1. Leave

The day Zhu Shan left, it was Wednesday, a flight at 9 a.m.

Ling Xiao ended his summer vacation in the law firm early. Job, Yuwa who arrived at half past five in the morning.

In late August, it was a scorching summer, and Ling Xiao ate a bowl of noodles at the airport, and his T-shirt was wet.

After eating, he waited.

It was almost eight o'clock when Ling Yue and Zhu Shan arrived.

The two of them stood in front of a bright electronic billboard to say goodbye.

Zhu Shan carried a canvas schoolbag on her shoulders that day, clenched the strap tightly with both hands, and kept her tears falling with her head down.

Ling Yue hugged her and said in a nasal voice, "Page, don't cry, it's okay."

"I... I'm afraid."

Zhu Shan said three words with difficulty, and she couldn't hold back her sobs, which attracted the attention of others.

But at the airport, there are too many partings.

The people only glanced at the two young children in a hurry, and then headed for their destination.

Ling Yue patted Zhu Shan lightly, trying to calm her breathing: "I heard that Chinese is also spoken there, and... Your high school is very close to your aunt's house, just ten minutes, and there are... Aren't you most afraid of the cold? I read on the Internet that SJP does not have winter... You won't be cold this winter."

But these words did not comfort Zhu Shan.

She would rather be winter all year round, walk far, far distances to school, and never speak for the rest of her life.

She wanted to stay here too.

That country, all strange and unknown, she couldn't sketch any outline in her mind.

The heart was heavy and full of fear.

Ling Yue could only say very pale words of comfort: "If you lack anything, just call me, and I'll send it to you..."

Zhu Shan lay on his shoulder, with a lot of tears and snot, crying so much that she couldn't speak, so she could only nod.

A sweet prompt sound came from the radio, and Zhu Shan slowly controlled her emotions.

She straightened up and glanced at Ling Yue, sadness coming again.

She looked down and shed tears: "I... I'm leaving."

Ling Yue nodded, and looked around again: "Page, my brother ......"

"Don't mention him!" Zhu Shan shook her head and interrupted, crying with disgust and resistance.

"Peppa..."

"Ling Yue, I'm leaving."

Zhu Shan turned around and walked forward, walked a few steps and turned back, waved his hand to Ling Yue, and then trotted away.

It wasn't until he couldn't see Zhu Shan's back that Ling Yue rolled out of tears, took out a tissue from his trouser pocket and blew his nose and walked back.

He made a call as he walked, and soon the call was answered.

Ling Yue was angry: "Brother, where are you? Didn't you say you'd come back today to see Peppa?"

"Something, I'll be late."

"Late? Paige is gone."

"Hmm."

"Why are you like this? Are you feeling guilty? If you don't go home for half a year, is it a guilt escape? Will you be able to solve the problem by running away? Now that Paige is gone and you don't come back, she'll never forgive you, she's ......."

Before Ling Yue could finish speaking, a busy sound of "Doodoo-" came from the receiver of the mobile phone.

Ling Yue's eyes turned red with anger, and then strode out of the airport.

In the crowded airport, Ling Xiao leaned behind the billboard and closed his eyes.

He's here to see her off.

However, when she heard those words, she still didn't come into her sight.

2. Patron saint

When Zhu Shan first arrived at SJP, she was fine, but a week later she enrolled in school and broke down again.

She called Ling Yue and cried breathlessly: "I can't adapt... Woo woo woo ...... "

As soon as Ling Xiao finished taking a shower and passed by Ling Yue's room, he heard him say something like "don't cry" on his mobile phone.

Ling Xiao frowned, walked in, grabbed Ling Yue's mobile phone, clicked on the hands-free and put it on the desk.

As soon as Ling Yue opened his mouth, Ling Xiao made him shut up with a look.

On the phone, Zhu Shan cried and sobbed: "I listen, I don't understand, woo... I can't understand what they are saying, I can't understand Chinese, I can't understand English, I can't understand English, woo... They talk and talk so strangely, it's all messy, messy, I don't want to be here, I want to come back... Whining... Woo woo woo ...... "

Ling Yue glanced at Ling Xiao, didn't see any regret or self-shame on his face, and gritted his teeth: "Page, don't cry yet, let's find a way, okay?"

"Don't... No, there is no way... I—I'm so sad, woooooooooo Ling Yue, there's not even chocolate balls for sale here, there's nothing here... Woo woo woo ...... "

Ling Yue: "I will make money in the future, I will go to SJP to open a chain to sell chocolate balls."

Zhu Shan cried even louder: "I want to go home... I want to go home... Woo woo woo ...... "

The topic is back to the beginning.

All of them, Zhu Shan just wanted to go home.

After crying for a while, Zhu Shan sobbed, "I, my aunt is going home, I am sleeping, and I will go to school tomorrow."

Ling Yue: "Okay, Paige, you must call me if you have something."

Zhu Shan choked her throat: "I—I know."

After hanging up the phone, Ling Yue squinted directly at Ling Xiao, and his angry face seemed to say: Look at the good things you have done.

But Ling Xiao just lowered his eyes and blinked, without any emotion.

Ling Yue looked away, yin and yang weird: "Page is too miserable, crying like this, I have to go to school tomorrow, I don't understand the language, and I am not used to eating......

Ling Xiao turned around and walked out the door, "I'm going back to school tomorrow."

「！！！」 Ling Yue craned her neck to look at the door and reminded, "What about my parent-teacher association? Didn't Mom let you hold a parent-teacher conference for me before leaving?"

Ling Xiao paused, and half-turned: "Then you go and sue."

Ling Yue: "......"

The next afternoon, Ling Xiao got on the plane.

But the destination is not the northern capital, but SJP.

The weather flow was a little abnormal, and the fuselage was bumpy, like Ling Xiao's heart.

When the plane landed, it was already dark, and Ling Xiao waited for the check-in, and it was completely dark when he left the airport.

He found a hotel to check in.

Late at night, he hastily ate something and then took a shower.

He came out of the bathroom, towel over his shoulder, and sat on a hotel chair, staring at the yellow cardboard box in the corner.

The carton is somewhat deformed because of consignment.

There are chocolate balls in it, dried mango and other snacks that Zhu Shan likes to eat.

The water at the tips of his hair dripped onto Ling Xiao's neck, it was cool, and he sighed and grabbed a towel to wipe his hair.

At dawn, Ling Xiao waited at the door of Aunt Zhu Shan's house.

It was a single-family villa, facing the sea, the same as what Ling Xiao had seen in the information before.

Her aunt is in good financial condition.

In the morning light, Zhu Shan walked out of it alone.

Ling Xiao hadn't seen Zhu Shan for a long time, and since that night, he refused Zhu Shan to be his sister, and he hasn't returned home.

At the airport that day, he had been behind a billboard, just glancing at Zhu Shan's back as she walked towards the ticket gate.

She seems to have lost weight.

With a low ponytail, he wears a loose light blue polo shirt, a dark blue tie around his neck, and a short blue skirt underneath.

This is the ugly campus uniform she complained about to Ling Yue on the phone.

In fact, when worn on her, it is not ugly.

At least that's what Ling Xiao thinks.

The path leading to the school, along the seaside, with a breeze.

Zhu Shan lowered her head, but her steps were fast.

Ling Xiao followed her, chasing her back.

He didn't go up to say hello.

Several times, he quickened his pace, but slowly slowed down.

He asked himself, what should I say?

He couldn't have imagined.

At the entrance of Zhu Shan's school, there is a newly opened violent bear-themed store.

Because it has just opened, the ground is full of ceremonial flowers, and there are dolls wearing violent bear costumes to attract attention at the door.

When Zhu Shan left school, the puppet was handing out small gifts, and he also stood in front of her and handed one to her.

She lowered her head and didn't look at what kind of small gift it was, she directly shook her head and refused, and then walked away quickly.

That night, Zhu Shan found that she could understand her aunt's speech because her aunt had spent more than half a year learning Mandarin.

With a little warmth in her heart, Zhu Shan noticed that her aunt just didn't say anything, but she did a lot of intimate things.

For example, the Chinese food that often appears on the dinner table, such as the new clothes in her closet, such as the aristocratic school she is currently attending.

In a better mood, when the violent bear stopped her again and gave her a small gift, she did not immediately refuse, but looked at the palm of the doll's hand.

On the big palm of the violent bear, a round chocolate ball.

Chocolate balls?

Chocolate Ball !!

Zhu Shan was a little stunned for a while.

The violent bear raised his palm, as if to remind her to hurry up and take it.

Zhu Shan's fingers trembled, and then she reached out and grabbed the chocolate ball.

For several days, the doll was handing out small gifts in front of the store, and Zhu Shan began to take the initiative to get chocolate balls.

Sometimes, she would take the opportunity to grab the puppet's arm.

Until one day, Zhu Shan didn't see the puppet that distributed chocolate balls, and she was a little disappointed.

She passed by the store, slowed down, and then trotted back to the store.

In the store, there are a dazzling array of violent bear element goods, and Zhu Shan turned around for a long time, but she didn't see the chocolate balls.

She plucked up her courage and asked the clerk if there were any chocolate balls for sale.

The clerk said no.

The clerk said it was. The working person brought it himself.

Zhu Shan walked around and then bought a violent bear doll.

On the way home, Zhu Shan held up the violent bear doll and looked at it again and again.

She felt that it was a miniature version of the puppet that handed out the chocolate balls.

These days, when she gets up every day, she wants to get a chocolate ball, and thinking like this, she actually feels that going to school is not so painful.

Maybe she felt her aunt's concern.

Probably she can now understand more than half of the local language.

May be gradually adapted.

It could also be because of chocolate balls.

Zhu Shan took a turn with a violent bear on the path next to the seaside, her skirt flying.

For the first time in this country, she smiled because she felt happy: "Violent bear, I command you, and from now on, you will be my guardian saint!"

Happy things one after another.

Zhu Shan returned home and received a cardboard box package that had been opened.

The aunt who cleaned up at home told Zhu Shan that it should be sent to her.

Inside is a wide variety of snacks.

It's all Zhu Shan's favorite.

She held the dried mango and nested in the sofa to call Ling Yue: "Ling Yue, thank you."

Ling Yue was on the bus home, because of the noise, he shouted loudly: "What?"

"You're so noisy over there!"

"I'm on the bus!"

"I'm in a much better mood now, I'm used to it!"

"Adapt? That's good! If you cry again, I'm going to fly over to see you!"

"Hahaha!" Zhu Shan smiled, "Then you go home first!" We'll talk later!"

"Good!"

hung up the phone, Zhu Shan rolled her eyes, jumped up from the sofa, and squatted in front of the cardboard box to rummage.

After a moment, she muttered, "Why aren't there chocolate balls?"

Ling Yue, big Maha!

I forgot the most important chocolate ball!

However, Zhu Shan is still in a good mood,

Pick up the dried mango and throw it in small increments, then catch it with your mouth with precision.