In the blink of an eye, T City ushered in 2007.

At the beginning of January, it was raining in the sky, and in such bad weather, Ah Sheng's papers were published one after another in authoritative newspapers and magazines, Jiang Ning and Xue Mingzhu went to the newsstand to buy newspapers, and there were two girls in the same department in the lower grades in front of them who were discussing Ah Sheng.

Girl A: "It's Gu Sheng again, why is she in the newspaper every time?" ”

Girl B: "If your boyfriend is a university professor, your paper will be published every time." ”

Girl A: "What do you mean?" ”

Girl B: "Maybe these papers were written by Professor Lu." Da"

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It is said that Jiang Ning and Xue Mingzhu were upset about Ah Sheng that day, and had a verbal dispute with the two girls, almost fighting, and found Ah Sheng in the library afterwards, and they were indignant one by one.

Jiang Ning threw the newspaper on the table, and there was a loud "click": "Ah Sheng, this is not fair, they don't know how hard you work." ”

Xue Mingzhu was also angry: "Can I say that I am disgusting with this kind of person?" Seeing that others are better than himself, he picks on thorns in every possible way, maliciously slanders, and it is clear that he can't eat grapes and thinks grapes are sour. ”

For these, Ah Sheng is aware of this, but he does not react, any rumors that are unfavorable to him, the best way is not to be angry and face back, but to wait for the cooldown at the worst moment.

In 2007, she entered the age of 21, which is still very young in the eyes of some people, but she has long passed the age of fierce fighting. She abandoned her childishness before the age of 18, and after the age of 18, she began to learn to take responsibility for her own life.

Jiang Ning and Xue Mingzhu stood up for her, she was very moved, and those touches were enough to maintain a good mood all day.

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On January 5, the old lady had pain in her left side of her waist in the early morning, so she called Han Shuhui and rushed to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with kidney stones. It is more serious, and it is dangerous for an old lady to have surgery at such an age, so she can only be treated with medication first.

Ah Sheng went to visit the old lady in the hospital, and the old man tried his best to maintain his spirits, repeating himself: "It's not a serious illness, and I will be discharged from the hospital in a few days." ”

Ah Sheng sometimes passed, and the old lady fell asleep, so she sat there, looking at her quietly, maintaining a posture, and she could sit like that all day.

She held the old man's hand, thin, old, and unhealthy in color.

Ah Sheng suddenly remembered his father who was far away in the United States, he rarely answered her phone calls recently, and he didn't want her to hear his violent coughing again. When the phone called, most of the mothers answered the phone, and they were also slurring when they spoke, asking how their father was doing? The mother tried to relax, but her tone was inevitably a little heavy: "It's okay, there is me!" ”

"Hasn't my brother gone back yet?"

Mother sighed lightly: "I can do it alone, you are fine." ”

Ah Sheng's throat was a little tight, so tight that she didn't know what to say, and she sensed the fear and uneasiness in her mother's stumbling words that she had never felt before.

She couldn't be fine, it was her father.

In the third grade of elementary school, she represented the school to take the exam in a neighboring city, and her father accompanied her, and when the exam was over, she said, "I'm hungry." ”

Her father bought a bowl of noodles for her, then sat across from her and looked at her with a smile.

"Dad, why don't you eat it?"

"Daddy isn't hungry."

Many years later, she can still remember the smile on her father's lips, loving and gentle.

Later, she learned that her father's wallet had been stolen and he only had a bowl of noodles on him. When he returned home, he said only a few words to his mother: "Don't go hungry." ”

When I grew up, after going through the world, I realized that the love of parents for their children is not reciprocated, and it is also the most selfless.

She called her mother: "Is Dad seriously ill?" ”

The other side was silent for a long time, and then the mother said "um", on the other end of the phone, Ah Sheng's eyes were very hot, and a tear "snapped" and fell on the page, wetting the handwriting that had just been written on it.

She had many reasons to stay in T City, but she couldn't ignore the hot blood clamor in her body.

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06 swept away all the good weather, so God let the beginning of 07 suffer from bad weather for half a month.

It snowed for two days in a row, and the ground was covered with snow and ice, and everything was wet as far as the eye could see.

I still remember coming to T City and seeing snowflakes for the first time, Ah Sheng was full of joy, and now he has begun to learn to dislike it.

The old lady was so painful that she couldn't sleep at night, Lu Changping and Han Shuhui were middle-aged after all, and it was not good to stay up late, although they asked for an escort, Lu Zichu still stayed in the hospital at night.

Even at such times, he would still call her and tell her to cover the quilt at night; Be careful when she goes out, wear thick clothes, and even ask Wu Nai to pick her up and go to school......

Ah Sheng thought about telling him about his father, but he couldn't bear to say anything more in his tired words.

Some schools can graduate with a master's degree in two years, and the so-called time limit will be different for different schools and different majors. T University implements a credit system, and Ah Sheng's first year of graduate school has completed the credits, and the second year of graduate school has completed the workload ahead of schedule, as well as frequently published papers, which have long become the standard for the school to measure a student's professional performance.

On Monday, Ah Sheng approached the professor and said that he wanted to apply for early graduation, of course, the premise was that the professor agreed to release him.

The professor was silent for a long time, sighed softly, and stared at the application for a long time, as if it had something to do with the paper