IPT 27.2

They were going to the small courtyard where Shen Qianqian went to fetch water last night, and when they passed the bench outside the bakery, Shen Qianqian quickly  sat down, leaning back on the back of the chair and letting out a long sigh of comfort.

 

“Yes, instead of being unhappy, it is better to sing and bask in the sun with grandpa…… Grandpa’s car is dripping, dadada, dripping……”

 

Shen Qianqian made a hand to turn the pan, and only hung on the empty little feet and beat the beat. Chu Ya did not argue. On the street, he let Shen Qianqian sing a long paragraph and finally stepped on the brakes. He jumped off the bench and ran back to continue pushing the cart.

 

A lane appeared on the left, and Shen Qianqian remembered what happened last night. He held the handrail and didn’t go in. Chu Ya asked to sit next to him and propped himself in with an iron rod.

 

There were no steps or thresholds in the small courtyard, and Chu Ya kept propping the cart into the courtyard and propped it up to the front of the sink.

 

“The footprints on the ground are gone. There were ghost footprints there last night.” Shen Qianqian pointed to the open space and said to Chu Ya.

 

Before, the yard was full of footprints and cart tracks. But now nothing else can be seen.

 

Chu Ya took out the toothbrush towel and toiletries from the woven bag, but after removing the outer packaging bag of a toothbrush, the toothbrush shook in his hand, and the bristles fell off one after another, leaving only a bare toothbrush shaft.

 

He tried all the toothbrushes, and in the end only two toothbrushes remained. One was the blue sea and the other was yellow with black scoop.

 

“Which one do you like?” Chu Ya let Shen Qianqian pick it himself.

Shen Qianqian picked out the turquoise ground: “This color is so beautiful.” But immediately he looked at the other one again: “This one is actually good-looking.”

” Pick what your gut told you first.” Chu Ya handed the his first choice to him, and raised his chin towards the sink: “Go brush your teeth.”

“No…..”

“What’s going on now?”

“There’s no management here, there’s no management, why are you brushing your teeth?”

Chu Ya explained: “Brushing your teeth is not for the management, it’s for your teeth-“

“If there’s no management, you don’t have to brush it.” Shen Qianqian insisted.

Chu Ya pursed his lips and looked at him for a moment, and said calmly: “Actually, I am also part of the management. “

“Huh……”

“Haven’t you seen it before?  I stood with the management. For I’m also part of it.

 

While Shen Qianqian reluctantly brushed his teeth, Chu Ya looked at the row of houses behind him, and then propped up the cart to the small house on the far right.

 

He pushed open the door that has been sealed for a long time, wait until the rust and dust are scattered and turned on the energy storage lamp. It is indeed a toilet.

 

“What are you doing here?”  Turning to ask, Shen Qianqian looked inside while brushing his teeth: “What are you looking at?”

“Go to the toilet.”

“Go in too.”

“No, we should go to the toilet one by one.”

“We all went together.”

Chu Ya refused: “You are all part of the welfare home as students so you can shower together. On the other hand, I’m part of the manager so I will not go with you.”

 

Shen Qianqian opened his mouth, and finally didn’t insist on going in anymore.

 

Chu Ya rejected Shen Qianqian’s request to to follow up on the toilet. But the toilet door is too small and the cart can’t get in. He can only grab the door frame with one hand, and struggle with the iron rod with the other.

 

“Ah……”

 

“You can’t walk, you’re feet are not yet healed.” Shen Qianqian bit his toothbrush.

 

His bone injury is not so simple. Chu Ya stood with his hands on his body for a while, and he really couldn’t move his feet, so he had to sit back on the cart again.

 

Shen Qianqian thought for a while, lying face outward next to Chu Ya: “You can pee like this, right? You see, I can teach you.”

 

Chu Ya’s expression was constantly changing. He was embarrassed and helpless for a while, but in the end, he still had no choice, so he had to let Shen Qianqian move an old flower pot next to him that only left soil.

 

“You go to the sink and wash your face.” Chu Ya said.

Shen Qianqian squatted beside him: “Take a look.”

“If you stay here, you won’t be able to do anything.” Chu Ya calmly looked at him, “We will just look at each other like this.”

 

Shen Qianqian went to the sink and began to wash his face as Chu Ya instructed. At night, the water temperature was low. He could only touch his face with his fingers. His eyes rol.

 

“I’m washing. Wow, my face is so clean.”  He pretended to wash himself very well before asking, ” Can I turn around now?”

“No, you can’t.”

“Then you have to watch incase the ghost come.”

“Well, I am.”

 

Chu Ya finally relaxed, and also went to the sink to brush his teeth and wash his face. Shen Qianqian looked at him with cool water washing with a calm expression. He even took off his T-shirt to scrub his body, and couldn’t help but shrink his neck and make a gasping sound.

 

Chu Ya looked at Shen Qianqian at the end: “Come, wash your face.”

 

Shen Qianqian twisted his body.

 

“Your face is so dirty, we will only wash it this time with cold water. Tomorrow we will find a way to let you wash in hot water.” Chu Ya said.

 

Shen Qianqian continued to twist reluctantly: ” It has been washed.”

 

Chu Ya rummaged through the woven bag, found a small round mirror with a slap, took it in his hand and made him look at himself over and over again. He couldn’t help but snort.

 

“What are you looking at?” Shen Qianqian  asked.

Chu Ya replied without raising his head: “Haven’t you seen your face?”

“What’s the face?” Shen Qianqian slowly moved over, stretched his neck curiously to look. Chu Ya pointed the mirror at him and then quickly grabbed the person and dragged it over.

 

Shen Qianqian immediately and wanted to struggle. Chu Ya let out a painful cry at the right time: “…… Your forehead.”

 

Shen Qianqian didn’t dare to move again and a cold towel covered his face.

 

“Ah……”

 

Chu Ya pulled up the sleeve of his cotton shirt that was too long, grabbed the little hand that just wanted to slip away, stretched it out under the faucet, and then smeared it with soap and scrubbed it carefully.

 

Shen Qianqian asked aggrievedly: “Shen Meow, don’t you act like a manager, okay? That’s no good!” 

 

“No way,  I’m originally part of the management. Like you don’t want to be a small class student, is that possible?” Chu Ya picked up a toothbrush that still had a few bristles and brushed every tooth.

 

After washing, Chu Ya filled the bag of water and put a plastic bag on it. He hung it on the left and right sides of the handrail of the cart, which returned to the garbage dump. 

 

Originally, he didn’t want to go back to the broken house, even if he lived in this small courtyard, it was better than the tin house. But Yun Tuo might come to pick him up, he must be looking for someone near the garbage dump, and he was worried that if he lived here, Yun Tuo would not be able to find it.

 

Shen Qianqian who was forcibly washed his hands and face, was not very happy and  didn’t say anything when he pushed the cart. But when he passed the bench outside the bakery, he ran over and sat down, muttering lines and singing.

 

“Child, life is like this, instead of being unhappy, it is better to sing and bask in the sun with grandpa.” 

“Grandpa’s car is dripping, dada, dripping……”

 

Chu Ya is still patient, sitting quietly on the cart.  Shen Qianqian came back after performing the whole part and then walked to the garbage dump together.

 

Back at the tin house, Chu Ya looked around, shook off a brand-new woven bag, and began to collect the garbage all over the house.

 

“Why are you packing all these treasures?” Shen Qianqian asked a little vigilantly.

 

Chu Ya picked up a colored sock with his fingertips and threw it into the woven bag: “The place where you live is too small, you will be very aggrieved. We shall let them live in the house next door.”

 

“But there are a lot of children living in dormitory No. 16, and I don’t feel aggrieved at all.”

 

Chu Ya asked, ” What dormitory is this?” 

 

Shen Qianqian replied indiscriminately: “It’s the office and it’s also a dormitory of 123.”

 

“Dormitory 123 is only the two of us, and they’ll be in the dormitory next door to 321. Everyone has to go back to their dorm room, and they can’t live in chaos. Rest assured, they live close to each other and you can always go next door to play with them.”

 

Chu Ya’s expression and tone have always been so cold and flat,  extremely convincing. Shen Qianqian didn’t say anything more, and after looking at him for a while, he also began to help him pack up his things.

 

Chu Ya did not clean up all the waste in the house, leaving items such as plastic buckets, cups, and basins in the corner. He

also left toys for Shen Qianqian, such as the bear, the doll with a broken arm and bald hair.

 

 It is inconvenient to bend over, curled up on the ground and under the bed. Although the house is small, there are a lot of things, and the woven bag cannot be filled, so it is placed on a cart and transported to the next room.