Zhao's mother's birthday is very close to Zhao Yuan's. In previous years, the Zhao family held it together.
This year should be no exception.
It was a week in advance, and someone from the Evergreen class began to send gifts to Zhao Yuan.
"I voted for you. It is estimated that you will be the school flower again this year. Happy birthday in advance."
Zhao Yuan was surrounded by a group of people, and smiled politely: "Thank you."
E Xiaoxia watched from a distance and handed over the gift uneasy. Zhao Yuan glanced at her and didn't answer.
The two are still deadlocked over the allergy.
Someone voted for Zhao Yuan, and he swiped his finger down, and he saw Zhao Mingxi, who was at the bottom of the voting page.
Someone said in shock: "Why is there still a mask-wearing finalist? What about the moderator who reviewed it? Is this year's school flower selection a fun thing?"
Zhao Yuan's complexion changed slightly, and she also turned on her phone and glanced at it.
Zhao Mingxi really magically ranked 20th.
Someone next to him said, "Is it Zhao Mingxi? I haven't seen it, but I have heard of a girl who has been chasing Shen Liyao. I heard that she looks very ordinary. Maybe someone will vote for her with a curiosity."
Seeing that Zhao Yuan turned away, E Xiaoxia kept frowning and swiping at her phone, unable to figure out her psychology.
But he still leaned in and whispered: "Yuanyuan, don't worry, those people just cast their curiosity and want to know what Zhao Mingxi looks like under the mask before voting for her. She only has more than 500 votes now, your three More than a thousand votes beat her, but she can't rush up."
"What's more, if you rush to the front row, you will be embarrassed at that time. You think, after the selection is over, people in the school who don't know her think she is very beautiful - but when the mask is taken off, wow, I am so disappointed."
E Xiaoxia thought that she could ease the relationship with Zhao Yuan after saying this, but who knew that Zhao Yuan heard her words, but she still didn't say a word, her face became even more ugly, and she didn't seem to be relieved.
E Xiaoxia was about to speak again, but the phone of another friend of Zhao Yuan, Pu Shuang, vibrated.
"Hey, it was sent by Zhao Yuning." Pu Shuang said in surprise.
[Sister Pu Shuang, you girls are angry, what gifts do you usually get to calm down? ps, don't tell Sister Yuan. 】
When Zhao Yuan happened to be by her side, she glanced at Zhao Yuan: "Your brother is too kind to you, isn't he planning to secretly prepare a birthday present for you? And let me not tell you!"
Zhao Yuan twitched the corners of her mouth and her face softened.
Zhao Yuning probably also wanted to apologize for yelling at her unconsciously on the playground that day.
However, Zhao Yuan was a little surprised. Zhao Yuning has always been straight, but today he is beating around the bush.
Pu Shuang asked: "Quick, what do you want to receive for your birthday, how can I reply?"
Zhao Yuan thought for a while and said, "I don't lack anything, you can let him give it away."
Pu Shuang then replied: "Send whatever you want, but Sister Shuang suggests you buy a life-size teddy bear doll."
There was no more text messages over there, E Xiaoxia, Pu Shuang and all the girls around were envious: "If only I had such a younger brother."
Zhao Yuan smiled, feeling much better, stood up and packed her schoolbag and said, "My eldest brother is coming to pick me up, see you next week."
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Zhao Yuning was dragging two buddies around the mall.
In the last class in the afternoon, he took a leave of absence and came out to buy some gifts for Zhao Mingxi.
This week, I don't know if Zhao Mingxi was avoiding it on purpose, or if the teaching building of Senior One was too far away from Senior Three, he actually never saw Zhao Mingxi in the school again.
Of course, he didn't go home and convey to his family the angry words that Zhao Mingxi wanted to completely draw a line.
He thought, this weekend, the eldest brother is going to take Zhao Mingxi back in person. It is impossible for Zhao Mingxi to be angry with the eldest brother and not go home.
So if he said it, it would be a bad thing.
But even if he didn't convey it, the atmosphere at home was visibly bad.
When Zhao Mingxi didn't go home, the house was deserted a lot in an instant, not to mention that he couldn't eat the delicious dishes made by Zhao Mingxi, and even if he wanted to bicker, he couldn't find anyone.
Zhao Yuan and Zhao Mingxi have very different personalities.
Zhao Yuan is generous, learns piano and etiquette, and can't pick the wrong one. Although Zhao Yuning likes and spoils Zhao Yuan's sister very much, he thinks that he can't lack Zhao Mingxi, who is very eloquent - only Zhao Mingxi will play when he stays up all night. During the game, grabbed his ears and pushed him onto the bed.
Even if Zhao Yuning didn't want to admit it, he had to say that this week, his heart was really empty.
Although he was a little bit complaining about how Zhao Mingxi made a fuss with his family over this trivial matter, the key was that he ignored it.
But after Zhao Mingxi said that in the classroom downstairs that day, he also reflected on himself and the rest of the family.
I feel that they are indeed wronged by Zhao Mingxi.
So he thought, buy a gift first, and after the elder brother persuaded Mingxi to go home today, he quietly slipped into Mingxi's room and gave her the gift.
But when he really wanted to give a gift, Zhao Yuning found that he knew nothing about Zhao Mingxi's preferences.
It was only on his birthday last year that he found out that for two years, he only gave her a game card that he had played on Zhao Mingxi's birthday.
Zhao Yuning felt inexplicably uncomfortable, and there was a panic that it was too late, but he tried his best to suppress this strange feeling.
No, there is no conflict in the family.
After wandering around the mall for more than an hour, Zhao Yuning still followed Pu Shuang's suggestion and bought Zhao Mingxi a huge life-size teddy bear about 1.7 meters.
After buying it, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt that it was almost done. Zhao Mingxi should be very surprised when he received it.
Because it was too big to bring back directly, he asked the salesman to express it back.
When filling in the address, he thought for a while, and filled in his home, which Zhao Mingxi received.
Anyway, the big brother will go out and bring Zhao Mingxi home today.
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As soon as Zhao Yuning returned to school from the shopping mall, he received a call from Zhao Zhanhuai. He hurriedly ran to the school gate with his schoolbag: "Big brother."
Zhao Zhanhuai got out of the car with the car key, rolled up the cuffs of his white shirt, frowned and walked straight to the school: "Where is Mingxi's class? You lead the way.
"Big brother, you're finally here." Zhao Yuning was a little excited. Big brother came to pick him up in person. Zhao Mingxi wouldn't make big brother speechless like he did that day.
He hurriedly followed behind Zhao Zhanhuai: "Over there, it's the same building as Zhao Yuan, but not on the same floor."
Zhao Zhan got pregnant on the fifth floor and walked towards the international class.
He didn't know Mingxi's class position before and after the class transfer, he only knew which class Zhao Yuan was in.
In the past, on weekends like this, Zhao Zhanhuai would drive to the school and pick Zhao Yuan home in person.
His feelings for Zhao Yuan have not deteriorated at this time, but since Zhao Yuan changed from a biological sister to a foreigner with no blood relationship two years ago, Zhao Zhanhuai has a hazy pity for her.
He was afraid that she would be uncomfortable in this home, and that she would be bullied by Mingxi, who had a stronger personality, so Zhao Zhanhuai took more care of Zhao Yuan than the previous fifteen years.
Coming to pick up Zhao Yuan in person is also a small customary habit between him and Zhao Yuan, so that Zhao Yuan can feel his preference and tell her by her behavior that she is still very important in this family.
As for Zhao Yuning and Zhao Mingxi, they have generally been picked up and dropped off by the Zhao family's driver in the past two years.
Zhao Zhanhuai didn't think there was anything wrong, anyway, Yuning would also be with Mingxi. The two were about the same age, so maybe they could help Mingxi integrate into the family faster.
But this week, probably out of guilt for the last incident, Zhao Zhanhuai's attention clearly fell a little more on Mingxi.
Mingxi didn't come back for a whole week and a half.
Not only did Mingxi not reply to his apology text message, but he and the rest of the family called afterward, but they were all blocked.
Even the phone number of the aunt who has been cooking at Zhao's house was blacklisted by Mingxi.
Mingxi is completely in a posture that he wants to completely draw a clear line with them.
Zhao's mother had a headache at home and shouted that since Zhao Mingxi didn't come back, she would never want to come back in the future. But Zhao's mother is just a knife and a tofu heart, it is impossible to really prevent Mingxi from coming back.
Zhao Zhanhuai had to make a trip in person.
As an elder brother, he plans to take Mingxi out for a hot pot meal this weekend to calm her down. Then find a suitable opportunity to bring her home.
The international class was dismissed very early, and people had already left.
Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning are both quite handsome, and there are always girls looking at them along the way.
Someone came over and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Zhao Zhanhuai said, "I'm the parent of Zhao Mingxi in the international class, is she there?"
"She went to the office to submit the application form for the Hundred Schools League."
Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning looked at each other and were a little surprised. They knew about the 100-school league. With Mingxi's achievements, do they want to apply? Not to mention that the application conditions are so strict, each school has a limited number of places, and you can't apply for it - even if you apply, you can only be the first batch to be eliminated and unable to enter the finals.
Zhao Zhanhuai said to Zhao Yuning: "But it's good to have this idea of progress. It's not easy for Mingxi to come from the town to study."
Zhao Yuning nodded.
The two then walked towards the office.
Mingxi came out just after handing in the application form, and as soon as she looked up, she met Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning who had come to pick her up.
"Mingxi." Zhao Zhanhuai came over, his eyes fell on Mingxi, and he disappeared for a week and a half, which was beyond his expectations. Mingxi didn't seem to be in the mood of fighting with her family - her eyes were not red, nor was she thin, even The hair looks more lustrous and the eyes are much clearer.
Zhao Zhanhuai was a little surprised, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something.
As a result, before he could speak, Mingxi frowned.
"Why are you here again?"
Mingxi's lukewarm words choked Zhao Zhanhuai.
Zhao Zhanhuai thought that when Mingxi saw him, there would be a kind of grievance of "how did he come", but he never expected such a look of disgust.
He stabilized his mentality, decided not to care about the children, and continued: "Are you going back to the classroom? If you don't, let's walk and talk, I'll take you to eat hot pot."
Mingxi said, "That's what Zhao Yuan likes to eat. I don't like hot pot."
"Then eat something else." Zhao Zhanhuai is also patiently trying to please: "Also, next week, for the birthdays of mother and Yuanyuan, you must go home before that. Stop being petty, Mingxi."
Mingxi glanced at Zhao Yuning: "It seems that you didn't convey my words."
Zhao Zhanhuai also looked at Zhao Yuning behind him: "What?"
Zhao Yuning's face suddenly looked a little ugly. He thought that Mingxi's attitude would loosen when his elder brother came, but why is it still like this? Or so hard on them
Mingxi suddenly took off the schoolbag behind him, and took out a thin photo from it.
Zhao Zhanhuai remembered that when Mingxi first came to Zhao's house two years ago, the family gave her a family photo. She rinsed two, one framed and placed by the bedside, and the other in her schoolbag.
The one on the head of the bed, he went to see it this morning and was not taken away.
And this one-
"The photos must be kept well, what are you doing with them?" Zhao Zhanhuai stared at Zhao Mingxi, only to realize that Mingxi was a little abnormal.
Mingxi walked over and handed the photo to Zhao Zhanhuai.
Zhao Zhanhuai frowned.
So Mingxi had to knead it into a ball and threw it into the trash can next to it.
When she did this, it was like throwing out the trash without raising her eyelids.
Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning were both stunned and looked at Zhao Mingxi in astonishment.
Mingxi groped for the schoolbag again, glanced at it, and after confirming it carefully, he said, "Apart from this photo, I shouldn't have anything else from your family on me. The schoolbag and clothes I brought out are all two years old. I brought it before I came."
Zhao Zhanhuai frowned: "What do you mean?"
"It means that I don't have anything from the Zhao family. Please don't come to me. I have already told Zhao Yuning about the other things."
No matter how gentle Zhao Zhanhuai is, he will be angry. He glanced at the trash can full of peels, and his voice was very low: "You just crumpled up the photos of the whole family and threw them into the trash?! In your eyes, we What is a family?"
Mingxi looked at him with strange eyes: "Isn't it just a photocopy, as for?"
"… "
Zhao Zhanhuai suddenly felt that these words seemed familiar, and he suddenly remembered that Mingxi had just come to Zhao's house, and he had several copied photos of the town where she used to live and her grandmother.
Mingxi was only willing to take out one for them to see. After they read it, they didn't know whether it fell into the hands of Zhao Yuan or Zhao Yuning. They forgot to return it to Mingxi, and then disappeared.
At that time, Mingxi cried and quarreled with them for the first time.
They also said this: "Isn't it just a photocopy, you still have many, as for?"
Zhao Zhanhuai's face was blue, but his heart was stabbed, and he was speechless.
He looked at Zhao Mingxi, and Mingxi had turned around and went downstairs.
At this moment, Zhao Zhanhuai and Zhao Yuning only discovered why they just saw Mingxi in the corridor for the first time and felt that something was wrong.
Mingxi changed his schoolbag.
What she brought out was her own schoolbag that her grandmother had bought her before.
Mingxi also changed his hair accessories.
Her ponytail was replaced by an ordinary black rubber band.
Zhao's mother was in a good mood. She bought it when she took her shopping, but she didn't bring it out of Zhao's house.
And on her schoolbag, the bear pendant that Zhao Zhanhuai gave her and was treasured by her in the past is gone.