Early the next morning, Shi Jing and Si Qi packed up and prepared to leave, Si Xiaojun walked out wrapped in a small padded jacket and was carried by Shi Junhan, waved at them from afar, and said: "Dad, Mommy, you have to go early and return early, pay attention to safety on the road, I will be obediently at home with my grandparents, you can rest assured, but don't forget to bring me something delicious when you come back, grandma said that Anqing's rock sugar gourd is very delicious, I want it." ”

Si Qi pinched his little face and responded with a smile: "Okay, as long as you are obedient, Mommy promises to bring you a lot back." ”

"Of course I'll be very well-behaved. Si Xiaojun held his head high and said, "Grandpa said that I am the most well-behaved child in the world, right, grandpa?"

Shi Junhan smiled and advised: "Pay attention to safety on the road, it may be snowing over there, there is ice on the road, and I have put the snow chain in the trunk, but it really can't be done, so I will add the chain." ”

Si Qi hurriedly said, "It's okay, we'll take care of safety." ”

Shi Jing probably hadn't experienced this kind of scene, so he could only stand aside silently, several times he wanted to say something, but because the skill of his tongue had been frozen for too long, he couldn't think of the right words after thinking about it for a long time, so he could only continue to remain silent.

At this time, Meng Shiyun suddenly took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, handed them to Shi Jing, and said, "This is the key to our family's old house in Anqing, if you want, you can go back and have a look." ”

Shi Jing subconsciously swallowed his saliva, was a little stunned, took the key in a daze, and then remembered and asked, "Isn't the old house already sold?"

Meng Shiyun said: "It was indeed sold, but it was bought by your grandfather who passed away a long time ago, he has not been willing to move this house all these years, the furnishings and arrangements inside are the same as before, he always looks forward to you going back to see, so he returned the house before he died, and your name was also written on the real estate certificate." ”

Shi Jing took the key tremblingly, and immediately held it tightly in the palm of his hand.

"Okay, although it's a delay, let's go quickly!" Shi Junhan saw that his expression was a little solemn, and he hurriedly diverted the topic.

After four hours of trekking, the two finally arrived at the toll booth to enter Anqing.

"It's snowing," Si Qi lowered the window and looked at the snow flying in the sky as he got off the highway and waited to get out of the toll booth, "It's so beautiful." ”

"Well, this snow is definitely going to fall overnight, and when you wake up tomorrow morning, the surrounding snow scene will be even more beautiful. Shi Jing took out his wallet to pay, and then followed the sign to the county, Si Qi thought that he had not returned to his hometown for eighteen years, and he would definitely not be familiar with the road, but he didn't expect Shi Jing to turn left and right, and he didn't even use navigation, so he successfully parked the car at the door of a restaurant, and said to her: "Let's go to lunch first, and then I want to go back to school to see." ”

Probably because although his eyes seemed calm, there seemed to be countless shadows flowing in the deep eyes, almost revealing some kind of mysterious halo, Si Qi keenly closed his mouth and nodded in agreement, the whole time of eating, Shi Jing was unusually silent, his lips were just chewing the food mechanically, his feet trembled slightly invisibly, and he couldn't even hold the food when he was shaking.

In an instant, Si Qi suddenly felt as if he had returned to the day when he was sleepwalking.

Anqing High School was only ten minutes away from the restaurant where they were eating, so Shi Jing parked his car in front of the bank opposite the school, and then led Si Qi into the school on foot.

It was probably the holiday time, and the doorman was not strict with the visitors, Si Qi casually said that they were going back to their alma mater to visit, and the doorman asked a few more words, and then agreed to let them in.

Shi Jing held Si Qi's hand tightly all the way, and walked forward silently, the temperature outside was very low, Si Qi felt that the thick down jacket was a little unable to resist the cold air coming out of the soles of his feet, but Shi Jing's hands were quite hot, especially his palms, which were almost a little hot, but his face was as pale as ever, without half a bit of blood, and even the blood on his lips faded cleanly.

Si Qi looked at him secretly, and didn't speak, just tightened his palm, and held his hand harder and harder, they walked the tree-lined path, passed through the small pavilion in the middle of the lake, bypassed the three teaching buildings, and walked half a circle along the basketball court before finally reaching the destination, Shi Jing stopped, raised his head slightly, in front of them was a seven-story building, look at the nameplate below, it was a comprehensive building.

She had read one before, and there was a sentence in it that she remembered vividly, that all a person's actions are affected by childhood experiences, so all cause and effect must be traced back to the very beginning of life.

Looking at this building, looking at Shi Jing's unusually weird and solemn look, and then thinking of the last time he met a female student jumping off the building in Jincheng, he caused sleepwalking, and those things that happened in the past are self-evident.

"That's where she jumped back then. After a long time, until a layer of snow accumulated on the clothes of the two people, Shi Jing suddenly opened his mouth, and his voice was a little difficult and hoarse: "She is a very good girl, and her academic performance is also very good, I am the president of the student union, she is the vice president, and the minister of literature and art, at that time I admired her and liked her very much, we made an appointment to enter the same university in the future, and then we were together." ”

Si Qi was stunned, her heart jumped wildly, she subconsciously held her breath, she secretly took two deep breaths, and finally stabilized her voice, and asked softly, "Why did she jump down?"

"I don't know, my father was an architectural designer at that time, often worked abroad, basically rarely returned to China, my mother was a class teacher, he was worried that my mother would be too tired, so he always wanted me to follow him to study abroad, at that time I happened to be in the second year of high school, after the whole family discussed, decided to wait for me to finish the second year of high school, go abroad to study the third year of high school, and then take the college entrance examination. Shi Jing whispered: "Suddenly one day, she wrote to ask me to meet on the roof of the office building, saying that there was something very important to ask me, I came to the appointment after the evening self-study, she stood on the edge of the roof, asked me if I didn't want her anymore, asked me if I wanted to break up with her, she said she liked me, liked it so much that she couldn't extricate herself, she said that there was only me in her world, let me not go abroad, don't give up on her." ”

Si Qi's breathing suddenly became a little difficult: "Didn't she know that you were going abroad?"

"No, she knew, she always knew, I never hid it from her. Shi Jing was silent for a moment, and said: "Since my father mentioned going abroad to me, I have discussed it with her, because we have agreed to study abroad together, and she was also very happy at the time, saying that I can familiarize her with the life abroad for her when I go abroad first, and when she gets out of the exam, with me as a guide, she will not be afraid of anything." ”

Si Qi's clenched heart was slightly lowered, relieved, leaned closer to him, and asked, "Then did you ask her why she asked you like that when she knew that you were going abroad?"

"She was very emotional at that time, she didn't listen to my explanation at all, she didn't listen to my persuasion, I desperately begged her to come down, desperately begged her to cherish her life, begged her not to punish me in this way. Shi Jing whispered softly: "But she didn't listen at all, she walked around the edge of the roof, saying that I didn't love her at all, otherwise I wouldn't leave her to go abroad alone, saying that she didn't like her at all, no matter how good her academic performance was, it was useless to say that she shouldn't live in this world at all, in fact, I wanted to save her, but she... She..."

Halfway through his speech, it was difficult to continue, and he couldn't stop trembling, as if he instantly returned to that night eighteen years ago, An Qing had just had the first heavy snowfall, and he was full of hope for the future, he received a letter from his sweetheart, carrying a bag of snacks, and rushed to the roof of the building excitedly, still thinking about whether they would have a show together at the New Year's Day party as the last memorial of their high school years.

However, when she arrived at the top of the building, she was greeted not by the bright smiling face and gentle but powerful encouragement of her sweetheart, but by the fact that his sweetheart seemed to have suddenly changed and become so strange.

She stood hysterically on the edge of the roof, constantly questioning, screaming, her face always smiling and distorted with despair, she didn't give him any chance at all, she didn't leave herself half a chance at all, she just fell so alive and so alive that he couldn't even tell whether she jumped off by herself, or if she was too excited to fall unexpectedly.

He only remembered that when he stumbled downstairs and rolled downstairs, he saw that the person who had fallen into the flower bed downstairs was already bloody and fleshy, his body was twisted into an arc that frightened him, his brain burst out, and blood poured into the ground, staining her snow-white down jacket and staining the white snow, the color of the blood was crimson and gorgeous, splashed on the ground, like a flower blooming in the snow.

is so cruel, so ruthless, not only burying the flower-like life of a young girl, but also burying the footsteps of a teenager who keeps running.

Her life is forever frozen in that moment, and his life is forever frozen in that moment, so that it keeps falling, and keeps falling, and finally falls into the abyss that no one can see, and the girl who was hurriedly buried created an indestructible cage for him, imprisoning him forever, he resisted, but failed, so he could only let himself gradually die in the dark.

"What happened later?" Si Qi asked cautiously, she was extremely anxious in her heart, but she didn't dare to urge, so she could only ask softly.

Shi Jing let go of her hand, covered her face suddenly, squatted down a little helplessly and desperately, hugged her shoulders tightly with her arms, as if trying to shrink herself into a ball, and after a long time, she heard him say in a trembling voice: " Later, her family came to the school and said that she jumped off the building because I seduced her, because I had an immoral relationship with her, and I was not responsible afterwards, so I forced her daughter to commit suicide, and they pulled up banners at the school gate, saying that I was a murderer, that I was a hooligan, that I should be shot, that I was not worthy to live in this world. ”

And so it was.

Si Qi suddenly felt as if someone had been pinched hard in the depths of her heart, and her soul was trembling in pain, she couldn't help but kneel on the ground, took Shi Jing in her arms, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said: "Not only did they come to the school to make trouble, did they also go to your house, to your mother's office, your father's company, Anqing County was not very developed eighteen years ago, and they could even make trouble all over the county, and they had to find a murderer with their daughter's death." ”