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Li Xuedao would listen to the news for half an hour every Monday afternoon in the fourth self-study class, and this week it was the turn of the third group to hand in the recordings, but Yuan Mu forgot to take the tapes when he went out in the morning.He wiped his mouth after eating and was about to go home, Qiu Yu took the garbage bag that Yuan Mu was packing up, and said that he would go downstairs with him to digest food.

On the way, Qiu Yu gave Yuan Mu the car keys, and the two of them expressed their opinions on the string of pink pendants at Da Dou.

When they arrived at the carport, Qiu Yu asked, "Why don't I see you off, are your legs okay?"

Yuan Mu waved him back: "Come on, I can still lift the front leg a little lower."

Qiu Yu pushed the car out for him: "You can give me a ride when I get home that night."

Yuan Mu said bluntly, "It's not impossible." He turned his head and handed him a pack of band-aids, raised his chin to point at Qiu Yu's nose, "Remember to change it yourself."

Qiu Yu approached lazily: "You change it for me first."

When Yuan Mu had a fit of laziness, he tore off a sheet and told him to put away the rest.It's hard to move with one leg on the ground, so Yuan Mu made a sticker and waited for someone to come over.

Without Yuan Mu opening his mouth, Qiu Yu consciously leaned over, bent over and propped up his knees to match his sitting height.Yuan Mu was uncomfortably stared at by Qiu Yu, and glanced at him while flicking his hand.

Seeing that he was looking at her, Qiu Yu said at the right time, "When I get to this distance, I want to kiss."

Yuan Mu ignored him.

Qiu Yu continued, "What did you say this morning?"

After it was dealt with, Yuan Mu didn't leave immediately, he held his face and rubbed it: "It said that the school's security surveillance is at an angle of [-] degrees behind you."

"It's anti-theft car, can it prevent kissing?"

"Just in case you are out of your mind."

Qiu Yu thought, I want to kiss you a hundred times a day, and I only let you know once, which is still not sober.He lowered his head with drooping eyelids, feeling that he couldn't resist kissing Yuan Mu, just like he couldn't resist scratching the itchy wound——

Suddenly a hand came up from the back of his neck, Yuan Mu stretched out his neck and kissed him, deliberately kissing the bruise at the corner of his mouth, and left with a touch: "Let's go."

...a very bad kind of wound.

If Yuan Mu went home alone, in order not to pass by the fruit shop, he usually took a detour to the street corner.That's why he didn't know until he got home that the fruit shop was closed today.

Pushing the door open, he saw the leather shoes that Yuan Gaopeng often wore on the shoe rack. Yuan Mu wondered why he hadn't set off yet when he was supposed to go back to the factory this time since he usually only had four or five days off every month.

Yuan Mu planned to come and go quietly. He found the tape in the pile of books in the bedroom and was about to go out, but he bumped into Yuan Gaopeng coming out of the room, carrying a basin of bloody water to the bathroom with a solemn expression.

When he saw Yuan Mu, he paused, his expression horrified: "Yuan Mu—"

Facing the bloody thing, Yuan Mu was in a daze: "...what's going on?"

Without even thinking about it, he rushed straight to Yuan Gaopeng and Fang Qiong's room, Yuan Gaopeng couldn't say anything, he could only shout: "Yuan Mu!"

The door couldn't be opened, and someone blocked it with something inside.

He heard Fang Qiong's voice: "Don't come in."

"mom!"

"Don't come in." Fang Qiong didn't even have the strength to speak, so he said weakly, "Go to your school."

Yuan Cha was originally on his lunch break, but when he heard the movement, he found out, timidly: "Brother, what's the matter?"

Yuan Mu knocked on the door silently, showing his vigor, vowing to break open the door and go in to see Fang Qiong.

Yuan Cha hurriedly went to the bathroom: "Dad—"

Yuan Gaopeng got up and stood in front of her and shouted: "What are you looking at! Go back to your room!"

Yuan Cha didn't know why, but only knew that Fang Qiong had something to do, so he ran to open the door with Yuan Mu.She couldn't do anything, and when she was in a panic, she cried and knocked on the door: "What's wrong! Why can't mom open the door? Mom, let me go in and have a look! Mom—what's wrong with you..."

Yuan Gaopeng was cleaning the filth in the basin when the door was kicked open and hit him on the back, and hit Yuan Mu's shoe with a bang.Yuan Mu's gaze was like a sword, and he made no effort to hide his anger, hatred, and aggressiveness.

"Why didn't you take her to the hospital?"

At the same time, there were two "clicks" on the floor, indicating that the broom on the top door in another room was removed.Yuan Mu turned his head and saw Yuan Cha was able to twist the door and enter. He knelt down beside the bed, and finally cried out, venting all his fear and panic to his mother: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo what's wrong with you... "

Insect-like noises swirled in the ears, drowning Yuan Mu and Yuan Cha's wailing, and the scene in front of him became a silent pantomime.His Adam's apple rolled, his brows frowned, his fist slowly loosened, his index finger moved unconsciously, and gently touched the middle knuckle of the middle finger that had been accidentally gouged out by the doorknob just now.

Yuan Gaopeng changed a basin of warm water, walked around Yuan Mu in the middle of the door, and carried it to Fang Qiong's bed without touching a piece of his clothes.

Yuan Mu bent his neck, spread the back of his hands, and looked at the place that lost the protection of the skin, where the blood was wiped off and then protruded densely, repeating this.He put it in his mouth and sucked it.

It was almost time for class, and Yuan Cha was sent out by his father carrying his schoolbag.Yuan Gaopeng walked in and closed the door lightly. When he turned around, he looked at Yuan Mu on the sofa. He paused for a while, and said hesitantly, "You...you should also prepare to go back to school. Don't be late."

Yuan Mu buried his head and focused on his fingers.

Yuan Gaopeng sighed, and then went to see Fang Qiong's situation.

The house was silent for a long time, Yuan Gaopeng closed the door and came to the living room.He thought about it and thought it should be explained.Yuan Gaopeng sat next to Yuan Mu, with a distance between the two, and said, "The one in your mother's stomach was decided after we discussed it together. You and Xiaocha are so old, our economy burden......"

"Why didn't you take her to the hospital?"

Yuan Gaopeng said: "Take medicine at home, and I discussed it with your mother..."

"Is there no money to go to the hospital for an abortion?" Yuan Mu's usual tone of chatting with him.

Yuan Gaopeng couldn't find a word to answer for a while.

"Do you have money to buy condoms?" Yuan Mu said, "Can you use them? If not, I will teach you."

"Yuan Mu." Fang Qiong called his name, and floated out from the narrow crack of the door.

Yuan Mu looked at the door, when it couldn't be opened, he desperately wanted to get in, but when it was opened, he lost his urgency, so he had to go in.

He shook his hand, walked over, and stood by the door.

Fang Qiong was covered with layers of quilts, her lips were pale and haggard, her hair was messily scattered on the pillow, and a few strands soaked in sweat stuck to her face, covering half of her facial features.

"Don't talk like that, go to your school." Fang Qiong said.

Yuan Mu didn't move.He never thought of comparing his mother to a flower, but the adjective in his mind is wither.

I always wanted to ask: "Mom, are you still in pain? If it hurts, let's go to the hospital."

I wanted to reach out to help my mother brush away the hair around her eyes, but in the end I couldn't.

The light from the street lamp could not distinguish the corridor, Qiu Yu scratched the key on the door for a long time but couldn't find the keyhole, and was about to climb to the fourth floor to pull the light to illuminate it, but Xu Yiqing opened it for him from the inside.

Before this happened, Qiu Yu never thought that Xu Yiqing would still smoke.While untying the shoelaces, he observed the height of the keyhole again, and said, "Shut less, it won't heal your eyes well."

Xu Yiqing pressed the cigarette between her fingers into the disposable water cup she carried at all times, and she said, "Well, I know. Don't study too late these days, go to bed early."

Qiu Yu: "Where's Qiu Xi?"

"It's time to sleep now."

Qiu Yu threw the key on the shoe cabinet, consciously or unconsciously: "Since the door has been changed, don't give him the key to the new lock."

Xu Yiqing turned to look at him, pointed to his nose, and asked, "Is it pasted after disinfection?"

"No."

She gathered up her pajamas, got up, took an alcohol swab, and called Qiu Yu: "Come and wipe it off."

As she got closer, the smell of tobacco on her body became more smoky.Qiu Yu looked at the wrinkles around Xu Yiqing's eyes, and suggested flatly, "Divorce him."

Xu Yiqing turned his head to get a new Band-Aid, Qiu Yu handed over the one in the bag: "Use this."

"What's the difference?" Xu Yiqing wondered.

"This is more comfortable." Qiu Yu said.

From time to time, there was a sore feeling on the bridge of the nose caused by pressing, and Qiu Yu was distracted thinking that Yuan Mu was actually gentler than her mother.

"Okay." Xu Yiqing cleaned up the trash, "Go to sleep. Or do you want to eat something first?"

Qiu Yu scratched his eyebrows, and stopped when he touched the scar: "Don't think about putting up with him in order to maintain the superficial harmony of this family, just leave as soon as you should. Qiu Xi and I can't wait."

"Don't think about things you shouldn't be thinking about. Don't eat, right? Then go to sleep. You can read a book for a while, and go to your room to be quiet."

"Why shouldn't I think. If he steps into this house again, either he or I will be hospitalized."

"He went to the hospital and you went to jail?"

"casual."

Xu Yiqing lit another cigarette: "You were born by him, don't say such things in the future, and don't do that kind of thing. Come again, how did you let those neighbors look at you that day?"

"I was born by you." Qiu Yu said after a few seconds of silence, "Let them go, I don't care."

"Look, it's too naive. You don't understand many things, your brain is too simple."

"Things are as simple as that. It's because you guys overcomplicated things." Qiu Yu asked, "Are you sure you won't leave?"

"Why should I leave?" Xu Yiqing questioned him, "You said he was having a good time outside and having an affair, what's the evidence? Do you have any?"

The video is in the phone, and the phone is in the bag, but Qiu Yu couldn't bear to take it out.He looked at Xu Yiqing and wanted to say something, but his throat was stuck for a long time.

"Anyway, I saw it with my own eyes," he said.

Xu Yiqing: "Then you forget about it."

Qiu Yu felt a kind of cruelty, and couldn't tell whether it was Xu Yiqing who treated him or Qiu Shengshi who treated Xu Yiqing.The huge and nameless sense of sadness and absurdity made him speechless, and then he retreated in the confrontation.

After a few strong words, Xu Yiqing also weakened, and said: "What you have to do now is to focus on the college entrance examination and study hard. When the time comes, the sky will be big and the earth will be big. You don't have to bear him anymore, and he won't bother you."

"It's not me." Qiu Yu was aroused by her argument, "Divorce means that you leave him, you want to stay away from him, you always miss me, it's none of my business! It's you who don't bear him! You call I forgot, those eyes of yours, this neck of mine, that kick that Qiuxi got, you can't forget all of these, right?"

"Qiu Yu, divorce is not about me and him, it's not about me and him, it's about my family and his family, even your family, Ximei's family...you think it's easy, but divorce From now on, you and sister Xi will be without parents, do you know that!"

Xu Yiqing walked in front of him, with red eyes: "You asked mother to divorce, and then murmured after divorce? Then what should I do?"

"Then find someone who really treats you well." Qiu Yu followed her thoughts.

"You think..." Xu Yiqing laughed, and after laughing at him, he laughed at himself, "You think it's easy to find? Go out and see, your father has figured it out, and he knows how to save some money to support the family. Take the trouble to find it." , find another Qiu Shengshi, not even as good as Qiu Shengshi."

"There are not many true hearts in this world, and I was not so lucky to meet your mother."

Xu Yiqing waved the smoke and went to the balcony to diffuse the smell.

Yuan Mu rested his arms on the window sill, buried his head in the moonlight to observe the cut on his middle finger, but there was no trace of blood.Always sucking during the day, the wound is clean and faintly white.

Yuan Cha knocked on the door that was tightly closed even after the meat was cut off.Yuan Mu has always been good at letting himself go, when something happens, it happens, if he can avoid it, he hides it, if he can't escape it, he accepts it, he never tries to find out the cause, nor is he obsessed with pursuing the result.So Yuan Mu hadn't been entangled in anything for a long time, and he sincerely hoped that this would be the last one.

He flicked the ash on the concrete wall outside the window frame, thinking that there would be occasional people passing by here, Yuan Mu wiped it off with his fingers.

At this moment, a figure loomed from the balcony on the third floor opposite, and he pressed the lighter, and there was another red spot in the dark night.

As soon as Qiu Yu reached the balcony, she saw Yuan Mu by the window.

In the afternoon, a few minutes before class started, Qiu Yu brought hot water for Yuan Mu and put it on his desk in advance, thinking that it would be fine to drink and cover his hands.After waiting for him for a long time, he didn't show up until after the third class.Ask him what's wrong, he just shakes his head.Qiu Yu knew there was something to do, so he didn't worry if he couldn't ask, as he would not be too bad if he was willing to be by his side.

Neither of them thought that they would meet at three or four o'clock in the morning. In the accident, the two just stood in tacit understanding, silent, taking advantage of the secret to understand the meaning of each other's existence that night.

Qiu Yu flicked the cigarette ash and moved first.He waved the cigarette in his hand towards Yuan Mu, held it up high, and with his back to him, drew in the air, lighting the fire to form a bright red line.

Yuan Mu saw at a glance that Qiu Yu wrote an English word on the night curtain——

"hi."

Yuan Mu extinguished the cigarette butt, picked up the flashlight on the table, flashed it at Qiu Yu three times, and began to flick it on his own.

He didn't ask Qiu Yu to recognize him.

G...N.

After Yuan Mu finished writing, he turned his hand, and the beam of light pointed directly at Qiu Yu's chest.Qiu Yu's cigarette had long since burned out, so he pressed the lighter three times.Yuan Mu looked at him with his chin propped up for a while, then waved his arms, telling him to go back to his room to sleep.

Seeing Qiu Yu turning away without hesitation, Yuan Mu began to count the number of steps he took back to the room.Downstairs there were stray dogs fighting in groups, howling miserably.There was a vibration from the schoolbag at his feet, and Yuan Muxin felt it. He squatted down and took out the mobile phone whose screen was on to prompt "a new message".

"Good night to you too."

The restlessness of the night was relieved by the faint fire and light.