Early the next morning, when Xiao Yao sent her and Zhou Weiai's schoolbags to their classes from Zhang Xiaoya's house in the town, he heard a very surprising news in their classrooms. Zhu Xihuan didn't come to school, and his second brother was killed last night.

Zhang Xiaoya and Zhou Weiai also looked at Xiao Yao silently, a little sad and speechless. After all, yesterday everyone was still fishing together and having a lot of fun, and after only one night, the people were gone, which is really unacceptable.

"I'll take a look. ”

"Brother Xiao Yao, where are you going? I won't allow you to go!"

Xiao Yao comforted the two of them, turned around and walked out of the junior high school classroom, and Zhang Xiaoya and Zhou Weiai chased them out. Zhou Weiai grabbed Xiao Yao, and after realizing it, she also thought that Xiao Yao was going to Zhu Xihuan's house. She grabbed Xiao Yao's hand and didn't let go, and even Zhang Xiaoya came to hold the other hand. provoked the attention of their classmates.

"Xiaoai, Xiaoya, I have to go, don't worry, I won't go to anyone for revenge, and I won't do stupid things. I didn't go to look at it, and I was uneasy. ”

"Then I'll go with you. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to go. ”

"I'll go too. ”

The stubborn Xiaoai is not relenting, and Xiaoya will follow. Xiao Yao and the two of them talked and explained for a long time, but this bicycle was not easy to ride with the two of them, and the road was far away, the road conditions were bumpy, and so on and so on. In the end, after agreeing to bring Xiao Ai alone, they let go and agreed to Xiao Yao's going.

Xiao Yao took Xiao Ai to the door of his dormitory together, and told Xiao Ai to wait at the door, he went in and took out all the dozens of yuan in the box and put it in his pocket. came to his class again, found Wang Jiajia and Huang Li, called them out of the classroom, told them about the situation, and asked them to help him ask for leave. After Huang Li learned about it, she also said that she was going and asked Xiao Ai not to go. Xiao Ai resolutely refused, she quietly pulled Huang Li aside, and whispered to Huang Li:

"Sister Huang Li, the second brother was killed. I don't know what's going on over there yet, I'm worried that Brother Xiao Yao has gone, and if he learns any news, he will be wild, and I'm afraid you won't be able to stop him. ”

"If we can't stop it, you can stop it?"

"Well, I know I'm no bigger than you, so I can't stop it. But when I was going to cry, I stopped him from crying. You can't cry as much as I do, so I have to go. ”

Huang Li saw that what Xiao Ai said was in order, and she also knew that something was really happening, with her weak and firm character, she would be desperate to protect Xiao Yao's safety, and it would be difficult to fight anymore. I had to send Xiao Yao and Xiao Ai to the side of the road outside the school with Wang Jiajia, a thousand reminders, and ten thousand instructions. and repeatedly asked Xiao Ai to be optimistic about Xiao Yao. Only then did he look at them nervously, rode his bicycle, and left quickly.

Following the dirt road that he had just walked back from last night, Xiao Yao struggled forward. The warmth of walking with the three girls on his back last night has not yet dispersed, and today he is walking back to mourn with grief and indignation. Xiao Yao was so anxious that he pedaled the bicycle to the fastest. Zhou Weiai sat in the back of the car, gritting her teeth and enduring the pain caused by the violent bumps. She is no longer just grabbing Xiao Yao's clothes, but hugging Xiao Yao's waist to death, and repeatedly asking Xiao Yao to ride slowly.

It's still those mud-walled thatched huts, or the familiar gate. At this time, under the window outside Zhu Xihuan's parents' room, a simple spiritual shed was erected with four bamboos as columns, and a few grass handles were thrown at random to block the sunlight. He was covered in blood and lifeless. Zhu Xihuan's mother cried beside her eldest son, and the people in the house were in and out, busy.

Zhu Xihuan's little sister, the first to see Xiao Yao coming, shouted Xiao Yao's brother, so she ran over directly, threw herself into Xiao Yao's arms, howling and crying, her delicate little face was covered with tears and dirt, Xiao Yao was very distressed when she saw it, took out the handkerchief that Xiao Ai gave him, and wiped it for Zhu Xiaoyan. Zhu Xihuan, his father and third sister also walked out of the house, and they all cried and their eyes were red. Zhu Xihuan's third sister cried to Xiao Yao and told the whole story.

It turned out that after Xiao Yao and the others left after dinner, Zhu Xichun was going to watch a movie, and Zhu Xihuan didn't go to see it because he had to get up early to go to school today, only Zhu Xiaomei went with him. During the movie, there was a fight between two groups of people, and the scene was very chaotic. Zhu Xichun, who has always been honest, has very little courage, and ran back with his sister, but he didn't run far, and he was caught up, they mistakenly thought that Zhu Xichun was also a person involved in the fight and was running away, and was stabbed three times by the person from the back, with a triangular scraper, and Zhu Xichun fell to the ground on the spot. Zhu Xiaomei even shouted, but no one noticed. By the time the scene settled down, Zhu Xichun had already died of anger. The man who killed Zhu Xichun, a member of a local gang, had been arrested by the police who arrived later and taken to the county jail.

Hearing this, Xiao Yao's intestines were full of regret, if he stayed and went to watch a movie with him last night, Zhu Xichun might not die. If I hadn't rushed back to school in a hurry and talked to them more, their brothers and sisters wouldn't have gone to the movies, and this wouldn't have happened, but there are no ifs in this world, only reality. Xiao Yao saw that Zhu Xichun was still barefoot, so he called Zhu Xihuan's third sister aside and asked her, she said that there were no new cloth shoes at home, and the pair of sneakers were also broken. There is also a superstitious saying that the deceased cannot wear sneakers, saying that it is difficult to walk on the road to the underworld, and there are many tribulations on the road. Xiao Yao asked her where to sell shoes here. She said: After the kiln factory, a few miles further on, there is a market where shoes are sold.

Xiao Yao pushed the bicycle to go to the market, and Zhou Weiai followed to get on the bus, in fact, after riding a bicycle with violent bumps all the way, her butt still hurts. Xiao Yao also knew something, and it was inconvenient to see that she was walking, so he didn't let her go. Said that he would come back soon.

"I don't, from now on, I will follow you step by step, you must take me with you wherever you go. ”

"Running back and forth, don't I feel sorry for you?"

"Brother, you feel sorry for me, but I'm worried about you. I can only feel at ease when I see you all the time. I promised Sister Jiajia and Sister Huang Li to bring you back safely. ”

"You also see, there is nothing else to do now, the murderers have been arrested, what else can I do? You can wait for me here with confidence, and I will be back in a while. ”

Zhou Weiai didn't speak, she just grabbed the back hanger of the bicycle and didn't let go. With tears in his eyes, he stared at Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao had no choice but to compromise, he went to find a piece of cotton cloth, clipped it to the back hanger, and asked Xiao Ai to sit in the back of the bicycle and rush to the market.

When he came to the bazaar, he heard all the people talking about the fight and murder last night, Xiao Yao didn't bother to listen, found a store that sold shoes, bought a pair of shoes that were suitable for Zhu Xichun's feet, and walked back with Xiao Ai. Maybe Xiao Yao was in a hurry, maybe it was because there were many people in the market, the handle of Xiao Yao's bicycle touched the arm of a young man, and the man pulled Xiao Ai who was sitting behind the car when he returned his hand.