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"Get me a room, a bigger one." Li Xiwei wore a baseball cap, put his hands in his trouser pockets, pursed his lips, and looked around the counter of the small hotel to make sure that there were no adults around. As a last resort, he turned to the counter The furry head in the back opened its mouth.

Standing behind the tall counter, Xiaoman heard someone asking for a room. He held onto the stool by the counter with both hands, and shrank back involuntarily. He couldn't speak, and didn't know what to do now, he just wanted Wang Mingxia to come back sooner.

Wang Mingxia was his cousin, and he lived with his aunt a few years ago. The aunt thought he had grown up, and it cost money to raise him, so she sent him to Wang Mingxia. It took a day and a night for the train to arrive.

Wang Mingxia runs a small hotel. He just got off the train last night, and his head was still dizzy. Wang Mingxia arranged for the guests staying at the exit of the train station. She was called to play mahjong this morning. Before leaving, she asked him to watch The most important thing is not to let the beggars around come in to steal things. He also said that there are very few people who come to the hotel at this time of [-]:[-] in the morning, but some people still come.

Xiao Man prayed that the visitor could change to another hotel if he could not hear the answer. After all, this street was full of small hotels, and there were at least a dozen of them. But if Wang Mingxia knew that he deliberately ignored the guests, he might be very angry, so he had no choice but to insist. Scratching his scalp, he stood on tiptoe and looked in front of the counter, only to meet the dark eyes of the young man outside the counter covered by the brim of his black hat. He was looking at him with his head tilted, expressionless.

It was the first time for Xiaoman to be stared at like this, and he was such a good-looking person, his eyes widened immediately, his face flushed, even his breathing was hot, his heart was pounding, he stood on tiptoe Steady, fell to the side.

Hearing the voice, Li Xiwei went around the counter, looked at the extremely thin person sitting on the ground, and asked from top to bottom, "Am I that scary?"

Xiao Man propped his hands on the floor, and quickly shook his head, not daring to look directly into the boy's eyes, and looked around randomly.

Li Xiwei carefully sized up the person on the ground. The most conspicuous features were his round eyes, small nose, red nose tip, and very thin. He was wearing a suit of ill-fitting clothes. The material looked very rough. He is wide and fat, obviously not his clothes, the edges of the white cloth shoes on his feet have turned yellow, and the soles have been worn thin. Li Xiwei thinks that he should be much smaller than himself, and his height only reaches his chin at most. It looks like Poor, my heart softened, and I stretched out a hand, "Get up."

Xiaoman's eyes were fixed on the hand in front of him, it was very white, much bigger than his own hand, probably at least one knuckle longer, maybe more.

"Why are you still standing there? Get up." Seeing that he didn't respond, Li Xiwei took another step forward and urged.

Xiao Man could have stood up by himself, but he still raised his hand to rest on the boy's palm. Only then did he feel that the boy's hand was not only white, but also a little soft to the touch, unlike his own hands, which were thick and thick. He let go of his cocoon after being pulled up from the ground by the young man.

Li Xiwei put his hands into his trouser pockets again, and rubbed his wet fingertips, "Can you get me a room now?"

Xiao Man was worrying, when she heard a shrill female voice at the door, it was Wang Mingxia who came back from playing mahjong, "Whose kid is this? I'll let you look around the shop for a while, and you brought everyone back with just such a quick turn around." , what if he is a thief and stole something from my shop?"

Li Xiwei turned around and saw a middle-aged woman with dyed red hair and wearing a tight skirt with stiletto heels, frowning, "Who do you call a thief? I'm here to stay in a hotel."

Hearing the child's voice, Wang Mingxia glanced up and down at him, seeing that his outfit was not cheap, so she softened her tone, "Who do you live with?"

"I live by myself."

Wang Mingxia's face immediately fell down. There are rules in small hotels that children cannot be taken in alone. Her voice returned to the high-pitched tone before, "Our store does not open rooms for children alone. Nancheng is notoriously chaotic. If you leave No one cares about the matter, and I will still be responsible when the time comes, so if I don’t drive it, I’ll leave quickly.”

After she finished speaking, she turned around and glanced at Xiao Man again, "What are you thinking here, you dumb man? Be a young master? Why don't you go to the gate of the train station and wait for someone to live in the shop? There are too many, one person is enough for our whole family."

Li Xiwei doesn't like women's voices very much, especially when he sees a child drooping his head, standing beside him, not daring to raise his head, and being scolded unscrupulously by a woman, he feels very uncomfortable, and inexplicably angry, rushing towards the woman Said: "He is my friend, don't be so cruel to him."

Hearing the young man's voice, Xiao Man raised his head slightly, the sides of his nose moved slightly, and took breaths, the word friend was too new to Xiao Man, he had no friends before, and the boy in front of him said he was his friend, Although he knew that the young man might just dislike him being scolded by Wang Mingxia, but he felt that his heart opened slightly, as if something had crawled in, itching.

Wang Mingxia snorted coldly, twisted her waist, walked into the counter, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV, "The little mute is also protected by someone, and he has grown up. He just came here."

Li Xiwei thought this woman was the child's mother at first, but it doesn't look like it now, he has heard the woman call a little dumb several times, he thought it was just an adjective, now it seems that the child should be real He can't speak, originally he could go out and find another place to live, there will always be unruly places, but he resisted and took out 500 yuan from his pocket and put it on the counter, "I told him It's a friend, I'll live with him, and I'll pay you back, it's not considered as opening a room for me, so you don't have to bear the responsibility, so it's okay."

Wang Mingxia looked at the money on the counter without moving her eyes. She lost a lot at the mahjong table just now. She wanted to play a few rounds to get it back, but one of them left in a hurry. Now looking at the money, she felt itchy , took out a long bunch of keys from the cabinet, and changed his words: "You can live with him, 81 nights."

After listening to Xiaoman, she glanced at Wang Mingxia. The most expensive hotel in their place was only 51 nights. She flung it off.

Xiaoman turned around and looked at Li Xiwei again, trying to prevent him from being deceived. Before Li Xiwei entered the door, he saw the prices of various rooms on the glass window of the hotel. He also knew that the proprietress was talking indiscriminately, and said: "51 nights, I just gave you Yes, exactly ten days, if I continue to live in the future, I will continue."

After the woman heard this, she picked up the money on the counter with a smile and counted it, "Let me tell you first, you are going to live with this dumb man, and there will be no extra room for you to open alone. Money is non-refundable."

Li Xiwei didn't speak again, Quan Dang agreed, and the woman took a key from the keychain and gave it to Li Xiwei, "Here's a key for you, let the little mute guide you."

Li Xiwei took the key. It was a small metal key with a metal disc on it, and the house number, 224, was engraved on it.He held the key and shook it at Xiao Man, "Lead me the way."

Xiaoman heard the keys jingle a few times before reacting. The boy in front of him said he wanted to live with him. He also said that he was his friend just now. By his side, he walked in front and led him up to the second floor until he reached the last room at the end of the corridor. Only then did Xiao Man open the door with the key.

Li Xiwei's face turned dark when he opened the door and entered. The room was only about a dozen square meters. It was supposed to be a utility room, with a lot of mops and iron bars. Next to the window was an iron bed with bunk beds and a small bathroom.

"You live here?" After Li Xiwei asked, thinking of the attitude of the proprietress just now, it was impossible for this child to live well, so he asked, "Where should I sleep at night?"

Xiaoman pointed to the top bunk, and then found him a new quilt and pillow, climbed to the top bunk and made it for him, and stepped down on the railing again.

Li Xiwei glanced at the upper and lower bunks, "I'll sleep on the upper bunk, and you will sleep on the lower bunk?"

Sitting on the edge of the lower bunk, Xiao Man looked up at Li Xiwei, nodded, and then smiled at him.

Li Xiwei was dazzled by Xiaoman's smile, half of the dim yellow morning light that leaked in through the window of the small room was sprinkled in the room, and half was sprinkled in Xiaoman's round eyes, as if when he sneaked out of the house this morning, Like the roses that have grown flower buds in the back garden of his home, it will not take long for the flower buds to fully bloom against the morning dew. It is fiery red. inside.

Xiao Man was always shy, and felt uncomfortable being looked at by him. She turned her eyes away and sat on the bed with her legs crossed.

The sunlight moved away from Xiaoman's eyes, and finally stopped on a small section of his fair neck. After a long time, Li Xiwei coughed lightly, "What's your name?"

Many people have asked Xiaoman this question before, so he carried a note with him, which was written to him by his sister before, and it was also one of the few words he knew. He took the note with his name on it Pass it to Li Xiwei.

Li Xiwei took a look at the note, "Xiao Man?"

Xiaoman nodded, then pointed at Li Xiwei, meaning to ask, "Where's your name?"

Li Xiwei hesitated for a moment. He ran away from home. Although Li Pei didn't deliberately expose his name, there are still many people in Nancheng who know that he doesn't want to cause unnecessary trouble. After thinking about it for a long time, he thought of his mother There was a word Ran in his name, so he said, "My name is Li Ran."

After he finished speaking, he was afraid of getting involved in the name-related issues, and then asked, "How old are you? Are you ten years old?"

Xiaoman turned his body sideways, half lying on the edge of the bed, and wrote his age on the sheet. Li Xiwei didn't see clearly how old he was written on the sheet from the angle he stood, so he took two steps in front of Xiaoman, stretched Stretch out your right hand, palm up, and spread it out in front of Xiaoman's eyes, "I didn't see what you wrote on the bed sheet, you wrote it on the palm of my hand."

Xiaoman wrote again in Li Xiwei's palm with the tip of his index finger.

Li Xiwei looked at Xiaoman's fingertips lightly scratching his palm, pulling half of his arm a little itchy, curled up his fingers, but didn't withdraw his hand, and finally saw that Xiaoman wrote 12 years old on his palm, He was a little surprised, and raised his voice to ask: "Are you 12? You look like ten years old at most. Stand up, let's compare our heights."

Xiaoman blushed again after being told by Li Xiwei, but he stood up obediently and moved two small steps forward, next to Li Xiwei.

"Raise your head." Li Xiwei took off the baseball cap on his head, snorted through two handfuls of hair with his hands, and compared Xiaoman's hair with his hands, "It just reached my chest."

Xiao Man grows up slowly, he knows that since he was a child, he eats a lot differently from ordinary people, but he hasn't had enough to eat for many years, and he doesn't dare to eat too much because he is dependent on others, and his height is naturally not as good as that of his peers.

Li Xiwei took two steps back, put on his baseball cap again, put his hands in his trouser pockets, "I am taller and older than you, I... I am 13, one year older than you, you will call me brother from now on."

After he finished speaking, he remembered the proprietress' attitude towards Xiao Man, and added: "From now on, I will protect you and prevent others from bullying you."

The author says:

Li Xiwei: When I introduced myself back then, how could I have thought that there would be so many things behind... I hate it...