Four o'clock in the morning, the darkest time before dawn. While everyone was still asleep, some had already come out to work for the operation of the steel forest.

Old Smoke claims to be the cleaner of the city. It's not nice to say, but it's actually a garbage picker. And he only picks up garbage on the road of the experimental middle school, and is not a competent "cleaner" at all.

Old Yan was like a beggar, his clothes were in tatters and patches, and his bird's nest-like hair was on his head, and he was hunched up. The smell of tobacco fills the whole body.

Lao Yan's real name is Yan Songzhi, because he likes to smoke and has a very big addiction to smoking, he was called Lao Yan by others.

In fact, Lao Yan doesn't care what he is called.

Over the years, he has given up a lot. It's just a title, and he doesn't need to compete.

What's more, I really love to smoke.

Old Smoke picks up drink bottles and scraps of paper from the deserted streets and puts them in his garbage bag.

Looking at the gradually brightening sky, Old Smoke lit a cigarette.

He enjoyed the feeling, and the sun spread all over the land as if he were the master of the world.

He slung the garbage bag over his shoulder and prepared to go home.

"The quality of people nowadays is really poor. In the past, even if you didn't know about garbage sorting, you still knew that garbage should be thrown in the trash. Now you can pour it, and if you can't find the trash can or the trash can is far away, you just throw it on the ground. ”

The old cigarette scolded and scolded, and lit another cigarette.

The sun rises in the east, and people who get up early to go to school every morning can see a beggar walking against the light with a cigarette in his mouth and a large bag of garbage on his back. Behind him were cigarette butts.

A beautiful day began again, and the sound of students reading books came from the classrooms of the experimental middle school.

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Yin Yue took a puff of cigarette and almost choked himself to death.

Growing so big, he'd never touched a cigarette. After school today, he was beaten by Dai Yuheng.

Dai Yuheng is a school bully in the experimental middle school, specializing in bullying classmates.

I don't know how I provoked Dai Yuheng, as soon as I got out of school, he was pulled into the alley and beaten, and then rescued by a stinky beggar.

The beggar had a cigarette in his mouth, and it seemed to be the same brand as Dai Yuheng.

Unexpectedly, Dai Yuheng couldn't beat this beggar. I was rescued in this way.

Looking at the cigarette that had been extinguished by himself, Yin Yue remembered the words of the beggar.

"Life is given by parents, but dignity is earned by oneself."

He wanted to ask the beggar for a cigarette, but he scolded him.

"Children are not allowed to smoke, and they are not allowed to smoke when they grow up! This stuff doesn't do people any good, don't learn from that stinky boy just now. ”

As he spoke, he ordered another one, and swallowed the clouds and spit out the fog to himself, with a look of enjoyment.

Looking at the cigarette in his hand that was about to burn out, Yin Yue felt very uncomfortable.

He didn't know what he asked and he would be beaten, maybe he was in a bad mood today, and he happened to run into himself, an unlucky person.

Yin Yue is not tall or strong, and he really can't compare with Dai Yuheng, who is tall and tall.

So what's the way, who makes themselves easy to bully.

Yin Yue felt very irritable, he threw away the cigarette butt and stood on the balcony.

He originally thought that he would be able to study with peace of mind after he entered high school, but he had had enough of being bullied by others.

In order to avoid the classmates who had bullied him, he was admitted to the best high school in the city. But he still did not escape his fate.

Yin Yue looked at the cigarette butt on the ground, and he wanted to light another cigarette. He wanted to learn from Dai Yuheng.

"Is it that I'm the same as Dai Yuheng, I won't be bullied."

The devil in Yin Yue's heart is constantly eating away at his conscience.

"Life is given by parents, but dignity is earned by oneself."

He remembered the beggar's words again.

Yin Yue opened the window to let the smell of smoke dissipate in the room.

Looking at the sky in the distance, there seems to be a little hazy under the dusk.

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Youth is often the heaviest. Because it is always at some point in our youth that we understand too much.

Young children study hard for the yearning in their hearts.

Lan Qing likes to visit campuses, whether in high school or college. However, he didn't go to school, and all his knowledge came into his mind automatically after becoming the Grim Reaper, and he just liked the atmosphere.

After all, he was once a human, and he also wanted to experience the growth trajectory of a normal human.

The scent of books and ink in the school always kept him awake. Occasionally, he fantasized about what he would do now if he could grow up properly.

The weather is a little cool, and the early autumn is just coming with the chill of winter.

When Lan Qing was about to go back, she saw the old smoke opposite the school.

Lao Yan seemed to be able to see Lan Qing, staring at him deadly.

But Lao Yan's life has not yet come to an end. He shouldn't be able to see Lan Qing.

Lan Qing didn't move, Lao Yan looked at it for a while, and then walked away silently.

Lan Qing felt very strange, this person seemed to have some familiar feelings for him. But he really hadn't seen this man.

"After so many years, you've grown up."

Lan Qing was walking on the road, when he suddenly heard a voice from behind, turned his head, and it was that person again.

"Can you see me?" Lan Qing didn't hide it, and asked directly.

Lao Yan lit two cigarettes and handed one to Lan Qing, Lan Qing refused, and even if he accepted it, he couldn't smoke it, not to mention that he couldn't smoke.

"You're really special."

Lan Qing looked at Lao Yan with deep doubts in her eyes.

"We've met." Old Smoke took a deep puff of his cigarette,

"I've seen you, I've seen you ten years ago."

If Lao Yan hadn't said these things, Lan Qing might have forgotten about it a long time ago.

"If you can, can you do something for me, on any condition."

Old Yan stepped on the cigarette butt and asked Lan Qing in a pleading tone.

"I don't know why you can see me. But I'm telling you clearly, there's nothing I can do to help you. ”

"Is it true that I have a long life?"

Lan Qing's eyes widened, there was something wrong with the sloppy person in front of her.

Since Lan Lan's death and resurrection, Lan Qing has always been very cautious in doing things.

Because he knows that everything he does can have a ripple effect.

Old Yan lit another cigarette, and he looked at Lan Qing.

"I wanted to die at that time, and I didn't know how I could see you. All I know is that you were floating in the air at that time, like a fairy. ”

"You must be a god! I waited for you at the school gate every day, and after waiting for so many years for you to show up again. It's definitely fate. ”

Lao Yan said, excited.

"There's nothing I can do."

Lan Qing waved his hand and extinguished the cigarette in Lao Yan's hand. He hated the smell of the brand in Lao Yan's hand, it was very choking and it smelled bad.

"By the way, don't tell others about me if you can see me, it's not good for you."

Death can't actually do anything to the living, Lan Qing just wants to scare Lao Yan. What's more, Lao Yan doesn't seem to even know what he does.

Lao Yan's eyes dimmed, as if the past he had just said made his heart wave, or maybe Lan Qing's refusal made him lose hope.

He walked in the direction of the setting sun, and the shadow was stretched long.

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Lao Yan didn't know where this was, and he had a bag on his head. He only felt pain all over his body, and his left eye seemed to be unable to open.

"Damn, you dare to hit Lao Tzu too? Don't you know who my Dai Yuheng is? ”

There was a voice in my ears, and as soon as I heard it, I knew that it was the kid who beat people yesterday.

Dai Yuheng took off the bag on the old cigarette butt.

"You stinky beggar have such a great ability."

"You're such a stinky boy."

Lao Yan was not used to this child, so he went back directly.

"The stinky beggar has such a hard mouth!"

A person next to Dai Yuheng slapped Lao Yan directly.

"Do your eyes hurt?"

Dai Yuheng shook the steel needle in his hand.

He stitched the eyelids of Lao Yan's left eye up and down.

"Hey...... There are a lot of tricks for small beasts. ”

"You little brute...... Little brute ......"

The sound of slaps was endless.

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When Lao Yan woke up, it was almost morning. He was thrown on the side of the road by Dai Yuheng's gang.

I don't know how many teeth I have lost. There were bruises all over the body.

Lao Yan didn't care anymore, found the thread on his eyelids, and directly ripped off the suture.

Physical pain is more painful than psychological pain.

Old Smoke touched his trouser pocket and wanted to pull out a cigarette to smoke, but he didn't touch anything.

"Fucking a bunch of little brutes, just beat Lao Tzu, and take away Lao Tzu's cigarettes."

The old cigarette had no choice, so he found a cigarette butt from the trash can next to him and smoked it.

After swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, he limped and dragged his injured body slowly home. Today's weather is not good at all, and the sun is usually shining at the same time, but now there is no sunshine. The sky was cloudy and it was going to rain.

Yin Yue came to the old smoke pacing. He seemed to understand something.

He wanted to cry a little, he was such a coward, and if he hadn't touched Lao Yan, this poor beggar wouldn't have been like this.

He sometimes really hates himself and always withdraws, and he doesn't even have the courage to greet Lao Yan now.

In fact, Lao Yan also saw Yin Yue, and he knew what this kid thought. This poor child has to learn to be strong in order to protect himself and the people around him.

You can't be like yourself, always just a garbage picker.

Lao Yan walked to the door of the convenience store and wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes.

The little girl at the cashier was startled by the old smoke and cried directly. The owner of the convenience store kicked out the old smoke.

A light rain began to fall in the sky,

Lao Yan stood in the rain, letting the rain wash away the blood on his face, but the more he washed it, the more it spent.

The sound of students reading in the morning can be heard in the school classroom.

The wonderful campus life has begun again.

Yin Yue looked out the window, he couldn't read the book at all. He just wanted to know where the old smoke went? Does he have a home?

Lao Yan walked back to his "home" and thoroughly washed the blood on his face.

He took off his clothes, ready to look at his injuries.

Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and heavy rain poured down.

The world wept for him.

Old Yan didn't know where to take out a cigarette and took a sharp puff.

He looked up at the sky.

"n."

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