After the New Year, Tang Guo was going to visit relatives. Every year, even if his father had a task, he would come back for two days, but he couldn't come back this year. He called his home until the end of the year and said he was very busy and could not leave. Lin Jing nodded and didn't want to say anything more. He just said: "Be careful."

Dad Tang said "um" and then remained silent to each other, and finally asked, "Is Guoguo good at studying?"

Lin Jing replied to him: "The final exam is not ideal, and I have been tutoring during the winter vacation."

Dad Tang said "hmm" again, without commenting on anything.

Or there is nothing to say. His understanding of his daughter is limited to Lin Jing's retelling of him, separated by a thick barrier.

The two hung up the phone without saying a few words. Lin Jing stared at the phone and was silent for a while. Tang Guo could vaguely feel that her mother was depressed and didn't speak.

Sometimes Tang Guo would wonder, how long can my parents be together?

Thinking about it makes you scared and confused...

Then slowly throw it away. There are clues and continue to do this.

Many things can only be seen one step at a time. Life is an infinite cycle, either circulating continuously, or it will be accumulated into disaster at a certain moment, collapsed and rebuilt, and then continued to cycle. Pain and despair are never a matter of a moment.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Tang Guo wrote a test paper that Ji Xun gave her. It was indeed so difficult that it was outrageous. Tang Guo called Ji Xun and asked if he was free and told her the questions. She always felt unrealistic, as if Ji Xun had dreamed that day, and was always suspicious that she would have misunderstood his intentions.

Ji Xun had a strong nasal voice. He just woke up and said, "Will it work another day?"

Tang Guo was stunned for a moment, and his originally nervous heart calmed down instantly and said, "Yes, when you have time, or I can ask others. I just... ask." Tang Guo picked the paper with her fingers, rubbed it, and wrinkled it, and then smoothed it out. For some reason, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed. Perhaps it was because of the strange self-esteem in adolescence that she couldn't stand the slightest neglect and rejection.

His tone was obviously very gentle.

Ji Xun was silent for a moment, and then explained: "Ye Sang is no longer able to do it, he is being brought back. I have to go home."

The home he mentioned was Ji's father's side. After Ji's father and Ye Sang's mother got married, Ji Xun also lived there for a while. Unfortunately, Ji Xun had a strong personality, was arrogant, and had a little too strong self-esteem. Ye's mother was a little mean, and she always felt that Ji Xun was disobedient in her child who was in charge of discipline and always asked about his faults. Ji's father protected her, so Ji Xun was unwilling to live there.

Tang Guo said "Oh", unable to say whether it was uncomfortable or distressed, and hesitated: "You don't want to... it's too sad."

When I think of him when I was a child, I felt sorry for him, and I felt that Ye Sang was sick, so he must be very sad.

Ji Xun said "yes".

Then no one said anything. Tang Guo didn't know what to say, Ji Xun was a little disgusted. As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Guo came to him for the first time, but he couldn't go. Although her tone was quite good and seemed to understand and care about him very much, he just felt... it was awkward tone.

After about ten seconds, Tang Guo felt too embarrassed and took the initiative to say, "Would you die? Go and do it!"

Ji Xun said "yes", but he still didn't hang up first. Tang Guo waited for a few seconds and pressed the hang up button himself.

Tang Guo was stunned at the desk for half a minute. When he went downstairs to find food, he was still wondering why he didn't hang up the phone and had something to say to her but couldn't speak? Or... he was reluctant to let it go!

Tang Guo was so chilled by his last thought that he was trembling.

Aunt Chen cut her a plate of fruit. Tang Guo ate the newly roasted plate of small western cakes completely. Aunt Chen yelled and asked her, "Is Xiaoguo hungry? Why don't I prepare lunch for you in advance?"

"Ah?" Tang Guo was stunned for a moment before reacting from her insanity, and quickly waved her hand: "No, no, no." She didn't know why she ate so much and was not hungry at all.

I was overeating, drinking water one cup after another.

Then I did my homework and lay there and calculated the questions over and over again.

When Lin Jing came back in the evening, Aunt Chen whispered: "Xiao Guo seems not very happy today..."

Lin Jing raised his eyebrows and wondered, "What's wrong?"

"It's not a big deal, I just suddenly felt unhappy and a little absent-minded." Aunt Chen couldn't touch her head and then smiled again: "It may be that I'm thinking too much, a child! There was an expression on her face for a while."

Lin Jing nodded and said with a smile, "I understand, I'll go and have a look." She took off her coat, went to the bedroom to change her commuter clothes before going to Tang Guo's house, and brought a glass of milk. Tang Guo was still fighting math problems when she heard the door ringing, looking up and said to her mother, "Mom, you're back!"

Lin Jing stroked his hair behind his head, pulled a stool and sat down against her, and looked over and looked: "I'm still doing the exam?"

Tang Guo took the milk and took a sip, nodded obediently. If Lin Jing remembered correctly, Tang Guo had made the first piece of this set of paper yesterday. Today, she took the first piece. She put a thick stack of calculation paper next to her, probably all of which were from this paper.

Lin Jing said earnestly: "If you don't know, you can leave it first, or... why don't you ask Xiao Xun for advice?"

Although Tang Guo has been working on the questions all day, she has lived a fulfilling life and is focused. Now her mother suddenly mentioned Ji Xun. She was like a shaking building block, which collapsed in a bang. She suddenly felt very sad, as sad as if the sky had collapsed.

Lin Jing saw Tang Guo's eyes getting redder and redder, and tears rolled out of her tears. She was stunned for a moment. She was so worried that she could hold her daughter in her arms and pat her on the back, "What's wrong? What's wrong, be good."

Tang Guo couldn't tell the truth, and finally whimpered in a crying voice: "It's too difficult... the paper... the hiccup... the question is too difficult..."

Seeing her aggrieved look, Lin Jing was immediately amazed and laughed. She patted her back and said, "What a big deal. If it's difficult, we can stop doing it first. Let's do something else first. When my mother invites Xiao Xun to come over tomorrow..."

Before Lin Jing finished speaking, Tang Guo interrupted her, "No... don't want him to tell me, I will do it myself."

Lin Jing then figured it out, "Are you having a quarrel with Xiao Xun?"

Tang Guo shook her head like a rattle, "No, no, no, no trouble." She said several negative words in succession, for fear that her mother would misunderstand, and explained: "I just think it's too troublesome. It's okay, I can do it myself."

Lin Jing looked at Tang Guo suspiciously and nodded at last, "Yes, I heard recently that the daughter of the Ye family seems to be not very good. Ji Xun has a bad relationship with his stepmother, and it seems that he has a good relationship with that child. I guess he has to go back to his father's side, which is indeed not very convenient."

Tang Guo said "yes" and her mood did not improve at all.

In the next few days, Tang Guo did not contact Ji Xun again, and Ji Xun had no time to contact Tang Guo. Ye Sang was a little unrestrained in the end. He was in a low mood, and he didn't eat or drink, and occasionally he was still angry. When he didn't lose his temper, he would stare blankly and ignore anyone. Only Ji Xun would say a few more words when he was there, and his mood was better. Ye's mother cried all day long, almost begging Ji Xun to let him stay at home for more time. Ji Xun hated his stepmother to the extreme, but he couldn't really ignore Ye Sang.

One night after the Chinese New Year, Ye Sang never woke up after falling asleep. Ye’s mother slept with her in the same room. She couldn’t touch the child’s breath in the middle of the night and suddenly burst into tears.

The family didn't sleep at night. Although no one could accept this, everyone knew that Ye Sang would definitely not be able to survive. The funeral had been prepared long ago. The custom of our hometown is to not hold funerals for underage children, and there is no need to notify relatives and friends one by one. Therefore, Ye Sang's body was just cremated, and the family sent her to the cemetery for burial, even if the food was finished.

Ji Xun was impatient to see his stepmother crying all day long. After being buried, he went back to his grandfather's place. He didn't sleep well for several days. After returning, he slept hard for a day and a night, and then prepared a little, and the next day it was time for school to start.

It’s not sad, but separation from life and death always makes people sigh and melancholy.

He went very early on the day of school. He thought to see Tang Guo earlier and asked her how the set of papers were doing. Unfortunately, Tang Guo went there very late that day. When he arrived, he had already started class and had not taken off his mask. He was so nauseous that he touched her and asked her what was wrong. Tang Guo just told him concisely: "I've caught a cold."

After class, she lay on the table to make up for sleep. After evening self-study, Ji Xun was about to call her and say a few words when she got up and called Qi You without looking back and left with her head.

Ji Xun sat in the seat for two minutes and cursed in a low voice, feeling like he was dumped by himself.
Chapter completed!