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Zheng Ao seems to have become a tourist attraction on this street.

The Zheng family has married beauties for several generations. When Zheng Ao came here, he was the best in height and appearance. In addition to the so-called nobility he had cultivated in rich clothes and jade food, he just stood there and smiled with the corners of his mouth. good signboard.Girls who are new to love are most likely to like this kind of cold, handsome guy who makes people feel distant. It will take a few years before they learn to look at their personality and the details of getting along.The college students are okay, a few high school girls specially took the bus from the south of the city to deliver love letters.

That's the good thing about being young, you can fall in love with someone with just one glance.

Business was not so good during class, and the queue wasn’t long. You could see him making cold drinks at the door of my house. Some girls bought lemonade and talked to him nervously.He picked up a cup, shoveled a few cubes of ice into the cup, added two lemons (probably cut by himself), washed it with ice water, sealed it and put it on the counter. It was easier than making a sandwich .He is tall, and except for the sealing, the whole process is done on the counter. Anyone can see whether the process of this glass of lemonade is worth more than ten yuan.During the whole process, he kept his head on one side, looked lazy, and said nothing. The girl seemed to say something. He raised his eyes, curled the corners of his mouth as a smile, and was next.

Xiao Xin also said with emotion: "I also admire the fact that she is so confident in selling her face."

"Then you still come here to watch every day?" I didn't even look up.When the weather is fine, I do my laundry at the door.Niu Niu squatted beside him and watched. He had a big head, and he looked as if he was about to plant his head into a pot.

"If you don't see it, don't look at it," Xiaoxin said with a smile: "What name should you name him? Cold drink Xi Shi? Lemon Xi Shi? I watched it for a day, and he seems to be able to make lemonade..."

When I came home at night, Niu Niu didn’t know where to play. I was closing the shop, and he ran over to me with a small trailer and said, “Father Ruirui, Lemon Xishi is going to sleep at Aunt Xiaoyi’s house today.” Xiaoxin The level of nicknames is still good, easy to understand, and children will remember it after hearing it.

"Oh, really?" I asked Niu Niu, "Did your father say anything?"

Niu Niu's father has always liked Lin Yi who opened a cold drink shop across the street, but his mouth is a bit stupid, and his emotional intelligence is probably at the level of a boy who fights everywhere in high school, and Lin Yi has a good mouth, even if he walks in front of Lin Yi. If you dare to talk to him, you can only sulk.

Niu Niu seems to be trying to remember: "Father's female student said that Auntie Xiaoyi is going to fall in love with Lemon Xi Shi."

"That's it, I see." I patted Niu Niu's head: "Children who tell lies will be captured by the big bad wolf."

Niu Niu looked very nervous, glanced at Rui Rui who was waiting for me, and then ran away quickly.

Ruirui has a very calm expression, playing her own cards on the side.

In the evening, I wore an apron and was cooking in the kitchen. When I heard voices at the door, I took a spatula to look at it. Ruirui stood at the door, hugged Zheng Ao, and buried his head on his shoulder. Zheng Ao had a smile on his face. Laugh, he has long fingers and big hands, when he touches Ruirui's little head, the scene is warm and funny.

Ruirui looked back and saw me, but ran to the bedroom without saying a word.

Zheng Ao was resting on the blanket, leaning against the wall at the door, apparently after taking a bath, the tail of his hair was a little wet, the corners of his mouth curled up, and he looked at me with a smile.

"Rui Rui likes you very much." I said.

"If only his father liked me too." After working as a waiter for two days, Zheng Ao was probably also infected by those young people. There was a golden light on his hair, and his smile was extremely dazzling.

I stood at the door and talked to him.

"Did you take a shower?"

"The boss asked me to do the laundry, probably because he was afraid that I would affect the business." He sat leisurely, wearing a new white shirt, which seemed to be a bit shorter, with the sleeves rolled up, and trousers underneath, showing ankles, without shoes , Sitting in the corridor is more comfortable than sitting on the grass.

"What's your boss's name?"

"What's Lin?" He looked like he couldn't remember: "Lin Yan or Lin..."

I didn't speak any more, but stretched out my hand. He probably thought I was going to touch his face, so he hurried over.

I run my fingers over his neck and show him the lipstick on my fingertips.

He was stunned, and then touched it himself. He was shocked immediately, and shouted in the next second: "Xiao Lang, you have to trust me! I don't know where this thing came from! You have to trust my aesthetics... "

I had no choice but to say, "Let go of my legs first."

"No," he said like a rogue, "what if you run away."

I pushed his shoulder: "Then don't take the opportunity to rub against my house, I won't let you in."

He didn't show any embarrassment when he was exposed. He still hugged my leg and refused to let it go. I stood helplessly at the door. As long as any neighbor saw this scene, I couldn't explain it clearly.

"Let go first, okay?" I reasoned with him, "I know this lipstick is none of your business."

In fact, Zheng Ao had realized it a long time ago, so he took advantage of this opportunity to wait for a while. Fortunately, I am still used to wearing trousers with a belt, otherwise the trousers would fall off.The Zheng family can't bear any losses by nature. They are afraid that I will wrong him, so they still hold my hand and refuse to let go.I can't do anything about him: "How can you let go?"

"Unless Xiao Lang invites me to dinner." He will make an inch of it.

I glanced around him: "Where are the lunch boxes you collected?"

"Don't talk about it." He frowned: "One is burnt, one can't even cut a radish well, and the other has no appetite just looking at it. I probably won't be able to go to work tomorrow after eating it. You can't throw it in front of you, say It’s for fear of affecting business.”

"Aren't you going to starve tonight?" I asked him.

He hugged my leg again.

"Xiao Lang won't let me starve, will he?"

Such a beautiful face, looking at you from bottom to top, with stars in the eyes, is simply irresistible.

"Sit back." I said to him, "I'll serve you some food, and you're not allowed to enter the house."

He had an unlovely expression on his face, but seeing that I was about to get angry, he could only let go and lean against the wall wearily.If he were Li Xiu's friends, he would probably have sung songs like "Tears Behind the Iron Window" by this time, "Holding Wowotou in Hands". Unfortunately, he has never been in the army, so he may not be able to sing these songs. .

I walked into Ruirui's room.I just bathed him, his hair was wet, and he was sitting on the bed in his cream pajamas playing cards.The hands and feet are fleshy, and the cheeks are white and tender. I am having fun with my head down.

I didn't speak, I pulled out a chair and sat down beside the bed.

Ruirui pretended not to see me, and was still playing alone.

After a while, he couldn't bear it anymore and looked up at me.I looked at him with a serious expression, but he shrank his eyes back and continued to play cards, but he was a little absent-minded.

"Rui Rui, do you know what Dad is going to tell you?"

He still kept his head down and didn't speak, just shook his head, he was a copy of Zheng Ao when he was a child, but I was afraid that others would laugh at him like Li Xiu laughed at Zheng Ao for being girly, so the clothes I bought for him were boy's.Niu Niu, on the other hand, was not quite sure whether he should be called "sister" or not when she first met him, she bit her finger and stared blankly at him for a long time, Rui Rui remembered hating him, so she never liked to play with him.

I sighed, and started to search the room, looking through a few drawers. His expression was very calm. When I found it near the desk lamp, he became visibly nervous.

I moved the desk lamp away, and found a lipstick underneath, light red, and the fragrance was exactly the same as the one I found on Zheng Ao's neck.

Rui Rui lowered her head and silently shrank into the corner of the bed.

The child Ruirui is good at everything, good-looking, and has a much better temper than Zheng Ao, Li Xiu and the others when they were young, but he is still too smart.

I know he's only good-tempered because I ask him to be.Those things in his bones, such as unscrupulous means to achieve the goal, such as the incomparable stubbornness and confidence in his own position and what he wants to do, are all things that I can't change.For example, now, although he looks like he knows he is wrong, he actually thinks he is right in his heart.Whether it is his original intention, means, or what he has done, he feels right.Even if he admits his mistake, it's just to make me feel better.

But I also have a responsibility.

I have always felt that my influence on him cannot be used to change his nature, and children should not be restrained like this.I have my values, but this may not be right. It is impossible for me to use my values ​​to change him.His character is innate, like Li Xiu and Zheng Ao, probably some people with too high IQ tend to make a horrible mistake - just like humans look at monkeys, they feel that only they and themselves care about this world People are important, and the rest are monkeys, and monkeys have no human rights.So Ruirui didn't think it was wrong for him to calculate Zheng Ao like this.

I sat down on the bed and reached out to touch Ruirui's head.

Rui Rui flinched.

He never concealed his fear in front of me, because he knew that I would tolerate him without a bottom line and love him dearly.

"Why did you do this? Rui Rui." I lowered my head and asked him.

He stretched out his short arms and wrapped them around my waist.

"I don't like him," Rui Rui said in a muffled voice, "he will take Dad away."

"No, Dad will always be with Ruirui." I didn't realize that he meant to take me away instead of himself.

Rui Rui looked up at me.

"But Papa likes him, doesn't he?"

A child's eyes are as clear as a starry sky, and it is so easy to see directly into people's hearts.I can't meet his eyes, but I can't teach kids to lie, I have to be a good example.

"Yes, Dad used to like him very much, and maybe he still likes him now." I said softly, "But he has done too much to Dad, so Dad will not accept him."

"But things that are too much will be forgiven." Rui Rui is much smarter than I imagined: "There will be a long time in the future, if he does a lot of touching things like now Offset, so what to do?"

I was questioned.Children always tell the most direct truth, which catches people off guard.I once told Zheng Ao that what stands between us is what he has done, but as long as it is done, it is over and quantifiable, and time is moving forward, he is smarter than me , so trying to offset that with something else.

"No, Rui Rui," I comforted him: "The essence of a person will not change, he is just pretending now."

"But people grow up." Ruirui looked at me anxiously.

I understand what he means.

When Ruirui just started to understand, he had a bad temper and was very impatient with people. At that time, Niu Niu liked to play with him. As long as Niu Niu approached him, he would push Niu Niu away. cry.I continued to follow him, but other children were not so well-behaved, and some parents complained to me. Ruirui was very young at that time, and I reasoned with him, saying that we should be more considerate, and others will hurt if they fall.He said: "Father, I don't care about their pain when they fall. Am I a bad person?"

He inherited the indifference in the Zheng family's bones, the superior attitude, and the terminally ill intelligence.

But I told him that people will grow up, you will gradually learn to live in peace with this world, dad will not change your nature, as long as you can not hurt others, dad will not force you to do other things.

He was afraid that Zheng Ao would grow into a better person like him, so I couldn't refuse.

But I can't answer this question.

I can only touch his hair and tell him: "No matter what, Dad will always be with Ruirui."

Until the day you don't need me anymore.

I packed a big bowl of rice for Zheng Ao, with pork ribs, beef, and green vegetable vermicelli piled up on the surface, and then brought Ruirui to serve it to him.

Zheng Ao was leaning against the wall with one leg bent, looking contented.There was only one more cigarette in his mouth, and he looked like a real ruffian. The aunt upstairs smiled at him when she came back from get off work, and he even extended his hand to say hello: "Good morning?"

I asked Ruirui to apologize to him.

Ruirui looked very dissatisfied, but she was still very obedient, she walked slowly to his side, and said confidently: "I'm sorry."

Zheng Ao reached out and touched Ruirui's head.

"Good boy, you still know how to plot against me." He was not angry at all, but smiled happily: "It's quite like when I was a child."

I served him the meal, ignoring his attempts to strike up a conversation.

After closing the door, I sat down to feed Rui Rui, and within three seconds, the door was slapped loudly.

I opened the door and saw that Zheng Ao was leaning on the door frame: "Water...water..."

Appears to be choked.

I called Rui Rui, and Rui Rui came over with a glass of water on the table, but she didn't know if there was any addition.

When Zheng Ao was drinking water, I folded my arms and looked at him.He sat on the ground with his upper body leaning against the door frame.Next to it is a pile of blankets and the like that I gave, probably some aunt had a maternal outburst and wiped the corridor clean, and it was probably also brushed by him.

"Zheng Ao, do you want me to give you a cardboard box?"

He was about to choke to death, still drinking water slowly, and smiled at me: "Why do you want a cardboard box?"

"Collect money," I said mercilessly, "Your posture is no different from that of a beggar sitting on the street."

Zheng Ao smiled even brighter.

"No way," he retorted to me: "The beggar looks so handsome like me, so he can work as a waiter in a cold drink shop."

He didn't know whether it was really thirsty or wasting time, but he still drank slowly.In the process of drinking water, another girl who was going to study by herself came up and walked over with a blushing face.I ducked away, not wanting the neighbors to know I knew him.

"Zheng Ao, when people see you like this, how do you feel, don't you feel ashamed?" I tried to arouse his shame.

"It's good." He probably lived comfortably and had water to moisten his throat, and he suddenly thought quickly: "Yan Hui lived in a back alley without changing his aspirations. I can only be regarded as poor, not ashamed. Most of the ancient and modern sages People are poor, and people don’t judge their status by money, Xiao Lang, is there something wrong with your thinking?”

"Then I take two photos and pass them on to Li Xiu, so that he can show your friends in Beijing and publicize your sage deeds, wouldn't it be better?" I took out my phone.

He posed generously and leaned against the wall: "Let's take a picture, those people don't understand, they think I'm playing with some new trend, maybe someone will run to Chang'an Avenue tomorrow to imitate me."

I'm speechless at his thick skin.

"Do you think it's right for you to do this now?" I changed my starting point: "Like Li Xiu and the others are doing serious business, you are the only one in the Zheng family, you are doing these messy things, are you worthy of your father and the others? "

He smiled even more.

"There is an old saying, self-cultivation and Qi family rule the country and the world." He patted the dust on his trouser legs: "I have almost cultivated self-cultivation. I am now in the Qi family. When are you willing to let me in, my home will also be closed." It's over, Ruirui, what do you think?"

Rui Rui was afraid that I would think that he and Zheng Ao were in the same group, so he quickly pulled my trouser legs and shrank behind me.

"What you want is not me, but the illusory pursuit in your mind. You are just missing what you lost." I told him coldly.

"When I was first liked by someone, I really couldn't believe it. I would feel guilty, thinking that the other party didn't see my true nature, and what I liked was only the self in his imagination." He added leisurely: "I was like this at the beginning."

"Really, unfortunately I'm not interested in knowing."

"You'll know," he said with a smile on his face, "don't be so nervous, Xiao Lang, I'm just chasing you. What I'm doing is just to show you who I am. You always have the chance to say no, So just be patient."

"You mean I can treat you like you did to me?" I asked back.

"Warm welcome." He spread his arms: "Come on, lock me up in your house, I will definitely not run around."

"Then I first want to find dozens or hundreds of people outside..." I looked at Ruirui on the side, and finally found a suitable word: "Give it a try."

"Let me try it first." Zheng Ao saw that I didn't dare to say anything in front of Ruirui, and became more and more aggressive: "I did make a lot of mistakes before, but Xiaolang can be optimistic about me, and I will never mess around outside in the future." Come, I promise."

"Go and promise someone else." I didn't bother to have trouble with him any longer: "Bring the cup."

He handed it over, and I stretched out my hand to catch it. I don’t know how he moved. He grabbed my wrist with one hand, and took the falling cup with the other hand. With the strength of pulling me, I stood up and pressed me on the ground. on the door frame.For a split second, I thought he was going to kiss me and tried to hide reflexively, but he just put his chin on my shoulder and whispered in my ear.

"That's great, Xiao Lang." He sighed softly, "It's great that you're still here."

He just took a shower, and his body smelled like shower gel. I don't know if it was a fever or something. The temperature on his body was a little high, and my palms were sweating.

"It's a pity you're here, it's very bad for me." I tried my best to refute him coldly.

He chuckled and let me go.

I pulled Rui Rui back and closed the door.

"Good night, Xiao Lang." He said loudly outside.

Ruirui has a very worried look on his face, I know what he is worried about.

Never mind, I won't believe it.I said in my heart, I know my weight, what he wants is not me, but his regret for the year.And so what if it was true?What has been done is what has been done, and so many "pasts" like him are the iron-clad facts.

I like my life now and don't want any changes.His current "pursuit" is still tolerable, but if one day he gets tired of playing and wants to be tough, I won't stand still.