Hu Zheng's father's affairs have passed, as before, they have also returned to their normal lives, Hu Zheng's thoughts about his father will be revealed from the bottom of his heart at an inadvertent moment, but Hu Zheng will adjust his emotions.

Since Hu Zheng read the letter written by Hu Jin, the whole person has become different from before, giving people a feeling that is not as lonely as before, talking to the people around him more often, and taking the initiative to ask friends around him for help when encountering difficulties, and studying harder.

Although other students don't know the reason for this, they know very well that the reason for all this is because of Dad Hu.

For Hu Zheng, studying hard is not only because he wants to change his fate and fight for his dreams, but also because Hu Zheng doesn't want to disappoint Hu's father and don't want Hu's mother to pay so much for herself in vain.

As before, the four of them still went to the cafeteria for lunch together and went home together after school, and sometimes Yi Qiu and Zhao Wen would join their small group as before.

In the blink of an eye, high school life has reached its final year. The students who entered the third year of high school were extremely busy. Even after school at noon every day, the four of them discussed that they would wait for fewer people to eat before going, saving a waste of time in queuing.

Hu Zheng and Lin Xuan are in the top class, the schoolwork in the top class is already heavy, and in the third year of high school, the school has stricter requirements for them.

The top class is the finale of their city's No. 1 middle school, and the number of students admitted to Tsinghua University every year is basically the number of students admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University in the city.

Hu Zheng and Lin Xuan, like the rest of the classmates, are brushing up on questions all the time. Compared with Lin Xuan, they are not so busy at the beginning, and the students in their class are divided into two parts, one part is a special student, as long as the professional course exam is passed, the requirements for cultural class scores are not so high in comparison. As long as you listen to the teacher's lectures attentively and complete the homework according to the teacher's requirements after class, you can basically be admitted to an ordinary art school, but if you want to be admitted to a famous art school in China, you have to say something else.

There are also some school connections, and these students don't care about their grades at all, because they are not ready to go to university in China. Therefore, the learning atmosphere in the class is not so tense.

Although the atmosphere in the class is like that, Ruchu and Wenyuan still put out 200% of their energy to study very hard, and Ruchu and Wenyuan will treat themselves as a qualified senior high school student who is about to take the college entrance examination every day, and keep brushing up on the questions.

So every time you have lunch, it's the most relaxing time of the day for several people. At this time of the day, Ruchu and Wenyuan would be chattering about all kinds of interesting things. Hu Zheng and Lin Xuan listened to them on the side, and would interject a few words from time to time.

Christmas is coming, and the students are more restless these days, on the one hand, because the weekly mock exams have brought a lot of pressure to the students, and everyone needs to vent the pressure, and on the other hand, because this is the last Christmas that everyone spent together in high school, and it may be difficult for everyone to get together in the future, so many students are ready to do something meaningful this Christmas.

Although the atmosphere of the festival was strong, it didn't affect the four of them too much. Because they never thought that they would be separated in the future, Wen Yuan and the others simply agreed to go out to eat together after school to celebrate briefly.

Christmas Day

Ruchu and Wen Yuan came to the classroom early in the morning and felt that the mood of the classmates in the class today was different from usual. Every student is mysterious. After the noon class, everyone went to the cafeteria to eat together, and I heard many students around us discussing the arrangements after school tonight.

Wen Yuan said, "This is the festival, and the entire senior high school students are boiling, alas, do you have any new arrangements for the evening?" If not, we will go to dinner together after school to celebrate, and take this opportunity to relax, we haven't gone out to eat together for a long time."

"I don't have any other arrangements anyway," Ruchu said as he put a piece of diced spicy chicken in his mouth.

"Then we'll have to go out a little later, and I'll have to help my mom clean up the store," Hu said.

Since Hu Jin's death, Hu Zheng has realized that Hu's mother's life is not easy. In the past, when Hu Jin was alive, Hu Zheng would give a large part of Hu Zheng's tuition and miscellaneous expenses, but now it all depends on Hu's mother alone, although Hu Jin left a sum of money, but Hu's mother has always refused to touch the money, because Hu's mother said that now she can afford to provide Hu Zheng to school by herself, and it will definitely be of greater use if she wants to keep that money in the future.

Hu Zheng didn't want to watch Hu's mother busy in the store alone, so as long as she took the initiative to go to Hu's mother's store to help during her rest time, although Hu's mother was afraid that her daughter would be very tired if she had to study and go to the store to help, and said that she could be busy without Hu Zheng's help, but Hu Zheng still insisted.

"Then I'll go to the store with you later," Wen Yuan said to Hu Zheng

"If it doesn't delay your business," Hu Zheng said

"Then why don't I go with Lin Xuan, we have nothing to do anyway," Ruchu said

"That's not necessary, just clean up, Wen Yuan is already redundant to help, you can help next time you're busy," Hu Zheng said

Now Hu Zheng is already learning to accept help from Wenyuan and his three good friends

"I don't have anything to do after school, and today everyone is busy with their own business, and no one is looking for me to practice basketball, what about you?" Wen Yuan asked Lin Xuan again

Lin Xuan said, "I don't have any other arrangements, just go as planned" and several people went back to the classroom to do their homework after eating

Standing at the intersection after school in the afternoon

Wen Yuan said, "Then you and Lin Xuan, you go back first, we will go directly to the gate of Jiamei Shopping Center to gather."

"Well, okay then, I'll go home and change my clothes first, by the way, Hu Zheng, you can wear thicker when you come out, it's a little cold at night" Ruchu said to Hu Zheng

"Got it," Hu Zheng said

Ruchu and Lin Xuan were walking home together and passed by a jewelry store, which was called honey&only. In order to promote the promotion and sales of the store, the store put a large billboard in front of the store, and the billboard reads, "Give you the best gift in my heart , my lover." ”

Lin Xuan stopped in front of the billboard. Ruchu walked and looked at Lin Xuanwu who didn't follow, looked back at Lin Xuan standing in front of a sign, Ruchu retreated, didn't look at what was written on the sign, and directly pulled Lin Xuan and said, "What are you looking at?" Let's go, I'll meet Wenyuan in a while."

dragged Lin Xuan away as before. Walking to the intersection in front, he said to Lin Xuan, "Bye-bye, see you later"

Lin Xuan said, "I'll send you home"

As early as he said, "No need, I'll be home in the middle of the day." If you send me, you'll have to take a long detour, I'll just go back by myself, bye-bye."

After speaking, Ruchu walked in the direction of his home.

Lin Xuan didn't go home immediately, but returned to the jewelry store just now, and the clerk immediately greeted him enthusiastically when he saw that the business was coming.

The female clerk asked Lin Xuan enthusiastically, "What kind of jewelry do you want to choose?" ”

Lin Xuan came to the counter and looked left and right and said, "Is there anything special?"

They are all very experienced old clerks, and they can basically guess his needs when they look at Lin Xuan's appearance, and the clerk said, "Look at you for your girlfriend, it just so happens that we have launched nine limited edition bracelets to celebrate Christmas, these nine bracelets are limited, unique, and the one-time launch of nine is also a long-term meaning, it is best to use it to give to your girlfriend, and there is a discount for Christmas today." If you don't buy it today, you won't be able to buy it in the future."

After listening to the clerk's description, Lin Xuan felt pretty good and wanted to take a look, The clerk took Lin Xuan to another counter and took out nine different bracelets from the glass counter, as the clerk said, the nine bracelets are different.

The clerk introduced Lin Xuan from the first paragraph. Lin Xuan didn't listen much to the clerk's introduction, because he himself took a fancy to one of the very thin bracelets at a glance. Half of the bracelet is fastened around the wrist twice, and the other half is two chains attached to a small ring with a hollowed-out pentagram star and a small blue diamond in the middle of the center. Lin Xuan picked up the bracelet and stared at it carefully.

Seeing that Lin Xuan was more interested in this bracelet, the clerk put down the one he was about to introduce to Lin Xuan, and instead introduced the bracelet that Lin Xuan was holding in his hand.

The clerk said, "Your vision is really good, this bracelet is our main promotion this time, and the advertising words outside are also customized for this bracelet." The two chains of this bracelet are attached to a ring with a five-pointed star on the inside of the ring. It represents two people who are connected by love, and this ring represents the guardian, and the pentagram represents the person who is guarded. The blue diamond in the middle of the pentagram symbolizes pure and firm love. In addition, the single part of the bracelet is fastened around the wrist for two weeks, which means that no matter how far the journey is, the end is still a kind of commitment to you. And the most important thing is that the tail chain of the bracelet is also engraved with "Lover, which means the hidden lover"

Lin Xuan turned the bracelet over and put it in his hand to stare at the tail chain, and the clerk immediately took out a magnifying glass from the side and handed it to Lin Xuan's hand. Lin Xuan pointed at the tail chain with a magnifying glass, and then he clearly saw the words engraved on the tail chain.

I have to admire the designer's technique, this paragraph will not be noticed at first glance, and even if it is noticed, it may not be recognized clearly, but with a magnifying glass, you can clearly see that every word on it is clearly engraved one by one.

Lin Xuan liked this bracelet very much, and imagined in his mind that he would help Ruchu put on this bracelet with his own hands, and happily put down the magnifying glass in his hand and said to the clerk, "That's it, help me wrap it"

The clerk saw that this business was completed so quickly, thinking that his commission had been settled, and happily helped Lin Xuan wrap the bracelet, and said to Lin Xuan very politely, "May I ask if you are cash or a credit card?" ”

Lin Xuan said, "Swipe the card," and then pulled out a bank card from his wallet.

After paying, the clerk politely handed the handbag to Lin Xuan, and then said "I wish you and your girlfriend a long and happy life, welcome to come again next time"

Lin Xuan politely said thank you to the clerk, and then put the gift in his schoolbag and went home.

As soon as she got home, Grandma Lin sat down next to Lin Xuan and asked Lin Xuan, "Xiao Xuan, today is Christmas, have you bought a gift for Xiao Chu?" ”

Lin Xuan looked at his grandmother, embarrassed to tell her the truth, and then lied to her grandmother and said, "Grandma, a few of us said that we just need to go out for a meal to celebrate, and we don't need to give gifts."

Grandma Lin looked at Lin Xuan with hatred and said, "Xiao Xuan, you have always been a very smart child, you are the best in both learning and other aspects, why are you so stupid in this matter?" Listen to grandma, go pick a gift for Xiao Chu in a while, don't let other boys take the lead, otherwise, you will regret it"

"Oh, I know" Lin Xuan originally wanted to confess to his grandmother that he had already chosen a gift, but in the end he still didn't tell Grandma Lin the truth

Wen Yuan's side

Wen Yuan and Hu Zheng returned to Hu's mother's breakfast shop, where Hu's mother was washing the dishes and chopsticks used by the guests. After Wen Yuan said hello to Hu's mother, he put his schoolbag on the stool, skillfully picked up a broom to help sweep the floor, and Hu Zheng also helped Hu's mother clean up. Mother Hu asked, "Wenyuan, why are you here today, didn't I hear Xiaozheng say that you have to practice basketball every day after school?" ”

"Today Christmas, the students we practiced had a holiday, and a few of us said that we would go out to dinner tonight to celebrate the festival together," Wen Yuan said

"Oh, then don't clean up, hurry up, finally find some time to rest and relax, I'll just clean up these by myself, and it won't take long," Hu's mother said

"It's okay, Auntie, we agreed, we'll go over when we're done cleaning up for you," Wen Yuan explained to Hu's mother

After helping Hu's mother clean up, Hu Zheng changed into a set of thicker clothes in the store, and then went to the agreed Jiamei Shopping Center with Wenyuan

Wen Yuan and Hu Zheng arrived at the gate of Jiamei Shopping Center, and the two called Lin Xuan and Ruchu respectively. About ten minutes later, Ruchu and Lin Xuan also came. The four of them walked around the shopping mall for a while, and walked to the door of a hot pot restaurant, Wen Yuan said, "Why don't we still eat hot pot here, we ate here last time, and it tastes very good." What do you guys think?"

As she said, "I think it's good, they have everything I like to eat, and the spicy taste is what I like."

Hu Zheng said, "I have no opinion, it's up to you"

Lin Xuan glanced at the waiters who were busy coming and going in the store, remembered the unpleasant experience that happened at the last dinner party and said, "I have no problem with eating hot pot, but let's change it, we can't always eat in one store and not give other stores a chance, in this case, other people's houses will not be able to open."

Wen Yuan said, "Yo, our classmate Lin Xuan is very good at worrying about the world."

"Okay, let's change it, what do you think?" Wen Yuan turned his head to the two girls and asked

Hu Zheng said, "I have no opinion"

As early as he said, "Then I agree, anyway, as long as there is something to eat."

In this way, the four of them came to another hot pot restaurant. Wen Yuan poured water into the cups of the other three people and said, "I have to say, the four of us eat together, and if you want to have a meal that satisfies the taste of the four people, hot pot is the best choice."

Ruchu said, "Then don't thank me, I remember when we first met, you didn't touch any spicy food, now you can cook in the spicy pot casually"

Wen Yuan said, "What you said is right, I should thank you, if it weren't for you, I might never have eaten spicy food in my life." By the way, I've always wanted to know a question, I don't think other girls dare to eat too much spicy, they say they are afraid of acne on their faces after eating spicy, you two don't seem to have acne on your face because of spicy food, right? ”

Hu Zheng proudly said, "The genes are good, my parents have good skin and never have acne"

Ruchu was also very proud to say, "Coincidentally, so am I" and then proudly slapped Hu Zheng high-five, and then proudly said to Wen Yuan, "So, you should feel very lucky, you have our two beautiful friends, people love us, flowers bloom, and cars see flat tires, Lin Xuan, you say yes?" ”

Lin Xuan listened to Ruchu's praise of himself on the side, but did not speak

Wen Yuan put down the kettle in his hand, covered the corners of his mocking mouth with the back of his hand, and asked as before, "What are you laughing at, isn't what I said the truth?" ”

Wen Yuan put down his hand and said with a smile, "I admit that the Hu Zheng is as beautiful as a fairy, as for you, I see that you lack a mirror, or I will give you a piece as a Christmas gift."

Ruchu glanced at Wen Yuan, and said angrily, "Get out of the way, it's your most annoying day"

Ru didn't care about Wen Yuan anymore, and marked his favorite dishes on the menu

Although there are bickering, this is the way Wen Yuan and Ru get along. Everyone had a good time eating this hot pot, and after eating, everyone walked around the shopping mall for a while, although they said before that they didn't need to give each other gifts, but Wen Yuan still quietly bought a gift for each of the two girls.

Lin Xuan didn't buy gifts, but invited everyone to eat the desserts they each wanted. After eating dessert, Wen Yuan proposed, "Then don't go shopping today, go home early to do your homework, and go to school tomorrow"

Hu Zheng said, "I think it's the same, if you want to go shopping, you can go out on weekends."

"Okay, I don't have anything to buy today anyway, let's go, go home," Ruchu said

The four of them arrived at the crossroads, and it was the old practice again, Wen Yuan and Hu Zheng walked in one direction, Ruchu and Lin Xuan walked in one direction, and when they arrived at the intersection of Lin Xuan and Ruchu, Lin Xuan did not take the initiative to send Ruchu home this time, Ruchu and Lin Xuan said, "Then I'll go, see you at school tomorrow"

Lin Xuan hesitated and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, just said "um"

Ruchu got home, took a few hawthorns from the refrigerator and walked to the kitchen to wash the hawthorns, then walked to the living room and sat on the sofa, just as he was about to turn on the TV, he received a text message from Yi Qiu on his mobile phone, Yi Qiu asked Ruchu "Are you busy"

As before, he returned to "I'm not busy, what's wrong?" ”

The message that had just been sent to Yi Qiu came again, "Where are you, I have something to find you"

Ruchu didn't know what Yi Qiu was looking for herself, so she asked, "What do you say?" ”

Yi Qiu said, "I have to tell you this in person, are you at home now?" I'm coming for you."

At first, I couldn't think of what Yi Qiu was looking for me, so I had to tell myself in person, and then I went back to Yi Qiu and said, "I'm at home"

Yi Qiu sent another message saying, "Then you come down, I'm at the door of your community."

Although Ruchu still didn't understand what Yi Qiu was looking for, he had a premonition in his heart, which made Ruchu a little hesitant to go downstairs to see Yi Qiu, and Ruchu's father, who came out of the room, happened to see Ruchu's hesitant appearance and asked, "Xiao Chu, what's wrong?" What does a person hesitate about? ”

Ruchu didn't tell his father that there was a boy waiting for him downstairs, but just said, "Dad, my classmate has something to do with me, I want to go again"

Ru's father didn't think much about it, so he said, "Since it's a classmate looking for you, let's go, there must be something very important to find you so late, it's not far away?" Do you want me to drive you? ”

As soon as he heard that his father was going to send him, he immediately nervously said, "No, it's not far at all, just a little ahead"

"Oh, then you should come back quickly, pay attention to safety" After saying that, Ru's father took a box of yogurt from the refrigerator and went back to the room to watch a movie with Ru's mother.

I changed my shoes as early as I did and went downstairs. When I got downstairs, I saw Yi Qiu holding a teddy bear in his hand, standing there and staring at the door of the community.

Ruchu walked over to Yi Qiu very nervously, and asked Yi Qiu, "What are you looking for me at such a late hour?" ”