No one really thinks it's hard to be a stand-in, right?

Within a month, Lin Minzhi returned the 100 yuan.

Pancakes with shortbread are selling well, and workers on construction sites far away are willing to detour to buy them.

However, the good times did not last long.

Lin Minzhi's method of adding shortbread was quickly copied by his colleagues.

In the past few days, more and more breakfast stalls have learned how to make pancakes from her, diverting a lot of traffic.

Lin Minzhi wasn't angry either, after all, people come and go, and it's not a difficult step, you can learn it by just watching.

When people copied it away, she tried to find a way to make it better.

I have what people don't have, and I have what others have.

To pay back Zhang Xianzhen's money, Lin Minzhi's greatest wish is to enroll Ji Mian in a hobby class.

Originally thought that Ji Mian was just talking about learning to "fight", but who knew that his son really didn't learn anything on the day he went to the Children's Palace.

I don't like the piano, and I don't like the violin either.

Lin Minzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she simply enrolled Ji Mian in a piano class.

But when it came to his mouth, Lin Minzhi suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Should she listen to what Ji Mian thinks?

Ji Mian wanted to learn how to "fight", but somehow it reached Granny Yao's ears. She is 63 years old, her children are dead, she has no grandson, and she is a widowed old man.

When I am in a hurry, I love to worry about the children in the old street.

Ji Mian is good-looking, although he is stupid, he is good-looking, and Grandma Yao likes him the most.

Grandma Yao took care of the matter, and brought Zhang Xianzhen to the door after a few days.

Lin Minzhi opened the door, and Grandma Yao explained: "Xiao Zhang used to be a policeman. If Mianmian wants to exercise, you can find him!"

With the help of Grandma Yao, Ji Mian really learned Sanda from Zhang Xianzhen.

Of course, he is too young, Zhang Xianzhen is just running with Ji Mian now.

The neighbors in the old street heard that the son of Xiuzhi's family who had mental problems was running with the police officer Xiao Zhang, and they all watched the excitement.

There was ridicule, there was irony, and there was also talk about Lin Minzhi's nonsense.

Watching other people's suffering is a way for ordinary people to pass the time.

Every morning, Zhang Xianzhen took five-year-old Ji Mian through the old street.

Ji Mian, who was wearing a rabbit hoodie, was panting and running on her short legs. Although she was slow, her steps were firm and she never complained.

The owner of the vegetable washing shop saw him and said happily, "Oh, our little rabbit police are here. How long can we last?"

It's maddening to make fun of him.

Ji Mian wants to fight for this breath!

Until he persisted for a whole month, no one dared to underestimate him anymore.

The neighbors who watched the fun went from ridiculing to being silent, and finally scolding their own unsatisfactory son: "Lin Minzhi's mentally handicapped son works harder than you!"

Lin Minzhi was also surprised. Although her son was not as intelligent as others, his perseverance was beyond the reach of his peers.

I heard that some children with IQ deficiencies will be more focused than ordinary people in another field. Could it be Mianmian?

Although Ji Mian's soul and memory have merged with a five-year-old child, he is not really only five years old after all.

In terms of patience and perseverance, it is far beyond normal children.

In a blink of an eye, he finished a semester in Liming Kindergarten.

It's not a secret in Lingang County that Ji Mian has mental problems. Parents talk badly, and no matter how strict the teacher is, the children know it.

The students in Liming Kindergarten are all children of local people, and they themselves reject foreigners. Coupled with Ji Mian's IQ problem, the exclusion is particularly obvious.

They don't talk to Ji Mian, and Ji Mian is too lazy to deal with five-year-olds.

After memory fusion.

His current IQ is at least ten years old.

On New Year's Eve, Teacher Wang gathered everyone together and shared sweet-scented osmanthus cakes.

Osmanthus cake is the most popular snack in the kindergarten. Whoever behaves well can eat first, and everyone sits upright.

Xu Cai and Su Luoyu were the first to get it. Xu Cai was the one who liked to provoke Fu Chenyu, but he didn't get any benefits every time, and was beaten by Fu Chenyu several times.

He also likes to take the lead in isolating Ji Mian, provoked Ji Mian a few times, but was ignored by Ji Mian, so angry that he crooked his nose and stared.

Su Luoyu, as the protagonist of the novel "Tenderness on a Stranger Road", has shown the aura of the protagonist since she was a child, and all the children in the kindergarten like him.

Ji Mian couldn't name the rest of the children, so they were temporarily numbered as Passerby A, B, C, and D.

And Fu Chenyu...

Ji Mian looked at the corner of the classroom with a heavy heart.

He kept firmly in mind the plot written on his little note, and for a whole semester, he didn't say a word to Fu Chenyu, staying far away from him.

It's just that Ji Mian can't bear to watch the child suffer. His ability is limited. In the past six months, when his classmates bully Fu Chenyu, he can only secretly go to complain to Teacher Wang again and again to prevent things from developing in the worst direction. .

Or take an extra egg for breakfast and quietly put it in Fu Chenyu's table hole, but every time Fu Chenyu throws it into the trash can, he doesn't need such pity.

Ji Mian has done his best to overcome the fear of death and do everything he can.

With him "being a hindrance", Fu Chenyu's life in the kindergarten was better than before, at least no one bullied him anymore.Xu Cai searched for who was giving small reports all semester, but he didn't pull out Ji Mian's little rabbit's tail. He was so angry that he blushed—he had already been criticized by Teacher Wang several times for bullying his classmates.

But when he returned home, Fu Chenyu had to face Aunt Chen's beating and scolding again.

Ji Mian's help is a drop in the bucket for Fu Chenyu.

The wounds on his body are still getting more and more every day.

Before the old one scabs over, the new one will cover it.

It is shocking to see these signs of abuse appearing on a five-year-old child.

Ever since Su Luoyu was warned by Yang Chaoying not to associate with Fu Chenyu, she rarely took the initiative to seek out Fu Chenyu.

Ji Mian, who didn't know the inside story, was completely confused.

what happened?

What about the promised childhood boy god, beautiful white moonlight?

What about the promised healing sweetheart?What about being inseparable?

Fu Chenyu's life is so miserable, why doesn't Su Luoyu comfort him?

This is different from what he imagined...

According to Ji Mian's thinking, Su Luoyu should now sit obediently next to Fu Chenyu and greet him with care.

In the original novel, Su Luoyu even fed Fu Chenyu mouthful.

How can it be like now, the boss can't eat enough to wear clothes, eat a biscuit and gobble it up...

Fu Chenyu raised his hand, and Ji Mian saw a new wound on his arm, which was bleeding.

It looked like it was cut by a knife, Ji Mian was worried: This is too pitiful.

If Su Luoyu cared for Fu Chenyu according to the original plot, Ji Mian would not feel pitiful.

It's just pitiful, the current Fu Chenyu didn't do anything, and still lives in such a miserable situation.

Even if Ji Mian knew that he would kill herself in the future, she still couldn't bear it now.

Fu Chenyu chewed the biscuit numbly as if he didn't feel any pain.

Last night, Aunt Chen deliberately gave him rotten rice, and he vomited after taking a bite.

Until now, Fu Chenyu hadn't eaten anything, and his stomach was already cramping with hunger.

Compared with it, the pain of the wound on the hand is nothing.

Chinese New Year is coming soon.

Fu Chenyu counted the calendar in the classroom, and every day that passed, his expectation was one more day.

Teacher Wang said that Chinese New Year is a day for family reunion, and my mother will definitely come back.

Fu Chenyu found an excuse for Ning Qian's indifference to him.

In the despair again and again, hope is rekindled again and again.

In February, every household pasted the word "福" and hung red lanterns.

Lin Minzhi bought a new set of clothes for Ji Mian, the red padded jacket made his complexion even whiter.

In the past few months, he has been fed by Lin Minzhi until he is chubby, and everyone loves him when he goes out, but he can't help being gloated and added: Minzhi, your son is good everywhere, but it's a pity that he is mentally handicapped.

Lin Minzhi was angry and uncomfortable, but she couldn't refute.

In addition, Lin Minzhi also bought a set of youth clothes and kept them at home until the new year, and no one came back to take them away.

Ji Mian knew that Lin Minzhi bought it for his brother.

Although Ji Yao didn't come back, he called Lin Minzhi to report his safety.

Ji Mian heard them quarreling, Lin Minzhi hid in the corridor and cried, asking why her eldest son did this to her.

Vaguely, Ji Mian heard about the disease and the treatment.

[-] has arrived.

But homosexuality is still a perversion and a disease in the hearts of ordinary people, and it can be cured with medicine.

Lin Minzhi thought her eldest son was sick, and a woman with only a primary education level didn't know how to "cure" him well.

Ji Mian pretended not to hear anything, and obediently sat at the dining table eating eggs.

He likes to eat egg whites but not egg yolks. The egg yolks are too dry. In order to coax him to finish eating the whole egg, Lin Minzhi usually puts a glass of milk in it.

It snowed heavily last night, the window was covered with snow, and the children downstairs were playing snowball fights with friends.

Screams and laughter filled the entire old street.

Lin Minzhi secretly wiped away her tears, looked out the window, touched Ji Mian's head and asked, "Does Mianmian also want to play snowball fights with the children?"

Ji Mian: ...I don't want to.

He was unmoved, but Lin Minzhi understood it differently.

Because of Ji Mian's birth defect, no children are willing to play with him.

Seeing Ji Mian's sensible appearance, Lin Minzhi's heart ached.

So, after Ji Mian had finished eating, she washed the dishes, put on a thick cotton wool coat for Ji Mian, wrapped him into a ball, and carried him downstairs for a walk.

The sky began to snow again, and the children yelled:

"It's snowing again!"

"My mother said it will be bigger at night!"

"What does snow smell like?"

"..."

Lin Minzhi hugged Ji Mian: "Mianmian, those are all your classmates, do you want to go up and say hello?"

Ji Mian turned her face away, buried her face in the hat, and expressed her refusal: No, I don't want to.

Lin Minzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and teased him: "Mianmian is so shy?"

Ji Mian thought silently: No, the games they played were too mentally retarded.

Among the group of children were Xu Cai, Su Luoyu, Wang Feng, Xiaopang and Zhou Lian, all of whom were in the middle class of Liming Kindergarten.

There is only one kindergarten in Laojie, and the children live together and play together.

What surprised Ji Mian was that Fu Chenyu was also in the courtyard.

It's just that he stood silently under the tree, his bangs were not over his eyebrows, covering half of his eyes, gloomy, no one paid attention to him.

In the winter, I still wear autumn clothes.

Fatty saw Ji Mian, he was wearing a red padded jacket, his arms and legs were short, round tiger-toed shoes, and tiger ears on his hat, he was pretty like a girl.

Fatty blushed and said, "Xu Cai, let's go and play with Ji Mian."

Xu Cai glanced at Ji Mian, and said awkwardly, "I don't want to play with him, he's an idiot, a little dumb."

Xiaopang held back for a long time, and popped out: "But you always peeped at him in the kindergarten..."

Xu Cai blushed: "Who peeked at him! Who peeked at him! You want to beat me! I'll beat you to death!"

The children were playing and rolling together.

After a while, Aunt Chen, the nanny of Fu Chenyu's family, packed her suitcase and went out, got on the bus with her son, and was going back to the countryside.

The door was locked with a "click", but the owner of the house, Fu Chenyu, was still in the courtyard.

The keys on Aunt Chen's bag flickered, and there were three of them, but she didn't leave one for Fu Chenyu.

Ji Mian's heart skipped a beat, and suddenly felt that the scene in front of her was very familiar.

In an instant, part of the plot of "Tenderness from Stranger Ways" unfolded in his mind.

In the original novel, there are memories of Fu Chenyu's childhood.

On New Year's Eve in [-], he was locked out for a whole night.

I didn't wait for Ning Qian to come, and I didn't wait for a family reunion.

All that awaits him is the never-sunless, cold snowy night.

And, almost dying... despair.