Xiao Muhua, cross the ocean 3
By then, he would forget about her. He would even forget about taking her to the other side of the sea.
This is what Xiao Muhua guessed, but she still held a glimmer of hope in her heart. She didn't want the result to be like this.
But, but...
Muhua's guess became a reality more than three months later.
Muhua saw a photo of Chen Hui from someone else. In the photo, he was hugging a beautiful stranger girl, and both of them had happy smiles on their faces.
"Brother Chen Hui has found a girlfriend." Muhua forced a smile and looked at the classmate who showed her the photo.
The classmate said, "Yes, my sister and Chen Hui were classmates. She sent this to me." "That's great. I can find such a beautiful girlfriend in Beijing. I also want to go to Beijing to find a handsome guy!" Muhua laughed, but her heart felt like a knife was cutting.
The classmate stuck out his tongue at Muhua: "Girls should be reserved!"
Xiao Muhua doesn't want to be reserved. Being too reserved will make you lose a lot of people. Being reserved is when you see a kite you like flying in the sky, but for some reason of your own or others, you don't look for the string. Then, the string breaks, and the kite flies farther and farther.
Who wants to be reserved? Muhua doesn’t.
Muhua not only doesn't want to be reserved, she also doesn't want to be pitifully humble.
Chen Hui was together with another girl, but Muhua, who had always had a crush on Chen Hui, did not shed a single tear.
Of course her heart would hurt, after all, she had liked him before.
But Muhua quickly adjusted her mindset and continued to focus all her attention on studying.
Because she felt that Chen Hui was not everything in her life, even when she returned home from school she couldn't help but take a look at Chen Hui's house.
However, this little bit of longing will surely be diluted by time soon.
By the way, she doesn’t know yet that there is a fat boy in her class with mediocre grades, who rose four places in the last monthly exam.
Muhua is eighteen years old and Muto is fourteen years old.
Fourteen-year-old Mu Tou can already complete some carpentry work independently. His father has been working very hard in recent years, and the family conditions are much better than before.
Dad looked at Mu Tou who was busy planing wood and asked, "Mu Tou, do you want to study?"
Mu Tou got startled and the plane fell, almost hitting his foot. Mu Hua, who was washing socks nearby, also raised her head when she heard this.
Dad laughed and said, "Mu Tou, I've told the town school about you. As long as I go through the relevant procedures and change your name, they will be able to enroll you."
"Dad, is this true?" Muhua ran over without even having time to wipe her hands.
"Really." Dad was really happy. "Mu Tou, go study. You are a boy and Dad can't hold you back. Your sister will take the college entrance examination soon and she has completed more than half of her studies. You can't fall behind her."
Mu Tou had a complicated expression. He was excited. Such a family with no blood relationship with him raised him, taught him carpentry skills, and supported his education. He originally felt that he was unfortunate to be abandoned by his biological parents, but at this moment, he felt that he was the luckiest.
However, Mutou still has concerns: "My sister is going to college, and it will cost more money."
"It doesn't matter!" Muhua said first, "I can work part-time while I'm in college, I can apply for subsidies for poor students, and I can even apply for scholarships! Mu, I will work hard, and you just study hard, okay?"
Mu Tou looked at his father and his father smiled at him too.
Mu Tou cried. The little boy of fourteen years old tried to hold back his tears in front of his father and sister, but his tears kept falling down.
It doesn’t matter, because the tears the wood shed are tears of happiness.
That night, Dad, Muhua and Mutou sat together around a lamp. Dad was looking through the dictionary, Muhua borrowed a cell phone, and Mutou had a piece of paper in front of him with all kinds of names written on it.
"What name should we give the child?" Dad adjusted his glasses while flipping through the dictionary.
Muhua was searching online with her phone, hoping to find a better name, but she couldn't find any she liked.
Mu Tou looked at his father and then at his sister and asked, "Isn't it good to just call him Mu Tou, Lin Mu Tou?"
"Not good." Muhua poked his little head and said, "Wooden, wooden, you were a small piece of wood when you were young, don't become a big piece of wood when you grow up."
"But Little Wood is the name my father and sister gave me. I'm used to it."
Muhua said earnestly: "We can continue to call you Mu Tou, but others can't." Mu Tou nodded, shut up, and listened to his father and sister.
Dad frowned and asked, "How is Lin Qiang? He's very strong!"
"You're so unsophisticated, Dad." Muhua said with disdain.
Dad smiled foolishly: "Then... let's continue thinking."
Muhua scratched his head, took the paper from the wood, crossed out some of the words with a pen, and finally left only a few words on it.
She poked her head with the tip of a pen, thought for a while, and then an idea flashed in her mind, and she said, "Boan, how about calling me Boan? Lin Boan!"
His name is Boan, which means knowledgeable, stable and secure.
"Lin Boan." Mu Tou chewed on the name, and light slowly appeared in his eyes.
"This is a good name, it means knowledgeable and stable." Dad also likes this name very much.
"Haha, An An." Muhua reached out and rubbed Mu Tou's hair. Mu Tou's little face flushed slightly under the light.
Little Mu had a new name - Lin Boan. Not only that, he also became a student at Qingshui Town Middle School. Although he had never studied in school before, his grades were close to those of top students in just a few months.
Mu Tou is very hardworking, a hundred times harder than when he was studying with his sister.
He and his sister go to the same school, one in the junior high school and the other in the senior high school. They get out of school and go home together, and eat together. All the classmates in Mutou's class know that Lin Boan has a sister named Muhua, who is a top student, and they are all very envious of him.
Muhua studied with her brother, and her grades got better and better. In the year of the college entrance examination, she was already the first in the whole grade, and she was far ahead of the second place.
In the last monthly exam of the year of the college entrance examination, Fang Yuan ranked 19th in the class. When Mu Hua noticed this change in Fang Yuan, they only had one last competition left.
In the hot June, Fang Yuan stopped Muhua under the shade of a tree and said to her, "I only ranked 19th in the class last time, and you ranked first in the grade, Lin Muhua, I lost."
Muhua didn't understand: "What did you lose?"
"It's nothing. If I lose, I lose!" Fang Yuan crossed his arms and said, "I...I accepted the offer. If I can't beat you in the exam, I will run naked around Qingshui Town."
"Why?" Muhua was puzzled.
Fang Yuan frowned. What did she mean? She was the one who proposed the bet. Is she pretending to be stupid now? Fang Yuan was anxious. He stamped his feet in anger and said, "Why? Because I'm a man!"
Muhua stared straight at Fangyuan. Fangyuan felt a chill down his spine and took a step back guiltily: "Is there...something wrong?"
Muhua was like a mother scolding her son who had failed to behave himself. She casually broke off a branch from the tree and hit Fangyuan with it. Fangyuan screamed in pain and cursed, "What are you doing? Are you crazy?"
"Idiot!" Muhua threw away the branch, put his hands on his hips, and said, "I made a bet with you so that you wouldn't be so self-righteous! Isn't it enough that you've hurt me with your mouth? Do you really want to run naked? Aren't you ashamed? Even your parents are ashamed of you!"
"You were the one who brought it up first. Why are you like this?" Fang Yuan was both angry and confused.
"You're so stupid! Just like a pig." Muhua felt that this fat man was hopeless, shook his head and left.
Fang Yuan really didn't understand why women always kept their promises. He even gave up his dignity just to prevent her from looking down on him.
Why did she scold him when he came to the appointment?
The fat boy scratched the back of his head, puzzled.
A few days later, Muhua and Fangyuan took the college entrance examination together.
After the college entrance examination, Fang Yuan chased Muhua and asked her where the application she had filled in was.
Muhua said, "Why are you asking me? Do you want to go to the same school as me? Fatty Fang, you won't be able to get in with your grades!"
"If I can't pass the exam, I'll buy points." Fang Yuan said confidently.
Muhua glared at him: "You can only buy points with your little ability!"
Fang Yuan didn't know how to fight back against Muhua. If he couldn't go to the same university as her, then he would never have a chance to beat Muhua again.
It was really annoying. Why did he care so much about winning or losing against Lin Muhuajian? Fang Yuan couldn't figure it out.
Fang Yuan ultimately failed to get into Muhua University, but he was admitted to another university in the same city as Muhua University.
When Fang Yuan was admitted to university, his parents filled the main street of Qingshui Town with banquets. But when Mu Hua was admitted to university, she ate stir-fried pork with chili peppers in the yard with her father and brother.
Listening to the noisy sounds coming from the street outside, Dad swallowed the last bite of his steamed bun and stood up: "Muhua, Mumu, let's go to the best restaurant in the county to eat!"
"Ah? Go to the county?" Mu Tou asked in surprise. He had only been to the county to eat once in his life.
"Yes! Muhua, put the food in. We have been admitted to a better university, so we deserve a better banquet. Let's go!" Dad patted his chest proudly. Muhua smiled and quickly brought all the food into the house.
Dad had bought a brand new tricycle some time ago. He rode on the festive tricycle as if he were riding on a Rolls-Royce. After Muhua and Mutou jumped on the tricycle, Dad drove the tricycle rumbling through the bustling area.
Fang Yuan looked at Muhua and Muto who were smiling in the car from afar, with an unhappy look on his face.
Fang Yuan's mother shouted, "Muhua Dad, where are you going?"
Dad deliberately answered loudly: "My daughter got into college, let's go to the best restaurant in the county for dinner!"
Muhua and Mutou giggled, but Fang Yuan's mother looked embarrassed.
That day was truly the most carefree day for the Lin family.
September soon arrived and Muhua was about to report to school.
The distance is nearly a thousand kilometers, and Dad is very busy at work, so Muhua has to go there alone.
Next to the train station, Dad and Mutou stood by to see Muhua off. Muhua looked at the huge clock at the train station and was reluctant to leave.
Mu Tou was also reluctant to leave, and his eyes turned red when the wind blew.
"Lin Muhua, wait for me!" Not far away, Fang Yuan ran over dragging a suitcase, then stopped beside Muhua, panting heavily.
"Fatty Fang, you should lose weight!" Muhua moved aside unhappily, then she looked at her father and Mu Tou, "Dad, brother, I'm leaving, you guys take good care of yourselves at home."
Dad didn't say anything and lowered his head slightly.
Mu Tou felt very sad, because he had never been separated from his sister before: "Sister, don't worry about us. You are alone outside, so take good care of yourself."
"Well, Mu Tou is so good." Muhua scratched little Mu Tou's nose affectionately.
Dad still didn't say a word.
"Dad..." Muhua called out "Dad" softly.
Dad finally raised his head slowly and said in a hoarse voice: "Muhua, you have made progress. Dad is happy for you."
Muhua knew what her father was thinking. She smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "Dad, I will be back after the Chinese New Year. Don't worry, no matter how I am out there, I will never forget you and your brother. Little Muhua will cross the ocean and become braver and braver, but she will never forget her home and her family, never."
Dad wiped his tears and said to Muhua with a smile: "Dad is confident in you. Dad will work harder, and so will your brother."
Xiao Muhua took a few steps forward, hugging her father in one hand and holding the wood in the other.
The more she talked, the more reluctant she felt, so she had to remain silent.
After a while, the tears on Xiao Muhua's face disappeared, replaced by a bright smile. She carried her luggage in one hand, waved to her father and Mu with the other hand, and retreated towards the train station. Finally, she turned around quickly and walked forward without any hesitation.
Dad and Mu Tou stood straight, watching Xiao Muhua's back disappear into the crowd until she could no longer be seen.
He didn't like separation, no matter how old he was. But Muhua was his child, she would grow up slowly, leave his protection and fly on her own, and he had to support her.
"Dad." Mu Tou held his father's hand and called him softly.
There was a smile in Dad's wrinkles. He took the fourteen-year-old Mu Mu's hand and turned around slowly.
"Let's go, little wood."
Half a year later, we came here to pick up my sister and said to her:
Xiao Muhua, let’s go home together.
