The final exam is about to be held, and Li Ming helps Li Heng pack his schoolbag while telling him to study quickly. Li Heng pouted on the side, looking unhappy. Li Ming doesn't pay attention to his emotions, and Li Heng looks like this every time he goes back to school after spending the weekend at home.

"Sister, the teacher asked us to buy an arithmetic book." Li Heng said that his mood was obviously not high.

"Is it the whole class going to buy it or is it just you're going to buy it?" Li Ming asked.

"It's not the whole class that buys it, it's me and a few other classmates in the class who want to buy it."

Li Ming sighed.

packed Li Heng's schoolbag, and took down the clothes that Li Heng brought back from school to clean this weekend from the drying rack on the balcony and put them in his pocket.

After taking out his mobile phone and booking a taxi, he led Li Heng out of the apartment.

After waiting on the side of the road for a few minutes, a taxi pulled up on the side of the road not far from them.

Li Ming walked ahead, and Li Heng trotted to keep up with Li Ming.

"Driver, go to the shopping street."

The driver answered, and the taxi drove steadily towards the commercial street of the island city.

"Master, can you wait for us for a while? I took my brother to the bookstore to buy a workbook and it came out. Li Ming sat in the back seat of the car and said to the driver.

"No problem, wait where you're going."

"Go to Island City for a little while."

"Oh, I'm going back to school today on Sunday." The driver laughed.

Hearing the driver say this, Li Heng's originally unsightly expression sank more like he could drip ink.

When they arrived at the commercial street, Li Ming took Li Heng's hand and walked towards the bookstore that supplied the flower shop.

Li Heng tried his best to slow down, and was reluctantly "dragged" to the bookstore by Li Ming.

Entering the door of the bookstore, Li Ming walked to the cash register, the sunlight in front of the bookstore owner was blocked, and he looked up at the passer.

"Huh? Didn't that batch of new books just be delivered? It's coming back again. The boss greeted Li Ming warmly.

"I'm not here to buy goods, I'm here to buy my brother a workbook for oral arithmetic." Li Ming replied with a smile.

"Oh yes, what grade is my brother in?"

"Second grade."

After Li Ming finished speaking, the bookstore owner nodded and went to the bookshelf not far away to rummage through it. After a while, the boss came back with a workbook.

"This series of oral arithmetic problems has been selling well recently, and older children are using this series of oral arithmetic books." The bookstore owner said as he handed the workbook in his hand to Li Ming.

Li Ming took it and looked at it, nodded after reading it, and was about to pay the bill, when a phone call came in.

"Ah Ming, did Ah Heng go to school?" Li's father's voice came from the phone.

"I'll send him to school in a minute." Li Ming replied.

"Then you don't need to send him to school, I just got off the plane, and I want to take him to the mainland to see his grandfather, if you're okay, let's go together."

......

"I'll send him back now, you can wait at home." After Li Ming finished speaking, she hung up the phone, and after paying the bill, she took Li Heng's little hand and left the bookstore.

"Sister, don't I have to go to school?" Li Heng raised his little face and asked.

"Dad is back, pick you up and go to the mainland, I'll call your homeroom teacher to ask for leave later." Li Heng seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, but Li Ming's next words made him collapse his little face again.

"Bring all your homework, as well as the oral arithmetic exercises you just bought." Li Ming said lightly.

The taxi was still parked on the side of the road, and the two opened the rear driver's door and sat in.

"I've kept you waiting." Li Ming said apologetically.

"It's okay, so let's go to the first elementary school now?" The taxi driver asked.

"Oh no, let's go to the East Coast uptown now."

"Don't kids have to go to school?" The driver glanced at Li Heng, who was sitting next to Li Ming, and asked with a smile.

Li Ming just smiled politely and didn't reply again, Li Heng snorted lightly and turned his head to look out of the car window, looking like "I don't want to take care of you". The driver coughed twice in embarrassment and stopped talking to the siblings, and started the car to drive to the destination.

When she arrived downstairs at Li's house, Li Ming handed the schoolbag she was carrying to Li Heng and planned to leave. Li Heng grabbed the corner of Li Ming's clothes, looked at her with expectation and prayer in her eyes, and her eyes were shining, as if there were many stars hidden.

"Sister, come up with me, Dad hasn't seen you for a long time." Li Heng's tone was soft, making people feel as if they had lost the right to refuse him after hearing it.

Li Ming sighed helplessly and nodded.

Li Ming knocked on the door, and within a few seconds, the door was opened from the inside.

"You're back." Father Li smiled and took out slippers from the shoe cabinet and turned sideways to let the two sisters and brothers enter the door.

"Dad, how long am I going to stay in the mainland?" Li Heng asked after entering the door.

"It shouldn't be too long, Ah Heng is about to take the final exam, right? Dad will send Ah Heng back before the final exam. Father Li replied.

Li Heng, who was originally looking forward to it, fell down again after hearing Li's father's words. In just one day, Li Heng's psychological journey went up and down like a roller coaster.

"Auntie, her father is ......," Li Ming said to Li's father.

Father Li sighed.

"It's hard to say right now, just in case, I'll take you to see him."

Although Li Heng is still young, he can also understand what Father Li said, and he is silent at this time, and his already low mood is even heavier at this moment.

Li Ming nodded, even if her stepmother was very cold to Li Ming, she could even be said to be very bad to her in the past, and she no longer hated her so much in the past two years, but she didn't like it as always. But the stepmother's father, who is also Ah Heng's grandfather, has no opinion on Li Ming because of his daughter. Although it is not often seen, in Li Ming's impression, it is a kind old man who does not like to smoke, occasionally drinks some alcohol, and likes to play chess with chess friends in the park.

"Then I'll buy a plane ticket now." Li Ming said and took out her mobile phone and began to book tickets.

Father Li looked at Li Ming with satisfaction, this was her daughter, the only blood she left with herself. Li Ming never hated her stepmother because of her stepmother's attitude towards her and what she had done in the past, nor did she dislike Li Heng or her stepmother's father because of her stepmother.

Although she is a daughter, she has such a heart and is generally kind to her.

Li Ming bought the plane that night, packed her luggage after returning to the apartment, informed Chu Qionglin and went to Li's house again. When Chu Qionglin learned that they were going to the mainland, she drove her red car to Li's house as soon as she got off work.

"You don't have to go to such trouble to send us over, we can take a taxi to the airport, Arlene." Father Li said.

"It's okay uncle, Ah Ming is bored at home alone without me."

Chu Qionglin sent the three of them to the airport more than an hour in advance, and Father Li, Li Heng said goodbye to Chu Qionglin and walked to the front. Li Ming was the last to get out of the car, and Chu Qionglin stopped Li Ming.

"If she bullies you again, you must tell me as soon as possible, and I will buy you the earliest flight back to the island city immediately." Chu Qionglin said to Li Ming.

Li Ming hooked her lips and smiled.

"Don't worry."