Chapter 28: Choices (3)
After Yu Bingcun came back from outside, he cried uncontrollably. Maybe it was because she hugged her mother and cried outside was too pitiful, Wang Jiong called on all the teachers in the whole grade to raise money for Yu Bing, and donated 5,000 yuan out of his own pocket. The students of Class 5 also began to donate spontaneously.
Since Zhou Luo witnessed that scene, he wanted to help her, but his ability was limited, and it was only a drop in the bucket if he emptied his pocket money. In desperation, she had to run to the door of Class 6 and find a girl to call Bai Luofan out.
Bai Luofan directly took her hand, took out her wallet from his pocket, and slapped it into her palm: "It's all for you." ”
Zhou Luo's eyes widened like copper bells, looked at the wallet in his hand, and then looked at him: "How do you know that I came to you to borrow money?" ”
The latter smiled briskly: "I've known each other for so many years, and this tacit understanding still exists." ”
"Thanks, I'll pay you back next week."
Bai Luofan pulled her other hand over, put it on her own hand holding the purse, and said lightly: "You don't have to pay it back." ”
Zhou Luo blinked and said, "Then I'll say it's donated by the two of us." ”
"No, just write your name."
She opened her wallet and saw that there were a lot of red banknotes inside, at least more than a thousand yuan.
"How's that going to work?" Zhou Luo's eyes widened and he blurted out.
This is not a small amount of money.
Bai Luofan said: "What's not to do? ”
Zhou Luo said seriously: "So much money, you are equivalent to giving it all to me, I don't dare to accept it." ”
He smiled: "I didn't say I wanted to give it to you, didn't I want to help Yu Bing." It matters most when the money is delivered, and it doesn't matter who gives it. ”
"But ......"
"Don't." Bai Luofan stuffed the wallet directly into her pocket, and said with a smile: "Stupid, let you take it, do what you want to do, and help the people you want to help." ”
Zhou Luo looked into his eyes suspiciously, thought for a few seconds, and said, "Okay, I'll think of other ways to pay you back later." ”
She turned around, said "I'm leaving," and hurried back to the classroom.
Bai Luofan looked at the back of the girl leaving in a hurry, and couldn't help but raise his lips. He didn't go back until the girl disappeared into the hallway.
He sat back in his seat, and the boy at the same table suddenly came over and joked with a malicious face: "I said why did you suddenly snatch my wallet, the feeling is to please the little girl in the next class, I said that you are too generous, after being looted by you, I am almost out of money to eat this week." ”
"I'll take care of your meal next week." He said lightly.
"Am I that kind of person......"
"Two weeks."
"Okay, I'll shut up right now, but there's one last sentence, let me finish."
Bai Luofan motioned with his eyes for him to continue.
The boy said, "Is it worth it for you to spend so much money to please a little girl?" ”
Bai Luofan's gaze swept over, the corners of his lips raised slightly, and he said firmly: "She is worth it." ”
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Song Yao handed over all the money raised to Yu Bing, and Yu Bing's eyes were red and he bowed three times to everyone on the podium.
Back in the bedroom at night, Zhou Luo was changing sheets on the bed, Yu Bing slowly walked to her bed, and said silently: "Luoluo, thank you." ”
Zhou Luo paused, looked down, Yu Bing didn't know how many times he had cried today, his eyes and the tip of his nose were so red that he became more and more pitiful.
Yu Bing continued with tears in her eyes: "Thank you for ignoring your past suspicions, I treated you like that before, and you still helped me." I know you and Tingting have donated a lot of money, thank you so much. ”
Zhou Luo put down what he was doing, climbed down from the bed, looked at eye level with her, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I can help you, Tingting and I are also very happy." ”
Meng Xiangting said: "Yes. ”
Yu Bing's tears couldn't stop falling, and he choked up: "Thank you......"
Zhou Luo hugged her gently, Yu Bing's shoulders were particularly thin, even a petite girl like Zhou Luo could take it over.
"Don't cry, we're sad to see you like this, if you have anything you want to talk about, we can both be listeners, don't worry, we will never say it."
Yu Bing cried and trembled in her arms, as if she wanted to vent all the suffering that fate had imposed on her with tears.
A moment later, the three girls sat on Meng Xiangting's bed.
Comforted by another girl, Yu Bing stopped her tears. She was silent for a while, and said in a hoarse voice: "My dad died in a car accident when I was in elementary school, and my mom went crazy on the spot at my dad's funeral because she witnessed the scene......
Zhou Luo took a breath and took her hand distressedly, wanting her to get some comfort.
Yu Bing continued: "I used to go to school close to home, and I could go back to take care of her every day. But after Changhe, my mother could only be handed over to my uncle to take care of, and they were also busy, so in order to prevent my mother from running out, they often tied her up at home......" she said to the back, and couldn't help choking up, "so I can only sneak my mobile phone...... Looking at the surveillance at home, I was afraid that something would happen to my mother. ”
She was crying breathlessly.
She was called out by Song Yao because her mobile phone was found that day, so she cried and told Song Yao all this, and begged her to help her keep it a secret. Song Yao did not criticize her, but gave her all the money on her body.
"I came back from home yesterday, but I didn't expect my mother to come out, and then there was something at the door......"
Meng Xiangting took a tissue and helped her wipe her tears. She couldn't help but look at Zhou Luo, the two of them looked at each other, each read sympathy in each other's eyes, and then lowered their heads at the same time, neither of them spoke.
Both of them are children with normal families, although they may have some estrangement from their parents, but they have never experienced the tragic fate of Bing.
Before that, Zhou Luo thought that he was like the little cabbage in the field, no one loved him. But now listening to Yu Bing crying little by little and describing his family situation, Zhou Luo felt a distressed emotion in his heart.
The thin girl in front of her has experienced too many hardships that should not be at this age, but she can still grow tenaciously and desperately.
Zhou Luo couldn't help but want to give this girl more warmth, she was afraid that such a strong girl would bow to fate.
"I've always had low self-esteem, because I know I'm not like you." Yu Bing lowered his eyes and said in a sad tone: "I desperately force myself every day to study those physics and chemistry students that I am not interested in at all, and I dare not stop, because I can only take good care of my mother if I study hard and get admitted to a good university." Even though I didn't like science at all, I still didn't dare to look at the liberal arts. It will be easier to earn money in science, and it will allow me to solve our family's difficulties earlier. ”
When she said the sad place, tears kept falling, and she was exhausted and was held in her arms by Zhou Luo, and she said in a muffled voice: "I'm really tired, Luoluo." If I could have a normal family, I would like to be like you and learn whatever I like, but I can't. People like me don't even have the right to choose what they like. ”
Zhou Luo stroked her back again and again, comforting her like a baby, and whispered, "Who said you don't have rights?" ”
"You can choose liberal arts, your grades are so good, it's no problem to get a guaranteed place, and you don't have to worry about tuition fees at that time. Don't push yourself so hard, you're only a sixteen-year-old girl, and you, like us, have the right to pursue whatever you like. ”
"Family circumstances are not something you can choose, but you can choose your future."
Yu Bing looked up at her with teary eyes, Zhou Luo's eyes seemed to have a magical power, and with just one glance, she could be infected by her. She looked at Zhou Luo as if grasping at a life-saving straw and asked, "Can I really do it?" ”
Zhou Luo nodded and smiled softly: "If you think about it from the perspective of money, I don't think that liberal arts are worse than science, and gold like you can shine anywhere." Really, Yu Bing, you are not worse than anyone else, but much better than us. So, you must think about it, and I hope you don't have any regrets. ”
Yu Bing is indeed very talented in liberal arts, and she can get more than ninety in each subject without a teacher, ranking first in her grade.
Yu Bing looked into her eyes and nodded slowly.