Laosan got up from the ground, like a scene in slow motion, every second made him feel tormented.

Xie Jingnian tried his best to calm himself down, but it was useless. The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly burst out, and he couldn't help himself yelling at the seemingly innocent woman: "I told you to get out, don't you understand!"

The woman trembled as if she was frightened by him, without her shoes on, she crawled out of the bedroom on all hands and feet.

The youngest Xie stood up and held Xie Jingnian's shoulders, and scolded him vaguely after being drunk: "Little brat, you are so courageous, I will let you know today..."

As he said that, he was about to raise his fist and smash it.

Xie Jingnian stopped him, his stomach was churning uncomfortably, angry, disappointed, and numb.

"You really make me sick." Xie Jingnian finished speaking every word, and pushed the third Xie out of the bedroom and locked the door.

"Little brat, you open the door. If I don't kill you today, I won't be Xie Lao San!"

Xie Laosan slammed on the door frantically, as if hitting Xie Jingnian's head again and again, causing him pain.

Xie Jingnian took out the suitcase under the bed and packed his clothes one by one. He didn't want to stay here anymore and wanted to escape immediately. He could do anything, as long as he left here.

There are not many things, and they will be packed soon.He pushed the door and walked out with the suitcase, pushing Xie Lao San staggeringly on the ground: "Why are you packing up? Where are you going? Let me tell you Xie Jingnian, if you leave me, you are a fucking waste. In a few days!"

Xie Jingnian only felt that the last bit of strength in his body had been taken away, he was powerless and didn't want to say anything to Xie Laosan.

He took out the money from his schoolbag, which he had saved over the past two years, and he threw it at Xie Laosan's feet exactly.

The thick stacks of red tickets, Xie Laosan picked it up and held it in his arms like losing his mind: "You still have a bit of a conscience."

Xie Jingnian opened his mouth, but in the end he only spit out a few words: "We're settled."

The cold wind blowing on his face in the middle of the night seemed to freeze him, Xie Jingnian was walking aimlessly on the street with his suitcase.

Xie Laosan has not cared about him since he was in junior high school. He has always relied on himself to live to such an age, and he has to support Xie Laosan.If Xie Laosan has any kindness towards him, it seems that there is nothing other than creating him.

He counted it, and it was 6000 yuan in total. He had lived frugally for the past few years, and the money he earned from part-time jobs, as well as all his belongings, were given to Xie Laosan.

Nobody owes anyone.

Xie Jingnian walked for a long time and stopped in front of a 24-hour convenience store.He suddenly had a craving for a cigarette.

He touched himself, and finally took out a crumpled red ticket from his trouser pocket.

Ah, that person borrowed it from him that day.

Forget it.

Xie Jingnian put the money back into his pocket, and the 100 yuan is now his only savings.

What are you smoking?do not smoke.no money.

Xie Jingnian doesn't regret it, he doesn't regret escaping from that nominal home.

At least for this moment, the wind is blowing, the lights are shining on the body, and the asphalt road is under the feet.

He is free.

But he doesn't know where to go.His life has always been to go to school, work, and go home.He didn't even know where the nearest hotel was.

At this moment, he felt extremely confused. It turned out that this small broken city was so big, but he had never seen it with his own eyes.

As he dragged the suitcase, his steps became heavier and heavier, and his mind began to feel dizzy.When he was arguing with Xie Laosan, he pulled the wound and it hurt a lot.

Xie Jingnian walked under a wall, leaned against it pretending to be romantic and looked up at the starry sky.In the past, Xie Lao San was very patient with him, would hug him, point out the constellations in the sky to him, and speak clearly and logically.

It wasn't until he went to school that he realized that what Xie Laosan said was all fucking nonsense.

Xie Jingnian took out the antipyretic medicine from his bag, but there was no water in his hand.What can be done.Swallow raw.

Bitter and astringent, dull pain when passing through the throat.

He suddenly had a feeling that he was going to die here.

Just die, there is nothing to miss anyway.

Dead is better.

"Hey, Brother Rotten, come and give me a hand!"

"I asked you to buy wine, why did you pick someone up?"

"I was fucking shocked and thought I was dead, but I was still gasping."

"have a finger in the pie."

"Hey, stop talking, I brought everything back, hurry up, I'm bored."

……

Xie Jingnian vaguely heard someone talking, very strange, as if they were far away from him.

He forced his eyes open, the white light dazzled his eyeballs.

A strange man's voice sounded next to his ears: "Hey, Brother Yu, I'm awake."

Xie Jingnian sat up after a while, and saw clearly that it was a man with long brown hair.

The room was very large, filled with all kinds of musical instruments, and posters of various colors were messily pasted on the walls. Except for the bed under him, there were only two plastic stools.

"I..." Xie Jingnian spoke, his voice was so hoarse that it didn't belong to him.

The long-haired man poured him a glass of warm water thoughtfully, pulled the stool over and sat in front of him, and said softly, "Hello, kid, my name is Zhou Yantong, you fell by the wall, and I brought you back."

Before Xie Jingnian said anything, Zhou Yantong asked again: "Are you feeling better? Are you hungry? Is there any other discomfort?"

Xie Jingnian put down his cup, and his eyes became hot for a moment because of a few words of concern from a stranger.

"Hey, don't cry." Zhou Yantong took out a few pieces of paper from his pocket, and wiped Xie Jingnian's unbrewed tears indiscriminately, "Brother Yu, come quickly, he is crying, what should we do?"

"You made me cry, why did you ask me?"

this sound.

Xie Jingnian was stunned when he saw the person coming in from the door.

It is 100 yuan.

Xie Jingnian still remembered his appearance, but he seemed to have forgotten it.

Seeing Xie Jingnian staring at him, Zhou Yantong introduced him: "He is Chen Xi. We are both older than you, so you can just call him brother."

Chen Kui was leaning against the door frame, holding a piece of cigarette butt in his hand, which was lit with sparks.

"Thank you." Xie Jingnian said.

Zhou Yantong patted his thigh with a smile: "It's okay, it's a matter of little effort."

Chen Xi pushed open the door and threw the cigarette butt out, his voice was not loud, a little cold: "Let's go when you wake up."