Even if you become a lolita, you still have to work hard to live.

October 1, 20XX, National Day.

Jiang Anning was very happy today, the proprietress rushed home for the holiday, not only got off work early, but also allowed her to take away a little rice and side dishes that were not sold out in the store.

Paid day off at the supermarket.

This month's rent has also been paid, and I have even saved a little money.

The girl feels that a good life is beckoning to her.

Touching the hot rice and a box of small pickles in his arms, Jiang Anning couldn't have forgotten how happy he was.

"There's still a piece of meat in the fridge, so treat yourself to potato stew tonight!"

Thinking of the smell of meat, Jiang Anning was about to drool, and his pace was much brisker, jumping in the direction of home.

In October in the north, the weather has become a little cooler, and the thin clothes on her body obviously can't stop the coolness of the evening breeze, and the girl hugged herself tightly.

The streets are deserted, and although the street lights are all on, there are no more people out at this time because of the remote location.

After walking through the sidewalk and turning a corner, a familiar figure appeared under the street lamp in front of him, and the corners of Jiang Anning's mouth couldn't help but smile.

It was a woman in her forties, very thin, with unkempt hair like a bird's nest, and a dirty face and body that looked like a beggar. If you look closely, you can still see the small schoolbag on her right hand, the schoolbag is protected by her like a baby on her chest, and then look at the abnormal look on her face, normal people should choose to avoid it, after all, no one knows if a person with mental problems will suddenly burst out and hurt the people around him.

No one wants to gamble on the timing of her illness.

Jiang Anning walked quickly in front of her, looked up and down, and was relieved to make sure that the woman was not injured.

"Da Chen, why are you still here so late, you have to pay attention to your body when it's cold, do you know"

The woman known as Da Chen didn't reply, just looked at her face in a daze, and it was impossible to see what she was thinking on her dull face.

Jiang Anning had long been accustomed to this situation, and opened the plastic bag in his hand by himself: "You shouldn't have eaten yet, right?" Hehe, I brought back a little rice today, if you don't dislike it, I'll share a little with you." The

girl smiled brightly, as if she wanted to share her joy with her friends.

"Hmph, it's useless to dislike it, I'll just have this thing!" he

continued while dividing the pickles and rice into two portions, "I'm going to make potato stew today, isn't it extravagant?

Jiang Anning knew that if she was invited to her house as a guest, she would definitely not go, and she didn't know where she lived, so she could only wait here a little longer.

Looking at Da Chen's stunned expression, Jiang Anning didn't know if she understood or not.

After putting the plastic bag containing half of the rice and pickles in Da Chen's hand and making sure that it would not fall, the girl got up and prepared to go home.

"Wait for me here, don't run around, you know?"

Jiang Anning stood at the corner of the street, and waved his right hand holding a thermos cup vigorously: "Don't run around!"

"Put some oil, fry the fat part of the meat, and then fry the lean meat, do the potatoes need to be oiled?"

The girl's head was already full of the aroma of potato stew.

An old man at the entrance of the community was sleeping in the dilapidated security hall, sleeping so hard that he would never raise his eyelids even if someone called him.

"Grandpa Zhou, don't sleep, get up and catch the thief"

Jiang Anning slammed the glass with his hand hanging on the thermos cup, trying to wake up this heirloom figure in the community.

The old security guard raised his eyelids with a snort: "Girl Jiang is back so early?

"That's really hard work, you sleep fourteen hours a day"

complained and complained, and the business could not be forgotten.

Jiang Anning pointed to the Xiaoice box in the security room, and the smile on his face was very bright: "The meat I have stored is still there, right?" Quickly help me take it out and improve the food for the holiday today." The

old security guard was infected by her smile, and also laughed: "Look at your pleasure, what is delicious?"

"Potato stew!"

Seeing the girl's little face raised, with an expression of 'you can't envy you', the old security guard only felt that his nose was sour, and he quickly shifted his gaze, opened the refrigerator under the table, and took out the bottom piece of meat that was less than three taels and handed it to the girl.

"Jiang girl, I know it's not easy for you, you also have to pay attention to your body, don't exhaust yourself when you're still young" Jiang

Anning took the meat and looked at the old security guard strangely: "

Grandpa Zhou, are you sleepy or hungry for my potato stew?" Let me tell you, I have promised Da Chen to give her a copy, and I won't be enough to eat if I give it to you again. Kindness

was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, and the old security guard was embarrassed and angry: "you, I don't know what to do, hurry up and don't block the door."

"No one wants to enter again

" "It's a ghost!"

Jiang Anning grimaced at him: "

I'm going to make something to eat, Grandpa Zhou, you pay attention to your own safety."

After speaking, the girl walked happily towards the community.

Only a few of the old apartment buildings are still lit, and the musty smell on the stairs does not affect the girl's good mood at all when she enters the corridor through the side door.

Humming a little song to find the key, the third floor soon arrived, and the key was also in her hand, but the girl was stunned when she turned around.

A pair of big black eyes were full of puzzlement.

"Why is my door open?"

Thief?!!!"

Thinking of this, Jiang Anning panicked and ran home like crazy, and at the same time had a trace of luck.

"Maybe my uncle and grandma came to collect the rent, after all, I'm not at home during the day"

The more I thought about it, the more reasonable I felt, and today is still the No. 1, it's normal to collect rent, right?

Jiang Anning calmed down a little, and his steps slowed down, in order not to startle the snake, he tiptoed to the door of the house,

intending to observe the situation in the house first.

After all, my uncle and grandmother are very terrible people, and if she is in a bad mood today and she provokes her, it is estimated that the neighbors around her will not be able to sleep well.

And even if there is really a thief, if he hasn't escaped yet, he can confirm his appearance and call the police.

The girl held her hand on the door frame and poked out half of her little head to observe the situation in the house.

At 10:41 p.m., the night was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water, and time seemed to have stopped at this moment.

The sound of crackling

was heard far away, and the dim light was lit until the end of the hallway, and then slowly extinguished with the silence.

Jiang Anning's brain was blank, and he didn't even react when the rice fell to the ground.

Hunger and exhaustion made her low blood sugar faintly attack, and the feeling of dizziness came up all of a sudden, but she didn't have the heart to think about it now, only a question echoed in her head.

"Why was my house stolen?"

There is only a dozen square meters of room worth stealing?

There

is nothing but a single mattress and a table with an electric wok on it, why is such a room being targeted?

Jiang Anning couldn't figure it out.

Slowly walking into the room, I walked around the clothes scattered on the floor to the cardboard box in the corner of the room.

She understood....

One by one, the clothes were folded and put into the box, the mattress and the table were placed back in their original positions, and everything was neat and tidy, except for two things missing.

Two small boxes.

Hidden in different locations, two small boxes containing a month's rent and a 700 yuan bill.

A shadow hung over the girl's face, making it impossible to see her expression at this time.

The burglary in her home didn't seem to have any effect on her, and she even hummed a ditty.

The potatoes are peeled and diced, the oil squeaks in the pan, and the aroma wafts down the open door in the hallway.

There was no panic, no crying, everything seemed so calm.

Footsteps came from the stairwell, and the sound of a clatter was harsh in the silent hallway.

Jiang Anning's gaze turned from the pot to the door, where a woman was standing.

The woman looked to be in her sixties, with gray sideburns, wearing a black coat, very tall, more than 1.75 meters, and her figure was also very strong.

Seeing the person coming, Jiang Anning's whole body trembled, and before she could speak, the woman's hoarse voice had already echoed in the

room, "Girl Jiang, it's time to pay the rent." The

woman's face was ugly, Jiang Anning didn't know whether the other party lost playing mahjong or quarreled with someone, but now there is no worse news than this.

Jiang Anning hopes that this is just a dream, after waking up, her money has not been stolen, and there is no uncle and grandmother to collect rent, she can happily eat potato stew and sleep beautifully to welcome the arrival of tomorrow.

But she had to face reality.

"Grandma, you can forgive me a few more days, I will definitely give you the rent, just this time, you see that I have never defaulted on your rent, right?"

Jiang Anning knew that no matter how he explained it now, it would be used as an excuse, and only sincere pleading could buy time.

The woman's face became even more gloomy: "Jiang Anning, I didn't let you live here to let you negotiate conditions with me, you can't get this rent out, what are you doing for a month? I think you just don't go to school, it's useless to study, you can make more money if you come out to work early."

Jiang Anning pursed her lips and said nothing.

"Are you a girl out there, don't you have a partner? Spend all the money on men, no wonder you don't have the money to pay the rent"

The woman continued to vent her emotions, but the girl still didn't say a word.

As if she felt bored, the woman snorted coldly: "For a week, if you can't get the rent together, you can get out, and whoever you want to go to, I don't have a place for you to live in vain." The

woman's footsteps gradually faded away, and Jiang Anning breathed a sigh of relief and continued the stew in the pot.

It was 10:55 p.m. and I went out with a plastic box containing stew.

The clouds were like a black curtain, covering half the sky, the moon was gone, and the wind was colder.

"It's going to rain,"

Jiang Anning quickened his pace.

The old security guard fell asleep again, and he didn't care if anyone passed by, and no one cared that he was on duty there.

Walking quickly to the street where Da Chen was, the street lights were about to be turned off, but the woman was still standing in place, her eyes kept looking at the direction Jiang Anning left, waiting for her to appear in sight again.

The girl hurried up to her and put the plastic box in the woman's arms, the smile on her face almost indistinguishable from when she left.

"Okay, Da Chen, go home, it's going to rain, don't get drenched"

Da Chen looked at the girl's smile in a daze, and the corners of his mouth seemed to be imperceptibly curled.

The girl didn't stop much, and trotted home after being another woman.

When she left the woman's sight, Jiang Anning's pace slowly slowed down, the smile on her face disappeared, and the faint light shone on her body, forming a shadow on her face.

took out his mobile phone and hesitantly dialed the police.

She didn't know if the police would accept this trivial matter, and she didn't know if calling now would disturb people.

But now she needed someone to talk to.

"Hello, this is No. 641, 110 Police Service Desk of Yicheng Public Security Bureau, please speak?"

The operator is a girl with a soft voice, she has just taken up her post or is on duty for the first time, and I heard the seniors say that the police calls made late at night are generally not small, and the lowest is the bloodshed of fights and brawls, and tragic car accidents, rapes, homicides and the like are possible.

Even if she knew that it was her seniors who scared her, it inevitably made her a little nervous.

When I heard a crying female voice from the other side of the earpiece, my heart even raised my throat.

'No, the first time she was on duty, she was 12 or 3 years old!!'

but then she knew she was thinking too much.

"I, my money was stolen

, can I report it now?" The

operator lady breathed a sigh of relief, and her tone was a lot more relaxed: "Of course you can, how much money did the little sister lose, what about the adults in your family?"

She breathed a sigh of relief, and her tone became as gentle as that of a child.

The voice from the other side trembled a little: "I was stolen 700 yuan, there is no adult, can I report the crime?"

As she spoke, the little girl cried with a whimper, and her voice was heartbreaking.

The operator lady was a little panicked: "Of course you can, where did you lose the money, are you at home, little sister." "

Ahh My house was by..."

Boom -

the operator looked out the window.

"It's going to rain"

A muffled thunder exploded in the sky, and the girl reflexively shrunk her neck, and her tears were stopped in fright.

Another flash of lightning pierced the night sky, and a heavy rain was coming.

Jiang Anning hurriedly ran home, her little body was poured by the rain and she had to catch a cold, she had to rest if she had a cold, and now there was no time for her to rest.

She ran home on her front feet, and the raindrops the size of beans fell with a crackle.

The rain beat on the leaves, on the glass, on the road, and on the girl's heart.

The cold penetrated through the walls and tried to take away the warmth of the room, and it was destined to be a sleepless night for the girl.