Meng Qing stretched his neck to look at her while she was cleaning the floor. Seeing her back turned, he opened a shopping window, selected a keyboard to put in her shopping cart, and chose cash on delivery. Then he closed the shopping window and continued writing his code.
After cleaning the floor, foster mother returned to watch her soap opera. After finishing, she ordered takeout and casually checked the items in her shopping cart, not noticing that a tablet keyboard had been added.
The next day, her purchased items were delivered. Just as she was about to sign for them, the delivery person said: “There’s one item that hasn’t been paid for, selected as cash on delivery.”
Foster mother was surprised to notice he wasn’t a courier, but a delivery person wearing a mall uniform. She asked confusedly: “I haven’t bought anything cash on delivery, everything was paid online and settled.”
The delivery person handed her a list and pointed to an item: “This keyboard hasn’t been paid for.” Foster mother immediately understood, shouting angrily: “Meng Qing, come here!”
Meng Qing came out, looking slightly afraid.
Foster mother waved the keyboard box, scolding: “You secretly used my account to buy a keyboard when I didn’t want to buy one for you?”
“I really can’t get used to the keyboard on the tablet…”
Meng Qing said softly, walking to his foster mother’s side, looking up at the cardboard box in her hands with eager eyes.
Foster mother snorted heavily. The keyboard wasn’t expensive, and it was already bought, so let this little brat use it. If it could speed things up, it would be good – if he worked slowly, she would be scolded too. “Why didn’t you choose online payment?”
“I don’t know…”
Now’s the moment!
Meng Qing took a breath, crouched and slipped past the delivery person, rushing to the fire escape, straddling the staircase railing and sliding down. They lived on the fifth floor, so this was faster than the elevator.
In the blink of an eye, he was on the ground floor, hearing his foster mother’s angry and sharp scolding from above. Meng Qing smiled triumphantly, jumped off the railing, and pushed open the fire escape door.
He escaped!
