Chapter 981: The Scene Brings Back Memories, Belated Sadness (12)

Summer vacation is the time for schools to have a holiday, for children to relax and have fun, and also the time for many farewells.

At Little Red Horse, when summer vacation arrived, almost half of the children in the care center left. Many familiar faces were gone. Like Luo Zikang, they left in a hurry without saying goodbye. The crowd was like a tide, gathering and dispersing. Even adults dare not say that they will see each other again in this life, let alone children who go with the flow.

Xiaobai looked through the resumes and learned from the photos which children had left. Some were familiar friends, and some were children who had rarely spoken to each other. She didn't expect that she had only gone home for a trip and so many good friends had left. She felt sad and wanted to cry again, but immediately told herself to be strong and not cry, so she held back her tears.

Finally, she found Luo Zikang in the album. There were several photos of Luo Zikang, some of which were from the past when he still had hair, and some were the little bald head he has now.

Luo Zikang also left, but Xiaobai didn't feel very sad, just a sense of loss, an indescribable feeling.

She didn't cry and roll on the ground like Liuliu did. She just stared at the photos blankly and thought of many things, such as the fights with Luo Zikang. Some of them were when she defeated Luo Zikang and Luo Zikang cried, and some were when she was defeated by Luo Zikang and she threatened to take revenge.

She also thought of that summer when she fought with Luo Zikang again. Unlike the usual teacher Xiao Liu who came to mediate, this time it was a big guy.

Thinking of this, Xiaobai turned her head and glanced at Zhang Tan.

"Ah~~~" She finally sighed and closed the album. She was in a mess and didn't know how to express herself.

"ε=(ο｀*))) Ah~"

A sigh came from Xiaobai's side. It was Xier who also sat on the steps in the yard, with her elbows on her knees and her palms on her cheeks.

The child was full of sorrow.

Tan Jiner came, Xier clung to her sister, acting cute and coquettish. It was the first time in her life that she was separated from her sister for such a long time. For Xier and Tan Jiner, it was a special experience.

Tan Jiner looked at Xier carefully, as if she was worried that she was missing something.

She was not missing, but she had something more, meat!

Xier had gained weight these days, and she was darker. The baby fat on her face was becoming more and more obvious, and her pointed chin gradually became rounder.

Xier told Tan Jiner that she was chased by a big rooster, a big fat pig, a cow, had her hand pinched by a crab, was scared silly by a saury, and was scared to tears by a leech...

"Why do you sound like you are fleeing?" Tan Jiner joked.

"hiahiahia~~~"

Xier went home with her sister and came back in the evening.

Zhang Tan and Xiao Bai returned to their home, which was clean and tidy. They came to the next room, which belonged to Teacher Jiang. They opened the door with the key and pushed it open. The room was tidy. On the coffee table by the window in the living room, there was an unopened letter.

Xiao Bai was the first to find it and picked it up to show Zhang Tan. On the cover, it was written "Zhang Tan's personal letter".

Zhang Tan opened it and browsed it. It was a letter written to him. It turned out that before leaving Pujiang, Teacher Jiang had already made plans not to come back. She would stay in Baijia Village and return to her roots. She couldn't be wandering outside in her old age.

She downplayed her return in the letter, as if it was insignificant. 99% of the content was about Xiao Bai.

She begged Zhang Tan to take good care of Xiao Bai, accompany her to grow up, and let her have a complete childhood.

She told him a lot about Xiao Bai's childhood, analyzed Xiao Bai's personality, and told him how to get along with Xiao Bai...

The letter was five pages long and had thousands of words, but Zhang Tan only saw one word, love.

This letter was written with love for Xiaobai.

"What did grandma write? Was it written to Xiaobai?" Xiaobai asked anxiously and curiously.

Zhang sighed and said, "Grandma said in the letter that she loves you very much."

Xiaobai sniffed and wanted to cry.

But she held back and whispered to herself to be strong.

The sunset in the evening hung in the sky. The city was bustling with cars and people. Everything seemed busy and hurried.

The Little Red Horse Academy was quiet and some children had already entered the academy.

Xiaobai came to the yard early and sat in Lao Li's booth, counting the children entering the academy with him.

The first few children who came were all new faces, and Xiaobai didn't know them.

During the summer vacation, some children left and some new children came.

A new group of children came to Little Red Horse. Xiaobai was very unfamiliar with them because he went to Sichuan. He had never seen them before.

In the past, Luo Zikang always came to the Little Red Horse on time at six o'clock. Xiaobai looked up at the clock on the wall. It was already six o'clock, but Luo Zikang was still nowhere to be seen. Many other strange children came, but none of the ones she knew came.

She walked out of the sentry box and walked around the yard. The summer cicadas intertwined in the grove, the shadows of the trees swayed, the wind blew the leaves and rustled, the setting sun on the ground was like blood, and the light and shadow were mottled. Xiaobai suddenly cried.

She finally realized that Luo Zikang and his friends would never come back!

In the past, they always played together at this evening, including fighting, but now they didn't show up, and they wouldn't show up either.

After learning from Liuliu yesterday that Luo Zikang would not come again, Xiaobai had been very strong, and it seemed that she didn't feel too much about Luo Zikang's departure, and didn't cry.

But now, when she suddenly saw the Little Red Horse in the setting sun in the evening, her heartstrings broke.

She stood in the yard wiping her tears, crying and looking for Zhang Tan.

Zhang Tan was writing a script at home, when Xiaobai suddenly came crying. He quickly put down his work, hugged her in his arms, and asked softly what happened.

Xiaobai spoke about her worries intermittently, and Zhang Tan said he understood. He had read a story before, saying that a netizen's mother died, but he was not sad. He went home to deal with the funeral, saw his mother for the last time at the funeral home, took the ashes home, entertained relatives and friends, went up the mountain, and buried her. He was rational and strong throughout the whole process. Others cried bitterly, but he didn't shed a tear. Some people said behind his back that he was cold-blooded, and his mother died without any sadness. He didn't refute, let alone get angry. He even thought he was cold-blooded, and didn't shed a tear when his mother died. Ten days and a half months passed like this. One day, he returned home. The green ivy was swaying in the residual light on the windowsill, the wind chimes on the balcony were ringing, the clock on the wall was making a slight ticking sound, and there was a sound of bubbles coming out of the water dispenser... His mother, who usually prepared dinner for him in the kitchen at this time, was gone. The kitchen was no longer filled with the smell of fireworks and seemed cold and deserted. At this moment, he realized that his mother had passed away and he couldn't help but cry out in grief.