In 2011, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival.

Ma has not been back to the city for a long time, and is watching the American drama "The Walking Dead" on the Internet, and there is a strong sense of involvement.

The mobile phone rang suddenly, and I heard a crisp male voice when I picked it up: "Hey, I'm Shenming." ”

The voice of an adolescent is no longer a schoolboy in memory, and it is not a high school teacher who died sixteen years ago.

"You ......"

"Long time no see, some miss you."

Untidy.

"Hey, are you still there?"

Affirmation or Hope? Ma Li was in a dilemma, hesitated for a long time and replied softly: "I'm here." ”

"I want to meet you, now."

He was stunned for a moment, and at eight o'clock in the evening, he had just finished eating: "Okay." ”

"Okay, I'll wait for you at the flower and bird market, you should know there."

"The Palace of Workers' Culture in the Past?"

As Ma Li blurted out, the other party's tone was slightly relieved: "That's right." ”

I was about to say something more, but the phone was hung up.

Half an hour later, the willow tops on the moon, people about after dusk - often say that Qixi Festival is Chinese Valentine's Day, in fact, the fifteenth day of the first month is authentic, in ancient times, "last year's New Year's Eve, the flower market lights are like day", men and women have the opportunity to meet and fall in love.

The flower and bird market usually sells flowers and pets, and tonight it is time to hang up lanterns. Ma Li was in his thirties, his beard was shaved clean, but his hair had grown longer, and he stood lonely at the gate, watching the boys and girls who came and went in the night, and his heart beat the drum.

"Horsepower."

Turning back in a panic, he saw the face of a handsome young man—completely unrecognizable, five years ago before he had begun to develop, and was the same as a sixteen-year-old today. The chin crawled out of the beard, the Adam's apple was very obvious, and the height was 1.75 meters, and there was no need to look up at the horsepower.

Under the lanterns, Ma Ma is no longer young, although it is the most attractive age for men.

Should he be called a statement or a hope?

"How have you been doing all these years?"

Ma Ma hadn't seen him for five years, since the beginning of 2006, he helped the boy complete his revenge on the Gu family, and let Lu Zhongyue's ill-gotten gains be investigated and bankrupted, and he also earned tens of millions of yuan to go abroad to start a business.

At least as far as he knew—Si Wang or He Qingying's account did not have more than a penny because of this.

In fact, Ma Ma did not dare to have any contact with the boy again, whether he declared the teacher's ghost possession or not. He was afraid that if he fell deeper, everything he had obtained at the risk of his life would be destroyed like Lu Zhongyue, and even his life would be lost.

"As you can see, I'm still looking for Lu Zhongyue, and the truth is not as simple as I imagined."

Sure enough, it was him, the face of a teenager, but the tone of an adult, which was no different from the teacher Shen Ming back then.

The two walked across the small stone bridge. Beside them are men and women, looking up and guessing the riddles on the lanterns, and colorful fireworks rise in the night sky from time to time, and every time the fireworks fall like stars, their faces will be illuminated.

"Sixteen years ago, it was the Palace of Workers' Culture, and there was a coin card market at our feet. You have an interest in stamp collecting, you buy some stamps with your pocket money twice in three days, and then hope that the value will increase, only to fall below face value the next time you go. I still remember you borrowed 20 yuan from me to buy a set of commemorative stamps for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". ”

"yes, after graduating from high school, I don't know where I threw that set of stamps."

Si Wang's young man nodded: "Today's children don't know what stamp collecting is. In the summer of 1992, I had just become a people's teacher, and you went to Nanming Senior High School for the first time. You wear an off-white shirt, blue sweatpants, and a bag with Saint Seiya on it, and later you learn that your favorite is the purple dragon. You're tall, you have big eyes, and many girls are quietly staring at you. ”

"I have to forget all those years ago."

The biting wind blew in the cold winter, and he watched the clouds of white air coming out of his mouth, dissipating with the wind in the night sky above his head, mixing with the smoke of gunpowder.

"The military training for high school entrance is the hottest days, I still remember the poisonous sun, the oleander forest on the edge of the playground, is the only place where students can take a cool day, every time they rest, it is crowded with people, and as a result, many people still lose two layers of skin. You stood in the sun and suffered from heat stroke, and I carried you to the hospital, and you couldn't find the registration fee in your pocket. ”

These words made Ma Li subconsciously touch his cheek: "Now I am pale from the sun." ”

"Among your classmates, you were the first to discover the Witch Zone."

"In the sophomore year of high school, a girl in the next class drowned while swimming, and all the classmates ran to the abandoned factory in the middle of the night and burned all the relics that were not cleaned up to her underground. Everyone bought a stack of tin foil, and everyone said that the place was very good, allowing the dead to receive all the blessings, and also to bless the living with peace. This is the only useful feature of the Witch Zone for us. ”

"yes, I was killed in that place too."

Ma Li has unconsciously fallen into the past: "As the head teacher, you come to our dormitory every day. My bedside was full of books, all kinds of teaching materials, and "Einstein's Biography". After the lights went out late at night, I often went to Mr. Shen's room and talked about the theory of relativity and the origin of the universe with relish, and how many black holes, white holes, wormholes, neutron stars, quark stars, soliton stars, dark matter, dark energy, and ...... in the vast galaxy."

"Well, I thought you were a strange student back then. In the months on the eve of the college entrance examination, you reviewed day and night, and often asked Mr. *Song to make up classes - your first choice was Tsinghua University, which is not something that ordinary people can get into. Mr. Zhang is from Tsinghua University and is a well-known mathematics teacher in the city. One night you were secretly shedding tears in the study hall and I asked you what happened? You've only said one word - I don't want to go to the Dead Poets Society anymore! ”

"Shut up!"

Horsepower almost covered his mouth.

"I'm affirming, for sixteen years, I've been riding on this boy's shoulder, and I'm looking at you!"

Another burst of firecracker smoke drifted by, and the young man looked at Ma Ma like a fighting dog, his eyes widened and he looked at the horsepower, making the thirty-four-year-old man bow his head in fear: "Don't look at me!" ”

"I'm no longer eighteen-year-old, and you're still a teacher—I envy you."

"What envy me? Envy that I was killed at the age of twenty-five and soaked in the ground of the witch area for three days and three nights? Envy me for being a lonely ghost forever, lying on a child named Si Wang? Believe it or not, I'm leaving him right now and using your body as a host! ”

"No—"

"Turns out, you're still afraid of me, huh......"

"To be honest, in the past, I would see the dead Teacher Shen Ming when I had nightmares, but now the face in the nightmare is that of ten-year-old Si Wang."

The young man touched his angular cheeks: "Am I so terrible?" ”

"In 2005, as Gu Qiusha's adopted son, you introduced me to the Erya Education Group and provided me with a large number of Gu family secrets, including insider trading and illegal evidence such as bribery to officials. I was terrified of death, for fear that I would die without a place to bury if I was exposed. But you are confident, and it seems that you have already pronounced the death sentence to the Gu family. ”

"It was they who treacherously pronounced the death penalty on me sixteen years ago! From the day I was born, I wanted to avenge myself, and I determined the list of four people: Gu Qiusha, Gu Changlong, Lu Zhongyue, and *Song. ”

Ma Li's heart was shocked, there was still * loose in the list?

"In 2004, from the day you first met Gu Qiusha, you made a crazy and bold plan of revenge?"

"There is no one who knows me more than horsepower. I tried all means to make Gu Qiusha fall in love with me inextricably, just like when I fell in love with her in my previous life. After being adopted by her, I discovered all kinds of problems in the Gu family and summed up the weaknesses of everyone, including Lu Zhongyue. ”

"Yes, just like the box of medicine you asked me to hand over to Lu Zhongyue, this guy really wants to practice divine skills, he must first go to the palace."

A trace of coldness flashed in the young man's eyes: "After all, I am only a primary school student, and I must always have a trustworthy helper and the ability to control the overall situation, so that it is possible to use Lu Zhongyue and let him serve me obediently, and finally bring down the Gu family, and make it difficult for him to escape the law." After thinking about it, you are the best candidate. ”

"The class reunion for the 10th anniversary of graduation, and the later intranet and QQ chats on the school were all carefully arranged by you, right?"

"It's a pity that in the end, I let that guy run away! Looks like I underestimated that guy, and if it weren't for that - the other wouldn't have died in vain. ”

It wasn't clear that the other person he was referring to was Officer Huanghai.

"Do you hate him that much?"

"After the Gu family went bankrupt, I cracked the password of Gu Changlong's safe and got a letter written in 1995. The letter forged my handwriting and was written in my name to a college classmate of mine, who later joined the city's education bureau and was recruited into the Erya Education Group, where I found my body by the Suzhou Creek two years after my disappearance. Maybe out of jealousy, He Nian fell into trouble with this letter. However, there is only one person in this world who can forge my handwriting - Lu Zhongyue. ”

"Lu Zhongyue colluded with He Nian to frame you?"

"Actually, I don't want them to die, I just want these people to live and suffer so that they can repay everything they owe me."

"Teacher Shen, you've become a little scary."

"Man is such an animal, when everyone around you is extremely cruel, your killing instinct will explode, and finally it will be uncontrollable until the blood is flowing."

Back under the lanterns at the entrance of the Bird and Flower Market, Ma took out his car keys and said, "I'll take you home." ”

A black Porsche Cayenne SUV, the teenager sat in the passenger seat and fastened his seat belt, but the horsepower stereo was playing Leslie Cheung's "I".

"I am who I am/It's a firework of different colors/The sky is wide/To be the strongest foam/I like me/Let the roses bloom a kind of fruit/In the lonely desert/Bloom the same *naked ......"

Brilliant fireworks continued to rise outside the car window, and the song was played repeatedly in the car, but the two of them never said a word again.