The rain slammed against the windows, the lead-colored dark clouds swept the sky of the coastal city, and the thunder and lightning that swept through it seemed to open a single eye for the black clouds, and then the rolling thunder was the heavy gasp of the gods who were not angry and self-righteous.

Chu Zihang stood at the door of the classroom, the eighth-level wind blew the flag on the playground of Shilan Middle School, and several senior students were bending around the flagpole to avoid the rain and try to lower the flag, but it was clear that they failed. One boy accidentally touched the button and opened the umbrella in his arms, and the wind blew the umbrella and flew him backwards, and another boy cleverly pounced on him to hug him, but was blown into the muddy lawn and became ducks.

The cars on the playground are constantly honking, the lights shooting out from all directions reflect the shadow of the flagpole in the rainy night, the horns one after another seem to be a ragtag band without a conductor, the louder the person who hears it, the more irritated the person is, the students in the playground like a car banquet are like headless flies, most of them are wearing black raincoats, reminiscent of the little tadpoles that can't find their mothers in the children's textbooks.

Chu Zihang under the eaves stretched out his hand, and the rain splashed on his hand, letting him know: Oh, it turns out that the rain is really pouring down from the sky - in this level of rainfall, the world is full of silver waterfall curtains, and everything is washed hazy by the water splash, and it is difficult to distinguish whether the rain falls from the sky to the ground, or the water on the ground flows back to the sky.

It's raining all over the world.

The mobile phone vibrated and received a new letter, Chu Zihang glanced down and then silently deleted it, leaned against the wall and held his hands and watched the chaotic car show on a rainy night gradually quiet down from the glitz, and the ruts drove outside the school gate, leaving only a messy playground washed by heavy rain.

"Wait for someone? Still can't get home? ”

The sound of speaking came from Chu Zihang's right side, and a junior boy walked to Chu Zihang's side and squatted down, and watched the miraculation of the rain rising and falling by the eaves of the teaching building.

"Wait for someone."

Chu Zihang replied to this junior boy who had never met before, he was not familiar, but he was not a cold-faced star who rejected people thousands of miles away, and even said that few people in Shilan Middle School dared to talk to him, and people who were not familiar with him said that his zodiac belonged to the refrigerator, and before he opened the refrigerator door, he could feel the chill inside from his pupils.

"Oh, wait for someone, wait for someone, at least someone can pick you up in this weather." The boys in the lower grades look slightly younger than Chu Zihang, and they should also be from Shilan Junior High School.

He and Chu Zihang had clearly never seen each other, but they squatted beside Chu Zihang so naturally.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the large raindrops were blown into each other and broke in the air, sprinkling scattered water on the ground, and the wind became stronger and the dark clouds rolled up.

Chu Zihang looked down at the boy who was squatting beside him and didn't say a word? Suddenly, his name came out: "... Lin Nian? ”

Like a code correctly? The boy in the lower grades subconsciously looked up at him and touched his cheek with some puzzlement? I don't know how Chu Zihang, who has also never met him, recognized him: "... How do you know my name? Is my name written on my face? ”

"As a transfer student in junior high school, did you get the first place in the entrance exam? You were praised for speaking under the national flag, and the president of the high school student council hand-presented you with a letter of enrollment. Chu Zihang turned his head sideways and continued to look at the night of the rainstorm? " I was offstage at the time? You were wearing a white T-shirt and black slacks with the Guiren Bird logo on it, and your shoes were a pair of white Nike sneakers. ”

"Wow, you have a good memory, and your grades should be good, right?" The boy nodded, thinking to himself, is this person really idle? He didn't nap when he spoke under the national flag, but he actually went to remember the logo of the clothes of the people on the stage.

"It's okay." Chu Zihang didn't say that he was also the first in the grade to get a scholarship this year? After all, the first grade can't be changed, and now the two of them are standing under the eaves and sheltering from the rain like wet crows.

"I used to study in a public middle school, and the condition for entering Shilan Junior High School was that the results of the third high school entrance examination in the third year of the next year should be the top in the city, otherwise I would be expelled from the school." The boy laughs.

“... But on your first day in junior high school, you punched someone in the infirmary. Chu Zihang looked down at him and asked, "Why?" Aren't you afraid of being dissuaded by demerits? ”

"You're supposed to be the type of good student in school, right?" The boy boredly used his hands to catch the rain, "Never fought? ”

"Hit."

"Then we have something in common." The boy said? "There was a man in the second junior high school who said that my shoes were imitation, so I hit him? Then threw his shoes into the urinal of the toilet. ”

"Why?" Chu Zihang asked subconsciously.

"Why?" The boy patted his wet hands, "Those shoes were given to me by someone else." ”

"But if it's true or not? The boy was right. Chu Zihang asked.

"What do you mean?" The boy turned his head to look at Chu Zihang.

"I have no ill will... My last birthday present was a pirated Shrek DVD, which was also fake. Chu Zihang was silent for a moment? Trying to show that you have no bad intentions.

"Oh... Who sent you? The boy was a little stunned by the topic.

"My dad." Chu Zihang paused for a moment before answering.

"Your dad is the best... But it's also a heart? I slipped in through the back door of the movie theater to watch that movie? And I only watched half of it from the head to the end, because finally the people from the movie theater came in to check the tickets, and I had to sneak out in the dark in advance. The boy scratched the back of his head and said.

"Why don't you buy a ticket?" Chu Zihang asked.

"Can't afford it." The boy looked Chu Zihang up and down and said with a smile, "After all, I don't have the best dad or mom to send me pirated DVDs for my birthday, I only have one sister at home." ”

"......" Chu Zihang was silent for a while and seemed to understand, and after a while he hesitated and said, "If you still want to watch it in its entirety, I can lend you the disc, in fact, someone has already taken me to the cinema to watch it before he gave me the disc." ”

"But I don't have a DVD player at home." The boy sighed and looked at the rain and was stunned again.

Chu Zihang didn't speak anymore, and the two of them just watched the rain quietly and listened to it.

“... You're a pretty good person, if you have a chance, I'll go to your house to watch a movie on your birthday next time, right? The boy said suddenly.

“... But on my birthday, I usually have a barbecue party at home, and I don't watch movies. Chu Zihang said.

"Well, I don't watch movies, but I have a barbecue party..."

"I remember your name, I can invite you next time I have a birthday, if you have time..."Chu Zihang said, he paused, and then continued: "What would you do if the rain didn't stop?" ”

"Run out, find a way to take the bus, and the No. 6 bus can sit in the subway station."

Chu Zihang glanced at the heavy rain outside that seemed to be about to drown the world: "My father will come to pick me up in a while, where do you live?" I can give you a ride. ”

"By the way? I live on the outskirts of the city, and it's quite winding. ”

Hearing the suburbs, Chu Zihang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the boy to live so far, which means that after entering Shilan, the other party has to take the subway and bus for an hour or two to get to the school every day, according to Shilan's tradition of reading at 7:30 in the morning, if you want not to be late, you can only leave at about 5 o'clock in the morning...

"Is it still too far? Why don't you forget it? When the rain was a little lighter, I ran back by myself, I ran very fast, and the track and field department of the high school wanted to poach me when I entered the physical test. The boy smiled.

"No, after sending you off, the car can go on the Ring Expressway and go home, and it's not a special detour." Chu Zihang said.

"That relationship is good, that relationship is good." After receiving the reply, the boy rubbed his hands and turned his head to look at the pouring rainy night, and stopped talking, feeling as if what he had to say was finished, and the purpose of the trip had been achieved.

Chu Zihang was stunned, but inexplicably remembered the first thing this boy said when he came to talk.

The xenon lamp drew two white rays of light through the playground and shone on the ground floor of the teaching building, Chu Zihang and the boy who were squatting together squinted their eyes, the latter also realized something and seemed to stand up and block the headlights with his hands, the owner saw their reaction cleverly cut the high beams into low beams, and flicked the accelerator to the front of the teaching building with the black luxury car that was a lone on the playground.

Two ruts were drawn on the ground, and the stagnant water was crushed to the point that two one-meter-high water curtains were lifted, but fortunately, Chu Zihang pulled the boy back to the edge of the classroom door to avoid becoming a soup chicken.

Stopped in front of them is a black beast that broke through the rainy night, a faint white vapor rose in front of the xenon lamp, the flowing black body slipped from the roof to both sides, and the two "M" overlapped into a mountain-shaped car logo stood in the heavy rain and shone brightly, this is a Maybach 62 worth 9 million, but unfortunately he came a little late today, because the car show in the playground has ended, if he came half an hour earlier, he would probably come to the respectful sight of most car owners, Instead of being able to perform a pressurized water flick tail drift in front of two and a half children as it is now.

"Wow, your dad is so rich." The boy looked at the good car with Shen Xiong's low roar and said.

Chu Zihang turned his head to look at his eyes, but unexpectedly didn't find an envious gaze in it, seeing the steel monster in front of him that couldn't be blown by the tenth-level wind, he seemed to be watching the missile tank car pulled in the military parade on TV, and inevitably sighed that there was no aftermath in his heart after a sentence that was really awesome.

The man in the driver's seat of the Maybach opened the door, pulled out the black umbrella in the door frame, and trotted towards them, in the wind and rain he struggled to hold the umbrella in front of him, bravely like a small tank car, but the pace of running was inevitably a little out of shape, like a tank car dancing and people couldn't help but want to laugh.

It's hard to imagine that the character who came out of the car of this level would be like him, bowing his head and bowing his eyebrows, even if the man himself is also very good-looking, but when he ran to Chu Zihang's side with an umbrella, he was as attentive as a father who had marinated a bowl of fresh hot pig intestines for his son to make supper.

It was like an ordinary father, he came out of Maybach, opened the umbrella and looked only at his own son under the eaves not far away, and the good car behind him was nothing more than a steel tool that lit the headlights to illuminate his face. It was only at this time that Chu Zihang found that the gaze of the boy next to him looking at the man in the rain suddenly became indescribable, it was a very complicated emotion, and it was obscured by the silver light of the heavy rain after a fleeting moment.

"This is Dad, he doesn't have any money, he's just a driver." Chu Zihang whispered to the boy.

Maybe it's an empathy.

Chu Zihang knew that the boy had no parents, and now the man drove such a good luxury car to pick him up on a rainy night, a rich father and a father who loved him, this contrast may make the boys around him feel sad, I don't know what emotion, he said this sentence that he would not say to others at all in normal times.

"See, drive Maybach, it's awesome, brother, I'll definitely eat double servings when I go to your BBQ in the future." The boy said with a low chuckle.

“... Good. Chu Zihang said.

"Your friend?" The man rushed to the eaves with an umbrella, looked at the boy beside Chu Zihang and asked.

"Can't you?" Chu Zihang said, his tone was very flat, but anyone could hear a slight rush, and the boy on the side didn't open his mouth but just stood and took care of the shoulder strap of his schoolbag.

"Yes, of course, I must be happy to see my son make friends." The man slapped his thighs and was beaten by the wind and rain like a chicken in soup, and his face was still dancing with his eyebrows, "Where does your friend live?" I'll send you home by the way, tonight the wind thief is big, I heard that the strongest today is level ten, but I drove that car, and the twelve level wind can't blow us away! ”

Chu Zihang's face sank a little when he saw the man thumbs up and gestured to the steel monster in the rainy night, and the man was alert to find that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, so he immediately stopped his mouth and put on an umbrella to accompany him and walk in front with a smile to escort the two boys to the car.

Chu Zihang got into the back seat and wanted to reach out to pull the boy, but found that the other party was standing in the heavy rain outside the car and looked at the school gate blankly, he also turned his head to look through the rearview window, and found that a slender figure in a black raincoat was running towards them briskly in the heavy rain, and the flat-soled lady's shoes stepped on the puddle several times and accidentally hit the foot, but fortunately, her master's balance was very strong so he did not fall into the stagnant water.

"I'm sorry, my family came to pick me up, so I won't trouble you this time." After the boy leaned into the warm Maybach and said apologetically to Chu Zihang, he turned around and ran towards the slender figure in the rainy night.

Only then did Chu Zihang believe that the boy was really running fast as he said, and the seeded athletes in the track and field department had to be out of reach of his back when he ran towards that figure, and the black hem of his clothes was like a tadpole tail shaking wildly in the wind, like two hearts that were about to get along urgently.

The man who braved the eighth-level wind to pick up the boy was a tall and beautiful girl, and the light makeup on her face had melted away in the rain, but she still couldn't stop her beauty, and the man with the umbrella outside the car quietly whistled, muttering that his wife was not far behind, as if he had never been divorced.

Chu Zihang in the car didn't care about the man on the side, just looked at the boy and the girl from a distance from the rear window, in the wind and rain, they put on the same black raincoat, and ran towards the school gate in the rain, four feet stepped on the puddle of water and jumped high, at this time Chu Zihang found that the boy today seemed to be wearing the same pair of Nike white sneakers at the opening ceremony, and suddenly he understood why the junior high school transfer student had to fight a classmate he had never met, It's just because the other party mocked him for a pair of fake shoes.

Whether the shoes were fake or not, there was no doubt that they must have been given by the girl who came to pick him up on a rainy night, the girl could be her sister, or maybe someone else, who spent more than half of a month's salary and gave the boy a birthday present. It was a brand new pair of white sneakers, which fit well on his feet, and she complimented him on how good they looked, and asked him if he liked them, and he said he liked them to death. So whoever jumps out and says that his shoes are fake, he will beat them, because the shoes were given to him by the girl, and even if the shoes are indeed fake, he will beat people up, just because the shoes are his birthday gift, and what she gave can't be fake, and it can't be fake.

"Isn't that good?" Chu Zihang said softly.

If a man can give him a pair of shoes in front of 'Daddy' on his birthday, whether it is true or not, he will unpack them and wear them on his feet, and if a bastard boy laughs at his shoes, he will take out a bamboo sword and beat him on the head with the kendo he learned in the Children's Palace until his head is bleeding and apologizes to him.

The pirated "Shrek" disc that the man gave him at home is still on the bookshelf, and he has watched it dozens of times, and when he sees that he can memorize the lines, he will read it again, and he has been waiting for the next birthday to receive a disc of "Shrek 2", whether it is pirated or genuine.

"What do you say? It was raining so hard just now that I couldn't hear it. The Maybach door closed, and the heat gushing out of the seat made Chu Zihang's body warm for a moment, he took his eyes back from the rearview window, looked at the man in the driver's seat, and his cold eyes eased a lot for no reason, "It's nothing." ”

"It's okay, I'll tell you, it's good that I didn't go to the car wash this morning, no contact car wash, eighty at a time, if I wash..."

The boring topic began, the man in the driver's seat kept talking, the voice in Chu Zihang's ears was slowly filtered by the sound of rain outside the window, Maybach started the engine and drove out slowly, passing over the warm air conditioning heating from both sides of the boys and girls running in raincoats, and floated out of the gate of Shilan Middle School in the flick of the tail.

At the school gate, a boy in a black raincoat on the side of the road watched from afar as the Maybach blade cut into the waterfall, like a bookmark cut through a tragic story, and the page will be turned again countless times in the future.

The Maybach, which rushed into the rainy night, galloped back and did not return.

"What's wrong?" The man next to him asked the boy softly

"Nothing." The boy said.

"It's just... It's raining so hard today. The boy looked up at the sky, and the rain poured down on his cheeks.

He didn't speak, he closed his eyes and quietly felt the touch of the rain on the side of his face, and in the darkness through the thunder of the dark clouds, he listened to the tragedies that were destined to happen on a rainy night.

God.

Maybach.

Torrential rain.

The man who rushed to God wielded a sword.

A cowardly boy running with his back to him.

The rain falls in the darkness of the wild stream.

"yes, it's raining so hard today..."

The rain rushed down his cheeks, and the boy in the black raincoat opened his eyes and whispered.

Chu Zihang stood alone at the bus stop at the entrance of Shilan Middle School, the No. 6 bus in the distance flashed yellow lights and leaned towards the platform, and the rain made the street sparsely populated.

It was raining in the heavens and the whole world, and it was impossible to tell whether the water was coming from heaven or from the earth.

He was the only one standing on the street in the rainstorm, alone.

Everything is like a day that will never fade away in my memory.

July 3, 2009, Coastal City, Heavy rain.

To this day, he still walks alone on rainy nights, and I don't know how many rainy nights he returned to his hometown, and persistently rebuilt the sandcastle by the sea through the scenes in his memory.

On the night when the rain fell, the boy in the black raincoat at the entrance of Shilan Middle School revisited the old place, and he could no longer find the Maybach who ran towards the elevated road in the stormy night and the man in the car full of nonsense.

Changed.