Zhang Zhe rarely has a time when he can be sure that he is really happy. Except for the moment when I was adopted, it is probably now. He took the notice from the school, and he trembled a little with joy, although he still maintained a calm face.

If it weren't for the dean's mother, he probably wouldn't have finished junior high school.

He carefully put the notice back in the paper bag and hugged it to his chest, and the sense of certainty that the future was certain made him feel extremely happy.

"Brother Zhang Zhe!" Behind him caught up with a fiery teenager, his basketball uniform crookedly on his body.

"Wang Yang." It's the child of his 'parents'. Zhang Zhe turned around with a smile on his face.

"Brother, have you been admitted to S University?" Wang Yang didn't look very happy, but Zhang Zhe didn't see it, and replied excitedly and happily.

"Hmm." He nodded, still unable to hide the excitement in his eyes: "I have to go out tomorrow to look for a job, and I have to apply for a student loan after school." ”

Wang Yang let out a sullen sigh, not happy, nor very excited.

"Do you have something on your mind?" Zhang Zhe finally sensed his depression.

"I was admitted to the key points, but the tuition fees were too expensive, and my mother wanted me to go to the ordinary public school."

Zhang Zhe didn't speak, he didn't think he might be of any help in this.

"Brother, can you help me plead for mercy?"

An hour later, Zhang Zhe appeared at the door of Wang Yang's house. He didn't know what he was going to do, but he was here, and he should give it a try.

As always, my mother didn't seem very happy when she saw Zhang Zhe coming, and she didn't seem to hate it.

However, Zhang Zhe walked in a little cautiously with a concern.

He didn't want to speak, and Zhang Zhe didn't even know whether to change his name to mother or aunt.

"What are you doing here?" Wang Qian asked coldly instead of her mother.

Her rude and cold attitude was not reproached by her mother; In fact, he has never been blamed. Although he has to experience it once every time, but this time because he has something to say, Zhang Zhe feels cold for no reason, and the premonition in his heart is very bad, and the brain is desperately screaming for him to pull out his legs and run, but the brain, as the highest organ, seems to have lost control of his legs, and he refuses to cooperate even if it screams through his throat.

"King. . . Wang Yang. For.. Why.. Can't go. Go to that good high school... Zhang Zhe's voice was very small, and his shoulders shrank unconsciously. The newly developed body is tall and slender, with the youthfulness of adolescence, and it seems to be vulnerable and thin.

'Mom' didn't speak, and directly slapped Wang Yang.

The crisp voice frightened Zhang Zhe and trembled.

"As I said a long time ago, your family doesn't have the money to go to a private school, and you study like a public school. Who are you talking to about what's the use?! She yelled at Wang Yang heartbreakingly, and Zhang Zhe was a little unbearable. He walked up and grabbed her arm, but he was petrified in place. He was still struggling with the question of whether to call Aunt or Mom.

Seeing that Zhang Zhe didn't speak, she also gave him a slap. The huge inertia made Zhang Zhe turn his head sideways, and the clear finger prints on his face instantly turned red.

"What are you doing? I beat my son, do you have an opinion to make?! Giving up Wang Yang, she changed her target to Zhang Zhe.

"I didn't mean that ... I thought, private is actually a little bit better... ”

Zhang Zhe is stupid, but he can't say how good it is at the critical moment.

"I've said it all, I can't afford to be private. The tuition fee for one private school is enough for the two of them to finish their studies in a public school. My father is the only one in my family who makes money, how can he provide for so many children. In other people's families, the eldest and his father work together for the children below to study, do you want to provide for them with your father? ”

She said it with sarcasm. Zhang Zhe knows. But what Zhang Zhe thinks about is not whether her tone is right, but her content.

She did sneer at Zhang Zhe, but now that Zhang Zhe is here, she can still eat at the table. When she is in a good mood, she always says that she is a family with Zhang Zhe, and she always says that she hopes to be together as a family in the future. So is Zhang Zhe the boss of the family?

"If you provide for Wang Yang, you can go to study privately, my family has no money to provide it." Her tone grew more sarcastic, with a confident contempt. Zhang Zhe shrunk every time she came, looking like a slut who was flattering, and she was already annoyed. However, the child's father always reminded her that they were guilty of abandonment to Zhang Zhe, and they would go to jail if caught. In order to avoid Zhang Zhe's initiative to expose, peacekeeping is an urgent need.

"I..." Zhang Zhe began to spit again. Wang Yang's grades are so good, the top schools in the future must be picked at random, and the private school can give him a better learning environment, and if he really loses the public school, it is not easy to say whether his rebellious psychology will make him give up. Since it's the eldest brother of this family, it seems that it should be shared a little.

"I... I'll confess" After saying this, Zhang Zhe was inexplicably relaxed. The dust settles and there is no sense of relaxation without suspense. I had a bad feeling when I first came in. Now that the hunch has come true, it is so light.

He was still studying, and there was no dormitory for him to live in. In desperation, Zhang Zhe still lives in an orphanage. The difference is that now he sleeps in the dean's duty room. He's too big to live here anymore.

He felt that he had done something wrong today, but he didn't want to admit that he shouldn't have agreed to let Wang Yang study. Remorse filled his brain and his heart, and he had to hide his depressed look so that no one could find out.

The principal's mother was sitting in the office working, he tried his best not to make a noise, and carefully prepared to pick up something and leave.

"Zhang Zhe is back" The dean's mother looked very happy, raised her head to look at Zhang Zhe with a smile, and stretched out her hand to compare: "Quickly show me the admission letter, in a blink of an eye, we Zhang Zhe are going to go to college." ”

Speaking of the notice, Zhang Zhe thought of Wang Yang's matter again. He handed her the notice and wanted to turn around and go out for a walk.

The dean's mother was immersed in the joy of Zhang Zhe's admission, and did not notice that he was wrong.

In a blink of an eye, the day of school has arrived. Zhang Zhe relied on his good appearance and found a job as a waiter in a five-star hotel. It's very tiring, and sometimes I have to work overtime, but I can earn okay, so that after a summer vacation, I can almost save enough tuition for myself and Wang Yang. He worked hard, but he was motivated.

School is about to start, and it's like all the hard days are over. Zhang Zhe dragged the plate in his hand, and the white tablecloth in his hand circled, wiping the already white plate even whiter.

"Zhang Zhe!"

It was the voice of the foreman. Zhang Zhe put down the plate and ran over quickly. This foreman is stingy and often angry, Zhang Zhe doesn't want to provoke him for no reason, and he doesn't want to be deducted from his salary for no reason.

"The guests over there want to help carry the things, you go."

Zhang Zheying came down and ran over quickly, and picked up the luggage according to the instructions of the guest. I don't know what is inside, and Zhang Zhe can't straighten his waist anymore. While no one was looking, he carefully placed the box on the ground and dragged it forward little by little.

'Boom! ’

Without noticing, one side of the box hit the corner of the table. He reached out and touched it, and it seemed that nothing was wrong. Zhang Zhe put down the box, turned around and walked out, and returned to work. I had just wiped two plates when I heard a shout in my ears.

"Zhang Zhe!" The foreman shouted his name loudly, and his tone was angry, as if he was going to tear him apart. He hurried over.

The foreman held a computer with a wound on the shell in his hand and pointed at him angrily: "Did you just bump into a customer's things?!" ”

He wanted to say no, but just as he was about to speak, he remembered the time when the box was on the corner of the table.

Zhang Zhe was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak. No matter what he crashed, he couldn't afford to pay for it.

"You don't have to ask for this month's salary! The customer's computer was broken by you! ”

Zhang Zhe wanted to deny his words, but the thing was indeed broken by him. The wedge-shaped scar on the shell looked like the corner of that table. If he broke it, he should lose money, but if he lost money, his tuition fee was gone.

But he didn't speak, not even a word. He won't beg for help, and the little pride and self-esteem in his heart are controlling the world, so he can't beg for mercy.

The day before school started, he looked at the salary in his hand and realized that he and Wang Yang could only have one person to fulfill their dreams.

He began to regret it, blaming himself for why he had straightened up so hard at that time. It's better to be lower than to lose your dreams.

Early the next morning, the dean's mother walked in happily.

"Let's go Zhang Zhe, I'll send you to report!" She couldn't hide her excitement, and the tiny crow's feet at the corners of her eyes outlined into flowers. S University, Zhang Zhe was admitted to one of the top universities in the country.

Looking at her excited, Zhang Zhe realized what he had done. He broke free of her wrist and walked back to pick up his overalls. If he doesn't study, he will go to work, and he should also leave the orphanage.

"Zhang Zhe?" His unusual behavior surprised her.

"I'm not going to study anymore." Zhang Zhe replied in a muffled voice.

The dean was shocked.

"You dead child! What nonsense are you talking about?! How many people dream of it, how can you give up this opportunity?! She stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Zhe's arm and dragged him out, but she was Zhang Zhe's opponent because of her petiteness.

"I said I wasn't going!" He shook off the dean's hand and stubbornly picked up his work clothes and prepared to go out.

"Zhang Zhe! Stop! "The principal's mother is also angry, she has never called Zhang Zhe like this, this is the first time." What about your tuition?! I saw you put money in my desk a few days ago, and I vacated it in the drawer for you, and this morning the employee said that Wang Yang was here. What about your tuition?! ”

Zhang Zhe pretended not to hear and continued to walk forward.

"Zhang Zhe!! Zhang Zhe!! She ran forward and dragged Zhang Zhe's arm to prevent him from leaving: "I asked you for money!" Did you give your tuition to the people of the Wang family? What do they think of you? Why do you have to associate with their families?! You dead kid, do you know that you can't give up this opportunity! ”

"Enough!" Zhang Zhe interrupted her loudly: "Maybe they will be my relatives!" ”

"They won't be your relatives!"

"You said it! You said that when my younger siblings grow up, they will take me back! But I still live here! You said it! ”

Zhang Zhe shook her off and ran out. The dean was left alone. It wasn't what she said, but she guided Zhang Zhe to think so. If she had known that there would be such a day, she would have directly denied his conjecture and wishful thinking.

She felt that her body was a little disobedient, and the straight corridor in front of her seemed to be starting to turn into a moat. The office door was wide open, but she felt like she couldn't get through. She leaned her palms against the wall, trying to rub them in little by little.

Not long after he changed into his work clothes, his colleague ran over and asked him to listen to the phone. After Zhang Zhe took the microphone, he only remembered the word hello, and the rest couldn't be heard. When he came back to his senses, he was standing in the hospital. The dean's mother was lying on the bed, her face full of tubes. Zhang Xuan knelt next to her and held her hand, Zhang Yuan cried hoarsely, like a pig who had just been stabbed by being tied to the board. He tilted his head and pulled his neck, trying his best to amplify his voice. Zhang Zhe saw the dean's mother's eyes drift towards him, but he still couldn't understand it, it was still so complicated, and then she closed her eyes. Never opened it again.

Acute cerebral hemorrhage, when he was sent to the hospital, the amount of bleeding had already filled the cranial cavity, and he could not speak at all. There are only two results of craniotomy, either a vegetative person or a direct death on the operating table. Zhang Xuan chose to let his mother leave with dignity.

Zhang Zhe wanted to cry, but he couldn't. It was as if his heart and throat were clogged with wooden plugs, and he couldn't breathe at all.

The person who loved him the most in the world, is gone. It's just that he still had hope for the Wang family at that time.

"Hmm~~"

A soft hum came from his ears, pulling his thoughts back to the present. It's half past six in the morning, and he's going on a business trip north for a few days. In order to save money, Zhang Xuan booked him the economy class of a red-eye flight, which was still the cheapest. The price is that he can't even straighten his legs now. The girl sitting next to her has thick eyebrows and jet-black eyelashes. The big eyes on the face without powder are not energetic, with the exhaustion of lack of sleep.

Ten minutes ago, as soon as Zhang Zhe reached her seat, she was sleeping alone. Her eyebrows don't seem to have been trimmed regularly, and they have grown small stubble, messy, lazy and casual. It seems that she did it on purpose. Is it her eyebrows that reminded Zhang Zhe of the past? Did Zhang Xuan's mother also do it? He doesn't remember. Zhang Zhe took the breakfast and handed it to her.

She didn't answer, but raised her head a little, her eyes stayed on Zhang Zhe's face, and she looked at him motionlessly.

"Ahem!" Zhang Zhe coughed and reminded her. She was startled and quickly apologized. There is cuteness in the panicked look. Awkwardly took the bread and devoured it, choking so much that sometimes I had to raise my head unconsciously to swallow the bread.

Zhang Zhe leaked a little imperceptible smile, and his thoughts went back to the day he returned to the orphanage, and the director's mother put the food in front of him with a plate. Zhang Zhe, who had been hungry for two days, stuffed food into his mouth with a big gulp, and raised his head from time to time to let the food choked in his throat go down.

He carefully skimmed the girl with his spare eyes, not knowing how to ask the first sentence. Until another voice came to my ears:

"If you don't eat the bread, can you give it to me?"

Someone who really belongs to you, even if you stay put, she will come to you by mistake.