Chapter 81: Trade-offs

"Sister Wu, I'll get a letter when I'm home." Yu Xia put a bag of bread that Shui Yin had just made in the morning on the back seat of the yacht.

"Well, contact me if you have anything, remember, don't be rash." Wuli actually wanted to stay here and wait for Yu Xia's mood to really stabilize before going back, but if he didn't go back, Zaoming would be suspicious.

"Oh, yes. This one is up to you. Kiri took out a file bag from his briefcase. This is the details of Hui Ci in the past month, the document will be given to you first, and you will be distracted from this after this turmoil has passed. Until then, I'll continue to take care of you. The fog waved to the water behind Yu Xia, "Brother and sister, I'm leaving!" ”

"Hmm!" Shui Yin's face was not very good, but before Sister Wu left, she still tried her best to show that she was full of energy. After Yu Xia and Jiu Zhi talked on the phone yesterday, Yu Xia asked about the content of the conversation as if she was hiding something from her, and Yu Xia only replied briefly that she agreed.

This is very strange, if Jiuzhi agrees, Yu Xia will be unusually happy, but no, Yu Xia seems very bland, and even often doubts.

"Yu Xia...... Yesterday ......" Shui Yin felt that Yu Xia had completely lost her usual anxiety and eagerness about this matter at a certain moment, and became careless, as if she had forgotten that her mother was still pacing in crisis.

"Let's go to class first." Yu Xia suddenly raised his hand and patted Shui Yin's head, which felt very different from before, through the contact between the palm of his hand and the top of his head, Shui Yin could detect an invisible sense of anxiety from the palm of his hand.

At noon, the goose feather snow arrived as scheduled. School workers dressed in thick cotton clothes and holding snow shovels came out of the school building one after another, and the sound of shovels rubbing against the ground tormented all the students who were studying in the classroom. Falling snow piled up next to the trunks of the trees, mixed with dust in the air.

……

When the two entered the house, they left a pair of snow-white shoe prints in the hallway, and the edges had melted slightly.

"Water sound." Before Yu Xia could change her shoes, she called Shui Yin, who had just walked two steps towards the bedroom.

"Huh?" Shui Yin turned around, fiddling with the fluffy cuffs of the down jacket with both hands.

"Is there anything you'd like to visit on your birthday?" Yu Xia was about the same height as Shui Yin when she stood in the hallway, and Yu Xia looked into Shui Yin's eyes and asked for her opinion.

"Hmm...... It's enough for you to stay home with me. Spend your day simply and carefree. After finishing speaking, Shui Yin turned around and entered the room with a smile on his face.

Yu Xia moved the corners of her mouth with a smile, some things are still difficult to say after all.

Like leaving her alone at home or something.

Yu Xia hasn't been in touch for a long time since then. If it had been two years ago, he would have made a decision and insisted on going his own way. Because he has nothing, he is not afraid of anything.

But now Yu Xia has too many things to consider, and the more she worries, the more she will become tiptoe. Yu Xia knows very well that once he goes there, it will be difficult to come back, and it is a danger of danger to retreat from the whole body and take food from the tiger's mouth. Do you really want to be watery? He didn't dare, he had already tried it once, and he couldn't stand the taste.

Reason reminded him over and over again that instead of looking for those stars in the sky, it was better to leave the best of himself to the people who were always by his side.

This is a kind of responsibility for everyone.

"The status quo is the right thing to do."

This needle was inserted into Yu Xia's head, blocking all the memories connected to her mother in Yu Xia's mind. He repeatedly hypnotized himself not to meddle in that matter again, as if his mother had never given him that business card, as if he had never made that phone call......

That night, Haxia decided to inform Mizune, and he didn't want her to worry, so he said that his mother would be fine over there, and he was satisfied to see her. He was very satisfied with this separation, so this matter should be over like this......

Shuiyin's subsequent breaking of the casserole and asking in the end did not help Yu Xia, and after asking Yu Xia Jiu Zhi for the third time what he had told him on the phone and failing for the third time, she stopped, because she realized that even if she helped Yu Xia change her choice, it was not necessarily right and safe.

Mizune gave him a hug, a hug that was apologetic and regretful. She wants to keep him by her side before Yuxia does the stupid thing of "fighting a regime with her own strength".

At that time, she should have stood on the same side as the foggy, and she felt that what she thought was "right" had become self-righteous and let others pay for her.

……

Shui Yin still suffers from insomnia in the early hours of her birthday, and more than sixty hours after that long-distance phone call, she is still trying to find a solution that is not satisfactory but has a little hope.

"No ......!" Yu Xia, who had a clumsy back, burst out with a dry voice, his tone was very tough, and the end was vague.

He's talking in his sleep.

The dreamer loses his dream, and so does the hearer.

When Shui Yin followed the voice to him, Yu Xia also turned over ninety degrees, and another vague dream word came out of his mouth.

"Because...... She ......"

Yu Xia is probably having a nightmare, even in a dream, there is no escape from the tragic truth.

In less than three hours, the sky was bright, and the sound of water was curled up under the quilt, and there was no trace of coolness on his body, but a little sweat.

Shui Yin pretended to be sleepy-eyed as the sun rose, waiting for Yu Xia to wake up. No matter what kind of background this birthday is in, it is worth remembering by Shuiyin. After all, this is the first birthday witnessed by Yu Xia.

As the sparrows on the low-pressure line flew to the ground in search of grain while the people on the street were coming and going, Yu Xia opened her eyes—her bloodshot but clear pupils began to record the sound of water at the beginning of her sixteenth year.

"Happy birthday, dear."

……

As Shui Yin had hoped, the day could be described as simple and carefree, until dinner the two of them gathered in the bakery to sell artisan bread, according to Shui Yin's previous words, if you want to go out for two during the winter vacation, you must start saving up now.

It seems that the bank card suffered a lot of sins when the furniture was changed.

"Can you handle it? I'm going to get dinner ready. Yu Xia looked out the long line of glass.

The sound of water is so busy that it has reached the realm of selflessness. His sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, his arms and cheeks were covered with flour, and his long hair was curled into balls to cover his hat, like a baker.

"Dinner?" Shui Yin gave a "Chef Yuxia is going to prepare a big meal for me", and the corners of his mouth rose with a smile. "No problem, you go get busy."

"Call me if there's something." Yu Xia gently wiped the solidified batter on Shui Yin's face with the palm of her hand. "I've poured the rest of the cream into a piping bag."

"Okay."

The long winter nights engulf the fiery clouds of golden red earlier and brighter day by day, and when the sun is completely gone, the temperature plummets by four to five degrees, which is an excellent reason for any creature on the island to "stay out". If the mother bird is tracked by an eagle when she goes out to forage, she will not choose to return to the pure land full of hope and vitality, because her life's mission is to protect the safety of her children and let them grow up carefree.

But even if it does this, it still can't avoid the death of the cubs, because the cubs keep coming out of the nest in search of their home.

At a time when they can no longer stand hunger.