Chapter 73 4015
He interrupted her.
In early spring, there are magnolia trees in full bloom outside the window.
The setting sun shines on the girl from the treetops, brilliant and warm, as beautiful as a dream that will break at the touch of a button.
Xu Jiqing's eyelashes trembled slightly, and his knuckles gripping the small lock turned white from the force he exerted. He no longer looked at her dazed expression, and walked downstairs with his bag on his back.
There are no windows in the stairwell, so the light comes in from the corridor.
He walked faster and faster, almost instinctively, retreating step by step into the shadows.
Su Xia has become more beautiful.
While doing exercises in Class S during the day, he heard Lin Lang joking beside him that if Su Xia held up a sign for Class 4 at this year's spring sports meet, they wouldn't even have to leave. Just standing there would be a lot of screaming and howling, and the lockers of Class 4 would be filled with love letters.
How much love does one have to have to write a love letter?
Growing up in such an environment, Xu Jiqing has seen the ups and downs of life.
Love is something very illusory to him.
Love in the adult world is a slap in the face and a sweet date in the mouth, dirty desires and control, and endless surrender to lies until you completely give up struggling in the trap and become a domesticated animal.
The so-called love among peers is even more superficial.
Because of a pretty face or an imagination, you can fall into a passionate unrequited love and express your love in less than a day.
But what is he doing himself?
Such a Su Xia is like a dazzling and sharp glass cutter, dividing their world into two parts with great clarity.
She moved further away from him.
The chubby girl in the past, who perhaps lived in the prejudice of others, still had a little equality with a monster like him who never saw the light of day. But Su Xia became beautiful, and that distorted balance was completely broken.
His grades and intelligence could no longer maintain his pitiful self-esteem, and he could no longer linger behind her with dark temptations like he did last year.
The more beautiful Su Xia was, the more clearly he could see what kind of quagmire he was in.
Such a lovely girl.
How could he bear to drag her in when he was trying so hard to crawl out?
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The affiliated primary school finishes school at 4:40 in the afternoon.
Xu Jiqing bought a second-hand bicycle and rode all the way from No. 1 Middle School. It was more than twenty minutes faster than taking the bus. The primary school students just happened to be walking out of the school gate hand in hand.
The gathering place for parents of Xu Jiaojiao's class is at the corner of the street.
Jiangcheng is a big city with a fast work pace, and the people who come to pick up the children are grandparents and nannies.
Under the evergreen camphor tree, Xu Jiqing, wearing a snow-white school uniform and holding the bicycle handlebar with his left hand, stood out among the crowd.
Xu Jiaojiao looked around and saw him from a distance. She ran excitedly and rushed towards him, "Brother!"
Xu Jiqing responded, bending down to take the small schoolbag from her shoulder, "So happy?"
Xu Jiaojiao ran until her forehead was covered in sweat. She opened her arms skillfully and waited for Xu Jiqing to carry her to the back seat of the car. "I like my brother to pick me up."
Almost two months have passed since Xu Wenyao suddenly returned.
He did not move into the house they rented, but instead shared a small house with someone near Aunt Zhang's shop. He didn't come here very often, except when Lin Yuezhen occasionally made too many dumplings and would bring them over in a thermos bucket and stay there for a day.
Xu Jiaojiao started remembering things later than other children.
I only remember that my father hit my ear and made me deaf, but how painful it was at that time and what grievances I suffered before all became vague after moving to a new city. My fear of Xu Wenyao was more like an instinct.
Children can't figure out complicated household chores.
Xu Jiaojiao only knew that every time she woke up from a nightmare, her brother was there to accompany her.
Her brother told her not to be afraid of anything, and just go to school and eat as usual. Gradually, she really wasn't afraid anymore.
Bad people will be punished.
If Dad acts badly again, the police will catch him again.
What's more, her brother picks her up and drops her off every day this semester!
It rains a lot in Jiangcheng in winter. It was cloudy and rainy when school started. The kids in her class were riding in their family cars, but she didn't envy them.
If the car window was rolled up, she would not get wet by the rain, but the raincoat she was wearing was bought by her brother with his hard-earned money, so no matter how cold the wind was, it could not reach Xu Jiqing's strong back.
Her brother is her Patronus.
Xu Jiaojiao sat on the back seat of the bicycle, consciously put on the little yellow duck helmet, and held the newly welded handrail tightly.
The spring breeze is blowing.
The noisy city streets were left behind, and Xu Jiaojiao closed her eyes comfortably.
When I entered the community, there was no one in the entire corridor.
After reaching the fifth floor, Xu Jiqing made room at the door and waited for her.
Xu Jiaojiao chuckled, "I only open the door for my brother."
She stood on tiptoe and pressed the numbers one by one on the numeric keypad with her small hands:
4, 0, 1, 5.
With a click.
The door opened.
The second week after Xu Wenyao returned, Xu Jiqing changed the combination lock at home.
Only he and Xu Jiaojiao knew the password——
He now goes to school late and leaves school early, and spends more time at home than anyone else. No matter when Lin Yuezhen comes back, he will not delay opening the door for her.
Primary school students can’t think so deeply.
For Xu Jiaojiao, this is like a puzzle game. She is excited every day when she goes home and enters the password.
I opened the door and there was no one in the room.
Xu Jiqing turned on the light and took out a box from her bag and gave it to her.
"I'll carry it with me to school every day from now on."
Xu Jiaojiao stared at it for two seconds, her eyes widening.
"...Brother, is this a cell phone?"
Xu Jiqing hummed.
The affiliated primary school is the most important primary school in Jiangcheng, and the children in the class are all very fashionable.
But even so, this year, there are still only a handful of first-grade children who have their own mobile phones.
What Xu Jiqing bought was actually just a pager, a second-hand refurbished item, but the color was obviously carefully selected.
It’s a soft pink color that every little girl will love, and it has a flip-top design like in cartoons. It makes a click sound when you buckle it, which is quite dreamy.
Xu Jiaojiao was so surprised that she was speechless.
Xu Jiqing said, "I've modified it. As long as you carry it with you, I can know where you are. Press 1 to call me, and 2 to call the police."
"Before going to bed, charge your hearing aids and your phone together. Don't forget."
Xu Jiaojiao nodded vigorously.
She raised her little arms high, carefully took the phone, touched the surface, opened it, and closed it again.
Xu Jiqing washed his hands and went into the kitchen to prepare noodles.
Xu Jiaojiao squatted there and looked at it curiously for a while, then ran to the kitchen door with her phone in her arms, "Brother, I want to save a 3."
Xu Jiqing turned around and asked her silently.
What 3?
Xu Jiaojiao hesitated, her big eyes full of hope, "Can you tell me Sister Su Xia's phone number?"
The resettlement house has poor lighting.
It was a bright spring day outside, but the sun hardly came into the house. The kitchen was dark and damp, with only the small light on the range hood on.
Xu Jiqing looked at the water in the pot and was silent for a long time before saying, "She is not in a good mood."
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