Shengxia swallowed her saliva, met his slightly surprised look, hesitated for a while, and said, "I, I want to get my composition back."
Zhang Shu laughed, looked at her rosy face, and suddenly wanted to pinch it.
Classmates around: ...Huh, I thought it was something else.
Zhang Shu took out her composition paper and handed it to her. "What's there to be sorry about for asking for your own composition back?"
Shengxia avoided his questioning gaze. She didn't want to do this, but she really wanted to apologize for her recklessness and pettiness.
She could only comfort herself in this way. She had said it and he had received it.
"Teacher Wang said that we should help each other. If you still need it, I'll give it to you after I sort it out." She took the paper back and replied in a low voice.
"Teacher Wang?" Zhang Shu repeated the title in his mouth and smiled again, "I almost couldn't react who it was."
In the entire Class 6, no one calls Wang Wei seriously in private.
Shengxia was silent and began to organize his own composition book.
Could he not laugh like that, one after another, with an uninhibited meaning, sniffing out syllables from his nose, and humming along with his throat, very short, lightly brushing against the tip of the listener's heart, trembling.
After the evening study, Shengxia bought a collection of Zhang Shu's wrong answers from the North Gate Stationery Store for 15 yuan. Wang Wei said that almost every student in the second year of high school had a copy, so after calculating, the few hundred yuan the boss gave to Zhang Shu was not enough.
When she got home, Wang Lianhua was waiting for her in the living room as usual, and even made her a bowl of egg custard as a midnight snack.
"Mom, our monthly exam results are out." Shengxia said while holding a bowl.
Wang Lianhua nodded, "I saw it on Campus Butler."
Shengxia didn't see any expression on her mother's face, she just said "hmm".
After having supper, Shengxia said, "I'm going to study."
"Xia Xia." Wang Lianhua called her.
Shengxia sat back in her seat and waited for her mother's opinion.
Wang Lianhua sighed, "I can't help you with the high school content. Do you think you need to find an institution to give you extra lessons?"
In the past, Wang Lianhua would never ask her such questions and would just make the decision. Perhaps Wang Lianhua had seen her efforts recently and knew it was not a problem of attitude. Her ability was there, so saying anything more would not help.
Shengxia was hurt by her mother's helpless look and sniffed, "Mom, I feel like I don't have enough time now. If I take extra classes, will I have enough time..."
"So what can you do? What measures do you have?" Wang Lianhua said, "If we don't act now, we will become even more passive in the next semester."
Shengxia choked up and said, "I asked the first-place student for his wrong answer book so I can study it."
"Does it work?" Wang Lianhua asked anxiously.
"I don't know either." Shengxia felt very powerless. She couldn't guarantee anything about the unknown.
Wang Lianhua was worried, but she couldn't say anything more. Finally, she decided, "Let's wait and see what happens in the next exam. If it doesn't work out, I'll arrange for make-up classes early. Time is running out."
"Um."
"Good boy."
"I'm going to read a book, Mom."
"Well, go ahead, before it's too late."
"Um."
That night, Shengxia was still awake at two o'clock, and read Zhang Shu's collection of wrong questions again and again.
After the monthly exams comes the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, and the Affiliated High School still has the same arrangement: organizing collective "self-study", whether students come or not.
Shengxia naturally came every day, and Sheng Mingfeng wanted to take her out for dinner, but she refused.
Wang Lianhua said that her time is running out.
The bright red numbers on the countdown board reminded her of this.
During the holiday lunch, the after-school care center added extra meals and distributed moon cakes to everyone. Not many people ate in the store, so everyone thanked the boss lady together, and the atmosphere was like a reunion.
Shengxia sat between Zhang Shu and Hou Junqi and ate in silence.
She has adapted to this arrangement and no longer eats fast on purpose like before. Hou Junqi knows that she doesn't like to talk while eating and almost never cues her on purpose.
Mostly, she just listened to them chatting.
"Ah Shu, do you want to go to the canteen later?" Hou Junqi asked.
Zhang Shu said: "No."
Hou Junqi said: "I want to drink soda, but the mooncakes are too dry."
Zhang Shu said, "Oh, you can't drink soup?"
"No way, Ah Shu, were you serious when you said you were going to quit drinking soda and eating snacks? I don't believe it. Your addiction to candy..."
"Really." Zhang Shu replied calmly.
Hou Junqi thought it was unnecessary, "It won't save much, right?"
Zhang Shu said: "It's as many pieces as you can get."
Hou Junqi glanced at Zhang Sujin and saw that she was not nearby. He approached Zhang Shu and whispered, "Do you really want to buy that necklace? Damn, it's super expensive!"
Zhang Shu glanced at him, didn't answer, and concentrated on eating.
Hou Junqi glanced at Shengxia again, and then he realized that there was someone else there. He made a zipper-sealing gesture and shut up.
It's a bit uncomfortable in the middle of summer.
Why can't you just pretend she doesn't exist? Is it really okay to only realize you need to be on guard against her when you're halfway through a whisper?
However, she remembered that Zhang Shu always had a lollipop in his mouth during self-study classes. He seemed to really like eating candy. He also liked soda. There was always a can of soda on his desk, almost one can every day. He didn't like drinking water very much.
I seem to be drinking water a lot lately.
In order to buy a necklace for the girl you like, you have to save money and give up snacks and drinks? It's not easy.
Thinking of her past misunderstanding, Shengxia came up with a way to make amends.
For several days in a row, Zhang Shu's drawer was filled with lollipops and soda.
Lollipops are something he usually doesn't want to buy, and there are all kinds of sodas, all of which he likes to drink. A bag of lollipops and a can of soda every day.
Zhang Shu initially thought that Hou Junqi had bought it, and did not think much about it. After a while, he gradually felt that something was wrong, and asked Hou Junqi: "Can you pity me?"
Hou Junqi was confused. "What?"
Zhang Shu took out a lollipop and soda from the table and asked, "Today's feeding?"
Hou Junqi was even more confused: "What?"
If Zhang Shu can tell at a glance that Hou Junqi is lying, then it really isn't him, right?
"I don't know who put it there. I've been eating it for several days," said Zhang Shu.
Hou Junqi said in surprise: "Damn, a secret admirer, brother!"
Zhang Shu thought about it and this was the only explanation. He nodded: "Thank you."
Shengxia didn't hear this conversation. She went to get some water. When she came back, Xin Xiaohe held her arm and said mysteriously, "Hey, Zhang Shu has another suitor."
Shengxia wasn't very interested, but still responded, "Really?"
"Yes! She's still silly. She buys food for Zhang Shu every day, but Zhang Shu has no idea who she is. He almost thought it was sent by Hou Junqi. Hahahaha!"
midsummer:……
Um, this...
She would put the things she bought every day in her schoolbag first, and then stuff them into his drawer when everyone went to eat. It was difficult for her too, wasn't it?
And still being called stupid.
But it was okay this way, wouldn't it make him feel better? Being liked was a happy thing, and he accepted her apology.
However, in the next two days, she found that Zhang Shu did not eat the food she put there, but piled it on the windowsill, and she didn't know what he was doing.
Is he tired of eating?
But Shengxia couldn't remember what he liked to eat, and she hadn't observed him carefully before. How about trying something she liked?
She won't keep sending money, just send it until the end of the month. It will be a few hundred yuan at most, which can compensate for his mental loss, right?
The summer in Nanli is hot and long. Even in October there is still no cool breeze, just like midsummer.
The school sports meet of the Affiliated High School is coming. It is held every year in late October and early November for three days. Senior high school students no longer participate in traditional sports events, but they need to participate in the opening ceremony and the fun sports meeting in the last half day.
"The fun sports meeting is very interesting, with activities like leg-binding running and tire drilling. You'll know when the time comes!" Xin Xiaohe introduced excitedly.
This form of thing is the first time I have heard of it in summer.
The students in the Affiliated Middle School are not only good at studying, but also good at playing.
"Hey, Xia Xia," Xin Xiaohe said mysteriously, "I heard that the teachers want you to be the sign-holding goddess of our class?"
Although Shengxia had never heard of this term, she was probably the person who held the sign at the opening ceremony.
"Ah?" She was a little surprised. Is it really okay to let her, a transfer student, hold up a sign?
"Zhou Xuanxuan said," Xin Xiaohe whispered in her ear, "Last year, she was the presenter in our class because she was a member of the Arts Committee. Our class didn't have any outstanding candidates, so they just decided on her. So yesterday, we asked her in the dormitory what dress she would wear for the presenter this year, and she was very unhappy. She said it wasn't her turn this year, and that Old Wang favored you."
Like this.
Shengxia had also done this at No. 2 Middle School, but it felt a little different. "Do I still have to wear a dress?"
"Of course! Otherwise, how can she be called a goddess! This is not a personal beauty contest, it's the honor of the class, okay? If there is one beauty in the class, the whole class will soar! Don't you know that Class 4 was almost soaring to the sky last year?" Xin Xiaohe was particularly excited, "Our class will be proud this year!"
Class 4, Chen Mengyao's class.
Shengxia has been with Xin Xiaohe for a long time and can already judge a lot of things from her tone.
For example, she may not like her roommate Zhou Xuanxuan.
For example, she was looking forward to holding up the sign.
So, Shengxia held back the words "Can you not get it erected?"
It's just a guess, and no teacher has asked her yet.
Before the school sports meet, we had to design and make class uniforms. Most of the class uniforms were T-shirts. We just had to choose the color, design the pattern and order them on the e-commerce platform. Shengxia didn't expect that the class uniforms for Class 6 were designed by Zhang Shu.
"He also designed it last year. He is very good at drawing," said Xin Xiaohe.
I sighed in the midsummer and wanted to ask the sky whether I had closed any window for it or whether I had forgotten.
After lunch, Zhang Shu planned to go back to the classroom to draw.
Hou Junqi said: "No lunch break?"
"Why are you sleeping? Old Wang is urging me to sleep. It's annoying."
As soon as they entered the north gate, they saw Shengxia riding a bicycle out of the school gate.
侯駿岐說：“我說怎麽最近中午吃飯總碰不到小盛夏，原來是還在教室學到這個時候啊，夠拼的，不過她上次考得确實不太好诶？”
張澍笑一聲，“你還有心思操心別人，自己倒數第幾心裏沒數？”
侯駿岐擺擺手，“嗐，我也就這樣了，你又不是不知道，我反正也要出國，光英語一門就要我命了，我沒考全校倒數還不是因為怕丢你的人，才學學的。”
張澍：“關我屁事，愛學不學，出去別丢中國人臉就行。”
“您可真是家國情懷世界眼光。”侯駿岐說。
到了教室，侯駿岐就坐在盛夏座位玩游戲，等張澍畫圖，忽然，他想起來什麽，随意開口，“哎，澍，聽說今年咱班是小盛夏舉牌，她舉牌，你畫圖，你倆這搭配，幹活不累啊，哈？”
張澍揣他椅子，“在別人面前少瞎說，她臉皮多薄你沒見過？”
侯駿岐正色，“不會不會，一定不會，”半晌，反應過來什麽似的，也不管游戲正酣，一下子站起來，“阿澍，你不會是喜歡盛夏吧？”
之前他調侃陳夢瑤，也不見阿澍這麽警醒。這麽一想，張澍這人看着什麽都不關注，其實心裏門兒清，陳夢瑤不就喜歡跟他傳緋聞，所以他也懶得拆穿。
侯駿岐這一站，胯把盛夏的桌子頂得晃了晃，幾個本子從桌肚裏掉出來。
侯駿岐正低頭要撿起來，張澍忽然扯他胳膊把他挪一邊，盯着地上那本子，半晌，彎腰撿了起來。
張澍翻看着熟悉的複印本，眼前閃過一些畫面：
吃飯的時候侯駿岐提他戒零食；
她最近總是不按時去午托吃飯，在教室待到很晚；
下午他抽屜裏總會多出零食和汽水；
那天晚上老王談完話她滿臉驚吓憂郁；
然後老王把他叫出去，問他是怎麽做改錯的；
再回來就聽到她那句突兀的“對不起”……
這一串連起來，他明白了。敢情是從老王那知道他賣的不是淫，/穢物品了？還自個兒去買了一本驗證。哈，夠嚴謹的。心虛了？愧疚了？
他忽然笑了。
他瞥一眼窗臺上他擺的汽水和零食，本來以為是別班的，原封不動放在那提醒那位暗戀者，她的心意，他沒興趣。
不想竟然是這位菩薩。
行啊，倒是很像她偷偷摸摸的風格。
侯駿岐不明所以，“幹嘛啊，阿澍？”
張澍把盛夏的本子歸位，回到座位，彎腰看了眼自己抽屜，果然從裏面摸出零食和飲料。
這回不是棒棒糖和汽水。
是一整條□□糖和一整排旺仔牛奶。
侯駿岐“噗嗤”一聲：“哈哈哈哈這女生這是要甜死你？”
張澍也笑了一聲，撕開一包□□糖，捏一顆扔嘴裏，“不錯的死法。”
甜死得了。
周一再換座位的時候，已經輪過一回，張澍要到第一組去了，然後盛夏就看見他小心翼翼地把窗臺的零食和汽水都放抽屜裏，連同桌子一塊搬走了。
她還以為他要扔在窗臺了。
那她搬到窗邊，會整天看着自己送的零食尴尬到無法呼吸。
而她又看到他吃她送的□□糖和旺仔牛奶了。
看來之前真是吃棒棒糖吃膩了，他還挺喜歡她喜歡的東西的。
那就行，不算浪費。
一整天大家都在聊舉牌女神的事，盛夏聽進耳朵裏，想着到時候王濰來問她，她要怎麽回絕比較合适。
可下午班會，王濰上來就通知：“大家都知道快校運會了，咱們重在參與就行。侯駿岐，組織好趣味運動項目，提前把人員安排好，另外，今年咱班的舉牌女神就定下盛夏同學了，大家有沒有意見？”
“沒有！”
“好！”
“很好很不錯!”
“舉手舉腳支持！”
掌聲伴随着起哄聲一陣蓋過一陣。
盛夏：……？
難道，從來沒有人拒絕過嗎？為什麽會省略問當事人意見這個環節？
不是盛夏矯情，她舉過，克服被人注目的心理壓力都還算是小事，更麻煩的是，舉牌看似簡單，其實是需要配合方陣列隊彩排的，長時間舉着，手臂好幾天都是酸的。
而且，校運會結束後緊接着就是第二次月考。
她這只笨鳥已經不想在學習之外的事情上消耗精力。
她真的足夠忙了。
可是這個架勢，她已經沒有拒絕的權力。
只能接受。
“盛夏，”王濰在臺上叫她，吩咐道，“你有空去看看禮服，如果不知道去哪裏看就問問付老師，預算五百，到時候來找我報銷。”
“五百太摳了吧！”
“對啊別班禮服都超級好看，一看就很貴啊！”
有人看熱鬧不嫌事大，喊道。
王濰一個粉筆頭砸過去，“全校都是五百，超出部分也只能是自己願意付，是我摳嗎，別瞎說！”
衆人都笑。确實，哪個女生不想閃亮登場，往年有多少争奇鬥豔的事，自己貼錢的多了去了。
盛夏在衆目睽睽下點頭。
總歸也只是練兩天，就當是放松。學習成績也不可能因為不參加活動就變好，如果确實有影響，那也是自己确實不夠強，該來的總會來，盛夏提醒自己不要貸款焦慮。
晚修前幾個女生圍在盛夏桌邊叽叽喳喳。
“五百能買什麽啊，租都租不到好的。”
“對啊，現在正版禮服都很貴的！”
“去年周萱萱禮服多少錢啊？”
“自己貼了一千，租的。”
“我覺得那種紗裙小禮服肯定适合夏夏。”
“我覺得旗袍也超贊啊，穿的人還少。”
“碾壓陳夢瑤！沖！”
“小聲點，周萱萱不高興好幾天了。”
“呵，管她，去年想跟她拍幾張照，一直扭扭捏捏的，最後跟賞臉拍了一張，結果也沒見她發咱班任何一個人的合照，就只發了她和陳夢瑤的合照，一副與有榮焉的樣子我就搞不懂了，平時就因為和陳夢瑤玩，眼睛長在頭頂的樣子，煩她很久了。”
“你不怕她聽見？”
“怕什麽，反正我覺得陳夢瑤今年也就那樣了，讓盛夏閃瞎她的狗眼。”
“話說陳夢瑤的校花到底是誰封的啊？”
“不知道啊，不都這麽說。”
“藝術生吧，經常露臉，本來就招眼啊？”
“和張澍盧囿澤傳八卦也是她的流量密碼吧？”
“誰知道。”
盛夏有一種置身八卦漩渦中心的窒息感。
說話也不是，不說也不是，就這麽聽大夥踩着別人誇她，總覺得不自在。
最後還是上課鈴拯救了她，衆人散去，盛夏面露疲憊。她還不知道要怎麽對王蓮華提這件事，母上定要嫌她耽誤學習時間。
很愁。
她正準備投入學習，卻忽然聽到斜後方的盧囿澤叫她，“盛夏。”
她回頭：“嗯？”
盧囿澤說：“你是不是住在翡翠瀾庭？”
盛夏：“是呀。”
“我中午好像看到你了，”盧囿澤說，“你騎一輛白色電車？”
盛夏點頭，“嗯。”
“那就是你了，沒想到我們是鄰居，你是住在B區？”
盛夏說：“嗯，這麽巧呀？”
盧囿澤笑起來，“我在A區，經過B區路口看見你，你不會是初中就住那了吧？”
“是啊。”
“我也是，居然都沒碰到過。”
畢竟是八中的學區房，鄰居也正常。
而B區是洋房，A區是別墅，兩個區雖然只有一牆之隔，但門廳和車庫入口在不同的兩條街上，住幾年都碰不到也正常。
“神奇。”盛夏說。
盧囿澤也點點頭，“離家這麽近，怎麽還辦午托？”
盛夏說：“家裏沒有做飯的。”
“這樣。”
閑聊就這樣結束了。
盛夏沒想到，到了第二天，話題又接上了，盧囿澤問：“盛夏，你爸爸是盛明豐麽？”
盛夏一愣，沒及時回答。
盧囿澤有點不好意思，“我覺得很巧，昨晚回家就提了一嘴，我爸居然知道你，你名字比較特別，我爸你爸有些交情，說之前你們家買房的時候，我爸給打了些折扣。”
“這樣啊？”盛夏不擅長聊此類話題，家裏的事她向來不過問，也不清楚。
這麽說，盧囿澤的爸爸就是翡翠瀾庭的開發商麽？
他們家給她家打了折，她應該說聲謝謝？
話題挺奇怪的，盛夏選擇沉默是金。
“你住這麽近為什麽晚修只上兩節就回家了？”盧囿澤問。
盛夏老實回答：“怕黑。”其實有路燈，不黑，只是夜裏人車稀少，太靜了。
“我都是第三節 下課才走，你怕黑的話可以和我一路。”
“是嗎？”盛夏有些喜出望外，她一直想多上一節晚修。
盧囿澤點點頭：“反正我一個人回去也挺無聊，不過我騎自行車，沒有你的電車那麽快。”
盛夏說：“我騎車也不快的。”
“好，那以後就一路回。”
“嗯！”盛夏應道，“那我晚上回去和我媽媽說一聲。”
這樣是不是舉牌的事情也會比較好開口？
晚上盛夏回到家，卻聽見王蓮華在和吳秋璇的班主任聊電話，她不好打擾，只好作罷。
這麽一拖延又拖到了周末。
On Sunday at noon, Shengxia went home for lunch and saw Wu Qiuxuan was also at home. The atmosphere at the dinner table was not very good. Shengxia did not ask much. After hesitating for a long time, she first mentioned to Wang Lianhua that she had to attend three full evening classes.
Wang Lianhua naturally agreed, but she was still a little concerned and asked indirectly: "Is the boy who came back with you just a classmate?"
"Um."
"real?"
Shengxia raised her eyes, "Yes, his name is Lu Youze. I don't know if mom still remembers him. He was my classmate in junior high school."
Wang Lianhua exclaimed, "Ah!" "Remember, he was always the one who spoke at the parents' meeting. He had good grades and was very polite. His father was a director of the Junlan Group and had some friendship with your father."
Shengxia nodded: "Yes, it's him."
Shengxia knew that Wang Lianhua brought her own filters for students who performed well.
"Their house is indeed next door," Wang Lianhua instructed, "but don't get too close. You're a senior in high school now, so study is the most important thing."
"I know, Mom."
"You're the one who makes me worry the least. If you say you know, then you must have understood," Wang Lianhua sighed, "Unlike some people, who worry me to death."
Wu Qiuxuan threw the bowl and said, "If I want to scold you, just do it directly. There's no need to beat around the bush!"
"You still think you're right, don't you? Look at yourself, how do you look like a girl? Why are you learning to fight at such a young age? Look at yourself again, with your dyed hair and blue glasses, are you American? What did you drill in your ears? Count the holes yourself!" Wang Lianhua was already angry, and now she was furious.
Because of Sheng Mingfeng's status, he was not allowed to have more children than the quota, so Wu Qiuxuan and Zheng Dongqing were not registered in the Sheng family.
Wu Qiuxuan's household registration was under the name of a good friend of Sheng Mingfeng. That person's surname was Wu and his household registration was in Dongzhou City. Legally speaking, Wu Qiuxuan was that person's child, so she had to go to Dongzhou to study in the third grade and take the high school entrance examination there.
Before school started, the little girl was full of expectations, thinking how wonderful life would be without nagging. However, she started to lose her temper after a week, couldn't get along with her roommates, started fighting, and recently dyed her hair and pierced her ears. Wang Lianhua was called as the parent on Friday and went to pick her up, and had to send her back in the afternoon.
Wu Qiuxuan sat up suddenly, "Anyway, I don't want to go to Dongzhou. We are all dad's children. Why should I go to Dongzhou to study, and why can my sister go to the Affiliated High School of Nanjing University? Don't think I don't know, isn't her academic performance very good? She can only be admitted to No. 2 High School! It was dad who got her in! Why is it the same for me? Why? "
"Don't talk nonsense," Wang Lianhua knocked on the edge of her bowl, "Your sister failed the high school entrance exam and went to No. 2 Middle School. Later, she was able to go to the affiliated middle school because her grades were good. You'd better swallow these words. If you tell others, you don't know what will happen!"
Wu Qiuxuan chuckled, "Anyway, Shengxia is the only one with the last name Sheng, so Xiaoxiao and I are nothing!"
After saying this, he left the table, slamming the door loudly.
In midsummer, if you don't swallow a mouthful of rice, it will taste like chewing wax in your mouth.
Wang Lianhua rushed into the room and shouted, "Just bang and smash as hard as you can. If you shake the house down, your dad will probably come over to take a look!"
"I don't want him to see! What's the point of having a father like this! Why didn't he strangle me to death when he gave birth to me!" Wu Qiuxuan retorted in the room, her voice torn and already filled with tears.
Wang Lianhua no longer responded, but just lowered her head and ate her rice quickly. She didn't touch the food on the table with her chopsticks, and the white rice stuffed into her throat in clumps.
Shengxia saw tears flowing through the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and all the tears were sunk into the white rice and swallowed by her.
Dongxi was frightened and looked at Shengxia with the bowl in his hands.
Shengxia felt as if there was a wall of air pressure blocking her throat, invisible but intimidating. She swallowed hard and rubbed Zheng Dongqing's head, "Dongqing, be good and finish your meal."
"Sister." Zheng Dongqi suddenly spoke.
The emotions that Shengxia had tried so hard to suppress almost broke out at this moment. Zheng Dongxi has autism, and Shengxia hasn't heard her call her sister for a long time. I don't know if the scene in front of me stimulated Dongxi, but the child must be scared.
Shengxia stroked her little sister's face, "What's wrong?"
Zheng Dongqi just blinked and looked at her.
After dinner, Wang Lianhua sat on the sofa and watched TV. The TV was playing a boring shopping program. Obviously, she was not watching.
Zheng Dongqing was sitting at the tea table painting, and it looked like he was painting a dolphin.
The room was quiet and looked peaceful and harmonious, but inside it was actually a mess.
After washing the dishes, Shengxia knocked on Wu Qiuxuan's door. There was no response. Shengxia pressed the doorknob, but it was loose and the door was not locked.
Wu Qiuxuan is used to this, she is just waiting for someone to coax her.
Shengxia pushed the door open and closed it gently. As expected, she saw the person covered with the quilt on the bed move.
There was no air conditioning in the room, so Shengxia went to the bedside and found the remote control to turn on the cool air. Then he sat down on the edge of the bed and gently lifted a corner of the quilt, but the quilt was held from the inside and could not be lifted.
Shengxia said gently: "Ah Xuan, it's me."
Still not moving.
"Aren't you hot?"
The quilt was a little loose, and Shengxia pulled it open, revealing a pair of red eyes under the quilt.
"Sister, I'm sorry..." Wu Qiuxuan said, and began to sob again.
Shengxia's throat was blocked and she couldn't speak. She shook her head and slowed down before she found her voice again. "Axuan, mom had no choice. She is also very uncomfortable."
No one in this family is sadder than Wang Lianhua.
She married far away and married down from her parents' family. Her mother-in-law favored boys over girls. She risked her political identity to give birth to three children, but they were all girls. Her husband rose rapidly in career, while her family fell into poverty. She no longer had the capital to fight back.
A husband's family she couldn't fit into, a mother's family she couldn't go back to, a broken marriage, and three underage daughters...
The woman who once shone so brightly, now even crying is a luxury. How hard life is, perhaps only she knows, others, even in the middle of summer, can't fully empathize.
One of the important reasons why Wang Lianhua couldn't hold Wu Qiuxuan was that Wu Qiuxuan's temper was exactly the same as when she was young, willful and unyielding. She always scolded Wu Qiuxuan, and always spied on and missed her past self through Wu Qiuxuan.
Wu Qiuxuan cried and nodded, "I know, I know everything, but I couldn't help it. I'm sorry, sister, I didn't mean it..."
"Why don't you take a nap and apologize to Mom when you wake up?" Shengxia noticed that her sister was still hesitant, so she changed the subject and said, "Your earrings are very beautiful."
Wu Qiuxuan touched her earlobe and asked while sobbing, "Is it true?"
"Really?" Shengxia grabbed her sister's hand. "Ah Xuan, you know, I often envy you. I envy you for having your own ideas and plans. You belong to yourself, you have your own appearance, and you will have your own life in the future, because your last name is not Sheng..."
"Sister, I don't understand..."
"You will understand," Shengxia forced a smile, "I heard that Dongzhou is very prosperous and fashionable. In fact, Xuan is very suitable for Dongzhou. If she applies to high school or university there, it would not be bad to work there, right? It's quite close anyway, and she can come back on weekends."
"But I don't know anyone..."
Shengxia said: "People always need to meet new people. It is a blessing to meet many different people. You are only 14 years old, but you have seen the scenery of more than one city and experienced the customs of more than one place. How cool is that?"
“It seems so.”
"Why are you fighting? Are they bullying you?"
"No, there was a very crazy woman, she was a fan of my idol's rival, she cursed my idol to collapse."
"So infuriating?" Shengxia said, "Then curse her idol to go to jail for tax evasion and sleeping with fans!"
"Wow, this is much more serious."
"Of course not. There's no need to fight and piss her off to death."
"She's so mad!"
The two sisters lay on a bed and chatted until they slowly fell asleep.
Her biological clock was very accurate in midsummer. She woke up as soon as the lunch break was over. She tiptoed out of the room. Wang Lianhua was no longer in the living room. She must have sent Xiaoxiao to see the psychiatrist.
Shengxia returned to her room to do the test paper, but she couldn't concentrate. She thought for a while, packed her bag and went to school.
Before leaving, she called Wang Lianhua and told her that Axuan was fine and that she could just send her to Dongzhou in the evening.
Wang Lianhua sighed, "Good boy, it's hard for you."
"Mom, what did you say?"
"What are you going to eat tonight?" Wang Lianhua asked. "It takes me three or four hours to go to Dongzhou and back. I can't catch up."
No meals are provided for Sunday lunch.
"It's okay. There are many restaurants around the school."
"Then pick the hygienic ones."
"good."
The sun was shining brightly at three o'clock in the afternoon, and my back was hot. I rode my bike in the middle of summer, but I didn't go directly to school. Instead, I drove around the area aimlessly.
The hot wind burning your face can blow away your thoughts and evaporate your tears.
But as tears kept flowing and her vision started to blur, Shengxia braked suddenly under the shade of a tree and suddenly lay on the front of the car, crying loudly.
The kingdom of tears is so mysterious.
It is just a drop of water, but the various reasons hidden in it are enough to swallow up a person in an instant.
So she always hid her tears and delayed releasing them in places where no one was around.
Because she couldn't let everyone drown at the same time.
So she always cried alone.