Healing Sunshine

Chapter 5.2 - You Are By My Side

The next day, when it was almost time to leave, to Great aunt's home came a boy named Jeong Jaehyun.

The boy was rather timid, from his looks, seemed two or three years older than Lalisa.

That boy visited out of his admiration, with a low voice spoke a few words with Jungkook. He said, he wanted to leave that place, not only leave by himself, but also taking together with him the people in the village away for a life with more dignity. Great aunt laughed. The town chief who came to see Jungkook off also laughed, poking the young boy's forehead saying, the child is foolish, never mind that his grades aren't good, he still likes to daydream. The town chief also said, in the future, being able to earn a lot of money to marry a wife is more important.

This town had more than three thousand people, already considered to be a big town.

Three thousand people, still not as many as the number of people on the tiny campus of the attached high school.

Knowledge alters lives, but not having knowledge...

Lalisa stretched out her hands over the stove to warm herself, unable to imagine how, apart from doing manual labor, this young older brother could make it through.

But, just relying on manual labor...would he really be able to fulfill his dreams?

Jungkook stretched out his hands, pulling the little boy in front of him, spoke to him very clearly: "Have the courage bear on your shoulder the person you dream of becoming, only then would you have the chance to become the person in other people's dreams."

As the boy listened to this sentence, his eyes glimmered, only to be filled with shame after a short moment, "...I only think about being able to change myself, change the lives of the the brothers who are by my side, want to earn a lot of money, want to live a life that is better than other people's."

He smiled, encouraging the boy without any reservations: "There is nothing wrong with this."

She thought about his words.

When the two had gotten on the car, Lalisa finally asked him in a low voice: "Why, didn't you tell him to have a bigger dream?

This would be more like the standard teaching they received from a young age.

She looked at Great aunt, town chief, and Jaehyun who came to see them off by the side of the car, all of a sudden feeling loath to part with Great aunt who had taught her how to sew.

He also looked out the window, but was in fact answering her question: "You cannot ask a person with a hungry stomach to selflessly sacrifice, right? It's not only saving the world that can be called 'an ideal'."

She considered it, softly gave out an "um".

Suddenly, she saw him use his fingers to feel below his left pocket, that was the spot which she had stitched up the night before. She was embarrassed, "Great aunt said, patching up wouldn't make it look nice, such a good piece of clothing, just stitch it up for now, so that the hole doesn't get bigger. Wait until we go back in Beijing, then have a professional seamstress take care of it."

As the car drove on, it snowed; on the road, the cars they passed by were extremely few.

Perhaps it was as the driver had said, this place was not yet a scenic area, so it was only extremely adventurous young people who would come. Half way through, they ran into a group of people whose car had broken down, the driver was very kind, got off the car and quickly helped them. Those three grown boys from that car came over, talked to Jungkook.

However, Jungkook actually did not pay them much attention.

It was only when the driver called out Jungkook's name, telling him that they were almost ready to leave, that one of the three grown boys was suddenly taken by surprise, very excitedly grasped the car window with his hands and poked his head in, "You are Jungkook? Jeon Jungkook from Dong Cheng? I am Choi Soobin, I am Jung Hoseok's cousin-brother, just got an offer from Pennsylva, I am your junior-to-be."