Trainee

Li Qi approached the corridor of his house. This time, he could smell the strong smell of paint without going upstairs, and the landlord's yelling and scolding. Li Qi walked up quickly, and sure enough, the walls and doors of his house were splashed with paint again. This time, the debt collectors became more and more arrogant. The iron door was smashed into a hole, the doorknob was unscrewed, the door was crooked and half hung there, and the house was smashed into a mess.

The floor of the living room was covered with shards of glass. The landlord was standing there and yelling at his father. When he saw Li Qi coming in, he continued to accuse him: "I rented the house to you because I thought you father and son were pitiful, but what about you! Every now and then I was recruited by people in the society, do you want to rent out my house again like this! Will you let me do business!"

Li Qi's father obviously just came back from the outside, and there was still sweat on his forehead, and he didn't know whether he was sweating because he was tired after running or because he was embarrassed by being scolded.

Li Qi went up to apologize to the landlord, but was stopped by the other party as soon as he opened his mouth. The landlord waved his hand and said coldly: "This is not the first time you have done something like this. You can't say anything this time, just get out of here immediately." Get out of my house!"

Li Qi's father's eyes widened, the glasses on the bridge of his nose slipped, he frantically stroked them up, and said to the landlord: "We, I won't do it next time, I'm really sorry...give me some time, I can fix it, Walls and doors are fine, I assure you..."

It was difficult for him to speak, but the landlord sneered and said, "Don't, don't say anything wrong, find another place to live, I won't serve here anymore!"

Li Qi's father was still trying to look at the landlord's face, the mocking expression was right in front of him, how could he not see it, but he still looked straight at the landlord's lips, trying to listen to what he said.

The landlord didn't shy away from his dislike for them in his heart, and he didn't restrain himself and said directly: "You're just a deaf person, why are you pretending to be a musician? Your guarantee is useless!"

Li Qi exploded as if his tail had been stepped on, and without packing his things, he stood up and stood between the landlord and his father, glaring at each other and saying, "Who are you talking about?!"

Li Qi's father tugged at his arm from behind, but Li Qi refused to budge an inch, like an angry little leopard, he could endure everything, but this sentence was absolutely unacceptable.The landlord also knew that he had violated a taboo, so he uttered another harsh word after scolding, and left quickly.

Li Qi stood there without moving for a long time, his shoulders trembling a little.His father let go of his arm, patted his shoulder again, and comforted him: "It's okay, it doesn't matter."

Li Qi squatted down and began to pack his things, but his father dragged him up, pushed him to the sofa and applied medicine to him, speaking a little stiffly: "I'm injured, bandage it first, your hands are important."

Only then did Li Qi realize that his palms were bleeding, probably from the broken glass just now, but he didn't even notice.His father held the disinfectant in his hand and carefully wiped it for him, but the pale face was more like a patient who needed treatment than his own, and there was really nothing "it doesn't matter".

Li Qi asked him, "Why this time?"

Li Qi's father looked up at him.

Li Qi asked again: "Why did the family become like this this time? Didn't you agree to pay back the money you owed at the end of the month? I gave you a sum of money a few days ago... where is the money?"

Li Qi's father stared at his lips, and it took a while before he replied: "The money was not spent." He took out the envelope that Li Qi gave him, and handed it to him, which was only thicker than the one Li Qi gave him. , not less than half a point. "I, no need, you take it yourself, there are [-] in it, it's for you to use..."

Li Qi couldn't wait for him to finish speaking, so he immediately threw the envelope containing the money on the ground, and looked at him with red eyes: "Where did you get the money? You borrowed usury again, didn't you!"

Li Qi's father was silent this time.

Even if Li Qi was canceled and could not participate in the finals, he had never collapsed like today. It was like a huge bottomless pit, a hole that couldn't be filled no matter what. He had just seen a little hope before collapsing again. Whispering his fists, he almost shouted to his father: "You borrowed money again...Why did you borrow money again! Why did you let our family become like this, ah?! You only know how to drink and don't know anything!! "

Li Qi's father said, "I know."

Li Qi was furious and shouted at him: "What do you know!!"

"You want to go to school S."

Li Qi looked at him, his lips trembling.

"I read your college application form and your grades. Your teacher said that it would be dangerous for you to go to S University with your grades, but you have a good major, so you can try it." Li Qi's father said word by word. He spoke very slowly, his ears were not good, he could barely hear a little sound, and he didn't speak very fluently, and he pronounced his words heavily. "So I helped you choose a school independently. There is nothing shameful about self-funded students. They also went to learn their skills. I have delayed you these years... Dad will come to find a way to use the remaining money. You use the money as tuition fees. Just go to study, and I will take care of the family affairs."

"What are you going to do?!" Li Qi was furious, his eyes were blurred, and he felt both sad and angry. "Who do you think you are, are you still that Master Li, are you still that musician, why do you make decisions for me, why do you pay for me!"

Li Qi's father wanted to say something more, but Li Qi didn't want to listen anymore, so he got up and strode out the door.His father called him twice from behind, but he just pretended not to hear him, and left without looking back.

Li Qi was furious, and after slamming the door and going out, he didn't know where to go, the phone in his pocket rang twice, it was Xia Le calling.Xia Le's condition was not good either, and she said in a weak voice, "Li Qi, I feel bad."

Li Qi asked, "Where are you?"

It took a while for Xia Le's voice to come over, with a little trance: "I'm in the practice room, come and pick me up."

"You wait, don't go anywhere, I'll be right there."

Xia Le usually doesn't go to many places, except the small restaurant where they often eat and a bookstore, which is a garage where they practice musical instruments together.

The garage is located in a remote location, surrounded by an art academy. A large number of impromptu graffiti are painted on the exterior walls and on the street. The colors are strong, and various bright colors collide together, which is unique.A black car was parked crookedly outside. Li Qi glanced at the license plate and knew he had come to the right place.

When Li Qi found him, Xia Le was sitting alone on the stacked wooden boxes in the corner of the garage, holding a can of beer in his hand, and there were some beside him, and there were already two empty cans under his feet.

Li Qi walked over and took down the beer in his hand, "You drink as much as you want, how dare you buy wine."

Xia Le's skin was fair, and now her face was red all the way to her neck, her eyes couldn't focus for a long time, she stared blankly at Li Qi for a while, and suddenly hugged him, burying her head on his waist back and forth Luan Gong, voice muffled: "My father wants to send me to study abroad, I don't want to go."

Li Qi reached out and rubbed his head, sighed and said, "There is no way."

Xia Le hugged him like an ostrich and refused to raise his head. What Li Qi said was what he was thinking.He didn't want to go at all, but there was no way to refuse.

Xia Le said in a muffled voice: "Li Qi, I really envy you. Do you know that when you go to the competition, I also want to go with you, so that we can sing all the time in the future, and don't have to stay here and do these shitty things?" It's something on my mind."

Li Qi rubbed his head harder, raised his eyebrows and said, "It's not like you weren't there when I was suffering, and you were tired enough. Don't think too much about it. I want someone like you." Dad, don't worry."

Both of them were very blocked, Li Qi sat next to Xia Le and opened a can of beer, and he was not in the mood to stop Xia Le from reaching for the wine again.This is Li Qi's first time drinking alcohol, the taste is not good, the tip of the tongue is numb and bitter, but the bitterness in the mouth is not so bitter in the heart.

He and Xia Le were sitting on a broken wooden box, and the lights in the practice room were also dim. The broken light bulb hadn't been repaired, and it occasionally made a "pop" sound.As soon as the beer was mentioned, Xia Le buried his head in his knees after drinking, and didn't say a word, but he didn't go crazy with alcohol.

Li Qi sat aside and was still in a daze. He felt that he was useless. In his life, he had to be cautious everywhere in order to survive.

Xia Le was also aggrieved with tears streaming down his face. He didn't know whether he was choked by the wine or he was aggrieved. After being bored for a while, he turned to Li Qi and said something in his heart: "My dad insisted that I disband the band. He said all day I didn’t learn well. He was socializing outside by himself. I didn’t say anything. What if I played a guitar and sang a song? He made himself very hypocritical every day. What’s the point? If it wasn’t for him always like this , back then my mother wouldn't leave..."

"I miss my mother, Li Qi, I haven't seen her for a long time."

"My dad looks down on me, he never looked down on me before."

Li Qi was holding the beer can, and the big man next to him with tears in his eyes pressed down on his shoulders. He almost fell, but he couldn't, because when Xia Le rubbed his head, his hands also hugged his shoulders. The waist is tight, with no intention of loosening it at all.

Li Qi is not usually a person who likes to pour chicken soup. Hearing him say this, he said helplessly: "Then what can I do, why don't you call me 'Mom' first?"

Xia Le and Li Qi's birthdays are only three months apart, but when they get along, they seem to be a generation behind. Xia Le was tall when he was young, and he looked like a bully, but he was the one who was bullied One, he didn't fight back, just squatted down and hugged his head to hide.Li Qi was the opposite of him, he looked thin and his fists were not weak at all, Xia Le had been with him for more than ten years, most of the time he grabbed Li Qi's clothes and asked Li Qi to avenge him.

In a sense, Li Qi did give Xia Le a lot of warmth.