stonecrandall Chapter 099, Dormitory for 2
Chapter 099, Dormitory for 2
The front door of No. [-] Middle School leads to the main road, and there is a pavement opposite the school after crossing a road.But because they have to cross the road, students prefer to shop on the street from the back door of the school. One is safer, and the other is closer.
The street is just outside the back door of the school. There are many small restaurants and shops here, many of which are in the food business, and the business is pretty good.
Today is Friday, and the school is on holiday. Except for the senior three students who have to make up classes on Saturday and Sunday, the other two grades are on holiday.Normally, the school prohibits boarding students from going out. On Saturdays and Sundays, boarding students are not restricted from going out. Both boarding students and boarding students can enter and leave the school freely.
During school holidays, students like to go out to buy something to eat.There are many mobile small stalls coming out of the back door of the school, all of which are in the food business. Students like to go to these places to buy food.
The two were talking on the road.
Even though the cousin said that he had eaten, Qiao Minglang didn't really believe it. As soon as he came out, he saw a stall selling pancakes, so he bought a pancake for Tang.
Qiao Mingshan took the pancakes bought by his cousin. Seeing that his cousin only bought one pancake, he gave it to him, but he didn’t have any. "Aren’t you going to eat it? I’ll break half of it for you." cousin.
"No need, I just ate outside and I'm still full." Qiao Minglang stretched out his hand and pushed.
Seeing that his cousin didn't look like he was lying, Qiao Mingshan ate the pancakes by himself.
After asking where his cousin lived was not far from here, Qiao Minglang wanted to go and have a look, and the two of them walked towards his cousin's place.
On the way, the two of them were still discussing about the shop. The rent in a good place was too expensive for them to afford it, and they would rent it in a bad place, fearing that they would not be able to do business.
In the past few days, he was wandering around the school, and seeing many people selling things with carts, Qiao Mingshan came up with the idea of setting up a stall there, "How about we also set up a stall by the back door of your school?" Come on, it can save shop rent.”
"Let's look around here first to see if we can rent a suitable shop. If we really can't find a suitable one, we can discuss it later." Qiao Minglang was not very in favor of setting up a stall at the back door of the school.
In the long run, it is better for them to rent a shop to do business.In this way, whether it is windy or rainy, it will not affect their business.
Qiao Mingshan understood what his cousin meant, and the two discussed this matter a few more times.
After walking for about 10 minutes, he came to the house he rented. The place he rented was a large courtyard, and there were many houses in it, all of which were rented out. He rented one of the single-room houses.Having lived here for more than ten days, he probably knows who lives around him.
But when he was away from home, he didn't have too much contact with strangers.
"It's here." Qiao Mingshan used the key to unlock the door, pushed open the door of the house, pulled a rope, and the lights in the house turned on.This room is not big, with a single bed in the corner, a square table by the window, and a small stool in the room.
He didn't bring many things himself, just a few changes of clothes, and the mats and bed sheets were newly bought after he arrived.For the place he rented, as long as he had a place to sleep, Qiao Mingshan didn't have too high requirements.
"Sit." The two entered the room, Qiao Mingshan pulled the only stool over for his cousin to sit on, and asked, "Do you want to sleep with me tonight?"
After walking in, Qiao Minglang glanced around the room and heard a child crying next door.Qiao Mingshan said: "There is a couple living next door with a two or three-year-old boy. It should be their child who is crying."
"En." Qiao Minglang nodded. Although the room looks a bit small, it is still clean inside. "Cousin, if you think this place is too noisy, you can live in another place."
"It's okay, not too noisy." Qiao Mingshan sat on the bed.
"I won't sit down, your bed here is not big, I'd better go back to school to sleep." Qiao Minglang didn't sit down, the school has a gate control, he had to go back early, lest it would be too late to enter the school gate.
"Haha, it's a little small. I was worried that I would fall off when I was sleeping. The bed in your school is about the same as mine, and it's not that big." Qiao Mingshan patted the bed on which he was sitting under.
This is a single bed, which is smaller than the bed he sleeps in at home. It's fine for one person to sleep, but if two people sleep, their arms will have to touch their arms.
"Okay, then you go back to school to sleep, and I'll take you out." Seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Mingshan got up and sent his cousin out, "The road outside is kind of dark, if you are alone at night, don't go out Run around."
"Understood. Cousin doesn't need to see me off, I know how to go back. You don't have to look for me tomorrow, I'll come and look for you tomorrow morning." The two stood at the intersection, not far ahead was the back door of their school, Qiao Minglang Tell my cousin not to send it away.
"Okay, you go back quickly."
"Cousin, I'm leaving, see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
After saying goodbye to his cousin, Qiao Minglang left.
Qiao Mingshan stood at the back until he saw his cousin entering the school gate, then he turned and went back to where he lived.
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There are four people in the dormitory, three of them are not here now, and he is the only one here.
After taking a shower, Zhou Xing washed the dirty clothes by himself, and hung them on the balcony outside to dry.He sat and waited in the dormitory, but no one came back, which made him inexplicably a little irritable.
Is he not coming back?
He took out the guitar and fiddled with it a few times. Even the guitar that he usually likes, he was not in the mood to play.
"Knock Knock-"
Standing at the door of the dormitory, Qiao Minglang reached out and knocked on the door.
"Who is it? The door is not locked." Through the door, Zhou Xing suddenly guessed who was knocking on the door, threw the guitar on the table, and got up to open the door.At this time, the door was pushed open from the outside. As soon as Qiao Minglang entered, the two of them almost missed bumping into each other.
Zhou Xing slammed on the brakes, looking at the person who came back with a nonchalant expression, and asked, "You're back, I thought you wouldn't go back to the dormitory to sleep tonight."
Qiao Minglang looked up at Zhou Xing. For some reason, he always had the feeling that this person had been waiting for him to come back.But thinking about it again, they lived in the same dormitory, and it was normal for the other party to be concerned when he saw that he hadn't come back.
"I just went to my cousin's place to have a look, but he didn't live there." Knowing that the other party cared about him, Qiao Minglang's attitude softened a lot.
It was late now, afraid that the dormitory would turn off the lights later, he bent down and took out a clean suit from the package on the bed, intending to take a shower and change to sleep.
"Your cousin rented a house outside?" Zhou Xing asked after Qiao Minglang.
"En." Qiao Minglang nodded, went into the bathroom, looked at the person outside the door, and asked, "Do you want to use the bathroom, I'm going to take a shower."
"I don't need it, you wash it." Zhou Xing took a step back, feeling a little silly.
Seeing that the door of the bathroom was closed and hearing the sound of water inside, I knew that the person inside was taking a shower.He returned to the place where he was sitting just now, picked up the guitar on the table and continued to strum the strings, but his eyes looked at the closed door of the bathroom from time to time.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the dormitory power cut off on time, the lights in the dormitory went out, and the lights in the bathroom also went dark.
The door of the bathroom was opened from the inside, and Qiao Minglang came out after taking a shower.
"Washed?" Hearing the voice, Zhou Xing looked up at the person who came out and asked.
"Yeah." Qiao Minglang was drying his hair as he walked out, and put the changed dirty clothes into the washbasin, planning to wash them when he got up tomorrow.
There was no light in the dormitory, and the lights in the corridor were still on. The light hit the inside of their dormitory, and the room was not completely invisible.Zhou Xing saw the boy sitting on the bed wiping his hair, and his eyes fell on his clean face.
Noticing that Zhou Xing was looking at him, Qiao Minglang raised his eyes and met the other's eyes, his eyes were a little puzzled, which meant he was smiling, what are you looking at me for?
"What is your cousin doing here?" Zhou Xing asked, remembering the question he hadn't asked just now.After a pause in wiping his hair, Qiao Minglang said flatly, "I'm going to find a shop to do business."
"Oh, what business do you do, tell me?" Zhou Xing suddenly became interested and asked, "Have you found the shop? If you haven't, I'll ask for you."
Qiao Minglang looked at the person who was about to break the casserole and ask the bottom line. He knew that he was going to answer this question, and this person would definitely ask the next question.He didn't really want to talk too much about family affairs with others, so he said: "Don't talk, go to bed early. If you have anything to say, wait until you get up tomorrow."
"You don't want to tell me." Zhou Xing could see what the other person was thinking, and it was clear that he didn't want to tell him.
A smile flashed across his face, Qiao Minglang lowered his head, clenched his hands into fists around his mouth to cover up the smile, unexpectedly he could see it.
After wiping his hair twice with the towel in his hand, he saw that it was almost dry, so he put away the towel and hung it on the rope outside.He came back and sat on the bed, looked at the person standing in front of his bed who was not about to go to sleep, and said, "Aren't you going to go to sleep? I want to sleep."
Seeing that the other party looked like he was going to sleep, Zhou Xing put the guitar into the box and stepped on the ladder to his bed.
Two people are lying on a bed, one on the top bunk and one on the bottom bunk.
There are usually four people in the dormitory, but now there are only two of them, and I always feel that today is a little different from usual.As for what is different, Zhou Xing is still a little confused for the time being.
"I'm going out tomorrow, so I might not be here in the dormitory." Qiao Minglang thought for a while, and said something to the people above through the bed board.
Zhou Xing said "oh", and didn't ask the people below where he was going, because he knew that even if he asked, the people below might not necessarily be able to tell.
He reflected on himself in his heart, he was not so caring about others before, why now he cared so much about a classmate he just met not long ago?This made him a little confused.