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"I truly didn't expect him to be your cousin's leader. He's still so young. Oh right, Xu Yun, I forgot to ask, last time at the foot of the Golden Mountains, was the person we saved him?"

"It's him."

"No wonder he looked so familiar that day. So it really was him. Looks like doing a good deed will pay off. However, he really does look like a movie star. He's too handsome." Li Xiaoying was speechless.

Was he handsome?

Xu Yun retorted in her heart, but she had to admit that Jin Hanqin was very handsome. How could he not be handsome, how could he not shine?

Before she could say anything, Li Xiaoyun pulled at Xu Yun weirdly and then said mysteriously: "How did you get him to agree to take us to City G? He doesn't like you, does he? "

Xu Yun blinked her big eyes, "Are you crazy? I say, Xiao Ying, can you stop thinking too much? He's going to City G for a meeting, and he knows that we're going there too, so he told us to take a ride. Can you be a little more normal? How old is he and how old are we?"

Li Xiaoyun was also teasing Xu Yun, in her eyes, Jin Hanqin was an adult, how could he possibly like a young girl like them?

"I'm kidding, but it's not strange for the older ones to like the younger ones. Do you know our math teacher, Wang Gao Fei? He likes Liufen. I heard Chen Xianglian say that a few days ago, Wang Gao flew to Liufen's home. I think he saw Liufen's parents and said that they would wait for Liufen to fill 20 years before getting married. "

"Ah …" This piece of news was very shocking. In her previous life, she had never heard of Li Xiaoying talking about it. She had never expected that this unassuming teacher would have such thoughts.

Xu Yun shook her head and sighed, but Li Xiaoyi yearned to have her own home, her own father, and her own mother. To her, that was her biggest dream.

"Xu Yun, do you know how my mother walked out?"

Looking at Li Xiaoyun's dark eyes, Xu Yun's heart tightened. In her previous life, she had heard Li Xiaoyun mention this before, but she had not told her in detail about her mother's sudden departure.

"Xiao Ying, if you want to say it, say it. It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it."

Li Xiaoyun turned her head and looked at the leaves outside the window. She stretched out her hand to cover her forehead as if looking through her fingers at the sunlight. A chilly wind blew in, bringing with it a hint of sadness.

"I've told you before, my dad is an intellectual and has read many books, but my mom is a real rural woman who doesn't know a single word. When I was very young, my dad and mom had a pretty good relationship, and although my dad often got mad, my mom never talked back and never quarreled with him. Now that I think about it, just endure it."

When I was eleven years old, my parents divorced, so my mom took me with her and married me to her current stepfather. My mom didn't know how to read, and because she was too honest, she could only do odd jobs for others.

She knew what Li Xiaoyun was feeling. Her childhood, consumed by hunger and poverty, would follow her for a lifetime. That kind of suffering was not something that could be understood after 90 years of being soaked in honey oil. There were still 00 years after that, and even Xu Yun herself could only feel sorry for Li Xiaoyi, but not feel that kind of pain.

In the flash of light, Xu Yun suddenly remembered that when Li Xiaoyun came to her house to play a few times, Miao Shufeng had shouted for her to eat, and she had eaten three bowls in one go. Back then, she was still very surprised and teased, "You haven't eaten in three days."

Now that she thought about it, maybe Li Xiaoyun had not eaten for three days and her unintentional teasing had hurt her, but why did she not say it out loud? If she had said it out loud, she would not have made fun of him even if she had eaten ten bowls.

Although my life is very bitter, but I really like growing flowers, because plants don't need money, and as long as it's sunlight and water, I can live. Looking at those flowers, grass, I feel like I'm also alive, or maybe, tomorrow will be better, until one day, when I pass by that family on the street and see the rose growing in their courtyard, I especially want a rose.

Xu Yun looked at Li Xiao Ying in silence, only to see her stop as she ridiculed him again and again with a chuckle.

"But I can't afford it, because the money my mom earned from her money wasn't even enough for my tuition, so …" I thought of stealing. "

"When was that?" Xu Yun had a question in her heart. She told her in a very low voice that this should be something that happened in the recent years.

Sure enough, Li Xiaoyun didn't look at Xu Yun. She just put down her hand, lowered her eyes, and said, "Last year, the third day of university just started."

"And then you went out to steal?" At this time in 1999, the flowers that Li Xiaoyi mentioned were not the most common plants in X County. Those plants were probably purchased from other countries to be transplanted, and their prices were not cheap either.

Apparently, Li Xiaoyun did steal it. She laughed and said, "Hmm, I stole it, I was also caught, sent home by the family's owner, told my stepfather, told my mother, beat me, and even ordered my mom to pay. When I looked at my mom and took out a piece of hair, two hair, and five hair from my pocket, my heart broke, and in that instant, I felt that the world was dark, and no one could hold me."

Xu Yun felt a stab of pain in her heart. She knew that Li Xiaoyun had suffered a lot, but she had never thought that she would suffer so much. Such a shadow would really follow her for her entire life.

That night, my stepfather scolded me for a night, and my mom hugged me and cried silently. My stepfather wouldn't let us eat, and made my mom and me hungry, and for the first time since I could remember, I cried so bitterly, not because I was hungry, but because it was I who caused my mom to give me all the money she had. I said I'm sorry, and my mom also told me that she wasn't able to afford the potted flowers.

Tears rolled down her face. Xu Yun took out her handkerchief and gently held it in front of Li Xiaoyi's face.

"That night, I didn't know how long I cried, nor how I got back to bed. When I woke up, my mother disappeared, and at that time I only thought that she went out to buy groceries, but when I came back from school, I didn't see her. Later on, my stepfather flew into a rage and hit me with a stick while cursing me, saying that my mother didn't want me anymore, and ran off with another man."