Zhang Xiaotian sat on the metal row seat in the waiting room, holding a mobile phone in his hand, talking and chatting with friends on the phone.

A pair of eyes always glanced at the plain girl in white who was sitting diagonally opposite him, intentionally or unintentionally.

The girl can't say that she has any unnatural appearance, she can only say that she looks beautiful, dressed simply, and quietly reads, which brings her a quiet and comfortable temperament.

Zhang Xiaotian has never had such a heart-warming feeling for a girl.

He had the urge to go to the girl and ask for a contact information, but his shy and introverted personality made him hesitate and never dared to take action.

"It's time to check the ticket......" Zhang Xiaotian looked at the time, knowing that it would be too late if he didn't make a decision, and he might never meet her again after missing it this time.

He gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind to get up from his seat.

But at this moment, he saw that the girl who had been reading suddenly closed the book and put it away, grabbed the schoolbag and left the seat, and then ran towards the door of the waiting room.

Then in Zhang Xiaotian's heartbroken gaze, the girl plunged into the arms of a tall boy at the door, stretched out her arms and hugged it hard, and the smile on her face was full of heartfelt happiness and joy.

He fell out of love.

............

"Shame on you. Li Xing rubbed his sister's hair dotingly, "How old are you, and you still hold your brother like when you were a child." ”

Li Keran's fair face flushed with joy, and she raised her head and asked, "How do you know I'm inside......

Before she finished speaking, her small mouth opened slightly, and she looked at Li Xing a little stupidly.

“...... Brother, how do I feel that you have grown a lot taller and stronger. ”

And it's a lot better than before......

She said this last sentence in her heart.

Li Keran didn't feel much about it in the distance just now, and only when he stood beside Li Xing did he notice these changes.

Seventeen years old this year, she is in her early sixties, and when she looks up at Li Xing, she actually has a faint sense of difficulty, and Li Xing, who was originally relatively slender, is also full of strong muscles on her bare arms.

"Yes, maybe it's better to eat at Bingtia......" Li Xing said with a slightly dazed look.

Originally, the ordinary height of less than 1.8 meters has reached 1.9 meters under continuous strengthening, and this change is indeed too conspicuous to explain.

Li Xing was not prepared to let his family know the truth about the mess he had experienced in Bingtia, including his father's death, and saying those things would only make them sad and worried about themselves.

He quickly changed the subject.

"Aren't you squatting in the waiting room waiting for me every time you come back, do you still need to guess?" Li Xing said with a smile.

In the past two years, no matter where he went to work, the first thing he saw when he came back was his sister waiting for him at the station.

So last night, when Zhao Chenxu wanted to send someone to drive him back the next day, Li Xing refused him, because Li Xing knew that his sister would definitely stay here and wait for him, as always.

"But it's still so high......" Li Keran couldn't help but put his hand on the top of his head and compared, and found that it was only on Li Xing's shoulder.

"Let's go, go home. ”

Li Xing wordlessly grabbed his sister's little hand and walked in front, while making a big move.

"Didn't I tell you not to ask for leave, what should I do if I can't keep up with my studies after listening to these few classes?"

"I took half a day off in the morning, and I have already taught myself the knowledge points that the teacher wants to talk about in these classes......" Li Keran suddenly replied weakly.

Sure enough, he no longer bothered about Li Xing's height.

Originally, Li Xing just wanted to take his sister's attention away from him, but after seeing her like this, he felt inexplicably distressed.

Dongsheng Noble College, where Li Keran studied, is one of the top ten schools in the entire vast Annam Province, and is located in Dongsheng City, the superior city to which Gaocheng belongs.

The so-called aristocratic schools are not just the kind of schools that are dressed up as nobles, but in fact they are schools with high tuition fees and students from wealthy families.

Dongsheng Noble Academy is a school founded by real nobles and only accepts students from aristocratic families.

(Note: The Xia Kingdom in this book is a completely different imperial state, and the river crab ...... ）

Although with the beginning of the new century, even the emperor handed over more than ninety percent of his power to the parliament and became the mascot with only the name left, and those nobles were basically only left with hereditary names, without the wealth and power of the past.

However, these aristocratic colleges have always strictly enforced the admission standards.

No matter how rich you are without the status of a nobleman, it is useless, and you still can't enter this kind of aristocratic school.

Of course, many wealthy people will use donations to charity to obtain more popular honorary titles, so that their children can enter these aristocratic institutions.

However, the amount of charity required for an honorary title is very high, and only the truly wealthy can afford it.

However, with the rapid change of the world and the emergence of various trends of equal rights, this method of enrollment in aristocratic schools has long been criticized by many people as a strong class discrimination, and it has intensified under the impetus of some uneasy elements.

Therefore, in order to calm public opinion, under the reconciliation of the two councils, the aristocratic schools made concessions to relax the restrictions on enrollment, and in addition to students from aristocratic families, they also recruited ordinary students with outstanding academic performance.

Of course, the number of places is limited.

It was in such a background that her younger sister Li Keran was the first batch of ordinary students who were exceptionally recruited by Dongsheng Noble Academy.

Dongsheng College has a lot of expenses, although Li Keran's excellent grades have completely waived the high tuition fees, but there are also a lot of miscellaneous expenses on weekdays.

To take the simplest example, Li Keran often only eats the cheapest set meal in the school cafeteria, and the monthly food cost is thousands of yuan.

It's just that the most basic food money is so much, not to mention all kinds of miscellaneous expenses such as accommodation fees, book fees, etc., which is really an unbearable huge expense for Li Xingjia.

So after his father's death, his sister Li Keran first proposed the idea of transferring to an ordinary school, because she knew how much financial pressure she would cause to her family.

At that time, in order to convince Li Xing and her mother, Li Keran also proposed that with her learning ability, she could maintain excellent grades no matter which school she was in.

However, he was still rejected by Li Xing.

Although he didn't have much social experience at that time, he also knew that the most precious thing in this kind of aristocratic school was not the teaching resources, but all kinds of senior contacts, and the students' families in it were either rich or expensive, and with those classmates, no matter what they did in the society, it would be much smoother in the future.

At Li Xing's insistence at that time, Li Keran finally stayed in Dongsheng College.

It is precisely because she knows how hard her mother and brother have worked hard to continue her studies in Dongsheng, Li Keran has always put her studies first, and she does not dare to slack off, for fear of disappointing her family's dedication to her.

So every time Li Xing mentions school matters, Li Keran will have this demeanor.

She's also been under a lot of pressure.

"After lunch, I'll send you to Dongsheng City. ”

Li Xing's tone was soft, and he grabbed the schoolbag from Li Keran's hand and helped her carry it in his hand.

"I brought it up myself......"

Li Keran followed behind and muttered quietly.

Then she was slightly stunned, grabbed the corner of Li Xing's clothes, and said in a loud voice: "It's a mistake, the bus stop is over there, why are people confused when they go abroad." ”

"This time I was promoted and raised my salary in Bingtia, and today we don't take the bus. ”

Li Xing smiled, grabbed his sister's hand, and pulled her, who was still a little confused, towards a taxi that had just stopped on the side of the road.

"Huh, really?" Li Keran had a surprise on his face.

But soon frowned again.

"But it's the same with the bus, you can get to ...... anyway"

It's just that before he finished speaking, he was pulled into the taxi by Li Xing.

"Master, go to the Anjia community over there in the old city. After getting into the car, Li Xing said to the driver in front of him, "Don't trouble too fast, my sister is prone to motion sickness." ”

"Okay. ”

The driver, a kind-looking middle-aged uncle, answered cheerfully, turned on the meter, started the vehicle, and drove towards the old town.

The uncle drove very steadily, the rear window was rolled down a little, and the wind blew into the car along the gap, blowing Li Xing's black hair fluttering.

Li Xing looked sideways at the scenery passing by outside the window, the wide and clean asphalt road, the white street lamp poles, the shops and tall buildings along the way, the dense traffic and the compatriots on the street, all of which gave him a faint sense of intimacy.

"Which country did you just come back from, young man?" asked the driver's uncle.

"Bingtia. Li Xing retracted his gaze, "How does the master know that I have only returned to China?"

"People who have just come back from abroad basically have similar eyes to you, and you can see them at a glance, so I guess you just returned to China. The driver said with a smile.

"The master is very powerful. ”

Li Keran next to him was opening the schoolbag and was about to take the book out, Li Xing reached out and pressed the schoolbag, looked at her and shook his head.

Reading in the car hurts your eyes too much.

Li Keran poked him in the arm with a small finger.

Leave her alone as soon as she comes back.

"Look at you and you've been out for a long time, I think it's going to be two years. The driver glanced at Li Xing through the reflector.

I haven't been abroad for so long, and I won't have that unique demeanor.

"You're not right this time, it's only been for two months. Li Xing laughed.

“...... Huh?" the driver was obviously stunned, and kept glancing at Li Xing in the reflector, with a puzzled expression.

However, the driver's uncle recovered quickly.

"You're traveling for the summer vacation, aren't you?"

"It's just a poor family, how can you have the money to go out to play and go out to work during the summer vacation. Li Xing shook his head and said.

"The young man is very capable, my son is older than you, and he sits in the room every day and plays on the computer every day after the holidays. The driver couldn't help but praise, "But your poor life won't be long before it's coming to an end." ”

"Huh, what's that?"

Li Xing was a little interested, could it be that this driver would still look at his face and know that he had made a lot of money in Bingtia?

"If you settle down in the community, it will be demolished soon, and when the demolition money is taken, the city will divide a few more suites, rent out two or three sets of rent, and collect rent every day, and you can take the money every day while lying at home. ”

The driver's uncle looked envious.

"It's going to be demolished? Why haven't I heard about it?" Li Xing looked at his sister next to him, and Li Keran also shook his head blankly.

"There will be news right away, the city is going to build a high-speed rail station south of your settlement community, and it has been confirmed. ”

"High-speed rail station...... Li Xing groaned slightly.

He had heard about the high-speed rail station a long time ago, and he had the news before his father had an accident, but there had been no movement for a few years.

It is true that the high-speed rail should be built, and in recent years, many Haijing people have come to Gaocheng to buy a house, and they have almost bought a building, which is said not to be a stay, but to be specially used to place urns to worship the ancestors, because the cemetery in Haijing City is much more expensive than the houses in Gaocheng.

These real estate buildings are jokingly called ghost buildings by Gaocheng people, and there are more dead people than living people living in them, so there was a lot of movement in the first half of this year, and many owners strongly asked to check out.

It's a bit of a stretch.

It is said that after the high-speed rail is connected, it will only take 20 minutes to travel from Haijing City to Gaocheng, which greatly reduces the time.

Their old neighborhood must have been demolished for commercial development, but most of the community was looking forward to demolition, including their home.

Because in the past few years, the demolition has basically made a lot of money, just like the driver said, there is no need to go out to work when you get a few houses.

Who wouldn't want to encounter this kind of good thing?

Gaocheng is just a small county-level city, the place is not big, it only took fifteen minutes, and the taxi drove to the Anjia community.

"Do you want to go in?"

The driver's uncle slowed down and asked aloud.

"No, just stop outside the gate. Li Xing replied.

The driver drove the taxi to the gate and stopped, Li Xing paid the fare and got out of the car with his sister.

Anjia community is the kind of old community, in the community, the walls outside the houses are basically peeled off and clean, revealing the walls that are a little blackened by the rain all year round, and the houses inside are only six floors, because no matter how high they are, they must be equipped with elevators.

Compared with the newly built commercial buildings on the other side of the road, the whole community is like a dying old man.

Li Xing's home is in Building 6, located in the middle row of the community, on the third floor B302.

The brother and sister soon came to the bottom of Building 6, walked into the corridor and went all the way to the third floor, Li Keran took out the key to open the door, and the two walked into the house.

"How does it feel at home?" Li Keran looked at him and smiled.

"Hmm......" Li Xing made a thoughtful look, "I feel a little stuffy at home." ”

The younger sister suddenly cocked her mouth and snorted heavily.

Li Xing laughed, walked to the kitchen next to him and opened the window, the breeze poured into the room from the outside and hit his face, and the air was suddenly no longer as dull as just now.

Usually, the windows of no one in the house are closed to prevent sudden rain, and the rain enters the house, causing it to feel very dull every time I go home.

He went and opened the windows of the bathroom and balcony in turn to allow for a more pleasant flow of air.

"It's good to be home. ”

Li Xing stood on the balcony and looked outside, and said softly in his heart.