blazing fire

Cheng Zhuo is a man of action. With an idea in his mind, he ran to the town the next day, followed the directions on his mobile phone, and found the only Xinhua Bookstore in the town.

The moment he stepped through the door, he was still wondering when was the last time he entered a bookstore.

kindergarten?

It seems that it was not so early, when he was in elementary school, he still seemed to like reading, as for later...

Can't remember much.

The plastic curtains of the bookstore are very old, with the dirt left over from time; the weather has become hot recently, and several large fans are turned on in the store; the hall is not turned on, and the inner part is a bit dark, but because it is daytime, It doesn't affect Cheng Zhuo finding what he needs.

- Literacy books for kindergarten children and lower primary grades.

Although Cheng Zhuo himself was ignorant, he was quite knowledgeable. He chose a book that he thought was good from a bunch of fancy books, and then started to visit other areas.

He found that this bookstore was more trendy than he had imagined. There were popular best-selling novels on the market, as well as some youth romance novels whose names he had never heard of. But since it is in stock, it means that someone is buying it.

However, there are very few teaching aids for junior high school and above. He looked around and only found a small shelf with all the teaching aids from the first year of high school to the third year of high school. Something I've never heard of.

Originally, he wanted to bring Yuan Yu a gift by the way, but it seemed impossible.He walked to the cash register counter, put the set of literacy books on it, then bent down——

"56 yuan and 2." The cashier snapped up the price.

"Is there any difference between the several repeaters here?" Cheng Zhuo pointed to the three repeaters lined up side by side in the glass counter, with prices ranging from more than 200 to more than 600.

Based on Cheng Zhuo's understanding of prices, the premiums for electronic products in bookstores are a bit exaggerated.

But he has no choice. Without a mobile phone number, he can no longer use his previous online shopping account, and he doesn't want to open a new one.Anyway, he didn't care about the premium, so the money was spent.

The staff of Xinhua Bookstore are not very enthusiastic about the "big customers" who want to buy repeaters. They briefly introduced: the 200-odd model only has the most basic playback and repeating functions; the 400-odd one can listen to the radio; the 600-odd one can Put the CD on.

Cheng Zhuo: "Is there a matching tape for this set of literacy books?"

"Yes, but it's out of stock." The cashier said, "There is a matching CD, do you want it?"

"..." Cheng Zhuo paused, "Then take that 630 repeater, and give me a supporting CD."

With 1000 yuan in hand, a trip to Xinhua Bookstore will take most of it.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Zhuo's mood is surprisingly good, this may be the "happiness of helping others" that his mother told him when he was a child.

Holding the plastic bag, he stood under the sun for a while, then took out his mobile phone and called Cheng Guangzong.

"Give me some more money," he said as soon as the call came through. "It's almost gone."

"..."

"Are you crazy??? Didn't I send you the money just now??? I sent you to Yang Huai to be a dominator???"

"A mobile phone number is required to apply for a bank card, so I can't buy a mobile phone after I get a new mobile phone card?" Cheng Zhuo opened his mouth with an excuse, "The counterfeit mobile phone worth hundreds of yuan has already tested me, I hope you understand that I am not messing around. flower."

The phone was cut off with a "beep", and Cheng Zhuo suspected that his father was so angry that he smashed the phone.

This makes people feel better.

He put his cell phone back into his pocket, and decided to call again after dark if he didn't receive the text message.

Then he didn't surf the Internet and went back to the village by bus.

When he came back, it was just in time for dinner, and the door of the original house was open. Looking through the door, he could vaguely see someone busy in the kitchen behind the lobby.

It seems to be Yuan Yu's mother.

Cheng Zhuo originally wanted to call the door, but suddenly thought that he would take this bag of things directly... Maybe it would be smashed by the irritable old man who "only heard his voice".It would be a waste of money to smash him, Cheng Zhuo lamented that he was so downcast that he began to feel sorry for more than 700 yuan, but he still resigned to his fate and took the things home first.

Grandma was cooking in the kitchen, and was surprised that he came back so early today, and was busy adding more dishes.

"No need," Cheng Zhuo said, "Just eat whatever you want."

That's what he said, but grandma finally added a bowl of fried pork with garlic to him.The taste of this food is universal, it is one of Cheng Zhuo's more acceptable dishes here, so grandma often cooks it for him recently.

Cheng Zhuo waited for three hours, and when he almost rushed to Yuan's house and knocked on the door to ask, Yuan Yu finally appeared.Seeing him poking around outside her house, Yuan Yu's eyes widened, and her first reaction was to run over and take him to another house.

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Cheng Zhuo was annoyed by him, he didn't like being dragged around, so he frowned, "Didn't it mean that I don't think I'm shameful?"

"But my dad..." Yuan Yu bit his lower lip after saying these three words.Recently, saying that father has talked too much, he himself feels like an excuse.

That inexplicable feeling is really aggrieved, afraid that Cheng Zhuo might misunderstand again, Yuan Yu pleaded: "Good brother, please let me go, I really don't think so."

"..." Cheng Zhuo frowned, "What did you call me?"

"Okay... brother?" Yuan Yu was a little at a loss, "you are...older than me, can't, can't you call me brother?"

It is not impossible.

It was that soft tone that made his ears itch suddenly.

Cheng Zhuo lowered his head and scratched the bridge of his nose, but didn't make a sound.

Yuan Yu didn't quite understand what he was thinking, and asked, "Why are you here? Didn't you go online today?"

"I heard that you are teaching your sister how to read, so I went to the town early this morning to buy a reading book." Cheng Zhuo then remembered the business, "I have been waiting for you for three hours since I came back—you are really hard to find. "

He was really sleepy as he spoke, so he yawned and rubbed his eyes with his head down.

The slightly long bangs fell on the face, making the skin on the forehead very white. Yuan Yu took a look, and took advantage of him to look up and staggered his gaze.

How did he know that Cheng Zhuo was waiting for him, he was a little embarrassed: "After finishing the farm work these two days, my sister and I went to the 'secret base' to learn how to read, so..."

"Why is the secret base so mysterious?"

Yuan Yu didn't really want to answer, so he used vague words: "Just...the place where I used to play with my sister when I was young...there is no one on the ridge, lest others see it and tell my father."

However, in fact, Cheng Zhuo didn't want to inquire about the base at all. He just asked casually. Hearing what he said, he sneered: "You guys are really like thieves when you read a book. Then why don't you go to my house to read the book?" ? You have to make up your mind whether to take it back or how to deal with it.”

Yuan Yu didn't want to go to Cheng Zhuo's house these two days, but facing the book, he really had no resistance, and nodded without much hesitation: "...Okay, I'll go and have a look with you."

But he never imagined that Cheng Zhuo would give him such a big surprise besides literacy textbooks.

The repeater with CD player function can even listen to radio and recording!He heard the teacher mention this thing, because the English teachers in the town are not very good at pronunciation, in order not to mislead the children, the teacher recommends everyone to listen to English broadcasts or buy discs to learn pronunciation, but Yuan Yu knows this thing Very expensive, I never dared to think about it.

"This is..." He almost couldn't believe it, "For me?"

"Correct me, it's for your sister. Your sister's things are not yours." Cheng Zhuo said, "But of course you can use them if you want after she runs out. Your sister needs to be taught how to read."

He asked Shepi about employment. Qian Chengzhuo didn't care much about these things. He only knew that Jiangcheng's light industry was developed, and he only thought of textile factories. Talking to Shepi, he heard a lot of new ways, such as mobile phone parts Production, beverage filling, high-end children's clothing processing, etc., in many factories, as long as people know how to do things, other things will be taught and taken care of. Yuanyun can try those places.

Shepi even said that maybe in the future he would open a bar by himself and recruit Yuan Yun to be the front desk.

But the premise of all of the above is to be able to read and write, and it is not something that they can decide, so Cheng Zhuo didn't mention it to Yuan Yu for the time being.

Yuan Yu definitely couldn't take back things like the book repeater.Cheng Zhuo thought of a way for him and asked Yuan Yu to go downstairs to tell his grandma that he would come to borrow books often in the future.

"I don't speak your local dialect, so go and tell her." Cheng Zhuo directed him, "Then you two can come anytime you like, and you can come up to get them even if I'm not here. I'll put all these things on the table Come on, just don't touch my other things."

Even though Cheng Zhuo knew Yuan Yu well, he would not mess with his things.

Before going downstairs, Yuan Yu passed by the eight stacked large cardboard boxes, and looked at them curiously, but didn't ask much.

He also had to help with the housework, so he didn't stay long after talking to Grandma Cheng, and went home alone.

Cheng Zhuo watched him go back from the second floor.Yuan Yu didn't know if he felt it, but he turned around halfway, hesitated for a moment, and waved to him.

So Cheng Zhuo also waved.

It was mid-April, and what Ling Chengzhuo never expected was that this was actually the last time he saw Yuan Yu this month.

On the second day after his nostalgic server climbed to the full level, Cheng Zhuo didn't go online and was lying at home lazily, when he ran into Yuan Yun who came to get a repeater and a reader.

After seeing her for a long time, Cheng Zhuo wanted to ask a lot, so he turned over and jumped off the bed: "It's rare to meet you, so I just asked, how is your reading?"

"I wrote down quite a lot, but I still can't write very well." Yuan Yun was a little embarrassed.

"Good-looking characters are all practiced, don't worry." Cheng Zhuo asked, "How is your marriage?"

He hasn't met the Yuan family's siblings much in the past half month, he only knows that the man is still wandering around the town, sometimes going to drink with Shepi and the others, and he can even see the new man he met upstairs going upstairs.

Cheng Zhuo was a little nauseous - I heard from the people in the bar that the consumption of spare family planning supplies in their room was very small, and this man was not afraid of getting sick after messing around like this.

Speaking of this, the smile in Yuan Yun's eyes instantly subsided: "Last week... Dad beat Mom, and the family didn't mention it these days, but... I heard that the family will come again tomorrow ..."

"What kind of man is beating his wife?" Cheng Zhuo frowned, "If you really can't push it away, you have to make a decision."

"I know." Yuan Yun sighed, "But I'm afraid... before I write this horoscope, Dad will beat someone. If I run away, will he..."

There was a lingering sadness in her eyes, and after a while, she said softly, "I'm just worried about mom and brother."

"Then you can't lose the rest of your life, can you?" Cheng Zhuo's thinking is more bachelor, "If you are really worried, can you take them away if you live well outside?"

Yuan Yun lowered his eyes and said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking.

The atmosphere was a little dignified, Cheng Zhuo didn't want to talk so rigidly, after all, he didn't have a deep friendship with Yuan Yun, so he asked a separate question: "Are you here to get the books all this time?"

"correct."

"Why didn't Yuan Yu come, isn't he more familiar with me?"

"Ah... you don't welcome me?" As a girl, Yuan Yun's character is more sensitive and careful.

"That's not true," Cheng Zhuo waved his hand, "I just suddenly feel like I haven't seen him for a while. Except for going to school and working at home, he is usually at your...'secret base'?"

Yuan Yun nodded: "Big brother said that the scenery in that place is beautiful. In fact, he used to go there occasionally after finishing his farm work. He didn't do anything, just blow the wind and said he was in a good mood."

"That's it." Cheng Zhuo became a little interested, but he didn't want to inquire about other people's secrets, so he just said, "Let him come over tomorrow, I'll chat with him."

"Row."

Yuan Yun promised well.

However, after a day, it was still her who came.

"Big brother said...it doesn't matter who comes, he has to think about what to tell me today, he will go there first..." Yuan Yun was a little embarrassed.

Cheng Zhuo looked at her expression and suddenly realized something.

This Yuan Yu seems to be avoiding him?

No, this, why?

Was he not good enough for Yuan Yu or something?

Cheng Zhuo felt himself laughed out of anger.

He snorted and asked, "Then where is your 'secret base'? He won't come over, so I'll go find him."

The author has something to say:

Good brother, your ears are not itchy, but your heart is itchy.