Chapter 33: Momo

Worried that something might happen to Qiao Lan, Tan Mo asked Uncle Chen to find someone to follow Qiao Lan at night.

The two boys have been following each other for a few days and nothing has happened. Today, they followed Qiao Lan and watched Qiao Lan go home, and they were discussing whether they should go to a night out and surf the internet tonight, but within five minutes, the little girl, who had just been sent home safely, suddenly rushed out of the building.

Both men were startled.

Look at the little girl running for her life, the back from the hallway leaped out of a fat man, took a stick while running and cursing, I can not hear what to curse, just heard the fat man said to break the girl's legs.

The two thought that Uncle Chen had recently taken so much money to protect the little girl, froze and started to chase, and finally saw the little girl running to the road, and then crouched on the ground...

Playing with a cell phone?

Recently, Uncle Chen approached them and gave them a lot of money to send a girl home every night, they didn't understand what Uncle Chen wanted to do, but they still did their duty. But now, they are not sure what to do, looking at the girl squatting under the street lamp, the weather is cold at night, don't catch a cold.

Finally called Uncle Chen.

In less than ten minutes, a limousine came speeding by.

Thankfully it was a big night with no traffic.

Then they saw the car door open from a distance, and the little girl looked away from whoever was in the car for half a minute, and finally got into the car, and the car went away, and Uncle Chen called them and said it was all right.

Qiao Lan was picked up in the car, and as the heater slowly spread out, she finally felt less cold.

She'd gone from shocked at the sight of Tan Mo to calmer, but there were still a lot of questions in her head.

"Tan Mo," Qiao Lan turned around to look at Tan Mo, who was wearing just a shirt on his upper body, "You and Uncle Chen, why are you here?"

She wanted to ask more actually, why are you here, why are you here at exactly this time...

Tan Mo pursed her lips and ultimately chose not to answer.

Uncle Chen, who was driving in front of the car, timely diverged from the topic, "Qiao Lan, why are you outside at night, how dangerous it is outside, what happened at home?"

Tan Mo did not say Uncle Chen changed the topic, Qiao Lan also saw that both of them were avoiding their own words, although curious in their hearts, but did not pursue the question.

"Something happened", Qiao Lan said, said Uncle Chen and Tan Mo did not speak, Qiao Lan silently can only continue, "My second sister gave my mom 20,000 yuan some time ago, I do not know why a thousand or so is missing. I don't know why she lost a thousand dollars."

"They suspect you took it?"

"Well," Qiao Lan's voice trailed off, "they didn't believe me when I said I didn't take it, and then Joe... My dad was going to beat me, so I ran out."

Tan Mo, hidden in the darkness, heard the last of Qiao Lan's words about hitting her, and gave Qiao Lan a sideways glance as Uncle Chen, sitting in front of her, frowned.

Qiao Lan doesn't even want Tan Mo's money, how can he take money from his family.

He had guessed before that something was not right in Qiao Lan's family, and now that he heard Qiao Lan say that Qiao Lan's family beat people indiscriminately without asking questions, he had guessed a lot more.

"Do you have any other children in your family, besides your second sister?"

"There are two sisters and a brother."

That's it.

Uncle Chen has seen too many of these families, especially in rural areas.

They have given birth to one after another just to have a son. Sons are preferred over daughters, and only sons are treasures in the family, while daughters are all reserved for the bride price later on.

No wonder Qiao Lan, whose family condition is not too bad, has to come out to work and encountered this kind of thing again today.

Uncle Chen collected his thoughts and asked Qiao Lan again, "Did you just have any plans?"

"I didn't think too much about it just now, so I thought I'd find a hotel for the night, and then we'll talk about it tomorrow after that."

"How unsafe for a little girl like you to stay in a hotel, especially this late, and it's not cheap to stay for a night, so let's do it this way, come home with us first, it's not spacious but at least it's safe."

Qiao Lan turned her head to look at Tan Mo, she had read that people with AS disorders don't like to be disturbed by people entering their familiar territory, and that Tan Mo had been ignoring her lately, so Qiao Lan was afraid that Tan Mo would be upset.

But Tan Mo stared straight ahead at the backrest and spoke stiffly after a long time, "You can have Uncle Chen drive you to school tomorrow."

"No, no, no," Qiao Lan waved his hand busily, "I'll just go by myself, then... Then I'm sorry to bother you."

Uncle Chen cheerfully stated, not disturbing at all, glancing at Tan Mo through the rearview mirror, his smile growing more and more benevolent.

I just called to hear about the incident over here, changed into a shirt thick clothes did not even put on and followed out, and now the result is starting to stalk, just stinky temper.

Tan Mo lives in an upscale neighborhood, either the villa area where Tan Mo's father lives or a regular garden house.

Tan Mo does not like too empty house, also do not like to have outsiders to, so the home up and down is Uncle Chen Chen aunt old couple cleaned and cleaned up, the house is too big two old people can not clean up.

Qiao Lan followed Uncle Chen and Tan Mo out of the car, Uncle Chen was in front of him, and Qiao Lan held Tan Mo's wheelchair, Tan Mo stiffened and wanted to say "no", but then retracted his words.

Tan Mo home on the first floor, all for the sake of convenience, Auntie Chen also did not sleep heard the commotion also came out to see.

Qiao Lan was a little embarrassed that the tired old man couldn't rest in the middle of the night.

Aunt Chen didn't feel disturbed at all. From the moment she heard Uncle Chen say he was going to pick up Qiao Lan and come back, Aunt Chen was so excited that she couldn't sleep. Every day, she heard her old partner talk about this girl, and knowing that this girl was good to Tan Mo, Aunt Chen always wanted to take a look at it, but unfortunately, she didn't get to see it.

I didn't expect to see it now.

Qiao Lan is taken in by the over-enthusiastic Auntie Chen, and is looked at for a long time. Tan Mo sits in the wheelchair and quietly watches Auntie Chen and Qiao Lan talk, while Uncle Chen is helpless to interrupt Auntie Chen's excitement.

"It's one o'clock, and the boy has to be up at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

Uncle Chen then realized that Qiao Lan and Tan Mo's arrival times were different, so he hurriedly dragged Qiao Lan into a bedroom.

"Lanlan Ah, this is my room, you will sleep here tonight."

"Oh," Qiao Lan suddenly froze at being called Lanlan and took the pajamas Auntie Chen gave her, "Then where will you sleep?"

"I'm with my old partner", Auntie Chen also smiled, usually she and Uncle Chen live separately because Uncle Chen snores at night, but it's not impossible to live together, and so on Qiao Lan arranged Qiao Lan and saw Tan Mo, who was still staring at the living room, "Momo Momo, go to bed soon."

Qiao Lan, who just happened to follow her out, heard Auntie Chen's "Momo" and suddenly didn't feel like her "Lanlan" anymore.

The old man's voice, Momo, suddenly sounded a bit cute to Qiao Lan's ears.

Looking at the expressionless Tan Mo, Qiao Lan suddenly had the idea of teasing him, and with a smile on her lips, she walked over to him, and suddenly lowered her head to Tan Mo's ear, and softly shouted.

"Momo!"

Before he had time to react to this unusual name, Tan Mo suddenly felt a warm breath, a feeling he had never had in his fifteen to sixteen years.

The sudden warmth felt on the tips of his extra-sensitive ears was much clearer than normal, and even gave Tan Mo the illusion that Qiao Lan had actually touched him.

He turned his head quickly as he exclaimed, and the girl behind him said with a full smile, "Momo, go to sleep!"

Tan Mo: ......

Tan Mo sat stiffly in his wheelchair, no one saw this moment when Tan Mo was so nervous that he didn't even know where to put his fingers, and when the house was quiet again, Tan Mo reached out hesitantly and touched the tips of his ears.

Fingertips tingling.

So hot.

The next day Qiao Lan woke up very early, carefully packed up the blankets, washed up and left Tan Mo's house, and after recognizing the direction, rushed to the school.

It was only when she returned to school that Qiao Lan began to think about the situation.

Qiao's family can't stay.

Even if Qiao's family knows that she didn't take the money, Qiao Lan doesn't want to go back at all. Since she doesn't live in Qiao's family, she can't rent a house outside, so there's only one way out.

Accommodation.

Qiao Lan used to live in the dormitory all the time and had a good relationship with her dormitory friends, but there is a problem with the dormitory, that is, there is no way to continue the part-time job, after all, the dormitory building closes at eleven o'clock in the evening on time.

I've heard that the dormitory management in the annex is pretty strict.

The money in her hand will be enough as long as she doesn't spend it recklessly, and she can go out to work again after the summer and winter vacations, so she doesn't have to worry too much.

Now that she's got it all figured out, Qiao Lan will go to the homeroom teacher later in the morning, not saying that it's because of a problem at home, but that it's more convenient for her to study.

The homeroom teacher was very happy to hear this, and trusting Qiao Lan as a good student, he said that he would do it right now, but he would not be able to live with the same classmates, and he would not be able to do it in a day or two.

The former Qiao Lan could not ask for, Qiao Lan does not like the class much, not better.

In the latter case... Qiao Lan can only ask the homeroom teacher to hurry up a little.

When he got back to the classroom, Tan Mo was already here, looking a bit sleepy after a late night's sleep, he took out the still hot breakfast from his bag and handed it to Qiao Lan.

"... Thank you", Qiao Lan took the breakfast.

Even during this period of "cold war", Tan Mo still insisted on bringing her breakfast and nutrient solution every day. Qiao Lan turned her head to say something to Tan Mo, but when she met her eyes, Tan Mo suddenly turned her face away.

Qiao Lan. Silly. Still cold feet?

Qiao Lan sighed.

Thankfully, she finally came up with a solution.

In the afternoon when school was about to end, Tan Mo suddenly started to get nervous again, he stared at the obsidian beads on his wrist for a long time before he said to Qiao Lan, "Are you going home today?"

"No," Qiao Lan said, adding thoughtfully, "Can you take me in for another day today?"

Tan Mo pursed her lips, "I'll have Uncle Chen pick you up."

Qiao Lan stared at the teenager in front of him and smiled, "Okay, but it might be a little early today, maybe, around seven."

Seven o'clock? Why seven o'clock? Tan Mo froze but nodded.

Every now and then, I would check the time, six thirty, six fifty, seven o'clock, seven zero two, the sound of the door opening came from outside, Uncle Chen picked up Qiao Lan and came back.

Tan Mo finally moved his eyes back from the clock and was wondering from side to side if he should go out when there was a knock on the door of his room.

"Tan Mo, can I come in?"

The girl asked him at the door.

Tan Mo backed away from the heel of the table and rolled his wheelchair over to open the door.

When Qiao Lan came in, the back door was closed, abruptly leaving Qiao Lan and Tan Mo alone in this space, Tan Mo's body stiffened uncontrollably, but he saw Qiao Lan crouch down, squatting in front of his eyes, and then fished out a bank card from his pocket.

"Tan Mo," the girl who looked up at him had a smile on her lips as she handed him the card, "This card, you keep it for me."