Stay on time

God noticed.It is not a very characteristic beauty, but it is very harmonious: seven points graceful, three points quiet, lowering the head and having more lingering charm than others.There is no distinction between beauty and ugliness, at least in this workshop, most men admit that they are beautiful.

Lin Qiao rested and looked at the girl.She often lowered her head, revealing a white neck.Sometimes she happened to be looking at him too, and when the two met, the girl always left the first one, or turned her face away, keeping a beautiful profile; or lowered her head and continued to work.

Gradually someone started to talk about it, saying that xx likes xx, and he smiled kindly without shy away from it. "Do I like her?" "Should she like me?" Lin Qiao would think about it when she was working, and she would still think about it when she returned home.

He organized: "I might like someone."

Lin Ming stared at him blankly, a little confused.

"She is slender, beautiful, and gentle. I pay attention to her when I am off work or during breaks, unconsciously. She should also pay attention to me. Some days, I will watch her chatting and laughing with her colleagues and leave, see How is her back different from others. I pay a lot of attention to this person." Lin Qiao said in confusion.

"But it doesn't have to be her."

He doesn't expect a child to give him answers, he's just looking for someone to talk to.If that person is clear about everything, he will be unable to speak a lot.

Many years later, when Lin Qiao thought about it, he was convinced that it wasn't liking, at least not at that time.People are always looking for someone to whom they can entrust their love.He or she is different, people are talking about it, and people who haven't noticed will get attention.Then they will be chased by their eyes, entrusted with love, discovered beauty, and "deeply loved" by them.But at that time, Lin Qiao didn't fantasize about true love, let alone think deeply about it.It's just "Since you like it, it's okay to be together."

He hooked up with girls.The girl brought it up. The atmosphere was very good that day, with autumn wind, phoenix trees, fallen leaves, and the surrounding area was still empty.She said, "Let's try it." Fortunately, it was already evening, and there was only a twilight in the western sky.His face was hot and his head was raised high, but the girl couldn't see it.

This girl is very different from the last one.

Chapter 8

Ke Xue is a student who is about to graduate from the automobile school opposite, and her family is local; she is usually enthusiastic, and most people like her very much.Lin Qiao probably knew that she liked him.He is a very passive person. He has a problem. When others treat him well, he likes that person very much, whether it is friendship, family affection or love.But the girl never hinted at the relationship between them, she just looked at him occasionally and talked to him occasionally.So when he confessed suddenly, Lin Qiao felt as if he had been hit in the head with a stick. He just felt dizzy and couldn't care less about experiencing the feeling.

Quietly, Lin Qiao had no choice but to continue: "I like you quite a bit too, let's try together, you..." Why do you like me?

He wanted to ask, but he couldn't tell how he felt about the girl.

When the last bit of red disappeared, he took the girl's hand.

This was Lin Qiao's first taste of love, and he found it fresh.Watching movies with girls, going shopping with girls, meeting briefly after get off work every day, all make him fresh.His free time seems to be divided into two equal parts, one with his girlfriend and one in the rented house.

Once when Lin Qiao came home, he saw a child sitting on the steps of his house.The rental houses are in the style of small alleys and courtyard houses connected together. Lin Qiao's house is in the southernmost house, and the opening faces the house on the other side. There is a small alleyway less than one meter in the middle.Sitting there can only see a narrow sky.

But the sky was blue, without a cloud, and it was beautiful.

Lin Qiao squatted down.

"The weather is great, isn't it?"

"Ah."

He stood up and opened the door: "I gave you the key? Why don't you open the door?"

"You didn't come back."

"You can open the door and go in even if I don't come back. Fortunately, I came back early today. If it's dark, there will be mosquitoes at the door. Just wait and donate blood."

He didn't come back, the child was embarrassed to enter without authorization, or he didn't want to enter when he was not around?No matter which one, Lin Qiao thinks it's cute.But in the end he said seriously: "Don't be outside the door next time! It's not safe." The child replied: "But aunts and uncles are all there."

The lights of those houses were all on, and there were cheerful laughter.The child pointed again and said, "Aunt Li is watching a TV series, and Uncle Wang and Aunt Zhang are talking..." After the introduction, he said proudly, "I know everything." Lin Qiao had nothing to say.It is rare for a child to say so many words at once, and they are so cute.He couldn't help touching the child's head again, and said, "That's right, you all know that I was wrong."

The child said awkwardly, "You are right."

Lin Qiao laughed, turned on the light, carried the child to the bed and put it away.The child looked at him, as if talking.

"Oh, do you have something to do, or why are you still waiting for me at the door so late?"

"Didn't see you," the kid muttered.

Lin Qiao has been very busy these days. During the day, he is busy with work. At night, he still has to go out to eat, chat and watch movies with his girlfriend. Soon it will be time for bed.He is sleepy all day.The mattress was so soft that he could sleep on it. "The child cares about me." Lin Qiao thought a little apologetically. "He's very clingy to me." Lin Qiao was a little happy again.He didn't explain the reason - he felt that the child must not understand - and said directly: "I've been quite busy recently; but I won't be busy soon, when the time comes, my brother will take you to the zoo? Botanical garden is more fun, isn't it?"

The kid nodded.Neither of them have probably been there.

It seemed that Lin Qiao hid a lot of things, and Lin Ming also hid things.For example, Lin Changxi drank again today; for example, he was beaten by that drunk today.The beating was very painful, but no one knew when the door was closed, and he didn't cry.

It is more suitable to see plants in spring and summer.

Autumn has already passed by the young lovers.Maybe the temperature dropped, the leaves of some dense trees turned yellow and fell off, and Lin Qiao's enthusiasm gradually faded away like a hot summer.

On a date, he and Ke Xue walked by the reed pond holding hands.The reed pond is green, and at night there are water mosquitoes flying around.At this time, the setting sun cast their shadows in the water, and the ripples made the people in the water very soft.Lin Qiao suddenly thought of the child who was alone in the room. He might be blowing on the fan before watching TV—it was the evening time.But the child would never come to his house to watch cartoons and the like. He should be with Lin Changxi and watch adults drinking bottle by bottle in silence.

"Hey, what time is it?"

he asked, somewhat unsightly.

"It's only seven o'clock."

At seven o'clock, Lin Changxi may not have eaten yet.Lin Qiao heard the girl ask, "Are you busy tonight?"

"Yes." He wanted to go back.

The shop owner was still the same, pointing at the cold ice cream in Lin Qiao's hand: "You bought such a big bucket, can you finish it?"

Without a freezer, it will melt in about half an hour.

But he remembered that Lin Ming liked to eat very much.

"Enough!" he said happily.

Lin Changxi set up a table with three dishes and a small bag of peanuts on it.The two-meter-high incandescent lamps in the yard cast a cold light, and many mosquitoes circled around the arc-shaped bulbs.At this time, it was time to eat. He had already cleaned up the dishes, took a shower, and did the laundry. He raised his head and took a sip of the wine, eating slowly.

Seeing Lin Qiao approaching, he sneered.

To be honest, Lin Qiao's temper is not particularly bad, but he can't be said to be particularly good either.He couldn't help getting angry just seeing Lin Changxi, but he couldn't express his temper.He ignored the other party's cold snort, and asked the dishwashing person next to him, "Where did Lin Ming run off?"

The man glanced at Lin Changxi who was sitting at the door: "Have you gone to boil the hot water?"

In order to save electricity bills in summer, the locals like to buy iron stoves tens of centimeters high to heat hot water, add firewood in the middle, and emit red flames and black gas.Lin Qiao really didn't feel the economy of it, and because he never got involved in cooking and didn't use the stove when he was a child, he hated the smell of soot.He approached the ball of light, tears wanted to rush out, so he stopped and shouted: "Lin Ming!"

The child turned his head.

He was still holding a venting iron hook in his hand, the smoky smell gradually faded after the flame rose, and the water began to bubbling.The child struggled to lift the stove down and pour it into the kettle.

"You can take a shower after you burn it, I bought ice cream."

Lin Qiao helped him put the boiled water into the room.

The child is sitting on the edge of the bed—his feet are close enough to the ground.Holding the somewhat melted purple ice cream, he tilted his head and ate it: "It's so early for you to come back!"

"I went out to eat with that sister a few days ago, but I didn't go today." Lin Ming met Ke Xue once, and he was patted on the head by a girl.He thinks that sister is very beautiful.But the time he spends with Lin Qiao has shortened, so he is inevitably a little unhappy.He nodded and said nothing more.Lin Qiao could just see the hair twirling on the top of his head.The child's hair is still very soft and comfortable to the touch.But after the child got acquainted with him, he was less willing to let him touch his head.Lin Qiao didn't know if it was because it was really uncomfortable to be touched, or because the child had grown up?

"Is it because I'm not here that no one plays with you?" He rubbed it anyway.The child rubbed away.

"I don't want to go out to eat with Ke Xue every day in the future, that would be too expensive." He thought.

Chapter 9

Chinese New Year is coming soon, during the Spring Festival travel season, Ke Xue asked: "Will you take me back to your hometown?"