Chapter 03: The Promise
Outside,
The unusually scorching heat of the sun has receded a little. On the playground, the students of the Physical Education Department have already started their afternoon training. The burst of roars came faintly, making people feel that the campus was no longer so lifeless.
On the podium, an old man with thick eyes was giving a passionate speech, waving his hand in the air from time to time, his face full of excitement and self-absorption.
Lower, the students sitting in the front row have their eyes wide open, and their backs are straight. Just looking closely, they seemed to be a little sluggish in their expressions of concentration, and I really don't know if they were listening to the old man's tirade.
Thick reference books and textbooks were piled up on the small desks, and the students in the four rows were all buried their heads in the stacks of books one by one. Some of them are yawning, some are sleeping, some are reading novels, and some are doing nothing but quietly looking out the window in a daze.
This kind of senior year life under huge pressure has brought them to the brink of collapse. Although they are the so-called key classes in the school, although they are all very eager for that good college life, but after a long day of torture, many of them can no longer stand it.
Looking up at the old man on the podium, Wang Yu's mouth showed a trace of disdain and sarcasm. He cursed in a low voice in his heart, and turned his head out the window again.
Although the sun is no longer so hot, but looking at it, sleepiness is still slowly coming, squinting slightly reddish eyes, Wang Yu shook his head vigorously.
"How long is it until class ends?" Slowly lying on the table, gently touching the boy sitting outside him with his arm, Wang Yu asked in a low voice.
"Ten minutes to go." Hearing this, the boy on the side looked away from the novel book in front of him, looked at the plastic watch on his wrist and replied in a low voice.
"Oh." Wang Yu replied vaguely.
The boy on the side stretched out his hand and rubbed his somewhat dry eyes, turned his face to look at Wang Yu who was lying on the table at the moment, and smiled faintly at the corner of his mouth, his face was full of sympathy. "Well, think about how you'll explain it to your parents, poor boy." The boy said and patted Wang Yu lightly on the back, but the smile on his face was a little thicker.
"Don't gloat, aren't you afraid that I will suddenly regret what I promised you?" Wang Yu's voice was still so flat, so lifeless. He didn't have to look up to guess what a sneering look was on the face of the 'watch man' next to him at the moment.
"I'm worried about whether you're okay." The watch man on the side was flushed, and looking at his appearance, it seemed that his patience for laughter was about to reach the limit.
Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, his face was rare and correct, he poked Wang Yu with his hand, and whispered: "By the way, you must help me paint that painting." I promised to give it to her on her birthday. Big brother, you must not fool me. ”
"Something that is heavy on color and light on friends." Wang Yu said with disdain.
Hearing Wang Yu say this, a trace of joy flashed on the watch man's face, and he laughed in a low voice: "Don't worry, Boss Wang, brother, I am definitely not an ungrateful villain, you helped me this time, brother, please drink a week's drink." After speaking, seeing that Wang Yu didn't take care of himself for a while, the watch man finally gritted his teeth and added: "Plus, I will help you eat for a week, and I will be on duty for a week, how about it?" ”
Wang Yu slowly raised his head, turned his face, squinted at the watch man with a pair of reddish eyes, and said slowly for a while: "This is what you said yourself, don't regret it?" ”
Looking at the somewhat smug smile on the corner of Wang Yu's mouth, the watch man despised him fiercely in his heart, but the expression on his face remained unchanged at all, and he still had a smile on his face, and said, "Don't worry, you will never regret it." ”
Looking at the somewhat stiff smile on the 'watch man' face at the moment, Wang Yu slowly stretched out a hand and made a triumphant gesture.
Before the painting arrived, the 'watch man' didn't dare to resist, so he could only continue to laugh.
"Here you go." Wang Yu casually took out a drawing board from the hole in the table and gently placed it on the novel book in front of the watch man. "Take the painting, leave the sketchpad, remember what you promised me, don't bother me again." As he spoke, Wang Yu glared at him fiercely.
"Hehe, I knew you had already drawn it." The watch man smiled and picked up the drawing board in front of him, suddenly with a smile on his face, slowly handed the drawing board back, and said, "Big brother, did you take the wrong one?" This one doesn't seem to be mine? ”
Wang Yu was slightly stunned, took the sketchpad and looked at it, and a sour feeling immediately came to his heart. stared blankly at the girl in the aqua green dress on the drawing board, and inadvertently, his fingers slowly slid over her face.
Seeing the change in the expression on Wang Yu's face, the 'watch man' actually put away the original playful smile on his face, sighed lightly in his heart, and said in a low voice: "You can't do this?" How long are you going to have a crush on her? Do you have to wait until she's about to get married before you confess to her? ”
Looking at the portrait blankly, Wang Yu did not speak.
After a while, as the bitterness in his eyes became thicker and thicker, a small voice sounded, as if he was talking to the 'watch man' and as if he was saying it to himself.
"She already has a boyfriend, and I know she doesn't like me."
For a while, the 'watch man' didn't know how to comfort Wang Yu, so he reached out and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and sighed softly.
Wang Yu knew that the 'watch man' was comforting from the heart at this time, but he didn't know how to respond. He tried to squeeze a smile out of his mouth, and then quickly turned his face out of the window again.
I don't know when this damn remnant sun became a little dazzling again, and a dry feeling suddenly surged in his eyes, and Wang Yu hurriedly lowered his head.
Because he knew that something was about to break through the shackles of his eyes at this moment, he knew even more that it was tears.
……
……
In the corridor, Wang Yu was walking slowly with his head down, his steps were slightly heavy and slow. This is just over a hundred meters away, but he wants to keep going like this, and never reach the end.
This is the second time that my parents have been called to school in a month, and the last time my father in the iron mask had almost beaten himself to death, if it wasn't for my mother's desperate efforts to stop me, I might be lying in the hospital now. Thinking of his father's gaze of great hatred towards him, Wang Yu couldn't help but shiver all over his body.
In fact, I can't blame my father for all this, they have not followed themselves in any matter for so many years. I like to draw, but my father didn't say a word, he was the first to raise his hand in favor. When he brought home his first award-winning work, his father's happy childlike smile is still fresh in his mind.
For the sake of their ideals, they save money, buy themselves the best paintbrushes, the best drawing paper, and find the best study classes. Perhaps all this is nothing for a wealthy family, but it is a bit heavy and luxurious for an ordinary working family.
However, all the suffering, parents never revealed half of it in front of themselves. Although I can deeply feel their difficulties, every time I propose to give up, my father always resolutely opposes and gives him the greatest encouragement.
They know that their children love to draw, and they know that their children are talented. For the sake of their children, they feel that all the efforts are worth it, and all the suffering is nothing.
"Dad, don't worry, when I become famous in the future, I will definitely earn money to buy you and my mother a big house, and hire many nannies ,..."
"Haha, okay, dad waits. My son will be promising,..."
I still remember boasting to my father about such a Haikou when I was more than ten years old, but there was no doubt in my father's eyes with a deep smile, full of pride and pride.
But since I went to high school, I have slowly changed, and I have become more and more incomprehensible to them. It became so that they slowly became sad, and they slowly broke their hearts.
Wang Yu wanted to tell them the reason, but he didn't dare. Because he knows the so-called reason, maybe he will think it is ridiculous and far-fetched in his own eyes many years later.
In this way, how can today's parents accept and forgive?
But he couldn't control himself, and he slowly fell into the abyss. Slowly tired of studying, tired of everything around me.
With a heavy sigh in his heart, Wang Yu shook his head fiercely. Suddenly, his footsteps stopped, and he slowly raised his head.
On the door, the three bold letters of 'office' in block letters came into view. There was another bitter tremor in his heart, and in the end, Wang Yu slowly raised his hand and knocked on the door gently.
No matter how long the night is, there will be a dawn, but after the dawn there may be clear skies, but what awaits us may also be a storm and rain.