At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the middle school planted with sycamores and ginkgo trees turns into a golden world.The red plastic runway in the playground is full of fallen leaves of ginkgo trees, like cute little fans, all over the ground.

Facing the morning sun, a group of boys and girls ran around the playground. Sweat slipped from their youthful faces and fell on the leaves, reflecting the brilliance of the morning sun.

Among them, the one who ran at the front was naturally Fan Xia.

He was wearing a new autumn and winter sports school uniform, and his hands and feet were particularly slender, which was completely different from the students behind him who wore their school uniforms into sacks.

While running, he shouted to the sky: "Gu Kaige, I hate you!"

Before Fan Xia finished speaking, the students running behind him also shouted.

For a while, there was "no end to hatred" on the playground.

The instigator, Gu Kaige, the head teacher of Class [-], was standing in the grade leader's office at this time, pointing to the group of energetic little guys on the playground to show his merits.

"It's too late to exercise in the third year of senior high school. Usually, their physical education class is often taken up. I think, before reading in the morning and after self-study in the evening, let them go to the playground for ten or twenty laps. Pretty good."

Teacher Gu bent down and continued, "After running for two months now, the physical condition of the children has improved a lot. At first, some people asked for leave because of a cold every now and then. They are all children who live in the school, and once they are infected, they can infect the whole dormitory. Now Everything is gone. Even Ning Xiaobei, who fainted on the first day in our class, has even cured his asthma now."

"Is that the first one in that grade?"

"Yes!"

"Then promote it to the first grade first, and then promote it to the whole school!"

The head of the grade group waved his hand, and thousands of people hated Gu Kaige from then on.

Fortunately, there is no "Hengshui experience" at this time, otherwise even Ning Xiaobei would wonder if this Teacher Gu also came from a parallel world, and even went to Hengshui High School to steal his teacher.

"Fortunately, I got used to running in the hands of 'Sweet Potato Cake' back then. Anyone who has nothing to do to run 5000 meters in the morning exercises must be sick."

Finally finished all the laps, Fan Xia completely unzipped the school uniform, put his hands on his knees and panted heavily.

"That's not what you said when you watched us run by the playground without removing the splint."

Ning Xiaobei put his shoulders on his shoulders, and said while humming, "You also said that 5000 meters is too little, you have to run at least [-] meters, otherwise you won't achieve the effect of exercise."

"I was wrong, I was wrong, I didn't feel a pain in my back at the time."

Fan Xia begged for mercy in a hurry, but it was still inevitable that Ning Xiaobei had been kidnapped.

Before the morning reading time came, the two simply walked around the playground.Fan Xia also picked up a few ginkgo leaves with great interest, saying that he would take them back and use them as bookmarks.

Fan Xia is careless most of the time, but he can also be emotional from time to time.

"Hey, look over there..."

He grabbed Ning Xiaobei's arm and winked at him.

The two passed by the canteen and happened to see two boys from the class following Tan Ruirui, delivering water and towels.

The towel was still pink with Hello Kitty embroidered on it, it looked like it was specially prepared for her, it really showed the true nature of licking a dog.

However, Tan Ruirui is like a proud little princess, holding her chin high, ignoring the two people behind her.Seeing Ning Xiaobei and Fan Xia, she hummed softly, threw a hygienic eye over, and walked away with her nose up.

"Wow, it turns out that she was just pretending to be so cute and pitiful before. She has such a bad personality."

Fan Xia was speechless.

Looking at it this way, Chang Leyun is ten thousand times cuter than her.

"Ning Xiaobei, are you Ning Xiaobei from Class [-], Senior One?"

Just as they were going back to the dormitory to get their schoolbags, Ning Xiaobei was suddenly stopped by the gatekeeper downstairs in the dormitory.

"This is from your parents, let me give it to you."

The uncle was listening to Shan Tianfang's storytelling on the small radio, pointing to a red and blue woven bag at the door of the guard's room and said.

"Parents? My dad has been here?"

Ning Xiaobei asked in amazement.

"No, it's a woman... Oh, look for yourself, anyway, I delivered it."

The old man's attitude is a bit bad, and I heard that he is a relative of a certain school leader.Otherwise, just because he dozed off watching TV every night and let students like Jiangnan come in and out at will, he would have been fired long ago.

"Female? Your grandma?"

Ning Xiaobei rolled his eyes helplessly.

Just kidding, the old lady can't breathe even after leaving the inner ring, how can she still come to this poor country?

The two went upstairs carrying the heavy woven bag, and after opening it, they found that there were quite a lot of things inside.

"Dried sweet potatoes, maltose, and a bottle of honey?"

Fan Xia took out the plastic bags one by one, the more he looked at them, the more boring he felt.

"What the hell, an agricultural and sideline products fair? It's too old-fashioned."

Fan Xia laughed, "Who would take these as gifts?"

Ning Xiaobei also wondered, who would give him such a thing.And sent it to the school specially, or a girl?

He looked down at the simple bags of things, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

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"Is it from my grandma's relatives in Suzhou? Why did you send it to my school... Ah, just passing by."

After lunch, Ning Xiaobei came to the guard room to line up to call home.

He was a little relieved after hearing Ning Jianguo's explanation on the other end of the phone.

"I see, then take me to say hello to my relatives in Suzhou. Goodbye, Dad, I'm going to class."

Ning Xiaobei hung up the phone and went back to the bedroom.

Opening the door of the dormitory, he found that Fan Xia led the people from the next room to play [-] points in the room. There were two circles of people inside and outside for those who played cards and those who watched cards.

Ding Zheyang sat alone on the bed listening to English with headphones plugged in, and when he saw Ning Xiaobei came back, he showed a helpless expression.

"Xiaobei, how are you doing?"

Fan Xia turned his head and pointed at the dried sweet potatoes that were placed on the table as chips.He was unlucky today, and he almost lost more than 20 sticks.

"You can eat whatever you want, it was given by my relatives in Suzhou. Okay, stop beating, class will start in a while."

"Quick, kneel down, thank you Brother Xiaobei for the reward."

Fan Xia booed.

The boys burst into laughter, each grabbed a handful of dried sweet potatoes and candies and ran away.

After Jiang Nan was expelled from school, their enmity with the dormitory next door was naturally resolved, and now they play together from time to time.

Ning Xiaobei walked up to Ding Zheyang and asked him if he wanted honey water, Ding Zheyang nodded.

"I want it too! I want it too!"

Fan Xia yelled while putting on his shoes and carrying his schoolbag.

"Daxinganling honey..."

It took Ning Xiaobei a lot of effort to unscrew the tin lid on the honey jar, looking at the green logo on the glass bottle, he felt a little strange.

"A relative in Suzhou, send me honey from the Northeast?"

However, there are a lot of things around famous brands these days, probably because the honey produced in the Northeast is more famous and sells better than those produced in other places.

Ning Xiaobei didn't think much, and went to class after drinking the honey water.

On the other side, in the private room of a small restaurant not far from Jiandeli, Ning Jianguo pushed three bundles of banknotes in front of the woman opposite.

"You came in a hurry, and I didn't prepare for it. These are all I improvised today... No matter how many more, you may have to wait."

Ning Jianguo said in embarrassment.

"Jianguo, that's not what I meant. I...I just came to see the child, really."

The woman sitting across from her was haggard, with her ponytail partly undone.She was wearing a spring and autumn shirt with a large gray lapel, a style that was out of fashion in the 80s, and her face was sallow.Ning Jianguo noticed that even the tips of her nails were yellow, and speculated that she might be in poor health or have liver disease.

Because he works in the cafeteria, he is most afraid of this, so he can't help but lean back.

In the eyes of the panicked woman on the other side, it turned into a kind of alienation, even with a bit of arrogance.

"Xiaobei has grown so big. As a mother, I can't even dream of it... I look like a kid from Shanghai. It's so good, so good..."

The woman said anxiously, and licked her chapped lips from dryness.

Not only the lips, but even the cheeks were a little chapped, with a redness that could not be said to be sunburned, or caused by getting angry, like two balls of red rouge on the face of a clown.

In fact, she is about the same age as Wang Yihong, but just looking at her appearance, at first glance she might be thought to be Wang Yihong's elder.

Years of hard work in the field has broken this beautiful girl in her teenage years to her current appearance. The village flower who was nicknamed "Little Apple" back then is now a middle-aged peasant woman.

"Xiao Bei grew up in Shanghai, and his household registration is also in Shanghai. He is a Shanghai kid."

Ning Jianguo lowered his head and frowned slightly.

"I...should have told you on the phone before, telling you not to go to him. You also agreed on the phone, why are you going to school to deliver things this morning? What if you meet Xiaobei? I didn't explained it to him."

When Xiao Bei called home from school just now, Ning Jianguo was almost scared out of his wits, thinking that the two of them had met.Hearing that the woman had just sent something there, but no one saw it, she deduced that it was a gift from a relative in her hometown in Suzhou.

"I... I can't help it. I'm a mother after all."

The woman bowed her head, big tears fell on the cheap pink tablecloth of the small restaurant.

"Sorry……"

If she hadn't been cornered, she would never have come to Shanghai to seek Ning Jianguo.

At the beginning, everyone agreed, and from then on, it will be regarded as not knowing each other, and we will never communicate with each other again.At that time, Jianguo had done her a huge favor by taking Xiaobei away.Now, for the sake of that cumbersome family, she has to come here to beg him again, it is simply... It is embarrassing.

The woman's mournful look with her head down, her slightly slender eyebrows and pointed chin, were so similar to Xiao Bei's that Ning Jianguo couldn't help turning his head aside.

Yes, she is Xiaobei's mother, as the so-called nature of mother and child, this is a fact that no one can change.

"Have you bought the train ticket? When do you plan to leave?"

Zhao Jingwen, who had been sitting by the side silently, finally spoke.

"I bought a hard seat at noon tomorrow, and I will go to the train station to wait in the morning."

The woman didn't know his relationship with Ning Jianguo, and only thought that he was his brother in the same family who came to advise Jianguo.

"You want to go back to Heilongjiang from Shanghai? No, I'll buy you a soft sleeper later. And the soft sleeper box has a door. If you're a woman, the most important thing is safety."

"No, there's no need. I can't sleep with so much money around me."

When the woman said the word "money", her tone was astringent.

She just kept saying that she didn't come here for money, but now she has stuffed the 3 yuan into her black bag.

Women themselves also feel that they are particularly ridiculous, hypocritical and ridiculous.

"That doesn't work either. You have to sit comfortably. It's been two days and two nights."

Zhao Jingwen said as he opened the door of the box and went to buy tickets.

He didn't walk here for long when the waiter came in with the dishes.

The waiter at the small restaurant looked at the man and the woman with a puzzled expression, as if wondering how such two people would sit and eat together.

Her expression was a bit revealing, and the woman became more and more embarrassed. She didn't even know how to place her hands and feet, so she hugged the black bag tightly.She was hunched over, with a few strands of gray hair falling on her shoulders, making her look even more pathetic.

"Take it. Didn't you say that you still need to buy medicine for your father-in-law? Hurry up, we might have to go to many pharmacies today. Protein injections are also in short supply in Shanghai, and one store can't buy them all."

The woman nodded in a hurry, and continued to pick up the rice.

The woman's father-in-law is now in the late stage of liver cancer and can only hang his life with imported albumin needles.That thing is very difficult to get in their northern town hundreds of kilometers away from Harbin, and the price is very expensive.That's why she came to Shanghai to ask Ning Jianguo for help.

Zhao Jingwen came to the train ticket agency not far away, helped the woman refund her original ticket, and bought a new sleeper ticket.

After buying the ticket, he leaned on the iron fence on the side of the road with one hand and squinted at the construction site across the road.

Earth-yellow bulldozers and excavators are hurrying to construct.

Xiangdeli, Baodeli... Row upon row of Shikumen houses that once carried countless families and stories were ripped off the wall, ripped apart, and finally collapsed.

With the last nail household moving away, it was only a matter of time before the bulldozers arrived in Jiandeli.

If this woman came a few days later, or if the old man of the Song family hadn't insisted on a few days less, I'm afraid she would never be able to find Jianguo and Xiaobei in her life.

But the world is unpredictable, good luck tricks people, the person who should come still comes.

Zhao Jingwen took out his mobile phone, calculated the time and it should be the end of get out of class now, so he called Fan Xia.

After the accident last time, regardless of whether Fan Xia wanted it or not, he forced him to take his mobile phone with him.

"Uncle... there are only a few minutes left before class, why are you calling me|Why? Go home tomorrow if you have something to say."

The other end of the phone was very noisy, and the restlessness of the teenagers was clearly transmitted through the radio signal.

"That's what I'm telling you. Tomorrow, Uncle Ning and I have a friend who is going on a temporary business trip. We'll go to the train station to see him off, and we won't be able to go home until the afternoon."

"Hey, is there such a good thing? Then I will go out for lunch with Xiao Bei and the others! The four of us will go to eat Little Sheep Hot Pot."

Fan Xia suddenly regained his spirits. Children of this age hate being controlled, even if they can see their parents for a few hours, it is worth celebrating.

"Boss, let me tell you..."

Here, Zhao Jingwen wanted to give some instructions, and that boy Fan Xia hung up the phone impatiently, and went to Xiaobei to "report the good news".

"Stinky boy... heartless."

Zhao Jingwen shook his head helplessly when he heard Fan Xia's last joyful voice in the microphone.

He used to think that Xiao Bei was just like Xiao Xia, only his parents divorced, but he didn't know that his life experience was so rough.

I hope that Xiaobei can have a good marriage in the future, so that he can make up for the wound that is always destined to be missing.

He now knows everything about Ning Jianguo and his family, including how he adopted Ning Xiaobei back then.

The author has something to say:

mom is here

It's the first time I've come, I'm sure I'll come a second time

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