soft hedgehog

"Jiacheng, do you know how to buy shoes that need lottery?"

The day before the last exam, Liang Yuchen and his only roommate were sitting in the dormitory reviewing their books, when they suddenly asked this question.

The chair creaked, and Xi Jiacheng, who was back to back with him, leaned back: "Why did you suddenly think of buying shoes?"

These two people have a chen and a cheng, and they are in the same courtyard. They have always gotten along well, but their hobbies are much different.Liang Yuchen likes to read books to make money, and Xi Jiacheng likes to play basketball, so they both bring and understand the newly released equipment.

"Want to buy sneakers?"

I have never seen this college bully be interested in such extraneous things.

Liang Yuchen put down the fountain pen in his hand, turned his back to him and answered, "I don't know if it's sneakers or what kind of shoes. My brother's birthday, I'm going to buy a pair he likes for him."

Xi Jiacheng simply turned around and sat on the chair, tapped his shoulder with a pen: "Is that your stepmother's son?"

He hummed and turned around: "You have seen it."

"He—"

Xi Jiacheng remembered.In the cafeteria before, it seems that there was such a one-sided relationship.He and Liang Yuchen went to eat more than a month ago, and the line was well lined up. Suddenly, two elementary school boys from lower grades came over, one of them was as white and tender as a piece of tender tofu, and his expression was also arrogant: "Liang Yuchen, I will go to the school at nine o'clock tomorrow morning." East Campus, come and pick me up by bike."

That tone startled him, it was as natural as a teacher assigning homework to a student.

Liang Yuchen said, "I have something to do."

The child immediately became upset, and put on a bad face: "I knew you were going to make money again. Are you very wronged that the God of Wealth confiscated you as a closed disciple?"

After speaking, he walked away.

At that time, Xi Jiacheng asked: "Who is so arrogant."

This attitude is even worse than his girlfriend.

Liang Yuchen watched the child walk away: "My younger brother is more self-willed."

After recalling the scene at that time, Xi Jiacheng didn't have a good impression of his roommate, his unrelated younger brother, but out of friendship, he still said: "Which one, show me, and I will help you buy it for the staff."

At that time, Liang Yuchen only saw it once, so he had to try his best to remember.Under the guidance of his roommate, he downloaded a sneaker software. Fortunately, the main model was not difficult to find, and he quickly found the pair he had seen before.

"This one..." Xi Jiacheng rubbed his chin, "Your brother has good eyesight, this one is really good, but it's definitely not easy to buy. I can teach you to grab a queue number, but I'm not sure if I can buy it."

Nowadays, everything is being speculated, and everything has to be robbed.The mountains are high and the waters are far away. Buying a pair of shoes makes it difficult to publish papers in core journals.

At 04:30 on Friday morning, it was still dark and the subway was not in operation. Liang Yuchen walked to the gate of the school against the cold wind.

Before it was time to open the door, the security guard of the sentry box came out yawning and interrogating him, with his hands crossed in the sleeves of his army green coat.

"What are you doing? The door hasn't opened so early."

Liang Yuchen pushed the bicycle with his shoulders behind his back, and the glasses on the bridge of his nose were covered with a layer of white mist as soon as he opened his mouth.

"I'm a student in graduate school, out on some errands."

The security guard took his student ID card and looked at it with a flashlight, lest he was a car thief sneaking in from outside the school, so he looked up at him after reading it.

"It's so cold and you don't wear gloves?"

"I got up too early, I forgot." Liang Yuchen smiled politely as his slender fingers gripped the handle, his fingertips turned red from the cold.

"Let's go." The security guard opened the gate with a raised hand, "Remember to wear gloves next time, it's cold."

Waiting to ride to the periphery of the business district facing the street, the stars are scattered, and the morning light is white.

Liang Yuchen's hands were almost numb.

Fortunately, he is also used to it. In winter, when helping in the store, he also has to carry goods and unload boxes. His hands have long been worn out, and he is not a precious body.

Locking the car under a tree, he found the store, and there were already many people queuing outside.

He stood silently at the end of the line.

Most of them are young boys, and there are also big men who look like shoe dealers. There are only two girls who come together.Most of them were dressed fashionable and had colored hair. Liang Yuchen was out of tune with them.

The store doesn't open until nine o'clock, and you can buy it in the top 20.He silently counted twice, and he was No. [-] and eight.

After six o'clock, the sky was completely bright, and everyone's legs were numb, their hands were cold, they were rubbing their hands, and they kept breathing into their palms.Waiting was really boring, and they would chat with each other, but Liang Yuchen was insulated from them.

He didn't deliberately refuse to talk to people, it was true that no one talked to him.Either because of his clothes, or because he looked like a dull person, he didn't know why.

The climate in the north in January is dry and cold, the wind blows like a knife on the face, the store faces the street, and there is not even a windshield wall around.Everyone stood sideways, and half of them were wearing masks. They talked about things in the circle, and they used tricky words, which seemed extraordinarily inscrutable.

After waiting until a quarter to nine, the person who opened the door finally arrived late.

The top thirty received their number plates and filed in through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors, and Liang Yuchen followed suit.Of course everyone came here for that pair of shoes, and they still had to queue up for the checkout.

After waiting for another half an hour, it was finally his turn.Holding the shoes, he handed over the credit card: "Swipe the card."

More than 2000 shoes are not a heavy burden for him.

The clerk in short sleeves and long sleeves leaned against the shelf and glanced up at him casually, then burst out in a mouthful of Mandarin.

"You can't buy it."

His hand holding the card stopped halfway, but no one answered, "Why?"

The clerk pointed at his feet and said, "We must wear authentic shoes before we can sell them to you."

The shoe store’s usual trick to prevent scalpers: Wear genuine shoes and buy genuine shoes, otherwise they will be regarded as shoe dealers, and it’s not too much not to let you go out for a walk on the spot.

"We clearly stated this rule in the text message of winning the lottery. Don't say you didn't pay attention."

Liang Yuchen did not pay attention.It was a long text message, with more routines and less practical information. He only paid attention to the time and place.When he turned on his phone and saw the small words "Please be sure to wear any authentic shoes when you arrive at the store" on the screen, it was difficult for him to control his emotions after not getting angry with himself for a long time.

Later, he walked out of the store empty-handed, looked back at the bustling shoppers inside the glass, and suddenly understood why no one spoke to him.

Everyone found out that he was a novice who didn't know what to do, or they might simply think that he was a shoe dealer who didn't know the situation. They were happy to have one less competitor, and no one was willing to warn him.

Wearing counterfeit shoes on his feet, here he looks like a barbarian who suddenly escaped from a civilized society, and everyone thinks he is rotten.

Missed this one opportunity, there seems to be no second way to get this birthday present.He didn't want to disappoint Ji Tong, although no one forced him to promise, but he seemed unable to see even the slightest bit of disappointment on Ji Tong's face that was always flamboyant.Just like a well-drawn artwork, every inch of light and shadow and every touch of color is worth cherishing and should not be destroyed.

Ji Tong is such a work of art to him.He was born and raised by others, and when he grew up, he became his younger brother without receiving a penny.As I thought before, this is his luck, he has to continue to be a windshield wall and an umbrella to protect the rain like his brother, and the artwork cannot be destroyed in his hands.

So he missed the opportunity, he felt it was his fault.

While he was blaming himself, someone climbed onto his shoulder: "Dude, do you want to buy shoes?"

It's a shoe dealer, even Liang Yuchen can tell the difference.He pushed away the other's arm: "You have?"

The man smiled and pointed his thumb backward: "There are some, see?"

Liang Yuchen didn't speak, followed him to the side alley, another man was smoking, and took out a few pairs of shoes for him to choose.Not only the shoes sold today, but also others, which are no different from the ones in the store. I don't know where they come from.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the water here is very deep.

"What price?" Liang Yuchen asked.

The other party made a six to him with a cigarette in his hand, showing a mouthful of yellow teeth: "Liu Liu Da Shun."

"6600?" Liang Yuchen frowned.

It tripled directly.

Seeing his hesitation, the other party persuaded him: "It's not expensive, you can choose the size, and you can sell it in a month to guarantee a net profit of [-]."

The 7000 yuan was nearly half of the national award, and he had to teach Ji Qingyang for a whole winter vacation, not to mention that Ji Qingyang had already stopped learning, and he had to sell at least [-] USB flash drives to earn back.

Liang Yuchen didn't feel sorry for the money, but just thought it wasn't worth it.He told the shoe dealer to think about it, and went to the nearby coffee shop to call Ji Tong.

Just as Ji Tong got up, his voice was still sticky: "Why? No one is allowed to sleep early in the morning."

The corner of Liang Yuchen's mouth raised an arc unconsciously: "It's getting late, get up and eat something."

"The cafeteria is out of food. What are you going to eat? Just wait for takeaway at noon. You didn't go to review?" He could hear the noise here.

"No." He paused for two seconds, "Come out to do something. How about you, are you still reviewing in the dormitory today?"

"That's right," Ji Tong's voice drooped, "Wang Teng went out to buy clothes for his sister in his hometown. I'm too lazy to go to the library by myself, so I'll stay in the dormitory."

"Why don't you go for a walk together?"

"I'm not going." Ji Tong turned over on the bed, as if he had thought of some terrible idea, his eyes became smiling again, "Didn't you tell me to wait obediently, then I'll just stay and wait for the surprise to come, you You won't play tricks, will you?"

He vaguely guessed that Liang Yuchen wanted to buy him shoes.

Liang Yuchen smiled lightly: "I will never forget what I promised you."

"It's almost..."

Ji Tong happily hung up the phone.

Before the cold was gone, Liang Yuchen pushed open the door of the coffee shop again and went back to the shoe dealer. Without a second of hesitation, he paid the money and took the shoes away.

As long as Ji Tong is happy, it's worth it even a little more.