But no matter how cold the night is, it cannot withstand the coldness of the human heart.
"She actually, actually!" An extremely sad voice sounded at the door of Yucai Small Store.
Cui Yu took a sip of Coke and his body shivered: "Brothers, I'm so cold."
Wang Longlong: "Yuzi, the Coke with ice you drank must be cold!"
His words interrupted Cui Yu's miserable atmosphere and brought his misery to a halt.
Guo Kunnan stood opposite them, holding a bowl of fried tofu and wondering: "Yuzi, after watching so many movies, I thought you had already figured out your life, why are you still looking forward to love?"
Cui Yu: "Nonsense, the more dirty I see, the more I look forward to pure love."
He abandoned his good brother Meng Gui for that sweet-smelling girl. He never imagined that he would end up like this.
He was so unwilling: "What would it be like if that girl didn't have a son?"
Guo Kunnan offers advice: "You can pretend she doesn't have it."
Shan Kaiquan watched the fun and marveled: "You are quite innocent?"
Cui Yu straightened his chest: "If love hadn't been heartbreaking, how could I have been in such pain?"
Wang Longlong concluded: "You are beating your chest now just because you haven't met a better girl."
Cui Yu immediately retorted: "You're right, I'm actually very loyal to love."
Although he usually looks very slutty and is a famous libertine in Class 8, in fact, Cui Yu thinks of himself as an affectionate man in his heart.
He has liked Jiang Yanan since the first year of high school, and he still liked Jiang Yanan until a few days ago. Even if he encountered countless competitors during this period, he never gave up.
In terms of conscious affection, it is comparable to Yan Tianpeng who likes Lu Qiqi.
Wang Longlong asked: "Really? How loyal?"
Cui Yulai was angry: "Special!"
However, in order to prove his loyalty to love, he said: "This emotional failure made me decide not to fall in love with any girl again this year."
"Even though she likes me very much."
Wang Longlong: "Even Zhou Jinglan?"
Zhou Jinglan is a girl who is in the first grade of high school. She has a very good appearance. She once posted a few photos in Li Yi Bar and received numerous praises. She is a "mini version of Internet celebrity" in this era, but her influence is limited to the Internet, even in the fourth middle school.
Not many students know about her.
If it weren't for Wang Longlong's excellent intelligence ability, this figure would have been missed.
Cui Yu was expressionless: "I said, even if a girl likes me again, I will not fall in love with her."
"Okay, Brother Yu is really awesome." Wang Longlong thinks Cui Yu is really a man.
Cui Yu: "By the way, who is Zhou Jinglan you just mentioned?"
When he asked, Guo Kunnan and Shan Kaiquan who were present did not know.
This is how it is in high school. Many people only know their classmates and the famous figures in their grade, but don't know anything about other grades.
Wang Longlong: "Girls who are in the first year of high school in our school, you can go to Tieba to search."
"Okay, wait for me."
After leaving these words, Cui Yu opened the Tieba forum, searched for the name mentioned by Wang Longlong, and then saw Zhou Jinglan's school uniform photo.
It was a photo with a hazy filter, which made her appearance and temperament full of the charm of a hundred years ago, as if she had stepped out of that era.
Cui Yu silently collected the post.
He said: "Zhou Jinglan can do it."
…
Night, half past eleven.
Huang Yuzhu's clothes were stained with mud. He asked for leave from studying tonight and went to the construction site.
Originally, his task was to study, and the task of making money should not be entrusted to him, but Jiang Ning revealed this job to him. There are not many opportunities like this in life, and if you miss it, it will be gone.
At night, Huang Yuzhu held a strong flashlight in his left hand and pushed his bicycle through the dark and damp alley with his left wrist and right hand.
There was sewage flowing across the ground. I don't know where the drainage pipe was broken, but no one repaired it.
He walked through the alley and looked at the stairs. There were two battery cars parked there. The battery cars parked here could avoid being exposed to wind and rain.
But such a good spot was occupied by someone else, and his and other neighbors' vehicles could only park outside.
However, even if the seat here was not occupied, Huang Yuzhu still did not dare to stop.
When his parents' battery car was parked before, it was pushed out of the stairs by the family on the first floor, and the car fell into the sewage.
For this reason, Huang Yuzhu's parents had a quarrel with the family on the first floor. Since then, their family's water supply has often been cut off.
It was later discovered that it was the family on the first floor who secretly opened the iron cover on the ground and screwed on their water valve in order to retaliate.
This kind of thing is not a big deal, but the sudden cutoff of water supply is very disgusting. In the end, the police were called to stop the retaliation on the first floor.
Facing such a bad neighbor, unless you are a bigger jerk than him and respond to violence with violence, it will be difficult to solve the problem.
Even for those middle-class families, most of them have no choice but to move when they encounter similar problems. If they want to completely cure the problem, they can only move. After all, in this society, it is illegal to use violence if you don't have extraordinary skills.
What's more, an honest man like Huang Yuzhu no longer dares to park his car at the stairwell in order to avoid being retaliated against.
Huang Yuzhu parked the car by the alley and went upstairs quietly.
The stair sensor light was broken. Huang Yuzhu's home was on the second floor. It didn't take much foot strength to climb a few stairs. He remembered that some time ago, Shan Xiao asked him for the secret of long-distance running, and Huang Yuzhu generously explained it to him.
Shan Xiao also mentioned that if you encounter some troublesome things in life, you can talk to him and maybe he will have a solution.
Huang Yuzhu laughed, what can ordinary students do?
Telling it out will only increase your worries.
Huang Yuzhu pushed open the door, but the darkness he imagined did not appear. He was greeted by a middle-aged woman in simple clothes and her direct eyes.
"Mom, haven't you slept yet?" Huang Yuzhu smiled.
Yuzhu's mother said in a stiff tone: "Why did I call your class teacher the night I came back and found out that you took leave today? Where did you go to play when you were covered in dust?"
Huang Yuzhu answered honestly: "I went to the construction site to move bricks, the construction site of Changqingye in our urban area!"
As she finished speaking, Yuzhu's mother scolded her: "Yuzhu, you are going to school. Your current task is just to study hard and let your parents take care of making money."
Speaking later, Yuzhu's mother sounded extremely angry: "We save money to send you to school because we hope you can get into a good university. If you don't have enough money, please tell us!"
Huang Yuzhu was startled. He didn't expect his wife's reaction to be so big.
He quickly defended himself: "There is no teacher in the self-study class tonight, so it doesn't really matter whether you go or not."
"If you don't let me go, I won't go tomorrow, Mom!"
Yuzhu’s mother yelled: “Don’t call me mom!”
"Mom!" Huang Yuzhu was anxious!
"Don't call me mom! Didn't you hear?!"
Huang Yuzhu quickly took out the money he earned and put it on the table: "Okay, I won't go there in the future, but you can keep the money I earned today."
The hundred dollar bills he took out were scattered all over the table.
Yuzhu's mother was stunned: "You earned it all?"
Huang Yuzhu: "Yes, I worked from 6pm to 11pm, and I was paid 1,500 yuan."
Yuzhu's mother's expression changed. She had worked hard for a month, working from dawn to dusk, and only earned 3,000 yuan...
The anger on her face disappeared instantly, replaced by peace: "Call me mom."
"Son, then again, although studying is important, studying is also to find a good job in the future. It's just this time, and it won't be the same next time."
After finishing speaking, Yuzhu's mother asked tentatively: "By the way, son, where did you find this job? Can your parents go work?"
…
Wednesday, early morning.
As winter gradually sets in, the sun rises later and later, and it becomes increasingly necessary to overcome laziness in getting up.
Xue Yuantong opened the door and saw the deserted morning. The scent of cakes wafted from the next door. It was rich and attractive. Xue Yuantong knew the source of the scent.
Chu Chu is making breakfast.
Unfortunately, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning now eat at the small dining table of No. 4 Middle School every day, leaving Chu Chu alone.
After Xue Yuantong washed up, she applied some ointment given to her by Jiang Ning on her face and patted her smooth face gently.
After cleaning up and settling everything, she ran next door to find Jiang Ning.
It turned out to be empty.
She stood at the door of Jiang Ning's house, thought for a moment, and concluded: "I must have gone to Chu Chu's house to eat it secretly!"
'Yes, it must be!'
Xue Yuantong quickly opened his legs and ran to Chu Chu's house. Sure enough, Jiang Ning was sitting behind the stove, helping to light the fire!
When she broke into the house, Chu Chu was still talking about her past.
Xue Yuantong pursed her lips: "You are going too far, Chu Chu, why didn't you tell Jiang Ning everything!"
Especially a few days ago, Chu Chu actually told Jiang Ning that she secretly made false accounts, allowing Jiang Ning to use this to tease her.
But Xue Yuantong never told Chu Chu that before she made the false accounts, a girl named Hui Li from the same village called herself and Chu Chu to play at her house.
Xue Yuantong and Chu Chu were relatively young among the children in the village. At that time, there were many "mischief-making" children in the village.
The poor rural areas of Hui Province have caused many young people to work in coastal provinces, resulting in a large number of left-behind children.
Most of the left-behind children live with their grandparents. They are separated by a generation. Due to cultural and perspective problems, most of the grandparents dote on their children. In this case, if many children receive bad guidance, it is extremely easy to grow crooked.
The girl named Hui Li is two years older than Chu Chu, but she is the "eldest sister" in the village primary school. She is very fierce and "powerful".
At that time, Tongtong and Chuchu went to her house and played a game called "water pressure trap".
This kind of game console has only two buttons. The inside of the game console is filled with water, but it is not full, leaving some air bubbles. There are two vertical needles and many plastic rings in the water.
By pressing the button, water pressure is generated and the plastic ring is placed on the vertical needle.
Chu Chu played with it for a few minutes, but before Tongtong could touch it, she was driven away by the eldest sister Da Huili.
As a result, in the afternoon of that day, Hui Li found Xue Yuantong and claimed that the game console had been damaged by them and leaked water, and asked them to compensate.
If they don’t compensate, we’ll tell them to look good in school!
Xue Yuantong knew that Huili's grandmother was very fierce. After a quarrel, half of the village could hear her scolding.
Even if Xue Yuantong told her mother, the problem might only get bigger. She didn't want her mother to be scolded, nor did she want Chu Chu to be beaten.
Then she agreed to Hui Li's threat and promised to pay in installments. She made false accounts from her and Chu Chu's small treasury to repay Hui Li. It lasted for half a year before she paid off the compensation for the game console.
Chu Chu didn't know any of these things. Now thinking about the experience of being threatened, Xue Yuantong felt very embarrassed. He never told Chu Chu the truth, so he let her think that he had made false accounts. Anyway, he was just greedy for a small amount of money, and Chu Chu wouldn't care.
In the end, she actually told Jiang Ning!
Naturally, Xue Chuchu didn't know what was going on behind the scenes. When faced with Tongtong's accusation, she didn't choose to respond. She glanced at Tongtong, took an extra egg, crushed it, poured it on top of the pancake, and spread it flat.
As the egg liquid solidified, she picked up the bowl with her slender and delicate hands and spread the seasonings onto the pancakes.
The dishes are very rich, including shredded potatoes, tofu, kelp, vermicelli, carrots, some meat strips, and homemade diced sausages.
After depositing the vegetables, she covered it with another layer of pancakes, glued them together, and then turned the pancakes over, with her bare hands and wrists dancing as if they were dancing.
Xue Yuantong was attracted to his attention: "Hey, a way to eat it that I've never seen before?"
Hearing Tongtong's doubts, Xue Chuchu's cold face seemed to waver, showing a kind of restrained confidence.
Cooking skills? Such a formulaic skill, if Xue Chuchu takes it seriously, she cannot be underestimated.
When the pancakes were finished, she shoveled them onto a plate, opened the rice cooker, and cooked rice soup.
"The food is ready, let's have some together." Xue Chuchu invited.
Before she could finish speaking, Xue Yuantong and Jiang Ning started to bite. Xue Chuchu didn't think they were rude, but was a little happy. It was the first time she made this kind of pancake today. Their eagerness proved her cooking skills. .
"It's delicious!" Xue Yuantong praised, mainly because the noodles have a lot of ingredients, including meat and sausage.
Jiang Ning took a sip of the rice soup that Chuchu brought to her, took a bite of the pancake, and said, "It's delicious, but it's a little troublesome. It needs to be cut into several kinds of vegetables."
"It's not troublesome." Xue Chuchu said, "As long as you like it."
Xue Yuantong forgot to go to the cafeteria to have breakfast, and she took a big bite of the pancake.
She finished one piece of cake and looked at the plate, which still had the last two vegetable cakes on it.
Normally, according to Chu Chu's thinking, these two pieces of cake must be reserved for herself and Jiang Ning, but today Chu Chu worked hard to cook pancakes. If she took the pancakes without authorization, wouldn't it chill Chu Chu's heart?
Xue Yuantong thought for a while, then picked up a piece of vegetable cake and handed it to Jiang Ning: "You eat it!"
Jiang Ning accepted her kindness, and he immediately understood. He picked up another piece of cake and handed it to Tongtong: "You eat."
Xue Chuchu, who was left in the middle, was speechless. However, she was extremely well-educated and did not show it at all. She was still as gentle as water.
Seeing how cooperative he was, Xue Yuantong smiled happily and did not forget to lighten the atmosphere: "You shouldn't say 'you eat', you should say 'you eat too'."
After Jiang Ning heard this, he looked at Chu Chu's expression with his spiritual consciousness. He paused and said:
"I give it to you because I originally wanted to give it to you, not because I gave it to you on the basis that you gave it to me first."
As soon as these words came out, Tongtong's mood suddenly became very happy, and her eyes curved into crescent moons, shining brightly, as if there was endless joy hidden in her face.
This joyful color has even infected the world. The sunlight outside the kitchen shines into the house, and the birds chirp.
Xue Chuchu pursed her lips, the corners of her mouth bent slightly downward, and said in her heart: '...You are amazing!'
