At home after school that night, Wei Hengyi put on his boxing gloves and waited for his father to come back.

Father came back, and Wei Hengyi threw his fist at him.

This is how father and son have met in the past.

What is different is that my father has a gloomy face, clasps Wei Hengyi's hand and says, "Don't fight today, Dad has something to tell you." ”

That night, Dad was extremely cruel to tell him the truth, a truth about the city they lived in, their homeland.

"Wei Hengyi, how old are you this year?"

"Twelve, what's wrong?"

"Twelve, no longer a child, it's time for you to mature."

"A must! No one in my class beat me! ”

"That's not what I mean."

"What's that?"

"Do you remember how your mother died?" Dad asked, his expression resolute and cold.

"Dad! Let's not talk about this? ”

"Don't you remember how your mother died?"

"Of course I remember. But why are we talking about this? ”

"What did your mother die of?"

"Lung Cancer ......"

"Do you remember Aunt Liu Shan in your father's lab?"

"Yes. Didn't you adjust your work by the central government last year and leave Lanqicheng? ”

"Those are all lies."

"What kind of deception? What's so deceitful about this? ”

The father did not speak.

"What is there to deceive when you go out to work?"

"When your mother died, how did I teach you to tell your classmates?"

“……”

"Understood?"

"I don't understand...... What did you say, Dad? Aunt Liu Shan was transferred? But what's there? The teacher said that there are more than a dozen cities like Luqicheng in the country, and the work of personnel is often transferred, and many of the students' parents have been transferred because of their work. I told my classmates that my mom had been transferred, and they believed me. ”

"No one was transferred. Not a single one. The father's expression was indifferent.

"How could it be that no one was transferred...... My classmate ......"

"Do you know what the medicine you take every day is for?"

"Trace element nutrition tablets, supplement trace elements."

"Don't you think it's strange that the whole city is taking this medicine?"

"Dad, what are you talking nonsense? Didn't you develop this drug? Teachers and classmates praise you! ”

"Silly boy, the synthesis method of trace element tablets was established a hundred years ago, and what Dad researched, that is, what you eat every day, is not this at all!"

"That'...... What is that? ”

"What is the name of the green-lit instrument that you usually hang on the wall in your classroom?"

"Geiger Miller counters? Why do you ask this again? ”

"What are Geiger Miller counters for?"

"Measuring ionizing radiation."

"If there is more ionizing radiation, what will happen to people?"

"This ...... Not good for the human body. But the teacher didn't say how it was bad. ”

"Hehe, no one in your generation knows the truth. Dad told you that ionizing radiation is carcinogenic. ”

The expression on Wei Hengyi's face changed greatly.

"Cure cancer? Then you didn't say it earlier! Mom had lung cancer back then, why didn't you tell the doctor about using ionizing radiation to cure cancer? …… Or is this the latest discovery you've made? ”

"It's not a cure, it's a cause!" Father said with a miserable laugh.

The room was quiet enough to hear the swing of the second hand of the clock.

"Da", "Da", "Da".

"Dad...... Are you joking to scare me? ”

"The drug developed by my father is called cancer cell proliferation rate inhibitor. It slows down the division of cancer cells in the human body. There are no trace elements at all. If you don't eat this every day, more people will get cancer faster. ”

"Dad, what are you talking about?" Wei Hengyi was afraid. This manly child is afraid.

"Pure Land. Outside the city, the paradise where human beings are not polluted in the end, is not for fun. I know what is the purpose of teaching you martial arts to study hard and exercise well? It's just to get you admitted to the Sailing School. In this way, you will be qualified and hopefully take your father to live in the Pure Land in the future. If you can't pass the exam, more than ten years or more, it is inevitable that everyone will get cancer! ”

"Impossible...... The teacher didn't say that...... That's not what you say on TV, right? Dad, what nonsense are you talking about? ”

"Because you're all kids! People want to make their children's lives as happy as possible. Telling you the truth will make you miserable! ”

Wei Hengyi stared at his father, half-convinced.

"Still don't believe it, do you?" Dad opened the laptop he was carrying and said, "This is a case of cancer deaths in recent years, all of which are encrypted internally, so I'll show you once to convince you that it's true." Don't tell anyone if you've seen it! This secret has leaked out, and neither Dad nor you will survive! ”

Thousands of cases made Wei Hengyi stupid. In this city, where there are only 100,000 people, there are nearly 10,000 cancer deaths in a few years.

Wei Hengyi leaned against the wall and slid down. He was stupefied.

"So!" Dad held Wei Hengyi's head with both hands and said, "From now on, study your cultural lessons well!" Your culture class is so bad! Study hard, and after three years, you will be admitted to the Sailing School, and your father and you will have a job. If you can't pass the test, or tell someone else what your dad told you today. Dad and you are dead! ”

…………

Slowly, slowly, Wei Hengyi accepted this fact. He didn't tell anyone, and he knew he couldn't. He became reticent and silent, and gradually he had no friends. He began to study hard in cultural classes, and in order to live, his grades in cultural classes improved, but he was no longer happy, and he was also estranged from his father. He didn't understand why his father told him the truth. Why can't he continue to live in ignorance and happiness? Why can't my father, who is a university professor, tutor his own culture class in person, so that he can definitely be admitted to the Sailing School without the truth.

Since then, there have been fewer and fewer words between father and son. Wei Hengyi's father watched the increase in cancer cases, and felt more and more that the drugs he developed were useless. Gradually, my father became negative and decadent, and he became an alcoholic. At first, I was drunk once every ten days and half a month, and then I was basically drunk once a week, and this year, I came back drunk every day.

"Dad! When my mother died, you told me not to run away like a man. But what about you? If you don't think the drug is working, why don't you continue researching? Why drink to avoid making yourself so depraved? Wei Hengyi once quarreled with his father like this.

"Hey, good son! You're a man, it's up to you! I can't do it, I can't study it. My father replied in a delirious voice.

…………

Now that he has finally received the entrance exam, he is working hard to sprint to start school, and his father is still drinking heavily for days and has never asked about his son's exam. Every day, after going home, I went back to the bedroom to sleep after snorting like a drunk.

The key twisted in the door a few times, and the door opened. On weekdays, when my father came home from alcohol, he had to insert the key around the keyhole for a while to open the door, but this time he actually twisted it open.

Dad entered the house, and his pace was actually steady. Wei Hengyi turned his head to look at his father's body that was no longer strong due to long-term alcoholism, and was surprised to find that his father was sober today.

"How's it going?" Dad asked Wei Hengyi. The tone is kind and the voice is clear. It's been a long time since my dad has spoken to him so soberly. I took three exams, and for the first time, my father asked me about my results.

Wei Hengyi loves his father, but he hates it even more. Dad knew that he had taken the exam, and there was a little comfort in his heart, but the warmth was quickly extinguished by the accumulated coldness.

"You know I'm on the exam, too?" He asked mockingly.

"I'm still your dad after all." The father changed his usual drunken state and said in a low voice.

"Oh! You're my dad. Why doesn't the teacher know I have a dad? Why did I feel like a monkey jumping out of a stone during the exam? Wei Hengyi's tears were protesting, and his voice was protesting.

"Did you take today's medicine on time?" The father asked calmly as if he hadn't heard his son's angry voice.

"Does it make a difference whether you eat or not? Does your broken medicine work? The son's anger was kindled.

"As I said, it will play a certain restraining role, but you must get out of the city to live!"

"I'm going to see your patient records." Wei Hengyi didn't seem to hear his father's words, and suddenly said.

"What do you see?" The father was not angry either.

"Don't worry about it, I want to see your patient records." Wei Hengyi repeated.

The father turned on the computer, unlocked the key, and turned and walked towards his bedroom.

Wei Hengyi didn't say anything more and began to search on the computer.

"Come on for the SID exam", the father, who had walked to the door of the bedroom, turned to his son and said, "Tomorrow Dad will start doing a new pharmacy experiment, and he may not be able to go home for more than a week, take care of himself." Daddy loves you! ”

love

It's a hard word to say between father and son.

This sentence made Wei Hengyi not know what to say. He turned his head to look at his father, as if he hadn't seen it in years. After staring at each other for a long, long time, Wei Hengyi heard a "hmm" in his throat in response, and then turned around and continued to stare at the computer screen. If you don't turn around, the tears will fall.

…………

For the next few days, the third group of partners would gather at Situ Shan's house every day to accompany them, because as a temporary team, the partners needed to get to know each other. Building friendship and trust in just seven days is not an easy task.

In contrast, Ruan Xiyue, Leng Changhe and Zhang Chengyuan inevitably had an estrangement from the six former partners in the first group.

It is the rules that estranged them; Or maybe the rules catalyze the rift in friendship.

So psychologically, they are willing to make new friends and make up for the wounds in their friendships.

For a few days, the partners got along very well.

Ruan Xiyue, Chen Jiatong and Situ Shan have similar personalities, that is, stubbornness in their bones.

The difference is that Ruan Xiyue's speech and demeanor reveal the unique charm of the school flower, while Situ Shan always looks pitiful and pitiful because of the pain, giving people a stubborn and weak feeling.

And Chen Jiatong always giggles and never talks much when chatting.

Leng Changhe is a very easy-going and very easy person to get along with.

And Zhang Chengyuan has a smart mind and speaks with a lot of humor. He was in a good mood these days, because he vaguely felt that Ruan Xiyue didn't have much of a good impression of Leng Changhe, but he was talking to himself more and more.

Only Wei Hengyi always sat quietly on the side, and he didn't talk much.

The last night before the exam.

Still no one knows what the SID exam is, but the calm before the storm always makes Jing's heart panic.

Zhu Tiancao was lying on his bed, and even through the two-story door, he could clearly hear his father's severe cough.

Stress or pain can often lead to early maturity. Wei Hengyi is like this, and so is Zhu Tiancao.

"Why did my father hide his illness?" Zhu Tiancao sat up from the bed and questioned himself in the mirror.

"He didn't distract me, so that I could devote myself to the exam!" The self in the mirror replied earnestly.

"Do you know that my father has good intentions?"

"Yes!"

"So what should you do?"

"Devote yourself wholeheartedly, tomorrow's beautiful exam, and win!"

"Aren't you worried about your father?" Zhu Tiancao questioned himself in the mirror.

"Let's just assume that my father is not sick."

"Zhu Tiancao, are you sure? Will I be able to devote myself to the exam? ”

"Well, my father is not sick at all, I am worried about a fart." In the mirror, his eyes are resolute. It's just that the tears and the resolute expression can't be set off at all.

"Will Leng Changhe, Zhang Chengyuan and Ruan Xiyue hate you? They are abandoned by you! ”

"No way, I didn't mean to, the rules are too cruel, it just so happened that they went late."

…………

Zhang Chengyuan seemed to have a premonition that his mother didn't care about Zhang Chengyuan's admission to the Sailing School on the surface, but she must still have something to look forward to in her heart, because the dinner every day has been particularly sumptuous recently. This inevitably put some pressure on him, who was about to take the final exam.

"Mom" Zhang Chengyuan finally spoke.

"Huh?"

"I read in novels and movies, before the execution of death row prisoners, the practice feast is particularly rich."

"A baby without a conscience. Is the last meal of the condemned prisoner so rich? Who has such a good craft? ”

"Mom, is there anything you want to say to me?"

“……”

"Mom, you have something on your mind."

"If the exam doesn't end in a while, remember to take your medicine on time!"

"Mom, you have something on your mind."

"You're a smart kid."

"You're a smart mother."

"The objective world is dark, but I always hope that you can live as optimistically as possible. Isn't that too much for you? ”

"Mom, you have created such a happy environment for me, so I am very happy."

"But there are limits to the environment that mom creates. Sooner or later, you will grow up, and when you graduate from the Enlightenment Middle School, it will be difficult for your mother to weave such an environment. In other words, you're more on your own! ”

"Mom, I know."

"You don't know," said the mother, "but I hope that you will continue to live a strong and happy life after you understand in the future." ”

"Mom, don't worry."