hope for redemption

Chapter 7

The September wind in Linxian overturned the mountains, rolled over the wheat fields, rolled up waves of wheat in the golden wheat fields, and then rushed into the room mixed with the fragrance of wheat.

"Ah! The wind is finally here!" Zhuang Zhuang wiped his face, put the wrench in his hand on the dismantled wooden board, and hurried to the window to face the wind with emotion.

The rented room was in chaos, the dismantled wooden boards were piled up on the ground in a disorderly manner, two broken beds were crumbling in the corner, and fine sawdust floating in the air fell on the sweaty boy body.

"Hurry up, there's only the last bit left." Lin Wang supported the edge of the bed with one hand, bit the glove and tore it off his hand, then took out his phone from his trouser pocket to check the time: "Da Fei, Zhuang Zhuang hurry up!" !Only 24 minutes left for class!"

"Aww!" Zhuang Zhuang wailed and immediately jumped up from the window, plunging headlong into "Unloading the Bed".

Jiang Xi's face was flushed from the heat, tiny beads of sweat kept coming out from his forehead and the tip of his nose, and then slid down along his pale skin.Jiang Xi stretched out his arm, wiped off the sweat from his eyelashes, took the wrench to write the last screw off the wooden board, and then separated the wooden board on the floor.

The dust raised in the air announced the end of the bed's life.

After a while, Lin Wang and Zhuang Zhuang also unloaded the other bed. Lin Wang didn't intend to stop to rest. He bent down and reached out to pick up the board while directing, "Zhuang Zhuang put away the nails, put the board away." Arrange them from largest to smallest and store them in the storage room on the first floor."

After hearing what Lin Wang said, everyone moved.

There are still a lot of wooden boards that have been removed from the two beds and a wardrobe. The boys ran up and down twice in a row before moving all the things.The storage room is actually a shed in the outer courtyard of Granny Du's room. In this courtyard, Granny Du reclaimed several fields and planted some cabbage, peppers, and eggplants.

Lin Wang directed everyone to place the planks on the straw, and then covered them with plastic film.Zhuang Zhuang put away the nails and put them outside in a plastic bucket hanging on the wall, and stood outside waiting for Da Fei.

Seeing that Zhuang Zhuang and Da Fei took their lunch break to help him carry things in such hot weather, and got dirty, Jiang Xi felt a little sorry, so he said to Lin Wang: "What do you need to drink? I'll go buy some Bar."

Lin Wangzheng and Dafei worked together to pull out the plastic film from the top of the cabinet. Hearing what Jiang Xi said and glanced at him, he understood and said, "I want ice water."

"Ice Water" Da Fei turned his head, shook the plastic film in his hand and said concisely.

Jiang Xi nodded and walked out.

"Did you like it?" Da Fei stretched open the film, grabbed one side, licked his lips and handed the other side to Lin Wang and asked.

Lin Wang took the film, separated the folded film with both hands, shook it, and spread the film on the wooden board with a flick of his wrist.Hearing Da Fei's question, he was not in a hurry to answer, but just motioned him to spread the other side.

Da Fei spread the film on, and carefully pressed the corners of the air leakage, then straightened up, stared at Lin Wang and said, "I like it."

"Hey! You kid..." Seeing Da Fei pestering him so much, Lin twitched the corners of his mouth, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket, took one in his mouth, handed another to Da Fei, and lit it.

The atmosphere was a little silent, Lin Wang frowned and let out a smoke ring, and said in a low voice, "It should be, how should I put it, it's the first time that labor and management f***ing have lived for so many years because of a look."

Da Fei frowned after hearing this, and clicked his tongue without any emotion.

"Brother, I can't say anything about this matter. You have always been the most numerous, but, Jiang Xi...he is obviously not the same kind of person as us." Da Fei threw the unfinished cigarette at his feet, feeling a little irritable He crushed the cigarette butt with his foot and extinguished the fire.

"Yeah." Lin Wang lowered his head and smoked, unable to see the expression on his face. After a while, he threw the nearly burnt cigarette butt on the ground to crush the flames, patted Da Fei on the back and said, "Go out."

Da Fei went out first, and Lin Wang opened Granny Du's room behind, opened the drawer to find the key, suddenly thought of something, rubbed his head irritably, took a few deep breaths, closed the door and went out.

Jiang Xi had bought water and came back, the three of them sat in the corridor in front of the door and drank water silently, beside Jiang Xi there was a plastic bag containing ice water.

Lin Wang walked over to get ice water from the plastic bag, and sat down next to Jiang Xi. The water vapor on the water bottle mixed with the sweat on his hands, making it so slippery that Lin Wang almost lost his grip.Glancing at Da Fei who had finished drinking the water, he opened the bottle cap and took a sip of water to moisten his throat and said, "It's getting late, let's go back to school."

"Okay, bro, then let's go first." Zhuang Zhuang pulled Da Fei to stand up and said with a smile, "Jiang Xi, let's go first! After coming to school in a few days, come and play with us!"

Hearing this, Jiang Xi quickly swallowed the water in his mouth, tightened the cap of the bottle, and waved his hands happily to the Zhuang Zhuang who was already sitting on the bicycle, ready to rush out at any time, and said loudly, "Okay!"

Lin Wang nodded to them, and Zhuang Zhuang pedaled his bicycle and rushed out.Da Fei exchanged a glance with himself, then stepped on his bicycle and left silently.

On a sunny day, clouds are clustered in one corner of the sky like cotton candy, and the cloudless blue sky on the other side connects with the endlessly extending road.The teenagers stood up and stepped on their bicycles vigorously, and ran to the distance.

It's beautiful!This is life.Jiang Xi thought to himself.

"Here, here you are." Lin Wang put his hand in front of Jiang Xi's eyes, spread out his palms, and saw two keys: "The big one is the door key."

Jiang Xi accepted it excitedly, the corners of his mouth raised uncontrollably, he looked at Lin Wang very excitedly, and said to Lin Wang with crooked eyebrows, "Thank you."

Lin Wang only looked at Jiang Xi for a second, then immediately turned his head away from him, slipped his Adam's apple, coughed a little and said, "Clean up, I'll take you to buy furniture."

"Okay!" Jiang Xi kept playing with the two keys in his hand, completely immersed in the joy of starting a new life, completely unaware of Lin Wang's strangeness.

The two of them went upstairs to change a coat, put the coat and Jiang Xi's wet clothes into the washing machine, and hurriedly took a taxi to the furniture city.

"Are you sure it's here?" Jiang Xi looked at the tattered signboard in front of him, and asked with some uncertainty on the concrete floor with holes in the doorway.

"It's here. This is the old station. It used to be the most prosperous place in Lin County. The furniture city here is good in quality, complete in variety, and cheap in price." Explains: "You can't question its unpretentious interior just because of its slightly decayed appearance."

"Hehe" Jiang Xi twitched the corner of his mouth sarcastically.

This furniture mall is behind an Internet cafe, walk straight through the alley next to the Internet cafe, and you will see a shopping mall with a sign of Good Come Again.

Lin Wang led the people inside and shouted, "Uncle Xun!"

"Hey! Here we come!" A rough male voice came from the mall, and then Jiang Xi saw a middle-aged man with a beer belly, naked upper body, and printed pants walking towards them with flip flops: " How did you come today?"

"Uncle Xun isn't here today?" Lin Wang looked a little unnatural when he saw the person walking over.

"Not here, I went to the city to buy some goods." The man saw Jiang Xi behind Lin Wang, his eyes sparkled, he looked Jiang Xi carefully from top to bottom, biting a cigarette, raised his chin and asked: "Yo~ The young man is quite handsome, isn't he from the county?"

Lin Wang smiled and didn't speak, turned slightly to block Jiang Xi and said to the man with a smile: "Mother-in-law's new tenant may have a lot of shopping today (today), can you help me call someone to send it over? "

"Okay, then you go around (by yourself)."

After finishing speaking, the man took a look at Jiang Xi and walked out of the door. His figure disappeared into the back door of the Internet cafe.

"Let's go, what do you want to see first?" Lin Wang patted Jiang Xi's shoulder and signaled him to choose by himself.

During the conversation between Lin Wang and the man just now, Jiang Xi had already looked at this furniture city. It is very big, comparable to a small shopping mall, and there are three floors in total.The furniture is neatly arranged by category.

It really complied with Lin Wang's sentence "You can't question its simple and unpretentious interior just because of its slightly decayed appearance."

Jiang Xi took out his mobile phone, looked at the purchase list and suddenly realized that he had forgotten something very important, so he looked up at Lin Wang and said seriously: "Lin Wang, we have to go back, we forgot to measure the size of the room. "

Seeing Jiang Xi's serious look, Lin Wang couldn't help but groan, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, I know it well."

"How can it be the same!" Jiang Xi said eagerly, pulling Lin Wang to go out.

"Hey! Wait, wait!" Lin Wang grabbed Jiang Xi's wrist, put him on the spot, and said with a smile, "Why don't you believe me? Our two rooms are about the same size. I've lived in the room for so long. You should always know the size. I really don’t want to run back and forth on such a hot day.”

Hearing what Lin Wang said, Jiang Xi thought for a while, and it was true that he should go out to buy furniture with him on such a hot day, and he shouldn't bother with emotion or reason, so he softened his voice and said, "Okay."

Jiang Xi looked at the phone screen, thought for a while and said to Lin Wang, "Let's start watching from the first floor."

When Lin Wang heard that Jiang Xi had compromised, he raised the corner of his mouth and pulled him towards the bed frame area.

"I don't need a bed frame, I just need to buy a mattress." Jiang Xi looked at the pile of bed frames with all kinds of flowers printed on them and was speechless for a while, and said helplessly to Lin Wang: "I want to buy a bed frame directly. Mattress on the floor"

Lin Wang thought for a while, the room was on the fourth floor, and it should not be affected when the tide returned in spring, so he nodded and led the people out of the bed frame area.

The two picked and picked all the way, and basically bought everything from the first floor to the third floor.

The two took the paper with the number on it and went down to the first floor to pay.

The man with a beer belly was lazily lying on the recliner, holding a piece of paper with numbers written on it in one hand, and a cigarette in the other hand, he put his foot on the table and said with a smile: "It's really good!" Quite a lot, Wang Zi, you brought a big client to my brother today!"

"Uncle, can you send it over today?" Lin Wang just smiled when he heard him say that, and didn't intend to continue the conversation on this topic, and just pretended not to hear it and changed the topic.

"Okay, everyone has found it for you." The man pressed the cigarette into the ashtray, stretched out his hands, stretched his waist, yawned and said, "Okay, let's start working."

When the man entered all the numbers into the computer, added up the prices, pressed the total price on the calculator, then held the calculator up to Jiang Xi, stared at him, and said with a smile: "Mattresses, refrigerators, Air conditioners are big items, a total of 430 taels, wipe off the change for you, and get a 2% discount to make friends, a total of [-]."

"Uncle, this is my friend, a serious student." Lin Wang's voice was a little cold, and his face was tense.

"Hahahaha, Uncle knows, I just want to see the children close their eyes and want to make friends." The man squinted his eyes and practiced Tai Chi with Lin Wang.

Lin Wang's face sank when he heard this, and just as he was about to say something, Jiang Xi pulled his wrist.

Jiang Xi crossed Lin Wang sideways, took out her mobile phone, opened Alipay, scanned the QR code hanging on the cashier counter, tapped the screen a few times and then turned off the mobile phone, a gentle female voice prompt sounded in the hall after a while : "Alipay account: 430 yuan."

Jiang Xi put away the phone, looked calmly at the man sitting on the chair, and said in a cold voice: "No need to wipe off, no need to get a 117% discount, and no need to make friends. The furniture will be delivered to Lin County, Changde City, Hunan Province No. [-] Qingnian Road, if there is any damage, I will call the consumer rights hotline."

After all, he pulled Lin Wang out regardless of the man's expression.

After walking out of the alley, Lin Wang looked at Jiang Xi who was still walking forward, not knowing how to speak.I didn't expect to run into this scum like Chen Jie today, so I really should have called Uncle Xun first.

Lin Wang gritted his teeth, grabbed Jiang Xi's wrist, supported Jiang Xi's shoulder and turned him over and said nervously: "Well, Jiang Xi is really sorry, I didn't know Chen Jie would come to the store today, I..."

"It's okay, it's not your fault." Jiang Xi interrupted Lin Wang without waiting for him to finish speaking, with no expression on his face: "Don't mention it, I feel a little disgusted. Come with me to the mall, I'm still Need to buy some daily necessities and kitchen utensils."

When Lin Wang heard what Jiang Xi said, he couldn't bring it up again, so he just pursed his lips and led Jiang Xi to the opposite shopping mall.

"This is really our best quality four-piece suit! Look at the fabric! Look at the workmanship! You can't find anything better than this in Quanlin County!" The sales aunt held the embroidered bed sheet with an excited expression He dragged the fabric and shook it in front of Jiang Xi's eyes, turning the fabric over and over eagerly wanting to prove to Jiang Xi that this is the best four-piece bed set in Lin County.

"It's not all cashmere." Jiang Xi pushed a finger away from the colorful bed sheet in disgust, and said expressionlessly.

The sales aunt opened her mouth, but she couldn't find the words to express her mood.

Lin Wang suppressed a smile and said to his aunt: "Let's take a look, let's take a look again" and hurriedly pushed the cart away to pull Jiang Xi away, afraid that he would say something next and make the sales auntie half dead.

It's not easy for people to sell aunts, so they turned over a dozen sets of four-piece sets for Jiang Xi.

Jiang Xi seemed a little unhappy that he didn't buy a four-piece suit made of all cashmere. Lin Wang looked a little funny at Jiang Xi's dejected look, and joked to Jiang Xi: "You're quite picky, kid, all cashmere?"

Jiang Xi reached out and rubbed the silk quilt in the cart, looked at Lin Wang sadly and said, "You don't understand."

The obvious expression is saying: ordinary people like you can't appreciate the fun of all cashmere.

"Okay, okay, I don't understand, but I have a used four-piece cashmere suit at my place. I don't know if Kid Jiang can appreciate it in the next light, and condescend to try it out?"

Hearing this, Jiang Xi's eyes flashed with light, but he realized that he was acting too obviously, so he turned his head and coughed, pretending to be calm and said: "Okay."

Lin Wang gritted his teeth and grinned sullenly as he looked at the distorted child.

"Why did you buy a four-piece suit made entirely of cashmere?" Jiang Xi looked at Lin Wang with some puzzlement.

"Ah, I bought it when I saw it." Lin Wang was stunned for a moment, but he immediately reacted: "By the way, why do you want to buy kitchen utensils? Do you cook for yourself?"

"Yes!" Jiang Xi immediately became excited when he heard the word cooking: "Cooking is a special enjoyment."

"Something special to enjoy? What kind of weird sentences are you talking about?" Lin Wang looked at Jiang Xi's dumbfounded look and chuckled softly, "I guess it's useless if you buy it. No. [-] Middle School starts classes at six o'clock every day until School ends at ten o'clock in the evening, and meals are not allowed in the cafeteria in the morning, noon and evening, and there are two and a half days of monthly leave every month, so it's fine if you don't sleep through."

"The place where you live must have the appearance of life." Jiang Xi turned around and said to Lin Wang with a serious face: "Whether it is a house bought by oneself or a rented house, it should be well furnished, after all, only it is Your lonely home every night."