mousepad-d2 Chapter 20 You Are So Handsome
Chapter 20 You Are So Handsome
Li Qing's house is on the first floor of an old residential building, with a total of [-] square meters, half of which lived in Li Qing and his mother, and the other half was rented to a single-living sanitation worker to earn rent.
There is a small kitchen and bathroom outside the one bedroom and one living room, which are full of sundries. After Shang Yang followed Li Qing into the house, he didn't even have room to turn around.
Asking Shang Yang to wait at the door for a while, Li Qing entered the door and informed his mother.When he went out again, he was a little shy: "The house is a bit small, you will only be there for one night."
The tone was unexpectedly gentle and soft.
Shang Yang was surprised to find that Li Qing at home was completely different from the usual Li Qing. The ferocious wolf with bristles on his back returned to the safe lair, spread out his pink belly, and rolled loosely in the snow-white cotton.
It also seems to be a real mild-tempered 17-year-old boy.
Is this the real Li Qing?
Shang Yang resisted the desire to flirt, and entered the room with a smile: "This house is much cleaner than my room."
This is the truth, although the house is crowded and small, it is extremely tidy and clean, except for the lingering smell of medicine, everything is in perfect order, and every detail shows the quality of the owner's family.
The curtains of the master bedroom were drawn, and the light was extremely dim. Li Qing's mother took a nap under the quilt.Li Qing explained in a low voice: "Mom has changed some medicines recently, which has some side effects and makes her drowsy."
Shang Yang has experienced this before, and nodded to express his understanding.
He only glanced at Li's mother's sleeping face from a distance, and he understood where Li Qing's natural good looks came from.
Although she was described as thin and sallow due to the illness, her unique facial features still endowed her with amazing beauty.Different from Li Qing's sharpness and indifference, it is a kind of rain-beaten duckweed, so weak that even a slight frown can make people pitiful.
The room was so small that two big boys couldn't move in it.Li Qing wanted to prepare sick meals for Li's mother. Seeing that Shang Yang had nothing to do, he simply asked him to help in the kitchen as an excuse, and gave him a handful of edamame for him to peel: "Good boy. It's three o'clock now. Later I'll make you spicy edamame tonight, don't you like spicy food?"
Shang Yang noticed Huadian and lowered his voice: "Banhua, how do you know I like spicy food?"
"!" Li Qing immediately lost his voice with his eyes wandering.
Shang Yang chuckled, lay on Li Qing's back, and whispered into Li Qing's ear: "Ban Hua, what do you say? How do you know I love spicy food? Did you pay attention to me and have a crush on me? Those who specially collected my information and inquired about my preferences? Huh?"
"..."
"Banhua?"
"..."
"Li Qing?"
"..."
Li Qing pretended to be an ostrich and kept silent, Shang Yang laughed inwardly, and announced arrogantly: "If you don't deny it, you will acquiesce. Ban Hua, I am so handsome and everyone loves me. Have a crush on me!"
"Nothing!" Li Qing's ears were red, he pretended not to hear those words, and cut vegetables with a serious expression, "Hurry up and cut the edamame, the scissors are in the cabinet next to you."
"Hey, I gave it to Banhua for the first time in my life to wash my hands and do housework. Who made you like me." Shang Yang stretched his body, went to the box on the cabinet to get the scissors, and was joking.
Suddenly Li Qing happened to come over to pick up the plates, and the hair of the two of them brushed past each other.
At that moment, Shang Yang suddenly smelled a scent of clean shampoo on Li Qing's body, as if it had penetrated into that person's fair and thin body...
Silently, the images of those little movies he watched during the National Day came to his mind...
Li Qing noticed something strange: "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Shang Yang moved his eyes away unnaturally, and his throat tightened: "I just asked, cough, are you going to finish the edamame......"
"……Um."
After peeling the edamame, he asked Li Qing about the location of the garbage bins in the community, and Shang Yang took the garbage bags from the kitchen and living room to throw away.
When he came back, he was stopped by an old lady opposite, "...Hey, Xiao Li, wait, wait for me. What are you doing so fast?"
The old lady looked to be in her seventies, with a kind face, wearing a blue background with dark floral coat, hunched back, and leaning on a cane.Probably because I am deaf, and I am afraid that people will not be able to hear clearly, so I spoke long, slowly and repeatedly: "I have caught up with you. Xiao Li, the meter reader is here. Your family's electricity bill is more than 60 this month. I will help you." Hand it in, you go back and take the form... yes... the list, where is my electronic form..."
Knowing that the old man made a mistake, Shang Yang explained: "Grandma, hello, I'm Li Qing's classmate, and I'm a guest at his house. Give me the list, and I'll bring it to him."
Thinking of something, he took out more than 60 yuan from his wallet and gave it to the old lady: "Grandma, this is the money for the electricity bill, you take it first."
The old lady's eyesight was not good, she was not in a hurry to accept the money, she first squinted her eyes and looked at him for a long time, then said cheerfully: "You are not Xiao Li, let me tell you why Xiao Li gained so much weight today, her little face is so round It's..."
Shang Yang: ...
He is not fat!He has a standard figure!He still has abs!Four dollars!
The old lady waved her hand and looked at Shang Yang with a smile: "You said you are Xiao Li's classmate?"
Shang Yang nodded politely.
The old lady sighed: "It's been a long time since Xiao Li's classmate came. You are the first one."
Shang Yang was taken aback.
But the old lady seemed to have forgotten that there was Shang Yang, and she started talking to herself: "Xiao Li's family is not easy, his father left seven or eight years ago, and now there are only him and him in the family. Mom and I live together. The child has been taking care of him for the past two years. Mom is also supporting the family, and life is hard... It's rare for a classmate to come to see him."
From what it means, this old lady is familiar with the situation of Li Qing's family.Suddenly, Shang Yang's mind moved, and he asked: "The old lady, do you know that Li Qing..." As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he took it back: "Forget it, old lady, you pretend that I didn't say anything today."
Li Qing didn't tell him about the past, presumably because he didn't want others to know about it for the time being.He has always hated making small reports, and he is even less willing to reveal scars behind his back.
Especially this person is Li Qing.
But it was too late.The old lady is deaf, obedient but not listening, and living in her own world, lonely and chattering, she was suddenly caught in the chatterbox.
"Hey, you asked about Xiao Li's year? Back then, what happened back then was really a crime. Hey, Xiao Li is such a good boy, he got No.1 in the exam every year, and the teacher said that he would be the champion in the future. .It was caused by what happened back then. But it just happened to catch up with rumors somewhere that the place was going to be demolished.”
"Demolition, demolition is not a good thing, it destroys people's hearts."
"The house was bought by Xiao Li's family, and they moved here more than ten years ago. Every household in every village and eight miles in this place lives with people of the same surname. They are the only people with a different surname. Seeing that the house was about to be divided into big money, his father happened to die again, and there was no good man in the family to take care of him, his mother was seriously ill, and she had such a good-looking appearance ..."
"If you ask me, there's nothing good about being good-looking. These are all tricks!"
Shang Yang: ...
"On the street next door, the family of Zuo who owns a barbecue restaurant, the whole family are idlers. His son eats, drinks, whores, gambles, smokes and takes drugs, so he fell in love with this house. Su Lan said to sell the house Let him forget it, that bastard refuses, and wants to marry Su Lan. He has calculated well, the house will be his after getting married, and there is no need to spend money to buy it. Su Lan is very good-looking. Su Lan Of course Lan wouldn't..."
"On that day, it must have been four or five years ago. That gangster surnamed Zuo took too many drugs. He looked like a madman. He pestered four or five people and rushed to Xiao Li's house, forcing Su Lan, who was ill, to agree. Otherwise, just force it. How can Su Lan agree...the two sides just started fighting like this."
"Xiao Li, hey, it's thanks to Xiao Li in the end... This baby usually looks obedient and quiet, but I didn't expect to be a ruthless one. She was so thin that she only had a handful of ribs, but she rushed over immediately. He snatched the knife from that bastard, and bent over to protect his mother. A few big men beat him up. He was only fourteen back then. Those bastards did human things! Thanks to Xiao Li, a child The son held on, and was cut a few big holes in the back, and he refused to admit defeat. He stabbed crazily with one knife after another, and sent four or five people to the hospital. The police said that Xiao Li was just fourteen years old, and he was sentenced to manslaughter for one and a half years, thanks to the care of the policemen, and he behaved well, and his sentence was reduced to less than a year..."
"Xiao Li and his teachers are talking about it now, saying that if Xiao Li hadn't been imprisoned that year, he must have been the top student in the high school entrance examination in the Shangxi district..."
The sound of the wind whizzed silently, and the low, smoky black clouds pressed down layer upon layer. The sound of traffic on the road in the distance, the hum of factory machinery and the lively voices of people were intertwined, rolling up into the sky like a hurricane, and the faint thunder The sound mixed together, heralding a sudden shower.
The wind soaked in water vapor rushed towards his face, Shang Yang shuddered unconsciously, and was awakened in his drowsy head.
He suddenly realized that he had shed tears unknowingly.
"Hey, the hospital... yes, I'm going to the hospital to check my blood pressure..." The old lady is getting old, her memory is not very good, and she didn't know where to go when she was talking: "Xiao Li, I won't tell you anymore Ah, I'm going to the hospital."
"Hey, Xiao Li, why did you gain weight and become shorter? Why did your appearance change?"
Shang Yang: ...
The old man muttered puzzledly: "...how could such a good-born child look ugly?"
Shang Yang: ……………
"People's hearts are broken, and the demolition has broken people's hearts..." The old lady murmured slowly while walking, then bowed her head and said, "Why do I have more than 60 yuan in my hand..."
The chain on the opposite door rattled for a while.A ten-year-old little radish came out and caught up with the old lady: "You disappeared in the blink of an eye, and I knew you ran out again." He apologized to Shangyang: "I'm sorry, my grandma is getting old. , I'm a little confused, I just like to talk to people, please trouble you."
Shang Yang hurriedly turned his face away to prevent others from seeing his tears, and squeezed out a smile: "No. The old lady...is very cute."
Little Luobotou looked at Shang Yang in surprise, probably thinking that this compliment was very novel, and then slammed the door shut.
"..." Shang Yang stepped forward in two or three steps, grabbed the door frame before the door closed, and said in a hoarse voice: "Old lady, do you remember those families who are going to rob Li Qing?" How are the family members in the house now?"
The old lady was stunned for a moment, looked carefully at Shang Yang two or three times, and said strangely: "Young student, who are you, what kind of family are you? How do I know?"
But the little carrot head said impatiently: "Dead, they are all dead. They got high when they were taking drugs, and they all stabbed themselves to death."
Only then did Shang Yang let out a deep breath, and thanked the old lady and Little Luobotou.
When he turned his head and walked towards Li Qing's house, Shang Yang walked with his head buried on purpose, but he still felt that the cold wind was too hard and cold today, making his nose ache and sore.
The days are too bitter.
Once inside the house, Shang Yang went straight to Li Qing.
Li Qing has already prepared the meal skillfully, and is about to set up the small dining table and bring the food to the table.Hearing the sound, he laughed like coaxing a child, without looking back: "You are hungry, let's eat first. Mom will sleep for a while."
Shang Yang silently stared at his thin back, straight neck, protruding butterfly bones due to thinness, broad shoulders, and rather unbending back...everywhere bears a burden that shouldn't be at this age .
Feeling his silence, Li Qing turned around in doubt: "Shang Yang?"
Shang Yang suddenly took a step forward, hugged Li Qing's waist from behind, pressed against Li Qing's back tightly, listened to his heartbeat, and put his head on the hollow of his shoulder.
It can be seen that Li Qing doesn't like to be in close contact with people.
Shang Yang could feel the tense muscles on Li Qing's back for a moment, but Shang Yang didn't want to let go, at least not now.
He arched harder: "...Li Qing."
Wordless depressive emotions rolled in the narrow and low kitchen, like deep blue silent sea water, covering the mouths and noses of the two teenagers who were tightly pressed together.
For some unknown reason, Li Qing didn't try to break free, and said in a hoarse voice: "Shang Yang, what's wrong with you?"
Shang Yang hugged him even tighter, rubbed his head, but still didn't want to say anything.
"...Shang Yang?"
"..."
"Shang Yang?!"
"..."
"Shang Yang, talk!"
"..."
Li Qing's momentum became fierce in an instant, as a gray wolf in the snowy field as tall as a person dwarfed his body, bared his fangs, and growled aggressively: "Did you go out just now, and those tongue-twisters outside bullied you?"
"..." Sensing Li Qing's tense muscles and blade-like aura, Shang Yang had no doubt that if he answered 'yes' now, Li Qing would charge forward to avenge him recklessly and fearlessly.
Just like when he stood in front of his mother when he was 14 years old.
"..." Closing his eyes, suppressing the tsunami-like sharp and fermenting emotions in his heart, Shang Yang squeezed out a smile with all his strength, and joked as much as possible: "No, it's the old man who just went out to throw out the trash and met the opposite door. madam."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"Nothing else?"
"...nothing else."
"...Is there really no one bullying you?"
Shang Yang chuckled: "Banhua, you just think that I'm being bullied."
Visible to the naked eye, Li Qing relaxed and turned into a big bad wolf at home again. He turned around and rubbed Shang Yang's head, and asked gently: "Old lady, did she pull you to talk?"
Shang Yang hummed.
Li Qing explained: "The old lady is very kind, and she helped our family a lot in the early years. Her son and daughter are all working outside, and now she only has a grandson by her side. It may be too lonely. When the old lady meets someone I always like to talk to people, that is, the trivial things in the neighbors' houses, so I treat it as a chat with the old man... Why, what did she say about you?"
"She said..." Shang Yang paused, looking at Li Qing.
It was already late autumn, and Li Qing was still wearing an off-white sweater.The clothes must have been made a long time ago, and they couldn't keep up with Li Qing's growing height, making them look a bit small.The cuffs and neckline have also been washed and rolled up, and a circle of thread has come off.
But even so, wearing this sweater, Li Qing still looks unbelievably good-looking in the crowded and narrow small kitchen. There is a crystal light on his porcelain white face, his hair is black, his eyelashes are long, and his eyes are like black agate washed in cold water, with deep eyes. Clean and better looking than any gentle yet determined teenager.
"I can't lose."
Shang Yang chewed these calm but bitter words carefully, as if a sharp knife had been inserted into his heart.
It hurts so cruelly.
The self-deprecation and self-abandonment in the words from the beginning to the end, the fear and rejection of him by everyone around him, the excessive stubbornness and self-esteem, the straight back that refused to relax for a moment, the spirit that must spur him to keep moving forward, "I Can't Lose" vs "Not Good Enough"...
All the tiny details scattered in life have been strung together after today's truth.
Heroes who rescue the poor and help the poor only exist in martial arts novels.The malice of the bottom society is real and naked. The 14-year-old frail boy can only rely on himself when facing the evil dragon.
The young dragon slayer wields a knife to eliminate evil, relying on blood-stained madness and ruthlessness.
After returning from a tragic victory, the boy who was originally the victim was rejected by others because of his bone-piercing wounds and madness.
But Li Qing shouldn't be like this.
He was so good-looking, stubborn and self-respecting, arrogant and intelligent, his life shouldn't be like this.
He deserves to have all the light in the world.
"...Shang Yang?" Li Qing was still looking at Shang Yang, apparently waiting for his answer, "What did the old lady say, what do you look like?"
Shang Yang lowered his brows and eyes, clenched his fists, and suppressed the bitterness on the tip of his tongue: "...She said that I am fatter than you."
Li Qing: ...
"And said I'm shorter than you."
"..."
"Not as good as you."
"..."
"...and said how a good child is ugly."
"..." Li Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, rubbed Shang Yang's soft golden hair, pushed him down on the chair, and coaxed him like a child: "The old lady is old, her eyesight is not good enough to talk nonsense."
"Be obedient, you are not fat at all, you have a good figure, and you are very handsome, very handsome. Although you are not so good-looking compared to me..."
"..." Shang Yang suppressed the urge to cry, and said with a mournful face, "...Ban Hua, you are really good at comforting people."
The author has something to say:
If you are interested, you can learn more about the term "eating extremely households".
Similar news, in some rural areas and clan concepts are very strong (to be honest, I really don’t know why this kind of dross still exists, and there is still a revival in these years. People of the previous generation, especially middle-aged men, are particularly fancy This. My dad can’t even afford to buy clothes, and donates a lot of money to build ancestral halls and genealogy_(:з」∠)_) It’s quite common in third- and fourth-tier cities.I have seen it three or four times myself, and this plot setting is also based on the news.
This kind of deprivation of households usually occurs in widowed mothers with only daughter families who have lost their husbands and fathers.
There are also cases where mothers and sons are eaten out of their households, usually in some outside households. (I really don’t experience it personally. I can’t imagine how xenophobic some small places are. My family has moved to this bay for 30 years and has reproduced for three generations. They are also called “migrant households”. All social security benefits are worse than others. ……Oops).
This is almost the case with Li Qing in Wenli.
But in the news, Li Qing's situation is generally not as tragic as Li Qing's.
The next update is the day after tomorrow.
muah.
According to the questions in the comment area, add an explanation.
①. There is a supplementary knife in the settings, which is an excessive defense.
In this regard, I have referred to several cases of manslaughter and checked some terms (after all, I am not a law major)
The laws of our country have very good provisions on self-defense, but they are very strict when they are implemented. If someone hits you, you can only fight back. It turned into a brawl.
The 'Long Ge' self-defense homicide case on Weibo before, if there is no public opinion oppression, it will also go to jail.But in reality, how many Long brothers can be exposed by public opinion?
And the case of Brother Long was in 19 (or 18 years?), but the background in the article is set in 2012, and Weibo didn’t even come out at that time...
Although very helpless, but the current regulations are like this.
The legal terms are not very sound.
In that case, it is impossible for Li Qing not to make up the knife if he repelled the person.Making up the knife basically became a brawl.After all, he is not a superman who can kill with a single blow.
②. Li Qing here is over 14 years old and under [-] years old. He can bear part of the criminal responsibility, so he has to go to jail.
If you are under the age of 14, you don't have to pay any criminal responsibility for murder and arson.
Personally, I don't want the protagonist to feel like he is taking advantage of his age.Although it was a legitimate defense, he had injured many people at that time, and he still had to pay a price.
In addition, this is not a complete picture of the matter, and there will be explanations from other characters about this matter later, so we need to give the plot room to play, okay?