In Tokyo, there is a music girl training system

"Yes, I came back to see my parents."

"Then it's time for you to come back. The road up the mountain has just been repaired. It only takes half a day to go up the mountain now."

"It only takes half a day. That's great."

Hearing that it would only take half a day to go up the mountain, Lu Yu smiled. Half a day, that’s great. In the past, it would take a whole day to climb the mountain. At that time, he lived in the mountains.

"So many people died because of the mudslide, so the road must be repaired."

"Yes, there are so many people coming back to see their families, so we have to repair the road. Uncle Chen, I'll go up first."

"Okay, okay, let's go. Remember to come down before dark. I'll make you something delicious."

"No need, Uncle Chen. I'm going to live upstairs. Just put it this way for now. I'm leaving now."

After saying goodbye to the old man, Lu Yu walked towards a small path carrying his big backpack...

What Lu Yu didn't know was that half an hour later, a new group of guests came to the town and stood where he had just been.

Standing at the foot of the mountain, Bai Lian, also carrying a large backpack, looked at the four people who had similar equipment as her: "Are you ready? Climbing a mountain is very hard. My brother's hometown is far up the mountain. You spoiled ones may not be able to climb up."

After hearing Bai Lian's words, the four of them looked at each other. They had already come here and were only one step away from uncovering Lu Yu's secret. How could they not go up?

"Let's go. No matter how difficult the mountain road here is, we will persist in climbing up!"

(PS: The story about Karen and the protagonist's life story has been determined long ago. Some people may not like this story, but not writing it will affect the subsequent development, so it must be written. I will also talk about it here. If you like it, just read it. If you don't like it, just skip it. This story will end in about 2-3 chapters. At that time, the protagonist will return to Tokyo and start the next story. As for what the next story is, Meow Dream, Hen Card, and a big fight!)

Volume 4: Chapter Three Leave Requests (K)

"Well, it's hard to walk..."

On a rugged mountain path, a group of five girls were climbing up the mountain, two in front and three behind. Although the mountain path was a bit narrow, it was not steep. In winter, when the temperature was not very high, the girls' physical strength required for climbing was reduced a lot.

"Your name is Goto Ichiri, right? Would you like some water?"

Looking back at the breathless Goto Ichiri behind her, Hoshino Ai took out a batch of mineral water from the compartment of her backpack and handed it to Goto Ichiri. It had been two hours since they climbed up the mountain. During these two hours, Goto Ichiri had drunk three large bottles of water. She had already finished the water she brought with her, but even so, it was still not enough.

"Aligato, Miss Ai."

After taking the water handed to her by Hoshino Ai, Goto Ichiri immediately unscrewed the bottle cap and took a big sip. Climbing a mountain is really too difficult for her who stays at home.

"Xiangzi, do you want it?"

After giving the bottle of water she brought to Goto Ichiri, Hoshino Ai looked at Toyokawa Shoko, who behaved in a similar way to Goto Ichiri.

Among the five people in the group, the one with the best physical fitness is naturally Bai Lian. Bai Lian is a real sports girl, and climbing is nothing to her. Apart from Bai Lian, the second best is Hoshino Ai. After all, she is an idol and she usually practices dancing for several hours, so she can make do.

As for the three people behind Hoshino Ai, they are basically the same kind of people.

Chihaya Aine, Goto Ichiri, and Toyokawa Shoko, the physical fitness of these three people is basically at a failing level. Not to mention climbing a mountain, even a short run will make them breathless.

"I...I don't need it. I have enough."

"What about you? I remember your name is Chihaya Aine?"

Hoshino Ai looked at Chihaya Aine: "Do you want some water?"

"I don't need it for now, thank you."

Although they are all the same kind of people, it is obvious that the Caikun are also divided into different levels. Among the three people ranked at the back, Chihaya Aine is in much better condition than Goto Ichiri.

After asking everyone, Hoshino Ai looked at Araragi Karen who was walking on the same pace with her, no, it should be said that it was Bai Ren.

"Bai Lian, how far is it to the destination?"

"There is still half the distance to go." Bai Lian stopped, turned around and answered calmly.

"There's still halfway left... I think they may not be able to hold on any longer. Half the journey takes about two hours. How about we take a break?" Glancing at the Caikun trio behind her, Hoshino Ai suggested taking a break.

"it is good."

Bai Lian nodded. She also noticed the situation of the three girls behind her. But to be honest, she was a little surprised by their performance. They were obviously exhausted and sweating profusely, but they still didn't say they wanted to stop.

"Rest here for a while."

While speaking, Bai Lian took out a plastic bag from her backpack, opened the bag, took out some food from it and distributed it to the four people.

There was a wide variety of food, including eggs, oatmeal, chocolate, some beef jerky and bread.

"Eat something, everyone."

"Thank you."

Except for Bai Lian, everyone else was climbing a mountain for the first time. Although each of them had picked out some food in the supermarket according to Bai Lian's instructions before coming, compared to the food that Bai Lian brought specifically for replenishing energy for climbing, the others' preparations were obviously insufficient.

After distributing the food to everyone, Bai Lian found a clean stone and sat down to rest.

"Bai Lian-chan, don't you want to eat?"

"I don't need it." Bai Lian shook her head: "Climbing mountains is a common thing for me."

In the past few years, she had come here secretly many times. She had climbed this mountain at least eight times, so she knew very well that she didn't need to.

Just when everyone was taking a break, Goto Ichiri suddenly asked, "Hey, Bai Lian-chan, can you tell us how you met Producer-san? You said he was your family's adopted son, so what did Producer-san experience before he came to your house?"

"..."

Bai Lian's face turned pale when she heard Goto Ichiri's question, but she quickly recovered: "Yes, now that we are here, I should talk to you. I wonder where to start..."

"Shall we start with me and my brother?"

As she spoke, Bai Lian suddenly took out her wallet from her backpack. Then, in front of everyone, Bai Lian took out three old, crumpled pieces of paper from a zippered compartment in her wallet.

"Look at this, be careful not to break it."

Bai Lian carefully handed the three yellowed papers to Goto Ichiri.

"this is?"

"Open it and you'll know."

So, Goto Ichiri gently handed the three yellowed pieces of paper stacked together to everyone. After opening them, Goto Ichiri saw that each piece of paper had a title and a long paragraph in Chinese written on it.

"If you don't understand Chinese, just use your phone to translate it. My brother's handwriting has been very neat since he was a child, and the software can easily recognize it."

Knowing that Goto Ichiri couldn't understand, Bai Lian kindly reminded her.

"Oh."

Just as Goto Ichiri agreed, the anxious Hoshino Ai had already come up to Goto Ichiri and pointed her mobile phone camera at the top piece of paper, and then Hoshino Ai read out the translated content.

"written request for leave?"

"Hello, Dean. I am Lu Yu from Class 3, Grade 1. I am very sorry to bother you during your busy schedule. I am writing this note to you hoping that you can approve my leave. The reason for my leave is..."

After reading this, Hoshino Ai's pupils suddenly trembled.

"What's the reason?" Toyokawa Shoko asked.

Hoshino Ai's voice trembled a little: "The reason is... someone in the family passed away..."

"!!!"

After hearing the words "someone passed away", Toyokawa Shoko immediately looked at Bai Lian. Before Toyokawa Shoko could say anything, Bai Lian spoke first: "This is only the first one, take a look at the end."

Under everyone's gaze, Goto Ichiri put the first piece of paper last, and then everyone looked at the second one.

"This one... is still a request for leave."

Looking at the translated content on the mobile phone, Hoshino Ai's body began to tremble. The content of this leave application was almost exactly the same as the first one. Although the wording was different, the meaning was also that a parent had passed away so she was asking for leave.

"..."

As if she understood something, Hoshino Ai took the third piece of paper from Goto Ichiri and put it in her own hand. The next second, as the content of the third piece of paper was translated by her mobile phone, Hoshino Ai was completely stunned.

This third one is also a leave application, and the content is the same as the previous two.

"Hoshino Ai?"

Without responding to Toyokawa Shoko, Hoshino Ai stared at Bai Lian intently: "What on earth is this?"

"My brother has three leave notes. The first one is from his sister, the second one is from his mother, and the third one is from his father..."

"!"

"You know, my brother is a very disciplined person. He has only asked for leave three times since he was a child. Apart from these three times, he has never missed a class, not even because of illness or anything else."

As he spoke, Bai Lian looked at the paper in Hoshino Ai's hand and fell into memories.

In fact, when she first came to this world, Bai Lian did not accept what the system said, because although the system said that it would give her the brother she wanted, Bai Lian did not know that brother, and if she did not know him, she had no good impression of him, so naturally she could not accept it.

At the beginning, Bai Lian absolutely did not approve of Lu Yu.

Because when the system introduced Lu Yu to her, they were students in the same school. Her school was an integrated elementary, junior high and high school, so Bai Lian had seen Lu Yu a long time ago.

In Bai Lian's eyes at that time, Lu Yu was by no means a perfect brother.

Bai Lian had inquired about Lu Yu's situation. He was a child from a mountain village. His family was very poor and he was admitted to this school because of his good grades.

Good grades are one of Lu Yu's advantages, but good grades were also the only advantage of Lu Yu in Bai Lian's eyes at that time.

He dresses in a rustic way, only cares about studying at school, has no reputation, and apart from his good academic performance, there is nothing attractive about him.

Is this the so-called perfect brother that the system recommended to me?

Bai Lian felt a little regretful at that time.

Lu Yu was completely different from what she had imagined. What she longed for was a man who was well-educated, omnipotent, kind to others and perfect in every way. However, Lu Yu did not meet her requirements at all.

But that was just the beginning.

When did I start to recognize Lu Yu?

Probably, it started from one day when Bai Lian was having dinner at home and heard from her mother who was working at a school at the time that a teenager had written three leave notes.

It was at noon one day in a luxurious mansion. Bai Lian had just returned home and was eating with her parents normally. Then she heard her mother talking about someone.

A student who was specially recruited into the school because of his good academic performance since elementary school, a student who insisted on going to school even when he was sick and said that he must study hard to repay his parents, wrote three leave notes in a row during a certain period of time.

The first photo is of his younger sister who lived far away in the mountains. She died after she slipped and fell into a deep pool while walking on the mountain road and drowned.

According to his mother, when he heard the news, his sister had passed away for more than a week. Perhaps because they did not want to disturb him, his parents did not tell him the news. He learned the news from other places a week later. Then, he wrote this leave note and asked for this first leave from school.

That time he took three days off. After three days, he returned to school. There was no sign of anything on his face when he returned, but from the day he came back, his already full schoolbag had become a little bigger.

The second leave application was written two months later. His mother passed away due to illness. It turned out that his mother had been ill for a long time, and coupled with the pain of losing her daughter, she passed away after only two months. So he wrote the second leave application.

His father was handling the funeral, and the young boy was learning from his father. This time, the leave was for half a month, and as the eldest son and a child, he had to wear mourning clothes.

Half a month later, he returned to school again, but this time, his face was no longer calm. His classmates could see his pain, but no one could help him.

Then came the third leave application. About a month after the second leave application, the boy wrote his third leave application. This time, the reason he wrote for his leave was "to arrange a funeral."

No one knows what kind of mood a first-grade boy was in when he wrote the four words "arrange a funeral". All we know is that a mudslide broke out in his hometown, and the entire village was submerged. Most of the people living in the village in the mountains died, and less than 20% of them survived. Unfortunately, his father, his only relative was not among them.

In just one month, he returned to the village again. Last time, he followed his father to watch his parents learn how to organize his mother's funeral, but this time it was his turn to organize his father's funeral personally.

Three leave requests, three family members, and a young man used three leave requests to walk a path that others may never walk in their entire lives.

When hearing this, Bai Lian was stunned.

In fact, in school, except for Lu Yu, a special recruit, no one would write a note when asking for leave, because everyone knows that asking for leave only requires saying hello. But only Lu Yu would write it, he is that kind of person.

So, from that day on, Bai Lian began to pay attention to Lu Yu. From that day on, Bai Lian discovered that Lu Yu was not the country boy as she had seen.

Bai Lian asked her mother for Lu Yu's three leave applications. Looking at the traces on the application forms and the neat and beautiful handwriting, Bai Lian felt empty in her heart. If it were her, could she accept all this?

Next, Bai Lian began to slowly inquire about Lu Yu. She began to gradually understand Lu Yu, and then she realized how much Lu Yu had paid to come to this school. All his efforts were for his family in the mountains, so that his younger sister could go to school in the future, and for his parents to live a good life. He was not ugly, but he didn't dress up. He spent all his time studying.

That person really was the perfect brother just as the system said, but his perfection did not belong to her.

"Bai Lian, I have good news for you. Do you remember the person I told you about when we were having dinner? He was the boy from the same school as you, the one named Lu Yu."

One night, her mother called her into her room.

"Your father and I have decided to adopt him into our family, so starting tomorrow you'll have a brother!"

At this moment, Bai Lian looked at her mother and father. What she saw on her parents' faces was not love for their new family, but some other emotion, that emotion was called - greed.

That’s how it turns out…

The story of a boy named Lu Yu spread throughout the campus. Loyalty, filial piety, honesty, and perseverance, the boy possessed almost all the good qualities. Coincidentally, the Bai family just needed such a person to assist the girl named Bai Lian.

So the boy was chosen.

From that day on, Bai Lian had an older brother named Lu Yu.