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His stomach was in a bad mood yesterday and it bothered him for a long time. When Tong Xiao came to take a shower, he climbed onto the bed and lay down with his face half covered in the pillow. He was a little confused because of the waves of needle-like pain.
I vaguely heard the sound of Tong Xiao coming out. He seemed to mumble something like "don't forget to drink milk" and "don't turn off the lights", then fell asleep.
Unexpectedly, I slept until dawn again. When I was woken up by the alarm clock, there was no one in the room again. There was hot porridge and green vegetables on the table, but the thermos was gone, and there were two boxes of milk missing in the refrigerator.
Very good, he is very satisfied!
There have been no new installation projects recently, so his job is to clock in at the company first, and then his master will take him to perform maintenance and upkeep on various projects.
Today I am doing elevator maintenance in a residential complex. There are a total of twenty ladders in the complex. The work is not hard, but it is troublesome. I have to run up and down, which is quite a test of my endurance.
There is a school not far from the community. There are three ladders in the school, which is also their maintenance project. He originally followed his master to install them.
During the lunch break, the master took him to a Lanzhou ramen restaurant on the street, where he ordered a mutton soup bun and a plate of knife-cut noodles.
Just as he was about to order another roujiamo, Shao Linyin stopped him: "Master, half a portion of ramen is enough for me. It would be a waste if you took out half of it later."
The master knew how much he ate, so after a moment's thought, he didn't order anything. "You're too thin. Eat more. Eighteen is the time to grow taller!"
Shao Liyin joked: "It's still growing. If it grows any longer, it will be hard to find a wife!"
While waiting for the noodles, the master looked at the school not far away and sighed: "When the ladder of this school was installed, you had just arrived, only sixteen!"
Shao Linyin smiled and nodded, and unconsciously thought of a person in his mind. At that time, he was also wandering aimlessly like him.
But he was lucky, as he happened to see a thief holding a knife and preparing to cut open the bottom of Sister Chen's handbag.
Because he was small and didn't dare to shout, he pretended to fall and bumped into Sister Chen. In the end, the thief had to give up.
Sister Chen saw the small cut in half on the bottom of the bag and immediately understood.
Later, when he learned about the situation, he took him to his company. Because he was not yet an adult, he could only let him serve as an apprentice under his master first.
He was thinking, and so was his master: "Back then, you were so clever. You'd disappear without a trace and squat outside other students' classrooms, listening in. You acted as if you could understand. Don't think I didn't know you were just trying to slack off!"
He smiled and said, "Thank you, Master, for being so generous and keeping me here. You also didn't tell Sister Chen about my bad behavior."
The master sighed softly, "I can't help it. You're so rare! Just like my son."
Shao Linyin smiled, thinking that his master was praising him. While he was still smiling, the noodles came up. He first put half of it into his master's bowl, then took a bite. As soon as he put it in his mouth, he saw a person coming from the shade of a tree on the roadside.
As I thought, the person I was thinking about just now was sitting next to the flower bed under the shade of a big tree diagonally opposite the noodle shop. He opened the big bag behind him, felt around, and took out a thermos.
Then he opened the lid of the thermos, took out the food inside and ate it reverently.
Shao Linyin slowed down his eating of noodles, and a smile appeared under his eyebrows that he didn't even notice. He chewed the noodles slowly while staring outside in a daze.
This kid was distracted while eating. He was feeding himself while his eyes were fixed on a piece of paper on his legs. It looked like a flyer. I must tell him off when I get home!
He eats so well at home, but now he can do two things at once!
While he was still thinking, he was pulled back by the chopsticks that his master waved in front of him: "Hey, why do you always lose your mind when eating? Are you in a relationship?"
"What are you talking about, Master! Where can I find a partner? Master, can you introduce one to me?" He came back to his senses and joked along with his master's words.
The master looked at him and said, "You looked exactly like my kid when he was in a premature love relationship!"
Shao Liyin: "...Master, you are mistaken."
"Back then, my kid was always clinging to his phone, smiling at it like you do. Later, the teacher came to his house and said he was in a premature relationship. I remember it clearly, how could I have been wrong? Humph, the brat is getting worse at school!"
Shao Linyin didn't say anything else. He lowered his head with a hint of helplessness and took two more mouthfuls of noodles.
Dating? He'll probably be alone for the rest of his life.
No, now there is laughter.
That’s not right. You need someone to smile to, so he is still alone.
Thinking of this, I felt a little lost. When I looked up again, there was no one outside.
Did he eat so fast? Did he have enough? Did he bring too little? I'll have to check his thermos tomorrow!
The master settled the bill and took him back to the community. The task was not very urgent and twenty machines could be completed in two days, so after finishing ten machines today, the master let him go off work.
When he was about to get off work, he received a bank account notification on his phone. It was two thousand yuan transferred to him by his master. He looked at his master.
"Look at what I'm doing. You're supposed to get the second installment payment for that unit. There's also a final payment after the license is issued in a few days, and I'll transfer it to you then. It's not a huge amount, though. You'll probably only get a few hundred."
Shao Linyin put the phone into his pocket, feeling grateful to his master. As an apprentice, he would usually get about two thousand yuan for a complete installation of a ladder.
In the past two years, his master has never treated him unfairly in terms of installation project payment.
He could only remember in his heart that these people would repay him double at some point in the future.
He was just about to transfer the money into his bank card, but after thinking about it, he stopped. This money had other uses.
After work, I went to a mobile phone store first, thinking about buying a mobile phone for Tong Xiaolai. I originally wanted to take him with me and let him choose the one he liked.
Later, thinking about the time he bought shoes, he gave up again and decided to just buy them for him himself.
After choosing for a long time, I picked one that costs over a thousand yuan. There are not many mobile phones that cost over a thousand yuan these days, and one of them doesn’t have much memory.
Just buy one for now, and when you have money later, you can buy a better one.
He bought a cell phone and a phone card, downloaded common apps, registered on WeChat, linked his bank card, and then went home.
After yesterday's lesson, he didn't cook casually. He took a shower, sat down, unpacked the new phone and threw it away. He first opened the textbook he brought back from the company yesterday, opened the mobile phone browser, searched for the latest specifications and standard regulations issued by the Ministry of Emergency Management, and started writing and drawing.
There are geniuses in this world, but Shao Liyin is definitely not one of them.
No matter what exam it is, the textbooks must be copied by hand twice to ensure that every word of all the materials is accurately imprinted in his mind, and that every knowledge point has been practiced through a large number of questions, so that he can sit in the examination room confidently.
It was all earned through time. When he was taking the self-study college entrance examination, no matter whether he was doing installation or something else that day, no matter how tired he was, no matter what time he got up the next day, he never went to bed before 2 o'clock.
For him, the two certificates this time were not just a matter of “what if I pass the exam”, but a must-pass exam.
While I was copying the standard specifications, Tong Xiaolai came back. Hearing the door open, he kept working. "You're back. Wash your hands and go cook. I have something for you when it's ready."
While writing on his hand, he turned around and looked at Tong Xiaolai with a mysterious smile.
An hour later, Tong Xiaolai had everything ready: "Brother Li, it's ready to eat!"
He didn't hear any noise, so he came out and saw Shao Linyin still writing furiously. He thought he was immersed in it, so he didn't disturb him. He leaned on the edge of the bed and picked up the self-study undergraduate textbooks on Shao Linyin's bedside to read.
He was holding the applied mathematics textbook that Shao Liyin had been looking at the last time. There were some circled, question-marked, and blank exercises in the exercise book. Thinking Shao Liyin might have encountered some difficulty, he picked up a pencil and pulled out a piece of paper. He started writing and drawing, then wrote a few simple formulas or numbers under the blank exercises.
The two of them were like this, one sitting on a small stool, leaning over the small table, writing, and the other sitting on the floor, leaning against the bed, flipping through books casually...
Time flows quietly, and even the dust floating in the air cannot bear to disturb it.
It was not until Shao Linyin had copied and memorized the specifications that he stood up, stretched, and turned to look at Tong Xiaolai.
"Didn't I ask you to cook?"
Tong Xiaolai: …………
He wordlessly put down the book in his hand, got up and went to the kitchen, lit the fire again, heated up the two plates of cold dishes and brought them out again.
The rice was kept in the rice cooker and was still a little warm, but it didn't heat up anymore.
Shao Linyin probably remembered something, and put away the books on the table a little embarrassedly, making room for him, and the two of them started eating.
Tong Xiaolai was afraid that he would have a stomachache like last night, so he only gave him half a bowl of rice, not more.
Shao Linyin took out a mobile phone from his pocket and handed it to Tong Xiaolai. Tong Xiaolai looked up at him.
He said calmly, "It belongs to my boss, Sister Chen. Her son just got a new phone, so he doesn't want this one anymore. It's still good, but it would be a shame to throw it away, so I brought it here. You can keep it for later."
Tong Xiaolai: "...Did he give me the new one?"
"You wish!" Shao Linyin rolled his eyes at him, put down the bowl, and reached out to unlock the screen. "Do you know how to use it? This is WeChat, and this is Alipay. These are basically the payment methods for shopping nowadays."
I have linked the card to you, you can pay directly by scanning the QR code. I have set the payment password as 123456, you need to change it.
Just click here and scan the merchant’s QR code.”
As she spoke, she showed him how to do it. After thinking for a moment, she explained, "I've created a new phone number for you and registered WeChat. This is me. If you have any questions, you can message me.
Oh, by the way, my phone number is 177XXXXXXXX. I have saved my number in your address book."
He looked up and met Tong Xiaolai's eyes, who had been staring at him without saying a word. He suddenly felt a little angry and threw the phone into his hand: "Did you listen? Do you know how to use it?"
Tong Xiaolai nodded, then shook his head, and then put the phone in front of him again: "Yes. I will use yours. I won't change this one."
“…”
Shao Liyin was silent for a while, and finally tapped his forehead: "Do you know that you are very handsome?"
Tong Xiaolai was confused. He didn't know how this question was related to the current situation.
Shao Liyin stood up and prepared to take the empty bowls of food to the kitchen: "You are beautiful, so don't think too much about it.
I can't bear to give you my phone, it's much better than yours. You want a better one? Earn money and buy it yourself!"
He bought his current phone two years ago with the first salary Sister Chen gave him. The battery is seriously discharged, so in order to save power, he didn't set a password for his phone, so it can be opened directly.
He doesn't use his phone much. He just checks the time and pays. Even when chatting on WeChat, there's not much else to talk to except in the work group.
Even so, a fully charged battery in the morning will be on the verge of shutting down by the evening.
But precisely because of this, he can still use this phone and has no plans to change it for the time being.
Tong Xiaolai stopped talking and just lowered his head to eat.
It was a very quiet night. After Tong Xiaolai cleaned up the dishes, Shao Linyin wiped the floor, spread a thin quilt, and told Tong Xiaolai to drink milk and lie down. Then he sat on a small stool, leaned over the table, and continued reading until two o'clock.
He wasn't as tired as he was after returning from the construction site, nor did he have a stomachache that made him dizzy. He was in perfect health, but he couldn't fall asleep. He simply sat up again, picked up the book and continued reading. He didn't cover his face with the open book until his eyelids could no longer hold up.
Although it was difficult to fall asleep, the quality of sleep was good. I was still woken up by the alarm clock in the morning. As usual, there was no one in the room, and the books on the bedside were neatly stacked as usual.
When I sat up, I saw a brand new cell phone on the table. Under the phone was a stack of money and a note.
[I took your good phone. There is no other way. I am not only beautiful, but I also want beautiful thoughts and even more beautiful ones.
The information and content in your phone are synchronized with yours. Since your card is linked, you keep the money.
Oh, I don't know your payment password. Please send it to me when you get up, otherwise I won't be able to pay.
Shao Liyin looked at the note and suddenly burst out laughing: "This little bastard!"
I opened WeChat with a smile, found the number I added yesterday, and angrily typed a few numbers and sent them.
【070620】
After thinking about it, I felt uncomfortable if I didn't curse a few words.
[You little bastard, I'm back to settle accounts with you! ]
Thinking about the nature of that broken phone, I feel a little worried again.
[No need to reply to messages. Don't play with your phone, or it might shut down by the afternoon.]
After cleaning up, I went out to work. The remaining ten ladders in the community were all finished by five in the afternoon.
Just as he was sitting on the bus, he looked out the window and thought of the figure under the shade of the tree yesterday. He touched his phone and wanted to send a message to Tong Xiaolai to ask.
I looked up and saw the scene quickly receding outside the car window, and a figure flashed by...
He got off the bus at the next stop, leaned against the platform, stood in the shadow, and looked at the man who was staring at the photos on the bulletin board at the door in a trance.
The wind blew a leaflet into his hands...
He looked at the flyer, then at the man. The man's gaze moved from the bulletin board to the gate. His thin and small figure was too frail, but he could still clearly feel the desire emanating from his body even from a distance of a hundred meters.
He stood there for as long as the man looked, until the man turned and left, then he took out his cell phone and sent a message.
[Are you home yet? What are you cooking tonight? I'm craving fish. Steamed sea bass. Do you know how to make it?]
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