I surrender my foe with a kiss

The subway entrance in a rainy night is like a long dragon with its mouth wide open, deep and dark.Xiao Ci stood there hesitating for nearly half a minute before biting the bullet and walking in.

The fear brought to him by the darkness is oppressive, which stems from a serious illness when he was four years old. The rainy nights in the summer of that year were crazy and long, as if they would never end. During the high fever, one nightmare after another came one after another.Countless times when I woke up in my sleep, I called that familiar and unfamiliar name, but the answer was only the boundless darkness...

Since then, whenever he goes to bed at night, he must turn on the light.

Walking on the stairs, the wind howling like a cave blows in his ears, and every time he descends a step, the surrounding walls press against him one foot, wishing to engulf him from now on.

Xiao Ci clutched the armrest tightly, his palms were slightly sweaty, his breathing was tight, and his eyes felt dizzy intermittently.

He originally planned to find a subway entrance, rest, hide from the rain, and wait until dawn before setting off.But he obviously underestimated the fear deep in his heart. It has been 11 years, and instead of disappearing, the fear has become more deeply rooted in his heart.

Just as he was thinking about whether to turn around and go out, he suddenly heard a rustling sound at his feet, a slapping sound, and the sudden bright light made him unable to open his eyes.Subconsciously, he blocked it with his hands. After a few seconds, the vision between his fingers gradually became clear. He saw a homeless man lying on the ground, staring sleepily, and shining a flashlight on him.

The clothes on the man's body were so dirty that the original color could not be seen, his hair was messy and sticky, and his face was as black as if it had been rolled on the bottom of a pot.Such a person would naturally not smell good.Xiao Ci looked down and noticed that his legs under the coarse trousers were thin and shrunken, not even as thick as a normal person's arms.

The homeless man's first reaction when he saw Xiao Ci was to crawl towards him two steps with his hands on the ground, shaking the steel bowl and making a "clang" sound of coins colliding, "Good job, good job!" Xiao Ci made a bow.

Before Xiao Ci had time to unzip the snakeskin bag, he saw the homeless man's mouth drooping. Maybe he realized that he was down to this point, and he was probably a beggar, so he stopped bowing to him and let out a sullen "hum" , just turned over and lay down, picked up the waste newspapers, and continued to sleep soundly.

Xiao Ci: "..."

Silently, he stuffed back the change that he had just touched in his hand...

The homeless man forgot to turn off the flashlight that was turned on, adding a beam of light to the dark underground stairs. Xiao Ci walked to another landing below, spread a sheet and lay down, feeling much more at ease.

With that beam of light, Xiao Ci miraculously fell asleep.

The next day, feeling someone kick him, the homeless man opened his eyes angrily.

It was already bright, and the fresh air after the rain poured in from the subway entrance along with the morning breeze, making people feel chilly. Amid the sound of birds chirping, the homeless man could clearly see the face of the boy in front of him.

It was a face that made people reluctant to take their eyes away just by looking at it. There was a faint smile on the young man's face, and the sunlight poured in, dyeing the broken hair on the young man's forehead with a layer of light gold.

The homeless man turned sideways slightly, and found a large bag of bread, a bottle of water, and a pair of thick leather gloves beside him. He looked up in surprise, and heard the boy say to himself, "It's almost time for work, get up, or they will step on your feet." your turn."

At dusk that day, Xiao Ci found a place to rent. It was a few old tube buildings, surrounded by four buildings, forming a "kou" shape.Standing in the courtyard and looking out, through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the banyan tree above your head, you can see a square sky with red sunset glow, and the clothes on the horizontal poles of every household are full of clothes, floating gently in the evening wind.

Xiao Ci rented a single room of more than ten square meters, with a bed and a desk, which can be used for sleeping and studying.But there are no toilets and bathrooms, which need to be shared with other people on the same floor.

Xiao Ci naturally doesn't care about this, the rent is more reasonable for him, after all, he doesn't know how long it will take him to find his brother.It may be a year, it may be three to five years, or it may be like my father, ten years or even longer...

Xiao Ci wiped his face with both hands, and took a deep breath.Therefore, he must plan to live in Guangzhou for a long time. If he can save money, he must save it.

After spending more than an hour cleaning the house, making the bed again, and putting away his luggage, Xiao Ci was sweating profusely.

The weather in Guangzhou in October is still hot and humid. Although it rained heavily last night, the coolness only lasted for a day and disappeared early.

Xiao Ci took the washbasin and went to the bathroom on the same floor to take a shower. When he went, the old wooden door was open, and there was no one inside.Xiao Ci went in and bolted the door, took off his clothes, turned on the nozzle and took a cold shower.

Don't look thin, but his physical fitness is very good, definitely not the kind of ribs.After taking a cold shower and going out without wiping your hair, you don't have to worry about catching a cold.

It was already dark when we went out. Xiao Ci lived on the fifth floor. Through the long corridor, he could see the lights of the buildings coming on one after another. To the brightly lit Zhujiang New Town at the end of the day.

Quite a bit shocking.

Xiao Ci couldn't help taking a few more glances, then turned his head and entered his hut.

There, a dim little lamp awaits him.

Sitting at the table, Xiao Ci yawned. He hadn't had a good night's sleep for so many days, and he was a little sleepy.But he didn't take a rest immediately, but took out the compulsory mathematics textbook One from the box.

Turn it over, from the cornered page, continue to learn by yourself.

Almost half of the summer vacation, plus the whole of September, he was trying to find a way to transfer his student status from Sichuan to Guangdong.During this period, various departments and various procedures have been run over a dozen times.In particular, his situation is even more special. He is a minor and doesn't even have a guardian. It is reasonable for a half-grown child like him to have no way to transfer his school status by himself.In the end, it was the village head of their village who helped him, and asked his superiors for instructions step by step. In addition, he was excellent in character and learning. After his father passed away and took care of his sick mother, he took care of the entire third year of junior high school. The top ten... That's why the schools in Guangzhou expressed their willingness to accept him.Even if it is just an ordinary high school, it has nothing to do with key middle schools.

But Xiao Ci didn't dare to be a little numb and slack.

There was no class for a whole September, and I had to make up for the missed courses by self-study.

Compared with junior high school, physics and chemistry in high school have increased in difficulty by more than one level. Even for Xiao Ci, who is in the top ten in the county, it takes a lot of effort to learn.

When he raised his head from the textbook room, it was almost one o'clock in the morning. Xiao Ci did not expect that the time would pass so quickly as soon as he got up from his studies. When he got up from the chair, his eyes were even a little dark.

Lying on the bed with red eyes rubbed, covered with a quilt, on the pillow...

No pillows.

It's too heavy, I didn't bring it from home, and I forgot to buy it.

Xiao Ci looked around, this small room was absolutely barren, the only two things that looked like pillows were the bedside table and his snakeskin bag.

Xiao Ci decisively chose the snakeskin bag between the bedside table and the snakeskin bag, but after putting it on the pillow, he always felt inexplicably panicked.

Ordinarily it shouldn't be, it's obviously filled with clothes and the like...

Xiao Ci unzipped the zipper, reached in and fumbled inside, and when he touched something, his fingertips paused slightly.

Take out the black plastic bag, untie it, under the light, money, full of money.

One hundred, fifty, ten yuan, one yuan, and even fifty cents banknotes were scattered and carefully tied into bundles with rubber bands.At the bottom of the bag were scattered several pieces of steel coins worth fifty cents.

Xiao Ci counted the bag of money with trembling hands, four thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight five yuan, there are odds and wholes...

Xiao Ci frowned slightly as he looked at the large amount of money spread on his thighs, calves, and bed sheets.

Suddenly remembered that when I left my sister's house yesterday, my sister came to see him off, opened his snakeskin bag, and put an umbrella in it.

He didn't take a closer look, was it just...