Think childish

The final exam at Chengbei Middle School happened to be the first two days of the fall. There was no fan in the classroom, and the weather was extremely hot. Where the words were written, the ink stains immediately swam away.

"What the hell!" Qiao Zhi cursed in a low voice.

Xie Xiaoqing was sitting next to her, and she turned her head to see that the guy was still writing the essay furiously, because there was not enough space, he even raised his hand to ask the invigilator to add another page of test paper for him.

"Hmph, pretentious!"

The summer vacation is finally under the spotlight.

Qiao Zhi got up early every day to prepare the family's breakfast and her own lunch. She told her uncle about her part-time job in the bookstore. Guo Yuanjiang naturally had no objection to this, and praised her for her hard work and rewarded her with a dollar.

That one dollar changed hands, and Qiao Zhi took it to buy half a catty of white rabbit toffee, and then sent it to Xie Xiaoqing.

Xie Xiaoqing collapsed as soon as he was on vacation. He said he was suffering from heatstroke, vomiting and diarrhea. People who usually ate and wished they could swallow their plates could not eat anything now. Qiao Zhi went to visit him once, and when he came back, he said to Xia Huanhuan with a terrified face: " Mother Xie bought meat buns for him and he said he didn't want to eat them? Is this still Xie Xiaoqing?"

Jokes are jokes, Qiao Zhi still paid attention to it, and asked Xie Xiaoqing what he wanted to eat before leaving. Xie Xiaoqing's mouth shrunk, and he lay on the bed staring at the ceiling with blank eyes and said that he wanted to eat toffee.

Xie Xiaoqing was very thoughtful, even if he was sick, he would never take the initiative to ask his mother to buy him milk candy, so he tricked her.

Qiao Zhi hated it, but she did what she said, and took a big bag of toffee to Xie Xiaoqing to send home. Xie Xiaoqing was so shocked that he couldn't speak when he saw the big bag of candy.

When did the stingy man become a money-spreading boy?

Xie Xiaoqing twirled a candy wrapper and fed it into his mouth. The tip of his tongue sipped the milky taste, and let out a satisfied sigh.

"Azhi, have you gotten rich recently?" Xie Xiaoqing said while carefully smoothing out the crumpled candy wrapper, then took out a comic book from under the pillow, and pressed the candy wrapper inside.

"What are you sending? I'm working for someone recently! This is my salary advance." Qiao Zhi didn't want Xie Xiaoqing to ask a bunch of questions after knowing that it was money from her uncle, so she prevaricated.

Xie Xiaoqing said with a smile: "You have bought me candy with all your hard-earned money, so what do you use?"

Qiao Zhi let out a "huh", but didn't think of how to answer his question for a while: "What's the use? I'll work harder when the money is gone. Anyway, I have hands and feet, and I can't die of hunger... eh, that's fine. You can recuperate at ease, and come to play with me when you recover from illness."

Xie Xiaoqing looked at her for a long time with a smile on his face, until Qiao Zhi wondered if there was something on his face, then he gave a heavy "hmm".

"Nervous!" Qiao Zhi scolded with a smile, waved her hand and left Xie's house.

In the second week of Qiao Zhi's work in the bookstore, Luo Hai went on a business trip to the south with her luggage. Before leaving, she left the phone number and address of Teapot's house to her, and told her to go to this place to find any urgent matters. people.

After Luo Hai left, the bookstore became quite deserted. It didn't mean that there were no customers coming after he left. Business was good during the summer vacation, and Qiao Zhi was busy until dark every day before closing the store and going home.For this reason, she also specially pulled Luo Hai's permanent brand bicycle out of the utility room. She dared not walk alone at night, so she had to ride a bicycle safely.

And the reason why she felt deserted was that no one would talk to her when Luo Hai left the shop.

Half a month passed quickly, and Qiao Zhi stayed in the store every day. Gradually, she discovered a problem-although the business was much better than usual during the summer vacation, there were more people looking for nothing.There are many children who come in early in the morning, and they don’t go back until they have lunch at noon.

The bookstore has no other business, it only sells and sells books, but if the customers who come here can only read but not buy, what profit is there?

Qiao Zhi didn't know if Luo Hai had noticed this problem after opening the shop for so long, but now that she had noticed it, it was impossible to ignore it.

On this day, Qiao Zhi was riding a bicycle home, thinking about how to solve this problem all the way, she was lost in thought, until she came to the front, she suddenly came back to her senses, and noticed that standing on the stairs personal.

There was no light in the corridor, Qiao Zhi was frightened to death by the black figure, squinted his eyes and recognized it for a long time before he recognized that it was Zhuang Qiushui.

She stepped up a few steps and said strangely: "Qiu Shui? Why are you standing here so late?"

It was really dark in the corridor, Qiao Zhi couldn't see the expression on her face clearly, so he pulled her closer to the balcony.The moon in the sky was covered by clouds and mist, so it was not very bright, but it was vaguely enough for her to see the red fingerprints on Zhuang Qiushui's left cheek.

She was startled, and quickly took out the flashlight from her bag to light it up. Regardless of Qiu Shui's obstruction, she took her hand and inspected it carefully. As a result, after careful inspection, she became even more angry—— That half of Qiu Shui's face was completely swollen, even the corner of his mouth was torn.

"Who hit it?" Qiao Zhi asked, barely suppressing the anger in her heart.

Zhuang Qiushui hesitated and refused to speak, Qiao Zhi asked again patiently, and then she said in a low voice, "Dad beat me."

"...What did you say?" Qiao Zhi was stunned.

Zhuang Qiushui said it again with her head lowered, her voice trembling, but no one could see the indifference in her eyes, as if she had already gotten used to the harm that was done to her.

The one who was beaten was obviously Qiu Shui, but Qiao Zhi seemed to have been beaten too, and there was a strange feeling on the left side of his face.

"Why did he do this to you? Why?"

Zhuang Qiushui's voice trembled even more, and his head was almost buried in his chest: "Because... I... I was peeping, and my father found out..."

Qiao Zhi was confused: "What are you peeking at? No, what are you peeking at, so he wants to beat you like this?"

Zhuang Qiushui stopped talking, and started shaking for no reason.

Wouldn't it still be frozen in the dog days?Seeing her like this, she obviously remembered something scary.

Qiao Zhi couldn't tell what she was thinking, she turned off the light and stuffed it into her bag, then got up and walked slowly towards Zhuang Qiushui's house.Qiu Shui grabbed her and shook his head desperately to signal her not to, but the more she behaved like this, the more curious Qiao Zhi wanted to find out.

She put aside Zhuang Qiushui's hand, slowly approached the door, closed her eyes, and gently opened a crack in the door, her nervous heart almost jumped out.

Qiao Zhi put her eyes on the crack of the door and looked. There was no one in the main room, but one of the two bedrooms next to it was lit.She put her ears close again, and vaguely heard a few strange groans.

What is this doing?

Qiao Zhi frowned and looked back at Zhuang Qiushui, feeling extremely uncomfortable in her heart.

Zhuang Qiushui gently mouthed her and told her to come back.

With a ruthless heart, Qiao Zhi opened the door directly, and then slipped in deftly.

Qiao Zhi approached the brightly lit bedroom step by step, her heart beating incredibly fast.There was no way, the closer the distance was, the more nervous she became, and she was sweating all over nervously. In the end, she simply clasped her two hands tightly together, as if this could bring her comfort.

The strange groaning sound became louder and louder, and the information it contained became more and more ambiguous. Qiao Zhi had a vague guess in his heart, but he was not sure.

She actually regretted coming in at this moment in her heart, but her body parts were still eager to try, and finally, she boldly and slightly pushed open a gap.She couldn't help but leaned forward, and hurriedly backed away with just one glance, with a very strange expression on her face, as if she was puzzled, and disgusted as if she had swallowed a frog alive, all in all, her face was very ugly.

Qiao Zhi backed away with her footsteps restrained like when she came, and Zhuang Qiushui finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her come out.

Qiao Zhi pulled her aside and asked after a long silence, "You said you were caught peeping, do you know what they were doing in the house?"

Zhuang Qiushui looked at her expression as if facing a formidable enemy, nodded in his heart, but shook his head on the face.

Qiao Zhi made an exaggerated relaxation movement of inhaling and exhaling, and finally felt a little more at ease in her heart.

He asked again: "It's so late, why are you standing here all the time? Can't you go back to your own room quietly?"

Zhuang Qiushui shook his head in disappointment, and said, "Father asked me to stand here for punishment, and to watch him by the way."

"Look, lookout?" Qiao Zhi panicked, almost choking on her own saliva.

Zhuang Qiushui looked at her innocently.

"Go to his mother's watch! Watch his mother's wind! You stinky and shameless old bastard! There is no fart for having a son!" Qiao Zhi finished cursing in one breath, took Zhuang Qiushui's hand and was about to leave.

Zhuang Qiushui stood still, looking at her inexplicably: "Sister?"

"What's wrong?" Qiao Zhi bent down and touched her swollen cheeks, thinking she was afraid, so she hugged her patiently and coaxed her, "Don't be afraid, you will sleep with me tonight." Well, it's so late, aren't you afraid to stay outside as a little girl?"

Zhuang Qiushui immediately shrank into her arms, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid."

Seeing that she was timid, Qiao Zhi became playful and deliberately frightened her: "I heard from my grandma that this area was filled with mass graves before, and at night, those ghosts who died unjustly would come out to complain to the living. , if you stay here, then..."

"Sister!" Zhuang Qiushui slammed into her arms, covered his ears with his hands, and shouted repeatedly, "Sister, stop talking, stop talking, it's so scary."

Qiao Zhi held back her laughter and said, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything, I won't say anything."

Just like that, Qiao Zhi "abducted" him back home as he wished.

The house was quiet, the lights were all off, and with the little moonlight outside the window, one could vaguely see the silhouette of grandma sitting at the dining table shaking a cattail fan.These days, when she comes back late, grandma will wait at the dinner table while dozing off.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the old man woke up leisurely, glanced at her, got up slowly and said: "I'm late today, come back early next time, don't let grandma worry."

Qiao Zhi responded, and waited until grandma went to bed and drew the curtains, then waved behind her, and led the abducted little girl into the room in a hurry.

The two of them seemed to have successfully broken through the barrier, and when they entered the room, they looked at each other and secretly smiled. Halfway through the laughter, there was an exclamation from the upper bunk next to it—"Qiu Shui?!"

It was Guo Qingshan.

Qiao Zhi stared wide-eyed in the darkness: "Why haven't you slept yet? Don't you usually go to bed early at this time?"

"I can't sleep tonight." Guo Qingshan slid down the bed ladder while talking.

"Qiu Shui, why did you come to our house?" Guo Qingshan asked.

He actually sounded a bit rude when he asked, the little girl was thin-skinned and mumbled and couldn't speak, Qiao Zhi pulled her behind to protect her, and said without confidence: "I asked her to come, can't I? "

After finishing speaking, Qiao Zhi regretted it. She felt that she shouldn't have asked such a question, and should have directly threatened and lured Guo Qingshan into pretending that she hadn't seen it.In the current situation, if Guo Qingshan said "no", then she would be embarrassed.Although her mother said her name written by the owner of the house, Qiao Zhi never felt that "this is her own home", but the feeling of being dependent on others was stronger.

Guo Qingshan didn't have as much thoughtfulness as her at all, children love to be lively, because suddenly there is another person in the family, it seems that the whole family has become novel and different.He lost all sleepiness, and made up his mind that they were going to have some fun together, but they just kept arguing and refused to sleep.

In the end, Qiao Zhi was so troubled by him that he had no choice but to endure sleepiness and play with the two children for a while. She couldn't remember when she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes in the morning, she found herself sitting on the ground with her back against the bedpost. She fell asleep, and the two little kids were lying on her bed, sleeping soundly.

Qiao Zhi slept half-sitting all night, and almost twisted her neck when she got up, and her whole body ached when she moved a little.She opened the door and squinted at the wall clock. It was only five o'clock, and it was still early.

"Sister..." Zhuang Qiushui called her in a daze from behind.

Qiao Zhi closed the door, walked to the bed and took a look. Uncle Guo was lying on the little girl's lap with half of his body.

Zhuang Qiushui rubbed his eyes and wanted to get up. As soon as he moved, his small face wrinkled: "Sister, I... my legs are numb."

"puff--"

Qiao Zhi rescued Zhuang Qiushui from Guo Qingshan's devil's legs with a suppressed smile, and sat on the bedside with her in her arms, carefully pinching her calves.

Zhuang Qiushui looked at her a little flattered, and asked in a low voice: "Qingshan said that my sister is working part-time recently?"

Qiao Zhi nodded: "Just the bookstore I took you to last time, remember?"

"Well, remember."

Qiao Zhi felt a little drowsy as she squeezed it, and couldn't help yawning.

Zhuang Qiushui immediately said: "Sister, don't pinch me, you can sleep a little longer." After speaking, she slipped off Qiao Zhi's lap.

Qiao Zhi responded, but she didn't fall asleep, she just sat there for a while, then suddenly rubbed her face vigorously, got up quickly and said, "Wash your face, get ready to go to work!"

Qiao Zhi suddenly thought of the solution to the problem that troubled her all day yesterday when she was brushing her teeth. Because she thought too seriously, she almost swallowed the toothpaste foam. When she turned around, she saw Zhuang Qiushui standing fully dressed. Behind her, she carried her cloth schoolbag on her back.

Qiao Zhi spit toothpaste foam into the sink, and said in surprise, "Oh my dear, you scared me to death, why are you standing here and not making a sound?"

Zhuang Qiushui stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, tugged at the strap of his schoolbag nervously, and said, "Sister, I want to go to work in the bookstore with you, okay?"

"Go to work? You?" Qiao Zhi turned on the faucet a few times to rinse it off, wiped the cold water on her face, then turned around with the washbasin in her hand, and pulled her back, "You are so young, what class do you work for?"

Zhuang Qiushui thought about it, and changed the phrase: "Then I don't go to work, can I accompany you to work?"

Qiao Zhile was delighted, and she happened to walk to the door of Qiushui's house. The door was not closed tightly. She gently pushed open the half-width gap, took a look inside, and listened to the sound by the way—hey, she was sleeping soundly!

Qiao Zhi asked her: "Don't you want to stay at home?"

Zhuang Qiushui nodded honestly, and hurriedly said: "I will be very obedient and quiet, and I will never disturb you. I can still help you, and I can do things quickly."

Seeing her like this, Qiao Zhi felt a little unbearable and uncomfortable, and then thought about how boring it is sometimes to be alone in the store. Besides, she just came up with a business plan, and she probably needs help. help her!

"Okay! Then you can hang out with my sister and me this summer vacation! I won't treat you badly!" Qiao Zhi laughed, and just got close to her to kiss her, but suddenly stopped the car, and after careful observation Said, "Qiu Shui, you seem to have eyeballs?"

Zhuang Qiushui: "..."

The author has something to say: I won’t update it tomorrow, the day after tomorrow... Besides, it’s gone