The Fall of a Scholar

In the next winter vacation, the tutor gave Su Xiaoqian extra laboratory work.The school during the winter vacation is deserted.The good news is that before the festival, Yan Congzhi received an admission letter from another university in Chicago, which means that he will definitely be able to reunite with him in Chicago.So although Su Xiaoqian spent the entire Spring Festival in the laboratory, he was in a particularly good mood.

Yan Congzhi plans to formally talk to his father about going abroad to study this Spring Festival.He didn't have much communication with his father.Dad had a new family many years ago.In recent years, the two of them have even become a little rusty in speaking.He still resented his father.But Yan Congzhi knew that this was the time when he had to bow his head.

In previous years, during the Spring Festival, his father invited him out to have a meal outside.This year, he took the initiative to knock on the door of his father's house with two bags of gifts.

It may be that everyone is afraid of embarrassment, and the father is the only one in the family.When Yan Congzhi was in middle school, he hated that woman to the core, and the few times he met her were unpleasant.Later, we seldom saw each other, and his father paid him child support on time, sometimes even more.When he went to college, he was given another sum of money. Later, when Yan Congzhi became an adult, he stopped giving the money.So in the past two years, I haven't had many opportunities to meet my father.

Although he usually chats with others with ease, but he can't tell the embarrassment to this father, and there is also a lot of resentment in it.

After entering the door, Yan Congzhi sat down on the sofa.The two exchanged a few words.Yan Congzhi said: "Dad, I want to go to the United States to study this year. I need some money. I will pay you back when I work in the future."

Father was a little surprised: "Didn't you just study as a graduate student for more than a year?"

"Well, I want to go there to study for a master's degree."

"How much?"

Yan Congzhi lowered his head and said, "50."

Su Xiaoqian calculated this number for him several times, including tuition fees and living expenses for the next two to three years, which should not be lower than this number.Even if I earn money from a part-time job and then refund it to him, I still need to have this number in my bank account to get a visa.

His father was silent, and Yan Congzhi kept his head down, listening to him for a while: "The family money is with your aunt, and I can't afford that much. How about I give it to you in batches?"

At this time, Yan Congzhi regretted so much, why didn't he have a good relationship with his father?Self-righteous thinking that he will never beg him in this life, thinking that he can support his mother in the future and make her live happily.This 25-year-old feeling of asking for money from his father who had abandoned him tormented him so much that he couldn't live without it, but he still had to say what he had thought beforehand.

"When I apply for a visa, the embassy will review my bank account. It must have so much money before it will grant me a visa."

In the absence of a scholarship, the applicant's property, house, car, and everything that proves that he has money and assets must be reviewed when applying for a visa.But for Yan Congzhi, a single parent who is still in school, it's like being stripped of his clothes for others to scrutinize, but he has nothing to show.Yan Congzhi thought to himself, the two situations where powerlessness is most prominent, one is being abandoned by a loved one, and the other is applying for a U.S. visa.He felt it clearly.

There was another silence.Yan Congzhi was already on pins and needles, he felt like a criminal on the verge of death waiting for his trial.But I obviously did nothing wrong!

My father didn't mention the money anymore, and asked instead: "Why do you want to study in the United States when you are halfway through graduate school here?"

"The person I love is in America."

Yan Congzhi raised his head and saw an absurd expression on his father's face, so he could only muster up his courage and say, "This money is very important to me."

Seeing that there was still no response, Yan Congzhi was a little desperate, and said with a trembling voice: "Dad, you know, you can give up everything if you love someone."

Including your son.

You should understand me.

The father suddenly became uneasy, thought for a while, and finally said: "I will give you within two weeks."

"Thank you," Yan Congzhi really didn't have the energy to stay in this house, stood up with difficulty and said, "Then I'll go back first."

"it is good."

His father didn't keep him, Yan Congzhi finally walked out of the house that suffocated him.

When he went back at night, he told Su Xiaoqian that his father agreed to give him money to study.Su Xiaoqian said happily, "Your father treats you well! It's nice to have a father."

It's nice to have a dad.

Yan Congzhi smiled and thought, maybe so.

After the Spring Festival, one morning in March, Su Xiaoqian was still in a daze before he fully woke up, when he saw Yan Congzhi's video request on WeChat.Su Xiaoqian squinted his eyes and accepted, seeing Yan Congzhi's excited face on the other side of the screen.Pleasing to the eye, this word immediately came to Su Xiaoqian's mind.

"What?"

"Yong Ye, look what this is?"

Su Xiaoqian saw him hold up a piece of paper, on which a familiar red sign was faintly seen, with a phoenix drawn on it.

Phoenix?Su Xiaoqian woke up all of a sudden, and then looked to the side carefully, and saw the striking big characters: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

Seeing the big CHICAGO, Su Xiaoqian felt that this word was the most beautiful word in the world. It was more beautiful than money, love, and it made people happy.This was his biggest wish for more than half a year. The expectation was so strong that he no longer dared to tell Yan Congzhi. Now it has come true like a dream.

The admission notice that made Su Xiaoqian most excited in his life was not his own.

Su Xiaoqian suddenly buckled the phone on the bed and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Hey, what are you doing? Are you crying again?"

A bone, you don't know I'm a Pisces?

The day Yan Congzhi came, the sky in Chicago was so blue that it couldn't be real, and the big white clouds were exactly like the ones in the children's paintings, hanging chubby on the roof not far away.The wind blows just right, comfortable and not annoying.Su Xiaoqian asked the brother who picked him up to drive and arrived at the airport early.

I have been feeling restless for the past few days. First, I went to the supermarket to buy a bunch of food. I planned to cook every dish I practiced in the past six months for him. Then I cleaned the house carefully, and even wiped the toilet. Light.On this day, Su Xiaoqian was excited and nervous, standing at the arrival exit of the airport, his heart pounding.Obviously video almost every day, why so nervous?

He poked his head and looked around, and after a while, he saw the familiar man smiling and waving at him.Su Xiaoqian's mind suddenly thought of the first time he saw this sunny boy in that debate meeting, when he smiled gently like this.Perhaps he was destined to fall for him from then on.The scenes after that all emerged in Su Xiaoqian's mind. He bought him milk tea, helped him put on his coat, took him to watch shooting stars in the game, and downloaded dungeons, and wiped away his tears after his father passed away.What also emerged was the unforgettable pain he brought, such as the phrase "Your heart is so cruel".Of course, what moved him the most was when he kissed his hand and said, "Give me a year, and I'll find you."The original promise had been fulfilled, and Su Xiaoqian's eyes blurred again.

When he was thinking wildly, Yan Congzhi had already walked in front of him. Seeing that Su Xiaoqian was about to cry again, he smiled helplessly, reached out and clasped the back of his head, and bowed his head to kiss him.

Su Xiaoqian's whole body froze, feeling that he hugged her waist, and pressed her lips gently.Su Xiaoqian also slowly closed his eyes, stretched out his arms and hugged his neck tightly.Time stood still, and the crowds flowing around disappeared.Su Xiaoqian gave all his senses to the person who kissed him, and tears rolled down his face.

After kissing for a while, Yan Congzhi pressed his head to his shoulder, letting him wipe away his tears.

"Shame."

Su Xiaoqian randomly rubbed on his shoulder a few times to calm down, then raised his head and looked at Yan Congzhi with a smirk.

"Go home? What's the matter?"

The two walked out with their luggage.Su Xiaoqian's senior brother was waiting in the distance, and was a little embarrassed to see them coming.Su Xiaoqian knew that he must have seen them kissing, so he was also a little embarrassed.Yan Congzhi kept putting his arms around his shoulders, and greeted his senior brother with a smile, and he became familiar with him after a while.

On the way home, I walked a section of Lakeside Road. Today's Lake Michigan is surprisingly blue.Su Xiaoqian has never seen such blue water.Several rows of white sailboats parked neatly on the shore.White sails and blue water, this dazzling and saturated color makes people feel like they are in a painting.

"This lake is so beautiful." Yan Congzhi said.

"Well, let's play together later."

"You can take a boat by the lake, have you ever been on a boat?" the brother asked.

"No, I haven't played anywhere in the past six months, and I haven't even been to the lakeside in Chicago."

Yan Congzhi immediately understood that he was waiting for him to come.

The car drove downstairs, and the three got out of the car and entered the house with their luggage.No one in the house happened to be there.Yan Congzhi kept praising him for choosing a good house and cleaning it up until he saw the bed in the bedroom.

"Is this the bed you bought?"

"It's a mattress given by a senior sister. I think it's good to put it on the floor. There are carpets on the floor, so there's no need to buy a bed."

"so small?"

"Well, it's a little small. FULLSIZE, but it's just enough to squeeze in."

"No, I'll go buy a mattress and a bed frame tomorrow."

"How big are you going to buy?"

"KING SIZE."

"...KINGSIZE is expensive."

"You can buy a pen for more than 5 and have no money to buy a bed?"

"..."

"I don't want you to sleep on the ground at night."

"……All right."

The next day, I went to a store specializing in selling beds. Yan Congzhi immediately fell in love with a mattress that cost more than $700. With the bed frame, it cost a little over $1000.When the delivery master carried the KINGSIZE bed into the room, Su Xiaoqian felt that several roommates were all staring at him strangely, and their entire faces were burning.Then he found that Yan Congzhi was directing the two delivery masters as if nothing happened.

"Is this the classmate you said you would come?" Ye Hang asked him.

Before Su Xiaoqian could speak, Yan Congzhi said rudely to him: "Hey, classmate, you can write a book called "The Days I Lived With My Handsome Classmate"."

"..."

"Student, I'm hungry, let's cook."

"Oh."

Su Xiaoqian knew that he was blaming himself for calling him a "classmate". While going to the kitchen to start cooking, he thought, hoping that he would not die too badly at night.