"When will you let me go back to Grandpa's house?" Mingshu asked Wen Yue such a question in the next semester of the sixth grade.
It has been more than a year since he transferred to Canshin boarding school and separated from his brother for more than a year. He performed well last semester and achieved excellent grades. Even the head teacher said that he is completely different from when he first arrived, and he has completely integrated into the class.
During the one-month home leave, he and Wen Yue hardly ever quarreled, and Wen Yue even took him to a social dinner.
He has grown taller and is slightly taller than boys of the same age. He looks extravagant and handsome in the dress that Wen Yue prepared for him.
He cooperated with everything Wen Yue asked him to do. When he returned to Wen's house during the Spring Festival, his performance was also very decent - at least he didn't make a farce like last year.
Wen Yue sometimes looked at him with eyes that were not as defensive and vigilant as in the past, and seemed to have a kind of maternal love, although it was very shallow.
What he longed most when he was young was Wen Yue's favor, but now this favor is not worth mentioning to him. He just grew up quickly after experiencing the pain that his peers had never experienced. He didn't plan to waste time struggling. He wanted to use Wen Yue's maternal love to return to his brother as soon as possible.
Hearing this question unexpectedly, Wen Yue was stunned for a moment, the motherly love in her eyes disappeared, and her eyes became cold again, "What are you going back for? Are the teaching resources over there comparable to Canxin?"
Mingshu said, "but I haven't gone back for two vacations. I miss Grandpa."
Wen Yue frowned, her eyes fell on him like a scanning beam.
He said again, "Can I go back during summer vacation?"
He actually didn't need Wen Yue's answer to this question, because he had to go back this summer at the latest. After my brother graduated from high school, he may go to college in another place. If he doesn't go back, he doesn't know when he will be able to see his brother.
Wen Yue showed a coping smile, "Of course you can."
Mingshu nodded and went back to his room.
There is only one month left in this semester, and the atmosphere of graduation in the class is already very strong. The school sends each student a blank classmate record, which they can take to write personal information and blessings to others after DIY.
Although Mingshu is a transfer student, he has become one of the most popular students in this class for more than a year. Many people have asked him to write a classmate record, but his own classmate record has not been given to anyone.
"I really envy you, you can go to study outside in junior high school." The monitor is a round-faced boy, a little dark, and he looks a bit like one of the coals he fought with him in the first grade. While waiting for him to write a classmate record, he He sighed next to him: "I, although my grades are good, I have to study hard for six years and take the college entrance examination. Alas, my life is not good."
Mingshu put down his pen, "Why go outside to read?"
"Hey, you're still pretending! I helped the head teacher to transcribe the information yesterday, and you can see it!"
Mingshu had no idea about going abroad or not, and no one had told him to go abroad, and not long ago, Wen Yue had promised him that he would go back to his grandfather's house during the summer vacation.
"What's the matter with you?" The squad leader shook his hand. "Why are you more surprised than me? Isn't it right, you don't even know?"
Mingshu's face was not very good-looking, and he was trying his best to restrain the shock.
"I know." He didn't want others to see it, so he forced a smile, "But I don't want too many people in my family to know about it, so don't talk about it everywhere."
The squad leader made a zipper action, "Don't worry, write me your best wishes, just write 'I wish you go to junior high school and grow into a handsome guy', hahaha, why are you unhappy? Going abroad is a good thing... "
In order to confirm the class leader's words, Mingshu sneaked into the class teacher's office during the lunch break and found the graduation intention. His name was indeed followed by the four dazzling words "expected to go abroad".
After putting the materials back in their original places and closing the drawer, Mingshu was suddenly surprisingly calm.
The light of early summer came in from the window and shone on his back. His body seemed to have a contradictory chemical reaction. The places he couldn't see were warm, but his chest was so cold that he couldn't help shivering.
At this time, the campus was very quiet. The teachers and classmates were taking a lunch break. He heard his rumbling heartbeat. They were like heavy hammers hitting the drum surface, lifting all the water accumulated on the drum surface this year.
He has been patient, he never thought that Wen Yue and Ming Haofeng had already made up their minds to send him abroad - and in the eyes of others, going abroad seems to be a welcome thing, he does not need to take the high school and college entrance examinations.
But he doesn't accept it.
My brother has taken the high school entrance examination and is about to take the college entrance examination.
Then he can't give up these two exams either.
When he came home for the last time before graduation, Mingshu put the classmate's record on the dining table and asked innocently and politely, "Mom, where do I go to study in junior high school?"
Wen Yue froze, "Experimental middle school, you stay at grandpa's house until mid-August, and we'll go through the admission procedures when you get back."
The experimental middle school was the best middle school in Yancheng. Mingshu looked into Wen Yue's eyes and knew that she was lying to him.
After dinner, he picked up his schoolbag and classmates' records, "Then I'll go back to the house to do my homework."
Wen Yue actually realized that something was wrong with Mingshu, but she subconsciously didn't let herself think too deeply.
The experimental middle school was a pretense. She and Ming Haofeng had already negotiated that when Ming Shu graduated from Canxin Elementary School, he would be sent abroad.
A year and a half ago, she received Mingshu from the Ming family, and she felt that she should fulfill her mother's responsibilities. But now, she was the one who insisted on sending Mingshu away.
She couldn't take it anymore. Even though Mingshu was in boarding school, she felt depressed, she tried to play a qualified mother and brought Mingshu to her social occasions, but she still couldn't adapt.
She shouldn't have given birth to Mingshu.
He came to collect debts from her.
But sending Mingshu back just like that would not do. Mingshu's actions last year frightened him, and once she returned to the compound, she was not sure whether Mingshu would become a lunatic who could hurt people at any time.
Ming Haofeng also did not agree to send Mingshu back.
The result of their discussion was to let Mingshu go abroad. If they can't teach Mingshu, then let Mingshu stay away from them and start over in another environment.
Perhaps, perhaps Mingshu is more suitable for foreign education methods
As for promising to let Mingshu go back to see grandpa, that's impossible. She felt that Mingshu was lying to her, and what Mingshu wanted to see was not the grandparents at all, but the children of the Xiao family.
She doesn't like Mingshu, but she has a twisted possessiveness towards Mingshu, and she feels dissatisfied when she finds Mingshu close to outsiders. Obviously she is Mingshu's mother.
After Mingshu returned to the bedroom, he didn't do his homework. After sitting for a while, he found all the money he had saved.
He clearly knew that if he wanted to escape from this home, there were not many opportunities left, and he couldn't wait until the summer vacation. It was easier to escape from school than from home.
He also can't contact his brother now. My brother will take the college entrance examination soon, and he will be worried when he knows that he runs away from home.
He calmly packed up what he was going to take away—not much, just money, a letter from his brother, the two strings of bracelets he always took with him, and a letter of guarantee written by his brother.
After returning home, Ming Haofeng drove Mingshu to Canxin Primary School, promising to attend the graduation ceremony in half a month.
When he first went to primary school, Mingshu hoped that Ming Haofeng would come to hold a parent-teacher conference for him. Now, when he heard Ming Haofeng say such words, he just smiled obediently.
"Okay, Dad."
Canxin Elementary School is halfway up the mountain and manages the students very strictly, but Mingshu knows a way down the mountain. He must act at night and can be easily spotted during the day.
He calculated the time, and as long as he took the long-distance bus leaving Yancheng before the morning reading, it would be half the battle.
When he finds out that he is missing, the head teacher will contact Ming Haofeng and Wen Yue immediately, but he is already in the car. He has checked the route. As long as he does not take the direct intercity bus between the two places, he will hardly return. home was found before.
He has enough money to "circle" back to the city where he grew up.
On Wednesday, after the evening activity class, students returned to their dorms.
The sixth grade is about to graduate. The teachers relaxed the management of the sixth grade, and let them stay in the classroom for a while to prepare for the graduation ceremony.
Mingshu carried his schoolbag and observed it quietly. When he was about to leave, he heard Fu Ying calling him at the front table, "Mingshu, you want to speak, come and rehearse!"
Mingshu said, "I'm not feeling well today, but tomorrow."
Fu Ying had no doubts, waved his hand and said, "Then go back to bed early!"
Mingshu has actually gained a lot of goodwill at Canxin Primary School. These classmates who were "thrown" by their parents in boarding schools early on, their families are somewhat different from ordinary families, which makes them cherish each other even more.
Before getting out of the hole in the wall on the west side of the campus, Mingshu stopped to look at the lighted teaching building, bowed to it, and said in a low voice, "Goodbye."
The road down the mountain is very difficult to walk. Even if he is mentally prepared, when he is halfway through, there is still a cold fear in his heart. He fell and twisted his foot. It wasn't serious, but it hurt when he continued to walk.
He didn't dare to walk on the winding mountain road, worried that he would be sent back to school by occasionally passing vehicles, so he could only hide in the woods beside the road and go down the mountain with difficulty.
At 4 a.m., he finally descended to the foot of the mountain, which was still some distance away from the long-distance bus station.
There was a taxi at the foot of the mountain, but he didn't dare to take it, so he endured the pain and ran towards the long-distance passenger station.
When a tinge of blue appeared in the sky, he bought the first bus ticket, devoured a pancake and fruit, rushed into the car, sat in the penultimate row, and covered his face with his hat.
The driver, a middle-aged man, looked at him for a long time, "Hey, which kid came to the car so early?"
With a stiff face, he said, "Mom is sick, and I'm rushing back to visit. Uncle, when will the car leave?"
"Yo, filial piety!" The driver happily gave him a piece of bread and a piece of ham.
He huddled in his seat, sweating all over.
He was far less calm than he appeared to be. When the driver spoke to him, he was extremely nervous, for fear that the driver would see something and then notify the police.
Fortunately, the driver believed his words, and when the sun came out completely, the bus was already on the highway, heading in the opposite direction of home.
When Wen Yue learned that Mingshu was gone, it was noon that day.