Zuo Liang's oil-stained hands clung to the steering wheel, staring intently at the road ahead, and after a while, the street lights came on, and he exhaled deeply.

When he spoke again, his voice was dry.

"Is it because of me?"

"Yes."

got the little girl's affirmative answer, Zuo Liang was full of guilt and kept apologizing.

"It's all my fault, it's my fault, I shouldn't have come back, if I hadn't come back, they wouldn't have bothered the swallows."

Xie Pujia said "um", nodded and said, "I really blame you, if it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't have suffered an unwarranted disaster." ”

The more Zuo Liang said it, the more he blamed himself, he didn't have the intention of going to Yizhou Middle School at all, and his mind was full of hurrying back to Yunlu City to apologize to Zhou Chunyan in person.

Xie Pujia seemed to have guessed his thoughts.

"Uncle Zuo, drive steadily, I'm still young, I don't want to see Lord Yama so early."

The little girl's words made Zuo Liang come back to his senses and slow down, "I'm sorry, little girl."

"Okay, okay, don't say sorry on the left and sorry on the right, you don't know what those two people are up to, I choose to tell you the mastermind behind the scenes, that is, let you solve these two troubles, figure out why they did this, and - let them never appear in front of my mother for the rest of their lives!"

Zuo Liang listened carefully to the little girl's words, and when she finished speaking, he nodded heavily.

"Okay, don't worry, uncle promised you that they will not have the courage to trouble your mother again in their lives."

Seeing that his attitude was very sincere, Xie Pujia was quite satisfied, picked up the yogurt on the side and twisted the lid and drank it.

"If you need any connections, you can tell me."

Yizhou Middle School is the first high school in the county, the early school reputation is very good, the people in the countryside who can go to Yizhou Middle School to study, say that they have face, and then with the country vigorously improve the educational facilities, more and more schools, people's lives are getting better and better, after more choices, Yizhou Middle School began to gradually decline.

A year and a half ago, because it was revealed that the principal and the parents of the students had participated in the replacement of the university many times, the senior leaders of the school were thoroughly investigated one by one, and a lot of dark and disgusting things were dug up, and a group of school leaders were entered.

Since then, the school's reputation has plummeted, and only a few people have applied for the high school entrance examination.

"Here we are." The left beam car was parked steadily at the entrance of Yizhou Middle School.

Xie Pujia tied the scarf tightly around her neck, and the soft wool touched her skin, making her squint her eyes comfortably.

Find the people who have been arranged in advance, and the three of them will enter the school unimpeded.

During the school day, the campus was very quiet, and only the impassioned teaching voice of the teacher came from the three or two classrooms.

After many years, Zuo Liang returned to his alma mater with mixed feelings.

What was once only two rows of small bungalows has now been built in several classrooms, each two stories high, and the mud floor that used to be treaded under your feet is now concrete, and the dirty, tattered walls have been painted with half a section of red-green paint.

"What was my mom like when she was in high school?" Xie Pujia took small steps to look at the surrounding environment, and asked curiously at Zuo Liang on his side.

"Your mother."

Zuo Liang's mind involuntarily reminded him of Zhou Chunyan in high school.

Thin and tall girl, introverted and not like to talk, sitting at the back of the class, is the study committee member of the class, every time she speaks for the teacher, her voice is gentle and soft, and there are naughty boys teasing her, she is not angry, she will only shrink her body to reduce her sense of existence.

"She has a good temper and looks good." Zuo Liang replied.

"You had your eye on her face?" Xie Pujia said something beyond his words.

Zuo Liang shook his head, the corners of his mouth unconsciously smiled, "Actually, these are all appearances, your mother I know has a strong temper and a tough personality." ”

has a tough personality to follow, if the character is not tenacious, Zhou Chunyan will not be able to set up a stall to sell boxed lunches rain or shine to support herself and her.

"Where does a temper start?" Xie Pujia was puzzled, she felt that her mother's temper couldn't be softer.

Zuo Liang recalled the past, his face full of nostalgia.

At the beginning of the first year of high school, Zuo Liang was not impressed by the little girl in the front row who was in shabby clothes, liked to comb braids, and kept her head down all day long.

A few months after the start of school, Zuo Liang found that the little girl in front of him seemed to disappear for three or four days every twenty days or so, and came back sick again and again, and asked his classmates to find out that the little girl's family agreed to her to go to high school, and one of the requirements was that she had to go home to help every time the family did farm work.

But her family didn't give her money, I heard that she didn't even give living expenses, she won the first place with excellent grades and got the school's bonus after being admitted to Yizhou Middle School, but most of the bonus was handed over to the family, and the Zhou family only left her a little expense for her to buy a book and pen, and the money was not enough, so every time she went home, she was reluctant to turn a few cars, only took one, and the rest of the way was walked by her feet.

After returning from the village for the third time, the little girl couldn't hold back a high fever when she was in class, Zuo Liang's attention was on her, and he found and sent the person to the off-campus health center for the first time, Zhou Chunyan woke up and knew that Zuo Liang paid the hanging water money for him, thanked him a thousand times, and promised that he would pay back the money, even if Zuo Liang didn't want her, he insisted.

Zhou Chunyan relied on helping her classmates get hot water, copy homework, run errands and other chores, and finally paid back Zuo Liang's hanging water money, but Zuo Liang couldn't resist her, so she had to accept it.

Since then, the two have had more to do with each other, the more Zuo Liang understands Zhou Chunyan, the more pity he has for her, he is strong and capable of hard work, and his sweet mouth and thick skin will please the elders, correspondingly, he has more ways to get money than Zhou Chunyan.

Knowing that Zhou Chunyan only eats one steamed bun a day, he secretly made excuses to add food to her, Zhou Chunyan really thought that pie fell from the sky at first, and rejected Zuo Liang's kindness after realizing that something was wrong.

Zuo Liang had to think of another way, so he repeated the trick, and let Zhou Chunyan start a "small business" through other people in the class, relying on hot water and running errands Zhou Chunyan's rice changed from one steamed bun a day to one steamed bun and one flower roll.

As a result, the matter was still exposed, and the girls in the same dormitory chatted and said that they had leaked their mouths when they were taking a bath, and Zhou Chunyan, who was standing at the door, heard it clearly.

The girl found Zuo Liang and forced him to confess how much money she had given through her classmates.

Seeing her appearance, Zuo Liang subconsciously lied, but Zhou Chunyan pulled his collar and asked him to tell the truth.

Seeing the tears of the girl standing in front of her, Zuo Liang told the truth, Zhou Chunyan's eyes were red after listening, and she swore to pay back Zuo Liang's money while wiping her tears.

It was at that moment that Zuo Liang really realized that the little girl in the front row, who looked delicate and soft, well-behaved and obedient, had a strong self-esteem in her bones, a stubborn temper, and was unwilling to owe anyone favors.

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