i was my mistake

"Well, so where did she go?" Lin Sumeng still asked curiously.

"I should have gone to the rooftop, I went to feed the cat with Imayo."

"Hey cat? Uh... Hey, didn't you go with her?"

Wan Qing felt a little strange, and turned her head to look at her: "Why do you have to go with her?"

"Sisters... always stick together, right?"

"It's not conjoined twins." She rolled her eyes.

Lin Sumeng understood, but she didn't seem to understand. She smiled a little embarrassedly, then stretched out her hand to wipe the railing, and then lay down on the railing beside Wan Qing.

"Not to study?"

"I'm not used to it, although it's quite quiet."

"Oh." Wan Qing rested her cheeks and looked at the green hills and farmland in the distance, and said after a while, "So you also come to blow some air?"

"Yes……"

"Have you decided where to go in the university?"

"It's better to go in the province. If not, you can only go to the north."

"Oh, Ye Chen and I plan to go to a school in Province J."

"The University of Chemical Engineering in J City, Province J?"

"Yes."

"That's one of my options."

"Hehe, are you confident?"

"It should be...no problem." She nodded lightly, took a deep breath, and then remained silent for several minutes.

Then she finally said as if she was mentally prepared: "Wan Qing, where... do you live?"

"In an apartment on Yinqi Road, it's not too big."

"Oh..." The courage she had summoned up immediately dissipated again.

"how?"

"Nothing..."

Wan Qing interrupted her before she finished speaking: "It can't be nothing, right? Say what you want to say, there's no need to hide it."

Lin Sumeng raised her toe and poked the ground with some embarrassment: "But... um... let's forget it."

"There are too many twists and turns in one's life to face, so when doing things by oneself, be straightforward." Wan Qing tilted her head to look at her, and the hair rope on her ponytail suddenly 'snaked' The ground broke, and a head of jet-black long hair fell down immediately, and Lin Sumeng was stunned.

At this moment, she suddenly felt a little inferior.

Because even in this slightly embarrassing time, Wan Qing is still so pretty.

Wan Qing was stunned for a moment, touched the back of her head, and looked down at the broken hair tie—it was said to be a hair tie, but it was actually a black rubber band, the kind of inferior goods that can be bought for fifty cents on the street. It takes about a week to replace it.

She had been prepared for a long time, and calmly took out a black hair rope from her pocket, held it gently with her lips, and gathered the hair that was scattered all at once, and asked vaguely: "Hmmm ? Ask in the esoteric suction mode (what exactly are you asking)?"

"Eh?" Lin Sumeng was in a daze, and almost couldn't remember what he wanted to ask just now.

She watched Wan Qing clumsily gather her hair together and tie it into a ponytail very casually, then raised her head and looked at her quietly with those clear green eyes.

"Well... can I sleep at your house for one night?"

"Okay." Wan Qing answered very frankly, which was beyond Lin Sumeng's expectation. She thought that even if she agreed, Yi would hesitate a little, and then she would agree because she couldn't bear to hurt her friend.

But now it seems that there seems to be no hesitation at all...

"Is it okay?" Her little face was a little red, "Really?"

"Of course, why not?" Wan Qing squinted at her, "Isn't it just a temporary one-night stay?"

"very good, thank you!"

"You're welcome." At this moment, Wan Qing wanted to smoke so much that she touched her pocket several times even though she knew there was no cigarette.

The conversation between the two was interrupted again.

Half a minute later, Lin Sumeng finally couldn't help asking: "You...don't you wonder why I have to stay overnight?"

"Oh." Yi turned her head, stared at her small face carefully for a few times, and then chuckled twice as if she had seen through her, "Anyway, it's probably because of a quarrel with the family, right?"

"Eh!? You, how do you know?"

"The eye circles are red, it seems that I have cried."

"But I can't be sure..."

"It's just intuition."

"It's amazing."

"So, why are you arguing?"

"Well... my dad said that I don't need to go to college, I should stay at home and help out - my family has a small restaurant, and it's very busy every day..."

"Oh." Wan Qing nodded, taking it for granted, as if she wasn't surprised at all.

"But I can obviously go to university, so I think I should go to university... My mother also thinks that I don't need to go to university as a girl, and I may run a long way by then."

"Ah."

"Then I quarreled with them. My dad said that if I go to college, I will pay for the tuition myself."

"Oh." Wan Qing understands women's weakness in this aspect very well - even though she seems to be an extreme anti-feminist, "Patriarchal, you don't have a younger brother in your family, right?"

"There is a..."

"That's no wonder."

"Um……"

Wan Qing smiled, as if she wanted to ease the heavy atmosphere: "Anyway, it is revealed between the lines that the younger brother in the family should be the most important thing, and all resources must be given to him. If you don't help the family, the family will not help you, yes Bar?"

"Yes... yes, Wanqing, you are very experienced. Could it be that your family..."

"Of course it's not like this in my family, it's just that I've seen a lot of similar things." Wan Qing pursed her lips and shook her head, "But this matter is very difficult to solve."

"Yeah... I just... um... run away from home once, and let them worry about it, so that it won't be too much."

"Maybe it's you who gets hurt then?"

"……What's the meaning?"

"For example, they don't care about you running away from home at all, or don't worry about your safety, but reprimand you for not obeying everything they do like a dog on a chain."

In fact, Lin Sumeng also has such worries in her heart, but she has been subconsciously avoiding this question.

But Wan Qing's words were so direct, as if a wound had been forcefully drawn on her heart.

She had never seen such a direct person in her life, which made her at a loss for a while.

"I, I... I don't know."

"There's nothing you don't know, what don't you know?" Wan Qing replied quickly, "If they really are like that kind of parents, then stay away from them and make a living on their own. Don't think that you are too young to be separated from your parents. In fact, I Than you... oh, actually I have a friend who is about your age, his parents are dead, and he can still live alone."

"..."

"You can earn the tuition for college by working part-time." Wan Qing suddenly stood up straight, "Only those who live on their own can stand upright and denounce the injustice of this world at any time."

"Eh? Why are you scolding..."

"If you depend on others to live, would you be ashamed to say that the world is unfair to you?"

"Seems to be……"

"Let's go back together tonight? Do you have a bicycle?" Wan Qing suddenly dragged the topic back.

"No, no..."

"Then you sit here."

"is it okay?"

"No problem!" Wan Qing readily agreed on Zhao Jinyu's behalf.

——But she seems to have forgotten that the three of them came by taxi today...

……

29. The night away from home

This spring rain, which varies from time to time, has been falling for a whole day, so that the sky is completely dark before the sunset is seen.

When self-study and school were over that night, everything outside the school was shrouded in dark mist, and the pitch-black raindrops were still beating on everything in the world, making dull or crisp sounds.

Holding an umbrella, Wan Qing habitually walked towards the bicycle shed, which was one of the few bright places at the school gate.

"Qing'er, where are you going?"

"Huh? Oh." Wan Qing was stunned for a moment, and glanced at the bustling car shed where a group of students gathered, and then remembered that they didn't come here by bike today, they came here by taxi in the morning, so naturally they can only take a taxi back at night .

"Have you forgotten?" Zhao Jinyu laughed.

"I forgot just now." She turned her head and looked at Lin Sumeng who was walking at the end, "Lin Sumeng, hurry up."

"Hmm..." She leaned over with a face full of embarrassment, and asked in a low voice, "Is there any problem?"

"No problem." It was Zhao Jinyu who answered her, "Qing'er told us all about it."

"Eh...?" Lin Sumeng was a little flustered, "Have you said everything?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect your family to be so patriarchal. I really can't stand it. You can stay here for two more days." Ye Chen said angrily, "What age is it? Men and women have long been equal. , and still engage in this kind of patriarchal discrimination, it's disgusting."

"The most disgusting thing is that women help men to 'prefer men over women'." A drop of cold rainwater was blown by the wind and fell into Wan Qing's neck, causing her to shiver violently. "This kind of thing is really ridiculous. , why, after following patriarchy for a long time, can I grow a few roots?"

Lin Sumeng was a little dazed when she heard that, she was used to Wan Qing's carelessness, but she didn't expect her to once again break through the lower limit she thought.

But for some reason, although these words are rough, when I think about it carefully, I feel that they are quite right, and I feel a sense of carelessness and enjoyment.

Just after thinking about it for a while, Lin Sumeng felt a little flustered, as if she had been seen to disrespect her parents and lose her 'moral' mental activities.

Ye Chen coughed dryly,

Knowing that Wan Qing's words must have frightened Lin Sumeng, she quickly changed the subject and said, "Can we get a taxi here?"

"This broken road...it's still so dark, I don't think we can hit it."

"Let's go a little further. There are some residential buildings and shops over there. It should be easier to take a taxi." Zhao Jinyu shook his umbrella and took the lead to walk forward.

At the school gate today, I didn’t even see any hawkers setting up stalls, or even many parents who came to pick up their children. All I could see was the empty darkness connected with the seemingly endless farmland.

The students at the school gate all held umbrellas and walked to both sides. From a height, they looked like a bunch of mushrooms that could move by themselves.

The four of them held their own umbrellas and walked neither far nor near.

Although they are considered friends in the classroom on weekdays, it is the first time that they go home together.

Perhaps it was because they didn't feel close to that level, so they were still a little strange, so that the other three didn't even talk about the topics they usually talk about.

Ye Chen bumped Wan Qing with her umbrella in embarrassment, but the latter took a few steps to the side of the road, as if she was happy to wander in such a dark silence.

From a distance, you can see the lights of the folk houses, where the night in the suburbs is like an oasis in the desert, which makes people yearn for.

"Wow..." There was the sound of the car driving across the wading road behind him, the driver pressed the horn hard, and quickly switched the high and low beams.

Wan Qing turned her head and saw a taxi with the sign "Empty" coming slowly.

"Jinyu, a car is coming."

"Eh? I'm so lucky, I'm only halfway there." Zhao Jinyu turned his head in surprise, leaned forward, and waved vigorously.

Under the headlights, the arms cast a huge shadow.

The taxi, which was not driving fast, slowly stopped behind the crowd. They turned their heads and walked towards the car holding an umbrella.

"Master, go to Yinjiang Apartment on Yinqi Road."

"Okay, let's get in the car." The driver this time is a female master with short hair, she looks capable, and she also wears a pair of white gloves, giving her a somewhat professional look.

"Who is the co-pilot?" Ye Chen asked.