The boring daily life of ordinary high school students

28.

Song Juming realized something was wrong after Chi Nian made excuses not to go upstairs for a week.

Chi Nian's household registration and school transfer procedures were finally completed, and he was in the same school as him, and the two of them could go to school together from next week.

Taking advantage of the weekend, Song Juming wanted to seize the time to help Chi Nian with his missed homework. Everything was ready, but Chi Nian didn't come up for a long time. Looking at the dark clouds outside the window, Song Juming had a vague premonition. As expected, he called Chi Nian's house, but was told by Chi's mother who was resting at home that she had already left the house.

"Ju Ming..." Chi's mother was always very reserved when facing Song Ju Ming, "Didn't I stay with you every year?"

"Together." Song Juming didn't want Chi's mother to worry, so he lied, "Aunt Li, Chi Nian and I have an appointment to go out to play, and we may have to come back later."

Chi's mother did not refuse, and explained carefully, "Yes. The weather forecast says it will rain, remember to bring an umbrella. Come back early."

"Okay." Song Juming responded one by one.

"By the way..." Just one second before Song Juming was about to hang up the phone, Chi's mother suddenly said, "Juming, Auntie wants to ask. Is there something that Niannian is hiding from the adults recently? I always feel that he is in a bad mood. Ask him, but he won't say anything. He regards you as a good friend, and will tell you if there is anything. Can you secretly tell auntie, what's going on every year?"

Song Juming hasn't seen anyone for a week. How can he know about Chi Nian's recent situation? He doesn't even know that Chi Nian is in a bad mood, "Don't worry, Auntie, Chi Nian won't hide anything from you. Probably the last time he came to my house to play Game, I didn't let him, he must be angry with me."

Hearing this, Mama Chi breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good. Then go play and be safe."

"Goodbye, Auntie."

Putting down the phone, Song Juming grabbed the key and went out.

Song Juming's keen intuition told him that Chi Nian definitely had something to hide from him.

Accompanied by deafening thunder and blinding lightning, before going out, it began to rain cats and dogs, and the bean-sized raindrops hit Song Juming's umbrella surface, splashing white mist.

Song Juming first ran to ask the security guard.

The security guard said that he saw Chi Nian leaving the community alone with his schoolbag on his back an hour ago.

Hearing this, Song Juming ran out in a hurry, ignoring the shouts of the security guard behind him, and resolutely rushed into the torrential rain.

Chi Nian said that he was the only friend in Yucheng, where could he go in such a heavy rain?

According to the place Chi Nian mentioned, Song Juming followed the parents of both sides to find Yirun Children's Paradise along the half-mountain community, and finally found Chi Nian covered in mud and in a mess under the slide in the abandoned park.

Chi Nian was wearing dirty clothes, sitting on the ground with his knees folded, his head buried in the crook of his arms, his face could not be seen, only one brand new leather shoe was left on his feet, the sole was full of mud, and his little hands were exposed. Outside, it was so cold that it was purple. It must have been a fall, and some blood came out from the scratched skin.

Song Juming put away her umbrella and stood aside, calling out, "Chi Nian."

Chi Nian raised his head when he heard the sound, apparently he didn't expect to see Song Juming here, probably because he was cold from the rain, his voice was a little trembling, "Orange, why are you here?"

"I still want to ask you." Song Juming frowned, a little angry, "It's raining, why are you running around? If I didn't come to you, you would squat here alone?!"

"I..." Chi Nian huddled himself in a corner, slowly curled up into a ball, avoiding his eyes, not daring to look at Song Juming, and said lacking in confidence: "Orange...I want to find my father."

Seeing Chi Nian's pitiful appearance, no matter how big his temper was, half of it disappeared.

Song Juming didn't care whether the ground was clean or not at this time, so he sighed and sat down on the ground.

"Here."

Chi Nian looked at the arm lying in front of him, not knowing why, "Orange..."

"What are you doing in a daze?" Song Juming pulled Chi Nian closer and asked him to hold his arm, "Hold it well. I only wear one piece of clothing, don't expect me to take it off for you." Chi was drenched in the rain Nian was cold all over, and Song Juming could feel the coldness on his body through two layers of clothes.If you stay outside for a long time, you will definitely catch a cold. "Let's talk about it first. We'll go back when the rain stops. Otherwise, I'll tell your mother."

Chi Nian didn't answer, but hugged him even tighter.

In autumn, the rain is abundant and continuous. The ground is full of potholes and pools of water. The raindrops fall on the ground, mixed with mud, splashing small water flowers and making a ticking sound.

All the messy thoughts were covered by the rain, but it was quiet.

Chi Nian rubbed against him, and Song Ju clearly understood that Chi Nian was getting warmer and wanted to talk.

"Where is your father now?" he asked.

Looking at the line of rain outside, Chi Nian said dryly, "Mingcheng."

"Then do you know where Mingcheng is?" Song Juming asked again.

Chi Nian rested his chin on Song Juming's elbow, was slightly lost in thought, then shook his head, his eyes a little lost.

He is still too young, he has long forgotten where he came from.

Looking at Chi Nian like this, Song Juming felt uncomfortable, and took a piece of paper to help him wipe his nose, only to find that there were two toffees left in his pocket.

"Chi Nian, ah." Song Juming peeled off the candy wrapper and fed it into Chi Nian's mouth himself, his tone more gentle than ever, "Do you know how far it is from Mingcheng?"

"I don't know." When he ate the first one, Chi Nian chewed it and couldn't wait to swallow it.Finding that Song Juming only had two, and he was not willing to eat one by himself, he gave them all to him, and Chi Nian held them in his mouth, reluctant to sip them. "It seems to be here after a short sleep."

Song Juming asked: "Did you take the train when you came here?"

"Yeah." Chi Nian nodded, "Green."

After Chi Nian mentioned that his hometown was Mingcheng, Song Juming checked the location of the two cities on the map, one in the north and one in the south, and there was a full distance of a foot on the map. To sit for more than 30 hours.

Song Juming tried to explain clearly to him in a way that Chi Nian could understand: "Then let me ask you, how long will it take you to walk from home to the supermarket?"

Chi Nian pinched his fingers and calculated: "Half an hour..."

Song Juming circled back and forth in the air with his fingers, "Then you have to go from spring to winter before you can go from Yucheng to Mingcheng."

"Is it this far?" Chi Nian was bluffed on the spot.

"Well, it's very far away." Song Juming said without changing his expression, "And there are bad guys who kidnap children on the road. If you are kidnapped, not only will you not be able to see your father, but you will also be unable to see your mother, and you will be betrayed." Going to the mountains to be someone else’s son, you don’t have enough to eat or wear warm clothes every day, and you don’t even have candy.”

"No!" Chi Nian was still timid after all, his little face turned pale with fright, "I can't be someone else's son! And I can't live without sugar!"

Song Juming patted Chi Nian's excited little head, and comforted him: "Then do you still want to go to Mingcheng alone?"

After being told by Song Juming, Chi Nian was a little wilted, but he was not reconciled, "Then when will I have to wait to find my father?"

Song Juming couldn't bear it, and couldn't say anything to completely stop Chi Nian's thoughts, so he could only persuade him, "Chi Nian, didn't I give you a piggy bank? Remember?"

"Yeah." Actually, it's not a gift, the piggy bank originally belonged to Song Juming, but Chi Nian, a bully, fell in love with it, so he pretended to be a gift, and now it's placed on Chi Nian's bedside as a decoration .

Song Juming took out another coin from his pocket and stuffed it into Chi Nian's palm, "This is your pocket money, keep it well. When you fill it up with pocket money, you can go to your father."

Chi Nian didn't have a specific concept of money, but when he thought of such a small coin and such a big piggy bank, he felt that it was very difficult to 'fill it up', even more difficult than telling him not to eat candy.

"Have you ever filled it?" he asked, frowning.

Song Juming nodded.

"And then you went to America to meet your mother?"

not at all.

But Song Juming still nodded.

Chi Nian doesn't need to know the truth, he just needs a spiritual sustenance.Chi Nian ran away from home, and Song Juming could find him once, but it didn't mean he could find him a second time.The most fundamental solution is to let him transform his longing for his father into something concrete and achievable. When Chi Nian gets used to it, or understands it, he won't make a fuss about going to find his father.

Song Juming also walked over like this.

The rain gradually stopped.

Song Juming stood up, pulled Chi Nian up, and patted the dust off his body by the way, "Can you tell me why you ran away from home now? Also, why have you been avoiding me these days?"

Chi Nian stared blankly at Song Juming without speaking.

Song Juming was deeply puzzled, and pointed to himself, "Is it related to me?"

Chi Nian nodded, then shook his head again, as if hesitating: "Orange, I'm sorry. From now on, I won't be able to be good friends with you."

"Huh?" Song Juming was startled, with a trace of anger hidden in his tone, "Why?"

Under Song Juming's questioning, Chi Nian finally confessed the fact that his parents divorced, as well as his recent discovery.

"...Just Uncle Song and my mother..."

"So?" All Chi Nian's abnormal behavior seemed to be explained, but Song Juming's expression was not relaxed, "What does this have to do with whether we are friends or not?"

Obviously it was Chi Nian who pestered him to be his lifelong friend at the beginning, Song Juming finally got used to Chi Nian's existence, and now Chi Nian wanted to push him away with such absurd reasons.

Chi Nian can come and go freely, who can he ask for reasoning?

Song Juming wished for the rain to fall even harder, to shower this idiot Chi Nian well, so that he could see clearly who it was that worked so hard to come out to accompany him!

If he had known that Chi Nian was such a white-eyed wolf, Song Juming shouldn't have come out to look for him, and simply let him be kidnapped by someone, so as not to worry and irritate others.

Facing Song Juming's pressing questions, Chi Nian lowered his head and said in a voice like a mosquito: "I don't want Uncle Song to get close to my mother. Orange, I'm sorry, I'm too selfish, I just want a father. Uncle Song is Uncle Song, I I don't want him to become my father." By the end, Chi Nian's voice was already a little crying.

Seeing Chi Nian's tears, Song Juming immediately became angry: "Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry! You are wronged, right? I don't want to hear you say I'm sorry! Ask you one last time, do you really want to break up with me!"

Chi Nian wiped away his tears, and replied with a stiff neck, "Yes. I'm sorry."

"That's what you said! Don't regret it!" Song Juming was so angry that he kicked off the innocent umbrella and ran into the rain after saying this.

Chi Nian picked up the umbrella that Song Juming had thrown away, trying to hold back his tears: "Orange...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."

For the seven-year-old Chi Nian, Chi's mother is all he can rely on. Before making up his mind, he tried to imagine the scene if his mother became his best friend's mother.

Facts have proved that he still can't accept it.

He didn't want his friendship with Song Juming to become a shortcut for Chi Ma and Uncle Song to be together.He promised his father that he would protect his mother for him.

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Speaking of selfishness, I was pretty selfish when I was a kid.I am an only child, whenever someone teases me and asks my mother to give me another brother and sister to share my love, I will immediately explode and threaten my mother, saying that if she dares to have children, I will jump off the building.But in fact, I was just born, and my parents went to apply for a one-child certificate.Who hasn't had a rebellious moment~ haha