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When You Qin was 11 years old, he began to prepare various procedures for going abroad.

In fact, he didn't really want to go abroad. When he was dragged by his mother Mo Xin to the clothing store to order a small suit, his soft and tender cheeks were tense, and his whole body was filled with the depression of not being happy or happy, I want to cry for you breath.

Mo Xin was wearing a pink and green dress, which set off her whole body like a lotus flower. Her long hair and shawl were very gentle and elegant, but Mo Xin's temperament had always been very tough. With her slender eyebrows raised, she sat on the soft sofa and watched her son stretch out his hand The designer measured the length of his arms, back, and legs, and said with a ruddy mouth, "Don't make that face for me, I don't know you yet?"

You Qin: "..."

"Someone will take care of you when you go out. A full-time nanny has been found, as well as your tutor." Mo Xin said, "She will be responsible for teaching you English. If you don't understand other subjects, you can also ask her."

You Qin pursed his pink mouth. At that time, he didn't have the tough and handsome outline later, and he was also short. He looked very cute: "Aren't you going with me?"

"I still have work, and I will visit you regularly." Mo Xin said.

You Qin's eyes turned red: "I won't go!"

Mo Xin frowned: "Don't be petty, you know that tears are useless to me."

You Qin whimpered and cried, his face full of grievances, the designer was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly recorded the data and left.

The mother and son were alone in the locker room covered by the curtain, You Qin squatted on the ground and couldn't get up: "I won't go, I don't want to go..."

Mo Xin was expressionless, looking very cold and arrogant, but her slightly clenched fingers expressed her inner struggle and intolerance.

She moved her throat and her tone was stiff: "Next year you will be 12 years old. You are an older child. What do you say if you are still squatting on the ground and crying? Let you go out to learn to grow up, learn to be independent, and always stay with your parents." By my side, you will always be a child who can only cry when he grows up."

"No one else went abroad so early!" You Qin's eyes were red, feeling that he was disgusted and about to be discarded. He randomly read the names of a few children he knew. Qian, junior high school has already decided to study in an international private school.

"Others are others, you are you." Mo Xin sat on the sofa, You Qin squatted on the carpet, they couldn't see each other's expressions, Mo Xin looked at the small swirls on the top of her son's hair, and said, "Others have to do it." What, it has nothing to do with you, mom asked you to go out to let you get rid of the general environment of drifting, you have to learn to see with your own eyes, think with your own head, you don’t have to do what others do.”

You Qin couldn't speak better than Mo Xin, he was so sad that he couldn't speak.

After You Qin calmed down, Mo Xin stood up, pulled her son up, and led them out.

Mo Xin buys fermented glutinous rice at the vegetable market in the old city all the year round. Although the owner of the fermented glutinous rice has already delivered it to her home on her own initiative a long time ago, since she came here, Mo Xin plans to go there by herself.

Mo Xin drove her son to the vegetable market. After parking the car, she found paparazzi following her. Mo Xin looked coldly, hesitated for a moment, turned her head and said, "Mom is going shopping, you stay in the car, don't get out casually." Car, remember?"

You Qin lowered his head and hummed.

Mo Xin said again: "How does mom usually teach you?"

You Qin said like an endorsement: "Don't open the door to strangers, don't go with strangers, don't eat what strangers give, don't talk to strangers."

Mo Xin nodded, left the car keys to her son, turned around and got out of the car.

Mo Xin lowered the car window a little to let the air in, let her son lock the car door from the inside, and then walked towards the gate of the vegetable market.

You Qin lay on the car window and watched his mother's back go away, his small face was full of melancholy, as if he had seen his fate of being abandoned in the future.

Just as he was in a daze, he heard the noises of a few children playing.

Youqin studied in a private school since he was a child. From kindergarten to elementary school, most of the students around him were children from rich families. Even if they were not from upper-class families, they also had a middle-to-upper class family environment, and rarely had contact with children from ordinary families.

He was curious to see, and saw a few children about six or seven years old playing peek-a-boo, one child was being pushed to the corner by other children, closing his eyes and counting, while the other group of children dispersed in a hurry, looking for a place to hide stand up.

One of them, a child wearing a light-yellow jacket, light-colored trousers, and a pair of white sneakers, ran towards him.

Mo Xin parked the car on the side of the back door of the vegetable market. The road here is very narrow. There are not many cars on both sides, most of them are batteries and bicycles. The wind spreads all over the street corner, carrying a strong breath of life.

The child was also contaminated with a mix of various smells, so he ran to the side of the car door and hid.

You Qin stared at him curiously, the child seemed to have noticed something, and raised his head.

He squatted under the car door, looked up and looked very cute: short black hair, pink mouth, big eyes, and somewhat thin cheeks.

His eyes are beautiful, as bright as the stars in the sky, and his long eyelashes cast a faint shadow under his eyes. When he found that there was a child in the car, the child's eyes widened.

He carefully glanced at his companion who was still counting in front of him, stood up slowly, and glanced into the car window: "Are you playing hide and seek too?"

His voice was baby-like, with a bit of softness. You Qin felt that he was cute and felt close to him, so he said, "No, I'm waiting for my mother."

"Oh." The child nodded, glanced at his companion who was still counting, and then laughed, "Miscounted again."

You Qin didn't understand.

The child said: "He always counts wrongly. Every time he counts to twenty, he has to start counting from eleven again."

Youqin was immediately amused: "Ah? Can counting be so simple as to be wrong?"

The child blinked and blinked, looking very clever, his black pupils that looked like jewels turned around, and said, "Hey, let me hide in your car?"

You Qin frowned: "No, I can't open the door casually, my mother will be back soon."

"Just for a while." The child said, "Do you think I look like a bad guy? I'm not even half the height of this car door. What can I do to you?"

As he spoke, the child stuck out his tongue and made a grimace: "Coward!"

You Qin looked at each other, this child was really short, he seemed a bit malnourished compared to other children, You Qin remembered that his cousin was about the same age as him, round like a ball However, this child is as thin and long as a bamboo pole.

You Qin hesitated for a moment, then said, "But I'm leaving soon, what will you do later?"

"You don't need to worry about this." The child is as big as a kid, "I have a solution."

Youqin was a little curious, so he opened the door of the back seat, and saw the child yelled out as he rolled into the door: "Zhang Guoguo! You counted wrong!"

Then, with a "bang—" he closed the door and lay down under the seat.

You Qin: "..."

Youqin looked at the child named Zhang Guoguo and turned around in a daze when he heard the sound, struggled for a few seconds and said, "I, I'm starting!"

——Okay, since you counted wrong, why don’t you just stop counting? !

Youqin burst out laughing, and saw the child strolling around, probably because he often played this game, he was quite experienced in finding people, and quickly found a few friends around him.

Several people muttered together, and finally searched separately, but failed to find the child hiding in the car.

Zhang Guoguo looked frustrated, and You Qin whispered, "You're pretty smart."

That Zhang Guoguo passed by the car several times, never expecting that he was in the car.

The kid in the back seat giggled, "It's because they are too stupid."

You Qin thought the kid was very funny, and asked him, "How old are you?"

"Six years old."

"Elementary school?"

"Yeah." The child peeked at him, "How old are you?"

"I'm 11 years old," You Qin was very proud, puffing out his small chest, "I'm going to study abroad next year."

"Wow." The child exclaimed, "Going abroad? Where?"

You Qin himself didn't know where he was going, so he couldn't answer immediately.

The child looked at him and smiled: "Liar."

"I didn't lie to you!" You Qin suddenly became unhappy, "I will go abroad to study junior high school next year, and I am going through the formalities recently."

Youqin rummaged through the car and found the procedure documents, which were all in English, and he showed them to the children.

"Who lied to you? I never lie!"

The child scanned the thick stack of materials, but couldn't understand: "It's amazing, are your parents going too?"

You Qin's face suddenly collapsed: "I'll go alone..."

"It's amazing!" The child looked at him with admiration, "Do you dare to go so far alone?"

Seeing the child looking at him with bright eyes, You Qin turned a little proud from his aggrieved mood, pouted: "What's the matter? From now on, I want to live alone, there is nothing I can't do alone."

The child exclaimed, "Wow——"

You Qin's mood improved, and he glanced at the child tremblingly: "What about you? Do you dare to live alone without your parents?"

The child said indifferently, "I don't have parents."

You Qin: "???"

The child counted with his fingers: "I have grandpa, grandma, and aunt."

You Qin looked at him, cautiously: "You, where are your parents?"

The child said: "Grandpa said they passed away."

You Qin: "..."

Seeing the child smiling, You Qin didn't seem to be sad, the embarrassment he had just had died down, and he said with some admiration, "You're so good, too."

The two children looked at each other and smiled, and the sense of distance suddenly shortened a lot, so they chatted with each other.

But soon the kid Zhang Guoguo gave up outside and shouted: "... Le, come out! Stop playing!"

You Qin didn't hear what the other party was yelling, and saw the child stand up and sit up, open the door and get out of the car.

"I'm leaving."

At this time, Mo Xin also came from across the street, You Qin said: "My mother is here too, I have to go."

The child lay on the car window, took out a big white rabbit toffee from his pocket and handed it to Youqin through the window: "You have to work hard alone!"

You Qin took the candy, a little overjoyed: "Okay."

You Qin said: "You also have to work hard!"

The child made a grimace, those eyes were very attractive, Zhang Guoguo saw him in the distance, and shouted: "Ah!! You cheated!!"

"Look! He cheated!"

Several children rushed over, the child turned around and ran away, Youqin held the toffee and watched the child run away, the goose-yellow figure was bouncing and jumping, like an unrestrained and brisk bird in the noisy street of the vegetable market .

Mo Xin got into the car and saw that the child had too much candy: "Who gave this to you?"

You Qin spoke briefly, and Mo Xin started the car and left, saying: "You child, you let your guard down when the other party is a child? How many times have I told you that some adults will take advantage of other children or Small animals come to divert your attention and let you relax your defenses, have you forgotten?"

You Qin remembered this, and he hesitated to answer.

Mo Xin said: "Fortunately, he is just an ordinary child, so you must remember to be vigilant at all times when you go out in the future."

You Qin peeled off the candy wrapper, biting the toffee and squinting his eyes, his tongue was full of sweet taste: "Got it."

The vegetable market in the rearview mirror gradually went away, and the group of noisy children disappeared.

At that time, Youqin never expected that just two months later, the child whose eyes were full of ghosts and cleverness, became dumb because of a high fever, was called a fool by others, and since then embarked on the A completely different life.

And a year later, You Qin was sent out of the country. In the first few years of living alone, he always thought of that toffee from time to time, and the child's pure admiration. When he couldn't get comfort from his elders, that was probably the only comfort in his heart.

They met by chance and parted ways again. They experienced a brand new life of their own, and after a turnaround, they met again unconsciously in a hot summer.

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Here comes the extra episode -3-

I wish everyone a happy Qixi Festival, lovers will finally get married, and single friends will meet their own happiness as soon as possible~www

No update on weekends, see you on Monday.It is expected to be finished next week. -3-

ps to catch bugs.