"is this necessary?"

"This is my decision, I'm not discussing it with you." The girl frowned, "I will call a car to take you there now. If you are on the way, we can go together, but if you don't want to, we can also separate and find our own way.

."

"...I hope you can give me a ride, thank you."

Yan Jingxing asked him honestly.

"Very good." Xie Yuzhi nodded with satisfaction, "Do you know where she is now?"

"I heard from Aunt Chunzao that she often goes to the beach to play alone."

"I see, the seaside...but isn't this target range too big?"

"I might know where she went."

Yan Jingxing whispered.

On the seaside, it is vast and free. There are only one person there and it will not affect the surroundings.

If Ji Chunzao is looking for a place to do what she wants to do, this is indeed the most suitable place.

The problem is just like what the girl in front of me said. I only know the two keywords "near Baiyue Town, seaside", but the scope is still too large, and it is impossible for them to find it.

However, if... if Ji Chunzao wants to be found by him, the answer may be the only one -

"Then let's leave now."

Xie Yuzhi clapped her hands without asking why, acting extremely decisive.

Fifteen minutes later, the two junior high school students carrying schoolbags had left the school gate.

*

"It should be in that direction. Along the road, can you see a rest stop? It's near there."

The black car drove smoothly on the suburban road.

Yan Jingxing, who was sitting in the back seat, pressed his face against the window, watching the scenery outside the car window speeding past, vaguely recognizing familiar intersections and signs, and explaining the location and direction to the driver.

Xie Yuzhi did not sit in the passenger seat, but sat next to him, holding her school bag and closing her eyes to relax.

Occasionally he couldn't help turning his head to look at her.

The girl's eyes were closed and she was sitting upright, her thick eyelashes trembling slightly like butterfly wings, casting shadows on her eyelids on her snow-white face.

Xie Yuzhi's breathing was long and steady, and Yan Jingxing began to wonder if she was really asleep. She was so motionless that she looked like a statue carved from jade.

"That place?"

The driver confirmed it to him.

"right."

Yan Jingxing took a deep breath.

Ji Chunzao was at the place where they first met - he wasn't sure about the answer.

But he had nowhere else to go.

"Just stop here."

Xie Yuzhi slowly opened her eyes.

"I'll go down with him for a walk, so you don't have to follow me."

"But, miss..."

The driver hesitated to speak. Yan Jingxing naturally noticed that the person who came this time was not the one who uniformed Teacher Gao last time. It seemed that Xie Yuzhi had more than one driver at home.

"Twenty minutes, just give us twenty minutes."

Xie Yuzhi put her schoolbag aside, pushed the door open from the passenger side and jumped out of the car with very neat movements.

…

Today's sky is gloomier than usual. Where the sea and sky meet in the distance, gray clouds are gathering, and the blue sky is obscured by haze, like a sign of an approaching storm.

The rolling sea water slapped on the rocks, like the wet tongue spit out by a giant sea beast; amidst the whistling wind, the waves were getting higher and higher, hitting the bedrock under the road, causing a huge splash of water.

"The weather is not very good. Is it going to rain?"

He pitched the tent with his hands and looked into the distance, feeling a little worried in his heart.

"We find her as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible."

The attitude of the class captain is the same as before, as calm as if he has never been affected by the outside world.

The two of them walked along the guardrail along the coast. Yan Jingxing silently recalled the scene that day and determined his current location.

is it here?

We are already some distance from the rest stop, haven’t we arrived yet?

No, it seemed that he ran away last time...

Or maybe I guessed wrong? This possibility is relatively high.

He was so uneasy that he couldn't help but break the silence:

"What if Chunzao isn't here..."

"You mean you're not sure? Maybe our trip was in vain?"

"I said 'maybe' from the beginning."

"That's really too bad." Xie Yuzhi sighed, "Wasting my time is a felony. As punishment, I will ask the driver to leave you here and let you find a way back alone."

"..."

Yan Jingxing opened his mouth in shock, and then saw her frowning slightly.

"I'm just kidding."

"Don't scare people, okay? I don't think most people can tell if you are joking or not."

He replied angrily.

"I just want you to relax a little."

There was no "laughing" in Xie Yuzhi's expression. She quickly changed the topic.

"She probably didn't run away from home for no reason, right? Even if you find her, have you thought about how to persuade her?"

Yan Jingxing did not answer.

The class captain didn't know the reason, but he knew it very well.

Can he convince Chun Zao to change her mind? Or rather, can anyone really stop her from making up her mind?

Moreover, although he had obviously agreed before, in Ji Chunzao's view, his sudden return might seem inexplicable.

"If she can't be found here, do you have any other ideas?"

"Hmm... maybe in the nearby forest? Do you know which mountain her parents disappeared from?"

"You and I have the same idea. But if you want to organize people to search the mountain, it will be a different situation. Depending on the situation, you have to call the police first."

"You are willing to make such a big show of things for her..."

Although he knew that the girls around him didn't like this topic, Yan Jingxing couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that Ji Chuncao's statement that "the captain, classmate, takes care of her like a mother" was really not a casual statement.

"If you want to do it, you have to do it to the end. I don't like to give up halfway, that's all."

Xie Yuzhi stared at the undulating sea in the distance under the gray sky and answered in a low voice.

…

A few minutes later, Yan Jingxing saw an extremely familiar figure.

After such a long distance, she was like a small black dot standing on the rock. But he still recognized her at first sight and couldn't help shouting:

"Spring algae——!"

He was a little excited and immediately waved in that direction.

The girl turned around.

Every inch of her clothes was dancing in the strong wind blowing in her face, and her long black hair stretched back like dark clouds falling from the sky.

Then, he heard laughter.

"Hehe...hahahaha...hahahaha..."

The clear laughter was drowned in the sound of wind and ocean tide in the background. Yan Jingxing was frightened when he heard the faint laughter.

What are you laughing at? Why is it so weird?

"——I succeeded!"

Ji Chunzao put his hands to his mouth and shouted with all his strength to the two people in the distance, so hard that he bowed down.

"I...succeeded!"
Chapter completed!