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After finishing speaking, Yang Jian's hands were still on Li Bai's shoulders, and his two thumbs were pressed under the collar, and he supported the back of his neck. There was a rough warmth from the skin contact.Li Bai raised his chin, looked at Hu Qian, and tried his best not to blink or dodge.

Rather than nervousness, what squeezed in his heart was actually a kind of excitement. Seeing disbelief, bewilderment, regret, and dullness piled up and grown crazily on that face, breaking the beautiful frame, only the menacing momentum remained. The girl no longer has the strength to scold Hu Meizi and Mrs. Xianglin. Li Bai can empathize with her, but he doesn't feel sad.He just thought that he was right. Yang Jian is such a person who can almost forget the existence of the younger brother who was left in his hometown. He seems to have never cared about his life and death. Forced the reloaded ex-girlfriend to lose her fighting spirit.

He didn't need much effort to hurt people.

Indeed, Li Bai was a little hurt when Yang Jian stared at him for a long time before calling out "Xiaobai".In those years when his skin was often bruised and bruised in the village, he endured the days in Nanjing where he was treated like a dog by the boss every day. He kept reminding himself not to forget that he must come to Beijing, and life would be easier when he came. One point, there are a pair of siblings here who are his relatives, maybe they will miss him in the same way, and maybe they will be good to him.

About half an hour ago, Li Bai realized that he was daydreaming a little too much, and the balance was tilted, but he couldn't complain, and no one had the obligation to miss him.But at the same time, he also realized that at least his own ability to resist blows is very good. After a few mouthfuls of hot food, he regained his spirits. Now Yang Jian is behind him, pulling him into this confrontation, and even causing him to have a nervous breakdown. "We're on one side" feeling.He won.Is this considered "fake tiger prestige"?

Li Bai remembered the words he saw in the color picture book in the store again.It belonged to the first owner's eight-year-old boy.If the burglary is discovered, even just once, the sharp-eyed and poisonous little fat man will cry and squint at him and grin, revealing a few big teeth that gloated at his misfortune. After that, even in front of the guests, Li Bai would be driven to kneel aside, picking up the stinky hair in the cracks of the floor.

When the customers in line saw this situation, they were reluctant to let him use his hands to move the scissors on their own heads. If there were few heads cut off, they might starve that day.

Li Bai suddenly felt that his life had improved, especially in comparison, he was by no means the worst among the three at the table.You go, he doesn't like you anymore, he doesn't even bother to say anything, can't you see?Why are you so pitiful.Li Bai said silently in his heart, so despicable, but also so happy.

At this time, Hu Qian had already started to avoid his gaze, she was resting her hands on the waist of the skirt, rubbing it uneasily.This is the first time that Li Bai has won the eye-to-eye.The more he watched, the more he couldn't stop, but at this moment Hu Qian wiped her eyelids dry and red, like reciting a poem, she left a sentence "Yang Jian, we will have no future", turned around and walked away.

Li Bai saw a tall figure behind the glass door of the cafeteria. He put his arms around her shoulders. Someone was waiting for her.

"I will never see you again in the future?" He asked, always feeling that the words were slapstick, as if they were slapping the pearl.

"Tomorrow is still in the same examination room." Yang Jian sat back in his seat, "Student in the same class."

Li Bai suddenly laughed.

"What?" Seeing him smirk, Yang Jian also twitched the corners of his mouth loosely.

"You college students are so fun." Li Bai blinked.

"Well, I think so too," Yang Jian picked up a chopstick of fungus and put it on Li Bai's plate, "I'm making you laugh."

Li Bai also took a piece of duck blood as a gift, but he was short and short-armed, so he had to stand up in a half-squat to let it land safely on Yang Jian's rice, "I think you're laughing at me," he said.

Yang Jian covered his eyes when he heard the words, the bruises on the back of his hands followed the outline of the bones, and the cold light glared his eyes.It was quite hard to hold back, his shoulders were tight, this time he really laughed, mixed with some nasal sounds, it sounded like he was about to cough, like he was about to cry.From the corner of his eye, Li Bai glanced at the students who were peeping outside the tables, and ran to the auntie in the cafeteria to ask for a bowl of hot water for him.

The food was no longer hot, and after taking a bite, it seemed to cool down a bit, but the two of them ate with concentration and didn't waste it.

After dinner, Yang Jian still had to work part-time. He said it was the logistics station next to Hailong Building, unloading and sorting goods for people, once every other day, from eleven o'clock in the evening to three o'clock in the morning.There was a certain distance to go together, so he simply sent Li Bai to the bus station.

Li Bai asked, "How many hours do you sleep a day?"

Yang Jian said: "It will add up to four or five hours."

Li Bai said, "It's about the same for me."

Yang Jian leaned against the electric pole, lowered his head and lit a cigarette.He actually smokes, Liqun, which is not a good brand, and it sells for two yuan a pack at newsstands in Nanjing.The light is warm orange, and if the wind can be seen, it should be a cold blue. His broken and messy bangs are no longer black, and Li Bai's eyes are separated by a layer of milky fog.

"Can you try other less tiring jobs?" It was Li Bai who broke the silence again.

"Are you so worried?" Yang Jian asked back.

"I'm also looking for a job." Li Bai raised his neck and exhaled towards the street lamp, "Exchange experience."

"There are also, such as middle and high school tutors, or teaching assistants in New Oriental's English class." Yang Jian raised his eyebrows and looked at the last bus, No. 982, coming not far away. A small red light sign also looked like his cigarette butt, " It’s just a freshman now, no one wants to recruit.”

Wouldn't it be good to be a sophomore?Peking University students should be very sought-after.Li Bai felt relieved.

"This is of no reference value to me at all, but I can go to the English class to clean up." He stepped on Yang Jian's shadow.

"Do you have enough money?" Yang Jian didn't hide, and smoked very slowly.

"That's enough. I hid the big head in the house and didn't bring it out, for fear of being robbed." Li Bai blurted out, regretting it a little after he finished speaking. He really wanted to hear how Yang Jian would react if he said he wasn't enough. .

But he didn't.Sure enough, Yang Jian stopped talking.

About 10 minutes later, when the bus was about to stop, Li Bai said again: "I want to smoke too."

Yang Jian didn't say anything, and holding the small half of the cigarette between his fingers, he pulled Li Bai in front of him, with his back towards him.He is left-handed, so Li Bai's left half of his body was encircled by his arms. The smoke floated from behind to his front, and his calloused fingers brushed against Li Bai's ears. The earlobes curled up.But of course he didn't have this kind of supernatural power, he just shrunk his neck, waited for him to straighten his neck again, put his head close to him, opened his mouth to bite the cigarette tail, the peak of his lips touched his little finger, Yang Jian suddenly moved his hand raise.

"What kind of cigarettes do you smoke?" He gently pushed Li Bai, "Okay, let's go back."

Li Bai was deflated and a little angry, and turned his head once after climbing a step.When he put in the coin and held on to the crossbar at the front of the bus to stand firm, his anger was gone, and the bus closed and started.He turned his face to look again, Yang Jian had already left, he crossed a muddy narrow road from the platform, and walked onto a wide and smooth street.He was the only one on the street, and the bus drove in the same direction, passing his footprints.

I still want to visit the dormitory of Peking University, and I also want to ask if I can take me to *** on weekends, Li Bai thought to himself, looking at Yang Jian from behind, and looking at Yang Jian from the front, turning his head like a sunflower, spending the whole day Go through it in 2 minutes and watch him go from zooming in to zooming out.But now it seems that is not so realistic.

But at least we're all alive, kind of hard.When the person shrunk to a smaller size and could no longer be seen, Li Bai closed his eyes.

Before coming to Beijing, Li Bai brought with him all the savings he had accumulated over the years—2000 yuan. At present, he only spent a small part of it, but there was only expenses and no income. Being eaten by ants with a big piece of fragrant and sweet cake always makes people anxious.After that day, Li Bai stopped wandering around Zhongguancun, and with the perseverance he had when he was looking for Yang Jian, he began to search among the barbershops.

People in Beijing seem to pay less attention to this aspect than people in Nanjing. Li Bai focused on the single room he rented and searched round and round. Not liking order is not alarmist talk.What's even more unfortunate is that Li Bai practiced his skills for several years, but encountered far more obstacles than when he first arrived in Nanjing.The asking price is still low. The main reason for the rejection is age. The most annoying thing is that one family took him in and let him work for three days in peace. The boss suddenly paid him 100 yuan, saying that the recent crackdown , I really didn't dare to hire him again, and said that the boss himself was going to go back to his hometown on vacation, and wanted him to have a good year by himself.

Li Bai felt like a vegetable that was uprooted just after it took root.

He also fully understood that the rules here were different from what he had learned before.No one bullied him because of his young age, but no one wanted him because of his young age either.

It was the day of the Laba Festival, and Li Bai came home cold and hungry. He lay on a hard plank bed, covered with a quilt and a cotton jacket, and stared intently at the hundred-yuan bill.Frustrated for a while, he got up to cook porridge for himself, put a lot of sugar, and drank until the root of his tongue was numb. Shijingshan could not do it. He decided to go to Daxing to try his luck after the next year.

It's still a suburb there, and the control over underage labor should not be as strict as in the city.

Soon he fell asleep, and as soon as he relaxed, he slept for nearly two days.Later, before dawn, he woke up from the cold. He opened his eyes and saw that a large piece of the ceiling in the southeast corner of the rental house had collapsed, accounting for about a quarter of the entire room. Dirt and debris fell into it. The house, with the dark sky above it, and the cold wind pouring directly into it, the snow on the roof fell along the way, and some piled up on the edge, which had melted a lot and kept ticking down.

Even if he was passing by like Li Bai, he felt a little frightened. He rescued his luggage, wiped off the dirt, turned on the small heater to dry it, and waited until after dawn, when it was almost time to get up, before carefully giving it to the landlord. Call up.

The landlord didn't ask him to pay, but also told him that he was sorry, that he was not in Beijing, and contacted him with workers to fix it.

Li Bai waited for three days but did not get any workers.

He went to find someone by himself, either it was too expensive, or he was already on vacation.

Fortunately, the bed was not under the hollow, but it was a little colder, so Li Bai was not too depressed.During the day, when he was bored, he would go to the shopping mall without buying anything, just wanting to listen to Faye Wong's songs in it.Just a few days later, and it was getting closer to New Year's Eve. Li Bai also caught a bad cold and had a fever in the middle of the night. He got up the next day and wrapped himself up like a carrot. He didn't have medical insurance and went to the hospital to prescribe medicine. He just found a home In the small pharmacy along the street, his wallet was still badly damaged. He was suddenly aggrieved and realized his desolation.

He bought a bottle of mineral water, but he really wanted to drink warm water. He shed tears while swallowing the pills.Earlier, he was afraid that someone would sneak into the hole and steal things, so he took all the valuables with him, in fact, it was the kraft paper envelope containing the banknotes and a pocket watch with a key attached, so he walked to the station with all his belongings.

With tears in his eyes, he looked at the stop sign for a while, the direction was red, the characters were pine green, and the place names in Beijing were all strangely shaped, with some unfamiliar characters, but Li Bai knew those four characters, Peking University East Gate. Get on the northbound bus.

To find Yang Jian, the only thing Li Bai knows is the Physics Building and Xuewu Canteen.He felt that the former was more reliable, so he buried his face in the collar of his cotton-padded jacket and trotted to look for it, only to find that there were security guards at the door, holding a banner saying "No cheating on exams, establish a rigorous style of study".

Is it the final exam?The building and the entire campus were surprisingly quiet. Li Bai knew that he couldn't get in this time. He stood at a small intersection where the security guards couldn't see, and waited for more than half an hour. It was early five o'clock, and the sky was already very dark. His head was not so clear when there was a noise in his ear, and it took him more than ten seconds to react before Li Bai figured out that the rumbling sound was the students chatting and going downstairs.

Searching along the sound, the flow of people was spreading, and he was about to be swallowed. Li Bai thought about finding Yang Jian among them. It was a coincidence that he saw Yang Jian walking in the front, wearing a long trench coat, and holding his friend's arms on both sides. It's that Hu Qian.

Hu Qian obviously saw him too, patted the female companion next to her, and even pointed at him, she must be discussing something.

Li Bai took two steps back. Suddenly, he completely lost the ability to confront Yang Jian when he was standing behind him, and he no longer wanted to go into the crowd of people. The curb was surrounded by a wall of holly trees. , he leaned up, then retreated, and then squatted down with his legs bent.

Li Bai sat in the holly tree.

He used to like to do this too, sitting in a tree with only a small part of his body exposed, he felt safe, but that was in Nanjing, in some corners of the park where few people set foot, when he got paid to rest for a while.Now it is on an unfamiliar university campus, next to the constant crowds of people emerging from the teaching building.Li Bai couldn't understand what those people were buzzing about, and he also had doubts about what he was going to do here.

In fact, sometimes Li Bai can't control his behavior very well. The more he understands the weirdness, the more he can't stop him, which also makes him often distressed.He just had a premonition—if he moved again, he was destined to embarrass Yang Jian again, so he retreated deeper, crossed his arms in a daze, buried his face in his knees, and didn't dare to go out any further, and didn't want to be seen by passers-by .

This can still be done. Li Bai is very thin and his body is soft. He is also very skilled at hiding in various corners. He can retreat to the end between two trees without showing his feet.

Gradually, Li Bai calmed down.He smelled the damp earth, the dust on the leaves was wet from his breath, the old snow melted under his trousers, he seemed to be completely part of this gap, no one could force him, drag him away.He can also see some of the outside situation clearly, the human voice has become much clearer, and it is no longer that compelling denseness, maybe after a while, he will be able to go out by himself.

But I saw several black shadows approaching, it was someone standing in front of the holly tree wall.

Li Bai's breathing was suspended again, and his first reaction was that this was Hu Qian, who came to seek revenge on him, and brought her group of colorful friends to scold him with worse words than a vixen, and stand in front of him When the branches of the tree were pushed aside, Li Bai felt that he was just a mussel whose shell had been peeled off, and the tip of his teeth bit the bloody smell on his lips.

"You are here." He heard a familiar voice.

Yang Jian stood in front of the tree with his waist bowed, his arms spread out, just like the embrace of the tree, as if he was wrapped in it.

Yang Jian found him, he didn't even dare to think "find me soon".

Li Bai's mind was blank for a moment, and he saw that behind Yang Jian, the sky among the dead branches was still gray, the magpies were screaming fiercely, several street lights were on, and many students were still walking on the road under the lights.

Yang Jian also looked back, only then did Li Bai notice that there was a boy standing behind him, dressed in black, with a very white face, tall and thin, his facial features were dimly illuminated by the fluorescent lights of the mobile phone screen, but very delicate.

"You go first, Lao Zhao should be in a hurry, I won't go to the class reunion at night, the high school people are also very annoying, I will ask you two to get together alone in two days." Yang Jian said to him.

"Goodbye." The man nodded, pressed his phone and left without showing much curiosity about the abnormality here.

Inexplicably, Li Bai heaved a sigh of relief.Then I saw Yang Jian squatting down, still turning the branches and leaves to the sides, facing him like no one else, looking at him.Yang Jian's face was less swollen, and the bruise on his brow bone healed. Under the dark sky and the shadow of the lamp, his face was very bright.

After a moment of silence, he frowned and said, "What are you fussing about?"

Li Bai took a deep breath and closed his eyes.Slap.I don't know how old I was, there was an empty cup, glass, through which the world looked a little distorted.Li Bai can see it as long as he closes his eyes.His world seems to have been out of shape.But pat, pat, just now, a few drops of water fell in.

The water is very clear.

The glass is not empty anymore.