Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

After finishing the question, Chang Qing put away his textbook, took two competition test papers and left with his schoolbag.

Before leaving, he gently squeezed the soda bottle in his hand, and with a beautiful shooting action, the bottle fell accurately into the trash can with a muffled sound.

Su He's family are all honest farmers. His grandparents live in the countryside. In order to make it convenient for Su He to study, his parents rented a house in the city. They get up in the morning to sell breakfast and then go to work.

Chang Qing walked towards the bus stop with lazi steps. She arrived on time and happened to see a bus approaching from a distance and then stopped at the platform.

There weren't many people on the bus. Several students from other schools sat together, talking in low voices about the latest hit TV series.

At the back of the bus, in the seat where Su He usually sat, there was a girl. Her young face was slightly tilted towards the outside, and her dark eyes seemed to be shining with waves in the mottled and slanted sunlight. She opened the window of the bus and felt a cool breeze blowing inside the car.

Chang Qing paused for a moment, then sat down at the other end.

The girl was a little absent-minded, staring at the rapidly disappearing scenery outside the window. The extremely lush green poplar trees poured down, entangled with the last ray of sunlight on the horizon.

When the bus arrived at the station, the girl unexpectedly got off at the same stop as Changqing. She raised her wrist to check the time, silently put on her schoolbag, and picked up two bags filled with clothes that were placed aside.

The two almost bumped into each other, and Chang Qing quickly grabbed the blue chair in front of him.

"Excuse me."

The girl lowered her head slightly, said this hurriedly, and got out of the car from the back door carrying her things.

Chang Qing went to the market to buy some vegetables. When he returned home, Li Juan was already cooking in the kitchen. When she heard the door open, she poked her head out with a shovel and said, "He'er, your father called and said he has to work overtime. Please wash the iron bucket that we use to store porridge. We have to go to the boss to get porridge tomorrow morning."

Chang Qing agreed, put his schoolbag in the room, changed into black clothes, rolled up his sleeves, and picked up the iron bucket that was half his height.

Just when I was washing the iron bucket, I heard banging sounds coming from the next room.

The room next door was previously occupied by a young couple. Later I heard that they were going back to their hometown to get married, so it was empty for a few months. Now it seems that a new tenant has moved in.

Li Juan said, "It seems like they may not be able to move in a short time. Why don't you go to your Aunt Zhang's house tonight to sleep so as not to disturb your rest. I'll call your Aunt Zhang later."

"Mom, no need. I've been busy with the math competition lately. I can do a few more exercises tonight and take a nap in the classroom during the morning self-study tomorrow."

"That's fine. Mom will help you wash some fruit after dinner. You should also make sure to rest. Your head teacher called me today and talked to me about the National Mathematical Olympiad in Physics. Your mom hasn't read any books, so she doesn't understand them. The teacher just wants you to make sure to balance work and rest and not get too tired."

Li Juan chopped the onions skillfully, then heated up the pan and poured oil into it. She threw the chopped green peppers into the pan, which instantly made a sizzling sound. After stir-frying for a few times, she poured the onions in.

"I also ran into the family who moved next door this afternoon and chatted with them for a while. They have a daughter who is about your age. She was originally in No. 3 Middle School, but because of the move, she also had to transfer to No. 17 Middle School."

After Chang Qing cleaned the iron bucket, he took a white towel and wiped away all the water stains inside.

"Then it's quite fate." She said perfunctorily.

Su He also remembered this kind of thing, but he was not very familiar with the transfer girl, and they were not in the same class.

The one I remember most clearly was probably when we heard a fierce quarrel next door, as well as the sound of various wine bottles being smashed. Then the girl ran away from home in the middle of the night, and finally Su's father and mother went out to help find her.

Su He was also woken up at that time. After hearing about this, he went out to look for someone. However, because he had classes the next day, he came back after searching for more than an hour without finding anyone.

When he came back, he saw a girl squatting at the door next door, hugging her knees and crying. She was a small ball and looked very pitiful. The lights in the corridor went off and on again. He couldn't see the girl's face clearly. He just turned into the house, took out a pack of tissues and handed it to the girl.

Su He was very busy at that time and had no time to take care of too many things. In the end, he only heard that the girl moved to the school dormitory, and no one knew what happened, but she dropped out of school.

Finally, I happened to hear someone casually mention that this girl's father had died a long time ago, and she followed her mother to remarry. Her stepfather was a man who loved drinking and gambling. He was also a domestic abuser and often took his anger out on her and her mother.

Her mother was a person with traditional feudal ideas and a soft personality. She also gave birth to a son with her stepfather. Even when she was beaten black and blue, she never thought about divorce. Once she had this intention, she would be beaten even more severely.

People said that the girl was very pretty with fair skin and good grades, but she was unlucky as she was dragged into an alley by a drunk thug.

After the accident, the family moved away again.

In Su He's memory, there would occasionally be sudden banging noises next door. When he went out in the early morning, his neighbor would have a bruised and timid expression on his face. When he accidentally bumped into him, he would apologize in fear and trepidation.

Occasionally he would think that if he had chatted with the girl a little more in addition to handing her the packet of tissues when they were in the corridor, and if they had made an appointment to go home together after school after getting to know each other, then that girl would not have met with an accident.

It was not until two or three in the morning that the noise next door gradually died down.

Chang Qing also put down his pen, yawned, turned off the light and climbed onto the bed.

When he got up the next day, Su's father and mother had gone out early to set up the stall to sell breakfast. After he washed up, he put on his schoolbag, locked the door, and prepared to leave.

Unexpectedly, he happened to meet a girl from the next door who was also walking out with a schoolbag on her back. What surprised Chang Qing was that this girl was actually the girl on the bus yesterday.

The girl was obviously stunned when she saw the boy. She suddenly felt that the world was a small place. The person she met yesterday met again today, and they became neighbors.