Prologue: The Darkness of the Rain Falling Wild Stream (1)
The raindrops crackled on the window, splashing and flowing down the glass, forming a transparent film.
Chu Zihang saw the white expanse on the playground, this didn't look like rain at all, it was a sluice gate in the sky that opened the gate, not a raindrop, but a finger-thick column of water that ran through the heavens and the earth.
The wind began to blow in the afternoon, and suddenly there was a thunderstorm after school, and the surface in front of the teaching building was instantly drenched with a piece of water, as if someone had taken a brush and dipped it in thick ink and threw it on rice paper.
In the beginning, the school workers were still running around the playground in raincoats to check the drainage system, afraid that the rain would soak the turf and the expensive granular plastic track imported from the United States.
Now, the turf has been completely knocked over by the torrential rain, revealing patches of black dirt that can even reach the surface of your feet on the plastic runway.
The horizontal and vertical wheels left staggered marks on the dirt, and the guards could not stop the parents who came to pick them up, and the private cars drove to the playground and waited.
Just half an hour ago, it was like a bustling bazaar, where every parent was blazing their horns and swearing, and in the rain, students couldn't recognize their cars, and they were spinning around like flies.
In the end, all the students were picked up, and the playground was empty, and the sky-blue school flag of "Shilan Middle School" fluttered against the background of the canopy.
Chu Zihang stood in front of the glass, looking outside in a daze, he was the only one left in the classroom. It was as dark as late as night, and all the lights in the classroom were on, and the pale light shone behind him.
It's raining again, Chu Zihang thought.
Wait, why again?
An inexplicable thought popped up in Chu Zihang's mind, he felt that this scene of rain in the sky and on the ground seemed familiar, as if he had already experienced it somewhere.
He shook his head, no longer thinking about it, but the strange familiarity still lingered in him.
He reached for his phone, and after a few beeps, the phone was connected, and he put the microphone close to his ear.
"Zihang, is it raining there? Oh, my mother is shopping with her sisters in Jiuguang Commercial Building, it's raining here, and the car can't be hit, let's have a cup of coffee and wait for the rain to light up before leaving, you can take a taxi yourself and go home quickly. ”
"By the way, didn't your dad give you money? Or call your dad and ask your dad to send a car to pick you up, Zihang is good, mom is good", there was a crisp "pop" sound from the microphone, and then the phone hung up.
Chu Zihang silently closed his phone, he didn't say a word from beginning to end, and he wasn't ready to say it, he was used to this unobtrusive mother, every time.
He just asked where his mother was, and at the same time told him that he had nothing to do in this rainstorm, so that she could do what she should do with peace of mind.
But Chu Zihang didn't want to call his father, he knew that his father would let the driver drive the top-level Mercedes-Benz S500 to pick her up, his father was a very well-educated and high-quality good man, he liked the beautiful mother who was a dancer very much, and he also loved the house and Wudi to be good to him.
The most common thing to say in my mouth is, Zihang, just say what you need, I'm your father. will do your duty as a father.
Hey, having a rich dad doing his duty to him sounds pretty good.
But what about the man? He did his duty, right?
The door of the classroom was open, and the cold autumn wind poured in with the rain, and the light was a little biting. Chu Zihang wrapped the Diesel smock on his body, tightened the Burberry plaid scarf, and put his hands in his pockets.
Damn, how did you think of that man? I have already cut off the relationship with him in my heart.
But why, when I think of him, my heart aches faintly?
"Chu Zihang? Let's go together, the rain won't stop. The weather forecast says that it is a typhoon, and the Meteorological Bureau has issued a warning! The delicate long-haired girl came in and interrupted his rambling thoughts.
The girl's long hair had a silver HelloKitty hairpin hanging from the ends, and her delicate smiling face was slightly red, and she didn't dare to look at him directly with her eyes lowered.
"Do you recognize me...... My name is Liu Miaomiao......" The girl didn't get an answer, her voice became quieter and quieter, and she was like a mosquito humming.
In fact, Chu Zihang recognized Liu Miaomiao. Liu Miaomiao, one level younger than him, is still in junior high school, but she is also quite famous in high school.
Liu Miaomiao passed the tenth level of the piano competition in the third year of junior high school, and she has a piano solo at the gala every year, and there are also a few boys on Chu Zi's flight who compete for Liu Miaomiao, Chu Zihang doesn't know if he can't help it.
"I'll be on duty today, and I'll leave later." Chu Zihang said lightly.
"Oh, then I'll go first." Liu Miaomiao said softly and retracted her head.
"By the way, be careful, it's going to rain more and more today." Liu Miaomiao suddenly turned around and said that she smiled incomprehensibly at him, and Chu Zihang saw that there was something black under her eyes flowing slowly.
No, not rain, maybe something else.
"I see."
Chu Zihang felt that things were a little weird, he remembered that last time Liu Miaomiao didn't add the last sentence "Be careful".
And the black threads of her eyes that twisted like snakes.
Why is there a last time? His mind was in chaos.
Through the glass window stained with water droplets, Chu Zihang watched Liu Miaomiao's driver open a huge black huge black cover on the top of Liu Miaomiao's head, Liu Miaomiao took off the sandals on her feet, and the driver squatted down to help her change into rain boots.
Liu Miaomiao followed behind the driver, stepping on the stagnant water and walking towards the black BMW sedan with "angel eye" headlights in the rain.
"Hey, Liu Miao, Liu Miao, Liu Miao, you can take me!" A junior high school guy yelled at Liu Miao Miao under the eaves.
Liu Miaomiao didn't seem to hear it, and she didn't look back and got into the car.
"Lu Mingfei? How could he be here? Chu Zihang suddenly thought.
The junior high school kid squatted under the eaves, watched the BMW silently slide into the rain, the taillights flashed, the engine roared high-pitched, and left.
"Lu Mingfei, I'll take you for a ride." Chu Zihang heard himself ask Lu Mingfei.
He suddenly found that his body was out of his control, and he looked at himself as he walked towards Lu Mingfei as he spoke.
A thunderbolt fell straight down from the sky, and there was a bang in his ears, and then there was a blank, and the rain seemed to be heavier, maybe what Liu Miaomiao said was right, Chu Zihang thought.
This is not ordinary rain, it is a typhoon.
There's something else.
"Okay, thank you, brother." Lu Mingfei smiled at him.
Chu Zihang was stunned suddenly, his body was out of his control just now, this happened very inexplicably, but the words had already been spoken, and he had to take out a mobile phone from his clothes pocket.
He typed in a text message, it was raining heavily, could you come and pick me up? Then read it silently, make sure the tone is correct, and send it out.
For the next few tens of seconds, he clutched his phone tightly, listening to his heartbeat, knock knock...... Knock Knock...... Knock Knock......
With a "ding" sound, a new text message came in, and Chu Zihang turned on his mobile phone.
"I've just finished here, you wait at the school, you'll be there in a moment."
Chu Zihang looked at it for a while, his finger hovered over the delete button for a long time, and finally, he put the phone back in his pocket, and still did not delete the message.
He stood up and picked up the bucket at his feet, splashed the whole bucket of water on the blackboard that had been wiped several times, and the water flowed down loudly, Chu Zihang picked up the blackboard eraser and wiped the blackboard vigorously.
The reason why the head teacher likes Chu Zihang is not only that he is good at homework, but also that he is never lazy, and that he does things like duty more seriously than others.
The blackboard that others had wiped was full of blackboard chalk marks, and Chu Zihang's erased was almost like a new purchase from the store, and even the notes in the corners and corners were wiped clean.
"Senior brother, let me help you." Lu Mingfei came over and said, he also took a rag and helped Chu Zihang wipe the blackboard together.
"Thank you." Chu Zihang said lightly, he felt that this junior brother's ability to be familiar with himself was very powerful, but there was no strangeness between himself and him.
In fact, Chu Zihang doesn't like to erase the black version at all, but when he does everything very seriously and seriously, he can put his mind empty and think about nothing.
Wipe hard, open and close, like a chivalrous set of fierce and innocent swordsmanship.
Water droplets scatter and splash.
When he finished wiping it with Lu Mingfei for the third time, a low whistle sounded in the rain curtain, Chu Zihang turned his head to look outside, and the xenon lamp pulled out a snowy beam, and the person who illuminated it could hardly open his eyes.
It is a pure black sedan, with two M's overlapping in a triangular frame on the front of the car.
A Maybach 62, a luxury Maybach brand, the top of the top cars in the Mercedes-Benz garage, is several times more expensive than Dad's Mercedes.
Chu Zihang didn't know much about cars, and these were all braggings from the man in the car to Chu Zihang.
The wipers hung on the front windshield layer after layer of rain that seemed to be endless, and for a short half a second at a time, Chu Zihang could see the face of the middle-aged man in the driver's seat inside, and waved at him vigorously, with a smile on his face.
Chu Zihang never understood why he was always smiling so happily, as if he had been very happy all the time, as if he didn't have any worries at all.
"Lu Mingfei." Chu Zihang called him, "Let's go." ”
"Oh yes, I'm coming." Lu Mingfei ran out of the classroom, shrunk his head, wrapped his coat around his head, and ran into the rain like a lost dog.
"Senior brother, why don't you come?" Lu Mingfei turned around and shouted at him in the rain, he was almost to the Maybach.
Chu Zihang straightened his collar, tied the scarf, strode to the eaves with the Hermes bag her father bought for her from London, hesitated for a moment, and ran into the rain with the coat on his head like Lu Mingfei.
The man in the car hurriedly pushed the car door and opened a huge black umbrella, which was covered with the gorgeous checkered pattern of the Burberry family, and greeted him with the same courtesy as Liu Miaomiao's driver, and put the umbrella on top of Chu Zihang's head.
Chu Zihang didn't look at it, pushed away the umbrella, walked directly to the car, and suddenly remembered something, and said to the man, "He is my classmate, can you take him on a trip?" ”
The man was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Lu Mingfei, and seemed surprised that Chu Zihang could take the initiative to send someone home.
However, he was still very happy that his son could make friends, so he nodded and happily agreed, "Okay." ”
Chu Zihang took Lu Mingfei to open the rear car door and got in, sinking into the milky white NAPA leather sofa.
The man smiled, turned his head back to the driver's seat, put away the wet umbrella and handed it to Chu Zihang behind him, "Plug it in the car door, there is a hole there for the umbrella." ”
"Oh! Good class! Lu Mingfei exclaimed.
"Yes, you said it." Chu Zihang glanced at Lu Mingfei, silently inserted the umbrella, supported his chin with his hand, and looked at the rain outside, "Let's go." ”
"Clothes are wet, aren't they? I'll heat up the seats in the back of your seat, who knows, it's comfortable to death! The man began to brag about his car again.
"I don't need to, go home and change my clothes."
"Senior brother, but I want to open up, my aunt will definitely scold me when I go home when my clothes get wet." Lu Mingfei said weakly, "Uncle, can you open it for me?" ”
"Of course, Zihang finally made a friend, and he usually bothered you to take care of it." The man smiled, cleared his throat, and said to Cherry Wood's middle console, "Start!" ”
The screen lit up, the gauges flashed a faint light, and the powerful 6-litre V12 twin-turbo engine silently self-checked, and no vibrations were felt in the car.
This car starts by voice.
"The 9 million car, when it is set, only the voices of 3 people can start, one is me, one is the boss, and one person guess who?" The man was triumphant.
"I don't care" Chu Zihang's face was expressionless.
"I'll tell you," Lu Mingfei raised his hand with great interest, "I guess there is another person's voice, and that is the voice of the senior brother!" ”
The man was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "Xiaolu, you guessed it!" ”
Chu Zihang had no expression on his face, he was still looking at the rain curtain outside the window, but there were a little tears flashing in his eyes.
I know that man is so showy, it's strange, why do he shed tears? He thought.
After the Maybach retreated silently, gaining enough space, the 6-meter-long super-large sedan swooped forward like a leopard driven by a large-displacement engine, split the rain curtain in an instant, and drove out of the gate of Shilan Middle School.
The road was very empty, and most of the cars went back to rest in such poor visibility weather.
The cars still running on the road are all with their headlights on, and the sky is as dark as ink when they look up, only occasionally there are flashes of electric light, as if the sky is cracking, and the heavy rain is vast on all sides, and it is blurry 100 meters away, and the Maybach drives onto the elevated road that runs through the city.
"It's raining so hard, and your mother doesn't know it's coming to pick you up."
"Fortunately, I didn't go to the car wash in the morning, no contact car wash, 80 yuan at a time, and people were in the water after washing."
"You haven't shown me the transcript of last semester until now."
"Your school guard didn't let me drive the car in, I said I picked up my son from school, what if you didn't let me in if it was so wet? I don't know how much spittle I spit. ”
"In the end, I told him that Lao Tzu bought this car for 9 million, and no one stopped the city government when he entered. He went soft all at once, haha. ”
The man chattered while driving, and the stereo in the car echoed with the Irish band Altan's "DailyGrowing", a rich female voice and a vicissitudes of male voices:
“Father,dear father,you've done me great wrong,
You have married me to a boy who is too young,
I am twice twelve and he is but fourteen,
He's young but he's daily growing.”
The road was full of stagnant water, and the water splashed on the side of the vehicle was like a wall of water, Chu Zihang looked out the window silently, and didn't pay any attention to the man's words. He was listening to the song.
"Not bad, right? They all said that I bought a good disc, and it was about fatherly love! The man saw Chu Zihang's appearance from the rearview mirror, and immediately understood that Chu Zihang always looked absentmindedly at some empty place when listening to music.
Chu Zihang was a little crying and laughing at the man with big nerves, "Can't you hear it?" It's a conversation between a girl and her father. It's not appropriate for you to put it on me,
"What's the difference between having a boy and a girl? Is it all father's love? The man was stunned, "Can you understand?" I've heard people say that your English is the best in your middle school, and you won a competition...... But your mother won't tell me. ”
"Yes, my brother is very good at English!" Lu Mingfei suddenly interjected.
"So, son, can you translate for me?" The man asked.
Chu Zihang had no choice but to translate the lyrics to the man to the beat.
The song is by the band Altan, and it is about a father who marries his daughter to a fourteen-year-old young man, and the daughter is unwilling, fearing that by the time her husband grows up, she will be old. But the father said......"
Daughter, dear daughter, there is nothing wrong with the arrangement I have given you,
I will marry you to the son of a rich family,
Once I'm old, it'll be the man you rely on,
He's still young, but he's growing up.
Chu Zihang then translated, "But then the girl's husband died before he could grow up, and the girl was very sad and used flannel to weave a shroud for him in the grassy cemetery.
"What kind of ghost song is this? It doesn't mean anything at all, the girl's husband just died, what's going on? "The man kind of got it.
"It's not interesting, it's just an Irish folk song, it's about life, anyway, it's not appropriate for me to listen to it." Chu Zihang said lightly, he actually liked this song a lot, and he was very sad, but he really didn't know what he was talking about.
"Actually...... There is some kind of deep meaning......" Lu Mingfei looked out the window and said casually.
Chu Zihang's heart suddenly jerked.