docile pet

The living room of Fang Mian's house is very small, with only a row of sofas enough for three or four people to sit on. On the counter opposite is an old TV that Fang Mian has never turned on.

When Ding Qiaoqiao was sitting on the sofa, Fang Mian chose to sit on the cabinet with the TV in order not to get too close.The first time a stranger came into the house, Pei Pei was a little uneasy, and kept circling around Fang Mian's legs. Fang Mian had to clamp Pei Pei with his legs, hold the dog's ears one by one with both hands, and rub them with a little She tried a little harder, hoping to divert his attention.

"Your dog is really majestic. It must be very safe to raise it?"

Ding Qiaoqiao sat cautiously, her eyes followed Pei Pei's back and forth, looking weak and sick.

"Uh, yes." Fang Mian smiled awkwardly, observing Ding Qiaoqiao's expression, "Is there something urgent for you to come to me so late?"

Ding Qiaoqiao lowered her head, her long hair covered most of her face, she pinned the half of the nail polish on her thumb, and said softly: "I want to ask you a favor, I didn't want to trouble you, But I really don't know who to tell..."

"Wait a minute." Fang Mian turned around and went to the kitchen to pour a cup of hot water for her, "Drink some water, take your time, it's okay."

Ding Qiaoqiao was stunned for a while, then raised her red eyes and said to the other party, "Thank you."

"I came up from the small county below..."

Ding Qiaoqiao just graduated from college this year. She left home and came to the provincial capital with the idea of ​​earning a lot of money in the city. Now she works as a counter lady at the cosmetics counter of a department store in the city center, but the rent in the city center is too high, so she can only go all the way. I found this place along the subway station, a remote old town, although it takes nearly two hours to commute to work every day, but at least I can afford the rent.

Now Ding Qiaoqiao has lived here for almost a month, working in two shifts, one shift is from 9:4 am to 4:9 pm, and the other is from 11:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm, plus the waiting time for the bus, Ding Qiaoqiao doesn't get home until [-]pm every other day.

The problem lies in the 15 minutes when she walked out of the subway entrance to the gate of the community.

When Fang Mian took Pei Pei for a walk, he walked through that section of the road. The subway entrance was set at a crossroad, and the surrounding area was wasteland except for factories. It was not a short distance from Fang Mian's community.

During the day, people come and go, but at night, the factory is completely empty and silent, and the nearby community is full of elderly people who live in a very healthy lifestyle. All the doors were closed, and there was silence for ten miles. Coupled with the fact that half of the solar street lights on both sides of the road were broken, the atmosphere was particularly gloomy.

Fang Mian could completely imagine the scene at that time.

At around 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, the street lights flickered dimly, the shops were closed, the night wind was bleak, and even the lights from the windows of the houses in the distant community were only sporadic.Ding Qiaoqiao is a little girl, walking alone with her bag tightly in her hands, only the sound of her high heels stepping on the concrete floor can be heard.

"It's okay to walk at night. I'm brave, and I'll get used to it after walking a few more times. But last Monday, when I went home and passed the shops, I found that there was still a shop with lights on." Ding Qiaoqiao held The fingertips of the water glass turned white, and she asked Fang Mian, "You know 'Yichao Xiaochao'?"

Of course Fang Mian knew: "I often go there to buy food. They don't serve supper, and they close at around 8 o'clock."

Ding Qiaoqiao nodded: "I know, I also ate their donburi, and it tasted pretty good. Anyway, when I got home at almost 11 o'clock that day, his restaurant was still open, and the shutter door was half drawn. Because it was hard to see The shop was still open so late, so I took a second look, the owner of the restaurant was sitting on the armchair at the door, smoking a cigarette, staring at me, and yelling at me that the skirt was too short..."

Every night when Ding Qiaoqiao was off the night shift, she would see the owner of Xiaochao Restaurant "watching" her.

"If it's just like this, it's fine. That day I found out that he actually crossed the road and followed me until I entered the community..."

Fang Mian was a little horrified: "Are you reading that right?"

Ding Qiaoqiao kept shaking her head. She tried her best to calm down, but her voice was still choked up: "No! After I entered the community, I hid behind the fence and peeked, and I happened to see him walking back from the gate of the community, and then I waited for a while I just heard the sound of the store door being pulled shut... It's not my imagination, it's been many times... I've been thinking about moving these days, but where can I move? I found it with great difficulty... or I can only change jobs, but..."

Fang Mian didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only keep handing her tissues.

Pei Pei probably felt that he was neglected, and kept licking the back of Fang Mian's hand. Fang Mian wanted him to settle down, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: "So you came to me because you wanted me to take Pei Pei to pick you up at night. You go home?"

Ding Qiaoqiao stopped crying when she left. She kept thanking Fang Mian and promised repeatedly that she would send Peipei dog food every week. Follow Pei Pei to pick her up at the subway entrance.

"Thank you so much, Fang Mian." Ding Qiaoqiao was about to start crying again, and Fang Mian hurried her home.

A girl who lives alone must be very scared when encountering such a thing, and she must have made a lot of determination to ask an unfamiliar neighbor for help, and going out for a walk with the dog at night is just a little effort for Fang Mian, and there is nothing to be done by promising to help her He hesitates, but since Pei Pei is not just Fang Mian's pet dog now, Fang Mian still has to ask for his consent.

The question now is how to explain the whole thing to Fang Pei.

Fang Mian stood in the living room thinking for a while, and made a draft in his heart, trying to use simple vocabulary.When he was ready, he planned to communicate with Fang Pei, but when he turned around, he saw a humanoid Fang Pei who found a Fang Mian's shirt from somewhere and put it on the sofa, which was exactly where Ding Qiaoqiao had been sitting.

"What are you doing?" Fang Mian wondered.

"Someone's, smell, I don't like it. I want Fang Mian's, smell." After Fang Pei finished speaking, he picked up the shirt again, buried his face in it, and didn't move for a long time.

Fang Mian has no time to correct his idiot behavior now: "Fang Pei, I have something to discuss with you. The one who just came is our neighbor. You should know her. She has encountered a little trouble recently and needs our help, so from tomorrow At first, we will go out to pick her up in the middle of the night, it won't be too long, anyway, we usually sleep very late."

Fang Pei pulled his shirt away a little, revealing a pair of innocent drooping eyes, but his nose and mouth were still stuffed in the clothes.

Fang Mian distractedly glanced at the shirt. He just washed and dried it yesterday, and it should only smell like washing powder. He didn't think much about it, and explained it to Fang Pei word for word.

"Do you understand?" Fang Mian said dryly.

Fang Pei nodded this time: "Woooooooooo."

"what?"

Fang Pei took the shirt away from his face completely, but still held it in his arms. He stared at Fang Mian with those clear amber eyes, and clearly said two words: "Reward."

Fang Mian thought for a while: "Do you want beef cubes? I'll get them for you."

But Fang Pei shook his head: "I don't want that, I want Fang Mian. I want Fang Mian, dear."

Fang Mian thought he heard it wrong: "What do you want?"

Fang Pei pointed to his lips: "Dear, Fang Mian, kiss."

Fang Mian's expression suddenly became distorted. He went to the cupboard and grabbed a handful of beef diced for dogs, brought it to Fang Pei, and said indifferently, "Would you like to eat it or not."

Fang Pei was aggrieved, and reached for Fang Mian's hand with his head.

But Fang Mian suddenly took his hand away, leaving Fang Pei in vain.

"Return to the original shape to eat."

Soon, Pei Pei appeared and ate all the beef cubes with drooping ears. After eating, he licked off the crumbs of meat in Fang Mian's palm. While licking, he looked up at Fang Mian, confirming a fact again .

Fang Mian likes Pei Pei, but doesn't like Fang Pei.