When Qi Lu saw Luo Yan, she was surrounded by several older children in a corner. Her dirty little face showed no fear at all, and she stared at each other calmly, like a silent civet cat.
The little girl was silent all the way and followed her silently on the bus.
"By the way, little guy, what's your name?"
Luo Yan looked at the extremely beautiful person in front of her and said, "Luo Yan."
The gentle beauty curled her lips, "Which Luo Yan?"
Luo Yan was silent for a moment, and Qi Lu thought she didn't want to say anything. The next second, the little girl pursed her lips and carefully traced a few strokes on her legs.
After seeing her words clearly, Qi Lu nodded, "Your name is very nice."
The little girl licked her lips, pinched her fingers and sat upright.
An hour later, Qi Lu led her to the door of her house and said, "Here we are, this is my aunt's home. You will stay here during this period, and I will help you keep an eye on your mother's news."
Her mother lost her.
She said she was going to buy her ice cream, so she waited on the roadside until dark but no one came back.
When Qi Lu saw her, she had already been in this unfamiliar place for two days.
The little guy didn't seem to know what this meant, so Qi Lu sighed inwardly.
"Don't be nervous, there is only one boy in Auntie's family, there is no one else."
There was a jujube tree with lush foliage in the courtyard. A small yellow dog lay under the shade. Colorful light gauze floated in the breeze. Luo Yan looked over with lowered eyes. A tall and tall young man was hidden behind the gauze.
Noticing her gaze, Qi Lu took her hand and said, "I'll take you to say hello."
"Son," Qi Lu opened the curtain, "are you drying the tangerine peel for me again?"
The boy looked over and said, "The weather is nice today."
Noticing the thin strange girl in front of him, he had a somewhat sophisticated look in his eyes.
"I met this little girl in an old alley in the county. She got separated from her mother and will stay with us temporarily for a while." She said and touched Luo Yan's head. "Little guy, his name is
Qi Si, he is in the third grade of junior high school, you should call him brother and say hello."
Luo Yan looked at the tall and straight young man. He was about the same height as Aunt Lu, and his appearance was similar to Aunt Lu. He was good-looking, and his handsome face shone white in the sunlight.
But her temperament was completely different and cold. Now her dark eyes were looking at her, with a shadow hanging from her long eyelashes.
She looked up at him, a little nervous, "Hello..."
The boy nodded slightly as a greeting.
Qi Lu took Luo Yan into the house and dug out Qi Si's childhood clothes from the big wooden box, "There are no clothes for little girls at home. You wear this first, and I will make some for you another day."
Luo Yan took the black and gray clothes and looked at them with lowered eyes for a few seconds.
Qi Lu bent her eyes and pulled her to the yard, "Your clothes are dirty and you smell bad. Auntie, let me give you a bath. Girls, you should be clean and smell good. You will put on clean clothes later."
I'll give you a braid."
Luo Yan sat obediently in the large wooden basin in the yard and let Qi Lu help her take a bath.
Under the jujube tree, Qi Si was lying on a lounge chair holding a cattail leaf fan, following the fur of the little yellow dog, and the figure behind the curtain was faintly visible.
It was so hot and boring in midsummer that I fell asleep as soon as I closed the fan.
The chirping of cicadas was so noisy that his ears could not be cleared. Half asleep and half awake, the ringing of bicycle bells outside the alley mixed with the laughter of children came into his ears. He couldn't bear it, but couldn't bear it.
The sun was still high when she got up, and people in the yard had already taken baths. Qi Lu was drying tangerine peels and pumpkin strips in bamboo strips, and the children next to her moved to a small bench to watch intently.
After taking a shower, her eyebrows were much cleaner, not as dirty as they were just now, and she looked more pleasing to the eye, but she looked like a skinny civet cat no matter what.
Dinner was eaten under the grape trellis. The breeze blew and the leaves rustled, taking away a bit of boredom.
Qi Lu put some braised pork in Luo Yan's bowl, "Eat more meat, you are too thin and not as tall as other children of the same age."
Seeing that she had eaten the meat, Qi Lu smiled with satisfaction, and gave some eggplants to Qi Si, "Son, do you want to go to Grandpa Lin's house tonight?"
"do what?"
"Your Grandpa Lin might want to ask you to teach Xiaoxue how to do her homework. Are you going?"
"Not going."
Qi Lu knew that her son had always been like this, so she didn't force it.
"Okay then, I'll tell him that you want to paint at home." She turned her head and asked Luo Yan, "Little guy, are you going? Auntie went to Nanxiangkou to buy some beans."
Luo Yan shook her head, she didn't like strangers or visiting people.
"Then you go to the attic with Qi Si. His paintings are very beautiful."
Qi Si frowned imperceptibly and said nothing.
At night, the attic was silent, and the crickets in the fields were chirping happily.
Qi Si was drawing on the drawing board, completely ignoring Luo Yan. The little girl sat upright on the stool next to her and saw Qi peeking out of the door downstairs.
Interstellar darkness.
There are no stars on such a summer night, and the background is black as far as the eye can see.
Luo Yan was lying on the armrest, a little bored, and quietly glanced at the person painting behind him. His face was pure, and when he lowered his eyes, his eyelashes were cast deep shadows by the light, making his eyebrows look even deeper.
He didn't seem to like her very much, she suddenly thought.
That's right, no one is happy when an unexpected guest suddenly comes to the house.
Turning his eyebrows, Luo Yan was caught off guard and looked at him——
Qi Si's eyes are very beautiful, with smooth curvature at the end of the eyes, eyelashes that naturally hang slightly, and dark eyes that are bottomless, dark and pure, and look a bit arrogant.
When he looked at her like this, she was still a little nervous, as if she had done something wrong and was being scrutinized by him.
However, he only glanced at it casually and then looked away, his face still calm and calm.
Qi Lu had just left, and Luo Yan was already looking forward to her coming back.
This place is really boring. If there were stars in the sky, she could count them to pass the time. There was nothing to do at the moment, and there was someone behind her who regarded her as nothing.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flew from the darkness and stopped under the eaves. She blinked slowly and saw clearly——
That's a swallow.
The bird's nest is beautifully built.
The eaves of the roof were not high, and Luo Yan, who had never seen the little swallows at such a close distance, was so novel at this moment that she blinked and looked straight at the two little guys.
It was late at night, and when Qi Si finished the painting and looked over there, he found that she was lying on the floor at some point, looking straight at the two little swallows with a look of concentration on her face.
She was quite calm.
Ignoring her, Qi Si put away his paintbrush and went straight downstairs.
Luo Yan turned his head when he heard the sound and saw his straight back slowly disappearing into the attic.
She pursed her lips and continued to look at the swallows.
When Qi Lu came back, she saw Qi Si reading a book on the sofa, but the little girl was nowhere to be seen in the room, "Where is she?"
Qi Si didn't even raise his eyelids and said calmly: "It's upstairs."
Qi Lu opened her lips, her fair and fair face was still calm, but her eyes were a little more serious, "Qi Si, don't bully her."
He raised his eyes, and after a while he moved his lips calmly, "I know."
The little girl in the attic slept peacefully. Fortunately, it was midsummer and the wooden boards were not very cold. Qi Lu took her back to the bedroom gently.
She was too thin and weighed nothing in his arms. Looking at her thin face, Qi Lu sighed slightly in her heart.