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Chapter 110 Family (2)
He waved goodbye to his only partner smartly, and took those lives that were burned by the fire with him.
He was eleven years old that year, two-thirds of his current height, and he was eager to conquer this brand new world.However, the turbulence and wind and cold for several days prevented him from taking the first step smoothly, so he fell to the ground,
His companion screamed and jumped off the sojourner shell-like body, and ran over to help him up.But Li Xuan insisted: "You go."
But the best time to leave has been missed.
In impression, there were not many times when was so seriously ill. Li Xuan's body was always in good condition, like a tree growing in the barren soil, it can survive with a drop of water.His eyes were burning red, his body was weak, but his mind became more and more clear.
"You can go. I don't need to take medicine or come to the hospital."
He forcefully opened his eyes, and analyzed with Zhao Jizhe very methodically, "It was agreed at first, I will take you out of the orphanage, then you will do your thing, and I will do mine...I just have a cold, I don’t take medicine, and I’ll be fine in a week... You go west, I heard that there are many small cities that are livable and the climate is very good, don’t you like places like that?The driver who brought us here, you wait for him at the drop-off place, ask him if he knows someone who is going to deliver goods to the west, someone is willing to help you the best... If not, how much money is left? Can alwaysFind the person who took you...go far away and forget about the orphanage, including me."
"Nineteen, I won't go..." Zhao Jizhe shook his head desperately.
"Leave as soon as I tell you, don't play a bitter drama for me." Li Xuan broke away from his hand, "You don't like studying, so go learn a craft, don't you know how to pick locks? You can find a locksmith's shop,If one is unwilling to teach you, you can find ten or one hundred, and you will have nothing to eat, and you will work for nothing, and there will always be someone who is willing."
Zhao Jizhe cried out anxiously, thinking that he must have lost his temper: "I know how to pick locks because they always put you in confinement...I have to give you food, what kind of skill is this....I won't go, I'm my brother, I'll take care of you. Don't talk for nineteen, your voice is hoarse, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of you..."
He didn't dare to say the last word, Li Xuan scolded him hoarsely: "I won't die! As long as people want to live, they won't die!"
"Oh, this kid is so stubborn." The woman who came to collect the account knocked on the wall as if watching a joke, "Don't die here, it's time to pay the fee. Small clinics like ours can't afford it, children have to give money too. Hurry up."
"I'm not here, I don't need to take medicine." Li Xuan wanted to tear off the needle with a threatening voice, but in fact his voice was so loud that he couldn't hear it clearly.
"You have to settle the money before you go. It's going to burn into pneumonia, it's still strong, then you have to go far away, don't die at my door." The woman walked away humming a tune, her high heels stomping on the ground.ring.
"It's okay, nineteen." Zhao Jizhe pressed his hand tightly, "You need to take medicine, and you will be fine soon. We have money, so we can buy medicine for you."
Their whole body was only 500 yuan made up of fragmentary banknotes. Li Xuan was drowsy from burning, sometimes awake and sometimes asleep. It has been eleven days since he walked out of that shabby clinic, and it would never be enough, but Zhao JizhePaid the medical bills.
"Where did the money come from?"
"I picked it up."
Zhao Jizhe was still the same as before. He rubbed his eyes and looked at the sluggish snack street opposite, "I have a little impression again. It turns out that that one is also for food..."
In fact, it is already different. It used to be boxed lunches sold to truck drivers. The simple booths and dilapidated tables and chairs are always covered with oil. The carts are not decorated with such colorful stickers, and there are not so many tricks.
The stall at the end now sells oden cooking, and a string of carp streamers is erected on the stall, swaying in the wind.It used to be a wonton stall, the only similar thing was the rising white mist, which would not change for many years, the day Li Xuan was finally able to leave the clinic, right here, Zhao Jizhe bought a bowl with the last "picked up" money on his bodyGive him ravioli.
"I have eaten it, you eat it, you are just right, you need to nourish your body." Zhao Jizhe said, like giving him milk in an orphanage.
Later Li Xuan also knew how to "pick up money", like a vicious circle that he couldn't get out of, he used the money he "picked up" to really exchange Zhao Jizhe's life again.
"Go, come from here, and go from here."
The waiter brought up the appetizers, and upon hearing these words, he turned his eyes around them curiously, and quickly moved away from Li Xuan's indifferent eyes.
Perhaps it was because Li Xuan behaved abnormally today, and he already had a premonition in his heart. Zhao Jizhe's reaction was not as intense as usual. He was silent, his thin face trembling constantly, and he said after a long time: "You didn't say that last time."
"I regret it." Li Xuan replied calmly.
This word was so strange to him, it took Zhao Jizhe a long time to say: "Why?"
"No reason."
"I don't know what's wrong with me?"
"You're not wrong." Li Xuan laughed at himself, "I'm scared."
"Are you... scared?" Zhao Jizhe looked at him incredulously, suspecting that he had misheard.
"Yes, I'm afraid."
Li Xuan's expression and tone were light and airy, he could naturally block the south wall and hit Zhao Jizhe, but he was afraid of throwing stones, for fear that the falling tiles and bricks would hurt the jade bottle.
He took out the locator, gently pushed it in front of Zhao Jizhe, and saw the latter's expression suddenly changed: "Nineteen, I...I, I didn't..." He panickedI went to get it, and threw it away in a hurry like a hot potato.
"You have, but this is useless." Li Xuan said calmly.
"You already knew." Zhao Jizhe had a look of resentment flashing across his face, and then sat down dejectedly, "You're watching me joke..."
Li Xuan was noncommittal, Zhao Jizhe said with difficulty: "Nineteen, I will change it, I..."
"You just care about me? Right?" Li Xuan took a chopstick of chicory and stated calmly, "You won't change, you can't do it, you can't control yourself, and you can't predict what you will doCome. You must go."
"Where are you going?"
"Leave N city, go wherever you want."
"Be a locksmith?" Zhao Jizhe still remembers the joke when he was a child, "I taught you how to do it... No one locked you up when you left the orphanage. Have you ever picked a lock?"
"Pry it." Li Xuan recalled that strange, embarrassing and extremely lucky night, standing in front of the security door with Sheng Min, Sheng Min asked him in a low voice with a hesitant expression, didn't he take the key when he went out, his expression softened a little,Looking at Zhao Jizhe's eyes became sharper.
"When I was in there, a burglar came in from the same room, and he could open all locks... Later, I didn't know what to think in the prison for a year, and there was a competition. Of course, they took advantage. The firstYou can also commute your sentence for one month." Zhao Jizhe said, "I want to commute my sentence too, I wish I could come out sooner... Nineteen, if you don't have so many things now, we can still be likeWhen I was a child..."
"Impossible." Li Xuan interrupted mercilessly, "you have to go out sooner or later. I need a normal life, and you can live a normal life only if you leave me. If you don't see the trap, just go insideJump, after so many years, I haven't made any progress."
"I do not go."
Li Xuan leaned over to look at him: "Zhao Jizhe, you should be clear that I have no other options, but I have given you too many opportunities. Since I said this today, it means that you have touched my bottom line, and you can't do it anymore.Stay here."
"I won't go." Zhao Jizhe still insisted, exactly the same as before,
"It's up to you." But Li Xuan is not what he used to be. He stood up, lowered his eyes slightly, and said condescendingly, "We are not relatives, and I don't mind being enemies with you."
He took the coat on the back of the chair, took out a card from it, held it between his fingers, and counted it lightly with his fingers: "I must spend this money today, you take it yourselfPeople... Or, I let someone else take it and send you away, I tried it last time, you probably don't want to choose the latter path..."
The waiter, who was about to bring the food, stopped in horror when he heard his remarks, and waited and watched, hesitating and not daring to go forward.
"Nineteen..." The suffocating feeling of Li Xuan's hand pinching his neck struck again, Zhao Jizhe swallowed, and saw the hospital's white platform full of waste again in a daze.
"You've been in Qingshui Lane for so many years, and you've also been in prison. I think you know the market better than me." Li Xuan casually turned the card in his hand, "You're not worth the money, but I like to settle things cleanly."a little."