During the May Day holiday, Lu Zhu did not go home and stayed at Jiang Huaining's house to review.

Xia Zhu thought that she studied hard, and she might be in a bad mood if she didn't do well in the exam last time, so she came to see her with a bunch of food. At noon, the two mothers worked all morning and made a table of dishes, all of which the two children loved.

At the dinner table, Xia Zhu kept giving Lu Zhu vegetables: "Eat more." ”

Lu Zhu smiled and nodded, and ate half a bowl of rice.

After the meal, she took the initiative to help wash the dishes, but was stopped by Jiang Huaining, he blocked her with one arm horizontally, preventing her from touching the oily dishes and chopsticks floating in the sink: "Auntie finally came over, you go and talk to her, just leave it to me here." ”

Lu Zhu hesitated for a few seconds, listened to his words, washed his hands and went out of the kitchen.

Sun Jingfang made a pot of tea, poured out a cup and served it to Xia Zhu, and when she saw Lu Zhu coming over, she consciously made room for their mother and daughter to talk: "I'll stare at Jiang Huaining and wash the dishes." ”

Xia Zhu bent his eyes and smiled, motioning for Lu Zhu to sit down beside him.

Lu Zhu is used to holding his mother's arm, like a lazy cat, especially clingy. Xia Zhu gently stroked her face: "I'll see if the little face is thin or not." After a few glances, he nodded and said, "Well, I'm not thin, it can be seen that your Aunt Sun has taken good care of you." ”

"Of course." Lu Zhu replied, "We can eat all kinds of supper every night when we come back from self-study, it's good if we don't gain weight, where can we lose weight." Last time, Gu Cheng also said that I was so thin that a gust of wind could away, which was pure nonsense. ”

Xia Zhu laughed and stroked her hair one by one.

Lu Zhu said something about the recent situation to himself, more detailed than when he called her.

Xia Zhu listened quietly without interjecting, took a sip of tea, and when Lu Zhu finished speaking, he asked her in a low voice, "Did you quarrel with Jiang Huaining?" ”

Lu Zhu was stunned for a few seconds, her cheeks left her shoulder, she sat up straight, her eyes narrowed, and she said casually: "No, why do you ask?" ”

"Maybe I'm wrong, I saw that you two didn't talk much at the dinner table, and I thought you had a quarrel." Xia Zhu shook his head, blaming himself for being sensitive, "It's good if you don't have it." ”

I don't know if I should say that I know my daughter Mo Ruomu, she didn't have long since she came and saw Lu Zhu's abnormality.

Lu Zhu has been deliberately distancing herself from Jiang Huaining recently, except for academic exchanges, she has minimized her contact with him at other times.

Jiang Huaining didn't ask anything.

Although he also had doubts in his heart, he preferred Lu Zhu because he didn't do well in the mock exam, and he was under great psychological pressure and didn't want to speak.

Lu Zhu leaned back on his mother's shoulder and took the initiative to say, "You don't ask me about my studies, I was very bad in the exam last time." ”

She told her mother on the phone that her mother came over today, most likely to comfort her.

Xia Zhu said: "I said when you went home from the Qingming Festival holiday, don't be too anxious about studying, just do your best." You, you haven't let me worry about it since you were a child, you always know what you want, and I'm afraid that saying too much will affect your judgment. You just need to know that no matter what, you will always be the pride of your mother. ”

Lu Zhu's mouth flattened and muttered: "If you say that again, I'm going to cry again." ”

"So, you've cried before?" Xia Zhu lowered her head and stared at the top of her hair.

Lu Zhu recalled that night, she sat by the flower bed blowing the cold wind in a daze, crying sadly while thinking about what the teacher said, Jiang Huaining came to find her and took her to play basketball to vent.

Lu Zhu said stiffly: "No, I haven't cried." ”

Xia Zhu doesn't believe it, she is a crying bag, she has been since she was a child. It's just that there is one thing, she hardly cries in front of people, and always likes to hide and cry secretly.

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After Labor Day, the atmosphere of learning has become tense again.

"College entrance examination" has become a high-frequency vocabulary on the lips of teachers of various subjects, and when talking about the topic, they have to say "This is a compulsory question for the college entrance examination, you have to listen to it".

In class, the students who used to love to doze off also raised their spirits and listened to a few words.

Gu Cheng propped his cheeks, stared at the string of formulas on the blackboard with straight eyes, held the pen in his hand, and took notes in the notebook.

Since he was educated by Lu Zhu, he put away his playful mind and began to study seriously, not wanting to rely on his family to become an idle child in the future, and wanting to create a better future for the people he likes with his hands.

When he really threw himself into his studies, he found that it was not as boring as he imagined. Sometimes after pondering for a long time, I finally solve a problem, and I feel quite accomplished.

Gu Cheng regretted a little that he didn't work hard before, he had missed too much homework, and it was not easy to make up for it.

I was listening to the class, and my phone was buzzing and vibrating in the drawer, and the sound was not small. He was startled, and when the teacher didn't notice, he reached in and turned it to mute.

The phone screen in the drawer lit up several times, and the calls came one after another.

After class, Gu Cheng took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and was really taken aback.

More than a dozen phone calls, all from Gu Zhenxiang.

Gu Cheng leaned on the edge of the back table, and before he could say "hey", Gu Zhenxiang said urgently: "Son, I bought you a high-speed rail ticket at two o'clock in the afternoon, you hurry up and bring your documents and come to Beicheng." ”

Gu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and he opened his mouth to arrange a trip for him, it was strange that he could have a good face. Gu Cheng said impatiently: "What are you talking about?" I'm still in class, what are you doing in Beicheng? ”

"Your sister is sick, very serious, you set off first, and I will explain to you slowly on the way." Gu Zhenxiang didn't have the heart to think about his attitude, "It may take a few days, you remember to ask the teacher for a leave of absence first." ”

Gu Cheng didn't listen to him, and insisted on asking, "What disease does Xintong have?" ”

There was more stepmother Feng Yiyun's voice on the phone, crying and crying, and her voice was out of tune: "He...... Is he reluctant to come and do bone marrow matching? I came to him, and I begged him......"

Hearing the words "bone marrow matching", Gu Cheng's face changed suddenly, and he said loudly: "You make it clear, what's wrong with Xintong?" ”

He couldn't get used to Feng Yiyun's behavior, and he was disgusted when he said a word to her, but he never hated that sister, on the contrary, he thought she was cute and sensible.

When the surrounding classmates heard Gu Cheng's voice, they all turned around, frightened by the expression on his face, and didn't know what was going on.

Huang Shuhan left his seat and stood next to him, intending to wait for him to finish the phone call and ask about the situation, but when he saw Gu Cheng hang up the phone, he ran out.

"Hey, Gu Cheng!"

Huang Shuhan shouted, but he didn't look back.

The bell rang for the fourth class in the morning, and Gu Cheng did not come back.

At lunchtime, Huang Shuhan told Lu Zhu about it. Lu Zhu paused: "You didn't ask him what happened?" ”

"I didn't have a chance to ask, he got the call and ran away." Huang Shuhan poked the rice on the plate with chopsticks and said angrily, "Don't go to fight, he looks scary." ”

Lu Zhu shook his head, and his tone was affirmative: "No." ”

Huang Shuhan decided not to mention him, and asked curiously, "Why haven't you eaten with the school grass recently?" Could it be that day by day, tired of seeing his face? ”

"Isn't it good for me to come and eat with you?" Lu Zhu looked at her straight with no expression on his face.

Huang Shuhan shook his shoulders exaggeratedly, pretending to be afraid: "Your air pressure has been really low recently, just this look, I look like the head of the grade is catching students who violate discipline." ”

Lu Zhu: "......"

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Gu Cheng didn't come to class in the afternoon, and he was also absent from the evening self-study, and the head teacher asked him where he went, but no one knew.

In view of Gu Cheng's good performance recently, the head teacher is also more attentive to him than before, according to the information of the school registration, he made a phone call to his parents, and after understanding the situation clearly, he did not pursue it again.

Huang Shuhan was worried, and used the recess time to call Gu Cheng several times, but none of them were connected.

After school, she found Lu Zhu and said to her: "Gu Cheng didn't come to school in the afternoon and evening, I wonder if something happened to his family, his grandmother ......"

"You didn't call him?" Lu Zhu interrupted him.

"Hit. Why didn't you fight? Huang Shuhan frowned, "He didn't answer." ”

Her whole face was wrinkled together, and she was dying.

The three of them were waiting for Lu Zhu not far away, Huang Shuhan sighed, and didn't pull her to speak again: "You go back first, remember to call Gu Cheng when you have time to see if you can contact him." ”

Lu Zhu waved goodbye to her and ran towards Jiang Huaining.

Shen Huan asked, "What did Huang Shuhan say to you?" I saw that she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. ”

"Gu Cheng didn't come to school." Lu Zhu was concise and to the point.

Jiang Huaining glanced at her, her eyebrows frowned slightly, her lips pursed, her face was anxious, her steps were faster than usual, and her worry and concern were clearly on her face.

After Lu Zhu arrived home, he called Gu Cheng first.

rang for a long time, and as Huang Shuhan said, no one answered. Just when she thought that Gu Cheng would not answer the phone, she suddenly got through, and she looked at the phone screen in surprise, and the number of call duration was changing.

"Lu Zhu." Gu Cheng's voice was hoarse, revealing some tiredness.

"What's wrong with you? I heard Shuhan say that you didn't go to school, and I was a little worried. Lu Zhu stood on the balcony, looking at the dark night sky, and his voice was not loud.

Inside the glass door, Jiang Huaining took a glass of water and drank it one by one, his eyes were like a real thing, and he fell directly on Lu Zhu's back through the glass. She held the phone to her ear, her head slightly bowed, her long eyelashes drooping, casting a layer of blue shadows under her eyelids. With one hand around his arm, he stood sideways, slender and light.

I don't know what the person on the phone said, her face suddenly became pale and solemn, and her whole person froze.