The day after he returned to Jeju, Mr. Jing called Mr. Wu and told him that the photos they had taken in Beijing had been sent to his mailbox.

Wu Dao opened the mailbox, downloaded the photo, and looked at it many times. After that, he forwarded the photo to Si Baifang's mailbox. Wu Dao wanted to call Si Baifang and tell her about the photo, but after thinking about it, he decided to send a text message. After a while, Si Baifang replied with a text message of only two words: "Received." ”

Another day passed, Si Baifang came to Jeju University to find Wu Dao, and still met at the south gate of the school. She returned the books that Wu Dao had borrowed from the library to him, and told him that she didn't need to borrow any more books from her in the future, and that she had already applied for a library card from the Jeju City Library, so she could go to the city library to borrow books and read them by herself.

Looking at Si Baifang, who was determined to leave, Wu Dao couldn't say a word. It was at this door that he and Si Baifang met for the first time, and then left countless good memories. However, time has passed, and everything is no longer what it used to be.

Since that day, Si Baifang has stopped contacting Wu Dao, Wu Dao calls her but she doesn't answer, she doesn't reply to text messages, and the girl who used to contact him almost every day seems to have disappeared suddenly.

Of course, Wu Dao knew that Si Baifang would not disappear, and she must still be a teacher in Gaoyang Middle School because she needed this job. However, thinking of the conversation between the two people in front of Cao Xueqin's statue, Wu Dao didn't have the courage to go to Si Baifang, because he was afraid that that scene would repeat itself, and he was afraid that their relationship would become worse.

Wu Dao fell into extreme sadness, he knew that he was out of love. When he was an undergraduate, when he watched the girl he liked become someone else's girlfriend, Wu Dao also had such sadness, but the extent was far less than this time. He wanted to immerse himself in literary stories, so he went to the library to read novels, but there was no plot that could attract him, and tears could not stop flowing. He took his favorite poetry book to the open space of the school and read it aloud, but the poetry lost its magic, and he still couldn't forget the image of Si Baifang. He saw Si Baifang in his dreams again and again and called her name. He looked at the photos taken by the two of them in Beijing over and over again, and tears flowed again.

Time moves forward in sadness, and Wu Dao has been absent from his classmates' dinners and singing four times in a row on the grounds that he "has not slept well and needs to rest". It wasn't until the fifth time that his state of mind changed a bit, but he was more silent during dinner and singing. Other classmates asked Wu Dao how far he had progressed with the girl he liked, whether he had confessed, and when he would come to the party together, he smiled and said:

"We're done. No, in fact we never started. All along, it was I who misunderstood our relationship. ”

When asked what was going on, Wu Dao replied:

"This matter is very complicated, and it is also a private matter between the two of us, so I won't talk about it."

When the classmates heard Wu Dao say this, it was not easy to ask anything.

Time is so punctual, whether you are happy or sad, it will move at a fixed pace, no more, no less, no less days to come. On June 30, Jeju University students were busy for the upcoming summer vacation.

Li Mei called Wu Dao a few days ago and asked him what day the summer vacation would start, and what day he would go home, whether it would be morning or afternoon. Wu Dao told Li Mei that the school would start summer vacation on July 1 and that he would arrive home that afternoon.

Gaoyang Middle School is also on summer vacation on July 1. On the evening of June 30, Wu Dao mustered up the courage to call Si Baifang and wanted to ask her about her plans for the summer vacation, but Si Baifang still didn't answer. He had no choice but to take the car back to Qicheng County the next day with a dull mood.

In the days at home, Wu Dao still thinks about Si Baifang every day, and he feels that life is boring, and he can't read books.

Since going to university, Wu Dao has rarely done farm work again, and he has never been to his own land since he went to work in the Hecheng Town Government. In order to forget his troubles, Wu Dao took the initiative to work in the fields with his mother Li Mei. The summer in Qicheng County was high temperature and humidity, Wu Dao's sweat kept flowing down, he understood the difficulty of his parents, but he still did not forget Si Baifang.

Ten days later, Yang Chengzhi called the Wu family, saying that his son Yang Zaixing took the college entrance examination this year, and his grades were only enough to go to a junior college, and he didn't know what school to apply for.

Due to the influence of Wu Dao, Yang Zaixing also studied liberal arts. The relationship between the two cousins has always been good, and Wu Dao is happy to give Yang Zaixing some guidance. The Wu family was also very willing to let Wu Dao go, especially Wu He, who said to Wu Dao:

"We must give good guidance and guidance, so that he can also go to graduate school in the future."

Wu Dao smiled.

After Wu Dao arrived in Yangjiazhuang, his uncle Yang Chengzhi and aunt Wu Yue received him very warmly and served him a lot of fruits and dried fruits for him to eat. Yang Chengzhi said to him:

"Xiaodao, your cousin's studies are far worse than yours, you were an undergraduate in a key university at that time, and you were doing this college entrance examination, and your grades were only enough to go to a junior college, and I don't know what university to apply for, and we don't know this, I'm afraid that I can't admit you when I fill in the wrong one. It just so happened that you came back from summer vacation, so I asked you to come and guide him. ”

"If you don't play well and don't do well in the exam, repeat the exam for a year and take the exam again next year, maybe you can get a bachelor's degree." Wu Dao said.

"Brother, I'm not playing abnormally, my grades have always been like this, even if I repeat my studies for another year, I will still take these scores nine times out of ten, if I am a little worse, I may not be this year. So, I don't want to repeat it. Yang Zaixing said to Wu Dao.

"If you don't repeat it, you won't repeat it, the third year of high school is very tired, and it is not easy to get out, and no one wants to go back to suffer the second sin. Go to a junior college first, and then upgrade to a bachelor's degree. Wu Dao said.

"Yes." Yang Zaixing said.

"Where do you want to go to college?" Is it within the province or outside the province? Wu Dao said to Yang Zaixing.

"I haven't thought about that yet. Actually, I don't have any opinion on where to go to college, my parents want me to go to college in the province. Yang Zaixing said.

"It's better to go to college in the province, it's too far to go back and forth, and your uncle and I are not at ease." Wu Yue said to Wu Dao.

"What do you want to major?" Wu Dao said to Yang Zaixing.

"Chinese, journalism, foreign languages are all fine, and it will be easy to find a job in the future." I won't report history, politics or anything, I'm not interested. Yang Zaixing said.

"Yes, in the three majors of Chinese, journalism, and foreign languages, you can go to any of them." Yang Chengzhi said.

According to the request of the Yang family, Wu Dao asked Yang Zaixing to fill in a university in Jeju on the first and several poor universities in other cities in the province on the second, majoring in Chinese, journalism and English.

After choosing a university, Yang Chengzhi and Wu Yue prepared a sumptuous meal to entertain Wu Dao at noon.

Later, the admission results came out, Yang Zaixing's first choice was not admitted, and the second choice was admitted to Fangzhou University's English major. Yang Chengzhi held a banquet for relatives and friends to attend, and said a lot of words of thanks to Wu Dao at the banquet. Grandson Wu Dao went to graduate school, and now grandson Yang Zaixing has also been admitted to university, and Wu Hele at the banquet has blossomed.

Wu Dao knew in his heart that his cousin Yang Zaixing could have gone to a better university outside the province, but in the end he was admitted to Fangzhou College, one of the worst universities in the province, which was not the best result. What he didn't expect was that two years later he would also arrive at this school.

Although Wu Dao's summer vacation is very boring, there will be a time when the vacation will end. There was still a week before the start of school, and that morning, Si Baifang, who had not had any contact with Wu Dao for several months, suddenly sent him a text message, which read:

"I've bought a bottle of sleeping pills, we'll see you in the next life."

When he first saw that the sender of the text message was Si Baifang, Wu Dao was very excited, he thought that Si Baifang had forgiven him and wanted to reconnect with him and discuss the matter of the postgraduate entrance examination. After reading the text message, his eyes went black for a while. He suddenly realized that a lot of things must have happened to Si Baifang, and it was a big mistake that he didn't go to her in the past few months, so he quickly dialed Si Baifang's phone, but her phone was turned off.

Wu Dao didn't know whether Si Baifang was in Jeju or Peony City at this time, but he couldn't care so much, so he said goodbye to his grandfather and parents at that time, on the grounds that his tutor was looking for him to have an urgent matter and asked him to return to Jeju University immediately. Li Mei rode a tricycle to the bus station.

On the way back to Jeju, Wu Dao kept calling and texting Si Baifang, but the latter's phone never turned on. He could only pray that Si Baifang would never have an accident, and that the person would be in Jeju.

When the car arrived in Jeju, it was already afternoon, and Wu Dao did not go back to Jeju University or eat, but took a taxi directly with his luggage to Gaoyang Middle School, where Si Baifang worked. The school has not yet opened, and the gates are closed. The security guard at the door had seen Wu Dao and Si Baifang together many times, and had already met him, and thought that the two of them were in love. When the security guard saw that it was Wu Dao, he said:

"Are you coming to Teacher Si? It's been a day since I've seen you come to her. ”

"Is Si Baifang at school?" Wu Dao said.

"Don't you know? She didn't go home this summer and lived in the dormitory all the time. I saw her this morning, she seems to have bought something, she didn't come out again after she came back, and she should still be in the dormitory. ”

"I'm going to go in and find Teacher Si Baifang."

Gaoyang Middle School generally does not allow outsiders to enter, in the past, when Wu Dao came to Si Baifang, he called her to come out, and if she wanted to go in, she had to be led in by the teachers in the school. Although the security guard knew Wu Dao, he didn't want him to enter the campus. Wu Dao had no choice but to tell the security guard that Si Baifang might be in danger, so the security guard asked him to put his luggage in the guard room, and then the two of them went to the door of Si Baifang's dormitory together.

Si Baifang's dormitory door was locked inside. Wu Dao knocked on the door hard, but there was no movement inside, and he shouted Si Baifang's name loudly, but there was still no response. He said to the security guard:

"Teacher Si Baifang may really have an accident, and now we can only kick the door open before we can enter."

"It stands to reason that you shouldn't kick it. However, now that it is important to save people, we can't take care of it so much, so let's kick it together. The security guard said.

Wu Dao and the security guard raised their feet together and kicked the door hard, and Si Baifang's dormitory door finally opened.