Why it never ends

After Eleven finished speaking, he ran away. Hesta sat there, looking at the child and dog in ecstasy.

The phone rang again. Ksenia called. Hesta stood up and turned around to answer it.

……

On Sunday morning, Lin Jiao came to the intersection of Cuntou. It had just rained in the morning and the ground was a little muddy.

She received a text message from Hesta last night, asking if she could come over for a visit on the last day. She replied, "In principle, no." Hesta sent a few smiling faces, and then started asking for the address.

The agreed time was 8:30 in the morning. Lin Jiao arrived at the agreed place nearly forty minutes early. She originally planned to stop by a nearby canteen to buy something. However, just after passing the station, she saw Hesta jumping out of the car briskly. down.

When the two saw each other, they were both stunned for a moment, and then they lowered their heads at the same time to reconfirm the current time.

"...You came early enough." Lin Jiao stepped forward.

"I'm afraid of traffic jams on the road," Hesta replied, "Why are you so early?"

"I'm here to buy something."

The two of them went to the only canteen in the village. They heard a quarrel before they entered. Hesta thought it was Eucalyptus's voice. When they entered, it turned out to be true - Eucalyptus was rubbing his neck with a man. During the argument, she held the other person's wrist tightly and said something urgently. Cheng Xiaoshu tried to persuade her, but it obviously didn't work.

When the man saw someone coming, he wanted to call them to come and judge, but when he saw that it was an unfamiliar young man coming, he thought that these people were probably in the same group, so he lowered his face again.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jiao asked.

"He overcharged us!" Yujiali shouted loudly, "What I got was obviously pagoda dishes, but he calculated the money for me based on pagoda dishes!"

"How much is the overcount?"

"One dollar and seven!"

The man narrowed his eyes and looked at Yugali, "After I said that the price of pagoda dishes and pagoda dishes is the same, there is no such thing as overpayment -"

"Then you go to the vegetable stall with me now!" Yugali said sternly, "If that's the case, forget it! It's a remote place here and I agree that your prices are higher! But you marked the price in front of the vegetable stall, why not? By price?”

"I won't sell it anymore!" The man pretended to grab the food from Yugali's arms, "Give it back to me!"

Hesta grabbed the other person's hand and said, "Don't worry."

……

About twenty minutes later, the four of them left the canteen together. Cheng Xiaoshu and Youjiali carried four bags of vegetables. Lin Jiao lit a cigarette with a newly purchased lighter. Youjiali had a smile of success on his face.

"I thought how much it would cost," Lin Jiao said. "Just for two robins, you are too brave to quarrel with people in a place where you are unfamiliar with your life."

"There's no reason to raise prices on the spot," Yugali said. "Didn't he just see me as a student and not a local, so he dared to do this? He wanted to bully others, but I didn't Let him bully you!"

"Fortunately, you guys are here." Cheng Xiaoshu said to Lin Jiao and Hesta, "It feels like where you two stand, his momentum is reduced by half."

Just when Lin Jiao was about to say something, Yujiali had already turned to look at Cheng Xiaoshu, "Even if they don't come, I still want to get this one dollar and seven back!" "Why?" Lin Jiao asked curiously.

"This kind of person will take advantage of the situation. Today, if you let him take advantage of you for one dollar and seventy dollars, the next time he meets someone else, as long as he is easy to bully, he will give you ten dollars more!" Yugali's voice was urgent, and he He became a little annoyed, "I just want him to know that there are some people he can't handle!"

"What if he attacks you—"

Yugali stared, "He doesn't dare!"

"how do you know?"

"I've seen too many people like this," Yugali said. "When I was a child, my family ran a small business, and my mother would help with the purchase of goods. There were always people who would have bad intentions when they saw her alone, and my mother would point her nose in every time. Scold him back - nine out of ten people who are greedy for small money are wimps. As long as you have the momentum, you won't lose."

"Your mother sounds amazing."

"Of course." Yujiali was quite proud. "If she wasn't powerful, how could she have brought up our three siblings? When I was in high school, my uncle wanted me to drop out of school and work for him. My mother was under pressure to support her family. She got into a big fight with everyone at the party, almost overturning the table, and she got so angry that no one was afraid of her."

Cheng Xiaoshu couldn't help but glance in the direction of Yugali.

Hesta couldn't understand the conversation between several people, so she had to ask what everyone was talking about during their conversation. Lin Jiao laughed and said that Yugali is a knight, and she was thinking about not entering this store in the future. The guests were fighting, and Yugali's face immediately turned red. Although she liked this comment very much, she immediately denied Lin Jiao's statement.

"By the way, why are you here?" Cheng Xiaoshu looked at Hesta, "Aren't you coming?"

"I don't really want to stay at home," Hesta replied.

"Then why didn't you come with us in the first place?"

"I have something to do on Saturday -"

"She wants to go to the children's center to see the children," Yugali explained proactively. "She goes there every week, and it's almost unbeatable."

Cheng Xiaoshu was a little surprised, "But the last time the drama club went hiking -"

"Because people have reasons why they have to go." Lin Jiao said with a smile, "And the reason is not with us."

"What reason?"

"There is no reason." Hesta cast an impatient glance at Lin Jiao, "I don't understand what you are talking about."

Lin Jiao laughed again. She really liked Hestad's overly honest reaction, but she stopped joking about it before Hestad got bored.

Along the way, Hesta stopped joining the conversations of the other three. She was walking on the path in the mountains and fields, but her heart had already reached the clouds. The lecture she was going to attend with Ksenia was next Monday, and she had been counting the seconds since last night.

Yesterday afternoon she and Ksenia were chatting on the phone, like a pair of old friends who had known each other for a long time, talking about useless topics. During the conversation, Ksenia casually mentioned that she would go to the study room to read literature on Sundays. This sentence was almost taken lightly, but it fell on Hesta's heart like a warning bell - she wanted to see Ksenia so much. Xenia, but did not want her to know this.

For this reason, she had to endure the idea of ​​going to the study room to create a chance encounter. At the same time, in order to avoid being speechless when Ksenia asked "What did I do on Sunday?", Hesta decided to use the poetry club's Activities to flesh out your excuses.

At this moment, Hesta was walking with her friends, but she always felt an empty loneliness, as if a transparent wall had risen for no reason, blocking her from the world. This loneliness separated herself from everyone, but firmly connected her to Ksenia.