This ti, Xiao Gu Qiaoqiao also brought a white tea mug.
The lid of the tea mug was fastened with two rubber bands from top to bottom to prevent the water inside from spilling.
He didn’t expect the warm water inside to be sweetened with sugar.
So sweet.
He gulped it down, eating and drinking, tears streaming down his face...
And the little girl sat on a pile of straw, looking at him with sympathy, her eyes seed to be wet too.
Her big, bright eyes appeared even more watery.
It seed she had learned quite a lot during the day.
When he was halfway through, Xiao Gu Qiaoqiao finally spoke carefully, "We know about your situation now. My grandpa said he will find a way to help you."
Then she reached out her hand, patted his shoulder, and encouraged him, "Don’t worry, my grandpa is a very capable person. If he says he’ll help you, he definitely will."
He vividly rembered that on the morning of the fifth day, the secretary and the mayor of Stone Town knocked on his family’s door.
Beside them stood the tall and imposing Grandpa Gu.
Behind them was an authoritative Public Security officer.
As far as he had grown, it was the first ti he saw his shrewish stepmother looking crestfallen.
Even though after they left, his stepmother locked him in a room and scolded him for over an hour.
However, this ti she didn’t dare to hit him.
While his honest yet cowardly father still crouched silently in a corner.
He finally could cross that fence and play with the children of the Gu Family.
He didn’t feel any inferiority.
He felt that although he hadn’t beco the crabapple tree in the Gu Family, being their neighbor was a very happy thing.
The Gu Family had many books.
Grandpa Gu could tell all kinds of stories...
You could tell just by listening to him speak that he’s soone who’s traveled far and wide, a man of great knowledge and experience.
Because it was winter, and the winter break was just around the corner.
There wasn’t much point for him to go to school now.
So Grandpa Gu and Uncle Gu discussed plansto send him to school in the spring of the coming year.
Then, when Gu Qiaoqiao was reciting a text, Uncle Gu discovered his talent.
He clearly rembered Uncle Gu’s excited expression at that mont.
His eyes were bright.
He and Grandpa Gu went to see his father and stepmother again.
He never knew, even after growing up, what Grandpa Gu said to them...
But he knew his father and stepmother agreed to let him go to school.
However, there was a condition that the chores at ho could not be neglected, just like before.
He was already very satisfied with this.
And despite it being only a month until winter break, on a Monday, Uncle Gu took him to school.
And on that Monday morning, just as the sun was rising, he got a new na.
Grandpa Gu gave him a new na, Chang Qing.
Because the na Chang Gousheng was indeed inelegant.
Grandpa Gu solemnly told him to study hard, as his future held infinite possibilities.
He knew this was the most important opportunity of his life.
He would definitely study hard.
For himself, and for the painstaking care the Gu Family had shown him.
Since then, he liked to follow behind Gu Qiaoqiao.
Because twelve-year-old Gu Qiaoqiao was his warmth, his sunshine, his redemption.
It was Xiao Gu Qiaoqiao who, on that cold winter night, pulled him back from the edge of the abyss of hell.
Adults always deliberate before acting.
But children, they act on feelings.
They don’t ponder too much.
That’s why Gu Qiaoqiao jumped over from the other side of the fence, alone, to save him...
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