you look like my boyfriend

As Yao Wenjing described on the phone, there was a middle-aged man sitting on the top step of the stairs on the fourth floor.

The man had turned on the volume of his mobile phone to watch short videos, but when he heard Lin Zhi and Lu Liu going upstairs, he immediately raised his eyelids to look at them, with a stern look on his face and a sense of scrutiny in his eyes.

Lin Zhi pretended to be frightened, and patted his heart.Lu Liu gave the man a strange look, then calmly looked away.

The man kept staring at them until Lu Liu, who was walking in front, stopped at the man's outstretched feet.

"Please let me go." Lu Liu said with a smile, with a sincere tone, and politely said "Thank you" after the man retracted his foot.

Lin Zhi followed him upstairs, half a step away.

In addition to the man sitting on the stairs, there were two men with cigarettes in their hands standing at the door of Yao Wenjing's house. They were chatting with their backs against the wall, and they laughed ugly from time to time.

Lin Zhi couldn't help but take a second look, one of the men raised his hand and put the cigarette in his mouth, then turned his head to look at Lin Zhi, with the words "what to look at, I'll hit you later" as if written on his face.

Lu Liu calmly gave Lin Zhi a hand, and the two stepped up the stairs leading to the upper floor.

At the corner of the fifth floor, Lin Zhi deliberately exaggerated in a volume that could be heard by the man downstairs: "I was scared to death, why are the people living in Chen Guyang's house so weird?"

"Shh, don't talk nonsense," Lu Liu smiled and cooperated with him, "Be careful that they come up to beat you."

Lin Zhi didn't act again, and went straight to the door of the family on the fifth floor in the same direction as Yao Wenjing's, knocked and shouted: "Chen Guyang, open the door, let's play basketball."

Yao Wenjing, who had been waiting by the door, heard Lin Zhi's voice and hurriedly opened the door, and almost cried when he saw the familiar faces of the two outside.

Lin Zhi hurriedly pushed him back into the room, and followed him in. When he turned back to pull Lu Liu, he said loudly, "What else do you need to clean up? Why are you like the little girl in our class?"

Lu Liu looked out of the cat's eyes, then turned his head and shook his head at Lin Zhi.

"What's going on?" Lin Zhi asked in a low voice.

"Grandma Chen told me just now that she seemed to come to ask my father for debts," Yao Wenjing said with a sad face, "he has come here several times a day these days."

At this time, an old woman with a stooped figure came out from the back room, and Yao Wenjing trotted forward to help her sit in the soft chair.

"Thank you, Grandma Chen," Lin Zhi said sincerely, "Thank you for opening the door to let Xiaojing in."

Grandma Chen showed a kind smile on her weather-beaten face, her teeth were missing a few petals, and her voice was slightly muddy: "Xiao Yao is a pretty good kid, he's different from his father."

Grandma Chen has lived here for more than 20 years. She watched Yao Wenjing grow up.

Under Yao Kangping's "education" of beating and scolding, Yao Wenjing has always been timid, but kind-hearted.Grandma Chen has bad legs and feet as she gets older, and she lives on a relatively high floor. Every time she goes upstairs, it is a difficult task for her. When the young people in the family are away, Yao Wenjing often helps Grandma Chen run up and down.

Yao Wenjing came back earlier and saw three men blocking the door of his house in the corridor, and was almost frightened by the man's "fierce" appearance.

The man saw that his expression was not right, so he asked him if he lived inside. Yao Wenjing realized something was wrong in a panic, and dared not admit it, so he lied and said that he lived upstairs, and then went upstairs as if fleeing.

However, his luck was not very good. At that time, Grandma Chen was taking a nap, and the old man's hearing was not sensitive. Yao Wenjing knocked on the door for a long time but no one came to open it.

The sound insulation of the old building was poor. The men downstairs heard Yao Wenjing's knocking on the door more and more loudly. They were a little suspicious and sent a person upstairs to check.

Yao Wenjing heard the man's footsteps coming upstairs, and from the corner of his eye, he saw the man's shadow being gradually elongated by the light from the small window at the stairway. His heart was pounding with fear, and he couldn't stop calling, "Grandma, open the door." .

Fortunately, when the man was about to call Yao Wenjing, Grandma Chen opened the door with her coat on, pretended to reprimand him for not bringing the key, asked the man what was the matter, and then sent the man away.

"The neighbor downstairs asked them that day." Grandma Chen looked at Yao Wenjing pitifully, "It was said that your father borrowed usurious loans from them, and they couldn't contact your father when it was time to repay the loan, so they came to squat every day. "

"I just couldn't get through to my dad..." Yao Wenjing said in a low voice.

Lin Zhi thought to himself that Yao Wenjing's father had probably run away, so it would be strange if he could get in touch.

"Grandma Chen," Lin Zhi asked, "do you know when the people downstairs first came?"

"I don't know when they came, but the first time I saw them was in the evening three days ago," Grandma Chen thought for a while and said, "I remember Xiao Yao said that he was going to take the college entrance examination, so I made dinner that day Call Xiao Yao to eat, and there are a few unfamiliar men there."

It was really that day, Lin Zhi was afraid after thinking about it for a while. In his previous life, Yao Wenjing happened to be alone at home that night. He was a student facing several men who were violently collecting loan sharks. It was unimaginable what happened.

And the next day is the college entrance examination, with Yao Wenjing's temper, he would definitely not tell him.

"Hasn't my dad been back these days?" Yao Wenjing asked.

Grandma Chen shook her head.

"What should we do now?" Yao Wenjing looked at Lin Zhi as if asking for help.

"It's not a problem to hide at Grandma Chen's house all the time." Lin Zhi was also a little distressed. He couldn't think of any solution for a while, so he turned around and asked Lu Liu, who had been listening silently for a long time, "Why don't you go to my house again?" Stay at home for a few days, calm down and think of a way slowly?"

Lu Liu didn't expect Lin Zhi to ask him, so he nodded and said, "Listen to you."

"Then let's go," Lin Zhi patted Yao Wenjing's shoulder, "Can you?"

"En." Yao Wenjing let out a heavy breath.

After Yao Wenjing adjusted his mood, Lin Zhi and the three bid farewell to Grandma Chen and went downstairs.

Lin Zhi hung shoulders with Yao Wenjing like a good brother, and said with a smile, "I'll show you how many three-pointers I shoot later."

Lu Liu sneered: "I'm not afraid to show my waist when I talk big."

"You'll know after a while if I'm talking big." Lin Zhi put his hand on Yao Wenjing's shoulder tightly and said, "Yangzi, do you know how accurate my pitch is?"

"Well," Yao Wenjing said stupidly, "You are very accurate."

After finally walking through the corridor on the fourth floor, Lin Zhi hadn't heaved a sigh of relief when the man sitting on the steps stopped them.

"Student," the man asked in a bad tone, "it's not the weekend, so you don't have to go to class?"

Lin Zhi was slightly taken aback, only to hear Lu Liu reply "honestly": "The college entrance examination is on holiday for a few days, and I will use the classroom to give the exam to senior seniors."

"Which school do you belong to?" the man asked again.

"Experimental High School." Lu Liu replied without hesitation.

"How tall are you?"

"Grade [-], next semester will be promoted to grade [-]." Lu Liu asked with a smile, "Can we go now, Uncle?"

When they went down to the third floor, Lin Zhi deliberately raised his voice and asked, "Hey Yangzi, is the person downstairs living in your house checked for household registration?"

"Shouldn't it?" Lu Liu echoed him, "People who check household registration will not just meet people and ask non-stop."

"That's right," Lin Zhi said, "As long as you are willing to answer, I don't care if I meet this kind of person."

Lu Liu couldn't help laughing, and said, "It's because you ignored me that I answered, otherwise it would be embarrassing for others."