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Lu Youxi thought that he had already forgotten some things that happened in the past two years.The arrival of this text message seemed to shatter all the illusions, making him completely lose the mind to think about other things.He stared at the text message, calmed down and made the final calculation silently. This was the first time Lu Minling had contacted him in three months.

When Lu Minling first went to the countryside, she would still contact him from time to time, but later on, Lu Youxi felt that the back and forth conversations every time made people a little impatient, so she gradually began to learn not to answer.Lu Minling was also sensitive to Lu Youxi's attitude, and gradually reduced her phone calls as much as possible, and even from the summer vacation to the beginning of school, there was only such a six-character text message.

Lu Youxi followed his mother's surname, because strictly speaking, he did not have a father who could give him a surname.

In his words, Lu Minling is a person who is really not popular with men.The first one was his biological father, who disappeared before he was born and never appeared after his birth, and the second one was his stepfather whose debt was being collected.

His stepfather was actually not bad, at least until he graduated from junior high school, his stepfather was honestly doing simple jobs in a small company, with a fixed salary that he didn't care about.Both stepfather and mother are mild-tempered, and even quarrels have never occurred.Lu Youxi also lived up to his expectations, and got into a key middle school by relying on his own results.Although the family is not rich, it can be regarded as the object of frequent boasting among neighbors.

Until Lu Youxi was about to enter the first year of high school, the always honest stepfather met a group of people somewhere, and started playing gambling machines.Generally speaking, people's hearts are greedy. If there is an opportunity to make a fortune in one fell swoop, who would like to be so ordinary and be so willing.He who just came into contact with those things is like a lucky one chosen by heaven. He will win every bet, so he has self-confidence, and gradually the more he plays, the bigger he is.

And when the creditor came to him suddenly, he hadn't been home for two or three months.

Lu Minling was stimulated and fell ill in an instant. The family's financial resources could not support him to see a doctor in a big hospital, and the debt collection situation intensified. She had no choice but to move to a relative's house in the countryside.Before leaving, she asked Lu Youxi if she wanted to go together, but Lu Youxi agreed after thinking about it.But when he got there and confirmed with his relatives, they told Lu Minling that only one person could be accepted in front of him.

Not long after entering high school, Lu Youxi returned to Jiangcheng from the countryside with a bag on his back, and lived here alone.

However, fortunately, not long after that, Lu Youxi met Si Jin.

When the school bell rang, Gu Cheng'an clearly saw Lu Youxi with a rather bad face when he turned around. He patted his arm unexpectedly and asked, "What's wrong?"

Only then did Lu Youxi recover from his memories, took a deep breath, and recovered the expression on his face. He quickly packed up his schoolbag, and whispered back to others: "It's okay, let's go? Go today Can you do that?"

Gu Chengan was taken aback when he heard the words, and he didn't expect him to ask for it, but he nodded and replied: "Yes, yes."

Lu Youxi smiled and got up, this unexpected text message made him really not want to go back and face the empty house.

The two originally planned to cook something to eat, but after leaving the school gate, Gu Chengan saw the appearance of casserole noodles, and inexplicably became addicted, and went inside regardless of what Lu Youxi thought.

But this casserole noodle shop is far from the previous one next to Lu Youxi's house. The same pot and the same noodle taste different levels.Gu Cheng'an didn't eat half of it, so he put down his chopsticks in a dull manner.

On the contrary, Lu Youxi, who was brought innocently, silently added a few spoonfuls of chili, which almost completely covered the original taste, and forcefully finished the whole bowl.

Probably he showed that he really needs some external stimulation to balance his mood.

Gu Cheng'an was somewhat curious, but whenever he turned his head and saw Lu Youxi's almost normal expression, he didn't know what to ask.

As soon as the two arrived home, Lu Youxi walked into his bedroom naturally, took off his coat and then raised his head and asked, "Can I take a shower first?"

Gu Chengan nodded, and kindly helped him get a suit of clothes.

Hot water dripped down her hair, Lu Youxi just stood there quietly and let the water hit the top of her head, as if she wanted to figure everything out by doing this.

After washing and coming out, Lu Youxi wanted to check the time, but picked up the phone only to find that it was out of battery.He had no choice but to go to the side of the living room and plug in the phone. The process of turning on the phone was extremely slow, and the screen stayed there for a while before the light came on.And when the phone was turned on, two more text messages popped up, still with the same content, from the same person.

Lu Youxi's expression collapsed in an instant, and a faint feeling of irritability immediately wrapped around her upper body.

He sat on the sofa with his legs curled up, and after thinking for a while, he decided to call back and forget it, and then he confessed to Gu Chengan: "I'll go to the bedroom and make a phone call."

Gu Cheng'an let out a "huh" and continued to watch TV pretending not to care.

After entering the inner room, Lu Youxi took the phone and dialed it back without much hesitation, the phone beeped twice, and he called out: "Mom."

The person opposite spoke in a hurry: "Xiao Xi, how are you doing recently?"

Lu Youxi lay flat on one side of the bed, looked up at the ceiling, paused for two seconds, and then replied: "It's okay, how about you?"

After hearing the reply, Lu Minling slowed down her speech, and said in a very soft voice: "I'm fine, the air in the countryside is good, it seems to be much better than before."

"That's good." He said lightly.

Lu Youxi felt that this kind of conversation was like a disc recorded once in a phonograph. It would be the same when it was played repeatedly, always with the same few sentences, but it happened that the other party had to review it every time to be at ease.

After the routine greetings were over, both of them were speechless for a moment. After a moment of silence, Lu Minling still spoke, "Your father..."

Sure enough, Lu Youxi instantly understood what she wanted to ask, and interrupted her without hesitation: "I haven't been back."

"You," she paused, her voice sounded a little flustered: "don't hate him so much. After all, he has been good to his family for so many years. "

"Your father, it's not easy for him." Her voice became smaller and smaller.

The person lying down was a little annoyed by the voice on the other end of the phone, and he could not count the number of times he heard it on the phone this year.Lu Minling kept telling him not to blame his stepfather, and not to blame this person who just ran away after being in debt, to the point where she always believed that this person was honest and would come back one day.

It's not that he doesn't understand that for so many years, he has worked hard alone to support this patchwork family of three, but it's not easy for him not to blame.The ordinary life of more than ten years was so easily shattered. Every day, I had to go home in fear, to avoid the pursuit of creditors who didn’t know where, to face the contempt of neighbors, and even to rely on the help of others to be normal. Every day I go to school to study, even so, I have to be very careful, deeply afraid that one day I will find the school and lose my studies, and I will never be able to go out.

It's not that he doesn't understand that his stepfather's kindness to him is not taken for granted, but he still can't stop and forgive.

"He really..." Lu Minling wanted to continue talking, but she couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the phone for a while, and she called out in a slightly panicked voice, "Xiaoxi? Xiaoxi?"

Lu Youxi put the phone on the pillow, quietly listening to the person calling his name on the phone, and finally said indifferently: "Don't think about it, he won't be back, he will be back long ago, Can't wait until now."

He said: "You can take care of your illness in the country and don't worry about it."

The other side paused for two seconds, and finally whispered: "Okay."

The silence spread again, and after a long time, Lu Minling hung up the phone after a noise came from her side.

Lu Youxi lay there in a daze for ten minutes, patted his face and got up, and then went back to the living room.

Gu Cheng'an, who was sitting outside, heard the conversation that occasionally escaped through the crack of the door. He looked at Lu Youxi, and asked in a faint voice: "Is it about the parent meeting?"

Lu Youxi, who was pushing the door out, was taken aback when he heard the words, and it took a few seconds to realize that the other party must have heard something, so he replied: "No, it's just my mother."

Gu Cheng'an only knew that Lu Youxi's mother was recuperating in the countryside, but he didn't know what was going on in his family. Just as he was thinking about how to speak, he heard a low laugh from the person next to him, then looked up at him slightly, and said: " In fact, my mother is also very good."

Before he could answer, Lu Youxi turned her eyes back to the TV, and continued in a soft voice with some self-mockery: "She is very gentle, or weak, I miss her a lot."

The atmosphere became heavy for some reason. Gu Chengan frowned slightly, feeling that it would be no good for this atmosphere to continue, so he deliberately laughed out loud, complaining to him, "Are you praising yourself? Are you so shameless?"

Lu Youxi turned his head to look at this person, and finally laughed out, as if his emotions were suddenly separated from the previous things, he couldn't help laughing: "You are really..."

He said half of it, and organized it in his mind for a long time, but he still couldn't think of an appropriate word to describe him.

"Really?" Gu Cheng'an seemed to be a little curious.

But in the next second, he returned to a slightly serious look and asked him, "Then do you miss her?"

"Who are you talking about? My mother?" Lu Youxi asked.

"Well," Gu Cheng'an asked again, "Do you miss her?"

Lu Youxi tilted his head, thought for a while without emotion, finally took a deep breath, and said, "Think about it."

After speaking, his head drooped, and he rested his chin on his bent knees, staring blankly at the running pictures on TV.He felt that there was a warm object approaching him, his hands eased past him, he leaned his head against his chest, and said in a low voice: "It's okay, don't be so lonely, if You really miss the feeling of your loved ones, and I don't mind giving you some fatherly love."

In an instant, Lu Youxi pushed the person away, grinned and said directly: "Tsk, get out of here."

The two just laughed.

After laughing, Lu Youxi whispered, "Thank you."