Chapter 01: Alive
In the setting sun, a faint smoke wafted from the courtyard of a family, and people who had worked all day on the path were rushing home in twos and threes.
Wang Yu lowered his head and followed his parents from a distance, slowly walking forward. Under the blow of the double failure of the college entrance examination and the training selection, Wang Yu at this moment is on the verge of collapse. Although the scolding of his father, who he feared the most, did not happen, Wang Yu could feel the disappointment in his parents' eyes.
During this period of time, his parents will take turns to be by his side, maybe his parents are afraid that this only son will not be able to think about it for a while. In fact, this is not that they are too worried, since returning home, Wang Yu has not spoken for a whole week. No matter how his parents asked or guided, Wang Yu never said a word.
In the dark, there seemed to be a grim reaper holding a scythe quietly following behind Wang Yu.
A gust of evening wind hit, Wang Yu looked up at the sky in the distance, those eyes that were originally very deep were even more cold and a little terrifying at the moment.
"Dad, what do you say this kid should do? Will something happen? Wang Yu's mother quietly glanced back at her son, turned her face to Wang Yu's father and asked.
"Don't talk nonsense, what can happen." Wang Yu's father suddenly sighed heavily as he spoke, and then lowered his voice and said, "Don't let him stay alone during this time, see if he will ease up after a while." ”
"Dad, in fact, there is one thing I haven't told you, mainly because I'm afraid that you will be anxious after hearing it." Wang Yu's mother wanted to speak and stopped, but for some reason there were a little tears flashing in her eyes.
"What do you say, what do I have to worry about." Wang Yu's father frowned, reached out and patted the back of his wife's rough hand, and said, "Say, I can stand anything now." ”
"Look what this is." Wang Yu's mother said as she pulled out a white plastic bottle from her pocket. "This is what I secretly searched from Xiao Yu's room."
"This is sleeping pills?" Wang Yu's father's eyes widened instantly. Seeing his wife nodding with tears in her eyes, he was finally sure that his son really had the idea of ending his life.
"I'm afraid that this child will do stupid things at night, if my son is gone, I won't be alive..."
"Don't cry, my son is behind me, beware of being heard by him." As he spoke, his father stretched out his hand and rubbed his somewhat sour eyes, and comforted his wife: "Don't worry, you let me think of a way, go home first." ”
"Yes."
When Wang Yu's mother heard this, she nodded heavily, she knew that this matter was not in a hurry for a while, so she had to put all her hopes on her husband.
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"Hello, uncle, hello."
In front of the closed courtyard gate, the girl looked at a family of three coming from afar, waved her arms vigorously and shouted loudly.
"Who is this girl, is it Xiaoxue?" Wang Yu's father was slightly stunned, and turned his face to his wife on the side and asked.
"It's not, yes, it's Manman."
Wang Yu's mother's eyes lit up, and she just wanted to step forward quickly, but when she turned her face and saw that her husband was still puzzled, she hurriedly reminded with a smile: "Why did you forget, it's the girl who went home with Xiao Yu some time ago, hurry, don't be stunned, go faster." After speaking, without waiting for her husband to answer, Wang Yu's mother immediately greeted her with a quick smile.
"Xiao Yu, hurry up, Man Man has come to see you." Wang Yu's father reacted and turned his face to shout at his son, who had his head down.
"Manman."
Hearing his father's shout, Wang Yu's heart suddenly beat violently, and he said a low sentence in his mouth, slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of his house.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, a tall girl was waving her arms vigorously towards herself, her long hair was draped over her shoulders in gratitude, and the sweet smile was hanging on her face.
Looking at the pretty figure coldly, Wang Yumeng found that in addition to his parents, there was another person who didn't mind his indifference and alienation during this time, and she still came to her side quietly in such an evening.
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It was late at night, and the stars were embedded in the sky, and most people had already fallen asleep by the moment.
But at this moment, the lights were still on in Wang Yu's parents' room, although they were wrapped in a quilt and sitting on the bed, but for some reason they didn't even take off the clothes on their bodies, as if they were waiting for something to happen.
"I don't think it's good, will it hurt other girls?" Wang Yu's father took the teacup from his wife's hand and asked worriedly.
"Don't talk nonsense, what's harmful, don't you see that the two of them are talking about friends?" Wang Yu's mother glared at her husband, then sat on the other end of the bed and stretched back into the quilt.
"Where do you tell they're talking about friends? If not, don't hurt other girls..."Wang Yu's father still looked very worried.
"Listen to me, if you don't want your son to have an accident, don't talk nonsense." Wang Yu's mother smiled as she spoke, "Don't drink it, you go to sleep first, and I'll call you again in the second half of the night." ”
"Why don't you go to sleep first, I'm not too sleepy right now." Wang Yu's father glared at his wife as he spoke, and continued: "Every time you say call me, but when I don't sleep until dawn, you sleep first today." ”
"I must wake you up today, go to sleep, I promise not to lie to you, okay." Wang Yu's mother knew that her husband was feeling sorry for her, but she still insisted that her husband, who had to go to work in the factory the next day, rest early.
"Then you have to call this time, you know, otherwise don't blame me for turning my face with you..."Because he was too tired, Wang Yu's father didn't continue to insist, and after speaking, he lay down in all his clothes.
"Take your coat off, or you might catch a cold." Wang Yu's mother looked at her husband, who was a little angry, and said with a faint smile.
"No, remember that if you don't wake me up in the middle of the night, I won't go to work in the factory tomorrow." Wang Yu's father said angrily.
"Okay, I'm going to wake you up, hehe." Wang Yu's mother said as she reached out to help her husband tighten the quilt, and then turned her face to look away, looking in the direction of her son's room.
In the soft light of the room, two young people, a man and a woman, were sitting quietly on the edge of the bed. Although they sat very close to each other, there was no verbal communication between them, they just sat quietly.
Wang Yu quietly looked sideways at Xu Jiaman beside him, and Xu Jiaman was lowering his head and fiddling with the mobile phone in his hand. The night was deep, the night was cold, but they didn't know it.
I don't know how long it took like this, Xu Jiaman finally slowly raised his head.
"Are you going to ignore me all the time?" Facing Wang Yu's soft gaze, Xu Jiaman asked with a smile.
"Nope."
Wang Yu smiled faintly, and finally let Xu Jiaman know that he hadn't completely become a mute. As he spoke, he stood up and walked to the corner of the wall and took a mat and spread it on the ground, then took a quilt and pillow from the bed and threw it on it, and whispered: "Don't blame my mother, he actually has no malice in doing this, you go to bed first, it's late." After speaking, Wang Yu lay down with his back to Xu Jiaman on the simple bunk.
Looking at the boy in front of him who suddenly became very cold and unfamiliar, Xu Jiaman sighed faintly after a while, and whispered: "Whether you believe it or not, in fact, now I can more or less understand the feelings in your heart." I may not be able to get you out of that dead end, I just want to tell you a story, I don't know if you want to hear it? ”
"Don't say it, thank you for coming to see me, you forgot what I said some time ago, I'm sorry, I was too impulsive at the time." Wang Yu said, burying his face deeper into the quilt.
Although he knew that what Wang Yu was saying at the moment was not sincere, Xu Jiaman still couldn't control the surging tears. Biting his lip fiercely and not letting himself make a sound, he continued to talk to himself after a while: "It's really ridiculous for you to want to escape and even end your life when you encounter such a little thing now. ”
"Don't say it, can't I do it myself?" Wang Yu suddenly turned his face and yelled loudly at Xu Jiaman.
"Do you know that many years ago, there was a little girl who was not only abandoned by her own parents, but also lived alone in the garbage heap for eighteen days, can you imagine how she felt at that time? Not only did she not complain, but she survived by eating that disgusting garbage, so what qualifications do you have to say that you want to die? ”
I don't know if it was because I was frightened, or because I thought of what happened to the little girl back then, Xu Jiaman has turned into a whole tearful person at this moment.
"Hmph, are you making fun of me?" Looking at Xu Jiaman, who was full of tears, Wang Yu was unmoved, smiled coldly, and said: "I have watched a lot of such stories on TV, you should use them to coax others..."
"Hehe, you say I'm coaxing you?"
Xu Jiaman suddenly smiled, slowly walked to Wang Yu and squatted down, looked at Wang Yu quietly with a pair of teary eyes, and said lightly: "We've known each other for so long, when did you see me in front of your parents or family, I like you so much, don't you feel very strange?" ”
Hearing this, Wang Yu's head seemed to have been hit with a wooden stick, and there was an immediate 'buzz'. He wanted to avoid Xu Jiaman's direct gaze, but for some reason he didn't have the courage to move away. His shock was not because of Xu Jiaman's naked confession, but because he heard the deep meaning of Xu Jiaman's words.
The little girl she had spoken of many years ago, the little girl who had lived alone in a disgusting garbage heap for eighteen days, perhaps......
"Now you should know I didn't coax you..."
Xu Jiaman said, the tears in her eyes raged uncontrollably again, but she didn't care about it, just let it surge, this forbidden place that had been sealed in her heart for many years today for the boy she loved in front of her cruelly tore the wound that had healed, "That girl is in front of you now, she is me." ”
In the light, in the cry.
Wang Yu opened his eyes in a daze, and then stretched out his arms to the girl in front of him who turned into tears again, and slowly hugged her into his arms, holding her tighter and tighter little by little.
"Do you know how many people in this world give everything they give every day to be able to live, you are not qualified to say that you want to die, because you have not experienced how miserable it is to be alive..." Xu Jiaman buried his face deep in Wang Yu's chest, while soaking his clothes unscrupulously, while muttering in a low voice.
Feeling that the hands surrounding him were holding him tightly little by little, Wang Yu's face was cold, but his heart was already shattered. He knew that if he left this world like this, there would be many people who would not be able to repay their kindness, but now his heart was really bitter.
"Ahh
The next moment, many grievances and unwillingness had nowhere to vent, and in the end, Wang Yu finally turned them into a wail, and cried loudly on Xu Jiaman's shoulder.
In the tears, in the crying, no one knew how close the two young hearts were at that moment in such a seemingly dull night.