Rikov

Jiang Ge ran into the residential building without looking back. There was no lock on the downstairs of the old-fashioned house in the urban village, so he rushed up to the fifth floor and knocked on the door.

A young girl wearing black-rimmed glasses and pajamas poked her head out to pick up the takeaway. Seeing that the delivery boy was sweating profusely, panting heavily, and his eyes were a little red, "Thank...thank you, actually Don't be in such a hurry..."

"It's okay." Jiang Ge said hoarsely.

He went down the stairs and took two steps, looked at the side of the road from the window at the corner of the stairs, Xue Yiyang and the woman were no longer there, the car parked next to his motorcycle should be Xue Yiyang's car.He stood on the stairs for a while watching, and the car drove away.

Only then did he wipe his face, and walked downstairs slowly with a feeling of relief or reluctance, and walked to the side of the motorcycle, when the mobile phone in his pocket rang, he answered it, and the phone call from the owner of the snack bar A throaty voice came from inside: "Why hasn't the one on Jiangbei Street been delivered yet? They said that you stayed motionless for more than ten minutes, and you ate their food?!"

Jiang Ge hung up the phone indifferently, and was about to start the car, when he realized that the back of his hand was red, and his joints were still aching.He, the beater, is like this, which shows how uncomfortable the beaten person is.

But the feeling of guilt only swayed in his heart for a moment, and soon disappeared.

Bah, Xue Yiyang asked for it all.

After delivering a round of takeaway and returning to the store, it has been raining for a while.

Jiang Ge took off his raincoat, shook it and hung it outside the door, and walked into the store.After the meal time, there were not many customers in the restaurant, and the boss brought out two bowls of rice bowls from the window, "Xiao He sent the order, take this to table No. [-], and collect all the bowls and chopsticks by the way."

Xiao He is another takeaway worker in the store—it is a takeaway worker, but in fact, there are only three employees in the whole store including the boss. One is Xiao He, who is the nephew of the boss. Come to Uncle's shop as a delivery boy, waiter, cashier and dishwasher.

The other is Jiang Ge. He just came here for a week, and even the boss didn’t know why he was willing to work in this tired and dirty little shop. To be precise, the boss didn’t even remember his name clearly. Just call him "Xiao Jiang". As for Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang, or even Xiao Jiang, it doesn't matter, as long as he can work.

Jiang Ge hasn't eaten yet, and his stomach feels a little uncomfortable.After clearing the dining table outside, he went into the back kitchen and walked around, took two bites of biscuits and ate them.

Taking a few takeaways out, the two girls who were eating donburi outside were about to leave, and said to him: "We paid with WeChat!"

As he spoke, he swiped the payment interface on the phone, Jiang Ge glanced at them without hearing the sound of payment coming from the boss's phone.

The two girls looked to be in their teens or twenties. One of them smiled at his companion for some reason after he finished talking to him. The two were about to leave when Jiang Ge rushed up and stopped him.

"Sorry, I didn't see it clearly just now, can you let me see the payment record?"

They paused, and the girl who spoke just now was a little flustered, "Wait, wait a minute..."

"Of course." Jiang Ge understood in his heart, but raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"Oh, I didn't order payment just now, I didn't even know..."

"No, no, actually I paid for both of us..."

Jiang Ge watched the two girls walk away with red faces, sighed slightly, and went to deliver food by bike.

They don't seem to be habitual offenders. They probably took the opportunity to get some cheap money. If Jiang Ge didn't stop them, the boss would probably not find out if he was careless, but he has always been a person who doesn't tolerate sand. Miss Qianjin, it's the same here with Jiang Ge.

They were so busy that all the orders were delivered and there were no customers in the store before they had dinner smoothly.Xiao He sat opposite Jiang Ge and ate a bowl of noodles, pointing Jiang Shan while eating.

"I think so," Xiao He Zi took a sip, "P2P is the best thing to do now. Although it is said that there are certain risks, as long as you don't put your eggs in one basket and invest separately, it will be fine? If you give I have 20. After half a year, I can make it 200 million. What do you think I am doing? I have a basis for what I said. This business opportunity has only been noticed by a small number of people. We ordinary people cannot always be leeks... ..."

Jiang Ge didn't listen carefully to what he was saying, took a sip of water to clear his throat, and said, "I'll go out for a while, you close the door first, I'll be back soon."

The boss went back early when no one was eating, and only the two of them were left responsible for cleaning and closing the shop. Xiao He muttered dissatisfiedly: "You went there again! You are so busy..."

Jiang Ge packed some buns and steamed buns left over from the breakfast sale in the morning from the back kitchen. He took a total of nearly twenty of them, and they couldn’t fit in the bag, so he took a medium-sized plastic bag and covered them with two layers. , and finally counted the money from his own pocket and put it in the boss's change drawer, and walked out through the back door of the snack bar.

The rain had stopped, making the air much cooler than the previous few days. Jiang Ge was only wearing a short sleeve and felt his arms were a bit cold, giving him the illusion that autumn was coming.

The back door of the snack bar faces a self-built residential area. Walk along the alley on the right to the end. The row of bungalows here looks even more shabby than the ones outside. It even makes people wonder whether people still live in them these days.

There is a small grocery stall at the entrance of the alley, and there is only one incandescent lamp on the front and back.Several middle-aged women were knitting together and chatting under the lamp. They didn't know what kind of sweaters they were wearing in this weather, but they didn't seem to be concentrating on the work at hand. They watched this man walking through the darkness with vigilant eyes. The young man who came over.

Jiang Ge was very calm. When they saw this familiar person, they relaxed their vigilance, and chatted in dialect in twos and threes. It seemed to be a southern accent, with winding words, occasionally mixed with a few words. a prompt.

Jiang Ge went over and knocked on a green lacquered wooden door familiarly, and a girl's voice with a crisp sound inside asked: "Who is it?"

"I."

The door was opened immediately, "Brother Jiang Ge!"

Jiang Ge smiled, raised the bag and shook it, "Supper is here again."

When the door is opened, you can see clearly under the dim light in the room. In this small house of less than [-] square meters, there are seven or eight children sleeping, the youngest looks only five or six years old, huddled in the corner.The one who opened the door for him just now was the oldest one, who looked about twelve or thirteen years old, and his name was Xiaohua.

Xiaohua took the bag from Jiang Ge's hand, and immediately took it to distribute to several hungry children.Everyone is also very familiar with this brother who often comes to deliver food at night, but most of them are very taciturn, and there are not many expressions on their faces.After taking the buns, I ate them without thinking, and I didn't even know how to say thank you.Xiao Hua was the biggest among them and also the one who could speak Mandarin the most. She took a white steamed bun and ate it slowly.

Jiang Ge asked: "How have you been these two days?"

"It doesn't seem like it," Xiaohua said in a low voice. Her Mandarin is not clear enough, but it is enough. Just change places."

"Change place? Will this place be changed?" Jiang Ge was a little anxious.

"No," Xiaohua quickly explained, "It's not easy to change where you live. He seems to feel that he hasn't figured out the situation when he first came to Dingchuan. The place to work is not well chosen, and he is easy to be targeted."

Jiang Ge was relieved, "Then I'm leaving, and if you have anything to do, go to the front and find me."

Xiaohua nodded, she was sallow and thin, her hands and feet were too thin, her face seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, with a kind of sickly black.

Walking out of the alley, the middle-aged women were still sitting and chatting there, Jiang Ge thought that they would not dislike mosquito bites.

Walking back slowly, the surroundings were very quiet, and the matter of meeting Xue Yiyang during the day suddenly came to Jiang Ge's mind.

That person still looked like a beast in a suit and leather shoes. After a few years, he seemed to be more eye-catching than he remembered.When Xue Yiyang yelled at that time, he didn't know what to think in his mind, he just ran away first... Seeing that Xue Yiyang must have a successful career, and there is a beauty by his side, he is definitely not needed...

Walking to the eaves of the snack bar, it happened that a drop of water fell on his forehead, which suddenly cooled him down.

Jiang Ge returned to his senses and touched the center of his brows, then looked up at the sky, a hazy moon hung in the sky, the bright yellow light was covered by a layer of light clouds, and could no longer shine on the earth, giving people a sense of suffocation for no reason .

"Hey, this is for you," Meng Yi handed the ice pack to Xue Yiyang, "Is it still hurting?"

Xue Yiyang withdrew his gaze from the hazy moon, took an ice pack and applied it to his swollen left brow bone, "A little bit, thank you."

"I told you to call the police and you didn't go, and you didn't agree to ask him to hold you accountable, so just endure the pain yourself." Meng Yi didn't understand, "Who is that person?"

"One..." Xue Yiyang considered his choice of words, "Old friend."

He realized that he didn't want to say more, and Meng Yi didn't intend to ask.

Except for days like today when they have to meet their parents, they hardly communicate with each other.Today is the usual monthly family dinner in Meng Yi's family, so even if Xue Yiyang's face is bright, he must come to eat this meal.

They stood on the small balcony on the second floor, and the lively conversation in the living room could be heard clearly. Meng Yi bit her lip and said again: "Just now... don't take what my father said."

Meng Yi's father was a veteran cadre, and he was very strict with her and her brother since childhood.Although I can't find anything wrong with Xue Yiyang's resume, I'm still a little dissatisfied with Meng Yi for not finding a boyfriend in the system, and I don't think much of Xue Yiyang's 30-year-old and half a year of writing books and half a year of traveling. Pai, on the surface, maintained his courtesy towards Xue Yiyang, and tried to find fault with him from time to time.

Xue Yiyang made an excuse for the injury on his forehead, saying that it was caused by seeing the wrong road and catching thieves. Meng Yi's father suddenly felt that he was frizzy and restless, and insisted on introducing him to work in the Municipal Cultural Bureau.

"It's nothing." Seeing that Meng Yi felt sorry, Xue Yiyang said with a smile, "Isn't this within the scope of my business?"

Meng Yi is not soft-tempered, but she is submissive in front of her father. After being a good girl for almost 30 years, the only thing she has lied to her father in her life is her own sexuality.

Xue Yiyang can also see that she has been feeling uneasy all the time, fearing that the fact that they are just pretending to be a couple will come to light at any time.

"You're not in a good mood today..." Meng Yi observed his expression, "Is it because of the delivery man I met at noon?"

Xue Yiyang rubbed his eyebrows for a moment, then laughed a little self-deprecatingly, "Is it so obvious?"

"Of course it's obvious. Teacher Xue, who is usually calm and reserved, doesn't know where he is..."

Xue Yiyang didn't answer, and looked at the crescent moon again.