dhibooks Chapter 5: Yan 3's good friend
Chapter 5: Yan 3's good friend
It was already past ten o’clock when we returned to Qingguo Lane. The insect Internet cafe was at the end of Qingguo Lane. The cheap neon light boxes were shining with light without color matching. It seems that it will be misread as "Daisong Internet Cafe".
Yan Shisan lowered his head and walked towards the entrance of the Internet cafe. The black dog locked up in the kennel next to him was so excited that he almost rushed out of the fence when he saw his owner. Yan Shisan gave the dog a fierce look. The dog was pitiful. shrunk back.
Yan Shisan opened the single aluminum alloy door of the Internet cafe and walked in. The smell in the Internet cafe was strong and unpleasant. It was the smell of tobacco mixed with various heavy-flavored snacks. Yan Shisan walked straight towards the counter as if he hadn’t smelled anything. go.
There is a middle-aged woman sitting at the counter, her name is Lin Meng, and she is the owner of the Internet cafe.
Lin Meng's dyed yellow hair has grown a little black, and the red nail polish is also like a mottled wall, with a lot of paint peeling off; her skin is dull and yellow, and she is staring at the computer with a cigarette in her mouth.
When Yan Shisan came up to her, she realized that when she raised her eyes, her eyes were cold, and she unabashedly rolled her eyes at Yan Shisan in disgust: "Is the money coming?"
Yan Shisan took out the two packs of cigarettes and all the money in his pocket, Lin Meng reached out to get the pile of crumpled ten-cent notes, leaned on the chair and counted the money twice, then nodded: "Go and give Crickets make instant noodles."
Yan Shisan obediently turned around and planned to walk towards the second floor, but Lin Meng spoke again, with a harsh and bitter tone: "Why is there blood on the money? You didn't cause trouble for me, did you? Get out immediately if anyone finds you."
Yan Shisan turned his back to the woman, and said in a flat tone while going upstairs: "No."
Just like when a cricket is beaten and no one cares about it, no one cares about the life and death of a small person, never will.Yan Shisan understood this truth a long time ago.
Yan Shisan used to be a senior victim of this truth, and now he uses this unspoken social rule to protect himself and others.
Cricket is Lin Meng's biological younger brother. He is already in his early twenties, but his IQ is somewhat problematic. Outsiders call him mentally handicapped, but Cricket is smarter than ordinary mentally handicapped.
The condition for Lin Meng to let Yan Shisan live on the second floor for free is to manage the Internet cafe and take care of the crickets; at the same time, Yan Huo lives on the second floor with Yan Shisan. Yin Huo is one year older than Yan Shisan and lives nearby. Lin Meng will be paid a small amount of rent to work in the factory, and he has to take care of the cricket, so the two of them will each bear half of the medical expenses for the cricket accident.
But Yin Huo's salary was not high, he had to pay rent, and he had to support his sister's education, so Yan Shisan gave Lin Meng all the money he found, so that Yin Huo could pay less.
"Thirteen, you are back!"
The door of the room on the second floor was open, and the cricket ran out happily after seeing Yan Shisan. He had a cast on his left hand, and the wound on his face had scabbed over. right?"
"Hungry! So hungry!"
Cricket followed Yan Shisan, waiting for him to make the instant noodles.
"I'll take a bath, you can't eat yet!"
As soon as Yan Shisan was about to go to the bathroom, he saw the cricket quietly trying to lift the lid of the instant noodles. After being discovered by Yan Shisan, the cricket had to stand obediently and nodded: "Got it, go take a bath."
Yan Shisan came out of the shower and the instant noodles were ready. He opened it for the crickets to eat, and then hand-washed the shirt Qin An gave him twice before hanging it up on the balcony.
The white and clean shirt was dangling in the humid and hot night. Yan Shisan looked at it for half a minute before returning from the balcony to the inner room on the second floor.The punctured palm no longer bleeds, and because it was soaked in water, the wound is covered with festering white. Yan Shisan went back to the room to find a band-aid, but in the end he only found two packs of gift napkins left over from the last flyer. .
Yan Shisan was going to wrap his right hand with a napkin and tape, but Lin Meng's shrill voice suddenly sounded from downstairs in the middle of the wrapping: "Yan Shisan, are you dead above? Come down and look at the store!"
"coming!"
Yan Shisan put the napkin and tape in his pocket, and took the leftovers from eating the crickets and the garbage downstairs. Lin Meng was already carrying a small bag and was about to leave. When Yan Shisan came down, he twisted Twisted away.
Yin Huo didn't come back until midnight, brought Yan Shisan a bowl of fried rice, and lay down on the counter and asked, "What's wrong with your hand?"
Yan Shisan was eating fried rice with a spoon in his left hand, and said vaguely, "I hurt you when you asked for money. You only need to give Lin Meng 600 yuan, and I want [-] yuan."
Yin Huo nodded: "Thirteen, you are so kind to me, you go to sleep, I'll come here."
"Are you going to stay up all night?"
Yan Shisan frowned and questioned Yin Huo. These days, Yin Huo was working two shifts in the factory. His younger sister was about to start school. The tuition for Tianyi Middle School was very expensive. Although he had already saved enough for tuition, there was still room for him. Yin Huo has been working overtime for more than a month in a row for food and food expenses, and he is getting more and more haggard every day.
"I'm not sleepy, I can sleep during the day when there is no business, you go up quickly."
Yan Shisan ate more than half of the fried rice, her ass seemed to be stuck to the counter chair and refused to get up, urging Yin Huo to go upstairs to sleep.Yin Huo stretched out his hand across the counter and grabbed Yan Shisan's hair, his tone was apologetic and moved: "Thank you Shisan, when I have money, I will help you find my family."
Yan Shisan lowered his eyes indifferently: "Go up quickly, if you don't sleep, you will talk nonsense."
Yin Huo smiled helplessly, turned and went upstairs, Yan Shisan sat crookedly on the chair, played for a while and helped the two guests adjust the machine, then took the leftover fried rice and ate it with the two guests The leftovers are sold to the dogs.
Now Qingguo Lane is completely dark except for the light box that is still on in the insect Internet cafe.
"dog!"
Yan Shisan barked. Normally, the dog would start restless when Yan Shisan went out, but today it was very quiet. Yan Shisan walked to the side of the dog shed, stretched out his leg and kicked the brick next to it: "Dog!"
He yelled again, but there was still no movement in the dog shed. Yan Shisan sensed that something was wrong, he quickly opened the outside latch of the dog shed, stooped into the small dog shed, and the inside was empty.
Yan Shisan was stunned for two seconds, then quickly got out, and yelled frantically in the small, empty alley: "Dog! Dog!" No reply.
"Where is my dog!"
Yan Shisan was very anxious, the dog was his relative, his anxiety was instinctive, that kind of anxiety pushed the blood, squeezed up, emotions turned into liquid and were squeezed into the eye sockets, Yan Shisan was about to fall out almost instantly. Tears, there is no brewing and foreshadowing at all.He quickly ran back to the Internet cafe and went upstairs, and opened the door of the room forcefully.
"Yin Huo!"
Yan Shisan called Yin Huo in a panic, waking up Cricket and Yin Huo.
"what happened?"
Yin Huo sat up from the bed, rubbed his eyes and looked at Yan Shisan.
"Did you see my dog when you came back?"
Yan Shisan stared at Yin Huo eagerly, his voice and exhalation were stagnant, because he ran too intensely just now, and because he was too anxious at the moment.
Sometimes Yin Huo would bring leftovers to Yan Shisan's dog after work, but today he happened to not bring it, so he didn't go to see the dog, but usually when he came back, the dog would always greet him. Jumping twice, calling twice, there is always some movement, today seems...no movement...
Yin Huo thought for a while, then shook his head at Yan Shisan, who had a pale face: "It seems... no, the dog ran away?"
Yan Shisan gritted his teeth, coughed hard, and then nodded: "It's gone! Someone took it away! The latch is still inserted! Someone must have taken it away!"
Yan Shisan was so anxious that he stomped at the door, his eyes were red, Yin Huo quickly got up from the bed: "Don't worry, I'll get up and look for it with you."
Yan Shisan turned around and sniffed while going downstairs with Yin Huo. As soon as he got off the building, Yan Shisan wanted to run out, but was grabbed by Yin Huo. Yin Huo went straight to the counter host to check the Internet records. He guessed which customer it was I took it away when I left after surfing the Internet.
Yan Shisan was carefully watched every record made after he came back and before Yin Huo came back. He supported the table with his right hand and felt no pain at all.
"I'll ask people who surf the Internet during this time period, if they saw a dog when they came, so as to narrow down the time period."
Yin Huo patted Yan Shisan on the shoulder and walked towards the internet area.
Yan Shisan took the mouse and copied the list of people who left at that time and the ID card information, before Yin Huo ran over suddenly.
"Thirteen!"
Yin Huo's tone was excited, as if he breathed a sigh of relief: "Lin Meng took the dog away! Someone heard her call!"
Yan Shisan stood up, he was a little confused: "Lin Meng?"
Yin Huo nodded: "Go and ask the big head, the big head said that he heard Lin Meng calling, and said he wanted to take the dog away."
The big head is a frequent visitor to the Internet cafe. Yan Shisan quickly ran to the side of the big head and confirmed to him. The big head took off the earphones and nodded at Yan Shisan: "Your lady boss must have taken you away. I heard her calling someone else." , said that she has a big dog here, who can guard the door or something..."
Yan Shisan gritted her teeth until her cheeks puffed up, and called Lin Meng angrily and urgently. She made two consecutive calls but no one answered, until the third Lin Meng answered in a very bad tone.
"What are you doing? The Internet cafe is on fire?!"
She usually has notes on the landline in the Internet cafe.
"Did my dog be taken away by you!!!"
This was the first time Yan Shisan yelled at Lin Meng, and the yell contained a deep and inaudible grievance.
Lin Meng was quiet for two seconds, and his tone was obviously not as aggressive as when he just picked up the phone: "I took it away, what's the matter? Isn't it just a dog..."
"Where is it?" Yan Shisan finally became less anxious, but still anxious.
"Where is what?" Lin Meng was obviously playing dumb.
"I said where is my dog?!" Yan Shisan's voice became louder again.
"Yan Shisan, you're awesome, aren't you? Talking to me like that for a dog?! I gave away the dog, isn't it just a dog! I'll live with you for free and you should give me a dog!"
Lin Meng hung up the phone without waiting for Yan Shisan to reply. Yan Shisan held up the phone in a daze and looked at Yin Huo who didn't know what was going on. Yin Huo took two steps closer, Ask: "What's wrong? What did she say?"
Yan Shisan flattened his mouth, he sucked his nose twice, tears fell quickly, his voice became thin and trembling because of trying to suppress the uncomfortable and anxious emotions: "She gave my dog away... ..”
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