An Accident in Broad Daylight

This winter vacation has been so different from usual.Sitting in Xu Tangcheng's car, looking at the empty highway, Yi Zhe was still surrounded by an unreal feeling.

In the morning Xu Tangcheng knocked on the door and said to go to the movies together. Yi Zhe thought he was just watching it in their small movie theater, but he didn't want to go downstairs. Xu Tangcheng said to him: "The experience of watching movies there is not very good. Look in Beijing, I bought a ticket for the afternoon, go there now, have lunch there, and come back after watching the movie.”

"Huh?" Yi Zhe was surprised.

"Yes, let my brother treat you to a big meal. Brother Yi Zhe, you can order whatever you want, don't show mercy."

Xu Tangqi was jumping up and down in a small pink down jacket, but immediately, Xu Tangcheng held him by the shoulders: "Don't keep jumping."

His home is so close to Beijing, but Yi Zhe has never been to Beijing.

The car was driving at a high speed, and there was a buzzing noise in Yi Zhe's ears. He looked out through the window, and only saw the railings passing by, and a few cars occasionally.

"Shall we go to the same place last time?" Xu Tangqi asked.

"Do you still want to go shopping?" Next to him, Xu Tangcheng glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "If you want to buy something, go to the one from last time. If you don't want to, I'll take you to a newly opened one near my school. I went to see it once, and the seats are very comfortable, and the sound system is better than last time.”

When getting in the car just now, Xu Tangqi didn't want to be in the front seat, so the one sitting next to Xu Tangcheng is Yi Zhe.

After Xu Tangcheng finished speaking, he turned his head and asked his opinion: "Where do you want to go?"

"I also can."

Having said that, Yi Zhe was nervously waiting for Xu Tangqi's answer.For him, the three words "my school" have already determined his real choice.

"Then go to the new one."

Yi Zhe let go of his clenched hands, and secretly curled the corners of his mouth.

As the car drove into the city, there were more and more high-rise buildings. Yi Zhe tilted his head and looked at the names of each building he passed, and felt that the appearance of Beijing was completely in line with his imagination.

The car stopped in front of a Yunnan restaurant, Xu Tangcheng put Yi Zhe and Xu Tangqi at the door, and looked for a parking space by himself.After getting out of the car, Xu Tangqi looked around and pointed to the side: "Brother Yi Zhe, look, my brother's school is next door."

Yi Zhe looked along her fingertips, across the road, saw several buildings on the other side of the wall, some high and some low, scattered scattered.

He didn't look back, but he opened the door for Xu Tangqi with one hand.

Before entering the door, Xu Tangqi asked him: "Hey, Brother Yi Zhe, which university are you planning to go to?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Yi Zhe looked at her, and then looked at the campus ahead.

Today is the eighth day of the lunar new year, the first day of the working day, but there are still so many people in the restaurant.Under the leadership of the waiter, they turned around and arrived at a booth.

The tableware used by the previous guests has not been cleared away, so the waiter handed them the menu first, and asked them to wait a moment with regret.There were many people coming and going in the restaurant, Yi Zhe stood on Xu Tangqi's left side, separating her in a relatively secluded corner.

After a few pages of the menu, Xu Tangcheng came over.The waiter also cleared the table, and the three of them sat down. Xu Tangcheng wiped the table with a few more pieces of paper.

"Brother, I want to eat the mushrooms from last time, why can't I find them?"

Xu Tangcheng stretched out a hand, flipped through the menu a few pages back, and pointed with his index finger: "Here."

Their seats were by the window, Xu Tangcheng looked up to ask Yi Zhe what he wanted to eat, but saw him looking out the window.

"Yizhe?" Xu Tangcheng called him, "See what you want to eat."

"I can do anything," Yi Zhe said quickly, "You guys order, I don't know how to order."

"Don't," Xu Tangcheng turned the menu upright, flipping through the pages, and showed him, "This chicken wing is pretty good, and this shrimp ball is also pretty good, pick and choose."

"I really can eat anything, Brother Tang Cheng, you can order whichever you see is delicious."

Listening to what they said, Xu Tangqi said jokingly, "Brother Yi Zhe, you just pick the more expensive ones."

Yi Zhe smiled at her, moved his body, and seemed a little restless.

After ordering a few dishes, he finally said, "I'm going to the toilet, you order."

Standing up under Xu Tangcheng's gaze, just as he walked out of the seat, he suddenly leaned against Xu Tangcheng, bent down and faltered and said to him: "I...may be a little long."

His voice was so small that only Xu Tangcheng could hear it.Xu Tangcheng laughed all of a sudden, and waved to him: "Understood, let's go."

Yi Zhe left in a hurry, Xu Tangcheng turned his head to look at his back, the smile on his face never faded.

Yi Zhe ran at the speed of a [-]-meter sprint. He had never felt such excitement in fights before.The waiter standing at the door of the restaurant saw his reluctance, and quickly moved away in fright.

Along the way, passing by the waiting crowd, startled the birds parked on the bare branches.Yi Zhe stepped onto the overpass with a sigh of relief, and when he ran across the bridge, he glanced down. During the violent running, the vehicles under the bridge turned into blurred shadows.

When he finally reached the school gate, he stopped panting heavily, and looked up at the big characters on the school gate.

Some people are taking pictures, and some people are going in and out with unusual expressions.There was actually a tour guide's voice behind him, coming through the loudspeaker: "This is University A..."

This is A major.

It was Xu Tangcheng's school.

The excessively violent running caused a faint pain in his chest, and everything felt in the pain was real.

Back at the restaurant, there were already three drinks on the table.

Seeing that he seemed to be a little short of breath, Xu Tangcheng wondered, how could he still be so breathless after going to the bathroom?Thinking back to the cold air he brought when he passed by him just now, he poked his head out and asked hesitantly, "Where did you go to the bathroom?"

Yi Zhe was trying his best to endure the excessively heavy breathing, and when he heard this question, he quickly sank.

"It's right there." He raised his finger in one direction, cleared his hoarse voice, and pretended to be calm, "There is a queue, there are many people."

Xu Tangcheng looked back, feeling even more strange.

"But..." He turned backwards, pointing in the opposite direction to Yi Zhe, "The toilet is over there."

Yi Zhe was stunned.

"Oh yes," Yi Zhe stammered "I" a few times, "I'm crazy."

Clumsy and low-level, without even passing the brain, he threw out such an excuse.After finishing speaking, I had the urge to bite my tongue and kill myself.

Who can't find their way to the bathroom in a restaurant?

Sure enough, the two people on the opposite side were stunned.

Xu Tangqi was the first to laugh. Although she immediately felt impolite and hurriedly held back, it was obviously unsuccessful.She covered her mouth and suppressed a smile: "Brother Yi Zhe, it turns out that you are more road-crazy than me. Then I can rest assured, I was afraid that if I couldn't find the road that day, you would think I was stupid."

Yi Zhe was speechless, twitched the corner of his mouth at her in embarrassment, lowered his head and held the drink closest to him.

"Hey, wait," Xu Tangcheng didn't finish laughing, but still took the time to say a word to him.He also pushed the cup close to him towards him, bent his eyes and said, "Look at these two cups which one do you want, guava and mango."

"Just this cup will do."

How could he care about the taste, Yi Zhe threw out such a sentence, and hurriedly poured himself half a glass of drink.He managed to calm down after the cool liquid poured down his stomach.

The movie I watched that day was "Yangtze River No. [-]".But in fact, what you look at doesn't seem to be very important.

Yi Zhe didn't have a deep impression of the content of the movie. Throughout the whole scene, what kept flashing through his mind were the gates of University A, teaching buildings, paths, and things he saw. Those statues.Occasionally, he would quietly turn his head to look at the person watching the movie seriously through Xu Tangqi.The movie theater seemed to have a kind of magical power, the lights in front of his eyes were changing, but he seemed to be watching a movie that belonged to him.It was a silent video, in which Xu Tangcheng was the only protagonist, riding a bicycle, walking, carrying a schoolbag, and holding textbooks.He saw thousands of his movements, all of which were obviously just his own imagination, but they were so real that he had seen it with his own eyes, how he lived in such a campus.

Until the last frame of the video, he saw Xu Tangcheng sitting on the bed in the dormitory, taking off his shirt...

The light on the big screen was flickering, and the light was shifting. Yi Zhe felt vain all over his body, as if he was floating in the air, with nowhere to lean on.The darkness made his soul finally separate from his body, and what his soul perceives is not a packed movie theater, but a piece of softness.

His rational consciousness told him that he should stop in this scene, but there was another crazy voice yelling at him, tempting him, asking if he didn't want to continue watching?

He was flustered and unable to make a choice, but Xu Tangcheng in that video still stopped moving.He sat on the bed, suddenly looked at the camera, and stared at him.

Finally the movie ended and the lights went on.

Yi Zhe broke out in cold sweat.

The camera was like him peeping into his eyes. The moment Xu Tangcheng saw it, all his mean and dirty thoughts were cut open under the scorching sun.

My heart is beating like thunder.

The strong light pierced his eyes, and as he stepped on the soft carpet, he experienced a long period of dazed absence.

What was he doing just now?And why did he frantically run to see his school?

Xu Tangcheng and Xu Tangqi walked in front, and Yi Zhe looked at his back, his breathing was disordered.He was clearly aware of his abnormality, and all the absurd things just now made him understand with horror, what kind of mentality he was approaching that person with.

He slowed down, trying to put some distance away from him, as if only in this way would he have the space to get some much-needed oxygen.

But Xu Tangcheng in front of him seemed to sense his lagging behind, stopped suddenly, and turned to look at him.

"Why so slow?"

Xu Tangcheng smiled at him, and waited for him to walk over before walking forward side by side with him.

Turning the corner, the exit of the auditorium was dark again.He and Xu Tangcheng were too close, a child squeezed past him, Xu Tangcheng leaned towards Yi Zhe to avoid him.

The bodies collided, and the whole line was defeated.

Yi Zhe closed his eyes in despair.

If his approach is dangerous, so be it.Just don't let him know.