"I can't find you anywhere, that's what worries me!" Xiao Pengcheng's tone became stern, "I thought you had been in the Blue Mountains, and I drove to the Blue Mountains last night to take your aunt with me and wanted to spend Christmas Eve with you." As a result, Ah Peng said that you went back to Haicheng, and we had to rush back again, but no one answered the beating you, which made me anxious. Later, Mu Mian called me, and she heard Ah Peng say that we ran away and didn't find you, and she was afraid that I would be in a hurry, so she told me that you had an accident in the hospital. Your aunt fell ill as soon as she tossed, and I took care of her all night, and only now did I rush over. ”

"Dad, I'm sorry." Xiao Se whispered guiltily.

They had a heart-to-heart relationship, and I was embarrassed and obstructed by the pestle, so I grabbed my coat and wrapped it casually, excused myself to go to the bathroom, jumped out of bed and ran away.

I hid in the bathroom, my heart was up and down, I didn't know what Xiao Pengcheng would think of me, he must have thought I was a very casual girl, casually sleeping in the same bed with a man. I looked around the world outside the window in confusion, and the clouds and the sky were white, just like my state of mind at this time.

I pulled the bathroom door open a crack, my mind still struggling to get out.

"Tell me honestly, how far has He Tong Xin developed?" Xiao Pengcheng's voice came clearly, and I frightened my whole body to freeze in place.

"Not to the point you thought it would." Xiao Se replied.

"It's all sleeping in the same bed......" Xiao Pengcheng obviously didn't believe it.

"Dad!" Xiao Se interrupted her, "What's wrong with sleeping in the same bed, this is in the ward, what do you think we can do." I assure you, I have absolutely no relationship with Tong Xin. ”

It was said so bluntly that I listened to it with a hot face.

"That's good. I don't care about other women, but Tong Xin, you must not do anything to be sorry for her. Xiao Pengcheng was a little warned.

I was a little surprised, why did Xiao Pengcheng treat me differently?

"Dad, why do you seem to be particularly concerned about Tong Xin, and you seem to be very concerned." Xiao Se expressed the same doubts as me.

"I have some connections to her parents." Xiao Pengcheng said simply, "Tong Xin is a good girl, I know you are interesting to her, and I don't object to it." But you are all too young, the road of life is long, and there are many uncertainties. Now that you've decided to leave the country right away, don't delay them. ”

"What is your relationship with her parents, why have you never heard of it?" Xiao Se asked.

"That was a long time ago, and I'll tell you about it when I have a chance later. Tong Xin, we patronized and talked and ignored her. "Xiao Pengcheng remembered me.

"She must have been hiding in the bathroom and not daring to come out." Xiao Se knew me well, "You suddenly appeared and scared her. ”

Xiao Pengcheng smiled. "I should go too, you go and call her out."

I quickly closed the door gently.

When Xiao Se came to knock on the door, Xiao Pengcheng had already left. I opened the door and saw that Xiao Se was still sleepy-eyed. "My dad is gone, you can come out." He apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't plan to let my dad know, but I didn't expect him to still find out and suddenly appear here, embarrassing you." ”

"It's okay." I felt sorry for myself, "Your dad left, and I didn't say hello, it's really rude." ”

"My dad doesn't care about that." Xiao Se sighed and hugged me, and I wrapped my arms around him. Neither of us spoke, just embraced each other quietly.

"Are you free in the morning, I'll take you somewhere." A moment, he asked.

I looked up. "Where are you going?"

He froze slightly, uneasiness creeping up the corners of his eyebrows and eyes. "Go to the cemetery. I can't run away anymore and should tell you the truth, even if it will show you the ugliest side of me. If you spit on me because of this, I will have no choice but to accept it, and I must bear the sins I have done. ”

I realized the seriousness of the situation and felt a little frightened and uneasy. What did he do that would make me see the ugliest side? This fear and insecurity oppressed me, and the closer I got to the cemetery, the heavier my heart became. And Xiao Se's face was solemn and tired, and he was silent all the way. I knew that he was determined to take me with him, and that he must have gone through a fierce battle in his heart.

The cemetery is on a private hill, which is particularly cold, with thick, heavy clouds piling up in the sky. It's not the time to sweep graves, and it's easy to forget the characters after death. The entire cemetery is overgrown with weeds and covered with beams. Xiao Se opened the way for me hand and foot, took my hand to climb the steep hillside, cut through the desolate cemetery, and finally arrived at a semicircular tomb, the tombstone has no photos, no eulogy, just simply wrote "Yang Qing's tomb, born in 1982, died in 1999." ”

I counted the age, and the deceased was 17 years old! At the age of 17, how could the good years of spring bloom pass away so suddenly? How could it have quietly withered so early?

The surroundings were quiet, there was no sound of cars and people, only the silence and silence of death.

I sighed softly and turned to look at Xiao Se. With a heavy face, he took out a cigarette case and a lighter from his pocket, took a cigarette and lit it, silently puffing smoke. He seemed a little confused about where to start, and I didn't rush him. After a while, he took a heavy puff of cigarette and finally said, "This Yang Qing was from the same dance school as you back then, a few levels higher than you."

"Her death has something to do with you?" I asked bluntly. At that time, Xiao Se's gang was rampant in our school, and many girls suffered greatly, but I still can't connect their behavior with "death". No matter how bad they are, they won't kill anyone. Thinking of the possibility of existence, I couldn't stop shuddering, but my intuition was that Xiao Se's essence was good, and he would not do that kind of hurtful thing.

Xiao Se didn't answer me, he let out a puff of smoke and continued, "She, like you, has been bullied by us. After I was almost blinded by you that night, I was in a very bad mood, so I pulled Jiang Ming and Li Hao to find other targets to vent. It was already late at that time, and when I arrived at the gate of your school, I happened to see Yang Qing walking out of a store with a bag of things in his hand.

Instead of going back to school, she went in the other direction. We followed her all the way, down the middle of nowhere, through a clearing. There was no one in the clearing, it was very quiet, and we suddenly surrounded her there, and then deliberately let her go, and watched her struggle and scream to escape, and then chased after her unhurriedly, which was fun. She was probably too scared, ran as hard as she could, ran into a warehouse not far in front, closed the door, and locked it.

We shouted and screamed and banged on the door outside, and she just wouldn't open the door. We made a fuss for a while, found it really boring, and left. ”

"And then?" I have guessed that the warehouse, the fire, and the arson cases that occurred one after another six years must be related to Yang Qing's death.

"Later, we found a nearby game hall to play games to pass the time, and about an hour later, we suddenly heard the sound of fire trucks whistling, as if there was a fire nearby." Xiao Se said distressedly, "When we went out, we saw that the clearing was full of people, and there was a lot of noise and chaos, and it was the warehouse that was on fire. The fire burned vigorously, and after the fire was extinguished, a corpse was brought out of the warehouse, which was Yang Qing......"

I felt a faint pain in my heart, and some unspeakable misery caught me. The fire did not happen to them, they did not commit a crime, which made me breathe a sigh of relief, but Yang Qing fled into the warehouse because they were chased by them, and they can be said to be the murderer who indirectly killed Yang Qing.

Xiao Se held the cigarette unsteadily, and looked at the rising smoke. "I heard from the people who investigated the scene that when the fire caught fire, the door of the warehouse was locked from the inside, that is, when Yang Qing was still hiding in the warehouse, a fire broke out. We don't need to take responsibility, but we indirectly killed Yang Qing, and we are deeply guilty. My conscience was condemned greatly, and every year of these years, I went to her grave to confess. ”

"You suddenly disappeared because of Yang Qing's death?" As I stared at the words on the tombstone, a cold and gloomy feeling rose from the bottom of my heart.

Xiao Se nodded gloomily. "That incident hit me so hard that I was depressed for a long time, and then my dad transferred me to a different school and told me to start over in a different environment. I repeated my studies for a year before taking the college entrance examination. ”

I finally understood the reason why Xiao Se suddenly disappeared back then, and I also understood the root cause that prompted him to change his ways. He has carried a heavy cross for so many years, and he is unruly on the surface, but deep down he is suffering from the extreme pain of soul torment.

"Tong Xin, do you think I'm terrible?" Xiao Se's eyes were filled with hesitation and bitterness.

I hugged his waist and buried my head in his chest and rubbed it gently. "You don't want to see that kind of tragedy happen. Is there any flammable material in that warehouse? ”

"This question has been bothering me for a long time. According to the firefighters, there was no one else in the warehouse at that time, and the warehouse door was locked, it was a secret room, and there was no arson factor from others. Based on the volatile oil bottles that were upside down at the scene, it was concluded that the fire was caused by volatile oil. I went to the small shop where Yang Qing bought something and learned that she was buying a bottle of volatile oil. So some people suspect that she set herself on fire. However, no ignition tools were found, and there were no flammable or explosive items in the warehouse, only some quicklime and other agricultural items.