Summer 2009.

In City B of Country H, this summer is unusually hot, with temperatures as high as 35 degrees for a week, and the sun is like a furnace, scorching the earth.

At noon, there were pedestrians on the road, and a few people were also holding parasols, walking in a hurry.

In the city center, the second-floor fountain at the entrance of the Gu family villa is constantly spewing water outward, and the gardener in the garden is busy watering the precious flowers and trees that are short of water, and the frequency of watering has been changed from twice a day to three times a day because of the recent rise in temperature.

Upstairs, Li Ping, the hostess of the Gu family, and her daughter Gu Xin are picking out the swimsuits they need for this week's trip to the beach.

Li Ping is the only daughter of a real estate giant in country H, she has been pampered and loved since she was a child, and after marrying Gu Yong, the founder of Gu's real estate, she gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and has been teaching her husband and children at home. Nearly 40 years old, still as delicate as a girl, especially a pair of beautiful eyes with affection, which makes people happy, not at all like a woman with two teenage children.

Gu Xin is the sister of the dragon and phoenix fetus, with a round face and slender danfeng eyes, although she is not as charming as Li Ping, she exudes the unique vitality of her cardamom years.

I have just graduated from junior high school, and this trip is also a junior high school graduation trip. As Gu's only daughter, Gu Xin has been arranged by her parents to travel around the world since she was a child, and she didn't need to prepare a swimsuit for this graduation trip. Mainly because Shangguan Hong also participated this time, the first time he traveled with the person he liked, Gu Xin was inevitably apprehensive, in order to show his most beautiful appearance in front of Shangguan Hong, he specially asked his mother to be his counselor.

Li Ping lifted a pink backless swimsuit, looked at the front and back, looked satisfied, and happily handed it to Gu Xin.

"Xin'er, look at this pink one, how about it, the little girl should dress up a little more foreign, cute"

Gu Xin looked at the spicy-eyed death Barbie fan, and wondered if Li Ping's aesthetics were wrong. I can't help but be coquettish

"Mom, this is too powdery, and people will say that it is dirty. Shangguan Hong will also be there tomorrow, I can't be ashamed"

When Li Ping heard her daughter's answer, she was not angry, and comforted her dotingly

"Okay, let's take a look again, try more, we will definitely make Shangguan Hong, except you can't see anyone else"

Gu Xin's cheeks were slightly red, and she stomped her feet shyly

"Mom"

Li Ping looked at her daughter's shy behavior without emotion

"Okay, our Xin'er will be shy, and sure enough, she has grown up, and she is a big girl."

The mother and daughter tried on clothes in harmony and chose for 3 hours before choosing a swimsuit with a red flower in the color of bean paste.

At the same time, the city of S in country H,

As a famous water shortage city in country H, people suffer from water shortage all year round. This year is worse than usual, and if it weren't for the timely artificial rainfall in the country, the days would have been even more difficult.

In the Limin Welfare Institute, a tall and slender girl wearing a long camouflage uniform that did not fit well and baggy, and a pair of large black-rimmed glasses, was holding up an adult-tall hoe in the face of the leafy road, and was working hard to loosen the soil for the cracked earth.

"Bao'er, take a break, get ready to eat, don't worry, there's still an afternoon" Sister Wang, who was helping in the welfare home, shouted Gu Bao to eat.

"Okay, I'll come right away"

Gu Bao is 15 years old this year, and when he was 1 year old, he was sent to the Limin Welfare Institute and never left. When I was a child, because of a birth defect, no one wanted to adopt. Later, it was found that Gu Bao had no other problems except for facial paralysis and emotional perception disorders, and many people wanted to adopt Gu Bao, but they were all rejected by Gu Bao.

Although Gu Bao is only a teenager, he is already slim on the ground, with a goose egg face, willow eyebrows, and a pair of deer eyes.

Gu Bao put down the hoe, helped his waist, wiped the sweat on his head, went to the well water in the courtyard to wash his hands, and ran to the room to change his clean clothes before walking quickly into the cafeteria.

The orphanage was built decades ago, with only 2 floors, the second floor is mainly used as bedrooms, there are 5 rooms, and one is the office of the dean's mother. There are 6 rooms on the first floor, including a living room, a kitchen, a cafeteria, an activity room, a toilet, and a storage room.

On the large round table in the cafeteria, there is a plate of fried shredded potatoes, a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of braised pork, and a plate of fried vegetables.

In the climate of H city, green vegetables are not easy to grow, the yield is very low, and everyone eats Chinese cabbage and shredded potatoes every day, so Gu Baocai wants to research green vegetable varieties that can also be high in dry land.

Everyone has already served the table, just waiting for Gu Bao. A few children who were only a few years old kept swallowing saliva, but their hands were obediently put away, trying their best to restrain themselves.

Seeing this, Gu Bao hurriedly said

"Everyone, let's eat, what are you waiting for me to do"

When the children saw Gu Bao speak, they picked up their chopsticks to pick up the braised pork and vegetables, like refugees who hadn't eaten for a few days, gobbling them up.

Seeing the children eating with their mouths full of oil and a satisfied look, Gu Bao secretly swore that he must make more money and research out the high-yield vegetables that are easy to grow in S City to change all this.

Seeing that Gu Bao only ate Chinese cabbage, the dean's mother couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and took the initiative to pick up the greens and braised pork and put them in Gu Bao's bowl

"Come, Bao'er, eat more vegetables and meat, don't just eat cabbage, you haven't got tired of it"

Seeing that his bowl was full of vegetables, Gu Bao felt sour in his heart and said

"Thank you, Dean, I will take it myself, and I won't get tired of it, I won't have to eat such a good craft soon, I must eat more."

The dean's mother, looking at Gu Bao's sensible appearance, teased

"Your little mouth, I'm not worried, it's your old problem"

Seeing that the dean's mother was repeating the old words, Gu Bao hurriedly explained

"It's okay with my problem, it's been so many years, and nothing serious has happened, Dean's mother, don't worry, besides, what's really going on, I'm not alone, and I help me in vain"

"Well, yes, there is vain, you have good skills, smart brains, and can deal with it, but if you are unhappy about something, you can call us and tell us, don't carry it yourself"

"Okay, Mother Dean, don't worry, I'll call if there's something"

"That's it, what kind of person is Bao'er, genius, you forgot that she made the teacher sick before, if you want me to say that Bao'er's problem is a good thing, as long as you can stand up, the cow ghosts, snakes and gods don't dare to mess with it" Sister Wang saw that the atmosphere was not good, and hurriedly interrupted.

After eating, Gu Bao didn't rest much, changed into a camouflage uniform, and sped up to loosen the remaining soil in the field and sprinkle green vegetable seeds. While it was still early, I washed my camouflage uniform by the way.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, I took the luggage that I had already packed, and under the watchful eyes of the big guys in the welfare home, I got on the pre-arranged hitchhiker and set foot on the road to City B.

Gu Bao achieved the first good result in the district in this year's high school entrance examination, and was favored by the famous Minyang Private Senior High School in City B, which not only provided a scholarship of 200,000 yuan, but also included accommodation fees, tuition fees, and living expenses.

Gu Bao originally planned to continue to study in high school in the district, but there were children in the welfare institute who urgently needed a kidney transplant, and the operation cost 200,000 yuan, and the welfare home could not make up so much money for the time being.

After Gu Bao received the invitation, he took the initiative to discuss with the dean's mother and decided to accept Minyang's invitation.

The dean didn't want to agree, he couldn't stand Gu Bao's constant requests, and besides, the kidney source was hard to find, and if he missed it this time, he didn't know how long he would have to wait until the Year of the Monkey, and the child was too young to know how long he could wait. After hesitating for 2 days, I tearfully agreed.

Compared with the dean's mother's guilt and worry about Gu Bao, Gu Bao didn't think there was anything wrong.

Gu Bao is a person who has a lot of plans for the future, and has been determined to go to the Agricultural University in City B since he was a child, and plans to engage in vegetable cultivation research in the future. This time, I should have to adapt to the environment in advance, anyway, I always have to go, and I can solve the problem of surgery costs, killing two birds with one stone.

City B is tens of thousands of kilometers away from City S, and the two cities are at both ends of country H. It takes 3 days to take a plane, and Gu Bao specially bought a red-eye flight in order to save money on air tickets, so he didn't even have time to eat dinner, so he could only go to the airport to buy some casually and make do with it.

Sitting in the taxi, Gu Bao tightly held the shoulder strap of his schoolbag, although his face had no mood fluctuations, his red neck revealed Gu Bao's nervousness. After all, the first time I went out alone, no matter how precocious a child is, it is always a child.