No.70 days

The next day, Shao Wu bought a big bag of potato chips and gave it to Zhou Lei. Zhou Lei was stunned, his face was even a little red: "You...what are you doing?"

It was the first time for Shao Wu to do this kind of thing, and Shao Wu felt a little guilty: "I want you to do me a favor, okay?"

Zhou Lei looked shocked: "What? How can I help you? I don't even know how to give lectures."

Shao Wu: "Come on, let's talk over there..."

Two days later, Liu Chenyang, Longlong's deskmate, was blocked by a tall, long-haired woman in an alley next to the school, and received verbal threats, the content of which was unknown.It is said that his knees were so frightened that he couldn't get up from sitting on the ground, but was finally helped up by a passing pedestrian.During that time, there was a popular rumor among the parents of the students: They all took care of their children, and they had to pick them up to and from school!Recently, there has been a pervert who has specifically arrested elementary school students. This pervert is a burly woman in black, and she may have mental problems...

During the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, Zhou Lei and Shao Wu stood together.On the rostrum, the principal said sincerely: "...in recent years, our school has achieved good results and continued to be brilliant in the college entrance examination. Dear teachers and students, the college entrance examination has entered a countdown state, and this is the critical moment... Cough , By the way, I have something important to tell everyone—"

Under the rostrum, those who were absent-minded and in a daze, those who whispered to each other, those who leaned on their companions and fell asleep...all the students raised their heads at the same time and looked at the principal.

"In the past few days, a child in Experimental Elementary School has been followed and threatened. It is said that she is a mentally ill woman. She is tall and strong... You are all high school students. You should have a sense of self-protection, but the college entrance examination is approaching. , we can't afford any accidents! So I still want to remind everyone that you must go to school together, especially after the self-study next night, don't stay in the classroom, go home quickly..."

The students were in an uproar.

Shao Wu: "..."

Lei Zhou:"……"

On the way back to the classroom, Zhou Lei lowered his voice and said angrily, "My reputation has been ruined!"

Shao Wu repeatedly comforted: "No, no, how could it be, and no one knows it's you... Hey, but what do you think... Why do you wear a wig?"

Zhou Lei sighed: "It's not Han Huiyuan's idea! She said she was afraid that I would be recognized! I just... just wore my mother's wig, it's more than 800, damn it."

Shao Wu wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh: "It seems that the effect is very good, and your deeds have been spread."

Zhou Lei covered his forehead in despair: "Shut up, you."

Zhou Lei's intimidation was indeed very effective, and Longlong was never bullied by her classmates again.After a while, the scabs on her cheeks fell off, and the newly grown skin was a little red.After a while, it was no longer apparent that there had been an injury there.

Yang Shuyi found out about Zhou Lei's help in intimidating the elementary school students, thanked him solemnly, and wanted to invite him to dinner.Zhou Lei waved his hands carelessly: "Why are we being polite in this relationship? If that little bastard still dares to bully your sister in the future, you can tell me again, you must scare him to pee."

Han Huiyuan laughed until she burst into tears, and Yang Shuyi laughed too: "You have had enough for him that time."

Looking at Yang Shuyi's smiling face, Shao Wu felt relieved, but what he said that day in his room, squatting in front of Longlong, seemed to be engraved in Shao Wu's mind again, and he could never forget it.

He said, it's all my fault, it's all my brother's fault.

... Did he really think so?

Nearly a year has passed since the earthquake, and those painful and cruel memories seem to be gradually becoming less vivid.There were many moments when he watched Yang Shuyi lying on the table doing problems, when the two walked out of school carrying their schoolbags like before, when Yang Shuyi smiled at him, as if he would have the illusion that nothing happened.

Nothing happened, no earthquake, no death, they were just ordinary high school seniors who were about to take perhaps the most important exam in their lives.

Shao Wu didn't know if Yang Shuyi took the responsibility on himself to comfort Longlong, or did he really think so?But even if he was just trying to comfort Longlong, since he was able to say those words, at least it means that at a certain moment... he really thought so.It's all his fault, his father's death and Aunt Xiaojuan's death are all his fault.

There are still fifty days before the college entrance examination, and it is the end of spring and the beginning of summer. It often rains in Yongchuan, so it is often sunny.Sometimes, a cloud floated in the clear sky after the rain, casting a faint shadow on the ground. Shao Wu lowered his head, and suddenly felt that the earthquake was like this cloud, which also cast a faint shadow on them.Maybe they won't feel it for a while, maybe they feel it but it's hard to describe, but in short, that cloud and that shadow follow them all the time, never far away.

Shao Wu remembered that there was a question in the self-enrollment examination of Beijing Normal University, which was to select the academic viewpoints of the pre-Qin philosophers and combine them with the theme of "life" to talk about their own feelings, within 500 words.

The first sentence he wrote was: Wenchuan Earthquake, I don't think it's too difficult to rejuvenate the country, I just think the world is inhumane.

On May 2009, 5, the first anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake, all sectors of the society held mourning activities. The first and second graders of senior high school conducted escape drills, and the third graders went to class as usual.

This day is Shao Wu's 18th birthday, it seems that everyone is busy with the college entrance examination, the classroom is quiet, no one remembers Shao Wu's birthday, and Shao Wu himself has not mentioned a word.

Yang Shuyi didn't go to study at night that day, he took Longlong to the cemetery to sweep the grave.

In the next night of self-study, Shao Wu walked out of the classroom alone and rode his bicycle home.When he got home, his mother had already cooked a bowl of longevity noodles for him, and put it on the table: "Yaoer, I didn't buy you a cake. I was thinking about using cream to make me angry. Now is the critical moment, and your body is your capital... Waiting for your college entrance examination." After the celebration banquet, let's order a big cake."

Shao Wu smiled: "Okay, actually I don't really want to eat cake either."

He immersed himself in eating Changshou noodles. Although they were just simple vegetables, eggs, and noodles, they were delicious, probably due to the use of some special soup base. Shao Wu picked up a chopstick of noodles, put them into his mouth, and devoured them. The whole paper was not written.

But while chewing, his eyes suddenly became sore, Shao Wu hurriedly lowered his head, but his mother still noticed his strangeness.

"Yaoer, Yaoer, what's the matter?!" She hugged Shao Wu anxiously, "What's the matter? If there's something unhappy, tell mom, huh?"

"Mom..." Shao Wu wiped his eyes and said in a low voice, "The results of self-enrollment came out, and I failed the exam of Beijing Normal University."

Mom was stunned for a second: "Hey! What's the matter! If you don't pass, you don't pass! Let's just go to Beijing for a while, it's okay, be good, it's okay!"

Shao Wu nodded and forced a smile: "But the Beijing Foreign Studies University passed, and the admission will be reduced by 20 points."

"Isn't that very good? Very good! Our Yao'er is the best... Yao'er, listen to your mother, don't ask too much of yourself, your father and I just hope you grow up happily, that's fine "She patted Shao Wu on the shoulder softly, "Today is your birthday, so I shouldn't mention anything else... But Yaoer, today is also the first anniversary of the earthquake, so I just thought, there are many children who are as old as you, It’s time for the college entrance examination this year, but because of the earthquake, they will never have the chance to take the college entrance examination again... I feel that as long as they live well, nothing else matters.”

"Well, Mom," Shao Wu hugged her back, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"I'm not worried," my mother smiled, "My youngest son is the best, I know that."

Shao Wu ate noodles, took a shower, went back to his room, and started to do the questions.Mom brought a cup of hot milk, patted his head, turned and went out.

Shao Wu looked at his mother's back and was silent for a few seconds, with all kinds of feelings in his heart, unable to speak.

He didn't cry because of the results of self-enrollment, nor did he cry because of too much pressure.

He was just a little aggrieved, and he couldn't hold it back—Yang Shuyi would never celebrate his birthday again, because his birthday was the anniversary of the death of Yang Long and Aunt Xiaojuan, and it was the darkest day in Yang Shuyi's life.He is not even qualified to commemorate the deceased relatives with Yang Shuyi, nor to share his pain, because as his mother said, some people have passed away forever, and some people are still alive.He's the lucky one, so he doesn't qualify.

Yang Shuyi will never celebrate his birthday again, never again.