"Older sister, beating someone is wrong." Zhi Ying was clinging to the wall, wishing she could disappear immediately.
The curly-haired girl's face twitched: "Who are you calling older sister?"
"Younger sister." Zhi Ying immediately changed her words.
"…"
"You deserve a beating, you!" a boy behind her raised a stick in his hand and threatened.
Zhi Ying looked at the brand new long wooden stick in the boy's hand and closed her eyes in fright.
At this moment, everyone in the alley heard a siren.
"Did the police come?" The curly-haired girl asked the people in the back to spread out and listen carefully.
"Impossible! I came here beforehand and checked. Usually, no one goes in this area," answered the girl next to her.
Zhi Ying piped in a small voice, "I just called the police."
"Why are you calling the police for no reason!?" The curly-haired girl turned her head and glared at Zhi Ying.
"Weren't you beating..." Before Zhi Ying could finish speaking, the curly-haired girl scattered with everyone.
Zhi Ying breathed a long sigh of relief. Just as she was about to turn back to look for her bicycle, the curly-haired girl reappeared in front of her magically.
"...The police are outside." Zhi Ying wanted to step back, but was grabbed by the curly-haired girl.
"Hurry up and take us out!" The curly-haired girl was sweating profusely, and her beautiful makeup was a bit messy.
"???" Zhi Ying was dumfounded.
The curly-haired girl listened to the voices that were getting closer, and hissed anxiously, "We are lost! You take us to hide, good people will have a safe life."
Soon a wave of people began to run through the alley, bringing with them a gust of wind.
"Go right, go right, I remember there is an exit over there." Zhi Ying ran forward with a deadweight behind her.
Finally running out of the alley, Zhi Ying was pulled on by the curly-haired girl, leaning on the roadside to pant.
How did things develop to this point?
Zhi Ying looked at this group of neatly dressed boys and girls, and now they didn't look like hooligans. She didn't know why, but when they surrounded Yu Qingyin before, they looked like gangsters.
"Thank you for this time, I'll treat you to an ice cream." The curly-haired girl gasped and patted Zhi Ying's shoulder.
"…Shouldn't you say that you will cover for me in the future?" Zhi Ying thought of those scenes on TV, puzzled, wasn't it always said that art originated from real life?
The curly-haired girl looked at Zhi Ying up and down, and said speechlessly, "You have read too many novels. What 'we will cover for you?' Do you think I am a hooligan? Study hard and improve every day, then you will not be cranky."
The group of people rushed to a store, bought five ice creams, and stuffed them all into Zhi Ying's arms.
"Take it, I don't owe you any more." The curly-haired girl waved her hand majestically and led the people away.
She couldn't hold all the ice cream, and Zhi Ying couldn't just throw it away. After all, things were developing too fast, and she was still recalling.
Standing on the side of the road and eating two at once, Zhi Ying felt so cold that she was about to fly away.
There were three more, Zhi Ying ate an ice cream that was about to melt as she walked home.
Is that... Jiang Wei?
As soon as Zhi Ying saw an acquaintance, she ate the crispy cone in a few bites, holding an ice cream in one hand, and hurried to catch up.
"Want to eat ice cream?" Zhi Ying held it in front of Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei, who was just walking and wanted to relax, was startled by Zhi Ying who suddenly appeared.
"It's very sweet, delicious, you can try it." Zhi Ying's head was a little cold now, but the ice cream in her hand had begun to melt.
Looking at Zhi Ying who had unconsciously put on a pleading expression, Jiang Wei nodded.
Zhi Ying breathed a sigh of relief, when the ice cream in her hand began to drip cream.
Subconsciously, Zhi Ying took the ice cream in her right hand and licked it.
The ice cream in her left hand was not far behind. Seeing that it was about to drip into Zhi Ying's hand, Jiang Wei lowered his head and bit it.
"..." Zhi Ying first relaxed, then suddenly felt that their posture was a bit strange.
The two stood facing each other, one leaned over and bit the ice cream in the other's hand, how strange it seemed.
"You take it." Zhi Ying said vaguely while biting her ice cream.
Jiang Wei accepted the advice, took it and smiled, "Thank you for the ice cream."
"No need to thank me, someone else gave it to me." Zhi Ying was full and didn't want to bite, so she could only lick the ice cream on top of it.
Jiang Wei looked at someone's unconsciously exposed pink tongue, his eyes deepened, and he soon looked away.
Bicycle!
Zhi Ying suddenly remembered that her bicycle was still in the alley.
"I have something to do, I'll go first, bye." After Zhi Ying finished speaking, she wanted to run back the same way, but was stopped by Jiang Wei.
"Where are you going?" Before, in Lugu Mountain, Lin Xiuyu talked a lot about their family, so Jiang Wei roughly knew the location of Zhi Ying's home in the city. She was clearly going in the wrong direction now.
"Oh, I left my bicycle in the alley." Zhi Ying didn't hide it.
Jiang Wei obviously couldn't figure out how Zhi Ying could go so far leaving her bicycle behind, but her bicycle had long since disappeared.
"I'll accompany you, I happen to have time." Jiang Wei said as usual.
It was as if they were good friends, Zhi Ying looked up at Jiang Wei and muttered in her heart.
"Oh." In the end, Zhi Ying agreed. She still didn't understand the group of people just now. What if the same thing happened again, one extra person was an extra chance to call the police.
It was the first time that Jiang Wei walked into such an alley, unlike the Qingshan Road alley, that kind of scenic spot. The alleys here are mainly made of concrete, and they were dull. Some of the roads were a little narrow, and only one person could pass at a time, and the two people could only walk sideways. Other paths were spacious and could even accommodate people fighting in groups.
"Why is your bicycle here?" Jiang Wei couldn't help asking.
"I want to take a shortcut to go home." Zhi Ying said honestly, in fact, it was not entirely for the sake of proximity, mainly because there were few people, so she could control the bicycle.
"It's too isolated here, and it's easy to get into trouble." Jiang Wei immediately frowned, "You're already grown up, you still don't know the seriousness of the matter?"
It was the first time that Jiang Wei spoke to Zhi Ying in such a serious tone, which made Zhi Ying beside him freeze.
"Then, I won't take this shortcut anymore." Zhi Ying nodded and agreed, the incident just now had taught her a lesson.
When they were about to reach the place where the bicycle was left, Zhi Ying secretly glanced at Jiang Wei next to her. She didn't know how to explain when he saw the bicycle lying on the ground.
"Is that your bicycle?" Jiang Wei asked, pointing to a broken bicycle in front of him.
Huh? Zhi Ying's eyes widened in surprise. It had fallen to the ground before, how come it was lifted up now?
Did the police uncles do it?
"You can't ride on it anymore." Jiang Wei glanced at the battered bicycle leaning against the dull wall and found that its handlebar was crooked.
It was probably because it hit the wall before, Zhi Ying recalled the collision from earlier.
Now, Zhi Ying would have truthfully tell her parents about her bad driving skills.
Zhi Ying picked up the bicycle with the crooked handlebar and turned it in a different direction, trying to push it out.
"I'll push it for you." Jiang Wei held the handle on the other side and told Zhi Ying to back away.
"Oh." Zhi Ying was pushed aside and silently followed behind Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei looked back at Zhi Ying and said: "I'll take you back."
"No need to trouble you, when Uncle Li arrives, I'll be close to home anyway." Zhi Ying didn't see Uncle Li just now, so probbably Jiang Wei would have to call him to come.
"I'll take you back." Jiang Wei said beyond all doubt, "Walk."
"Aren't you going home?" Zhi Ying was very suspicious of Jiang Wei's unusual enthusiasm.
"It's nothing, I want to exercise." Jiang Wei made an excuse at random, "I want to discuss with you about academics along the way."
"What can you discuss with me?" Zhi Ying felt uncomfortable as soon as she heard Jiang Wei tell her about studying, "The first place in the grade needs my help?"
Jiang Wei shook his head: "I just wrote the essay composition normally, the other subjects are not comparable to your's."
Zhi Ying was completely led by Jiang Wei, and she was distracted with just a sentence he said. Jiang Wei smoothly pushed the bicycle with the crooked handlebar to accompany Zhi Ying home.
Zhi Ying didn't walk fast, and sometimes paused for a few seconds. Even if Jiang Wei slowed down, she would still fall behind him.
Now Zhi Ying looked at Jiang Wei's long hair and her thoughts began to scatter. It looked dark and straight, but she didn't know how it felt to the touch.
Jiang Wei's hair was tied with a red cord. Zhi Ying stared at the knot and found that the hole seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.
After a while, the red rope disappeared from Zhi Ying's sight, it loosened and fell straight down.
Zhi Ying quickly reached out her hand to take it, but Jiang Wei's long hair spread out at this moment, covering half of his face.
The footsteps of the two of them slowed down at the same time.
Seeing that Jiang Wei's hair was making him uncomfortable, Zhi Ying subconsciously stretched out her other hand to help him pin his hair behind his earlobe.
Thin and soft, not as rough as her own hair.
This was the only thought in Zhi Ying's mind, but Jiang Wei stopped.
"…Can you help me tie it?" Jiang Wei asked tentatively.
"I don't know how to tie your hair knot." It was impossible to tie his hair back with a hair cord, for Zhi Ying.
"I'll teach you." Jiang Wei put the bicycle aside, and the two sat together on the edge of the flower bed.
"Okay." Zhi Ying handed the hair rope to Jiang Wei.
Jiang Wei picked up Zhi Ying's hand and said, "Look carefully at my movements."
He planned to tie the hair rope to Zhi Ying's wrist, gently folded her sleeves, and pressed his thumb on her wrist. Zhi Ying froze for a moment with the warm touch.
"Your skin is broken here." Jiang Wei was about to tie the hair cord around Zhi Ying's wrist, but noticed a small piece of skin on the lower part of her palm that was torn apart.
Zhi Ying looked down and guessed that it was torn by scraping her arm against the wall when she was grabbing Yu Qingyin.
Originally he wanted to use the hair rope to be more intimate with Zhi Ying, Jiang Wei changed his mind and just wanted to clean up her wound immediately.
"There's a pharmacy down the road, wait for a moment." Jiang Wei tied his hair as he walked forward, skillfully tying it with a red hair cord.
"He can tie his own hair?" Zhi Ying sat beside the flower bed and looked at Jiang Wei's back, feeling inexplicable.
Jiang Wei ran out after he bought the medicine. He looked serious and looked at Zhi Ying who couldn't take care of herself at all. He wanted to scold her, but he couldn't find his position. Finally, he pursed his lips and fell silent.
Opening the bag, there were various medicines, as well as band-aids.
Jiang Wei didn't sit down, but squatted in front of Zhi Ying, took out the liquid medicine and began to disinfect.
"Actually, it's not serious, it will get better on its own after a while." Zhi Ying said unconcerned.
Jiang Wei glanced at Zhi Ying coldly, "Not counting that you hurt yourself, and then adding on not applying medicine, you are really amazing."
Zhi Ying heard Jiang Wei's unpleasant tone, and quickly closed her mouth. She let him carefully rub the medicine on her wound.
His eyelashes were really long, and the ends of his eyes were upturned.
Zhi Ying stared at Jiang Wei's drooping eyes and saw his long eyelashes.
With a straight nose and fair and clear skin, he should look really handsome.
Zhi Ying was absent-minded, looking at Jiang Wei in a daze. She forgot that someone was still applying medicine for her, and she was stimulated by the liquid medicine that couldn't help but shiver twice.