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The orange basketball book in his arms was written with the four characters of Zhian Foundation, but after Xu Yanxin's graffiti, it became a unique design.Xu Yanxin just took the paint, hummed a little song, and painted a few strokes casually in the classroom full of sunset, and gently soothed his unwillingness.Xu Yanxin was always like this, he didn't do anything extraordinary, but it just made him different and softened his sharpness.

The key was inserted into the lock, making a creaking sound, and he stuffed the basketball into his schoolbag.There was a sound of collision in the living room, like billiard balls colliding and spinning around under the cue. He opened the door and looked at the dizzy Jiang Tao holding a cold water bottle and trying to pour water into the glass. , but sprinkled water all over the ground.When Jiang Tao saw him, he greeted him with his tongue out, "Come here, pour some water for your dad."

He didn't move, and the blushing, alcohol-smelling man slammed the glass on the table angrily, as if the air from the poker field shattered the glass along with it.

Jiang Yu twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Remember to compensate me."

Jiang Tao opened his eyes wide, his eyes were about to split open, and he yelled, "You are my son, how can I make money to my son? Don't think that you are great if you pay back a few thousand yuan for me. If you have the ability to take that I paid off the tens of thousands, you are so fierce to me every day, do you forget that both of us are victims, if your mother is not outside—"

Jiang Yu has been looking at Jiang Tao quietly all the time, the old frail and timid face is gone, now it is replaced by a fierce face, the tall and straight back is also bent, and the romantic and casual look has become Sloppy and dirty—like a perfectly formed puppet, which has become mottled and hideous under the wind and rain, he has witnessed the beginning of the whole disaster, but he has never gotten used to his expression when he speaks.

It was a ferocious anger, like magma poured out of a machine in a metal factory, boiling hot and corroding everything.

"You were never a victim."

Jiang Tao shouted loudly: "I'm not a victim, could it be you? The court awarded you to me, and I treated you badly? I gave you food, drink, clothes, and you were admitted to the best high school. If I Treating you badly, can you do it? You went out to fight with people and refused to come back."

Jiang Yu squeezed the space between his eyebrows tiredly, and said, "Your smell is so dirty, it makes me want to vomit."

"What do you mean? This is the house I rented!"

He stared at the "father" in front of him, finally burst into unbearable anger, kicked the chair next to Jiang Tao, and said with a smile: "You rented it, but I have always paid for it. If you don't leave now , I’ll just call that shit, Brother Long, to see if you can keep your hand this time, don’t fucking talk to me about fatherly kindness and filial piety, ever since you started drinking and gambling, I haven’t had you like this Dad, my dad died a long time ago."

Jiang Tao pointed his clumsy finger at the bridge of his nose, as if he wanted to squeeze some words out between his teeth. Jiang Yu had already dialed the phone directly and said "Hello" to the person on the phone.

Even though he was soaked in the wine, Jiang Tao still maintained his fear and desire to survive. He did not forget the painful lesson of being thrown into the reservoir by the money collector last time. Things, only the water all over the floor, and the lingering smell of alcohol in the air.Jiang Yu leaned against the wall and looked up at the ceiling. The incandescent lamps flickered for some reason, dimly illuminating the whole room.

And his handsome face was hidden under the dim light, and there was a falcon's cruelty.

And the monkey's anxious voice came through the phone: "Jiang Tao has come to trouble you again? Do you want to live with me?"

"Are you still working in a bar? Honestly, how did you get the 1 yuan?"

"Would a bar give a high school kid that much money? Don't even think about it."

"Then how did you get the money? You went to receive the poverty fund? Are you stupid? You know that the woman just wants to humiliate you, but you still go to receive it? Jiangyu, you..."

Jiang Yu hung up the phone and fell back on the bed.

The white paint on the wall was about to fall off. He seemed to be able to foresee the filth inside, so he immediately looked away. There was an open notebook on the desk. When Xu Yanxin handed it to him, she foolishly hooked him up and asked him to deal with it. Weekly monthly exam.He pretended to reluctantly agree to Xu Yanxin, and Xu Yanxin smiled brightly, as if as long as he studied carefully, he could get very good grades in the exam.After taking two deep breaths, Jiang Yu bounced off the bed, pulled away the chair, and turned on the dusty desk lamp.

He just didn't want to see him lose.

It's that simple, nothing more—he told himself.

At three o'clock in the morning, the bar was full of handsome men and women. It was clearly autumn, but one was dressed less than the other, and their snow-white bodies were covered with lights of various colors.Zhang Hui painted red lips, winked, pinched his arm, and said, "Is there something wrong on Friday night? Or is there a little lover hidden in the school so we can't schedule shifts?"

Jiang Yu glanced at her with a smile, and said, "Business is not good tonight? Why are you targeting me, a chicken again?"

Zhang Hui said that she hated it, while pulling the little coat on her body, trying to cover up the scenery of her exposed chest.

When he got closer, Jiang Yu could smell the fragrance of roses on his body, which was very greasy and made his nose uncomfortable. He immediately frowned, Zhang Hui oops, and said: "This perfume is a bit choking, you don't like it when I put it down I won’t paint it this time.” Jiang Yu was stunned for two seconds before saying, “I really like roses.”

Zhang Hui looked at him strangely, but he secretly smiled to himself. His smile was like the sunlight that breaks through the clouds in cold winter. Because it was rare, it attracted extra attention. , but still blushed, and wanted to say a few words of truth to Jiang Yu, but Jiang Yu patted her arm and said, "Thank you for helping me on Friday, and treat you to dinner when you have time."

He was about to leave when he heard Zhang Hui calling him from behind. He turned around and heard Zhang Hui yelling at him: "I really want to know what kind of person you will like. When you have someone you like, Be the first to tell me."

the person I like.

He was still thinking about these four words until Sunday afternoon when he was teaching Zhao Cong a make-up lesson.Zhao Cong was a poor student in the class, and he was detained every day. If he continued like this, he might repeat the grade. Liu Rong was afraid that Zhao Cong would repeat the grade and leave a stain on the file, so she relied on herself to pay the child support, and barely acted like a mother. To make up for him.Jiang Yu was just perfunctory at first, but he figured out that Zhao Cong would not cooperate, who knew that he did a good job in the homework he assigned, so he became more serious.

In recent days, Zhao Cong has turned a little bit, always pulling him to chat, even if he is scolded, his face will turn red, and he rarely responds with sarcasm.

Jiang Yu wanted to withdraw after completing his English for him, but Zhao Cong pulled him stickily: "If you have someone you like, how would you pursue her?"

Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows: "Puppy love?"

Zhao Cong pulled his arm, blushed, and told him to keep his voice down. Jiang Yu gave a troublesome "tsk" and poured cold water on him: "Still pursuing, you should improve yourself first, what do people who will repeat next year talk about?" Love, this year is your classmate, next year is your senior sister, if you are stupid, maybe you will be your teacher in the future."

Zhao Cong was very unconvinced: "You, you... If it were you, what would you do?"

"I'll let him like me for himself."

"how is this possible!"

"How is it impossible? I'm not you."

Zhao Cong quickly lost his temper and stopped entanglement.And Jiang Yu didn't take his boyish thoughts to heart, as if he had nothing to do with him. Before leaving, Liu Rong stuffed the newly made cookies into his schoolbag, thinking of it as hard work for making up lessons, and saw He picked up the graffiti-covered basketball, picked it up in surprise, and played with it a few times, but when he saw the graffiti on it, he was afraid that he would catch up with a bad classmate. When he was frightened, Jiang Yu happened to come out with his schoolbag on his back, and then frowned to remind him She is not allowed to move things.

Unexpectedly, Liu Rong smiled in a rare mood and said, "A classmate gave it to you? You kid, you have such a bad temper, but you can't stop girls from liking you. I will replace the gift that the little doll gave you before." Take it."

"What the hell?"

"Oh, it was when I took you to work as a part-time worker when you were a child. Didn't you always go wild with the children in other people's neighborhoods? At first I was worried that you would be bullied by those little boys. I didn't expect you to bring back small gifts every day. What? Pens, game consoles, didn’t they write you a letter, I kept them for you, but you never read or played, so I kept them for you,” said Liu Rong I took out a rusty iron box from the storage box under the bed, which contained children's gadgets in a dazzling array, but did not mention the pen and game console, and said with some embarrassment, "I will give the game console to your brother." Yes, I gave the pen to your uncle, but I didn’t touch anything else, really didn’t.”

"Where did I hit someone?"

"That's right, you kid has a bad memory but not a good one. I only remember that you fought with that young master, but before I took you there, you were very happy and not noisy," Liu Rong said. The wages paid by people are much higher than those outside, if it weren’t for you, I would still work inside and earn a lot of money a year.”

Jiang Yu didn't care about the bit of complaint in Liu Rong's tone, but just stared at the box, not daring to touch it for a while.He is afraid of breaking the illusion.Fortunately, Zhao Cong was born cheap, so he quickly picked up the top letter and read it aloud——

Dear friend, thank you for the comic book you sent me yesterday. I like it very much. Although you never talk to me, I feel very happy when I am with you. I hope you are happy too. I don’t know if you will Ken talk to me next time?The last time I saw your friends were holding this game console, so I think you will like it too. It was given to me by my dad. I don’t play much, but I hope you like it.I'm still practicing calligraphy, and my handwriting may not be very good-looking. Don't laugh at me if you read it, but my grandpa said that I am still very smart. I hope that when I write to you again in the future, I can write beautiful handwriting.

Zhao Cong laughed and said: "This little girl has a good handwriting, oh, let me see, the signature is 'your friend Xu Yanxin', hey, this name seems familiar, have you heard it somewhere?"

He didn't see Jiang Yu's clenched fingers, and said to himself, "Wait, isn't this the owner of the notebook you lent me last time?"

Seeing Jiang Yu standing upright like a pine tree, Zhao Cong couldn't help pulling him aside, gossiping: "Wow, you and this girl are in the same class now? You, what are you guys? Let's continue the relationship." ? Then do you know that she is the little girl who gave you gifts when you were a child? No wonder you said she fell in love with you first. It turned out that it was because he liked you in the first place. You..." Jiang Yu seemed to be restarting the machine, holding back His brows were closed, only his slightly trembling lips remained his emotions, he snatched the letter, rushed out the door, ignoring the call behind him.

He wanted to see Xu Yanxin very much.

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