Tuesday, at five o'clock in the afternoon, as soon as Mo Ming walked slowly in the direction of the activity room after school, although it was slow, but the purpose was clear, compared with the usual him, today is a lot more positive, maybe other members will be surprised when they see it, right?

But the truth is always cruel and unexpected.

"Classmate Mo Ming came so early today."

In the activity room, the remnant sun of the evening slanted in, sprinkled on the writing spread out on Qiu Yanzi's legs, and when she heard some sounds, she raised her head, it turned out to be Mo Ming's classmate.

"Why are you alone?"

Mo Ming was very surprised, thinking that his rare positive performance was not seen by anyone?

"Yingjie's track and field team has training, Jiang Wentai wants to organize a cultural festival in the class, and Senior Sister Yang Huhu is busy reviewing for the monthly exam, so only I came."

Eh, everyone is really versatile, Chen Yingjie is the main force of the track and field team, the first player to enter the first team of the school in the first year of high school, and the sports cells are abnormally developed. Wentai, a member of the organization department of the school's student union, is so meticulous that he can't be picky, Yang Huhu, a cartoonist, what a powerful title. Ah, classmate Mo Ming is really ordinary.

"That's right."

He replied weakly, then closed the door, threw his schoolbag on the table in the activity room, walked to the bookshelf, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Conan Doyle's "The Lost Mysterious Manuscript" from the shelf, and then took it in his hand and flipped through it.

Mo Ming was a little surprised, and thought to himself, "There are even such books." I carefully scanned the books on the bookshelf, and found that there was a whole row of famous books by Conan Doyle, Christina or Edogawa Ranbu, and the people in this school magazine club are really interesting, and it stands to reason that the school magazine club is also a classical literature club, so you should be interested in "Gone with the Wind" or "Jane Eyre", right? I didn't even think there was one here, which was unexpected.

Mo Ming finally put the book back, I don't want to burn my brain anymore today, let's read some lighter books.

Just when Mo Ming was hesitating, Qiu Yanzi stepped forward and pushed a book to Mo Ming's chest, his eyes persistent.

"Mo Ming! This book is beautiful!"

Which book is she referring to? Needless to say, he weakly pushed the book with the light blue cover away, but the moment Mo Ming was caught by Qiu Yanzi's eyes, he was already weakened and had nowhere to escape.

"Uh...... It's beautiful, but haven't you seen it......

"Then please watch it again!"

"Today...... I don't really want to read......

Mo Ming wanted to shirk it.

"Classmate Mo Ming, I want to tell you something."

Qiu Yanzi took a rare step back, kept a little distance, and then held the book in his arms, his expression slightly lowered.

"Please ......."

"Qiu Linglong, that is, my cousin, will go abroad on October 16 to Japan to learn writing."

Qiu Yanzi suddenly said to herself, what are you doing here? Is there any deep meaning?

"That's right...... Isn't that good?"

"I want Sister Linglong's high school to have no regrets......

Qiu Yanzi lowered his head as he spoke, biting his lip, looking very unwilling.

"Didn't the school magazine stay? What's the regret?"

Mo Ming was puzzled by this sentence.

"However, what I care about is not only the future of the school magazine, but also the past, why my sister did this, I don't understand."

"But what if you know?"

Mo Ming didn't understand this curious behavior.

"But that's the truth? Doesn't Mo Ming want to know the truth?"

Contradictory, Qiu Hiako's words are contradictory, is it to let her cousin have no regrets or to satisfy her curiosity? This is very important and determines Mo Ming's decision.

"Now, let me ask a question, do you want your cousin who is about to leave without regrets, or do you want to know the truth behind this failed school magazine?"

Mo Ming rarely became serious, his serious expression was subtly different from his usual cold expression, and this difference could probably be reflected from the depth between his eyebrows.

This made Qiu Yanzi hesitate a little, what did he want to do? Is the rebuilding of the school magazine just to protect the memories of my cousin? She may be a gentle person, but she is definitely not so selfless, and her own desires are also terrible, and the feeling of wanting to know the truth is not lost to sympathy for her cousin.

"I want to know the truth!"

With a determined expression, Mo Ming scratched his head a little nerve-wracked.

"Ah, I can't stand you."

Mo Ming stretched out his hand to Qiu Yanzi.

"Give it to me, the last issue of Grey Feather."

"Okay."

Qiu Yanzi presented the failed thirty-two issues of "Gray Feather" with both hands and handed it to Mo Ming.

Mo Ming just picked up the magazine, didn't choose to open it, and stared at Qiu Yanzi for a while before deciding to say his opinion.

"Minister, what follows is all my conjecture, not reasoning, because there is no very reliable basis, do you want to hear it?"

Mo Ming was rarely serious, and Qiu Yanzi didn't want to live up to this seriousness, so he nodded heavily.

"Please."

Mo Ming, who received an affirmative answer, first moved all the school magazines to the table, a little out of breath.

"Minister, do you think it's strange? About the school magazine."

"What do you mean, Mr. Mo Ming?"

"The school magazine has a very long history, right, there are countless copies of the school magazine that have been published, but there is only "Gray Feather" that is less than two years old here, why?"

"Lost it?"

"How can I get all the previous issues of the school magazine neatly lost?"

"yes, it's impossible to be the only one left with Gray Feather, why is that?"

"Think darkly."

"Dark? Sold?"

This is the result of Qiu Yanzi's efforts to think of the dark side, I have to say, beyond Mo Ming's imagination.

"If there is a contrast, there will be a gap, and if you put it together with a good work like "Gray Feather", how can you lose it?"

"Huh? Did Mo Ming mean that he threw away all the previous school magazines because he didn't want to look bad?"

"You can't think like that, it's all the crystallization of hard work, maybe it's sealed somewhere else. And it's not that it looks bad, it's that it's done with purpose."

"Intentions? What is the purpose?"

"I guess it's the members of the club other than Senior Sister Qiu Linglong who sealed the previous issue of the school journal, in order to sour the minister."

"Sour? What is the reason for this? I don't think my cousin is a very domineering person, so that she won't crowd out the former members."

"Well, it should be said that the other members of the department are invisibly excluded by their talents, I have watched a few issues of "Gray Feather", and I don't have that feeling of youth anymore, it's very old-fashioned, it's like there is a common name behind all kinds of signatures, Qiu Linglong."

"So the other members of the ministry want to express their dissatisfaction through this rebellion because they feel that they are not involved?"

Qiu Yanzi came to his senses a little.

"What is your impression of Qiu Linglong? Describe it."

"Cousin...... He is a very capable person, no matter what he does, whether it is individually or collectively, he can always shine, and I can't compare to him in any aspect."

Qiu Yanzi's words also have some deep meaning, maybe she herself feels a little sour.

"So, do you think it's okay with my previous guess?"

"Well, based on my cousin's personality, I think this will happen."

"Well, let's move on to the next link, the reason why "Gray Feather" ended. I have several conjectures, you can rule them out based on Senior Sister Qiu Linglong's personality or style."

This is the teamwork that Mo Ming needs, and he can't do it by himself.

"Okay."

Qiu Hina is very attentive.

"First of all, all of them are deployed to Qiu Linglong, do you think there is any problem?"

"Is this my cousin's decision alone?"

"Think darkly."

"My cousin was persecuted?"

"To some extent, yes, this is probably the common will of all the members of the school magazine, except for Senior Sister Qiu Linglong."

"What does that mean?"

"Let me ask you, if Senior Sister Yang Huhu hadn't come some time ago, how many old members of the school magazine club would there still be?"

Qiu Yanzi was suddenly stunned for a moment, if Senior Sister Huhu was not there, then ......

"Zero."

"That's right, there is no one, I think there are still some high school freshmen in the last school magazine, that is, the second year of high school now, because through the magazine before the thirty-second issue of "Gray Feather", we can see that the author is a high school so-and-so, which can completely show that there were people in the first year of high school in the school magazine at that time. But now they don't stay, so when did they quit?"

The corners of Mo Ming's mouth rose slightly, a little regretful. After thinking about it carefully, Qiu Yanzi suddenly had a hand covering her mouth, which was very unbelievable.

"After the thirty-first issue of the school magazine and before I became minister...... In other words, it is ......."

"That's right, when the thirty-second issue of "Gray Feather" was published, all except the minister retired from the ministry."

"How could it be ......?"

Qiu Yanzi couldn't believe that the school magazine still had this past.

"Maybe it's been discussed a long time ago, maybe someone doesn't agree with this prank, what about those who don't agree?"

"Retired first...... For example, Senior Sister Yang Huhu."

"Ah, that's right, that's why the senior sister is in charge of the comic columns in the later issues of "Gray Feather". Senior Sister Yang Huhu, who was unwilling to join this plan, fled first."

"This ......"

Qiu Yanzi's thoughts on Mo Ming have made a breakthrough again, this person is very delicate, she once just said lightly, "Even the next few issues of the comic column are in charge of my cousin", which was remembered by Mo Ming.

"The consequence of this is that there is only one editor in the whole community for the last issue of the school magazine for the change of ministers, of course, God can't finish it, even if Senior Sister Qiu Linglong is close to God to some extent, she is still a mortal body, and she will be tired."

"No wonder all the names are cousin's names, so there is a reason for this."

"The last thing is something I don't understand. It's not that I don't understand, it's just that I'm very uncertain, and this kind of thing is too subjective."

"Don't worry, Mo Ming, I'm here!"

Qiu Yanzi came to make up for Mo Ming's shortcomings, but he didn't understand the girl's mind enough.

"Then I said it. Do you think this kind of school magazine can pass the review?"

"I guess not, because the quality is not enough to be published."

"But, it passed the audit, what does it mean?"

Qiu Hinako thought for a moment.

"The teacher in charge didn't look at it at all, and he passed it without looking at it."

"What does that mean?"

"Does it mean that the quality of Grey Feather is completely worrying?"

"There may be such a factor, but it's too much to not look at it, right? It can only be said that even if you worry about it, it is useless, and the opinions and suggestions put forward by the teacher are not adopted at all, what will the teacher think?"

"Ugh. Indeed, my cousin is a confident person, and she will never regress when she thinks it makes sense, so she probably won't listen to the teacher's opinion, right? So, the teacher decided to release the school magazine?"

"The word stocking is really good, that's what it means, I can't control it, so I don't have to worry about it, that's why such a bad book can pass the review."

"That's right...... My cousin's personality is too strong."

"I guess I think I'm absolutely right."

"That's not the case...... My cousin just wants to make the school magazine better, and there is no bad ......."

Qiu Yanzi shook his head, unwilling to accept this statement, but only by thinking one more step could he think that Mo Ming's words were right, and what he thought was better was not to firmly believe that he was the only right? Qiu just didn't want to think about it.

"I'm sorry...... That's not what I meant."

Mo Ming realized that he had said it, and he was a little ashamed.

"No, no, Mo Ming is right."

Qiu Yanzi shook her head, she was very conflicted, but she could adjust it again, because Mo Ming hadn't said what he didn't understand, and he had to cheer up.

"Mo Ming, what don't you understand?"

Mo Ming paused slightly, and confirmed in his heart whether he really didn't understand. After a few seconds, well, I don't understand.

"What I don't understand is why the thirty-second issue is not released, I am puzzled."

According to Mo Ming's thoughts, the other members of the school magazine club were all enemies, and they carefully planned such an accident, just to embarrass Qiu Linglong as the minister, and in the same way, Qiu Linglong's resistance was to complete an extremely boring magazine, so that "Gray Feather" would end, and the same would also make the school magazine club curtain call on the historical stage of Qingchuan High School, but she finally stopped? Why? Can't bear it, "Gray Feather", as his own painstaking work, can't bear to end it? Mo Ming couldn't figure it out.

"This...... Why not release it? I think ......."

Qiu Yanzi thought repeatedly, did she know enough about her cousin? It is difficult for Qiu Yanzi to come up with any answers, after all, the complexity of people's hearts cannot be summed up in just a few words, who can guarantee that Qiu Linglong is not a whim?

"I...... I don't know."

Qiu Yanzi shook his head, very regretful, Mo Ming also felt a little sorry, is this the end? Mo Ming is quite confident in the previous reasoning, because there are conditions that can be corroborated, but this ...... I really don't know where to start.

While the two were thinking, the door of the activity room was pushed open, and Qiu Hinako quickly raised her head, a little surprised.

"Senior Sister Huhu, aren't you going to review and prepare for the exam?"

Yang Huhu's cheeks were very red, standing at the door, Mo Ming also turned back slowly, thinking, "Did she hear what she said just now? Will the speculation about her offend her?"

"Junior ...... What the junior said is not wrong at all, as if he really experienced this, and I ...... I really ran away."

After Yang Huhu said this, he lowered his head, tears rolled in his eyes, and Qiu Yanzi hurriedly stepped forward and held her hands.

"Senior sister, don't blame yourself, you did a good job, I'm very touched."

"But...... But I ran away, back then."

The tone was very remorseful, as if it was a stain on his life, Mo Ming's position was a little embarrassing, and he couldn't help but think, "Did I make the girl cry?"

The light in Qiu Hinako's eyes flickered again, and the smile on her face seemed to dispel all gloom.

"It doesn't matter, aren't you coming back?"

"Uh...... Uh-huh."

Yang Huhu was stunned, looking at Qiu Yanzi incredulously, she still didn't mean to accuse at all, so she nodded, and her mood recovered a little.

"Senior, let me ask, do you understand Senior Qiu's intentions?"

Mo Ming didn't give her a chance to breathe, and asked directly.

Yang Huhu wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, then cheered up and plucked up his courage.

"No intention...... I don't think Sister Linglong blames us at all."

"No reproach?"

Mo Ming was very puzzled, normal thinking, Qiu Linglong should be annoyed and angry, after all, she suffered this kind of treatment, what is the matter if she doesn't blame?

"Mo Ming, I don't think it's a reproach."

Qiu Yanzi suddenly woke up and expressed her opinion.

"Why?"

Mo Ming asked Qiu Yanzi suspiciously, Qiu Yanzi's expression softened, shook his head, and smiled.

"Didn't I tell you before, classmate Mo Ming, when my cousin asked me to take over the school magazine, it wasn't an expression of encouragement, you also said it at the time, what is it?"

Qiu Yanzi asked Mo Ming rhetorically, Mo Ming thought back a little and remembered his answer that day.

"Redemption and self-condemnation."

"So she didn't want to take revenge on the members, nor did she want the school magazine to be abolished, but she wanted us not to repeat the mistakes of the past. This "Gray Feather" is too, I don't want us to continue writing, and I don't want it to end, it's just ...... There's just no end."

"There's no end?"

Mo Ming pondered the meaning of not having an ending, and suddenly woke up like a dream, did not publish the finished "Gray Feather", nor did he instruct Qiu Yanzi to continue serializing "Gray Feather", the intention is obvious, if they want to turn this page, then they actually do not have the obligation to connect the upper and lower levels, and they can only open a new era.

"That...... Are we going to have another thirty-two issue?"

"Yes!"

Qiu Xiaozi and Yang Huhu spoke in unison, and after speaking, the two looked at each other for a while, and seemed to be more determined.

"Mo Ming, I said I asked you to answer it out of curiosity, right?"

"Yes."

"Then my second purpose now is to give my sister the finished "Gray Feather" to her before she goes abroad, is that okay?"

"Uh...... You're the minister, it's good if you decide, I...... Of course I agree."

Mo Ming scratched his head, feeling a slight heat on his face.

"Well, thank you."

Qiu Xiaozi bowed deeply to Mo Ming.

"Thank you...... Younger brother."

Yang Huhu was also a little embarrassed, and flicked the bangs in front of his forehead with his fingers.

"You're welcome."

Mo Ming nodded, but he was a little dissatisfied in his heart, "The bad work "Gray Feather" is really because he is angry?"