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Chapter 42 Remember to Say Goodbye (2)
"She... didn't she go with you?" Ju Nian lowered his head and said.

The old man coughed on the bed, Wu Yu didn't bother to answer, and worked for quite a while before grandma's cough subsided.

"Yes, she asked me to go with her. But Ju Nian, you know, I can't go." Wu Yu said lightly.

Ju Nian felt sour: "Because of your grandma's illness?"

"That's one reason. I'm worried that I'm not what she expected, and I don't have the power. Where can I go? I don't even know what to give her. But she is so stubborn." When he mentioned Chen Jiejie, the light brown What is in your eyes?Love?compassion?Or remorse for impulse?
"So she left alone?" Ju Nian's voice trembled imperceptibly.

Wu Yu nodded, with a faint and bitter self-mockery on the corner of her mouth.

"Maybe she's disappointed in me."

Yeah, of course disappointed.But isn't hope something you give yourself, so disappointment is also true.

Ju Nian couldn't imagine what kind of determination Chen Jiejie needed to leave her greenhouse and walk away alone without Wu Yu's promise.She asked herself if she didn't have the courage.

The old man started a new round of coughing, and Ju Nian helped Wu Yu by soothing his chest and smoothing his breath.

When a person is old, he can feel the dilapidation of his body with only his hands.

"How long has grandma been sick? Have you seen a doctor?"

Wu Yu used a towel to wipe away the phlegm stains on grandma's lips.

"I watch it every time. The people in the nearby health center said they had no choice but to send it to a better hospital in the city." He turned his head and smiled at Ju Nian, "Actually, they also said, let me give up."

This is Wu Yu's only relative, and the one who raised him.

That sense of powerlessness also drilled into Ju Nian's heart: "What should I do?" This sentence itself was pale.

Wu Yu was still holding the towel in his hand: "Sell the house." When he said this, it was as indifferent as if he said "the weather is good today".

He has nothing but this broken house.How much can the house sell for?Who will buy it?Can the money exchanged save the old man in his dying years?Even if he survived the disaster by luck, where should he settle down in the future?

These are all problems, and every problem is a mountain, which Ju Nian cannot climb.But if it were her, she would make this only choice.

"Fortunately, someone is willing to bid." Wu Yu told Ju Nian the "good news" in a brisk voice.

"Who?"

"Lin Henggui."

……

Ju Nian seemed to laugh, and the astringency stuck in his throat, with a fishy smell.

"He was the only one who was willing to give money to buy a house. And he gave a lot, 7000 yuan."

"Do you trust him?"

"What can I do if I don't believe it. I will be sent to the hospital tomorrow, and the written documents have been drawn up. He will pay me 8000 yuan first as the hospitalization fee, and the rest will be paid later."

Ju Nian stopped talking, and grandma's cough never stopped. The patient was afraid of the wind, and the room was tightly closed, and she felt out of breath.

"I'm leaving. I have to go to the kindergarten to pick up Wangnian, my brother."

"Okay, I won't take you for a ride, so be careful."

"Ah."

"Year of Orange!"

Ju Nian stood there, and later, he took out something from his pocket, put it in Wu Yu's palm, and closed his fingers.

It was a month's breakfast and pocket money, 50 yuan, that she had just received from her father, and she gave it all to him.

Wu Yu lowered his eyes, his eyelashes were thin and long, like silk rain, covering the barren field.

"Orange year, if my grandma's illness recovers, we will sign up to play the mixed doubles in the middle school students' badminton competition in the city." He seemed to be saying an unattainable vow, feeling disappointed.

"Okay." Ju Nian nodded, her hand rested on the door frame, the decades-old wood was covered with termites, once pinched down, it was riddled with holes.

"Wu Yu, I, I have a request."

Ju Nian turned her head and met Wu Yu's eyes. She had the illusion that he was also listening and waiting.

"If you really regard me as the most important friend, no matter where you are going, who you are with, how far you go, whether you will come back...before you leave, remember to say 'goodbye' to me, okay?"

Wu Yu only needs to say "yes" or "no", nod or shake her head.

But he said, "I swear!"

Is he uneasy too?Forgetting the oath is the weakness he least believes in.

No. 16 days after Chen Jiejie left, an ordinary morning reading time, when the students got used to the vacancy of the seat next to Ju Nian, she walked in with her schoolbag on her back under the gaze of fifty pairs of surprised eyes. In the classroom, the silence was broken.

The peaceful morning reading was filled with whispers. She greeted Ju Nian calmly, read English for a while, and then began to paint her nails. The long-lost smell of paint made the curiosity of the onlookers boil, but she It seems that I just said "goodbye" to everyone after school yesterday.

Chen Jiejie is back, just as she left unexpectedly, and now she is back in her place surprisingly.It seems that the school and the teachers were called in advance, and no one commented on the matter, and no one expressed surprise.

In the afternoon of that day, a notice criticizing Chen Jiejie's absence from class was quietly posted on the corner of the campus bulletin board, and within a few days, it was torn up by someone. This vigorous incident ended in a totally disproportionate silence.

Chen Jiejie was no different from usual. She walked lightly and greeted her familiar classmates with a smile.With her like this, none of her classmates dared to ask her what happened, why she left, and why she came back.Including the year of orange.

However, during a dull evening self-study class, Ju Nian was memorizing the principles of economics, but Chen Jiejie buried her face in the pile of books and said casually: "You are right. He also said that sentence again."

"Huh? What?" Ju Nian was stunned for a while before turning his attention.

"He said: 'I can't take you away'. The tone was exactly the same as yours. You are indeed good friends who grew up together." Chen Jiejie kept laughing after speaking, she lost a lot of weight.

"Why did you come back?" Ju Nian asked awkwardly.

"I thought I was free, but I met a thief in Sanya, leaving nothing of value except a few clothes." Chen Jiejie seemed to be telling a joke that had nothing to do with her, "That's when I realized that I couldn't move an inch. I don’t have the skills to make a living, I can’t endure hardships, and I can’t look at other people’s eyes. It’s like a bird raised on feed. It has wings and can’t fly high. So I wandered around for a day, borrowed a phone to call my mother, and they rushed to catch up with me that night. Come here. My parents dare not say a harsh word to me, they are afraid that my spirit will be stimulated and that I will run away again, so they coax me, the windows and balconies of the house are sealed tightly, haha."

"Why are you bothering?" Ju Nian flicked his pencil aimlessly, "I should have known from the beginning that Wu Yu is different from you."

Chen Jiejie said: "He said he couldn't give me anything... But I don't want anything, I just hope he holds my hand." Speaking of this, she smiled softly, "But it's true, for people like me, don't take it lightly. Promise."

"Do you blame him?"

"What's his fault? He didn't promise to take me with him. At least, at least he didn't lie to me."

Ju Nian wanted to hate Chen Jiejie, and he would feel better if he blamed others for the disappointment and sadness in his heart.But she can't hate it, it's always been like this.Chen Jiejie just had the same dream as her, she fell asleep peacefully and refused to wake up, but Chen Jiejie stepped out of sleepwalking.They unanimously pinned their dreams on Wu Yu, but forgot to think about how he could bear it.

"Why Sanya?" Ju Nian was puzzled.

"Have you ever heard that when you reach the end of the 'ends of the earth' and make a wish, it will surely come true."

"Do you believe that wishes can really come true?"

Chen Jiejie said: "I don't care. The wish has already been made, and I have done what I should do. The rest is God's work." She chuckled and leaned on the desk, "Maybe it is really effective, It's just that people like me and Wu Yu make an exception, and it's not surprising."

As Chen Jiejie said, when she returned home, her parents coaxed her softly, lest she would make another mistake.No matter how the adults interrogated her in various ways, she did not reveal who she was running away for after beating her to death.This matter will be obliterated, and will not be mentioned again.But in her bedroom, there are many iron branches behind the beautiful lace curtains, the money in her hand is also strictly controlled, the mobile phone is politely taken back, and the computer can only be used for study.As long as she appears where there is a phone, there must be someone who pays attention to her.Going to school, leaving school, playing, all under the escort of his own car, he has become a veritable bird in a cage.

Except for Ju Nian, no third person knew that the irrelevant Wu Yu had intervened in Chen Jiejie's life.It was already an extravagant hope for Chen Jiejie to go to Wu Yu as unscrupulously as before, but Ju Nian turned out to be the only connection between them.She silently handed one letter after another into Wu Yu's hands, and brought back Wu Yu's pitifully few words.

Wu Yu said: "Tell her not to be stupid."

Wu Yu said, "Tell her to be good."

Wu Yu said, "I'm sorry."

When Chen Jiejie heard this, she always smiled sweetly, but the letter never broke.

Ju Nian talked less and less in front of the two of them, just acting as a messenger indifferently.

One day, Fang Zhihe, who seldom talked to her, took the initiative to greet her with a Jin Yong novel.

He said: "Xie Ju Nian, do you think Huagumian Palm is powerful?"

Bone-melting palms, internal kung fu, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, continuous and continuous.When I hit the palm, there were flying feathers and cotton wool rushing towards my body, I didn't realize it, but I don't know when it started, every inch of my body was cut off where I couldn't see it.

Not long after, Wu Yu's grandma died on the hospital bed after spending the last of her medical expenses.

When a person dies, he will be liberated, and he will be cured of all diseases, which is also true.

Ju Nian and Wu Yu were catching the last bus and signed up for the mixed doubles in the badminton competition for middle school students in the city.

(End of this chapter)