raging fire meets warm sun

Six pm.

Xia Fangyu just came out of the office building, walked to the parking area, got in the car and drove out of the school. Today is a good day, so we should celebrate a little bit, but how should I celebrate? She was driving alone on the spacious avenue, and she couldn't help but recall her Every now and then, I like something more, but in the end I just shook my head and laughed to myself. The children now like more tricks than they did ten years ago.

For this reason, I slowed down the speed of driving, and my eyes lingered on the streets on both sides. Finally, it seemed that I found a handicraft store. Xia Fangyu took a long turn to find a place where a U-turn was allowed, drove back, and parked the car on the road. On the side temporary parking space.

Art students probably share the same taste in art, so she might like the things here.

Xia Fangyu walked in slowly with a bag on her shoulders. The warm yellow lights in the handicraft store revealed a warm color, adding softness and delicacy to every item here.

Just as she was choosing carefully, someone bumped into her unintentionally from behind. Xia Fangyu turned her head subconsciously and looked over. It turned out that they were two students. She could recognize them from the school at a glance by looking at the school uniforms.

The other two were shocked when they saw Xia Fangyu, and quickly nodded to her politely, "Hello, teacher, hello, teacher."

"Hello." Xia Fangyu raised the corners of her lips slightly, her smile was calm and unassuming.

"Teacher, we have to leave beforehand."

"Teacher, take your time, goodbye, teacher..."

The two children, a boy and a girl, left the store in a hurry. Xia Fangyu was a little helpless and dumbfounded about it. It seemed that she was really scary at school on weekdays.

Continue to search and choose, finally let Xia Fangyu catch it at first sight.

A lamp dotted with small stars, lighting it at night is like being on the vast land and looking at the vast universe.Because of the star in Cheng Enxing's name, Xia Fangyu bought it almost without hesitation, and even specially asked to wrap it up.

After paying the bill, Xia Fangyu carefully got into the car with the somewhat huge gift box in her arms. In order to avoid bumps on the road, she chose to put it in the trunk. She drove home without frequent acceleration and deceleration along the way, almost at a constant speed.

When Xia Fangyu returned home, she opened the door and the room was pitch black. The child must have not come back yet. She went in to change her shoes and put the gift box on the sofa. Let's make dinner first.

Time passed slowly, and Cheng Enxing never came back.

During the period, Xia Fangyu went to take a shower after cooking and changed into comfortable clothes. At this time, she was a little worried. After all, it was past nine o'clock in the evening, and it was not good for her to be a girl outside and not come back.

Xia Fangyu didn't call her lightly to urge her. She only called her when she had no other choice, because she didn't want Cheng Enxing to feel that he was pushing her too hard and meddling too much in her private life.

The phone was connected, but no one answered for a long time. Xia Fangyu was a little flustered, so he quickly sent her a few short messages, and then called again.

But there was no one answering, and the phone calls were busy one after another, hitting Xia Fangyu's heart, which was hard to calm down.

Xia Fangyu had the contact information of Cheng Enxing's friends. She first called the kid named Li Kexin, and Cheng Enxing was most likely to be with her.

Someone answered the call quickly, with a slightly tentative and cautious tone.

"Is that... Teacher Xia?"

"It's me." Xia Fangyu replied, "I'm sorry to disturb you so late. I don't know if you have seen Cheng Enxing today. She hasn't come back yet. I'm a little worried about her."

"Cheng Enxing hasn't gone back yet?" Li Kexin asked eagerly, "Too bad..."

Xia Fangyu's heart suddenly rose, "Did something happen today?"

"Actually, it's like this. It's all my fault when I say it. I didn't stop her and let her go like that..." Li Kexin blamed herself and was extremely annoyed, and explained everything that happened during the day.

Xia Fangyu held the phone in one hand, and squeezed the other hand slightly, "Don't panic, think carefully about where she usually goes, and then tell me I will go find her."

Li Kexin was in a hurry, and suddenly thought of a place, "Mr. Xia, do you know Xingyue Lake in City B? Cheng Enxing usually likes to go there the most."

Before she could finish speaking, Xia Fangyu hurriedly interrupted, "I'll go right away."

"Hey, hey, Teacher Xia, how about I go with you too."

"No, I'll just go, I'll call you again." Xia Fangyu hurriedly put down the phone after speaking, grabbed the car keys and went out.

After sitting in the car and setting up the navigation to Xingyue Lake, Xia Fangyu accelerated the accelerator all the way to drive there. It would be fine if the person was really there, I hope, otherwise she really couldn't explain it.

As the night deepens, there are fewer night walkers by the lake. The lake is quiet except for the ripples of the breeze. A girl sits on a bench under a willow tree, staring at the other side of the lake in a daze. Thousands of lights.

There was a lit cigarette in his finger, and he let it burn like this, motionless, as quiet as a sculpture.

There were rustling footsteps behind her, the girl didn't take it seriously, and flicked the cigarette ash skillfully.

"Come back with me." Xia Fangyu said.

Cheng Enxing raised his eyebrows, "Li Kexin told you, there is no one else but her."

"I know... this matter must have given you a certain blow." Xia Fangyu was interrupted by Cheng Enxing who was sitting on the chair before he could finish speaking.

"No, not at all." Cheng Enxing unknowingly stubbed out the cigarette butt, raised his hand through the hair on his forehead, "I'm not someone who can be hit so easily."

Seeing this, Xia Fangyu had no choice but to take two steps forward, sat down on the empty seat beside her, and looked at the quiet lake in front of her in the same way.

"I know, you are much stronger than I imagined." Xia Fangyu paused and said to himself, "There are still some things that Li Kexin doesn't know, and I think it's time to tell you now."

Xia Fangyu never thought of keeping this matter from her all the time, she was just looking for the right time, but unexpectedly this matter exploded by itself, so it's better to explain everything.

Cheng Enxing smiled, pretending to be strong and said, "Tell me, there's nothing I can't bear."

"Your parents sold all their property, not enough to pay off all the debts, so they can only go to other places to earn money, while paying off the debts, while paying for your education, I tell you this, just want you to understand their hard work more , and...they love you."

"Did they really go to America?" Cheng Enxing felt a little suspicious.

"On a farm in the south of the United States, I do the hardest and most tiring work, but I don't know the exact location, and your mother didn't tell me." Xia Fangyu replied.

"Okay, I see." Cheng Enxing turned his face away, put his hands on the edge of the chair, lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xia Fangyu saw it in her eyes and knew that she was trying her best to endure it, but she was unwilling to reveal her pain to the outside. It was really distressing for her like this, but all Xia Fangyu could do at this time was to accompany her and guide her. She adjusted herself as soon as possible to overcome all these difficulties.

"Actually, you're really a wonderful girl, aren't you?"

Cheng Enxing waved his hand embarrassingly, "No, I'm not, I'm a bad girl, look, I just smoked a few cigarettes before you came."

Xia Fangyu still looked at her with a gentle smile, "You know, when I was studying, I was a very withdrawn and timid person. I went to and from school every day by myself, ate alone, and did everything alone. People, Huang Yitong is probably the only friend I have in my life, maybe because I lived close to him since I was a child, he doesn't dislike me."

"How come?" Cheng Enxing was a little surprised when he heard it for the first time. He didn't expect that a person like her would have such an unknown past.

"Really, it doesn't look like it." Xia Fangyu paused and took a long breath, "I listened to my parents everywhere, took part in work and employment step by step, and lived like the daughter they wanted to see."

"Then you're pretty bad." Cheng Enxing said with emotion, "At least in terms of the right to choose in life, my parents didn't force me to interfere."

"So, why don't you resist?" Cheng Enxing asked curiously again, "If it were me, I wouldn't listen to them, just do what I like."

"Resistance..." Xia Fangyu murmured the word, raised her eyes and smiled helplessly, and did not give her the answer in the end.

This smile was very meaningful. Cheng Enxing, who didn't wait for an answer, turned his face away in a little disappointment, and patted his thigh, "There are so many mosquitoes, they bite me badly, let's go back."

Xia Fangyu nodded, "Well, let's go."

The two got up and left, walking towards the car parked on the side of the road together.

On the way home, Xia Fangyu turned on the music player in the car and played soothing soft music. Cheng Enxing leaned her head against the car window. In fact, when she first learned about the whole thing this morning, her brain was in a daze. Blank, the reason why she chose to leave alone was because she wanted to maintain her cool image at the last moment, she was afraid that she would lose control in front of Kexin in the next second, that would be too embarrassing.

I ran to the lake alone, sat quietly for almost a whole day, and thought about it all day.

Isn't it just that the family went bankrupt? What's the big deal? It's nothing more than returning from a chic and happy rich second generation to an ordinary person, or a poor person, but at least the person is still alive, isn't it?

The story of bankrupt, huge debts and helpless family members jumping off the building is not always on TV. Thinking about how her parents saved her life and helped her find a "foster" family, it is considered very good It's over.

Ha ha.

Cheng Enxing is really an optimistic person, she grinned wryly at the rearview mirror outside the car window.

Xia Fangyu was driving the car, glanced at her in the mirror from time to time, and found that she was staring out the window in a daze, trying to bring the topic to happy things as much as possible in order not to make her too sad.

"By the way, I have prepared a small gift for you, and you can see it when you get home."

Cheng Enxing turned around with a puzzled look on his face, "Gift? What kind of gift?"

It's not the New Year's day or the festival, so why give her a gift for no reason.

"You'll find out later, um...it was originally to celebrate your good grades in the college entrance examination..." Xia Fangyu didn't expect such a thing to happen today.

"Mr. Xia, you're too polite." Cheng Enxing teased himself, "I'm a poor man now, and I can't afford to pay too much."