Baozi Misunderstanding

Suddenly, a hand appeared and grabbed Shan Yun's wrist, then broke free from Shan Yun's hand that was holding the steamer lid, and then closed the lid.

The voice of a young boy speaking in a dialect rang in Shan Yun's ears.

Shan Yun held the bun and looked at the strange hand, which was thin and long, with distinct joints.

He turned his head towards the voice and saw a young man wearing sports shorts, a sports shirt and a towel around his neck, who was half a head taller than him, stopped beside him. His right hand, which had taken off the earphones, stopped when Shan Yun turned around to look at him, stunned.

Shan Yun felt that the tall and thin boy in front of him looked familiar.

But he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

Shan Yun looked the boy up and down. It was February and he felt cold even in his down jacket. But the boy in front of him was wearing only shorts and shirt, not shivering at all. There were even beads of sweat running down his thin face. Shan Yun felt cold for him and couldn't help shivering himself.

The two of them remained in a stalemate.

The young man was the first to look away and looked into the store. Seeing that there was no one there, he looked at Shan Yun who was biting a bun in front of him.

Shan Yun was confused by the boy's inexplicable behavior. When he came to his senses, he tried to shake off the hand that was holding him, but the boy held on tightly and spoke in a dialect that Shan Yun could hardly understand.

"Speak human language." Shan Yun, already shattered by the beating, became even more impatient, and he shook off the boy's hand with force.

"Are you..." The boy finally spoke in Mandarin. His voice was a little low, but surprisingly pleasant to the ear.

"You say I'm a thief and that I eat stealingly? This young master has plenty of money, why would I need to eat stealingly? I eat, eat, eat openly." Shan Yun interrupted the young man, took a bite of the bun and said the word "eat", looking very arrogant.

Grandma came out with freshly made buns. When the boy saw them, he immediately went forward to take the steamer from his grandmother’s hand and brought it to the stall and put it away.

As soon as the grandmother saw the boy, she talked to him with a smile. When she saw Shan Yun eating the buns with big mouthfuls, her smile became even bigger. She was happy that Shan Yun liked the buns she made.

The boy looked at Shan Yun, and Shan Yun stuck out his tongue at him and said, "See? The boss asked me to eat." After that, he ignored the boy, turned around, and walked onto the bridge while doing chest expansion exercises.

The grandmother pointed at Shan Yun and talked to the boy. The boy kept looking at Shan Yun. Shan Yun found it puzzled, but both of them spoke in dialect, which he could not understand. He did not want to get involved, so he walked back and forth on the bridge on purpose.

The boy chatted with his grandmother for a while, and his grandmother's smile never stopped. After his grandmother helped him pack the buns and paid for them, the boy looked at Shan Yun again before leaving.

Shan Yun stood on the bridge, watching the young man jogging away. He kicked the stone pillar and said angrily, "This skinny guy with skinny arms and legs dared to call me a thief. I am the young master of this store, humph."

After complaining a few words, the boy disappeared at the end of the street. Shan Yun no longer paid attention to the boy who had just made him angry. He also put the unpleasant conversation behind him because of this little episode. He turned around, opened his arms, and enjoyed the fresh morning air to his heart's content.

He hasn't felt this relaxed in a long time.

The environment here has changed a lot. The river is wider and cleaner than before. There is a small stone bridge connecting the two banks every four or five houses, making travel between the two banks much more convenient.

There are two rows of houses on each side of the river, neatly arranged along the river. The houses are all renovated wooden buildings with stacked roofs and small green tiles, a true ancient city.

Although this place is in the suburbs, it has developed into a special tourist attraction in City A. Some tourists are shopping here early in the morning.

The streets still retain the atmosphere of yesterday's Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day, and are not that deserted.

A neighbor lady came out to take out the trash and saw Shan Yun on the bridge taking photos with his phone. She smiled and said, "Is this Xiao Yun? Why are you up so early? School doesn't start until two days later. Why don't you sleep in a little longer?"

Shan Yun had no impression of her at all, but he knew that she was a neighbor, and they would see each other sooner or later, so he nodded and smiled at her politely.

The neighbor turned around and prepared to go in, then turned back and said, "Xiaoyun, just call me Auntie Ji. When you were little, Auntie Ji hugged you and comforted you. Tell Auntie Ji what you have to say. My Jixiang is at grandpa and grandma's house. When he comes back, he will take you to school."

"Thank you, Aunt Ji." Shan Yun smiled awkwardly and said secretly: Who would expose someone's shortcomings as soon as they meet? Besides, how could he cry?

However, seeing such enthusiastic neighbors, Shan Yun had a better impression of this place. At least the people here smiled at him in such a simple and innocent way.

Shan Yunxiao took a small walk and returned to the store. He saw that his grandmother was no longer busy and was stacking money in front of the stall. She spread out the bills one by one, flattened them, and then stacked the bills from small to large and tied them up with tape.

He looked at the grandmother in front of him with white hair, wrinkled face and hunched back, and thought about how his grandmother had lived alone for six years, and he felt uneasy in his heart.

Shan Yun was not a rebellious teenager, in fact he was quite well-behaved and obedient. However, after his parents filed for divorce, he felt that being well-behaved would not win him any attention, so he deliberately skipped school and ran away from home in exchange for his parents' attention.

However, all his rebellious behavior did not win his parents' care, but became a stumbling block to their divorce. They even threw him away thousands of miles away because of a word he said.

Shan Yun noticed that his grandmother raised her head. He sniffed and walked quickly into the house.

"Grandma, I'm going out to play for a while." Shan Yun ran to get his backpack, hung it on his shoulder and was about to go out.

Grandma took out three hundred-yuan bills from a stack of money and handed them to Shan Yun. She felt that it was not enough, so she took out two more. Shan Yun waved his hands and shook the phone in his hand, "Grandma, I have money."

Grandma insisted on giving Shan Yun money, and Shan Yun quickly backed away, "Really, there's no need. I have money, a lot of it, my New Year's gift money, and also the money Shan Si...mom and dad gave me. I'll buy you something delicious when I come back." After he said that, he disappeared in a puff of smoke.

He wasn't lying, he did have a lot of money, but that was just a lot of money.

Shan Yun walked around the ancient city and found that the large wasteland in the east had been converted into a small park square. Surrounding the park was a whole snack street with all kinds of snacks.

Walking south from the snack street is a straight commercial street, mostly with clothing and shoe stores. After leaving the commercial street, cross the road and walk up a distance to the high-speed rail station. Walking to the right of the high-speed rail station for about ten minutes is the school he is about to enter - M High School, which is one of the three key high schools in City A.

Shan Yun looked at the school gate and memorized the location. He didn't expect that after playing all the way, it was already noon. He tightened the shoe box in his hand. This was the cotton shoes he bought for his grandmother.

When Shan Yun came here yesterday, he noticed that the cotton shoes his grandmother was wearing were very old, with holes on the edges, and the cotton inside was exposed. He happened to see a shoe seller while shopping, so he bought a pair as a gift.

He opened the navigation route on his phone and searched for it. He felt that the road from his grandmother's house to the park was too far to the school, so he wanted to see if there was a closer route that would be more convenient for going to school in the future.

He actually navigated us to a road that led directly to the street where my grandmother lived. It only took about ten minutes to get there. It was along the high-speed railway and was a bit remote, with few vehicles and pedestrians on the road.

Shan Yun was looking for the way while replying to the message sent by Jia Wei. After sending the message, he looked up and found himself standing at a fork in the road. On the left was a dark alley with no exit. The alley was about five meters long and was blocked by a wall at the back. There were wood and planks placed around the alley.

Shan Yun stopped and looked inside curiously, only to find four teenagers squatting in the dark alley. Three of them were dressed normally, but the fourth one had a head of shaggy hair and was wearing a sweater with a vest on the outside. The front of his jeans had a hole the size of a palm from the thigh to the knee.

The boy in ragged pants was holding a book, and his smug look came to an abrupt end when he saw Shan Yun. The four of them looked at Shan Yun standing at the entrance of the dark alley, and they went from panicking to being alert when they saw Shan Yun clearly.

Shan Yun realized that he seemed to have seen something he shouldn't have seen, and he didn't know how to walk away naturally.

But looking at the looks of those young men, Shan Yun knew he couldn't leave. In order to show that he was not afraid, he took the initiative, straightened his back, and faced the people in the dark alley.

The boy in torn pants' eyes changed, and he raised his chin to signal. The other three immediately rushed out and surrounded Shan Yun. One of them pushed Shan Yun into the dark alley.

Shan Yun was surrounded by them. Even though he was tall, three of the four men were taller than him and were staring at him eagerly. He had been pretending to be brave, but suddenly he felt guilty and kept wondering what to do.

He was not good at fighting, although he had fought with others several times before, but each time it was because he was in a bad mood and rushed up to fight without saying a word. He used fighting to vent his emotions and he actually won every time.

Now he was facing four boys, three of whom were taller than him, and four boys who looked like delinquents. There was no way he could beat them, and the boy in torn pants standing behind him seemed very powerful.

Oh, I didn't expect that I would mess with the wrong person as soon as I arrived here.

The boy in ragged pants was half a head taller than Shan Yun. He grabbed Shan Yun's shoulders and was looking at him intently. This street was sparsely populated and no one was passing by at this time. It was not certain that anyone would hear him if he shouted for help.

Just when Shan Yun couldn't think of a solution and decided to take the beating or fight to break out, a young man on a bicycle with a backpack passed by the alley.

The boy seemed to sense some movement in the dark alley. He stopped his bike and poked his head into the alley.

Shan Yun's eyes lit up as if he had found a savior, and he waved his hand secretly. When he saw the young man at the alley clearly, he felt that he looked very familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

Isn’t he the boy who framed me this morning?

He also remembered that this boy was the one who ran down from his grandmother's house yesterday.

Shan Yun had a helpless expression on his face, and frantically signaled with his eyes to the young man standing at the entrance of the alley. Even though they didn't know each other's name yet and there was a small misunderstanding, they had at least met twice, so they knew each other. He should be able to help.

Standing up for justice is a fine virtue of the descendants of Yan and Huang.

When Shan Yun saw the hesitation in the boy's eyes, hope ignited in his heart.

The four boys surrounding Shan Yun looked at the boy outside the alley warily. One of them said, "He looks like Zou Weichen, the top scorer in science in the college entrance examination."

"I know. Ever since he became the top scorer, I have seen his photo on the bulletin board at the school gate every day. The principal and Director Huang always mention him when they talk. I am so excited."

"What should we do? He won't tell on us too, will he?"

"No, he is not a member of our school anymore. Didn't he go to Q University to study? How come he is here?" The short man touched his head.

"Are you stupid? It's winter vacation now. We are on vacation, and he, a college student, must be on vacation too." The boy in ripped pants tapped the man's head, looking at him as if he were a fool.

After hearing their conversation, Shan Yun became more certain that the young man named Zou Weichen would definitely help him, and his eyes lit up with anticipation.

Brother, I am asking you for help so pitifully, just rush in and shout "Stop" or call for help, hurry up.

Shan Yun urged in his heart.

But within ten seconds, Zou Weichen slowly withdrew his gaze, calmly rode his bicycle away.

He just left like that?