Chapter 27: Matters of the Heart
Like a walking corpse, Ma Jie walked slowly towards the book tower, and he walked up the red wooden steps step by step, until he finally reached the top of the book tower, where they kept their guard every day.
Ma Jie remembered that Zhu Neng stood here with him every day to observe the wind and grass around him.
Zhu Neng is a hard-working child and has never complained about this boring job. He will only devote himself wholeheartedly to this work, Chen Ming's appearance was the first he discovered, and he was the first to remind Chen Ming of the danger in the county.
How rare it is for such a kind child, but now he is dead under the pursuit of this group of mad dogs.
Ma Jie raised his right hand, and a blazing flame appeared in his palm. The heat of the flames radiated on Ma Jie's body, but he didn't feel the slightest warmth.
Ma Jie said in his heart, "Ma Jie, Ma Jie, you are still so incompetent, even if you have special abilities, you are still so incompetent, you can only watch your students die, what do you want, what do you want." ”
Ma Jie controlled the flames to gradually fall, landing on the palm of his hand. Ma Jie didn't feel the slightest burning sensation, only a faint feeling of heat.
Ma Jie tried to raise the temperature, but the clothes were scorched and did not make Ma Jie feel the pain at the top.
Ma Jie was furious in his heart, "Incompetent guy, don't you even have the ability to burn yourself?" ”
Ma Jie took a deep breath, he held the guardrail of the book tower with his right hand, and gently stepped over to sit on the guardrail with his left and right feet.
In the distance, the mother river of Xizhi County can be vaguely seen, and the river reflects the sunlight from afar, revealing a bright breath.
Ma Jie spread his arms and felt the breeze blowing, the wind blowing through his hair and his ears. Ma Jie felt a long-lost lightness, and he stood up on top of the guardrail, his body beginning to sway from side to side.
Suddenly, the whole school heard a long-lost voice, it was Ma Jie's roar: "Goodbye, this fucking life." ”
Ma Jie closed his eyes and leaned forward, and his whole body fell towards the ground like a fallen angel.
"Smack!" There was a small crash.
Ma Jie felt the sharp pain on his body, "Am I not dead yet?" ”
Ma Jie opened his eyes and saw himself lying on a blue metal plate, isn't this the canopy in your bicycle parking area at school?
It turned out that Chen Ming had been staring at Ma Jie when he saw him leaving in disappointment, and Chen Ming felt bad when he saw Ma Jie sitting on the railing of the book tower.
When Ma Jie jumped down, Chen Ming waved at the canopy and controlled the canopy to catch Ma Jie.
Ma Jie also fell to the height of a 1-story building, and with the recovery power of his body, he could recover in a few days.
The canopy slowly fell, and Chen Ming stepped forward to pull up Ma Jie and slapped Ma Jie hard. Chen Ming felt still angry, and he slapped him again with a hard backhand.
Zhang Xueying, who had been paying attention to Ma Jie with Chen Ming, almost had her heart beating to her throat when Ma Jie jumped off the building. After seeing Ma Jie being saved by Chen Ming, his heart fell again. At this time, looking at Ma Jie, who was repeatedly beaten by Chen Ming, she hurriedly went up to block between Ma Jie and Chen Ming, and looked at Chen Ming with a pleading face: "Don't fight, don't beat Teacher Ma." ”
Tears were almost pouring out of Zhang Xueying's eyes.
Chen Ming gestured angrily: "The surname is Ma, what do you want to do?" Do you want to die like this, look at the students in front of you, think about the students in the room, can you bear to die like this? How do they escape from this hellish place and survive in this world when you die. ”
Ma Jie choked silently and gestured, "I'm tired, I can't stand it anymore." Just let me die! I miss my lover, I miss my parents, just let me die. ”
Chen Ming's anger in his heart was even greater, he pushed Zhang Xueying aside with one palm, and took a step forward and almost stuck to Ma Jie's body. He gestured one by one: "If you dare to die again, I will leave here immediately with mangoes, and there are still two of your students waiting here to die, and I will do what I say." ”
Mango, who was looking at the three of them with curiosity on his face, also called twice very cooperatively at this time, as if he agreed with Chen Ming's statement.
Ma Jie covered his face and didn't answer, but just sat down on the ground again.
Chen Ming turned around and walked back to the dormitory to rest, the words have come to this, if Ma Jie still wants to seek death, then he really has no way!
Chen Ming, who had returned to the dormitory, sat down on his legs again, the flying sword levitating in front of him vibrating imperceptibly, and he entered a state of meditation again, preparing to escape from here to find his wife and children.
At dinnertime, Ma Jie found Chen Ming. He carried a pot of white wine in his right hand and a packet of roasted peanuts under his arm in his left hand. He put the liquor on the table, took the roasted peanuts in his right hand, and opened the peanuts with his teeth by biting the bag. He poured the peanuts onto the table and somehow pulled out two more glasses and put them on the table.
There was no decadence on Ma Jie's face, he didn't pretentiously polite anything, he filled the wine glass and said, "A glass to you." ”
Chen Ming shook his head, "Forget it, it's still the same sentence, if you can't drink it at this time, you won't drink it." ”
Ma Jie raised the wine glass and put it under his nose and sniffed it intoxicatedly, "The 20-year-old Moutai cellar is our principal's town house." In the past, I only heard its name and didn't know what it was, but now it's really good to get the real thing, but I know it's good wine when I smell it. Ma Jie lifted the wine glass in front of him and drank the wine inside.
Chen Ming also raised the wine and sniffed it, his face showed greed, but he still refused: "It is indeed good wine, such good wine will be drunk until we escape from here." ”
Ma Jie was not reluctant, he filled himself with another glass of wine and drank it, and he finally said with a ashamed face: "I'm sorry, it's me who didn't do it today." Don't say much else, as long as you can get out alive, and go up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire in the future, as long as you know, I will do it for you even if I die. ”
Chen Ming smiled and shook his head, "It's serious, everyone is in trouble, I should save you, and I won't save you in the future." ”
Ma Jie didn't say much, his words had already been said in his heart, whether Chen Ming accepted it or not, his life would be Chen Ming's in the future. He drank a glass of wine and told Chen Ming about himself and the school.
Ma Jie said excitedly, "Chen Ming, before I came to school, there was not even a professional physical education teacher in the whole school. Every time I go to physical education class, either the math teacher is pulled or the Chinese teacher is pulled. I'm not saying that these teachers don't do their job, it's just that they don't teach PE. Every time, it is simply to take the children for a run, and then let the children move freely, how can this be called teaching. ”
Ma Jie took another sip of wine, "It's not that I'm boasting, but the sports ability of this group of children has risen more than one level since I came. I also asked why there were no PE teachers here. My colleagues told me that the salary of this special school is not high, and the physical education teacher is at the lowest salary level, and any teacher can stay for a long time. To be honest, if it weren't for my girlfriend, I wouldn't have chosen to work here. ”
At the mention of his girlfriend, Ma Jie's expression was sad. Although Chen Ming had never met this unknown woman, he could feel Ma Jie's love for her.
Ma Jie shook his head and suppressed his thoughts about his girlfriend, and he continued: "But after staying here for a long time, I like this group of innocent children." Although their bodies are broken, their souls are truly complete. Zhang Xueyan, Zhang Xueying, Wang Jia, Zhu Neng and many other children you have never seen, they are all children who can't bear to give up, so I can stay in this place. I don't ask for money, I just want to give these children a better education. ”
"After the catastrophe, I thought that as long as I could stay in this school, I would be able to live with this group of children. I have the addresses of all the students in the school, and I guess most of them should be fine. I thought that when the situation was better, I would find this group of students and take them alive. But I didn't expect that now we were trapped here by a bunch of brutes, and so many people were dying one after another. Sometimes I'm really tired, my own efforts don't pay off, and I'm afraid that in the end I'm the only one left in the whole school. ”
Chen Ming patted Ma Jie's hand, he nodded, he understood Ma Jie's mood. Sometimes he is also very afraid, afraid that when he returns home in Jiangzhou, he can only see an empty house, with no wife and no children.
Chen Ming took the initiative to fill Ma Jie with wine, and Ma Jie immediately drank it in one gulp. Ma Jie said drunkly: "Chen Ming, I should be older than you, so I'll call you Brother Chen." ”
Chen Ming nodded.
Ma Jie then gestured: "If one day I die in the mouths of these beasts, you can help me rescue Zhang Xueying." Let her follow you, wherever she goes, as long as she can live in this world. ”
Chen Ming nodded, in such a moment, he also wanted to entrust the matter behind him to Ma Jie. But he immediately threw this thought out of his mind, he could not die, and he would never die.
Ma Jie took a sip of wine, and the peanut shells on the table in front of the two gradually piled up into a hill, and Ma Jie finally got drunk on the table and didn't wake up.
Chen Ming didn't dare to plug his mouth, and he was afraid that he would be drunk and talk, so he could only sit beside him and watch over him all night.
Zhang Xueying, who was in the dormitory next door, couldn't stay up after staying with Wang Jia until 12 o'clock and went back to bed.
Zhang Xueying, who was asleep, saw that the big dogs running all over the county, some of them were looking for real food everywhere in the county, and some of them surrounded the school.
She also saw that wherever the big dogs went, they would eventually return to a place surrounded by barbed wire, and a sign was hung on the outside of the farm that read "Dog Duoduo Farm".
Suddenly, Zhang Xueying was awakened by a scene in a dream.
In the last scene of the dream, she saw herself standing on the school's book tower, and countless large dogs surrounded her from all directions, suicidally pounding the school gate. At the gate of the school, there are more and more corpses of big dogs, and the gate is already crumbling.