amnesia notebook

Chapter 14 Neighbors

Yu Bai was startled, and quickly stepped back: "You, what do you mean!"

Su Linchi of the restaurant heard the movement and came out to look. The little boy was still bent and bowed. The posture was very standard, as if the younger brother was making an offering to the boss of the society.

As soon as he met his suspicious gaze, Yu Bai immediately raised his hands to assure: "I didn't bully him!"

Su Linchi: "..."

"No brother." The little boy finally straightened up and explained clearly, "I'm a new tenant upstairs, and I disturbed you this morning, so I came here to apologize."

Su Linchi asked, "Where's your elder brother?"

"Brother went to work."

The little boy spoke one brother at a time, and his mouth was extremely sweet: "Brothers, my name is Zhou Zai. Can I sit at your house first? My elder brother has taken the key away, and I can't get in."

Such a young child cannot be allowed to live on the street, Yu Bai stepped aside and said, "Come in."

Zhou Zai showed a smile sweeter than candy, with a pair of lovely dimples on his cheeks: "Thank you brother."

He was very polite at a young age, and he sat down in a well-behaved manner when he came in, and he didn't turn around or run around.After smelling the aroma of the food, he looked eagerly at the restaurant, then lowered his head and swallowed his saliva in a concealed manner.

Yu Bai guessed that he was still hungry: "Have you had breakfast yet?"

Zhou Zai said reservedly: "Eat." The next second, his stomach sang a different tune, and the grunt sounded in nine twists and turns.

Zhou Zai covered his stomach and smiled at them embarrassedly.

"I happened to buy a lot earlier, let's eat together." Yu Bai said.

Zhou Zai didn't know if he was polluted by adults' hypocritical world, or if he was too precocious. At a young age, he had learned a good trick of pretending, and he only went to courteously with Yu Bai, but he refused to accept the invitation, and insisted: "I'm not hungry."

Yu Bai snorted, picked up his schoolbag strap, and slipped Zhou Zailian and others into the restaurant with the schoolbag: "Stinky boy, do whatever you are asked to do, be careful that my brother will get impatient and buy you to Siberia. "

Su Linchi called in disapproval: "Yu Bai."

"Okay, okay, don't talk." Yu Bai surrendered, put the bowl and chopsticks in front of him, and ordered concisely: "Eat."

Zhou looked at the steamed buns, fried dough sticks, sugar cakes, pancakes and other stars surrounded by Yu Bai's hands, and then looked at the only bowl of white porridge in Su Linchi's hands. He took a bowl of porridge for himself, and assured Yu Bai cautiously, "I'll just drink this."

"Pfft!" Yu Bai endured and endured, he couldn't hold it any longer, and laughed loudly, "Su Linchi, you're still accusing me! Look at the bad tricks you've made!"

Su Linchi ignored him, and made a fried bun for Zhou Zai: "I'm recovering from my injuries, so I want to eat lightly, so I only drink porridge."

It was time for a boy with a long body to eat, but Zhou Zai was at most the age of the first grade of elementary school, no matter how much he could eat, Yu Bai didn't look at it specially, and when he thought about it, he was surprised Suddenly found that Zhou Zai actually ate a lot of food.

Except for a little baby fat face, Zhou Zai's arms and legs are all thin, he doesn't look like he can be a big eater.

Yu Bai observed quietly for a while, and finally found the clue—every time he took a bite, he always swallowed it hastily before chewing twice, probably without tasting the taste, and the whole process was fast and quiet.

This will definitely cause stomach bloating, Yu Bai hurriedly stopped and said, "You eat too much in one go, stop and take it easy."

At first glance, Su Linchi looked like the kind of person who had no experience in raising children. He maintained the wrong view that children should eat more to be in good health, and asked without knowing it, "Isn't it good to eat a lot...?"

"He's only so young, his stomach will be uncomfortable." Yu Bai said.

Zhou Zai obediently put down his chopsticks, Yu Bai stroked his bulging stomach, and gave him two Jianwei Xiaoshi tablets.Seeing that Zhou Zai kept looking at the two remaining pancakes, he said, "I'll pack it for you later, don't eat it now."

"But it's very fragrant." Zhou Zai said, "I didn't eat dinner yesterday."

Yu Bai: "What's going on?"

Zhou Zai sighed and said, "Yesterday we moved, and my elder brother and I ran away from home. It was too hasty, so we went to bed right away after we moved."

Yu Bai has been away from the rebellious period for many years, and Sun Mantang is far away from him. For a while, he didn't know whether to admire the courage of the two children, or to assume the status of parents and teach them to go home quickly with righteous words.

Su Linchi asked: "Is the man who came this morning your father?"

Zhou Zai nodded: "He wanted to take us home and had a quarrel with Big Brother."

Yu Bai didn't know the inside story, so he couldn't make a judgment, so he could only say vaguely, "So that's how it is."

At this time, someone in the corridor shouted, "Zhou Zai—where did he go?"

"My elder brother is here," Zhou Zai jumped off the chair, his voice obviously much happier, "Thank you brothers for taking me in, I have to go first."

Su Linchi put the pancakes in a food bag and handed them to him. The children bowed to them again, and when his elder brother shouted "Zhou Zai—" for the third time, he stopped pretending to be a little adult and acted like a baby swallow in the forest rushed out.

It was the weekend, and Yu Bai originally wanted to lie dead in the rental house for a day, but unfortunately he is now a busy working social animal, and there are five piano lessons waiting around after nine o'clock.

Yu Bai packed the rest of the breakfast into a box and took it away for lunch. He didn't forget to hand Su Linchi a bunch of takeaway leaflets, asking him to choose his favorite food. He was so busy that he quickly forgot about the children's meal upstairs. Rebellion problem.

Unexpectedly, before leaving, Zhou Zai's elder brother Zhou Xinlai came to the door.

Zhou Xinlai and Zhou Zai look very similar, they both have an oval face and single eyelids, as if the childhood version of Zhou Zai was pulled up and stretched into a thin bamboo pole, and he became Zhou Xinlai directly.

The difference is that Zhou Xinlai has cool long hair and a colorful braid hanging from the back of his head. He has a cool and unruly demeanor, no wonder some neighbors call him a "little gangster".

Half of the little gangster's face was swollen like a steamed bun, it was bright red, and there were five stubby fingerprints on it.He stuffed Yu Bai with a bunch of odd banknotes—in this era when waste collectors hang QR codes around their necks, banknotes are really rare—Su Linchi was an exception, he didn’t buy a mobile phone and lost his walk Yu Bai specially exchanged banknotes for him as a prerequisite for electronic payment.

Zhou Xinlai said: "I am Zhou Zai's eldest brother Zhou Xinlai. Zhou Zai is not sensible, I apologize for him. This is early money."

He said polite words, but his expression was not polite at all, as if Yu Bai ate their food, turned around and left after stuffing the money, even his back showed a determination to draw a clear line with them .

He was going to be late for work, and Yu Bai didn't have time to argue with him, so he threw the banknotes on the dining table and hurried downstairs.

The old landlady next door happened to come back from a walk, witnessed what happened, and said to Su Linchi who stayed behind: "That kid is smart, I must have seen you buy breakfast, and came to eat and drink... They ate How much do you have, is that enough money?"

Even if Su Linchi was rebuilt, he would not be able to gossip behind others' backs. He said "good morning" and closed the door, causing the landlord to choke.

The rental house lost one Yu Bai, and it seemed that it was more than half empty at once, and the whole thing fell silent.

Su Linchi tidied up the dining table, and with difficulty single-handedly cleaned out the rag, trying to do some housework. Inexperienced, the rag was not wrung out, and the table was dripping with water.He wanted to wash the dishes again, but his sleeves were all wet, and the smell of dishwashing liquid on the dishes still lingered for a long time, obviously it was crowded too much.

Su Linchi was afraid of causing trouble to Yu Bai, so he had to stop.

When he was in the hospital, Xu Qianzhi told him a good way to restore his memory, so that he could write down what he usually remembered as soon as possible, maybe he could associate more from points to lines.

Su Linchi listened to the advice of professionals, took out a notebook, and wrote down the dreams of last night in detail.

He thought about it, and added a new understanding of himself in the morning, such as "don't eat shiitake mushrooms, don't eat greasy things, don't know how to cook, and aren't good at housework".

At the end, the conclusion said: "Need to learn".

Therefore, after Yu Bai came into the house after get off work, he was surprised to find that Su Linchi was sitting on the lazy sofa, frowning and meditating, watching food videos on his iPad. The home atmosphere was very strong.

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