After Huang Lihua saw Teacher Zeng and her granddaughter sitting by the flower bed and watching the people on the road, she decided not to go back to her home for the time being, and took the girl named Xiaoying with Teacher Zeng back to Teacher Zeng's staff dormitory next to Jihong Middle School, Room 301, the third floor of Building 5.

This is a set of two bedrooms and a living room after reconstruction, as soon as you enter the door, the snow-white wall comes to you, the furnishings in the room are very simple, the living room is just a pair of rattan chairs and sofas plus a table of eight immortals, Huang Lihua put the canvas bag on the table of eight immortals and took gifts from the inside, all of which were some souvenirs bought on Nanjing West Road. The little girl put her hands on the edge of the table of the Eight Immortals and looked at Huang Lihua without blinking, as soon as Teacher Zeng entered the house, she went into the kitchen and got busy, Huang Lihua took the little girl's hand and came to her room, it turned out that the little girl and Teacher Zeng were sleeping in separate rooms, Teacher Zeng's bedroom was also a study, the room was a little messy, next to the bed, on the ground, on the desk, and the bookcase were all books. The little girl's room was neat, with nothing but a single bed plus a small desk and a chest of five drawers. Huang Lihua sat at the little girl's desk and looked carefully at the little girl with clear eyebrows beside her.

"Xiaoying, what's your big name?"

"Huang Shunying"

"How old are you?"

"Four years old, no, grandma said that she will be five years old after the New Year!"

"What's your birthday?"

"December 12th"

"Are you in kindergarten?"

"Come on, Mom, you see this is my handwriting! Xiaoying is very well-behaved and not naughty, so Mom came back to see Xiaoying, right!"

Huang Lihua felt a sour nose, this child was too well-behaved, and she honestly stood next to herself to show herself the words she wrote and the books she read.

"Mom, I can memorize 300 Tang poems, grandma said I can memorize these books, my mother will come back, I will memorize a lot now!"

"Xiaoying is so good!"

Huang Lihua felt the attachment of a girl who was full of longing for maternal love to herself, hugged the girl tightly and sat on her lap, and looked through the "Three Character Classics", "Up and Down Five Thousand Years", "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "Grimm's Fairy Tales", "Aesop's Fables", for a child who is only four years old, is it too early to learn these!

"Lihua, Xiaoying, come out for dinner!"

Hearing Teacher Zeng call her name, Huang Lihua was stunned, it seemed that Teacher Zeng had come to her senses! At the dinner table, Huang Lihua gushed about all kinds of interesting experiences that had happened in the university in the past 4 years, and also mentioned that it was not easy to work part-time and earn living expenses in recent years, and finally did not forget to tell Mr. Zeng that he had recently opened a trading company with his friends, and the business was very good and he made a lot of money, so he gave Mr. Zeng 500 yuan as a reward for sponsoring his schooling. Teacher Zeng insisted on not wanting to, but Huang Lihua said that now that she has the ability to repay the money, she must pay it back. Mr. Zeng gave himself help like a new parent, and his kindness to Mr. Zeng was unforgettable for a lifetime, and he had no mother for a long time, and he would definitely treat Mr. Zeng as his own mother in the future.

After coaxing Xiao Ying to fall asleep at night, Huang Lihua came to Teacher Zeng's study to inquire about Teacher Xiao Zeng, and was afraid that Xiao Ying would hear something at the dinner table, the two did not mention anything about Teacher Xiao Zeng, and now Huang Lihua wanted to know the cause and effect of the tragedy anyway, looking at Teacher Zeng who was sitting at the desk wearing a pair of glasses and reading intently, Huang Lihua didn't know how to speak,

"Lihua, come and sit down, I know you must be very curious to know about Xiaoying's parents, it's all my fault, if there is really a regret medicine in this world, I will definitely be the first to taste it!" That day, I only thought about my face, only thought about what others would think of me at school in the future, and didn't take into account the feelings of the two children at all, they could completely ignore my old woman's thoughts and go away, but Bixian was too kind, saying that their marriage must be approved by me, saying that she couldn't forget my nurturing grace and be an ungrateful person. Why would I say such a thing? I finally learned that vicious language can hurt people more than knives, guns, and sticks! It was I who killed Bi Xian, and I will never be able to forgive myself for the rest of my life!"

"Teacher Zeng, what did you say! Maybe you think too much, not your reason!"

Teacher Zeng covered his face with his hands and said in a choked voice,

"I said that I regretted picking her up in the garbage heap next to the school 26 years ago, and I regretted using my youth for more than ten years to raise a child who didn't even want my biological parents! I didn't expect this sentence to become her lifeline, I really regret it! Why would I say such a thing, every night when I close my eyes, Bixian looks at me wet and resentful, what a good child, I ruined it!"

Huang Lihua stood on the side and shed tears for a while, and suddenly remembered Xiaoying's father Huang Cheng,

"Didn't Huang Cheng come to look for the child?"

"As soon as Huang Cheng came out of the detention center, he came to ask me for a child, and I told her that I would never give it to him, and now the child is the only hope to support my life, and if he takes the child away, I will follow Bixian away. I told him that he still has a long way to go, and he will start a new family in the future, and don't let Xiaoying become an unfortunate person like her mother, and Huang Cheng has never appeared since then!"

Huang Lihua looked at the remorseful Teacher Zeng, held Teacher Zeng's shoulder and said,

"Those who die are not necessarily unhappy, and those who survive are not necessarily happy!"

Early the next morning, leaving Xiaoying, who was crying, Huang Lihua returned to her home, but she didn't expect that after 4 years, the row of rubble was low, and the gray brick bungalows with mottled walls had not changed in the slightest except for being more dilapidated, the moss by the pool was more intense, the wire at the door was rusty, and the rancid smell of the sewer was still so strong.

Dad and stepmother didn't expect Huang Lihua to come back, a little surprised, the family added a little brother at the end of last year, the younger brother wrote a letter to himself mentioned this, I saw the child Huang Lihua who was sleeping in the shaker bed felt that her once warm little home is now completely gone, Dad and stepmother very politely entertained Huang Lihua After a lunch, Huang Lihua picked up the canvas and went to the dormitory of his younger brother Huang Liqiang without returning.

The younger brother is now working as a chef apprentice in a Cantonese and street open Guangzhou seafood restaurant, the restaurant has arranged a dormitory for employees, and the dormitory where the younger brother lives is messy and can't get into the foot, because I heard that my brother said that after the Spring Festival, he would marry a girl who worked together in the restaurant, Huang Lihua stuffed his younger brother 1000 yuan at the door and left in a hurry, looking at his brother's tall and sturdy figure Huang Lihua was full of emotion, the teenager who wanted to practice Lost Trace Boxing all day long, the teenager who ran away from home in order to go to the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan, and the teenager who was beaten by his father who came back from the parent-teacher meeting because of his poor test results disappeared into the tunnel of time, and finally became the silhouette of a touch of youth memories in Huang Lihua's memory, she was so helpless and inevitable, and she involuntarily grew into an adult.