Rebirth: The Life of a Scholar

Chapter 45

The first day of the new year is so unlucky. The atmosphere in the Tang family is really not good. After lunch, the neighbors next door came to chat with Tang's mother. Tang Xu saw a group of women talking in the house and had no place to sit, so he went out with his mobile phone and stayed nearby. yo circle.

He didn't forget to take pictures of Ji Rong.

The snow scene in the village is beautiful, everywhere is covered by thick snow, and the nearby mountains have turned into snow mountains, and some branches and leaves can be seen scattered here and there. Tang Xu played with his mobile phone and took pictures of everything he saw. , Yunfei Village in the photo has another artistic conception, Tang Xu thinks it looks good, and the troubled mood just now gradually dissipated.

In the afternoon, all the women went home to cook. On the first day of the new year, basically no one went out to pay New Year's greetings. It was rare for the young and old of the Tang family to go out today. Tang Xu guessed that the other party was afraid that he would leave early, so the first day of the new year Here we go.

The second day of junior high school is going out to pay New Year's greetings, and Tang Xu's family only has two or three relatives who are leaving, so Tang Xu finished running in one day.

Because of the special situation at home, Tang Xu started to help the family visit relatives very early. Fortunately, there are not many relatives who come and go, and they live not far away, so Tang Xu doesn't feel tired.

This year, Tang Xu is a topic of conversation among people who know him, so when he meets other relatives and friends when he goes to celebrate the New Year, he will be dragged by various people to ask about the situation of Dehui and City B. Tang Xu can only Pretending to be stupid, expressing that he doesn't know much.

Tang Xu really doesn't understand certain market conditions. After those people asked him about his grades, they kept talking about how good city B is and how the salary is high. Those who have children at home will naturally ask Tang Xu about his exam experience and have a look. Can you help your child?

When Tang Xu took the senior high school entrance examination, he got a high score by studying hard to do the questions and remembering the skills. Let him say that the experience of the exam was actually just reading... Tang Xu scratched his head and felt that he had never been No matter how bookish he is, it's hard for Bai Liangshu and the others to bear him at the beginning.

Tang Xu started to pack his luggage after dinner at his relatives' house in the evening and returned home. He only stayed at home for two days, so the suitcase was not messed up, and he just put the things Tang's mother asked him to bring into it.

"I'm leaving after only two days. Is the school open?" Mother Tang looked at him worriedly.

"The door is open. There are quite a lot of non-local students in Dehui. Some students live in the dormitory during the holidays. Don't worry." Dehui High School always has many differences from other schools.

"Oh, can't we stay for two more days?" Tang's mother sighed, the child would not miss the child without his parents, and they couldn't go to the city to see him. After finally waiting for the Chinese New Year, they only stayed at home for two days. I don't think we'll see each other for a year.

"The bus tickets are all bought. Mom, don't be reluctant to eat at home. Dad's surgery fee will be handed over to me. Now I have a scholarship and salary, and I can save two surgery fees." Seeing Tang's mother's reluctance, Tang Xu smiled. He hugged her: "I don't feel hard at all, I feel very fulfilled, very happy, very satisfied."

Tang's mother couldn't help crying on her son's shoulder. No one could share the pressure for her these years, and her mental and physical fatigue accumulated day by day. Now that her son has grown up, he is filial, smart and capable. Tang's mother feels that she has never taught What about him, but he is so sensible, maybe God really gave her such a good son because of the hardships of their family.

Tang Xu hugged his mother and gently patted her back: "It will get better, with me here."

The next morning, Tang Xu had breakfast and went to the village entrance to wait for the bus. Tang's mother watched him get on the bus before turning back reluctantly. Tang Xu felt distressed seeing his mother's lonely back. Year.

Not many people left home that day, Tang Xu easily entered the train, found his seat and sat down, staring at the crowd outside in a daze.

When the phone vibrated, the train had already closed the door and was about to leave. Tang Xu took it out and saw that it was Ji Rong's text message: Are you on the train?

Tang Xu smiled and replied: It's up

As soon as the text message was replied, the phone rang. Tang Xu answered in doubt: "Senior?"

"Tang Xu, Lin Ziyang will wait for you at the gate of the train station when we arrive. Do you remember the car from last time?" Ji Rong's voice sounded very hoarse.

"...Senior, don't let Lin Ziyang come here. It's too troublesome. I can take a bus to school."

"Listen to me, I may not be able to pick you up, so listen to me."

Tang Xu was inexplicably taken aback by this sentence. Ji Rong's tone didn't change much, but Tang Xu was sensitive to his trembling tone. Thinking of Ji Rong's tired voice that night, Tang Xu paused for a while and finally asked. Exit: "Senior, what happened?"

There was only silence on the phone for a while, when the train whistle suddenly sounded, the train started, and there was a lot of noise.

"Tang Xu, can you promise me one thing?"

"Ah?" Ji Rong's voice was very soft, Tang Xu couldn't hear what Ji Rong was saying.

"I'll study hard before I come back, and don't do anything else that will distract you."

Although it was noisy, Tang Xu got used to the noise and heard Ji Rong's voice a little bit clearly: "Senior, why don't you do something before you come back? I didn't hear clearly just now."

"I'm going abroad."

Tang Xu was stunned, and his frowning expression, which he wanted to hear clearly, suddenly became uncontrollable: "Going abroad?"

"Tonight's plane, go to the United States." The reason why Ji Rong told Tang Xu was that he hoped that there would be nothing bad about him in Tang Xu's memory before the goodbye. After struggling for so long, Ji Rong finally decided to say goodbye to him .

Tang Xu never thought about the issue of Ji Rong leaving. Many of his habits in the past six months were brought to him by Ji Rong. He thought that even after Ji Rong graduated, they would still be so close, but he never thought that he would go abroad.

"Senior... Don't you still have half a year in high school? Why do you want to go abroad now?" Tang Xu is not a person who likes to ask too many questions, but this time he doesn't know why he opened his mouth to ask, but he knows very well that he is now My mood is just like the mood when I parted from my parents this morning, there is too much reluctance.

"I went abroad as an exchange student. It happened that my parents had business to go abroad in the next two days, so they took me to familiarize myself with the environment first. The procedures at Dehui's side were completed before the Chinese New Year." Ji Rong chuckled: " What happened to your voice?"

"Oh, then, are you coming back?" Tang Xu felt very cold. He obviously felt quite warm just now, which means that Ji Rong went through the procedures for exchange students after he got on the train back to his hometown, and he still had a relationship with him during the Chinese New Year. He said see you next year.

"I'll be back." Ji Rong said this with certainty, as if giving Tang Xu an inexplicable reassurance.

"Leave tonight?"

"Ah."

"I can't see you on the train..."

"I can't pick you up either, it's even."

Tang Xu didn't know what to say, he felt it was too sudden, and he couldn't buffer the fact at once.

"If something happens to you in the future, Lin Ziyang and Wang Linhao will help you. Don't be afraid to cause trouble for others. There is no such thing as trouble among friends."

"Ah."

"Eat three meals well, exercise more, you are really good at studying, so don't put too much pressure on yourself, but don't do things that distract you, for example, falling in love, will affect your studies. "

"...Well, I'm too young to think about these issues."

"I mean, as long as you're still in school, uh, it's best not to touch it, it's already very distracting while working."

"Well, I won't fall in love until I graduate from college."

"After graduating from university, you can continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination, but you will think about it later, and study hard in high school now."

"Ah."

"Tang Xu, I'm leaving, is there anything you want to say to me?"

"You have to take good care of yourself in the United States. I heard that the food there is very different from that in China. You may not be used to it."

"It's very different."

"I took a picture of the snow scene in our hometown for you. I wanted to let you see it when I wanted to return the phone to you."

"You can send it to my mailbox, and the phone will be kept with you first."

"Ah."

"No more to say?"

"Senior, you are my best friend, and I will miss you." Tang Xu mustered up his courage to say such words. He would not have said such nasty words before he was killed.

Ji Rong, who hadn't slept all night on the phone, sat on the sofa and looked up at the ceiling: "I will miss you too." But not in the form of a good friend: "Okay, you woke up too early, now You can sleep on the train for a while, I will hang up first, goodbye." After finishing speaking, I hung up the phone without letting myself hesitate.

Tang Xu listened to the beeping busy tone on the other end of the phone in a daze for a moment and said two words softly before closing the phone cover.

"Goodbye."

Tang Xu naively thought that this was not the last phone call between the two of them. He thought that the friendship between the two had not come to an end. Maybe they each represented a better encounter in the future. Besides, the exchange students should only have half a year, half a year Soon it will be over and Ji-jung will be back soon and they will still be able to call each other brothers like before.

But Tang Xu knew very well that no matter how good friends are, their feelings will fade after a long separation. Even those lovers who once loved to death cannot escape the curse of time, not to mention their weak friendship of half a year.

The more Tang Xu thinks about it, the more sad he feels. He cherishes this friendship, and when he thinks that Ji Rong is going to leave, he gets bored. He wants to be friends with Ji Rong forever. He likes Ji Rong as a friend, and he doesn't want to lose such a friend... Ji Rong Rong is very important to him, and he is the second only to his parents in his mind.

Many people say that parting is not a painful thing, the most painful thing is not seeing each other again, and this is what Tang Xu is most afraid of at this moment.