She finally heard the familiar footsteps wandering outside the door. Although she didn't know whether he came to knock on the door, she was willing to share her little world with others, beautiful, wonderful, absurd, and sad.

That day, Ju Nian successfully received the registration fee from her father. She took it and said, "Thank you, Dad." Xie Maohua, who was always dull and taciturn, was inexplicably mixed with emotion, sighed, and took out another fifty yuan from her wallet and handed it to her daughter.

"Take it and buy something."

Ju Nian was also surprised and felt tears rushing into her eyes. She thought that she must have been excited for too long since she saw so much pocket money.

"What, no need?" Dad waited for a while but couldn't see Ju Nian stretched out his hand and frowned.

Ju Nian took it quickly, why don’t you? The huge sum of fifty yuan can be bought for her and Wu Yu each. When playing ball, she will never get red and swollen from the handle. I heard that I was going to open a small shop near Wu Yu’s house. The remaining money was enough for the two to buy some snacks. I took Wu Yu’s pomegranate tree and sat down and enjoyed it slowly.

My mother also walked out of the bedroom and said that Ju Nian had grown taller. Ju Nian wanted to take a look at her younger brother, but her younger brother fell asleep and was afraid of being late for the afternoon class, so she hurriedly said goodbye. She walked downstairs of her father's house and accidentally looked up. On the balcony on the fifth floor, a snow-white school uniform flashed by.

Half a month later, the high school entrance examination was over and the results were not yet released. It was summer vacation. One day, shocking news suddenly came, and Xie Maohua lost his job. The reason was that as a public official, he violated the national family planning policy and was verified by someone's report and was dismissed from public office. At the same time, he had to pay a large number of "social maintenance fees".

Xie Maohua is the pillar of the family's life. This news is like a thunderclap for their family on a sunny day. Ju Nian's younger brother has been born for several years. Although he said he was adopted, most familiar people know it well. The Chinese people have always had a strong sense of incense, and this matter is related to their jobs and has no interest. Most people just pretend to be confused and turn a blind eye. They have been like this for three or four years. How could they suddenly hit the gun?

Xie Maohua drove for the president. As soon as the news reached his ears, he thought about going to ask President Han to find a solution. President Han had already received the appointment to be transferred to the municipal court at that time, and he was always upright. After hearing Xie Maohua's plea, he just asked, is other people's reports true?

Xie Maohua was silent helplessly. President Han also showed no help and said, "Old Xie, if you want to blame, you can only blame you for being too confused. No one said anything about this, maybe it was just like this, but now the letter of reporting has been posted to the door of the secretary's office. How can you end it for you if you want me? I am also a person who is about to step down, and speaking may not be effective. You should also reflect on this matter. In this way, it is inevitable to be dismissed from public office, but your child is still young and you can stay in the yard as an external employee to drive..."

It was over, and Xie Maohua knew it was difficult to save it. He was a person with good face and could not stay as a temporary worker. He gritted his teeth and left the procuratorate and drove a truck for a long distance. He went out to find a meal outside, which was naturally incomparable to his life of driving a small car for his leader. Xie Maohua's family cursed the people who reported behind their backs and would not die well, but he thought that after all, he had a son, and after thinking about it, he felt that everything was worth it for this.

Ju Nian heard about this from her aunt. Her only reaction was surprise, extremely surprised. If her father was unemployed, would she become a wandering child? Fortunately, she graduated from junior high school and even if she lost school, no one would want her and would not starve to death. After closing her door, she lay on the small bed and couldn't help but wonder whether this matter was related to whether she went back to ask her father for money that day. There was no evidence to prove this guess, but this idea came out so strangely.

She didn't have any special sadness. Over the years, because her younger brother ignored her existence, she could even say that she had an intellectual problem. Is she resentful in her heart? Ju Nian thought about it for a long time, no, no, she understood her parents. She was not adorable, and her parents always had to find someone to love. Maybe when she was a child, she was lost on the strange path, and she saw it getting darker, and she figured it out. She was closed in her world, and the door was thunderous outside the door. When she heard it, she felt melancholy.

Just as he was thinking, a strange noise came from the window glass. Ju Nian quickly opened the window. Sure enough, Wu Yu waved to her secretly outside the window. Aunt was out, Ju Nian was very free. She closed the door. Wu Yu had been standing in the sun for a long time, and her face was sunburned red.

Ju Nian waved the change in his hand at him: "Wu Yu, let's go to the convenience store to drink soda."

Wu Yu shook her head.

Ju Nian remembered that Wu Yu didn't like that small shop.

The owner of the small shop is my uncle's cousin, and he has a relative relationship with Ju Nian. My uncle's cousin is Lin Henggui, and the small shop he opened is called "Henggui Store". Ju Nian thinks this name is a bit funny, as if it implies that the goods inside are always expensive.

In fact, Angbuqi also said that Lin Henggui and his uncle and brother were born and raised here, but he was restless than his cousin. He went out to explore for a round of things in the early years and seemed to have no improvement. He returned to a familiar place and opened a small shop to settle down. In the shops at the urban-rural fringe, there were only some simple daily necessities. Lin Henggui liked to be greedy for children and was often "wrongly calculated" when he met elderly people or confused people. If others came to the door angrily, he would apologize and scold him for not having enough brains. If others were not as good as him, then he would naturally be unaware of it.

Because of this, Ju Nian didn't like her uncle's cousin, but there was no closer shop nearby. Wu Yu's disgust of Lin Henggui was different. Ju Nian asked her many times before Wu Yu told her.

It turned out that Wu Yu's father also grew up in this urban village, about the same age as Lin Henggui. When he was young, Lin Henggui was a second-rate man and often flirted with flowers and plants. Once, he got involved with a married woman nearby. The woman's husband took out a knife in anger and took his friend to fight with Lin Henggui. The friends on both sides became a group. Wu Yu's father was the friend of the "cuckold" husband. He happened to drink some wine that night, and he vented his anger to his friend with righteousness. He stabbed a helper Lin Henggui found to death, and then became a murderer and died.

Lin Henggui is not responsible for this matter, so he was called to ask questions and let them go. Wu Yu's father was impulsive after drinking and couldn't blame others, but the cause of the matter was Lin Henggui. His indecision indirectly made Wu Yu an orphan and helpless to fight a child. Wu Yu heard his grandmother mention it since he was a child, and he couldn't help but hate this person. Ju Nian regretted her own words, but she didn't expect this.

So she said to Wu Yu: "How about this, you wait for me in the bamboo forest and I will come soon."

After Ju Nian finished speaking, he ran into the convenience store alone. It was afternoon, and Lin Henggui was lying on a broken lounge chair behind the counter and was napping. There was not a single person in the store, only his dog named "Zhaofu" barked at Ju Nian.

Lin Henggui heard the barking of the dog, opened his eyes lazily, saw the visitor, and turned over and sat up.

"Oh, who did I say it is? Ju Nian, don't you have to go to school?"

Because of my uncle, Ju Nian still had to respect Lin Henggui. She said obediently: "I'm on summer vacation. Uncle Henggui, give me two bottles of soda and take them away with the bottle. I'll bring them back to you later." As she said that, she handed over the money.

Lin Henggui said, "What are the two people talking about in the family?" But he took the money. While taking the soda from the freezer, he looked back at Ju Nian, "Our family is very energetic. It doesn't matter if you see ordinary people calling. Ju Nian, you rarely come to your uncle. You are about to go to high school and you are all growing up as a big girl."

Ju Nian didn't know what to answer, so she just wanted to get the soda soon, so she simply refused to answer and bowed her head to tease and win.

Lin Henggui took two bottles of soda for a long time. Ju Nian was surprised when he heard him say in the store: "Oh, Ju Nian, something is wrong with your money."

Ju Nian was stunned when she heard this. What she handed Lin Henggui was a ten-yuan banknote. She never thought she would get counterfeit coins from the fifty dollars she gave her last time.

"Why, Uncle Henggui, please see clearly." She said to Lin Henggui in a hurry.

"Or come in and take a look. You kid are too careless. You can't even recognize such obvious fake money."

Ju Nian did not doubt it, and ran to Lin Henggui a few steps and took the money from him. Why didn't she find that the money was so thin before?

Ten yuan is not a small amount for Ju Nian. When she thought that the money turned into waste paper, her eyes turned red.

Lin Henggui looked very sympathetic: "How about I go and tell your aunt and uncle that they will give you another ten yuan?"

"No, no need." Ju Nian was shocked again. She did not tell her aunt that although it was not shameful money, with her aunt's temper, if she knew about this, she would have to scold her for being "an ungrateful wolf, unable to raise it, and even knowing to hide money."

With Lin Henggui's cunning, how could he not see Ju Nian's panic? He then lowered his voice and asked, "I said Ju Nian, this money should be you..."

"I didn't steal! This money was given to me by my father." After all, Ju Nian was still a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child. He was obsessed with his own little world. He didn't know whether the world was dangerous or too naive. After Lin Henggui said this, he was both angry and aggrieved, and almost shed tears.

Lin Henggui comforted her repeatedly: "Silly girl, what's the point of crying for ten yuan? Come in, uncle will think of a solution for you."

Before Lin Henggui could speak, he was half-swept and half-persuaded by Lin Henggui to pull into the inner room of the small shop. There was a bed there, which was obviously where Lin Henggui usually lives.

After Ju Nian entered, she felt something was wrong.

"Uncle Henggui, I'm going back."

She wanted to go out, but Lin Henggui was blocked at the door.

Lin Henggui cursed and the sound of fighting made Ju Nian tremble again. Hate was like a fire in her heart, and it was ignited. Will people be bullied forever if they are kind? She and Wu Yu just want to be a good child, but who will help them besides herself? The rabbit will bite people if it is too urgent.

The two bottles of soda taken out by Lin Henggui next to the freezer entered Ju Nian's sight. The orange flavor, orange liquid, and the transparent glass bottle were covered with water droplets. Ju Nian did not escape from the door. She picked up one of the soda, turned around and rushed back to the inner room, aimed at the back of Lin Henggui's head, and raised his hands and fell. There was no hesitation in the middle, just like her winning technique of killing the ball with her backhand when playing badminton, fast, accurate, ruthless, and neat.

The blunt object hit me silently, and everything stopped. Then, as if it was slow motion, Lin Henggui turned around slowly and stared at Ju Nian. Ju Nian took a step back. She thought she had not succeeded. However, a red earthworm was winding down from Lin Henggui's neck extremely slowly. He opened his mouth, made no sound, and then fell to the ground with a bang.

Wu Yu was also stunned by the changes in front of him, climbed up from the ground, looked at Ju Nian, who was expressionless, and then kicked Lin Henggui's soft body with his toes.

"I killed him?" Ju Nian murmured.

Wu Yu took a deep breath and pulled Ju Nian's hand that was still in her dream.

"Run quickly," he said.

Ju Nian was dragged out by him. Has anyone noticed all this outside? Maybe there is, maybe not. Gradually, Ju Nian followed passively from the beginning and became running hard like Wu Yu. Many years, when they ran in the morning, they only held their fingers tightly today and headed towards an unknown front.

They ran very fast, and Ju Nian felt that they were not running, but flying. Fear, sadness, and anger could not keep up with their pace. Everything in the past was like passing clouds and smoke, and everything unknown was still nothingness. They only had the current running, just like, just like there were only two people in the world, just like Xiao Qiushui and Tang Fang in the cool breeze and autumn leaves.

"Take me away." Ju Nian said this silently. She was shy and dared not let Wu Yu hear it, but her heart was saying this.

Of course Wu Yu couldn't hear it, nor did he see the opening and closing of Ju Nian's lips, but he suddenly glanced at Ju Nian and smiled hard.
Chapter completed!