Chapter Seventy-Three: The Last Fireworks
On the last day of the last holiday before the college entrance examination, Liang Chen and Du Ruo played basketball for an afternoon on the basketball court in the village.
The setting sun turned the sky red, and a red cloud like a maple leaf drifted into the distance. The basketball "swish" into the net, Liang Chen and Du Ruo threw the last ball of the bullfight, the two took off their shirts, sat on the table tennis table next to the basketball hoop, Du Ruo put his hands on his waist and gasped for breath, after a whole senior year, his weight soared to one hundred and fourteen, and the height of three or five centimeters that he had grown since entering high school was pressed back to zero by these more than 20 catties of fat.
"Are the fireworks ready?" Liang Chen asked.
"Hmmm! My cousin has already bought it for us, just go back and give him the money. Du Ruo drank water and said to Liang Chen,
Liang Chen nodded, he sat on the table tennis table, shaking his feet, watching the distant maple leaves and red clouds reflect the fireworks in the sky above Shihe Middle School, this is the birthday gift he wants to give to Xue Ji.
Xue Ji's birthday was actually before May Day, there was no cake, no gifts, and Liang Chen only had a fluttering happy birthday and an unreliable promise. At the end of twelve o'clock that day, when Liang Chen went to the toilet, the old kerosene lamp burned out the last bit of lamp oil, Liang Chen caught a glimpse of the starlight of Shihe through the gap in the shutters, and on a whim, he made this promise to Xue Ji - before graduation, I will send you a fireworks.
In the early morning of the next day, Xue Ji knocked on Liang Chen's head and said, "Oops! There was always a cow flying in someone's head, and I thought for more than an hour that fireworks could not be a box of matches. ”
Xue Jiao's cynicism and sarcasm provoked Liang Chen, and he wanted to give this gift even more in his heart, Liang Chen didn't annoy Xue Jiao's incomprehensible amorous feelings, but Xue Jiao didn't say a shy sentence "I'll wait for your fireworks" as he expected, even if it was just a "good", Liang Chen felt so rhythmic.
After the evening self-study class, Liang Chen told Du Ruo about his plan, he heard Liang Chen's incredible thoughts but had an epiphany and clapped his hands, he decided to give Qiu Nan such a gift, as for the reason for the gift, Du Ruo told Qiu Nan - my graduation gift, give you a fireworks. He sent Liang Chen's words to Qiu Nan.
As early as the May Day holiday, Liang Chen and Du Ruo began to plan this fireworks show, from the purchase of fireworks, how to bring them into the school, when to put them, and how to deal with the teacher's investigation······ The two discussed many times, and finally on Du Ruo's small notebook with a password, he drew a secret plan that only Liang Chen and he could understand.
In order to avoid the first contact with fireworks, Du Ruo specially asked his distant cousin to buy two boxes of 100 fireworks for the two of them, and in the afternoon of returning to school, Liang Chen and Du Ruo took two large express boxes to pack the fireworks into the boxes.
After giving up the takeaway business, Du Ruo's distant cousin was less enthusiastic than in the past, on a hot day of thirty-two degrees, the electric fan in the house was taken to the store by him, Liang Chen and Du Ruo were now sweating profusely, the two kept shaking their fans, and Du Ruo sat on the white tile floor and poured half a bottle of ice water. Liang Chen and Du Ruo discussed whether to bring fireworks into the school today, but in the end, Liang Chen denied it, there were still a few days left before the Shihe traditional senior high school "Book Throwing Festival", Liang Chen decided to wait patiently for a few more days, after all, they still had a lot of problems to solve.
The bell rang for the end of the evening self-study for several minutes, and only a few students left the classroom one after another, most of them were still waiting for the lights out bell at about half past ten or the high-pitched urging of the teacher in the political and educational office at the bottom of the building. Liang Chen left early today, and the movement of packing up the books still alarmed Xue Chen, she looked back at Liang Chen in some surprise, and Liang Chen smirked, took his things out of the classroom, and he made an appointment with Du Ruo to go to the roof tonight to explore the "terrain".
The night of May is sultry, the daytime atmosphere has not yet dissipated, and the night breeze on the top floor of the complex is very cool. Liang Chen was on the lookout for possible teachers at the entrance of the corridor on the fifth floor, and when Du Ruo's whistle sounded, he looked left and right, lightened his pace, and ran to the top floor. The top floor was locked by an iron fence gate, and Du Ruo tried several keys before opening it. When he was still wearing the title of "group leader", Du Ruo got several keys to the school such as the gate and dormitory building from various channels, but it was never used, and he had long been unable to distinguish the original match of a large number of keys on the keychain, and it took him a long time to find out the key to open the door to the top floor.
Liang Chen was a little nervous, Du Ruo pushed open the door and the babbling sound made Liang Chen's heart tighter, he whispered behind him to Du Ruo to let go of his hands and feet, before entering, Liang Chen looked downstairs along the gap in the stairwell, the staircase revolving room was like an abyss, Liang Chen's heart was still beating bang, once found by the teacher, although it may be just a warning, but then all the actions could not be carried out, one wrong step, the whole game will be lost. Liang Chen is still a romantic person in his bones, and he doesn't want to lose his trust to Xue Ji.
The entrance of the corridor behind the iron door is equivalent to a utility room, stacked with miscellaneous items, earlier, Liang Chen and Du Ruo had already decided to hide the fireworks in a pile of miscellaneous items, the two carefully moved the piled up miscellaneous items to make room for the two large boxes, the heat in the air and the worry in Liang Chen's heart hit together, sweat came out of his body, when Liang Chen lowered his head, the beads of sweat on his forehead dripped on the ground, and there was a puddle of soaked marks on the cardboard.
After cleaning up the utility room, Liang Chen bent down and walked to Du Ruo, who was striding forward, reminding him to be careful of the teacher downstairs, and he was busy learning Liang Chen's appearance and bowed down. Liang Chen came to the rooftop on the top floor, and after the first medical exam, the first and second examination rooms of the liberal arts class were in the conference room next to the rooftop. It's just that when the teacher is urging him, he just stood in front of the wall with a few classmates and experienced the feeling of "being at the top of the mountain and seeing the mountains at a glance". After Liang Chen and Du Ruo walked around the wall, they sat in the center of the rooftop, the cement floor was very dusty, Liang Chen's three pieces of paper were divided into a layer and a half by Du Ruo, he didn't care whether the underground was clean or not, he could sit without paper, but Liang Chen brought it.
Tonight, the sky in Shihe is gray and cloudy, there is no bright moon and even the stars are pitiful, Liang Chen likes such a day, the night full of stars, most of the probability of tomorrow is a sunny day, and the sunny day in May is really difficult.
When the lights out bell rang, the voice of the teacher in the political and educational office downstairs rose from the first floor to the top of the building, Liang Chen put away the paper under his buttocks and bent down and walked downstairs, as usual, Liang Chen was at the staircase on the fifth floor for Du Ruowangfeng. The two went downstairs along the flow of people, the teacher of the political and educational office waited for the last student to come downstairs with a flashlight, and when Liang Chen passed by him, it was like a mouse meeting a cat.
On Saturday afternoon, Liang Chen decided to smuggle fireworks into the school, and as soon as the bell rang for the end of class, Liang Chen picked up his schoolbag and wanted to walk out of the classroom, but was stopped by Xue Ji.
"Accompany me to pick up a courier in the afternoon." Xue Ji said to Liang Chen while cleaning up the unfinished rolls on the table.
Liang Chen frowned, his face was embarrassed, and he said hesitantly: "I have something to do this afternoon!" You asked Zhou Yin to go with you. ”
"Liang Chen, you have always been strange in the past few days, I left early without waiting for the evening self-study, inexplicably smirked in class, and I can't ask you to accompany me to pick up a courier today, I seriously suspect that you have done something sorry for me." Xue Ji was very displeased and complained about Liang Chendao.
"I really have something, today I made an appointment with Du Ruo to thank his cousin for taking care of us for three years." Liang Chen explained.
"Then I'm going too."
"What are you going to do, you don't know his cousin's virtue yet." Liang Chen broke free of Xue Jiao's hand and strode out of the classroom.
Du Ruo waited for Liang Chen at the door for a while, and seeing Liang Chen complaining a few words about waiting for you for a long time, the two went straight to their cousin's restaurant. Liang Chen didn't lie to Xue Jiao, he and Du Ruo did come to thank his cousin, he carried two bottles of red wine bought yesterday in his schoolbag, and went out of school Du Ruo Du Ruo cut half a catty of beef and half a catty of pig ears in the braised vegetable shop at the back school gate.
My cousin's restaurant is a student business, selling some noodles and fast food with two meat and two vegetarian dishes, and the business on Saturday and Sunday afternoons has never been good. Without Du Ruo's takeaway business, my cousin's business was half as bad as it was, and the five or six tables in the room could barely fill people. When Liang Chen and Du Ruo came, their cousin was sitting on a bench outside the store smoking a cigarette, and there were a few people sitting in the store, and business was bleak. Seeing Du Ruo, his cousin still greeted him with a smile.
"Cousin"
"Uncle"
The two called out politely, and Du Ruo put the cold dish in his hand into the bowl, and reminded Liang Chen to take out the wine in the bag.
"It's coming, why don't you bring some wine and food?" My cousin greeted me politely as usual.
"We're not going to graduate! Thank you uncle for taking care of me for three years. ”
"Yes, yes, we've been bothering you a lot in the past three years." Du Ruo put the cold dishes on the table and filled two more dishes that had not been sold out, "Cousin, drink some!" ”
"Can you two drink?" My cousin asked.
"It's okay for you to drink half a bottle and half a bottle for the two of us." Du Ruo said with red wine.
"Just take a break today, you two can drink as much as you want." My cousin waited for a few people in the store to finish eating, and then closed the store.
My cousin is a person who can drink, Liang Chen still remembers that at the beginning of the first semester of the second semester of high school, he invited Liang Chen and Du Ruo to dinner, a case of beer, and Liang Chen and Du Ruo drank a bottle alone. Today, Liang Chen and Du Ruo didn't deliberately accompany him to drink, and the two of them didn't drink again after drinking a glass of wine, and the cousin didn't persuade him to do what he said, and after drinking, the three of them talked more, and the cousin said thank Du Ruo, Du Ruo talked about his proud past in the first and second years of high school, and Liang Chen, who was the most talkative on weekdays, just laughed with the two.
At the end of the meal, Liang Chen vaguely saw Xue Ji's figure flashing at the intersection outside the store, just a glance, and he was only dazzled by himself.
After saying goodbye to their cousin, the two returned to school with two disguised delivery boxes. Du Ruo and the old man at the back school gate are still a little friendly, the fruits bought on Saturdays and Sundays will always be given to the uncle, and when he entered the school gate, he just casually asked what he bought, and he didn't make it difficult for them. There were very few people in the complex, and Liang Chen ran back and forth, only touching two or three students. went downstairs, Liang Chen made an OK, and without waiting for him to catch his breath, Du Ruo picked up the box and went upstairs.
"The door is unlocked?" Du Ruo stood in front of the iron gate and looked back at Liang Chen.
Liang Chen swallowed his saliva and asked rhetorically, "You locked it last time!" ”
Du Ruo nodded, "It must have been locked, did you come up and lock it just now?" ”
Liang Chen shook his head, "I didn't pay attention, I just looked at people, I didn't pay attention to the lock." ”
"So what now?" Du Ruo asked.
Liang Chen's heart was pounding, when he went to other people's houses to steal loquat when he was a child, he was like this, but he used to have his brain wasted, only his hands and feet were moving rapidly, and now his brain cells were spinning wildly, and he was determined to surprise Xue Ji.
"Only today has the best chance, these two boxes are too big."
Liang Chen's gaze exuded iron-like determination, Du Ruo nodded understandingly, opened the iron door, and the two boxes were quickly hidden by him in a pile of debris, Liang Chen stared at the pile of debris without the slightest flaw, and breathed a sigh of relief, put his hands on his waist and glanced at Du Ruo who was sweating with a smile.
Liang Chen was still walking in front, Du Ruo's feet had just stepped out of the iron door, and there was a sound of going upstairs downstairs, Liang Chen saw a man in a white plaid shirt in the gap in the stairwell, Liang Chen hurriedly pushed Du Ruo to the rooftop, and the person was about to go up to the fifth floor. His heart was burning with fire, the train was heading for a dangerous place, the ears of the people in the car were ringing, and someone outside was nailing the windows. Liang Chen is not a real hero after all, he can't fly the eaves and walk the wall, and the gods, ghosts, demons and foxes that he usually talks about have not appeared, and he will eventually face this catastrophe alone.
The two looked around at the empty and uncovered top floor, the door of the conference room was locked, the two ran around, Liang Chen saw that the roof of the conference room could hide the two of them, he beckoned Du Ruo, and climbed up by the wall, Liang Chen could no longer care about the cement floor covered with dry moss, and pulled Du Ruo to lie on the ground, the low wall on the roof blocked the figures of the two, Liang Chen and Du Ruo did not dare to probe out, the eyes of the two stared straight at the red bricks that the cement had fallen off and exposed, Liang Chen only heard the sound of the key on the teacher's waist shaking and making a noise, he opened the door of the conference room, and after seven or eight minutes, Liang Chen heard the sound of the door closing, the teacher left, Liang Chen stretched out his head to look at his white plaid shirt and slowly disappeared at the door, he lay on the ground with his back and breathed a long sigh of relief, and the thrill of being chased by a dog when he was a child was not the same.
After two or three minutes, Liang Chen and Du Ruo watched the teacher go out of the complex building on the rooftop, and then jumped down from the rooftop.
Back in the classroom, Liang Chen's mind was calm, and when he saw Xue Jiao, he was determined to exaggerate his heroic behavior to Xue Jiao after the matter was completed, it was so thrilling! He smiled meaningfully when he looked at Xue Jiao, but Xue Jiao seemed to have done something wrong, blushed, and turned away holding his cup.
Time is moving towards the last days, so fast, June 2 came, Liang Chen's heart was worried all day, and he didn't have the heart to do the last set of math mistakes, and half of the English test with Xue Ji and Xue Ji was wrong, and when he gave Liu Bingjian geography problems, he was also absent-minded, and even the wind direction and ocean currents were wrong several times······ Ay! Time is really not as simple as four words, Liang Chen remembered a sentence in "Genius on the Left, Madman on the Right", three years is only a few lines in front of the reader and even very short, but the characters in it have passed honestly for three years, Liang Chen turned his pen and stared at the bell in the middle of the classroom and walked by second by second.
On the blackboard behind the classroom, Tang Rui took the two best people in the class to write inspirational words about their final college entrance examination battle, and Liang Chen begged Tang Rui to write his words in the center of the blackboard for the last time - God does not give birth to me Liang San smiled, and the stone river is as eternal as a long night.
The summer night came very late, Liang Chen watched a little bit of the sky disappear, the night finally occupied the world of Shihe, and Liang Chen, a night walker, was about to act. The last madness of the third year of high school, Liang Chen and Du want to add a big chip to this year's crazy June, when the bell rings after class, Liang Chen and their liberal arts class on the third floor are still twisting and pinching, and the warriors on the fourth floor are pouring their three years of pain and suffering, page by page of paper are sprinkled from the roof, the mood on the third floor comes later, but it will not be absent in the end, the street lamps on the side of the basketball court reflect this final pouring, this is their last relaxation before the college entrance examination.
And Liang Chen and Du Ruo had already secretly come to the roof of the complex building, opened the box, and Liang Chen asked Du Ruo, "Are you ready?" ”
"Always ready."
"One"
"Two"
"Three"
Liang Chen and Du Ruo lit the fireworks, and then quickly evacuated the scene, and after more than ten seconds, the fireworks rose into the air, and Liang Chen returned to the classroom from the toilet pretending to be nothing. The brilliant fireworks in the dark night were like a sleeping pill, and all the madness was still for a moment, Liang Chen walked to Xue Ji with his head up with a smile, and said in front of his ear, "Happy birthday."
Xue Ji turned her head and hugged Liang Chen, she seemed to be in tears, in the light of the fireworks, Liang Chen's hands were holding her, his lips were against her temples. There was a thunderstorm on the ground, and the final parting was lit by bunches of fireworks, and all the people on the entire third floor were making their final hugs, and Liang Chen and Xue Ji hugged for an extraordinarily long time. They have only the last six days left in their youth, all the proportional and equal difference logarithmic exponents, time zones, ocean currents, climate types······ All will be gone.
Du Ruo put his hand on Qiu Nan's shoulder, his hand was so stiff for the first time, Qiu Nan looked at Du Ruo and said thank you, squinting and leaning on his chest.
Xue Jiao finally blamed Liang Chen for his recklessness, and after Teacher Mu pretended to reprimand a few words in the class about the danger of this behavior, he stopped it, and the school did not want to make people panic in the last time.
Fireworks! Please bless the children of Shihe's hard work.
This chapter was supposed to be the end after that.,The first few chapters are water.,I'm sorry for everyone.,It's going to be over.,The back is all extra.
(End of chapter)