Chapter 95 Extra First Encounter
Speaking of Xiao Huai and Ji Yao's meeting, it was not a very pleasant season.
At that time, Ji Yao was not like he is now. Although he had a cold personality, he was still unusually gentle towards Ji Mian and Lin Minzhi.
Fifteen-year-old Ji Yao was cold to the bone.
After discovering that his sexual orientation was different from others, Ji Yao faced the pointing of neighbors, the bullying of classmates, the beatings and scoldings from his biological father, and the helpless crying of his mother. It was as if his festering flesh was being repeatedly cut by a heavy sharp blade.
At the age of fourteen, Ji Yao was not mature enough and made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life.
He decided to run away from home.
Ji Yao didn't dare to die, because if he died, Lin Minzhi would suffer for the rest of her life.
But he didn't dare stay with Lin Minzhi. It was he who made Lin Minzhi unable to hold her head up high. As long as he left, Lin Minzhi's life might return to normal.
At least, he no longer has to bear this shame.
The distance between Tongcheng and Haishi is neither far nor too far. Ji Yao bought a train ticket and left Tongcheng in one night.
When he first arrived in Hai City, he only had two dollars on him, and it was difficult for him to find food and accommodation.
Hai City was developing faster than Tongcheng, and in the city center, it was impossible for minors to find jobs. Ji Yao was a quick-witted person, and on the first day he found himself in a group of people recruiting under the overpass. He followed the group leader on a two- to three-hour bus ride to the suburbs.
The suburbs of Hai City are far away from the city center and are completely undeveloped. They are just a village in the city.
At that time, no one knew that this piece of land would become the place with the most expensive housing prices in Hai City in the future.
Ji Yao was severely malnourished at that time.
It took two days of bumpy ride from Tongcheng to Haishi. I was dirty and my clothes were torn, like a little beggar.
No one wanted a skinny guy like him, and he definitely couldn't get the job moving bricks on the construction site. After looking around, everyone finally found a job, and he was the only one left sitting on the side of the road.
The leader said, "You can't do that. If you speak more sweetly, people will want you."
Ji Yao pursed his lips, his eyes were red, and his face was so thin that he couldn't say any words to recruit people.
The leader spit out the butt of his cigarette and said, "How can you be so clueless? Huh? You have self-respect and you come to work here? You deserve to not make any money!"
He made a "Pooh" sound and turned around twice. Seeing that Ji Yao was really pitiful and young, he said that he was an adult, but his ID card showed that he was only fifteen years old, the same age as his son. He said fiercely, "Okay, okay, I'm really doing a good deed to help you."
Finally, with the introduction of the leader, Ji Yao went to work in a "Master Liu" restaurant. Because of his appearance, he didn't even have a job as a waiter and could only wash dishes in the kitchen.
There are construction sites all around, and the restaurant is also located in a dusty place.
The sky was filled with all kinds of messy electric wires, like barbed wire, imprisoning him, the young bird.
It was here that Ji Yao met Xiao Huai.
Xiao Huai is four years older than him. He is already a 19-year-old young man and is tall and strong. For some reason, he did not go to move bricks, but instead served dishes here.
The reason why Ji Yao noticed him at first was because he was a little jealous.
He had thin arms and legs and could not work on the construction site to lay bricks. He heard that one could earn five yuan a day on the construction site, which was one hundred and fifty yuan a month. For Ji Yao, this was a windfall.
He kept ten dollars for himself and could also send more than one hundred dollars back home to Lin Minzhi.
Xiao Huai looked so strong and had endless energy, but he had no ambition and insisted on working as a waiter in a restaurant, earning only fifty yuan a month. Ji Yao felt sad about his innate capital. At the same time, at such a young age, he couldn't help but despise Xiao Huai in his heart, thinking that he was wasting his talents, being lazy and gluttonous, and just waiting to die!
I am even more miserable. I can't gain weight no matter how much I eat. I only earn one cent for washing three dishes, which is less than ten yuan a month.
When I think about it, what qualifications do I have to look down on others? I can’t help but feel sad.
Although Master Liu's restaurant is not big, there are more than a dozen people in it. Where there are people, there is the world, and where there is the world, there is class status.
In Master Liu's restaurant, there is also a chain of contempt among young people.
The chef looks down on the waiters, the waiters look down on the dishwashers, and the dishwashers are at the bottom of the contempt chain.
Therefore, Ji Yao lived a very lonely life. Fortunately, he did not need friends because he knew that he was different from normal people.
He likes men.
Rather than suffering the same beatings and kicks as before after his secret was discovered.
Might as well just be alone from the beginning.
Ji Yao is a gloomy and quiet person. During his first month working at Master Liu's restaurant, he was subtly excluded.
Xiao Huai has a completely opposite personality to him.
Not only is he handsome, but he also has a cheerful and outgoing personality. He is doing very well in Master Liu's restaurant. Xiaofang, the shampoo girl at the Dream Hair Salon next door, has fallen in love with him. All the unmarried girls on the street are fascinated by him. After work, they come to Master Liu's restaurant to eat just to talk to Xiao Huai.
He is becoming the public enemy of men.
The employees of Chef Liu's restaurant finish their meal at four o'clock and have to prepare dinner after that. The workers in the nearby factories all get off work at six o'clock in the afternoon and they are waiting for business to open.
During the meal, Ji Yao was pushed to the corner and was in a bad mood - of course, to outsiders, his mood was not good at all!
He has a stern face all day long. Perhaps the funeral industry needs people like him more.
The reason why Ji Yao was unhappy today was that his request to help wipe the tables in the restaurant was rejected by Master Liu again.
Master Liu is their boss.
Ji Yao thought that in addition to washing dishes, he could also wipe the table and do some cleaning. The money didn't need to be much, just two cents each time would be fine.
Master Liu also rejected him, saying that Xiao Huai would always take the initiative to wipe all the tables. Master Liu also praised Xiao Huai at this point.
Xiao Huai was halfway through his meal when he stood up and waved to everyone, gesturing with both hands, his face radiant, and said modestly, "It's my duty, it's my duty."
It was just like a military parade, except for the words "thank you for your hard work, comrades."
This made Ji Yao's hatred for Xiao Huai even more intense. What's the difference between cutting off someone's financial resources and killing their parents?
He bit the tip of his chopsticks, raised his lips, and spit out two words sarcastically: "Idiot."
This was a swear word he had just learned recently, and he asked Qingfeng to give it to Xiao Huai.
Ji Yao's real contact with Xiao Huai was caused by Xiao Huai fighting with someone.
After working in Master Liu's restaurant for two months, Ji Yao finally saved up five dollars.
He was reluctant to buy vegetables every day, so he only ate white rice and soaked it in seaweed soup, which was just a little salty.
When he saw the fruit stall at night, he didn't dare to look at it for too long. But he was young, and one time he couldn't resist the temptation and asked at the fruit stall.
There were both good and bad fruits at the fruit stall. The bad fruits were almost rotten and sold cheaply. Ji Yao reluctantly bought one, holding it in his arms like a treasure, and carried it all the way back to the dormitory.
On the way, he couldn't help drooling.
The dormitory they lived in was right behind Master Liu's restaurant. They lived with the garment factory workers, two people in a room, free of charge.
Ji Yao didn't want to live with others, so he took the initiative to ask to live in the unoccupied, leaking room.
A leaky room is better than sleeping on the street.
He really didn't want to live with a man. He was afraid that his secret would be discovered, just like when he was studying.
Ji Yao met Xiao Huai on the way back to the dormitory.
Xiao Huai likes to fight and goes out to brawl every few days.
He also heard later that Xiao Huai originally worked on a construction site, but because he had a fight with the contractor and offended him, all the nearby construction sites didn't want him, so he had to come and work as a waiter.
Recently, Xiao Huai was involved in a love triangle.
Aqiang from the auto repair shop falls in love with Xiaofang from the Dream Hair Salon, but Xiaofang only has eyes for Xiaohuai, who keeps rejecting her. Xiaofang is heartbroken and goes to find her backup, Aqiang, to cry to him.
修车店的阿强终于忍受不了爱情的折磨，决定找人把萧淮狠狠揍一顿，给小芳出出气。
Xiao Huai was more than capable of beating A Qiang, but he didn't expect that A Qiang was determined to teach him a lesson this time. He even found the son of Master Wang, who was buying cement at the village entrance, and his brothers, a total of six or seven people, to give Xiao Huai a good beating.
Xiao Huai surrounded the seven of them by himself, and after pushing them into the clinic one by one, he fell to the side of the road due to exhaustion.
This is where Ji Yao spoke to Xiao Huai for the first time.
From a distance, Ji Yao saw a person lying on the ground. Driven by human curiosity and sympathy, Ji Yao walked over to take a look.
It turned out to be Xiao Huai.
Oh, Xiao Huai, Ji Yao thought, just die.
Having said that, Ji Yao still squatted down and studied it for a while.
Xiao Huai looked like he was really dead, motionless, very much like the homeless men wandering around nearby. The only difference was that Xiao Huai was more handsome.
Ji Yao touched his body but didn't find anything valuable, so he pulled open his clothes to check his wound. After "touching him all over" for a while, Xiao Huai finally moved.
"Young comrade, are you going to rob someone of their money... or their body?"
Ji Yao was frightened by Xiao Huai's sudden movement. Like a cat with its fur standing on end, he retreated seven or eight meters and hid behind a telephone pole, staring at Xiao Huai in shock.
Xiao Huai raised his hand with a hint of embarrassment, then scratched his back calmly.
...and didn't even help him.
Seeing that he was fine, Ji Yao turned around and wanted to run.
In fact, Xiao Huai was already a little unable to stand up, and hurriedly said: "Hey hey hey!! Don't run, don't run!! I let you rob me, I let you rob me!"
Ji Yao turned a deaf ear to everything and walked with great speed, as if he was floating on water with light kung fu.
"Ji Yao!" Xiao Huai yelled.
Ji Yao paused, he didn't expect Xiao Huai to remember his name.
He turned his head and stared at Xiao Huai warily.
Xiao Huai said, "I can't walk anymore. Can you be more united and loving and give me a hand?"
Ji Yao said nothing, just stared coldly.
Xiao Huai said, "Do me a favor. I'll give you money, okay? Help me get back to the dormitory."
When Ji Yao heard the word "money", his expression relaxed a little, and the lion opened his mouth and said, "One dollar."
Xiao Huai hissed and muttered, "Little comrade, what's the difference between this and robbery?"
Ji Yao was about to leave, but Xiao Huai said, "Okay, okay, one dollar is enough. Go buy me some red medicine."
Ji Yao said calmly: "This is a different price."
Xiao Huai nodded with reluctance.
He was covered in injuries, and they were not light. Ji Yao helped him for a while, and then he sat down to rest for a while.
Xiao Huai's dormitory was far away, while Ji Yao's was close. After weighing the pros and cons, Ji Yao decided to get the most value for money and walk the least distance, so he helped Xiao Huai to his room.
As soon as Xiao Huai entered the room, he saw that the house was leaking, and a red and white porcelain basin was placed on the ground to collect the water.
The leak was next to the bed, and there was a big tree outside the window. Xiao Huai sighed, "Your room has a nice natural scenery. There's a built-in waterfall, and it's nestled by the mountains and water."
Ji Yao didn't respond to him and took out the red medicine from the box.
"This is a different price." He reminded Xiao Huai.
Xiao Huai was living under someone else's roof and had no choice but to bow his head. However, Ji Yao's red medicine was so rude that Xiao Huai screamed like a pig being slaughtered. Until Ji Yao finally couldn't help but remind him: "Can you please stop screaming!"
Xiao Huai's eyes were filled with tears. After howling like a dog in distress, he said, "It hurts. My mom said that if it hurts, you should scream it out loud. Rainbow after rain, Steel Rose after steel!"
"Be patient." Ji Yao frowned: "You call me like that."
Xiao Huai looked at him, and Ji Yao stopped him, saying annoyedly and seriously, "It's a bad influence."
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