"Lin Luyao has gone abroad."

On a hot and dimly lit afternoon in the sweltering and dimly lit editorial office, an old-fashioned "Chrysanthemum" brand ceiling fan hangs low overhead, moaning incessantly in the lonely air. Shen Ke raised his hand to brush away the few sticky strands of hair scattered on his forehead, and said lightly to Wang Huijia who was not far away.

"Oh."

Wang Huijia was stunned for a moment, and then replied like a mosquito, burying her head lower, but the hand holding the pen was frozen there, and the dark blue ink flowed along the sharp tip of the pen, and at the scratch of the paper, it was soaking and spreading into a vague and mottled totem.

"That-"

Shen Ke wanted to speak and stopped, and when he saw the thin Wang Huijia suddenly lose his mind, his heart suddenly overflowed with inexplicable pity, just like that dusk many years ago. In a trance, she returned to the bluestone alley again.

"Stop! You can't bully her! ”

In the distance, Shen Ke heard the helpless cry of the little girl, a group of naughty little boys swarming around the corner of the alley, scolding mixed with intermittent crying. Shen Ke wanted to get around, but her mother kept warning her not to get too close to those bad boys, but she couldn't stop the curiosity in her heart and felt that the cry was so familiar.

"Little monster, you don't admit that you stole my pomegranate!"

A boy with a half-moon-shaped scar at the corner of his eye pointed to the pomegranate in the girl's arms and scolded with a grim face.

"Hulu, don't talk to her more, let her drill quickly!"

The boy next to the gourd impatiently pushed the little girl who was huddled in the corner. The girl was dazed and helpless in the face of this group of wild bad boys, and her ignorant eyes were full of great fear.

"I obviously picked it up, not to steal your family."

The girl bit her pale lip and hid in the corner and sobbed softly.

"Picked up? Under my tree in broad daylight, also called picking up? You think it's funny? ”

The gourd held his stomach, laughing so much that he couldn't straighten his waist, and his tears were about to squeeze out. The boys next to him also burst into laughter.

The bluestone lane, which runs through the north and south, is half immersed in the afterglow of the sunset, half of the walls immersed in the afterglow appear blue-white, and the other side falls into blue-black shadows. The boy's laughter and the girl's crying permeated the blue-black shadow band, faintly drifting away.

"Drill! Drill! Drill! ”

Hulu spread his crotch and stared at the girl huddled in the corner with a wicked smile, the cheers around him making him very beautiful.

"But I picked it up in the alley, not in your yard."

The girl's pale face was covered with tears, and she fell on the red pomegranate in her arms and dripped down the crack.

"As long as you get through my crotch, you can take it away, and we won't stop you from going home, but if you don't drill, don't think about leaving tonight, and I'll send you to the police station in a while!"

The gourd clasped his hands fiercely, looking down at the skinny girl in the corner, and felt a faint sense of unhappiness. You must not shake your position as the king of children because of this skinny girl. However, this weak girl has a stubbornness in her bones that is extremely incommensurate with her appearance, which makes him very troubled.

"Okay, you take me to the police station, let's go to the police uncle for comment."

The girl suddenly stopped crying, held the fiery red pomegranate that was ripe to cracking, raised her dirty right hand, and vigorously wiped the tears on her face. The children in front of them were stunned for a moment, and then laughed even more presumptuously.

Only the gourd stood there, clenched into fists, and his distorted face was full of fierceness. This damn girl has made him lose face! He couldn't tolerate it anymore, and he was disgusted with the skinny, monster-like girl in front of him.

The boys looked at the thunderous gourd in amazement, grabbed the girl's hair, and rudely dragged her to the ground. The fiery pomegranate rolled to the side, and the tears filled with it spilled out. The girl gritted her teeth and did not cry, and her small fist landed on the gourd insolently.

"Zhong, you still dare to resist!"

None of the onlookers dared to step forward to dissuade them, they were originally just here to join in the fun, and they also knew that the gourd was red and domineering, and no one could control the explosive temperament. The "gourd" of Qingshi Lane is indeed a name that makes children of the same age forget a headache, from Xijie Primary School to Dongguan Primary School, when it comes to his name, there is no bad boy who is not in awe.

However, at this moment, what he bullied was a helpless, pale and fragile girl.

Hulu felt his glorious image, and at this moment he regained his strength, and for the sake of Gong's dignity and majesty as the king of solid children, he decided to drag the girl from under his crotch no matter how he was resisted.

"You guys haven't come over to help yet!"

He yelled at the children next to him, but no one wanted to step forward and swarm outside.

"Coward!"

Hulu scolded as he began to increase his wrist strength, but the moment he pulled the girl to his knees, an angry scolding suddenly came from behind him.

He turned around angrily, wanting to see which little hairy boy dared to live against him. The girl took the opportunity to break her loose fingers, broke free from the clutches, retreated to the base of the blue-black wall, and picked up the red pomegranate that had rained down tears.

Hulu was stunned, he would never have dreamed that it was Shen Ke who was standing behind him and scolding.

He didn't dare to look directly at the angry dark eyes, his cheeks were hot, and the boiling burning instantly burned to the root of his ears. How could it be her? How could it be her? The gourd buried his head deeply, trying to look at his toes, ashamed and desperate to find a rat hole to get into.

"Hulu, how can you do this?"

Hearing Shen Ke's resentment, Hulu felt that his heart was shattered. Last time, in order to continue to sit at the same table with her, he promised not to fight for a month, and during that time, he was so anxious that his fists itched, and he hit his own walls at home all day.

This sudden change made him panic, if Shen Ke didn't care about himself in the future, what could he do?

He could be fearless of his teacher's whip and his mother's broom, but he couldn't stand Shen Ke not talking to him, and he couldn't help but see her sweet and pure smile.

"Come, Huijia, go home with me!"

Seeing Wang Huijia who seemed to be frightened, Shen Ke's gaze immediately softened, she stepped forward lightly, wiped the dust off Wang Huijia's face with pity, combed her messy and damp hair, and pulled up her slender arm to leave.

"You can't take her away!"

Suddenly, the gourd grabbed his body and stopped in front of them. He knew that if he let the girl go like this, he would definitely leave a laughing stock for himself in the future, and it would make his dignity as a child king disappear.

"Why?"

Shen Ke's gaze was cold, and he pressed straight over.

"She stole my pomegranate."

The gourd avoided her gaze and swept towards the pomegranate in Wang Huijia's arms.

"Sister, I didn't steal it, I picked it up in the alley."

Wang Huijia lowered her head and muttered, her thin shoulders trembling slightly in the dim wind. A withered yellow pomegranate leaf fluttered from the low sky at the top of the wall.

"Did you hear me? She picked it up in the alley, not at your house! ”

The flame in Shen Ke's heart "whoosh-" ran away from Lao Gao, she really couldn't stand the domineering of the gourd.

The gourd took the falling pomegranate leaves, pinched them on his fingertips and stretched them out.

"Only my family has a pomegranate tree in Bluestone Lane, you say that pomegranate is-"

"Hulu, I'll talk to the teacher tomorrow, change to the same table!"

The gourd's words were choked in the air, and every word Shen Ke said pierced his heart like a needle. The gourd was speechless, feeling like he was lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot, and he was stunned in a hurry.

"How's it going, gourd?"

"Can you not change it first?"

Hearing the consultative tone in Shen Ke's words, Hulu's face suddenly filled with smiles. There was an imperceptible layer of sadness in his eyes when the anger dissipated.

"Then we can go now!"

Shen Ke grabbed Wang Huijia's arm and rushed out of the crowd as if no one was around.

"And."

Before he could go far, Shen Ke suddenly stopped and turned to stare at the gourd.

"You write your homework today, and if I don't copy it for you tomorrow morning, this is the punishment."

Hulu nodded slightly aggrieved.

Shen Ke took two steps forward, turned around again, and said with a little thought.

"In the future, don't let people bully Wang Huijia again."

The gourd was slightly surprised for a moment, and then like a tame little sheep, he looked at Shen Ke in the sunset and nodded slowly.

When Shen Ke disappeared at the end of the alley, the whispering behind him made Hulu's anger imminent, he suppressed the anger in his heart, gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

"Please eat pomegranates in a while, if anyone dares to say anything about the release just now, don't blame me for being unkind!"

However, when he was young, he knew that there was no airtight wall in the world, however, even if the dagger blade of ridicule and ridicule was too sharp, it was insignificant compared to Shen Ke, although he had always known it well, better than anyone else, that Shen Ke would always be just an untouchable dream of bubbles to him.

But for the sake of this flashy dream, he is willing to shatter all dreams about youth and frivolity. This was finally confirmed at the moment when the gourd and the man with the scar on his face died together.

When she was young, Wang Huijia was as pale as paper, with only two bean-sized eyes left and some vitality, and the neighbors always shook their heads and sighed when they saw them outside, but more often they hid behind their backs and pointed at them, saying long and short, full of rumors such as disasters and debts coming down to earth.

After walking all over the hospitals in the small city, looking for the unilateral side of the people, and worshipping the fairy girls in the countryside, the sick condition has not improved, Wang Huijia's mother always looks at the thin, weak child and sighs. Although the body is thin, the amount of food is amazing, and a child can eat as much as an adult.

Due to developmental defects, Wang Huijia was isolated by the children as an ominous monster, and no child dared to make a mistake against his mother's huge slap. The young Wang Huijia was full of cold eyes from children and adults, until she met Shen Ke and finally broke free from the cold prison shackles.

However, the warm care from Shen Ke did not last long, and two months later, because of the change of his parents' work, Shen Ke's family moved away from Qingshi Lane. Although they are still in the same city, since that parting, the connection between the two has faded.

Fortunately, Shen Ke is still in the same school as Hulu. Hulu can also be called a little man, since the incident at dusk that day, no child in Qingshi Lane dares to bully Wang Huijia. After Shen Ke left the alley, he would ask Hulu every once in a while if anyone was bullying Wang Huijia.

In the second month after Shen Ke's family moved out of the alley, Wang Huijia's body suddenly began to undergo strange changes, first her complexion gradually became ruddy and full, then her bony body slowly plumped, and finally her yellow and split hair became dark and dense.

When Shen Ke learned the news from the gourd's mouth, it was like listening to the Arabian Nights, and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

It wasn't until the spring of the following year, when Wang Huijia transferred to the first grade and witnessed the amazing changes in the legend, that she had to believe in this magical but indisputable reality.