It seems that the villain is targeting me.

She wiped her tears with an exaggerated gesture: "...I didn't expect that the guy who picked you up was really a good person. Wow, you don't know, I was so scared that I almost peed myself, and then she suddenly appeared from nowhere..."

Chen Xiaoya interrupted her: "That's enough, you've said it six times."

Arjun: "It's really impressive!"

"Anyway," Zheng Qiong placed her hands on Chen Xiaoya's shoulders seriously, "I'm leaving you to her. You should live a good life with her in the future and do more housework when you have nothing to do..."

Chen Xiaoya was furious: "Get out!"

Zheng Qiong: "Oh, then I'll leave."

Ah Qiong put his arms around her neck and hugged her tightly: "We have an appointment. See you in Jinghai later."

"Yeah," Chen Xiaoya hugged him back, "Goodbye Jinghai."

Zheng Qiong smiled widely, his face showing the vigor that one should have at his age.

The 'really poor' lady solemnly assured Chen Xiaoya: "When we meet again, I will definitely have become a rich person."

Chen Xiaoya also replied: "By then, I will definitely be admitted to a university in Jinghai!"

This is a small agreement between two childhood friends.

Four years later, one of them will realize her dream, while the other will be shattered.

Shortly after seeing off Zheng Qiong, Xiao Niao and Chen Xiaoya also returned home.

When the two came, they were in a hurry and didn't even take any clothes with them, but when they left, they were escorted by two police comrades. The treatment was completely different.

Xiao Niao and Xiao Ya were not carrying any luggage - the two police officers who came to see them off enthusiastically took their luggage and insisted on escorting them to the train.

Because of this, they were able to get on the train smoothly this time without much crowding - perhaps because of their uniforms, no one even cut in line in front of Xiaoniao.

Before leaving, one of the police officers handed a bag to Xiao Niao.

"It's a thank-you gift from the parents," he said. "They know our informant risked his life to rescue the child, and they insisted we give it to you."

In order to protect Xiao Niao's personal safety, Taoyuan police concealed Xiao Niao's true identity from the outside world and only said that she was an informant for the police.

Therefore, although the parents who arrived one after another learned about the existence of Xiaoniao from their children, they did not know who the other party was.

Xiao Niao was about to speak when the police officer continued.

"Many parents wanted to give red envelopes—but don't worry, Team Lan rejected them for you!"

He smiled brightly. "These are just local specialties. They're not worth much. They're just a token of the parents' love... Please accept them."

Xiao Niao stared at the off-white handbag...his pupils were shaking.

She shook Tongzi awake from his sleep and asked in a sad tone, "Why? Why did Landuo help me reject the red envelope? How did I offend her?"

System: […Who told you to refuse letters of commendation, turn down certificates of commendation, and even specifically tell you to pretend you never came? Of course, people think you want to be like Lei Feng and do good deeds without leaving a name.]

Xiao Niao was a little heartbroken: the expenses of this trip plus the various hospitalization fees had already used up most of her original savings.

This time, Landu paid for her return ticket, saying that it was to thank her for coming from such a long distance.

Xiaoniao felt a little embarrassed at that time, but now... If I had known earlier, I would have blackmailed her for two soft sleeper tickets!

Xiao Niao took the bag with a business-like smile, while silently calculating the food, clothing and other expenses needed to raise the child.

She then sadly discovered that after paying the tuition, if she didn't go out to work and earn money, she would have to starve with her child.

The train is starting to move.

There were enough tickets this time, so Xiao Niao and Chen Xiaoya each had a bed to sleep in.

Probably because of the order in which they bought the beds, they happened to buy two bunk beds with the same number.

Xiao Niao had just recovered from a serious illness and soon felt sleepy due to the shaking train. He fell asleep wrapped in the quilt not long after getting on the train.

She woke up for a while in the middle of the night and happened to see the person on the bunk above her move. A head popped out in the dark and stared at her.

Under the moonlight outside the window, those black eyes were particularly clearly imprinted in my mind.

Xiao Niao was startled.

Her brows furrowed slightly, and her voice became a little hoarse: "Can't sleep?"

The person on the upper bunk nodded silently.

Xiao Niao didn't think much about it, just thought that the other person was uncomfortable staying on the upper bunk - compared to the lower bunk, the space over there was indeed much more cramped, so it was normal that he couldn't sleep well.

Do you want to come down and sleep with me?

Before Xiaoniao could finish her words, the other party scurried down from the upper bunk and got into her bed with skillful movements, as if he had demonstrated it many times.

Xiao Niao: “…”

Chen Xiaoya looked very sleepy. She leaned on the bird's shoulder and mumbled good night.

After saying that, she closed her eyes.

After a while, the cunning guy heard a sound of

A helpless sigh.

Chapter 68 The Beginning of a Turning Point

Chen Xiaoya felt that in the next few days, she was like living in a beautiful dream.

The two returned home peacefully. The furnishings in the house were exactly the same as when they left, with only a little dust on the table.

But when Xiaoniao and Xiaoya each dragged their luggage and stood at the door of their home, exhausted, they both felt as if they were in another world.

Cat No. 4, who was hiding in the shoulder bag, was so moved that his eyes were filled with tears: He had suffered a lot in the past month and had lost 400 grams of fat.

Xiao Niao carried the cat and luggage into the house. He was too lazy to clean up and went downstairs quickly. He bought a pound of skin and six ounces of meat at the nearby vegetable market. He went home and made a lot of dumplings and cooked them all at once.

While cooking dumplings, she also met a neighbor and started talking to her - the neighbor was hanging clothes on the balcony and saw Xiao Niao busy in the kitchen.

"Hey, you're that Xiao...Xiao what?"

Across the iron safety fence, the neighbor looked at Xiao Niao with a bit of surprise, "You're back! Where have you been before?"

Chen Xiaoya was also helping in the kitchen. Upon hearing this, she subconsciously stopped what she was doing and looked up at the bird beside her.

Xiao Niao's hands were covered in flour, so he poked her with his elbow: "Look at the fire, can you add some cold water? It's boiling at 3:30."

Then he turned around and dealt with his neighbors in a sunny manner.

She didn't describe the details of the process, but just brushed it off with some half-truthful words like "We went to the city for a trip" and chatted with the neighbors in a casual manner.

The water boiled, and steam rushed out in waves, fluttering on the glass like soft clouds, forming a layer of plump water droplets.

The cat's bed is diagonally opposite the kitchen. You can vaguely see a corner of the old blanket drooping down. The fat cat is lying in it like a corpse, snoring loudly to catch up on his sleep.

Chen Xiaoya looked at the dumplings rising and falling in the pot and suddenly felt a strange greed.

This feeling is very strange, and it is not just a physiological need for food - the boy couldn't explain what it was at the moment.

At this time, the neighbor had already turned his attention from Xiao Niao's marital status to asking, "Aren't you living alone? Who is that child?"

"what……"

Xiao Niao seemed to be stumped by the question, and his voice was drawn out.

Chen Xiaoya listened with her ears perked up. For some reason, she felt a little nervous.

“…It’s my child.”

Probably for fun.

It's also possible that Xiaoniao was too lazy to explain the complicated relationship between the two, so he just said it casually to fool his neighbors.

Chen Xiaoya inexplicably thought of what Aqiong said to him when they parted.

That is to say, crazy words like "I'll give you to her" and "I'll live a good life with her in the future".

Chen Xiaoya knew that it was just a joke from her good friend, but at this moment, she couldn't control her brain and couldn't help but think about what would happen after they "lived together".

The young man was thinking wildly, and inexplicably felt that every inch of his heart was filled up. Even a normal beat was frightening.

Suddenly, Chen Xiaoya felt that he was a little pathetic and a little mean. He was actually happy about such a sentence - which was not even enough to coax a child.

But there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.

This may mean that she is a person who is easily satisfied and will be very happy as long as she gets a little bit of something.

It was already dark when dinner was ready. They cleared the table and sat together to eat after a long time.

The dumplings are filled with shepherd's purse and taste very good.

Xiaoniao is also very good.

The remaining time of summer vacation passed by quickly.

Chen Xiaoya was very busy for the next few days - busy helping several kids with their summer homework.

If you haven't forgotten, at the beginning of summer vacation, in order to make money, Chen Xiaoya took on a lot of homework writing jobs.

It was only when school was about to start that she suddenly remembered this.

When we were in Taoyuan before, the kid hardly had two days of rest, and he had no free time to do his homework.

In addition, when Xiao Niao was injured and hospitalized, Chen Xiaoya ran to stay by his bedside to take care of him, and completely threw the matter to Java.

When she returned from her trip away from home, she was distressed to find that what greeted her was not a comforting hug, but a pile of papers 20 centimeters high.

My hands are a little rusty as I haven't done any exercises for a long time. Mathematics is okay, but I'm almost forgetting all the knowledge points in liberal arts. I have to look up the answers in books when I write.

She has been doing homework ghostwriting for more than three years, and this is the first time she has encountered such an extreme situation.

Given the current situation, it is probably impossible to finish the book if I continue to write step by step.

Chen Xiaoya was a little unwilling. She actually wasn't that short of money now, but she just didn't want to break the agreement.

Things that have been agreed upon must be fulfilled - children of her age are always particularly stubborn about such things.

Fortunately, high school started earlier than junior high school, which delayed her death.

The No. 1 Middle School in the city is under closed management and students are required to live on campus. However, freshmen will undergo a week of military training after the start of school, and will have two days of vacation at the end.

Chen Xiaoya could just take advantage of this time to bring the things back to He County, perfectly coinciding with the start of junior high school.

Xiao Niao probably knew what Xiao Ya did every day, so he was not angry. Instead, he found it a little curious and would occasionally pick it up and look through it.

Perhaps because of his leg injury, Xiao Niao doesn't like to go out very much. He stays at home during the day and sits down to rest whenever he has the chance.

Her hair had grown a little longer these days and was tied loosely with a rubber band, completely exposing the smooth, white skin at the back of her neck.

When Chen Xiaoya was writing furiously, Xiaoniao would sit on the other side of the desk and read his own things quietly.

Her hair is always tied loosely behind her head and her clothes are also casual styles.

Of course, Chen Xiaoya thought, this is also very beautiful, the bird looks beautiful no matter what.

This kid now has a very thick filter on him. Even if Xiao Niao is wearing shorts and a jacket and eating melon seeds like an old man taking a rest in front of her, Chen Xiaoya can still see that there is something unusual about him.

She almost greedily enjoyed the time she spent with Xiaoniao: after high school started, she would have to separate from Xiaoniao.

September came faster than expected. Chen Xiaoya composed herself and stepped into the high school campus of her dreams with an inexplicable melancholy.

Xiao Niao went to school with her, paid the tuition while Xiaoya was reporting, and also went through some procedures required for accommodation.

This time, she also became a student who was sent to school by someone, and no longer had to hide in the corner and look at others with envy.

Chapter 69: Little Bird: I’m Dirty

"Well... the money is just enough to spend..."

Xiao Niao looked at the pitiful three-digit number on the passbook and couldn't help but let out a sigh of poverty.

What a bad luck this year, she thought. Fortunately, she passed the qualification exam, so she should be able to earn some money after starting work...

"Don't be so dejected, bird," the system comforted her, "Even though you don't have much money anymore, you have a job now!"

Xiao Niao said in a depressed tone: "Salary will not be paid until the second month..."

System: [But you have a job now! ]

Xiao Niao rolled his eyes and said, "The prices in the city are much higher than in the county. I have to buy new everything..."

System: [But you have a job now! ]

Xiao Niao stopped talking. She was really fed up with this Shandong system.

She silently calculated the expenses for the next period of time in her mind.