Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 390 Your hat looks pretty nice

In order to make a profit, Xiao Xiaoxiao was extremely cautious every time he threw the rings. Unfortunately, after throwing several rings in a row, the only thing he caught was a piggy bank that didn't look very valuable.

She remembered that she also had a piggy bank like this when she was a child. It was filled with many coins, and she could hear a crisp sound every time she shook it. She wanted to give the piggy bank to her parents after filling it up, but before that day came, her parents handed her over to human traffickers.

If I remember correctly, the piggy bank seemed to be placed in a cardboard box under her bed in her bedroom. So many years have passed, and I don't know whether it has been discovered, or whether it has been filled or smashed.

The sunshine in early winter was not warm. Xiao Xiaoxiao tightened her loose coat, put away her thoughts, stopped thinking about the past, and focused on how to make her money back.

Looking at the few loops on her hand, she felt a little distressed. She gritted her teeth and decided to ask Han Zhou for advice on how to improve her hit rate of looping. However, she pulled the guy's sleeve several times, but the other party still ignored her.

She looked up and noticed that Han Zhou was staring into the distance in a daze. She followed his line of sight and found that he was looking at a girl wearing a mask and a baseball cap.

The girl's hair was very long, almost covering her hips. Although most of her face was covered, it was not difficult to tell that she was very beautiful. At this moment, she was standing in front of a stall observing the chess endgame on the ground.

It is worth mentioning that this girl, like Han Zhou, was also wandering around outside in school uniform when she should have been at school, but the school uniforms they were wearing were obviously different, indicating that they were from different high schools.

"Do you know her?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked curiously.

"I don't know him." Han Zhou shook his head.

"She knows you?"

“I don’t know him either.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao's face fell: "Then why are you still staring at me?"

"You don't understand, this girl is a little special."

"Tsk, what's so special about it? Is your hair extra long?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes and said with disdain, "I told you that you are a scumbag. You can't take your eyes off a pretty girl."

"You won't understand even if I tell you." Han Zhou shook his head without further explanation.

A week ago, the day he first met Xiao Xiao Xiao, something suddenly went wrong with the status bar - for some reason, he could no longer see other people's identity information at any time.

Although this function returned to normal the next day, some "aftereffects" still occurred, that is, he still could not see Gu Zheng's identity information.

As his "support" for survival, the biggest difference between Guzheng and others is that she is an "unlockable character" certified by the status bar.

During this week, Han Zhou had been thinking about the reasons and significance of this change. Until he saw the girl wearing a mask and a baseball cap in the distance, he finally had a bold guess -

Like Guzheng, there is no identifying information on this girl's head, including her name.

To this day, Han Zhou has never seen anyone with the same situation as Guzheng, just like he has never seen any other unlockable characters in the past.

The guzheng is special.

So...will this girl, who is also so special that her information cannot be viewed, be an unlockable character like Guzheng?
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but Han Zhou always felt that this girl looked familiar, as if he had seen her before, but he couldn't remember when.

But this is not important. What is important is that this girl may become his second source of points. Han Zhou was a little excited. He no longer worried about whether he had seen the other party before. With the idea of ​​"it is better to kill the wrong person than to let her go", he planned to go over and chat with the girl in front of the chess board.

"Xiao Xiao, you play here for a while. When you run out of hoops, you can ask the boss for more. I'll be back soon."

Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was throwing the ring, was startled when she heard this. She subconsciously clenched the ring in her hand and opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she only answered with a "OK" and continued to throw the ring without saying a word.

Han Zhou handed the big bear doll in his hand to the stall owner and said with a smile: "Boss, I'll leave this thing here for you first. Can you please help me take care of this girl?"

"okay!"

The boss patted his chest and said it was no problem.

He put the doll on the bench and saw the girl in the wheelchair lowering her head sullenly, throwing the ring in her hand around casually. He asked with a smile, "What's wrong, little girl? Are you unhappy?"

"No." Xiao Xiaoxiao replied sullenly.

"Are you worried that your brother will leave you here alone?"

"No!"

Xiao Xiaoxiao denied loudly, turned her head uncomfortably, and said dissatisfiedly, "And he is not my brother."

"What? He's not your brother!" The boss was shocked and asked with a vigilant look on his face, "Then who is he to you?"

It is not impossible that such a little girl with limited mobility could be abducted by a stranger.

"Yes Yes……"

Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't know what the relationship between her and Han Zhou was. After thinking for a long time, she still didn't know how to answer. She was a little impatient for a moment, but when she looked up, she saw her boss taking out his cell phone with a serious expression, as if he was going to call the police. She suddenly became anxious and hurriedly spoke out to stop him.

"No, don't call the police! He's my brother!"

The boss looked at her doubtfully and confirmed, "Are you sure he is really your brother?"

"Yes...sure." Xiao Xiaoxiao said reluctantly.

"I'll just say it."

The boss immediately put away his solemn expression and said with a smile, "I didn't plan to call the police. I took the phone to look at this."

He handed the phone to Xiao Xiaoxiao. On the screen was not a dialing interface, but a memo.

The memo recorded a lot of information, but it was quite brief. Some items only had two or three words. It was estimated that only the boss himself could understand it. Xiao Xiaoxiao looked puzzled, wondering why the boss showed her this.

"Sorry, sorry, you probably don't quite understand."

The boss also realized that his memo was too brief. He scratched his head awkwardly and explained, "These are the ways I wrote down to coax my daughter. She is only two years old. She either cries or makes a fuss all day long. She is also often angry and difficult to coax. Every time I coax her, I have to write down the method so that I can use it in the same situation next time."

Xiao Xiaoxiao's face drooped: "Are you saying that my temper is almost as bad as your daughter's?"

"Of course not." The boss smiled awkwardly, "But just now when your brother left, your expression was very similar to my daughter's expression when I left the house. She always seemed to think that I would abandon her and run away alone, and every time she would hold on to my legs and not let go."

Xiao Xiaoxiao clenched the remaining ring in her hand, lowered her head for a long time without answering, and asked after a while: "So you will abandon her?"

The boss's original intention was to comfort Xiao Xiaoxiao with his experience as a father. He didn't realize that he had said the wrong thing. There was an abandoned child in front of him. He smiled and said, "Of course not. Who would abandon their family? Didn't I set up the stall just for that girl?"

He said in the tone of a person who has experienced it, "I think you are deliberately trying to make your brother hate you by being bad-tempered. This is not good. Your brother should have seen through it a long time ago. If you quarrel in the future, he will definitely use this incident to laugh at your childishness."

Xiao Xiaoxiao looked a little unnatural. She wanted to deny it directly, but after hesitating for a while, she asked, "Is it... so obvious?"

The boss showed a meaningful smile on his face: "To those who care about you, all your reactions are very obvious."

He was satisfied and thought that he had done another good thing today and successfully enlightened a little girl's heart. He would definitely show off to his daughter when he returned home.

At this moment, the girl in the wheelchair suddenly stared at him with a vigilant look: "So you care about me too?"

The smile on the boss's face froze. …

Han Zhou didn't know that the boss was giving Xiao Xiaoxiao a psychological counseling class, but the boss was right about one thing, that is, he did see through Xiao Xiaoxiao's intention.

Xiao Xiaoxiao had been passed around in many families. In order to return to her biological parents, she naively thought that as long as she behaved badly enough, she could be regarded as an inferior product and returned to the seller. As a result, she gradually developed a bad character. However, not only did she not get what she wanted, but she was sold to the next family after being abused and beaten.

To this day, this guy still seems so childish, trying to use this method to force herself to stop caring about her.

"You really don't learn from your mistakes..."

Han Zhou shook his head in his heart, turned around to look at Xiao Xiaoxiao, and saw that she was having a good chat with the boss, so he felt completely relieved.

The girl wearing a mask and a baseball cap stood in front of the chess stall and did not leave, but she did not seem to be interested in the endgame on the ground, and no one knew what she was thinking.

This made Han Zhou, who had originally planned to use chess as a breakthrough in the conversation, feel troubled and he hesitated about how to talk to the other party.

But before he could speak, the girl suddenly glanced over here and asked, "Do you have something to talk to me about?"

The voice was cold, but not as aloof and distant as described in novels. He didn't sound like someone who was difficult to get along with.

Han Zhou was delighted and was about to speak when he heard the other party continue, "You have been looking at me since two minutes ago. Is it because you think I look like someone you know?"

Obviously, the girl had noticed his gaze a long time ago.

Are you treating me like some idle high school student trying to strike up a conversation with someone using some old-fashioned excuse?

Han Zhou felt a little embarrassed, but he also knew that his behavior of staring at others was indeed very presumptuous. He was about to explain when the girl interrupted him again.

"I think you look familiar, too."

This girl is not very polite...

Seeing that the other party was still talking to himself, Han Zhou said helplessly: "I'm sorry, I don't think you look familiar."

The girl looked at him for a moment and said calmly, "We passed each other once a week ago."

"A week ago?"

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, and tried to recall for a moment, but he couldn't remember where he had seen this girl before. He asked in confusion, "How can you remember it for so long after just passing by?"

Mo Yixia is usually only impressed by things that interest her, but there is naturally no need to tell this guy in front of her, so she did not explain, but asked: "Since you don't think I'm familiar, then why did you come to see me?"

Han Zhou was silent for a moment: "Actually, I do think you look familiar."

He thought about it carefully, and he couldn't seem to come up with any other reason except this one. He couldn't just answer that it was because there was no name on your head, right?
"But you just said you didn't think I looked familiar."

The girl looked over calmly. For some reason, Han Zhou felt as if his thoughts were seen through.

"When you talk to me, you hardly look me in the eye, nor do you lower your head to look for cracks in the ground. You spend most of your time looking at the top of my head. Is it because there is something above my head?"

No, isn't this guy that sharp?

Han Zhou was startled. Also, what does it mean to lower your head and look for cracks in the ground? Should I feel ashamed in front of you?
This girl is really rude...

He complained in his heart, but said calmly: "The hat on your head looks nice."

……

"Why did you come back so soon?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was holding the only piggy bank she won from the ring toss and was worried. Suddenly, she saw Han Zhou walking towards her with a depressed look on his face. She quickly covered the piggy bank with the hem of her coat and said teasingly, "Could it be that he was chased back by someone?"

Han Zhou sighed: "You are right, I was driven back."

Xiao Xiaoxiao wanted to gloat over his misfortune, but seeing that he looked troubled, she was worried that he might be offended, so she swallowed her mocking words and said, "You can't even chat up girls. Push me over and I'll teach you how to chat up girls!"

"No, she's gone."

Han Zhou showed regret on his face. He never thought that he just complimented the girl on her pretty hat and she immediately became angry. She also warned him that she would call the police if he dared to get close again. Not long after, she left with a woman who came in a hurry. It seemed that she was the girl's mother.

He still couldn't figure out why the girl was angry, and thought to himself, "Xiao Xiao, if I praised your hat, would you be unhappy?"

"Of course." Xiao Xiaoxiao answered casually.

Han Zhou's eyes lit up and he quickly asked, "Why?"

"Because I'm not wearing a hat at all!" Xiao Xiaoxiao said dissatisfiedly.

"You guys are really..."

Han Zhou's mouth twitched, and he grabbed the hat on Xiao Xiaoxiao's coat and put his hand on her head, "Now you're wearing the hat, right?"

This coat was his, and it was too big for Xiao Xiaoxiao. When the hood was flipped up, it directly covered the girl's chin, which looked quite funny and made Han Zhou laugh.

Xiao Xiaoxiao's eyes turned dark and he immediately became furious. He didn't even bother to take off his hat and rushed to take revenge, punching Han Zhou in the nose.

Han Zhou suddenly stopped laughing.

……

It gets dark quickly in winter. It is almost dark before six o'clock. The sun sets, casting a dim red glow on the horizon.

Han Zhou pushed the wheelchair towards the hospital. The wheels crushed the fallen leaves on the ground, making a "crunching" sound.

There are bare trees on both sides of the road, which looks a bit desolate.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was sitting in a wheelchair, holding the piggy bank she won from tossing rings in her arms, her head nodding as if she was asleep.

She played from morning to afternoon. Although she didn't need to walk, she had not yet recovered and her physical strength was limited. Even if she was just simply throwing circles and enjoying the breeze, she would be tired after such a long time.

Han Zhou smiled, slowed down his movements, and pushed the wheelchair over the steep slope as carefully as possible so as not to disturb the guy's sleep.

But he soon regretted it.

This is an uphill road. It was easy when he came out of the hospital, but now it is much harder to go back. As a weakling with only three points of physical strength, it is already very difficult for him to push the wheelchair. There is no need to care about so many details.

Then the wheelchair began to move forward with a stutter.

The setting sun casts a dishevelled silhouette.

"Huh - next time if I have a chance, I must extract a skill from Guzheng that can enhance my physical strength..."

After finally pushing the wheelchair onto a flat road, Han Zhou didn't have time to catch his breath when the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

(End of this chapter)