dear tiger tooth boy

01

It was already late when I walked out of the building.It was already the time when the sky was bright, but the sky was still gloomy, but with a strange transparency.

Can't tell whether it's gloomy or suddenly.It was extremely quiet, yet undercurrents were surging.

It is very similar to the current mood of the three children.

The number of people on the street gradually increased. Ten minutes ago, Dad Zheng, who was being followed, had left the building and hurried towards home.

Zheng Yunhao looked at the rushing office workers on the road, and was silent.

He could no longer see his father, but he knew that his father was in the crowd.

Just 10 minutes ago.Yunho couldn't describe his feelings when he saw his father carrying a thick stack of newspapers and delivering them from door to door.

His mind went blank.

He actually suspected that his father was cheating.He actually suspected that his father, who got up at four o'clock every morning to deliver newspapers, was cheating.

He felt that he was an annoying fool who was peeking around the corner.

Now, he should go home, pretend he doesn't know anything, just crawled out of bed, eat breakfast with his family, and watch his father leave for work.

However, for a while, he couldn't move forward.

Jiang Ning and Zhao Chengbin stood beside him without saying a word.They were equally surprised and bewildered.

Growing up so big, Yunho has never felt such a mood.

Has the "financial crisis" mentioned on TV reached such a point?

Yunho blinked.The winter wind made his eyes a little sore.

My father doesn't like to drive recently, saying that it's for exercising, and he insists on starting earlier to walk or take public transportation to work.He also suddenly said that he didn't like meat anymore, saying that he didn't want to step into the middle-aged road of no return.It turned out that these were just excuses he made as if nothing had happened in the face of financial difficulties.

Yunho and Zhizhi's living expenses were not deducted half a cent. Yunho mentioned the graduation trip, and his father agreed without saying a word.

Although the TV news reported every day that some companies closed down and so many workers were laid off, but for Yunhao, he always felt that it was just distant news and other people's lives.

But now, for the first time, Yunhao discovered that this terrible "financial crisis" is really affecting his life.

Did my father's company also go bankrupt?Otherwise, why would he need to secretly get up early every day to deliver newspapers to subsidize the family?

For so many years, although the Zheng family is not considered a wealthy businessman, they have been living a stable and prosperous life relying on the company run by Zheng's father.

This is the first time, Yunho feels uneasy and panic about money.

"Yunhao..." Jiang Ning looked at Yunhao who was in a daze, and called him worriedly.

She wasn't called senior, let alone Oppa.Subconsciously worried, what came out was a simple name.

Now, he is just a bewildered child.

Jiang Ning, like Yunhao, looked thoughtfully at the people coming and going on the street.

She felt that she seemed to be able to understand a little bit of the inarticulate feeling in Yunhao's heart.

Annoyed at being too weak and powerless, guilty of doubting his father for no reason, and proud of having such a strong and responsible father.

Also... a little dazed because of the first glimpse of the reality and cruelty of the adult world.

In the future, will I also become a member of such a rushing crowd?

Jiang Ning could only empathize with Yunho's doubts a little bit.

However, Jiang Ning couldn't understand the role model brought by a father with a high sense of responsibility.

She lost her father too early, and also lost the integrity and warmth of her family.

She is not a boy either, so she cannot understand Yunhao's nascent understanding of "how to be a real man" in his heart at this moment.

Jiang Ning had no choice but to simplify Yunho's essentially more complicated mood into specific sadness, and softly called his name, trying to comfort him.

"Yunhao..." Jiang Ning called him again.

Cho Seung Bin no longer had a playful smile, but solemnly patted Yunho on the shoulder.

Yunho suddenly laughed.

It doesn't seem like forced optimism, so Jiang Ning and Zhao Chengbin couldn't help but looked at each other suspiciously.

"It's snowing." Yunho raised his head slightly and said softly.

Jiang Ning blinked, and sure enough, small flakes of snow had already started floating in the sky.

Jiang Ning raised her head and stared at the gray sky.

Every time it snows, Jiang Ning likes to look up to the sky like this.

She knew that by doing this, her cold face would be even colder, and she looked very silly.

But Jiang Ning still likes to do this very much.

The snowflakes rushed into her eyes impatiently.

As if scrambling to fall into her mind.

Jiang Ning didn't know why, but she could always muster inexplicable courage in snowy weather.

Feel relieved and happy.The whole person will feel calm and powerful.

Jiang Ning murmured softly: "It's snowing again."

On the day I flew to South Korea, Shanghai experienced the first and last snow in [-].

Actually, it's been a few months.

When I saw the snow again, it was a different country and a different mood.Time has already quietly entered [-].

Jiang Ning followed suit with a smile.

Turning around to look at Zhao Chengbin, he also had the same smile on his face.

Snow is really amazing.

It's snowing again.

Yunho repeated these words in his heart.

The little girl in front of him was smiling with her face up, but there was a color in her eyes that he didn't understand.

He suddenly thought, how many times has she seen snow, and how many times has she raised her face so stupidly by herself?

He also suddenly understood a little more about his father's feelings.

I understand that he runs around like this every day, but never complains about hard work, never shows frustration, because he has a lover and family in his heart that he wants to protect.

Let's grow up to be a man, Jung Yunho.

He also raised his head, greeted the falling snowflakes with his face, and said to himself silently.

He has no way of knowing how many times she has seen snow before.

But for every snow in the future, he hopes that he can stand by her side, greet and face each other quietly.

They have to learn to face snow and life slowly.

02

According to Zhao Chengbin's original plan, he was going to pay for it himself, take Jiang Ning and Zheng's brothers and sisters, and fly to other places together to make up for the regret of the failure of the graduation trip.

But since following the action of the squad that day, Jiang Ning and Zhao Chengbin rarely even had the chance to ask Yunhao out for a meal.Because of the whole vacation, Yunho had to work in a coffee shop during the day and study middle school courses at night, so he had no free time at all.

Moreover, Yunho specifically told Jiang Ning and Zhao Chengbin not to tell their family members about their part-time jobs.Therefore, Jiang Ning and Zhao Chengbin wanted to see Yunho after his part-time job, and they had to pretend that everyone had just had fun for a day, and went to Yunho's house to study homework together with their schoolbags on their backs.

"Brother, why didn't you call me when you went out to play during the day?" After Yunho disappeared for a period of time almost every day, Zhizhi finally couldn't help complaining, "Mom and Dad have both gone to work, and I am bored at home alone."

Zhao Chengbin pretended to be disgusted and waved at Zhizhi: "Brothers are going on a date with their girlfriends, what are you doing with your little light bulb?"

Wisdom puffed up his face in anger: "Then why can Jiang Ning go together?"

Zhao Chengbin had a smirk on his face: "I said, this is a date between my brothers and their girlfriends, and Jiang Ning is naturally my brother's girlfriend."

"Ah?" Wisdom was dubious, and asked Jiang Ning with gossip eyes with a little excitement, "Are you officially together with my brother?"

Jiang Ning's face turned red again: "Listen to Zhao Chengbin talking nonsense."

When she is in a hurry, she doesn't care about her seniority at all, and she is a "Zhao Chengbin" in one bite.

Wisdom pouted sullenly again: "Even if we are together, you still have to play with me!"

There is no way, Jiang Ning can only do homework and watch anime with Zhizhi during the day, so as to reduce her doubts and dissatisfaction.

"Senior Yunhao," Jiang Ning looked at the open door and couldn't help asking softly when Wisdom left Yunhao's room to get fruit, "You are afraid that your uncle and aunt will object to working, so you don't talk about it all the time. , I can understand that. But why are you trying so hard to hide wisdom?"

Yunho is burying himself in a math problem.Hearing this question, he did not answer immediately.

Jiang Ning vaguely realized that she asked a question that Yunhao didn't want to answer, and seeing that there was no response, she just pursed her lips and did not continue to ask.

Wisdom came in with sliced ​​fruit, and just as they finished eating, Mama Zheng came to invite everyone to eat the freshly sliced ​​rice sausage.

As soon as they heard that there was something to eat, Jo Seung-bin and Ji-hye always ran downstairs like a race.

Jiang Ning and Yunhao stayed in the house to clean up the garbage left by eating fruit.

"Go and eat the rice sausage first, I'll clean it up, there's no reason for you to do it."

Jiang Ning was pushed aside by Yunhao, but she was not in a hurry to go downstairs, she just stood aside obediently and waited for him to clean up.

There is a bucket of drinking water in Yunho's room, which contains many coins.This is a new habit Yunho has developed recently. He converts all the money he earns from part-time jobs and the pocket money he saves in daily life into coins.

Jiang Ning stared at the drinking water bucket in a daze.

"That money was saved for Wisdom's graduation trip." Yunho explained.

"Um……"

Forgoing your own graduation trip, but saving for your sister's graduation trip?

Jiang Ning wanted to praise Yunhao for being a good brother, but she felt that it was too deliberate, so she just hummed in the end.

Yunhao followed Jiang Ning with a tray, and the two went downstairs one after the other.

"You just asked me why I hid my wisdom, right?"

"Huh?" Jiang Ning stopped, "Oh... yes."

Yunhao walked in front of Jiang Ning, with his back to her.

"If you didn't know all this in advance, I would also deliberately hide it from you."

Will he deliberately hide it from her?

Jiang Ning was thinking about what the words meant, Yunhao had already opened his legs and walked downstairs.

The author has something to say:

The first snow in Seoul on the 26th.Too sleepy and a little lazy at the end.Just wrote these indiscriminately.