Since that day, Zhou Siqing no longer deliberately approached Lu Zhinian. She behaved the same as other classmates, and occasionally said a few words to Jiang Suchu.
Every time she talked to him, Jiang Suchu felt creepy when he saw the smile on her face.
She didn't understand why Zhou Siqing pretended to be friendly when he clearly didn't like her.
In the second semester of senior high school, in addition to endless review, there were exams. After several monthly exams, No. 1 Middle School ushered in the 100-day swearing-in ceremony.
There are colorful balloons flying on the playground, and the early summer wind has begun to smell of freedom. There were figures running back and forth in the corridors, and the sound of radios was heard in every corner of the school.
Before taking the oath, the last parent-teacher meeting of the senior year was held, and most of the class was called to help on the playground. Jiang Suchu, He Min and several other students stayed in the classroom to receive the parents and lead them to their seats.
Jiang Suichu stood at the door, holding a roster for the parents who came in to sign, while He Min was responsible for bringing the students' parents to the corresponding seats.
The classroom is filling up one after another, and there are still two or three empty seats that are not occupied yet. He Min stood next to Jiang Suchu, chatting with her in a low voice.
From time to time, music and the sounds of laughter and play could be heard from the playground in the distance. Occasionally, you can still hear the voice of Lu Zhinian trying the microphone on the radio. He is the student representative sworn in today.
He Min looked outside the classroom and wanted to take a look: "Have they all gone to the playground?"
Jiang Suchu glanced at her and said, "How about you go to the playground first? I can be alone here."
He Min was a little embarrassed: "Forget it, I'll go with you."
Jiang Suchu could see that she wanted to go, so he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, you can go. It's almost done here, I can do it by myself."
He Min glanced at the seats in the classroom. Almost all the parents were here, but only three or four seats were empty.
At this time, there was another burst of cheers from the playground, and He Min couldn't hold back his curiosity. She smiled and hugged Jiang Suichu, "Then do I really want to go there first?"
Jiang Suchu smiled and pushed her hand away: "Go ahead, go ahead."
After He Min left, Jiang Suchu looked at the parents in the classroom and didn't know what to do. I had to lower my head and cover the caps of the rollerball pens one by one, and arrange them neatly on the table.
Zhou Siqing, who was walking in front of the classroom, glanced at the couple behind her impatiently: "Why did you bring him to the parent-teacher meeting?"
Li Liyun led Zhou Ran and followed Zhou Siqing step by step: "Your father has something to do today, and there is no one at home. I don't worry about Xiaoran being alone at home."
Zhou Siqing's parent-teacher conferences were held by Zhou Yuansheng from childhood to adulthood, and she never let Li Liyun appear in front of her classmates. This was the first time that Zhou Siqing took the initiative to ask Li Liyun to hold a parent-teacher meeting for her.
Li Liyun was very happy. She held Zhou Ran's hand and said to her: "Siqing, please watch Xiaoran later and don't let him run around."
Zhou Siqing glanced at Zhou Ran and said displeasedly: "I know."
Zhou Ran held her mother's hand tightly and glanced at her sister who pursed her lips and said nothing. He doesn't want to stay with his sister. He knows that her sister doesn't like him but she is always mean to him.
Soon, several people arrived in the classroom.
Zhou Siqing saw Jiang Suichu at the door of the classroom at a glance. She raised her lower lip and turned to Li Liyun and said, "That's it, you go in."
Li Liyun glanced at the class sign on the door, and then said to Zhou Ran: "Xiaoran, be good with your sister. Don't run around, okay?"
Zhou Ran glanced at Zhou Siqing, pursed his lower lip and nodded timidly: "Yes."
When Jiang Suichu was carefully placing the signature pen, a shadow fell on the edge. Thinking it was a parent, she raised her eyes and smiled politely, ready to say hello.
"Hello…."
When she saw the person standing in front of her, the smile on her face suddenly froze. For a moment, her ears seemed to be unable to hear any sound, and she could only see the playful smile on the corner of Zhou Siqing's mouth standing behind the woman.
When Li Liyun saw Jiang Suichu's face, she was stunned: "You..."
The moment she spoke out, Jiang Suchu's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he looked away and quickly sorted out his emotions. She smiled and handed over the signature pen with both hands: "Auntie, just sign here."
Zhou Siqing stood behind, twitching the corners of her mouth with a sneer. No matter how calm she pretended to be on the surface, her slightly trembling voice still betrayed her emotions at the moment.
Hearing that voice, Li Liyun's eyebrows trembled and her eyes turned red instantly.
"age…"
"Auntie! Please hurry up, there are people waiting behind you." The moment she spoke, Jiang Suchu quickly interrupted her.
She pushed the roster in front of her, put the pen on the table and pointed behind Zhou Siqing's name: "Just sign here."
After saying that, she turned away and stared at the floor with her eyes lowered, unable to see the emotions in her eyes.
Li Liyun looked at her profile and slowly picked up the pen on the table. She leaned over to sign, and after writing her own name after Zhou Siqing's, she saw that there were only a few blank spaces left on the roster.
Li Liyun looked at the blank space behind Jiang Suichu's name, and her heart ached. A tear dropped directly onto the paper, blurring out the name she had just signed.
Jiang Suichu saw the traces on the paper with her peripheral vision. She swallowed it empty and couldn't express what she felt in her heart.
Li Liyun put down her pen and looked at her with tearful eyes: "Sui Sui, you..."
Before she finished speaking, Zhou Siqing pulled Zhou Ran over and asked, knowingly: "Do you know each other?"
Jiang Suichu raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Siqing. It turned out that this was the reason why she had been targeting him.
She sneered lightly and said indifferently: "I don't know."
Li Liyun felt bitterness in her throat. She opened her mouth but no sound came out.
"You are my sister." At this time, Zhou Ran, who was standing next to Zhou Siqing, suddenly ran to Jiang Suichu, holding her hand and jumping up and down.
Jiang Suchu paused, subconsciously shook off his hand, and said coldly: "I'm not your sister!"
Jiang Suichu shook him off a bit too hard, causing Zhou Ran to stumble and almost fall. Fortunately, Li Liyun supported him in time.
After Zhou Ran stood firm, he looked at Li Liyun with some grievance: "Mom."
He remembered that Li Liyun showed him a photo of Jiang Suichu, and he looked like this. His mother also said that his sister was a well-behaved child like him when she was a child and she would like him very much.
Li Liyun touched Zhou Ran's head and didn't know how to explain to him.
Jiang Suichu looked at the two of them and couldn't help but think of what he saw at the milk tea shop in the mall years ago.
What a heartwarming scene.
She gritted her teeth and turned away from the two of them: "Zhou Siqing. Please take your mother over and sit down. The parent-teacher meeting is about to begin."
"She's not my mother!" Zhou Siqing glanced at her, then laughed and said to Li Liyun, "Let's go over there."
Li Liyun glanced at Zhou Siqing, her eyes changing from confusion to confusion.
She said that Zhou Siqing had not allowed her to hold parent-teacher conferences for so many years, so why did she let her do it this time? She was the one who brought it up, and it turned out to be just for this.
She shook her head with a wry smile, laughing at her own pretentiousness.
As soon as Shu Yuan entered the classroom, she saw Jiang Suichu standing at the door: "Suibao."
Hearing Shu Yuan's voice, Jiang Suchu turned to look at her, tried his best to smile and said, "Aunt Yuan, you are here."
"Yes." Shu Yuan saw the red eyes at the end of her eyes. She was about to ask her what was wrong when she saw Li Liyun with hazy eyes beside her.
She looked at her in surprise: "...Liyun?"
Li Liyun's appearance has not changed much, but the fine lines at the end of her eyes and the tiredness in her eyes still indicate that she is not living a very good life.
Li Liyun was also a little afraid to recognize each other and said hesitantly: "Are you... Shu Yuan?"
Shu Yuan looked at her and nodded: "Yes. You..."
She glanced at Zhou Ran and Zhou Siqing next to Li Liyun, and then at Jiang Suichu, and she probably understood what was going on.
She took a step forward, stood behind Jiang Suichu and put her arm around her shoulders: "Are you here to hold a parent-teacher meeting?"
Li Liyun glanced at Jiang Suichu and nodded slowly: "Yes. Are you here to hold a parent-teacher meeting too?"
She thought for a moment, and she seemed to have seen that the first name on the roster was Lu Zhinian.
Shu Yuan smiled faintly: "Yes."
Jiang Suichu glanced sideways at Shu Yuan's hand on her arm. She bent her lips and took another pen from the table and handed it to her: "Aunt Yuan, please sign here."
Jiang Suchu pointed to the back of Lu Zhinian's name and said to her.
Shu Yuan took the pen and frowned after looking at the roster. She glanced at Li Liyun beside her, and signed her name behind Jiang Suchu's name with almost no hesitation.
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Aunt Yuan, you wrote in the wrong place."
Shu Yuan's handwriting is the same as her grandmother's, particularly elegant and free. She wrote her name in a few strokes, put her pen on the table, put her arm around Jiang Suichu's shoulders and said, "That's right. I'm here to hold a parent-teacher conference for you today."
Jiang Suchu was stunned, and his eyes suddenly became hot when he looked at Shu Yuan.
Li Liyun was stunned for a moment, and looked away in embarrassment, not daring to look at Jiang Suchu.
At this time, the head teacher walked in. Jiang Suchu pulled Shu Yuan past Li Liyun and walked to the seat, "Aunt Yuan, sit here."
The hem of her clothes brushed against Li Liyun's hanging arms, and her eyes were as cold as a stranger passing by.
Zhou Siqing glanced at Li Liyun and pulled Zhou Ran out of the classroom regardless of her.
After settling Aunt Shu Yuan, Jiang Suichu left the classroom through the back door. She walked aimlessly in the school, her mind a little chaotic but extremely clear.
It seems that Zhou Siqing knew about her relationship with Li Liyun from the beginning, so she kept targeting herself. She tried hard to recall that she and Zhou Siqing should have met once when they were children.
On the day she was abandoned by her grandmother.
Li Liyun and her grandmother had a heated argument at the police station, while Zhou Yuansheng watched coldly. Zhou Siqing, on the other hand, was wearing a beautiful princess dress and sitting next to her with a rabbit doll in her arms.
Jiang Suchu glanced at the doll in her arms. She also had one. Li Liyun came back to visit her before and bought it for her.
Zhou Siqing sat next to her and said to her while shaking her legs.
"I don't want the rabbit your mother brought back for you."
"I don't want those chocolates either."
"My father said that he will not let you live in my house."
………
No matter what she said, Jiang Suchu didn't respond. She just sat there quietly, staring blankly at the transparent glass door.
Finally, she said: "Your mother said she likes me but not you."
Jiang Suichu held his schoolbag in his hand, clenched his fists with his little hands, and dug his nails into his palms silently. She looked at Li Liyun, who was having an argument with her grandmother through the transparent glass, and her face was red, and she slowly lowered her eyes.
The voice was very soft: "Oh, then give it to you."
I do not want it.
Unknowingly, Jiang Suchu walked to the woods at the back door of the canteen. When she came to her senses and turned to walk back, she saw Zhou Siqing standing at the other end of the path looking at her.
Zhou Siqing walked towards her: "Jiang Suichu, shouldn't you be grateful to me?"
Jiang Suchu frowned and looked at her, puzzled: "What are you grateful for?"
Zhou Siqing smiled and said, "Thank you for letting me see your mother."
Jiang Suichu sneered after hearing this: "But I don't care about it."
After saying that, she crossed her and was about to leave, but her arm was suddenly grabbed by her, "Jiang Suichu, what are you pretending to be?"
Jiang Suichu turned around, raised his arm, and shook her hand away: "Don't touch me!"
Zhou Siqing staggered when she was thrown away. After she stood up, she sneered: "You have such a big reaction and you say you don't care? If you beg me, maybe I can let your mother visit you more."
"Do you know why your mother hasn't come to see you even once for so many years? Because I won't let you. As long as I don't agree, she doesn't dare to see you."
Jiang Suichu looked at her proud expression and thought she was sick. She frowned and stepped forward, looking into her eyes: "Zhou Siqing, please don't always be so self-righteous. What you care about is not important to me at all. I didn’t need it before and I don’t need it now.”
As she spoke, she lowered her eyes and looked into her eyes, showing deep sympathy: "Zhou Siqing, I pity you."
Zhou Siqing pushed her away and said angrily: "Why do you pity me! Your mother would rather please other people's children every day than you. What right do you have to pity me!"
Jiang Suchu was pushed back a few steps by her. She quickly stood up and looked at her with a faint smile: "Because I don't need to rely on extreme methods like you just to prove my status in others' hearts."
Lu Zhinian told her that no one's choice was enough for her to deny herself.
Zhou Siqing is pitiful. She is calculating, arrogant and domineering just for her family to pay attention to her. She is sensitive and suspicious, and lives in fear all day long.
This is the tragedy of children in remarried families.
But it's not Jiang Suchu's fault, and she doesn't have to pay for her sorrow.
The sound of Lu Zhinian adjusting the microphone on the playground came through the broadcast, and Jiang Suchu didn't want to deal with her.
She looked back in the direction of the playground, then turned to look at Zhou Siqing.
"Zhou Siqing, I don't want what you care about, so I won't compete with you. But..."
She paused, looked up at the speaker on the roof of the canteen, and waited for Lu Zhinian's voice on the radio to stop before continuing: "But you can't take away what I want."
Her tone was calm but firm, as if she was describing a fact calmly.
Because she knew that no one could take away Lu Zhinian's love.
After saying this, she turned around and walked towards the playground. The road leading from the canteen to the playground is an avenue lined with laurel trees and gardenias, and the sun shines on the ground through the leaves.
She felt the warmth of the swaying early summer sunshine on her skin, and the fragrance of gardenia began to fill the wind between her breaths.
As she walked, she opened her fingers slightly, and the wind passed between them.
It's a feeling of freedom and wantonness.
After the parent-teacher meeting, students and parents will go to the playground to participate in the 100-day swearing-in ceremony for senior high school students.
Shu Yuan walked out of the classroom with her bag and was stopped by Li Liyun.
Li Liyun looked at Shu Yuan, her knuckles holding the bag turned white, and she was speechless for a while.
Shu Yuan looked at her and sighed helplessly, "Liyun, if you have anything to say, just say it."
Li Liyun pursed her lower lip and hesitated: "Is Suisui... okay?"
Shu Yuan felt a little want to laugh after hearing her question, "You are Sui Sui's mother, you shouldn't ask me this question."
"I..." Li Liyun's eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she said with red eyes, "Shu Yuan, you are also a woman. You should be able to understand how hard it is for me to live as a woman with a child. It's not that I don't want Sui Sui, There’s really…no way.”
"Yes, I am a woman too!" Shu Yuan interrupted her sharply, "I understand how difficult it is for you. But I am also a mother, and I cannot understand that you abandon your child just because you want a new life!"
Hearing this, Li Liyun shook her head with tears in her eyes: "No. I didn't abandon her. She wanted to go back to her grandma's house."
Shu Yuan frowned deeply when she saw her crying: "Have you ever come back to see her in all these years? Have you ever cared about whether she eats well, wears warm clothes, and whether she is bullied?"
At the end of the sentence, Shu Yuan's voice couldn't help but get louder.
She has always been elegant and well-educated, and this is one of the few gaffes she has made in her life.
Because when she thought of Jiang Suichu's inspection report two years ago, her heart couldn't stop hurting.
But as a mother, Li Liyun first did not care about how Jiang Suichu was doing, but instead tried to evade and make excuses for herself.
Shu Yuan knew that Li Liyun was born in a family that favored sons over daughters and had a somewhat weak personality. In the past, everyone lived in the same compound, and her non-competitive character made it easy to make friends with others. Shu Yuan grew up in a scholarly family and was somewhat disdainful of Li Liyun's family. So she had more sympathy for Li Liyun at that time, but she never thought that Li Liyun, who had not been valued by her family since childhood, would eventually become the same person as her original family.
Shu Yuan glanced at Zhou Ran who was hiding behind Li Liyun. The little boy's eyebrows looked like Jiang Suichu's when he was a child.
She took a deep breath and tried to suppress the anger in her heart: "If you can't love her, then don't disturb her. The college entrance examination is coming soon, let her study in peace."
After saying that, she picked up her bag and turned around towards the playground.
Li Liyun stood there, tears silently sliding down her cheeks and falling to the ground.
Zhou Ran saw his mother crying and sobbed too, "Mom, don't cry."
Li Liyun glanced at her son, turned away and quietly wiped the tears from her face.
Lu Zhinian was the keynote speaker for the oath today. He stood in front of the microphone on the podium wearing a blue and white school uniform.
Jiang Suchu, also wearing a blue and white school uniform, stood quietly in the class team and looked at the tall and tall figure on the podium.
Just like three years ago.
Lu Zhinian held the microphone, and the boy's magnetic yet energetic voice once again passed through the radio, filling her ears with the gentle wind of early summer.
"Dear teachers, dear students. Hello everyone. I am honored to be able to speak here as a student representative..."
Today's sunshine is as bright and dazzling as it was three years ago. Jiang Suchu felt his eyes were a little hot when he looked at the people on the rostrum.
This boy whom she once thought they would never meet again has given her the firmest preference in the past three years.
It was he who firmly told her when he was being tossed around again and again that if you want to come, I will wait for you and won’t go anywhere; it was he who told her not to deny herself because of other people’s choices when she was about to be disappointed in the world. ; It was he who told her when she was confused that life was a wilderness and she could go in any direction.
It was also he who told himself time and time again that he would give her a home.
It was him who taught her to be confident, grow and love herself.
His voice on the radio was loud and powerful: "The road is far and long, and you can reach it if you work hard; although the task is huge, it will be achieved if you persevere. Finally, I would like to wish you all the best: today you are a returning guest in the rivers and seas, and in the future you will be thousands of miles away in the sky. Goodbye young man When the bow is fully drawn, I am not afraid of the years or the wind. After so many years, we will meet at the top!"
"This concludes my speech, thank you all!"
After Lu Zhinian finished speaking, he took a step back and bowed slightly to the audience. Then, after handing the microphone to the principal, he turned around and walked down the ladder next to the podium.
Jiang Suchu's eyes followed him. She saw him walking down the steps faster and faster, and finally she saw him running.
The blue and white school uniform was blown up by the wind, and his fine hair fell back in the sunshine as he ran, revealing the boy's fair and broad forehead.
On the radio, the principal was making his final speech. As he announced the ceremony, colored smoke rose straight into the sky from the edge of the playground.
In an instant, the whole place was in a state of excitement, with everyone cheering and screaming as they let go of the balloons and ribbons in their hands.
The classmates around me were cheering and hugging, and some even had tears in their eyes.
Jiang Suichu held a yellow balloon in her hand that had not yet been released. She stood in the crowd and looked for Lu Zhinian.
There were too many people on the playground and it was so chaotic that she couldn't see anyone else in the blink of an eye.
Just as she was holding the balloon and preparing to walk in the direction where he would come, her wrist was suddenly grabbed from behind.
With a burst of force, her whole body was pulled around and slammed directly into a broad chest.
A pair of arms hugged her waist tightly, and one hand held the back of her head.
There was a familiar voice in her ears: "Jiang Suichu, let's be together."
His voice was quickly drowned in the wave of human voices, but Jiang Suchu still heard it.
very clear.
She was stunned, then her hand relaxed, and the yellow balloon in her hand flew into the sky.
She rested her chin on his shoulder, raised her eyes and gradually arched her eyebrows as she stared at the balloon flying away.
She raised her hands to wrap around his waist and whispered in his ear, "Okay."
