First dawn

"Take care of yourself first." Xu Hong was also short-tempered, "This knife is not clean, and the bleeding has not stopped. I have to go to the hospital to bandage and get a tetanus shot. The county hospital is across the bridge. Go to the hospital. Don't go, don't go, I don't care about you."

Xu Lingyue was afraid that Xu Hong would really leave her alone, she stumbled to her feet, and took out a faded money bag from behind the pillow.

"Go to the hospital, I'll look for Lin Chenghan nearby." Qiao Jue sighed.

Xu Hong hesitated, obviously unwilling to delay Qiao Jue's sleep time, but seeing Xu Lingyue bowing her head and sobbing, she didn't say anything more.

"Thank you, auntie, thank you, Qiao Jue is a good boy." Xu Lingyue wanted to grab Qiao Jue's hand, but with blood on it, she flinched a little.

"Forget it." Xu Hong found a piece of clean gauze, handed it to Xu Lingyue to cover the wound temporarily, looked at the mess all over the floor, and cursed softly, "It's a crime."

Xu Lingyue put a handful of red banknotes into her pocket, and shook her head desperately: "How can we leave, our family, Chenghan, is about to take the college entrance examination."

Originally sleepy to wash up, after such a fuss, Qiao Jue felt more sober.He picked up the mobile phone on the table, put on a sports jacket, followed Xu Hong and the others, and went downstairs.As twelve o'clock approached, the whole city began to sleep peacefully, except for the land in the north of the bridge, which had never been peaceful for a moment.

Lianxing County is not big, but it is not small. It is not easy to find someone in the middle of the night. Qiao Jue thought that Lin Chenghan, who had nowhere to go, would be in the row of bungalow hotels near the glass factory. Stay, but he did not find Lin Chenghan's figure.

"Have you finished copying?" The mobile phone's QQ notification sounded, and it was a message from Yi Xiao.

"Nearly." Qiao Jue replied, "There is something wrong here, I have to go to the door."

"Let's go out at this time?" Yi Xiao felt an unusual aura and called Qiao Jue directly.

Normally, Qiao Jue would not want to say much, but now he gave Yi Xiao a brief account of what happened.

Qiao Sui thought that Yi Xiao was just bored, and after listening to what happened, he would hang up the phone and go to rest. Unexpectedly, Yi Xiao paused for a while, as if thinking about something, and then asked: "Give me the coordinates?"

"Ah?" Qiao Jue was a little dazed, but still told Yi Xiao where she was, "It's right at the door of the row of small hotels last time."

"Wait." Yi Xiao dropped a sentence and hung up the phone.

Wait, what are you waiting for, it's late at night, is Yi Xiao still planning to come over? Although he was puzzled, Qiao Jue still stood where he was, and did not go far for the first time.

After 15 minutes, there was a burst of engine sound from far to near.

No way, Qiao Jue's eyes widened.

Yi Xiao, who I met more than two hours ago, was riding a motorcycle and slid all the way down the lower sill of the glass factory. She braked suddenly in front of Qiao Jue, made a turn, and stopped at Qiao Jue. in front of.

"Get in the car." Yi Xiao helped the sunglasses that didn't exist on top of his head.

"It's in the middle of the night, why are you pretending to be aggressive! It's so fast, be careful." Qiao Jue laughed, and his originally depressed mood suddenly cleared up.

"It's safe." Yi Xiao signaled Qiao Jue to sit up, "There is no watermelon field here, and there is no one sitting next to the watermelon holding an urn to scare me."

Qiao Jue stepped on the pedals, sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, slapped Yi Xiao on the back, and scolded with a smile: "F*ck, it's hard to get over this, right?"

Qiao Jue's body smelled of fresh soap from the shower, and Yi Xiao held the handle of the motorcycle tightly: "The train is starting."

The sound of the engine sounded again, and the locomotive rushed up the long slope, kicking up a cloud of dust, and the people living in the roadside hotel erupted in cursing, and Qiao Sui laughed heartily on the back seat of Yi Xiao's locomotive.

The speed of the locomotive is not slow. Qiao Jue tightly grasped the handrail behind the car, feeling the oncoming night wind. Yi Xiaowei's long hair was a little messy, as if he had rushed over from home in a hurry. This scene came into my eyes.

"Class representative." Yi Xiao said in the wind, and said righteously, "I, Yi Xiao, came to this city to change my mind and start a new life, but look, since you became my English class representative, Not only was I fined for plagiarism in Chinese class, but I also went out for racing at night, and I am getting farther and farther away from my goal of being a good student."

Qiao Jue: "..." He can also be blamed, but it seems to be true. Yi Xiao was punished for copying because he took Tang Xueyi's book and drove in the middle of the night because he helped him find someone.

So Qiao Jue said, "You want to be a good student, right? Then you've found the right person. You go and see the grade rankings of No. [-] High School and then come back and talk to me."

"You settle my punishment first." Yi Xiao said with a smile in his voice, "I just came here, and my reputation is getting worse and worse."

"You don't blame me for your bad reputation." As soon as these words came out, Qiao Jue felt a little regretful. They all knew what happened before Yi Xiao came to No. [-] Middle School, but they didn't know whether Yi Xiao still cared about those things now. thing.

However, he didn't have time to say anything else, the locomotive left the dormitory area of ​​the glass factory, and drove along the road beside the Lian River. As soon as Qiao Jue finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure sitting on the dam by the river bank.

"There, there, there." Qiao Jue pointed.

"Okay." Yi Xiao turned the car around and headed towards the direction Qiao Sui pointed at.

20 years ago, every rainy season, when the Lianhe River swelled, there would be a flood in Lianxing County.Later, in a certain year, the engineering team sent by the government, with various machines, dug the Lianhe River deep and built dams on both sides of the river, which solved the flood problem in Lianxing County.

Now, at the end of summer night, Qiao Jue saw Lin Chenghan sitting next door to his house on the grass by the dam, smoking a cigarette, and a red spot of light floating.

Yi Xiao parked the car near the grass, and Qiao Jue jumped out of the back seat of the car and walked all the way to Lin Chenghan.

"I won't go back." The moment Lin Chenghan saw Qiao Jue, he knew Qiao Jue's purpose for coming here, "My parents told you to come, you go back and tell him, I won't go back."

Qiao Jue walked all the way to Lin Chenghan's side and looked down at him: "It wasn't your parents who asked me to come, it was your mother. You don't know what your father is?"

Lin Chenghan's whole body shook violently, and Yi Xiao meant at that moment that he wanted to refute or attack Qiao Jue, but Lin Chenghan didn't, and retracted his raised back, burying his head between his knees: "You said That's right, my dad is nothing, I don't want to go back to that family at all."

"I don't care if you want to go back or not." Qiao Jue's tone was a little impatient, with one hand in his pocket, he stepped forward two steps, and gave Lin Chenghan a kick, "My task is to bring you home, you If you don't go back, I'll beat you up."

Yi Xiao: "..." When he saw Qiao Jue walking over, he thought that Qiao Jue wanted to persuade the lost boy to go home, but he didn't expect Qiao Jue to do such a trick directly, which made him laugh a little.

"What are you doing?!" Lin Chenghan said angrily, and was stunned for a moment. He was kicked by Qiao Jue and almost fell on the grass. He even thought about rejecting Qiao Jue, but the other party directly Here comes such a sentence.

However, Lin Chenghan yelled back, and the scene of Qiao Jue beating someone at noon still lingered in his mind. When it came to fighting and making trouble, Lin Chenghan thought he couldn't beat Qiao Jue. Qiao Jue looked gentle and harmless, but the glass factory Few people in this area dared to provoke Qiao Jue. Lin Chenghan's eyes fell on Yi Xiao who was standing by the locomotive. That person seemed to be more difficult to provoke than Qiao Jue.

Lin Chenghan pinched his cigarette, stood up from the ground resignedly, and patted the dirt on his pants.

"Go back by yourself." Qiao Sui gave Lin Chenghan a blank look, "Are you still expecting to ride our car back? A group of people didn't sleep because of you at night. If you are really not that messy, don't make trouble for your mother all day long." .”

"Qiao Jue, I'm different from you, I envy you." Lin Chenghan's back was startled as he left, with bitterness in his voice.

"Stop doing this to me." Qiao Jue looked at Lin Chenghan coldly, "Go back to your own home, or I will see you and beat you once in the future."

Lin Chenghan threw the cigarette butts into the trash can, put on his coat, turned his head and gave Qiao Sui a deep look, and walked towards the glass factory area.

"I can't tell, class representative, you are so fierce." After Lin Chenghan walked a little away, Yi Xiao couldn't wait to joke.

"I can't wake up a person who pretends to be asleep. I don't bother with him." Qiao Jue sighed.

"Let's go?" Yi Xiao patted the motorcycle parked aside.

"Are you sleepy?" Qiao Jue asked, "If you're not sleepy, wait a while, I just finished scolding him, now I'm leaving, I can meet him face to face again."

Yi Xiao smiled and said, "I can't see that you take care of other people's inner feelings."

On the grass by the Lian River, the night blurred the outlines of the plants, and along with the surrounding sounds, fell silent.After such a commotion, both of them lost their sleepiness and simply sat down on the grass.

"That person just said that he envied you." Yi Xiao suddenly said, "You probably don't understand, but I can understand a little bit about that person's feelings."

"What?" Joey asked.

"The first time I saw you, I mean the time in class, I thought you were a typical 'child from someone else'." Yi Xiao recalled.

Qiao Sui: "..."

However, he is not as perfect as outsiders think. The "children of other people's family" can only live in Qiaobei, in the old dormitory room of the glass factory, amidst the noise day and night, facing his increasingly desolate heart, killing own youth.Yi Xiao, probably not the same as him, Qiao Jue thought.

"Do you know why I came here?" Yi Xiao said suddenly.

Qiao Jue looked up in surprise, he originally thought that Yi Xiao was unwilling to mention what happened last year, but unexpectedly Yi Xiao brought it up on his own initiative.

"Because of a fight?" Since the other party brought it up, Qiao Jue let go of his curiosity a little bit, "That's what the news said?"

Yi Xiao: "What did the news say, I stabbed my own brother, didn't I?"

Qiao Jue was silent, and Yi Xiao naturally knew the answer.

"That man's name is Chen Zining, so he's not my real brother." Yi Xiao said while playing with weeds on the ground, "We should be regarded as half-brothers."