he is afraid, he pretends

When Wu Luming woke up on Saturday morning, he was the only one left in the quiet house.

Wu Luming heard from Wu Shengjin that Wen Siyuan has been very busy since he finished his Ph.D. In addition, this semester Wen Siyuan has an additional status as a temporary teaching assistant, so he spends almost all day in school and cannot go home.

Saturday was a sunny day.

When Wu Luming got up and washed up, it was only eight o'clock in the morning.

He opened the window to feel the temperature outside for a moment, it wasn't too hot, so he put on a pair of slippers and went out the door.

When he came yesterday, he saw a small shopping mall near here.

You can go buy some ingredients and put them in the refrigerator, he thought.

In Wen Siyuan's big bag of things from his hometown, there were not many things in it that could be used for cooking. Probably because Wen's mother knew that Wen Siyuan could not cook, so almost all of the things she sent were ready-to-eat snacks.

Last night's sausage rice, Wu Luming cooked it for nearly three people, and originally planned to save some of it to re-steam it for breakfast the next day, but Wen Siyuan ate it up on the spot.

Obviously, Wen Siyuan liked it very much.

So when he went shopping in the mall after breakfast, Wu Luming bought several bundles of sausages.

When he finished his selection and walked to the apartment with a big bag of things, the sun was already a little bit strong.

Before he took two steps, the sweat on his back soaked his clothes.

Walking to the community under the sun, his eyes swept over the convenience store at the entrance of the community, Wu Luming paused, followed the turn, and entered the convenience store, intending to go in and buy a bottle of iced drink.

This convenience store looks like a chain store, the shelves are displayed in an orderly manner, and everything on the shelves is neatly organized into categories.

Wu Luming went straight to the freezer at the end of the small shop, opened the freezer and took a bottle of soda water, and when he turned to check out, his eyes suddenly stopped on a few children in front of a row of shelves in the middle.

Three children, two boys and one girl, are not very old, they look about seven or eight years old.

The three of them were looking up, staring at a cotton lollipop in the second row of the shelf.

Lollipops are made into various cartoon characters and displayed on the shelves.

Ultraman, Transformers, Princess Barbie...

Everything is available.

The lollipop at the corner was pasted with the words "new style", and Wu Luming looked at the price under his eyes.

12.88.

The three children stared at the lollipop for a while, then suddenly put their heads together, each took out a handful of change from their pockets, put them together and counted them back and forth.

Counting it once was obviously not enough, so I counted it again.

Wu Luming stood aside, his gaze fell on the boy among the three of them.

It was the boy who lived next to Wen Siyuan's house yesterday.

Seeing the three children tossing and turning about to start counting to the fifth time, Wu Luming finally opened his legs, walked behind the three of them, and said with a smile, "Want to eat?"

The three children were obviously frightened by the sudden sound. They couldn't hold the coins in their hands steadily, and several of them rolled to the ground at once.

Soon, the boy in the middle recognized him: "You are... the big brother who just moved next to the house yesterday!"

Wu Luming put the bag in his hand aside, knelt down to pick up all the coins for the child, then spread his hand in front of several people, smiled at them, "I treat you to eat, how about doing me a favor?"

When the children heard this, they didn't immediately agree.

The two children on the side looked at the little boy in the middle unanimously, it seemed that it was because he was the only one who knew Wu Luming, and it seemed that the boy in the middle made up their minds on weekdays.

The boy looked at Wu Luming's kind smile, squeezed the coins that he had been unable to get together, seemed to struggle for a while, and then whispered: "Mom said, you can't eat things from strangers."

Wu Luming didn't seem to mind the child's vigilance at all, he put the coin back into the little boy's hand, and said slowly: "It is true that children are not allowed to eat food from strangers, but we are not strangers, right? After all, we just met yesterday. I met once, and you also know that I live next to your house, don’t you?”

Looking at him, the little boy seemed to be shaken for a moment, but he still hesitated more.

Seeing this, Wu Luming didn't say anything else, took out a piece of 50 yuan, handed it to the child, pointed to a row of seats by the window in the convenience store, and said, "I just moved here, I don't like this place. It’s too familiar, and the elder brother who lives with me is very busy, so I want to find someone to learn about the delicious and fun things nearby. You have done a great job, and you should be wary of strangers, so I will not handle what you want to buy You take the money and go buy the candies yourself, and I will sit there and ask you some questions. If you want, you can find me over there after you buy the candies. If you don’t want to, come over and return the 50 yuan to me. "

After he finished speaking, he picked up the things on the ground, took the water, went to the counter to pay, and then went to the window and sat down.

He put the bag in his hand on the table, and without looking at the child behind him, he unscrewed the soda water and drank most of it, when his eyes were suddenly attracted by a little boy at the door of the convenience store.

Different from the few fair children in the convenience store, the little boy at the door has dark skin. Some people can't tell whether his face is dirty or dark, but the childishness of a child is completely absent on his immature face. His brows are tightly furrowed, even His clothes were all crumpled.

Wu Luming didn't know when the child came, at least he entered the convenience store just now, and there was no such person at the door.

However, before he could look any further, a person appeared beside him.

The three children each held a favorite cartoon lollipop in their hands, climbed to the chair next to Wu Luming and sat down.

When the little boy he knew handed him back the money he found, he asked him cautiously: "Big brother, shall we just talk here and not go anywhere else?"

"Of course." Wu Luming retracted his gaze and answered the boy.

As soon as he said this, the children who were holding the candy instantly relieved and pushed the candy away.

The only little girl said sweetly: "Big brother, my mother has taken me to many interesting places. If you want to know, I can tell you."

Wu Luming laughed, raised his hand to stroke the little girl's hair, and praised, "Thank you so much."

The child ate most of the cotton lollipop in his hand, and Wu Luming also asked a few innocuous questions about playing around.

Mentioning a small park near the community that is very suitable for evening walks, Wu Luming suddenly changed the subject, and asked the little boy he knew aloud: "The big brother who lives with me, will he also go for a walk in the park over there? "

The little boy ate Ultraman's feet and shook his head: "I haven't seen that big brother in the park. That big brother is a bit fierce, and he doesn't seem to like talking to others."

"Bad?" Wu Luming propped his chin, looking down at the boy who spoke.

The little boy nodded: "That big brother doesn't seem to have any friends, and very few people come to him to play."

Wu Luming was silent for a moment: "Has anyone come to play with him?"

The little boy stopped eating Ultraman, thought for a while, and then nodded and replied: "A few times, some big brothers and big sisters came to play with him."

"At his house?" Wu Luming asked.

The little boy shook his head: "They asked him to go out, I remember... I remember that one time was the night when Santa Claus came, and the other time was the night of New Year's Day. It happened that I had to go out to play with my parents on those two occasions."

"He went out with them?"

The little boy quickly shook his head, and after shaking his head, he suddenly moved to Wu Luming's side and said mysteriously: "Mom said, that big brother, at a young age, is even more antique than Dad."

Wu Luming raised his eyebrows: "Why did your mother say that?"

"Mom said that the lights at my elder brother's house are turned off every time before ten o'clock, and my elder brother speaks in a rigid manner, like a..." The little boy tried to think back for a while, and finally the description sounded like "an old pedant. "

Wu Luming let out a chuckle in his throat.

After a while, he asked again: "Then has anyone lived in the big brother's house with that big brother?"

After eating the lollipop, the little boy bit the stick reluctantly and said, "Yes."

Wu Luming's expression froze.

But the little boy quickly said again: "Big brother, aren't you the one?"

"Except for me?"

The little boy shook his head: "That's gone."

After the three children finished eating the candy, the soda water in Wu Luming's hand also ran out.

When he got up to take the bottle to throw away, he found that the little boy at the door was still standing at the door, staring at the convenience store.

He followed the boy's gaze sideways, and found that the boy was staring at the three children who were still chewing candy sticks.

After throwing away the water bottle, Wu Luming took another Crayon Shin-chan's cotton lollipop from the shelf and went to the counter to pay.

Just as he was turning on the phone to pay, a voice suddenly sounded beside him: "Big brother, are you going to buy this candy for him?"

Wu Luming lowered his head, and saw that it was the little boy he knew, and that boy was pointing at the dark-skinned boy at the door brightly.

Wu Luming didn't agree, and heard the little boy say again: "Don't buy it for him, he is just a beggar, if you give him something, he will entangle you."

"Why do you say that?" Wu Luming looked at the person who was speaking beside him.

"Mom said it." The little boy's eyes were obviously displeased, "he lives in the dilapidated house next to him, and his mother said that his father beats people very hard. He looks like his father. He was in school. I often bite and beat people!"

Wu Luming was silent for a moment, reopened the QR code, and paid for the candy.

Then he picked up the candy, interrupted the boy's continuation, and waved to him with a smile: "See you when I have a chance, I'll go back first."

After speaking, he took the candy and turned around and left the convenience store.

The dark boy at the door was standing at the door of the convenience store, but Wu Luming walked straight past the boy without stopping or giving him a look.

The floor where Wen Siyuan lives is in the back of the complex.

Wu Luming walked for two or three minutes before entering the building.

He walked to the elevator, put the bag in his hand next to the elevator, and twirled the lollipop in his other hand, without pressing the elevator for a long time.

About a minute or two later, he twirled his lollipop hand for a while, chuckled and said, "Do you want to eat it?"

no respond.

Wu Luming turned around, and saw the expected figure at the door without any surprise.

The boy stood in the building, without the sunlight, his skin seemed to be two points darker.

He stared at the lollipop in Wu Luming's hand, but did not answer Wu Luming's question.

Wu Luming didn't seem to be in a hurry either.

After waiting for about 2 minutes, he spoke again: "If you want to eat, just tell me that you want it. I have to know that you want it before I can give it to you."

The boy still didn't make a sound.

Wu Luming didn't speak any more, just took the lollipop, stood quietly on the spot, and kept looking at the boy with his usual showy smile.

After two or three minutes of stalemate like this, the boy made a move,

He suddenly rushed to Wu Luming's side, reaching out to grab the candy.

Unexpectedly, Wu Luming's grip was so tight that the boy couldn't pull it away even after two ruthless tugs.

The boy seemed to be in a hurry, he tugged a couple more times, but still didn't pull away, and suddenly, for a second, he bit the back of Wu Luming's hand holding Tang.

However, Wu Luming still didn't intend to let go of Tang's hand, he didn't seem to feel any pain, and even the smile on his face didn't change at all.

After being bitten by the boy for a long time, he squatted down, looked at the boy with a light smile and said, "That's not okay. If you don't say you want it, no one will know what you want. I said, as long as you ask Say yes, and I'll give it to you."

The boy still bit him and did not let go, staring at him with wide eyes.

Wu Luming also didn't intend to let go at all, as if he would only give it if the boy asked for it.

Just when the two were at a stalemate, a voice sounded from the door: "Xiao Ming?"

The familiar voice made Wu Luming loose, and the boy took the opportunity to snatch the lollipop in his hand, and ran out of the building quickly.

Wu Luming ignored Tang and the boy, stood up, and looked at the man walking towards him: "Brother Yuan? Why are you back at this time?"

The man approached, and the tall figure immediately surrounded Wu Luming: "The school is fine, so I'm back. You..."

He seemed to be about to say something, but when he lowered his head, his tone changed slightly: "Your hand is bleeding."

Wu Luming was stunned, raised his hand to look, and found that there was really blood.

Not much, just a little broken skin.

It should be that the boy's canine teeth were too sharp, tearing and scratching the back of his hand when he ran away in a hurry.

Compared with the blood, the circle of teeth marks is more conspicuous.

Just at this moment, the elevator behind Wu Luming opened, and someone got off the elevator.

Seeing this, Wu Luming put down his hands and naturally changed the subject: "The elevator arrived just in time, let's go up first."

When the two entered the elevator, Wen Siyuan didn't ask any more questions.

It wasn't until he entered the room that he silently found a band-aid and handed it to Wu Luming.

Wu Luming was injured on his right hand, and his left hand was tearing off the Band-Aid awkwardly. He couldn't fix the wound for a long time, so he had to ask Wen Siyuan for help with a smile: "Brother Yuan."

He called softly, and stretched out his hand in front of Wen Siyuan: "It's a bit uncomfortable, can you paste it for me?"

Wen Siyuan didn't refuse, took the band-aid and was about to put it on Wu Luming, but found that the blood on Wu Luming's hand had fainted and was about to drip in just a short while.

This is obviously no way to directly stick a Band-Aid.

"Wait a minute." Wen Siyuan put the band-aid back on Wu Luming's hand, and soon brought a bottle of iodophor, dipped it with a cotton swab, and applied it to Wu Luming's hand.

Who would have thought that the moment the cotton swab touched the wound, Wu Luming suddenly shrank back slightly trembling.

Wen Siyuan obviously didn't expect Wu Luming to make such a big move, he paused, looked at Wu Luming and asked, "Afraid of pain?"

Wu Luming seemed to be terribly frightened, his face was red and white, his lowered eyes and long eyelashes fluttered for a while, and then he responded softly.

Seeing this, Wen Siyuan relaxed a little when he struck again.

He didn't apply too much, after two or three strokes, he took back the band-aid and put it on for Wu Luming.

After pasting it up, he took iodophor and left, and came back after a while, and put a candy in Wu Luming's hand.

"My brother cries every time he gets an injection, but he stops crying once he eats this candy."

Wu Luming was already a little dazed, but looking at the candy in his hand and listening to Wen Siyuan's words, he suddenly became a little dazed.

It took him a while to react belatedly.

Wen Siyuan wouldn't... think he was fighting for candy from that kid just now, right?

Wen Siyuan gave Wu Luming candy, and didn't seem to intend to look at it in the living room, and turned around as if to go back to the bedroom.

He walked two steps, Wu Luming suddenly tightened the candy in his hand, and called out to him.

Wen Siyuan stopped when he heard the sound, turned around and looked at Wu Luming with some doubts.

Wen Siyuan's hand holding Tang slowly dropped to his side before he said, "Brother Yuan, I thought yesterday that you would not recognize me."

"Why do you think so?" Wen Siyuan asked.

Wu Luming met Wen Siyuan's gaze, and slowly raised a smile: "Cousin said you have a bad memory, people you only met a few times, it's easy to forget everything after a while."

Listening to Wu Luming's evaluation, Wen Siyuan seemed to be thinking about right and wrong.

"We've only met a few times, right?" He looked at Wu Luming, "Your coming-of-age ceremony in your third year of high school was the adult cap I gave you, don't you remember?"