Chapter XXII
For Ah Fei, throughout the semester, from his original intention at the beginning to later, many things made him have to face up to the next situation.
The school year is about to enter the final stage, and no matter how good or bad the test results are, it will not affect their subsequent further education.
In Ah Fei's memories, there is one person who is very important to him. His name is Yan Bo. It was what happened when they were about to graduate from school that year, and of course Ah Fei was not going to end his life from school so soon, and he still had two or three years to go.
He first met Yan Bo at an exchange meeting in the town. This kind of gathering seems to happen once a year in every place, and many vendors carry their things, set up tents on both sides of the streets of the town, selling all kinds of daily necessities, and there are also many skilled people on the main streets of the town, carrying shelves and selling handicrafts and food.
From noon, people from the remote areas around the town poured in, and many goods were greatly discounted, driving this trade economy.
This is also the fact that many heads of households with facades earn extra income every year. The first time he and Yan Bo met was at a place where books were sold, and that kind of books were counted on a one-time basis by catties.
It doesn't matter if the content of the book is the same or not. Yan Bo's hair seems to have not changed in Ah Fei's opinion, it is very long and fluffy, as if he has not been taken care of, and the gray jacket that has not changed all year round is equipped with a pair of black striped pants, which is what he has always dressed.
At the door of this bookstore, Ah Fei likes geography and history books as much as he does, and the two of them coincide, flipping through the same books back and forth.
With the same hobby, it will soon become social. During the chat, Ah Fei knew that he was from Maoling, which was in the southeast of the town, several ridges were connected together, and many people lived there, and the geographical location was close to the bottom of the mountain.
He is a person who likes to talk to people, and it may also be the reason why his age and experience are higher than Ah Fei, and Ah Fei has also gained a lot of interesting things from him.
It was the first time they met, and Ah Fei had a good impression of this person. This man has his own unique ideas and opinions on many different historical issues.
Later, when Ah Fei was in school, he also saw him wearing the same clothes many times on the playground with a book wandering in the sky, for these people, without a confidant and friend, they are more willing to deal with books alone.
came and went, and the relationship between the two slowly developed better on the way to chatting, although they were several grades apart.
This winter is approaching, which means that the college entrance examination is coming. Ah Fei rarely saw Yan Bo on the playground later, which may also be a problem of pressure, and many senior high school students disappeared.
The college entrance examination means that the fish jumps over the dragon gate, that is the first time in a person's life to be able to choose the opportunity to change their fate, the fog is very foggy in the early morning of March, Ah Fei also went to school very late, and in the security department at the school gate, he saw Yan Bo's figure, next to his bicycle, standing alone at the door, he would occasionally raise his head to look.
There was a middle-aged man in his forties in the security department, chattering on the table and communicating with the school administrators.
The vice principal seems to be there, and has been persuading the middle-aged man. Yan Bo looked up at the door and saw Ah Fei at the same time, he didn't have any expression on his face today, just nodded at Ah Fei with a wooden smile.
Ah Fei didn't think much about it, turned his head to look at him, and walked to the back of the teaching building without stopping as if he had finished saying hello.
In March of that year, Ah Fei's grandfather passed away. The blacksmith, who had been fighting iron all his life, finally collapsed from illness.
It was the first time Ah Fei experienced the death of a loved one, three days before he died, Ah Fei went to visit him at home, and grabbed Ah Fei at the head of the bed, although he wanted to open his mouth to say something to Ah Fei in front of him, he only opened his mouth for a long time and did not make a sound, only quietly shed muddy tears from the corners of his eyes on both sides.
Three days later, the news of his grandfather's death came out, and Ah Fei also asked Brother Bo for a few days off to go home to organize the funeral with his aunts and uncles.
The death of his grandfather meant nothing to Ah Fei at this time, and things seemed to have degraded faintly since then, and Yan Bo was not seen in the school.
It was the beginning of the second year, about the first anniversary of Ah Fei's grandfather's death, there was a shocking tragedy in the town, a family of five, four of them were a husband and wife, including a five-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter.
The thirteen-year-old eldest daughter also escaped the disaster because she went to school in the morning, and the news soon spread, and people also held various theories.
What kind of burglary, the man offended the society by doing business, and who clashed with the surrounding neighbors, and so on.
It was also after the third day that the official report came out. A young man named Yan Bo was armed with a sharp axe and committed a crime.
This news caused an uproar. Some of the school's teachers were also shocked. For them, the name Yan Bo is not unfamiliar, and it has been more than half a year since they graduated from high school.
Ah Fei is also familiar with him, how could a person with independent ideas and good knowledge do such a thing.
The case of destroying the door is very colorful in the town, and the only most correct one is the time when Ah Fei saw Yan Bo at the school gate the year before, and the combination of the two finally unfolded the ins and outs of the case.
It was three months before the earthquake, Yan Bo went to school from home in the morning, not far from the school, a middle-aged man was reversing out of the garage, which was also the reason for the fog, no one paid attention to it, Yan Bo saw the car exit at close range, thinking that the driver would see him in the rearview mirror, so he rode forward, who knew that the driver did not notice, Yan Bo's bicycle hit straight up.
For people living in Maoling, it is a barren land, obviously Yan Bo has not experienced this kind of thing, he was at a loss for the first time when he got off the bicycle, the middle-aged man who was driving heard the sound of the rear of the car, and also stopped and opened the door to see, the scratches are not big, and it looks like a few centimeters, this is a coupe of about 200,000 yuan.
Next to him was Yan Bo, he didn't know what he was thinking, maybe the issue of compensation made him dare not explain.
The middle-aged man was angry, and he stepped forward and exhaled with a mouth. Yan Bo came back to his senses and didn't say anything, and immediately reacted and kept apologizing.
The next scene is the scene that Ah Fei saw at the school gate. It wasn't until two months later when he arranged to identify the scene that Ah Fei saw Yan Bo from the crowd, his hair was very short and thin, and he didn't have the previous mess.
A pair of cloth shoes and the gray jacket, looking around at the eyes were so dazed, he didn't dare to look at the people around him, he was very afraid.
Ah Fei wanted to call him, but there were too many people around. Almost after the identification of the scene was over, Yan Bo was escorted to the car by the armed police, and the surrounding cordon was also dismantled.
Yan Bo got into the car, Ah Fei ran over, through the glass on the car, Yan Bo seemed to see Ah Fei on the side, just like a year ago, he nodded lightly, there was no more Mu Ne at that time.
He already knew his end. Ah Fei looked at it for a long time and couldn't reply, and the alarm sounded. Seeing that all the vehicles were moving, they drove towards the location of the county seat.
That was the last time I saw him. A few years later, Ah Fei accidentally saw traces engraved with the word Yan Bo in the corner of the prison wall, and the peeling wall skin had long been blurred, and Ah Fei didn't know what kind of feeling he would have at that time.