Chapter 41: School (1/2)

Teacher Xia led the children to walk slowly along the beach, while walking back to the hotel.

Xia Ye walked on the other side, blocking the cold air for the little guy. It wasn’t that cold outside, but he still did this unconsciously.

Teacher Xia found this interesting, and then felt a little emotional.

He was not in good health, and he didn’t know how many years he has left to stay with Xia Ye, or ever get the chance to see Xia Ye start his own family and have his own children.

The little guy that he was holding shook a bit, the child pulled his fingers and raised his head excitedly: ”Uncle, my brother gave me a pink shell, it's so big and beautiful!”

Teacher Xia smiled and said, ”Really, what else did your brother give you?”

”Nothing!”

The child laughed very happily, as if a shell easily satisfied him.

Xia Ye quarreled with him, ”Nonsense, I gave you two pieces of candy yesterday.”

”Huh? But didn’t brother say, you would trade sugar for shells?”

”…Didn't you give me those shells?”

”Well?”

”Less talking and more walking!”

The young one argued in a low voice, but the child pretended like he did not understand, and took small steps to hide from Teacher Xia, halfway through Xia Ye picked up his collar and began to tickle him, the little guy laughed and couldn't help begging for mercy: ”Brother, good! Brother is good!”

Teacher Xia couldn't help but laughed too. He had never seen such a soft little simple child. Even if he was being bullied, he only knew how to flatter and beg for mercy. He looked at his son, and then at the little guy who was picked up and held, his eyes softened.

He has walked half of his life, facing his son, there were many regrets, but when the little guy beside him had just struggled to live his life, he had to take every step carefully to survive.

He could not imagine the despair that Tang Hongjun and his wife had experienced in the past few years, but he and his son feel the same thing.

They are all reluctant to give up, they all want to live to see the day of tomorrow.

One day after another, being able to open your eyes to the sun shining on your face in the morning, is a kind of joy that it is hard to describe.

Xia Ye didn't tease the child much, and quickly put him down and let Teacher Xia walk with him, as they held hands.

Tang Jinyu was very close to Teacher Xia, as they continued to walk he told him about the new discoveries that happened in the last couple of days. When they approached their destination, he only had a few things left to say. Teacher Xia listened patiently, and whenever the little guy asked him about himself, he told the child how work was for the last couple of days as well.

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”This is my first time to conduct a large-scale concert in all my years, it went better than what I expected.

in the past few years. It is better than I expected. It is considered a successful completion of my mission.”

”Uncle has always played good!”

Tang Jinyu had watched the video tapes conducted by Teacher Xia before. The Xia family had only a few volumes. The one Xia Ye showed him was the last time Teacher Xia played his violin solo on stage, and his response was very enthusiastic.

Xia Ye eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he looked at his father nervously.

The smile on Teacher Xia's lips froze, and he didn't say a word. After a few minutes, he sighed softly and said, ”Uncle used to do bad things and make some mistakes.”

The child looked up at him, his eyes fell on his chest, and asked, ”Was it because of your bad health?”

Teacher Xia took his hand and nodded and said, ”Yes, yes.”

At that time, because of the divorce from his wife, he could hardly fall asleep, and his body was already poor in health. The consequence of forcing himself to go onstage caused him to faint and mess up an important concert. The mistake was so serious that he himself couldn't pass the hurdle in his heart.

He resigned and left the orchestra. Soon after, he took his son back to his hometown alone. To this day, even if he did perform like how he used to, there was no chance for him to go back to that. He wasn’t able to deal with his feelings and from the stress from work during that time, he felt terrible, he was depressed and he wasn’t able to play anymore. For many years, he couldn’t find it in himself to go back on stage.

”Wrong, you can change it.”

The child shook his fingers and said as he walked, ”It's difficult, I miss playing the harmonica.”

Teacher Xia looked down at him, the child kicked his feet and walked with his little toes out in the open of his shoes.

The child took his hand and said seriously: ”It will take a long time to change, we will work hard together~”

Teacher Xia was stunned, he nodded and smiled: ”Okay, I will work hard with Xiaoyu in the future.”

After enjoying the sunshine on the small island for a few days and eating a few seafood feasts, the family left.

When they took the boat back, they happened to see a group of dolphins.

Everyone on the boat went to see, Tang Jinyu was also picked up by Xia Ye and taken over to take a look. The child looked seriously, but he was also very careful. As soon as he approached the ship’s fence, he hugged Xia Ye’s neck tightly, and watched the dolphins in curiosity. He turned his head and he saw Chen Suling behind him, his eyes immediately curved as he said with a smile: ”Mom, look a dolphin! There are so many dolphins~”

Chen Suling held his little hand, took him from Xia Ye, and watched the dolphins in her arms.

Tang Hongjun took the camera behind his back. He took a few photos of the mother and son behind him. The university he and his wife are studying at is also close to the sea. Although it is not here, the sea was very beautiful. His biggest wish was that the three members of his family could come to the seaside to relive the past together.

He once said that when they have a small family, and have their own baby, they will bring their child to the beach to play. He would teach his baby how to swim, and tell them about the land and sea…

But, he never said this again

Their baby is different from ordinary people's children. This child needs more care and more love to survive.

Being able to go to the beach was already enough for both of them.

They tacitly told each other this and didn't mention it again.

In the past few years, what they worry most every day is going to the hospital, they were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to take their son home, and never see their baby again.