Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chang Qing stayed in her hometown until the last day of school, then packed her luggage and got on a long-distance bus. She sat in the back seat of the car and saw through the window the cold branches passing by outside. She passed by the red flag flying high on the playground of the abandoned elementary school. She raised her eyes to look, but it had disappeared before she could see it clearly, so fast that it was almost an illusion.

When I got home, it was already past eleven o'clock in the evening. The businesses on both sides of the street had already closed. Only the 24-hour convenience store next to the community still had a light on.

The security guard was drowsy nearby. When he heard footsteps, he opened his eyes, then closed them again when he saw it was a resident of the community. After a while, he began to snore.

When Chang Qing inserted the key into the door, she suddenly heard the door next door open. Qi Yao walked to her side with the faint light of her mobile phone. There was a trace of self-deceiving calmness between her eyebrows and she said with a slight smile on her lips: "Su He, you are back."

Chang Qing smiled silently, and reached out to turn on the light in the room.

"When did you come back?"

I haven't seen Qi Yao for a long time. There is much more confidence between her brows than before, her face is a little whiter, and her nose is slightly pink due to the wind. She looks a little more lively, not as dead as before.

Qi Yao, wearing her teddy bear pajamas, looked up at Chang Qing. The light fell on the boy's thick and beautiful eyelashes, which seemed to be stained with some peach blossom dew.

She slowly lowered her eyes, her gaze falling on the boy's down jacket, "It was supposed to end two days ago, but I didn't want to come back, so I went to visit some celebrities' former residences."

Qi Yao did not live at home during the winter vacation. Chang Qing knew her situation and used the money given by Lu Ziming's sister to let Qi Yao attend a training camp. During the whole process, her cell phone was handed in.

After arriving at the training location, she sent a message to everyone else and cut off contact with the outside world for more than a month, even spending the New Year in the training camp.

When she got the phone, she had just charged it and turned it on, and messages popped up one after another. There were 99+ on the social software and short video software, almost all of which were sent by Tao Xingqing and Chang Qing. Even if her enthusiasm was not responded to at all, those people would still send her interesting videos.

As she watched, she suddenly laughed and cried.

There were so many messages, but her nominal family only said a few short greetings. She looked at the only "Happy New Year" and a few missed calls over and over again for a long time, and she couldn't tell what she felt in her heart.

When she came back and opened the door, she saw her mother holding her half brother and playing with him. She had a very gentle smile on her face. The moment she saw her, she put her brother down with some embarrassment, stood up and looked at her awkwardly: "Yaoyao, you are back, why didn't you tell mom? Mom will cook some dishes you like."

"Yaoyao, what do you want to eat? Mom will buy it for you right away."

The woman looked at her and didn't know what to say for a moment. She could only find something to do and prepared to go out to buy vegetables with the basket.

As soon as I put on my shoes, the little child next to me started crying and calling for his mother.

Qi Yao glanced at her brother, pulled her suitcase back to the room, and said calmly, "No need, I've already eaten outside. I'm going out to visit the former residences of those celebrities and I won't be back in the next few days."

"You," the woman looked at her calm expression, and said with a little flattery and sadness: "Why don't you stay at home for a while? Yaoyao, I know you have been wronged, but your uncle was just drunk that day, he didn't mean it..."

Qi Yao's face turned pale, and her heart felt like it was hit hard by someone. The pain in her heart made her breathless. She looked at her steadily until the woman left her sight in a very embarrassed manner, then she smiled bitterly and slowly closed her eyes.

The woman stammered, "Your brother is still young, he still needs his father..."

"What about me?" Qi Yao's hoarse voice interrupted her, the sadness in her eyes almost overflowing, and she was close to collapse as she looked at the person closest to her in the world.

Obviously, in the past, she would gently hold her hand, and when someone came to collect debts, she would protect her with her frail body...

Qi Yao went out in a daze, walked for a long time in the cold night, and finally stayed in a shabby little hotel with the money she had saved. School was about to start tomorrow, and she guessed that the boy would come back, so she waited here early, looking at the entrance of the community through the window.

She almost thought that he would not come back.

Chang Qing looked at Qi Yao thoughtfully, "You've been waiting for a long time!"

"It's okay."

Qi Yao's jade-like face revealed a smile, and the swirls on both sides of her cheeks were like peach blossoms in early spring. She raised her head slightly and looked at Chang Qing with shining eyes.

During that boring and tedious month, she always thought about trying harder and harder so as not to let this person down.

She wanted to run towards a better future and break free from this messy life. She used to think in loneliness and silence, and the thoughts of death and dying together had always lingered in her mind. But after transferring to No. 17 Middle School, she met Su He and Lu Ziming, and Qi Yao's desolate heart began to be stirred.

She always felt terrible and a burden to her mother, but someone told her that she was really great.

No matter what little thing she did, she would receive praise from a few friends. They would not hesitate to praise her, and would encourage her sincerely with shining eyes. Or, in other words, they would do something exaggerated to show that she was really a very, very good person.

"Su He, I won first place in the training camp this time."

As expected, the young man in front of her turned his head in surprise and looked at her. His thick eyelashes cast a shadow under the dim yellow light. His tipsy lips twitched slightly and he slowly revealed a smile: "Yaoyao, you really surprise me time and time again. The days of training must have been very hard."

The young man bent down slightly, looked at Qi Yao's eyes which suddenly became wet, reached out his hand and touched Qi Yao's head like an older brother, and said to himself: "I remember when I was in training, the people in the training camp were very competitive. Everyone stayed up late at night to study and got up early in the morning."

Qi Yao's grades were considered good, but in that training camp that gathered all kinds of outstanding talents, her grades were at the bottom when she first arrived. Now she got first place. It was hard to imagine how much effort she had put in during this process to stand out among so many outstanding people.

"Qi Yao, you are really great!!!"

When Qi Yao heard Chang Qing praising her, she couldn't hold herself back for a moment.

It was indeed very hard in the training camp, but she was able to endure it by herself and didn't think it was a big deal. It was much better than worrying and being scared at home. However, when her efforts were rewarded and praised, she couldn't help but tear up.

It's strange, like someone has been wronged. When alone, he doesn't think anything is wrong, but once a friend asks him a question, he instantly becomes emotional and starts crying.

Qi Yao sniffed slightly, suppressing the emotion that arose with the boy's words, and then slowly said: "Yeah, when I first went there, I couldn't keep up with everyone's progress, and I met a few people who helped me catch up. When we left, we added each other's contact information."

The two of them chatted casually.

In fact, Qi Yao and Chang Qing are not talkative people, but when they are together without talking, there is no awkwardness at all. They just talk about whatever they think of.

Qi Yao: "Some people know that I am from No. 17 Middle School, and asked me if I knew you. After knowing that we are neighbors, they complained about how you crushed a bunch of top students in the training camp."

It was not until this time that Qi Yao truly felt the difference between a top student and a top student.

Anyone who went to the training camp was basically a loser, but according to those people, their friends or brothers and sisters were more powerful. It was a pity that they were unlucky and met a guy named Su He, and they were beaten badly by him.

There is a difference between science and liberal arts. Most of the science students in the training camp have already taught themselves the entire high school curriculum and have also begun to study university mathematics. However, that training camp gathered many people from all over the country who participated in the competition and ranked high, but they were still crushed by Su He.

Some people say that this is the real king of volume.

Su He is not like other people who have to force themselves to do something. When he encounters something that interests him, he can stay awake for two days and two nights, or even stay in the classroom for a whole week without moving. Not only his academic performance, but also his hard work is beyond the reach of others.

It was precisely because she had heard so much that Qi Yao opened the book, quietly worked hard and amazed everyone, leaving her friends in the training camp speechless and starting to roll up their books one after another.

The sentence they said most often was: "I laughed at my brother back then. I was unlucky to run into Su He, but I didn't expect that I would be the clown now. Qi Yao, you crushed us. When you first came here, you were ranked 79th in the exam, but now you're already in the top 20. I can't hold on any longer."

"God damn it, are all the students from No. 17 Middle School demons?"

Because Qi Yao started studying hard, the people who lived in the same dormitory with her also started studying like crazy, and they even memorized words in their dreams at night.

When Qi Yao heard other people say this, she would often just purse her lips and smile.

Chang Qing remembered that when he first saw Qi Yao, she was staring out the window with dead eyes on the bus. Nothing could arouse her interest. She just walked in silence, trapping herself in an isolated world.

Today, her eyes are becoming more cheerful. Although she still doesn't talk much, her sparkling eyes seem to hide stars. Under the falling stars, there is no dead silence, but a terrifying vitality bursting out.

To be honest, Chang Qing likes this little girl very much. Once she grasps the slightest chance of life, she grows madly, just like the veins of branches and leaves growing slowly, running hard towards the front, never looking back at herself who was once trapped in the quagmire.

Or in other words, the lonely girl who was once in the abyss of the quagmire is still trapped in that period of time, but when she sees the light, she smiles and watches another self running forward fearlessly.

She couldn't let go of the past, but she wouldn't dwell on it.

The two chatted until it was a little late, and the door of Su's mother's bedroom was suddenly opened.

"You two are still awake so late?"

"Just getting ready for bed."

Mother Su poured a glass of water to moisten her throat, asked the two of them to go to bed early, and returned to the room. Mother Su had to go to work the next day. She would get up at 6:30 in the morning, take the subway for more than an hour, and then buy some breakfast downstairs in the company to fill her stomach before starting the day's work.

After watching Mother Su sleeping, Chang Qing said softly, "You still have to go to school tomorrow, go to sleep."

Qi Yao nodded and went to rest in another empty room in the Su family. Ever since that incident, Su's mother had been worried about Qi Yao and had cleaned up a room for her. Qi Yao was also very hardworking and always rushed to cook, wash dishes and chat with Su's mother.

Mother Su liked Qi Yao very much and almost treated her as a family member. She once whispered in Changqing's ear, saying what a good girl Qi Yao was and that whoever married Qi Yao in the future would be blessed and their ancestors' graves would be filled with joy.

Chang Qing: “…”

I know you like Qi Yao, but don’t be so outrageous and brainwash me every day.

Su's parents are quite open-minded and have never objected to Su He's relationship. Anyway, Su He's grades are excellent and they don't need to worry about him at all.

But seeing that her son only cared about studying every day, Mother Su began to worry. Which girl would like a boy who doesn't understand romance and only cares about numbers? She began to worry that her son only cared about studying and would not be able to find a girlfriend in the future.

She didn't know whether smoke was coming out of the ancestral grave, but Su He was absolutely confused when he came back. He didn't have much contact with Qi Yao in his previous life, but after hearing about what happened to Qi Yao, he couldn't help but feel some sympathy and pity.

He always thought, if he had paid more attention to the people around him at that time, he would have discovered all this earlier, and the girl living next door would not have encountered all this and would have been able to take the college entrance examination happily.

There were clear clues for everything, but he seemed to be blind. When he was reading, a girl of the same age as him, who lived only across the wall from him, was being abused at home, curled up in a corner without saying a word. When he picked up a pen to solve a problem, the person next door was worried, afraid that the beast-like uncle would suddenly break into the room, so he put a fruit knife under his pillow, hoping to protect himself. When he was strolling aimlessly on the street, the girl was dragged into a dirty and dark alley and thrown on the ground like a rag doll.

Obviously, there is only a wall between us.

But this is not love. I cannot fall in love with him privately under his identity. This is extremely unfair to both Su He and the other person. Who can accept that one day when I open my eyes, my lover has changed.

Chang Qing has always felt that she can experience different lives in these people's bodies, meet different people, encounter family, love and friendship, but these are not her own, nor do they belong to her. It is good to have encountered them, so she likes to let go of the original owner's emotions and do things according to the original owner's emotions.

She was just a passer-by, who came here in a hurry to fulfill the regrets in their hearts.

Chang Qing returned to the room, got his pajamas, took a hot shower, wiped his wet hair with a towel, glanced at his cell phone, then opened his computer and found that there was indeed an unread email. After reading and replying to the several thousand words, he reached out and rubbed his sore eyes.