An almost absurd guess flashed through Yan Lu's mind.

He took a deep breath, turned around, no longer looking at the old man, he was silent for a while, and finally said.

"Take care of yourself, pay attention to your body, and don't...go to gamble again."

The man said eagerly as if grasping for a life-saving straw, "I won't gamble again, really, Lil."

Yan Lu didn't reply, he lowered his head, picked up the thermos bottle on the ground, and walked towards the boiling water room in the opposite direction.

Some pain cannot be healed by a simple sentence of sorry.

The man has divorced his mother.

The divorce was brought up by the man, because the man was already unable to repay the debt at that time, and the debt collection company had already come to force the man to repay the debt.

Perhaps his last trace of tenderness for his wife and children is not to implicate them in huge gambling debts.

Although this is not realistic.

After the divorce, the debt collection company found the new address of him and his mother, yelling that the father should pay the debts. Every day, garbage bags would be piled up in front of their house, and the door would be painted with red paint, "If you don't pay your debts, you will lose your conscience." .

When they couldn't bear it anymore and just wanted to move out, for some reason, the debt collection company didn't come to make trouble again.

After a period of calm, when the debt collection company started to collect money again, Gu Yu's father gave him that phone call.

And he finally repaid all the money he owed to the debt collection company, or in other words, to the man.

In his heart, under the reverence and love for his father, there was always a slight resentment buried.

I hate him for drinking, gambling, and doing nothing all day long after leaving his job, and single-handedly ruining his originally unhappy but at least complete family.

He complained that he didn't care about himself at all for many years, he didn't even know what grade and class he was in during the parent meeting, and even almost went to the wrong school.

There was once a typhoon in S City. Yan Lu didn't bring an umbrella that day. He borrowed his teacher's phone to call the man, hoping that the man would come to pick him up.

The man agreed immediately, but before Yan Lu could clarify which shift he was in, he hurriedly hung up the phone.

He was sitting on the table by the window sill, the wind was beating dully on the window, the sky was completely dark, and only the seniors' offices were still lit in the empty campus.

Yan Lu waited until everyone was picked up by their parents, and only the teacher who was still working overtime to correct homework was left in the school, and the man didn't come either.

Every few minutes of his homework, he would look out the window uneasily to see if someone was coming to pick him up with an umbrella.

He guessed desperately that the man had probably forgotten to pick him up.

Just as he was about to run home in the pouring rain, the door of the class was suddenly knocked several times. A figure outside the window hunched over and ran quickly, and then there was the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

He opened the class door and found a brand new umbrella on the ground.

He immediately followed the direction in which the figure ran out, searched the entire corridor back and forth, but did not find who was secretly giving him the umbrella.

What he didn't know was that in the corner of the wall in front of him, a little boy was hiding nervously in the innermost part, looking down at his toes, not daring to make a sound.

Suddenly, Gu Yu let go of his hand abruptly, and the thermos dropped heavily to the ground, rolled outward several times crazily, touched the corner of the wall, and was bounced back to Gu Yu's feet vigorously.

Yan Lu froze in place as if struck by lightning.

In a blink of an eye, he finally remembered where he had seen the handwriting on Gu Yu's primary school homework book.

On the front page of the new English textbook that suddenly appeared on the table, on the note pressed under the umbrella, on the bloody white paper stuffed in the medicine bag in front of the door.

He recalled the three key words said by the boy who delivered the package that day.

English book, umbrella, medicine bag.

The boy's hints are like the main chain of beads, stringing all the bits and pieces together.

He remembered.

I remembered everything.

Those twisted, ghost-like characters on the note... are Gu Yu's characters when he was a child!

His heart seemed to be grabbed by someone suddenly, the scorching blood rushed back clamorously, and his mind went blank.

Yan Lu's eyes were red, he leaned against the wall, pretending to be nonchalant and raised his head, trying to force back the overflowing tears.

But to no avail.

Tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes quietly, splashing hot flowers on the cold hospital floor.

why?

Why did you go all the way around to buy him medicine, why did you give him an umbrella on a rainy day, why did you buy him a new book when he lost his English book?

Closing his eyes, he seemed to be back in the past, he was stubbornly waiting for the person who helped him beat Wang Huai away in the corner of the alley, maybe, just one step away, he could find out the Gu who was hiding in the dark ahead of time. Yu.

Or maybe, the moment the doorbell was rang, the moment the class door was rang, as long as he was a second faster, he could hold Gu Yu who ran out.

You can ask him why in advance, or...give him a definite answer in advance.

Yan Lu wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, went to the bathroom and simply flushed his face, cleaning up all traces of crying.

Raising his head, he looked at himself in the mirror with determination in his eyes.

This time, no matter what, the idiot will not be allowed to escape so easily.

In the ward, Gu Yu picked up the apple with his left hand and the fruit knife with his right, staring at the apple in his hand for several seconds, not knowing where to start to peel it.

Yan Lu peels the fruit very quickly, and the apple peel can be peeled to the end, and the thin strip can be picked up by swirling, transparent and beautiful.

Gu Yu clumsily peeled the apple, and with one stroke, both the flesh and the skin of the apple died, and the core of the apple could be seen inside.

Yin An said with a smile, "Xiao Yu, let Xiao Lu come back and let him cut it."

Gu Yu stubbornly insisted on finishing the apple, "It's okay, Auntie, I can do it."

Watching Gu Yu peel off large pieces of apple flesh, Yin An asked gently.

"Xiaoyu, how many years have you known Xiaoli?"

Gu Yu paused when he peeled the apple, "One month."

But we have known each other for six years and five months.

Yin An was surprised, "One month? Xiao Lu is a slow kid, and he usually doesn't speak ten words to a friend he has known for a month."

Yin An thought that what she said about Yan Lv was to save him face, Yan Lv was either slow to warm up, or indifferent in capital letters.

Live like an emotionally deficient patient.

Gu Yu smiled, the fact is true, even if it was Shen Tingle who talked across the aisle, when he was not around, Yan Lu hardly said a word to Shen Tingle.

There are many points of communication with Bai Zhengming, but the topics are usually limited to homework problems.

Yin An changed the subject, and began to babble about interesting stories about Yan Lu when he was a child. Bai Zhengming, who was so angry that he got 100 points every time, wanted to make friends with him.

He also said that a little girl secretly liked Yan Lu and sent him a love letter, but Yan Lu didn't even take it apart and returned it to the little girl intact.

The little girl cried for four whole classes in the classroom, and the teacher had no choice but to call Yan Lu to comfort her.

As a result, Yan Lu said, "Why are you crying, did you fail the exam?" The little girl was so angry that she cried even louder.

When talking about this incident, Yin An said sadly, "From now on, no girl has ever chased Yan Lv."

Gu Yu's hands froze, and he peeled off another half of the apple.

He who chased Yan Lv the craziest was sitting in front of Yin An.

The subject changed abruptly, Yin An's expression was gloomy, she looked at the pure white ceiling, and said sadly.

"Both my father and I owe Xiaoli a lot, so he cherishes the kindness of others to him very much. Whenever someone gives him a little sincerity, he will firmly remember it in his heart, and always thinks of ten times or even a hundred times. pay it back."

"There was once a person who gave him a bag of medicine when he was beaten. In order to find out who this person was, he could run all over the pharmacies in the city according to the logo of the chain pharmacy on the plastic bag, just to ask the teller to return the medicine. Do you remember what that person looked like?"

Gu Yu was stunned, Yan Lv had looked for him before?

Yin An continued helplessly, "There are so many people coming and going in the pharmacy every day, the teller must have forgotten it long ago, but he can read about this matter until now, you say how stubborn he is."

"Later, when there was a typhoon and heavy rain, his father was so busy that he forgot him at school. Someone secretly gave him an umbrella. After that, he stared at other people's umbrellas for several weeks. I went to check the brand and went to the supermarket."

"There is also an English book. That year, a person who was jealous of Xiaoli's grades stole his English book. The next day, before the English class, the teacher just wanted to read the text aloud, but he didn't have a textbook. Before class, there were many books on his desk. I bought a textbook, and when selling second-hand books, Xiaoli refused to sell that English book no matter what.”

Yin An sighed, "I really want to thank those kind-hearted people for helping Xiaolu secretly all the time."

The 'good-hearted man' Gu Yu could no longer peel the apple in his hand, his hands trembled uncontrollably, he always thought that he was the only one watching Yan Lv unilaterally.

Unexpectedly, it turns out that Yan Lu also turned around and frantically looked for him.

What did he miss?

Yin An pointed to a paper flower on Gu Yu's bag as if he had discovered a new world, "...Is this a paper rose?"

Gu Yu's face blushed quietly again. This paper rose was given to him by Yan Lv when he went out in the morning. He wanted to cherish it and put it back in the room, but Yan Lv insisted on letting him put it on the bag, saying that it was crumpled. Don't be afraid, I will give him a discount in the future.

Yin An observed the expression on Gu Yu's face, and knew clearly about his son's carelessness.

"This paper rose was folded by Xiaoli for you."

Gu Yu blushed and nodded.

Yin An shook his head with a smile, "Yan Lv really... Forget it, he also folded paper flowers for me. At that time, there was an accident at home, and Xiao Lv had no money on Mother's Day. He couldn't afford fresh carnations, so he folded them for 99% off." Give me a paper flower."

As he said that, Yin An also blamed, "At that time, there was a little girl who liked him who also wanted him, and Xiao Lu really did. He immediately rejected him coldly, and he didn't know how to be gentle with girls."

"Later, I gave a branch to the little girl, and he sulked with me all the way, saying that flowers are only folded for those who care about them, and can't be given away casually."

Gu Yu held the paper rose in his hand blankly, feeling that the veins and roots of the paper rose were filled with hot sincerity.

He stabbed down blankly, but this time the apple flesh was unharmed, his hand was cut, and blood came out all of a sudden.

Yin An quickly snatched the fruit knife from Gu Yu's hand, and said nothing to let him use the knife.

She said distressedly, "Xiao Li will definitely blame me for not taking good care of you when he comes back."

Gu Yu lowered his head deeply, his whole face was burning, "Auntie, don't say that..."

Yin An urged Gu Yu to go to the bathroom to clean the wound.

"Hurry up and wash up. How can I explain to Xiao Li when he comes back?"

When Gu Yu left the ward, he suddenly had a whim. He took out a small white paper the size of a post-it note, and carefully painted a heart on the paper with the blood dripping from his fingertips.

It is said that the ten fingers connect to the heart, and the blood on the fingertips is rounded up to the blood of the heart.

Then he found another pen, and simply drew a stickman under the heart.

On the white paper, the stickman carefully held the bright red heart, as if he was holding a diamond ring to propose marriage, and knelt down to show the heart to another stickman.

Then Gu Yu clumsily tried to fold the white paper into a heart shape, just like Yan Lu did before.

The white paper was turned sideways, with countless folds, and folded into a square, pentagonal, and polygonal shape, which is the heart shape that has not been folded into a logo.

Gu Yu was even more depressed when he thought of the q-version cute villain drawn by Yan Lu, looked at the simple stick figure holding a small heart on the white paper, and compared it with the messy folded white paper by himself.

How did Yan Lu's hands grow?

The apple peel can be peeled evenly and continuously, and the shape and spirit can be drawn with one hand. The origami tutorial can be folded exactly like the finished product in the book.

You can write all the questions correctly.

Yan Lu happened to come over and looked at Gu Yu angrily flicking the white paper in his hand, "Boy, what are you doing?"

Gu Yu clenched the white paper tightly into a ball and held it in his palm, "It's nothing, I'm bored and playing with it."

Yan Lu stretched out his hand, wrapped Gu Yu's clenched fist in his hand, and patted his four fingers tightly together, signaling Gu Yu to open his fist.

Supported warmly by Yan Lu's warm palms, Gu Yu's hands were already so numb that there was no strength left.

He obediently opened the palm of his hand, handed the ball of white paper to Yan Lv in frustration, and still refused to admit defeat.

"Look, doesn't it look good? I just painted it casually."

Yan Lu opened the crumpled white paper, and a bright red heart jumped in front of his eyes, as if it was still alive and kicking.

He thought he could even hear the dull, powerful beating of the little heart.

He lowered his head, kissed the red heart on the white paper preciously, then folded the white paper into a heart shape, and put it in the pocket closest to the heart.

"I took it."

When Yan Lu lowered his head to kiss the red heart, Gu Yu even had the illusion that he was kissing him. It seemed that countless electric currents climbed down his back and spread all over his body.

Watching Yan Lu put the heart-shaped white paper into his pocket, Gu Yu finally mustered up the courage to ask.

"Yan Lu, what do you mean by giving me paper roses? My aunt said that you never give paper flowers easily."

"The paper flowers I fold are not easy to give away."

Gu Yu asked suspiciously, "Huh?"

"Instead, I only sent two people, one is my mother, and the other..."

Yan Lu paused, took out the paper rose that he had just folded and hid in his bosom, and handed it to Gu Yu.

Gu Yu's eyes lit up like fireflies in the dark night.

He took it over in surprise, and carefully held the warm rose with both hands, as if he was afraid that if he tried harder, the fragile branches would be broken.

Yan Lu looked at Gu Yu deeply, "...it's you."

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