Xia You Arbor: Looking to Heaven

Chapter 65: Starting Junior High School (2)
She turned her head and looked, the boy was holding a flute she didn't know, and was playing it softly on the balcony behind her. The lights in his house were very bright, so she could see his appearance clearly at once.A very beautiful boy, clean, fair and bright-eyed, as charming as the little prince in a fairy tale.

Xia Tong squatted in a dark corner, looking up at him, she couldn't understand his music, and she didn't recognize his musical instruments, but she still felt that the sound was beautiful, beautiful, like the sounds of nature, in her dark The world, light up that little bit of brilliance.Xia Tong couldn't help stretching out his hand towards the brilliance, his fingers rustling through the leaves.

"Who's there?" The boy put down the flute from his lips, walked to the balcony, and looked down at Xia Tong's direction.Xia Tong originally wanted to hide, but the moment he met his eyes, he was completely stunned.The boy's eyes are beautiful, like plump peach petals, the corners of the eyes are gently raised, with endless charm.Xia Tong remembered that her mother said that a person with such eyes was a fox fairy in her previous life, because only the reincarnation of a fox fairy has such beautiful eyes.

Seeing that Xia Tong in the darkness was silent, the boy didn't ask any more questions, just put away the flute, turned and left.

After that, it took a long time for Xia Tong to hear her father calling from upstairs. She hurriedly stood up, but because she squatted for too long, her legs went limp when she stood up and she fell down.

She didn't feel any pain at all, she got up quickly, didn't even pat the dirt, and ran straight in the direction of her father. Only then did she know how scared she was, afraid that no one would come to her, no one Come call her home...

The first few days in Xia Tong's new home were extremely painful. Aunt Lin Xin didn't go to work because she had to take care of the young Minmin, and her father went out at seven o'clock in the morning every morning and didn't come home until five or six o'clock in the evening. Dad was not at home. At that time, Xia Tong didn't even have the courage to go out of the room. Every time she was hungry, she had to listen to the room door for a long time to make sure that Aunt Lin Xin was not in the living room before she dared to sneak out and went to the kitchen to see if there was any food. There is nothing to eat.In the first few days, I could still find some leftovers, but later, those leftovers that should have been in the cupboard all appeared in the trash can, together with unnecessary garbage, rolled with rotten leaves, Lying carelessly inside, baring her teeth and claws at her.

Xia Tong looked at the trash can, her dark and bright eyes were filled with tears, as if they were about to fall out when she touched them, but she sniffed, pursed her lips, and told herself vigorously: Be patient, my mother said Must endure.

She will endure it until she grows up, endures until she is promising, and endures until she picks up her mother to live a good life together.

She definitely will.

Mom, mom, wait for me, Xia Tong will grow up soon.

In the evening, Xia Tong would always eat a lot of the meal that Dad came home to eat, and he didn't stop until his stomach hurt.

And Minmin, who is dishonest when it comes to eating, suddenly felt a crisis when he saw Xia Tong's eating method, as if if he didn't eat, the food would be gone, and he started to eat desperately, he didn't want to be picky eaters, and he didn't want his mother Hey, I was breathing heavily while eating with chopsticks.

Fortunately, such days did not last long, and Xia Tong was about to start junior high school.

Originally, her mother sent her to the city just to let her go to school.Xia Tong heard that her mother used many despicable means to force her father to pick her up.She doesn't know what despicable means are, she only knows that her mother can let her study, she no longer has to squat at the door of the house, looking enviously at those children carrying schoolbags to school, she no longer has to cry Begging to go to study.

She knew that the opportunity for her to study did not come easily, and it was bought at the price of leaving her mother. She must study hard so that she can go back to her hometown to pick up her mother when she will be promising in the future.

Unfortunately, things backfired. Although Xia Tong tried his best to be a good student, Xia Tong, who did not have a good foundation in elementary school and had never even taken a single English class, became the bottom one in the class without any surprise.

Every day in class, she always sat upright and listened to the teacher's lectures very hard, but she always couldn't understand. Over time, she would unconsciously be in a daze, and sometimes she would stare blankly at the teacher on the podium, Sometimes I would look at the birds on the treetops outside the window, and sometimes I would use a pencil to black out the words on the book one by one.

When she woke up, she was extremely annoyed, why was she in a daze again!
Holding the report card with a score of ten or twenty, listening to Aunt Lin Xin's sarcasm, and seeing her father's disappointed eyes, Xia Tong became more and more silent.

She always locks herself in a small room, yearning for the life in the country repeatedly. She misses her little cousin, who takes her to climb trees to dig out bird eggs, go down the river to fish for shrimps, and sometimes steal crops. The white radish in the house was covered with a layer of mud when the radish was just pulled out. The little cousin always wiped off the wet mud with his hands, rubbed it vigorously with his hands, and then handed her the cleaned radish.

She took the fresh big radish and bit it with her mouth open. The earthy smell in her mouth was sweet and crisp, and it made a loud crunching sound in her mouth.

She also misses her mother, especially, her tender embrace, her soft voice, and the fact that she always left the best meals for her.

But thinking of her mother always weeping secretly at night, Xia Tong felt so guilty that she wanted to cry.

Why are you so useless?

Why are you so stupid?
Thinking of this, Xia Tong always cried very softly.

At the end of the first year of junior high school, Xia Tong's classmates were all promoted to the second grade, but only Xia Tong was left in the first grade, still staying in that classroom, sitting on that desk and chair.

She became a repeat student.

The repeater that children despise the most!

Xia Tong felt that her world was like a closed theater, silent and dark, and she was the only one standing on the stage alone, not speaking, smiling or crying, living silently like a puppet.

But at this moment, God sent her another ray of light...

She was in the new class and saw the boy, the boy who could play nice music, the boy who was as charming as a little prince.

(End of this chapter)