Chapter 17 seventeen

The little man wiped the function circle ten times more often than before, and also desperately cleaned the dormitory and Ma Li's bed.Horsepower's bedrolls had not been removed before he unrolled them and made them again.He made Ma Li's bed exactly as it had always done, and even helped Ma Li make the quilts before going to bed and folded them when he got up.He wiped the windows of the dormitory so that they looked almost glassless, and the floors as if they had been waxed.Then put another layer of newspaper on it, for fear that other people's shoe prints will trample them dirty.This annoyed Li Ming very much, because the floor looked dirtier and messier.Li Ming managed to persuade the little man to cancel the newspaper, but as a result, the little man kept mopping the floor.As a result, Li Ming didn't even dare to touch the ground with his feet, and he didn't even want to get up.

"Come on, let's eat a piece of candy." The little man brought the chocolate candy box to Li Ming, and looked at Li Ming with a smile.Li Ming looked at the little man.He reached out for a bar of chocolate. "Don't," he said pleadingly, stuffing the chocolate into his mouth, "stop mopping the floor." "I want to wipe." The little man said stubbornly. "What's the point of mopping the floors fifty times a day?" "That's the meaning." The little man swallowed a piece of candy, "Aren't you the head of the dormitory? You don't want to make the dormitory the cleanest?"

"But I can't get down." "You don't need to go down anyway." "But I have to go to the bathroom." "Just buy a chamber pot." The little man smiled slyly. "You little bastard." Li Ming leaned out and grabbed his neck, "You are such a bastard." "It's too close to the toilet. If you don't wipe the floor clean, the house will always smell of the toilet, don't you think?" The little man said seriously, "I want to wipe this floor as a new one, and there will be no smell. The toilet smells. And the doors and windows, if only I could wipe them down forever. How comfortable you are living here."

"Don't you live here too?" "Me? I won't live long." The little man looked at Ma Li's bed mysteriously, "I'm leaving." Li Ming looked at the little man in surprise: "Where are you going?" "I'm going abroad." The little man whispered. "Study abroad?" "Well. Maybe." "Then you are leaving us?" "Well. I don't really want to. But you see, Mr. Ma Li is not coming back, should I look for it?" The little man laughed. "Stop talking nonsense. Going abroad is a good thing."

"How did you see it?" "Of course it's a good thing." "Do you want to know why I keep rubbing the functional circle?" "Go ahead." "Hmph!" The little man squinted his eyes and looked at Ma Ma's bed and smiled, entering a state of self. Li Ming knew that he would not say anything, so he stopped asking.Li Ming looked at the glass windows, the floor, and Mali's beds in the dormitory.Even the desks, chairs, and piano were cleaned by the little man.It seemed all he was interested in was scrubbing things.Maybe he doesn't scrub anything after he's out of the country.Maybe he'll grow taller, fatter, and manly.

"Guess what I'm thinking?" the little man asked Li Ming.Without waiting for his answer, he said, "I wonder why you don't let me wipe the functional circle." "Why do you say?" "I don't know. But I love that frame." "You can take it with you." "No, I can't take it away. You don't know, I can't take it away, maybe I will bring another one back." The little man laughed. "I want you to bring back a girl and not a functional circle." "Who knows?" the little man smiled. When the little man left, he left a note on the table and didn't ask anyone to see him off.Li Ming didn't feel that the little man had really left.Horsepower's beds were still there, as if they had been unrolled at night and refolded in the morning.The glass of the windows was still spotless, and the functional circle in the classroom was hung in black and white, right above the blackboard, and there were traces of small people everywhere.Li Ming poured a lot of boiling water and waited for the little man to wash his face and feet when he came back from the piano room at night.In the morning, more than half of the boiling water was poured away by Nie Feng.It wasn't until Li Ming saw more and more footprints of people walking back and forth on the polished floor that he felt that the little man had really left.