In the middle of the first month of the new year, Nancheng enters the depths of winter.

The first semester of Tang Yuanyuan's high school life finally came to an end, and after a temporary final exam that ended smoothly, she ushered in her first winter vacation since high school.

Although this does not mean that the time of winter vacation will be extended, but for most middle school students who are still in the immature age of mind, the early holiday is a happy event, as for the debts to be repaid later, it will be left to face their own troubles later.

The holiday is a great thing for students, especially for Tang Yuanyuan, who has survived the torturous final exams and ushered in a long vacation, which means that she no longer has to get up to school early every day, nor does she have to go to self-study until late to go home, she can have a lot of time to do what she likes.

Although Tang Yuanyuan is not usually the kind of person who is particularly rigid in studying and staying in school, he has to study seriously, and even belongs to the kind of person who is more obedient in class, it stands to reason that there should not be much pressure in school, but sure enough, for her, staying in school itself is a constraint - a constraint on her free and loose nature.

After all, the school itself is a place with a lot of rules, and she doesn't like to follow the rules very much, but if she doesn't abide by the rules of the school, she will get into trouble, and she has been a problem student who can cause trouble in the eyes of the teachers of various subjects for various reasons.

But it's different when you have a holiday, at least for Tang Yuanyuan, the holiday is like releasing birds into the mountains and forests and fish into the sea, which is full of the taste of freedom....

So on the day of the holiday, from the moment she finished the last subject in the morning, she had a sense of comfort that she was already a released sparrow.

The school is also very lively on the day of the official end of the winter vacation, the students have walked out of the teaching building one after another at the time of the official holiday at noon, no matter where they go, they can see the students can not hide their happy smiles, boys and girls gather in groups and groups out of the school gate, the day students are chattering to discuss the first dinner of the holiday and the first place to open the dark, the dormitory students drag the big suitcases and wave goodbye to each other to say goodbye next year, the entrance and exit of each school gate are almost constantly flowing.

Tang Yuanyuan lay on the window of the classroom, looking out the window at the classes on the campus that had ended the class meeting early and showed envy, and time passed like this, and finally after listening to the precautions that the head teacher had spoken countless times and her ears were calloused, she waited for the long-awaited official dismissal.

She carried her schoolbag almost all the way out of the school gate with Gu Yuan humming a little song.

The time after school on the first day of winter vacation was just noon, Tang Yuanyuan was not in such a hurry to go home, because yesterday she had already planned that she would definitely go around outside on the first day of the holiday today and then go home, and informed Lao Chen in advance not to pick her up.

So she dragged Gu Yuan to the commercial block not far from the school, and walked into a milk tea shop they used to go to in the past with words like "I will drink a cup of hot milk tea on the first day of the holiday, and be happy".

Although Gu Yuan is actually not a person who likes to be lively and wander around the street, since he is accompanying Tang Yuanyuan, he has no objections.

So the first stop after school the two sat in the milk tea shop, Tang Yuanyuan ordered a cup of fresh fruit tea with milk, Gu Yuan ordered a cup of hot coffee, and the two sat together by the window of the store near the floor-to-ceiling glass, chatting while looking at the crowd walking by the street outside the store.

After they chatted a lot of things, after falling into a short silence, Gu Yuan sat beside her and suddenly let out a sigh of emotion.

"It's been a while since we've sat in this shop."

As he said that, his eyes fell on the passers-by, Tang Yuanyuan nodded in response when he heard his words, and echoed:

"After all, high school life is more intense than before... Now we have a lot less time to go out of school. ”

Gu Yuan turned his head slightly when he heard her words, his eyes fell on her, and said:

"yes, and you seem to have been quite busy lately."

As soon as she heard his words, Tang Yuanyuan felt a little weak for no reason, she laughed dryly and asked, "Ah? I didn't find anything new for myself to do... I've been busy lately, but it's just for the end of the semester. ”

"You're not the type to put so much effort into studying, and if you do, you'll be in the top three instead of the top ten this time."

Gu Yuan casually took a sip of the coffee in his hand, exposing her clumsy excuse.

Tang Yuanyuan smiled slightly embarrassed again, waved his hand and said:

"Oh, Young Master Gu thinks too highly of me."

She took a sip of her drink as she spoke, lowered her eyes to her cup, and sighed softly in her heart.

She knew what Gu Yuan meant by that, because she had been spending a lot less time with Gu Yuan recently, so he would say such a thing.

She and Gu Yuan's childhood sweetheart, and at the same time, Gu Yuan is almost the only true friend she can trust, most of the time in the past, when she was in her spare time, she would ask Gu Yuan what she needed to be accompanied by someone, and Gu Yuan rarely refused her proposal if there was nothing else, so in fact, they often met or stayed together during holidays and other times.

However, since some time ago, and even since she met Yi Huai and Xun, the time she and Gu Yuan spent together in their leisure time could almost be said to have decreased sharply.

Because they joined different departments in the school, they rarely stayed together in activity time except for class, and the only time they could get along with was the occasional chat after class and getting off school early and evening, not to mention the holidays, after high school, Gu Yuan needed to learn more specialties and deal with a lot of things, and he also had other friends, Tang Yuanyuan always felt that he couldn't always bother him because of his little things, so he rarely went to him all the time like before.

And it is true that because of the company of Yi Huai and Xun, Tang Yuanyuan no longer feels that she is bored and lonely alone as before, so in addition to going out, she has also reduced the frequency of occasionally calling Gu Yuan to her house to play in the past - on the one hand, to prevent him from finding out that Yi Huai still lives in his house, and on the other hand, it is also to not involve too much in disturbing the other party's life as much as possible.

After all, since the incident of the school female ghost, Tang Yuanyuan has clearly known what dangerous guy she has been targeted, and the other party seems to obviously belong to the type that will do whatever it takes for the end, and the ghost-related events she may encounter in the future will be more dangerous, and may also implicate those close to her.

So she thought it would be better to take this opportunity to keep a little distance from Gu Yuan...

While thinking about it, she sighed that Gu Yuan was still keen, he would say that he had already noticed her deliberate estrangement, although she knew that the other party might feel uncomfortable because of this, but there was no better choice for a while.

However, keeping a little distance doesn't mean that she wants to become completely strangers with Gu Yuan, so she will deliberately pull him out today.

It's just that I didn't expect Gu Yuan to be the one who asked first...

"I'm sorry... It's just that this time is a bit hectic. Tang Yuanyuan said, putting his hands on the table to support his face, "I didn't mean to alienate you... It's just that I haven't found a good solution to some of my own problems, and I don't really want to affect you..."

"We're childhood sweethearts." Gu Yuan said, "No matter what problems you encounter, you shouldn't exclude me, right?" ”

"That being said, there's no way I'm going to turn all my problems into someone else's, right?" "There are some problems that I can only solve on my own..."

Gu Yuan was silent for two seconds and asked, "So, I can't help, right?" ”

Tang Yuanyuan was stunned when he heard this, and immediately shook his head like a rattle.

"I didn't say anything like that." She denied, "And I'm not going to talk to you at all, that's why I'm going to pull you out and sit here today." ”

When Gu Yuan heard this, he was silent for a few seconds before revealing a bitter smile with a faint helplessness, and then he pushed his glasses and asked again:

"So, what are your plans and intentions, right?"

Tang Yuanyuan didn't miss the wry smile that flashed on his face, but she didn't understand why the other party showed such a look. Is it because you still believe in and struggle with those things that don't exist and feel helpless? Or does he feel helpless because he can't help himself?

She didn't know the answer, so she was silent for a while, and then said:

"During this year's winter vacation, I should go back to my old house to live."

"A whole winter vacation?" Gu Yuan asked.

"That's how it should be." "Because the troubles I've been getting into lately seem to be getting more and more intractable, I want to go back to the old house and find more of what my grandmother left behind." ”

"And there are some things that might be more suitable for learning in the old house than in the city... I think so, I haven't been back to live in a long time, so I also want to go back to spend time with my grandfather. ”

Gu Yuan didn't reply for a while after hearing her say this, Tang Yuanyuan glanced at him and choked back what he wanted to ask.

Originally, she wanted to ask Gu Yuan if she would go back to the old mansion to spend the winter vacation together, because the Tang family's old mansion and the Gu family's ancestral house were not too far apart, but she knew that Gu Yuan was not close to her family, so she didn't ask this.

After all, in the past years, he would rather stay here alone or go to her house for the New Year, and he would not be very willing to look back at home for a long time.

Gu Yuan and his family have no hatred, but they are definitely not close, because in addition to him, his family also has a much-loved younger brother Gu Man, compared to him, his parents and Gu Man are more like a family.

In the past, every time he went back, he always felt as if he was an outsider who disturbed their happy family, so over time he became less fond of returning to that so-called home. So whether it is the New Year or the holidays, he always stays alone in the house in Nancheng, and he moves out to live alone, for him, in addition to accompanying Tang Yuanyuan, it is also a way to escape from that family.

After a long while, Gu Yuan slowly spoke:

"I signed up for a winter vacation training class here during this year's winter vacation, and I may not go back to live for the whole winter vacation."

Tang Yuanyuan blinked, knowing that this was his reply, so he nodded.

"Then you have to take care of yourself alone, why don't you call your housekeeper over? But you're such a capable person, in fact, if I don't stay here, it might be less trouble for you. ”

She laughed as she said that, sat on the bench with one hand and shook her feet, she looked at Gu Yuan looking at his own coffee, and added a sentence after a while:

"But if you want, you can still come back to my house this year to celebrate the New Year together."

"Hmm." Gu Yuan replied softly.

At this point, the two fell into a short silence again, until another wave of people passing by after school was released from the window, looking at those peers wearing different school uniforms, Tang Yuanyuan once again began to talk about other topics with great interest as usual, and Gu Yuan sat next to her and listened to her like that, occasionally speaking out to respond to her words.

After leaving the bubble tea shop, she took him out to go shopping in the surrounding business districts, laughing and playing all the way as in the past, and the two of them walked until the evening, and then walked home together.

In the end, they parted ways again at the corner of the stairs going home, but this time they waved and said that when they saw each other next time, Gu Yuan looked at the smiling face of the girl he was extremely familiar with, but for some reason he always felt that after this separation, they would be farther and farther apart....

But he couldn't say what he really wanted to say, because he couldn't see the world that Tang Yuanyuan could see, so he couldn't say the sentence that he wanted to accompany her to solve the problem.

He knew that it was nothing more than his willfulness and wishful thinking, even if Tang Yuanyuan denied it, he also knew that the truth was as he said, and he couldn't help her in any way.

Originally, he just thought that Tang Yuanyuan believed something, and he believed it, so it was enough. But he only believed that he couldn't do anything, and he realized this later, but he could only stand there and watch her back walking alone.

It would be nice if there was a chance that I could catch up with her.

Gu Yuan watched Tang Yuanyuan's door close from afar, but he didn't turn around for a long time, but again, he remembered a few days ago, he could occasionally see it by her side, but he didn't know if it was a shadow of an illusion.