In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the mother and daughter are already late when they get home.

Xia Zhu thanked the driver solemnly, paid for the car and stood on the side of the road, watching the van drive away. She dragged her tired body and barely had the strength to walk, and was helped by Lu Zhu to enter the door.

There was a charcoal basin in the living room, and there was a faint smell of burning charcoal in the air.

Liu Chunxiu came from next door, stayed here, and hurriedly stood up and walked out when he heard the movement of parking outside.

The atmosphere at home was heavy, only Lu Yan didn't know what was going on, and sat quietly on the sofa, his little hand reaching out to the charcoal basin to bake the fire. Although he was young, he was not ignorant, and he vaguely guessed that something was going on at home, and the adults didn't say it, he didn't ask, and he didn't jump up and down like before.

Liu Chunxiu glanced behind the two of them, but didn't see Lu Guoming coming back with him, and his heart was half cold in an instant.

"Where's Guoming?" She asked cautiously.

Xia Zhu had a trace of unquenchable sorrow between his eyebrows, glanced at Lu Yan who was sitting there with blank eyes, shook his head, and lowered his voice: "The police have not found evidence, so they will not release him for the time being." ”

"Since there is no evidence, how can people stay in that kind of place!" Liu Chunxiu was so anxious that she stomped her feet, and said with teary eyes, "Can't you be accommodating and release it first?" Didn't you bring money over and failed to dredge it? Isn't it ...... enough?"

"Mom, be quiet, don't let the child hear it." Xia Zhu held her hand and pulled it aside, sighed and said, "It's not to the point of taking money to bail out, all you can do at the moment is wait." ”

Liu Chunxiu's face was pale: "Guoming's father is still waiting for my news next door, how dare I tell him, I can't be so angry that my condition has worsened." ”

Lu Funian has a lung disease, which is particularly difficult in winter, and he will get sick if he doesn't pay attention to it, and he won't get better for half a month, so he learned that his son was not released, so he can imagine what he would be anxious about.

Xia Zhu rubbed his sore temples, tired and thirsty, and couldn't say anything comforting.

It was already late at night, and no matter how much they discussed together, it was useless, Lu Zhu helped Xia Zhu sit down, and called Lu Yan: "Pour a glass of water for Mom, and I'll send Grandma back." ”

Lu Yan slipped off the sofa and poured water with a cup in his hand.

Lu Zhu turned on the lights in the courtyard and outside the gate, walked very slowly all the way, and sent Liu Chunxiu back to the house next door: "Don't tell grandpa yet, let him rest early, you can also go to bed early, and find a way tomorrow." ”

"What can you come up with?" Liu Chunxiu raised her cuffs to wipe her tears, "Our family has no relatives who are related to the police station." On a cold day, how can people live in that kind of place? ”

Lu Zhu was silent, lowered his eyelashes, and went through the people he knew in his mind, and the only thing he could think of was Gu Cheng. He has an aunt who is a well-known entrepreneur in the province, not to mention well-connected, and may be able to find someone to help.

But soon, she dispelled this idea, the relationship was too far away, and people were not necessarily willing to meddle in this kind of thing.

told Liu Chunxiu to tie the door, and Lu Zhu returned home.

In the living room, Xia Zhu urged Lu Yan to go back to her room to sleep, she was holding hot water in one hand and calling people, probably looking for a way. At this point, she didn't care about the problem of face, she just wanted Lu Guoming to suffer less.

——

For two nights in a row, none of the Lu family could sleep well, and they had to deal with a few bites of food.

Lu Zhu couldn't settle down to write his homework, and the schoolbag he brought back didn't even open the zipper, so he put it there as it was.

In the blink of an eye, it's Sunday afternoon, and it's time to go back to school. Lu Zhu was worried that Xia Zhu was home alone, and wanted to call the head teacher to ask for leave, but was reprimanded by Xia Zhu. Lu Zhu asked her to go back to school with peace of mind, and would send her a text message when there was news.

Lu Zhu looked reluctant and was forced into the car by Xia Zhu.

Along the way, Lu Zhu was in a dull mood, always staying asleep with her head against the car window, and in the corner where no one could see, her eyelashes were moist, and her nose was sore and her eyes were hot.

Several companions didn't notice anything unusual about her, but when she was motion sick and uncomfortable, and didn't want to speak, they didn't bother her.

When the shuttle bus arrived at the destination, Lu Zhu had quietly wiped away his tears, packed up his mood, and got off the bus with his suitcase.

"I'll get it for you."

Gu Cheng walked around from behind, took the suitcase lever she was holding in her hand, pushed forward, and stood on the side of the road to stop a taxi.

Lu Zhu reluctantly showed a smile: "Why didn't you go to the Internet café?" ”

On the afternoon of going back and forth to school, a few of their boys would go to the Internet café to open the black, and they would not return to school until class time.

"I don't always go...... Right? When he said this, Gu Cheng couldn't believe it, and he curled the corners of his lips and laughed to hide his embarrassment.

Lu Zhu didn't have the heart to communicate anymore, sitting in the back of the car, his eyes lowered, staring at a dirty dark gray blanket under his feet, in a daze.

Huang Shuhan rarely didn't chatter and sat quietly next to her.

Gu Cheng sent the two of them downstairs to the girls' dormitory, and there was an aunt in charge of the dormitory, of course it was impossible for him to go in, so he waved his hand and turned around and left.

Seeing the figure leave, Huang Shuhan turned his head to look at Lu Zhu, and said with half suspicion and half inquiry: "Did you encounter something?" ”

"Is there one?" Lu Zhu raised his face, and the corners of his lips tugged up.

Laughing is worse than crying.

Huang Shuhan is a Ma Daha, yes, but it doesn't mean that she doesn't have a little delicate thought, whether Lu Zhu is happy or unhappy, she can naturally see it after observing for a long time.

When she was sitting in the taxi, she found that Lu Zhu's mood was wrong, and because Gu Cheng was present, she didn't ask directly.

"Tell me something, and I'll help you come up with ideas." Huang Shuhan said seriously.

Lu Zhu pretended to have something in her heart, her thoughts were inevitably dull, and it took her several seconds to react to what the other party said: "I'm fine, it's just motion sickness, and my stomach is not very comfortable." ”

"Are you really okay?" Huang Shuhan tilted his head, not letting go of the slightest emotional change on her face.

Lu Zhu still had the expression of not smiling: "No, you think too much." ”

——

The two went upstairs together and separated on the fifth floor.

The door of dormitory 504 had been opened, and Cheng Jingyuan was alone inside. After Lu Zhu went in, he didn't talk to her, as soon as he put his things down, he lay on the bed, his shoes didn't take off, and his calves hung down on the side of the bed.

The headache is the sequelae of not sleeping well, Lu Zhu's head is heavy, but she doesn't dare to rest for too long, she didn't write a word of her homework during the holidays, and she has to hand it in for self-study at the latest, and she can't help but hand in her homework.

Thinking of this, she forced herself to get up, unfolded the small table on the bed, and lay on it to make up her homework.

It was still early before the afternoon class, Cheng Jingyuan didn't rush to class, she sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a plush toy in her arms, and her afterglow caught Lu Zhu doing her homework, and her expression flashed a moment of astonishment.

Lu Zhu's seriousness towards learning has been seen by her since she entered the school, and the first thing she did when she came to school was to make up her homework, which is really unusual.

She glanced over several times, and found that people were not engaged in writing, and from time to time she picked up the mobile phone at hand and glanced at it, her brows furrowed, as if she was waiting for someone's news.

Cheng Jingyuan felt that she was weird, and she was curious, and when she thought that the two of them were currently in a state of falling out, she stopped thinking about inquiring.

Time flowed slowly, seeing that there were still forty minutes to go to class, Lu Zhu didn't dare to delay any longer, packed up his homework and put it in his schoolbag, and finally looked at his mobile phone, but there was no text message from Xia Zhu.

"You go last, remember to lock the door."

Cheng Jingyuan fastened her shoes, dropped a sentence, and left the dormitory before her with her schoolbag.

Lu Zhu thought about it, took his mobile phone, locked the dormitory door and went downstairs.

Walking alone on the path covered with ginkgo biloba leaves, her heart seemed to be pressed against a heavy stone, which was about to crush her.

She had walked as long as a century from the dormitory building to the teaching building, and when she stood at the door of the classroom, her expression was still a little uncertain.

Cheng Jingyuan stopped coldly, the pestle was in front of her and she didn't go in for a long time, and turned around to look at Lu Zhu with surprised eyes.

Lu Zhu was already preoccupied and didn't pay much attention to the road, and was about to bump into her, but after standing firmly, his eyes raised slightly, and he asked her a little puzzled: "Why don't you go in?" ”

More than half of the students in the class came, and suddenly heard this voice, and the students in the front rows were all stunned, looking at Lu Zhu behind Cheng Jingyuan.

And the reason why Cheng Jingyuan suddenly stopped when she entered the classroom was that she heard a boy sitting by the door say to her tablemate: "I heard that Lu Zhu's father was a rapist and was arrested by the Public Security Bureau." ”

The boy's tablemate said: "I also heard that his father is a security guard in Zhongding International Mall, and he took advantage of the patrol to pick those beautiful and young girls." ”

Cheng Jingyuan thought of Lu Zhu's depressed appearance in the dormitory, and immediately believed it, knowing that she was walking behind her, so she glanced back at her.

Looking at Lu Zhu's appearance, it seems that she doesn't know that her father's story has spread in the class.

Cheng Jingyuan barely suppressed the shock in her heart, retracted her gaze, didn't say anything, and stepped into the classroom.

Lu Zhu followed in, and could feel a lot of eyes fall on her, disdainful, contemptuous, suspicious, incredulous, all kinds of things, which made her dazed and uneasy.