Chapter 27: Waiting under the Streetlights

The boy in the plaid shirt didn't seem to want to talk to Qin Qing.

This is Qin Qing's feeling.

When she realized she was dreaming, she didn't really feel anything special. Because this is the school, it is a place that she is very familiar with. She had read some dream materials, and there were many theories in them.

One of them is that people can perceive that they are dreaming in a dream, and sometimes they will feel that they are dreaming, that is, they clearly know that they are dreaming another dream. Big dreams set small dreams, one after another.

The other is that there may be conversations in dreams, with a sense of time, a sense of space, a sense of taste, smell, touch, and so on. In the early days, it was thought that people in dreams would not see colors and would not feel pain, but more recently there have been reports that if you have the impression that doing so hurts, then you can feel pain.

In other words, what you feel in your dreams is no different from what you feel in reality.

Just like now, Qin Qing knew that she was dreaming, but the world in front of her was a familiar school, so every place was like a real campus.

There were some students coming and going around, their faces were very clear, Qin Qing knew that they were "classmates from the same school", and added a label of "living here".

It's the same as what happens in reality.

All of a sudden, it darkened, like time passing fast, like someone's memory. Memories jumped, one in the morning and one in the evening.

The street lamps became clearer and glowed in the dim night.

The boy was still standing under the street lamp.

Qin Qing was in a dream, she felt that she might only dream for a minute or two, maybe shorter, only a few dozen seconds, but this sense of time was extremely long, so long that she had time to think: What is this boy doing?

She tried to put herself in the boy's shoes.

He stood under the street lamp and kept looking in one direction - yes, he was waiting for someone.

In the morning, it is before school, and in the evening, after class, etc. He's waiting in front of the boys' dormitory, so he's waiting for a boy?

Who is the boy he is waiting for? Who is he? Is he the one who hanged himself?

Just when Qin Qing was about to make up her mind to step forward and ask, she woke up.

When I woke up, I was still awake first, and I realized that I had woken up, my eyelids could feel the light coming in front of the window, and my ears could hear the sounds around me. Even if I don't want to wake up again, I still wake up slowly.

“…… Are they all gone? Ke Fei said.

"Wait, wait until everyone is gone, and then you go out." Wu Bin said.

By the way, they stayed in the boys' dormitory last night.

Qin Qing opened her eyes and found that she was sleeping on the table, and then looking at her phone, she had slept from five o'clock in the morning to now, which was only three hours.

Ke Fei and Wu Bin were all lying on the door listening to the movement, Sun Ming was very nervous, looked at his mobile phone vigorously, and whispered to Ke Fei: "What should I do!" We're not going to hide here for a day, are we? ”

Ke Fei is also afraid, and now he can't go out. Although it's not uncommon for a girl to appear in the boy's dormitory, there are boyfriends here. She didn't want to be involved with someone she didn't have anything to do with her.

Qin Qing's mobile phone rang twice, she picked it up and looked, it was Qin Cheng: Did you go out?

Five minutes later, another one, Qin Cheng: Do I want to bring you food?

Qin Qing replied: No need, I'll go out when the others are less, thank you yesterday.

Qin Cheng: It's okay.

Qin Cheng: I've told them, so don't talk nonsense.

There were people in the corridor outside who kept dragging out of the house to wash up in the water room.

Ke Fei circled in front of the door, "Why did someone get up so early?" I won't sleep a little more during the holidays! She and Sun Mingming originally wanted to leave early, but who knew that a room full of people had overslept. Now I'm locked up in this house.

Qin Qing walked over and patted Wu Bin, "I have something to ask you, what is the name of the person who hanged him?" ”

Wu Bin's mind didn't turn for a while, and he thought for a while before saying, "Cao Huayan, he doesn't live here, he lives on the 94th floor." ”

The dormitory building of Sugiyu University has only been built three times, once in 1954, and it is all three-storey; the second was in 1971, with floors six to eight; The third time was in 1994, produced by the design institute of the school, and a new dormitory area was built in the southwest of the school, and the rows were said to be able to accommodate all the students of the school, as well as the teachers.

However, the university expanded. So the 71st floor, which was originally scheduled to be demolished, had to be left behind, and the graduate students were driven to the red brick area.

Wu Bin lives on the 71st floor, and I heard that every room on the 94th floor has a toilet, and he can take a bath in the bedroom, and his saliva is dragging with envy. But this is a matter of luck, and the vacant seats in the building will be lined up on which side of the building in the year of entry.

Cao Huayan was obviously the lucky one.

Qin Qing also wondered why Cao Huayan was standing outside the dormitory and waiting for someone, it turned out that he didn't live here.

It wasn't until ten o'clock that there weren't so many people in the hallway, and occasionally one or two people came out. Ke Fei couldn't wait any longer, and asked Qin Qing and Sun Mingming: "Do you want to go?" ”

"Let's go!" Both said firmly. So the three of them rushed out of the stairs together and rushed all the way out of the boys' dormitory, and only met one boy on the way, he watched them come down from the upstairs and stared at them for a long time, and the three of them pretended to be calm and stubbornly passed. As for Wu Bin, he said that he was too conspicuous to go with them, and he would not go to see them off.

After coming out, Sun Mingming breathed a sigh of relief, laughed and sighed and said, "I won't dare to do this again in the future!" ”

Although Ke Fei was afraid, she felt more excited, she said, "It's quite interesting." Sun Mingming shook his head when he heard this, "I don't dare." ”

Ke Fei was a little disappointed, she also specially prepared to take pictures, "I just didn't encounter anything." Is this going to be a specific time or something? She saw that Qin Qing had been poking her without speaking, "What's wrong with you?" Scared? It's okay, the one who saw us didn't know us, and the one who saw us definitely didn't even see our face last night. ”

Sun Mingming also comforted her, "That's it, there are so many of us, he will definitely not be able to see it all at a glance." Go back and change your clothes, there are so many girls in the school, he knows who is who? ”

The two of them were more thrilled to break into the boys' dormitory and almost get caught, better than hell, not to mention not even a single ghost hair.

Qin Qing had no choice but to laugh and forget it, she didn't know where to start even if she told them.

Qin Qing went home in the afternoon, she was afraid that she would dream of ghosts, so she didn't dare to stay at school. After all, it's a ghost I don't know. Rong Rong didn't react that time, Professor Dai was not terrible from beginning to end. This is good and evil, and she doesn't know anything about it, so she's a little scared.

After returning home, she boarded the campus network to search for Cao Huayan, but she didn't expect to find a photo, which was a barbecue organized by the class, and there were group photos taken secretly and captured on Weibo, and there were many names, including Cao Huayan. She recognized the person's name, a thin boy with rimless glasses, small eyes, and an ordinary boy may be Cao Huayan. He wears a plaid shirt with a pointed collar t, which looks a bit similar.

The boy didn't look anything special, and his expression was a little dazed. In a group photo, there are always more conspicuous ones, either they smile beautifully, or they are more good at grasping angles, and the rest have grimaces, stiff ones, and expressionless faces. Cao Huayan is not very good at looking at the camera, and sometimes even if he happens to be in the camera, his expression is dazed.

Qin Qing looked for information about Cao Huayan all night, thinking that he would definitely continue to dream that night, but there was nothing. Is it because I dream at school? Or do you have to dream in the boys' dormitory?

But dreaming has the nature of forcing to win the lottery, as long as the dream is made, then Qin Qing must be forced to find a result. It doesn't matter if it's obsessive-compulsive disorder or anything else. Moreover, Qin Qing found that even if she dreamed this time, she also had any special feelings for Cao Huayan.

Like after she dreamed of Rong Rong, her feelings for Rong Rong suddenly grew by leaps and bounds, and she directly compared Qin Cheng. Of course, now that this feeling has disappeared, she now remembers the feeling that Rong Rong is an ordinary classmate before, neither hating nor loving. This comparison makes it even more obvious that her feelings for Rong Rong during that time were abnormal.

For Professor Dai too, at that time, she loved Professor Dai more than every teacher in her life, and even she felt that Professor Dai was a model for teachers, a person who was most worthy of the name "Professor"! If Professor Dai was in front of her, she would definitely adore him very much. Although I still love him now, it is not so deep and intense.

But after dreaming of Cao Huayan, she was just an ordinary curiosity. This time she didn't dream about it, and she was not disappointed, but she breathed a sigh of relief.

When I arrived at school on Monday, I was blocked by Wu Bin at the door of the classroom just after class.

Wu Bin came to Qin Qing on purpose, he looked for Sun Mingming and Ke Fei, but these two girls ran faster than anything else. He had no choice but to come to Qin Qing to try his luck, hoping that this new member would not be too slippery and leave him alone.

"You said you met that person in the toilet and found you?" Qin Qing felt very peculiar when he heard it, "What is he looking for you for?" How did I find you? ”

Wu Bin also felt very unlucky. Probably because he was the first to go that day, and the person who came in saw him most clearly. And because they were all in one building, they couldn't see each other when they looked up, so on Sunday night, the man found him.

"He told me to stop sneaking around, and if I spread the news about Cao Huayan again, he would beat me." Wu Bin wanted to cry without tears, he told the man that they were carrying out strict scientific research activities, but the man didn't believe it, he said what he was studying, what he was studying, but he was just curious. "He told me to respect the dead and not to joke with other people's lives and deaths."

The more Qin Qing listened, the more strange he became, "He knows Cao Huayan?" ”

Wu Bin also asked the man at the time, "Do you know him?" He's your friend? ”

The man grabbed him by the collar, "Yes, Cao Huayan is my brother, if you dare to dig into him again, I will beat you so much that you don't even know your mother!" ”

What Wu Bin was most afraid of was that this person recited the clause that was legally recognized as a minor injury, saying that he would definitely be careful not to beat Wu Bin into a minor injury, such as knocking out a tooth to be considered a minor injury, and he would definitely not knock it out, just loosen it.

"What he said is so scary, girl, can you accompany me to explain? I'm trying to find a woman to explain, and he'll probably believe it. He didn't dare to go to the man, for fear that it would turn into a fight. The main thing is that the man looks too serious and doesn't look like a scare.

Could it be that he is Cao Huayan and others?

"What's his name?" Qin Qing asked.

"Tao Bin." Wu Bin said.

Tao Bin is a senior, he is a financial student, has a certain understanding of law, and likes sports, and plays football well. Wu Bin was frightened after inquiring, and it was polite to beat him eight of them.

Qin Qing was begged by Wu Bin again and again, and because this matter was really to help her in the first place, he promised to help explain. Wu Bin deliberately invited Tao Bin to dinner in a small restaurant outside the school, and Qin Qing followed along, explaining the whole thing by the way. In order to win Tao Bin's trust, she also brought the paper she wrote about it.

However, Tao Bin was not so easily persuaded, he was very calm and stubborn, he was willing to believe that what Qin Qing and Wu Bin said was just a group activity, a research investigation. But he still didn't want Cao Huayan's matter to be studied.

"I know Cao Huayan, he is an ordinary person. He is ordinary, there is nothing worth studying, and it is not like he has been put in someone's paper as a case or a typical example. Tao Bin looked at Qin Qing.

Qin Qing shook his head and said, "I won't write his matter into a paper, how to write it if the cause and effect are all unclear?" I only knew two things before I came, 1, he hanged himself; 2. I heard that he was bullied. ”

The muscles on Tao Bin's face moved, and Wu Bin immediately moved to the side, and hinted to Qin Qing not to say any more.

Qin Qing continued, "After some similar things, I understand that someone is rumoring that he will become a ghost because someone has a weak heart, maybe someone knows that he was being bullied and did not save him, or someone who bullied him spread these words. That's why I want to find out. ”

Tao Bin sneered, "What do you want to do?" Justice? ”

"I'm not that great." Qin Qing was silent for a while and said, "You know Cao Huayan, so you want to defend him." I didn't know him, but that doesn't mean I'm indifferent to what happened to him - if he was really bullied to the point of suicide, then ...... I hope to find out the truth. ”

Tao Bin lit a cigarette and the smoke he spit out obscured his face. "Find out the truth and then what? disclosed it, so that the public's curious eyes focused on Cao Huayan, and let people point fingers at him? There are very few truly sympathetic people in this world, and most people are just using sympathy as a reason to satisfy their voyeurism. How can you be sure you're not? ”

Qin Qing is poor this time, she doesn't plan to write Cao Huayan's matter into a paper, nor does she want to find out and disclose it to earn enough eyeballs. But Cao Huayan committed suicide, and there was nothing to punish those who caused him to commit suicide except to mobilize public opinion.

But she didn't do it to satisfy voyeurism.

Although she couldn't empathize with Cao Huayan's matter, she still felt that it was her responsibility to find out the truth.

She said, "...... Wouldn't it be nice to have one more person who understands him? ”

She looked at Cao Huayan who was waiting under the street lamp, and seemed to be able to feel his mood while waiting. There is a little loneliness and apprehension, but it is by no means painful.

I don't know if this sentence moved Tao Bin, he didn't say it again, but put out the cigarette in the ashtray.