journey

The second grade students always leave school very early, Luo Nianli followed the team slowly out of the school gate.

"Luo Luo, Auntie is here."

Chen Shufen happily waved at Luo Nianli.The teacher who sent the team saw him and asked him to leave the team and follow his parents.

Along the way, Chen Shufen happily led Xiao Luoluo, and kept asking:

"How about baby, are you tired from the first day of class? Do the children get along well? Are you still used to eating at the small dining table at noon..."

Luo Nianli kept nodding his head all the way, and didn't say much, he was a little sullen.Chen Shufen asked a lot, and she could see that he was in a bad mood, so she stopped talking, bought him some fruit snacks along the way, and went home to prepare dinner.

Chu Zheng also came back earlier today, thinking that he would be able to lie on the upper and lower bunks today.Sure enough, after returning home, the installer was still knocking in the bedroom, while his mother was cooking in the kitchen, Luo Nianli sat obediently on the sofa and read his elementary school textbooks.Hearing the sound of the door opening, Luo Nianli raised his head to look at the splashy shoes, rushed into the bedroom, and then ran out excitedly to Chu Zheng with bright eyes.

"Wow baby, did you see the new bed, cool! So cool!"

Chu Zheng couldn't be more excited. In fact, it was the first time for Luo Nianli to see this kind of bed that sleeps up and down, but he didn't think it was so exciting.Chu Zheng ran into the kitchen like crazy, hugged Chen Shufen and lifted her up. His mother held soy sauce in one hand and a cooking shovel in the other, and almost poured a bucket of soy sauce into the pot.

"Little bastard, you are looking for death! Let me go!"

"Mom! You are the best mother in the world!"

When Chu Zheng put down his mother, Mrs. Chu turned around and wanted to throw a shovel at him. Seeing the joy on her son's face, she was reluctant to reach out, curled her lips, and said with a smile:

"Okay, thanks to Luo Luo's blessing, your wish is fulfilled, and it will be fine to take good care of my younger brother in the future."

"Obey! Madam Commander!"

Chu Zheng immediately stood up straight and gave a military salute.Chen Shufen raised the shovel and wanted to call him, but Chu Zheng turned around and ran away.Xiao Luoluo was still obediently sitting on the sofa reading a book, and Chu Zheng came over with a kick.

"How's it going, baby, how was school today. Did you make any friends?"

Luo Nianli turned his head to look at Chu Zheng, friend...he thought of Gao Wuyang who was sitting next to him.Maybe they are not friends yet, Luo Luo thought silently.Seeing that he was silent and thoughtful, Chu Zheng reached out and patted his head.

"It's okay, it's only the first day, take your time and don't worry."

Luo Nianli looked at Chu Zheng seriously and nodded.Opened his mouth and said:

"Brother, can you teach me how to read?"

Chu Zheng was stunned for a moment, this was the first time Xiao Luoluo made a request to him.

"Of course you can. After dinner, we will do homework together. Brother will teach you all the words you don't know."

After hearing this, Luo Nianli smiled sweetly.Chu Zheng felt in his heart that his younger brother who fell from the sky was really pretty when he smiled.

After hastily eating dinner, Chu Zheng ran to the bunk to roll around several times.Luo Nianli also followed into the bedroom, and Chu Zheng came down from above,

"Luo Luo, you are still young, it's not safe to climb up and down. From now on, my brother will sleep on top, and you will sleep on the bottom, okay?"

Chu Zheng fooled the children excitedly, Luo Nianli was affected by his good mood, and nodded with a smile.Then I opened my small schoolbag, took out my Chinese textbook, and started to learn to copy phrases.Chu Zheng rolled a few more times, then climbed down and threw his schoolbag on the table to start looking for homework.

"Brother, how do you pronounce these two words?"

Luo Nianli stretched out the textbook, and Chu Zheng stretched out his head to have a look.

"Abandonment. These two words, abandonment, mean not wanting. Why do you learn this word in the second grade?"

Chu Zheng picked up Luo Luo's textbook suspiciously, and glanced at it. It turned out that it was an extracurricular reading after each text. The puppy was abandoned, such a text.Chu Zheng sighed, returned the textbook to Luo Luo, continued flipping through his homework without saying anything.

Before going to bed at night, Chu Zheng was lying on his upper bunk, not happy, while Luo Luo was lying on the bottom, covering his head with a small quilt, Chu Zheng got down from above, looked at Luo Nianli like this,

"Luo Luo?"

"..."

"Ok?"

After a while, Luo Nianli replied in a muffled voice under the quilt.

"What's wrong with you, aren't you happy? Tell me about something."

"..."

There was silence again.

"Brother, am I... abandoned too?"

Luo Nianli didn't cry, but muffled faint questions under the quilt.Hearing this, Chu Zheng was dumbfounded. He hurriedly climbed down from the upper bunk, lifted Luo Luo's quilt and got in, and then hugged little Luo Luo into his arms.

"What nonsense are you talking about! Who dares to abandon you! We Luo Luo are so obedient."

It's okay if you don't hug him, but after this hug, Luo Nianli couldn't stop crying, he burrowed into Chu Zheng's arms, and asked in a crying voice;

"Then why grandpa doesn't want me anymore? Grandpa said he wanted me to go to the city to study, but why didn't he come to see me..."

Chu Zheng was a little confused, he didn't know how to answer.I felt that the clothes on my chest were getting wet.

"Grandpa is sick...I miss Grandpa..."

Luo Nianli said while crying, Chu Zheng was stiff all over, and he really didn't know how to comfort him except to keep patting Luo Luo's back with his hands.It was simply that Luo Nianli was tired after a day of class, and fell asleep crying. Chu Zheng put him away when he saw that he fell asleep, covered him with a small quilt, and crept up on himself.Now it's all right, let him cry until he can't sleep at all, his heart is sore, Chu Daxia is also a man of temperament.Touching his wet chest was really uncomfortable, so he took off his pajamas and turned over to count the sheep.

Early the next morning, Xiao Luoluo's eyes were swollen like steamed shrimps. Chen Shufen was really frightened, and she kept asking what was wrong all morning.Luo Nianli didn't say anything, Madam Chu looked at Chu Zheng, Chu Zheng looked at Luo Nianli,

"Maybe the new bed doesn't fit well, don't ask me, I don't know."

After Chu Zheng finished his meal in a hurry, he took his bag and closed the door to leave. The atmosphere was not high, and Chen Shufen was thoughtful.Then, while applying a cold towel to Luo Luo's eyes, he asked:

"Luo Luo, did you quarrel with your brother?"

Luo Nianli looked at Chen Shufen with his swollen eyes and shook his head.Chu Jianguo and his wife glanced at each other, didn't ask any more questions, and went about their own business.

Chen Shufen sent Luo Nianli to the school gate, and when she was about to say goodbye to him, Luo Nianli suddenly grabbed her hand, Chen Shufen bent down and asked:

"what happened, Babe?"

"Auntie, brother is fine and didn't quarrel with me."

Chen Shufen was stunned for a moment, then asked again:

"Then why is Luo Luo crying? Can you tell Auntie about it?"

Luo Nianli was quiet for a while, then said:

"I miss Grandpa."

Suddenly, Chen Shufen touched Luo Nianli's head very gently, and comforted her:

"Luo Luo goes to school well, and when the holiday is over, auntie and uncle will take you back to see grandpa, okay?"

When Luo Nianli heard this, his eyes immediately brightened, and he kept nodding.

"Good boy, let's go to school first, shall we?"

Chen Shufen touched his small face and asked, Luo Nianli nodded again, turned and entered the school.Chen Shufen was left alone outside the school gate, sighing silently.

Luo Nianli stood on the seat and took off the schoolbag on his back.Along the way, the students in the class were all looking at his swollen eyes and talking a lot.

"Yo, you have been crying all night."

Gao Wuyang, who was next to him, said something coolly.Luo Nianli ignored him and sat down to get his textbook.

"Hey, isn't it a man who cries at a young age."

Luo Nianli glanced at him sideways, not intending to talk to him, and settled in his mind that this person must not be a friend.

Zhuang Yi followed Chu Zheng who was uncharacteristically silent all the way into the classroom, watched him sit down and take the textbook, he was so quiet and scary.But Zhuang Yi decided not to ask, he knew that Chu Zheng was digesting himself, and when he digested it, he would naturally tell himself.Sure enough, Zhuang Yi knew Chu Zheng very well. No matter who called Chu Zheng in physical education class, he didn't go to play. He just sat on the edge of the flower bed. Zhuang Yi brought two bottles of iced drinks and sat next to him.Chu Zheng habitually took a bottle of iced drink from Zhuang Yi's hand, opened it and took two sips.Zhuang Yi also took a sip of his drink, and looked forward relatively silently.

"Zhuang Yi, do you know what kind of illness Luo Nianli's grandfather has?"

Zhuang Yi glanced at him, shook his head,

"My dad didn't say anything, it's just that he may be seriously ill, so I'm afraid he's not very optimistic."

Chu Zheng glanced at him, said nothing, and continued to look down at his shoes.

"What's the matter? Why did you suddenly ask about his grandfather?"

Chu Zheng sighed.

"The little one asked me last night if I was abandoned by my grandpa. I didn't know how to answer, but I just felt very sad."

Zhuang Yi listened, took a sip of his iced drink, and reached out to grab Chu Zheng's arm.Chu Zheng looked up at him,

"So, he is now the most insecure time. He is not familiar with the place and has had so many life changes. He is still so young, and it is normal to be uneasy. You should encourage him more, be with him, let him He feels safe."

Zhuang Yi said patiently.Chu Zheng was like enlightened, drank a big mouthful of iced drink, looked at Zhuang Yi with a smile,

"You're right, I should give him a sense of security. Thanks buddy."

Zhuang Yi smiled slightly, and the two looked side by side at the sweaty teenagers on the field.

In the evening, Luo Nianli finished his homework early and lay down on the bed. Chu Zheng also put down the pen in his hand and sat beside Luo Nianli's bed.Seeing that he didn't say anything, Luo Nianli just looked at him fixedly, so he sat up from the bed again.

"Luo Luo."

Chu Zheng held Luo Nianli's shoulders with both hands,

"My brother doesn't know how to say nasty words. Anyway, although grandpa is not around, but I will be with you in the future. I swear that I will never abandon you. If you are there, I will be there. My brother will protect you for the rest of my life, okay? "

Luo Nianli was a little dazed, staring at Chu Zheng in a daze, Chu Zheng scratched his head,

"Just... just don't be afraid, and don't worry about being abandoned. No one abandons you. It's just a different environment in life. Uncles, aunts and I will love you very much, so don't be unhappy, okay? ?”

Luo Nianli looked at Chu Zheng for a while, then nodded and gave him a big smile.Chu Zheng felt the stone in his heart fall to the ground with a "boom", and rubbed Luo Nianli's hair,

"Okay, go to sleep, my brother will go to sleep after finishing his homework."

After all, he got up and returned to the desk, and continued to write hard.Luo Nianli slowly lay back, turned his body on his side, his eyes fixed on Chu Zheng's back.