The weather forecast is 39 degrees Celsius today, and it is even more stuffy during the afternoon, with the rolling heat waves visible to the naked eye.

Chu Fang soon came out of the police station, and Zhang Fan looked at her empty hands and let out a sigh. "The small bag inside is for you, I just forgot to take it out."

"It's okay, Uncle Xiao and the others don't want to eat now because I haven't eaten yet," Chu Fang said softly.

She just experienced that kind of thing, and even if she had a empty stomach, she couldn't eat.

After saying that, he raised his right hand and looked at Zhang Fan in turn. Zhang Zhenzhen and Zhu Lingyue waved goodbye.

"Bye-Bye."

Then he smiled at Zhang Fan again.

"Zhang Fan, thank you today."

After doing all this, he turned his head and stood aside, fanning his father with a straw hat and said, "Dad, let's go!"

Zhang Fan was only basking in the sun for a while, and his eyelashes were covered with sweat beads. His eyes hurt so much that he narrowed his eyes and looked at the empty road and said to Chu Fang: "There are no buses here, so why don't I take them to you, anyway."

Chu Fang shook her head a few times. "No need to worry, our house is nearby, we will arrive in a few minutes."

Her father rushed directly from the construction site, and his clothes were covered with bricks and dust. He would shake before entering the door every time he went home.

When looking at Zhang Fan’s family, it was a very expensive car, Chu Fang still felt that she should not bother others.

At this time, Chu Shengguo looked up at the cloudless sky, thought of his home location, and he wanted to return to the brick factory to temper the brick factory and said to Chu Yue: "Daughter, just take your classmate's car! I'll take the bus to the factory later."

Seeing that Chu Fang's father had spoken, Zhang Fan directly grabbed Chu Fang's wrist and opened the rear car door to push her up. "It's all classmates, so don't be so polite."

Chu Fang held Zhang Fan and couldn't break free. In addition, she felt that she would really be indifferent and sat down.

After Chu Fang sat on, Zhang Fan said to Chu Shengguo again: "Uncle Chu, please take the co-pilot and point the way down."

Chu Shengguo quickly waved his hand and pointed his pants with his finger. "Forget the gray in my body, it's very difficult to clean the fire bricks and gray stick to the seat."

"It's okay, I'm going to wash the car today, so it's a problem to ask for directions."

Zhang Fan said this, and Chu Shengguo couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he had to agree. "Then I'll trouble you."

However, before getting in the car, I patted my pants and clothes hard, making a "slap" sound, and the tiny red fire brick debris were particularly conspicuous in the light.

Before getting in the car, I was preparing to take off the green plastic shoes, but Zhang Fan stopped me. "Uncle Chu, I'm so embarrassed to do this again."

Chu Shengguo smiled awkwardly, threw his shoes on the roadside a few times before putting them on again, pointing to the pile of broken mud and saying, "The soles of the shoes are full of mud."

When he finally sat on it, he was more careful and sat down less than half of his butt. The straw hat was placed under his butt, and his whole body was stretched straight.

When Zhang Fan saw this scene, he saw Chu Fang's eyes retracted from her father, and he looked like he was sitting on a needle blanket.

After he closed the car door, his knees were tightly tied together and his hands were placed on it.

Zhang Fan looked at the forced smile on Chu Fang's face. That was not the person he used to be, because he was more confident than Chu Fang.

Maybe it’s because his father is a civil servant and his mother is a teacher!

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Chu Fang's home is on the edge of Guangming City, near the original old cement factory, and it takes more than an hour to drive.

The cement plant has gone bankrupt, only the three towering gray chimneys act as a lighthouse.

"My house is just a little bit in front of the chimney in the middle."

The cement factory was built in the 1980s, and Chu Fang and his family's community was also built at that time.

Even if the prosperous Rongcheng is removed, this place can be considered another world compared to Guangming City.

All kinds of vegetables were planted on the open spaces on both sides of the road, and the huge shade of trees blocked the scorching sun on their heads.

A breeze blows, and a hint of coolness comes.

The cheerful chirping of birds replaced the rapid horn of cars, and a group of sparrows were neatly arranged on the wires between the buildings.

Time seems to be frozen here, and it can be said that they have been forgotten in the corner, and even time has not noticed it.

Since Chu Fang got in the car, she was struggling to invite Zhang Fan to her house for a while?

At this point, she decided not to shout, so she waved to Zhang Fan.

"Thank you today, see you at the beginning of school."

However, Zhang Fan did not say "goodbye", but asked Chu Fang with a smile: "We are here, don't you invite me to come and have a drink?"

Chu Shengguo glared at Chu Fang. "Why are you so rude today? There is a watermelon in the kitchen. I'll take a row later and ask your classmates to try it."

Chu Fang came to his senses after his father's words and said quickly: "I understand, dad, then I'll take my classmates up there."

Chu Shengguo waved his hand. "You cook the porridge by the way, cut a red potato and put it in it. It's so hot today."

After Chu Shengguo finished speaking, he put his straw hat on his head and turned around and left.

"Your dad won't go back?"

"He also wants to go to the fire brick factory to build bricks, where the money is paid according to the car."

The sun shines into the stairwell from the west, and the slight dust is jumping and dancing in the light.

But Zhang Fan knew that in a space where the sun never shone, the dust still existed.

Zhu Lingyue and Zhang Zhenzhen walked at the end. Zhu Lingyue saw a chicken cage at the corner of a staircase and muttered in a low voice.

"Does this family have a public morality? Feed chickens in the public stairwell."

Chu Fang turned around and said, "It was fed by an old man. Everyone has said it a few times, but she can't help but not change it."

Chu Fang's home is on the fourth floor. The rusty iron door of her house is as old as this building. After opening the lock, you need to pull it hard to open the door.

The house looks small but looks very empty, mainly because it has no furniture.

The TV set, electric fans, several painted wooden chairs and a round red dining table are some small items.

Chu Fang turned around and smiled at Zhang Fan and the others and said, "Sit up and sit there, I'll go and row watermelons for you, it's very sweet."

She is in a good mood now, mainly because Zhang Fan was the first classmate she invited to play at home. The incident at noon seemed to have become a passing cloud.

Zhang Fan looked up and stared at the certificates posted on the white wall, mostly from Chu Fang and Chu Hong.

In the middle of the certificate is a family portrait, the three sisters Chu Fang and their parents.

The certificates on the family photo have faded, and it can be seen that they have been around for a while.

"Guangming Cement Plant Advanced Workers Award."

"May 1st Model Labor Award."

Zhang Fan whispered the words above.

"My dad and my mom used to work in a cement factory, but later they were laid off. The house was divided into the factory at that time."

Chu Fang walked over with two slices of watermelon, handed the thick one to Zhang Fan and said.

He pointed to the youngest boy in the family photo and said, "My brother, I am in the third grade next semester and I can't see him all day long after the holiday."

He pointed to the girl with a ponytail who was holding her shoulders and said, "My sister works in Guangdong Province and will only come back during the Chinese New Year."

When he said this, Chu Fang paused for a moment and his voice became weaker. "But she didn't come back two years ago and last year, and now my parents can't contact her."

Chu Fang's sister looks better than Chu Fang. When she smiles, she has two dimples on the corner of her mouth.

Finally, Chu Fang pointed to the woman holding his brother and said, "This is my mother. She used to be a worker. Later, she was injured and could not exert force, so she went out to pick up plastic bottles."

She gritted her teeth when she said this. "My mother could have gone to sweep the floor, but she was squeezed down."

Zhang Fan listened quietly to Chu Fang's introduction next to him. This girl probably regarded him as a policeman.

I took a bite of the watermelon and it was really sweet.

"The melon seeds are spit on the ground, I'll sweep them later."

Zhang Fan glanced at the clean cement floor on his feet and spitted the watermelon seeds in his mouth in his hands.

Just four.
Chapter completed!