Chapter 99 Pei Qi: Brave Cat is not afraid of difficulties! ...
The two men fought until their faces were bruised and swollen, and neither of them was willing to give in.
"snort!"
"snort!"
Pei Qi insisted, "Ah Xuan will definitely come back!"
Ji Dong scoffed disapprovingly, "You're dreaming! He won't come back! What's the difference between him and those who abandoned us in the first place? No difference! Look, he has a good life now, why would he want to come back? What do we represent? We represent his ugly past!"
"Then let's just wait and see, he will definitely come back!" Pei Maomao's fur stood on end, and he bared his teeth fiercely at Ji Dong.
Because of the insect plague, they could no longer return to the welfare home where they originally lived. The welfare home was rebuilt at a new site in Zhuang Xixing. He planted a mango tree at the new site. He diligently watered the mango tree, his fingers stroking the tender buds on the leaves, and the flame of hope rekindled in his eyes.
He started writing letters to Lu Xuan again.
"Ah Xuan, Zhuo Jia and I asked for a mango tree sapling and planted it in the yard. When it grows a little bigger, I'll tie a swing to its branches. When it bears fruit in spring, we can enjoy the sour and sweet mangoes together!"
One letter.
Two letters.
Three seals.
The letters he sent always fell into the sea and there was no response.
He thought that the content of his writing must not be interesting enough, so Ah Xuan ignored the nonsense he wrote.
Pei Qi began to change his thinking when writing letters. He no longer just wrote apology letters to Lu Xuan. Instead, he tried his best to write down all the happy and joyful things in his life and sent them to Lu Xuan.
When mangoes ripen in spring, he is always the first to climb the tree to pick a basket full of mangoes, pack them in ice packs and cardboard boxes and send them to Lu Xuan.
He also wrote on the mangoes a small sticker: "0v0 Ah Xuan, this is the first basket of mangoes of spring. They are really delicious. Come and try them!"
One year.
Two years.
Three years.
The mango tree grew taller and taller, with more and more luxuriant branches and leaves. The setting sun lengthened the figure of the young man under the tree.
The childish look of his youth gradually faded from Ji Dong's face. "Pei Qi, why are you sitting there again? It's time for dinner, why don't you come over here!"
"Know."
Pei Qi slowly stood up from the swing, his eyes full of confusion. Ah Xuan, doesn't he like mangoes? Oh, Ah Xuan never liked sweets. He had always sent Ah Xuan ripe mangoes. Should he send him some green mangoes next time?
At the dinner table, Ji Dong was rambling on about trivial matters at school. "By the way, Pei Qi."
"Um?"
"The old man in our class praised you in class today, saying that your composition was well-written. He even read it to our class and said that your handwriting was neat and beautiful, and it was pleasing to the eye." Ji Dong winked at him, "You don't know how hard it is to get the old man to speak human language..."
"Really? I didn't know Teacher Cheng would praise me behind my back." Pei Qi smiled embarrassedly.
"I never thought that you'd mess around with that useless piece of paper all day and it would have this effect."
"Ahem."
Yu Hao coughed a few times quickly, interrupting Ji Dong's irrelevant remarks.
Ji Dong: “…”
Ji Dong carefully observed Pei Qi's expression and muttered softly, "Pei Qi, it's been so long, isn't it time for you to let it go?"
Unlike his initial outburst of rage, Pei Qi's reaction this time was more normal. He smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I let it go a long time ago."
Hearing this, Ji Dong finally breathed a sigh of relief. "That's right. You don't have to be so stubborn. He goes his way, and we go ours."
Yu Hao carefully observed Pei Qi's expression, and only felt relieved when he saw that he looked normal.
Pei Qi was finally willing to let go, and Lu Xuan finally got what he wanted.
But no one expected that Pei Qi, who looked as usual, would secretly evade the ticket and board the train a few days later. He stood in the narrow carriage for two days, sat on the ground when he was tired, and ate the steamed buns he brought with him when he was hungry. He took the address given to him by Teacher Cao and found an old residential area.
"Auntie, do you know where Lu Xuan's home is?"
"Lu Xuan? Who is that? I don't know. Are you looking for someone with the surname Lu? Then go ask the property management in front."
"Okay, thank you, Auntie." Pei Qi nodded repeatedly at her.
His schoolbag was heavy with mangoes he had picked a few days ago. He knew that Lu Xuan didn't like sweets, so he picked green mangoes specifically. He picked a full schoolbag and brought it to Lu Xuan.
He walked into the property building and asked eagerly, "Uncle, do you know where Lu Xuan lives?"
"Lu Xuan? Never heard of him."
Hearing this, Pei Qi hurriedly took out the address and said anxiously, "But, his home address is right here. He lives here!"
The property manager scratched his head and said, "I've never heard of the name Lu Xuan. If you're talking about a family with the surname Lu, we do have one here, but they moved away a few years ago. They no longer live here."
Pei Qi was startled. He quickly asked, "Moved away? Then where did they move to, uncle? Do you know?"
"This is someone else's family affair. How would I know about it?"
Pei Qi walked out of the property management building carrying a heavy schoolbag, muttering in despair, "Moved away? Then where did they move to?"
Pei Qi didn't come home for several days and nights, which scared Cao Wan. She took the children from the welfare home and searched everywhere he could go, but she couldn't find him. She was so anxious that she had to call the police.
Finally, the police found Pei Qi, who looked like a homeless man, in another place. Fruits cannot be stored easily, and Pei Qi had kept them in his schoolbag all the time, so all the green mangoes in the bag had rotted.
When the police brought Pei Qi back, the terrified Cao Wan was furious. She stepped forward and anxiously asked, "Pei Qi, where have you been all these days? Do you know how worried others are by your sudden departure?"
Pei Qi, who had been keeping his head down, slowly raised his head and said dejectedly, "Teacher Cao, Lu Xuan's family has moved away."
Cao Wan: “…”
She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.
After a long while, she managed to squeeze out a sentence from between her teeth, "You, you, you went there according to the address?"
"Um."
Pei Qi nodded honestly, "I think that just a few words in the letter won't be enough to explain it clearly. I want to apologize to Xuan in person, so I went over there."
Cao Wan: “…”
She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down. "Okay, I get it. Next time you want to go out, tell the teacher properly so that the teacher won't worry."
"Um."
Cao Wan looked at him nervously.
Lies are like a balloon that gets bigger and bigger. When Pei Qi popped the balloon herself, she was worried that the child would get stuck in a rut.
Pei Qi returned to the dormitory with nothing to show for it. His running away from home had caused a lot of uproar, and the dormitory was quiet. Everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the other name anymore.
Ji Dong appeared to be reading a book, but in fact he was always stealing glances at Pei Qi's expression out of the corner of his eye. The little bug that wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask was twisting in his heart.
"Ji Dong."
Ji, who had been stealing glances, said: "!!!!"
"arrive!"
Yu Hao: “…”
You are so stupid!
Pei Qi smiled at him, looking relieved. "Ji Dong, it turns out Lu Xuan's family moved a few years ago. I wrote so many letters, but it's not that he refused to write back to me, but that he didn't even know I wrote to him. It's that he didn't receive my letter, not that he refused to forgive me."
"Think about it, Lu Xuan was adopted on Lingnan Star, but we're not on Lingnan Star now. We're on Zhuangxi Star. So, even if Lu Xuan wanted to go back and find us, he wouldn't be able to. He didn't abandon us, he just couldn't find us. He's a child like us, and there are some things he can't decide, like moving."
"He couldn't get my letters because they moved. He didn't mean to not reply."
Ji Dong pursed his lips tightly, rarely refusing to choke him, "So what are you going to do next?"
"Search, keep searching."
Ji Dong muttered, "You can't just run around like a headless fly, right? You need some information to find the person."
Pei Qi looked thoughtful, "Yes."
"Yes."
Ji Dong took out his hidden student ID card. The photo was from a few years ago. The little white tiger in the photo looked at the camera expressionlessly, with a kind of indifference that kept people at a distance. "Here you go."
Pei Qi's eyes lit up. He held the photo in his palm like a treasure and said in surprise, "Ji Dong, why did you still keep this?"
Ji Dong pursed his lips in disdain, "It's not like you're the only one who misses him. This is the last thought, so don't ruin it."
"good."
Pei Qi clutched the student ID card tightly and began to plan seriously, "We can copy the photo and then post flyers everywhere, issuing missing person notices!"
Seeing his enthusiastic look, Ji Dong nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go with you to distribute flyers on the street."
"Clang."
Yu Hao got up and left the dormitory.
Seeing this, Ji Dong shouted at his back: "Hey, what are you throwing a tantrum about?"
"No, I just don't want to listen to two idiots talking."
Ji Dong: “!!!!”
Okay, okay, since you can’t win the argument, you resort to personal attacks, right?
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