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The sun in the spring afternoon became poisonous, and there was even a bit of summer flavor.

Qi Nuliang bought two ice creams and ate them on the street with Jiang Yu.Under a big tree, he was squatting on the fence while Jiang Yu was sitting.The child's black padded jacket has been replaced by a crisp tracksuit jacket.He was holding the ice cream, reluctant to lick it after eating it.After several bites, Qi Nuliang smoked a cigarette.

After taking a sip, he glanced at Jiang Yu, he felt miraculous.

"How do you know the boss will sell it to you?"

The melted ice cream touched the child's lips, and he stuck out the tip of his tongue to lick it, with a very casual look: "All the clothing stores in this area are like this, only the clothes in the shopping mall on the other side of the square are not bargained, and they are also expensive."

"That's right." Qi Nuliang took a deep puff of his cigarette, "You are so good at bargaining, why didn't you help me do it when I brought you together?"

"Not all can be cut."

"I took you to buy clothes and shoes before and you didn't cut it."

Jiang Yu only concentrated on licking the ice cream and stopped talking.

Indeed, the first time Qi Nuliang bought him clothes, he was ripped off, and it was still under his nose.

At that time, he had no idea where this person came from, he just thought it was a stranger.He also adopted the same attitude towards other strangers-staying aloof and watching with cold eyes.

It is different now, more than half of the money Qi Nuliang earns is spent on him, saving money for him is also saving money for himself.

"By the way, it's been a long time since school started. How are you doing at school?"

"nothing at all."

"Can you understand me in class?"

Jiang Yu nodded.

"How are you getting along with your classmates?" Qi Nuliang remembered that when he was in school, although his grades were not very good, he was a mischievous child, "You are taller than them, are you the boss of your class?"

Jiang Yu shook his head.

"With such a big advantage, you can't become the boss, you're not good at it."

Jiang Yu turned a deaf ear to his words, and rubbed his fingers after eating the ice cream.

"Are you still eating? I'll buy you another one?"

"I don't want it anymore." I had a good lunch today, I drank Coke after eating, and now I ate an ice cream, even he himself felt that this was too much.

"Then you go back to school."

Qi Nuliang led him to the bus station to wait for the bus.

Jiang Yu suddenly said, "I did a quiz in math class last week, and I got full marks."

"Full score?"

"It's just a hundred points." The child said a little embarrassedly, "It's just a small test."

Qi Nuliang suddenly grabbed Jiang Yu's cheeks with both hands, raised his face, and said happily: "Not bad, you boy, you can still get full marks... You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Jiang Yu spoke inarticulately: "I can show you tonight..."

Qi Nuliang let go of his hand, and smiled: "Okay, I believe you, you are indeed your mother's son, so smart."

When the bus came, he put Jiang Yu on the bus, and asked him what he would like to eat, and rewarded him when he went home at night.

Jiang Yu lay on the dirty window of the bus and looked back, Qi Nuliang was also looking at him, and when he saw him turning back, he smiled and waved to him.It wasn't until the car turned a corner and the person disappeared that Jiang Yu withdrew from the car window.

But a small test, get a perfect score so happy?

In Jiang Yu's own opinion, this is not worth mentioning at all.Telling this to Qi Nuliang is just to show that the other party spent money to send him to school and asked him to study hard in school, he did it, and he didn't waste such a hard-earned money.

But what he didn't know was that this meant a lot to Qi Nuliang.

Whether it's to comfort the dead Yao Huilan -- she was so eager to study, to go to high school and college, and she must hope that her children can continue to study, or for this kid's future life, studying hard is the only way to get rid of all this. A way out is also Qi Nuliang's only extravagant hope for him.

Said it was an extravagant hope, because he knew how difficult it is to read well.And in the eyes of a poor student like him, this matter seemed even more difficult to do.

To throw such a difficult task at a child, and do nothing but send him to school, seems in any case to have set him an impossible task.

He did it.

This little "doing" by Jiang Yu gave Qi Nuliang a little "hope".

There were many moments of despair in his life—

Abandoned by his mother when he was young.

Childhood was spent in frequent beatings by his father.

The juvenile was imprisoned and sentenced to ten years in prison.

After finally trying to commute her sentence, she was about to finish her sentence when she heard the news of Yao Huilan's death.

Yet there were also many moments of hope—

He was cared and cared for by the neighbor girl when he was a child.

In prison, thinking of getting out of prison and marrying Yao Huilan became all his motivation and obsession.

And, now.

If it is said that Jiang Yu's need for him becomes the driving force for him to live.Then this child will be promising and have a good future, which becomes the whole meaning of his living well and doing his best.

Yao Huilan's life that came to an abrupt end when he was only in his early thirties, and his life with no future when he was in his 20s, nothing can be changed.But in Jiang Yu, he saw a little new possibility, a little hope to break the curse woven by poverty and ignorance.

What people fear most is not difficulty and pain, but hopelessness.Once there is hope, all difficulties in life can be overcome, and all pain can be endured.

When I returned to the restaurant, the diners were long gone, and the employees had all eaten.But the waitress at the front felt sorry for him and left a big bowl for him.

Qi Nuliang quickly finished the meal and began to clean the back kitchen.This man, who had always been taciturn at work, rarely hummed an incoherent ditty.

"What's the happy event, so happy?"

"Sing any song, louder for everyone to listen to."

The elder sisters laughed and laughed at him.Qi Nuliang shut his mouth in embarrassment, and started to work more quickly.

"Xiao Qi, who is that kid who came to see you just now?"

"It can't be your son, right? No wonder you don't want my sister to introduce someone to you."

"No, how could Xiao Qi have such a big son."

"My nephew...my sister's son." Qi Nuliang hurriedly explained, wondering what kind of cubs the cats in this street have given birth to, and what will be passed on to him in the end.

"What about your sister?"

"died."

"The child passed away at such a short time, how sad it must be for a mother, how reluctant..." The eldest sister who is also a mother felt sad, "The child is also pitiful..."

The person next to her poked her, signaling to her Qi Nuliang's uneasy expression, and stop talking.

"What about his father? It is said that if you have a stepmother, you will have a stepmother. Could it be that the child follows you when you become a father and marry a stepmother?"

Speaking of that man, Qi Nuliang seemed to have knocked over a five-flavored bottle in his heart.Then thinking of Jiang Yu again, the feeling in his heart was even more difficult to understand, and he said only three words: "I've died a long time ago."

"Parents are gone, so the child is too pitiful."

"Isn't there still Xiao Qi, I think Xiao Qi takes good care of him." The elder sister comforted, "It's okay, my sister is from experience, it's difficult now, the child is older. You see, treat him well now, He will definitely remember it, and he will treat you well when he grows up."

grow up.

I don't know what Jiang Yu will be like when he grows up, but he will definitely not be the same as himself, and he will definitely be more promising than himself.

When I got home that night, Jiang Yu was still awake, lying on the desk doing homework.

"There's so much homework today, and you haven't finished it yet?"

He didn't speak, just opened his schoolbag silently, and showed him the test sheet that he said during the day.Sure enough, there are all red ticks, and there is no mistake.Qi Nuliang also found out that this kid's handwriting was correct, so he inevitably took a second look.Then I realized that I couldn't understand anything except numbers.He wondered in his heart, are the questions in the fourth grade of elementary school so difficult?

At this moment, Jiang Yu brought him a bowl of noodles from the kitchen, put it in front of him, sat back to his original position without saying anything, and continued to do his homework.

Qi Nuliang glanced at him, didn't say anything, picked up the already lumpy noodles, and started to eat.

Thinking of what the eldest sister said in the restaurant, it seems that there is no need to grow up, and she is already very caring at this moment.

"By the way, the aunt in the store gave me some clothes for her son to wear. You can see if there are any clothes you can wear." Enthusiastic women with children of their own always don't listen to such things as orphans. So he ran home, collected a bunch of food and clothing, and brought them to Qi Nuliang.

Seeing that Jiang Yu didn't respond, he was afraid of hurting the child's self-esteem, and he said, "If you don't like wearing what others have worn, I'll return it tomorrow, and that's okay."

"I'm not unhappy." As he spoke, Jiang Yu packed up his homework and carried the big bag of clothes that covered the four seasons into the room.

The person went in and didn't come out again. Qi Nuliang guessed that he was trying on clothes, and he didn't go in to disturb him after eating the noodles. He sat at the table smoking and shouted into the room: "There are still some snacks such as biscuits and bread. You can take them to school tomorrow." eat."

From then on, Jiang Yu would go to the restaurant to look for him on weekends.

Pick up cartons and empty bottles in the store, and help clean up dishes and chopsticks when you are too busy.Seeing that he was helping, the boss asked him to eat in the store, and occasionally sent some snacks.

Jiang Yu is not only diligent and sensible, but after getting acquainted with these people, he is also very sweet-mouthed, saying "uncle, aunt, uncle, aunt" every day.Within a few days, I became acquainted with the people in the restaurant. Even the chef's bald head would fish chicken legs out of the pot for him to eat, not to mention the waiters in front.There is no need for Qi Nuliang to spend money anymore, only when Jiang Yu comes to the restaurant, he will keep talking.Even if they don’t come, the elder sisters will buy snacks for him to take home for the children.

Qi Nuliang was stunned, this kid seemed to be a different person.Changed from the old way of cherishing words like gold and not speaking well, he became lively and cheerful, and won the likes of everyone without any effort.

But when he got home, he had nothing to say.

Soon Qi Nuliang understood that this kid became so sweet-mouthed because he knew that it was good to please others.You don't need to please yourself as a co-author, and you will treat him well, so he just ignores it like that.

This little bunny!

Spring passed quickly, and when the weather got hotter, Jiang Yu also finished half-term exams.Two courses with double hundred points, it is said that they are the first in their grade, but there are several double hundred students, and there are also several firsts.

In order to reward him, Qi Nuliang took him to eat barbecue.

Everything went well, except for the tight schedule, Qi Nuliang didn't need to worry about the child's affairs at all, and this child gave him a lot of comfort.

Qi Nuliang thought everything would go on so smoothly, until he received a call from the school asking him to go there quickly.

The author says:

Xiao Jiang lived outside, especially during the two years of wandering, he saw a lot of human feelings, and he was already a fine person at a young age.Brother Qi was just the opposite. He was in the village when he was a child, and then spent eight years in prison. The people and things he came into contact with were relatively simple, so he still maintained the simplicity of a countryman, and he was a single-minded male mother.