Deep In The Alley

Lu Yao's meal was left with only the 'hot' Mala Tang. He ate for more than an hour and drew on until night fell outside, and the lights of various colors in the alley were lit one by one.

Lu Yao put down the bowl, eating a little bit, and most of the bowl was left unfinished.

Li Mingzhu talked too much and said that he was tired, and in such a small shop, packing is also an unrealistic idea.

Lu Yao stood up and walked out, Li Mingzhu followed, and she said, "I will take you out."

Lu Yao didn't plan to go out in his heart, he said, "I have to go shopping for a while."

"What is there to stroll around here?" Li Mingzhu said.

"You take care of me." Lu Yao snorted and went on the opposite road to Li Mingzhu.

On the left and right sides of the alley, going deeper and deeper to the right, the inside is getting more and more crowded.

Lu Yao seemed to have walked into another world in this city. He asked as he walked, "Have you lived here since you were a kid?"

Li Mingzhu said, "Yeah."

Lu Yao pointed to the student who was lying at the door of the store, carrying a small stool to do his homework. There was Yang Mi's Gong Suo Xin Jade in the store. The mother of the child was interested in seeing it. Lu Yao asked, "Then you did your homework when you were a kid?"

Li Mingzhu replied, "I will not lie at the door."

Lu Yao looked up at the sky in the alley: There was only a small line left in the sky, and a few stars could be vaguely seen.

"Li Ming, let's make up!" Lu Yao suddenly thought.

"What?"

"I said, let's reconcile, I don't care about your previous wickedness, we are even."

Li Mingzhu raised his eyebrows and looked at him, not believing Lu Yao's nonsense.

Lu Yao said, "I'm sincere, I think you are still a good person, so we can't say we don't know each other."

He said, "Otherwise, why would I be admitted to the Provincial No. 1 Middle School and I met you again? This is fate."

Lu Yao said that he was right, and made Li Mingzhu a joke.

"I thought you were going to hate me forever."

"You are the one who bears the grudge," Lu Yao muttered.

Li Mingzhu smiled and said nothing.

Lu Yao said, "What about you, Li Ming, let's shake hands and make peace, let's be friends again!"

Li Mingzhu looked at the roads on both sides and asked, "Lu Yao, do you think this alley is dirty?"

Lu Yao glanced at his snow-white soles being splashed with mud and turned into an abstract painting, and he twitched his lips, "Isn't this nonsense!"

Li Mingzhu said, "Zweig wrote a short story called Pratt's Spring, which was included in a letter from a strange woman."

"Did you read a book?"

Lu Yao blinked and told the truth, "Didn't look."

"If you have a chance, you can read this story." She said, "Then think about what you just said is not practical."

Lu Yao said inexplicably, "What do you mean?"

Li Mingzhu replied to the wrong question, "Let's go, you can also go here, you have to pass a garbage dump, and walk around two hundred meters from there to the subway station."

Lu Yao didn't listen to the words behind her, but he said in his heart: What story? I have to watch it tonight!

Li Mingzhu deliberately bypassed this topic, Lu Yao was unwilling, a little angry in his heart, and walked away for a while, and was suddenly stopped by a charming voice.

"Hey, brother in a white shirt, new here?"

Li Mingzhu's face turned dark, Lu Yao was about to turn his head to see who was calling him, but Li Mingzhu scolded him, "Don't look!"

Lu Yao quickly turned his head, "What's wrong?"

Li Mingzhu said, "Don't look around."

The soft voice continued, "What are you doing, brother, let me tell you this sister, the first time I saw you, it's so amazing~"

Lu Yao stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, "She's calling me?"

Li Mingzhu closed his eyes, "Many people call you, do you have to look at each one?"

Lu Yao said in his heart: Of course not.

"Hehehe, he's shy, but his girlfriend won't let you see it, brother, oh, brother, is your next—Fuck! Li Ming!" The woman who called Lu Yao suddenly gasped. .

The reason is that Li Mingzhu suddenly turned around and stared at her coldly.

"You stand here for me." Li Mingzhu ordered Lu Yao.

She walked back quickly and walked to the shop with ambiguous lights and doing improper activities under the banner of the shampoo shop.

The woman at the entrance of the store wore a bright red low collar with half of her chest exposed. Her two plump legs were wrapped in black mesh stockings. She had high heels and clothes of the same color, curled up with big waves, and painted heavy makeup.

Seeing Li Mingzhu coming, she stood up in horror.

"Are you free?" Li Mingzhu looked at her with a gloomy expression.

The woman seemed to know Li Mingzhu and took a step back, "... no."

"I think your call is very happy, I am here now, why don't you keep calling."

The woman laughed awkwardly, "I didn't know that it was your friend ..."

Another short-haired woman walked out of the shop, holding a white porcelain washbasin with a red bottom, and a towel. Seeing Li Mingzhu with a gloomy face, she shook her hands, "Oh, Li Ming, it's been a long time since I saw you two. What are you doing?"

The black silk woman said dryly, "It's a bit misunderstanding ..."

"If you have a misunderstanding, just say it's fine. I'll pour Li Ming a glass of water." The short-haired woman said, " You didn't go to school today?"

Li Mingzhu said faintly, "Just take care of your mouth, don't bark anywhere."

"You don't need to pour me water." Li Mingzhu glanced at the woman in black stockings warningly and walked out.

As soon as she left, the short-haired woman smashed her washbasin, "What did you do to offend this living Hades?"

"Who knows it's him, do I dare to call him!" Seeing Li Mingzhu's departure, the black silk woman rolled her eyes, "Damn, I'm unlucky, I can be someone who can call her on the walk."

"What did you do?"

"I think there is a handsome guy who is very handsome and yelled twice. He was fucking lame and didn't see Li Ming standing next to him. Damn, I scared my old lady to death when I turned back." The black silk woman patted her chest and was frightened. It's not light.

The short-haired woman took a lingering look at Li Mingzhu's leaving back, and whispered, "Don't offend her, the people who offended her before having no good end. This kid has a vicious heart since childhood. Her mother's broken leg deserves it. She was the victim of it, and was condemned by God!"

"You think I want to provoke her." The black silk woman murmured.

On the other side, Li Mingzhu came back and Lu Yao asked, "Why do you have to open a shop for shampooing? Isn't there a barbershop?"

"Why were you not so easy to learn when you were studying?" Li Mingzhu said coldly.

Lu Yao glanced at him, "The light is too dim, how do you do business like this."

"What do you do when you are in charge of other people's business? If you see this kind of shop in the future, give me a detour." Li Mingzhu reminded him.

Lu Yao pondered for a while, and he gave an initiation, "I see, this is that ..."

Li Mingzhu is decisive: "Shut up!"

Lu Yao's face was thin red, and he suddenly understood the meaning of the shop. After he was ashamed, it suddenly occurred to him that Li Mingzhu had just walked into the shop with composure, as if he was still talking to the woman in the shop.

His face didn't turn red anymore but turned pale completely.

"How do you know them!" Lu Yao shouted, "You still talk to them!"

Li Mingzhu covered his ears, "I can hear it."

Lu Yao was shocked and grabbed her hand, asking her to explain clearly, "How did you know them, did you ..."

"Am I crazy?" Li Mingzhu rolled his eyes.

"Then did you have it?" Lu Yao asked nervously.

"No." Li Mingzhu waved his hand.

She is a woman, even if she wants something, it's impossible!

Lu Yao hesitated, "Really not? Then how did you know them?"

After talking for so long, Lu Yao knew a little about what those women were doing. It was nothing more than an ancient cause that had been passed down in China for thousands of years.

Li Mingzhu moved his throat and replied indifferently, "My mom does this job."

Lu Yao was stunned.

He looked at Li Mingzhu dryly, Li Mingzhu didn't care about it, "Is there anything else I want to ask."

"No more."

"If you don't have it, leave as soon as possible." Li Mingzhu quickened his pace.

Lu Yao felt that he had asked something that shouldn't be asked and that the child who wanted to do something wrong, followed Li Mingzhu, eagerly looking for a topic to continue talking, to prove that there was no gap between the two.

But Lu Yao hadn't found the next topic yet. He suddenly discovered that many of these shampoo shops popped up in the alley, like broken points connected in a line. At first, there were only a few scattered, and then it was endless. There are even men in bloated clothes that shuttle in these shops.

Lu Yao thought: Did she grow up in such an environment? How did she grow up to look like this little staid!

Lu Yaotian grew a face that was drenched in flowers and grass. Even the dim lights in the alley could not stop his hormones. The young lady who walked down the shop opened a mouthful of blood as if she was about to eat Lu Yao.

The strong perfume smell filled this ambiguous and dim alley until Lu Yao was thrown with a pink shampoo on him, and Li Mingzhu's brain called the string 'click' cut off.

She suddenly jumped her temples, coldly took her handkerchief off Lu Yao, walked to the door of the store, gritted her teeth, and said, "You are throwing it once, believe it or not, I will let you eat it."

Li Mingzhu didn't look like joking, she scared the lady at the entrance of the shop and swallowed her saliva, put away the swaying energy of scratching her head, and the little chicken nodded while pecking at the rice.

Li Mingzhu then glanced at the surrounding shops, her gaze rested on everyone's neck like a physical blade.

Lu Yao shuddered and thought: Why is there a murderous look!

When Li Mingzhu came back, Lu Yao said, "Hey, why are they so afraid of you?"

Lu Yao glanced at the store, and Li Mingzhu twisted his head, "You are a student, don't give me a crooked mind."

Lu Yao has been wronged through the ages, and all his crooked thoughts have moved on her, okay!

Li Mingzhu couldn't see that these things contaminated Lu Yao, she was like an elder, caring for Lu Yao so much, and caring for him as a child.

Lu Yao is ignorant about the situation. She can't watch Lu Yao go the wrong way, otherwise, she will die later, and there will be no way to explain to Lu Zhi.

She can think of Lu Zhi as soon as she closes her eyes. When Lu Zhi taught her to write one stroke at a time, he once mentioned that he had a naughty brother who was one year younger than her. He is a person who crushes tenderness in his bones, and when he mentions his brother, his expression becomes more tender.

Li Mingzhu was still a radish kid at the age, so he was jealous of Lu Yao, and asked Lu Zhi like a fool: Your naughty brother is smart or I am smart.

Lu Zhi decisively said: You are smarter.

She has been proud of it for a long time.

Perhaps it was Lu Yao, who had never seen her after she had been scolded for a thousand miles when she was a child, but it was hardly possible that she suffered retribution later.

Li Mingzhu seemed to have recovered from a lifetime, Lu Yao's face and Lu Zhi's face in front of him overlapped, and Lu Yao said, "What are you doing in a daze?"

Li Mingzhu thought: It may be Lu Zhi's death day, and I will often think of him in these two days. Maybe she can still be entrusted with a dream at night, maybe she will need to burn more paper money.

Lu Yao muttered, "Don't just talk about me, I won't go to these places, and you are not allowed to go!"

"I'm not going." Li Mingzhu's expression eased a bit, and by the way, "You will take the subway back by yourself in a while."

When Lu Yao heard that Li Mingzhu still wanted to drive him away, he was extremely aggrieved, "It's so late, I can't go back alone. It's dangerous. I look so good-looking and I will definitely be trafficked."

Li Mingzhu: ...

Lu Yao became more and more involved in the drama, "Really, I heard that H city is not safe these days, so you have the heart to let me go alone."

After he finished speaking, he blinked his eyes, very innocent.

Li Mingzhu hardened his heart and really wanted him to go. He didn't know that God was all with Lu Yao. Before Li Mingzhu could say no to him, the big raindrops fell on her face.

Lu Yao was stunned, and he was ecstatic: God helps me too!

Li Mingzhu frowned, "It's raining."

Lu Yao nodded, "It's still raining heavily."

Sure enough, the rain curtain pulled up in an instant. Lu Yao took Li Mingzhu and ran for a while, and ran under the eaves. Although the two ran fast, their clothes got wet a lot.

"What to do, I can't go back." Lu Yao sighed.

Li Mingzhu felt helpless, Lu Yao looked at her again and smiled, "You take me in for one night, I will never make trouble! Really!"

The outdoor temperature in November was already low to single digits. After the rain dampened the clothes, Li Mingzhu instantly felt the air bitterly cold.

"Is this far from your home?" Lu Yao said.

"Not far away."

"Then let's run back." Lu Yao suggested that he took off his clothes and wrapped Li Mingzhu's whole person as strictly as ever.

Li Mingzhu looked at his movements in surprise, and then reacted and wanted to return the clothes to him, "You are crazy, it's such a cold day ..."

"I am not afraid of cold, your hands are colder than mine." Lu Yao said.

The alley was dark, and Lu Yao always felt that the atmosphere seemed very ambiguous, especially when there were purple lights on both sides shining vaguely on the ground, but they could not shine under the eaves where the two of them were sheltering from the rain.

Lu Yao said, "You lead the way, let's go back."

Li Mingzhu insisted on returning the clothes to Lu Yao. Lu Yao stopped doing it. He threatened, "If you return the clothes to me, I will hold you and go!"

After he finished speaking, he resolutely added, "You can choose your own."