Looking at Xia Di in a suit and leather shoes in the driver's seat, Lu Mingfei felt that his IQ had been insulted, just the old Xia Tou's vigorous energy, if he really was a decrepit child who was ignored by no one, then he would eat the steering wheel of the jeep on the spot, and promised not to dip a drop of sauce in the whole process!

Just thinking like this, his gaze inadvertently fell on the windshield, facing his translucent reflection in it.

Suddenly, he froze.

It seems that he has found the reason why Uncle Xia is so good to him.

Is it because Uncle Xia also had the experience of being excluded and isolated when he was a child, so he will lend a helping hand to him and teach him how to face the unsatisfactory in life with a smile?

So who will be the one who helped the uncle in the first place?

I am just busy with my parents, and Uncle Xia is the death of both parents, so he must have suffered more than himself.

"Of course it's true, when did I lie to you." Xia Di tapped his fingers on the steering wheel and looked ahead without squinting, but no one knew what was going on in his heart.

"Indeed." Lu Mingfei changed the topic bluntly, "Uncle, you are dressed like this, do you have something to do today?" ”

Since knowing each other for so long, he has never seen Xia Di dressed so formally, as if he was going to attend some important meeting, and the solemnity made people feel a little unreal.

"There's something going on in my hometown, and I need to go back." Xia Di rarely did not disclose what she was going to do.

"So, when are you coming back?" Lu Mingfei didn't ask him what he was going to do, anyway, he didn't want to say that he couldn't ask, rather than being prevaricated by righteousness, it was better to think about the noon action.

"Soon, I'll be back in the afternoon."

The jeep traveled unhindered all the way, and when he arrived at Shilan Middle School, he happened to meet the Audi who picked up Chu Zihang, and the senior brothers met at the door, waved goodbye to Xia Di, who was leaning against the window with one hand, and walked into the school.

After a brief exchange, Chu Zihang knew that Xia Di had something to do to go back to his hometown today, and Lu Mingfei also learned that the senior brother was going to ask the dean about the past in the morning, and then agreed to go to the peach blossom tree after school at noon while everyone was going to eat.

Time passed in a flash, and soon came to the big recess in the morning, Chu Zihang relied on his immunity as a good student and directly skipped the recess exercises, came to the teaching director's office, and stopped Director Yan, who was about to go out to catch the students who were hiding from the recess exercises.

"You mean that Xia Di's kid is dressed very seriously today, and he said that he wants to go back to his hometown, maybe when he will come back?"

Chu Zihang was accustomed to going straight to the point, and he was not polite, so he directly stated his purpose straight to the point, successfully attracted the attention of Director Yan, and beckoned him into the office: "Come in first." ”

An old man and a young man sat in the office, Director Yan looked at Chu Zihang, who was sitting upright, and sighed: "I didn't expect you and Xia Di's kid to have a master-apprentice relationship, and you are not afraid of misleading people's children." ”

"I learned a lot from Uncle Xia." Chu Zihang is an honest child, he doesn't lie, and his answers are impartial.

Director Yan smiled and took out a thick photo album from the drawer, which contained group photos of all the classes he had taught so far.

Turning to the group photo of the 12th class of the first year of Shilan Middle School in 88, his wrinkled face had a hint of nostalgia: "At that time, Xia Di was not as out of step as he is now, and he was the quietest student in the class. ”

Director Yan handed the album to Chu Zihang, and then slowly recounted the things about Xia Di in his memory.

The iceberg boy took the album and found Master Xia according to the name at the bottom of the photo.

It was a boy who was not tall, short, fat or thin, with long hair that covered his eyebrows, and a pair of big glasses, standing in the corner of the penultimate row, being hugged by the shoulders of the person next to him, and comparing scissor hands with an expressionless face, and his dark eyes quietly staring at the camera.

Chu Zihang was a little surprised, is this name really not written wrong?

That Master Xia, who laughs like the ultimate villain every day, will also have such a mediocre side?

"At that time, the school rules were not so strict, and no one cared about him with long hair, although I said it several times, but it was clear that he took my words as a deaf ear." Director Yan caught the surprise that flashed in the young man's eyes and smiled:

"He was dressed like this for the whole first year of junior high school, and then he became normal at the beginning of the second year of junior high school, not to mention that he became handsome and energetic, his academic performance improved, his athletic ability became much stronger, and he even won the first place in the long jump when he was in the school sports meeting."

Chu Zihang looked at the group photo of the 12th class of the second junior high school sports meeting, and the master Xia in it was clean and crisp, with the unique vigor of young people, with a bright smile and a bright smile around the neck of others and a thumbs up to the camera, but he had such a cheerful appearance now.

"Speaking of which, you are also in the second year of junior high school, but don't learn from your master, he often tampered with ancient poems at that time, what 'friends come from afar, although they are far away, they will be punished', 'sit up in shock in the dying illness, and ask where the guest is coming from with a smile', 'men should be self-reliant, and the mirror appliqué yellow', I don't know what he has in his head, I was angry and punished him for a week's duty, but he still didn't change."

Director Yan couldn't help laughing out loud when he said this: "I remember that later at the parent-teacher conference, I also asked his parents if there was anything big that happened during the summer vacation that made Xia Di's temperament change greatly, and the answer he got was that he went down to the river to save the drowning child and almost put himself on the hook, and since then he has understood the true meaning of life and began to live every day seriously." ”

"Well, Uncle Xia is indeed a warm-hearted person." Chu Zihang nodded, this is indeed undeniable.

"Later, he went all the way to high school, and although I was still teaching in junior high school, I could hear from other teachers and students from time to time, and it was basically a limelight."

It involved some things such as pretending to be slapped in the face, students' early love, and the school's black history, but Director Yan didn't say it, after all, it was a personal privacy that was not good for publicity.

"Later, he went to a local university and was going to graduate school, but his parents suddenly had a car accident." The old man looked embarrassed, knowing that Chu Zihang was a mature child, so he didn't shy away from anything: "I heard that it was raining heavily at night, the road was slippery after dark, and the truck on the opposite side lost control and crashed over, and no one was spared." ”

Chu Zihang closed the photo album: "Then Uncle Xia is wearing such a formal ...... today."

"Well, it's time to go back to my hometown to worship my parents." Director Yan nodded, this matter was told to him by the students who came to Shilan Middle School to visit, otherwise he might not have known about this.

The topic is almost over here, Director Yan will definitely not take the initiative to mention something similar to the strange talk on campus, and even Chu Zihang may not be able to answer when he asks, so the young man will not ask more, and after thanking him, he turned around and left.

Director Yan looked at Chu Zihang, nodded politely, and then closed the office door, and his eyes couldn't help flashing with appreciation.

Although this kid looks cold, he actually cares about people unexpectedly, and he came to ask himself if he was really cheap Xia Di's kid with a little change.

By the time Chu Zihang left the administrative building, the recess exercise had ended, and he returned to his class in the bustling crowd.

Taking out a pen and paper to sketch, he began to organize the information he had gotten.

In 1988, my parents didn't know each other at that time, and it might be a little difficult to know the news so far ago, so maybe I had to ask the neighbors of my junior and junior classmates.

……

After school at noon, Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang avoided the crowd of dry meals and met in front of the faculty dormitory building.

Chu Zihang told his junior brother everything he learned from the teaching director, and after he finished digesting it, the two began to divide labor.

Lu Mingfei is not good at looking at the wind, while Chu Zihang is responsible for going up the tree to find clues.

Before going up the tree, Chu Zihang took out two rings from his pocket and put them on his middle finger, and then pulled a little distance to run, and kicked his sneakers on the trunk three or two times, and then climbed the trunk about two meters above the ground.

The peach blossom tree is not a leafy variety, if someone approaches it, it can't hide it at all, Chu Zihang must fight quickly.

According to the classmates of the junior brother, if you get close to this tree, you will become a love brain, and someone will definitely leave traces on the tree.

Just like some people who go to travel and climb mountains like to carve "xxx to visit here" on stones and trees, young boys and girls will inevitably leave marks or marks on trees in order to commemorate their emotions.

But yesterday they turned around and found nothing, which means that either the traces have been "repaired" by the peach blossom tree, or the position has changed as the peach blossom tree grows.

Chu Zihang carefully looked around the trunk of the tree for possible traces, and when he climbed up with his hand, he found that there was a piece of bark that had fallen off, and there were slight dents, as if someone was carving words with a knife.

The young man's heart was overjoyed, and then he tried his best to go around to the place where the bark had fallen off, but just as he moved his steps, he heard the junior brother whisper: "Oh no, senior brother, the teaching director is here." ”

The boy who climbed the tree was startled when he heard this, looked down at the distance between himself and the ground, and estimated to himself that he should be able to withstand the leap, so he continued to climb to see what the mark was.

And when Lu Mingfei ran under the tree, Chu Zihang also happened to see the simple acacia umbrella pattern where the bark fell off, and the two crooked Chinese characters.

"Natsu?" Chu Zihang thought of Master Xia as soon as he saw this word, but he didn't have time to think about it, the teaching director was walking in this direction, and he had to leave quickly.

As soon as his hands were released, the boy was about to make a vertical landing tumbling to release the force, but as soon as his hand left the trunk, a cold and hard claw grabbed his wrist.

Chu Zihang looked up, only to see that the brown bark was twisted into a human face, and the golden pupils that exuded coldness were staring at him, and a dead wood-like arm grabbed his wrist and dragged him into the tree, and he couldn't break free at all.

And Lu Mingfei under the tree also looked up when he saw that his senior brother was delayed, but this look made him a little confused:

"Holy, grandma?"

As soon as these words came out, there was an extra dead wood arm at the bottom of the peach blossom tree, and when Lu Ming was distracted, he directly grabbed his arm, and then a refreshing fragrance of flowers hit, and the two teenagers lost their ability to resist at the same time and were dragged into the trunk.

(End of chapter)