I miss you by the stars

On the day of the college entrance examination score check, the sun was very strong, and the cicadas on the tree made everyone lazily.

Cao Xuan had a stomachache that day. He didn’t go to school. He just stayed in his room and read old novels.

After all, this is Zhuzhen.

He turned over and continued to lie down and read the novel.His parents went to work in the fields, and he was the only one at home.After reading it for a while, he sighed—the novels were read too fast during this period, and there were no leftovers that he hadn’t read.

He scratched his head and sat up, planning to go out and buy some old novels.

There is nothing difficult about getting out of bed.Because when he was getting ready to go to school in the morning, his stomach hurt badly, but now that he knows that he can read novels at home without going to school, his stomach doesn't seem to hurt anymore.

It's amazing.

He put on shorts and shoes and went out, and bumped into a sneaky figure outside, hiding in a corner.

He screamed: "Who is it? There are thieves!"

The man turned around with a look of embarrassment: "Cao Xuan don't shout, it's me."

Cao Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be Zhou Qi.

He was timid, and he was dizzy from fright just now. How could he be a thief with such a thin and clumsy back.

"Brother Qi, why are you here?" He remembered that today is the day to check the score of the college entrance examination: "Did you do well in the exam?"

"It's okay." Zhou Qi asked him, "Is your sister Xi here?"

"Sister Xi?" Cao Xuan looked quite surprised: "How did you find Sister Xi here? She hasn't been home for a long time."

Zhou Qi asked: "Aren't your parents looking for her?"

Cao Xuan smiled: "Sister Xi is so powerful, they dare not. I am also embarrassed to go to see Sister Xi, after all my parents treat her like that..." He asked Zhou Qi: "Does Sister Xi still live in the billiard hall? How is she? How is she doing?"

Zhou Qi was silent for a moment: "She's gone."

Cao Xuan blinked: "What do you mean by missing?"

"Before I came to your house just now, I asked around the town, and no one has seen Yuxi for many days." Cao Xuan said, "I think she is no longer in Zhuzhen."

Cao Xuan was stunned: "Then where can she go?"

Under the blazing sun in midsummer, two young boys looked at each other in dismay.

******

On the day of the college entrance examination, a small town east of Zhu Town.

A young girl walked by, her back was so weak that she couldn't straighten her back, and her mother and younger sister were probably following her. Her mother was eating a handful of melon seeds, spitting the skin on the ground while eating: "If you don't do well in the exam, you won't do well." Hey, the man I found for you last time was not very good, just marry him."

Yu Xi leaned against a low wall next to her, watching the girl walk by.

This scene reminded her of Zhuzhen, the place where she lived for 18 years.The place she lives in now is very similar to Zhuzhen, it's just as poor, doesn't pay much attention to grades, and doesn't have a 4G network.

The only difference is that this place is more beautiful than Zhuzhen. There is a place that has the opportunity to be developed into a tourist attraction. Some developers have taken a fancy to this place. Right now, houses are being repaired extensively, so there are many construction sites.Maybe in the near future, there will be no poverty here.

After Yu Xi looked at it for a while, a rough voice yelled from behind: "Start work, start work! The lunch break is over!"

She stood up, put a safety helmet on her head, and walked towards the construction site in silence.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a small shop near the construction site.

A middle-aged woman carried a foam box on her back: "Xiaoping, I'm going to sell water."

A girl with a ponytail ran over and snatched the foam box from her mother: "I'll go, I'll go, didn't I say? I'll go from now on."

Her mother was taken aback by her flurry of actions: "You girl hit a ghost? I used to be too lazy to cramp, why are you suddenly so diligent now?"

Xiaoping smiled and said nothing, and left with the suitcase on her back.

******

When walking to the side of the construction site, a girl waved to Xiaoping from a distance: "Xiaoping, you are here."

Xiao Ping ran over with the box on her back: "Xiao Mo."

The two girls each carried a box and walked to the construction site.Xiaoping sells water, and Xiaomo sells steamed stuffed buns and eight-treasure porridge. In the past, there were no small shops like them in this area. The emergence of a large number of construction sites allowed them to have business.

Xiao Mo asked: "Why do you come here every day now? Didn't your mother come here before?"

Xiaoping smiled: "Aren't I not studying now? Help me a little more."

She was in the second year of high school, but it was a pity to drop out of school.But a few days ago, someone came to propose a marriage. Her mother thought the conditions were good, and her grades were really bad, so her mother gave her a refund.

Xiaoping had only seen the man once, objectively speaking he was Zhou Zheng, but she didn't feel anything.

As soon as they walked into the construction site, some workers greeted them familiarly: "It can be counted, and I will wait for you."

It is hot in the mountains, and there is no cooling equipment on the construction site, which makes it even more unbearable. The workers are physically exhausted. After lunch, it will be after three o'clock in the afternoon. Waiting to buy some cooked food and ice water, taking the opportunity to take a break, the foreman also will not scold.

Xiaomo smiled and sold steamed buns and eight-treasure porridge. Where there were many people, she went to where, but Xiaoping was different from her. She walked straight to the corner of the construction site with a box on her back.

"Want water?" She asked with a blushing face.

Yu Xi raised his face and wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded: "Thank you."

She took out a dollar and handed it to Xiaoping.

It's too deliberate for Xiaoping not to accept her money, so she can only reach into the corner of the foam box and pick out a bottle of the coldest water for Yuxi.

Yu Xi took it and thanked her, unscrewed the cap of the bottle and raised her head, gurgling it into her mouth.

It seems very thirsty.

Xiaoping didn't go to others to sell water, so she just hid beside her and watched her secretly.

Looking up, even the line of the jaw is so neat.The skin is white and the neck is slender. When it is raised up, it looks like some kind of fresh and upright plant. As the ice water pours in, the throat moves slightly, and a thin layer of sweat seems to be transparent in the sun.

Xiaoping stared blankly.

I don't know when, there was such a good-looking girl on this construction site, most of them were rough guys, the addition of such a girl was very eye-catching. At first, many people went up to talk to her with wretched faces and asked her where she was. Is there any in-law's family, and do I need someone to take care of me?

But they were all forced back by the coldness on the girl's face.

The girl talked too little, and gradually no one talked to her.However, there are also times when this girl takes the initiative to chat with people. Once there are new workers on the construction site, she will take the initiative to ask, and each time she only asks: "Have you ever seen a very beautiful woman?"

Xiao Ping had heard Yu Xi describe that woman——

The skin is snow-white, the long curly hair, the waist is as soft as a willow branch, and a pair of peach blossom eyes.

Listen, she is really a very beautiful and beautiful woman.

The first time Xiaoping heard Yu Xi say this, she couldn't help but asked beside her, "Is it prettier than you?"

Yuxi glanced at her.

Yu Xi looks so good-looking, she blushes when she sees Xiao Ping.

She thought Yu Xi would ignore her, but she didn't expect Yu Xi to say in a low voice: "Much prettier than me."

Such a tone seemed to be answering her, but also seemed to be muttering to himself.

Like remembering, like missing.

Xiaoping didn't dare to ask any more questions.

She couldn't tell what her feelings for Yu Xi were, she was ignorant, she only knew that she wanted to go to Yu Xi's side every day.In the past, her mother used to come to the construction site to sell water every day, but since she ran into Yu Xi once, she grabbed the foam box and ran to the construction site every day.

This day, she stared at Yu Xi drinking water in a daze, and unexpectedly, Yu Xi suddenly lowered her head and glanced at her.

Startled, she hurriedly lowered her head.

"Hello." Yu Xi's voice was as cold as her pretty face, it took Xiao Ping a long time to realize that Yu Xi was talking to her.

After all, Yu Xi doesn't talk to people very often.

She mustered up the courage to look up at Yu Xi.

Yu Xi asked: "What's your name?"

Xiao Ping whispered: "Xiao Ping."

"Xiao Ping." Yu Xi nodded, and asked calmly, "Do you like me?"

Xiaoping almost dropped the foam box on her back.

Isn't this too straightforward?

Xiao Ping said incoherently: "I, I, I promised my husband's family."

Yu Xi: "That means you don't like me?"

Xiaoping could only nod her head.

"That's good." Yu Xi said: "Otherwise, it would be unlucky to fall in love with someone who will disappear at any time."

The last half of the sentence seemed to be sent by her own feelings, because Xiaoping saw her eyebrows drooping, but unexpectedly, she smiled again.

Xiaoping was stunned.

She has never seen Yu Xi smile, and she believes that no one on this construction site has seen Yu Xi smile except her.

It turned out that Yuxi smiled so beautifully, the glaciers melted and the sun was warm.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiaoping was so curious, she plucked up the courage to ask, "Didn't you say you were unlucky?"

Yu Xi smiled: "It's quite unlucky, but I feel very lucky."

Finally, she concluded to herself: "It's really crazy."

******

After getting off work at night, Yu Xi returned to the rental house.

Her room is shared, a small room with four bunk beds, and the rent shared by each person is staggeringly cheap.

She can earn a little money on the construction site, but she wants to save more, so she chooses such a cheap one.

Now she took a bath and lay down on the bed to rest.The women she shared with her all worked part-time in the shampoo shop, and they haven't returned yet.

The window was opened a crack, and the faint fragrance of flowers in midsummer wafted in.Yu Xi put one hand under her head and the other on her stomach, thinking that the special fragrance on Jiang Yi's body was different from all these floral fragrances.

She had been in this town for almost a week.

Because no one in Zhuzhen knew where Jiang Yi had gone, she made a plan before setting off to find Jiang Yi.

There are not too many nearby villages and towns without 4G that fit Jiang Yi's description, and they are not too few. It would be too costly and time-consuming for her to go to see if there are billiard halls in the area one by one, and it is easy to miss Jiang Yi.

She thought of a way and circled a few towns with relatively better traffic.

Most of the migrant workers around here will pass through these towns.She works part-time at a construction site, one is to save money, and the other is to find someone.

She asked the workers one by one if anyone had seen Jiang Yi.

She didn't have a mobile phone, so she didn't leave any photos of Jiang Yi.As for Jiang Yi's appearance, Yu Xi believes that if anyone has seen it, they will immediately understand that she is talking about Jiang Yi.

However, no.

No one has seen Jiang Yi.

Jiang Yi disappeared like a bubble without leaving a trace.

******

Five days after the college entrance examination, when Zhou Qi started to fill in the application form, when he saw Yu Xi at school, he was almost scared to death.

He forgot to be shy, and rushed up to grab Yu Xi's wrist: "Where have you been? I thought you wouldn't come back to fill out the application."

Yu Xi looked at him lightly, with the same calm face as before.

Those black and white pupils were so clean that Zhou Qi unconsciously let go of his hands and moved his eyes away.

But he asked again: "Where have you been?"

Yu Xi said succinctly: "Part-time job."

"Where are you going to work?" Zhou Qi lowered his head, and saw that Yu Xi's hands were covered with faint red wear marks.

Yu Xi: "The construction site."

Zhou Qi was very surprised: "Why do you, a girl, go to a construction site to work?"

Yu Xi glanced at Zhou Qi: "Why can't women go to work on construction sites?"

She had never found such ideas strange.

Where do these people judge, what should a man do and what should a woman do?

To be honest, even if she put aside the fact that she wanted to find Jiang Yi, she still liked working on a construction site.

The earning is not too little, relying on strength to work, there are not so many twists and turns.

After sweating profusely every day, I also slept well.

It just does need some strength. She grew up in the village, so she is not too weak, which is lucky.

Zhou Qi asked Yu Xi: "How much score did you get in the college entrance examination?"

Yu Xi: "I don't know."

"I don't know?!" Zhou Qi was surprised again: "You don't know how much you scored in the college entrance examination?!"

Yu Xi: "I haven't checked yet."

Zhou Qi: "Why don't you investigate?!"

Yu Xi said calmly: "I think my estimate is about the same."

Zhou Qi: "..."

Well, the woman he likes is a more ruthless person than he thought.

He took Yu Xi to the principal's office to find a landline and asked Yu Xi to check his score.The score was found out, 656, which is only 1 point behind Yu Xi's estimate.

Zhou Qi paused: "Do you know how much our provincial college entrance examination score is?"

Yuxi looked at him.

Zhou Qi: "681."

Yuxi's science scores are surprisingly good, but Chinese and English are a little behind.

When filling out the application form, the classroom was very empty, because very few Zhuzhen could be admitted to university every year.

Zhou Qi filled up his first choice, his second choice and his third choice to the brim. He turned to look at Yuxi's volunteer form, and there was a single "Beihang" in the first choice column.

Zhou Qi was frightened to death by Yu Xi's operation, and felt that Yu Xi was the tightrope walker: "Are you not afraid of any accident?"

Yu Xi looked calm: "No."

Simply handed in the volunteer form.

Zhou Qi confirmed again that this is a ruthless person.

******

When he finished filling out the volunteers and walked outside the school, Zhou Qi said to Yu Xi: "I thought you wouldn't come to fill out the volunteers."

Yu Xi said: "I thought so."

If she can find Jiang Yi, she is really willing to give up this school and go to work to help Jiang Yi pay back the money.

But now, she couldn't find Jiang Yi.

She always felt that in the long run, she had to go to a higher place, and the hope of finding Jiang Yi was greater.

But now, the summer vacation has just begun, and she still has two months to continue looking.

She planned to stay in each of the towns she circled for a week, and asked the most mobile workers on construction sites if they had seen Jiang Yi.

The sun is shining brightly, the summer cicadas are chirping, and the wildflowers on the roadside drop petals with constant arcs on the broken old stone slabs.

Zhu Zhen seems to have been abandoned in the long river of time, and it will not change for decades.

No one knows that her life has been turned upside down this summer.

Will she find Jiang Yi?

******

At the same time, Beicheng.

In the VIP room of the Children's Hospital, the walls are covered with cute rabbits and bears, a warm powder blue tone.

Jiang Yi sat by the bed in a daze, she had been back to Beicheng for a while, and she was here, but she always thought of Zhu Zhen from time to time.

The cramped room, the cracked walls, the dusty curtains, the cobwebs and dusty lamps, all contrast sharply with the exquisiteness in front of you.

And the clothes on her body at this time, light blue, no special design, the fit tailoring and fine dark lines, everything in it shows that the price is not cheap.

The little girl on the bed is quietly playing with puzzles. She is nine years old, and she looks a bit too big lying in such a children's ward, but her soft face is full of childishness and innocence, and it fits the fairy-tale atmosphere very well. Well protected.

It's like living in a vacuum world.

Jiang Yi sat by the bed in a daze, but the little girl raised her head first and called out: "Auntie."

Jiang Yi shuddered and turned his head.

Ye Xingzhou stood there leaning on a silver cane, wearing a black gauze dress with long sleeves and trousers that had never been changed, coupled with her gloomy expression, she seemed out of place in the children's ward.

She nodded slightly, and responded to the little girl: "Duoduo."

Jiang Yi curled up his fingers, and his nails were slightly embedded in the flesh where Ye Xingzhou couldn't see.

Ye Xingzhou noticed that Jiang Yi was looking at her, and Jiang Yi's expression seemed to say, "Why are you here? Aren't you very busy?"

Ye Xingzhou said: "Duoduo is alone, I'll come and see Doduo."

Dodo pulled Jiang Yi and whispered: "No, she didn't come here so often before you came back."

Jiang Yi thought, perhaps Dodo is the only person in the world who is not afraid of Ye Xingzhou.

Ye Xingzhou asked Jiang Yi: "How long have you been sitting here?"

Jiang Yi: "It's been a long time."

Because she returned to Beicheng ahead of schedule, she didn't have much work during this time, so she stayed at the children's hospital every day.

"Then let's go." Ye Xingzhou said, "Accompany me to the garden."

This is the most luxurious children's hospital in Beicheng, famous for having an extremely beautiful garden.

Jiang Yi said: "I will accompany Dodo."

Ye Xingzhou said, "My leg hurts."

Jiang Yi lowered his head and smiled with one corner of his lips curled up.

She was laughing, Ye Xingzhou is really a master of manipulating people's hearts.

Especially good at manipulating her psychology.

"Let's go." She stood up, and the light blue dress hung down her white insteps, the fine material was as soft as a feather.

******

In the garden of the Children's Hospital, Ye Xingzhou walked slowly with a silver cane, and Jiang Yi silently accompanied her.

In fact, even if Ye Xingzhou's leg really hurts, it doesn't make much sense to call Jiang Yilai, because Jiang Yi didn't help her.

It's just that Jiang Yi is here, it seems that Ye Xingzhou's mind is more stable, and Jiang Yi's heart is also better.

The medical expenses of this children's hospital are frighteningly expensive, and it would be an astronomical figure that would be unimaginable to put in a place like Zhuzhen.Therefore, the children's hospital is less crowded, and the garden is quiet when it is the most comfortable time in the afternoon.

Apart from Ye Xingzhou and Jiang Yi, there was only a pair of young parents taking their six or seven-year-old daughter for a walk.

The little girl should be recovering soon, and she is in good spirits. She was bouncing around and eating the lollipop. When she looked towards Jiang Yi, her eyes lit up.

After running two steps in this direction, seeing Ye Xingzhou beside Jiang Yi, he became timid again.

But she hesitated for a while, and in the end she couldn't overcome Jiang Yi's attraction to her. She ran to a place not far from Jiang Yi, and waved to Jiang Yi: "Auntie, can you come over?"

Jiang Yi walked over with a smile.

Ye Xingzhou waited for her on crutches, at a time like this, she was willing to wait.

Because Jiang Yi seldom smiles, except when facing the children.

Qingling's eyebrows became soft because of this smile, a bit like her appearance in front of that person.

Ye Xingzhou looked at Jiang Yi and wanted to soften her gaze, but she found that she couldn't.

After so many years, the gloom has long become a mask on her face, which she cannot take off if she wants to.

She looked at the little girl and said to Jiang Yi: "Auntie, I just want to tell you that you look like a fairy."

Jiang Yi laughed again.

She wore a long light blue dress today, it didn't have any complicated patterns, but the material was extremely soft and expensive, it fit her soft and beautiful figure, and hung down to her white instep.A head of black long straight hair, hanging down like shiny silk satin, hanging on both sides of the shoulders, gently swaying with the breeze in the garden.

Elegant and beautiful.

Ye Xingzhou thought, the fairy in the little girl's mouth should be the goddess in ancient Greek mythology, Jiang Yi can afford such praise, she has such a temperament.

At this moment, the little girl's parents noticed that she was coming to talk to her, and they hurriedly chased after her: "Xiao Ai! Don't disturb her..."

Xiao Ai's mother ran up and looked up, stunned: "Excuse me, are you Jiang Range?"

Jiang Yi smiled and nodded.

"Oh, it's really me, and my temperament is really good." Xiao Ai's mother hugged Xiao Ai: "I'm sorry my daughter disturbed you."

Jiang Yi shook her head: "It's okay, but I have friends waiting for me, so I have to go first."

Xiaoai's mother hurriedly said, "Okay, goodbye."

When Jiang Yi left, he heard Xiao Ai's father lower his voice and say, "The woman waiting for Jiang Range is President Ye, right? Ye Xingzhou..."

Xiao Ai's mother said, "Really? But Ye Xingzhou has never exposed photos..."

"I heard it from people in the circle." Xiaoai's father lowered his voice mysteriously: "It is said that Ye Xingzhou always leans on a silver cane, it must be her..."

Xiaoai's mother: "It seems that the gossip about Jiang Range and Ye Xingzhou is true!"

Afterwards, Jiang Yi walked away and could no longer hear the two whispering.

******

Ye Xingzhou stayed at the children's hospital for a while and then left. She was really busy.

Jiang Yi stayed until the evening. The hospital was well managed and she was not allowed to stay overnight. The luxury car and driver sent by Ye Xingzhou took her to Biyunju.

Jiang Yi was startled when he turned on the light, and exclaimed in a low voice: "Ah!"

Ye Xingzhou was sitting in an armchair, facing the door, holding a silver cane in his hand, his face without sadness or joy was like a statue.

She asked Jiang Yi: "Scared you?"

Jiang Yi stroked her chest: "Why don't you turn on the light?"

Ye Xingzhou said: "Is there any difference whether you can turn on the light or not?"

Jiang Yi sat down opposite Ye Xingzhou, and the two were silent for a moment.

Ye Xingzhou asked, "How is Duo Duo?"

Jiang Yi replied: "It's okay."

"You have to take good care of Dodo."

"know."

Ye Xingzhou seemed to have long been used to this pattern of her asking and Jiang Yi answering, so he didn't say anything.

After a while, he said again: "Let me see, did you change the place for that painting of Yinger, but you didn't change it."

Ye Xingzhou took Jiang Yi's painting for her when she was in Zhuzhen.

Ying You's paintings are now very expensive, and she is also Jiang Yi's favorite painter, but Jiang Yi has no interest now.

"There's no need to change it." Jiang Yi said lightly, "Your position is fine."

"Really?" Ye Xingzhou stood up on crutches: "I have to go first, I still have work to do."

Jiang Yi: "Yes."

Ye Xingzhou really left without any intention of staying longer.

The author says:

Yesterday, a little angel said that Yuxi was like Hachiko, a loyal dog. I laughed to death. After thinking about it for a while, I think Yuxi really looks like Shiba Inu (OK, I know Hachiko is Akita, but don’t you think Yuxi is more like Shiba Inu? ?Yu Xiaochai~=v=

感谢在2022-05-0516:43:58~2022-05-0614:48:24期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 2 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: DetectiveLi 1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Mu Chenyan, the piece in the middle of the watermelon is for you to eat, Kai, and Zhaohai;

Thanks to the little angels of irrigation nutrient solution: 14 bottles of aoi; 2 bottles of pot meat;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!