hold peck

Huijia's access control is very strict. Even if the security guard knows the face of the residents, as long as they don't bring the key card, they can only wait for the family members to come downstairs to pick them up.

This rule is only limited to children in Building A9 2401.

Xu Peck sat in the security booth with his chin propped up. This was the fifth time he heard Uncle Security outside helping familiar residents unlock the doors, and greeted each other with a smile.

The uncle also knows himself, but the only thing that can be opened for him is the door of the security booth.

"Mr. Xu, you are back!"

Xu is a rare surname in Yancheng, at least Xu Peck himself has only heard of their family.

He raised his eyes from the black spot by the wall in response, just in time to see Xu Ji'an standing outside the door, smiling very gently at him.

"Little Peck, we're going home."

Xu Peck nodded, stood up, and greeted politely: "Uncle."

The two bags he carried with him seemed to be quite heavy. Xu Ji'an's eyes skipped over the pink gift box, landed on the black garbage bag and smiled: "I take this?"

Xu Peck said "Yes" and said, "Thank you."

"Small idea," Xu Ji'an picked up the garbage bag and weighed it, as if he was a little surprised by the weight, "Little Peck, you carried it back by yourself? It's a bit powerful."

It's really powerful, but the arm is almost broken.

Xu Peck didn't have much strength, but he had strong perseverance, which was just enough for him to reach the security booth in the community.

There are seven hardcover books waiting for me.

Xu Peng let out a deep breath calmly, and walked to the corner, but unexpectedly, he was patted on the head intimately by the man's big hand.

"Just kidding you."

Xu Ji'an lifted both bags into his hands.

A small corner of his heart seemed to suddenly collapse, Xu Peck pinched his cuffs, and obediently followed Xu Ji'an out of the security booth.

"You guys are going back, Mr. Xu! Little Peck must remember to bring the key next time, haha."

Uncle Security has been working here for many years, and I don't know how many times he has said this sentence.Xu Peck smiled politely at him, turned around and followed the adults.

No one knew that he had forgotten the key on purpose, except Xu Ji'an.

Just like no one knew that Xu Ji'an asked the security guard to keep Xu Peck, except Xu Peck.

"How is school? The mid-term exam is coming soon. I haven't been under a lot of pressure recently."

"Fortunately, it's not big."

Huijia is a well-known high-end community in this city, with strict access control on the first floor, and the design of public green spaces is quite advanced.When Xu Ji'an took them to Europe to play when they were young, Xu Peck thought at that time that the back garden of the Palace of Versailles looked exactly like the downstairs of their community.

The visual effect is really shocking, even walking is quite tiring, especially when the person leading the way deliberately goes around and does not take shortcuts.

In this short period of time, it was the third time that he followed Xu Ji'an and bypassed Area A.

Xu Peck held his hands behind his back quietly, pursed his mouth, and smiled very lightly.

Xu Ji'an has always been a very interesting person, at least to himself.

"There's no need to be stressed. I'm happy with your good grades, and I'm usually also happy. As long as you're happy."

Probably came back from the company's direct formal negotiation, the formal suit Xu Ji'an wore today was very well ironed, unlike the last time we met, the suit was still wrinkled and not at all elegant.

Xu Peck's gaze was on the man's gemstone cuff, and he heard the other party call him again: "Little Peck."

"Ok?"

"This year's parent meeting..." Xu Ji settled down without looking back, "I may not be able to open it for you."

"..."

Xu Peck lowered his eyelids, his tone was still calm and gentle: "You're busy, it's okay."

Xu Ji'an was busy, but he also had time for a parent-teacher meeting, but the number one beneficiary of the time he spared was not Xu Peck, but his biological son Xu Si.

There was not only one adult in the family, Liang Yan had plenty of time as a full-time housewife, but every year she would suffer from headaches before and after the parent meeting and couldn't leave the house. Xu Ji'an even closed the door with her and quarreled with her.

The result of the quarrel was that both of them would go out at the next parent-teacher meeting, Xu Ji'an continued to hold the meeting for Xu Si, while Liang Yan and the little sisters were so happy shopping that afternoon that they forgot the time.

12-year-old Xu Peck waited for her outside the classroom door for a long time, until it was dark when he received a text message apologizing—"Xiao Peck, I'm sorry, my aunt was really busy today, and it's probably too late to come here now, The teacher must let him contact me if there is anything."

He and Xu Si were not in the same school, and Xu Ji'an couldn't catch up, and Liang Yan bet to death that he would not tell her uncle.

At that time, Xu Peck stood up from the wall holding his No. 1 test paper for general subjects, and thought to himself with a smile, in fact, Liang Yan is also a very interesting person, at least to herself.

Of course, it didn't take long.Xu Peck never mentioned it, and he didn't know how Xu Ji'an knew about it. It was just that after a night of self-study, he received a call from his landline at home. No one answered, but there was a very intense quarrel in the distance.

The man scolded the woman for being mean, and the woman scolded the man for being sick. After scolding for a long time, Xu Peck finished his mathematics, physics and chemistry homework that night with the background sound on, wearing headphones.

As soon as the pen stopped, the phone was hung up, and Liang Yan's text messages were always so timely.

"It's probably because the auntie at home didn't pay attention to the cleaning and called you. It's been more than half an hour. Didn't you disturb Xiaopeck's study?"

He edited "No" and sent it, got up and walked to the balcony, and called Xu Si.

was hung up.But it's good.

When he was at home Xu Si's cell phone would always be turned off by Liang Yan and hidden away, but now he could dial and be hung up, which meant that Xu Si had gone to school and would not be staying at home tonight.

It's good, Liang Yan still retains some reason.

After that incident, Xu Peck never had a parent meeting again.

There is no way, just like what Liang Yan and Xu Ji'an said when they quarreled on the phone: "Your son is sick from head to toe, and you still go on and on to fuck other sons' minds, are you sick too?" light?"

As soon as this sentence was finished, the call ended. Xu Peck didn't know how Xu Ji'an responded, but he could probably guess it.

Because not long after, on Xu Si's birthday, their "third grandma" became seriously ill.

Xu Ji'an was making it up to him.

Have you ever complained?Xu Peck couldn't remember clearly.But an orphan who was born without a father and no mother should probably not feel resentment after being taken care of by his uncle's family for so many years.

After all, apart from trivial details, Liang Yan had never been mean to him in terms of food and clothing, and Xu Ji'an was also very good. This heart-to-heart talk from the security booth to the door of the house was a secret that the two of them had never disclosed.

"Which of these two bags is a gift for Xiao Si?"

The topic just now couldn't be continued, Xu Ji'an couldn't see any clues when he turned his head and smiled.

Xu Peck was relieved, walked to him and pointed to the gift bag: "Of course it is this."

Xu Ji'an "tsk": "I thought there were new tricks this year, such as garbage bags on the surface, but actually contained a whole bag of money."

What kind of word is this.

Xu Peck was quite calm: "It's actually a bag of diamonds."

"..." Xu Ji'an blinked: "Huh?"

There are 360 ​​and five days in a year, and Xu Si's birthday is a rare day that Xu Peck looks forward to.

The expected part only includes this part of the way home.

There is a high probability that Xu Si will not come out of the room after returning home, and Liang Yan never takes off her mask when she is face to face with him, and she feels very tired just looking at him.

In the summer vacation after graduating from the third year of junior high school, Xu Peck went to the neighboring city with his classmates under excuses, and returned to the Chengnan Welfare Institute for three months. Now that he thought about it, those three months were the most relaxing three months since he was five years old.

"This year it's a chocolate cake. There are a lot of villains and small tents on it. You can't eat it. If you like it, you can take it back and put it on the table as a decoration. There are many things, and there are also little ones."

Xu Peck is 16 years old this year, and Xu Ji'an still treats him as six years old.

But 16-year-old Xu Peck nodded, and his round black grape eyes curled up.

"Okay."

In the time it took to chat, they had already reached the elevator hall on the first floor.

"broken."

Xu Ji'an's footsteps stopped suddenly, but his tone was very peaceful.

Xu Peck blinked and looked at him sideways: "What's wrong?"

Xu Ji'an was expressionless: "I got out three times, but the cake still fell into the car."

The two were silent for a while, and suddenly laughed together.

The Huijia Phase III luxury house bought by Xu's family has one household per floor.As soon as the elevator doors open, you can start changing your shoes from the corridor, and today the doors are not even closed.

"Little Peck is back."

Liang Yan just came out to throw out the trash, her eyes flicked between the old and the young, and finally stopped on the suspicious bag in Xu Ji'an's hand.

"What is this?"

Xu Ji'an didn't even lift his eyelids: "Diamond."

Liang Yan: "?"

The suspicious eyes of the woman said "Do you want to quarrel again?" Xu Ji'an ignored her, turned around and called Xu Peck, and told him to come into the room in a warm voice.

You can't ask for it, but you can't do it.

Liang Yan has a serious obsession with cleanliness. Xu Peck is not at home all year round, and there are no so-called "exclusive slippers" left outside to collect dust. Every time he comes back temporarily, he wears disposable slippers from a five-star hotel.

Properly putting the sneakers in an inconspicuous corner, Xu Peck called "Auntie", and finally walked in with the cake in his arms.

The Xu family is very large, six to seven hundred square meters.

Guan Guan has no concept of numbers, and asked Xu Peck how old he was before.

Xu Peck thought for a while, and told her that there used to be a swimming pool on the balcony at home, but no one was swimming, so it was filled up and made into a tea room during the renovation.

Guan Guan understood.

In such a big house, there are so many layers of partitions that you can walk in different directions from the entrance.

If the husband and wife are at odds and want to separate temporarily and calm down, there is no need to move, just change to a bedroom in the south. Even if they are at home at the same time, they may not see each other all day long.

It was very convenient for Liang Yan and Xu Ji'an.

However, Xu Peck's room was very close to Xu Si's, with only a small hallway between them.Even younger, when they were very young, the two of them used to sit there and build blocks together.

The cake was left in the dining room, Xu Peckiti slipped two bags back to the door of his bedroom, put the set of Harry Potter in front of the closed door opposite, and knocked twice.

No one answered.

He stood for a while, then turned and went back to the room.

Xu Peck's room is also quite big.

When Guan Guan asked him how old he was, his eyes were complicated: "Do you have a swimming pool on your balcony?"

"No."

Guan Guan breathed a sigh of relief.

"But my bedroom has two floors."

Guan Guan turned his face away with a "hiss".

The decoration of the downstairs is fully covered by the home furnishing company. It is exactly the same as the children's bedroom in IKEA, but he jumped on the bed, took the folding ladder from the ceiling and climbed to the narrow attic-this is where Xu Peck lives every time he comes back.

He hasn't been back for half a year, he seems to have grown a little taller, and he needs to bend slightly and bow his head when he climbs up.

Several aunts were invited at home, and even his small room on the second floor was cleaned every day. Xu Peck knelt by the soft bed and smelled the fresh flowers in the bottle, feeling much calmer.

Next to the bed was a window that opened up and down, and it was quite bright outside at the moment.Xu Peck lay on the bed in a daze for a while, then sat up suddenly, took out something from the bedside table, and stuffed it into the pocket of the sweater.

Sure enough, Xu Si didn't come out of the room during dinner, and the cake box was still unopened, and it was placed at the end of the long straight dining table.And the three people on the table moved their chopsticks silently, as if no one saw it.

A seemingly incompatible couple, a son suffering from depression, and a nephew living under the fence.

Last winter, the community champion of Huijia's "Harmonious Family" competition.

Xu Peck picked up a chopstick of Mushu meat and stuffed it into his mouth, lowered his eyelids, and pursed his lips amusedly.

Although he smiled calmly, he was still not as sensitive as someone who stayed at home for a long time and had nothing to do.Liang Yan glanced at him, and suddenly said: "Little Peck, Auntie found something while cleaning your house."

Xu Peck swallowed a mouthful of rice delicately, and said "um".

Xu Ji'an sat on the main seat and looked like he didn't hear anything, Liang Yan's tone was quite interested: "Why did you keep a knife in your bedside table?"

Her eyes fell on Xu Peck's sweater pocket which was covered by the dining table, and she said with a smile, "The knife is not there now..."

"Boom."

Xu Ji'an slammed the bowl and chopsticks on the table.

Liang Yan said "Ouch" in a calm manner, and brushed the broken hair that fell on her cheeks behind her ears: "Be careful, I won't be scared."

A war is imminent.

Xu Peck took a sip of the soup with a spoon, and explained slowly: "Fruit knife."

Liang Yan let out a long "Oh" and scooped up half a spoonful for him with a smile: "I think so."

Xu Ji'an's face was still not very good-looking.

Liang Yan glanced at his indifferent eyes from the corner of her eye, and anger surged in her heart instantly: "Why are you looking at me like an enemy? I didn't go out to hook up with little girls under the pretense of a business trip."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Xu Ji'an closed his eyes and frowned tightly.

Liang Yan wanted to continue to express her opinions, and Xu Peck just stood up after eating.

"I'm going to deliver food to Xiaocai."

He smiled and went back to the kitchen with the bowls and chopsticks.

Xu Si didn't eat much, obviously he was the protagonist of the delicious dinner table outside, but there were only two small dishes for him in the kitchen, one meal and one soup.

The cake is still there, but Xu Peck really doesn't want to go back.

There are still a few apples on the desk, which look like they have just been bought.

Xu Peck tilted his head and thought for a while, then took out his fruit knife from the pocket of his sweater.

The dormitory's access control is at ten o'clock in the evening, Xu Peck went to deliver a meal and was ready to leave.When he came back, Xu Ji'an was the only one left in the living room.The man's suit hadn't been taken off yet, and it was already wrinkled, which made him look very tired.

But as soon as Xu Peck appeared, he raised his eyelids and laughed.

"I'll take you back to school, Peck."

Although he is already an adult, sometimes he wants to escape for a while.

Xu Peck nodded.

The cakes are still on the table and unopened, and the little people tents that my father bent over and picked out in the dessert shop for a long time, the only final destination is probably the trash can.

Xu Peck didn't remind him, let alone look back.

It was already dark, and the pink bag he brought home was still standing quietly by the wall beyond the reach of the moonlight.

The huge room was so quiet, and after an unknown amount of time, the door opened from the inside.

The barefoot boy stood by the door, his shadow covering the dinner plate on the carpet.

He seemed to be out of his mind for a while, and finally remembered that someone knocked on the door outside.

"Happy birthday, little one."

A calm and gentle tone.

It's Xu Peck.

Xu Si squatted down, and the shadow hid under his feet, returning the moonlight to the scenery on the plate.

After a long time, he stretched out his finger and lightly poked the lifelike Apple Rabbit next to the dishes.