Follow suit

The light in the alley was very dim, and Wen Chaoan was sitting in the innermost seat of the three-seater row of chairs. There was no one beside him, only a row of crude crane machines, changing the light of different colors.

This passage is not long. On one side is the safety passage door, and on the other side is the pedestrian passage of the shopping mall. The people passing by are bright and beautiful. They don't know what they said, but they laughed and looked very happy.Wen Chaoan looked at it, envious and withdrawn—in the city, people are like small planets, moving independently according to certain rules. As a bystander, no matter how close you are, those joys and sorrows are irrelevant .

Wen Chaoan looked at him like this, his thin body was sitting on the bench, looking lonely.

Someone came in and asked how to get to the bathroom. Wen Chaoan was staring at a cloth bear in the claw machine in a daze. Refers to: "door, door."

After that door, go in and walk a short distance to the left and you will see the bathroom. Wen Chaoan just came out of it.

Maybe his voice is very soft and small, if you don't pay attention, you can't hear it at all.Pedestrians didn't seem to know what he was talking about, so they didn't thank him, and watched the safe passage door pass by.

Wen Chaoan let out a sigh of relief when the door of the safe passage closed with a "squeak".

His shoulders softened, and he closed his eyes in annoyance, looking regretful and discouraged—he really wanted to be smarter, not always trembling, like a fledgling little bird that couldn't spread its wings .But cleverness is really difficult. Wen Chaoan doesn't even know what cleverness is. He doesn't do this at home, but when he comes to the city, he likes to blush when he speaks, his voice is as soft as a mosquito, and sometimes the muscles on his face are still trembling unnaturally.

This is a typical performance that has never been seen in the world.

Wen Chaoan thought, what a shame.

He covered his face sadly, and smelled the aroma on his hands, which was the smell of the hand sanitizer he just used. In a big city, even the toilets are lingering with aroma. Unconsciously twisting slightly, biting the dead skin on the lips with a pursed mouth.

After a while, there was a noisy sound from the other side of the door from far to near. Wen Chaoan immediately sat up a little bit, probed slightly, and realized that he was not the person he was waiting for after hearing it clearly, so he relaxed and resumed his previous routine. pose.His movements seemed to be a little relieved, but he was still fidgeting, as uncomfortable as if he was being stared at.

The door opened, there was a young couple, the two of them looked about the same age as Wen Chaoan, the girl was smiling happily for some reason, her narrowed eyes swept forward, suddenly widened in surprise, and pulled at the people around her: "Hey! Brother Qing! It’s a claw machine! Why didn’t you remind me when I just came in! I really want to play!”

The girl's voice sounded very soft and greasy, and the accompanying person laughed, stretched out his hand to pull her elbow, looked gentle, but was actually refusing: "You didn't ask me to remind you. Okay, what is there at the toilet door?" Let's play, let's go." The boy turned his head sideways, his face was covered by the lowered brim of his hat, and he could see his curled hair. He was wearing a fashionable black vest with a wide and fashionable decoration on it. On the side of the vest, the arm muscles bulged slightly.

The man in the black vest was talking, turned his head and met Wen Chaoan's gaze, and casually smiled at him. Wen Chaoan was taken aback, and hastily twitched the corner of his mouth to respond, but the man didn't care, and took the girl away.

Wen Chaoan looked at the boy enviously, and thought, if only I could do this sometime and smile naturally and coolly at strangers.

Thinking of this, a sneer came from the side, and Wen Chaoan looked at the reputation, only to see a boy wearing camouflage short-sleeves, dyed yellow hair, and a more trendy look standing by the door, looking at him with his arms folded: "Student, how about that?" It's someone else's girlfriend, why don't you keep staring at her like this?"

Wen Chaoan stared at him blankly as if he didn't understand what he said.

Probably seeing Wen Chaoan's ignorant and cowardly look, the man smiled contemptuously, walked up to him, looked down at him, and said, "That one just now is my brother."

Wen Chaoan nodded.

"So I advise you, don't think about that little girl." This person is small, with small canine teeth in his smile, but he speaks very uncutely. "Although I don't like her, but I am loyal. , My brother's people, others can't think about it."

"I do not……"

When he realized what he said, Wen Chaoan wanted to explain, but the man didn't give him a chance to speak: "But let's forget it this time, let me see you next time, and I'll break your leg."

Wen Chaoan: "..."

In the short week since he came to the city, he has seen many novel things, but this is the first time he has seen anything like today.

Wen Chaoan wanted to say something else, but that damned safe passage door opened again.

The man turned his head to look, a beautiful smile appeared on his face, and the smile gradually widened: "Look, who am I? Your savior is here." The second half of the sentence was for Wen Chaoan, but he didn't look at it. Wen Chaoan.

There were three people by the door, the leader was Zhou Rong, who was childish and cute, wearing short sleeves with a pattern of little white cats. Wen Chaoan knew that if he smiled, there would be two dimples on his cheeks.But Zhou Rong didn't smile. After seeing the scene in front of him clearly, he narrowed his eyes and stood there with his hands folded.

There was a tall man wearing glasses behind Zhou Rong, who sighed silently and held the half-closed door.

For a moment, the picture seemed to be still, and the trail seemed to be paused.

After a few seconds, the fat man behind Zhou Rong made a sound first, like a pre-war letter: "Brother, don't be afraid! Gu Yuyue dare not dare! You give him hundreds of guts! He will not dare! "

This brother is called Wen Chaoan. According to the fat man, the troublesome little yellow-haired guy next to Wen Chaoan is Gu Yuyue.

"Why don't I dare?" Gu Yuyue took two steps towards Zhou Rong, "Zhou Rong, there are so many of you, but am I afraid? I'm not afraid at all. I didn't want to talk to you at first, but you little Brother Hu just stared at my brother Hu's woman, Brother Hu didn't take him seriously, but I couldn't help being loyal, I came here to say hello to you, it's kind of a reminder, you can be optimistic about your people, I Hu It's not that you don't know who brother is, if he gets angry, it's not as simple as breaking his leg."

This threat sounds scary, but I wonder if Wen Chaoan was so nervous that he thought it was a little funny, it looks like a puppy just born next door, it barks fiercely when it is only a little big, and it is fine. Love bared teeth.

It wasn't until this moment that Wen Chaoan suddenly understood that this person should have seen himself walking with Zhou Rong and the others a long time ago, so he came here specifically to block them.It should be something wrong with Zhou Rong.

"Oh, fart," Zhou Rong quickly put the matter together in his head, sneered, walked past him to Wen Chaoan's side, and cursed softly, "Stupid."

When Zhou Rong and the man got together, Wen Chaoan thought he was about to bleed out, but nothing happened, Zhou Rong took Wen Chaoan away calmly and smoothly.Seeing that he was fine, I hugged him very affectionately, walked two steps, and then seemed to remember something, and said: "Oh, by the way, brother, you may not hear the word 'stupid' very often, so just... and You silly hats are similar, um...it seems to be different, oh, forget it, sometimes it means the same thing."

Wen Chaoan: "..."

The man didn't follow afterward, and the four of them went up the escalator smoothly.

Zhou Rong habitually wanted to hug Wen Chaoan's shoulders, because Wen Chaoan was introverted and shy, and came to a strange environment again, his words and deeds were nervous, making people overprotective, but just looking at his size, he was even taller than Zhou Rong On the one hand, every time Zhou Rong raised his hand, he would realize that this person was his brother, not one of his younger brothers.

Zhou Rong withdrew his hand with a smile, and pulled Wen Chaoan's sleeve again: "Brother, are you hungry, I'll take you upstairs to eat ice cream." This is completely different from the one who cursed just now.

Wen Chaoan didn't know what "ice" he was talking about, but he didn't want to ask him anything, so he hesitated for a while before whispering: "Zhou Rong, mother told us to eat less cold food, it's easy to get stomach upset."

Zhou Rong nodded immediately after hearing this: "I know, I know, let's eat first, and eat ice later, brother, you don't know, shaved ice is delicious, just crush the ice, snort and drink, refresh yourself... "

Ever since he found out that Wen Chaoan hadn't touched some things, Zhou Rong liked to explain things in various ways. He would speak naturally, because he didn't want Wen Chaoan to be embarrassed, but he also liked to deliberately show a little trick, for example, right now, he was secretly looking at Wen Chaoan.

Zhou Rong believes that the little brother Wen Chaoan is very sensitive to people and things, so he can detect his small movements, but he may not know that he is doing it on purpose. In this way, Wen Chaoan will mistakenly think that he is also nervous and shy, and will never A good impression arises in the sympathy, so that it is easier for the two to establish a friendly relationship.

Wen Chaoan silently glanced at Zhou Rong, and then nodded slowly: "I know about broken ice."

"Come on!" Zhou Rong said with a smile, "Let's go eat, I'll treat you."

The top few floors of the mall are not places for shopping, and there will be many small restaurants. This is different from what Wen Chaoan imagined. He always thought that the mall was used to describe a place that sells clothes, just like hospitals for medical treatment and restaurants for cooking. .

It's just after ten o'clock now, it's not time for dinner, and there aren't many people. The four of them sit at a table, Zhou Rong and Fatty go to order, and Wen Chaoan and the gentle boy wearing gold-rimmed glasses are left. No embarrassment, everyone sits in their own way.

Since Wen Chaoan didn't know much about the snacks in the city, Zhou Rong specially picked out a cheaper snack bar. The taste of these snacks was not much worse, and he intended to order more so that Wen Chaoan could try it.

Wen Chaoan was actually not hungry, he went out and drank porridge, his stomach was so full that he couldn't eat anything at all, but the fat man was hungry, and Zhou Rong insisted on eating shaved ice, of course Wen Chaoan wouldn't say anything.