On the way to the classroom, Sun Jiayu finally asked a question: "Cheng Ruimin, why don't you like to play with everyone?" Like this time before the evening self-study, how nice it is to go to dinner and play arcade with your classmates! Why are you bored and being a nerd in the classroom? ”

Cheng Ruimin lowered his head and kicked the stones under his feet, and hesitated for a while before answering: "Maybe I haven't had playmates or friends since I was a child, so I'm not used to being with many people, and I just like to stay at home alone and read." But one day I suddenly realized that the more I read the book, the farther away I was from the people around me, I was not interested in what they talked about, they couldn't understand what I liked, I felt like I was in a black hole, and I couldn't come back......"

Sun Jiayu stood still, his teeth biting on his lower lip, about to make a white mark, as if he had made up his mind.

"Cheng Ruimin, how about me being your friend and your buddy?" He asked with a grin.

Cheng Ruimin seemed to be taken aback, raised his frightened eyes to look at him, and his eyes were wide open.

Sun Jiayu was also frightened by his eyes, he didn't expect that his ordinary words would cause such a big reaction from the other party. After a pause, he said, "You can think about it, I'm always here anyway." ”

Sun Jiayu took the initiative to show goodwill, but Cheng Ruimin still lived alone. Sun Jiayu wanted to take him out with him during dinner time several times, but he refused on the grounds of doing homework. In the classroom before it was dark, the light was half bright and half dark, and in the empty silence, he was often the only one with his lonely back. Once Yan Qing passed by unintentionally, but found that his gaze was not lingering on the book, either looking out the window or staring at the desktop, which was completely empty. This made Yan Qing very dissatisfied, feeling that his enthusiasm for learning has dropped a lot recently, plus the ranking of the midterm exam has been discharged, Cheng Ruimin has dropped from the second place in the class at the end of last semester to the fifth, thinking of the rumors of early love mentioned by other teachers, Yan Qing decided to talk to his parents at the parent-teacher meeting on the weekend.

And Sun Jiayu hit Cheng Ruimin with a few soft nails, but he refused to give up his efforts, and held back his strength to solidify the buddy friendship between the two. At noon that day, he took a cassette tape to find Cheng Ruimin.

"Cheng Ruimin, you speak good English, help me translate this lyrics."

Cheng Ruimin looked up at him, and then looked down at the inside page of the tape. It was an English love song sung by a man and a woman, called "Tonight I Celebrate My love for You". He looked at it for a while, and then said, "The lyrics are very simple, there are almost no new words, and you can translate them." ”

"I know it's very simple, but some sentences don't translate well, and I always feel like something is wrong." Sun Jiayu pointed to one of the lyrics, "Look at this sentence, We'l l leave the world behind us, when I make love to you, does it mean that when I make a love for you, we will leave the world behind us?" What does this make love mean? I checked the dictionary for a long time and looked at all the entries under make, but I couldn't find this phrase. ”

Cheng Ruimin took the lyrics in his hand and pondered over and over again for a long time, according to the literal hard translation, make love is indeed the meaning of making love, but no matter how you look at it, I feel that the context and tone are very awkward.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Stay here, and I'll look up a big dictionary when I get home." I'll give it to you tomorrow. ”

Cheng Ruimin has a selfless dedication to doing things, and he can't find a suitable translation method, so he repeatedly scrutinizes and thinks about it in his mind. In the English class in the afternoon, he suddenly felt blessed to his heart, he took out the English-Chinese dictionary from the desk drawer, found the word love, and then followed the entry all the way down, and sure enough, he saw the explanation of make love. But those few Chinese words frightened him to snap and close the dictionary, and two red clouds flew up his cheeks quickly. It took a while for him to hold his pounding heart and peek around, but fortunately no one paid attention to his actions. He turned his face sideways to look at Sun Jiayu again, and saw that he was holding his head and lowering his eyes, as if he was reading a book, but in fact, he was napping with his head planted.

Cheng Ruimin retracted his gaze, thought about it, tore off a piece of paper from the homework book, copied the Chinese interpretation of make love on it, looked up at Yan Qing, and saw that he was facing away from him, so he raised his hand and threw the paper ball towards Sun Jiayu.

Coincidentally, Yan Qing happened to turn around at this moment, Sun Jiayu fell asleep in a daze, his reaction was half a beat slower, and the paper ball smashed on his arm to wake him up, he reached out and fished it out, but he couldn't catch it in time, the paper ball fell to the ground, rolled out of a distance, and stood still in the aisle not far away, just when Yan Qing saw it, and stepped on his feet after a few steps.

Sun Jiayu didn't know the seriousness of it, he still turned his head, looking around for who threw the paper ball, Cheng Ruimin was so frightened that his face turned white.

Yan Qing bent down to pick up the paper ball, unfolded it and only glanced at it, and his face changed greatly, turning iron-blue, like a bronze vessel buried in the soil for hundreds of years.

Without warning, he slapped the note on Sun Jiayu's desk: "Sun Jiayu, stand up for me!" I can't see it, you are so young, and your thoughts are so filthy and complicated! Say, "Who is the one who passed you the note?" ”

Sun Jiayu stood up, but he was still in ignorance, and he was scolded inexplicably, and when he picked up the note and understood the content on it, he instantly panicked. glanced at Cheng Ruimin, who was subconsciously biting the fingertips of his thumb, looking like a catastrophe was coming. He settled down and decided to take the matter on his own, so he pretended not to care: "No one passed me a note." Can I write it to myself? ”

Yan Qing slapped the table again, shaking the books on the table and jumping: "Hooliganism!" It's a hooligan! Look at your appearance, take a good look, are you worthy to be a student of this school? ”

Sun Jia stood on the ground with a mocking smile on the corner of his mouth, and a broken and broken virtue: "Is it worthy of me to be a student of this school, unless you expel me." "Get your stuff!" Yan Qing said as he started to clean up the stationery on the table, "You want to be fired?" Okay, you pack your things and get out now! Let's go to the principal's office after class, and you'll get your wish. ”

Sun Jiayu blocked his hand: "Teacher Yan, I will clean it up myself, don't bother you to do it." ”

At this moment, Cheng Ruimin suddenly stood up. "Teacher Yan." His voice trembled a little, but with a resolute attitude, "I wrote the note, and I passed it on to Sun Jiayu." ”

"What?" Yan Qing was stunned, "You wrote it?" ”

"Yes, I don't believe you can check your handwriting."

Yan Qing instantly felt the lack of words. Yes, the handwriting on that note was indeed familiar, and his proud disciple, his favorite student, had such a delicate and timeless handwriting, but he used it to write such a dazzling word as "*", and his attitude afterwards was so improper, so justified! It was completely beyond his imagination, and he didn't know what to say to him or what to say to him for a while.

"Teacher Yan," Sun Jiayu rushed to excuse Cheng Ruimin, "It has nothing to do with Cheng Ruimin in this matter, I asked him to help me translate." He just copied me the explanation from the dictionary, and the dictionary is always right, right? ”

But Sun Jiayu's words were tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for Yan Qing.

"You ......" Yan Qing gritted his teeth vigorously before suppressing his anger within a controllable range, he sneered twice, "You two are quite righteous!" Okay, I see. Now, you two go out together. Tomorrow at the parent-teacher conference, I want to talk to your parents! ”

Sun Jiayu and Cheng Ruimin sat in the shadow of the basketball hoop with their schoolbags on their backs. The sun in the late spring afternoon is already quite hot, and it is class time at this moment, so the two of them are very abrupt, and occasionally teachers or school workers pass by, and they will always look at them curiously.

Cheng Ruimin kept his head down, looking very frustrated. Growing up, as a model of a good student, he had never experienced such treatment.

Sun Jiayu felt extremely sorry: "I'm sorry, I really don't know what that word means." ”

"It's none of your business." Cheng Ruimin whispered: "It's me who is too stupid, I can be found if I throw a note, but it will affect you." ”

"You're stupid." Sun Jiayu blamed him unceremoniously, "Originally, I would have carried this matter down alone, Lord Yama has a powerful mouth, do you think he really dares to expel me for this matter?" Hey, how stupid are you, where does he get his power? It's good now, I let you in for nothing, and I have to sue my parents. I'll forget it, anyway, my parents are afraid of being embarrassed, our family has always been my grandfather to hold parent-teacher conferences, and he always chooses to listen to it when he comes home, and never talks to my parents, what do you say? ”

Cheng Ruimin replied: "Aren't you going to be my friend?" How can I let a friend go to the thunder alone? ”

Sun Jiayu turned his head to look at him unexpectedly, his eyes were smiling, but his mouth was still complaining: "Stupid, stupid!" ”

Cheng Ruimin endured his accusations without saying a word, and the annoyance and chagrin on his face were obvious, but it made Sun Jiayu feel that he was deceiving people too much, and finally had to pat him on the back a few times to show comfort. "Alright, don't be sad. Parent-teacher meeting: I'll explain it to your parents. That's how the lyrics are written, right? That's how the dictionary explains it, right? We didn't make it. If we really do something wrong, it is also a mistake that the desire to learn English is too strong, and the desire to learn English is too strong. Anyway, my mom bought it for me to learn English. It's my mother's fault if it's wrong. You say, don't you? ”

As soon as he said this, Cheng Ruimin really felt that it made sense, although he didn't speak, the entanglement of his brows immediately stretched a little.

The silence between the two lasted for a moment, Sun Jiayu was bored with a branch and scribbled on the ground under his feet, and after a while, he suddenly jumped up and said, "Hey, Cheng Ruimin, come, come with me, I will take you to a place to ensure that you can forget your troubles." ”

The place where Sun Jiayu took Cheng Ruimin was a game hall on the street, where he taught Ruimin to play an arcade game called "Street Fighter". In order to increase Cheng Ruimin's interest in participating, he even took the initiative to choose the beautiful female character "Chunli". He thought that Cheng Ruimin would not like this kind of game, but he just took him out to relax. Sun Jiayu's life principle has always been to finish today's things, and tomorrow's things will be said tomorrow - because what will come tomorrow will come, and no one knows until tomorrow comes. He never dwells over what hasn't happened yet.

Sun Jiayu's "Street Fighter" level has always been the best in this game hall, but he didn't expect that Cheng Ruimin's hand-eye coordination and coordination skills were even better than himself. After a few rounds, Cheng Ruimin basically mastered the essentials, no longer passively beaten, and occasionally won a game against him. When Cheng Ruimin grabbed the game joystick with both hands, Sun Jiayu found that his eyes became completely different from usual, not so much nervous and devoted, but immersed in great pleasure. This made Sun Jiayu feel a little uneasy in his heart, as if he had taken him into a world full of unknowns, but it was completely unknown whether it would be a blessing or a curse in the future.

The two played more than a dozen games in a row, and by the time Cheng Ruimin realized that the time was not early, all the money in the pockets of the two had been exhausted. In the end, Sun Jiayu found a few cents of change from the mezzanine of the schoolbag.

"Shall I give you a soda?" He skillfully tossed the steel hammers in the palm of his hand, and said with a smile, "As for today's dinner, let's see if we can meet an acquaintance to borrow some money." ”

At the commissary at the entrance of the game hall, the two really ran into acquaintances. Seven or eight boys, including Cheng Yan and Xu Zhiqun, came across the road and saw them from a distance.

Because he is outside the school, his rigorous image is very out of tune, with what he thinks is a chic and uninhibited ruffian. The neckline was wide open, the baseball cap was buckled back on his head, and a cigarette was in the corner of his mouth, which magically seemed to stick to his lips, moving up and down as he spoke, but never falling off. And the boys around him are all naughty and mischievous students in the eyes of the teachers of the first year of high school.

Seeing Sun Jiayu and Cheng Ruimin standing together like friends, chatting and laughing, Rigor changed his face and walked directly towards the two. Without saying a word, he punched Cheng Ruimin's shoulder.

Cheng Ruimin was defenseless, and took several steps backwards in a row, and hit the glass counter behind his back before standing firmly. Violated for no reason, he suddenly became angry, slammed the soda bottle on the counter, and forced his gaze to be rigorous: "What for?" What do you want to do? ”

Rigor was stunned, because he had never seen or imagined that Wise would speak rudely in public. With a twist of his head, he spat half of the cigarette in his mouth on a small garbage pile on the side of the road - it was apparently a half-finished product that the sanitation workers had just swept up but had not yet picked up in the garbage truck. Then he took a few steps forward, his chest almost touching Cheng Ruimin's body, squeezing him on the glass counter and barely moving. Looking at Cheng Ruimin condescendingly, he said, "I don't do anything, Lao Tzu just sees that you don't like your eyes, okay?" ”

Cheng Ruimin pushed him in disgust: "Get out!" ”

With his rigorous size and weight, Cheng Ruimin certainly couldn't push him. But Rigor never thought that Cheng Ruimin's weak appearance would dare to do something with him? He took a step back and grabbed Cheng Ruimin's collar: "Yo ho, it's quite horizontal!" What's the matter, fighting? Come on, let's go over there. ”

Cheng Ruimin struggled and refused to move, but his hands were the same as iron tongs, and he was more than ten centimeters taller than him.

Sun Jiayu had been watching coldly, both sides were his friends, and he hadn't figured out who to help for a while. At this time, he finally jumped over to block the middle of the two, and at the same time pushed away rigorously: "You let go!" ”

Rigorously glared at him with an expression of disbelief: "Sun Jiayu, you didn't take the wrong medicine, right?" ”

Sun Jiayu tugged at the placket of his clothes, "You come here, you come with me, I have something to say to you." The two stood still in a corner, staring at each other for a while, and Sun Jiayu opened his mouth: "Tell you, don't trouble Cheng Ruimin in the future." ”

"Damn, when did you two start wearing a pair of pants? Are you alright? Rigor stiffened his neck, his face full of displeasure, "Are you my father?" Why should I listen to you? ”

"Listen to you or not. But I have to tell you, he didn't sue at all, if you don't believe it, you can ask Mr. Chen, he is not the kind of person you think at all! ”

"Okay, okay, okay!" Rigor was very impatient, and his two thick eyebrows stood up, "I know that he is your life-saving benefactor now, so I don't bother to tell you!" But you don't care what I think of him! Now that you're here, I'll give you face and let him go. I won't be up to you next time. ”

Sun Jia was anxious when he arrived: "Isn't it because Liu Bei likes him and doesn't like you?" Isn't that all there is to it? Rigorous, you're also a gentleman, why do you always twitter like a woman? ”

Rigor was poked in the sore spot, and almost jumped up: "Sun Jiayu, I only know you today!" You're not a knife in the ribs for your friend, you're fucking stabbing you straight to the heart. Okay, from now on, let's return to the bridge and return to the road, and then I know you! ”

As soon as he turned around, he strode away, and the boys also hula and retreated behind him.

Sun Jiayu stood still and sulked for a while before he came out and beckoned to Cheng Ruimin: "Let's go, anyway, on the weekend, let's not go back to school." I'll take you to my grandma's house for dinner, and the steamed dumplings made by my grandma are delicious. ”

Cheng Ruimin hesitated: "Don't you go to the evening self-study?" ”

"Absolutely." Sun Jiayu went over and hugged his shoulder, "To be honest with you, I often skip evening self-study, and a while ago "Love is Priceless" was played on TV, and my mother helped me take several vacations, just to go home and watch TV." ”

Cheng Ruimin looked at him in surprise: "Your mother helped you lie?" ”

"That's right!" Sun Jiayu smiled proudly, "My mother is just so good, she never forced me, she told me that she is responsible for her own life, and her parents and teachers can't make decisions for me." A bus passed by the two of them, and Sun Jiayu pulled up Cheng Ruimin and began to run wildly: "Hurry up, hurry up, the car is coming!" ”

Parent-teacher conferences for the first year of high school were held on weekends as scheduled. According to the routine procedure, the list and total scores of the top 10 and bottom 10 in the midterm examination will be announced, and then the head teacher Yan Qing will make a summary of the first half of the semester to the parents.

“…… In this half semester, the vast majority of students have made great progress in terms of academic performance and ideological character, but unfortunately, there are also unsatisfactory places. Speaking of this, Yan Qing deliberately paused for a moment, and then asked, "Are the parents of Rigorous, Sun Jiayu, and Cheng Ruimin here?" ”

There was a slight commotion among the parents, and everyone turned back to look for the parents of the three students. After receiving an affirmative reply, Yan Qing continued: "It's good that they're all here." After the class meeting, come to my office, we need to have a good talk. ”

Sun Jiayu has been standing at the entrance of the alley outside his courtyard since ten o'clock in the morning, waiting for his grandfather who went to the parent-teacher conference to come back.

He stood so sore that his legs were sore, and he almost turned into the stone lion at the mouth of the alley, and his grandfather finally returned. As soon as he got out of the car, Sun Jiayu followed him, shushing and asking for warmth all the way, and stammering carefully. It wasn't until he helped his grandfather into the living room, sat down on the sofa, made a cup of tea and gave it to his grandfather with both hands, that he carefully put down half of his butt beside his grandfather, looked at his grandfather's face and spoke: "Grandpa, what did our Teacher Yan tell you?" ”

Grandpa pursed his lips and blew on the floating tea on the water, but did not speak.

"Grandpa?"

Grandpa took a sip of hot tea, closed his eyes and savored the fragrance of the new tea, but still refused to speak.

Sun Jiayu was out of luck, plunged into his grandmother's arms, and said: "Grandma, look at grandpa!" ”

While touching her grandson's hair, Grandma said to her wife: "Don't be embarrassed for the child, if you have anything to say, say it!" ”

Grandpa put down the teacup and pointed to his ears: "I forgot to bring my hearing aids today, and I didn't hear a lot of what your teacher said." ”

Compared with Sun Jiayu, rigor is not so lucky. He knew early in the morning that he didn't have a good life after every parent-teacher conference, so he played outside that day until it was dark before he dared to go home. My father went to bed very early every day, and he thought that he could at least avoid today, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw his father sitting on the sofa chair in the living room like an arhat, and on the coffee table next to him, there was the horsewhip that made him tremble.

He turned around and wanted to run, but was stopped by his father: "Little bastard, you stop me!" ”

Rigor stood still, but he was only willing to put his butt in front of his father, and refused to turn to face him.

The father took the whip and struck it twice on the floor at his feet, then said to his son, "Come here!" ”

Rigorously rubbed it step by step. The tip of the whip was on his shoulder, and his father said, "Tell me yourself, what did you do at school?" ”

Rigorous replied: "Didn't the teacher tell you everything?" What else do you ask me for? ”

Before the words fell, there was a "whoosh", and his shoulder was already firmly whipped. The strict temper is as stubborn as the father, and the father and son face each other, and they always act more than words to each other. The whip was painful, but it drew out the fierce side of his character, and he did not intend to defend or beg for mercy, but gritted his teeth and stood, allowing the whip to fall on himself with a sharp whistling sound that swept through the air.

While teaching his son, the strict father angrily counted: "Lao Tzu's face in this life has been lost on you!" What did you do when you were sent to school? Even if you count down your grades, fight, or bully your classmates, you dare to sue the teacher for being black? Little bunny, it's against you! ”

In fact, my father said it very well, after all, he was leisurely under his hands, he had cracked a carriage with a whip, and now he only left a few raised red marks on his body. The pain will naturally hurt for three to five days, but it will not hurt the muscles and bones. As usual, after a dozen lashes, the father's anger was almost vented, and the strict mother would come out to play a round, forcibly take away the father's horsewhip, and then pull the strong-headed son away.

But today one of the whips was clearly out of the mark, and the tip of the whip swept over his cheek, leaving a conspicuous scar on the left side of his face, so that when he went to school the next morning, he was still under the guise of being beaten.

Facing the whip wound on Rigor face, Sun Jiayu was secretly glad that he had escaped by luck, but he couldn't help but worry about Cheng Ruimin, and he didn't know what happened to him after he went home. But Cheng Ruimin didn't show up that day, and after asking the squad leader, he learned that he had something at home and took a few days off temporarily.

Three days later, Cheng Ruimin returned to school. There is an extra piece of black yarn on the arm, and the black yarn is dotted with a little red cloth, which is a symbol of the funeral of the next generation. This black veil was like a new barrier, separating him from the people around him. He was more silent and withdrawn than before, barely saying a word a day. Sun Jiayu wanted to say a few more words to him, but he was repeatedly forced to retreat by that indifference, and the tacit understanding and friendship that the two had just established before seemed to have never happened.

No one expected that Cheng Ruimin, an outstanding student, would become obsessed with video games. Every afternoon after school, he would leave school and go to the game hall where Sun Jiayu took him to alone, and he would play for hours at a time, and several times he even forgot the time for evening self-study. The intoxication of standing in front of a game console, simulating violence and control, seems to be able to empty people's souls in an instant and vent all the pain and anxiety in their hearts. And during the day, he either sleeps on his desk or loses his soul. His academic performance naturally plummeted, and he fell behind the twentieth in his class in several stage exams.

As a class teacher, there is nothing more heart-wrenching than watching a good student fall, Yan Qing is worried. However, he heard others say several times that Cheng Ruimin and Liu Bei in class (2) were in early love, and they went home together after studying late every day, so he took it for granted that it was early love that affected Cheng Ruimin. He couldn't bear to use too rough a way for Cheng Ruimin, and patiently admonished him several times, but Cheng Ruimin not only did not appreciate it, but every time he used Xu Shu's negative way of entering Cao Ying, he lowered his head and did not say a word. The first two times, Yan Qing thought that he had listened, but when he turned around, he still went his own way. Disappointed to the extreme, Yan Qing could only give up.

In the middle of June, a semester is almost over, Cheng Ruimin is still alone in the class, Sun Jiayu and rigorous diplomatic relations have not been restored, and the scene of two people being inseparable can no longer be seen in and out of the same place.

This afternoon, Sun Jiayu was practicing shooting on the playground alone, and suddenly saw a boy in the class running from the direction of the school gate, shouting while running: "Sun Jiayu, Sun Jiayu, it's terrible, something is wrong!" Rigor and Cheng Ruimin have fought, and they have seen blood! ”

"Where?"

"Outside the arcade."

Sun Jiayu threw down the ball and ran, almost running nearly 800 meters at a speed of 100 meters. When he arrived at the destination, the scene was a mess, the two sides of the fight plus the owner of the game hall, a total of more than a dozen, had just been taken away by the police station, only a brick was thrown on the cement floor next to the wall, and there were a few places of blood that had not dried up next to it, which was shocking.

This incident was so noisy that by the time the school leaders and the parents of the students arrived, negotiated with the police station, and brought people out one by one, it was already midnight. Several students involved, Rigorous, Xu Zhiqun and Cheng Ruimin, all hung up their colors, and none of them were able to come to school the next day. School leaders and grade level teachers met urgently to discuss how to deal with the students who were primarily responsible for the incident.

As soon as school was out in the afternoon, Sun Jiayu pedaled out of school. Because Xu Zhiqun's house was closest to the school, he went to Xu Zhiqun's house first. Xu Zhiqun had more than a dozen stitches on his head and was lying on the bed recuperating from his injuries. From his mouth, Sun Jiayu learned most of the truth.

It turned out that a few days ago in the game hall, Xu Zhiqun and Cheng Ruimin had an argument because they were grabbing a game console together. As soon as he heard Xu Zhiqun mention this matter, he immediately exploded, and immediately led people to block Cheng Ruimin outside the game hall. He had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and he would not let it go so easily. There are many of them, at the beginning Cheng Ruimin suffered a loss, he was pressed to the ground and punched and kicked, the corners of his nostrils and mouth were bloody, but he didn't make a sound, they felt that this person was too packy, it was not worth bullying, and when they were about to retreat, because of Xu Zhiqun's words, the situation changed abruptly.

Xu Zhiqun said: "I heard that your parents are divorced? Say your mom doesn't want you anymore, you follow your dad. After that, your father will marry you a stepmother, won't you become a little cabbage raised by your stepmother? Little cabbage, yellow in the ground, hey, it's pitiful! ”

Cheng Zheng and several boys around him laughed, and Cheng Ruimin's eyes suddenly changed at this moment. Before a few of them could react, Cheng Ruimin had already picked up a brick from his feet, and slammed it on Xu Zhiqun's head, making a big hole on the spot.

Xu Zhiqun's eyes darkened, and he squatted down with his head in his hands. He didn't know much about what happened later, but he only knew that the police from the police station came later and stuffed all of them into a police car, one carrying him, Cheng Ruimin and Rigor to the hospital, and the other carrying other classmates to the police station. When he arrived at the hospital, he learned that Cheng Ruimin and Yan Yan were both injured, one arm was cut by a knife with a long wound, the skin and flesh were turned up, and the blood dripped all the way, and the other eye was hit by something, contusion and laceration, and his face was covered with blood. This one was actually a three-way defeat.

"Who would have thought that Cheng Ruimin's little appearance of falling down when the wind blows, fighting is quite desperate!" Xu Zhiqun said dejectedly.

Sun Jiayu raised his foot and kicked him: "You deserve it!" What about rigor? Will the wound on his face be broken? I'm going to see him. ”

"You won't see him when you go, and you won't see him. He was beaten up by his father, and now he is in confinement, his father's guards are guarding the door, and it is said that he is still holding a gun, and his father said that whoever dares to let him out will collapse on the spot. ”

Sun Jiayu took a breath: "What about Cheng Ruimin?" ”

At the mention of Cheng Ruimin, Xu Zhiqun's face wrinkled involuntarily, as if he had palpitations. "His dad came to see me in the afternoon and apologized to my parents, he said that Cheng Ruimin ran away, and he ran away after a fight with his dad when he came out of the police station last night, and didn't come home all night."

"Ran away? Where did he go? ”

"I don't know, his father said that he searched for it in the middle of the night, and there is no one until now."

Sun Jiayu immediately stood up: "Fatty, you take care of your injuries, I'll go first." ”

Sun Jiayu left Xu Zhiqun's house, went back to school directly, and intercepted Liu Bei at the door of the first (2) class of high school, because the only person in the school who knew where Cheng Ruimin's house was might be Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was quite cold to him, clasped her hands in front of her chest, and looked at him coldly: "What are you asking him for?" Aren't you all in this together? Isn't bullying him enough? ”

"I've done stuff before." Sun Jiayu had no time to explain the misunderstanding to her, so she was so anxious, "Can we calculate the previous account later, auntie?" Did you know that he disappeared last night? I just wanted to go to his house to see, did he come back? ”

Liu Bei stared at him for a while, and saw that he really didn't look like a lie, and his expression finally eased up: "I don't know at this time, anyway, when I came to school this morning, his father was still looking for him." ”

When his father went to Xu Zhiqun's house in the afternoon, he hadn't found him yet. Liu Bei, tell me, what's going on with him lately? How did you completely change a person? Don't get me wrong, I don't mean anything else, I just want to know what's going on. ”

Liu Bei looked around and made sure that their conversation would not be heard by idlers, then sighed and said, "His parents are divorced, do you know?" ”

"I heard."

His grandfather was also there in those days, and on the night his parents signed the divorce, his grandfather suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died. He grew up with his grandfather since he was a child, and how uncomfortable he was when his grandfather left, can you imagine it? ”

Sun Jiayu lowered his head and didn't speak, but just crushed a small stone with his toes and rolled it into the soil little by little. He was thinking about something. From the day Cheng Ruimin came to school with black yarn, he guessed whether it was his grandfather in the past life, but Cheng Ruimin always refused to say, and now once it is confirmed, and then recalling his fierce reaction when the last "A Brief History of Time" was destroyed, Sun Jiayu's ominous premonition in his heart became heavier and heavier.

He grabbed Liu Bei: "You come with me, let's go to his house first." How do I feel like something big is going to happen? ”

The two rode all the way to Cheng Ruimin's house. The door of the Cheng family was closed, and the two of them rang the doorbell outside the door for a long time, but no one answered, but the neighbors couldn't stand the noise and came out of the house. The neighbor said that Lao Cheng had been looking for his son all day long and had not come back yet. As for Cheng Ruimin's mother, after her grandfather's funeral, she left China, and she left completely, giving up everything in China, home, work, and son.

Sun Jiayu and Liu Bei looked at each other for a moment, and Sun Jiayu pushed his bicycle and said to Liu Bei: "You go home first, I'll look for it too." ”

Liu Bei caught up: "I'll go with you." ”

Sun Jiayu shook his head violently: "No, no, you must not go to those places!" ”

He said so firmly, because the place where he was going to find someone was the game hall in Xicheng, Beijing. Sun Jiayu knew that the game hall after night was mixed, and a girl as eye-catching as Liu Bei appeared on that occasion, but she was afraid that it would cause other troubles. And it didn't seem realistic for him to run through all the game halls in Xicheng alone, and he had to find another person to help him now.

Rigor lies in an unlit room, with his arms resting behind his head and looking at the swaying light on the ceiling. It was a small room on the corner of the second floor of the house, and because it was so small, it was used as a storage room, and it was full of discarded items and dust. A mat was spread on the floor, and a mattress was added to it, which served as a bed for his temporary confinement. In addition to going to the toilet, other daily activities such as eating, drinking and sleeping must be completed in this small room of less than nine square meters.

He had spent a boring day and a night, and in those twenty-four hours, he had thought of dozens of ways to escape, but none of them could be realized due to the lack of tools. When he was sleeping, he suddenly heard two sounds on the windowpane, as if a small pebble had been smashed on it. He sat up with a snort, this is the secret code that his friends privately summoned when he was a child, and he hasn't seen it for a long time. He held his breath and waited, and after a while, two more sounds. Now it was certain, and he threw himself in front of the window and opened the sash.

Sure enough, there was a person standing under the window in the backyard, and by the bright moonlight, he recognized it as Sun Jiayu. Overjoyed, he was about to speak, but saw Sun Jiayu pressing his fingers on his lips and shushing loudly, and then he raised his hand, and a black shadow pounced on the strict face. Rigor subconsciously stepped back, and the mass of things scattered, hovered on the windowsill, and fell down again. But this moment was enough for him to see clearly, it turned out to be a strong rope.

Rigor looked at Sun Jiayu in confusion, and saw that he made a rope climbing posture with both hands, Rigor immediately understood, clenched his fists in ecstasy, and motioned to Sun Jiayu, indicating that he knew what to do next.

The rope flew up again. This time, he carefully grasped the timing, and when the rope was closest to him, he leaned in and pounced, and held the end of the rope tightly in his hand.

The rest was not at all too serious, and he tied the rope to a piece of sturdy wooden furniture, and then climbed down the rope like a monkey. It's just that when he landed, he accidentally stepped on a flower pot, causing the dog next door to bark.

The two of them were frightened, for fear of alarming the guards guarding the front door, so they quickly climbed over the low wall in the backyard and ran all the way, running out of breath, but fortunately there was no one chasing behind them, so they stopped together and held their knees and gasped for breath.

Rigor coughed and gave a thumbs up: "I didn't make you a friend in vain, it's interesting enough!" The past is not to blame, let's turn the page. ”

Sun Jiayu thumped his chest and said, "Less nonsense! Got you out to get you out of the way. Go, call all your little brothers out of here, and find someone with me. ”

"Looking for someone? Who are you looking for? ”

"Cheng Ruimin."

"What? Looking for him? "Rigor jumped up, "The rabbit cub not only opened the scoop for the fat man, but also smashed his dead schoolbag on my eyes, but the old man was hard and didn't hurt his eyeballs." Don't let me see him again, or I'll kill him!" ”

Sun Jiayu let out a long breath in the dark: "Rigorous, do you have any smoke on you?" ”

Rigorous touched his whole body up and down, and pulled out a crumpled cigarette case from the pocket behind his buttocks, and there was only one cigarette left in it. He folded the cigarette in half, handed half of it to Sun Jiayu, and put half of it in his mouth. Sun Jiayu lit a cigarette with the match in his hand, and after a few puffs, he said, "Do you know what a messy thing you have done?" ”

After listening to him talk about what happened at Cheng Ruimin's house, he grabbed the back of his head rigorously: "This is really not bad for me, I don't know that his mother is gone, and his grandfather has also passed away." But this kid is quite interesting, I admire him. He subconsciously touched the wound at the corner of his eye, frowning in pain, "You don't see that he usually wilts, and he is really ruthless when he fights!" ”

Sun Jiayu rolled his eyes: "Don't sell your mouth, go find someone with me first, and if you find it, you must apologize!" ”

That night, the two first found out the boys who usually played together from the house one by one, and seven or eight soldiers divided into four roads to sweep the game hall and video hall that were open all night in Xicheng. Sun Jiayu and Rigor all the way, riding along the second ring road to find all night, but found nothing. When it was almost dawn, neither of them could ride anymore, so they dropped their bikes and lay on the banks of the moat.

It didn't take long for him to lie down, and he fell asleep in a daze, and he slept so sweetly that it seemed that thunder couldn't wake him up. Sun Jiayu was also extremely sleepy, but his mind was still flying, he was thinking that if he was Cheng Ruimin, after experiencing these things, where would he want to go the most?

He squinted his eyes and looked into the distance. The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and there was a thin layer of white mist on the surface of the river, through which the morning light seemed to be contaminated with water and became heavy. It's not a very common sight, it's not like the north, it's more like an early morning in the south.

South? Sun Jia sat up suddenly. He thought of the biggest possibility, Cheng Ruimin, who was heartbroken in Beijing, would he want to go back to Xiamen? He slapped the sleeping rigor hard: "Get up! Let's go to the train station! ”

The old train station waiting room was a chaotic and noisy place, filled with all kinds of people, passengers, blind streams, thieves...... Everybody.

Sun Jiayu and Rigor walked through the crowded crowd all the way, and sure enough, they found Cheng Ruimin - he was lying on a bench, his face was smeared, the bandages on his arm wounds were mixed with blood and mud, and the clothes on his body were even more dirty.

Sun Jiayu rushed over and shouted at him: "Cheng Ruimin! ”

Cheng Ruimin did not respond. His face was flushed, his lips were covered with dry skin, several bloody wounds were cracked, his nose was distant, and he looked like he was struggling to breathe. Sun Jiayu reached out and touched his forehead, the tentacles were hot, like a red-hot soldering iron.

Sun Jiayu was startled, squatted down and touched his hand: "Cheng Ruimin, I'm Sun Jiayu, did you hear me?" ”

Cheng Ruimin's lips moved, but the voice he made was a vague word "grandfather".

Sun Jiayu raised his head, and when he met the same flustered gaze from Rigor and Panic, the two of them asked almost at the same time: "What should I do?" ”

A traveler-looking man next to him said, "You know him?" Why don't you rush to the hospital? He burned all day, and if he burned again, he was dehydrated. ”

The two of them were woken up all of a sudden, and Yan Yan immediately half-squatted down and said to Sun Jiayu: "Quick, you help, put him on my back." ”

Carrying Cheng Ruimin on his back, he trotted all the way to the nearest hospital from the train station, and he was sweating all the way, and the two clothes inside and outside were as wet as if they were fished out of the water. After setting up Cheng Ruimin, he ran to the toilet and poured a stomach of tap water into the faucet, so hot that he couldn't stick out his tongue like a dog on the street to dissipate heat. And Sun Jiayu ran to the street, found a public phone to call his mother who worked in another hospital, and asked her to bring money quickly, and by the way to see if she could open the back door to find a reliable doctor she knew to diagnose and treat Cheng Ruimin.

Cheng Ruimin had a high fever caused by inflammation of the wound, and it didn't go down until two days later. He came to his senses in the hospital and saw that it was Sun Jiayu and Rigor who were guarding his bedside.

His memory is still parked at the ticket window of the train station a few days ago, and the thief stole the only few dozen dollars he had. If it weren't for the thief, he would have been in Xiamen by this time. But when he opened his eyes, he still felt the familiar sunny and hot summer days in Beijing.

Sun Jiayu pushed Rigor hard behind him, and Rigor staggered forward a few steps without defense, and only stabilized his body with his hands on the bed board, and Cheng Ruimin's face-to-face staring was only twenty centimeters away. He had no way out, so he had to stammer: "Cheng Ruimin, I will be your eldest brother in the future, covering you for life, covering you forever, and I will never leave you at any time." ”

It is even more difficult to make a rigorous apology than to ascend to the sky, and these few words are already the limit of his apology to a person. Sun Jiayu also stepped forward and patted Cheng Ruimin on the shoulder: "Cheng Ruimin, in the future, my family will be your family, and my mother will be your mother, for a lifetime, forever." ”

This moment was the real beginning of the brotherhood of the Three Musketeers. They were young at the time, so they could easily say the word "forever." Twenty years later, when we look back at this moment for them, we find that fate has never played cards according to the world's expectations - twenty years later, some people's dreams have come true, some people have heard the sound of broken dreams, and some people have ...... will always maintain the youthful appearance of the twenty-nine years old. However, it is only because we have had you that we can say, forever, forever.