Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

The man made way for Lin Pai, and he said apologetically, "I'm really sorry, I asked you to make a trip at such a late hour."

Lin Pai followed him to the dining table. He put the receipt on the table and saw a boxy black briefcase next to it.

The man took the receipts and looked at them carefully one by one, and explained, "I am Xu Rui's father. In addition to paying the monthly support, I will also pay for these extra large expenses. It's so complicated because I'm worried that his mother falsely reported the amount, or that she used Xu Rui's money to gamble."

Lin Pai nodded as a response. He knew that these were other people's family affairs, so he got up and planned to leave, "Uncle Xu, the things have been delivered, so I will leave first."

"Hey, wait..." Xu Ping raised his hand to stop Lin Pai, and asked him, "Are you Xu Rui's classmate?"

"Yeah." Lin Pai nodded again.

"How is Xu Rui at school? How do you get along with your classmates? How is the food in your school cafeteria?"

"Everything is good, the classmates are good, and the cafeteria is also good. He is going to participate in the training camp in the city this National Day, and he will be back tomorrow."

"Oh, that's good." Xu's father hesitated for a moment, and then said, "His mother is still the same after so many years. I will arrive in the afternoon, so I will wait until now, so you classmates should also move around more. He rarely stays at home."

"I see, Uncle."

After Xu Ping checked, he packed the receipts and put them in his briefcase. At the end, he said to Lin Pai, "Where do you live? It's so late, I'll take you back. My car is parked outside."

"No, I don't live far away, just walk back, thank you uncle."

Xu Ping didn't hold back much, he turned off the lights in the house, went out with Lin Pai, and put the keys back in the pocket of the old bicycle.

The car lights came on, and there was a sound of a motor in the night, and it drove away from Heshan Town.

After Xu Ping left, Lin Pai called Xu Rui.

"Hello? Xu Rui, I've already given you those receipts...to my uncle."

"Okay, you go back quickly, thank you." Xu Rui suddenly heard a scream, and he looked to the other end of the alley. He jumped up and hugged the boy, shouting "there is a mouse", and the boy comforted him softly.

Lin Pai heard the movement and asked, "Are you all right? I seem to hear a girl screaming. It's so late, are you outside?"

"Well... I'm free, so I went out for a walk. It seems that I saw a mouse over there."

"Xu Rui, actually..." Lin Pai wanted to say something to explain, but found that he was really short of words, so he changed his words and said, "Actually, those test papers are not difficult. If you can write two or three papers when you come back tomorrow, it will be no problem."

Hearing this, Xu Rui lowered his head and smiled softly, "I see, see you tomorrow."

Lin Pai also smiled lightly, "See you tomorrow."

15. Chapter 15

A pedestrian street was built next to the Passenger Transport Center in the urban area of ​​Nanxing City. Four marble balls were placed at the entrance, just enough to stop four-wheeled private cars, but battery cars and small three-wheeled cars could enter and exit freely.

In addition to the storefronts on both sides, there are two rows of mobile stalls back to back in the middle of the street, dividing a pedestrian street into two.

There are everything here, down jackets that are on sale in anti-season, dry cleaners that can repair shoes and wash clothes, stickers for different types of mobile phones, cold noodles pulled by a small trolley...

In recent years, several imported nutrition and cosmetics stores have been opened. As long as it is not bad weather with heavy wind and heavy rain, there will be sufficient customer flow every day.

The sunshine in the first ten days of October softened a lot. Lin Pai stopped in front of a small stall selling sizzling potatoes and tofu with two bags of freshly baked fried vegetable buns.

A large piece of nylon cloth was hung in front of the stall, like an apron tied to a small tricycle, with the names and prices of various snacks printed on it in white letters on a red background.

Although it is full of words, it is just a permutation and combination of "iron plate potatoes", "iron plate tofu", "iron plate potatoes fried tofu", "iron plate potatoes fried ham sausage".

"Three servings of potato tofu, two servings of plain salt and pepper and one serving of spicy."

"Is it still a big portion?" The aunt behind the stall began to pour oil on the iron plate. Lin Pai agreed, and she picked out a suitable amount of soaked potatoes from the bucket, and fried them skillfully.

The potatoes and tofu on the iron plate sizzled and emitted oily smoke. Lin Pai looked at it for a while, then raised his head and asked, "Did the stall change location? I just searched the road ahead, but I couldn't find it."

"That's right..." Auntie said while frying, "Half a month ago, the city management came to rectify it. It stopped for about a week, and then it was nothing. After it was put back on, it was changed. Hey, I think You haven't been here for a long time, have you?"

"Well, I changed my place to study, it's a bit far away, so I can only drop by occasionally."

"Okay, you can study anywhere, and come here if you want to eat."

Lin Pai watched her put the fried potatoes and tofu into the paper box, and handed her three plastic lids for her.

She put three large boxes of potato and tofu into a large plastic bag, rummaged through an iron can, and found change for Lin Pai.

Lin Pai was carrying big and small bags of snacks, and opened his phone with one hand to check. Xu Rui sent a message a minute ago saying that it was over there, and it would take about ten minutes before they arrived at the passenger transport center.

He put away his mobile phone, let his right hand bear a little weight for his left hand, and walked towards the exit of the pedestrian street unhurriedly.

When Xu Rui arrived at the Passenger Transport Center, Lin Pai was standing next to a marble ball near the entrance of the pedestrian street. He was carrying a large plastic bag full of it in one hand. Most of the people walking around were groups of young people. No one pays much attention to him.

Lin Pai lowered his head. Just as Xu Rui was about to wave his hands and call his name, he saw him playing the game of stepping on the shadow of his right foot with his left foot and stepping on the shadow of his left foot with his right foot.

Xu Rui thought it was funny, so he approached him silently. During the period, Lin Pai also seemed to think that the game was very boring. He changed the plastic bags into one hand, half-sit on the stone ball and swiped his phone.

At a distance of two or three meters from Lin Pai, Xu Rui looked up at the pedestrian street behind him, and then his eyes fell back on Lin Pai. The two short bangs on his forehead swayed in the breeze, blocking part of his eyebrows and eyes , it seems that under such a background of fireworks, the cold image of Lin Pai has softened a little and become more vivid.

"Xu Rui, what are you looking at?" Fu Yanye called to him from behind Xu Rui, Lin Pai turned around when he heard the voice, and saw Xu Rui, Fu Yanye wrinkled his face and said with disgust, "You don't know how to play anymore" Guess Guess who I am" game? "

"You have such a good imagination, why don't you publish a book!"

Xu Rui took two steps towards Fu Yanye, snatched the two bottles of Coke he had just bought from him with his long arm, he took a few steps back, pulled off the pull-tab of one of the bottles with one hand, and handed it to Lin Pai.

Lin Pai gave Xu Rui two large bags of snacks, took the Coke, and pointed to the bag containing the iron plate potato tofu and said, "I have a portion in this, so after you share the others, leave that portion to me. "

Xu Rui nodded. He hadn't cleared things up with Fu Yanye over there, but he had already picked up a fried vegetable bun and started eating.

Fu Yanye took the things with a dull expression. He winked at Xu Rui a few times, but Xu Rui didn't understand, so he whispered a few words in Xu Rui's ear.

Before he finished speaking, Xu Rui jumped out several steps, almost taking pictures of the Coke that Fu Yanye had just drank, "I pulled the ring apart because he was holding the food we bought for us just now. He doesn't have a hand to open it, do you know what to eat? As far as your pig's trotters are concerned, they are about to be touched by two centimeters now!"

Fu Yanye withdrew his hand that was in the plastic bag, patted his chest and said, "If I... cough, cough, choke to death, you will definitely be murdered."

After coming to Heshan High School for a month, Lin Pai was used to their fights. He and Fu Yanye originally knew each other that there was this person, but they didn't know each other.

They walked to the waiting room of the passenger transport center. If the atmosphere of the pedestrian street is lively and lively, then the waiting room can be said to be full of excitement.

Most of the people in the waiting room looked like students. They carried bulging backpacks and wore large school uniforms of their respective schools. Some of them had already put on their autumn school uniforms, and the sleeves of their coats were wide enough to cover their fingers.

The last day of the National Day holiday is the peak time for boarding school students to return home. Although the city's public transport system has sent a few more buses to run common routes, it is still far from enough.

Heshan Town and the urban area of ​​Nanxing City can be regarded as the two ends of a train. They pass several middle and high schools on the way. Often when a train arrives, a group of people will swarm on it, and it will be crowded within a few seconds. Many people can only watch this train drive away, standing in place and waiting for the next one to squeeze in.

The seats in the waiting hall were all filled, and the three of them had no fighting spirit, so they found a corner with few people, stood in a row against the wall, and each of them ate a box of potato tofu on an iron plate.

"Where did you buy this? It tastes good." Standing in the middle, Xu Rui turned his head to ask Lin Pai.

"It's in the pedestrian street, you can always find it if you walk around twice." Lin Pai ate silently without looking up. After eating for a while, he added, "It's a bit cold now, it's delicious when it's just hot."

"It's pretty good, I won't pick." After Xu Rui finished speaking, he raised his elbow to touch Fu Yanye on the other side and said, "Don't worry, let's eat first. The three of us can take a taxi back."

Fu Yanye put his share on the ground by his feet and was typing on his mobile phone.