Chapter 3167
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"Just take it that I'm begging you!"
She said in a sobbing tone, "Dongyu is Dad and Mom's only hope! He can't be destroyed by your whims, do you understand? Just take it that I'm begging you to study abroad obediently, okay?! "
It was as if my soul had been sucked out. I gave up struggling and nodded.
That night, my mother didn't take me home. Instead, she took me on a train to Shanghai.
When my aunt arrived in Shanghai the next day, my mother couldn't wait to send me off. She didn't even give me a chance to say goodbye to Dongyu.
I still remember that when the train started to move slowly, I seemed to hear someone calling out to me.
A child in the next seat pointed out the window and said in surprise, "Daddy, someone's chasing the train!"
I couldn't help but follow the child's gaze and look out of the car. What I saw was a desolate scene.
More or less, my heart had already withered at that moment.
…
My days studying abroad were peaceful, so peaceful that it was as if I was dead.
It sounded a little dispirited to put it that way.
But in fact, no matter what I did, I was no longer surprised. Even for the exams that students feared the most, I could always calmly face the blonde examiners and answer their questions smoothly.
It wasn't that I didn't miss him.
More than once, I missed those days when I was young and innocent. In the beautiful countryside of my hometown, Dongyu and I played carefree, rolling in the grass and scratching each other.
In the afternoons, we carried bottles to the river to fish for tadpoles. We climbed trees to catch cicadas. We even secretly set a wildfire behind the adults' backs and accidentally burned down the neighbor's straw shed. The two of us fled in panic and didn't dare to go home for a long time.
Go home … I really wanted to go home. I'd always thought that if only I hadn't been born in this world in Xiachun's name.
But that was home, and yet it wasn't home.
Every time the memories flooded my mind, my heart ached. I didn't want to think about it, but what else did I have left besides these memories?
More than parting, missing someone was like a flood or a ferocious beast, swallowing me up and accompanying me.
Until I returned home, I didn't feel much joy.
To me, homeland is just a synonym.
As I sat in the taxi and drove through those unfamiliar streets, I suddenly realized that I had missed more than eight years in the past eight years.
After getting out of the taxi, I followed my mother into a brand new, high-end apartment building. I thought that since the old building had been demolished, they must have given a lot of subsidies.
In the elevator, my mom smiled and explained, "We live on the fourteenth floor now. When the demolition happened, it was our turn to draw numbers. The community director said that if we paid ten thousand yuan, we could choose our own floor! We specially chose this floor. It has good lighting and a view room. All three rooms face south. We specially reserved a big room with a balcony for you! "
I didn't say anything and just looked around in silence.
Her mother continued, "The property in this neighborhood is very good. It's usually very quiet."
When she reached the door, she had just taken out her keys when she suddenly remembered something. She turned around and asked me tentatively, "Xiachun, it's been more than a year since you graduated from school, right?"
I nodded silently.
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