wild boy

After the funeral, Gu Zinan gradually changed.He will no longer occasionally show a warm and a bit ruffian smile, dull and indifferent to what is happening around him.

Ren Zhou is the most sensitive person to these changes.

"Ah Nan?" He stopped his calculations, frowned, and called Gu Zinan who was resting his chin in a daze beside him.

Gu Zinan lowered her head slowly, her eyes darkened, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry. What did you say?"

The light from the desk lamp hit the side of his face, forming a light shadow, like a light haze covering his face.

Ren Zhou curled his fingers slightly, forced himself to smile and said, "Let's end here today."

He glanced at his watch, it was already almost nine o'clock, and he had to be told by Ren Jie again when he went back.The senior high school entrance examination will be held next year, and Ren Jie is going all out to supervise him.

Gu Zinan gave a low "hmm", and Ren Zhou hurriedly packed up his books.The books and exercise books of the two were placed in a mess on the table, and there was a large stack of books beside him, some of which looked very old.

While sweeping the stationery into his schoolbag in a mess, Ren Zhou asked, "Is this your notebook?"

Gu Zinan had already stood up, took a look and said, "Gu Yucheng's. Clean it up and sell his safes and other valuables."

The debt collection letters were sent to the mailbox one by one, and it was impossible for Gu Zinan to remain indifferent.

He sent Ren Zhou out of the door, looked at the other party's worried smile, closed his eyes, and said, "You don't come here anymore."

Ren Zhou was waving his hand to say goodbye to him, but his eyes widened slightly when he heard this: "Why?"

Gu Zinan leaned against the door frame with a calm expression, the deep winter wind blew past his brows and eyes, leaving only a biting coldness.He said, "Don't worry about it."

Don't worry about it.

These words were still echoing in Ren Zhou's ears when he returned home.What a neat and straightforward refusal, without even giving a reason.

"Finally you know you're back!?" Ren Jie's footsteps came from far to near, interrupting his fluttering train of thought.Seeing Ren Zhou standing foolishly in the porch, she burst into anger, and scolded: "Hurry up and take a shower! You still have to do the paper!"

Ren Zhou agreed with his head down, put down his schoolbag and went upstairs.

After soaking in the hot water, he gradually relaxed, and remembered that Gu Zinan hadn't gone to school for a long time.What should I do to help Ah Nan?He wrinkled his little face, sighed lowly, and put his face on his knees.

In fact, he is not doing well.

Ren Jie and Ren Chengnian began to live apart when he entered junior high school.The quarrel between the two continued to escalate, and the marriage certificate was produced several times to divorce.Ren Chengnian backed down repeatedly, but was finally forced by Ren Jie's coercion and hysteria to the point where he could no longer maintain this fragile relationship.He couldn't take Ren Zhou with him, so he left this empty house alone, and he paid a sum of money every month.

Ren Zhou cried and begged him not to leave.

Ren Jie pulled him hard, saying that if he chose Ren Chengnian, he would die himself.On the day her father left, Ren Jie acted like a madman. She dragged him to accuse Ren Chengnian of being a human being, hugged him and said he was her life, and muttered that men were not good things.Ren Zhou was trembling with fear, so he could only curl up in a corner and cry.He didn't understand how things could deteriorate into this way, Ren Jie became more and more cold and ruthless, and sometimes she looked at him as if she were an enemy, which made him terrified.

She asked Ren Zhou to explain outside that Ren Chengnian was only on a business trip abroad, forcing him to study continuously.

"Snapped!"

The bathroom door was slapped violently, and Ren Zhou raised his head in fright.Behind the blurry frosted glass door, Ren Jie's crimson nightdress is very eye-catching.

"Half an hour!" The woman's voice was shrill.

When Ren Zhou sat at the desk and opened his schoolbag to look for a pen, Ren Jie frowned in disgust: "Did I tell you if you put it in the pencil case? It's dirty and messy!"

Ren Zhou lowered his eyes and fumbled in the bag even more anxiously. Why couldn't he find the pencil?Obviously it was put in there?

Ren Jie grabbed the schoolbag with her hands and threw it on the table.

Suddenly, books, erasers, pencils, and water glasses all slipped out of the schoolbag.

"Here..." Ren Zhou arched his back slightly, holding the pencil in his hand, and said cautiously.

Ren Jie ignored him.

Her gaze fell on the smooth floor—a small object that had just jumped off the table was glowing delicately in the light.

It is a U disk.

Gu Zinan doesn't go to school anymore.

He sold all the valuables at home, including the other houses under the names of Gu Yucheng and Liu Lanyu, and paid off most of the debt.

There is almost nothing in the house except the dining table and bed.The huge villa suddenly became empty, and looking at it, it was a bit ridiculous.

After relying on the only cash to survive for a while, Gu Zinan clearly realized that if he didn't make money, the family would collapse.

He has to take responsibility, and no one can rely on him.

Gu Zinan made a quick decision and went outside to find a part-time job.After all, he was just a student who hadn't graduated from junior high school, bumping into walls everywhere.Later, he first worked in the night shift of express delivery for a while, and found that he had no time to go back to take care of his grandparents, so he found a job moving bricks on the construction site. Did not earn.In the end, I had to work as a cashier in a store. I had less money, but I was able to go home on time and it was stable.

He cut off his studies like this, left early and returned late, and lost contact with Ren Zhou.I heard from grandma that he came a few times later and left at nine o'clock.Gu Zinan didn't respond to that.Let him go, he thought, the more times he gets tired of it.

He missed too many classes, and the school called home.It just so happened that fresh keel came to the supermarket that day, and he cut a large piece to make soup for his grandparents, humming a little song leisurely on the way home.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I got home, my grandma greeted me with tears.

"My dear grandson, why don't you go to school? Grandma Qian will find a way, you need to be educated!" Grandma hunched over, and only two months had passed, but she seemed to have aged ten years all of a sudden.She was crying, while stroking Gu Zinan's finger that was injured by lifting bricks before, "Aren't the two of us really slowing down?"

After hearing this, Gu Zinan bit her lip hard, the teeth smelled like rust. "Grandma!" he said, "I don't have to go to school, I can feed you!"

Grandpa Gu also became angry while sitting on the sofa, and said angrily, "Nonsense! Is going to school a joke? If you don't go to school, how can you get out?!"

Gu Zinan's blood suddenly surged, and his heart was filled with anger. He put down his meat and rushed into the room, throwing all his textbooks and workbooks out.The small pot of cactus on the window sill was also scratched, and it fell precariously, shattering to the ground.

The author says:

Xiao Gu is just a child too TT