Out of place

Cheng Boyan was helpless because of the anxiety in Xiang Xi's tone and the inaudible content of his words. After communicating for a long time, he couldn't figure out what Xiang Xi wanted to say, so he had to interrupt Xiang Xi who was still talking amidst the hissing sound. : "What happened to you? Are you in a hurry? Shall I call the police for you?"

"Don't call the police! Don't call the police!" Xiang Xi shouted.

"Hey, I heard it, hurry up! Tell me where you are and what happened to you?" Cheng Boyan finally heard a clear sentence, and he felt inexplicably happy.

"I...that street...actually..." Xiang Xi's voice returned to its original state.

"Okay, don't say it, you can't hear clearly," Cheng Boyan sighed, thought for a while and suddenly shouted, "My IQ has been lowered by you! Stop calling and send text messages! Send me text messages!"

Xiang Xi hung up the phone immediately.

"Hey..." Cheng Boyan frowned, opened the cabinet and put on his coat, took some cash from the drawer after thinking about it, then opened the door and went out.

Xiang Xi still didn't know what happened, but Cheng Boyan decided to go there. He didn't know whether he had taken the wrong medicine or was too holy to meddle in this matter during his rest days.

Sitting in the car and waiting for a long time, before Xiang Xi's text message arrived, Cheng Boyan suddenly believed something.

That is the fact that Xiang Xi is illiterate and doesn't know a few words... it should be true.

After a while, the phone finally rang, and Xiang Xi's text message finally came in.

I'm locked in the house and can't get out, can you help me find a general to come and open the door.

The address was attached to the text message, and Cheng Boyan read the entire text message with the address several times, and only after correcting the typos automatically did he understand it, but he couldn't tell from the content of the text message whether something happened or nothing happened.

He turned on the car's navigation, found out the approximate route, and sent Xiang Xi a text message: I'll be there now, and I'll arrive in about four or ten minutes.

This address is in the city, not too far from Cheng Boyan, but quite close to Fengbozhuang.

On the way Cheng Boyan drove there, the phone was quiet all the time, Xiang Xi didn't call or send text messages, it didn't feel like something happened.

He began to think about whether he was locked in the house by accident, and after he went to find a locksmith to open the door, should he scold Xiang Xi by the way, because of such a crap thing on the big rest day? Running back and forth for over an hour.

After arriving at the community, Cheng Boyan went around several times before finding a parking space on the side of the road. He got out of the car and looked around. There was no shop that repairs and unlocks the locks, so he decided to check the address first.

Xiang Xi lives on the seventh floor, the top floor, and there is no elevator. As Cheng Boyan walked up, he wondered in his heart whether Xiang Xi's legs could carry him up and down the seventh floor...

When they reached the sixth floor, the sound of someone shouting and cursing came down from upstairs.

Cheng Boyan stopped in his tracks. It wasn't Xiang Xi's voice, it was the voice of a strange man.

"You're so smart! You fucking know how to steal a cell phone!" The man scolded loudly, "As expected of a person who grew up in Dawa, stealing people invisible! I didn't even feel it!"

Cheng Boyan frowned, feeling that if this person was talking about Xiang Xi, then he would really be causing trouble for himself.

"It's okay! Who did you call? Have you sent rescuers? Call me to see, I think you can call something to help. Without Uncle Ping, you're just a bastard!"

Cheng Boyan walked to the seventh floor, the corridor was full of Chinese cabbage and scallions, the doors of the four rooms were closed, no one was seen, and the one who just cursed was silent.

Cheng Boyan stood in the corridor for a few seconds, but he didn't hear anything. The address Xiang Xi gave was only on the seventh floor, without the specific room number, so he had to raise his voice and shout twice: "Xiang Xi? Xiang Xi!"

"Hey—" Xiang Xi's voice suddenly came from an unknown room on the right, "Here! Here—"

"Where is it?" Cheng Boyan walked to the right. To be honest, Xiang Xi's voice startled him. He never thought that Xiang Xi's voice could be so crisp.

Xiang Xi didn't answer, the door at the back opened, and a young man in his twenties came out. It was quite cold, but he was only wearing a vest.

Cheng Boyan stopped and looked at this person face to face. The person stared at him and said nothing, so he had to call out again: "Xiang Xi? Is it the one in the back?"

"Yes yes yes!" Xiang Xi's voice came over clearly, and then he answered with some worry, "Brother, you came alone?"

"Should I still bring the police here?" Cheng Boyan said, the man in front of him didn't speak, and he didn't move out of the way, just stopped in front of him. Vest... man, is that your friend?"

"What are you doing?" the man in the vest finally spoke, staring at Cheng Boyan before Xiang Xi answered, and asked quite bluntly.

"Look for Xiang Xi." Cheng Boyan answered very simply. No matter what kind of relationship this person has with Xiang Xi, he doesn't look like a good bird. Cheng Boyan naturally doesn't like people with this kind of appearance. Poor thing, he doesn't even care about Xiang Xi right now.

"Who are you?" The man in the vest looked him up and down.

Cheng Boyan didn't speak, and impatiently dawdling here, he went over and pulled the man in the vest to the side, and walked directly into the room.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Xiang Xi standing behind the iron door of the back room with both hands clasped on the iron railing, and instantly felt like he had come all the way to visit the prison.

"Brother," as soon as Xiang Xi saw him coming in, he stretched out his arm from the railing, waved at him, and said quickly in a low voice, "won't you find a locksmith to come with you? What if something happens to you when you come here alone!"

"Something happened just now." Cheng Boyan glanced back at the man in the vest who followed him in, walked to the iron gate and looked, then turned around and stretched out his hand to the man in the vest, "the key."

"Tan Xiaokang! Open the door quickly!" Xiang Xi also shouted.

"Oh, it's really different immediately if someone supports you." Tan Xiaokang stood still and said very unhappily, "It's my brother."

"What else do you want to do! It's endless, right!" Xiang Xi said impatiently.

"The key." Cheng Boyan frowned. The current scene of confrontation with the gangster made him very uncomfortable and felt a little ashamed.

"No," Tan Xiaokang replied simply, "Call the police if you have the ability!"

Cheng Boyan ignored him, turned to look at Xiang Xi: "Why did he lock you?"

"You pervert!" Xiang Xi became annoyed when he remembered what happened last night.

"Damn it, I'm so perverted!" Tan Xiaokang jumped to the iron gate, "Who do you think you are, you can't touch it!"

"That's right! You're the only one who can't touch it!" Xiang Xi kicked at the door, "Go away, you pervert!"

"Okay," Cheng Boyan had already heard the meaning of the conversation, frowned and glanced at Xiang Xi, without saying anything else, went to grab Tan Xiaokang's arm, "Key, don't force me to do it."

Tan Xiaokang didn't have the guts to make a move at first, but when Cheng Boyan grabbed him, he immediately exploded, as if he had been set on fire, he swung his arms and threw Cheng Boyan in the face: "What the hell kind of onion are you!"

"The biggest one!" Cheng Boyan dodged his arm, lost all patience at last, swung Tan Xiaokang onto the sofa, picked up someone's belt on the sofa, and slapped Tan Xiaokang's arm hard He pulled out his belt, "Where's the key!"

"Kill it! It's awesome..." Tan Xiaokang shouted, raised his leg and kicked Cheng Boyan's lower abdomen.

"Brother, be careful!" Xiang Xi was in a hurry, shaking the iron gate.

Cheng Boyan gave way, and Tan Xiaokang kicked him on the thigh, which was not weak and hurt. He clicked his tongue, grabbed Tan Xiaokang's arm and twisted it hard, and pushed his knee against his waist.

"Ah——" Tan Xiaokang howled, and was turned over and pushed down on the sofa, his arms were twisted behind his back and he couldn't move, only his two legs were still kicking on the ground.

"Get rid of him! Get rid of him!" Xiang Xi got excited when he saw it, and jumped on the iron gate railing, shouting, "Get rid of his shoulders!"

"Shut up!" Cheng Boyan turned his head and glared at him.

"The key is in his ass pocket." Xiang Xi immediately shut up and pointed.

When Cheng Boyan went to take out the keys, his hand loosened, and Tan Xiaokang immediately struggled to turn over and continue to attack.

"Feel it," Cheng Boyan quickly put his knee on his back, grabbed his wrist and lifted it up, and poked his shoulder twice with his finger, "here, let me try harder, Here it will come off."

Tan Xiaokang groaned and turned his face to stare at him.

"I know how to do this, but practice makes perfect. If you want to see it, I'll show it to you." Cheng Boyan took out the key from his pocket, "If you don't want to see it, just lie down and don't move."

Tan Xiaokang is not a ruthless character. After Cheng Boyan finished speaking, he fell silent. When Cheng Boyan let go of him and took the key to open the door, he just lay on the sofa and stared with blazing eyes.

Xiang Xi had already put all his things into the bag, and as soon as Cheng Boyan opened the iron door, he rushed out of the bedroom with the bag on his back, and passed towards Tan Xiaokang who was still lying on the sofa.

"What?" Cheng Boyan grabbed him.

Xiang Xi was dragged by his inertia and turned around half a circle before stopping, without speaking.

"Let's go." Cheng Boyan threw the key back on the table, and pulled Xiang Xi out of the door.

"Wait." Xiang Xi stopped, lowered his head and flipped through the bag.

Cheng Boyan stared at his hand, in case he was about to take out some murder weapon from his bag, but Xiang Xi rummaged through the bag for a long time, and took out a small roll of money from a hidden small side pocket.

He took a few out and put them on the small coffee table by the door, and glanced at Tan Xiaokang: "The rent, utilities, and electricity for these few days are about the same."

Cheng Boyan watched him roll up the rest of the money and stuff it back into the bag, then turned and walked out of the house.

After sitting in the car, Cheng Boyan didn't drive, and the two sat in silence for a long time.

"Brother, thank you." Xiang Xi said while holding his backpack, turning his head and looking out the window.

"What's going on here?" Cheng Boyan asked.

"Tan Xiaokang was my neighbor in Zhaojiayao before," Xiang Xi bit his lips, "I have nowhere to go after I get out of the hospital. I met him, so I stayed with him temporarily. He introduced me to Went to Fengbo Village."

"You have nowhere to go?" Cheng Boyan looked at him in surprise, "Didn't I send you to Zhaojiayao when you were discharged from the hospital?"

"If you insist on sending me, I have to ask you to send it somewhere," Xiang Xi smiled, "I...forget it, I can't believe it, anyway, I live with him, and it turns out Pervert, he insisted on touching me last night, saying he liked me, I was so disgusted to death, and then he locked me in the room, pervert!"

Cheng Boyan frowned and coughed lightly.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Xi turned to look at him, "It's a pervert!"

"Yes," Cheng Boyan nodded, feeling a little helpless, "Pervert."

"Don't let me swear, right?" Xiang Xi suddenly remembered, and said with some embarrassment, "I've said it for ten years, and it's easy to control. I want to let go of everything 20 There may be 18 dirty words in one word... I won't say it."

"Whatever you want," Cheng Boyan sighed, pinching the center of his brows, "You mean you have nowhere to go now, right?"

Yes, nowhere to go.

That's why he called Cheng Boyan.

Xiang Xi lowered his head, he called Cheng Boyan not just to find someone to get him out of Tan Xiaokang.

Cheng Boyan is the only "normal person" he knows in this world who can speak. If he wants to get rid of his past life and take the right step, he needs such a person.

In fact, if it wasn't really helpless, he didn't want to just pull Cheng Boyan in every possible way, which was dishonest and shameful, but right now he had no other way, if he didn't grab Cheng Boyan, he would slide back into the mud.

"It's okay." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose and smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled. "At worst, go back to the self-service bank."

"Self-service bank?" Cheng Boyan was stunned, "Snatch the teller machine at the bank? You need to improve your common sense..."

"Doctor Cheng, can you think about me for the better?" Xiang Xila sighed in a long voice, "Do I have to rob it? Can't I live there?"

"Live in a self-service bank?" Cheng Boyan squinted at him, "Is this called 'thinking better'?"

"Very good," Xiang Xi scratched his head, "If I hadn't met Tan Xiaokang to pee at the self-service bank that day, I would still be living there now, she almost peed all over me..."

"Scatter..." Cheng Boyan was speechless. He took out a small bottle of disinfectant from the storage basket in front of the car, squeezed some and rubbed it on his hands for a while, then started the car, "Stop talking, I'll take you to eat first." Have something."

"I invite you," Xiang Xi said immediately, "today you will come all the way to do this shit for me."

"No need, save some money." Cheng Boyan thought about how Xiang Xi carefully stuffed the roll of money back into his bag. The roll of money seemed to be only a few thousand, probably all of Xiang Xi's belongings.

"I'm not going to treat you to something high-end, just soy milk, fried dough sticks and pot stickers. For 20 yuan, we will be full," Xiang Xi smiled, "Brother, let me treat you once."

Cheng Boyan glanced at him: "Then I want to eat tofu nao."

"No problem!" Xiang Xi snapped his fingers, "I'll show you the way. There's a store at Fengbozhuang that does a really good job. I just discovered it a few days ago."

Cheng Boyan has never had breakfast outside since he was a child, his mother always cooks for him, even when he was in college, he never ate out a few times, because the medical university is in this city, and his mother always tells him to go home in different ways. Then do it for him.

The last time I sat in a roadside shop and ate tofu nao was last year.

He sat by the somewhat greasy table, watched Xiang Xi run back and forth a few times, brought a pile of steamed dumplings, fried dough sticks and pancakes, and two large bowls of tofu nao, then turned around and brought over two bowls of soy milk.

"...I can't finish it." Cheng Boyan looked at the things in front of him.

"Just tell me how much you can eat." Xiang Xi looked at him.

"A bowl of tofu nao, two deep-fried dough sticks." Cheng Boyan said.

"Ah?" Xiang Xi was stunned for a moment, then clicked his tongue twice, "It's no wonder you're always tired after work... You can eat, I'll eat everything you can't eat."

Cheng Boyan ate tofu nao and deep-fried dough sticks, and because the steamed dumplings smelled delicious, he ate two more dumplings, and Xiang Xi ate up the rest.

When he came out of the small shop, Xiang Xi patted his stomach and hiccupped, then looked at Cheng Boyan: "I hiccupped, it was very loud."

"I heard." Cheng Boyan frowned.

"Do you want to wash your hands?" Xiang Xi laughed.

"It's no wonder people have to be locked in the room with such a poor mouth." Cheng Boyan said.

"I'm locked in the room because I'm so handsome..." Xiang Xi felt very depressed when he mentioned this matter.

Speaking of it, although the new life started by Tan Xiaokang is not perfect, he has already started working part-time anyway. If Tan Xiaokang hadn’t had a convulsion, he might have worked hard for a while and could be a waiter, standing at the door and shouting a few words. Please.

But what he needs to consider now is not these, but whether Cheng Boyan, who has been silent all this time, will send him back to the self-service bank.

Cheng Boyan had already gotten into the car, he looked at Cheng Boyan's expression, but couldn't see why.

Cheng Boyan is soft-hearted, he can be sure of this, but Cheng Boyan and himself are not from the same world, he knows this, and Cheng Boyan knows it better than him.

Whether he was soft-hearted enough to continue helping him, a troubled street thug, he wasn't sure.

Cheng Boyan watched him get into the car, and instead of driving immediately, he stared at him for a while, Xiang Xi felt a little guilty when he saw him, and wanted to say, brother, I'd better get out of the car.

"Xiang Xi," Cheng Boyan started the car and said in a serious tone, "I know what you're thinking."

"Ah?" Xiang Xi was stunned.

"I'm not a very kind and kind person," Cheng Boyan drove the car forward, "I have my own reasons for helping you."

Xiang Xi responded, but didn't dare to speak more.

"You can stay with me for a few days," Cheng Boyan said. "In the next few days, you can slowly look for a house and a job."

"Okay!" Xiang Xi nodded quickly, "Thank you brother!"

"Also," Cheng Boyan glanced at him, "There must be three rules to live with me."