Mindful

Qiao Yuanlin raised his head and looked at Liang Cheng for a few seconds, then said in surprise, "Are you Superman?"

Liang Cheng's reaction was much calmer. After confirming that it was Qiao Yuanlin who placed the order, he took out the risotto and soy milk and said, "Remember to pay the bill."

The lunch box was still hot, Qiao Yuanlin looked down at the takeaway receipt, his WeChat nickname was plainly written in the customer column: What to eat.

With a buzzing sound, Liang Cheng rushed into the alley on his motorcycle.

Qiao Yuanlin also went back, holding the takeaway and handing out a red envelope for payment, before he digested the fact that the other party was Superman.

Turning to the side of the building, Liang Cheng stepped forward to open the door, inserted the key into the keyhole, and there was a sudden quarrel in the back alley.He let go, turned around and said to Qiao Yuanlin, "You go in first."

Qiao Yuanlin didn't understand what happened, Liang Cheng had already walked towards the back alley.

The sound of quarreling continued, and it seemed that it was the couple who often fought. Qiao Yuanlin didn't see it last time, so he pulled out the key and chased after it.

There was only one light bulb in the entire back alley, and the light was gray. Liang Cheng's face was smeared by the dark light, and he walked halfway to find Qiao Yuanlin following him.

He stopped and asked aloud, "What are you doing?"

Qiao Yuanlin replied, "Go and have a look."

Liang Cheng said: "What's the point of quarreling in other people's houses?"

"Then why are you going?" Qiao Yuanlin ignored it, and strode past Liang Cheng with her chin raised, "Wherever I like to go, take care of yourself."

Liang Cheng stood still on the spot, crossed his arms and said, "It's right here."

Not long ago, Qiao Yuanlin retreated awkwardly and stopped beside Liang Cheng.

Fierce yelling poured out from the opposite door, and the words were dirty. Qiao Yuanlin listened blankly, thankful that Qiao Wenyuan and Lin Chengbi didn't make such a mess.

The door opened a crack, and Xiao Le escaped dejectedly to seek refuge. Seeing Liang Chengru saw the savior, he rushed over and hugged Liang Cheng's thigh.

Qiao Yuanlin looked at this scene in surprise, curious about the relationship between Liang Cheng and the little boy.

But Liang Cheng was not enthusiastic, he pinched Xiao Le's collar and tore it off his legs, and his tone was the same as usual: "A fight?"

"Not yet." Xiao Le said, "My dad just came back from get off work and blamed my mom for not cooking, and then we got into a fight."

Liang Cheng asked: "Have you eaten yet?"

Xiao Le nodded, then shook her head and said, "I'm not hungry."

Qiao Yuanlin remained silent the whole time, and weighed the takeaway in his hand upon hearing this.Although he didn't know the little boy, it didn't seem appropriate to stand by and watch since they were all here.

"That, little brother?"

Xiao Le had noticed Qiao Yuanlin a long time ago, he was a little suspicious, and quietly pulled Liang Cheng's clothes: "Brother Liang Cheng, is this brother your friend?"

Qiao Yuanlin answered first, "No."

Liang Cheng simply closed his mouth, while Xiao Le looked blank.Qiao Yuanlin just chatted to death like this, handed over the takeaway in embarrassment, and said, "I have something to eat, let me eat it for you."

Xiao Le looked at Liang Cheng and asked for instructions with his eyes.

Qiao Yuanlin asked: "What do you think he is doing? Is he your brother?"

Liang Cheng approved, "Let's eat."

Xiao Le bowed to Qiao Yuanlin gratefully: "Thank you brother!"

Qiao Yuanlin shyly took a step aside and touched Liang Cheng's arm.He quickly withdrew his hand and picked up the sweater pocket.

Xiao Le opened the lunch box, and the aroma filled half the alley.

Qiao Yuanlin inhaled involuntarily, and stared at the boxed lunch. There were so many shrimps, the diced bamboo shoots must be very crispy, the ham pieces were salty, and it was served with a mouthful of sweet soy milk...

Liang Cheng saw it out of the corner of his eye, and ignored the ear-piercing quarrel for a while.

Xiao Le was not so hungry after eating halfway, and said, "Brother, do you live here too?"

Qiao Yuanlin swallowed: "Oh, I just moved here two days ago, and I live in the cheongsam shop in front."

Xiao Le said: "So you live with Brother Liang Cheng."

Qiao Yuanlin said vaguely, "I guess, but I'm not familiar with it at all."

Xiao Le simply asked: "Why do you not know each other well?"

Qiao Yuanlin was the youngest among his siblings, and had never dealt with children before. He touched Liang Cheng's elbow nonchalantly, and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "You answer."

Liang Cheng just said three words: "Eat yours."

Qiao Yuanlin thought to himself: Ah, so it's so simple?

The quarrel became weaker, Xiao Le glanced back and said, "I think I can go home, brother Liang Cheng, what if they fight in the middle of the night?"

Liang Chengdao: "110 call the police."

Qiao Yuanlin gave Xiaole a handsome smile, and said, "If the situation is not good, you can run away, and you can go to the cheongsam shop to stay for a while."

"Thank you brother." Xiao Le remembered something and asked, "Brother, can I see the puppy?"

Qiao Yuanlin: "What puppy?"

Xiao Le said: "Brother Liang Cheng didn't sleep well two days ago, he said it was because a puppy ran into the room."

The quarrel finally stopped, and Liang Cheng left as soon as he said he would.

Qiao Yuanlin was stunned for a few seconds to understand, followed behind and shouted angrily: "Liang, who do you call a puppy?!"

Returning to the cheongsam shop, Liang Cheng touched his pocket and remembered that the key was at Qiao Yuanlin's place, so he stepped aside.

Qiao Yuanlin was carrying two keys, as if carrying 500 million, and proudly threatened: "If you can't get in, tell me first that you are a dog."

As soon as he finished speaking, his stomach gurgled, which was very clear in the middle of the night.

Qiao Yuanlin was a little embarrassed, and covered it up: "...Hurry up and talk."

Liang Cheng glanced at the time and said, "You can do what you want, I'll go have a midnight snack."

Qiao Yuanlin didn't even think about it: "Where to eat?"

Liang Cheng said: "Follow if you want."

Qiao Yuanlin was unwilling: "I've walked so many ways, I place an order, and you go and buy it for me, so you don't have to say that."

"Sorry, Superman is off work." Liang Cheng turned and walked out.

Qiao Yuanlin was tangled in place, is there really a snack nearby?His stomach growled again, and he was too hungry to fall asleep even if he went home, so he had no choice but to believe the surname Liang once.

The old town is not prosperous enough, and Changlin Street is completely dark at this time.Qiao Yuanlin followed Liang Cheng for 50 meters, and when he reached the entrance of the convenience store, his disappointment was palpable: "Is it here?"

Liang Cheng ignored him, pushed open the glass door and went in.

The owner of the convenience store is ordering goods, and he is used to customers coming late at night, saying: "Let's have a midnight snack. There is also a meat floss rice ball for fast food, and hot water is provided for instant noodles."

There was only a bucket of braised beef noodles left on the shelf, Liang Cheng and Qiao Yuanlin held out their hands at the same time.

Just as Qiao Yuanlin was about to take it back, Liang Cheng pushed the instant noodles to him.

There was a table by the window, Liang Cheng bought rice balls, sat on a high chair with one leg bent, and the other leg stepped on the ground.Qiao Yuanlin lay beside him, staring intently at the instant noodle bucket.

It was dark outside, Qiao Yuanlin yawned, and said to himself, "I'm going to be late again tomorrow."

The glass was as clear as a mirror. He looked over at Liang Cheng, pursed his lips, hesitantly said, "Do you run errands every night? Is it a part-time job?"

Liang Cheng peeled off the rice ball and ate it, saying, "It depends on your mood."

"You leave early and return late, I thought you were taking the postgraduate entrance examination." Qiao Yuanlin said again, "What major do you study?"

Liang Cheng raised his eyes and looked at him from the mirror, chewing silently, with an almost gloomy tone: "I don't go to school."

Qiao Yuanlin felt that the atmosphere had suddenly changed. He pulled out the fork fixed on the bucket of instant noodles, lifted the paper cover and said, "My noodles are ready, so I won't tell you."

The two ate a few bites quietly, and the boss shouted from behind the cashier: "Do you want to get a recharge card? With your student ID card, you can get a breakfast coupon and give you a notebook."

Qiao Yuanlin asked subconsciously, "What are you going to do?"

Liang Cheng asked back: "What do you think?"

"Oh...look at my memory." Qiao Yuanlin bit her fork, but couldn't hold back after all, "You mean you dropped out of school?"

Liang Cheng ate without any response, his Adam's apple rolled up and down, not denying it was tantamount to acquiescing.

With Qiao Yuanlin's age and family background, the people around him can only attend endless cram schools. "Dropping out of school" is really a distant and unexpected word.He tried to make up the reason, but couldn't even find a reasonable clue.

Liang Cheng said suddenly: "What else do you want to ask?"

But both his expression and tone of voice indicated that - don't talk to Lao Tzu again.

Qiao Yuan, Lin Ansheng ate noodles, but he ate slowly, and gradually he almost stopped.He took out a pair of bowls and chopsticks from the disinfection cabinet, picked out half a bowl of noodles in it, poured bright red soup on it, and pushed it to Liang Cheng.

Maybe it was moved with compassion?

"I can't finish it." He said pretending to be meaningless.

Without saying anything, Liang Cheng broke the rice ball in half and handed it over politely.

Qiao Yuanlin shook his head: "No, I don't eat what other people have eaten."

Liang Cheng said: "Sleeping soundly on a bed that others have slept on."

"Cut." Qiao Yuanlin made a deadly excuse, "I miss my grandpa."

It was past one o'clock in the morning, Liang Cheng finished his meal first, and had no key but had to wait for Qiao Yuanlin to join him. After 10 minutes, he found that Qiao Yuanlin's eating speed could not keep up with the speed of soaking the noodles.

The boss waited to get off work and started to chase people away: "Little brothers, I'm going to close."

Qiao Yuanlin said dissatisfied: "But I haven't finished eating yet."

"Then hurry up and eat, I'm so anxious." The boss said, "How about I give you a piece of ham sausage, so you can go home and eat it?"

In the middle of the night, all the shops were closed, and the street lights were flickering in the shadow of the trees. Qiao Yuanlin was crossing the road with a bucket of braised beef noodles in both hands, with a fork in his mouth.

A van passed by quickly, with no intention of avoiding it.Liang Cheng grabbed Qiao Yuanlin's hat from behind and dragged him to his side.

Qiao Yuanlin snorted an abstract "thank you".

Liang Cheng let go, took out a key from his pocket, and replied, "You're welcome."

After finishing speaking, he left him.

Back at the cheongsam shop, Liang Cheng went upstairs to rest.After eating instant noodles, Qiao Yuanlin was struck by sleepiness. He didn't clean up his homework on the console, and went upstairs to brush his teeth and go to bed.

The next morning, the smell of instant noodles lingered in the store, and when Liang Cheng came down, Wang Ruizhi asked him to help pull the shutter.

He lifted the rolling shutter door with one hand, and the storefront was immediately brightly lit. A gust of wind blew in, and the test papers on the stage shook and fell to his feet.

Liang Cheng picked it up, turned it to the front, looked at the test paper and looked up - Dezhong Middle School.

The most difficult, top-notch, and most expensive private high school in Pinghai City has an acceptance rate of less than six percent.

The subject is biology, and the scope of the test is the genetic and evolution module. The paper is all in English, and it should be a chapter quiz for the international class.

Liang Cheng roughly scanned and went back to check the score.

Oh, fail.

Qiao Yuanlin woke up half an hour later than usual. When he saw the alarm clock, he was so frightened that he lost sleepiness. After packing up, he saw Liang Cheng admiring his biology papers without permission.

Qiao Yuanlin repeated the original words: "Let me go."

He was quite vengeful, Liang Cheng put the paper on the table, and suddenly smiled.The first time he smiled in front of Qiao Yuanlin, it was fleeting, with a bit of undisguised contempt.

Qiao Yuanlin felt uncomfortable and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Liang Cheng answered casually: "It's nothing, I am happy with your grades."

Qiao Yuanlin suspected that the other party could not understand his test paper at all, and said, "A dropout, you have the nerve to laugh at me?"

Liang Cheng asked: "Can we dropouts only run errands?"

Qiao Yuanlin didn't have time for breakfast, so he suddenly missed the point: "I want to place an order, you can go to Wuji Breakfast and buy me a sea oyster cake."

Liang Cheng refused: "I don't accept orders during the day."

"why?"

Liang Cheng shook the car key, and said before leaving: "Dropping out of school and working in society is busy, I'm going to kill someone today."

The motorcycle left a trail of exhaust fumes, Qiao Yuanlin stuffed the paper into his schoolbag forcefully, thinking regretfully, he shouldn't have sympathized with this kind of person last night.