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It's cold and clear, in fact, it's also quite good;

In autumn, the weather gradually turns cooler.

Xu Ziqin bid farewell to the community where he lived for more than ten years. Aunt Sun's salary was settled. She should have returned to her hometown in Shanxi, but today she took the time to cook Xu Ziqin's last meal in Bishuiwan. After the meal, she helped him pack and tidy up luggage.

Xu Ziqin had a wardrobe of clothes and shoes that he didn't wear. He thought it was troublesome, so he listed them all on the second-hand trading website for sale. They sold them for tens of thousands. The only 10 yuan left in his card was given to Qin Yang to subsidize his family.

Qin Yang refused to accept it at first, but Xu Ziqin forced it to her.

Without the Qin family's factory, his mother took him to work outside alone. Apart from renting a house, he needed money everywhere. He couldn't bear to see Qin Yang running around and toiling, and wanted to reduce her burden.

The decoration of the coffee shop has entered the listing process, and the funds were patched together by Qin Yang. She is used to being a young lady, saying that all materials must be of the highest quality and environmentally friendly, and customers should not be fooled.

The location of the new home is not too far from Bishuiwan, just one street away, but it is obviously far away.

Qin Yang found a middle-class old apartment in an old neighborhood nearby. There was no elevator, and the walls were so old that the walls were peeled off. Xu Ziqin followed Qin Yang with a suitcase in his mouth, and sneezed several times after smelling it.

The stairwell was covered with thick dust. If it was left in Bishuiwan, the cleaning salary would have been deducted.

This is an old community, so there is no special cleaning. If the tenants like to clean, they will clean it themselves. If they don’t like to clean, they will leave it there. After a long time, the dust will be hardened on the stairs, and the sweeping will not be clean. You have to shovel it hard .

Aunt Sun helped Xu Ziqin put the suitcase in the room, and pointed to the surroundings: "Xiaoqin, this house is not bad, much better than the place I rented."

After that, she fetched a bucket of water from the toilet and began to clean the windows, tables and chairs. Xu Ziqin reached out to pick it up, but was stopped by her: "You stay at the door first, the inside is dusty, smelling it for a long time is not good for the lungs. My inside Clean the outside and then come in again."

"Sister Sun!" Qin Yan rolled up his sleeves and mopped the floor in the living room, "Let him come by himself, don't spoil him too much, he is not a young master now."

The layout of Xu Ziqin's room is very similar to that of Bishuiwan. There is a bay window facing the door, which is not big enough to sit on with bowed legs.

The placement of the tables, chairs and beds is not bad, Xu Ziqin speculates that Qin Yang deliberately found a similar apartment.

The young master has been obsessed with beds since he was a child, and if his living environment changes slightly, he will easily suffer from insomnia.Finding someone who looks a little bit like that can also make him more comfortable.

Aunt Sun moved swiftly, and in less than half an hour, the room looked brand new, and sprayed his favorite air freshener.

Xu Ziqin's suitcase was not too big, and it was full of close-fitting clothes.The down jackets and long coats are still packed in Bishuiwan, and when they are cleaned up here, the driver who loaded them there will bring them over in one car.

"The glass bottle is all used up, do you still have it?" Aunt Sun took out a small bottle of safflower oil when she was sorting her clothes from the suitcase.

When the light is transmitted, it is beautiful.

This glass bottle of safflower oil was a gift from Xu Ziqin and Bai Jiang when they first met in the bedroom.

When I met Bai Jiang for the first time at that time, his face was indifferent, he didn't say a word, like a piece of cold wood.

"I'll throw it for you." Aunt Sun raised her hand and threw it into the trash can, but Xu Ziqin snatched it away: "It doesn't take up space anyway, so give it to me."

Aunt Sun curled her fingers inward, obviously unhappy.She sighed helplessly and gave it to him anyway.

Aunt Sun gave medicine to Xu Ziqin, she knew who gave this glass bottle.It's just that it's been almost a month, and no one mentioned it, so Auntie Sun had no choice but to give up, and hugged him heartbrokenly: "Auntie doesn't know what happened between you, but..."

"I have nothing to do with him." Xu Ziqin patted Aunt Sun on the back, "I know he has something to hide from me and hide from me, but since he doesn't believe me and doesn't want to tell me, then I respect his choose."

Qin Yuan and Wang Zhi came to their house to have a housewarming meal, the meal was made by Qin Yang himself, it wasn't really delicious, it could barely be eaten.

At the dinner table, after clinking glasses, Wang Zhizhi and Qin Yuan drank and cried, cursing: "The days are passing by like this! Qin Yuan drank all the time, went to the balcony to smoke a cigarette in the middle, and took a breath. Xu Ziqin couldn't hear the crying, so he followed out.

The heat outside the window was still hot, the heat wave was raging, and the smell of rotten food could still be vaguely smelled. Qin Yuan and Xu Ziqin stood side by side, looking at the brightly lit high-end residential area not far away from the balcony.

That was the home before, and it is no longer.

Qin Yang has always been calm, and tried his best to maintain his overlord personality: "The cycle of karma, the retribution is not good. The sins committed will still have to be paid back. No matter how comfortable the past is, this heart is always hanging, hanging. The factory It’s gone, and my heart is much happier.”

Xu Ziqin took out a cigarette case from Qin Yuan's pocket, lit one by himself, and smoked with him.

He saw the disbelief in his uncle's eyes, coughed several times, and took a sharp breath with a smile: "Uncle, as I said, I can smoke and drink. I'm a high school student, it's normal."

The man in front of him stared at Xu Ziqin with a vicissitudes of life, his eyes filled with tears.

After a while, Qin Yuan took a deep breath: "Where do you plan to take the exam?"

"Beijing." Xu Ziqin said coldly, after a second thought, he asked, "Which major do you think is better, computer or animal medicine?"

"It depends on your preference." Qin Yuan pulled out the cigarette butt from his mouth and extinguished it, "Stinky boy! I've already smoked half of it. I won't interrupt you. Are you really planning to finish it? Be careful, your mother will come to you !"

Xu Ziqin held his head resentfully, for fear that Qin Yuan would slap him on the head: "I want to study animal medicine and become a veterinarian. I brought Doudou for sterilization last time, and I gave him a physical examination along the way. The doctor said Doudou The liver is not good, so pay more attention to your diet.

I suddenly had a thought, people need to see a doctor, and so do animals.Of course, maybe a year later, I changed my mind again.I don't know what I'm going to do either. "

Qin Yang looked at Xu Ziqin, his face lost his cuteness and childishness, but he became more mature, it was only a summer vacation, the change was really big, he almost didn't know the innocent and lively Xu Ziqin in front of him.

My aunt was drunk and was helped into a taxi by my uncle.My aunt spread out in the back row, and yelled loudly: "Master, master, go, go to Bishuiwan, let's go home."

Qin Yang didn't drink too much, she has her own plan, and she will go to the material market tomorrow to buy goods.

Xu Ziqin watched the taxi drive out: "Mom, I'm going for a walk downstairs to get familiar with the new environment, you go up first."

"Then...you go home early." Qin Yang didn't persuade him, and went upstairs alone.

There were people walking their dogs after ten o'clock in the old community. The white-haired old man led three corgis around the flower bed and walked around the flower bed. Sit down and look up at the stars.

A plate of silver moon hangs high in the sky, held in the center by many stars, this scene is very similar to Xu Ziqin's life in the past.

When he was in Bishuiwan before, he was the existence of the whole family, and everyone doted on him. Now that the family is gone, he is not the same as before.

In fact, Xu Ziqin is not thinking about the old days when he had no desires and no desires, but he is sighing with emotion. Sure enough, the book is right, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.

"Cousin, hello!" Wang Zijie and Shen Tiandong appeared on the screen at the same time as a pair, "Are you outside? Where is this?"

"How is my new home? Does it look nice?"

Xu Ziqin forced a smile on his face, "I'm quite content with my new home here, but luckily I didn't go to Huang Beizi..."

Suddenly, Xu Ziqin shut his mouth immediately.

The two people on the other end of the video call looked at each other, Wang Zijie changed the subject, and turned the phone back: "Shen Tiandong, you pervert, stay away from me, I'm chatting with my cousin, don't put your arms around me! Get out! "

The camera of the mobile phone was spinning, and after stabilizing, it faced an open park, and there was Wang Zijie's voice-over: "We just came here and the language is not used to it, so we signed up for a summer intensive course. The teacher teaches in small classes to help us international students quickly master essay writing skills. And rationalize the study plan for the semester, so that you can adapt in advance before the formal courses. Of course, this is also inseparable from your cousin's oral English."

"You two rent a room together now?" Xu Ziqin asked.

"That's right! Your cousin is so clingy, he hugs me all night when he sleeps, and he can't sleep well." Shen Tiandong's words on the other end came in leisurely.

Wang Zijiao kicked him: "Can you fucking show some face? Who the hell laid down on my bed after taking a shower last night? You still called me..."

"What's your name?" Xu Ziqin suddenly became interested.

"Hahaha!" Shen Tiandong grinned from ear to ear, and almost kissed Wang Zijie, "wife."

Xu Ziqin: ...

After shaking for a while, Xu Ziqin actually saw his cousin blushing and staring at Shen Tiandong next to him with disgust, the scene was extremely embarrassing.

The young master clapped his hands helplessly: "Good...good name, great atmosphere."

When the uncle with the three short-legged corgis swayed past him again, Xu Ziqin teased a dog and licked his hand.

Looking at the flirting between the two opposite, he felt a little uncomfortable.

Xu Ziqin breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "Cousin, I'm dead."

"Take good care of yourself." Wang Zijie broke free from the confinement of the opponent's arm, "Call my cousin to listen."

Xu Ziqin thought about it for a while, and felt blessed: "Can I call you cousin?"

"Xu Ziqin!!" The prince was furious, "You fucking owe me a beating, don't you? I'm not in the country, do you think I can't deal with you?!"

"I was wrong, cousin." Xu Ziqin laughed loudly, turned his attention away, and walked upstairs, "You take good care of yourself in London, I will miss you."

The first semester of the third year of senior high school kicked off. Without the class of the school bully, class and get out of class became orderly.

After Bai Jiang transferred to another school and left, the seat at the same table had been vacant for several weeks. Originally, Fei Jin wanted to find Da Yatiao's seat to sit with him, but the order came from Da Yatiao's throat and was about to be issued, but Xu Ziqin refused.

He didn't want to ruin his good marriage.

Went to Suzhou during the summer vacation, and Fei Jin and Huang Dan unexpectedly became close for no reason.

After Wang Zijie went abroad, his position was replaced by Fei Jin, and Xu Ziqin had someone close to him at the back table.

Many times, when eating, attending class, doing questions, and after class, he would glance at his deskmate intentionally or unintentionally, always feeling as if his brother was still by his side.

Even one day, he overslept in between classes, and when he stood up in class, he found that there was no one at the same table, so he raised his hand in the goatee class in bewilderment: "Teacher, my brother didn't come."

The whole class was silent, and they all turned their heads and stared at him with wide-eyed eyes.

Fei Jin bowed and said, "Are you dizzy from sleep? It's been more than a month since I transferred to another school."

The blow of the pointer on the podium shook his heart.The messy and fragmented dreams about Bai Jiang were swept away in his mind.

"Get out! Stand and listen!" Goatee was timid. He heard Xu Ziqin talking in his sleep during the day, which scared him so much that he thought he had seen a ghost. He stumbled in the second half of the class, and finally waited until the bell rang. He ran away and disappeared.

The three-point-one-line life has completely occupied Xu Ziqin since then, the classroom, cafeteria and home, and even the canteen that he used to love most rarely walks around.

In the first year of high school, his old love La Zijiao went downstairs to carry a large box of snacks, and placed flowers on the podium for the goddess to scatter.

Wang Zijie always likes to brag in front of the whole class: "Students, my cousin is the first in grade, everyone eats with open stomachs, and my cousin pays the bill!"

The class was boiling.

He didn't go to the canteen for a long time, and even the aunt in the canteen was puzzled. It was because she missed him. Of course, the main reason was that there was a big customer missing.

Before a monthly exam, Xu Ziqin was in a hurry to go out without a 2B pencil, so he went to the canteen downstairs and was recognized.

"Cute with big eyes?" The aunt at the commissary saw Xu Ziqin for the first time and felt that his eyes were very big, watery, and looked like a minion. "You didn't transfer school? Why haven't I seen you for so long?"

Xu Ziqin smiled awkwardly: "No."

The aunt saw that he was not in a good mood, so she didn't chat with him, and let him go back for the exam.

The courses in the third year of high school were boring, but Xu Ziqin worked harder than before.The class always said that if you are not afraid of a good academic performance, you are afraid that you will work harder.

From the beginning of enrollment, Xu Ziqin buried himself in the sea of ​​questions all day long, and forcibly became the legendary talented and hardworking boss.

But it seems... the effect is not obvious.

In the past, when he didn't work so hard like this, his grades were stable at around 710 every time, and he was the first in his grade. After the third year of high school, he worked harder, but his grades did not advance but retreated.

After several monthly exams, the score kept dropping, and finally fell flat at 650 points.

Xu Ziqin's score hit a record low in the last test in the last semester of senior high school, with 601 points.

According to the score line over the years, not to mention Qingbei sprint, even whether you can go to a key university or not is up to fate.

On the day before the new year, Da Ya came to visit her home, but she couldn't find anyone in Bishuiwan, so Qin Yang vacated the coffee shop and drove a Volkswagen to pick her up back to her old community.

In the room, Xu Ziqin was leaning against the bay window listening to music, and listening to Fei Jin's voice when he was bored.

"I got 578 in the test this time, which was 25 points higher than expected. My mother gave me [-] lucky money directly."

"It's so generous. Thank you brother for taking care of me silently these days. I am very grateful. I will treat you to hot pot during the Chinese New Year."

"Come or not? I'll call Huang Dan and the school committee, and by the way, I'll also add that traitor Liu Shen, Juju?"

"Did you hear that?"

You two are a couple, why am I alone in the fun?Xu Ziqin thought about it.

"I'm not going." Xu Ziqin looked at the grilles pasted on the window, "I want to study."

"You can pull it down!" Fei Jin called and complained face to face, "Your grades are so good, if it weren't for you, I never would have dreamed that I would be able to pass a single line, and surpass it by so much...how did you What's the matter? I know your level, how could it be possible to only take more than 600 in the exam? Deliberately releasing water to reduce the burden on your classmates?"

"No." Xu Ziqin smiled brightly.

He suddenly heard the sound of the door opening, and he hurriedly pulled off the earphones: "My mother is back, hang up."

Xu Ziqin put on his shoes and listened to the movement outside the door.

Since the Qin family went bankrupt, there were very few people who visited the door, and he was still wondering who would want to be related to them at this time.

"I'm sorry, Teacher Ling."

Big teeth? !Xu Ziqin panicked.

"Something happened to our family and we changed our residence, which caused you to wait for a long time in Bishui Bay."

Qin Yang poured a glass of water for Da Ya, "Sit down, I'm too busy with work, my house is a little messy and I don't have time to clean it up, please take care of me. Xiaoqin is a spoiled child, and she doesn't know how to do housework. Xiaoqin! Xu Ziqin!"

Qin Yang was calling him, Xu Ziqin hurriedly stuffed his phone in his pocket and pushed the door out.

"This child, the teacher doesn't go out to say hello when the teacher comes." Qin Yang knocked him on the head and sat down on the sofa with his arms around him.

Da Ya took a sip of tea with his cup in his arms: "How are you doing? Have you gone out with your classmates?"

Xu Ziqin lowered his head slightly, and patted his bulging pockets with his big teeth: "Playing with your mobile phone? You will be in your third year of high school soon, and you need to have some snacks in your studies."

Da Ya sighed: "I'm here today, and you already know the purpose. In the final test of this semester, Xu Ziqin's grades ranked 35th in the class. I won't talk about the grade ranking and district ranking."

Xu Ziqin kept bowing his head and didn't speak. The two crossed each other, trembling in their hearts.

After passing the exam like this, his grades plummeted by more than 100 points. It is normal for Da Ya to come to make a home visit, and he can accept it, but he still has lingering fears when he speaks clearly.

"Teacher, Xiaoqin in our family has a very good foundation. It may be because of the new environment. My cousins ​​have all left. I may not be used to it. It will get better next semester." Qin Yang hurriedly smoothed things over.

"Mother Xiaoqin, I'm not blaming Xu Ziqin." Da Ya drank his saliva, looking at Xu Ziqin with love and hate, "His grades fluctuated too much, he was born in Qingbei, and the highest this semester 657 points, still more than ten points away from the score line.

I didn't mean to force him. If his foundation is like this, I have nothing to say.

But he was able to score more than 700 in the exam, and the highest score in the second year of senior high school was 726 points, which was the highest score in the history of our third middle school.What a pity, such a good seedling. "

Xu Ziqin hugged the pillow and buried her head in it.

"If you can't get used to it in the short term, it's okay. But if it's the same in the next semester, just in case! If something goes wrong in the college entrance examination, you will regret it for the rest of your life!"

Da Ya's ardent hope lingered in his ears several times.

Xu Ziqin was sitting on the chair by the window in a daze, he heard Qin Yang and Wang Zhizhi's voices in the living room trying to suppress but still clear.

"That's okay! It must not go on like this!" Wang Zhidao said, "Qin Yang, you can't let him do it according to his temper, you have to let him improve his grades! What if Qingbei's materials pass the exam? One, in the future he will blame you for the rest of his life."

"I...can't bear it. Every night I review until two o'clock in the morning, and at five o'clock the next morning, I get up to recite vocabulary before dawn. How can I force him?"

"Then how did the grades drop so quickly?"

"Hey!"

"Well, I think it's still necessary to consult a psychiatrist. Wait a minute. I'm a college classmate who majors in psychology. After you celebrate the new year, take him to see him."

At this time last year, he was hiding in the house with his cousin Bai Jiang and the others watching ghost movies, huddled together in fright, and when Qin Ziping opened the door, they trembled in fright.Unexpectedly, one year has passed, and this year I will celebrate the New Year alone.

The New Year's bell rang, and the mobile phone wished one after another, ringing non-stop.

Wang Zijie's, Qin Ziping's, Fei Jin's, and parents', but only one person is missing.

You... in Changsha, how are you doing?

Xu Ziqin leaned against the bay window and fell asleep with her mobile phone in her arms.

This year is deserted, which is actually quite good.