Lost in the world

"I asked your grandma specifically. It was agreed that day that you would help me find a house, and I would invite you to the amusement park. It happens to be the weekend tomorrow, so I came to invite you—Student Li Ting, are you interested in a day trip to the amusement park?"

"Ah~" Li Ting opened his mouth wide, and after a while, he pouted slowly and said, "There is no such thing as free food in this world. Tell me, what is your purpose?"

At the school gate and in front of the small shop, a large group and a small group looked at each other in blank dismay.

Mo Qingxuan thought that this child is really not cute, and he is not easy to fool at all, so he couldn't help sighing quietly: "What purpose do you think I have, what purpose can I have, you are a junior high school student, not a three or four-year-old milk doll, I Can I still abduct you? The amusement park is not far from the community, and there is a direct bus No. 101. The journey takes less than half an hour, but the tickets are a bit expensive. I have said hello to your grandma, and she agrees and supports you very much Going out to play on weekends, and scolding you that you only know to stay at home on weekends, and you are not lively at all."

Li Ting almost jumped up, pointed at Mo Qingxuan's nose, and shouted: You are talking nonsense!However, there are classmates and teachers who are familiar with people around. He held back abruptly, and retorted solemnly: "Grandma usually doesn't like me running around, so I stay at home on weekends to review my homework."

"But what your grandma means is to let me take you out to play!"

"I'll go home and ask my grandma"

Mo Qingxuan turned around and bought two popsicles, gave one to Li Ting, and nodded with a smile: "You are such an obedient boy."

Then he sat on the steps, licking the popsicle with a wistful expression on his face.

Li Ting asked: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, I just think... well, tickets to the amusement park are really expensive~"

The two licked the popsicles and went home, got off the bus, Mo Qingxuan turned around and went in another direction.

Li Ting shouted: "Mr. Mo—are you going to the supermarket? The direction is reversed."

He waved his hand and said there was nothing wrong: "I'm going to the vegetable market."

"Is there a vegetable market in the neighborhood? Why didn't I know." Li Ting caught up and said doubtfully, "You seem to be familiar with this neighborhood, have you been here before?"

"When you come to a new place, don't you want to familiarize yourself with the surrounding environment first?" Mo Qingxuan asked back as a matter of course. When he walked to a chaotic open-air square, the uncles and aunts swarmed forward with the vegetable baskets. He raised his chin and pointed: "Here It’s here. It’s the time when there are many people, be careful not to rush away, and keep your mobile wallet.”

Li Ting stood still with a look of fear on his face, and said, "I, I still won't go in. Mr. Mo is really amazing, you can find it in such a remote place."

"Vegetables are fresh and cheap. Buy two pieces of sliced ​​winter melon, weigh some dried shrimps and go back to make soup, ah - there are strawberries!"

Mo Qingxuan took Li Ting's hand and rushed into the crowd, squeezed hard to the front of the stall, staring at the bright red strawberries in the basket and swallowing.

Li Ting said in a low voice, "There are also some in supermarkets. They are bigger than these and very popular."

He didn't seem to hear, and asked the boss: "Can I taste it?"

After getting an affirmative answer, I picked a small strawberry from the basket, rubbed off the mud on it, and threw it into my mouth. My mouth suddenly smiled: "It's a little sour, here are two catties."

Li Ting covered his face: "Don't buy so much, grandma won't eat it, and neither will I."

Passing by a barbecue stall emitting white smoke, he glanced out of the corner of his eye.

Mo Qingxuan asked: "Do you want to eat barbecue?"

He immediately looked away, lowered his head, and said in a lower voice: "Grandma won't let me eat at the roadside stall, it's not clean, I'll have diarrhea when I go back."

"It's okay to eat once in a while. If your grandma asks, just say that you haven't eaten, and you watch me eat."

Mo Qingxuan's attitude towards Li Ting was very casual. He bought a large bag of roast lamb sprinkled with cumin powder and chili noodles, and handed it to him: "Help me hold it first. I'll go buy a bastard stew."

Li Ting stood obediently against the wall, and when Mo Qingxuan came back from buying vegetables, he felt that he had been thoroughly smothered by the smell of barbecue wafting out of the tin foil box, and his mouth was drooling non-stop. The smell of all kinds of fried, pickled, steamed and cooked fireworks in the market bursts, and the unsatisfied stomach in the school cafeteria at noon began to growl, and then couldn't help it anymore, and waited anxiously for Mo Qingxuan while swallowing.

Seeing Mo Qingxuan's first words when he came back: "Where shall we eat?"

Mo Qingxuan said softly "Huh~", but with a calm expression, he pointed to a closed restaurant on the side of the road, and there was a bench in front of the door.

"Go, sit and eat there."

The barbecue was really irresistible. Li Ting took a bite of the potato chips with a satisfied expression on his face: "So it tastes like this, Mr. Mo, thank you."

But Mo Qingxuan asked curiously: "Your grandma is very strict with you. I don't seem to have heard you mention your parents. Do they ignore you?"

Li Ting replied inarticulately while eating: "They are gone."

His mind was in a daze, and he seemed to be frightened: "The meaning of absence...isn't it what I thought?"

"When I was 6 and a half years old, there was a fire at home. Grandma ran out with me in her arms. There were grandpa and mother in the house, and some uncles I didn't know..." When he said this, he blinked his eyes covered with mist , without showing any obvious sadness, "But my grandma said that my mother offended someone in business and was retaliated against. She also warned me not to do those things that are outrageous and unreasonable. The time has not come. As for my father, I should have met him when I was a child, but I haven’t contacted him since I moved to Kunming.”

"Wait, wait a minute—"

The amount of information was a bit large, and Mo Qingxuan couldn't figure it out for a while. According to Li Ting, the enemy set the fire, his mother, grandfather, and uncles whom he didn't know—they were obviously killed? !This is a case of extermination.

"Didn't your grandmother call the police?"

Li Ting shook his head: "No, grandma said that those people in the house were not good people, and the police didn't dare to take care of them, so they let God take care of them and burned them all. But I was innocent, so grandma saved me, yes I am very strict, because I am afraid that I will become like my mother in the future."

"Hey~"

Hearing what he said, Mo Qingxuan didn't know how to respond, except to sigh.It is difficult to distinguish between good and bad people in the world, but no matter how big a mistake they make—even if they are heinous sinners, life is above everything else, and no one has the right to deprive them of their life except the law.

The result of using violence to control violence is to continue the hatred and create more chaos.

"Then do you know who the murderer is?"

He asked with great concern, and as expected, Li Ting put down the kebab and looked at him with cloudy eyes, seemingly puzzled and full of suspicion: "I don't know, grandma didn't say anything. But, Mr. Mo, are you very concerned about this matter? "

"Idiot, I care more about you!"

Mo Qingxuan raised his hand and patted the back of his head

"—Why did you suddenly hit me?" Li Ting covered his head

He looked around and no one was paying attention, lowered his voice, and hated iron and steel: "The murderer killed your whole family, who knows if he will suddenly appear again, staring at you and your grandma, you are not afraid? Your grandma is also big-hearted , you dare to take in a stranger like me, are you not afraid that I will be an accomplice and try to harm you?"

"——I also find it strange!" Li Ting nodded in agreement, waving a meat skewer, "Grandma usually doesn't let me associate with strangers, for fear of attracting thieves, but since I met you that day, I have been asking about your affairs, and still Allowing you to live in the house, I feel that grandma should know you, but maybe not, so you have no impression."

Mo Qingxuan secretly sighed: Even if he is familiar with it, he can't remember it now~ That old lady is really smart, she knows everything but pretends not to know, she has been testing him intentionally or unintentionally, even installing a camera in the room between him and Phoenix Shameless things can be done.

At this moment, Li Ting suddenly lowered his head and said helplessly, "I'm afraid too..."

He was taken aback

"However, it has been six years, and the murderer has not been found. If you don't mention it, I will almost forget about it. So I am optimistic, will it be okay in the future?"

The boy's obedient face showed melancholy that didn't match his age, but there was pure innocence in his eyes, which made Mo Qingxuan feel guilty as if he had said something wrong, and quickly comforted him softly: "I shouldn't ask too much. You make sense , that matter was settled that year, and after such a long time, I believe you and your grandma will be safe in the future. However, I still have to say something, if you find some suspicious people around you, you should first Time to call the police—”

Unexpectedly, the young man looked up at him obediently, and asked, "Does Mr. Mo count?"

"This……"

Mo Qingxuan raised three fingers and swore to the sky: "I am a man of principle, and I will never hurt innocent old people and children."

Li stopped with a question mark face: "...???"

"If I say that I am a good person, you will think that I am boasting and laugh at me; if I say that I am a bad person, you will be afraid, not to mention that I am not a bad person."

"Then what kind of person are you?"

Mo Qingxuan sat upright, with a serious face: "An upright, brave, and nosy person."

Li Ting said quietly: "It's obviously a chatter..."

"Hua Lao" brought his youngest son back home, Mo Qingxuan couldn't help but feel sad on the way: "Am I really a chatterer? Why don't I think that I don't talk much, I only said a few words in total—"

Li Ting looked down at the road and interrupted softly: "Someone is following us..."

There was a lot of noise along the way, children with schoolbags ran to the front laughingly, and the parents who followed behind scolded loudly: "Be careful and watch the road!"Look at the road!When you fall, you know how to cry!Entering the community is even more lively.

Mo Qingxuan said absent-mindedly: "Even you found out, so that guy is not very professional."

Li Ting guessed: "Could it be—"

"—No! Don't think about it, there are so many people on the street, maybe you can drop by."

He patted the top of Li Ting's hair and smiled reassuringly.

When he got home, Mrs. Zhang was not there, so Li Ting consciously went to the kitchen to choose dishes.

Mo Qingxuan washed a basin of small strawberries and knocked on the door: "Phoenix, I'm back."

Waited for a while, no response.He opened the door and went in, and saw Finnis squatting on a chair, stirring a box of instant noodles with hot white mist floating in it, his pale face turned stiffly, his hands trembling, as if a little panicked.

He quickly explained: "I knocked on the door, I'm sorry, how about I close the door and start over again?"

Finnis took a book to cover the instant noodle bucket, then stretched his hand to his ears, took out the earphones, and said slowly, "No need."

Mo Qingxuan caught a glimpse of the book - "Mr. Hacker's Sexy Girlfriend", the cover is explicit and lingering, and it looks familiar for some reason, but he has something important to do, holding a small strawberry in both hands: "Sweet and sour is just right, try it?"

Phoenix kept his head down

"It's really delicious. Oh, I won't lie to you. You can't dislike it because he's small and looks bad, right?"

Phoenix lowered his head again: "I don't eat strawberries."

"Ah~ You're not still mad at me, are you? Because I touched your head?"

Phoenix still said, "I don't eat strawberries."

"What if I feed you with my mouth?"

He suddenly bit a small strawberry and leaned towards it shamelessly.The trembling of Phoenix's hands turned into trembling of the whole body, tremblingly raised his head, finally dared to look directly into Mo Qingxuan's gaze, and then shook his lips as if to confirm: "Is it okay?"

The one who answered him was Mo Qingxuan who moved his mouth forward with the little strawberry in his mouth, and smiled with a bit of obscene and playful charm from the tip of his eyebrows.

Then, Phoenix tightened his light-colored lips, as if he was tempted by it, and slowly approached the little strawberry contained between his lips, but in fact, the movement was very fast, and the moment the two completely different breaths interacted, Mo Qingxuan only felt the heat on his lips, and the little strawberry was sucked away.

The dark pupils in front of him were still staring at him, as if they were about to stare into his eyes.His heart fluttered slightly, like a soft and fragrant cake that just came out of the oven, but he just licked it in front of him. He couldn't be satisfied, so he turned to the gallbladder, and suddenly put his arms around Phoenix's neck and circled it. in his arms.

Phoenix's thin and pale face was suddenly on fire, and the gloomy expression was cracked, followed by unbelievable and uncontrollable hotness.

At this time, the little strawberry had just reached his mouth, Mo Qingxuan pushed the tip of his tongue and took it into his mouth, and a flexible tongue came in with it, sweeping it as if teasing.

Pale skin quickly turns crimson

Mo Qingxuan still put on a dignified and gentle skin, and pretended to teach: "Actually, you enjoy it, right? Otherwise, you are strong enough to push me away. If you didn't push me away, you just like it."

Phoenix chewed the little strawberries, and replied slowly, "Yang Mei kissed me like this too."

His eyelids twitched immediately

"It's just that it's different..."

different, what is different?He regained his energy, and was about to ask questions when he knocked on the door behind him, and then a childish voice sounded without emotion, saying:

"Mr. Mo, it's time to cook."

Mo Qingxuan turned back in response, and saw Li Ting standing at the door, keeping knocking on the door, looking over expressionlessly, and was shocked: "When did you come? These, just now I... Phoenix, you also saw it? "

Li Ting nodded expressionlessly: "I knocked on the door very loudly! It's just that you are too focused."

"Yes, is that so..." Mo Qingxuan scratched his head in embarrassment, "I'll cook!"

Quickly evacuated from the scene, but couldn't help but look back, glanced at the instant noodle bucket, and then fell on Phoenix's flushed cheeks, reminding:

"Going to be confused"

After Mo Qingxuan withdrew, Li Ting and Phoenix were left staring at each other.After a while, Li stopped to go to the bathroom, took out a wet towel, and handed it to Phoenix.

Phoenix took it and covered his face with a wet towel.

……

The dinner was particularly sumptuous, and Mrs. Zhang was very satisfied.But there were only three people at the dinner table, and Phoenix was not there.

Mo Qingxuan lied without changing his expression: "I made him angry, I'll go coax him after dinner."

Li Ting concentrated on eating with a look of "Don't look at me, I don't know anything"

Mrs. Zhang sipped the wax gourd and shrimp soup, and asked with concern: "You and your friend have a really good relationship. Traveling together, eating and living together, are you a child?"

Mo Qingxuan smiled back: "I met halfway. He insisted on following me, and I also liked him, and I liked him in my heart, so we will be companions on the road together."

Then, Mrs. Zhang sighed: "It's nice to have someone to keep company with. It's not like my house, where I'll just be bored in the room and have no good friends to play with."

Mo Qingxuan said politely: "He is still young, so the most important thing is to study."

Li Ting immediately raised his eyelids and glanced lazily. He lowered his head and sipped his porridge, obviously unwilling to get into the topic.

After dinner, Mrs. Zhang went out for a walk to digest food as usual. Li Ting was worried and insisted on following.

Mrs. Zhang squinted her eyes and thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I just wanted to ask how your homework is going."

Mo Qingxuan sent the two of them out, cleaned up the kitchen, went back to the room and continued to eat strawberries, feeling melancholy while eating, because:

Phoenix is ​​ignoring people again