Epigenetic

After staying in the house for two days, Lou Mingyue was a little bored, and Ding Ping came early in the morning, so the two made an appointment to go downstairs for breakfast.

Rejecting the hotel restaurant suggested by Ding Ping, Lou Mingyue chose the teahouse closest to the alley.The facade is small, with only six or seven tables, the walls are mottled, the sign is outdated, the menu can be a layer of oil, but it does not hinder its prosperous business, [-]% of the people come and go, and the neighbors seem to love to patronize.

After waiting for 10 minutes, there were two seats waiting. While Ding Ping went to pick up the meal, Lou Mingyue quietly left the shop again and went to the small shop next door to ask if there were any new locks for sale.

In the middle of the night last night, Lou Mingyue was awakened again by a noise. When she opened her eyes, she found that the book he had put on the table before going to bed had fallen to the floor. Just as he was trying to figure out what external force had caused it, he vaguely heard There were footsteps leaving hastily.

Lou Mingyue got up immediately, and when she came to the corridor, she found that the lock outside had been pried.This frightened him so much that he no longer dared to turn off the lights, and even dared not sleep.

I thought it was going to be another sleepless night, but I didn't expect to catch up with the boy opposite the window getting up at night.Perhaps he had had enough rest during the day, but at night he became more energetic, leaning against the wall and playing games again.

The beeping game sound effect should be very disturbing, but when Lou Mingyue heard it, he felt a strange sense of security. In the end, he fell asleep again unknowingly amidst the background sound. dawn.

Of course he would not tell Ding Ping about this, otherwise he would let his brother know that Lou Mingyue would not be allowed to live here any longer.So Lou Mingyue could only take advantage of this to go out and get a new lock just in case.

When the boss looked at the boy in front of him, he seemed to have guessed his needs, and enthusiastically recommended several kinds of anti-theft ring locks, which can be buckled on the door bolt. He also taught how to use it thoughtfully, no need to install, just take it out and use it , very convenient.

Lou Mingyue followed suit, and when she left the small shop, she bumped into a boy head-on, looked up, and was a little surprised.

Unexpectedly, the person facing the window who had been paralyzed for several days finally went downstairs today.At close range, he was taller and stronger than Lou Mingyue thought, and at his age, he had not yet fully grown up, and he could already be seen by everyone in this small southern town.Even though he was wearing an old undershirt and trousers with threads, and a pair of plastic slippers on his feet, only half of his face and half of his eyes were exposed, and his facial features were still swollen and deformed, but it didn't hinder his fierce and fierce appearance.

At first glance, it is not a character that is easy to get along with.

He didn't mean to say hello to Lou Mingyue, so it's not surprising that they are strangers in essence.Lou Mingyue didn't talk too much, she crossed paths with him and went back to the teahouse.

Unexpectedly, the table they finally got was taken by the NPC Lala, a few shirtless men, and there were four or five baskets of pastries brought by Ding Ping on the table, but those people didn't seem to see them. Pushing the things aside, he ordered the meal again.

Seeing this, Lou Mingyue walked up without hesitation. Facing the unkind eyes cast on him in an instant, he calmly said: "There is someone here."

A few people looked at this young man with a temperament that was incompatible with this area with interest, and after looking him up and down wantonly, they said lazily with a strong foreign accent: "Where is anyone? I didn't see anyone when I sat down?"

Lou Mingyue pointed to the things on the table, expressing that they were the evidence that she arrived first, but the other party laughed even more disapprovingly: "We also took this meal, so what does it have to do with you?"

The other party's rascal appearance obviously won't reason with Lou Mingyue.Ding Ping sensed that something was wrong, and hurried over to argue with them, but was stopped by Lou Mingyue.When going out, Lou Mingyue encountered many people. Although Lou Mingyue grew up in a closed environment, he was not completely defenseless. He knew that he would not get any benefit from confronting such gangsters on other people's land, so he did not intend to head-on. Meals are all self-serve, eat first and then settle, and they are willing to pay the bill.

Lou Mingyue and Ding Ping said they would wait for another table, and seemed to think of something, and suddenly took out a box of medicine, shook it in front of those proud rogues, and kindly reminded: "I am seriously ill, and I need to take medicine with meals. I’m so tired that I’m used to squeeze them into meals and eat them together, this thing is good for me, but it’s not good for normal people.”

Then, regardless of the different expressions of the people at the table, Lou Mingyue walked out of the shop.

He said so, who would dare to move those things.The rogue who didn't take advantage and might have to pay more would not be willing to suffer this kind of loss. He stopped Lou Mingyue and asked him to speak clearly, so that he would not let people go by messing around.

Ding Ping was clever enough to block in the middle in time, but he was weak, no matter in terms of strength or voice, he was no match for this kind of hooligans. Seeing that they might lose the wind, suddenly a bang exploded from outside the door , accompanied by a series of metal knocking sounds, extremely ear-piercing.

The spectators in the store turned their eyes away, and after seeing the situation outside, two people exclaimed: "Ah, my bicycle!"

I saw that the two bicycles that had been parked in front of the teahouse flew to the side of the road at this moment, and the half-broken body hit the raised concrete stone pier and fell to pieces.

Coincidentally, the car does not belong to someone else, but the rogue.

When the two of them saw it, they didn't care about the mess with Lou Mingyue, so they rushed out to find the troublemaker, but a boy who was standing on the side of the road with his head tied into a rice dumpling and slowly retracting his legs suddenly jumped up His rage instantly misfired.

Only one person grumbled unwillingly: "Liang, Liangzi, what are you doing..."

The boy named Xiaoyan and Xiaoliang smoked a cigarette he had just bought from the grocery store and put it in his mouth. He rolled his extremely thick eyelids at them, and shut their mouths back.

Instead, Xiaoyan asked them sullenly, "Are you blind? Cars parked in the way of pedestrians?"

"I... I used to stop here..."

Halfway up her mouth, she was covered by other companions who kicked out. When she noticed that Xiaoyan's eyes were becoming more and more ferocious, someone quickly apologized: "Let's go, we're leaving now, and we won't stop in the future, and we won't stop ..."

Saying that, a group of people pushed the two blind people away quickly, without even taking a look at the broken car, and only heard someone scolding after a long journey: "I'm going to die, it's not good for you to offend anyone, Why did you provoke him..."

It's obviously not just the gangsters who are afraid, none of the customers in the store who were watching Lou Mingyue's dispute just now dared to stand up at the moment, at most saluting with their eyes from a distance for two seconds, and then hastily retracted, as if they were afraid of being implicated if they watched for a while.

Only Lou Mingyue looked at the boy in surprise, and didn't dodge when he looked back.

The boy just glanced here, walked away from the teahouse, and turned back to the alley, as if he didn't notice anything.

When Lou Mingyue returned to her room after drinking her morning tea, she saw that Xiaoyan was lying flat on the bed again, with a cigarette in her mouth, staring at the ceiling with her eyes open, like an old man, living a lifeless life.

Lou Mingyue suddenly stopped Ding Ping who was about to leave, and handed over an untouched quicksand bag.

Then Lou Mingyue went into the bathroom to wash her face, poured water on her hands, but listened to the movement outside with her ears perked up.

Soon, there was a knock on the door from the opposite room, once... twice...

Just when Lou Mingyue thought that Ding Ping was going to receive the same cold reception as Foreman Wu and that uncle, there was the sound of footsteps, followed by the opening and closing of the door.

When Lou Mingyue finished washing her face and went out, she saw the boy leaning against the wall on the phone, and a box of white and tender buns was placed by his hand on the edge of the table.

"I told you when I came here that your injury will recover, but you have to wait until you are stable..."

Although his mobile phone is dilapidated, it is indeed arrogant. In such a noisy environment with the hands-free turned off in broad daylight, it still seems to be a public speaker, so Lou Mingyue can't even listen to it if he doesn't want to.

This time the voice on the other end of the phone was a male voice, and he was also very young, but he seemed very cold through the phone.

Xiaoyan didn't answer, she looked here suddenly, then lowered her head to look at the steaming quicksand bag inside the box, and didn't look away for a long time.

As if it was Lou Mingyue's illusion, the glance he cast just now did not have the coldness of the previous two days, but there was still a strong sense of confusion, not like looking at the surroundings, but more like a deep self-doubt towards himself.

Lou Mingyue didn't understand what the other party had encountered and what he was thinking, but he knew that standing here was suspected of listening to someone's privacy.

So he rolled up the dirty clothes that had accumulated for a few days, and took them to the bathroom to clean them up.

Before leaving, he vaguely heard the boy reply: "Is it interesting to live like this..."

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Unknowingly, Lou Mingyue has lived in the handshake building for more than a week. Although he and Ding Ping have gone out to visit some places, Ding Ge said it well. When the circle came back, Lou Mingyue didn't want to go out.

Mostly he still likes to stay in the house, read books, play the piano, and of course he will spend hours standing by the window or in front of the corridor quietly observing all living beings in the alley.

The old man who broke his leg but had to get up in the morning to shave his head by the side of the alley, the young couple who dragged their two children to settle accounts for the next day's food until midnight, the middle-aged man who got drunk the next day and often lay in the corridor all night Social animals, and an old lady who is said to be over 80 and set up a small stall in order to save a dowry for her grandson who died of her parents...

There are no secrets in the handshake building without sound insulation, and the sorrows and joys of various families are staged here every day.They suffer in different poses and with different expressions, but live the same with all their strength.

And that boy seems to have gradually come out of his depression, although he is always in a daze, although the gauze bandage on his head is still wrapped around his facial features, at least he is no longer lying there all day waiting to die, standing or sitting , Occasionally, I will go downstairs to have a refreshment, and I have a little energy.

He slept when Lou Mingyue was reading, and played games when Lou Mingyue played the piano.Although they were not familiar with each other, and had hardly even spoken to each other, the living environment separated by only two iron bars made them almost seem to be living under the same roof.

After fastening the ring lock, Lou Mingyue occasionally felt a strange cool breeze blowing against her neck in the middle of the night, but the dangerous situation like a thief prying open the door did not happen again.

In addition, the boy on the opposite side always sleeps very late, and sometimes he just turns on the light all night. Although Lou Mingyue, who is in a light sleep, will be woken up a few times, he will not be as vigilant and afraid as he was in the first two days.

That's why even Ding Ping was amazed. He thought that this young master would move out after a few days in this dilapidated place, but it didn't count that he stayed in peace, and even had a tendency to adapt more and more. Glasses.