In the next few days, in addition to being isolated by his classmates, he was fine, and Shao Huan also unexpectedly behaved quite calmly and did not cause trouble. In this calm to boring atmosphere, it was Friday after school in a blink of an eye, and Su Tao chatted with Zhou Xiaonan while packing her schoolbag.

"Eh, Su Tao, what are you going to do on the weekend?" Zhou Xiaonan said.

"I don't know, stay at home, watch a boring old movie, clean up your mood, and by the way, ask my sister how the investigation of her case is. What about you? Su Tao asked rhetorically.

Zhou Xiaonan said helplessly, "I don't know either." I used to be able to go to a party with my classmates on weekends or something, but now the relationship between the two of us and my classmates is stiff, and I guess no one will invite me anymore..."

"It's all me who dragged you down..."Thinking that Zhou Xiaonan, a fun-loving person who has nowhere to go now, Su Tao felt slightly guilty.

"Where is it, I make my own decisions, and I blame you. Don't talk about it again. ”

Su Tao smiled reluctantly and said, "Okay, don't mention it again." ”

"If you're okay on the weekend, you can come to my house and play. We can watch movies together, isn't it boring for two people to be bored together, right? Also, don't you like to make desserts or something, come to my house to make them, just let me taste your craftsmanship. Zhou Xiaonan actively came up with ideas.

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." Su Tao said with a smile.

"Mmmm, you'll be here early tomorrow." Zhou Xiaonan asked again, "Huh?" Aren't you leaving? ”

"Oh, I'm going to the library, I haven't been to our school library in days." Su Tao said, "I heard that our school's library has a rich collection of books, and it is almost catching up with the libraries of other universities." So I wanted to borrow a few books from the library this afternoon. ”

"Wow, that's so studious!" Zhou Xiaonan said exaggeratedly.

"What, it's just an extracurricular book." Su Tao said angrily, "What are you doing in a weird way? ”

"No, I just think it's very strange, after all, very few people in our class will run to the library without anything." Zhou Xiaonan explained.

"Really? Such a good library, if you don't take the opportunity to make good use of it, you will really be sorry for the expensive tuition you pay. Su Tao joked, "Xiao Nan, anyway, you don't like to read, it's not interesting to go, let's go back first, I'll come to play with you tomorrow." I'll just go to the library by myself. ”

"That'...... All right. Zhou Xiaonan hesitated, feeling that it was really meaningless for him to stay, so he reluctantly agreed.

Su Tao walked along the path to the library alone, and the afternoon sun shone on her through the sparse leaves. In August, the afternoon heat gradually degenerates into a faint and fragrant warmth. Those red brick buildings are just an island dotted with a sea of green, and the green sea seems to be always turbulent and undulating, and only where the red extension is like the tide suddenly turning into floating waves. And the library is the end of this red extension.

On Friday afternoons, the library was deserted, with only the occasional crowd browsing around the reference books. Su Tao was happy to enjoy the quiet atmosphere of the literary area alone. She wandered in front of the shelves of Russian literature, looking row by row, and the spiritual crystallization of these Russian literary giants was quietly displayed in front of her. Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, Chernyshevsky, and her favorite Dostoevsky. She pulled out "Crime and Punishment" and prepared to go to the windowsill to reread it. However, when she turned around, she was surprised to see He Yang here, he smiled and walked towards Su Tao, the sun outside the window shone on his handsome face, the tips of his hair were dyed golden, the corners of his eyes bent slightly with a smile, and his whole face immediately became vivid.

Su Tao raised her eyebrows and said, "I didn't expect to see you here." ”

He Yang looked at her eyes very seriously and said, "I didn't expect you to like Dostoevsky, many people think his works are too long and obscure." As he spoke, he pointed to "Crime and Punishment" in Su Tao's hand. Su Tao smiled helplessly and said, "Actually, I didn't like to read Dostoevsky's books before, not only because they were obscure, but because I could understand them, so I didn't want to read them, he was too sober, so it was too painful." After all, not everyone likes to put the suffering of reality in front of their eyes. I don't like it either. ”

"And when did you start liking it?" He Yang asked curiously.

"After my parents died." Su Tao's smile was full of endless bitterness, "Tuo Weng can be said to be the psychological pillar after the death of my parents, and now, Su Ying has also left me." I can't imagine anything worse than that. The feeling of being excluded and isolated is nothing compared to it. You know what? It was only after I had experienced all these things that I realized that I understood Dostoevsky in the true sense of the word. I had a strange feeling that his book was written for me, for people like me who were going through suffering and suffering, who were struggling and wandering in pain, and I thought that maybe I could find solace in it. ”

He Yang thought for a moment and said, "Whoever is a great interrogator of the human soul must also be a great prisoner. The interrogator condemned his wickedness in the court, and the prisoner proclaimed his own good at the bottom of the ranks; The interrogator exposes the filth in the soul, and the prisoner expounds the buried light in the filth revealed. He paused and said, "This is what Mr. Lu Xun said about Dostoevsky." ”

"So, if it's you, do you trust the interrogator, or the prisoner?" Su Tao looked at He Yang meaningfully.

"Frankly, I don't know." He Yang looked at her calmly, "Because I know that human nature is complex and contradictory, you can never know how much meanness is hidden in a person's nobility, and how much artificiality is contained in sincerity." Of course, perhaps virtue can be found in the most wicked of people. ”

"So, are you a man who likes to find virtue in evil people?" Su Tao then asked

He Yang hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't like it or not, I just want to find an objective intermediate state, after all, there are no absolute good people and no absolute bad people, most people are in such an intermediate state......"

Su Tao interrupted his tirade, "He Yang, then in your opinion, is my sister a member of this intermediate state?" Why do you insist that she is a good person when everyone is accusing her of evil and cruelty and misbehaving? ”

"Because I know she is!" He Yang became a little excited, "So what you just said is actually trying to say this, right?" Finding Virtue in Evil...... Heh- you really thought it out, so in your opinion, I'm a fool who is fascinated by Su Ying, right? The goddess who can't ask for her own sake is unprincipled in trying to find a little bit of virtue in her belly full of evil, isn't it? ”

"I didn't mean that......" Su Tao was a little flustered when He Yang suddenly questioned him.

"Su Tao, Su Ying, she is your sister." He Yang suddenly choked up a little, "You also said that your parents have passed away, I'm afraid the only one who has the most reason to believe her is you." Anyone can question her, but you can't. You're the one who should trust her the most. ”

"He Yang, don't get excited, okay? I've never changed my opinion of my sister because of those gossip, you're just making up too much. As you said, my sister is my only relative, we know each other and believe in each other. And now I'm curious that you think my sister is a good person in such an unfriendly environment in this school, and I am surprised. Su Tao explained.

"Su Ying is a simple and kind good girl, she just has no mouth and offends people. Those who orchestrated her behind her were nothing but jealousy. She treats people very sincerely, even if she lives in a circle like Class 30, she has not been assimilated by them, she is not as arrogant as Jiang Xizhen and Zhang Huimin, and she has not learned the bad habits of those children of rich families. She refuses to go along with those people, which is the real reason why those girls orchestrate her. He Yang said solemnly.

"If it's really like you said, my sister is excluded in the central circle, how can Shao Huan be with her? What's more, Shao Huan, as the central figure in their circle, can't let his girlfriend go. Su Tao was puzzled.

"Most of the people who don't like Su Ying are girls," He Yang said. This point coincides with what Zhou Xiaonan said, Su Tao continued to listen, "What's more, the girls didn't do much out of the ordinary, they just spread rumors, or secretly didn't deal with Su Ying." Su Ying didn't like flashy people and lifestyles like Shao Huan, she was just confused for a while and couldn't get rid of it. Shao Huan controlled her, I often talked to her, I know that deep down she doesn't like life in the spotlight, she just likes a simple and peaceful life. ”

Su Tao laughed secretly when she heard this, He Yang, a nerd, didn't know Su Ying at all, what she liked was aura, luxury, and grand things, and she was the one among the twins who liked simplicity and simplicity. The sister in He Yang's heart was probably just what she imagined, so she spoke, "Hey, you can't have a crush on my sister, right?" ”

"I, I'm ......" He Yang suddenly stammered slightly, and his expression was quite embarrassed, "Of course, I care about her." However, by no means as you might think...... She had so much passion, so much passionate love and hate, she was as innocent as the wind, like fire, like some kind of wild thing. I love her not out of love, but out of love for beautiful things, and she is so beautiful that I have a certain appreciation and fervent love for her of natural things. ”

"So, your love is just appreciation, not love?" Su Tao asked.

"That's right, a girl like Su Ying deserves a better life and better love, not like ...... now" He Yang was silent for a few seconds, and said with some deep and sad indignation, "The murderer who killed her is still at large, and she can only rot underground......"

"No, that murderer won't always get away with it, no matter what, we'll get him out for trial!" Su Tao said word by word.