Back in November half a year ago, Lin Xiaochuan was still a junior high school student who was about to step into high school life.

Zhongxiang Foreign Chinese Middle School is located on the side of Wangfu Avenue in the city, and two towering gates completely isolate the school circle from the ordinary life in the city. Due to the school's very tight focus on academics, for students in the third year of junior high school, they usually have the opportunity to go home during the holidays once a month.

However, this is a very good system for Lin Xiaochuan, whose parents are often not at home. Even if he has the opportunity to go home every day, in addition to the remaining sister who gets along day and night, there is only Aunt Li, who is in charge of housework and takes care of the children, at home. Family? It was always a deserted and large house, with a hard shell that housed some hard amenities: wooden tables and chairs, metal appliances, and stone kitchen counters and columns.

That day, in those days, Lin Xiaochuan already felt a little irritable in his heart. However, in the face of high academic pressure, Lin Xiaochuan takes it for granted that it is the industrial noise inevitably produced by the high-speed "learning machine". It was still gray for a few days, and from time to time it snowed like goose feathers that it hadn't seen in several years.

Outside, the confetti-like snowflakes were falling all over the sky, and Lin Xiaochuan sat on the side of the wall near the window, shrinking his hands and feet, even though the doors and windows in the classroom were closed, and the crowds of people gathered together to keep warm, it was still so cold that people rubbed their hands and stomped their feet.

Lin Xiaochuan still remembers everything that day clearly. In the morning there are two English and two Chinese sessions, and in the afternoon there are two mathematics and two physics sessions.

During the two Chinese classes, Teacher Yin asked to recite the ancient poems in the books, "Suddenly like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom", "The north wind sweeps the white grass and folds, and the snow flies in August". Lin Xiaochuan memorized the poems in the book, and at the same time, taking advantage of the teacher's inattention, staring at the heavy snow outside the classroom. He had never seen such a large amount of snow, and in the morning, the outline of the trees was no longer visible in the central flowerbed area surrounded by the school building, and only clumps of white cotton were clustered together. Under the sky, the original yellow roof, brown wall skin, and gray pavement were all dyed by uniform snow at this time. Children who still believe in fairy tales will dance happily at this moment, as if they have become Snow White or the little match girl.

However, when Lin Xiaochuan finally came back to his senses from the window, he found that he didn't know when Mr. Yin, the head teacher who was sitting on the podium with his head down, had been staring at him, as if he had been staring at him for a long time, as if he had been staring at him for a long time.

The snow outside the window is no longer clear and pure, and to feel the world through his own heart, Lin Xiaochuan feels as if a thick quilt is wrapped in a thick quilt under the sky, which is so stuffy that he can't breathe and is suffocating.

In the afternoon, because Lin Xiaochuan had poor sleep quality these days, as soon as he heard Teacher Sheng start talking about a set of math test papers he had taken last night on the podium, Lin Xiaochuan was almost about to lie on his stomach and nap behind a pile of books.

It was at this moment. Peng Xuesong ran from the other classrooms separated by a few classes to Lin Xiaochuan's class. Cedar didn't know whether he was out of breath or out of breath with a nervous heartbeat, and with a frightened look on his face as if he had seen a ghost, he knocked on the door of Lin Xiaochuan's class, and then rushed in as a matter of course.

"Report, I'm looking for Lin Xiaochuan, I have a very urgent matter!"

Teacher Sheng's huge body of 1.89 meters turned his head from the state of the board on the podium, and looked at the rude student standing at the door with a dissatisfied face, perhaps the exaggerated expression on Cedar's face played a role, and Teacher Sheng did not look embarrassed.

Lin Xiaochuan raised his head sharply from the daze, and heard a familiar voice calling his name, the tone seemed to be like the tone of people shouting when the Titanic sank, Lin Xiaochuan suddenly felt that something ominous had happened.

Lin Xiaochuan looked at his good friend standing at the door, Peng Xuesong didn't even stand there, kept twisting, lifting his feet, waving his hands, shaking his shoulders, and frowning.

Seeing that Lin Xiaochuan noticed him, Cedar waved his hand from afar to signal him to come out.

"Lin Xiaochuan!" Mr. Sheng's thick tenor voice announced his name and resounded in every corner of the roof.

Lin Xiaochuan stared at Peng Xuesong's eyes, and dragged his steps towards the door of the classroom with great puzzlement, as if as long as he could walk out of the classroom one second slower, the bad thing that might be about to happen would come one minute later.

Lin Xiaochuan stood on the balcony outside his classroom, he closed the door casually, and the order of the class in the classroom returned to normal like a program.

The balcony where Lin Xiaochuan stood, and the fence on the side of it, was a bare iron frame, flat iron pillars painted with green paint, welded to two parallel steel pipes in the same proportion.

Peng Xuesong carefully spit out a few words from his mouth, and he tried to speak as softly as possible, as if if he said it lightly, the suffering and heartache that Lin Xiaochuan would endure would be weakened a little.

"Ogawa, I have bad news!"

"Your sister...... Something happened! ”

Under the sky, the heavy snow was still falling, and Lin Xiaochuan couldn't understand why such a large-scale snowfall could last for so long.

For a while, Lin Xiaochuan only accepted the literal meaning of the words that came out of Peng Xuesong's mouth. He only frowned, not believing the words he heard from Cedar's mouth for a moment.

"What do you say? Something happened to my sister? What's wrong? Lin Xiaochuan didn't know why, obviously he just heard the words that something had happened, but tears began to roll in the corners of his eyes. There can be many situations when something happens, such as being asked by a school teacher to be a parent, such as falling and injuring yourself in physical education class, or being bullied by other classmates at school, and these are not enough to cry over this.

"Your sister...... Something happened...... Peng Xuesong clinged to these words, as if a Chinese teacher required the writing essay to stick to the center and theme and not allow off-topic.

"Your sister was in a car accident...... Cedar finally couldn't hide the true circumstances of the incident, he was going to tell him the news.

As soon as Lin Xiaochuan heard the news, he immediately felt as if he had been pressed his head into the sink by someone, and he felt that his chest was unusually heavy as if it had been filled with lead, and he didn't cry, but the big tears fell from the corners of his eyes one by one.

"You said my sister was in a car accident?" Lin Xiaochuan's words spit out of his mouth were thick and heavy, "How can a person as small as my sister withstand a car accident?" When did it happen? ”

"It's noon today, your sister was in a car accident on the way home from school......"

"Coming home from school?" As soon as he heard the news, Lin Xiaochuan seemed to have been ridiculed by someone, "TM, that kind of home is also worth going back to?" Yes? You tell me? Back to a home where there is no father and no mother, is it home? Who says you have to go home? Who prescribes! ”

Lin Xiaochuan propped his hands on the cold and piercing iron pillar, and his roaring roar attracted the attention of the class. Hearing such a loud shout that interfered with learning, Teacher Sheng hurriedly walked out of the classroom and asked what was going on.

"Okay! You go home first! Teacher Sheng is not only the math teacher of their class, but also the head of the whole grade, and when she heard that Lin Xiaochuan's sister had been in a car accident, she was more reasonable and approved Lin Xiaochuan's application to go home, "Come back to school as soon as possible!" ”

"Don't go home yet, your mother told me to tell you, go directly to the city hospital!"

"My mother?" Lin Xiaochuan finally cried out in pain, "My sister has such a big incident, since my mother still asked you to tell me, is there such a mother?" ”

Lin Xiaochuan was still roaring hysterically: "I don't have a mother! I don't have a dad either! I only have such a sister! I only have this one sister! ”

At this point, Lin Xiaochuan picked up his feet that had taken root on the ground, and after a while, as if he had lost his balance, he stumbled and rushed towards the staircase. Lin Xiaochuan ran as he let his emotions erupt like a volcano driven by sadness, his feet stomped loudly, and then plunged headlong into the captive world of endless snow.

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Lin Xiaochuan stepped on the dirty snow on the street that had been run over by the passing cars, and he didn't care that his shoes and trouser legs were completely soaked by the snow, and he didn't care that the cold numbed the nerves of his legs and feet, and he didn't care about the strange stares cast by people in the crowd on the street. In this way, Lin Xiaochuan ran desperately in the heavy snow, running along one street and another as fast as possible.

Along the way, somehow, the usually cute face of my sister Lin Xiaomei appeared in my mind again and again. Lin Xiaochuan repeatedly told himself that a car accident is not such a serious thing, and a car accident can only scratch a little skin, and it can only be a fracture, his sister must be blessed, a good person has a good reward, so well-behaved, such an understanding and caring person, it is impossible for a big fork, and there will definitely be no danger to life!

Lin Xiaochuan ran and ran, ten minutes, twenty minutes, he was no longer as excited as when he first heard the information, gradually, with the hot sweat, the hot blood boiled in his chest, and the tears in the corners of his eyes slowly dried up.

In this way, he ran all the way, crossed a new bridge from Wangfu Avenue, and half an hour later, Lin Xiaochuan came to the door of the city hospital. The belief that slowly rose in his mind supported him to step into the gate of the hospital and go straight to the operating room of the main building of the hospital.

Turning a hallway, the green light on the door of the operating room was still brightly on, which at least showed that his sister still had hope of surviving. He walked down the aisle and saw the figures of two familiar and strange adults appear in his eyes.

Father, the old man with messy black hair, thick glasses, and dull and rigid gaze, sat in a public chair by the hallway, bowing his head and bowing honestly.

Mother, before she had time to change out of the gorgeous clothes she was wearing, the heels of her high heels were lying crookedly on the ground, a pair of thin legs that were very incompatible with her age seemed to be entangled like two twists, and the most unbearable thing was the disgusting low crying voice of her mother. A mother, who usually doesn't care about her family, waited until something irreparable finally happened, and then turned around and cried bitterly, Lin Xiaochuan gritted his teeth with hatred when he thought of his mother's cynical attitude.

On the other side of the corridor, the sound of impatient footsteps like raindrops stopped, and the father and mother, who were sitting on chairs with their heads bowed, raised their heads at the same time and looked at Lin Xiaochuan who was standing in the distance.

Lin Xiaochuan was like a little adult, although he was exhausted at the moment, but he stood in the middle of the aisle, like a clay sculpture standing there unshakable.

Father and mother both got up at the same time and walked over to the place where Lin Ogawa was standing. The father walked slowly and heavily, and the mother, as soon as she saw her son, hurried to his son, and was paralyzed in his arms, which had not yet grown tall and strong, and wept profusely.

"You're here!" My father's tone was like a lost battle, his mouth was like a burnt fire, and every sigh was like spitting out soot.

"Ogawa! It's all mom that's bad! It's all to blame on my mother for being too selfish! Otherwise...... Otherwise...... "The mother burst into tears in her son's arms.

Lin Xiaochuan looked at such a scene and thought that adults were just like this, and their performance at critical times was even worse than that of a child. Lin Xiaochuan muttered a few words in a low voice: "I knew this was the case! Why bother in the first place! However, after all, it was his mother, although he didn't want to, but when he saw his mother crying so sadly, he still stretched out his hand and gave a rare hug.

However, at this moment, the mother's unusually offensive phone rang again. It's just that this time, for the first time, the mother didn't seem to hear the bell at all, and she still kept ringing with it, but she didn't pay attention to it at all.

From one or two o'clock in the afternoon, the operation continued until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, when the closed door of the ghost door that decided life finally opened again, and the bright indicator light above the head, which represented the continuation of life, was finally extinguished.

The surgeon in charge was wearing a white lab coat covered with blood, and his tired hands slowly removed the mask he was wearing from his face.

"I'm sorry! We did our best! With that, he shook off his family members and disappeared to the other end of the corridor without looking back.

What does it mean to be "sorry, we tried our best". As soon as Lin Xiaochuan's mother heard the news, her legs staggered, as if they had fallen apart, and she collapsed on the ground, howling and crying. One hand was tugged at by his father's hand on the other. And the father kept his head down, didn't cry or laugh, didn't say a word, and was numb like a walking corpse.

Lin Xiaochuan absolutely didn't believe it, absolutely didn't believe that his sister was no longer there. For a moment he wanted to rush to the doctor, and demanded that he must change his words, as if the doctor could decide the life and death of the patient, as if the doctor would announce that his sister was still alive in this world, then he would still see that lovely face again tomorrow.

However, Lin Xiaochuan was also completely stunned by this news, and he stood there again as if he had heard the message at noon, and big tears slipped down the corners of his eyes. If there is an end of the world in this world, then at this moment, Lin Xiaochuan seems to feel that he has come to the end of the world.

A week after her sister Lin Xiaomei left, her family saw the surveillance footage of the scene of the incident at the police station. Also in this week, Lin Xiaochuan did not eat or drink, locked himself in the bedroom alone, wrapped in a thick duvet, sat on the bed, painfully and sadly recalled the bits and pieces of his life with his sister.