In the evening, after school.

"Who told you to call my mom without permission? Why do you have to ask my dad to come and pick me up?"

Zixuan was full of resentment, and she had already complained at noon in the same way.

Like many little girls of the same age, she is about to enter puberty, and her psychology begins to undergo subtle changes, unconsciously alienating and disliking her father, even if she is unusually smart, it is inevitable to be vulgar.

She felt that her father was sloppy and unkempt, smirking all day long, and always smelling of sweat on his body, which made her feel psychologically and physically disgusted, and she was always closer to her mother at home.

"Because there are fierce beasts, how safe is it to let Aunt Wenhua pick you up?" Jiang Chanji said, "And your father's hard work is not easy, he should also be proud of you being admitted to Red Leaf Academy, right? Let him take this opportunity to come to the school to pick you up, he should be very happy." ”

Zixuan pursed her lips in annoyance.

With her sharp teeth, if what Jiang Chanji said did not match the facts, she would have refuted it fiercely, but he was obviously not there yesterday evening, but he seemed to have seen her father who was smiling from ear to ear.

Yesterday evening, she had planned to go home alone, but the clouds of fire in the sky were like ink, and the long journey home made her heart beat a little, for it was getting darker and earlier now, and she could not return home before it was completely dark.

"I'm not a child, don't look down on me......" she said to herself.

To save time, she didn't even eat dinner in the school cafeteria and left school as soon as school ended.

Moreover, after getting used to having dinner together with the three of them, she was asked to go to the cafeteria alone to bear the gaze of other strange girls, and she felt uncomfortable when she thought about it, as if she had returned to the days when she kept skipping grades.

What she didn't expect was that after leaving the school gate, she saw her father, who was waiting for her at the school gate accompanied by campus guards.

My father, who usually wears a set of yellowed overalls for a long time, rarely changed into a suit at the bottom of the box, which may still be the suit he wore when he got married, but his body shape is not what he looked like when he bought the suit, he didn't fit very well, and his tie was wrinkled and crooked.

"That's my daughter!"

After he saw Zixuan come out, he proudly said to the guards beside him: "Before you are 12 years old, you were admitted to the high school of your school! Even there are few such smart children in your school, right?"

"My daughter will be very promising in the future!"

"In our area, there are only two people who have been admitted to your school in the past ten years, and my daughter is one of them!

"My daughter has been a well-known prodigy in the neighborhood since she was a child, her head is much stronger than mine, and she is born to do big things and make a lot of money!"

He was just silly and babbling to the guards.

"Zixuan, come here, I'm here to take you home!" he beckoned to her.

The guards had verified his identity, otherwise he would not have been able to approach the school gate as a man, but the guards still had to accompany him, and in case he had any ill intentions against the other young ladies, he had to stop them in time.

Bing Xue's smart Zixuan guessed the reason at once, it must be Jiang Chanji who secretly used her mobile phone to notify the family at noon, and there was no other explanation.

She was so angry, why did she make a decision for her? She could have gone home by herself!

If it's her mother, forget it, but ......

If she didn't want to embarrass herself in front of the guards, she might have lost her temper directly.

But...... At that time, my father was really happy to laugh, because he always bent over and mopped the floor, and his habitual rickety waist was also straightened, his face was full of red, and the whole person seemed to be ten years younger.

Her father brought a metal bat, and on the way home, if there was any disturbance in the dark, he would nervously raise the bat in front of her, and made several jokes, and after being nervous for a long time, a cat ran over, or a bat flew over......

She complained that he was always blind and nervous, startled, and that he was just stupid.

But if it was her mother who came to pick her up, what would happen to the two mothers and daughters when they encountered trouble?

Returning home safe and sound, her mother had been anxiously waiting for a long time, and made several phone calls on the way, and it was relieved to see the father and daughter enter the door.

At that time, she knew that it was Jiang Chanji who deliberately emphasized on the phone that her father would pick her up.

Wenhua expressed her objections when she answered the phone, firstly because her father had never been to Red Leaf Academy, and secondly, she knew that the relationship between father and daughter was in a delicate period and was not very harmonious, and she had a similar period around puberty.

Jiang Chanji said that this should be even more important for her father to pick her up, first, it is safer, second, to familiarize herself with the road, by the way, to see with her own eyes the top school her daughter attends, she will definitely be proud of her daughter.

Wenhua was persuaded that the child's father should have been watching the store at night, so she took over and asked the child's father to change into clean clothes to pick up the daughter.

That's what happened later.

Last night, my father was very excited, and while visiting the store, he poured himself a drink, and when he met an acquaintance who came to take a bath, he grabbed the other party, and talked about the Momiji Academy he saw in his eyes, and specially emphasized that if it weren't for the child studying in the school, it would be impossible for an ordinary man to be so close to the school gate.

Acquaintances said that except for the last time Zixuan succeeded in the exam, they hadn't seen him so happy for many years.

If the acquaintances were willing to follow his words and praise Zixuan for her success, he would be happy and exempt from the bathing fee.

Wenhua complained to him twice, but seeing that he was rarely so happy, he let him go.

Seeing such a father, Zixuan felt embarrassed and had a fever on her face, but she also seemed to have some other feelings, and she tossed and turned in the middle of the night yesterday before falling asleep.

Jiang Chanji watched the change in the expression on her face, after all, he was several years older than her, and he had experienced more things, and many things had to be lost to know how to cherish them.

Zixuan has a complete family and parents who love her, which makes him extremely envious, and he would rather exchange everything he has for it.

Although the work they do is very ordinary, they may be looked down upon by others, and they don't earn much money, but they are honest and earn the money they deserve with peace of mind, and never want to get rich overnight......

He also wanted his parents to be proud of him, but this was impossible, not to mention that their whereabouts were a mystery, and if they knew that he had been admitted to a women's college, they didn't know how they would feel......

"Yiyi, have your parents been to Red Leaf Academy? You can also let them come and see, they will be proud of you, right?" he turned his head to look at Chen Yiyi, who was walking on the other side.

Silent.

The sun had set, and shadows had clouded her face.