When he came back from his part-time job on Friday night, Jian Chi took the bag of candies that Gong Duo bought for him, and said goodbye to Gong Duo with a smile.

"Squad leader, tell me in advance when you are coming tomorrow, I will pick you up downstairs."

"Also, monitor, if you suddenly want to eat something, tell me, and I'll go to the supermarket to buy it."

"Tomorrow, Uncle Yu and I will ask for leave. We have time all day long. If you didn't tell me what you want to eat or drink, just tell me on WeChat."

"Yeah." Gong Duo had a slight smile on his lips, "Got it, let's go in."

"It's cold outside."

Jian Chi nodded and walked in.

Walking to the door, Jian Chi suddenly turned around and ran towards Gong Duo, emphasizing worriedly, "Squad leader, you must come tomorrow."

Under the night sky, the young man's bright eyes shone with tiny stars, and his hopes and pleas were clearly revealed.

Gong Duo was caught in this starlight, looking back at him, "Well, I will definitely come."

After receiving Gong Duo's extremely affirmative answer, Jian Chi gradually felt relieved.

Although tomorrow is his birthday, the most important thing is to treat Gong Duo to dinner, which is more important than his birthday.

Since getting acquainted with each other, he has never invited the monitor formally, and he has never had a decent meal. He obviously ate so many big meals in the cafeteria in the name of the monitor, and troubled him many times... Jian Chi walked Slowly stop.

I feel that the menu is still not very good. Although it was listed by Gong Duo, it is too simple no matter how you look at it. At least...you have to have two or three hard dishes that you can get your hands on, or go home and see if there are any takeaways What's good, doesn't Yu Xiaotian order often, he should know.

It's okay to spend a few thousand yuan, and it's not that he doesn't have savings, and he still has 5 yuan left, so he can earn more at that time.Gong Duo is so busy, it is not always possible to invite him.

Thinking of this, Jian Chi was full of energy, and ran upstairs with his schoolbag on his back.

Just as he was about to take the key to open the door, suddenly, a squatting figure at the corner of the stairs fixed his gaze.

Jian Chi's pace slowed down again, and finally stopped.

The lights in the corridor were dim, but it didn't prevent him from seeing the haggard figure huddled in front of the door.

"Xiao, Xiaochi..."

bang-

The sugar bag in his hand fell down quickly, and most of the colorful fudge inside was scattered.

Qi Xin rushed over quickly, "Oh, this...don't waste it."

After frantically packing the scattered candies into plastic bags, Qi Xin stood up, glanced at Jian Chi, and asked tentatively, "Xiao Chi, do you...do you still know your mother?"

Jian Chi looked at her, at this woman with black hair mixed with white hair, his nose suddenly became sore, his heart ached, and tears came out of the pain.

But he didn't cry, but his eyes were red.

He hasn't heard this voice for a long time, and he hasn't seen this person for a long, long time...

"Mom." Jian Chi called out in a hoarse voice.

Slurred and extremely difficult, like a baby just learning to talk.

"I'm sorry, Xiaochi. In fact, my mother hasn't had a good life these years." Qi Xin wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and the old fine lines wrinkled with her painful expression, looking pitiful. Fortunately, mother can still afford your child support, but later..."

"Later, your Uncle Li was laid off and did odd jobs moving things for people on the street. I was pregnant with your little brother again, and the family really couldn't afford the money. That's why... cut off your child support."

"Mom has no face to see you, and she is not qualified to see you. Thinking that you still have a father, he will never watch you starve to death, so...so...so my mother has not actively contacted you these years...Xiaochi, you can't blame me Mother?"

Jian Chi sat on the chair, lowered his head, and said nothing.

Except for the cries of repentance in unison, the room was extremely quiet.

Xiao Mian nestled in Jian Chi's arms, obediently, and looked at the new woman who entered the room with her eyes wide open.

Qi Xin glanced at Jian Chi, who was indifferent, and cried even more, "If I say it, my life is hard, and it is better to marry one than the other. In the end, I will live this hard life. I really... really don't know how to live in the future."

After breaking down, Qi Xin held his head and burst into tears.

Jian Chi poured her a glass of water from the kitchen.

Qi Xin blushed and knocked on his head, "Now your younger brother is suffering from severe pneumonia, lying in the hospital, spending money every day, I... you and Uncle Li sold the house, spent all our savings, and have nothing gone."

"Even... I don't even know where to get the money for tomorrow's meal."

Jian Chi listened to her crying in silence.

Slowly, Qi Xin calmed down, wiped off his nose, and leaned forward, "Xiaochi."

"Mom heard that you were beaten up some time ago and received 5 yuan in compensation. Is it true?"

"..."

Jian Chi was still stunned.

Suddenly, he thought he had heard wrong.

Qi Xin caressed her chest, her vicissitudes of eyes were full of pleading, "Can you help mom? Xiaochi, please help mom."

"Mom really can't live without Xiao Ran. It's my mother's fate. He is still so young, so he has to suffer like this."

Qi Xin fell down on the sofa crying, and curled up at Jian Chi's feet, kneeling on the ground to beg.

Xiao Mian was not scared away, and even bowed her body and gave Qi Xin a threatening meow.

Jian Chi blinked.

After that feeling of bewilderment, there was peace.

Extra calm.

His heart seemed to have been quietly gouged out. He couldn't stop it, so he could only accept it.

Take a long, deep breath.

"I..." Jian Chi held down the aggressive Xiao Mian with one hand, and clenched the other on his knee, "I don't have any money."

Qi Xin raised his head abruptly, and after thinking for a while, shouted, "This is impossible!"

"I've inquired all about it. The Zhou family paid you a total of 5 yuan! They even apologized to you in public. It's just been a few days. You can't have spent all those tens of thousands of yuan!"

Jian Chi: "..."

Realizing that his attitude was too intense, they discussed together softly, "Xiaochi, can you lend the 5 yuan to mom first?"

"You don't need this money now, so keep it and save it. It's a pile of waste paper, but for your brother, it's life-saving money."

"He's his half-brother, and he's still lying in the hospital. People with a fever are almost confused. They want to eat ice cream cones. I, I don't have any extra money to buy him... woo woo woo. "As Qi Xin spoke, she also covered her face and began to cry.

The small room was washed by the cries of the same heart, and every inch of air was filled with sadness.

Jian Chi raised his red eyes and looked at the most familiar stranger in front of him.

She seemed to have forgotten that he also loved ice cream cones when he was a child, and he would call his mother non-stop when he had a fever.

Jian Chi lowered his eyes and made a bitter voice, "That money..."

"I'm going to use it to go to college, pay tuition and accommodation..."

"What university do you want to go to?!" Qi Xin asked in disbelief, "Why do you want to go to university?"

"Isn't it good to go out to work early? The electronics factory has a salary of 7000 yuan a month, including food and housing. What do you do in school?"

"..."

Lifting his eyes with great effort, Jian Chi couldn't hold back after all, and the gaze towards his mother crushed the last bit of hope.

original.

She really abandoned him.

……

Jian Chi didn't know how to spend that night.

His mind was filled with the screams of his mother.

"If you don't lend me the money, I'll go to your school to make trouble, Jianchi! If your brother doesn't survive, you don't even want to go to some shitty university!"

"Xiaochi, Mom, please, just lend me the money for the sake of our mother-child relationship for many years, okay?"

"Mom wrote you an IOU, don't worry, your Uncle Li is very capable, as long as he can get through this difficulty, he will definitely return it to you as soon as possible."

"Jane Chi! You are just like your dead father, both ruthless and heartless. That's your own brother! Your own brother!!!"

"..."

After not sleeping all night, when the alarm rang, Jian Chi got up subconsciously.

What are you doing today?

By the way, today is his birthday, and he wants to treat the squad leader to dinner.

Jian Chi walked aimlessly to the front of the refrigerator. He wanted to get the eggs, but unexpectedly, he only grabbed one side of the plastic bag, and when the other side was pulled out, it fell apart without any force.

All the eggs were broken on the fridge door, everywhere.

Jian Chi stared blankly at this messy scene, and did not respond for a long time.

I came back to my senses again because of the WeChat voice call.

"Jian Chi! I can't celebrate your birthday with you today. My dad suddenly fainted and is being sent to the hospital. Yan Zheng, his younger brother has someone he knows, and he is with me now. If you can't, just spend it with Gong Duo. I'm sorry, it happened suddenly, and I wasn't prepared..." Yu Xiaotian said anxiously and apologetically.

Jian Chi hastily said some comforting words, telling them not to worry, he is fine, as long as uncle is fine.

After hanging up the phone, the room became quiet again.

Jian Chi raised his eyes, and saw his embarrassed face in the floor-to-ceiling mirror.

I don't know if it's his illusion, it seems that he lost weight overnight.

This is quite good, and saves weight. He thought he was getting fatter because of Gong Duo's feeding.

... monitor.

Jian Chi sat down weakly.

After a moment of silence, he looked around the house.

There are also traces of being disturbed last night... Jian Chi was suddenly very tired in heart and spirit, as if all his strength had been taken away by something.

If Jian Chi was still a hydrogen-filled balloon before going home last night, then today he is a Kongming lantern without a heat source.

He has no strength to celebrate his birthday now, and his whole body is exhausted.

And...Last night, the money was not taken away. According to my mother, she would come to ask for it until the day she gave it to him.

Jian Chi suddenly felt that inviting Gong Duo to dinner at home was not a very good idea.

His family, and himself, were not so visible.

I used to feel that life was slowly getting hopeful, but now I find that it is actually the same.

It's what it should be, it's just that it hasn't exploded.

Simple: [Squad leader, I'm sorry, I may not be able to invite you today. 】

Simple: [I'm sorry. 】

Simple: [Wait next time, I'll treat you to something better. 】

Wechat sent for half a day, no response.

Jian Chi checked the time on his phone, it was 4:[-] in the morning, it should be too early.

In the early morning of spring, when the sky was just slightly bright, Jian Chi sat on the bed, surrounded by deadly silence.

Xiao Mian also woke up early, jumped on the bed, and acted like a baby around Jian Chi.

Jian Chi held it in his arms and stroked it gently.

Can't fall asleep anymore, and Jian Chi doesn't want to lie down again.

After putting on his clothes, Jian Chi carried Xiao Mian and went downstairs.

The air outside is very fresh, and the street corner vendors are ready to set up their stalls.

The tofu nao and fried oil cakes smell very good, as well as the hot meat buns.

The sun rose little by little, illuminating the world full of fireworks.

Jian Chi hugged Xiao Mian and walked aimlessly, like a homeless child.

They first went to nearby playgrounds, commercial streets, parks, places where there are many people.

Looking at all kinds of people, passing by their side, and finally disappearing from sight.

Jian Chi's expression was blank, he wanted to cry, but he couldn't.

What are you crying for?

In the past, I also cried several times, chasing the back of the car where my parents left, and secretly waking up in the middle of the night crying with my pillow in my arms, but in the end, when I was left behind, I was still left behind. No one felt sorry for me, and no one hugged me he……

When it was almost noon, he was afraid that Xiao Mian would be hungry, so he bought some ham sausage and milk for her.

When I watched Xiaomian stretch out her little tongue to lick, I suddenly remembered that I didn't seem to feed Xiaomian last night. For more than ten hours, the kitten was hungry, but it didn't bark.

Xiao Mian was picked up from the trash can when Jian Chi's parents divorced. It was a small, newborn kitten, dirty and shivering from the cold.

Jian Chi immediately picked it up and took it home, fed it carefully, never picky eaters, although sometimes it was a little skinny, but most of the time, it was very obedient.

In fact, abandoned children like them will be very obedient as long as they are given a little sweetness.

Perhaps aware that Jian Chi's state was not right, Xiao Mian stopped eating, raised her neck and rubbed Jian Chi's chin, and meowed, as if to comfort her, but also as if she was acting like a baby.

"I'm fine." Jian Chi smiled and patted its head, "Eat it."

"We'll go back after eating, it's cold again."

By the time they got home, it was past four o'clock in the afternoon.

It was dark.

When climbing the stairs, Jian Chi suddenly remembered that today is his birthday.

And this birthday is about to pass.

Really nothing to celebrate.

Actually... In the end, when he came to this world, no one thought it was something worth celebrating, not even himself.

Jian Chi raised his foot and walked up the last step, when Xiao Mian in his arms suddenly meowed.

He then raised his eyes, and saw under the dim light, the tall boy was leaning against the wall with his long legs propped on the ground, his clear face was expressionless.

Gong Duo just met his eyes.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jian Chi saw the Doraemon blue cake in his hand.

In the transparent glass cover, the Smurf cutely holds a chocolate sign with two words written in white cream.

happy Birthday.

The author has something to say: Happy birthday, little Jane children's shoes (#^.^#)

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