2013, Chinese New Year's Eve.

A home without air conditioning and heating is like an ice cave, but fortunately there is a homemade hot pot with an induction cooker on the table, and the water vapor warms the cramped room. Lu Jizong sat with his mother, eating this simple but warm Chinese New Year's Eve dinner while watching the boring Spring Festival Gala live broadcast. When I opened the mailbox a few days ago, I found that it had been turned over, and a notice of a school was privately opened.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside.

Who will visit on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve? Mom's face changed, and she muttered, "Could it be—is it?" ”

She stood up in a panic, touched her son's face, and quickly looked in the mirror again, ashamed to herself, and the piercing knocking continued.

Lu Jizong had already opened the door, and outside the dark corridor, there was a woman in a coat.

The light shone on the other party's face, about thirty years old, still a charming face, long hair draped over the shoulders, and the cold air exuded from his body.

The boy couldn't help but sneeze and took a few steps back: "I recognize you." ”

"yes, I didn't expect you to grow so tall."

"Jizong!" Behind him, his mother's anxious voice sounded, "Who is it?" ”

Subsequently, Chen Xiangtian also saw her face clearly, and immediately changed from excitement and expectation to confusion and disappointment.

"May I ask who you are?"

"My cousin remembers me."

She walked into the home where she was eating hot pot Chinese New Year's Eve, and carefully observed the furnishings everywhere, and the tattered second-hand furniture and electrical appliances showed that this was a poor family in danger.

"Are you—Lu Zhongyue's cousin?"

The woman showed a warm smile: "Hello, the last time we met, it was seven years ago." ”

"Chinese New Year's Eve, why are you here? What about Lu Zhongyue? Where is he? ”

Chen Xiangtian said a long list of questions, but got the simplest answer: "Cousin still doesn't have any news, and I came here to work recently, so I came to visit Jizong by the way." On New Year's Day, I texted you, and you told me this address. ”

"Oh, please be seated! Just be your own home, if you don't dislike it, let's have Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, you call me sister-in-law. ”

"Okay, my name is Twig." She also sat down generously, carrying various gifts in her hand, including the New Year's money for Lu Jizong, "How has Jizong been doing over the years?" ”

"Hey! This kid is not in the climate, he studied a vocational school and closed his doors, and now he is idle at home, playing games in Internet cafes every day. ”

Lu Jizong remained silent, lowered his head and scooped the swallow dumplings in the hot pot, then looked into his cousin's eyes and said, "I want to go out to work and make money." ”

"It's good to go out and see for a long time, my aunt will help you."

"Really?"

Lu Jizong's eyes showed an excited light.

An hour later, Xiaozhi left his new phone number and left. Chen Xiangtian and her son were sent downstairs, and she said that she would come to see them from time to time.

Amid the sound of firecrackers in the sky around her, she was keeping watch in a small hotel nearby.

A month ago, Nanming High School announced an internal decision: Ouyang Xiaozhi voluntarily resigned, and according to his own wishes, he was transferred to the poor mountainous areas in the south to teach.

The day she left was in a hurry, and before Si Wang could catch up with the school gate, she had already got into a taxi. Under the gray and cold sky, the biting cold wind was howling on Nanming Road, and the young man fell to his knees on the muddy ground, but she didn't dare to look back.

The next day, she stepped on the southbound train, and this year's Spring Festival will be spent outside again.

She sent a text message-

"Affirmation? If you really affirm that you are the luckiest person in the world, please cherish everything you have now, forget me, and never see you again! In closing, I really appreciate you. Ouyang Xiaozhi came from a distant place. ”

Subsequently, the number was shut down.

Because of the address she got on New Year's Day, Ouyang Xiaozhi deliberately chose this small city, which is separated by a mountain from a poor Miao village, and she found a middle school in one of the villages to teach, and wanted to spend the entire winter vacation here.

Back then, the reason why she left the contact information of the mother and son was so that she could find Lu Zhongyue one day.

Seven long years have passed, and the evil spirits have always been hidden in the sea of people. Judging from all the circumstances, Lu Zhongyue framed his best friend out of jealousy, and took everything that Shen Cheng originally owned, and on June 19, 1995, he killed Shen Ming in the underground of the Witch Zone.

There is only one person who can lure him to the surface, and that is this child with a cyan birthmark on his forehead - his name is Lu Jizong, and he is Lu Zhongyue's only biological son, he is eighteen years old like Si Wang, as if he has some kind of personality in common.

In the early spring, she took classes in Miao Village, surrounded by a large number of poor children, and finally could temporarily let go of the past.

However, in the dead of night, the moonlight in the mountains is so clear that when you shine through the veil, you will think of the spring of 1995.

Eighteen years ago, Teacher Shen Ming was on the playground of Nanming Middle School, looking at the green buds of oleanders and reading: "Eliot said in "The Waste Land": April, it is cruel. ”

The twig hid behind the fence and said, "Teacher, do you say that it is cruel to be alive, or is it cruel to be dead?" ”

He was taken aback, shook his head and said, "Death, of course." ”

"yes, how good it is to be alive! How wonderful......"

And then she found out that Shen Ming had headphones in his ears, the popular Walkman Walkman at that time.

"What are you listening to?"

The teacher put a headset into her ear, and then she heard a clear Cantonese singing voice—

"How can I rest from the cold and warm, how many autumns have I looked back, I have searched all over but I have lost it, and I have not looked forward to it. I didn't get it, I couldn't explain the mistakes and omissions, I just heard it and changed it, and I don't know where to investigate. What do I want in my life, I often judge to give up and have, exhaust my life, and run away if I can't touch it. What do I want in my life, I will never be able to see through it in my confusion, and I didn't expect that what I lost was already all my ......"

It turned out to be Chen Baiqiang's "What to Ask for in Life", and she watched a TVB drama "Intolerable Love", which is the theme song.

"Teacher, are you still the gift I gave you in the past?"

"Yes."

He only said one word, and his tone was awkward and weak.

"You have to keep it."

"I'm sorry, Twig, we shouldn't have talked like that...... I'm your homeroom teacher, you're my schoolgirl, so let's see each other as little as possible in private! So as not to be misunderstood by other students. Shen Ming took two steps back and deliberately kept his distance, as if to avoid smelling the fragrance in her hair, "In order to be admitted to your normal university, you must go all out to prepare for the college entrance examination." ”

"Because you're getting married, aren't you?"

"These are two different things."

"The teacher's fiancée, she must be beautiful, right? Yes, many of my classmates have seen her photos. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"I wish you happiness! When it's time for your wedding, my classmates and I will definitely come and give the bride a real crystal bead chain. ”

Although Xiaozhi showed a bright smile, his heart was the opposite, and he understood what the book said about "forced smile".

"Yes, Qiusha is a good woman." Shen Ming's gaze was a little weird, staring into her eyes, "As for Xiaozhi, you will also get married one day." ”

"No, I never want to get married."

The teacher had already turned around and left the playground, and Xiaozhi shouted behind his back: "Born early!" ”

"When I die, I wonder if anyone will remember me?"

Before walking into the teaching building, Shen Ming muttered to himself.

More than two months later, he was killed.