Yuzhou was in the middle of summer at this time.

In the middle of the night, most of the stars were obscured by the lights of the brocade-like shopping street, and the night overhead erased the white dots on the black paper like an eraser, and the silver crescent moon hung alone in the black sky.

The trail of the meteor remained in the near sky, straight as if it had been shot at a bullet. Countless low-cut girls, ah no, crowing mosquitoes are active, this is a season for applause.

The short-haired young man slumped on the edge of the rooftop and looked into the distance, his sitting posture revealing a little relaxation and deep decadence, and his eyes revealed a stubbornness and loss. The night scene, tall buildings, streets, and traffic all took in his eyes, and the bright lights reflected in his pupils, which looked like raging orange flames.

On his left hand side are two open white disposable plastic lunch boxes, one of which has a light red oil unevenly distributed at the bottom, and the other box only abruptly leaves a few white hard particles, which look like cooled cooked rice.

He has a disposable chopstick in the corner of his mouth, a small half of the fluffy hair at the left end is slightly raised, and a part of the right side is sticky and drooping on his forehead, like an uncle who has just woken up, and there is still a little slimy red oil left on the side of his mouth.

The young man's cheap black T-shirt had a lot of pilling, and the white shorts were mixed with some gray dirt. On his right hand side is a rose-gold smartphone with a broken screen, with a red gradient light flashing in the upper left corner of the phone—a sign that the battery is too low.

There was still a faint smell of alcohol in the air, presumably because the young man's old dandruff had fermented, and he had been alone on the rooftop all day, and he had not eaten for more than sixteen hours, sixteen hours and twenty minutes ago, he had bought twelve yuan a piece of pork at a roadside stall, and now he still had thirteen yuan in his pocket.

Why is there no news yet?" The young man frowned and muttered to himself, he picked up the mobile phone beside him in confusion and held it in his hand, and then hesitantly pressed the switch on the side of the mobile phone, and then the mobile phone screen suddenly lit up.

The lock screen wallpaper is a girl wearing a long white shirt with a yellow plaid skirt, she is stepping on a pair of khaki cowhide boots, and the girl compares a good-looking eggplant hand with her slender white and tender fingers, and smiles heartlessly at the corners of her mouth.

In the background of the picture is a wall made of limestone bricks, with no ornaments on the wall, but neatly organized like the gospel of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The young man looked at the lock screen wallpaper of his mobile phone in a daze, his eyes were gentle and complicated, and he suddenly noticed the small white plane in the upper left corner of the screen.

That's the airplane mode of the phone, and one of the benefits of this mode is that you are not afraid of people messaging or calling to harass you, but at the same time you are also disconnected from others.

No way...... The young man was stunned, he actually forgot that the mobile phone was still set to airplane mode, he turned off the airplane mode three times and divided by two, and then waited quietly with bated breath, followed by the information prompt that overlapped I don't know how many times.

The young man was startled by the prompt sound, and the mobile phone in his hand was almost thrown off the rooftop by himself, and he hurriedly grabbed the mobile phone before he breathed a sigh of relief.

His gaze stayed on the screen, there were twenty-two missed calls, thirty-seven unread messages, and 99+ on the outside of the chat software.

The young man didn't click on the information carefully, as if it wasn't his phone, he sighed and pressed the power off button.

After an unknown amount of time, the young man slowly raised his head to reveal that indifferent expression, then spit out the saliva-stained chopsticks from his mouth, and then smiled silently at the night sky above his head.

The young man slowly pulled out a cheap red plastic lighter and the thirteen-dollar bill from his trouser pocket, and he spread out the four curled and folded notes into a pile.

The whole process seems to be very calm and meticulous, as solemn as the old man giving New Year's money to his children. In fact, there are no children to press the New Year's money, and there is no New Year.

At night, there will never be such a family gathering together to eat rice cakes.

He calmly lit the pile of banknotes, like a tribute to a deceased deceased, his eyes were desolate, lonely, and like an outlaw.

He tossed the unburned banknotes, and the howling wind blew the sorted banknotes away, and under the drive of the wind, they drifted farther and farther until they could not see the fire—the lit banknotes did not know whether they were extinguished or burned out.

Then he stood up, the muscles of his legs were numb from sitting for so long, and he shivered slightly in the wind, and the cold night wind blew through his shaggy black hair, revealing a complete and haggard face, a very ordinary one.

He tilted his head and closed his eyes, then opened his arms, looking from afar like a black cross standing on the rooftop.

The young man imagined that he was in the center of the grand stage, and after the performance of his life's work, a blinding spotlight shone on him, and he was radiant!

But he wagged his big furry tail like a cute earth dog, begging the audience for applause and flowers, waiting for the sleepy judges to score.

The whistling wind faded to his ears......

"Continue? How, don't you understand that you've messed everything up?"

"Don't you just like Yang Siyi, the whole class can see it......"

"Your mind has fallen, who cares about you?"

"When will you ......repay the money you borrowed?"

"What about your pursuit? Do you plan to find a working girl in the factory and live with her for the rest of your life?"

Under the light, the black cross swayed in the wind and fell to the world.

On the rooftop, the red glow that had been slowly flickering in the upper left corner of the phone gradually dimmed, and this time, it never lit up again—the phone completely froze, and the faint light converged like a burned-out candle.

Seven minutes later, the 120-decibel sirens of ambulances echoed through the streets.

......

In the corner of an old classroom, the sitting posture of a well-rounded black-haired teenager suddenly twisted, as if someone had stabbed him. His pupils dilated violently, and then, unnaturally, he tugged his hand in the note-taking hand with his arm, and gasped for breath.

"Hey, Bai Yutong, what are you crazy about?" the person next to him muttered quietly.

Bai Yutong turned his head sharply and looked at the young man who was looking at him with a ghostly expression.

Bai Yutong was shocked, he was ...... Xiong Wenjie: Where am I, how can I see my elementary school classmates!

"Why are you looking at me like this!" Xiong Wenjie quietly put down the pen in his hand, and then stared at him nervously, his eyes seemed to be wary of an elephant in heat!

After a short period of adaptation, Bai Yutong's breath became much more normal, "It's okay, it's okay......" He lowered his head, his eyes left Xiong Wenjie, and his right hand pretended to sketch something on the book - he didn't want others to see what was wrong with him.

At this time, the intellectuals outside the window were screaming desperately, and the bright sunlight was shining through the glass on his desk. The teacher's chalk rattles on the blackboard, and the rustle of pens scraping paper in the classroom rises and falls.

Bai Yutong looked at the familiar classroom and classmates, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, didn't I jump off the rooftop before? How could I suddenly return to the elementary school classroom and still attend classes with my elementary school classmates?

There were as many questions in his mind at the moment as there was salt in the Dead Sea.

Was it all my own dream, or was it just a flashlight in my head before I died...... Thinking of this, his surprised eyes gradually dimmed and became sad.

Everything around me is so familiar and unfamiliar, I really want to cry.

He suddenly felt very humble, just like Sun Wukong worked for the boss Jade Emperor before making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, and after he misbehaved at the birthday banquet of the boss's daughter-in-law, the Buddha changed hands and imprisoned him in the prison of Wuzhi Mountain. The monkey was charged with disturbing public order, destroying public property and harming the safety of the population, and the monkey not only drank heavily but also seriously violated organizational discipline and affected public order.

Since then, he has been unemployed for 500 years, and can only survive on vitamin-rich fruits and vegetables given to him by passers-by. And when Sun Wukong was rescued by Tang Sanzang from the foot of Wuzhi Mountain, he had to continue to work for Tang Sanzang, the black-hearted boss who squeezed the surplus value of employees.

The former probably belongs to the public relations of state-owned enterprises that sit in the office and blow the air conditioner, while the latter belongs to the unemployed nomads who are tired of running around on the prairie. So, what was the purpose of the change that stupid monkey made when he went drunk?

Just when Bai Yutong was thinking about it more and more, someone behind him stabbed his right shoulder with a sleek pen, he suddenly turned around, and was suddenly stunned, and his eyes instantly froze.

yes! How could there be no her?

The girl in front of him has a delicate melon seed face, a delicate black ponytail hanging behind her head, a round nose and a ruddy mouth, and a Donald Duck wearing a blue sailor suit is printed in the center of the exquisite yellow short top, Donald Duck is holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and the English narration is Hey in black letters on a blue background, followed by two red exclamation marks as big as two Nanfu batteries.

In fact, until now, Bai Yutong didn't know why Donald Duck didn't wear pants.

That girl was his childhood sweetheart, who had eaten the same cake, painted the same painting, and sat on the same bench.

He vaguely remembered that on the way home one year, he knew that she didn't do well in the exam, so he joked, you will definitely have no interest when you grow up, so you might as well be a thief, but seeing that you look so stupid, you will definitely be arrested and put in prison, and you will be shaved and put on a black and white striped two-piece suit!

After Wang Caixia heard this, she said aggrievedly with tears, Ah Tong, you are too much......

Bai Yutong still remembered that after that day, she hadn't taken the initiative to look for him all summer, so he felt that summer was particularly lonely.

"I'm running out of ink, can you lend me some water?" Wang Caixia pointed to the pink striped fountain pen in her hand, which was her most commonly used one.

"Hmm...... Hmmm, good. Bai Yutong came back to his senses, he hunched over and rummaged in the drawer, he still has the habit of putting the inkwell in the corner of the drawer.

How could it not be touched? Bai Yutong bent down and glanced into the drawer, and then couldn't take his eyes off it anymore - a broken screen mobile phone with a red light flashing in the upper left corner!

He stared at the deadly mobile phone tightly, his eyes were dilated, and at this time, the phone screen suddenly lit up, and it was actually a text message he had just received!

Bai Yutong looked around in a panic, he wondered if anyone had noticed the faint phone tone, but he found that the surrounding scenery was disappearing into slag at a rapid speed, and then turned into powder and disappeared into the air.

Bai Yutong suddenly woke up and sat up straight, he looked at his empty hands in a daze, his eyes were shocked and panicked: Haven't I already died...... He found that around him was a lush grassland, and the grass spread like a green carpet on the ground, spreading all the way to the blue-gray mountains in the distance, which connected to the sky, and the sky was so empty that it was so clean that not even a cloud could be seen.

Bai Yutong felt very uncomfortable, and his chest was a little dull, as if something heavy was squeezing. There was a pinprick sensation in his buttocks, and it was because of the fine grass beneath him—the tall grass was growing all the time!

He looks like a performance artist on the streets of New York, but at this time he is in nature and more like a flower girl in a photo album.

The sun was scorching and blinding.

Bai Yutong walked alone in the uninhabited wasteland, his skin was red from the sun, and there was not a tree around him for shade - there was not even a single pile of fresh cow dung to be seen here except for the grass everywhere and the dry wind.

When the sun was about to rise overhead, Bai Yutong found a crooked green and leafy neck tree, and happily ran to the shade and squatted down like a working old farmer.

Bai Yutong gasped deeply under the tree, and he felt as if he had entered a sauna at 60 degrees Celsius. , his gaze focused on the connection between the distant sky and the mountain, his embarrassed face was full of the past, his eyes were melancholy and gloomy, and a laugh came from his ears that gradually became clearer:

"You use a 0.5 refill for this pen, and you bought it for 0.7......" Wang Caixia was angry and funny, her face was full of joy.

Wang Caixia's gesture of covering her mouth and smiling flashed in Bai Yutong's mind frame by frame, and finally the picture stayed at the moment when the corners of her mouth were the most curved.

As you walk along the beach, the past is like a wave, and at first it is just a shallow wave touching the soles of your flip-flops, and there is a cool touch. But as soon as you go deep into the blue sea, every wave will press your head hard into the salty water, and you will swing your limbs and struggle to swim like duckweed sinking in the rain. You don't have time to call for help, because as soon as you open your mouth, the sea water will pour deep into your throat.

Bai Yutong looked down at the grassy ground under his feet in frustration, just like looking at the shiny tiles in front of him when he squatted in the toilet, and a blurred dark shadow would be reflected on the surface of the tiles.

He fiddled with the grass in front of him from time to time, and suddenly remembered a joke that Xiong Wenjie told him: the black bear asked the rabbit if he was afraid of getting dirty, the rabbit shook his head shyly, and the black bear asked the rabbit if it lost its hair, and the rabbit still shook his head shyly, and then the black bear picked up the rabbit and wiped his fart, and finally left with a smile, leaving only the rabbit stunned in the wind.

Bai Yutong thought it was very funny when he was a child, and when he was in a daze, he would laugh uncontrollably as long as he thought of this joke, and later found out that this joke was really not funny at all, because he became the rabbit.

Why isn't it fun at all? You're the rabbit that can't laugh, and it's either a black bear or a jackal that's laughing.

Just as Bai Yutong was full of thoughts, a wisp of gray smoke rose from the foot of the mountain in front of him. He noticed the wisp of gray smoke, and his eyes were fixed in that direction.

What kind of smoke is that? a natural forest fire or is someone cooking on a fire?

He was thinking about whether he should go over and take a look.

If there were really people living there, Bai Yutong would certainly be saved, and he could also get food and water to fill his empty stomach, and even have clothes to wear, so that he would not sit on the turf and prick his buttocks.

But for himself, what is the point of being rescued or not? He had seen a movie before, and the main story of the movie was probably the story of the tenacious struggle between man and nature.

The protagonist of the story is a strong man from a courier company, and his flight is caught in a rare storm, but the plane crashes, and the plane is forced to land at sea, and he is the only survivor, and then he is stranded on a small tropical island with no people.

There are no bikini-wearing brunettes on the island's beaches, no barbecue resorts, and no sunglasses-wearing police uncles.

On the island, he fought tenaciously against nature for several years in order to survive, and finally returned to human society with his perseverance.

However, when he returned home, the courier brother found that his wife had remarried, and the children didn't know him anymore, and the inheritance left by his parents was divided by his brothers and sisters.

You are desperate to live because you know that there is your home in a place where you can't see it, and there are people waiting for you in that place.

But when you get home, you and your best brother can't wait to climb into your wife's bed, and your children call out that the man is dad, not uncle or uncle, and your siblings have separated after your parents died. That's when you realize that you're still alone, and you're living on a desert island again before you know it.

Bai Yutong turned his head and looked at the tree behind him with a very sad look - this tree grows alone in the endless grassland, it is not very tall, because the roots of the grass are always robbing the nutrients contained in the soil, if this kind of tree is placed in the deep mountains and old forests, it is estimated that there is no chance to sprout, right?

Bai Yutong looked up at the wisp of gray smoke, his eyes desolate. He understands that the little brother is different from himself, he was forced into trouble because of a traffic accident, and he was voluntary.

One belongs to the aftermath of the catastrophe, and the other belongs to the misanthropic abandonment, and the essence of the two is different. It is the difficulties of nature that hinder the former's rebirth, while the latter's liberation is hindered by one's own spiritual barriers, and as long as the person attempts suicide, it is not considered salvation.

Just as the gray smoke at the foot of the mountain was about to disappear, Bai Yutong ran wildly in that direction—and finally he decided to take a look!

He thought that the strong man had spent so much time on the island, and he might have expected that his wife would remarry, that the children might not know him anymore, and that the brothers and sisters might have separated.

But...... He still went back without hesitation, because he was the only survivor of that shipwreck, and whether he was lucky or unlucky, he should live for himself!

Don't use the weeds as potted plants, it doesn't matter if you calm down or blow the air conditioner, you have to cool yourself, don't you?

It's a house! It looks like a ...... from afar. This house is so dilapidated that it's hard to imagine that there are still people living in it.

After seeing the house, Bai Yutong didn't mention how happy he was, and the worries and contradictions in his heart disappeared in an instant. When he got closer, a simple wooden house appeared in front of Bai Yutong, and he approached cautiously, like a greedy wild cat roaming outside the kitchen, he was really a little afraid that his master would not welcome him.

Bai Yutong tiptoed in front of the door, he hesitated for a moment, and then knocked lightly on the shelter of the door, Bai Yutong pricked up his ears to listen to the movement in the door, but there was no sound inside - maybe the owner had just gone out and was not at home.

Yes, it's been almost an hour since I found the smoke, so I've finished eating, right?

Just as Bai Yutong turned around and was about to leave, he found that there was a person standing behind him, who was almost twenty meters away from him, dressed plainly, no, it looked like a sack of cement was wrapped around his body!

Who is this man...... Tarzan of the Apes? This was Bai Yutong's first thought.

At this time, the man was looking at Bai Yutong blankly, his eyes were surprisingly bright.

Just as Bai Yutong wanted to speak, the man rushed past him, then ran into the simple wooden house, and finally hurriedly closed the door, leaving Bai Yutong alone in the wind outside.

What does he mean by that...... Bai Yutong was embarrassed, and he didn't know whether to leave or stay.

After a while, the door crept open, revealing a large, sharp eye.

Bai Yutong hesitated, decided to give it a try, then scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I want to spend the night I don't know if it's okay." ”

"W-What?" came a trilling sound from the other side of the door.

"I said, I want to spend the night. Bai Yutong still scratched his head.

"What's a stay?" the other side of the door seemed confused.

Bai Yutong was stunned when he heard this, "It's just sleeping at your house." ”

After a while, the door opened, and a very thin looking man walked out. The man looked at Bai Yutong, and Bai Yutong also looked at him.

The man's complexion was dark, but still very white, his height was about one meter six, and his appearance was very delicate, his long black hair hung down to his hips, and his clothes looked like they were sewn from burlap. On his feet, he was wearing a pair of flat shoes of unknown material, which did not fit well, and there was a lot of room in the heel.

Her chest bulged slightly, she should be a woman.

At the same time that Bai Yutong looked at her, she also observed Bai Yutong's naked body with her bright eyes.

Realizing this, Bai Yutong hurriedly covered his bottom with his hand, he felt that his appearance was very unsightly, so he asked embarrassedly, "Do you have any clothes to wear?"

"Huh?"

......

"This—this is a little ......," said the girl timidly.

"It's okay, it's okay. Bai Yutong scratched his head and said politely, he looked at the linen woven clothes in the style of a short dress on his body, and was a little satisfied.

The girl seemed to remember something, and the expression on her face became burnt.

"Do you want to ...... Take a bath?" the girl asked timidly.

"Ahh "Bai Yutong has walked an unknown number of roads today, and his body has long been covered with sticky sweat, which is indescribably uncomfortable.

"Then come with me, the sun is about to set!" the girl was the first to go out.

Bai Yutong also followed.

When the girl closed the door, Bai Yutong noticed that she was barefoot and did not wear her previous ill-fitting shoes.

Her instep was white, and her ankle was dark, presumably from the sun.

The girl walked towards the hill behind the house, there were many kinds of trees on the mountain, and Bai Yutong could only recognize a few of them.

The girl took him around the bushes, looking around with wary eyes all the way, as if looking for something, as if on guard.

"What's your name?" Bai Yutong thought that he would have to get close to her and get acquainted with her, after all, this girl looked quite scared.

"I, my name is Raindrop......" The vigilance in the girl's eyes gradually disappeared, and she was occupied by shyness.

"My name is Bai Yutong, hey I said your name sounds so special. Bai Yutong sighed, Raindrops? This name sounds like a second-rate character in a youth idol drama.

"My grandmother picked it up, and she said my appearance was as sudden as a raindrop. The girl recalled.

What a literary sentence!

Bai Yutong exclaimed: "Your grandmother is really a poet!

The girl was stunned, unconsciously lowered her head and her eyes became fragile, and then replied, "She has been dead for a long time......"

Bai Yutong was stunned for a moment and then said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention it......"

Raindrop smiled silently, "It's okay......"

......

After a while, the terrain began to lower and the soil became wet.

Eventually, a small river appeared in front of me, and a part of the channel was so wide that it looked like an artificially dug cistern.

Yudian pointed to the river and said, "This is it, let's wash it quickly, otherwise we won't be able to see the way down the mountain when it's dark." ”

"Well, okay, you wash it first. Bai Yutong nodded gentlemanly, and his expression seemed to say: I am not a pervert, I am a righteous man and a gentleman.

Yudian looked puzzled, "Why don't you wash it together?"

Bai Yutong thought he had misheard, "Huh?"

Yudi's eyes widened and he explained, "Isn't it faster for two people to wash together! My grandmother and I both washed together......

Bai Yutong was shocked, "But you are a woman, I am a man, so it is not good for your reputation......"

Confused, Yudi hurriedly asked, "What are boys and girls, what is reputation, why is it bad for me, will I get sick?"

Faced with the serial problem of raindrops, Bai Yutong was speechless and caught off guard, "This ...... I don't know how to explain it to you, anyway, you wash first. I'll go around and just call me when I'm done. After Bai Yutong finished speaking, he hurriedly turned around and left.

Yudi looked at his departing back, opened her mouth but stopped talking, she looked at the sun that was about to set, and then took off the linen coarse clothes on her body......

After the two of them finished washing, the raindrop walked to the narrowest place in the lower reaches of the river, and fished out a long yellow bamboo basket from the water.

Seeing this, Yudi showed a bright smile, her face was flushed, and Bai Yutong could feel a strong joy coming from her.

Back at the wooden house, it was already sunset, and Yudi used a knife that looked like a grass carp to deal with three small fish that looked like grass carp. Although the knife has a gap, it can still easily cut the belly of the fish, and it should be often polished, and it seems that the daily maintenance work of this girl has been completed well.

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