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It was getting late, Chaoan put the things in the desk back to their original places, and cleaned the classroom briefly. He was going to the bathroom to wash the red ink on his hands before coming back to get things.

Walking to the bathroom at the end of the corridor, he turned on the faucet toward An, and clear water came out. He put his hand under the faucet, and the red ink on his hand was washed away and fell into the white porcelain sink, the color of blood.

Chaoan rubbed his palms repeatedly, and carefully cleaned the crevices of his nails. When he finished cleaning and was about to tidy up his grooming, he found that there was a concrete wall in front of him, and the place where the mirror should have been inlaid was empty.

Aren't toilets and mirrors standard?Speaking of which, Chaoan didn't see the mirror in the dormitory, is this some kind of strange rule in this school?

Chao An shook the water off his hands, and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard a faint cry from the bathroom, the cry was indescribable, as if someone was covering his mouth and crying, the voice was suppressed and dull .

There were still people who hadn't left the teaching building at this time, Chao An gently pushed open the door of the bathroom, and looked into the small cubicles inside.

"Who's in there?"

The strange thing is that the crying stopped abruptly after Chao An exited, and Chao An reached out and fumbled for the switch on the wall. The dim light illuminated the area in the middle of the bathroom, and the cubicle was still dark.

"What's the matter with you? Are you in any trouble?"

Still no one answered, Chaoan walked into the bathroom and found that the doors of the compartments were all closed, and he couldn’t see if there was anyone inside from the outside, unless he squatted down, but it would be too impolite, so Chaoan chose to search one by one. .

Chaoan pressed his palm on the door of the first compartment, and pushed it open with ease. The inside was empty, then the second compartment, and the third compartment... Chaoan searched all the way and found nothing, and now only The last compartment.

Chaoan stood in front of the cubicle, and said in a soft voice as much as possible: "I don't mean any harm, if you need help, you can tell me."

There was silence in the cubicle. After waiting for a few seconds, Chaoan put his hand on the rotten wooden door, and with a slight force, the wooden door was pushed open.

squeak-

At the moment when the wooden door was about to reveal the situation in the cubicle, the lights above the head went out without warning. Standing alone in the dark bathroom, facing a cubicle that did not know if there was anyone, this scene was enough to make ordinary people Scalp tingling.

Chao An stood motionless, he tried to look forward, but only saw darkness.

"are you there?"

Chao An's soft voice echoed in the small space of the bathroom, but still no one responded to him. He slowly stretched out his hand and moved forward. After rubbing Chao An for a while, his palm stuck to her without warning. A cold face.

Chao An withdrew his hand violently, and in the next second a gust of cold wind blew on Chao An's face, and Chao An shrank coldly, the light in the bathroom turned on again, and Chao An looked into the cubicle, only to find that there was a It is full of cleaning tools, and he can step on the mop on the ground one step further. This compartment has been abandoned, and there is no one to hide in it.

Since there is no one in the cubicle, what happened to the crying heard earlier and the face that was touched just now?

Chao An was puzzled, and he didn't know if it was his illusion. He felt that the bathroom was getting colder and colder, and Chao An felt a little uneasy. walked towards the classroom.

After Chaoan left, the wooden door of the last cubicle closed, and the overhead lights flickered a few times, reflecting a pair of feet wearing rubberized sneakers under the compartment door.

……

After Chaoan returned to the classroom, he took the instant noodles for his roommate, closed the door of the classroom, walked down the stairs, and left the teaching building.Standing outside the teaching building, Chaoan looked back at the eight words "inspirational and dedicated, and promote the spirit of teaching" on the wall, and felt that they had faded even more.

Chaoan glanced at it and then looked away, walking along the tree-lined path towards the old dormitory building. There are few students on the road. The students in this school seem to have no extracurricular activities. After school, they all go back to the dormitory. Can't see anyone.

Moreover, senior high school students do not go to evening self-study, and even the teachers leave work early, as if no one wants to stay in the teaching building, especially after dark.

Chao An walked with his instant noodles in his arms and observed the terrain. Sometimes when he saw a building, he would go around and step on it, like an experienced paparazzi, or... a thief.

When Chaoan passed a small garden, he heard vague voices.It is said to be a garden, but the bushes grow taller, and there is a small enclosed area in the middle. Couples should prefer such a place.

Could it be a boy and girl who just fell in love?

Chao'an approached the bushes, looked in through the gap, and saw four boys surrounded a boy, kicking and kicking the boy on the ground, cursing while kicking, as if asking the boy to do something , that boy didn't do well.

Chaoan was speechless, how loose is the management of this school, or how violent are the students in this school? In just two days, including himself, he has already encountered three bullying incidents.

The frequency is so high, it can be seen that it is not an isolated phenomenon, isn't the school afraid of killing people?

Chao An turned around, searched around in the bushes, and finally picked up a fist-sized stone. He weighed the weight of the stone, then aimed, fired, and smashed towards one of the boys' thighs.

Facts have proved that Chao An's aim is not bad, the boy who was smashed said "Oh", immediately covered his thigh, and looked at his back at the same time.

"Who is it? Who dares to throw stones at me?"

Chao'an turned around and ran, he didn't hide his footsteps, the four boys in the bushes heard it immediately, the boy who was smashed yelled and cursed, beckoned the other three to chase after Chao'an.

Fortunately, Chaoan was familiar with the surrounding terrain before, so he ran away in a leisurely manner. He ran into the trail behind the laboratory building, turned around, and quickly got rid of the people behind him.

Chao An did not choose to leave just now, hiding his achievements and fame, he was about to go back to the small garden, and his intuition told him that the boy might surprise him.

Chao An just walked onto the path, and bumped into a thin boy with shoe prints on his school uniform and a limp.

"Are you all right? Can you still run?"

The thin boy looked at Chao An and said nothing, he didn't know Chao An, Chao An was worried that the group of students might come back anytime, so he grabbed the thin boy's sleeves and ran in the opposite direction.

"You come with me first."

The skinny boy was dragged away by Chao An. Except for a weak struggle at the beginning, he was in a state of giving up on himself after that, letting Chao An pull him, and he didn't care where he would be taken.

No matter where you go, this hellish day will never end.

After running for 5 minutes, Chao An estimated that the group of people could not find them, so he dragged the thin boy to find a remote corner and sat down. He took out a tissue from his body and handed it to the other party.

"Your nose is bleeding, wipe it off."

The thin boy took the tissue and blocked his nose silently and skillfully. He has done this many times.Chaoan saw the whitish school uniform on his body and the sneakers that had been glued on his feet, and knew that this must not be a student from a wealthy family.

"What's your name?"

"Yu Shi."

"Did those people often bully you just now?"

"Um"

"Why didn't you tell the teacher?"

"The teacher doesn't care."

"What about your parents?"

"My dad beat them harder than them."

"What about your mother?"

"..."

Chaoan found that no matter what he asked, Yu Shi would answer, as if he was being interrogated. He was probably used to this communication method, except for his mother. Whenever Yu Shi's mother was mentioned, he would be silent. This child must be hiding something related to his mother.

Chao An spent a long time communicating, and finally gained Yu Shi's further trust, which is also related to his rescue of Yu Shi just now, and Yu Shi told Chao An his story.

In fact, these words have been held in Yu Shi's heart for a long time, he is not sure if Chao An really wants to be friends with him, he just needs a listener.

From Yu Shi's narration, Chaoan learned that Yu Shi's father is a gangster, with a violent personality, lazy, and would beat and scold Yu Shi and Yu Shi's mother whenever something went wrong.

Yu Shi grew up in an environment of domestic violence since he was a child, and he developed a cowardly and cowardly character. Yu Shi's mother is a gentle woman, who was born in a patriarchal family. When he married, he couldn't help himself. Also resigned to fate.

Yu's mother tried her best to manage her family well and give Yu Shi the maternal love she never had, but Yu Shi's father shattered this tiny hope time and time again. Without money, he went to eat and drink with his friends by himself, leaving young Yu Shi and his mother at home to starve.

Mother Yu learned how to hide money. Father Yu once discovered the money she hid, and Mother Yu stopped Father Yu from taking the money. That was the only time Mother Yu mustered up the courage for her children.

Yu's father was furious and beat Yu's mother violently. In order to protect Yu Shi, Yu's mother locked him in the cabinet. This was the longest period of time Yu Shi had ever experienced.

When Father Yu calmed down and left with the money, Yu Shi saw his mother lying in a pool of blood through the crack in the cabinet door, breathing weakly. He cried out and wanted to go out to save his mother, but the cabinet door was locked by her, and At this time, the mother had no strength to get up and unlock him.

Seeing his mother getting weaker and weaker, Yu Shi cried loudly in the closet, and it took a long time to attract the attention of the neighbors, who immediately called the emergency number, but when the ambulance arrived, Yu's mother had already died.

Yu Shi was released from the cabinet, and he sat beside his mother, stroking his mother's cold body, and completely fell into despair.

"Your father killed someone and he should pay for his crime."

"I want to do this too. I wish he would be shot immediately, but my mother told me before she died. She told me not to tell others the truth, otherwise I would really become an orphan when my father goes to jail."

"..."

Chao'an didn't know what to say. The welfare policy of this era is not perfect, the management of adoption agencies like orphanages is chaotic, and the people's legal awareness is weak, so there is a situation like Yu's mother, who is taken care of for her children. , and even cover criminals.

Maybe Yu's mother thinks that a tiger's poison does not eat its son. After all, Yu Shi is Yu's father's son. No matter how bad he treats her, it is only because she is an outsider and will not ignore her son. It is such a wrong perception that has supported her for so many years. , so that she has never been completely disappointed with Yu's father.

However, looking at Yu Shi's life now, it doesn't make much difference whether he has a father or not. If it wasn't for the fear of being poked in the back by the people around him, Yu's father should have asked Yu Shi to drop out of school a long time ago. He was bullied at school and had no future, so he might as well leave here.

Chao An intends to persuade Yu Shi to muster up the courage to resist his father and classmates, but without the support of financial means, these persuasions are extremely pale. Unless he can help him leave his original family, no matter how much outsiders say, they will stand still. Talking without back pain.

Chao'an is now a student himself, and has a complicated family comparable to Yu Shi's. He can't help Yu Shi too much, he can only lend a helping hand when the other party is being bullied, and become a person he can confide in.

"If you encounter any troubles in the future, you can come to me. I live in 416, Class [-], Grade [-], named Yu Si'an."

"Ah."

"Are you hungry? This is for you."

Chaoan gave Yu Shi the instant noodles in his hand, and at the same time said sorry to his roommate silently, and he will go to the cafeteria to see if they can still buy them later.

Yu Shi took the instant noodles and stared at the thing in his hand without blinking. This was the first time he had received a gift at such a young age, and it was a long time before he said thank you to Chaoan.

"It's getting late, which dormitory building do you live in? I'll take you back."

Yu Shi shook his head, he took something out of his pocket and put it in Chao An's hand: "This is for you." Then he turned and left, and disappeared around the corner after a while.

Chaoan watched Yu Shi's back leave, he looked down at his palm, and saw a small triangular shard, one side transparent and reflective, the other side coated, it should be a mirror shard.

Why did Yu Shi give himself a shard of mirror?

Chao An looked at the fragments over and over again, and finally found something unusual. There was a very light red line on the edge of the mirror. When he smelled it closely, there was a faint fishy smell. Could it be blood?

No matter what, this is a gift from someone else, so it should be kept well. Chaoan put the mirror fragments in his pocket. When he saw the sky, it was already dark. He hurriedly ran towards the cafeteria, and when he arrived, he found The door was already closed, and the instant noodle plan fell through, so Chaoan had no choice but to go back and apologize to her roommate.

Chaoan returned to the old dormitory building, and found that the dormitory building was also locked, and the dormitory management room was completely dark. The dormitory auntie didn’t know where she was going. Fortunately, Chaoan stole the key to the dormitory door smartly in the morning, otherwise she would be locked up tonight. It's miserable outside.

Opened the door with a key, Chaoan walked into the dormitory building, footsteps sounded on the empty stairs, the whole dormitory building was eerily quiet, although there were few people living there, at least there were still people there, but now Chaoan felt like He was the only one left in the dormitory.

Chao An went straight to door 416. Just as he was about to insert the key into the lock, the dormitory door opened by itself. Seeing his expression soften, his roommate said softly, "You are back."

"Sorry, I forgot to bring instant noodles, and I spent a lot of money today."

"It's okay, I bought food, let's come in for supper."

The roommate let the door open, and Chaoan walked into the dormitory. The smell of the food came, and his tense body instantly relaxed.