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"what?"

Even Xu Xingqiang stopped drinking tea, he didn't expect Xu Zihang to make such a request.

"I want to study in the United States." Now that he had spoken, he simply finished. "Many students in our class plan to go abroad. They..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Chen Siyi was so irritated by his words, she suddenly felt disappointed in her heart, she endured and endured, but she still couldn't hold back and asked him earnestly, "Why, why are you so big?" Or do you want to go out? You were the one who said you would go to Naicheng, and now you are the one who said you want to go abroad. You can check your recent study status, ah? What's going on?"

Chen Siyi was already anxious during this period, and Xu Zihang was not worried about the renovation of his home.Xu Xingqiang was not as impatient as she was, but instead asked, "Why do you want to go abroad? When do you want to go abroad?"

Xu Zihang groaned for a long time, but couldn't answer, he just wanted to find Yao Ge.

"Don't chat, don't chat," Chen Siyi saw him like this, and interrupted irritably, "You take a bath and go to bed."

After speaking, he got up first and left, leaving Xu Xingqiang and Xu Zihang staring at each other.

"Okay, it's late now, rest first, and talk about it tomorrow."

However, for a long time afterwards, Xu Zihang didn't have the chance to talk about this topic with his parents again. He was either ordered to do the year-round cleaning, or to run errands on the street to buy new year's goods.Immediately afterwards, the Spring Festival broke in with gongs and drums, visiting relatives for the New Year's Eve dinner, and having a housewarming banquet, so there was no time to be free.

The topic of going abroad seems to be forgotten, no one takes it seriously.

"Are your friends coming over to play this afternoon? You Lin Bo said that Rui Ding has also gone home." Chen Siyi poured the rice in his bowl to Xu Zihang, "You eat more, I can't eat it."

"Yeah." Xu Zihang couldn't eat a small mouthful of rice on the tip of his chopsticks.

"Do they want to stay for dinner tonight?"

"do not know."

Hearing his feeble answer, Chen Siyi slowed down his chewing, raised his eyes and squinted at Xu Zihang: "You're almost ready, don't be endless, you'll be like this for the whole winter vacation."

Xu Xingqiang was about to change the topic to ease the atmosphere, Xu Zihang said first: "Dad, Mom, I still want to go abroad."

"I've thought about it seriously, it's not a whim, and it's not just a sudden thought." Xu Zihang argued for himself before Chen Siyi questioned, "I checked, the most important test for applying for university is IELTS or TOEFL, other things like High school grades are not difficult."

"No, Xu Zihang, have you put your mind on the college entrance examination?" Chen Siyi is not unreasonable, but Xu Zihang seems to her to be unreasonable, and she still failed to turn over the grades that she didn't want to mention, "You Have you seen your final exam results? I didn’t say much about you, do you get those results from someone who studied hard? Did your dad analyze the papers for you? How many points should you not lose? How many points are there in the English test? , tell yourself."

"I don't think it's a bad thing to want to go abroad," Xu Xingqiang interjected at the right time, first encouraging, "It's good to go out and see more." But at the same time, he changed the subject, "However, there are many ways to go abroad. Many of my father's students transferred after college. Going out saves time and money, and at that time you can also clarify your major and direction, and your whole thinking will be more independent and mature, right? The most important thing for you now is the college entrance examination."

"not me……"

"Your father is right." Chen Siyi didn't give him a chance to speak, and then Xu Xingqiang echoed, "Many people pass the postgraduate entrance examination, you have the ability to take the exam. Now it's the college entrance examination stage, take it easy for me to take the exam. Besides, say Maybe you won’t want to go abroad when the time comes, your father is a university professor, he can give you advice when you apply for volunteers, and if you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, there will be some good friends and professors who can guide you.”

"We have paved these roads for you. Once you buy a house in Naicheng, you can easily find a job after graduation. To be honest, we can't help you with anything when you go abroad."

While talking, Chen Siyi's tone softened: "If you want to go abroad, it's not impossible to work hard to go out for two years after college. But now is not the time for you to think about it. Right? Mom knows that the college entrance examination is stressful. Your school There's a lot of competition, but you can't choose to escape like this."

Xu Xingqiang and Chen Siyi sang together, blocking what Xu Zihang wanted to say from any angle. He tried to argue a few words, but he was moved by reason and emotion. After talking about it, he became confused. Encourage him not to run away from reality.

When Peng Dong and the others came to Xu Zihang's house in the afternoon, they saw a listless Xu Zihang.

"Wow, your house is beautiful, and you even have a small balcony!" Because it was the top floor, Xu Zihang and the others were allocated a small balcony on the second floor, which was empty now.

I haven't seen each other for half a year, and the few people are still the same as before. They don't treat themselves as outsiders, and consciously go to the refrigerator to get food.Lin Fengqi and Peng Dong ran to the balcony to watch, Lin Ruiding followed behind, and Chen Siyi called the three of them to hang red lanterns for the New Year on the balcony.Li Chengjin was still paralyzed in Xu Zihang's room. Seeing that everyone else had gone out, he asked nonchalantly, "Hey, how are you?"

Xu Zihang lay on his back on the bed, and replied weakly: "That's it."

"No big deal, just get used to it."

"...I don't want to get used to it."

"Hey." Li Chengjin put on a full posture for the people who came here now. Before that, Xu Zihang always looked happy and looked annoying, "You are too serious."

"What are you talking about?" Several other people came back, seeing these two people slumped to one side, they were not happy, and insisted on squeezing over, "You guys are really good at grabbing seats, make room for me!"

"Get lost, hahahaha, Ah Ding, go to Dong Zai's place! Don't beat me up!"

Several people were noisy, Xu Zihang grinned unconsciously and relaxed.

"Yao Ge has gone abroad?"

Li Chengjin propped himself up reflexively to look at Xu Zihang, raised his eyebrows and went back to lie down, this Dongzai really didn't open any pot.

"Yeah." Speaking of this topic, Xu Zihang fell down again, "I want to go too, but my parents don't agree."

After he finished saying this, Peng Dong gasped and let out a ridiculous pig cry, but no one laughed.Xu Zihang stood up and saw that several people were stunned, Lin Ruiding and Peng Dong stared at the same time, Li Chengjin sat up, only Lin Fengqi was still not in the state and asked back: "Where are you going?"

"...Going abroad." Xu Zihang frowned and hit them with a pillow, "Why are you so surprised?"

"Don't you have to speak English every day when you go abroad?" Lin Fengqi felt a headache when he thought of English, "That's so scary, why do you want to go abroad."

Probably because he was in a relatively safe environment, or maybe because he really wanted to get the opinions of his friends, Xu Zihang suddenly had a desire to talk. He looked at the blank ceiling, and there was no starry sky that Chen Siyi had posted for him when he was a child: "I am I want to go, I want to go to Yao Ge."

Peng Dong immediately started bluffing: "What are you following! You have to go when he is in Naicheng, and you have to go when he goes abroad, you follower!"

Li Chengjin didn't expect Xu Zihang to want to go abroad because of Yao Ge, he sat there with a faint envy that couldn't be explained, which made him feel uncomfortable.He kicked Dong Zai and spoke for Xu Zihang: "Why did you follow suit, I think it's good."

On the contrary, Lin Ruiding was the one who was hit the hardest. He kept silent until this time: "Going abroad will cost a lot of money, right? My parents said that your family wants to buy you a house in Naicheng."

"Yeah." Xu Zihang nodded. If his parents hadn't said that he wanted to buy a house in Naicheng, he wouldn't have dared to make this request. He repeated Chen Siyi's words, "But I don't want to, I don't want this kind of life, arrange it well It's clear, what's the point?"

Today's high school students have more or less a concept of the economy and reality. When it comes to such a big event as buying a house, Lin Fengqi, who has always been smiling, starts to seriously think about this question: "Then what kind of life do you want?"

"I..." Xu Zihang was at a loss for words, he just wanted to have Yao Ge's life.

"I think uncle and aunt are right." Lin Ruiding looked into his friend's eyes seriously, "You were just impulsive."

Xu Zihang opened his mouth, he didn't expect Lin Ruiding to say that, but he couldn't tell him, he could only argue for himself: "I didn't act on impulse."

"It's very hard to make money." Lin Ruiding, Chen Siyi, and Xu Xingqiang have deep relationships and know their family situation very well. Since Xu Zihang wanted to ask his opinion, he refused to give in. "Uncle and auntie are not easy."

Xu Zihang couldn't answer this sentence, and he began to pick the barb on his finger again. The thin and sharp pain was mixed with his anxiety, and the sentence "it's not easy" was like a light on his back.

35 days, the 35th day of disconnection with Yao Ge.He thought he would receive a call from Yao Ge on New Year's Eve, but no, nothing.He understands all the reasons, but how can he not be so sad.

2011 Spring Festival.Yao Ge sat in the classroom looking at the heavy snow outside the window in a daze.He has been here for two weeks, and Yang Yiwen hasn't returned yet, he still has to pretend, pretend to adapt, pretend to be well-behaved, pretend to accept, just like the previous ten years.

"Yao, I heard that today is your New Year? Happy New Year!"

Yao Ge came back to his senses, smiled at the table in front of him, and replied: "Thank you."

He took out a notebook from his schoolbag, which he brought from China. If Xu Zihang saw it, he would definitely recognize that it was the language notebook they used for summer tuition.

There are already several sentences on it, scattered, just like when they communicated in class at that time.

—I just found out that my name is read backwards as a ballad.

——This teacher speaks very fast, but the content is very simple.

——Today a Korean thought I was Korean.

……

Yao Ge turned to the previous page, and another handwriting stayed on the top of "Don't talk". Yao Ge felt a kind of humor from this.

——Xu Zihang, Happy New Year.