Tentative

"I am back."

The key was inserted into the rusty lockhole, Qu Zhe turned the key and walked into the house.They have lived in this house for many years, the orientation is not good, and many corners are often not exposed to light.The only room that can be bright in the afternoon is given to his sister Qu Xiaoyu.Even in winter, there seems to be a musty smell in the house that can't go away.

It would be nice to have another house.He often thinks so.

"I'm back." Lin Xiuyan poked her head out of the kitchen wearing an apron, and replied casually, and seeing her son walking with his head down, looking lifeless, she asked impatiently, "Can you put the Straighten your back?"

Qu Zhe didn't answer, and went straight into his room.

The curtains were open, but it was still dark.Outside the window of his room, less than two meters away is the side of another building, blocking all the sunlight that should be there.

He just fell on the bed in his coat and pants, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

His hands were in the pockets of his jacket, gripping the contents tightly.

It was a 4-inch MP4 with black earphones wrapped around it.Although the school clearly stipulates that mobile phones, MP4s and other electronic products are not allowed, some students still secretly bring them to school.

This is not Qu Zhe's, he found it from Shen Yizhuo's bag.

Thinking about it now, he doesn't know why he stuffed it into his pocket—as if another soul had injected into his body at that moment, as "Qu Zhe", he had unconsciously put the thing into his pocket. Put it in your pocket.

Then he sat nervously in his seat.

He thought that after Shen Yizhuo finished class, Shen Yizhuo would say that the MP4 was missing when he came back, and he had been waiting for him to make trouble.

but no.

Waiting for the students to come back one after another, Shen Yizhuo returned to his seat. He didn't check the bag until after school, and he didn't say anything about MP4.

What songs will be in Shen Yizhuo's MP4?What movies will there be?

He was apprehensive, but curious.So curious that he didn't even have time to think that the act itself meant stealing, a crime.

So now it's time to see what's inside.Thinking so, Qu Zhe took the MP4 out of his pocket lightly and slowly.

"Qu Zhe!" The door of the room was suddenly opened vigorously and hit the wall.The room seemed to shake, and fine dust fell from the ceiling.Qu Xiaoyu stood at the door wearing a short skirt and stockings, looking at him with a straight face.

She is always like this, when she talks to Qu Zhe, she seems to be angry anytime and anywhere.

"What's wrong?" He shook his hands, put the things back immediately, sat up from the bed and asked.

Qu Xiaoyu came over and closed the door of the room, lowered his voice and said, "You go out with me at night."

"Go for what?"

"Don't ask, just go out with me." Qu Xiaoyu raised his chin and said, "Tell my parents to go shopping, do you hear me?"

"oh oh……"

It's just going shopping with my sister, and there's nothing I don't want to do.As he thought about it, Qu Xiaoyu sneered, "Look at how you're resigned."

After she finished speaking, she opened the door and went out, as angry as when she came.

What is she angry about, Qu Zhe still doesn't know.But since she lived in school and went to junior high school, it has become like this.Three years have passed in a flash, and he is used to his sister bossing him around.

He was studying in the sky, and Qu Xiaoyu was a boarding student at the girls' school on the other side of the city, and came back once a week.The sky is very close, a distance of 10 minutes by bicycle, so he and Qu Xiaoyu seldom see each other except on weekends.

He was alone in the room again, Qu Zhe quickly took out the things and stuffed them under the pillow.

Just as the three dishes and one soup were set on the dinner table, Lin Xiuyan called her son and daughter out for dinner.The housewife for many years made her count the time very accurately. As soon as the three of them sat down at the dining table, they heard the sound of the door lock turning. Qu Yihao, who was wearing overalls, opened the door and walked in.

"Hurry up and change clothes to eat."

"Ah."

"Dad." Qu Zhe called out in a low voice, and nodded his head as a greeting.

Qu Yihao glanced at him hastily, without making a sound, went into the bedroom to change clothes.

"How is it in the factory?"

"That's it." Qu Yihao skillfully poured himself two ounces of white wine, "I always say that people are being laid off, but I haven't seen the actual layoffs."

"If it's true...will you be cut?" Lin Xiuyan asked worriedly.

Qu Yihao, the pillar of the Qu family, joined the factory at the age of 19 and stayed there for most of his life.He is a skilled worker with a high level and a stable salary. It is a bit tight to support a family, but occasionally he does private work to subsidize his family.If Qu Yihao is laid off, it means that the Qu family will lose their source of income.

But from his father's face, Qu Zhe couldn't see much sadness.Perhaps it was true as he had guessed, the rumors of layoffs were rumored every year, but the list was never actually posted.

"Dad, Mom, I'll go out at night later." Qu Xiaoyu said while picking up vegetables.

"What are you doing out at night?" Qu Yihao frowned and reprimanded, "Girls are like girls, it's not safe to go out."

"My brother went out with me to do some shopping." She said, turning her face and winking at Qu Zhe.

Qu Zhe could only nod hastily, and said, "Well, I'll go out with her."

"Hmph." Qu Yihao didn't refuse, it was considered as his agreement.

Only at this time, Qu Xiaoyu would call him brother.

At the dinner table, the family said a few words that were not nutritious, and the meal was considered finished.

The entire Qu family is like this house, shrouded in a depressive atmosphere all the year round.It's not unbearable, but it makes Qu Zhe want to escape all the time.

After dinner, Qu Zhe sat on the sofa in a daze, while Qu Xiaoyu quickly changed clothes and ran out: "Let's go."

"Huh? Where are you going?" He asked subconsciously.

"Come out with me, buy, east, west, ah." Qu Xiaoyu almost said the second half of the sentence through gritted teeth.Qu Zhe's reaction like this is no different from deliberate demolition.

Fortunately, Qu Yihao was still eating, chatting with Lin Xiuyan from time to time, not paying attention to them.

"oh oh……"

Qu Zhe stood up absent-mindedly - he didn't really want to go out, it would be very cold when the wind blows at night.

"Mom and Dad, we're going out now."

"Be careful and go home before nine o'clock." Lin Xiuyan raised her voice and said to Qu Zhe who was following behind Qu Xiaoyu, "Take care of my sister."

"Yeah." He nodded slightly dully, and followed out the door.

It was really cold outside, they walked one by one, neither of them spoke, like two strangers.

He shrank his neck, put his hands on his chest, and stuffed them into his sleeves.

Qu Xiaoyu looked back at him, and cursed in disgust: "Can you stop being so obscene?"

"Huh? It's cold."

"Humph."

Qu Zhe probably knew why the younger sister who had a good relationship with him when he was young suddenly started to hate him.In fact, it is not much different from those people in the school—this world presents a deformed targeting of unsightly and outstanding people.

He is very bad, yes, if he were Shen Yizhuo, my sister would happily take him out, instead of deliberately keeping a distance from her like now.

After walking for more than ten or ten minutes, I walked from the family room in the factory area to a slightly more lively place.Qu Xiaoyu's footsteps still did not stop, so Qu Zhe had no choice but to step forward and ask, "Where do you go shopping?"

She said impatiently: "Who said you want to buy something? Do you have any money on you? Give me some."

"Oh." Qu Zhe took out 30 yuan from his pocket and handed it to her.

"You wait for me at this intersection at nine o'clock, and I'll go find my friend." Qu Xiaoyu said, and started to stop the car.

"It's not far, it's so late."

"Oh, don't worry about it, you really don't even have a friend like you?"

Qu Zhe was choked and speechless.He really has no friends, whether in junior high school or now, he only has classmates and no friends.

No one wants to be friends with Quzhe.

Qu Zhe didn't want to make friends either.

Soon Qu Xiaoyu took the car and left. Qu Zhe stood at the crossroads and didn't know where to go.

Just come out to digest food.With that in mind, he walked to the downtown area.

There are quite a lot of young people strolling outside at this time, most of them are in small groups, and there are very few people walking alone like Qu Zhe.Passing near the outdoor billiard room, Qu Zhe inadvertently heard a familiar name.

"Yizhuo kicks off first."

As if electrified, Qu Zhe suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of the source of the sound - Shen Yizhuo stood with several young people, holding a club in his hand, and was about to tee off.

He also stood out from the crowd in such a place where fish and dragons were mixed together, and several girls beside him looked at him quietly.

The billiards room is the favorite place of the gangsters, and this is the first time he knows that Shen Yizhuo will also appear here.With an indescribable throbbing in his heart, he walked away quickly in surprise and fear, and stood in a dark corner where the street lights couldn't reach, his eyes fixed on Shen Yizhuo.

The opponent lowered his waist, held the club skillfully, and after a few trials, he kicked off the ball quickly and accurately.

The white ball slammed into it vigorously, and the set billiard balls scattered on the table like fireworks, and one fell into the hole.The person who spoke before leaned over to take a look, and raised his voice, "No. [-]."

Shen Yizhuo nodded and continued to fight.

Qu Zhe swallowed nervously.He doesn't know how to play billiards, he just knows the rules roughly.His nervousness did not come from the competition on the table, but from Shen Yizhuo.He was afraid that Shen Yizhuo would occasionally glance over where he was and see him.

This kind of tension caused by peeping, but with a strange pleasure.

Shen Yizhuo would play with these obviously punks, which seemed to show that Shen Yizhuo was not a good guy either.

The weather was obviously very cold, and there was still a cold wind blowing from time to time, but Qu Zhe's forehead was dripping with sweat.He raised his hand to wipe his sweat, but his eyes were still glued to Shen Yizhuo.This is more nervous than when he was rummaging through Yizhuo's drawers in the classroom.

He had a vague feeling - he wanted to reveal the essence of Shen Yizhuo.

It's strange to have such an idea for someone who has almost no intersection with himself.Qu Zhe himself felt the same way, but he couldn't restrain his desire to spy.

It was still going on there, and it was Shen Yizhuo's opponent's turn to come to the table. He stood aside and watched until someone else came over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Here." The other party handed over a cigarette, and Shen Yizhuo took it, put it on his mouth skillfully, then tilted his head and let the other party light it for him.

Qu Zhe watched him slowly exhale a puff of smoke, his heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably.

Shen Yizhuo can smoke.

The top student's mask seemed to have peeled off a corner.

At some point, Qu Zhe's hands in the sleeves had been loosened. He put his hands on his sides, clenched his fists, and rubbed his thumbs on his other fingers, trying to relieve the tension.

He knew that Shen Yizhuo was not a good person.

It's all fake, it's all fake, he is not a top student in everyone's eyes at all - looking at Shen Yizhuo's smoking profile, Qu Zhe has some kind of illusion.If everyone saw him as unbearable, then Shen Yizhuo was not much better than him.

He's pretending, he's pretending to be great and great, but in reality he's a complete piece of shit.

This recognition made Qu Zhe very excited.

But soon, the excitement faded and turned into disappointment.Even if Shen Yizhuo played ball and smoked with gangsters outside the school, no one would know.Qu Zhe knew, but no one believed what Qu Zhe said.More specifically, no one wanted to hear Qu Zhe speak.

He stood there for a full hour, motionless, like a sculpture.

Until Shen Yizhuo put down his cue and left with those punks.

After standing there hesitating for a few seconds, he followed with light steps.

They hooked their shoulders together, talking and laughing as they walked. Qu Zhe could hear their chat clearly, but Shen Yizhuo's voice could hardly be heard.Maybe Shen Yizhuo didn't speak, or maybe his voice was very low.But this was a bit of a torment for Qu Zhe, he gradually quickened his pace cautiously and narrowed the distance, wanting to hear what Shen Yizhuo would talk to them about.

He followed behind him like a pervert, but his heart was full of excitement like he was about to reveal the answer.