2017 lunar calendar December 29 at 8 o'clock in the evening. Donghe City.

The entire campus of Donghe University of Technology was cold and snowy, and it snowed all day before it stopped in the evening, and the air seemed to be frozen.

Rows of bookshelves sat silently, and the library was empty, and there was no one left. On the long table by the window on the second floor of the museum lies on a head with a ponytail, occasionally moving a few times from side to side. The owner of the head slept very sweetly.

Outside the window, the sky has darkened, and the birds and insects in the winter are extinct. At the staircase on the second floor, a series of heavy footsteps suddenly came from far and near, breaking the quiet atmosphere, followed by a loud "bang", and a stack of books smashed more than ten centimeters in front of the head, scattering in all directions.

What followed was a hoarse male voice with hidden anger: "Zuo Meng! Are you going to spend the New Year in the library?! ”

The ponytail swayed twice, and the head, which had been lying on the ground for an unknown amount of time, finally slowly lifted up. What caught my eye was a half-red, half-white face, and the red half was the one that was in close contact with the table.

The ordinary round face does not conform to the popular awl face aesthetics, the skin is white and tender and looks very clean, the most conventional nose and the most conventional mouth are the type that is forgotten at a glance, and the big round eyes are barely brilliant, but unfortunately because I just woke up, my eyes are full of unfocused sluggishness, and there is a string of shiny saliva hanging on the corner of my mouth.

This girl named Zuo Meng looks like she is in her early twenties, the only thing that will impress people is a pair of eyebrows, unlike other girls who have been carefully groomed, a natural pair of black thick eyebrows, with towering eyebrows, full of heroism, with this ordinary round face, it improves the recognition of the whole face.

"Wake up! The school is cleared, and if you don't leave, I'll throw it out for you! Shicai's hoarse voice sounded again.

Zuo Meng shook her head vigorously, and her eyes began to focus, "I really don't have the heart to pity the jade!" She rubbed her eyes with a mutter, grinned her arms that were already numb from sleep, and slowly moved away from the stool and stood up.

The girl was a little thin, the white crewneck sweater hung on her body so loose that it was a little empty, the blue jeans were wrapped around two slender chopstick legs, except for a silver chain with a beaded pendant around her neck, and her body was clean and fresh without the slightest extra jewelry.

"Will you use idioms? Yes? The language is taught by a martial arts instructor! Is that a word used by me? There was a sense of anger in his voice.

Zuo Meng stretched and finally got up.

She took two steps forward and grabbed one of the other's arms, her big eyes narrowed into two crescent moons, and there were two sweet dimples hanging from her cheeks. "Professor Chen, you are almost eighty years old, just forget it if you don't retire, you are still angry, this is not good for your health!" , the voice is also sweet.

Professor Chen, who had gray hair, glared at her angrily, dragging the girl with a dead face on his arm to sort out the stack of books that he had just thrown down. "It's the twenty-ninth of the lunar month, you don't look for a place to celebrate the New Year, what are you still rubbing in this broken library!"

Zuo Meng let go of Professor Chen's arm, helped clean up the books scattered on the table, and wrinkled his nose nonchalantly: "Anyway, I'm alone, I haven't been anywhere, since I can't stay in school, I'll go home!" ”

Professor Chen tilted his head to look at the girl, and sighed with a dark face: "Why don't you go to my house, anyway, just me and my wife, you can make a fuss." ”

"Your home is in Beijing, you have to travel so far to go to a trip, you and grandma can enjoy the world of two, I have my own place to go!" Zuo Meng squeezed her eyes mischievously, put the finished book into Professor Chen's satchel, reached out and took the red scarf on the back of the chair and put it around her neck twice.

"Don't forget to tell your grandmother that I carry this scarf she knits every day, and I don't want to wash it when it's dirty... Forget it, I'll call her myself on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, or maybe you will arrange me! ”

She quickly put the black down jacket resting on the table on her body, then carried the satchel casually, and grabbed Professor Chen's arm again: "Let's go, I'll drop you off to the parking lot." ”

Professor Chen shook his head with a smile and cried, and locked the door of the library with Zuo Meng, the old and the young walked hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, on the tree-lined road paved with a thick layer of snow.

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Zuo Meng is actually not this girl's full name, her real name is Zuo Mengmeng. When I was a child, it was nothing, but later, with the famous sentence of a certain actress "Mengmeng, stand up", Zuo Mengmeng suffered countless teasing or ridicule.

After she couldn't bear it anymore and finally beat up two people who didn't have long eyes, gradually, everyone began to call her Zuo Meng under her "persuasion", except for some who are not afraid of death.

Zuo Mengmeng is 23 years old this year, is a graduate student at Donghe University of Technology, majoring in oil painting, as for why he wants to study oil painting in an engineering university, because the major is not valued, so the tuition fee is cheaper than other professional colleges.

Zuo Mengmeng's early childhood family was quite solid, her father was an antique dealer, and she just caught up with the antique collecting boom and made a lot of money, so her mother became a full-time housewife and concentrated on taking care of Mengmeng and her husband.

The only thing that is different from other families is that she has no grandparents and grandparents, Zuo Mengmeng's parents are like jumping out of the cracks in the stones, except for her father's customers during the New Year's holidays, there are no relatives and friends at home, Zuo Mengmeng also asked her mother when she was young, but every time she said it, her mother would only hold her and shed tears, and her father was silent and smoked when he heard it. There are too many times, and Zuo Mengmeng doesn't ask.

According to this development trend, her future should be very bright and bright, but the sky is unpredictable, and her family has suffered great changes when she was four years old.

One day, Zuo Mengmeng's father went out with a friend to collect things, and he never came back, and he didn't see anyone alive or dead.

For three years, the cute mother who didn't leave the door and didn't step out of the door went to find her husband, and she took her daughter to run around almost half the world, and the family's savings were finally used up, but her mother and mother found nothing.

The mother who was desperate and took Zuo Mengmeng back to Donghe City in the end. Frustrated, she finally faced the reality that her husband was probably no longer alive.

Zuo Mengmeng has changed from a four-year-old doll to a seven-year-old Lori in the upheaval. Children who are struggling to grow up are usually precocious, and she is a prime example.

She knew that she had probably lost her father forever, and she was determined to work hard to grow up and take care of her fragile mother. But she is still a child after all, and she doesn't know that for a woman who regards her husband as the sky, the sky has fallen, and there is nothing to be nostalgic for in life.

Mom chose to commit suicide by rushing over a speeding van on the highway. What Zuo Mengmeng saw after school was her mother, who had become a vegetative person after first aid.

Later, with the assistance of a lawyer, she used her mother's insurance money to pay for the next five years of care. Then I found a father's old client to be a legally recognized guardian. Although it is only a name, it does not have to be sent to a children's welfare home. Since then, ordinary days have been far from her life.

She borrowed tuition and living expenses from her guardian, studied hard, and tried to make money. I picked up scrap, paid to help my classmates write homework, sell notes, and get a meager income just so that my mother could live a more comfortable life.

didn't wait for her to grow up, and a year later, Mengmeng's mother was officially declared brain dead and died suddenly. Later, she was admitted to the oil painting major of Donghe University of Technology, and usually worked part-time as a librarian in the school and a part-time sparring partner in a sanda martial arts gym outside the school. And so it has been until now.

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Zuo Mengmeng went to the parking lot with Professor Chen, and she took off her shoulder bag and hung it on Professor Chen's shoulder.

He smiled and waved his hand at Professor Chen, "Old man, hurry up and go back and pack up, grandma has been waiting for you for half a year, but I look forward to your return!" ”

Professor Chen helped the bag strap and glanced at Zuo Mengmeng with some distress: "You really don't want to go with me?" Then I'll send you back first! It's getting late, and it's not safe for you to walk alone. ”

Zuo Mengmeng shook her head, pushed Professor Chen to take a few steps forward, and said incorrectly: "No need, I'll go to Qiaoqiao for some business, and then I will come back, don't be reluctant to let me go, anyway, I'll see you in a month!" See you later, old man! ”

She waved her hand and turned her head to walk to the school gate.

The night was already deep, and the dim streetlights were staining the snow on the ground.

Zuo Mengmeng squeaked and stepped on the snow, a ball of white gas came out of her mouth, and finally took off the smile that had been hanging on her face, and her eyes were a little moist. She raised her head, forced the sour trace back, and muttered to herself: "Zuo Mengmeng, I wish you a happy birthday!" ”

It seems that sorrow cannot last long in this girl, and the ordeal cannot make her collapse. When the words fell, Zuo Mengmeng had a smile on her face again.

Mom, Dad, how are you doing over there? Did you see that? I'm fine now, I have friends, I have elders who love me, and I don't have to worry about my studies. Therefore, you must always watch me, bless me, and I will live hard with your expectations!