After receiving the 100 yuan chat fee, Jing Ling was too lazy to bother with Jiang Shao and Lin Yuanhang anymore, and left with his washed-out schoolbag. After exiting the dead end, walk straight along the dusty street until you reach the town's park to wait for the bus. The urban and rural buses, which run every half an hour, were converted from the previous short-distance buses. There are only a dozen seats in total, and there is only one door for getting on and off the bus. The bus body is so dirty that it looks like it has rolled in the mud. It costs two yuan to take a bus from the town to the county.
Jing Ling is going to see someone. As far as I remember, the original owner was not an only child. He had an older sister named Jing Qiu, who was five years older than him. His mother died of illness a few years after giving birth to him. His father worked away from home all year round, so he can be said to have been raised by his sister. When he was in his second year of high school, his father had a car accident on his way home for the New Year. The black car they were riding in rushed off a cliff due to slippery roads. Including the driver, a total of 11 people in the car were killed. In this situation, let alone compensation, even the burial expenses had to be paid by oneself. Jing Qiu, who was working outside, rushed back as soon as he received the news, and never went out again after dealing with the funeral. Because my younger brother is already in his second year of high school and will soon be in his third year, it is the most critical period and he needs someone to take care of him.
Jing Qiu found a job as a waiter and dishwasher in the county town, earning 1,500 yuan a month with food and accommodation included. The original owner's tuition and living expenses depended on her meager salary, so she had to live frugally.
Yesterday evening, Jing Ling received a call from Jing Qiu, saying that she had asked her boss for leave to accompany him to take the college entrance examination, and would go home after work today. Jing Ling had a general understanding of the work and rest schedule for this kind of job. Usually, she had to work until very late. In a better place, she could still get a taxi, but in such a shabby place, she probably wouldn't even see a ghost. How would she get home? So he asked casually, and the answer he got was that her boyfriend agreed to take her home.
Although she is not his biological sister, Jing Ling still plans to pick her up himself.
He waited at the park entrance for almost ten minutes before the bus arrived. There were seven or eight other people waiting for the bus nearby. The car door opened and a group of people poured out of the car. After they all got off, the people who were waiting for the bus squeezed in. Jing Ling was the last one to get on the bus. The seats were already full, but he didn't care and just found a place to stand.
The car slowly drove out of the town and headed towards the county.
When they were almost there, Jing Ling called Jing Qiu. After the call was connected, he said hello and heard an angry voice coming from the receiver, "I'm talking to you, why are you answering the phone? It's your brother's call again, right? Jing Qiu, I'm telling you, if you still want to enter our Li family, cut off your relationship with your brother! My mother said that our Li family doesn't raise wild children!"
Then it was Jing Qiu's voice, sounding a little flustered, "Xiao Ling, I have something to do here. I'll call you back later." After that, he hung up the phone.
At this time, the car has arrived at the station. The people in the car got off one after another. Jing Ling put away his phone and got off as well. The sky darkened and the street lamps on both sides lit up. The warm yellow and bright light filled the vision, and it finally took on the appearance of modern society.
It has been more than a year since Jing Qiu came to the county town to work, but the original owner has never been to her workplace once. Fortunately, she mentioned it several times, so the original owner has some impression of that place. After Jing Ling received Jing Qiu's call yesterday, he used the school's big-butt computer to check the map of the county. He basically memorized the landmark buildings on several streets.
For him, finding Jingqiu's workplace was not a difficult task. The only problem was that it was a bit far away, which was easy to solve. He could just stop a car and rent one. Oh no, there are no taxis in this place, only tricycles.
After getting in the car and reporting the place name, Jing Ling counted his current assets, including the chat fee he had just earned, the total was 346.5 yuan.
"We are so poor!" he sighed, "but we will make do with it."
After driving about one-third of the way, Jing Ling asked the driver to pull over when passing a flower shop. He got out of the car, walked into the flower shop, took a bunch of packaged roses, paid for them, and then got back in the car. The car started moving again, and the driver asked as he walked, "Is this a gift for your girlfriend?"
Jing Ling held the flower and replied, "I guess so."
Soon they arrived at Jing Qiu's workplace. After paying the fare and getting off the car, Jing Ling stood on the roadside and called her. It rang seven or eight times before the call was connected. "Xiao Ling, I'm busy right now. I'll call back later... Li Wei, what are you doing? Give me back my phone, give it back to me... Your name is Jing Ling, right? I'm warning you... Bang!"
The last sound was probably the phone falling and the call was automatically disconnected, with a busy tone coming from the receiver.
Jing Ling put away his phone and looked across the street. In the alley next to a small shop called Happiness Restaurant, a man and a woman were arguing. Both their lip movements and actions were consistent with the plot he had just heard on the phone.
"Rubbish!" He snorted coldly, threw the schoolbag on his shoulder onto the green tree next to him, and walked across the street with his long legs.
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Li Wei and Jing Qiu have been dating for almost a year. He and Jing Qiu met in this restaurant. At that time, he came there to eat with his friends. When Jing Qiu served the dishes to their table, he fell in love with her. He then pursued her for almost half a year before he finally got her. I wouldn’t say Jing Qiu is a great beauty, but she is definitely a pretty girl. With proper makeup and dressing up, she can easily outshine all the internet celebrities on Weibo. Whether she was working outside or after she came back, there were always many people pursuing her, but in the end, Li Wei finally got her, and he was very proud of it and showed off a lot.
At the beginning, Li Wei was very nice to Jing Qiu, caring and concerned about her. However, after learning about her family situation, he became a little dissatisfied, but did not show it too obviously. However, after learning that Jing Qiu was going to support his brother through college, the dissatisfaction that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly erupted. He had his first quarrel with Jing Qiu over this matter and they even came to blows. After that, Jing Qiu broke up with him, but they didn't get any split in the end. He swore that it wouldn't happen again, so she softened her heart.
But once something starts, it will soon happen a second and third time. In the past six months, the two have had countless arguments, either cold wars or verbal and physical fights. They have also said they want to break up countless times, and in the end, it ended with Li Wei's pleading and apology.
The college entrance examination was approaching soon. Li Wei learned from Jing Qiu that her brother had good grades and would have no problem getting into university. He felt that this was not a solution, so he began to force Jing Qiu to make a choice: either break up or sever ties with her brother. Jing Qiu chose her brother, but Li Wei persisted and refused to let go. The two of them have been together until today.
After get off work in the afternoon, Li Wei came to find Jing Qiu again. He called her out and just after he said a few words, her phone rang. He saw that the caller was his younger brother. He was immediately furious and scolded Jing Qiu without any care. Not surprisingly, the two started arguing again. Finally, when both of them were tired, Jing Qiu's phone rang again, and the caller was his younger brother again. Seeing her turn around and answer the phone with her back to him, Li Wei was so angry that he cursed and reached out to grab the phone.
The two started arguing over the phone again. Jing Qiu couldn't get it back from him, and was worried that he would say something bad to his brother, so he made up his mind and smashed the phone. The old cell phone that had been lingering for more than a year was smashed into pieces against the wall and was finally completely useless.
A moment of silence is also the calm before the storm.
Li Wei felt that the string of reason in his brain was broken. He raised his hand and slapped Jing Qiu in the face. At the same time, he kicked him and cursed him, "Bitch! I'm going to beat you to death today! My mom is right. People like you deserve to be punished. There's no point talking to you nicely. You won't learn unless you are beaten!"
He could almost imagine the painful expression and screams that Jing Qiu would have when he slapped her in the face and kicked her. However, his hand suddenly stopped less than ten centimeters away from Jing Qiu's face and could no longer move at all, and the same went for his legs.
After struggling subconsciously for a few times, Li Wei realized that his hands were grabbed by someone and his legs were also stopped by someone.
"Who are you calling trash?" A cold voice came from behind, and at the same time a sharp pain came from the wrist. Li Wei could not help but scream, but as soon as he opened his mouth, a hand covered his mouth.
"I don't want to hear your screams like a pig being slaughtered." said the cold voice again.
Jing Qiu, who was standing by the wall, saw the person who suddenly appeared and stopped Li Wei. His eyes suddenly widened and his face showed disbelief.
"Little, little..." Before she could finish her words, she felt something blurred in front of her eyes and was handed to her. She subconsciously lowered her head, and when she saw clearly what was in her hand, she was even more surprised.
It was a bunch of gorgeous red roses, with tiny water droplets on the buds, and a faint fragrance wafting into the nose.
"Be good and don't talk. This is a gift for you. Do you like it?" the person said in a voice so gentle that it seemed to drown the person.
Jing Qiu looked at the flowers, then looked at him. Somehow, he suddenly felt a lump in his throat. He nodded heavily, "I like it!"
"I'm glad you like it. You should go to work first. I have something to discuss with him." As he spoke, he put his arm around Li Wei's neck and led him into the alley. After walking a few steps, he stopped and looked back at Jing Qiu. "Don't worry, it's just a small matter. It will be over soon. I'll pick you up after get off work."
A simple sentence that inexplicably makes people feel convinced. Jing Qiu looked at him for a moment, nodded, turned around, walked out of the alley and went back to the hotel.
Needless to say, the person who stopped Li Wei was naturally Jing Ling. After watching Jing Qiu enter the restaurant, he carried Li Wei deeper into the alley. The street lights are warm and bright, but they cannot illuminate the darkness deep in the alley.
"Don't worry, I really just want to have a quick chat with you. I can understand that you don't like your girlfriend taking care of all your brother's affairs. If I were in her shoes, I wouldn't like it either. It's like bringing a burden into your second marriage, and you're not even married yet. But if you don't like it, just break up. Why did you do it? And you didn't even forget to take your mother out for a walk. How come you're still not weaned at this age..."
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