Chapter 20 The Way to Go Home

That night, Gu Qingxi learned it later as usual, and Peng Chunyan, who happened to be opposite her, continued to watch her martial arts, and neither of them affected each other.

Gu Hongying below was holding a book and reading it all the time. The atmosphere in the dormitory was not good recently. She seemed to have something to worry about and was too lazy to talk. Since Hu Cuihua came back, she has been stern, neither studying nor sleeping, and just lying there in a daze.

Gu Qingxi finished a set of papers before he gave up.

There are still some questions that need to be pondered for that set of papers, but most of them have ideas. She estimated that the test paper that once scored 89 points was 100 points, but now it is estimated that it can be about 70 points, which is already very satisfied for her.

If you study this kind of thing, you have worked hard and made progress. If you didn’t know it before, you will know it now. Your score will increase clearly and you will feel indescribable satisfaction and accomplishment in your heart, as if your future is more realistic. This is more pleasant and fulfilling than a few cents or an extra egg.

Moreover, when studying, my feet were still holding a hot water bag hidden in the quilt. The hot water bag was really good to keep. In the evening, I secretly poured hot water in, covered it in the quilt, leaned against both feet gently, occasionally hooked it with my toes, simmered it on my legs or waist, and warmed it wherever I placed it.

It was already very late at this time. The snow was stopped outside, and there was only a strong wind, and it was roaring wildly as if it was about to overthrow the house. Gu Qingxi was also a little tired, so he got out of bed, poured a little hot water, wiped his hands and face with a towel, rinsed his mouth, and then climbed onto the bed, blew out the oil lamp, and got into the warm bed.

Peng Chunyan, who was beside him, whispered there: "This is so cold. No matter how thick the quilt is, it's cold, it's frozen to death!"

Gu Qingxi curled up there, closed his eyes slightly, and enjoyed the lazy warmth. He felt particularly comfortable, and he had never had the peace of mind in his two lives.

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All night was a good dream, and the dream was bizarre. When he woke up, Gu Qingxi was lying in the quilt and was confused.

She remembered her inexplicable rebirth.

At that time, Xiao Shengtian took him to his house and lived there. That night, he was actually nervous and full of expectations. Many thoughts were entangled in his heart, and he couldn't understand it. He never thought that after a night of sleep, he became seventeen years old now.

I don’t know what happened to me in that world, I disappeared, died, or what? And Xiao Shengtian from that world—

Gu Qingxi took a deep breath and stopped thinking about it. She had to get up and prepare for class.

The county No. 1 Middle School is very strict in management. Usually, they get up at 5:30, wash up briefly, prepare to gather at 5:50, and have to appear on the playground before 6:00. After three laps of running, they will go to the classroom for morning self-study. After seven o'clock, they will have something to eat in a hurry. They will start pre-class preparation at 7:30, and then class will start at 8:00.

There was only a little bit of dry food left in Gu Qingxi. Fortunately, there was still one who had two eggs given by Xiao Shengtian at that time. She gave herself a luxury for breakfast and ate one egg.

The eggs were very fragrant, and I was energetic all morning to listen to the class. At noon, I ate the remaining dry food and the eggs. She put the eggs in the school steamer and heated them. The soft egg yolks emitted heat and spread on the tip of her tongue. This was a luxury.

After eating, people are more energetic. Gu Qingxi packs up his things and prepares to go home.

In fact, there is not much to clean up. I have to carry my nylon bag, so I put a bottle of hot water in Erguotou wine bottle, wrapped it in a towel, put it in my schoolbag, and took an English book so that I could read it at home at night.

The road back was very long, more than twenty miles, and I had to walk without a foreign car by myself, so Gu Qingxi took the opportunity to get into battle lightly.

Peng Chunyan slipped home as soon as get out of class, as if she had gone to her uncle's house, and Hu Cuihua was not seen, and there was only Gu Hongying in the dormitory.

Gu Hongying's house is not far from Gu Qingxi's house. She took a look at Gu Qingxi while packing her things, and she stopped talking.

If she didn't say it, Gu Qingxi wouldn't ask.

If it were the past, since everyone was not far away, they would definitely make an appointment to leave together. However, the relationship in the dormitory is cold and stiff, and Gu Hongying looks lost again. Her whole dormitory is distracted, and no one is in the mood.

Seeing that Gu Qingxi was about to leave, Gu Hongying called out: "By the way, Qingxi, let me tell you something."

Gu Qingxi stopped: "What's the matter?"

Everyone has their own secret thoughts, and Gu Hongying also has them. At least she doesn't look so simple and simple now.

Gu Hongying looked at Gu Qingxi and looked at Gu Qingxi in embarrassment. After a while, she said, "I was found out about my shorts. Can you not tell the villagers?"

Gu Qingxi was a little surprised and his eyebrows moved slightly.

But Gu Hongying's face turned red, and she lowered her head: "That day, that person found out my shorts and shook them..."

Gu Qingxi: “…”

She thought it was such a big deal that she had a lot of worries these days, and it turned out that it was because of this.

Later, Gu Hongying was not such a person. She traveled abroad, dressed in a fashionable way, and even learned to walk on the beach abroad in a bikini.

Gu Qingxi nodded: "Of course I won't say it."

Gu Hongying: "Thank you!"

As she said that, she wiped her tears and said, "My family wants me to stop going to school, so she asked me to get married quickly, saying that there is a man who is a good person, so she asked me to go back for a blind date, saying that she can give me a lot of brides."

Gu Qingxi was silent when he heard this.

She remembered that in her previous life, Gu Hongying also encountered blind dates. At that time, she encouraged her and told her that although her family favored boys over girls, she was still good at studying. Even if she couldn't get into college in the future, she could still get into college or even technical secondary school. When she got into technical secondary school, she would eat commercial food when she came back. She insisted on persisting and had to survive more than a year.

She spent a lot of talk and finally encouraged Gu Hongying. Gu Hongying mustered up the courage to fight with her family, and she barely fell into the school.

After that, Gu Hongying's family gave her not enough dry food, and she once shared her food with her during her most difficult time.

But when Gu Hongying got admitted to university and entered the city, she never lends a helping hand when Gu Qingxi was in trouble.

The three roommates who stayed with each other in this dormitory every day, and later, Peng Chunyan, who maintained a good friendship with Gu Qingxi.

There was a dull struggle in Gu Hongying's eyes: "Qingxi, I, what should I do..."

Gu Qingxi was silent for a long time.

Now Gu Hongying is standing at the crossroads of life again. She is in a state of lingering and hesitation. She needs an external force to push her and help her make a choice.

Gu Qingxi looked at Gu Hongying with a light expression: "It's only one and a half years left. If you endure it, you may get through it. If you give up, you will never have a chance."

After saying this, she left.

She helped Gu Hongying in her previous life, and Gu Hongying was naturally grateful at first. She said that Gu Qingxi was her spiritual dependence and she wanted to follow Gu Qingxi to take the college entrance exam.

Later, Gu Qingxi failed the exam, and Gu Hongying passed the exam. Gu Hongying looked at Gu Qingxi again, as if she had only known Gu Qingxi in this life. It seemed that she finally saw clearly that the people around her were just Er.

When I did it again, Gu Qingxi didn’t have the true feelings to persuade others, but he couldn’t bear to add insults to encourage her to get married. He just said lightly, and leave the rest to herself.

When walking alone on the road, I still couldn't help but think in my mind that if Gu Hongying was the one who gave her college entrance examination results, she would be raising a tiger.

But after thinking again, at least it hasn't happened yet, she couldn't push others into the pit while they were standing by the cliff.

When people do things, they are worthy of their conscience.

After walking out of the county town, I saw people walking in groups of three or three on the road, all with their heads down and those riding foreign bikes fell.

Gu Qingxi wiped his nose with his gloved hands. His nose hurts, and his feet seem to be frozen, without any sense.

She found a wooden stick and walked hard on the road with a layer of ice.

The more I walked home, the narrower the road became, the more difficult it became. The pedestrians who came and went, but at this time the sky became cloudy again. The biting wind of winter came overwhelmed the sky, and the silver-gray clouds surged above, pressing down darkly. The whistling sound recalling in the fields made people feel even more irritated, as if the world was the end of the world, and I was the only person who fell alone in this world.

The wind was raging, like a pair of sharp swords. The cotton jacket on his body could not resist these things. Gu Qingxi even felt that he was wearing nothing on his body, and he was just facing the biting wind. His face was even more painful and he became difficult to breathe.

She wrapped her cotton jacket tightly and trembled beside her, picked up some dead branches to tie them to the storage cloth shoes to increase friction, and then tried to run.

This is really effective, and it won’t fall down, and when people run, they won’t be so cold.

Who knew that after running like this, the branch was useless. As soon as the foot slipped, she almost flew up and couldn't hold back, so she directly rubbed it on the side of the road.

There is a ditch on the side of the road. It is probably used to water and irrigate the crops next to it in summer. Now it is full of a mixture of dead leaves and snow. Those are already frozen, making people feel pain in their hands and feet, and the coldness is soaked in their bone marrow.

Gu Qingxi was lying there and could not move at all. The cold and pain stretched out like thin silk, and it was slight movement that led to the tendons and veins everywhere.

There was a pile of graves here, with dead branches and leaves. The old trunk made a shrill sound. Gu Qingxi's face was close to the dead leaves stained with ice, and he listened silently to the sound of the wind. The wind echoed in the fields, roaring angrily to tear people to pieces and swallow them.

Gu Qingxi suddenly felt a little discouraged and felt wronged. She didn't want to move anymore and wanted to lie here and cry.

It was so cold that my whole body was trembling and my stomach became hungry.

In fact, she didn't have enough food to eat at all, and she could only eat 70% full. However, thinking that she was a girl's home and didn't need so much physical strength, she could just bear it.

After all, the family situation is really bad. My parents have actually put a lot of burden on the family.

Thinking of her parents, she gritted her teeth and struggled to get up.

My parents didn't say anything, but they looked all the expectations. Even if they were my sister-in-law, she would have no thoughts in her heart when she was going to school.

If she could get into college, everything would go well. If she had hope at home, everything might be able to slowly get back. She just fell here. Why would she live a lifelong life for the sake of causing her parents to suffer the pain of losing her daughter?

She staggered and picked up her schoolbag with her frozen hands and touched the wine bottle inside. Fortunately, she didn't break it, but the water had been cold for a long time, but it wasn't frozen.

She took it out and poured herself a big mouthful of cold water into her throat and into her stomach, causing a shock.

Gu Qingxi took a deep breath, picked up the branches and crutches, and then continued to walk forward while leaning on it.

The sky darkened early, and the surroundings were terriblely quiet. The desperate and confused loneliness accompanied by hunger tugged Gu Qingxi's heart hard.

Gu Qingxi gritted her teeth desperately to prevent tears from falling. In fact, this is nothing. She still has so much to do.

I don’t have to worry about it when it gets dark. It’s just this way, and I can walk home sooner or later.

Dragging her frozen legs, Gu Qingxi walked forward mechanically, with snowflakes in the strong wind. She could hardly see the scene a meter away. She could only rely on her feelings to where she had gone.

Who knew that while I was walking, I heard a cry coming from a distance.

"Hahaha, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, my daughter-in-law--"

Gu Qingxi was stunned, and then he realized that it was that crazy man.

On the way to school, I saw this lunatic wearing a torn cotton-exposed cotton jacket and frizzy hair. When I saw a girl passing by, I called it his wife. It is said that there were several brothers in the family, and he was the eldest. Later, several younger brothers got married. But he was delayed when he was old. For this discomfort, he went crazy. Every day, he saw a girl on the road and said that he was his wife.

In his previous life, he seemed to have bullied a girl, but later that girl could only marry a forty-year-old bachelor.

Gu Qingxi held his breath and did not dare to move, because she was afraid that the madman would find out about her.

She really discovered what would happen, she didn't dare to think about it.

But the madman was coming in the direction of her, still screaming strangely, and the old croaking above his head was croaking, and it sounded terrifying.
To be continued...