Think childish

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the end of the year.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and people are more and more reluctant to go out and suffer from the cold.

The business of the bookstore went from bad to worse, so Qiao Zhi simply closed the shop and concentrated on drying the bacon and sausages in the backyard.

There are still four days until Laba. She touched the frozen hard bacon on the meat shelf, and licked her fingers—it was very salty.

After getting off the train, Teapot went straight to the bookstore, but the door was rejected when he got to the front. He didn't bring the key, so he had to go around to the back door.After knocking on the door for a long time, the person inside came over and opened the door. When he saw him, he didn't have any big emotions, so he asked plainly, "What's the matter?"

The teapot squeezed in from her covered in wind and frost, took off the leather gloves and slapped her body vigorously a few times, exhaled a large cloud of white mist, and said, "The verdict has come, nine years."

There is no buffer or notice, just such a hard sentence.

Qiao Zhi twitched nervously with his hand grasping the door frame, and responded without emotion.

The teapot looked at her with his gloves on.

Qiao Zhi stood by the door without moving.

"What are your plans for the future?" Teapot asked, with an unknown fire in his brows as he spoke, "Or you follow me home?"

He didn't dare to say that I'll take care of you in the future, because he saw Qiao Zhi's face was frighteningly pale.

After a long time, Qiao Zhi looked up at him and smiled, "What's the matter with me following you?"

The teapot was stunned for a moment, blocked by her words and didn't know how to answer it.

"But before Luo Hai left, he explained to me—"

"So what?" Qiao Zhi interrupted him, looking at him contemptuously and mockingly.

There was a pinch of evil fire in the teapot's heart, and he couldn't eat or sleep because of the fire, but no matter what, he couldn't spread the fire on Qiao Zhi.

"Azhi..." He took two steps on the spot, crossed his hips and tried to calm down his tone, "You are a girl, you don't study or go home now, you...I can't just let you go Are you fending for yourself in this broken yard?"

At the end of the sentence, the voice still couldn't help soaring.

He sighed.

Qiao Zhi suddenly asked, "Where is this yard broken?"

"What?" Teapot frowned at her.Fu looked around the small courtyard in front of him again, and when he saw the row of bacon sausages hanging under the eaves, he couldn't laugh or cry.

It seems that people don't plan to fend for themselves at all, and the small life is well arranged!

He put his hands on his forehead and thought for a while, then asked, "Have you really thought about it?"

Qiao Zhi nodded, and said, "I don't want anything from my brother except this bookstore. You can figure it out."

The teapot was silent, and didn't say anything more, but added before leaving: "Remember to come to my place during the New Year and holidays, your brother Jiao is still waiting to show you something."

***

The winter of this year seemed to know that he was not welcome, and it passed in the blink of an eye.

On New Year's Eve, Qiao Zhi had dinner at Guo's house, watched the New Year's Eve, and then accompanied Guo Qingshan, Qiushui and a group of children in the courtyard to have a firecracker.

The red crumbs all over the ground were blown up and fluttered by the north wind. She suddenly remembered the scene when Luo Hai took her to the glacier to fry fish during the Chinese New Year, and the corners of her mouth subconsciously curled up.

It's been more than half a month, and this is the first time Qiu Shui has seen her smile so easily and purely.

After that night, Qiao Zhi seemed to be a different person. She didn't like to laugh or talk anymore. She obviously didn't frown, but there was always a layer of melancholy between her brows, which faintly covered her whole body. Everything has changed.Those clear eyes also lost their former brilliance and became dull and sluggish.

Qiu Shui noticed that she began to be in a daze for a long time, even when she was reading her favorite martial arts novels, she often lost her mind. If she was asked, she would say that she hadn't thought about anything, or she just couldn't remember what she was thinking.Even once in the middle of the night, she choked up in her sleep. If Qiu Shui hadn't happened to stay with her that day, she might not have realized that she cared so much about Luo Hai, and was so sad.

"Sister, make a wish." Qiu Shui said suddenly.

Qiao Zhi turned her head and touched the top of her hair, and asked, "What about you? What wish did you make?"

"I want to grow taller." Qiushui said, "Be taller than my sister."

Qiao Zhi looked her up and down, nodded and said, "Well, this really depends on making a wish."

It took Qiushui a long time to realize that she was teasing her, and he was instantly happy, and deliberately made an angry look: "Sister, don't look down on others, you wait for me for a few more years, when I grow up, I……"

When Qiu Shui said this, she suddenly paused, and a similar sentence struck her ear like a thunderbolt.

"What about you?" Qiao Zhi looked at her with interest.

"I want to grow up quickly." Qiu Shui looked at her and said seriously, "But I hope my sister will not grow up."

Qiao Zhi was amused: "Why? Even if you grow up to my age, it will be difficult for you to imagine me as tall." As he spoke, he lifted her thin arms and legs with disgust, "Look at you! Small arms and legs, if you want to grow taller, eat more food, run more and so on."

Wave after wave of explosions came from the open space not far away, Guo Qingshan huddled among the children and shouted at them loudly: "Come here!"

Qiu Shui relentlessly pulled her to make a wish.

Qiao Zhi looked at her helplessly and said, "I have no wish."

"There must be, you think about it carefully."

A long sigh diffused in the wind.

Qiao Zhi squeezed her face, and said softly, "Then I will make a wish and hope your wish will come true." After another pause, "But you still grow up slowly."

"why?"

"Because when you grow up you can't ask 'why' like that anymore, because there will never be an answer."

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