Chapter 111

"Ma'am, it's this kind of box. I went to a few big shopping malls a few days ago, and they all said they were out of stock."

Liu Shuyan was a little surprised, reached out to take the gold pencil case in Qiu Mingquan's hand, and opened it.

That's right, on the body of the beautiful golden pen, the golden eagle with wings spreads proudly. On the top, the hero logo is clearly engraved, showing good workmanship and quality control.

I wanted to buy gold pens for my son and the two children of the Xiang family, so I asked the driver to go around, but it was too late.

But why is it such a coincidence today that someone came to sell it?

Noticing her surprise, Qiu Mingquan hastily explained: "Auntie, I just took the winter vacation to sell some stationery to lighten the burden on my family. I guarantee that this gold pen is genuine, and I just bought it from a boutique mall."

Liu Shuyan looked at his worn-out coat and the frayed cuffs, and suddenly felt amazed. Seeing the child's well-behaved appearance and clear voice, she couldn't help feeling overwhelmed with maternal love.

At a young age, at most he was about the same age as his son, but he was already going to the streets to try to make a living.

She took a small leather bag from her side: "How much is one? I want three."

Qiu Mingquan was startled: I really want three.

"Twenty-eight yuan each." Qiu Mingquan waited for a while, but unexpectedly he didn't hear Feng Rui's instructions, and he didn't wait for the agreed upon agreement, so he could only answer according to the past price.

Liu Shuyan smiled softly, counted eighty-five yuan without haggling, and handed it to Qiu Mingquan outside the window.

Qiu Mingquan searched frantically for a long time before he found a coin. Just as I was about to pass it through the car window, I accidentally dropped the coin on the ground, and it rolled round and I don't know where it went.

"You don't need to look for it, that's all." Seeing him anxious, Liu Shuyan couldn't bear it.

"I found it!" Qiu Mingquan pouted his butt, finally found the shiny coin under the chassis of the car, and stretched out his hand in surprise, "Auntie, here you are!..."

But at this moment, a shadow shrouded from the direction of the setting sun, covering the originally good light.

"Where is the little beggar coming from?..." A cold and arrogant voice sounded, with the clarity of a boy's voice, within a few steps, it seemed very close, but also seemed a little far away.

"Feng Rui, what are you talking about?" Liu Shuyan scolded, opened the car door, and greeted her son who just finished the English tutoring class.

...Feng Rui. Which core, which seal?

Qiu Mingquan froze suddenly! It seemed that something exploded in his heart.

He raised his head with difficulty, and saw a face that made him feel like a thunderbolt.

With handsome eyebrows and bright eyes, the eyes are like stars, and the straight bridge of the nose is as if carved out by a knife.

With his back facing the cold winter sunset, the handsome young man was half a head taller than Qiu Mingquan. When he looked down at him, his mother's eyes were as beautiful as his mother's. There was no tenderness of Liu Shuyan, but a kind of impatient arrogance.

Although there was no preparation, Qiu Mingquan already understood one thing after this glance.

The blood-stained face of the CEO Feng he saw before he died in the previous life was still astonishingly handsome, and it perfectly matched the appearance of this handsome young man at this moment.

... Time sculpts, people's hearts change, what remains unchanged is each other's faces when they were young.

Winter vacation in January 1988.

In the evening of this day, the young Feng Rui, Qiu Mingquan and Xiang Cheng met for the first time.

The encounters in life are so wonderful, an ordinary day in the long river of life, but after a long time, because of everything that happened that day, it becomes easy to mark, so that after many years, it is firmly engraved in the hearts of several people.

Feng Rui frowned his handsome eyebrows, and looked at the strange boy in front of him.

The clothes were very old, and her little face was flushed and a little chapped from the cold, but her brows were clean and delicate, and her pair of dark eyes were looking at her without blinking.

The setting sun was shining from the west, and every subtle expression change on this strange boy's face could be seen clearly.

Yes, it was that strange expression—shock at first, bewilderment after that, and finally, surprise that was about to be said.

The young Feng Rui and Qiu Mingquan stood face to face like this, time seemed to have paused for a moment, but there was no distortion between them, and nothing strange happened.

Until Qiu Mingquan's eyes suddenly and inadvertently fell on the slightly exposed red on Feng Rui's chest.

Something flashed in his mind like a flash, he stared at the boy's neck opposite him, and his breathing became short of breath.

As if bewitched, he reached out his hand unexpectedly, grabbed Feng Rui's collar, and pulled gently!

The gentle Hetian white jade, with a crystal-clear color, has an emerald green in the middle... It is exactly the same, and it is connected with the flowing brilliance entangled inside. These days, it is also hanging on his chest, and it is often touched, so familiar!

That's right, this is the young Feng Rui. He had been wearing this family heirloom jade pendant next to his body in his previous life, and it was only when he died that he accidentally tore it off.

So the one you brought back? ...Qiu Mingquan clutched his chest blankly.

Suddenly, he vibrated, what's going on? What about the jade pendant on his chest that he brought back from his previous life? !

No, just no! Even the rope around the neck suddenly disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.

"Little thief, put down Brother Rui's jade pendant!" Just when he was feeling helpless and his mind went blank, suddenly a clear boy shouted in his ear, his face suddenly hurt, and a strong force hit his left cheek. , His eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.

Waking up from the shock and panic, Qiu Mingquan shook his head and felt liquid flowing under his nose.

Stretching out his hand to wipe it, the bright red blood was all over his hand.

"I don't look like a little beggar. He looks like a thief and a robber." A boy's voice sounded from the side, which was obviously different from Feng Rui's, with vigilance and defense.

Qiu Mingquan raised his head blankly and looked at the person who spoke.

Just now, she had been focusing on Feng Rui, but she didn't realize that beside Feng Rui, there was another equally handsome boy.

She is a little shorter than Feng Rui, with picturesque eyebrows and a pair of phoenix eyes looking forward, looking like a pretty girl. Just looking at Qiu Mingquan's eyes, there was an unconcealable vigilance and fierceness.

It's strange... why does this young man seem so familiar?

"Xiaocheng! Why are you so rude!" Liu Shuyan was taken aback, got out of the car in a hurry, and hurried to Qiu Mingquan's side, "How are you?"

The beating boy immediately changed into a harmless and cute smile: "Aunt Liu, you didn't see just now that this little thief reached out to grab Brother Rui's precious jade pendant! If I hadn't beaten him down, maybe At this time, he just ran away!"

He was good-looking, and his phoenix eyes looked extremely energetic when he smiled. Liu Shuyan was also a little puzzled when he heard what he said.

Feng Rui didn't speak immediately.

He looked at the strange boy who was knocked to the ground by Xiang Cheng's punch, and for some reason, he was a little dazed.

He thinks he has the ability to recognize people with a photographic memory, and he has never seen this person before, but what is this strange feeling in his heart?

Those dark eyes were obviously unfamiliar, but they seemed to have been seen somewhere, dazed and a little helpless, as if there was an unspeakable sadness.

Scared, is this the look of begging for mercy? Feng Rui hesitated for a moment because of a strange coincidence.

"No more.... There was a bug on my collar just now. He wanted to brush it off for me." He said lightly.

"Huh? Brother!" Xiang Chengda was taken aback.

He could see clearly from the side, it was obviously the little beggar who reached out to grab Feng Rui's pendant, and his eyes were full of greed. He was afraid that this precious thing would be snatched away by the little beggar, so he rushed to do it, Brother Rui Impossible not to see it, which muscle is wrong?

"Hey, he's obviously a robber!" He cried anxiously.

Liu Shuyan got a little angry and raised her face: "Xiaocheng, you beat someone even if you made a mistake. If you do this again in the future, Auntie won't make any delicious food for you."

Qiu Mingquan stared blankly at them, and finally struggled to get up. Don't look at the mayor who looks like a girl, but she is famous for being mischievous in fights. This punch was so hard that half of Qiu Mingquan's cheek was already slightly swollen, and a piece of his palm was worn out when he fell, and blood was slowly oozing out. Come.

Liu Shuyan hurriedly took out the tissue box from the car and helped Qiu Mingquan wipe off the blood on his face.

Remembering that Qiu Mingquan came to sell pens just now, but his family was in a tight situation, so he took out fifty yuan from his wallet and handed it to Qiu Mingquan: "Son, I'm really sorry, you take this money first, and go to the hospital to deal with it tomorrow." ,OK?"

Xiang Cheng felt aggrieved, seeing this little guy reaching out to grab Brother Rui's things, Aunt Liu didn't believe him! With a snort, he rolled his pretty Danfeng eyes and looked at the sky.

Qiu Mingquan was startled, but shook his head and didn't pick it up.

"Auntie, I'm fine..." He whispered, turned around lonely, and wanted to leave.

When passing by Xiangcheng with Feng Rui, he still couldn't help but stop and take a last look at the two of them.

The setting sun was about to go down, and the afterglow was warm and wandering, reflecting the two teenagers in front of me. The same figure is tall and straight, the clothes are fashionable, one is cold and handsome, and the other is beautiful and flawless.

——Looks like an exceptional match.

Sensing Qiu Mingquan's gaze, Xiang Cheng quickly put on a fierce look and glared at him viciously.

Qiu Mingquan turned his head in embarrassment, but couldn't help looking at Feng Rui.

Although this young man looked like a teenager, there was an aura of not being close to strangers early on, and his temperament was exactly the same as that of the man who was giving orders to his ear every day.

"I'm not a thief... I didn't intend to steal your things either." Qiu Mingquan spoke with difficulty, with a surge of enthusiasm in his heart, "You, you trust me."

...

The hut was so quiet that a needle could be heard. Grandma Qiu looked at him blankly.

There was still a lump on his face, and his body was wet. On the back of his bare hands, there was also the redness and swelling that had just been beaten by Grandpa Qiu with a bench.

But his eyes are open and pure, there is no timidity and dodge of children in the dark eyes, but there is unprecedented responsibility.

Grandma Qiu suddenly felt that she didn't know this child.

In the blink of an eye, on that morning more than ten years ago, the dying child lying in the swaddling clothes with bruises all over his body turned into a little adult.

Looking down at the pile of things in the plastic bag, she flipped through them one by one, and suddenly burst into tears—these things were all for the two old people, and there was nothing for him!

Qiu Mingquan grinned, his eyes were bright, and his swollen face was full of joy: "Grandpa, grandma, I will take you into the city tomorrow, let's go to the boutique shopping mall. The salesperson at the stationery counter there can testify for me!"

The old man turned around slowly and hesitantly, and finally he was half-doubtful.

"You... You really didn't do anything bad? I'm really going to the city with you tomorrow. "

"Don't worry, grandpa!"

...

Finally at midnight, Qiu Mingquan waited for the two old men to fall asleep, endured exhaustion and pain, and quietly got up.

When he came back, it was snowing outside, who knows what will happen overnight, if the ground is covered by heavy snow tomorrow morning, how can he find jade? !

Quietly go out and go around behind the window, sure enough, the ground has been covered with a thick layer of snow. The neighborhood here is a suburb, and some weeds are overgrown behind the window, and the traces of the arson a few days ago are still there. The dark wall is lined with white snow, and a slight whiteness can still be seen in the middle of the night.

The jade pendant is too small! The color was bright white again, and the direction and distance thrown by Grandpa Qiu were unclear. Qiu Mingquan was so anxious that he could only keep guessing and groping around in the snow.

In the middle of the night, everything was silent, the howling north wind was mixed with the rustling of weeds, Qiu Mingquan's little hands kept groping in the icy snow, and after a while, bloodstains were drawn by the sharp teeth of the weeds.

But he couldn't feel the pain anymore.

The ice and snow froze his hands, and even his feet were starting to stiffen.

Time passed by little by little, and the sky in the distance seemed to gradually brighten, but Qiu Mingquan still found nothing, and his heart sank little by little.

...

For a long time, the surroundings were as quiet as a tomb.

Feng Rui's senses were extremely keen, he could almost hear the slight movement of snowflakes falling around him, and he could also hear the rustling of withered grass and leaves in winter.

Hearing these small voices, he even fell into a trance for a while.

Could that mentally handicapped little migrant worker... be really frightened by his grandparents and stop looking for him, or could he be unable to find the pendant he was hiding in by accident?

Ten years, eight years? Like Monkey King, waiting for five hundred years to wait for the next passing Tang Seng who is destined to belong to him?

I don't know how long he lay like this, but at the moment when he was drowsy, there was a warm temperature.

...Qiu Mingquan lightly held the bright red lanyard on the jade with one hand, almost dreamily, picked up the jade pendant from a piece of dry grass.

At that moment, the morning sun rises and the stars suddenly disappear. The air in winter is so fresh and cold, but the boy in front of Feng Rui has an immature face and his pupils are as black as ink.

"Yes, I'm sorry." Qiu Mingquan looked at him anxiously, but his eyes were full of ecstasy, "I've been looking for you for a long time... Are you in a hurry?"

His palm was small, and he gently stroked the jade pendant, causing Feng Rui, who had no body, to suddenly feel a tingling sensation.

Then, he gently put the pendant that stayed in the snow all night on his chest and hid it in his shirt.

It was bitingly cold, but the back, which was stained with the blood of the two people's previous lives, quickly warmed up.

In Feng Rui's ears, there was a faint but clear heartbeat: "Boom... Boom!"

He suddenly realized that it was Qiu Mingquan's heartbeat.

"I'm not going to lose you again. Not even in death."

At that time, Feng Rui and Qiu Mingquan didn't realize that this simple and unpretentious sentence, like a mantra and an oath, followed them for so long.

After splitting and rejoining, until the impermanent gear of fate rolled over again.

...The next day, the two old men of the Qiu family did not have the opportunity to go to the city to verify what Qiu Mingquan said.

Because Qiu Mingquan fell ill completely.

After running around all day, his face was swollen by Xiang Cheng's punch in the afternoon, and he was whipped by his grandfather when he came home at night.

...Agitated and looking for things in the ice and snow all night, Qiu Mingquan felt his head was heavy the next morning and he couldn't get up.

The two old men tossed and turned sleeplessly last night, thinking about Qiu Mingquan's words, they always felt that the huge amount of money was like a dream, and they finally fell asleep in the middle of the night. When I woke up the next morning, I found that Qiu Mingquan's face was flushed, and when he touched his forehead, he was terrified, the fever was severe!

Grandpa Qiu hurriedly left the house early to get medicine at a nearby clinic. Grandma Qiu stayed at home to take care of Qiu Mingquan, helping him change the cold towel on his forehead from time to time. Qiu Mingquan felt uncomfortable, woke up once or twice halfway, drank some white rice porridge, and fell asleep again.

In a daze, I heard someone talking outside.

"I don't know why, he didn't go to get his report card, and you didn't come to the parent meeting..."

With a jolt, he finally recognized the owner of the voice. ——Teacher Feng, the teacher in charge!

For more than a week after the exam, every second counts, and every day is a huge income. How can I have time to get a report card?

As for the parent meeting a few days later, he completely forgot about it. Now...the head teacher was recruited?

Holding his glasses, Teacher Feng carefully stood at the door with his trousers lifted. Last night's first snow made the ground muddy. She knew that this was a rural area, so she specially wore big rubber shoes, but along the way, her pants were still covered with bits and pieces of mud.

As soon as she stood in front of Qiu Mingquan's house, she saw the bare walls inside, and took a deep breath.

Although it was daytime, the whole room was dark due to the lack of sunlight. After getting used to the light in the room for a while, Teacher Feng could see clearly the figure of the boy lying curled up on the bed.

"Teacher Feng..." Qiu Mingquan struggled to get up, feeling extremely guilty.

Fever is severe, the mind lacks the ability to think, and the only thought is: Have the test scores been found to be abnormal?

Teacher Feng stepped forward quickly, looked at his weak and wounded face, and was startled: "Qiu Mingquan, what's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, I just have a little fever." Qiu Mingquan sat up halfway, but was pushed down on the bed by Teacher Feng.

"Then you lie down and rest quickly!" Teacher Feng looked at the bed where Qiu Mingquan was lying on, and felt a "thump" in his heart.

It was too shabby, cotton was exposed under the dilapidated quilt, and the color of the quilt was also dull and black, and the original color of the quilt could not be seen.

Grandma Qiu timidly brought over boiling water: "Teacher, please drink water... Is this child in school, and you teachers are bothering?"

Teacher Feng quickly waved his hands vigorously: "No, no! I'm here because I want to praise Mingquan's performance."

praise? Grandma Qiu was stunned.

"Yes, Qiu Mingquan has made great progress in the final exam this semester!" Teacher Feng was a little excited.

She personally gave Qiu Mingquan a score of 98 on the Chinese test paper. Unexpectedly, the feedback she got from other teachers was astonishing. In the final exam of this semester, Qiu Mingquan, who used to be unremarkable in the past, scored amazingly well in all subjects. high score!

100 points in mathematics, 99 points in English, 96 points in politics, and full marks in geography. ... In private communication, the political teacher also admitted that, like her, he artificially deducted a few points on the subjective essay questions.

The total score of all subjects in the whole year is the first, and the four subjects are the first in the grade!

——If this score can be maintained, it will not be difficult to get into the best key high school in the city.

Seeing Grandma Qiu's surprised and disbelieving expression, she quickly took out Qiu Mingquan's report card and handed it to the old man.

"Look, the two subjects are 100%! And grandma, your grandson, this time he got the first overall score in the whole grade!"