"What qualifies that person to be my father? Would a father leave his wife and children alone when in danger? If my father was a man who only cared about himself and did not care about the lives of his wife and children, I would rather he was dead. ”

Mingke slammed his fist against the hard stone wall, his words full of hatred for his father.

Amy took his hand, broke off the five fingers he had pinched one by one, and interlocked them with his ten fingers.

"Mingke, I'm here."

She looked up at Mingke, and her tone was firm, just like Mingke said this to her every time she had a problem.

Mingke's anger gradually subsided under Amy's reassurance.

"You don't look like you are right now, let's go out for a walk."

Mingke's mood is only temporarily stable now, and if he sees Ming's mother and talks to her about that person again, he will definitely not be able to help but get angry again.

"She has obviously suffered so much, she was abandoned by that person when she was so dangerous, and she almost died in that mountain and couldn't come back, why do she still want that person to come back so much? Why was she so happy when that person was mentioned? She has only been out of the mountains for a year, has she forgotten all the suffering she has suffered before? ”

"My aunt is very emotional. It's about to be the New Year, let's not talk about these first, let's go to the two of us together during the New Year, right? There are many people. ”

Ming's mother is a very emotional person, and Mingke has no relatives to accompany him because he grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and he has to fight wits and courage with those in the village who don't like him every day in order to survive, and he has to try his best to reduce his sense of existence to save his life because of his father, so he is very sensible, so rational that sometimes Amy thinks he is unkind and frighteningly cold.

But Amy fully understood his hatred for that man.

At that time, the existence of Ming's father made Ming's mother and Mingke suffer more than others, but this person left his wife and children behind and fled abroad alone.

Mingke almost died in Mao'er Village because of him, and Ming's mother almost died because of him, of course he couldn't forgive this father who had never sheltered him, but only brought him endless disasters and white eyes.

Amy led him away from the crowd and walked all the way to the lake that the two of them liked to go to before.

Now it's cold, there's no one by the lake, it's quiet.

Neither of them spoke, but they held hands and walked in circles around the lake.

As they walked, the snow fell, falling on their jet-black hair, and in an instant they turned white.

"Well, it seems that you will still be a very handsome old man when you get old in the future."

Amy stared at the snow above him, quipping in a serious way.

The corners of Mingke's mouth couldn't help but lift, and finally showed a smile.

"Thank you for the compliment, you will be a very beautiful old woman when you are old in the future, the most beautiful one in the whole street."

While they were relaxing by the lake, Zhou Yize stood at the gate of Jiangcheng University with some gifts.

He had just finished his exams, and because he had to pay the tuition for the next academic year, which is his sophomore year, at the beginning of the next semester, he wanted to save more money to reduce the burden on his family, so he was not in a hurry to go home.

However, Zhou Yize did not wait for Amy, but saw an unexpected person.

Elaine.

She was on her way to deliver freshly baked pear juice to a street next to the school, just past the school gate.

Zhou Yize liked Ai Lian for many years, but Ai Lian kept avoiding him, and later he left Jiangcheng to go to Mao'er Village, and after he got along with Yan Xiaoxi, the relationship between the two was deliberately distanced.

But he watched Elaine push the wooden cart through the snow, and still walked over to pick it up.

"I'll come, it's snowing on the road and it's slippery, and you don't have enough strength."

To say that Zhou Yize has no other feelings in his heart when he sees her, of course it is impossible, but he has always been a person who abides by the rules at a glance, and when he has a girlfriend, of course he will control those emotions that should not appear.

"Oh, no, I can."

Ai Lian didn't expect to meet Zhou Yize here, knowing that he had an object, she was afraid of causing unnecessary misunderstandings, so she reached out and wanted to snatch the car back.

But Zhou Yize's strength was bigger than her, and his movements were faster than her, and he pushed the car and walked forward.

There was pear juice in a large bucket on the hand push, and Elaine was afraid of spilling things with him again, so she simply pointed out the direction of the delivery to him.

"Aren't you working at home, why are you here?"

Zhou Yize's tone was the same as when chatting with a friend who hadn't seen him for a long time, nothing special, Ai Lian felt that no matter how she twisted and pinched, it seemed to be interesting to him, and she slowly let go of her tense body.

"Something happened at home, and now I live with Xiaomi and work here. If you come home for the Chinese New Year and meet people in my family, please don't tell them I'm here. ”

Zhou Yize knew what kind of person Ai's mother and father were, and he also knew how tolerant Ai Lian usually was, and immediately thought that something very serious and bad must have happened this time.

"It's good to come out. After the Chinese New Year, you can apply for university entrance examinations, and if you want to continue studying, you can give it a try. ”

"Hmm."

Elaine hadn't thought about going to college before, but now that she was by Amy's side, watching her read and write, she was very envious.

In addition, Amy trusts her very much, and entrusts her with many business things, including dealing with those shopkeepers and talking about business.

This made Elaine realize that she didn't have enough knowledge now, especially since Amy was so smart and capable, she would definitely make her business bigger in the future, and if she kept standing still and didn't make progress, sooner or later she would not be able to keep up with the pace and become Amy's drag.

When it came to the matter of the reading exam, Ai Lian immediately relaxed, and asked Zhou Yize some questions that she didn't understand.

Although Zhou Yize was not admitted to Jiangcheng University because of his previous mistakes, he has been studying hard in his current school.

Now the professors in the school have real skills, he has learned a lot, and it is more than enough to guide Elaine.

The more the two of them chatted, the happier they became, and to the last point there was no sense of polite alienation because of the past.

Soon, they were outside the hotel.

"I've arrived."

Zhou Yize helped move things into the store, and was a little curious about what she was doing, but Ai Lian didn't take the initiative to say, so he didn't ask.

On the way back, the two also chatted happily, and when they separated, Zhou Yize also said:

"If you have any questions you don't understand in the future, you can come to me, of course, I mean Xiaomi when they don't have time."

He said this very calmly, without any other thoughts.

As a friend, Zhou Yize hopes that Elaine can get better and better.

"Well, I will, thank you so much for today."

Elaine thanked her and took out two candies from her pocket and gave them to him.

"I didn't have anything with me, thank you next time I have a chance."

After saying goodbye, Zhou Yize handed over the thank you gift that he had prepared to give to Amy, and then the two walked in different directions.

When Zhou Yize turned the corner, he bumped into Yan Xiaoxi.

"Why did you come out when the weather is so cold, have you packed the things you want to bring home?"

Now that the road is not safe, Zhou Yize plans to send Yan Xiaoxi home safely and then return to his house later.

Today, in addition to thanking Amy, he also bought some things to eat on the road, and gave New Year's gifts to the people of Mao'er Village.

"It's all packed."

Yan Xiaoxi rarely didn't talk back to Zhou Yize, and smiled very gently.

She saw Zhou Yize and Ai Lian talking just now, and saw him smiling happily.

Zhou Yize is good-looking, has good grades, and loves to help people as much as he did when he was in the village, so he is very popular in school.

But Yan Xiaoxi never worried that those female classmates would snatch him.

The first is that she knows that Zhou Yize is a very responsible person, and she will never get too close to other girls when she has a girlfriend.

Second, Yan Xiaoxi has absolute confidence in her face, believing that there is no better-looking girl in the entire school.

However, when Yan Xiaoxi saw Ai Lian just now, he suddenly had a strong sense of crisis.

This sense of crisis is much stronger than when she first met Amy.

It's not because Elaine looks better than Amy, but because when Zhou Yize stood with her, even she felt very harmonious in her heart, as if they were born as a family.

Yan Xiaoxi held Zhou Yize's arm tightly, no longer thinking about whether he could be seen by the rest of the school.

"Aze, I just picked out a New Year's gift for you, you will definitely like it."

She asked Zhou Yize to close her eyes, and then took out the pen given to her by a male classmate from her bag.

She used a lot of means to get the person to buy this pen, and it was very expensive.

The woman who was talking to Zhou Yize just now looked like a wage earner with no money, and she definitely couldn't afford to give such a good gift.

Zhou Yize looked at the expensive pen in his hand, and the smile on his face disappeared immediately.

"Who gave this to you?"

"I—I just bought it in the store, and it wasn't given by someone else."

Yan Xiaoxi was bent on overpowering Ai Lian, and when he gave out the pen, he didn't think about anything else at all, but felt that the more precious the better.

However, the person standing in front of her was Zhou Yize.

"I know how much money you have, and this pen is definitely not what you bought."

Zhou Yize clenched his fists and returned the pen to Yan Xiaoxi.

He was particularly angry last time because of Yan Xiaoxi and Wei Dahai, but Yan Xiaoxi kept assuring him that those people were pestering her, and she would take care of all these things.

Later, Zhou Yize did not see her and Wei Dahai walking together again.

Originally, he thought that Yan Xiaoxi finally knew that he was wrong, and knew that he shouldn't get too close and too close to other boys when he had a partner, but now looking at this fountain pen, Zhou Yize knew that he was wrong.

The promises that Yan Xiaoxi made before were all fake at all.

"Aze, I really bought the pen, do you believe me? I know you've always wanted a fountain pen, so you're reluctant to eat and buy new clothes, and you've managed to save enough money to buy it for you as a gift, how can you doubt me so much? You've never treated me like this before, is it because of the woman you just talked to? ”