There was also a few seconds of voice attached to the photo, Su Chengyi casually picked up a finished mineral water bottle, got up and walked to the balcony of the classroom.

"You see, this is your fellow student, isn't it? How did it get like this? ”

Su Chengyi threw the bottle in his hand into the trash, was silent for a long time, and replied with a brief message.

He leaned back on the balcony and looked through the glass window into the classroom.

Chen Jinzhi lowered his head and wrote something very seriously.

Sensing his gaze, she raised her head and smiled slightly, the corners of her eyes and eyebrows opening up in a gentle arc.

Su Chengyi suddenly thought of the moments when the flowers and bones bloomed in slow motion in the documentary, and the quiet atmosphere of the years was vividly rendered at this moment.

At times like these, it seems that something less rosy should not be mentioned.

He made his decision, smiled at her as well, and returned to his seat.

Starting tomorrow will be the three-day holiday before the college entrance examination.

On the one hand, it is to disinfect and arrange the examination room, and No. 1 Middle School, as the largest test center in Tang'an City, has received the most attention.

Xiang Principal has been emphasizing at the General Assembly for many days that there must not be a single slip in the face.

On the other hand, it is also to let the soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield recuperate and maintain an optimal condition.

But Li Lu emphasized it three times in a row in the class group.

While resting well at home, be sure to take the time to review.

Don't play like the college entrance examination is over from now on, like a wild horse on the loose.

That would have been the case for the previous three years.

Yu Ba also shared the addresses of several study rooms in the city, which means that students who can't control themselves at home can go to the study room to physically control it.

But the holiday is still tomorrow's thing, and everything is as usual in school today, and even evening self-study is normally arranged.

Although you can choose whether you want to go on or not, for the group of volume kings of the rocket class, there is no "don't" option.

Only Su Chengyi picked up his schoolbag and left early.

Summer nights come late, and even though it's already past seven o'clock, it's still bright outside.

When Su Chengyi walked to the school gate, he first took out a stack of banknotes from the ATM next to him and put them in his pocket, and then came to the bus stop.

The road was bumpy and I came to the familiar intersection of the olive district.

When I first came, I was a little apprehensive, but now I am familiar with the road.

Even some of the aborigines already knew him.

The aunt who was sitting at the door of the laundry and eating melon seeds was very happy when she saw him and greeted him:

"Hey! Petty. ”

Su Chengyi paused in a hurry, and smiled politely:

"Auntie."

"Come to play with the Lin family brothers and sisters again? Oh, I'm afraid Zhiwan is not there, I saw her go out in the morning. Tongtong is going to take an exam, she's been worrying for the past few days."

Seeing that the aunt's conversation box had been opened, Su Chengyi hurriedly interrupted:

"No, Auntie. Do you know where paint is sold here? ”

"Yes, yes, you come from here, go to the front intersection and turn left, and a small three-wheeler is parked at the door."

The aunt reached out and patted off the melon seed shell that was stuck to her body, stood up and pointed him out.

"Okay, thank you, Auntie."

Su Chengyi thanked him and continued to walk forward.

The aunt looked at his departing back and sighed.

As a well-known jack-of-all-trades in the olive area, of course she knew what Su Chengyi was doing to buy paint.

But this child is a good person, he looks good, and he can see from his behavior that he has a good family education.

She really didn't want him to wade into these troubled waters.

Like a bluestone slab covered with lichen, most people choose to step over it.

He was willing to bend down to clean up, which was good, but over time the moss would still crawl again.

One person's efforts are useless.

Su Chengyi walked to the door of the laundry aunt and found that it was not a regular store specializing in selling paint, but a hardware store that "sells paint".

Looking at the person who looks like the boss is looking at a small TV with Erlang's legs crossed, it seems to be a very popular soap opera back then, and the sound of the heroine and her in-laws fighting comes out a little harshly.

"Hello."

Su Chengyi screamed, but there was no response, but the boss's legs were still shaking.

"Hello!"

He tapped up his voice as he tapped on the messy table.

Now the boss was startled and bounced:

"Huh!"

When he saw that there was nothing more than a young man in front of him with a green face in a school uniform, the boss breathed a sigh of relief.

"What for?"

"Buy paint, do you have any other colors?"

Su Cheng pointed to the paint bucket in the corner.

"It's gone, and the bucket is white."

The boss brought the bucket to him.

Su Chengyi lowered his eyes and looked at the red traces around the white barrel, as if they had accidentally dripped down.

He didn't ask much, just pointed to the tools and spray bottles on the shelves next to him.

"These are also required together."

When he walked to the alley with the paint bucket, the little Fei Ge who was waiting there waved at him, and immediately threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and stepped on the inferior leather shoe toe and crushed it.

"Why did you bring this guy by yourself, and you can just say no on WeChat."

Brother Xiao Fei took the paint bucket in his hand and handed it to the little brother next to him.

"It's fine."

The group walked a few steps forward and arrived at their destination.

Su Chengyi raised his head and looked at the familiar three-story building.

The exterior is old, covered with moss and weeds.

Rao is Chen Jinzhi who cleaned up the inside no matter how clean and proper it is, and these external things are still something she can't take care of.

But it won't be like it is now.

The walls were covered with blinding red paint, and intimidating and threatening words were densely written.

"Repay the debt, or pay your life."

"Pay back!"

"Chen Wende will pay back the money, otherwise he will kill your whole family!"

I didn't expect to learn the name of Chen Jinzhi's father from this channel.

Xiao Feige couldn't help but sigh when he looked at it:

"How many years have passed, it's still the same way, and there is nothing new."

Sensing Su Chengyi's scrutinizing gaze, he coughed and explained:

"Harm! Am I not forced by life? You think my brother wants to."

"Brother Xiaofei, generally speaking, will these debt collectors really hurt the families of debtors?"

Perhaps the words on the wall were too terrifying, and Su Chengyi's heart was always faintly uneasy.

"It depends, and generally not. They are asking for money, not human lives. ”

Xiao Feige dusted off the cigarette ash on his clothes and patted Su Chengyi's shoulder.

"And even if some outlaws would think of kidnapping or something, it would have to be worth the risk, right? For example, what kind of owner does the other party have money and deliberately does not give it, like the wall, you squeeze him dry and he doesn't have a few drops of oil and water, what are you doing with all that effort? ”

That's right.

Brother Xiaofei is still a person after all, and with his comfort, Su Chengyi felt a little at ease.

"I owed some money back then, and it was really hiding XZ, like a mouse that can't see the light. When I bought a biscuit on the street, when people looked at me, I thought it was a debt collector. ”

Speaking of the experience back then, he still seems to have lingering palpitations.

Was it the one who was being called for?

Su Chengyi just thought that he was forced by life back then and was forced to join the debt collection team.

"Like this, it's usually gambling. My brother was taken into the pit back then, but he ran away as soon as he entered the door, and he ran away overnight carrying the train. It's still fishy. ”

Xiao Feige's tone suddenly became serious, and the hand on his shoulder also used some force.

"Listen to my brother's advice, you are a student, you are still a good student with top grades, and the future is bright, don't wade into this troubled water. It's a bottomless pit that can't be filled. ”

Brother Xiao Fei is indeed a good person, and he is willing to talk to him about these words.

Pity.

He understands everything.

Su Chengyi smiled and replied:

"I'm not going to fill this bottomless pit, I'm going to take her out of the bottomless pit."

Xiao Fei Ge was stunned by this answer, and then remembered the beautiful face of the female classmate in this family.

Suddenly there was a feeling of sudden realization.

"Good boy."

So he no longer tried to persuade, but raised his hand to signal a few younger brothers who were standing far away to avoid suspicion that they could come over to help.

Several people worked together, and soon the ruined brick wall was painted white.

Although it looks much more pleasing to the eye, in such an alley, a sudden white patch still seems a little abrupt.

The visual impact of seeing it in the middle of the night is probably no less than the red font just now.

Su Chengyi took out the spray bottle he had just bought from his pocket, thought for a while, and stood on the small bench that Xiao Fei had just come to paint the wall above.

He rolled up his sleeves and raised his hand to spray.

After writing a word, Xiao Feige, who was standing behind and looking up, followed silently.

Su Chengyi's movements were crisp and neat, and the font that was sprayed out so casually was as chic and flying as what he wrote when he held the pen.

- "Don't fall into the clouds." ”

At the bottom of the white wall, with dark blue lettering, it looks like a masterpiece of calligraphy.

From the "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng", this ancient text was memorized by the two of them.

Chen Jinzhi also thought that the first grade of this kind of article should be the degree of ripeness.

Unexpectedly, Su Chengyi had forgotten to be clean, and he stumbled more than her.

So the two memorized it word by word from beginning to end.

"Yang Yi didn't meet, Fu Lingyun and felt sorry for himself; The bell period has been met, and it is ashamed to play the flowing water. ”

The moon is on the branches, and the night covers the bustling street like a curtain.

Da Feige's barbecue has been set up, and now that summer has arrived, it is the most popular season for barbecue and shaved ice.

Sitting at a bustling food stall with the family, eating a few hot skewers of barbecue and drinking a glass of watermelon shaved ice is a disis for the people of the Olive District after a hard day's work.

Su Chengyi sat in the corner, eating the watermelon shaved ice without watermelon specially customized for him by Brother Da Fei.

Although the large watermelons cut next to them are all brightly colored, they are very sweet at first glance.

But Su Chengyi doesn't like to eat melon food, as long as he brings a melon word, he doesn't like it.

The crushed ice slag melted quickly in his mouth, and Su Chengyi flipped through the messages on his phone boredly.

The message of the class group has been refreshing, of course, it is a group chat with only classmates established behind Li Tianwang's back.

Most people are complaining that today's learning efficiency is horribly low, and they really can't calm down and so on.

The frequency of messages sent by Yang Liu and Su Zelang during this time has decreased, for fear of disturbing him to study.

Generally, the nagging accumulated in a day is reduced to a single message, and a large paragraph is sent at a time.

Only the group chat of the "Save the Universe Squad" established by Xu Yang is opposed to the world, and there is no content about the college entrance examination at all.

There's a whole lot of planning for graduation trips.

Xu Yang meant that he went straight to the airport on the night of the college entrance examination.

Of course, this was quickly dismissed by Han Bing.

Because there is a graduation ceremony after the end of the college entrance examination.

The graduation ceremony of No. 1 High School was extremely grand, and because of this, the coming-of-age ceremony scheduled for the third year of high school was canceled and held together with the graduation ceremony.

The route formulated by Xu Yang is even more outrageous, how to say it, there is a feeling of "Around the World in Eighty Days".

This point was dismissed by Miss Chu.

Because the eldest lady's trip is always slow-paced and easy, how can she accept this kind of plan to rush to reincarnation?!

Xu Yang was hit one after another, and in the end he could only move Su Chengyi out and say that he would decide.

Su Chengyi's reply was also very simple:

"I'll talk about it after the exam."

To be honest, Su Chengyi didn't feel the slightest nervousness about his college entrance examination.

There are more worries about other people.

Xu Yang's results have always been very unstable, occasionally he can rush up once or twice, and the next time he falls back again.

As half of his tutor, Su Chengyi certainly knew the reason.

The randomness of the questions had a great impact on his grades.

If the scope of the test is the area he is familiar with and interested in, then everything will be fine.

Otherwise, it's over.

Xu Yang looks heartless and simple-minded, but in fact, it is also because he has been too smooth since he was a child, and he has never suffered any big losses.

If he fails the college entrance examination this time, most of his whole person will change.

This is not the result that Su Cheng intended to see at all.

Lin Tong too, there is no problem with his strength.

But mentality is crucial.

If he was too nervous and didn't play properly, he would probably be able to apologize in front of Sister Lin.

Finally, there is Chen Jinzhi.

Although her psychological capacity is very strong, she has no problem studying.

But Su Chengyi just couldn't let go of her situation the most, and just thinking about it now, he was a little nervous.

Other people's problems can still be solved, Xu Yang will only repeat his studies for a year at most, and Lin Tong can go to a very good university even if he plays abnormally.

And most importantly, they all have family and friends who love them.

For Chen Jinzhi, the college entrance examination is not only an exam, but also the best opportunity to get rid of his original family.

She knows it herself, so she has been studying hard during this time.

If it fails

Su Chengyi dug a spoonful of ice and put it in his mouth, trying to calm himself down.

At this time, Chen Jinzhi's news came.

"Can you go somewhere with me? I'm waiting for you at the door. ”

"Okay."

Su Chengyi quickly replied.

He stood up, but instead of leaving directly, he pulled Xiao Feige, who was greeting guests, into a corner.

"Little Feige."

"What? What's wrong? ”

Seeing that he had a serious face, Xiao Feige was also nervous, so he simply took him to the room where the ingredients were placed.

Seeing that there was no one around, Su Chengyi took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket this afternoon and stuffed them into his crumpled suit pocket.

"What are you doing here?"

Xiao Fei Ge was shocked and immediately took out the money to return it to him.

"Listen to me first."

Su Chengyi blocked his refusal hand,

"There's not a lot of money here, a thousand dollars, I want you to do me a favor. The situation in my classmate's family is very special, and her father is a scumbag.

The college entrance examination is coming soon, and I'm worried that the debt collectors will do something drastic. You have a lot of acquaintances here, and I want you to help me keep an eye on it.

If they come to the door and make trouble, you can call the police and contact me. ”

Su Chengyi's tone of speech was very sincere, obviously decided after consideration.

"It's a little bit like that, if you say no, don't do this."

Brother Xiao Fei waved his hand, still unwilling to accept the money.

"No, it's also time-consuming. This is my own scholarship, not my family's money. ”

Su Chengyi picked up the banknotes that fell on the ground during the rejection, folded them, and put them back in his suit pocket.

"Thank you, Brother Fei. My classmates were still waiting for me, so I left first. ”

There was really no way, so Xiao Fei had no choice but to chase him out, pick up a glass of shaved ice and hand it to him.

"Bring a copy to your classmates."

Su Chengyi smiled and took it.

When he walked to the entrance of the alley, Chen Jinzhi was standing next to the renovated wall, with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.

Su Chengyi walked up to her and handed over the shaved ice.

"If you think it's ice, just eat the watermelon on it."

"Hmm."

Chen Jinzhi took it, scooped up a spoonful of watermelon, and handed it to his mouth first.

Su Chengyi looked at her beautiful eyes, and couldn't say anything about "I don't like to eat watermelon".

Never mind.

With his head lowered, he was about to bite down, but Chen Jinzhi retracted his hand.

"I don't like it."

"Is it obvious?"

"Hmm."

The two walked to the bus stop at the intersection, and Chen Jinzhi glanced down at the time on the mobile phone screen.

The headlights of passing cars flickered from time to time, and her expression was obscure.

Although most of the time Chen Jinzhi looks like this, it is not the same now.

Su Chengyi looked at her for a while, but he still couldn't describe the difference.

A bus stopped, and Su Chengyi followed her footsteps and got on the bus.

The car was empty, except for an old lady sitting in the front seat, who was napping.

The two of them tacitly walked to the last row of window seats and sat down.

Su Chengyi glanced up at the line, only to find that the bus was actually driving to the outskirts of the city.

“.”

Su Chengyi was a little puzzled, where are you going to go at night?

"I'm not going to kidnap you."

Perhaps sensing his confusion, Chen Jinzhi seemed to have withdrawn from his state of distraction and smiled lightly.

Slightly cool fingertips approached and rested on his fingers.

In this way, it feels more like a ploy to trafficking people.

A serious beauty plan.

Su Chengyi secretly slandered himself, but quickly shook her hand.

"Will you blame me?"

"Huh?"

Su Chengyi didn't know why she asked like this.

"As I said before, I want to be honest with you. But I didn't do it. I didn't expect it, but you still found out. ”

Chen Jinzhi shifted and rested his head lightly on his shoulder.

"No, it won't."

Su Chengyi grabbed a few strands of her hair and wound them around her fingertips.

I was actually a little angry at the first time, thinking why she was always used to carrying things by herself.

But when she thinks about it, she has been like this for the first half of her life.

How could he still criticize her for such a thing.

The vehicle drove smoothly, the light and shadow of the street lamp passed by one by one, and Chen Jinzhi slowly closed his eyes.

"Sleepy?"

Su Chengyi leaned closer and asked in her ear.

Chen Jinzhi didn't open his eyes or speak, just shook his head.

He looked tired.

At this moment, she was pale and sickly, like a fairy who had suddenly lost her mana, and even though she had changed everything, she faded away, briefly revealing her fragile and immature true face.

Until he got out of the car, Su Chengyi thought it was caused by high-intensity study during this time.

After getting out of the car, the scene in front of him made him stunned.

Here he has been.

A desolate cemetery.

When he tricked Old Man Peng before, he and Chen Jinzhi both came.

Why are you here?

Su Chengyi subconsciously looked at the person next to him.

Chen Jinzhi still didn't speak, just took him inside.

Walking to the very corner of a cemetery and seeing the unfamiliar name on the simple tombstone, Su Chengyi dared to guess the possibility.

Chen Jinzhi lowered his eyes, bent his knees, and knelt lightly on the ground.

Her voice was very soft, but floating in the silent night, Su Chengyi could hear it clearly.

She said, "Mom." ”

So Chen Jinzhi's mother is also buried here.

So what was she thinking and feeling when she was here last time she was here?

Su Chengyi felt that the bones in his body seemed to freeze, and he didn't know what to say.

"In the past, when I especially wanted to talk to you, it was when I felt that I couldn't hold on anymore and wanted to give up.

Over the years, you've heard a lot of frustrating words over and over again, right? Isn't it a little annoying? ”

Chen Jinzhi spoke very slowly, as if he was really chatting with his relatives buried in the soil.

"I've always wondered why you made that choice if death is a bad thing.

If death is a good thing, then why don't you take me with you?

Now, I seem to understand something. ”

Her voice was still the same as before, fluttering.

Su Chengyi listened to it with a heavy heart as heavy as lead.

In the old days, thousands of grievances were difficult, and Chen Jinzhidu could only tell his mother under the soil.

He took a deep breath, half-squatted down, and slowly spoke:

"It's not so good that people don't want to leave, but it's not so bad that you want to leave right away.

She's seen enough of the bad in the world, but she still wants you to see the good that she doesn't see. ”

Hearing him say this, Chen Jinzhi raised his eyes and smiled softly at him.

"I saw it. So bring you in and let her see it too. ”

(End of chapter)