She stared blankly at the somewhat familiar person in front of her, unable to recall his name for a moment, until he took the initiative to introduce himself.
"Me? Qin Yang, isn't your brother my brother's classmate?"
"Oh right, this is my brother Qin Chao. Brother, this is Zhou Yue's sister."
The tall Qin Yang immediately pulled out a boy wearing glasses from behind him, whose height was about the same as his.
It has to be said that the two brothers look really alike. Qin Yang is more talkative, while Qin Chao gives her the impression of being an old scholar and a retired cadre.
He probably assumed she was a girl, so he just nodded politely and said something courteously.
"Hello, I am Qin Chao." He then took a step back, clearly unwilling to say anything more.
Qin Yang chuckled and said, "Let's go, I'll take you home. Brother, you take the bus. She's so dizzy, she probably can't take the bus."
Qin Chao nodded, slung his backpack over his shoulder, nodded to Xiao Jiu, and said, "Okay, I'll be going now."
Xiao Jiu quickly said, "Hey, no need, no need, my home isn't far from here, no need to trouble you."
"Oh, don't be so polite with us. Are you starting school soon? Or are you visiting relatives? Did your hometown suffer a disaster?"
Faced with Qin Yang's enthusiasm, Xiao Jiu couldn't say anything more pretentious and could only respond honestly.
"There was a disaster, but everything is alright. I'm a junior in high school this year, and school has started. But I need to go find my sister first. Could you please take me to Liuxiang, Brother Qin Yang?"
"Liuxiang?" Clearly, he wasn't familiar with the place name, so Xiaojiu quickly replied, "It's the area around Taoyuanli."
"Oh, I know that. Okay, I'll ride forward, and you can jump on in a bit!"
As he spoke, he even lowered the supports on both sides of the wheel.
Xiao Jiu watched as Qin Yang, with his long legs, took a step and got on his bike. He rode very slowly, so Xiao Jiu quickly took a few steps, stepped on the support frame carrying the heavy load, and jumped on.
After she was settled, Qin Yang told her, "Hold on tight to my clothes, the road is very muddy, you might slip if you're not careful."
Xiao Jiu wasn't pretentious at all, and boldly grabbed the two corners of his sailor shirt. This was the most popular outfit for children in the military compound, especially in summer. The sailor shirt was paired with military green pants or work blue pants, wearing liberation shoes and a liberation cap. Coincidentally, Qin Yang was dressed like this, and what was indispensable was the military green backpack embroidered with red five-pointed stars that he carried diagonally.
On the way, Xiao Jiu suddenly remembered to ask Wang Xincheng: "When my brother was discharged from the hospital, I heard he was allergic to penicillin?"
"Yes, he had pneumonia and bronchitis, and he was addicted to penicillin. He was sent to a hospital in the provincial capital and his condition stabilized. After all that, he lost more than ten kilograms. With the strict control from his family, I'm afraid he won't be coming to bother me for a while."
Xiao Jiu pouted, "You should distance yourself from him. Someone like that will only drag you down and doesn't deserve to be your friend. Yang Xinyue should have gotten into university by now, right?"
Qin Yang then remembered that they were from the same school and immediately nodded.
"He got into Renmin University and will be going to Beijing in a few days. It won't be so easy for Wang Xincheng to pursue her in the future. He's just a high school graduate now, unemployed, and doesn't even have a formal job. What can he offer her for a future?"
"And what about you?" Qin Yang said casually, "I got into the Maritime Academy and am ready to set off for the big city."
Naval Academy, so you want to join the navy? That's great, congratulations from the bottom of my heart.
"This young lady is quite good at her studies despite her young age. What about you? What do you plan to do in the future?"
"Military medicine, the Fourth Military Medical University in the next province," I'll consider other directions after I finish studying military medicine, and take a few years to settle down and reflect.
"Wow, this young lady is quite something, actually thinking of studying medicine. Is it because your brother is in the Air Force?"
Since the Fourth Military Medical University is the Air Force Medical University, Qin Yang naturally assumed so.
Xiao Jiu nodded without much thought. "I guess it's because many people in my family are in the military. My older brother, second brother, and Zhou Yue all went to military academies. His older brother has also been in the military for many years. I think that since I am academically inclined, I should become a useful person in society. Studying medicine is a good choice."
Qin Yang turned back and looked at her with admiration. "Among young girls, you have ambition. By the way, I haven't asked yet, are you and Zhou Yue cousins?"
“We are neighbors, our houses are in the front and back yards, but all his family members have passed away. He spends all the holidays at my house, he's like a brother to me.”
"I see, no wonder I felt you two had a deep bond,"
Qin Yang escorted Xiao Jiu to the alley entrance, and Xiao Jiu then told him to go home. Before leaving, he put a small bag of candy in a cloth bag on the back of Qin Yang's bicycle. It wasn't much, only about two or three ounces, as a token of his gratitude to his brothers.
When she walked into the alley, she saw Grandpa and Grandma Weng renovating their shack. When they saw her return, they came up to ask her what was wrong.
"How's your family doing? Your sister said the disaster was quite severe where you are. How's the house? Was it destroyed?"
"Thank you for your concern, Grandma Weng. My house is fine, the outer wall and the main gate were knocked down, but everything else is okay. It's currently under renovation. But what about our house?"
"Well, it couldn't withstand the test of this rainstorm. So, we're going to rebuild it, make it a sturdier brick house, so we won't suffer the same loss again in the future. The houses in the back also need to be repaired. This rainstorm has brought out all the little problems that we couldn't see on ordinary days."
Hearing her voice, Yuan Yuan ran out of the house in surprise, "Oh my god, Xiao Jiu, why are you back? You didn't even tell me!"
Xiao Jiu naturally walked towards her.
"School should have started by now, and the house was almost ready, so I rushed over. How are you and my second sister doing?"
"Well, we're fine, except our house was leaking a bit, but it's been repaired. The street stopped a lot of repairmen this time, so basically every household needed repairs. The prices were reasonable, and many families took this opportunity to renovate. I never expected this rainstorm to be so terrible. I heard quite a few people died!"
Xiao Jiu nodded, "A lot of people have gone missing in my hometown. Nobody knows exactly how many, but eight or nine out of ten of them are..." never to be found.
After two days of intensive review, Xiaojiu and Yuanyuan returned to school. The start of the semester meant the big exams, and the tension of being in their graduating year was immediately apparent.
The weather in August was still very hot. It was so hot at night that I couldn't sleep, so I had to take a warm shower in the washroom. But the coolness was only temporary. In the middle of the night, I would be woken up by mosquitoes and the stuffiness. Xiao Jiu's bed had a mosquito net, so she would take the opportunity to go into the space to sleep. Although it improved her sleep quality, it also meant that she was always the first one to wake up in the dormitory.
Waking up early has its advantages. She would first eat two boiled eggs and drink a bag of milk to replenish her nutrition before running exercises with them. By the time she finished running exercises and evening self-study, the little bit she ate in the morning would have been completely burned off. It was the time for her to grow, so she didn't neglect herself.
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