(1)

"For a long time, my life has become the same as it was three years ago, going to and from school alone, running alone, eating in the cafeteria alone. For the first month, I counted the sheep almost every night, woke up early the next morning, and waited in bed with my ears pricked up until the alarm went off and I had to get up.

The repetitive syllables never sounded again. I started to feel a little sad, just as sad as I was when I was a kid and I was drowning at the bottom of the pool and couldn't breathe.

Occasionally, I would meet Lin Suhao on campus, and every now and then, he would always follow the girl's side, and when he saw me, he would grin and raise his chin at me with a smug face.

He helped her buy drinks, did her homework, and even went to buy sanitary napkins for her panicked and ashamed aunt on her first visit. The boys in the commissary laughed and teased him, but he was stupid enough to spend a week's pocket money to buy every brand of sanitary napkins in the commissary, just because he didn't know which one she would like to use.

He passed through most of the foreign cities, through the dreams of thousands of people, waiting for her to go to school with him in the belly of the fish, and followed her on his bicycle, watching her enter the door at the corner of the alley of her house, until the door was closed, and then turned the car around and drove in the other direction in the twilight.

He never tires of this. Even if the girl rejects his reply, telling him that the love letter she wrote to him is just a gamble between her and another person.

It doesn't matter! He raised his eyebrows and waved his hand, looking at me confidently, even if it was wrong, buddy would have to be wrong!

Your wishful thinking hot face will eventually meet your reluctant cold ass, and when the time comes, you will be willing to gamble and lose. I said to him as if I were speaking to myself.

He gambled that he would eventually be able to melt her thorns. I'm gambling that no amount of wild throbbing can match the exhaustion of patience.

However, I underestimated him. The day before the final parent-teacher meeting, at the corner of the alley of her house, she did not go straight home as usual, but stopped with him and said to him, "Tomorrow, when the parent-teacher meeting is held, go to the playground and wait for me." The answer you wait, I'll give you. ”

(2)

"Wait a minute!" I interrupted, shaking her with a hippie smile, "What's that...... I've been listening to stories for so long, I'm hungry......"

Qi Li turned over and got up and turned on the floor lamp at the head of the bed. After staying in the dark for a long time, the moment the lights were turned on, even the warm orange light became extremely dazzling.

I squinted, adjusting to the light around me. By the time I could fully open my eyes, Qi Li had already returned to the bed and handed me a few pieces of bread, "Be careful, don't fall on the bed." ”

I nodded repeatedly, carefully tore open the plastic packaging, and took a big bite in my mouth, "Tell me, why did you spit out their sparks?" I asked with a whimper.

"Growing up, my mom attended the parent-teacher conference, but that day, my mom broke her foot when she went down the stairs, so it was my dad who went to the parent-teacher conference.

On that day, the school invited a supposedly well-known expert in educational speech, and all students and parents were arranged to attend the lecture in the playground before the parent-teacher conference of all classes. We met her at the playground gate. ”

"Who?" I asked, swallowing the bread in my mouth.

"The girl Lin Suhao likes. I saw her first, she was holding a stool, walking side by side with her mother, and she should have noticed my gaze, so she turned her head to look in my direction.

Before I could dodge her gaze, she stopped and froze at the moment she saw the person next to me.

In just a few seconds, she suddenly rushed over and kept hitting my dad with the stool in her hand.

Isn't it seven years! Isn't it seven years! Why are you here!!

I froze in place, at a loss for a moment, and watched my dad stand upright, neither dodging nor fighting back, hanging his hands next to each other.

More and more people gathered around, some classmates called the teacher, and other parents were scolding her, but no one tried to stop her. When I came back to my senses, I only felt angry in my heart, and rushed up and smacked her hard, but my chin was scratched by the rough legs of the stool with several blood marks.

She fell to the ground, but immediately got up, picked up the stool and tried to pounce again.

I tried to meet her and stop her, but my dad pulled her back and couldn't move. Seeing that she was close to my father, someone suddenly broke through the crowd and jumped in and stopped her.

What are you doing!" Lin Suhao snatched the stool and threw it aside, asking her sharply. He looked back at my dad and at me.

He stared at my chin for a few seconds, his lips flickering shut, but he didn't speak. He frowned and turned his head, lowered his voice and asked her again, what are you doing!

Get out! She gritted her teeth, her eyes still fixed on my dad.

That's my uncle, no matter what the reason, don't go too far! Lin Suhao grabbed her wrist tightly, and had no intention of letting go.

She turned her head, her eyes wide open to meet his angry gaze, and her voice was hoarse, and she drank a rolling word from between her teeth.

Her mother squeezed in from the crowd and snatched her wrists from Lin Suhao's hands. The moment she saw my dad, she froze in place, just like her daughter.

After a while, she suddenly dragged her daughter and staggered out of the crowd, with tears in her eyes, muttering sadly, there is no reason.

The moment the girl was dragged away from the crowd, she shouted hoarsely in the direction of my father. ”

Qi Li's lips trembled a few times, and finally stopped. She looked at the ceiling dappled in light and shadow, and the corners of her eyes were clouded.

I could see the few drops of sparkle in her eyes, and my heart was abrupt, so I carefully wrapped my arms around her shoulders and said no more.

"Murderer. After a while, the mist in the corners of her eyes faded, her eyes returned to calm, and she slowly spoke: "The sentence she shouted is a murderer." ”

"Kill...... Murderer?!" I just felt like my heart was about to come out of my throat.

Qi Li nodded, "That's what she said." But my dad wasn't. I also learned later that my dad was in prison for the three years he disappeared. Sentenced to seven years for intentionally wounding and causing disability. My mom took all her savings to take care of the relationship, plus my dad did well, so he was released on parole. ”

"So...... The person who was hurt by my uncle was ......"

"It's her dad. At that time, my dad knew some restless people, and took the money he earned from opening a factory a few years ago, and went with them to loan sharks. Her father gambled money, embezzled public funds, and saw that he couldn't contain the fire, so he was introduced by an acquaintance and found my father to borrow money.

The more you lose, the more you gamble, the more you gamble, the more you lose, and in the end, you can't pay back. My grandfather was seriously ill that year, and he needed a lot of money for surgery and hospitalization, and my father couldn't get it, so he took an IOU to ask for the account in a hurry. In a fit of rage, he missed his hand and seriously injured someone.

After that day, I lost all my friends. Although my dad was not a murderer, the words usury and beating and maiming seemed to spread in the school overnight, and in the eyes of everyone, I was like a fruit stained with stingers, which could be fatal if touched. I couldn't tell if they were afraid of me or disgusted. But it's all the same, except for Lin Suhao, no one will come close to me. ”

"Didn't Lin Suhao alienate you?" I asked carefully.

Qi Li raised the corners of his mouth, and his bright eyes were clear.

"Never. ”