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The dead leaves falling from the branches fell on the water, startling a pool of goldfish.The red and yellow fish swept their tails and jumped to other corners, and the pond immediately burst into big white water flowers.

Shu Yuan is like this school of frightened fish.

He stood up awkwardly, and objected without thinking: "I don't agree!"

Facing Liu Mian's astonished face, Shu Yuan realized that he was too emotional. He sat back in a daze, leaning his elbows on his knees and burying his face in his palms: "Move, I want to stay over there." .”

"What are you talking about!" Liu Mian became angry for no reason, "Xiaoyuan, Mom and Dad didn't mean to abandon you, but relatives are here, you think you dare to come back, don't you? Why don't you try? What about letting go of the past and re-accepting the city?"

Shu Yuan didn't speak, Liu Mianfang persuaded softly: "You are not in Jinjin City at the university now, if you miss your friends over there, you can go to meet them occasionally, since it's not far away anyway."

"I'll stay there," Shu Yuan turned a deaf ear, "I won't move."

This tug-of-war ended with Shu Yuan's resolute opposition. The two sides were unhappy, and neither was willing to back down. After all, everyone had their own reasons.

Even so, when visiting relatives at her mother’s natal house on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Shu Yuan still put on a smiling face as much as possible, responded politely to all the greetings from aunts and uncles, and tactfully responded to the elders when receiving red envelopes Love to hear the blessings.

After several rounds of visits, it was already the fourth day of the Lunar New Year when I returned to Jinjin City. On the way back, it rained lightly. Liu Mian supported his head by the window and took a nap, while Shu Yuan nestled in the seat on the other side to watch the raindrops on the window glass. .

The stereo in the car was broadcasting the weather conditions, Shu Shaokong turned down the volume, turned his head to Shu Yuan and said, "Take the coat from the back seat and put it on your mother, she is very afraid of the cold."

Shu Yuan did as he did, and put the coat on Liu Mian, tucked the fluffy collar around her neck, and murmured: "I'm also afraid of the cold."

"Then I'll take off my windbreaker and put it on for you?" Shu Shaokong made a gesture to pull over, but was stopped by Shu Yuan: "No, you can concentrate on driving, I'm not cold."

After all, Shu Shaokong's temperament is actually gentler than Liu Mian's, and he doesn't think about things in one place like his wife.When he got on the expressway, the road conditions were good, and there were not many cars in front and behind, so he chatted with his son: "Xiao Yuan, you don't want to move back to Baijiang City, isn't it just because of what happened before?"

Shu Yuan was startled, not sure what his father saw, so he could only hum vaguely.

"Is it because of Li Xu? You have only lived in Jinjin City for two years, and you don't know many people. I have only seen you play well with him."

Being suddenly poked into the center of his mind, Shu Yuan acted guilty and concealed: "There are still many friends."

Shu Shaokong smiled, and gave Shu Yuan a sensible look in the rearview mirror: "Actually, you are not young anymore, and you can make up your own mind about many things. As for whether to move back to Baijiang City, you and I Even if mom follows your advice and doesn't move now, she will move one day sooner or later, and then—" He paused, noticing that Shu Yuan was listening attentively, "Where are you going to work after finishing college? If you go, it will not be our turn to discipline, and you can live separately according to your wishes, but you must protect yourself, and don’t forget that your family is waiting for you to go home no matter what.”

The rain outside the window gradually subsided, the sky cleared up, and the entire land ahead was dry.After getting off the expressway, the car slowed down and drove into the urban area, and there were more cars around. Shu Shaokong was busy watching the road conditions, so he couldn't separate his attention from Shu Yuan's expression in the rearview mirror.

Shu Yuan hangs her eyes and hooks her fingers to play, and Liu Mian next to her is breathing very slowly, she must be in a deep sleep.He nodded, regardless of whether Shu Shaokong saw it or not: "Thank you Dad...I see."

For the rest of the vacation, Shu Yuan didn't wait for Li Xu's reply. He devoted all his energy to self-study of French and BEC mock exam questions, like returning to the third year of high school, and arranged his time to the full. I only think of the person who always hugs him behind his back and gently calls him a little dinosaur rubbing his temples before falling asleep late at night.

The class schedule for the second semester of the freshman year is still filled airtightly. Shu Yuan is like a tireless machine. Every day, the library of the dormitory teaching building keeps turning around, which brings a lot of sense of crisis to Liu Ziyue, a nerd in the same dormitory. Then he asked Shu Yuan: "What are you working so hard for, a scholarship?"

Shu Yuan didn't explain too much, just denied it lightly: "No."

This semester's musical instrument class has become once a week. Many people are enthusiastic for 3 minutes, and fewer and fewer people come to the class. In the end, only seven or eight people are sitting in the classroom of Nuo University. Students who appeared on the stage of the art festival in their sophomore year.

"Shu Yuan, you have studied very well, are you really not planning to go on stage?" When Shu Yuan was left in the classroom after class, the senior who had finished wiping the blackboard came down and asked.

Shu Yuan put the guitar into the bag, zipped it up and carried it on her shoulder: "Thank you for your attention, I'll think about it again."

The senior didn't force him, just patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, come on, I'm optimistic about you."

Turning out of the classroom door, no accident, Wei Yu stood at the bottom of the wall and waited for him.Shu Yuan was used to it long ago, bumping each other's arms, and then the two walked down the stairs side by side.

"I think so," Wei Yu mulled before opening his mouth, "You didn't learn many things for yourself."

The corner of the stairs is narrow, Shu Yuan went there first, then turned to look at the people behind him: "What do you say?"

Wei Yu nudged the opponent's back and signaled him to watch the way: "It's just a feeling. When you pick up the instrument, there is no fanatical look in your eyes."

Shu Yuan was curious: "Does this kind of thing have to be shown?"

"It's not about expressing, but more or less naturally showing that kind of love, which is completely opposite to other things." Wei Yu said.

Contacting this answer, Shu Yuan recalled Li Xu's expression when he was performing on stage, and he probably understood a little bit.

He readily admitted: "Yes, I learned it for others."

"Who is it?" Wei Yu asked curiously.

Shu Yuan lowered her head, not letting the other party see the tiny smile on her lips: "The person I like."

Missing did not leave quietly with the end of winter, but became more intense as May approached.During the golden holiday of May Day, Shu Yuan went home and expressed his intention to change his major to his family.

Changing his major at A major meant re-reading his freshman year. He was ready to be opposed by his family, but he did not expect that both parents were quite reasonable, except for a moment of silence, and then asked him why.

What reason does Shu Yuan have? After the college entrance examination, everything he did was for Li Xu, for Li Xu to learn the guitar, for Li Xu to change his major, and for Li Xu to stay in this city.

"I just want to learn French," Shu Yuan spread out several notebooks full of notes in front of his parents, "I've been preparing for a long time, and it's not just a sudden impulse."

Shu Yuan's study has never been something that his family would worry about. Liu Mian was worried about other aspects: "Xiao Yuan, you are not young this year. If you were someone else at this age, you might have graduated... I am not against you changing Professional, but you should think again, and make such a decision, have you really thought about it?"

"Think it over—" After Shu Yuan finished speaking, he realized that his answer was too straightforward.He curled his fingers, paused for a while, and repeated: "I really think about it."

The BEC exam is scheduled for a weekend in mid-to-early May. Shu Yuan took her luggage and went to the test center in another city to take the exam. After returning from the exam, she ran non-stop to the Academic Affairs Office and told the teacher that she wanted to change her major. will.

The busiest month of May passed quickly, and the arrival of the exam week made Shu Yuan less nervous.He no longer carried books to the library. When the people in the dormitory were drawing circles in the test range announced by the teacher privately, he flipped through the desk calendar time and time again, calculating how long it would be before the next semester started.

"There are still six days," said the class teacher standing on the stage. "There are still six days before you will usher in the second college entrance examination in your life. Why are people still lazy? Have a snack, everyone, time is not for Just kidding you, think about why you chose to repeat and think about your future, okay?"

Li Xu pulled out the two balls of tissues stuffed in his ears and threw them into the garbage bag hanging on the side of the table. The violent temper that had been deposited for the whole school year surfaced in the endless lectures from the head teacher.

He got up impatiently, picked up the review materials and walked out, but was stopped by the nosy male monitor: "Li Xu, the teacher is still talking, where are you going?"

The classroom was silent like cicadas. Everyone knew that this top student who was firmly in the top three in every exam had a meek personality. For a moment, he felt that the gloomy and haughty expression on his face was very strange.

"The teacher has said these words no less than ten times. Do you listen to them and you don't know?" Li Xu picked up the chair and walked across the aisle, and put the chair outside the back door with a clang, "No one can control those who don't want to review You, but don't drag others to stagnate with you."

Out of breath, Li Xu sat outside, but he couldn't go in to review.I have memorized all that should be memorized, and done all that should be done, leaving only the fear of the unknown ahead.

He definitely doesn't want to repeat the life of repeating the exam, but what should he do if he doesn't pass the exam?If he really wanted to use his connections and manipulate his grades as Li Wenxuan said, would it still be the result of his hard study for a year?

On the last weekend before the college entrance examination, Li Xu stayed in the dormitory and did not go home. Li Wenxuan told him not to put too much pressure on himself, and Li Jue sent the bento made by Aunt Tian to his dormitory from home.

Li Xu didn't want to see this broom star, so he pushed and kicked him back, then turned around and opened the lid of the insulated box, took out his mobile phone and clicked on the group chat message while eating.

Sure enough, the few of them had a tacit understanding when they came to certain moments, and they cheered for him in the college entrance examination one by one in the group. Shi Chengjin reminded: "Keep your stinky brother away from you, it will be bad if you meet him."

"I know," Li Xu typed with one hand, "Come out and get together after the exam."

"Find a secluded place to gather," Han Qiyun said, "Wet spirits have to be fully armed when they go out now. It's different now."

Han Qiyun's words aroused hahaha in the group, Li Xu was teased by them to dispel anxiety, and finally corrected his mentality before the exam.

A year flies by in the blink of an eye, let alone six days.Qinghe Middle School, as the test site for the annual college entrance examination, emptied all the classrooms as early as the 7th, and spread a long red carpet in front of the school gate to welcome this year's prospective college entrance examination candidates.

Returning to Qinghe again, Li Xu had the illusion of being in the past. He stepped on the red carpet and looked up at the basketball court next to him, as if he saw his former figure.

Coincidentally, the examination room he was assigned to was the classroom of Class 10 of the second year of high school. Even if he wasn't sitting in the last row of seats near the door, he still felt a lot of emotion.

The bell of the exam rang throughout the exam room, Li Xu suppressed the smile on his lips, and moved neatly while surrounded by the familiar atmosphere.

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