Half semester of high school.

* Song is almost fifty years old, except for his sparse hair, he still looks young, some people say that he is a playboy, and he has had many women outside, but he has always been irresponsible and does not want to be trapped in marriage.

Every morning, Ms. Zhang came to the school, cleaned the office spotlessly, and jogged on the playground to keep in shape. He had been in the school for more than twenty years, and he knew under his feet the undulations of every inch of land, where weeds grew, where there were traps that were easy to fall on, and where he could see the windows of the girls' dormitories.

The boy named Si Wang often appeared on the playground, originally like a thin soybean sprout, 1.78 meters tall, weighing just over 100 pounds, but he got up early every day and exercised frantically. He first ran two laps around the playground, then did 40 push-ups, 20 pull-ups, and sometimes practiced boxing, martial arts sanda and even Muay Thai, and then went to the cafeteria to ask for two raw eggs to eat, so scared that his classmates did not dare to approach. The boys said he was mentally ill, and the girls laughed at him for being a macho man. This kid seems to have a natural enemy, and if he doesn't train himself to be a successful husband, he may be killed one day.

At the end of February, after the last class in the afternoon, *Song stopped him and said, "Si Wang, come to my office." ”

If it were another classmate, he might be overjoyed - many people tried their best to please him just to get the opportunity to ask him to make up for the class, knowing that the best way to improve his score in the college entrance examination was mathematics.

His office was on the top floor of the school building, and the school was reserved for special teachers, spacious but dark, with windows open small and thick curtains drawn. * Song said solemnly: "Sit, don't be nervous!" Any idea why I called you? ”

"I don't know."

Si Wang sat on a chair in the corner, and behind his back hung the pennants presented by previous students, as well as various teachers' honorary trophies in the city and even the country.

"As a math teacher, I usually don't care about these things, but this time, since I am the class teacher, I must be responsible for every student."

"What mistake did I make?"

* There is a DSLR camera on the loose table, and there are all kinds of photos under the glass table, so I turned out to be a photography enthusiast. He put the camera in his bag, stared at Si Wang's face and said, "I'm worried about you, silent, extremely unsociable, and behaving strangely, some boys say that you make them feel scared." ”

"I don't know what other people think, but I've always been like this, and it won't affect my academic performance."

"Every morning you're running alone on the playground and I've noticed a couple of girls watching you quietly. I've talked to them privately, but someone said you don't like girls? ”

"Oh, I'm just shy about girls."

"That's not a reason." * Song smiled hesitantly, "You still have a lot to hide from the teacher. ”

"Nope."

He put on an innocent expression, but the teacher pressed step by step: "You are the most special student in my class, and you can be said to be an outlier in the whole school. ”

"I guess it's because I like to read so much that I'm a nerd."

"A nerd who practices Muay Thai moves every day?"

"The place where my family lives is very chaotic, and there are often ruffians fighting and fighting, and exercising is to protect myself and my mother."

"Si Wang, I have checked your information, your house is about to be demolished, this is understandable." * Song took a sip of tea, almost next to him and said, "Your father disappeared when you were in elementary school, and now even your household registration has been cancelled, and you and your mother have grown up together." Although, your mom said at the parent-teacher conference that your dad works in the field all year round. ”

"Teacher Zhang, I'm sorry, this is my family's privacy, please don't tell anyone, including other teachers."

"Don't worry, I'll protect every student." He noticed that Si Wang's gaze was not on his face, but on the huge bookshelf behind him, "What are you looking at?" ”

This bookshelf doesn't look like a math teacher at all, it's all history, religion, semiotics, and forensics. In the interval between "Gnosticism", "Jung's Autobiography", "Grail Studies", "Medieval Witches", "Ancient Chinese Soul Calling", "Collection of Tibetan Spells", "Studies in Psychiatry", and "Introduction to Forensics", there is also a "Tales of the Happy Prince", this Wilde's work, mixed with those homadic books, is quite alternative, and there are "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Salome" next to it.

"I'm sorry, just curious—"

"These are my favorite books! If you like it, I can lend it to you. ”

"No need, can I go?"

After sending Si Wang away, *Song leaned back in his chair alone, pondering for a long time, until it was completely dark, and he went to the other side of the school building.

The school's archives were opened, and only he and a handful of two teachers had the key. Rows of dusty tin cabinets, marked with classification and year, he quickly found information about the graduating class of 1988 — a high school graduate of this class.

That year, *Song was his math teacher.

The thick file bag was untouched, and there were everyone's student ID cards, including the blue-covered student handbook, test scores for each subject, and the teacher's graduation comments. There were only three classes and less than 100 students. Shen Ming is also a (2) class, enrolled in 1985, and there is another name in this class - Lu Zhongyue.

Open the student card, the black and white student ID photo is a little blurry, the eyes are melancholy under the flashlight, and the lips are biting, what is there to say, even today, it can kill the beautiful idol of South Korea in seconds.

According to the student registration information, the stated grades are excellent, with a score between 85 and 90 in Chinese, not to mention English, politics, history, and geography, and physics and chemistry are also not bad, only mathematics is slightly weaker, but it is also around 80 points. The head teacher gave a very high praise, saying that he was a good student with excellent character and learning. Shen Ming is also a cadre of the Communist Youth League, and has participated in the Youth League Committee meetings of the whole district on behalf of the school, and has won various honors and commendations.

In June 1988, less than a month before the college entrance examination, a huge fire broke out in an illegal building in a shantytown opposite Nanming High School. *Song happened to be on duty at the school that day, and he was stunned by the flames at the school gate. A boy rushed into the fire and didn't come out for a long time. When everyone thought he was burned to death, a figure covered in flames came down into the night like a god. Everyone rushed to extinguish the fire for him and found that he was still holding a little girl.

The boy who saved people was Shen Ming, and the little girl he saved was the child of a homeless man in the shanty town opposite, and the fire killed 16 people, including her parents.

After every disaster, no matter how many people died, there would be an advanced commendation meeting, affirming that he had become an outstanding young man who was righteous and courageous, coupled with his excellent character and learning, so he got the opportunity to be sent to Peking University.

That was more than twenty years ago, and Shen Ming had been dead for seventeen years, was he really dead?