As the night deepened, the lights of the city dimmed one by one, and Jupiter began to set to the west, but it was still bright. The evening self-study of Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info City No. 1 Middle School has long ended, and the east and west teaching buildings have fallen into darkness, only the doorman Zhang's hut is still lit. Xu Qingluo sat on the east wall of the campus, dangling her two little legs leisurely, opposite the canopy of an apple tree, looking at the lush black and oppressive branches in the past, dotted with more than a dozen pairs of jewel-like eyes, glowing with green and faint light. If you look closely, you can faintly see the outlines of cats.

"I'm leaving for another city. Xu Qingluo was talking to the cats, "I'll take the train later, it's the kind of long chain of iron boxes with wheels, which look like long iron snakes." Unfortunately, I can't take you away, so you can only stay here. In the future, you should be careful when stealing, don't be caught, and don't make too much noise at night, because if you make a noise, people will come to catch you. If you really want to make trouble, you can move to a small forest in the west of the city, where there are not many people around. ”

There was silence in the apple trees for a while, then there was a low cat meow, "Meow-", and then another, one after another, one after another, and finally together.

"Don't make a fuss! You have to be obedient, don't think that if I'm gone, you'll be wild children, you're my little scout, and I'll look at you from time to time." Xu Qingluo soothed the cats' emotions, "Xiao Hei, I handed them over to you, you are the smartest, you must take care of everyone!"

A small leaf on the tree shook a few times, and a pair of eyes on the branch were shining, but the cat did not say a word.

Xu Qingluo stood up from the wall, patted the dust on her hands, and said helplessly: "Okay, okay, it doesn't matter if you agree or not, in short, I have to go." With that, she spun around and jumped off the fence onto the road outside the campus. Standing steadily in the middle of the road, she glanced back at the apple tree within the wall, shook her head slightly, and walked forward.

Behind her, a black cat jumped nimbly from the apple tree to the wall, and then jumped from the wall to the ground, running quickly on the road, and after a few seconds, it jumped in front of Xu Qingluo, faced her, put a box of ice cream in its mouth on the ground, and then raised its front paws and pushed the ice cream forward.

Xu Qingluo stopped, looked at the box of ice cream, looked at the black cat, and couldn't help sighing: "Xiao Hei, don't steal ice cream in the future, steal something you like to eat." ”

The black cat didn't seem to understand her words very well, her eyes kept looking at Xu Qingluo, and she stretched out her front paws to touch the ice cream, and screamed "meow".

"I'm not stupid for you, it's just ...... ," Xu Qingluo squatted down and said softly, "I can only open your spiritual intelligence, and I can't help you more." You are all very good, you are especially smart and sensible, but many things cannot be changed, you are destined to become a star beast, and you cannot become a mountain spirit and wild monster in the eyes of humans. ”

The black cat seemed to understand this time, and it hung its head silently, a low purr coming out of its throat.

"I gave you spiritual wisdom, but I left you behind...... I'm sorry. Xu Qingluo's voice was full of apology, and after saying this, she bypassed the black cat and walked forward resolutely. After walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped again, and when he turned around, the black cat was still in place, looking at her reluctantly.

"Take care of that fool named Su Yu for me, he is a good person, although he is a little stupid, he can be your friend. Xu Qingluo said again, then she waved her hand, turned around and walked away without looking back.

The black cat did not follow, but stood there and watched quietly, until the girl disappeared into the night, and then she silently picked up the box of ice cream, and looked up at the wall, and at some point, there was a whole row of cats, all looking down at it. As soon as it knelt down, it went up to the wall with a thud, and meowed at the cats, and a dozen cats jumped back to the apple tree one after another.

The apple tree inevitably shook its branches again, but it soon calmed down again, except for a few low cat meows from time to time, which made it a little bleak in the dark night.

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When Su Yu woke up, it was already the second half of the night, and he thought he was asleep in the gazebo. He remembered that after Xu Qingluo left, he was in a depressed mood alone, so he walked all the way east to this small pavilion, and sat in the pavilion and actually fell asleep. This was absolutely impossible before, and he was not the kind of person with a big heart who could sleep anywhere. He was very annoyed that he suddenly fell asleep, this sleep seemed to delay something important, what was it? He thought about it, it seemed to be related to Xu Qingluo, he remembered that he wanted to tell her a very important thing, and then he wanted to think about it deeply, he felt that his head began to hurt, like a steel needle pierced into his brain, the more he thought about it, the more the needle drilled in, and the pain was so painful that his sweat beads rolled down his forehead.

He didn't dare to think about it, closed his eyes and tried to adjust his breath a few times, emptying the chaotic thoughts in his mind and feeling more comfortable. Then he got up from the ground and prepared to go out of the pavilion and go home. As he turned around, he saw the crooked notch on the pillar by the dim light, and at that moment he said to himself in his heart, "That's what I carved!"

That's what I carved. He thought about it for no reason. It's just that he can't remember when he carved this thing, and he won't want to carve a "so-and-so to visit here" like a boring person who travels in the mountains and rivers, nor will he be like some romantic little men and women, carving some words "I love so-and-so to death". He leaned closer and lowered his head to try to make out it, and saw that it was a strange word, like holding up a piece of tofu with two hands. He didn't remember that it was a grain character at all, because it was carved by his hand behind his back, and it was a grain character written upside down.

Su Yu thought, isn't that a word, what kind of astrological symbol is it? Just as he searched his stomach and searched for thought, the pinprick sensation just now appeared again. He hurriedly rubbed his hands on his temples, stopping his racing brain.

Feel better. He gasped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and a terrifying thought suddenly popped up in his heart: My brain is broken? Why do I have a headache when I think about the problem? Is it because I have been sleeping outside for a while, causing evil qi to enter my body and hurt my brain? How long have I been sleeping?

He hurriedly took out the old-fashioned mobile phone from his pocket, and when he opened it, the blinding light of the screen burst out, and the words "one o'clock at midnight" were extremely conspicuous, which really startled him. Above is a series of missed calls, all from my cousin and aunt. He secretly screamed in his heart, "It's broken", and hurriedly ran in the direction of his aunt's house, but after running a few steps, he suddenly stopped. It's too late, will my aunt still leave the door for him? He didn't know that he had never returned home so late before. What is certain is that this time I will inevitably be scolded when I go back, and maybe I will be punished for standing outside the door for a night.

Also, I still have my mother's notes in my hand, and my aunt will definitely see it when she opens the door. Thinking of this section, he hugged the note tightly to his chest, feeling the night wind drilling into his body, cold.

In the second half of the night of September, the wind was indeed a little cold, and Su Yu was still wearing summer clothes. But he didn't dare to go home, and it wasn't his home, and the people of that family wanted to take away his mother's last relic, and he didn't want to go back.

He looked up at the sky, and to the west was the black shadow of the tall buildings, which had long since obscured Jupiter in the west. In an instant, his heart was filled with loss and helplessness.

He turned around and walked slowly back to the pavilion, where the wooden man usually sat down on a stone bench with his back against a pillar. Closing his eyes, there were many people and many things shaking in front of him, and he couldn't tell who was who, couldn't tell what was what, chaotic, this chaos made his brain start to ache faintly again, but he couldn't stop, not only that, he felt that his consciousness was being wrapped in this chaos and pain and fell quickly into the abyss, his head hurt more and more, more and more painful, as if he couldn't hold those people and those thoughts, and wanted to burst open.

He felt that the next moment it would explode, and that it would be doomed, so he tried to open his eyes, trying to let the only light of the night dispel these images, but it took a lot of effort to open a line, and nothing could be seen in this line alone. He had to try his best to say to himself, don't panic, don't panic, calm down! He imagined himself as a basin of muddy water, he stopped stirring, and let the sediment slowly settle down, and the water began to change from turbidity to clear, layer by layer, and finally the sediment was deposited at the bottom of the water, and the water was finally completely clear.

Su Yuhuo opened his eyes. He looked at the eaves of the pavilion, looked at the blue night sky outside the eaves, and felt like he had escaped death. He asked himself over and over again in his mind, "What's wrong, what's wrong, why is he like this?" Is this encephalopathy? What is it?

He didn't dare to think deeper, and he didn't dare to close his eyes again. He stared at the night sky against the pillar in a daze, subconsciously emptying all his thoughts, so that his brain was as clear as usual, without any pain or distraction. It's just that his heart is heavy, as dazed as this night sky, he feels that he is a little star that can't shine, inexplicably lost in the night sky of this city.

He sat like this, holding his mother's notes, and at some point he actually fell asleep, and this time he didn't have a headache. It's just that he woke up after not sleeping for long, and this time he was called by the sanitation aunt in the community. He rubbed his eyes with a note in one hand and the other, looked at the aunt in front of him wearing a mask and carrying a broom, called "morning", and then didn't wait for the other party to answer, flew down the gazebo and ran in the direction of the school.

It's dawn and it's time to go to school.

He still willfully didn't want to go home. The textbooks were all in the desk drawer, and he didn't bother to go back and get his schoolbag. He knew he would have to go back to his aunt after all, but so what? He seems to have ushered in a belated period of rebellion, and now he just wants to do whatever he wants.

Then at the gate of the community, he saw his aunt from a distance. His aunt also saw him. With a face full of anger, my aunt looked at him between the people and cars, watching him move slowly step by step with his head down, his hands behind his back, silently, and reluctantly. She asked in a deep voice, "Where did you go last night?"

Su Yu was silent.

"How old are you to learn to hook up with little girls?"

Su Yu raised his head suddenly: "I didn't!"