night escape

Chapter 1 Heatwave

In the hot summer, the air is as sticky as if it has been coated with glue. People only need to stand on the street for a few minutes, and they will be completely drenched.

Last year, a news media compiled statistics on the sales of watermelons in cities across the country. Pingnan, a second-tier southern city with a population of less than 1000 million, became the No. 1 watermelon sales in the country by eating melons. Its popularity is no exaggeration.However, the citizens of Pingnan who have worked hard for more than ten years to build Pingnan into an "industrial tourism city" did not expect that the city they were born and raised in had a new name that is very strange and well-known overnight - "Melon All".

Compared with a series of good names such as "Emperor Capital", "Magic Capital", "Demon Capital" and "Ancient Capital", "Melon Capital" sounds a bit ugly, and almost no Pingnan people dare to admit this shameful title.But netizens from all over the country are especially keen on "grabbing bamboo shoots". They not only shout on the Internet, but also travel to the "Melon Capital" to check in and taste how sweet the watermelons here are.So this summer, the melon farmers and watermelon sellers in Pingnan are really making money.

It was during this year that Jiang Qiu made some money.She is a smart and good-looking girl. When she was in the orphanage, the headmaster and teachers said that a girl like her with aura would definitely marry into a wealthy family and become very rich.

I don't know if it's because she is born so cheap that she can't bear good blessings, "marry into a rich family and get rich and rich" she has nothing to do with it. When I was 18 years old, I met a man who I thought would last forever, but was cheated out of everything, and was pregnant with Jiang Heng, who had no father.

"Why is he called Jiang Heng?" Xie Li held the watermelon that Jiang Qiu stuffed him, and began to eat it in small bites. The corner of his mouth was stained with red watermelon juice, but he didn't notice it.

"Because my name is Jiang Qiu, it sounds like there is only autumn. I hope he has spring, summer, autumn and winter, and eternal days." Jiang Qiu, who lived in an orphanage since childhood, did not read much, but read countless Romance novels have a kind of literary and artistic temperament soaked in novels in their bones.

"Oh." Xie Li opened his eyes and looked forward without focus. His eyeballs were much lighter than ordinary people's and looked gray in the sun.He was just asking casually at first, so he didn't have any soul when he answered Jiang Qiu.

Xie Li is 17 years old this year. He is seven years younger than Jiang Qiu. The two grew up in the same orphanage, so they seem to depend on each other.

But in his opinion, Jiang Heng is clearly Jiang Qiu's burden!

"Then why are you called Xie Li?" Jiang Qiu smiled, and fixed his eyes on the boy beside him who had grown up unknowingly. It seemed that only his height had changed, and nothing else had changed.Still the same as when I first met him when I was a child, with fair skin, black hair, long eyelashes, surprisingly beautiful facial features, like a porcelain doll that makes people love.

Such a good-looking person, but there is only one bad thing, Xie Li's eyes are dull, he is blind.Jiang Qiu hated God for having no conscience every day, why couldn't he give Xie Li a pair of eyes that could see his own beauty.

"Maybe my parents are very grateful for my leaving." Xie Li said lightly.

Xie Li was a premature baby. He was born in the mother's womb for 7 months. He was only half a catty when he was born. He lived in the incubator of the hospital for more than a week before he recovered his life.

Babies born prematurely are somewhat flawed.Most children learn to walk by stumbling, but Xie Li still stumbles after learning to walk for a long time.When he was three years old, he was diagnosed with congenital corneal dysplasia, which means that he has already started to have visual impairment, and he often falls when he walks.The Xie family was already poor, thinking that the child might be blind in the future, they were terribly afraid.After being unable to sleep at night for several days, the husband and wife finally figured it out, picked a sunny day, took Xie Li to the shopping mall, played in the amusement park, bought some new clothes, and a few boxes of lollipops , and sent the beautiful doll to the door of Pingnan Orphanage.

That day Jiang Qiu climbed up the wall to pick up badmintons, looked down, and saw a little doll looking up at her with round eyes, he pulled out the lollipop from his mouth, and there were traces of saliva and snot on it. , asked Jiang Qiu: "Candy?"

Jiang Qiu remembered very clearly that the day was indeed sunny and sunny, it was Xie Li's first day in the orphanage, and he wrote his name and birthday in his small backpack, nothing else.

"What are you thinking about?" Jiang Qiu bumped into Xie Li's shoulder, and after 13 years, Xie Li's bones had hardened a lot, making Jiang Qiu's flesh ache.

"It's nothing." Xie Li seemed to feel Jiang Qiu's pain, he stretched out his hand and gently rubbed her shoulder.

"Sister Lan can't come to help today, and the kindergarten is about to close again. You can help me look at the watermelon stand, ten yuan a piece, if someone comes to buy it, let him pick it himself, and then you can just collect the money. Jiang Heng and I will be very fast." Just come back."

Xie Li's eyelashes trembled slightly, he pursed his lips, thought for a few minutes, and then slowly answered the word "yes".

Now it seems that he is Jiang Qiu's burden.

Jiang Heng's kindergarten is not too far away. Jiang Qiu walked there, and it took only half an hour to pick up people and go back and forth.Xie Li encouraged himself silently in his heart, but it was only half an hour, he was fine!The watermelon stall was a big three-wheeled cart. Xie Li groped along the side of the cart, moved his stool forward, reckoned that the distance should be closer to the cart of watermelons, and then sat down firmly.The blind man's cane must rest on his thigh. He touched the handle of the cane with one hand, rubbing it from time to time, and his palm was sweaty.

A few minutes passed, and some girls came and asked how to sell the watermelon.

Xie Li's ears were the first to respond to the voice, "Ten yuan each, just choose and pay me."

The girls whispered to each other, obviously seeing that the handsome guy in front of him was blind.Xie Li heard what they were talking about, and didn't take it too seriously, "Our watermelon is really sweet, if you like it, you can bring some more."

"But...you can't see, so how do you know how many we took away?" A girl teased him.

"I can't see it, but you can see it." Xie Li smiled lightly.

"You're right, those who can see can't bully those who can't, why don't we buy three watermelons, promise, I'll give you the money." The girl stuffed the money into Xie Li's hands, three pieces of ten yuan.

"Thank you for your patronage." Xie Li rubbed the corner of the banknote with his thumb a few times, knowing that the girls did not lie to him.

From the direction where the girls were leaving, there was a burst of regret: "It's a pity, what a handsome guy, he has such a temperament..."

In fact, Xie Li only became blind two years ago.

When he was a child, he was still visually impaired. The dean took him to see an ophthalmologist and gave him expensive amblyopia glasses, which lasted until he was 15 years old and he was completely blind.To be precise, he became blind after finishing the high school entrance examination.He was admitted to Pingnan No. [-] Middle School with excellent grades, but because of blindness, he has been suspended from school.

If eyes could see, he would be in his third year of high school by now.

The banknotes in his hand were wrinkled by him. At this moment, there were scattered footsteps. Knowing that someone was buying watermelons again, he quickly put the money into his pocket.

The sweat coming from his face hit Xie Li's sense of smell first, as if he had just had a strenuous exercise, the boy's voice was hoarse and he was panting unceasingly when he spoke, it sounded very special, it should be the boy's voice change period .

The boy was a little twitchy, as if he was extremely impatient, he said, "Hey, how do you sell melons?"

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This is Pingnan's third book, telling a story spanning ten years.This book may not be as romantic and relaxed as the first two books, but it is also a story with flesh and blood.This book will still have the protagonists of the first two books to help make soy sauce, among which Jiang Heng (when he was a child) appeared the most, because he and Xie Li are "relatives"!Hope you like it!Ask for collection, ask for starfish, ask for comments!Please! o(╥﹏╥)o