sunken square

The child was startled, froze and didn't dare to cry anymore, hiccupped for a while and covered his mouth.

Guan Rong should have discovered Chen Yuechi a long time ago, but now he turned to look at him and still nodded: "Please sit down."

"Aren't you afraid of the shadow of the child?" Chen Yuechi sat half a meter away from him and asked after hesitation.He used as curious a tone as possible so as not to give the impression that he was meddling.

Guan Rongxiao: "The tree demon is quite scary. Look, he doesn't cry anymore."

Chen Yue insisted that it was because you were scary.But he didn't say it.

"Is this your child?" He picked a topic.

Guan Rong has good bones and doesn't show his age. Chen Yue insisted on guessing his actual age, but it was only 27 or [-] at most.It's young, but it's not impossible to be a father.

"No." The other party responded very lightly.

Chen Yue said in his heart that he had talked too much, obviously he could always keep his mouth shut in the convenience store.Maybe it's because I don't usually speak, so I can't help but speak in some places that shouldn't be said.

When the child's sobs completely disappeared, silence began to spread.The weather in the morning was still a little cloudy and breezy, but now the sky is overcast, and the wind blows, and the autumn feeling becomes heavy.

How strange.Chen Yue insisted, wondering why he was spending time here, sitting with a person who only met a few times, without saying a word, and bringing a child who didn't know whose family was with him.

The leaves above the head rustled. When No.13 rust-red leaves fell, Guan Rong stood up and poked lightly on the hairpin on the top of the child's head with his index finger: "Let's go, your mother should be at work. She probably won't come to pick her up today." you."

Chen Yuechi remained silent.Maybe because they are more familiar, Guan Rong is not as indifferent as he was when we met the previous few times, so he turned to him and asked, "Aren't you going to work in the afternoon?"

"We work in three shifts. Today's day shift is free in the afternoon." Chen Yue responded hurriedly.Inexplicably, it feels like answering the teacher's question.

Guan Rong nodded again: "Then shall we go first?"

Chen Yue held a smile: "Okay."

Guan Rong raised his foot, and the child followed suit.Guan Rong stopped, and the child stopped after him.When Guan Rong turned his head, the child immediately turned to Chen Yuechi.

"Excuse me, if you don't have work in the afternoon, can you take care of the child for me?" Guan Rong asked.

Chen Yuechi let out an "ah" in surprise, Guan Rong was very polite, and said with a smile: "The salary is calculated by the hour, you just ask the price."

After half a minute, Chen Yuechi nodded: "But I don't have much experience."

He is no longer a child, so he naturally knows that as long as you get involved in the society and start to struggle, many people can tell at a glance whether you are short of money.Even though I felt a little cramped inside, I had no choice but to suppress it.

This is nothing serious, he is indeed planning to find a temporary part-time job.

Guan Rong's eyebrows stretched slightly, a sign of relief, not very obvious, but Chen Yuechi still noticed it.It was only then that Chen Yuechi realized that his leisure was actually not that leisurely.Maybe it's like my own calmness is not so calm.

"I'm willing to help you, but I've never taken care of a child." He added.

Guan Rong poked the child's hair with a finger again: "It's okay, if you don't obey, just give it to the monster."

The child curled his mouth and looked at Guan Rong, trying not to cry.Chen Yuechi couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that the two got along fairly well, Guan Rong was about to leave, Chen Yuechi stood up and opened his mouth.Seeing this, Guan Rong stopped and waited for him to speak.

"You are..."

"Everyone in this line of work starts work in the afternoon, don't you know?"

Chen Yue choked, and belatedly remembered that Guan Rong was engaged in a special industry.He thought he was joking, but it was hard to verify whether those people really went to work in the afternoon.

Guan Rong smiled at him, obviously he looked like a well-educated scholar, but his smile was a little confusing.

Chen Yue hurriedly retracted his gaze.

"I'll pick him up here around dinnertime. Around 06:30."

"Are you so worried about me?"

Guan Rong just smiled: "Where can you sell him?"

Chen Yue kept silent.Guan Rong waved his hand and walked towards the red light district.

But he is not at all romantic, Chen Yuechi looked at Guan Rong's back and thought, how can people who do romantic things be so unfashionable?

Withdrawing his thoughts, the child was looking at Chen Yuechi quietly.Chen Yuechi thought for a long time, then asked bluntly: "What's your name?"

"bottle."

"bottle?"

The child made a gesture of drinking water: "Bottle."

Chen Yuechi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Who picked it up for you?"

The child pointed to the place where Guan Rong left just now, and said, "Uncle Rong."

Chen Yuechi was speechless for a while.He had never had experience with children, so he had to walk around the square with the bottle, and finally the bottle stopped him: "Brother, I'm tired, why don't you buy me a picture book?"

The only bookstore in the sunken square is the one opposite the convenience store, but Chen Yue passed by and observed it when he owned it. It was an old bookstore, and all he saw from the outside were "Poetry", "Book" and "Yi", and it was probably nothing. picture book.

In the end, I had to go out of the square and find Xinhua Bookstore in the new business district.

Arriving at the children's book section, Bottle immediately grabbed a copy of "You Look Delicious".Chen Yuechi squatted down, picked the same book on the bookshelf and turned to the end, it was 24.

As far as he knows, Xinhua Bookstore doesn't seem to offer discounts.

Chen Yue put the book back and asked in a soft voice, "Have you chosen?"

Bottle nodded, he smiled and touched his head: "Then take the book and go?"

"Come here." The bottle waved.Chen Yuechi leaned over, hugged his neck, and whispered in his ear: "We can just watch here, not buy."

Chen Yuechi didn't expect this.Seeing that many adults around were reading books with the children, he also sat down on the ground.

The bottle leaned against his leg, turning the pages of the book on his own.Chen Yue couldn't understand why he was such an obedient child, how could he cry so miserably with Guan Rong.

After spending an afternoon in the bookstore, Chen Yuechi stretched halfway, turned his head inadvertently, and saw a figure flashing past among the bookshelves not far away.

He didn't think it was strange at first, but later the bottle said that he was going to the bathroom, and just after he came out of the bathroom, he suddenly felt someone looking at him again.However, when the eyes swept over, they were all readers who were focusing on each other.

Could it be that Guan Rong is checking the post to see if he abused the bottle or something?

He stood at the corner of the bathroom in a daze, the bottle shook his hand: "Brother, I'm hungry, let's go find Uncle Rong."

Chen Yuechi took out his old Nokia and looked at it, it was already six o'clock.When he walked to the door of the bookstore, he felt something was wrong again. He turned around suddenly, and saw the spiral staircase in the store.A little girl with a schoolbag is running up.