Gu Xiaoshi's grades in primary school and junior high school are actually very good, the first grade for a long time, and much ahead of the second place, although there are only two classes in the whole grade, adding up to only 100 people, but this is enough to make his parents proud.

Father just left, there was no time to grieve, on the surface Gu Xiaoshi was very strong, he knew that he was the only male in this family, although he was not very old, he had to support this family. Or born in the military, his father taught him from a young age that "a man must stand up to the sky" and become a real man, which is also Gu Xiaoshi's goal when he grows up. Since his father left, no one has seen Gu Xiaoshi cry, and everyone praises this child for being strong and sensible. However, who can know that whenever in the dead of night, remembering his father's voice and smile, and constantly wandering in his mind, Gu Xiaoshi will also quietly cry, crying like a child, so sad, so helpless.

Maybe God felt that the joke with Gu Xiaoshi was not enough, but when he just turned 16 years old, another incident happened.

The reason for the incident is this, the state stipulates that citizens over the age of 16 must apply for an ID card, there is an office in the community, and everyone is an acquaintance, and his mother gave him the household registration book and let him handle it alone. Gu Xiaoshi just walked out of the house, fell out of the household registration book a folded piece of paper, turned around and picked it up, out of curiosity, opened it to take a look, and saw a few big words in the "Adoption Application" at a glance, this time Gu Xiaoshi was interested, and then looked down.

In just a few lines, Gu Xiaoshi stood in place after reading it, and didn't even respond to the neighbors passing by to greet him, at this time his heart was about to collapse, and the content on the paper was like this:

Application for Adoption

I, Gu Jianjun (husband) and Li Lijuan (wife), voluntarily applied for the adoption of this orphan, all in accordance with relevant national regulations. The couple promised to treat the orphan like their own children, and asked the relevant staff to supervise them.

Parent's signature (stamped with the official seal of the sub-district office)

5 January 2000

Is the orphan in the application himself? Gu Xiaoshi was at a loss, was I really adopted? Not born by my parents?

After all, he was only a 16-year-old boy, and his mind was like a mess at this time, and he had no idea at all, and stood stupidly in place for a long time, until his mother opened the door and found that he was still in the aisle, so he asked, "Xiaoshi, you haven't gone yet?"

Gu Xiaoshi didn't answer, his mother felt that it was wrong, he was a very filial child, although after his father left, the words of mother and son became very few, but as long as his mother spoke, he answered as soon as he spoke, but today is very different. Mother looked at Gu Xiaoshi hesitantly, her gaze moved down to his lowered arm, then the household registration book in his hand, and the open paper......

The mother's face suddenly turned pale, and she instantly understood......

Mother knew she had made a mistake, a big mistake. Since the death of her husband, she has been in a state of grief, although she has improved at the moment, but her mood has not yet recovered, how can she remember that she has this piece of paper in her household registration book?

"You...... You know all about it?" asked the mother in a trembling voice.

Gu Xiaoshi still didn't answer, and tears flashed in the corners of his mother's eyes.

"Little Rock ......," his mother tried to call his name.

Silent...... Continued silence......

"What is said above...... Be...... Me?" Gu Xiaoshi finally broke the silence, and he could hear that his voice was a little choked.

This time, the mother was silent, and she really didn't know how to answer the question.

Gu Xiaoshi turned around, tears had already crossed his face and dripped onto his clothes, he looked at his mother, waiting for her answer.

"Child, don't cry, you should be quiet. With that, the mother hid her face and ran into the house.

After a long while, Gu Xiaoshi lowered his head and returned home.

The sound of my mother's sobs came from the bedroom, intermittently, and finally, my sister, who was not yet two years old, began to cry, whether she was hungry or if she also felt a trace of sadness.

The mother stopped crying, went to the kitchen, made a bottle of milk powder for my sister, and after my sister finished eating and fell asleep, my mother came over and said, "I ...... I'll tell you everything, but you have to promise me, you have to be calm. ”

Gu Xiaoshi wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands, sat on the sofa that had been around for a long time, looked at his mother, and said in a low voice: "I promise you, you say, I listen." ”

The mother gathered her thoughts for a moment and said, "That's the ......."

Time back to the evening of December 31, 1999, due to work arrangements, Gu Xiaoshi's father to pull a batch of stones back from the field, there were some problems with the handover procedures, the trip was delayed, the next day was New Year's Day, rushed back for the holiday, can only choose to return overnight, all the way to the peace, back to the construction site is the next morning, is preparing to unload, suddenly came from the carriage a burst of baby crying, at that time the father and a few left-behind workers scared enough, this winter night, how can there be a baby cry, can not meet something unclean……

The father, together with a few workers, picked up a shovel and a flashlight, and pointed the lighting on the construction site at the carriage, plucked up courage, plucked up courage, climbed into the car, followed the cry, found a baby boy in the stone pile, only a thin layer of swaddling clothes, the skin of the mouth was frozen, the father boldly stepped forward to pick up the baby boy, only to feel that the baby boy was hot all over, as if he was having a high fever, and he didn't think so much at the moment, and drove directly to the nearest hospital.

"Later, your dad rushed back overnight and told me that he had picked up a baby boy in the car and came back to get some money to pay for the medical bills, and I immediately packed some things and followed him to the hospital. ”

"The doctor said that this baby boy was really hard, just a few hours after birth, thinly dressed, and in such a cold winter, with a high fever, he could survive. Then your dad reported the case, and the police station immediately sent someone to find out the situation, and your dad didn't know who, when, or where he put you in the car, and he didn't even notice how you put it. ”

"The people from the police station left, and after three days, your fever subsided, and the doctor said it was a miracle, and the vitality was so strong. Then the police came to find us and reported the situation, in the past three days, they contacted all the police stations on the route of your father's return, there was no report of the missing baby, they had no choice, they could only think that this was an abandoned baby, the opinion of the police station was to transfer the baby to the city orphanage, but your father asked them to wait and pulled me out to talk. ”

My father was almost 30 years old at the time, my mother was a year younger than my father, and I had been married for many years without conceiving a child. The father had the idea of adopting after knowing that this was an abandoned baby, and the mother saw that the child was born cute, and felt very pitiful, so the couple told the police the idea, and finally they agreed, but asked to follow the procedure, so there were two copies of the adoption application, one was filed in the street office, and the other was casually put in the household registration book.

"Your father said that you were found in a pile of stones, and your life was so hard, as hard as a stone, so he named you Xiaoshi, and later, you all knew about it......"

Gu Xiaoshi tried to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, but he couldn't finish it, he stood up, didn't speak, and walked towards the door.

"Little Rock ......" his mother called his name and didn't know where he was going.

As soon as Gu Xiaoshi stepped out of the house, he heard his mother's shout, stopped, did not look back, and responded: "I'll go out and find a place to sit." ”

Gu Xiaoshi buried his head, unconsciously walked out of the community, came to the river a few hundred meters away from the gate, found a big stone at random and sat down, looking at the undulating river, the turbid river flows endlessly, or the river is full of reefs, whirlpools are born on the river surface from time to time, making people dizzy. Gu Xiaoshi picked up a stone and threw it into the river, and the sound of "poof" came, turning up a wave, but there was no trace of it immediately......

It was late at night, and Gu Xiaoshi didn't know how long he had been sitting by the river, so he stood up and returned home with heavy steps.

As soon as I entered the door, I heard my mother's voice: "Hungry, are you? Wait a minute, I'll go and warm it up for you, and you'll be fine right away." ”

When I went out in the morning, it was nine o'clock in the evening, and I sat by the river for nearly 12 hours unconsciously, and I was already hungry in my stomach, Gu Xiaoshi didn't speak, and walked into the kitchen to help serve the meal.

It's not a good dish, it's just a meat and a vegetable, and a bowl of tofu soup, Gu Xiaoshi is immersed in eating, and his mother sits on the side, helping him with vegetables from time to time. There was a familiar taste in his mouth, this was a dish made by his mother, "I'm still here, I'm still at home!" Gu Xiaoshi thought so.

Mother has to get up every night to take care of her sister, has the habit of going to bed early, and after Gu Xiaoshi finished eating, she cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, looked at Gu Xiaoshi who was sitting in a daze, and said softly: "Go to bed early, you need to sleep well." ”

Gu Xiaoshi couldn't sleep, sat on the bed, looked out the window, there was a moon tonight, the last quarter moon, some clear light sprinkled through the clouds, Gu Xiaoshi thought of his father again, and tears fell uncontrollably.

……

Thoughts fly, back to the present moment.

Gu Xiaoshi looked at the letter in his hand in a daze, whether it was true or not, studying abroad was too ridiculous for himself and this family, he never thought about it, and he didn't dare to think about it, his fingertips felt the lines of the paper, it was so clear, Gu Xiaoshi laughed at himself and shook his head.

"Having said that, the quality of this paper is really good, it feels good to the touch, and it smells. Gu Xiaoshi said to himself: "Put it away, make a fun one for my sister in the future, yes, paper airplanes, she should like it." ”

Gu Xiaoshi reduced the letter paper into an envelope, opened the drawer of the small desk, threw it in, turned around and walked out of the bedroom, it was time to cook.

But I wonder how the Augustus Academy, far away on the other side of the world, will feel? A fateful admission invitation is used to make a paper airplane......

The paper was ordered in a factory in Germany, and the imprint on the back was mixed with a certain proportion of gold dust to make a paper airplane, can it fly?