First dawn

The dog obviously knew Qiao Jue, and dragged Yi Xiao behind him from a long distance, and rushed towards Qiao Jue, but Yi Xiao couldn't stop him by pulling the leash with both hands.

"Brother Sui has always been fond of small animals." Guo Da said on the sidelines, "It's a pity that Aunt Xu has a cleanliness obsession and won't provide them."

Qiao Jue bent down and stretched out his hand. The husky was very obedient. He stretched out a front paw and placed it on Qiao Jue's palm.

There were girls around, looking at Qiao Jue and Yi Xiao's direction and giggling.

"It's almost ten o'clock, have you come here for a dog walk?" Qiao Jue raised his head and asked Yi Xiao suspiciously.

Yi Xiao didn't answer directly, but asked a few people: "Are you hungry? I'll cook oden."

"Wow!" Guo Da cheered, and greeted Mu Qingwei and Jiang Wenyan who were not far behind, "Come quickly, Yi Xiao wants a treat."

Oden is right at the gate of the No. [-] Middle School. Every dinner or evening self-study, there will be a variety of three-wheeled food trucks in front of the No. [-] Middle School. Many nearby residents have set up mobile stalls at the school gate. A variety of snacks are sold, including tenderloin patties, pancakes with whole grains, sizzling tofu, crispy rice cakes, rice in bamboo tubes, and the students' favorite oden.

The uncle who sells Oden cooking is wearing a white top and dark blue shorts, waving a cattail fan in one hand, and is sitting on the front of the tricycle chatting with the pancake seller in the car next door. When he sees a group of students coming around, he knows that the business is coming, and jumps off the front of the tricycle. Smiling, they quickly lifted the lids of the oden on the dining car one by one, and the aroma of the food wafted out.

Mu Qingwei stood on tiptoe: "Wow, uncle, I want this, and this."

Guo Da also took a transparent disposable cup from the car and started to pick out Oden. He asked Qiao Jue beside him: "I want crab sticks, three. Which one do you want, Brother Jue, I'll get it for you."

"I'll do it myself." Qiao Jue said, "Don't eat so much at night."

"It's okay, don't save me money." Yi Xiao broke down.

"Brothers, eat whatever you want." Guo Dale went crazy.

"Do you all have mobile phone numbers?" Jiang Wenyan was standing by the roadside, carrying a heavy schoolbag, and asked everyone with an oden in one hand, "Or do you have a phone number? Let's build a group."

In a place like Lianxing County, not many people use iPhones, but most of the students have their own phones. Guo Da raised his hand: "Yes, there are. Are yours flip or slide?"

The high school evening self-study ended late, and we ate oden on the side of the road, so it was getting late. Several people exchanged their IDs in front of the school gate, Qiao Sui formed a small group, and then left.

"Let's go, let's go." Yi Xiao threatened Erha, "Go or not, or I'll throw you away."

"We're leaving too." Qiao Jue waved to Yi Xiao, stepped on the pedals of the bicycle, and rode towards the north of the city.

It takes about 15 minutes to ride a bicycle from No. [-] Middle School to Tongzilou. Qiao Jue rushed down the lower sill of the glass factory, bypassed the dilapidated basketball court and rows of bungalows, and when he parked his bicycle at the foot of Tongzilou, the time on his phone happened to be ten o'clock.

The small bungalow downstairs in Tongzi was brightly lit, and there was a burst of ecstatic cheers from time to time. The gambling was caught at noon, and it became lively again in the evening. Qiao Jue gradually put away the smile on his face and stood in the darkness on the first floor. He stared coldly at the lights not far away.

Not far away, in a small hotel operated without a license, when night fell, a new wave of homeless "travellers" ushered in.Qiaobei is like the soil that breeds evil, which is endless and endless.Qiao Jue bent down to lock the car, put on his schoolbag, and in the darkness of the first floor of Tongzilou, with the light of his mobile phone, he saw the person standing at the stairs on the first floor.

"Mom?" Qiao Jue took a few steps forward and asked.

Xu Hong hummed and asked, "Why did you come back so late?"

"Student treat, I had some supper." Qiao Jue replied, walking side by side with Xu Hong, using the light of the mobile phone screen, to the second floor. What are you arguing about.

"Mom, I'm going to wash up, you go to sleep." Qiao Jue said.

Xu Hong was wearing a nightgown, with a tired face on her face. From the moment she saw Qiao Jue coming back, she was obviously relieved. When she heard Qiao Jue's words, she nodded and went back to the room to rest.

Qiao Jue knew in his heart that he had just had a fight with the people from the casino at noon, and Xu Hong was worried about him and that the people from Zhou Cui's family would retaliate, so he waited for him on the first floor.

Qiao Jue put his schoolbag by the desk, opened the door of the kitchen at the end of the corridor, and started to wash. When the QQ notification sounded on his mobile phone, he took out his mobile phone and found that the group he had just created not long ago had become active.

Guo Da: "From now on, I will fight wherever Brother Xiao points out."

Yi Xiao made three bared faces in succession.

Qiao Sui: "..."

He didn't notice outside just now, Yi Xiao's profile picture is quite familiar, it is a cartoon oval egg with slender arms and legs.Qiao Jue wiped off the drops of water on his face with a towel, continued to observe, and found that it was——

What is that cartoon called Sheep and Wolf, the cartoon character in it, Brother Xiaosha!

Qiao Sui: "..." What is this person's position on himself?

"Class representative, are you asleep?" Yi Xiao sent a message to Qiao Sui alone.

"Ready to sleep, what are you doing?" Qiao Jue pressed the button to reply.

Yi Xiao: "There is an important matter."

Qiao Jue: "?"

"I forgot the punishment from the Chinese teacher." She bared her teeth.

"Oh." Wiping his sweaty expression, "Forget it, forget it."

"No, I have already decided to be a good student." He continued to bark his teeth.

"When?" He continued to wipe his sweaty expression.

"Just in the evening." Yi Xiao said.

Qiao Sui was slightly startled, deleted the half-clicked information, and re-entered a sentence: "Then boss, tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"Copy it a few times for me, and I will do the rest myself." Yi Xiao sent a picture, which was his own handwriting, "Just look at the handwriting and imitate it. After the work is done, there will be a big thank you."

"Okay." Qiao Jue waved goodbye and ended the conversation, "But I guess you will still be scolded tomorrow."

"886, good night class representative." She bared her teeth.

The night was getting darker, but the second floor of Tongzilou was not completely quiet. Qiao Zeyan was bedridden every day, and his sleep schedule was partial. It was the time when the night was active, and the sound of the radio was loud. Qiao Zeyan never paid attention to the content of the radio. , only clinging to the switch of the radio, the radio with an inappropriate FM made a huge rattling sound, and Lin Chenghan's family across the diagonally did not know what happened again, the dispute turned into a quarrel, and Lin Chenghan's mother Xu Lingyue could be heard from far away The scolding in the throat, and the roar of a middle-aged man.

Obviously there was no nap at noon, and it was approaching twelve o'clock. Qiao Jue found that he was still not sleepy. No matter it was outside the window or in the corridor outside the door, there were noisy voices. Qiao Jue put down his mobile phone, sat at the desk, took out his notebook, and began to help Yi Xiao copied the song "The Road Is Difficult".

"Golden bottle of sake is worth ten thousand dollars, jade plate is ashamed of tens of thousands of dollars, you can't eat after stopping the cup and throwing chopsticks, and you are at a loss when you draw your sword..." Qiao Jue imitated Yi Xiao's handwriting and wrote the text on the paper, Qiao Jue's handwriting Neat, but Yi Xiao's handwriting has the potential to develop into wild cursive. Qiao Jue didn't realize it, and he wrote with a smile on his face.

The dilapidated and whitened wooden window edges were not closed tightly, and there was a gap. The summer night wind blew into the house from the window, bringing a smell of alcohol and cigarettes downstairs. Qiao Jue put down his pen and reached out to close the window.The quarrel diagonally across the door changed from two people to three people, and Lin Chenghan joined the battle with a loud voice.

"Kang Dang", the sound of pots, pans and pans being thrown to the ground resounded throughout Tongzilou. With the sound of glass shattering, Qiao Juan stopped the pen in his hand again, and then, the dull sound of metal falling to the ground, Xu Lingyue With a scream, Qiao Jue's expression changed, he stood up abruptly, and opened the door.

"Why don't you die yourself, why don't you die!" Lin Chenghan yelled at his father Lin Fan in the corridor, Qiao Jue stood by the door, and through the light of Lin Chenghan's house, he saw the kitchen knife lying on the ground— —

There was blood on the knife.

But the quarrel over there still didn't stop, Lin Fan yelled at Xu Lingyue: "Look at the good son you have taught, does this speak human words to me? Why do you make money to support you!"

"You make money?" Xu Lingyue sneered, but her voice was filled with tears, "You can make money and we need to live here. We gamble with your friends all day long. If it weren't for you, we would have bought a house."

"That's not because of you." Lin Fan roared, "Can't you go to Jinggang High School? You have to come to the county to study."

"Okay! Stop arguing! It's all my problem anyway, I'll go, okay." Lin Chenghan hugged his head, rushed out from the house, and kicked hard at the crumbling wooden door a few times. Shouting as if venting, he turned around and saw Qiao Jue not far away, was stunned for half a second, then turned and ran into the night at the top of the stairs of Tongzilou.

Xu Lingyue sat paralyzed on the ground, cried loudly, and said to Lin Fan, "You still haven't gone to find him!"

"I don't care about him, don't come back if you die outside, and don't open your mouth to eat." Lin Fan kicked the kitchen knife on the ground, making a crisp metallic sound, walked to the table, put on his wallet and left.

Only Xu Lingyue was left in the room, crying helplessly as she covered a not-so-shallow wound on her head.

Qiao Jue turned his head and found that Xu Hong had opened the door of the room at some point. The two saw bitterness in each other's eyes at the same time, overwhelming bitterness, strong and long, just like this permeated in the time of Tongzilou, soaked in the night Deep in the deep corridor.

Xu Lingyue had a not-so-shallow wound on her right forehead, and blood flowed all over her face. Her right eye was covered with blood and could not be opened. There were mottled blood stains on the pitted concrete floor.

"It's a tetanus, I'll take you to the hospital." Xu Hong stretched out her hand, trying to pull up Xu Lingyue, who was limp all over, and muttered, "This is considered domestic violence, why are you arguing? If you can't get over it, just leave. , go to the hospital first."

Xu Lingyue was still crying, tears mixed with blood: "No, I have to find our family Chenghan, where can he sleep at night."