Counterattack the scumbags
At the beginning of Chapter 1, Qi Yuan hasn't moved his nest yet, and the gluttonous snake on h
, the other party was quite straightforward. After reporting the address and simple requirements, he directly transferred 200, saying it was a deposit.
Of course, this was due to Qi Yuan giving up his cheeky nonsense, when he showed Tao Anran the chat records, Tao Shen would rather be blind at that moment.With Mr. Qi's ability to blow a row of kickers to the sky without an open flame, Tao Anran has become a rising star in the city's education circle in the blink of an eye. The presence.
"I think if I don't release a satellite, I'll be sorry for your rainbow fart." Tao Anran returned the phone, with indescribable words written all over his face.
Qi Yuan waved his hand, "I'll just play as I please, don't feel pressured."
Tao Anran still had a cold face, "Your internal strength is strong, you should use it carefully in the future. If you are not careful, the people around you will be easily injured."
Qi Yuan was stunned for a moment, then trembled with laughter, patted him while trembling and said: "Xiao Taozi, you are so interesting."
Tao Anran didn't think he was funny, but felt that Qi Yuan's smile was a little low, and wondered if those who worshiped him as the boss of the fifth middle school would think that his IQ had jumped into the water.
Most excellent people are self-disciplined, which is probably a universal standard.
Although Tao Anran had a rough time these days, the matter of long-distance running was unshakable.In order to immobilize the injured left arm and prevent it from growing into a mace, he made a simple and detachable immobilization device with air pillows, air columns and wide tape.Running with this thing, the left arm is almost motionless and quite stable. The only flaw is that the shape is not very good. At first glance, it seems a bit intellectually suspicious.
Occasionally, Qi Yuan was in a daze in his secret base, and met Tao Anran running laps on the playground calmly, thinking that he was going to participate in the annual comic exhibition and stand for Iron Armored Little Treasure.
As a result, another video of someone galloping with an air column attached to his mobile phone was added.
Tao Anran clearly arranged for herself 24 hours a day, and by the way, also arranged Qi Yuan's time every afternoon - the boutique class.
Qi Yuan, who had no motivation to study, was sitting in that small classroom, feeling like a concubine, but couldn't escape the stimulation of Tao Anran's casual words, so he had to drag his heavy legs into the door.
On the other hand, Tao Anran didn't seem to be in a hurry to let Qi Yuan figure out all the problems, he was like a very patient hunter, waiting for the prey to get into the trap by itself.
Finally, on the day when the cram school was closed years ago, Qi Yuan asked the first "why".
In class, Qi Yuan was called by the teacher to answer the sample questions on the blackboard. Mr. Qi took the oil-based pen indifferently, and solved it on the blackboard according to the results that he had been obsessed with over the past few days.
For Qi Yuan, it's just a matter of humiliating in public, it's no big deal.
Who knew that the cram school teacher actually took his question as a model, explaining it step by step, pointing out where most people would make mistakes, virtually prolonging the embarrassing time, and allowing Qi Yuan to gain the attention of the whole class force.
When the get out of class was over, Qi Yuan grabbed Tao Anran who was calm beside him, "Tell me, why did you make a mistake in the next few steps?"
Tao Anran zipped up her schoolbag, turned to look at him, "Think about it yourself, I'll come back to you after finishing tutoring."
It's a good sign that his curiosity can be aroused, it's a 3-minute heat, Tao Anran intends to stretch it again, until he builds a short-term motivation for his curiosity, then the first step will basically be considered a success.
Therefore, it is really a arduous task and a long road to push the outstanding scum from the bottom of the grade to the second line if you have nothing to say.
☆、Chapter 20
Big brother Qi, who had no idea that he had been tricked, was stunned by the table full of example questions for the first time on the 29th day of the year.
In fact, thinking back carefully, his grades in elementary school were not bad, and he even passed the top few exams when he was convulsed.But after Xiaoshengchu, it didn’t work out very well. The arrival of the rebellious period distracted his attention to the point that he couldn’t disperse any more. After he understood personnel affairs, Qi Yuanyuan and Cheng Zheng’s short-lived things also added a lot of trouble to him, which was inevitable. He honestly thinks that he is a child who has been tragically abandoned. If it weren't for his grandma, he would probably live a life worse than a pig or a dog.
When a person resents his thoughts, he tends to go astray, and he specializes in drilling narrow and thin horns, not to mention that young people have no way to express their thoughts, and even if they want to reveal, they feel ashamed, so they have to run wildly on the road that has gone astray.
When I get into high school in a good way, my previous emotions have become "don't care", so I don't want to think about what I have and what I don't have.
Just muddle through, unrestrained and unrestrained wandering life.
……
Before he could come to a conclusion, the road suddenly turned red. What was annoying was that the light was made by Tao Anran, and he hung it up by himself, so there was nowhere to vent his anger.
At 08:30, Tao Anran knocked on the door on time, carrying two bunches of candied haws and a box of pea cakes.
Grandma Qi heard the movement in the room and came out with a smile on her face. Tao Anran hurriedly handed over the pea cake and "presented treasure" to the old lady obediently. .”
One sentence made Grandma Qi happy, and she poked at the grandson next to her, "Look at Xiaoan, look at you, you are not willing to ask you to buy a vegetable box, you are so lazy."
Qi Yuan hung the word "injustice" from head to toe, "Go outside and ask, who doesn't close the stall until the 29th?"
"You have so many excuses, I don't bother to talk about you," Grandma Qi held the pea cake box, "Xiao An, there are sweet potato chips that grandma fried at night on the table over there, go and eat them yourself."
Tao Anran became a "smooth donkey" in the blink of an eye, letting him eat and drink, singing along with the old lady, and leaving his serious grandson to drink the northwest wind.
It wasn't until the TV in the room ended the advertising period and entered the opening song of the TV series that grandma walked back slowly. When she entered the door, she turned around and asked, "You two have fun, don't be awkward."
Qi Yuan: "Don't worry, I'll let him go."
Tao Anran: "..." Say it again, who will let whom?
Grandma closed the door, fearing that the brats would make too much noise and affect her mood while watching the TV series.After sitting down, the old lady picked up the half-knitting work and hummed a little song.
Her grandson hasn't invited friends to play for a long time, and her temper is getting more and more serious. She is always worried that one day she will really grow up and lose the fun of being a teenager.
Looking at it now, I didn't meet a friend with the right temper, and if someone really dragged me, it was fine.
"What are you doing here?" Qi Yuan gnawed on the candied haws, without the slightest sense of cannibalism, and asked knowingly.
Tao Anran was also polite, and pulled all the sweet potato chips in front of her, "What do you think?"
"I'm already self-taught, you should save your energy to teach your primary school students."
Tao Anran glanced at him, and said in his heart: A dead duck is not as stubborn as you.
After two seconds of silence, he said, "Okay, tell me about it, and I'll leave right away if you understand it."
Qi Yuan: "..."
Tao Anran added slowly, "We Xueba are generally very persistent."
The implication is, don't give up if you don't achieve your goal, or just give it a try and see who can beat who.
Three minutes later, Qi Yuan raised the white flag to surrender, and led Tao Anran into his territory with a downcast expression.
The bedroom is a relatively private space, no matter in terms of external form or internal feeling.So when Tao Anran stepped over the threshold, her heart trembled involuntarily, as if she raised her hand and pierced a layer of translucent thin paper, revealing the hidden color inside accidentally.
The layout of Qi Yuan's room is exactly the same as Cao Xiaofei's, narrow and slender, as if there is a light-year distance from the door to the window.The whole room is very clean. There are bookshelves nailed to the east wall, and there is a whole row of picture albums of different sizes. Under the picture albums are sketchbooks from old to new, which are full.
On the bottom floor of the bookshelf, there are a group of handmade wood carvings of various shapes. At first glance, the knives are rough, but in fact the knives are in place, and there are almost no wrong lines of the blades.
On the other side, light-years away, a potted dwarf lemon tree and prickly pears accompany a small colorful watering can on the windowsill.
Unexpectedly emotional.
Qi Yuan used a ridiculously large rectangular log table, and with a rough gesture, the table was worth half of the bed next to it.
The miscellaneous things on the table are piled up with the effect of "horizontally viewed as mountains and sideways as peaks, with different heights in distance and near", and a computer is stuck in the middle, which has the bearing of Dongyue Taishan.
What is quite out of harmony is that there is a colorful plastic windmill pinned to the head of "Tarzan".
Tao Anran let out a soft "ah".
Qi Yuan pulled out the chair and sat down, put his hands on the back of the chair and looked back at him, "What is it?"
"That," Tao Anran raised her chin, "I thought you threw it away."
"It has commemorative significance, even if you move in the future, you have to take it with you," Qi Yuan cocked his mouth and kicked the round stool next to him, "Sit down, hurry up and talk about business."
Tao Anran originally wanted to ask about the commemorative significance, but before he could say anything, he was blocked by Qi Yuan's last sentence.After sitting down, I thought about it, and asked what I was doing, did I feel full after eating.
Teacher Tao, who was honored to take up the post, was as serious as an ice sculpture as soon as he took his seat. The neutral pen in his hand drew a beautiful arc, and he clicked on the wrong question in front of Qi Yuan, "Do you know where the mistake is?"
Qi Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, and before waiting for an answer, Tao Anran asked and answered in a leisurely manner, "Looking at the extent of the tragedy, I definitely don't know."
Qi Yuan: "..."
After Teacher Tao finished his sarcasm, he pulled over a piece of paper that looked like a waste of drawing, on which only a silhouette was drawn. It could be seen that it was a thin boy, but since the facial features were temporarily blank, it was impossible to see why.In addition, an annoying black line was drawn next to the figure.
"Can it work?" he asked.
A subtle expression flashed across Qi Yuan's face, and his eyes still turned half a circle on his face before he cleared his throat and said, "Use it whatever you want."
Tao Anran wrote as soon as he picked up the pen, and talked while writing, analyzing the internal logical relations embodied in the problem-solving steps one by one, analyzing the topic in a simple and simple way, and at the same time quietly strengthening Qi Yuan's memorization of the applied theorems and formulas , When this question is finished, the minute hand of the clock on the wall has passed a small half circle.
"It's nothing difficult. If you figure out the theorems and logic of thinking, and understand the workbook from beginning to end, you can basically get into the top [-] in mathematics."
"..."
Qi Zhaza was shocked by Xueba's understatement, and after a long time, he managed to say, "I don't have such lofty ambitions for the time being."
He hadn't even considered passing the test.
Tao Anran was dissatisfied after listening, "According to my teaching method, even Cao Xiaofei, you can't fail to learn. So, if you are still hanging on your tail in the next semester, then I will sincerely suggest to test your brain. It has the potential to be as smooth as a marble floor."
To some extent, Tao Anran is a very mean person.
But Qi Yuan didn't want to fight back immediately, as if he was instantly possessed by a masochist. Somehow, Tao Anran like this made him feel extra lively and interesting, and he almost had the urge to reach out and pinch his fair face.
Color blinds the mind.
When he raised his hand, the word suddenly popped up in Xue Zha's mind.
☆、Chapter 21
The night outside the window was thick, and Tao Anran unexpectedly lost sleep.
To the ear was Cao Xiaofei's undulating snoring of a tired young man, which set off the panic-stricken tranquility in the room even more.
why?
Tao Anran thought.
In fact, that sentence was just blurted out at that time, I am afraid that Jiang Min would not remember it a long time ago, even if she did not forget it, she would just take it as his retort.
On the contrary, he was quite serious, and he didn't know who he was fighting for.
"With me here, it is impossible for him not to learn."
The words he said suddenly resounded in his mind, and even produced a lingering effect, making Tao Anran's cheeks burn for a while, and he could perform a scene of being at a loss while wrapped in the quilt.
He threw the quilt over his face, turned around irritably, and thought: I might as well get up and recite the words if I have this time.
But after arching twice, he still didn't move after all. Xueba found a reason for himself that he was lonely and untenable-suddenly turning on the light would affect Cao Xiaofei's sleep.
In fact, even a sudden earthquake might not be able to wake Cao Xiaofei, let alone the eye protection lamp beside his pillow.
As a result, the words were not memorized, and the insomnia was really lost for most of the night.
The next day was New Year's Eve. According to the Cao family's practice, the whole family got up early to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.
This is Tao Anran's first Spring Festival after the sudden loss of his parents. Even though he subjectively resists the constant loneliness and is very unwilling to end up with self-pity, but everyone can control their thoughts and emotions as they like. Emotions and desires have long been eliminated in the world, and gods and Buddhas are everywhere.
Therefore, when Tao Anran and Cao Xiaofei were arranged to go out to purchase minced meat, Tao Anran's entire face was as heavy as a cumulonimbus cloud, as if a violent storm could be staged at any time.
Under the low air pressure, Cao Xiaofei was not feeling well.
Among the young boy's unsystematic temperament, bullying and fear of toughness unfortunately accounted for most of it.When Tao Anran first arrived, classmate Cao Xiaofei took advantage of his size and thought that he, a cheap big brother, could flatten and round at will, so he had an idea and carried out "disarming power" for many consecutive days.Unexpectedly, the result was not only unsatisfactory, but he was also opposed by the opponent in the later period, which made him persuasion at a speed visible to the naked eye. Up to now, he has no courage to stretch his arms and legs to show his prestige at that time.
Tao Anran walked for more than ten minutes from the attached middle school family courtyard to the supermarket outside, and Tao Anran was as silent as a piece of iron that could not speak.Cao Xiaofei couldn't bear to hold back, and several times he tried to find something to talk about, but Tao Anran's cold eyes turned him back.
"..."
When they stepped into the gate of the supermarket, the two of them were confused by the bustling people inside.
Cao Xiaofei seemed to be backed up by the noise, and stepped forward to pat Tao Anran on the shoulder, "Where am I going to recruit you? Don't say a word."
Tao Anran raised her eyebrows, "What did you say?" Before the words finished, he suddenly felt blessed, "You blue cat is naughty and asked three thousand questions and didn't understand it? All right, what didn't you understand?"
"You...I..." Cao Xiaofei covered his thick chest, feeling that he was going to die of anger.
Tao Anran glanced at his little brother who was instantly possessed by the playwright, and stretched out his hand impatiently, "Bring me the list your mother asked you to make."
Cao Xiaofei rustled out a piece of crumpled paper from his trousers pocket, handed it over, and rubbed his fingers on the seam of his trousers.
Dead clean freaks must be disgusting, he thought.
However, Tao Anran just opened it and looked at it, then handed it back to him, turning a blind eye to the oil stains on the paper.
"Let's go." Tao Anran glanced lightly at the supermarket shelves, and pulled a cart from the entrance.
Cao Xiaofei followed behind, glanced at his brother's dangling arm, then at his expressionless profile, muttered, followed and grabbed the shopping cart, saying, "I'll push."
Tao Anran turned her head to look at him, and let go.
"I have everything else, only leeks and fennel." Cao Xiaofei pushed the cart and looked around, "Can you pick vegetables?"
Tao Anran thought for a while, "No."
Cao Xiaofei was full of expectations: "..."
In fact, when it comes to grocery shopping, he is just as lacking in experience as Tao Anran. Since he learned to walk, whenever he enters the supermarket, he always rushes to the snack area. When he sees raw meat and vegetables, he pinches his nose and flashes as far as possible. As for now, I don't know how different leeks and shallots are.
But he has a strange trust in Tao Anran. He feels that since his cheap brother can make up math problems to test him, it should be easy to choose leeks and fennel that are suitable for dumplings—even if Tao Anran said "no meeting".
Without saying a word, Tao Anran walked straight to the vegetable area, with a small fidgety flame on his forehead, waiting for an opportunity to break out, and destroy all living and dead things within a one-meter radius into slag.
The leeks were placed in the most conspicuous place in the vegetable area, piled up like a hill, as if they were afraid that customers would not find the right place, and there was a huge red sign with a yellow background on it, with the word "leek" written on it.
Tao Anran walked from the end of the line to the front with a cold face, then grabbed a handful without looking at them, wrapped them in a torn disposable plastic bag, and was about to wrap them up.
Just as he was about to step forward, unexpectedly a strong man squeezed sideways, and in the blink of an eye, the old lady who was picking vegetables one by one beside him was pushed down——
The old lady yelled "Ouch", and the soles of her feet immediately slipped. She panicked and grabbed left and right, but failed to grasp the point of strength. She had to resign herself to her fate and let the gravity pull her to the hard floor.
"Be careful!" Tao Anran stretched out his hanging left arm in shock, and before he could stabilize himself, he was the first to be held up.
Qi Yuan supported Tao Anran's plastered arm with one hand, and blocked the old lady who fell to the ground with the other hand in a rather awkward posture.
After such a short time, the old lady was already helped up by the people around who reacted.The instigator next to him was immediately sprayed with dog blood. The person's face was flushed, and he turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, muttering curses in his mouth.
"I don't think you intend to take this arm anymore." Qi Yuan's voice came from behind his ear, and his warm breath brushed against his ear, like light feathers brushing, numb and itchy.
Tao Anran stood up uncomfortably, "Why are you here?"
The other party said with a smile in his voice, "Shopping for vegetables."
Cao Xiaofei watched from afar, and couldn't help curling his lips and "hissing". Somehow, he saw the atmosphere of the two people's needlepoints facing Maimang, so he "asked himself" and said: "The two of them are going to fight, should I run or watch the fun, or pull sideways?" ?”
After thinking for two seconds, he chose the first option without hesitation.
Qi Yuan held Tao Anran in his arms, wrapped him and two pockets of leeks and walked out, and slapped him on the shoulder gently, "Be honest."
Tao Anran: "..."
The two squeezed out from the crowd, Cao Xiaofei twitched the corners of his mouth with a half-smile, "Qi...Brother Yuan?" Then he hinted at Tao Anran desperately with his eyes, but his brother was blind, and his pair of eyes were about to fly out. Face's eyes turned a blind eye, turned to Qi Yuan and pointed to the distance, "I still need to buy some fennel, will you pick it?"
Qi Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, leaned over and threw two cabbages into their car, "Don't go there, wait here."
Cao Xiaofei looked at Qi Yuan's back in horror, and then at the leeks in the cart, "Are you really friends?"
"Otherwise." Tao Anran's eyes seemed to fall on the tall and straight figure all the time, and he only glanced miserly at his brother, and then looked away.
"It doesn't look like it," Cao Xiaofei smacked his lips, "When he pulled you just now, your face looked like a donkey... No, no donkey. Anyway, it looks like you can fight in place, you can fight to the death."
Tao Anran secretly smiled, is there any?
Cao Xiaofei looked up... he didn't understand the world of the bosses.
Qi Yuan was quite efficient in his work. He went back and forth for 3 minutes, not only bought fennel, but also bought a large bag of pork ribs and two straight white radishes, saying that he was going back to make soup for his grandma.
It was rare for Tao Anran to make a joke, saying that he would save a bowl for himself, but because he was in a very bad mood, he looked like a bandit with a paralyzed face when he said this.
Qi Yuan looked at him thoughtfully, but hesitated to speak.
Cao Xiaofei has always had a strong nerve, and it was extraordinary to be able to see Tao Anran's low pressure on the way here.
The little boy didn't stop before he left the supermarket, and asked his brother to take him to buy potato chips and chocolates in circles, and he also wanted to eat candied haws by the way.Cao Xiaofei subconsciously felt that Qi Yuan was an "outsider", and Tao Anran couldn't be mean to him in front of outsiders, he had to act like a brother.
So it doesn't matter whether it's snacks or comics, as long as there are still some to sell, his brother has to help him realize it.
However, unexpectedly, Tao Anran did not treat Qi as an outsider at all, and performed her meanness and ruthlessness to the fullest in front of him, let alone chocolate, Cao Xiaofei didn't even touch a piece of candy wrapper in the end.
The three of them said nothing all the way, and returned to the attached middle school in silence.
On the fifth floor, Cao Xiaofei got into the room first to enjoy the heating.
Qi Yuan stopped Tao Anran and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Tao Anran's eyes flickered, and he covered up the momentary loss, and said, "It's nothing."
☆、Chapter 22
In the kitchen, Jiang Min and Cao Lantian were busy.
With the buzzing sound of the range hood, Jiang Min said to Cao Lantian, who was picking leeks, "This is a big Chinese New Year, and that kid doesn't have a good face."
Cao Lantian rubbed the mud on his fingers, "You mother should understand properly, his dad died last year, and it's the Spring Festival, so I feel bad."
"Just his dad, is it worth being sad?" Jiang Min stared, and his hands rubbed his face more vigorously, "You don't know the face of him when I divorced him, and he killed his whole family with me?" same."
Cao Lantian clicked his tongue, "Don't say a few words, it's all about rotten rice."
Jiang Min glanced at him angrily, "You know how to be gentle, when have you ever cared about family matters! You've become a good old man, let me sing about all the bad faces."
Cao Lantian was not in a hurry, he only raised the corner of his mouth, as if he was smiling, "Those who are capable work harder, and those who are capable work harder."
Jiang Min retracted his gaze, lowered his face, and stopped talking.
She was married twice, and she was not satisfied with either of them. She was exhausted by life, but whenever she wanted to wave her hand to fight back, she always punched the cotton. Suffocated enough.
There was a soft knock at the door, and Jiang Min turned her head quickly, and caught a glimpse of Tao Anran's slender back through the crack of the door.
His heart sank, did he hear it?
Then I felt that it was no big deal, I heard it when I heard it, and what I said was the truth, why can't I listen to it anymore.
Holding an envelope in his hand, Tao Anran returned from the kitchen to Cao Xiaofei's bedroom, which was like a storage room.
He threw the envelope in front of Cao Xiaofei, "Whether you want to keep it for yourself or give it to your mother, it's up to you."
Cao Xiaofei was taken aback, took off his earphones and glanced at Tao Anran who seemed to be covered by a black cloud, "What the hell? Did you eat the wrong meal?"
Before he finished speaking, Tao Anran's cold eyes scratched his forehead, and he was as obedient as a quail, and kept quiet.
Cao Xiaofei opened the kraft paper envelope in bewilderment, turned it upside down and knocked it on the palm of his hand, and a thin stack of new pink Grandpa Mao fell out of it with a clatter.
"..."
Cao Xiaofei froze, his neck stiffened and he turned to look at Tao Anran, wondering what kind of coquettish operation it was to dump RMB when he disagreed with him.
"I don't want it!" He thought he was a bear, but a bear with principles and integrity could not be easily bought by money.
Tao Anran rolled her eyelids, "If you don't want it, just take it to your mother."
When Cao Xiaofei heard it, he was unhappy, "What's your mother, your mother, my mother is also your mother, why don't you go?"
"Would you like to go or not?" Tao Anran lowered his eyes, feeling as if he was being pushed on his forehead by a bucket of sex, but the remaining rationality told him that if he deliberately found fault at this time, it would be tantamount to directly admitting that he is a fool who has no self-control .
He has no interest in lowering IQ for the time being, so he had to put on the hedgehog skin and put on a "don't mess with me" posture to achieve childish self-protection.
Cao Xiaofei has not yet evolved a Qiqiaolinglong heart, so he can't figure out how his brother, who is usually quite talkative, has returned to before liberation, but out of human instinct to seek good luck and avoid evil, he thinks Tao Anran is not good now It's better to keep your mouth shut.
So he swallowed all the ba ba ba ba ba ba ba to his mouth, quietly sealed the kraft paper envelope, and stuffed it on the bookshelf beside him.
"If you want to give it, you can't give it now," Cao Xiaofei thought, "It's a big festival, why do you have to find it hard?"
Tao Anran moved a square stool and squeezed against the wall, and hung a pair of earphones comparable to Big Ear Tutu on his head. The noisy heavy metal sound in it was so loud that it could shock a brain cell to death.He stared straight at the gray sky outside the window with both eyes, and his whole body was desolate like a solitary animal.
The scenes that he thought he had forgotten long ago are now playing in an uncontrollable loop in his mind like a movie.The whole family sits around the table for a reunion dinner. He has always been the one with the stinkiest face, because the younger sister is a living body. Why? Dad is a perfunctory dad who as long as he gets good grades, everything will be fine. Mom... Mom is very demanding. Less, less to almost nothing.
Tao Anran smiled silently, and slid her fingers across her cheeks, only to realize that tears were already streaming down her face.
It turns out that the brain is independent of consciousness and acts on its own.
Without his awareness, some kind of unknown pain was silently magnified.
In Room 502 across the door, Qi Yuan was managing the three pots by himself as an outstanding student of the New Oriental Chef School.
Grandma Qi was sitting on the balcony knitting, turning her head to look into the kitchen from time to time, then turning back and sighing after finishing reading, then lowering her head and continuing the knitting work in hand.
Now that she is old, she can't even hold two sweater needles. When she holds the needles, her hands start to shake. She stops and rubs them, and she still shakes after a while. She doesn't know if she will have time before she dies Knit another sweater for Xiaoyuan.
What a crime, she thought, Yuanyuan and that Cheng, really did a crime.
Qi Yuan's cell phone vibrated in his butt pocket, he took it out while shaking his spoon, and there were several messages across the screen, all from Hu Pangpang.
-You want to buy?
- it's all little girl stuff, are you crazy?
- what did you buy that for
- Say, are you in love?
- You leave the order behind the organization's back, I hate you.
Qi Yuan thought it was a bit strange that this guy was sending out text, but it had the effect of voice.
Half a minute later, Hu Qian, who was so blessed in his heart, added another sentence, "Boss, don't you want to play with God Tao?"
"Yes."
"Then you... take care."
Then he pushed over a business card and said, "This buddy will deliver the goods to your door seven days a day without a break, with guaranteed quality and quantity, and a shining fairy stick. You deserve it."
After finishing speaking, the grandson fled shamefully.
Qi Yuan added that person, and after finishing the request, both the buyer and the seller were quite straightforward. When it was over, the other party said: "The fairy stick is safe and secure, and it is a powerful tool to coax girls. Little brother, you are on the right track, and I wish you success."
"..."
I hope the "girl" doesn't stick a fairy stick in his face.
In view of Qi Yuan's "orphan mentality" since he was a child, except for being envious of other people's cubs with parents when he was young, he was very insensitive to this emotion for most of the rest of the time when he was panting. What is wrong with An Ran, he thinks it is due to his IQ before jumping off the building.
When Tao Anran went to wash her face, the screen of the mobile phone pressed under the corner of the quilt flickered on and off, and flickered on and off a few times, not counting the last struggle, and was forgotten by the owner in the warm corner.
The Cao family's New Year's Eve dinner was undoubtedly lively. The cramped space was filled with people from the three major families, and there were eleven people in total.
Cao Lantian is the boss of Cao's house, with a younger brother and a younger sister. Their parents died of illness early, leaving only three brothers and sisters. Naturally, they have to get together on New Year's Eve. This is an unbroken family relationship.
Tao Anran watched coldly, judging from an immature perspective, this big family is a good person in the traditional sense.But good people also have curiosity, and inappropriate curiosity occasionally causes additional harm, sometimes to themselves, and more often to others.
Tao Anran was extremely suffocated by everyone's probing eyes, eager to escape, but couldn't find a reason for a while—whether it was doing homework or going out to play, it seemed quite weird on the night of the New Year's Eve.
"Your phone rang just now." Cao Xiaofei, who had just returned to the room to get the game console, came over and bumped Tao Anran's shoulder, and handed over the phone, "I brought it here."
Tao Anran raised his eyes, for the first time in the world, he found Cao Xiaofei extremely cute, and smiled for the first time all day.
"..." Cao Xiaofei seemed to be greatly frightened, his hands trembled, and he almost dropped his phone into the soup pot next to him.
On the side, Cao Lantian's younger brother laughed and said that brothers are different, regardless of whether they are a father or not, they should kiss when they should.
The speaker had no intention, but the listener had the intention, Jiang Min's complexion immediately darkened, she took a sip of hot tea in silence, and at the same time glanced at Tao Anran who was staring at the screen intently, feeling displeased.
Qi Yuan sent seven or eight WeChat messages, among which were three or four photos of his stewed soup and fried vegetables, and two large plates of dumplings.The first one in the front is to ask if he is free in the evening, the sending time is in the afternoon, and the last one is "Come down after eating, I'm at the playground."
There is another missed call after this one, 5 minutes apart.
Seeing that her unfamiliar son seemed to be sitting on a row of needles after watching the phone, Jiang Min's anger was about to surge up, and his eyes were blocked, so he lowered his voice and asked, "What's the date on New Year's Eve?" , is there anything else?"
"I have to go down." Tao Anran turned off the phone screen, without looking at her, stood up and said to Cao Lantian: "Uncle, my classmate is looking for me downstairs, I will go back once I go."
Cao Lantian still had a smile on his face, "Go, let's go, it's so easy to have a holiday, and play with classmates—wear more, it's windy."
Tao Anran's expression eased, "Thank you uncle."
Ignoring the probing or reproachful gazes of everyone present, Tao Anran put on her coat and went out.
Qi Yuan sat under the stands, with a cardboard box at his feet, playing with a lighter in his hand.Seeing a bulging figure from a distance, he lazily raised his hand, "Here."
The north wind was like a knife, blowing past the ground, blowing up a few pieces of colored paper, brushing against Tao Anran's calf with Xuan'er.
When he raised his eyes, he saw Qi Yuan sitting on the ground, his long legs were bent with no place to rest, and his whole body was made into a silhouette by the street lamps.The man was tall and slender, and the small flame in his hand seemed to have the potential to start a prairie fire, quickly burning up the barbaric weeds in his heart.
At that moment, Tao Anran felt a certain emotion hidden in his chest tremble violently, as if it was about to break out of his bones. In the cold wind, he heard his own clear heartbeat like a drum.
☆、Chapter 23
Who would have thought that the excitement buoyed by the beating of a drum would be ruthlessly destroyed before it lasted 10 minutes.
On the playground, there was nothing to hide, and it was just right to pretend to be aggressive against the wind, but it would be a bit stupid to fire a gun against the wind.
"Blowing wind in all directions, how can it be lit?" Tao Anran held up two fireworks sticks in his hands expressionlessly, with the words "Are you mentally retarded" engraved on his face.
Qi Yuan stuffed the lighter into his hand, and immediately went on strike, "Come on, come on, go on!"
With the rigor of a chemical experiment, Tao Anran found the right angle, felt the wind direction, and then pressed the cheap lighter——
"Pa" the small flame lit up, and "swipe" the small flame was blown out.
Tao Anran: "..."
Qi Yuan laughed, took out another lighter and lit a cigarette for himself.
Tao Anran looked at him, and couldn't bear to lend him a hand to block the wind.In line with the principle of do-it-yourself food and clothing, he gestured with a pyrotechnic stick in his hand, bent down and inserted a row in the gap between the railings of the stands next to him, and prepared to click over one by one after blocking the wind.
But before he could make a move, he was stopped by Qi Yuan, "Be careful to turn you into a hero without eyebrows."
He had a cigarette in his mouth, frowned slightly, pushed Tao Anran back, bent over to block the wind, and ignited the pyrotechnic stick with great difficulty.
Bright flames spewed out from the top of the pyrotechnic stick, and there was a soft sound. The firelight reflected Tao Anran's fair face, and the flickering light embellished the soft and handsome lines.
Qi Yuan looked sideways, thinking, people are prettier than fireworks.
"Take it." He handed over the fireworks stick, his voice muffled.
Tao Anran turned her head to look at him, pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and pinched it, and finally coughed pretendingly, "It's a bit choking."
Qi Yuan was shocked at first—after all, no one dared to put out his cigarette so directly, and then an inexplicable warmth burst out of his chest, which made him want to pull Tao Anran over and hold his head.
Of course, this was due to Qi Yuan giving up his cheeky nonsense, when he showed Tao Anran the chat records, Tao Shen would rather be blind at that moment.With Mr. Qi's ability to blow a row of kickers to the sky without an open flame, Tao Anran has become a rising star in the city's education circle in the blink of an eye. The presence.
"I think if I don't release a satellite, I'll be sorry for your rainbow fart." Tao Anran returned the phone, with indescribable words written all over his face.
Qi Yuan waved his hand, "I'll just play as I please, don't feel pressured."
Tao Anran still had a cold face, "Your internal strength is strong, you should use it carefully in the future. If you are not careful, the people around you will be easily injured."
Qi Yuan was stunned for a moment, then trembled with laughter, patted him while trembling and said: "Xiao Taozi, you are so interesting."
Tao Anran didn't think he was funny, but felt that Qi Yuan's smile was a little low, and wondered if those who worshiped him as the boss of the fifth middle school would think that his IQ had jumped into the water.
Most excellent people are self-disciplined, which is probably a universal standard.
Although Tao Anran had a rough time these days, the matter of long-distance running was unshakable.In order to immobilize the injured left arm and prevent it from growing into a mace, he made a simple and detachable immobilization device with air pillows, air columns and wide tape.Running with this thing, the left arm is almost motionless and quite stable. The only flaw is that the shape is not very good. At first glance, it seems a bit intellectually suspicious.
Occasionally, Qi Yuan was in a daze in his secret base, and met Tao Anran running laps on the playground calmly, thinking that he was going to participate in the annual comic exhibition and stand for Iron Armored Little Treasure.
As a result, another video of someone galloping with an air column attached to his mobile phone was added.
Tao Anran clearly arranged for herself 24 hours a day, and by the way, also arranged Qi Yuan's time every afternoon - the boutique class.
Qi Yuan, who had no motivation to study, was sitting in that small classroom, feeling like a concubine, but couldn't escape the stimulation of Tao Anran's casual words, so he had to drag his heavy legs into the door.
On the other hand, Tao Anran didn't seem to be in a hurry to let Qi Yuan figure out all the problems, he was like a very patient hunter, waiting for the prey to get into the trap by itself.
Finally, on the day when the cram school was closed years ago, Qi Yuan asked the first "why".
In class, Qi Yuan was called by the teacher to answer the sample questions on the blackboard. Mr. Qi took the oil-based pen indifferently, and solved it on the blackboard according to the results that he had been obsessed with over the past few days.
For Qi Yuan, it's just a matter of humiliating in public, it's no big deal.
Who knew that the cram school teacher actually took his question as a model, explaining it step by step, pointing out where most people would make mistakes, virtually prolonging the embarrassing time, and allowing Qi Yuan to gain the attention of the whole class force.
When the get out of class was over, Qi Yuan grabbed Tao Anran who was calm beside him, "Tell me, why did you make a mistake in the next few steps?"
Tao Anran zipped up her schoolbag, turned to look at him, "Think about it yourself, I'll come back to you after finishing tutoring."
It's a good sign that his curiosity can be aroused, it's a 3-minute heat, Tao Anran intends to stretch it again, until he builds a short-term motivation for his curiosity, then the first step will basically be considered a success.
Therefore, it is really a arduous task and a long road to push the outstanding scum from the bottom of the grade to the second line if you have nothing to say.
☆、Chapter 20
Big brother Qi, who had no idea that he had been tricked, was stunned by the table full of example questions for the first time on the 29th day of the year.
In fact, thinking back carefully, his grades in elementary school were not bad, and he even passed the top few exams when he was convulsed.But after Xiaoshengchu, it didn’t work out very well. The arrival of the rebellious period distracted his attention to the point that he couldn’t disperse any more. After he understood personnel affairs, Qi Yuanyuan and Cheng Zheng’s short-lived things also added a lot of trouble to him, which was inevitable. He honestly thinks that he is a child who has been tragically abandoned. If it weren't for his grandma, he would probably live a life worse than a pig or a dog.
When a person resents his thoughts, he tends to go astray, and he specializes in drilling narrow and thin horns, not to mention that young people have no way to express their thoughts, and even if they want to reveal, they feel ashamed, so they have to run wildly on the road that has gone astray.
When I get into high school in a good way, my previous emotions have become "don't care", so I don't want to think about what I have and what I don't have.
Just muddle through, unrestrained and unrestrained wandering life.
……
Before he could come to a conclusion, the road suddenly turned red. What was annoying was that the light was made by Tao Anran, and he hung it up by himself, so there was nowhere to vent his anger.
At 08:30, Tao Anran knocked on the door on time, carrying two bunches of candied haws and a box of pea cakes.
Grandma Qi heard the movement in the room and came out with a smile on her face. Tao Anran hurriedly handed over the pea cake and "presented treasure" to the old lady obediently. .”
One sentence made Grandma Qi happy, and she poked at the grandson next to her, "Look at Xiaoan, look at you, you are not willing to ask you to buy a vegetable box, you are so lazy."
Qi Yuan hung the word "injustice" from head to toe, "Go outside and ask, who doesn't close the stall until the 29th?"
"You have so many excuses, I don't bother to talk about you," Grandma Qi held the pea cake box, "Xiao An, there are sweet potato chips that grandma fried at night on the table over there, go and eat them yourself."
Tao Anran became a "smooth donkey" in the blink of an eye, letting him eat and drink, singing along with the old lady, and leaving his serious grandson to drink the northwest wind.
It wasn't until the TV in the room ended the advertising period and entered the opening song of the TV series that grandma walked back slowly. When she entered the door, she turned around and asked, "You two have fun, don't be awkward."
Qi Yuan: "Don't worry, I'll let him go."
Tao Anran: "..." Say it again, who will let whom?
Grandma closed the door, fearing that the brats would make too much noise and affect her mood while watching the TV series.After sitting down, the old lady picked up the half-knitting work and hummed a little song.
Her grandson hasn't invited friends to play for a long time, and her temper is getting more and more serious. She is always worried that one day she will really grow up and lose the fun of being a teenager.
Looking at it now, I didn't meet a friend with the right temper, and if someone really dragged me, it was fine.
"What are you doing here?" Qi Yuan gnawed on the candied haws, without the slightest sense of cannibalism, and asked knowingly.
Tao Anran was also polite, and pulled all the sweet potato chips in front of her, "What do you think?"
"I'm already self-taught, you should save your energy to teach your primary school students."
Tao Anran glanced at him, and said in his heart: A dead duck is not as stubborn as you.
After two seconds of silence, he said, "Okay, tell me about it, and I'll leave right away if you understand it."
Qi Yuan: "..."
Tao Anran added slowly, "We Xueba are generally very persistent."
The implication is, don't give up if you don't achieve your goal, or just give it a try and see who can beat who.
Three minutes later, Qi Yuan raised the white flag to surrender, and led Tao Anran into his territory with a downcast expression.
The bedroom is a relatively private space, no matter in terms of external form or internal feeling.So when Tao Anran stepped over the threshold, her heart trembled involuntarily, as if she raised her hand and pierced a layer of translucent thin paper, revealing the hidden color inside accidentally.
The layout of Qi Yuan's room is exactly the same as Cao Xiaofei's, narrow and slender, as if there is a light-year distance from the door to the window.The whole room is very clean. There are bookshelves nailed to the east wall, and there is a whole row of picture albums of different sizes. Under the picture albums are sketchbooks from old to new, which are full.
On the bottom floor of the bookshelf, there are a group of handmade wood carvings of various shapes. At first glance, the knives are rough, but in fact the knives are in place, and there are almost no wrong lines of the blades.
On the other side, light-years away, a potted dwarf lemon tree and prickly pears accompany a small colorful watering can on the windowsill.
Unexpectedly emotional.
Qi Yuan used a ridiculously large rectangular log table, and with a rough gesture, the table was worth half of the bed next to it.
The miscellaneous things on the table are piled up with the effect of "horizontally viewed as mountains and sideways as peaks, with different heights in distance and near", and a computer is stuck in the middle, which has the bearing of Dongyue Taishan.
What is quite out of harmony is that there is a colorful plastic windmill pinned to the head of "Tarzan".
Tao Anran let out a soft "ah".
Qi Yuan pulled out the chair and sat down, put his hands on the back of the chair and looked back at him, "What is it?"
"That," Tao Anran raised her chin, "I thought you threw it away."
"It has commemorative significance, even if you move in the future, you have to take it with you," Qi Yuan cocked his mouth and kicked the round stool next to him, "Sit down, hurry up and talk about business."
Tao Anran originally wanted to ask about the commemorative significance, but before he could say anything, he was blocked by Qi Yuan's last sentence.After sitting down, I thought about it, and asked what I was doing, did I feel full after eating.
Teacher Tao, who was honored to take up the post, was as serious as an ice sculpture as soon as he took his seat. The neutral pen in his hand drew a beautiful arc, and he clicked on the wrong question in front of Qi Yuan, "Do you know where the mistake is?"
Qi Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, and before waiting for an answer, Tao Anran asked and answered in a leisurely manner, "Looking at the extent of the tragedy, I definitely don't know."
Qi Yuan: "..."
After Teacher Tao finished his sarcasm, he pulled over a piece of paper that looked like a waste of drawing, on which only a silhouette was drawn. It could be seen that it was a thin boy, but since the facial features were temporarily blank, it was impossible to see why.In addition, an annoying black line was drawn next to the figure.
"Can it work?" he asked.
A subtle expression flashed across Qi Yuan's face, and his eyes still turned half a circle on his face before he cleared his throat and said, "Use it whatever you want."
Tao Anran wrote as soon as he picked up the pen, and talked while writing, analyzing the internal logical relations embodied in the problem-solving steps one by one, analyzing the topic in a simple and simple way, and at the same time quietly strengthening Qi Yuan's memorization of the applied theorems and formulas , When this question is finished, the minute hand of the clock on the wall has passed a small half circle.
"It's nothing difficult. If you figure out the theorems and logic of thinking, and understand the workbook from beginning to end, you can basically get into the top [-] in mathematics."
"..."
Qi Zhaza was shocked by Xueba's understatement, and after a long time, he managed to say, "I don't have such lofty ambitions for the time being."
He hadn't even considered passing the test.
Tao Anran was dissatisfied after listening, "According to my teaching method, even Cao Xiaofei, you can't fail to learn. So, if you are still hanging on your tail in the next semester, then I will sincerely suggest to test your brain. It has the potential to be as smooth as a marble floor."
To some extent, Tao Anran is a very mean person.
But Qi Yuan didn't want to fight back immediately, as if he was instantly possessed by a masochist. Somehow, Tao Anran like this made him feel extra lively and interesting, and he almost had the urge to reach out and pinch his fair face.
Color blinds the mind.
When he raised his hand, the word suddenly popped up in Xue Zha's mind.
☆、Chapter 21
The night outside the window was thick, and Tao Anran unexpectedly lost sleep.
To the ear was Cao Xiaofei's undulating snoring of a tired young man, which set off the panic-stricken tranquility in the room even more.
why?
Tao Anran thought.
In fact, that sentence was just blurted out at that time, I am afraid that Jiang Min would not remember it a long time ago, even if she did not forget it, she would just take it as his retort.
On the contrary, he was quite serious, and he didn't know who he was fighting for.
"With me here, it is impossible for him not to learn."
The words he said suddenly resounded in his mind, and even produced a lingering effect, making Tao Anran's cheeks burn for a while, and he could perform a scene of being at a loss while wrapped in the quilt.
He threw the quilt over his face, turned around irritably, and thought: I might as well get up and recite the words if I have this time.
But after arching twice, he still didn't move after all. Xueba found a reason for himself that he was lonely and untenable-suddenly turning on the light would affect Cao Xiaofei's sleep.
In fact, even a sudden earthquake might not be able to wake Cao Xiaofei, let alone the eye protection lamp beside his pillow.
As a result, the words were not memorized, and the insomnia was really lost for most of the night.
The next day was New Year's Eve. According to the Cao family's practice, the whole family got up early to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.
This is Tao Anran's first Spring Festival after the sudden loss of his parents. Even though he subjectively resists the constant loneliness and is very unwilling to end up with self-pity, but everyone can control their thoughts and emotions as they like. Emotions and desires have long been eliminated in the world, and gods and Buddhas are everywhere.
Therefore, when Tao Anran and Cao Xiaofei were arranged to go out to purchase minced meat, Tao Anran's entire face was as heavy as a cumulonimbus cloud, as if a violent storm could be staged at any time.
Under the low air pressure, Cao Xiaofei was not feeling well.
Among the young boy's unsystematic temperament, bullying and fear of toughness unfortunately accounted for most of it.When Tao Anran first arrived, classmate Cao Xiaofei took advantage of his size and thought that he, a cheap big brother, could flatten and round at will, so he had an idea and carried out "disarming power" for many consecutive days.Unexpectedly, the result was not only unsatisfactory, but he was also opposed by the opponent in the later period, which made him persuasion at a speed visible to the naked eye. Up to now, he has no courage to stretch his arms and legs to show his prestige at that time.
Tao Anran walked for more than ten minutes from the attached middle school family courtyard to the supermarket outside, and Tao Anran was as silent as a piece of iron that could not speak.Cao Xiaofei couldn't bear to hold back, and several times he tried to find something to talk about, but Tao Anran's cold eyes turned him back.
"..."
When they stepped into the gate of the supermarket, the two of them were confused by the bustling people inside.
Cao Xiaofei seemed to be backed up by the noise, and stepped forward to pat Tao Anran on the shoulder, "Where am I going to recruit you? Don't say a word."
Tao Anran raised her eyebrows, "What did you say?" Before the words finished, he suddenly felt blessed, "You blue cat is naughty and asked three thousand questions and didn't understand it? All right, what didn't you understand?"
"You...I..." Cao Xiaofei covered his thick chest, feeling that he was going to die of anger.
Tao Anran glanced at his little brother who was instantly possessed by the playwright, and stretched out his hand impatiently, "Bring me the list your mother asked you to make."
Cao Xiaofei rustled out a piece of crumpled paper from his trousers pocket, handed it over, and rubbed his fingers on the seam of his trousers.
Dead clean freaks must be disgusting, he thought.
However, Tao Anran just opened it and looked at it, then handed it back to him, turning a blind eye to the oil stains on the paper.
"Let's go." Tao Anran glanced lightly at the supermarket shelves, and pulled a cart from the entrance.
Cao Xiaofei followed behind, glanced at his brother's dangling arm, then at his expressionless profile, muttered, followed and grabbed the shopping cart, saying, "I'll push."
Tao Anran turned her head to look at him, and let go.
"I have everything else, only leeks and fennel." Cao Xiaofei pushed the cart and looked around, "Can you pick vegetables?"
Tao Anran thought for a while, "No."
Cao Xiaofei was full of expectations: "..."
In fact, when it comes to grocery shopping, he is just as lacking in experience as Tao Anran. Since he learned to walk, whenever he enters the supermarket, he always rushes to the snack area. When he sees raw meat and vegetables, he pinches his nose and flashes as far as possible. As for now, I don't know how different leeks and shallots are.
But he has a strange trust in Tao Anran. He feels that since his cheap brother can make up math problems to test him, it should be easy to choose leeks and fennel that are suitable for dumplings—even if Tao Anran said "no meeting".
Without saying a word, Tao Anran walked straight to the vegetable area, with a small fidgety flame on his forehead, waiting for an opportunity to break out, and destroy all living and dead things within a one-meter radius into slag.
The leeks were placed in the most conspicuous place in the vegetable area, piled up like a hill, as if they were afraid that customers would not find the right place, and there was a huge red sign with a yellow background on it, with the word "leek" written on it.
Tao Anran walked from the end of the line to the front with a cold face, then grabbed a handful without looking at them, wrapped them in a torn disposable plastic bag, and was about to wrap them up.
Just as he was about to step forward, unexpectedly a strong man squeezed sideways, and in the blink of an eye, the old lady who was picking vegetables one by one beside him was pushed down——
The old lady yelled "Ouch", and the soles of her feet immediately slipped. She panicked and grabbed left and right, but failed to grasp the point of strength. She had to resign herself to her fate and let the gravity pull her to the hard floor.
"Be careful!" Tao Anran stretched out his hanging left arm in shock, and before he could stabilize himself, he was the first to be held up.
Qi Yuan supported Tao Anran's plastered arm with one hand, and blocked the old lady who fell to the ground with the other hand in a rather awkward posture.
After such a short time, the old lady was already helped up by the people around who reacted.The instigator next to him was immediately sprayed with dog blood. The person's face was flushed, and he turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, muttering curses in his mouth.
"I don't think you intend to take this arm anymore." Qi Yuan's voice came from behind his ear, and his warm breath brushed against his ear, like light feathers brushing, numb and itchy.
Tao Anran stood up uncomfortably, "Why are you here?"
The other party said with a smile in his voice, "Shopping for vegetables."
Cao Xiaofei watched from afar, and couldn't help curling his lips and "hissing". Somehow, he saw the atmosphere of the two people's needlepoints facing Maimang, so he "asked himself" and said: "The two of them are going to fight, should I run or watch the fun, or pull sideways?" ?”
After thinking for two seconds, he chose the first option without hesitation.
Qi Yuan held Tao Anran in his arms, wrapped him and two pockets of leeks and walked out, and slapped him on the shoulder gently, "Be honest."
Tao Anran: "..."
The two squeezed out from the crowd, Cao Xiaofei twitched the corners of his mouth with a half-smile, "Qi...Brother Yuan?" Then he hinted at Tao Anran desperately with his eyes, but his brother was blind, and his pair of eyes were about to fly out. Face's eyes turned a blind eye, turned to Qi Yuan and pointed to the distance, "I still need to buy some fennel, will you pick it?"
Qi Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, leaned over and threw two cabbages into their car, "Don't go there, wait here."
Cao Xiaofei looked at Qi Yuan's back in horror, and then at the leeks in the cart, "Are you really friends?"
"Otherwise." Tao Anran's eyes seemed to fall on the tall and straight figure all the time, and he only glanced miserly at his brother, and then looked away.
"It doesn't look like it," Cao Xiaofei smacked his lips, "When he pulled you just now, your face looked like a donkey... No, no donkey. Anyway, it looks like you can fight in place, you can fight to the death."
Tao Anran secretly smiled, is there any?
Cao Xiaofei looked up... he didn't understand the world of the bosses.
Qi Yuan was quite efficient in his work. He went back and forth for 3 minutes, not only bought fennel, but also bought a large bag of pork ribs and two straight white radishes, saying that he was going back to make soup for his grandma.
It was rare for Tao Anran to make a joke, saying that he would save a bowl for himself, but because he was in a very bad mood, he looked like a bandit with a paralyzed face when he said this.
Qi Yuan looked at him thoughtfully, but hesitated to speak.
Cao Xiaofei has always had a strong nerve, and it was extraordinary to be able to see Tao Anran's low pressure on the way here.
The little boy didn't stop before he left the supermarket, and asked his brother to take him to buy potato chips and chocolates in circles, and he also wanted to eat candied haws by the way.Cao Xiaofei subconsciously felt that Qi Yuan was an "outsider", and Tao Anran couldn't be mean to him in front of outsiders, he had to act like a brother.
So it doesn't matter whether it's snacks or comics, as long as there are still some to sell, his brother has to help him realize it.
However, unexpectedly, Tao Anran did not treat Qi as an outsider at all, and performed her meanness and ruthlessness to the fullest in front of him, let alone chocolate, Cao Xiaofei didn't even touch a piece of candy wrapper in the end.
The three of them said nothing all the way, and returned to the attached middle school in silence.
On the fifth floor, Cao Xiaofei got into the room first to enjoy the heating.
Qi Yuan stopped Tao Anran and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Tao Anran's eyes flickered, and he covered up the momentary loss, and said, "It's nothing."
☆、Chapter 22
In the kitchen, Jiang Min and Cao Lantian were busy.
With the buzzing sound of the range hood, Jiang Min said to Cao Lantian, who was picking leeks, "This is a big Chinese New Year, and that kid doesn't have a good face."
Cao Lantian rubbed the mud on his fingers, "You mother should understand properly, his dad died last year, and it's the Spring Festival, so I feel bad."
"Just his dad, is it worth being sad?" Jiang Min stared, and his hands rubbed his face more vigorously, "You don't know the face of him when I divorced him, and he killed his whole family with me?" same."
Cao Lantian clicked his tongue, "Don't say a few words, it's all about rotten rice."
Jiang Min glanced at him angrily, "You know how to be gentle, when have you ever cared about family matters! You've become a good old man, let me sing about all the bad faces."
Cao Lantian was not in a hurry, he only raised the corner of his mouth, as if he was smiling, "Those who are capable work harder, and those who are capable work harder."
Jiang Min retracted his gaze, lowered his face, and stopped talking.
She was married twice, and she was not satisfied with either of them. She was exhausted by life, but whenever she wanted to wave her hand to fight back, she always punched the cotton. Suffocated enough.
There was a soft knock at the door, and Jiang Min turned her head quickly, and caught a glimpse of Tao Anran's slender back through the crack of the door.
His heart sank, did he hear it?
Then I felt that it was no big deal, I heard it when I heard it, and what I said was the truth, why can't I listen to it anymore.
Holding an envelope in his hand, Tao Anran returned from the kitchen to Cao Xiaofei's bedroom, which was like a storage room.
He threw the envelope in front of Cao Xiaofei, "Whether you want to keep it for yourself or give it to your mother, it's up to you."
Cao Xiaofei was taken aback, took off his earphones and glanced at Tao Anran who seemed to be covered by a black cloud, "What the hell? Did you eat the wrong meal?"
Before he finished speaking, Tao Anran's cold eyes scratched his forehead, and he was as obedient as a quail, and kept quiet.
Cao Xiaofei opened the kraft paper envelope in bewilderment, turned it upside down and knocked it on the palm of his hand, and a thin stack of new pink Grandpa Mao fell out of it with a clatter.
"..."
Cao Xiaofei froze, his neck stiffened and he turned to look at Tao Anran, wondering what kind of coquettish operation it was to dump RMB when he disagreed with him.
"I don't want it!" He thought he was a bear, but a bear with principles and integrity could not be easily bought by money.
Tao Anran rolled her eyelids, "If you don't want it, just take it to your mother."
When Cao Xiaofei heard it, he was unhappy, "What's your mother, your mother, my mother is also your mother, why don't you go?"
"Would you like to go or not?" Tao Anran lowered his eyes, feeling as if he was being pushed on his forehead by a bucket of sex, but the remaining rationality told him that if he deliberately found fault at this time, it would be tantamount to directly admitting that he is a fool who has no self-control .
He has no interest in lowering IQ for the time being, so he had to put on the hedgehog skin and put on a "don't mess with me" posture to achieve childish self-protection.
Cao Xiaofei has not yet evolved a Qiqiaolinglong heart, so he can't figure out how his brother, who is usually quite talkative, has returned to before liberation, but out of human instinct to seek good luck and avoid evil, he thinks Tao Anran is not good now It's better to keep your mouth shut.
So he swallowed all the ba ba ba ba ba ba ba to his mouth, quietly sealed the kraft paper envelope, and stuffed it on the bookshelf beside him.
"If you want to give it, you can't give it now," Cao Xiaofei thought, "It's a big festival, why do you have to find it hard?"
Tao Anran moved a square stool and squeezed against the wall, and hung a pair of earphones comparable to Big Ear Tutu on his head. The noisy heavy metal sound in it was so loud that it could shock a brain cell to death.He stared straight at the gray sky outside the window with both eyes, and his whole body was desolate like a solitary animal.
The scenes that he thought he had forgotten long ago are now playing in an uncontrollable loop in his mind like a movie.The whole family sits around the table for a reunion dinner. He has always been the one with the stinkiest face, because the younger sister is a living body. Why? Dad is a perfunctory dad who as long as he gets good grades, everything will be fine. Mom... Mom is very demanding. Less, less to almost nothing.
Tao Anran smiled silently, and slid her fingers across her cheeks, only to realize that tears were already streaming down her face.
It turns out that the brain is independent of consciousness and acts on its own.
Without his awareness, some kind of unknown pain was silently magnified.
In Room 502 across the door, Qi Yuan was managing the three pots by himself as an outstanding student of the New Oriental Chef School.
Grandma Qi was sitting on the balcony knitting, turning her head to look into the kitchen from time to time, then turning back and sighing after finishing reading, then lowering her head and continuing the knitting work in hand.
Now that she is old, she can't even hold two sweater needles. When she holds the needles, her hands start to shake. She stops and rubs them, and she still shakes after a while. She doesn't know if she will have time before she dies Knit another sweater for Xiaoyuan.
What a crime, she thought, Yuanyuan and that Cheng, really did a crime.
Qi Yuan's cell phone vibrated in his butt pocket, he took it out while shaking his spoon, and there were several messages across the screen, all from Hu Pangpang.
-You want to buy?
- it's all little girl stuff, are you crazy?
- what did you buy that for
- Say, are you in love?
- You leave the order behind the organization's back, I hate you.
Qi Yuan thought it was a bit strange that this guy was sending out text, but it had the effect of voice.
Half a minute later, Hu Qian, who was so blessed in his heart, added another sentence, "Boss, don't you want to play with God Tao?"
"Yes."
"Then you... take care."
Then he pushed over a business card and said, "This buddy will deliver the goods to your door seven days a day without a break, with guaranteed quality and quantity, and a shining fairy stick. You deserve it."
After finishing speaking, the grandson fled shamefully.
Qi Yuan added that person, and after finishing the request, both the buyer and the seller were quite straightforward. When it was over, the other party said: "The fairy stick is safe and secure, and it is a powerful tool to coax girls. Little brother, you are on the right track, and I wish you success."
"..."
I hope the "girl" doesn't stick a fairy stick in his face.
In view of Qi Yuan's "orphan mentality" since he was a child, except for being envious of other people's cubs with parents when he was young, he was very insensitive to this emotion for most of the rest of the time when he was panting. What is wrong with An Ran, he thinks it is due to his IQ before jumping off the building.
When Tao Anran went to wash her face, the screen of the mobile phone pressed under the corner of the quilt flickered on and off, and flickered on and off a few times, not counting the last struggle, and was forgotten by the owner in the warm corner.
The Cao family's New Year's Eve dinner was undoubtedly lively. The cramped space was filled with people from the three major families, and there were eleven people in total.
Cao Lantian is the boss of Cao's house, with a younger brother and a younger sister. Their parents died of illness early, leaving only three brothers and sisters. Naturally, they have to get together on New Year's Eve. This is an unbroken family relationship.
Tao Anran watched coldly, judging from an immature perspective, this big family is a good person in the traditional sense.But good people also have curiosity, and inappropriate curiosity occasionally causes additional harm, sometimes to themselves, and more often to others.
Tao Anran was extremely suffocated by everyone's probing eyes, eager to escape, but couldn't find a reason for a while—whether it was doing homework or going out to play, it seemed quite weird on the night of the New Year's Eve.
"Your phone rang just now." Cao Xiaofei, who had just returned to the room to get the game console, came over and bumped Tao Anran's shoulder, and handed over the phone, "I brought it here."
Tao Anran raised his eyes, for the first time in the world, he found Cao Xiaofei extremely cute, and smiled for the first time all day.
"..." Cao Xiaofei seemed to be greatly frightened, his hands trembled, and he almost dropped his phone into the soup pot next to him.
On the side, Cao Lantian's younger brother laughed and said that brothers are different, regardless of whether they are a father or not, they should kiss when they should.
The speaker had no intention, but the listener had the intention, Jiang Min's complexion immediately darkened, she took a sip of hot tea in silence, and at the same time glanced at Tao Anran who was staring at the screen intently, feeling displeased.
Qi Yuan sent seven or eight WeChat messages, among which were three or four photos of his stewed soup and fried vegetables, and two large plates of dumplings.The first one in the front is to ask if he is free in the evening, the sending time is in the afternoon, and the last one is "Come down after eating, I'm at the playground."
There is another missed call after this one, 5 minutes apart.
Seeing that her unfamiliar son seemed to be sitting on a row of needles after watching the phone, Jiang Min's anger was about to surge up, and his eyes were blocked, so he lowered his voice and asked, "What's the date on New Year's Eve?" , is there anything else?"
"I have to go down." Tao Anran turned off the phone screen, without looking at her, stood up and said to Cao Lantian: "Uncle, my classmate is looking for me downstairs, I will go back once I go."
Cao Lantian still had a smile on his face, "Go, let's go, it's so easy to have a holiday, and play with classmates—wear more, it's windy."
Tao Anran's expression eased, "Thank you uncle."
Ignoring the probing or reproachful gazes of everyone present, Tao Anran put on her coat and went out.
Qi Yuan sat under the stands, with a cardboard box at his feet, playing with a lighter in his hand.Seeing a bulging figure from a distance, he lazily raised his hand, "Here."
The north wind was like a knife, blowing past the ground, blowing up a few pieces of colored paper, brushing against Tao Anran's calf with Xuan'er.
When he raised his eyes, he saw Qi Yuan sitting on the ground, his long legs were bent with no place to rest, and his whole body was made into a silhouette by the street lamps.The man was tall and slender, and the small flame in his hand seemed to have the potential to start a prairie fire, quickly burning up the barbaric weeds in his heart.
At that moment, Tao Anran felt a certain emotion hidden in his chest tremble violently, as if it was about to break out of his bones. In the cold wind, he heard his own clear heartbeat like a drum.
☆、Chapter 23
Who would have thought that the excitement buoyed by the beating of a drum would be ruthlessly destroyed before it lasted 10 minutes.
On the playground, there was nothing to hide, and it was just right to pretend to be aggressive against the wind, but it would be a bit stupid to fire a gun against the wind.
"Blowing wind in all directions, how can it be lit?" Tao Anran held up two fireworks sticks in his hands expressionlessly, with the words "Are you mentally retarded" engraved on his face.
Qi Yuan stuffed the lighter into his hand, and immediately went on strike, "Come on, come on, go on!"
With the rigor of a chemical experiment, Tao Anran found the right angle, felt the wind direction, and then pressed the cheap lighter——
"Pa" the small flame lit up, and "swipe" the small flame was blown out.
Tao Anran: "..."
Qi Yuan laughed, took out another lighter and lit a cigarette for himself.
Tao Anran looked at him, and couldn't bear to lend him a hand to block the wind.In line with the principle of do-it-yourself food and clothing, he gestured with a pyrotechnic stick in his hand, bent down and inserted a row in the gap between the railings of the stands next to him, and prepared to click over one by one after blocking the wind.
But before he could make a move, he was stopped by Qi Yuan, "Be careful to turn you into a hero without eyebrows."
He had a cigarette in his mouth, frowned slightly, pushed Tao Anran back, bent over to block the wind, and ignited the pyrotechnic stick with great difficulty.
Bright flames spewed out from the top of the pyrotechnic stick, and there was a soft sound. The firelight reflected Tao Anran's fair face, and the flickering light embellished the soft and handsome lines.
Qi Yuan looked sideways, thinking, people are prettier than fireworks.
"Take it." He handed over the fireworks stick, his voice muffled.
Tao Anran turned her head to look at him, pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and pinched it, and finally coughed pretendingly, "It's a bit choking."
Qi Yuan was shocked at first—after all, no one dared to put out his cigarette so directly, and then an inexplicable warmth burst out of his chest, which made him want to pull Tao Anran over and hold his head.
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