Out of place

There are quite a lot of guests in the hotel today, and the greetings from Xiao Er kept coming and going, and the heroes and heroines shouted one after another, coupled with the theme songs of various martial arts movies in the hotel, there was quite an atmosphere.

Cheng Boyan didn't eat much, he was not in good spirits for a few days after he had a fever, his voice was not good, and he had to talk non-stop from morning to night every day. Fortunately, Lin He and Song Yi cooperated quite well. Since then, they have not been interested in the dinner, so today the two of them didn't let them drink. The main purpose is to eat, chat casually, and eat almost after eight o'clock.

When paying the bill, Cheng Boyan glanced in the direction of the back kitchen. During the time of eating, Xiang Xi ran in and out many times, cleaning, wiping the table, clearing away the dishes and so on.

Xiang Xi's legs can live normally, but now he works like this, running around for a few hours without resting, and his legs will definitely not work like this.

After paying the bill and walking out of the restaurant, Cheng Boyan didn't see Xiang Xi, Lin He drove the car over, Cheng Boyan thought for a while: "You two go first, I still have something to do."

"Ah?" Song Yi was taken aback, "Aren't you feeling sick and want to rush back to sleep?"

"I..." Cheng Boyan pointed back at the restaurant, "I need someone to talk to."

"Who is it?" Lin He lowered the car window and asked, "In the restaurant?"

"Well, a... patient," Cheng Boyan hesitated, "it's the kid I told you about last time."

"The one called your brother?" Lin He was a little surprised, "Here? Working part-time?"

"Well," Cheng Boyan nodded, "His legs are still wearing steel nails. I see him running back and forth, which is too intense...You two go first, I will take a taxi back by myself later."

"The kindness of the doctor!" Song Yi pulled the door open, "Bo Yan, you really don't look like this kind of person, you look like the kind of person who is 'none of my business'."

"He is really such a person," Lin He clicked his tongue, "He was like this when we were in high school. Didn't I tell you that when he climbed a mountain and touched a fat old man, he fell all over his body and was completely frightened, Bo Yan forced himself to go down the mountain, and after going down, he was so tired that he couldn't walk for half an hour."

"Ah, really..." Song Yi sighed.

"I'm the only man, I don't want to carry anyone's back." Cheng Boyan sighed, pushed Song Yi into the car and closed the door, "Okay, you two go home and talk."

Xiang Xi has always felt that it is good to have a serious job, and he just wants to have a job, but right now he really can't adapt to this job.

There are several large trash cans at the back door of the hotel, and he has to move all the garbage collected there. Soup, water, vegetables, etc. are poured into the slop bucket, and other things have to be put in another bucket, and if he is not careful, he will get his pants on. It was all over the shoes, Tan Xiaokang brought him a pair of gloves, took them off and put them on, and he didn't know where they went.

He was busy in front of several trash cans, when Xiang Xi heard someone approaching, he probably went to the toilet on the wrong way again, and said without turning his head: "Is the hero going to retreat to practice? The retreat room is at..."

Before he finished speaking, the person who came over stepped into the puddle and shouted: "Hey! Why shut up!"

"Brother?" Xiang Xi turned his head in surprise and saw Cheng Boyan looking down at his shoes with a frown. He took a rag and ran over, "I'll wipe it for you...why did you come here? Toilet It's inside!"

"I'll clean it myself," Cheng Boyan saw that Xiang Xi was about to shine his shoes when he squatted down, so he quickly backed away and reached for the rag, "You... hey? Hey!"

"...I told you I'll wipe it for you," Xiang Xi saw that his hand retracted as soon as it touched the rag, and was immediately happy. "There is no disinfectant here."

"Don't wipe it, get up," Cheng Boyan grabbed his arm and pulled him up, "Your legs can't be stressed like this, didn't I tell you to go home and take a good rest!"

"You said don't run for your life and don't lie down to work, didn't I follow suit," Xiang Xi smiled, and put the rag aside, "This is my job."

"You rest for a while before you work. When you work for several hours and don't stop, it's definitely not okay." Cheng Boyan frowned, "How long have you been working here? You can't do that." , go to the hospital to take a film tomorrow..."

"Brother, brother, Doctor Cheng," Xiang Xi interrupted him with a smile, "Thank you, thank you very much, I really didn't expect you to come here specifically to talk about my leg."

"What nonsense, you're welcome," Cheng Boyan said helplessly, "Which doctor would be anxious to see his patient like this."

"I have to work, what will I eat if I don't work, I still owe your money." Xiang Xi said.

"Don't!" Cheng Boyan immediately pointed at him, "I didn't force you to pay back the money, that's not a reason."

"Brother, I'm different from other patients." Xiang Xi sighed, feeling that he couldn't explain it to Cheng Boyan, "I don't have much money, and I can't last long without working. Who will support me?"

"Where... is your father? Are you really without a mother?" Cheng Boyan had to rethink all the nonsense that Xiang Xi had said before. How much was true and how much was false?

"I'm alone now, and I never had parents," Xiang Xi leaned against the wall, "If I don't steal, cheat or rob, I can only support myself like this."

"You're leaning on that rag." Cheng Boyan originally wanted to say something else, but Xiang Xi's leaning happened to lean on the rag he put on the window sill behind him, and he really couldn't stand it.

"Huh? Doctor Cheng, I'm so pretty sometimes..." Xiang Xi put his hands behind his back and pulled out the rag behind him and put it aside, "I can't stand your problems."

"I can't stand anything wrong with you," Cheng Boyan frowned, and after a pause he tried to say, "Why don't you say that pendant is yours? You have to make sure it's yours, and I can find someone Estimate the price for you..."

"No! No, no, no, no," Xiang Xi became impatient and shook his hand, "Brother, don't! Don't, don't, the pendant can't move!"

"Don't move, don't move, don't move," Cheng Boyan said quickly after seeing him in such a hurry, "If you don't agree, I won't move your pendant, I just give you a suggestion."

"That pendant can't be moved, it's really... very important to me." Xiang Xi lowered his head.

Cheng Boyan didn't say a word, he always cared about his patients, but this item really gave him some headaches, from the moment he appeared, there was a fog of truth and falsehood, and from facial expressions and body language I can't tell the difference at all, they are always so sincere.

Cheng Boyan is willing to believe that Xiang Xi in front of him is telling the truth, provided that he doesn't think too much about Xiang Xi, who also said about his father's serious illness with such an unbearable appearance.

"I will pay attention," Xiang Xi raised his head after being silent for a while and said, "I try not to run, I walk to work, I will definitely pay attention, to be honest, no one has ever cared so much about me, I really thank you, Doctor Cheng, I must pay attention."

Cheng Boyan stared at him for a while: "If you feel uncomfortable, sore, you can come to the hospital to see me, or you can call me... Forget it, just come to me if you have something to do, you can't stand the phone call, Did you pick it up?"

"My friend didn't want it for me," Xiang Xi laughed, "I'll buy one after I get paid this month, and it's only a few days away."

After Cheng Boyan left, Xiang Xi stood by the trash can for a while before continuing to clean up the trash, and then went into the back kitchen to see if there was anything he needed to help.

Very touching.

Cheng Boyan is a good man.

Although Cheng Boyan was only out of a doctor's professional ethics or a doctor's professional obsessive-compulsive disorder, for Xiang Xi, someone came here to tell him to pay attention to the injury on his leg, and he really felt warm inside.

When cleaning up at night, he was told by the foreman several times that his movements were slow and he didn't care.

It was almost 12 o'clock when I returned to Tan Xiaokang's place. He felt tired and sleepy, and his legs didn't feel much, but he usually ran up the stairs, but today he went up step by step. What did Cheng Boyan say? ,pay attention.

Tan Xiaokang never gave him the key, he had to knock on the door every time he came back, and then waited for Tan Xiaokang to get up from the bed to open the door for him.

He didn't ask Tan Xiaokang for the key, it was just a temporary stay, but he might have to discuss with Tan Xiaokang about the long-term stay in a few days.

This area is an old residential area, and the rent is cheap. He originally thought that after he settled down, he would ask if there were any suitable houses nearby and rent one by himself.

As a result, he wandered around casually in the past two days, and Xiang Xi found sadly that the single-room package would cost hundreds of months, which he couldn't afford.

Although he was very reluctant, he still had to consider sharing the rent with Tan Xiaokang. Of course, Tan Xiaokang had to be willing.

"I have something to discuss with you." After taking a shower, Xiang Xi put on a pair of sweatpants and went into the bedroom. The sweatpants were bought for him by Cheng Boyan. They were soft and thick, and they were very comfortable to wear. He would change into them every day when he came back.

"Say, what's the matter?" Tan Xiaokang sat up from the bed and stared at him up and down.

"Then what, just, how much does it cost you to rent this house?" Xiang Xi asked, "I have inquired in the past two days, and there is no suitable one nearby..."

"Want to live here?" Tan Xiaokang stretched his waist, "This set was sublet from someone else. He rented it early and paid the rent for two years, so it's cheap."

"How about..." Xiang Xi said hesitantly. To be honest, he has never discussed things with anyone since he was a child. There is a lot to talk about, but they are all different from now.

"You can stay here," Tan Xiaokang laughed, reached out to touch his back, and then patted him again, "What are you talking about with me, stay here!"

"I mean, how much is the rent? We can split it." Xiang Xi hid for a while, and he was annoyed by Tan Xiaokang, who either hung on people or touched them when he talked.

"Don't worry about the rent, I just paid it for half a year," Tan Xiaokang said, patted the bed, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"Sleep," Xiang Xi got on the bed and slept in the back seat, "I mean, if I live here, the time will not be short, the rent, utilities and so on..."

"Xiao Zhan," Tan Xiaokang moved closer to him and touched his arm, "You don't have a lot of cash right now, let's put the money aside, I'm sure I wouldn't be so easy to talk to someone else, your words are different Now, what's the relationship between us, isn't it?"

"What's the relationship between us?" Xiang Xi raised his arm, and Tan Xiaokang's touch made him goosebumps, "Neighborhood."

"This word is used too much," Tan Xiaokang clicked his tongue, turned sideways, half of his body was almost on top of him, "Xiao Zhan..."

"Tan Xiaokang!" Xiang Xi sat up abruptly, and pressed Tan Xiaokang's hand that was groping into his quilt, "What the hell is wrong with you!"

Tan Xiaokang was stunned and laughed, and grabbed his hand with his backhand: "Why are you like this, is it wrong that I like you?"

"Fuck you, uncle." Xiang Xi pulled out his hand, lifted the quilt and was about to jump under the bed.

"Go and fuck," Tan Xiaokang withdrew his smile, raised his leg suddenly to stop Xiang Xi, then grabbed his arm and pulled, "Let me see how you fuck."

Although Xiang Xi felt that his arms and legs didn't matter when he was working in a restaurant, he was dragged by Tan Xiaokang, and he realized that he was really a person who had been lying down with steel nails for three months. on the bed.

Before he got up again, Tan Xiaokang had turned over and straddled him, pinning him down.

"I just want to touch you," Tan Xiaokang pressed his arm, leaned over and buried his face in the crook of his neck, his voice was low and hurried, "Let my brother touch you, I will introduce you to a job anyway, and let you stay here again." , I can’t let me do all this for nothing.”

"Go to your mother's idiot!" Xiang Xi roared, struggling to remember, but Tan Xiaokang was stronger than him, and he couldn't move under the pressure. Hearing Tan Xiaokang's panting in his ear, he was so angry It's about to explode, "You're just fucking taking advantage of other people's dangers, don't fucking say that you can take pictures of yourself when you piss, you can take pictures of your fucking spitting, get out of your mother's mouth! Your mother still told me that it was free or not, and it would be disgusting to post to my mother!"

"Fuck!" Tan Xiaokang suddenly propped himself up, and slapped Xiang Xi's face, "Do you still think that Uncle Ping is backing you up? What the hell are you crazy about! I'm going to kill you today Believe it!"

"Do it!" Xiang Xi pointed at him, "Tan Xiaokang, I'll just see how capable you are today! I, Xiang Xi, have never been afraid of anyone at my age. If you don't do anything to kill me today, I will tell you to do it again." You can't get out of this door either!"

"Do you think I'm afraid of you? Fight me hard?" Tan Xiaokang glared at him.

"If you're not afraid, just give it a try." Xiang Xi narrowed his eyes, "I always mean what I say."

Tan Xiaokang stared at him for a long time, and finally pointed at his eyes with his fingers: "Xiang Xi, don't think I don't know that you are hiding from Uncle Ping."

Xiang Xi sneered and didn't speak.

Tan Xiaokang didn't speak anymore, he let go and jumped off the bed, put on his clothes, took Xiang Xi's mobile phone on the table and stuffed it into his pocket, slammed the bedroom door and went out.

Xiang Xi jumped out of bed, and when he rushed to the door, he heard the bedroom door lock ring and it was locked behind him.

When he turned around and was about to smash the door with a stool, he heard the iron door outside the bedroom door also rang and closed.

"I'll fuck your mother." Xiang Xi gritted his teeth and cursed.

The apartment that Tan Xiaokang rented was a two-bedroom apartment. One room was made by Tan Xiaokang as a bedroom, and the other room was piled up with the landlord’s sundries. Because it was previously rented to two people, separate anti-theft iron doors were installed in the two rooms. It's like the kind of iron fence that I welded by myself.

Once the iron gate of the fence is closed, even if Xiang Xi smashes the door of the bedroom, he cannot open the iron gate outside.

"I'll let you sleep in bed alone tonight. You don't want to squeeze in with me, so stay by yourself." Tan Xiaokang said outside.

Xiang Xi didn't make a sound, turned around and walked to the window. The window was also equipped with anti-theft nets, which were also welded with old-fashioned iron bars. He opened the window and shook it, and it was quite strong.

"How dare you dare to challenge me," Tan Xiaokang continued outside, "You are a fucking gangster, and the police don't even know about your existence! I will starve you to death in this room and no one will look for you !Hold!"

Xiang Xi stood in the room for a while, then went back to the bed and lay down.

Tan Xiaokang scolded for a while in the living room and then lost his voice, probably sleeping on the sofa.

Xiang Xi stared at the ceiling and suddenly calmed down.

How funny.

Xiang Xi, is this your new life, your new way?

Every step, every step, carries the traces of the past life, those dark days are like roots in the body, permeating every inch of air around him, and he can't hide from him like a shadow.

What kind of people you contact, what kind of people you stay with, and what kind of life you will have.

Xiang Xi laughed.

It's so funny, it's like a dead end, no matter how you go, you can't get out.

Because you are such a person, you only deserve to be entangled with such days.

Xiang Xi fell asleep, and his ability to adapt to life and reality was probably reflected in these aspects. Before Tan Xiaokang opened the door again, he had no way to get out of this room.

So stop thinking about it, go to bed first, and at least nourish your spirit.

When he woke up in the morning, he still felt that he had slept well. He didn't even dream, and slept comfortably until dawn.

There was movement in the living room, and Tan Xiaokang also got up. Xiang Xi got up and got out of bed, stood behind the door and listened to Tan Xiaokang's every move outside. After guessing that he had put on his coat, Xiang Xi knocked on the bedroom door: " I need some water."

Tan Xiaokang was silent for a while, and opened the wooden door of the bedroom through the iron gate of the fence.

Xiang Xi stood in the door, looking at Tan Xiaokang's livid face: "Give me a glass of water."

Tan Xiaokang turned around to pour a glass of water, and handed it in through the iron railing.

"Thank you." Xiang Xi took the water.

When Tan Xiaokang was about to retract his arm, Xiang Xi splashed a glass of water on Tan Xiaokang's face, then grabbed Tan Xiaokang's hand, put it on the railing and twisted it down.

"Ah—" Tan Xiaokang roared in pain.

Xiang Xi gritted his teeth and held him firmly, stretched out his hand from the railing below, grabbed his clothes and groped his body.

A few seconds later, Tan Xiaokang withdrew his arm and pointed at Xiang Xi while shaking his arm: "You fucking die! You wait to die!"

Xiang Xi didn't speak, went back to the bed and sat down.

"Let's find the keys!" Tan Xiaokang walked to the door, shaking a bunch of keys in his hand, "Here it is!"

With his hands in his pockets, Xiang Xi still didn't speak, nor did he look at Tan Xiaokang.

Who the hell wants the key, this way to grab the key is an idiot.

Xiang Xi touched the phone in his hand.

"Xiang Xi! I took you in with good intentions, but your mother has never given you a good face. If you touch you twice, you still look like a chaste and strong woman," Tan Xiaokang said, "Believe it or not, I will call Uncle Ping later. Make a phone call and see who can never get out of this door again!"

Xiang Xi raised his eyebrows, but remained silent.

Tan Xiaokang won’t go to Uncle Ping, there are people in the crowd who look at you one more time and then turn their knives at each other, but it’s definitely not Tan Xiaokang, who would be put to death if he failed to play hooligans, Tan Xiaokang was not violent to that extent .

But this person has a sticky and irritable personality, and he can't get away so easily.

Tan Xiaokang cursed and kicked the stool and table a few times in the living room, then slammed the door and went out.

Popo on the opposite floor died for some unknown reason. The owner buried it in a flowerpot on the balcony, and a little girl stood by the flowerpot and cried for more than half an hour.

Cheng Boyan sighed while holding a cup of mangosteen tea, thinking of his niece, Xiaoxi, who put a few shallots on the balcony at random, and a lot of shallots grew, but Xiaoxi found that the same was true after the shallots were used by her mother to cook. I stood by the flower pot and cried for a long time.

The phone was ringing in the living room, Cheng Boyan put down his cup and walked quickly to pick up the phone.

Today he rests, but the hospital has something to do, and he will be called to help at any time.

There is an unfamiliar number on the phone, and there is an incoming call record, Xiang Xi?

"Hello." Cheng Boyan answered the phone.

"Brother!" Xiang Xi's voice came from the other side, "Brother, you are at work... If I... am not busy..."

"What?" Cheng Boyan frowned, "Are your legs uncomfortable? I'm off today. You can go to the hospital and find Dr. Liu directly. I'll tell him."

"It's not my leg! I'm locked... don't..." Xiang Xi's voice was hard to hear, but his tone could be heard to be anxious, "Brother, save..."

"What's wrong with you?" Cheng Boyan stood up straight, the words "lock" and "rescue" made him nervous for a moment, "Where are you? What happened?"