Drifting

Tan Qing did not expect that he would often see Cheng Sidu afterwards.

Every morning when getting up early for work, Tan Qing could always see Cheng Sidu and his sister who were woken up—Cheng Sidu hugged his sister and watched the ducklings learning to swim by the puddle.

"Let's go!" The worker patted him on the shoulder.

"Here we come." Tan Qing put on his helmet.

Cheng Sidu heard his voice from a distance, looked around, but didn't seem to see him, he was stunned for a while, then was led by his sister to catch ducklings.

Tan Qing still didn't catch up with the meal today.

He built the wall all morning, because he was not as proficient as the old workers, so he stayed and worked for a while, barely catching up with the progress.When he walked into the dining hall with the plastic bucket and triangular shovel, there was no hot food on the stove.

Tan Qing washed her face under the tap, thought about it, and rinsed her hair by the way.

"Hey, you just came back?" Tan Qing heard the voice, turned off the faucet, stared back, and it turned out to be Cheng Sidu.

Cheng Sidu was wearing a white T-shirt and black sports shorts, his hands and feet exposed under the thin material were white and small.In short, Tan looked down on him, a bit like looking at a stunted girl, or a delicate child who didn't have time to grow up.

Cheng Sidu found a towel for him, went to the inner room to tinker with the stove for a while, and brought out a bowl of braised beef ribs.The crunchy red and soft rotten spareribs are oily. It should be the Sunan cooking method, with fermented bean curd and white sugar added, which smells very attractive.

Tan Qing hadn't eaten meat for several days, and she couldn't control her eyes, staring at the bowl of meat like a vicious dog.

"Here." Cheng Sidu put the bowl of soy sauce on the table, "Let's eat."

Tan Qing was not stupid, and asked in a low voice: "Not everyone has it, right?"

Cheng Sidu laughed, a little sneering, "How is it possible? We eat meat upstairs today, I feel uncomfortable, I can't eat it, and I secretly hid it."

Tan Qing was sitting at the table, her short green and black stubble hair was washed through the water, and stood straight up, her eyebrows and eyes were stained with water, not as pale as usual, swarthy, especially the thick eyebrows, stroke by stroke As if traced by a pen, slightly picked up, like a naughty boy.

He thanked him, served rice and meat, and Cheng Sidu brought him a bag of mustard shreds to serve with the rice.He ate two bowls of rice in one go.

Cheng Sidu sat across from him, drinking water from a very delicate enamel cup, which he added some honeysuckle to remove fire.

He involuntarily looked at Tan Qing.

After all, Tan Qing is young, unlike the group of workers who are over [-] years old. He wears a black overalls vest, revealing a very smooth and beautiful arm with muscles. Green and magnificent, it is easy to remind people of the green wheat seedlings that grew wildly in the field ridges in the early summer.

Cheng Sidu had nothing to say, "Hey, have you ever raised ducks? My sister wants to raise ducks recently, and she specially prepared a small flower pot. Now she is begging my dad to ask for ducks."

Tan Qing's lips were a little greasy, "Ducks will die if they are not kept in the river."

Cheng Sidu was a little taken aback, as if startled by the word "death", he murmured "Oh", "Then she won't be allowed to raise it."

"Ah."

It rained heavily in the afternoon, and it was rare for the workers not to go to the construction site, so they all gathered in the shed.It was stormy outside, and a dismal ten-watt light bulb in the house was shaking and shaking, covering the boring men playing cards.

Tan Qing didn't go to play cards, but lay on the bed in the corner reading.

"Tan Qing, what pornographic book are you reading?" The worker next to him went to bed and grabbed the book from Tan Qing's hand.

He took a closer look and found that it was not a pornographic book, without big girls and round breasts, but with dry prints, one by one, with Chinese characters, English, and some numbers. In short, it was almost like a wordless book to him.He said embarrassingly, "Tan Qing, what is this?"

Tan Qing stretched out her hand to take the book back, and said flatly: "It's nothing, I just read it casually, and I don't quite understand it, just pass the time."

The worker scratched his face, feeling bored, got out of bed and went to play cards.

When the rain subsided intermittently, the door of the hut was pushed in. A man held an umbrella in one hand and hugged a little girl in the other. His soft hair was covered with a thin layer of rain and mist.He was a little shy, so he didn't speak yet, but the white and tender girl spoke in a childish voice: "Mom calls you to the dining hall to drink mung bean soup."

Cheng Sidu hugged her and smiled.

The workers joked: "It's the little boss who came over."

Cheng Sidu shook his head in embarrassment, got into the house, and watched the workers run over in the rain one by one.

Cheng Sidu looked around at the hut, the red and white nylon cloth used for fertilizer was stretched over his head, the rain was as loud as thunder, with a thumping sound.

In a small room of dozens of square meters, wire folding beds are spread against the wall.Tan Qing was sitting on the innermost bed.

Cheng Sidu put Cheng Siying down, and the little girl was still holding a colorful game stick in her hand.Seeing a young brother lying on the bed, she ran over quite familiarly, patted the bed board and said, "Play with me! Let's play a game stick!"

Tan Qing didn't answer her, and took a look at Cheng Sidu first.Cheng Sidu read a bit of begging in that look, as if he wanted to beg him to take her away quickly, but Sidu pretended not to see, sat down on the bed gently, and coaxed Siying: "Siying wants to call him what?"

"Brother!" Siying had a tough attitude, "It's great to play games with me!"

Tan Qing wandered between the siblings for a while, closed the book and put it aside, and said helplessly, "Okay."

When his younger sister and Tan Qing were playing game sticks, Cheng Sidu saw the book next to Tan Qing's pillow, with a gray cover, but he couldn't make out what was written on it.He sat closer to the bed, and his knee bumped into Tan Qing's thigh, but Sidu didn't seem to care, he just stretched his neck to look at the cover, and whispered: "Hey, it's for the computer. Programming?"

"Ah."

Cheng Sidu asked again: "I forgot to ask, your university major—"

"-I didn't pass the exam." Tan Qing said.

"......Oh."

The three of them played for a while, giving way to Siying everywhere. The little sister was not challenging to win, but she happily held a game stick and invited Tan Qing to eat iced yellow peaches at home.

Sidu also urged him: "Go. There is also mung bean soup."

Tan Qing had no choice but to get up and put on his shoes.

Before going out, seeing the earnest eyes of the little girl, he picked her up knowingly and helplessly, and then threatened her: "Be careful, don't shake around, I don't care if you fall."

Siying turned her head and looked over Tan Qing's broad shoulders at Sidu who was chasing after her, "Brother, umbrella!"

Sidu held up his umbrella resignedly.

It was quite a small umbrella, the three of them squeezed and shoved, half of Cheng Sidu's chest was pressed against Tan Qing's arm, it was hot, and he ran into it lightly while chasing after him, again and again.

Sidu accidentally mentioned this matter later, Tan Qing lay on the sofa, savored it carefully, and said: "At that time, I actually thought you were seducing me."

Tan Qing charged Si Duan with seduction.And the evidence is numerous.