Think childish

The mellow and rich milky aroma of toffee gradually spread on the tongue. Qiao Zhi raised her chin to gesture to the right, and asked her, "You are alone at home? Where is your father?"

Zhuang Qiushui replied, "Go to work."

Qiao Zhi nodded, patted her on the shoulder and got up to go back to the house: "Then you can have fun at home, I have to go back to cook, goodbye."

"Goodbye, sister."

Qiao Zhi didn't close the door when he entered the room, and a gust of convective wind from the windows in the back room was very cool.

Zhuang Qiushui stood in the aisle, sucking a toffee, while watching her busy work running back and forth in the room.Not long after, the toffee completely melted in her mouth. She sipped the sweetness on the tip of her tongue in a little disappointment, and turned back to her home.

On Monday of this week, it was Qiao Zhi's class's turn to raise the national flag.

Teacher Li, the head teacher, selected six students headed by Qiao Zhi as the flag bearers, while Xia Huanhuan, the class leader, served as the flag raiser.

After the morning meeting was over, Xia Huanhuan and Qiao Zhi walked side by side from the playground to the classroom. Qiao Zhi grabbed the flag-bearer ribbon hanging diagonally on his chest, hesitated for a while, and when he walked to the bottom of the teaching building, he whispered to Xia Huanhuan: "Huanhuan Son, I plan to work part-time to earn money."

Xia Huanhuan was taken aback by her sudden thought, and blurted out, "Working? You stopped studying? How old are you?"

"Shhhhhh, keep your voice down!" Qiao Zhi pulled her to the corner by the stairs, and said in a low voice, "I definitely want to read the book, even though my grades are just like this...not now, I mean I plan to go to work during the summer vacation, isn't it half a month before the summer vacation?"

Xia Huanhuan said "Oh" twice, her heart sank, and she asked again: "Then where are you going to work? You are still so young, you can't do those heavy physical jobs!"

Qiao Zhi pouted, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "I plan to work at Luo Hai's, show him the store, and extort money from him!"

Xia Huanhuan smiled and glared at her with an expression of "I knew it", and dragged her to the classroom: "It's okay to go to Brother Hai. With him taking care of you, nothing will happen to you."

"Hey, what can happen to me?" Qiao Zhi waved her hands nonchalantly.

Xia Huanhuan grabbed her hand and said worriedly, "Azhi, are you having a bad time at your uncle's house? Didn't your mother leave you money before she left? Why are you still so short of money?"

Qiao Zhi hesitated and said, "I'm not short of money now... But the days are still long, I have to, I have to think about the future..." After speaking, his voice lowered, as if he fell into deep thought again.

Xia Huanhuan could vaguely feel the worry in Qiao Zhi's eyes, but she didn't quite understand it.She has been the class monitor since she was in elementary school, and she has been studying both in character and learning all the way until now. She has never thought about it in the future, she only knows that books must be read all the time.

The wind and rain in the world may be far away from Xia Huanhuan and the others, but they are already very close to her.

Qiao Zhi smiled at her in relief, and said nothing more.

For the whole morning, Qiao Zhi was absent-minded—Luo Hai's store did not lack helpers, he had a younger brother who worked two shifts to look after the store for him, and it didn't cost any money!He himself has been staying in the store all the time when he has nothing to do, so why would he need to spend extra money to invite her to visit the store?

If she really said this to Luo Hai, Luo Hai would probably just throw the money into her arms!

Qiao Zhi thought about it and couldn't come up with a good excuse. She was so worried that she didn't dare to order dish A for lunch, but only ordered dish B.

When my mother left, she left 50 yuan for her grandma. She made it clear that it was her two months' living expenses plus pocket money, and she would send it to her when she ran out.

If she hadn't overheard the conversation between her uncle and aunt that night, maybe she would have chosen to trust her mother all the time, believing that she was still very reluctant to part with herself, then maybe she was still living in a daze, without any sense of crisis.

But now, she was suddenly not sure.Not sure if you can live in your uncle's house all the time?Not sure if the mother will insist on sending her living expenses after going to the new family?

She didn't dare to imagine that "what if", and she couldn't accept that one day she would be expelled by everyone and live on the street.

At least she had to find a job first, even if she really wanted to wander, she couldn't go on the road empty-handed.

Xie Xiaoqing poked the vegetable leaves in his bowl with chopsticks, quickly took two mouthfuls, chewed them randomly and swallowed them, then looked into Qiao Zhi's bowl - there is no big row to eat today.

"Azhi, haven't you been eating vegetable A all the time? Why did you switch to vegetable B today?" Xie Xiaoqing asked strangely.

Xia Huanhuan quickly rolled his eyes at him, Xie Xiaoqing flinched at the sight of her, and stuck out his tongue nonchalantly.

And Qiao Zhi acted as if she didn't hear it, poking the beans in the bowl by herself, sighing in a daze, and finally put down the chopsticks without knowing what to eat, pushed the bowl in front of Xie Xiaoqing, and said, "I don't have an appetite, If you are not full, help me eat, remember to wash the bowl for me."

Although vegetable B does not have as many rows of meat as vegetable A, it still has meat.

Xie Xiaoqing's father died early, his mother had to earn money by herself to support the whole family and pay off the debts, and her daily life was tight, so Xie Xiaoqing usually ate C vegetables, but sometimes it was too tight, so he didn't even have vegetables. Hit, just eat with Qiao Zhi and Xia Huanhuan's dishes.

The rice in Qiao Zhi's bowl was basically untouched. Xie Xiaoqing happily took it, took a couple of mouthfuls, and then turned to her and asked, "Ah Zhi, is your stomach upset? My mother has an earthen remedy for stomach problems. I eat it every day." If you drink one dose every time you have a stomachache, it won't hurt, what do you want?"

Qiao Zhi stared at Xie Xiaoqing listlessly with her head propped up, without making a sound, after just watching for a while, she actually felt a little envious.

She knew Xie Xiaoqing's stomachache was caused by starvation.

Xie Xiaoqing's family has always been very poor, and it was dragged down by his father's illness.When Xie’s father was still alive, all the family’s money was used to feed the “medicine soup officer”, and he also borrowed a lot of money. The unit can only reimburse a small part, and the rest depends on Xie Xiaoqing’s mother’s dead salary. Hold on.

That meager salary was the life-saving straw for their family, and Mother Xie dared not neglect it at all, as the two evils were the lesser, so she could only choose to ignore Xie Xiaoqing.

Xie's mother usually has to go to work and take care of patients, and often has no time to cook, so Xie Xiaoqing is always hungry and full, and occasionally goes to Qiao's house and Xia's house to enjoy the autumn breeze in turn.

It wasn't until Father Xie left and Xie Xiaoqing fainted from the first stomach pain from being overwhelmed by grief that Mother Xie suddenly realized that she had neglected her son for a long time.Because of this, even though the people in the compound dislike Qiao Zhi's mother, Xie Xiaoqing's mother has always been very kind to their mother and daughter.

Qiao Zhi liked Xie Xiaoqing's mother very much.

In her opinion, although mother Xie is not as beautiful as her own mother and can dress up, she really loves everyone in the family - she will never leave father Xie, and love Xie Xiaoqing very much.And she would get angry, laugh, cry, hug Xie Xiaoqing, and spank his ass with a bamboo stick.

Compared with the gentle and restrained mother like a dummy, Qiao Zhi obviously prefers a mother like Xie's mother.

With such a comparison, she is too envious of Xie Xiaoqing.

Although she looks the same on the surface now, with no worries about food and clothing, and a home to return to; in fact, Qiao Zhi knows in her heart that she no longer has a father and no mother, and it is very likely that she will be married at some unexpected moment in the future. Being kicked out of the house all the time, and living a life of a vagrant from then on...

In the afternoon, there are two math classes and one Chinese class alternately, and the last one is physical education.After finally finishing the first three classes, everyone packed their schoolbags and changed their clothes like crazy, and ran to the playground.

The physical education teacher is used to this scene every Monday. After ordering the students to put their schoolbags on the side of the court, the whole team began to assemble.

"Run five laps around the playground, jog, and the sports committee will lead the team!"

The physical education teacher gave an order, and the whole class was stupefied.

On such a hot day, run five laps!Are people still useless?But there was no discussion, everyone could only complain in a low voice, slowly opened up their pace, and ran around in a sweaty circle.

Because of her height, Qiao Zhi was always at the bottom of the team.The girls in their class were few and only stood in two rows, while the boys stood in three rows.

The three big and tall guys in the last row are all the football elites of their class. Qiao Zhi usually didn't bother to listen to their chats, but today because he heard the word "Huili" by accident, he thought of Guo Qingshan. I accidentally overheard a few words of what I told her last time.

The tallest boy in the three columns is Qiu Kai. His father works in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and holds a rather respectable "iron job", and his mother is a Chinese teacher at Nangao, a typical cultural person.

Qiu Kai usually plays very generously with his classmates, and because of his extroverted personality, he can talk and play, so he is very popular.

Qiao Zhi and Qiu Kai didn't speak a few words, and the most communication was at the annual school sports meeting, she was the main force of the girls, and Qiu Kai was the main force of the boys, and the two had to talk a lot.

On the third lap, Qiao Zhi faintly heard someone next to him saying, "What are you afraid of? Go!" The words seemed to be addressed to Qiu Kai, because she heard Qiu Kai mumbling Two sentences, but I didn't hear what he was hesitating.

Another lap, two laps left.

Qiao Zhi crossed her hips and was a little out of breath. Qiu Kai suddenly ran to her side in a daze.

"Can you still run?" Qiu Kai also gasped.

Qiao Zhi waited carefully for two seconds, then glanced at him sideways, only then was she sure that he was asking her, immediately rolled her eyes, and replied in a neutral tone: "So what if I can't run? Can I still run?"

Qiu Kai's face was slightly heated by her choking, but fortunately, his body would get hot from running, so it was hard to tell whether his blushing was actually because of shyness or heat.

Qiu Kai muttered, and was kidnapped by the person next to him. Like a cat whose tail was stepped on, Qiu Kai yelled, "Are you coming to see us play football on weekends?"

The roar was really a bit high, and many people in the team looked over, and the eyes wandering between the two of them were ambiguous.But Qiao Zhi was careless, she simply refused without even thinking about it: "I don't like watching football."

Qiu Kaiwan didn't expect to be rejected by her in public, and he refused so simply!For a moment, he was so ashamed that he wished he could drill a hole into the ground, or let him be wiped out immediately.

Thinking that there were still people watching, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and move closer to Qiao Zhi, and said, "Are you really not coming? Come, this weekend we have a final with Chengnan No. [-] Middle School, it's very good, please. "

Qiao Zhi looked at him twice as if he was insane, and really didn't understand why Qiu Kai suddenly insisted on letting her go to the ball game, and begged her?But thinking of the friendship in the past, and she was too dry to speak, so she nodded and agreed indiscriminately.

Seeing Qiao Zhi nod his head, Qiu Kai's heart was finally relieved, and several boys next to him swarmed up and hooked him and ran forward. While running, they punched him in the chest a few times to show their jealousy.

"Yes, you boy! Qiao Zhi is very difficult to date!"

Qiu Kai became happy after realizing it, and was even more embarrassed, but his heart was indeed much relieved, and he felt a little sweet.

Qiao Zhi was not on the same channel as them at all. She was still worrying about her part-time job. The more she thought about it, the more annoying she became. She didn't worry about the result until after school.

Because they had different ways of going home, Qiao Zhi separated from Xia Huanhuan and Xie Xiaoqing on the way.

Carrying her bag on her back, she kicked the pebbles on the road and walked home. When she was almost at the gate of the compound, she ran into a popsicle seller.Qiao Zhi was a little hesitant. It stands to reason that she would buy a popsicle every time she finished her physical education class, but she finally held back and didn't buy it when she left school. Now...

Xu Shi saw her hesitation, and the uncle who sold popsicles suddenly yelled: "Sell popsicles! Cold cream sticks!"

Qiao Zhi: "..."

Qiao Zhi couldn't hold back and walked up to the popsicle seller. The uncle opened the door of the box and said with a smile, "Little girl, do you want to buy a popsicle? This one has melted a bit, so I'll charge you half of the price. Do you want to buy it?"

half the money!What are you waiting for!

Qiao Zhi immediately took out the money from his pocket and slapped it on the box with pride, and simply said, "Buy!"

It was this loud "buy" that immediately summoned another voice, a cordial call from Guo Qingshan:

"sister!!!"

Qiao Zhi: "..."

"Sister!!" Guo Qingshan yelled several times in a row, and excitedly pulled his schoolbag and ran to her, then smiled all over his face, and called out in an extremely doggy way: "Sister."

I am not your sister.Qiao Zhi shouted in her heart.

But on the surface, she could only pretend to not understand and say: "Why?"

Guo Qingshan struggled for a long time, but in the end he couldn't resist the attraction of the popsicle, he pulled the corner of her clothes like a gnat and said, "I want to eat popsicle too."

Qiao Zhi looked at the popsicle she was holding in her hand, feeling almost pained in her heart, and abruptly handed it over, "Then I'll give you this one."

As soon as the words were finished, a crisp and sweet "sister" suddenly came out from behind, which sounded familiar at first glance.

Qiao Zhi: "......???"

Where is the evildoer? ? ?

The author has something to say: I suddenly thought of a romantic stalk when I typed today, combined with my dream last night... How about I write a male protagonist who runs a vegetable greenhouse and a female protagonist who looks after the gate?