Eventually, it worked.

Time passed little by little, and through Old Man Lu's narration, Sui Suihuan probably understood the relationship.

Although there were still questions in the middle, he also wanted to know why Old Man Lu left halfway, but he didn't say it, and he thought that there was a reason for him.

Now that he already knows the general situation, Sui Suihuan doesn't plan to continue to ask.

After saying these words, although it was not as usual, Old Man Lu was equivalent to uncovering the scar again, and he was still very tired.

"Huanhuan, it's not too early, you should go back first, remember these words, don't tell the kid Yanzhou first."

After speaking, the old man got up and left the study.

Sui Yihuan looked at the lonely back of the old man, regretted it a little, and asked these questions. But now she can't bring effective comfort to the old man, so she can only let the old man calm and digest alone.

"Grandpa Lu, I know."

Old Man Lu didn't react at all, and he didn't know if he heard the words of the first birthday huan clearly.

Sui Huan returned home alone with these heavy secrets.

In June 1984, it was another year of high school entrance examination.

It's just the first year of the year.

After a year of hard work and study, Sui Sui Huan has learned the content of the second year of high school, and the main thing she is facing at present is the high school entrance examination.

"Huanhuan, are you going to go to the guard school? Or do you want to learn something else? Wu Xingyue asked this.

In this day and age, the best choice for junior high school students is to go to a technical school to learn a technology, and finally choose to go to high school.

Moreover, the scores enrolled in technical schools are much higher than those of ordinary high schools. Because technical schools can be directly assigned jobs after three years, but high school still has to go through three years of study, and can only be assigned jobs when they are admitted to universities, for rural children, technical schools are undoubtedly the best first choice.

In the last life, Sui Huan chose the health school, but in the following decades, he couldn't stop regretting it. This is another life, and she has always firmly chosen to take the high school entrance examination.

Hearing Wu Xingyue's question, she pondered for a while, and still chose to tell her, "Yueyue, I plan to take the high school entrance examination." ”

Wu Xingyue looked at her good friend in front of her in surprise, because she had always thought that Sui Suihuan's grades were so good, she would definitely choose Wei School.

But she looked at Sui Huan's determined eyes and knew that she had made up her mind.

"Huanhuan, have you really decided? If you have such good grades, you will definitely be able to get into the best technical school and be assigned a good job. ”

Wu Xinyue is right, after all, one of the concepts they have been instilled by their family since childhood is to serve an iron rice bowl.

This is also a phenomenon in today's society, Sui Huan is powerless to change, she can only change herself.

"Yes, I've decided. Besides, maybe we will still be in the same school and the same class in high school, and we can still go to and from school together, isn't that good? ”

Sui Suihuan had long known that Wu Xingyue had decided to go to high school, because her grades were not enough for her to be admitted to a technical school, but there was no problem in high school.

Although Wu Xingyue thought that they would be able to go to and from school together in the future, she was very happy, but she still felt sorry for Yi Yihuan.

"Well—we'll be best friends in the future." Wu Xingyue made a solemn promise.

On the way back from school, Sui Suihuan pushed the car and walked with Lu Yanzhou on the way home.

"Lu Yanzhou, what do you think in your heart?" In the silent atmosphere between the two, Sui Huan suddenly spoke.

Lu Yanzhou, who was deep in thought, didn't react to what Yi Yihuan said for a while, and subconsciously "um" in agreement.

Sui Suihuan saw his reaction and knew that he didn't listen, so he couldn't cry or laugh, and asked him loudly again, "I said, are you going to technical school or high school?" I heard you clearly this time. ”

This voice shocked Lu Yanzhou's ears, and he hurriedly said that he heard clearly, but he was still silent when he answered.

"I, I'm still thinking about it."

"Okay, then you must tell me if you think about it." Faced with Sui Suihuan's answer, Sui Suihuan did not feel surprised, after all, this matter is also very important to the choice of the future path, and it should not be hasty.

She had told Lu Yanzhou before that she planned to take the high school entrance examination and then the university entrance examination.

After a year of getting along, she is 80% sure that Lu Yanzhou will choose the same path as her.

At night, Lu Yanzhou lay in his dilapidated house with leaky air everywhere, and his mind was full of what he had heard in the past few days, as well as the questions that Sui Yihuan asked him today.

Now his mind is in a mess, and he has been frequently distracted in class in the past two days, and even when he is with Sui Suihuan, he can't help but wander, just like this afternoon.

If he hadn't heard that conversation that day, he might have answered Sui Huan without hesitation today, and would have chosen the same path as her.

His gray-green eyes were full of incomprehension, pain, and complex emotions that were intertwined, leaving him at a loss.

Two days ago, as usual, he had finished his work and returned to his hut. looked at the information book that Sui Suihuan brought him.

Then he heard several voices outside the door, one of which was so familiar that he could never mishear it.

"Let me tell you, if you do this, the benefits will be indispensable to you." It was Lu Mu's voice.

But Lu Yanzhou didn't take this voice to heart, nor did he open the door to look, he didn't care at all.

"What should I do if Zhou Rui wants to find me?" It's another relatively unfamiliar voice.

"You can rest assured, his family loves his daughter, as long as his daughter is in hand, are you still worried? It's really cheap, that kid, I don't know what the daughter of the Zhou family likes about him? How good is my Yongchang, isn't it a hundred times better than that little rabbit? Lu Mu's voice was a little unwilling.

A trace of contempt and disdain flashed in the eyes of the person next to him, thinking that your second son is a dog who is stronger than him, so he still deserves to look down on others and pick and choose?

But he didn't say it, and he still echoed Lu Mu's words, and Lu Mu became more and more fluttering when she heard it.

Hearing this, Lu Yanzhou seemed to realize that the person they were talking about was Sui Suihuan's family, but he didn't act rashly, he opened the door rashly and walked out, he wanted to continue to hear what other plans they had.

The two people who were talking outside didn't seem to realize that Lu Yanzhou was inside the house and heard their plan clearly.

"Are you sure there's no one in your house?" The unfamiliar voice, full of caution.

I don't know if Lu's mother has no brains, or if she is arrogant, "I'm sure, everyone in the family has been separated by me." ”

When the man heard this, he also put his mind at ease and communicated with Lu Mu unscrupulously.

"Sister-in-law of the Lu family, isn't that Yanzhou also your son? Why are you different from Yongchang and Jinbao to him? ”

"You don't know, he's just a bad star, you're not from our village, you don't know much. He wasn't born to me, and he wasn't brought back by my father-in-law, who had been dead for an unknown number of years. Speaking of this Lu Mu, she is full of resentment, and she doesn't plan to hide it with him.

"At first, I saw that he was still a boy and thought, just keep it, who knows that it didn't take long for him to kill my father-in-law. Otherwise, you say that my father-in-law is in good health every day, and he is healthier than some of the adults in our village, why did he get tuberculosis as soon as he came. Isn't it all his gram? Besides, I didn't say this alone, my mother-in-law specially invited a fortune teller, and the master said it. Can this still be fake? ”

"Then why are you still leaving him at home and sending him out?" The man also didn't understand, since he hated him so much, why didn't he send him away? And stay at home for so many years.

"I'm mad when it comes to that! You said that the old man was dead, and he had to leave such a stall. That year, when we were just about to send him away, the party secretary of our village came and said that he would not let him go, saying that my father-in-law had left a will. I think there is a chance that he will be killed by the nemesis when he arrives at their house. This grievance opened a mouth, that is, it couldn't stop popping out, and Lu Mu's mouth couldn't stop at all, but it was all out.

The two of them just stood outside Lu Yanzhou's door and said unscrupulously.

Lu Yanzhou, who was only separated by a wall from them, heard it clearly. When he heard from Lu's mother's mouth that he was not his own, the feeling was comparable to a thunderbolt from the sky.

He just listened mechanically to the rest of the words, and those vicious words ate away at his brain little by little.

His eyes still seem to be reminding of a warm scene from his childhood.

Lying on the bed, the weak grandfather, the calloused rough hand stroked his head, but the muddy voice was full of tenderness to say to him, "Our inkstone is really a good boy, grandpa likes inkstone the most." ”

He has been subjected to countless verbal abuses and beatings in this house over the years since his grandfather left, and he has never thought about escaping this place once.

But in the end, they all stayed at the few old men who gave him warmth.

In front of the bed where he was leaving, the young Lu Yanzhou still clearly remembered the words he instructed before he died, he said, "Yanzhou, no matter what, you are grandpa's grandson, you are a member of this family, and you will always be grandpa's pride." ”

It was this sentence that became the shackles that he walked through the darkness, and it was also this sentence that became the shackles that imprisoned him in this small courtyard.

Hearing these words outside the door, he wanted to rush out and ask what was going on. But he didn't, he is now in great pain and doesn't know what to do.

Leaning against the wall, he slipped helplessly and sat on the ground, Lu Yanzhou's eyes were filled with great pain.

When he was beaten before, he didn't think that he was not the biological son of the Lu family. But everything was unsubstantiated, until these words came out of the mouth of his so-called mother.

Although he is full of disappointment in the Lu family, he also has hatred for these people. But he always remembered in his heart what his grandfather had said, saying that they were all family.

But this sentence also seems to be a lie, a lie that has deceived him for many years.