desolate

After returning to Pingjiang, Pei also found that the situation here was much worse than imagined.

Su Ya was ordered to sign a community drug rehabilitation agreement. As the only guardian, he needed to watch her at home. At the same time, the doctor diagnosed that she had serious psychological problems, and she had to undergo psychological treatment for a long time afterwards.

He should have been detained for [-] days, but because the hospitalization was nothing, the police made Pei Ye pay a fine of several thousand yuan and left.

The packed dinner was accidentally spilled on the way here, Pei also carried the dirty takeaway back outside the ward, and sat alone on the bench for a while.

"Why don't you go in?"

Not long after, Zhou Ze walked up to him with the newly bought dinner.

"Waiting for you." Pei also came back to his senses and took the food, "Are you skipping class again?"

After returning this time, Pei Ye knew that Zhou Ze, the former three-good student, had perfectly inherited his mantle and became the biggest cancer in No. [-] Middle School.Skipping classes every day to catch fish has become commonplace, and the most hateful thing is that people's studies are still as good as ever.

With the halo bonus of Xueba, Director Yan and other teachers gradually turned from hating iron to turning a blind eye.

"Evening self-study is a math test, so you just pass it... You haven't eaten since morning, so hurry up and eat."

Zhou Ze noticed that his tone was wrong and wanted to deal with it, but Pei was also very stubborn.

He frowned displeased: "You also skipped half a day of class yesterday."

Zhou Ze hummed perfunctorily while listing the lunch boxes on the public bench.

"Are you planning to wait until the college entrance examination and show everyone what is from the highest score to the lowest score?"

Realizing that Pei Ye would continue to chatter, Zhou Ze thrust the chopsticks into his hands forcefully, and then held the lunch box in one hand: "Okay, Mr. Pei, let's eat quickly! Come, try this pork liver..."

Pei Ye was also forced to eat two mouthfuls of food, and was blocked when he was full of words.

Maybe he was too tired these few days, so tired that his nervous reaction slowed down, and he was successfully fooled by Zhou Ze after going back and forth.

After eating outside, Zhou Ze followed Pei Ye into the ward for a while.

He was sitting on a chair in the corner, watching Pei Ye help Su Ya to sit up and take medicine, but when she turned his head, she knocked off the water glass in her hand again. After cursing a few words, Su Ya began to cry, and Pei Ye kept a cold face, silently cleaning up the mess.

a farce.

After tossing around nine o'clock, Su Ya was finally tired, took the medicine and fell asleep drowsily. Pei also went out to pick up the water and came back, and found Zhou Ze standing beside Su Ya's bed, staring at her intently.

Pei also poured a glass of water and put it on the bedside: "What's wrong?"

Zhou Ze had already sat back on the chair slowly at this time: "I was thinking about what she was like when she was nice to you."

Pei Ye was silent for a moment, as if recalling, but to no avail: "...I don't remember what you said."

After tidying up everything, the two walked out of the ward one after the other. Many beds were placed on one side of the narrow corridor. Zhou Ze could occasionally see various complex or simple emotions in the eyes of those patients.

Outside the hospital, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. When the two walked to the parking spot, Pei Ye quickly stepped on the motorcycle, propped his legs on the ground, and threw a helmet to Zhou Ze with his backhand.

"You want me to take this?"

Holding this tender pink helmet with a propeller that rotates with the wind on the top, Zhou Ze has a wonderful expression on his face.

Pei Ye only showed a pair of eyes, but he could see that he was smiling: "I took the wrong one when I left, it was worn by sister Xia, why don't you just let it go!"

"..."

Although Zhou Ze was very reluctant, he finally took it with him, but when he put the top of the powder on his head, he saw Pei also holding up his mobile phone.

"Fuck! Don't shoot me!"

But the voice was not as fast as the movement, and he watched Pei Ye's fingers press several times.

Zhou Ze reacted and immediately reached out to grab it: "Delete it quickly!"

Pei Ye laughed sullenly and avoided him: "Don't delete it, how beautiful it is!"

"Why are you so bored?"

"It's very beautiful, look at it..."

Pei also zoomed in on the photo, the pink helmet matched Zhou Ze's bewildered expression, but soon, when he saw a passerby's face in the photo, his smile disappeared.

... Su Ya's ex-husband.

He looked up suddenly, but the passers-by in the square had already changed wave after wave, and the place in the photo had long been deserted.

Zhou Ze noticed that his expression was wrong, so he asked, "...what's wrong?"

Pei also took off his helmet and parked the car again: "I saw a person, I don't know if I saw it wrong..."

"If you don't worry, go back and have a look?"

"……Um."

Pei Ye walked towards the hospital building while looking around at the passing people.

He also hoped that he was wrong just now, but when he really saw the father and daughter downstairs in the inpatient department, a flame rose in his heart.

"You still dare to come?"

He rushed forward and grabbed the man by the collar, dragging him down from the steps.

The man was dazed when he fell to the ground. His face was flushed and he smelled of alcohol, as if he had drunk too much. When he saw Pei Ye's face, his expression changed as if he saw a ghost in an instant.

"You you...don't come here!"

Pei Ye pulled him up again: "What are you afraid of?"

After the man stood firm, he pushed Pei Ye away: "...I, I'm not afraid! It's not my fault, it was all voluntary!"

"Volunteer?"

"Where did you get the face to say that?"

Pei Ye suddenly kicked him in the stomach, and immediately after that, his fist landed heavily on the man's face. Stars shot out in front of his eyes. Before he finished, he held him down with his backhand, and immediately grabbed his hair, forcing the man to look up. Start, once, twice...

Beside him, the man's daughter was holding her schoolbag tightly, silently watching her father being beaten.

"Pei Ye, that's enough!"

Although no one was blocked by a circle of trees near the entrance of the inpatient department, these few movements were enough to attract passers-by two meters away. Before they moved, Zhou Ze stepped forward and hugged Pei Ye's arm, Pull him away with difficulty.

...Damn it, it's like pulling a donkey.

Pei Ye stared at the man who fell on the ground, and gradually let go of his hanging hands, as if he let out a breath that he had held for a long time.

He calmed down slowly, turned around and strode towards the parking place.

Zhou Ze was worried that something would happen to the man, so he went to check it out, and found that he was still crying out for pain apart from a little bit of skin and flesh, so he was relieved, and turned to follow Pei Ye.

Over there, Pei was already sitting on the motorcycle, and his emotions couldn't be seen at all after putting on the helmet.

Zhou Ze kept silent about the man, and only said, "Let's go."

Pei didn't move either: "Why did you bring an oil bottle?"

Zhou Ze asked, "What?"

"she."

Pei also turned his head to look behind Zhou Ze.

He also turned around, only to realize that there was a child standing behind his buttocks.

...When did you catch up!

Zhou Ze suddenly felt a headache, then he calmed down and squatted down in front of the little girl.

"What's your name, kid?"

not talking.

"……Is not you going home?"

not talking.

"...What do you want to do with me?"

Still don't speak.

Zhou Ze had no choice but to point to the place where the man was lying: "Your father is over there, he is fine, you can go find him."

No matter how he used all kinds of words, the little girl was still indifferent, and she didn't dare to look at the person in front of her, only dared to follow Zhou Ze in step.

Like a dog skin plaster.

Just when he didn't know what to do, Pei Ye, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly said, "Let her sit in the middle."

Now that Pei Ye has made up his mind, Zhou Ze said no more: "...Okay."

The little girl sat pitifully between Zhou Ze and Pei Ye. She didn't even look at the man who was her father until she left the hospital.

"You sleep on the sofa."

As soon as he got home, Pei Ye said the first words to the little girl.

"Thank you brother."

The little girl was very polite and sat on the sofa without moving.

"...I'm not your brother."

Pei also left these words and went to take a bath.

After a while, Zhou Ze poured out a glass of water in the kitchen and put it on the coffee table.

The little girl whispered thank you again.

"Your name is Cheng Zhi?"

When he was downstairs, he heard Pei Ye calling her name, and thought he was talking about orange juice.

Cheng Zhizhi explained: "My name is Cheng Zhizhi, the one from before." It's just that Pei also prefers to call her Cheng Zhi, because it's easier to pronounce one less word, and the ending is turned up, which sounds like orange juice.

Zhou Ze smiled: "Then I'll call you Orange Juice too? Is that okay?"

The girl showed no expression, just nodded.

At this time, Pei also came out of the steaming bathroom. He was taken aback when he saw Zhou Ze and Cheng Zhizhi sitting together. He quickly realized that he was brushing his hair while walking towards the room.

After a while, he threw off the quilt and came out again, covering the little girl's head with his hood.

After Zhou Ze and Cheng Zhizhi said good night, they walked into the bedroom.

He closed the door and stared at Pei Ye: "What's wrong with you today, are you planning to do good deeds?"

"Then what should we do? Let her freeze to death outside with that drunkard?" Pei Ye passed in front of him bare-chested, "Or let her be beaten to death by Su Ya?"

Zhou Ze paused: "But you can't protect yourself now."

The man brought the little girl here with the intention of throwing her to Su Ya. Anyway, when the two were in love, Su Ya kept saying that he took care of Cheng Zhizhi as her own daughter, but now that the man has no money, it is reasonable It should be found.

Pei also put on the T-shirt: "...I know, I will send it away in two days."

Of course Zhou Ze didn't believe that he could handle this shit in two days, but he didn't expect that "these two days" would last until the New Year's Eve.

But there was no way around it - the rest of December was spent by Pei Ye on job hunting, renting a house, and serving Su Ya, and he really didn't have time to deal with children.

Fortunately, Cheng Zhizhi is very worry-free. He washes clothes, cooks, and cleans up by himself, and occasionally delivers meals to Pei Ye when Zhou Ze has no time.

So to some extent, she also saved Pei Ye some trouble.

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