fool around

Si Yu walked across a field and went to Li Mao's house, but the door was open and there was no one inside.

He stood by the door and thought for a while, guessing that Li Mao might be somewhere.

At the village entrance filled with thick fog, a young man stood beside the bulletin board, his left index finger wrapped in a bandage.

It was cloudy, and Si Yu had just received a yellow rainstorm warning on his mobile phone.

The wind gradually picked up, pouring in from the collar of Li Mao's wide shirt, and the thin top was stretched out into a bulging shape.

Si Yu sighed softly, walked behind him, and asked in a low voice, "Did Ruan Ruan come to look for you?"

Li Mao looked in the direction of the village entrance without looking back: "Yes."

"Why didn't you go to her?" Si Yu frowned, carefully choosing his words, "She also... cares about you very much."

"Looking for her?" Li Mao sneered.

Si Yu subconsciously defended Qi Lu: "Is it because Qi Lu doesn't allow it? You don't have to worry about this, Qi Lu won't..."

"No," Li Mao turned sideways, his face showed a paleness that can only be seen after excessive blood loss, his voice was weak but calm, "Brother Qi is not wrong, he is for our good."

"Then what are you afraid of?"

"No matter how much she cares about me, she will never stay by my side." Li Mao lowered his eyes and smiled.

Si Yu was silent for a moment, no longer asked, but handed over the anti-inflammatory medicine: "Here is this, Ruan Ruan said you hurt your hand, this is medicine. She also asked me to tell you not to write my name anymore. "

Li Mao froze in place, every line on his face was frozen like weathered, his lips became bloodless in an instant.

After more than ten seconds, he gave a low "oh", took the medicine and walked into the village.

Looking at the thin back of the young man, Si Yu couldn't help but said, "Aren't you waiting for her anymore? Are you not waiting for her anymore?"

Li Mao raised his intact right hand, and gently shook the tablet between his fingers.

His voice was blown away by the wind, so soft that Si Yu almost didn't hear it clearly.

"Don't wait, the person I'm waiting for won't come again."

After Li Mao left, Si Yu stood alone at the entrance of the village for a while, always feeling like a stone was pressing on his heart, making him so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.

He is not familiar with Li Mao Ruan Ruan, even the friendship they met by chance is not considered, but he still feels uncomfortable.

He didn't know what happened between Ruan Ruan and Li Mao, but maybe they really missed it.

Li Mao will not come to wait for Ruan Ruan again, and Ruan Ruan will not come to Gutang again.

There are too many stories without endings in this world, he is just an outsider after all, no amount of emotion is useless.

Si Yu had mixed feelings, and stood leaning on the bulletin board for a while, until there was a muffled thunder in the sky, and two seconds later, a bolt of lightning flashed across, instantly brightening the forest like daytime.

When he came back to his senses, he looked up and found that there were dark clouds and heavy rain was coming soon.

On the way home, I happened to meet Xiaofu and Lu Wei and their children playing by the pond. Lu Wei was playing with a small wooden stick, and Xiaofu shouted excitedly, "Run, run!" .

"It's going to rain," Si Yu stood by the pond, "Everyone, go back quickly."

"elder brother!"

Seeing Si Yu, Xiaofu immediately threw himself into his arms.

Si Yu squatted on the bed to catch Xiaofu, the little guy didn't count when he was making a fuss, his forehead was covered with sweat, and his bangs were wet and limp.

"Are you tired?" Si Yu asked.

"Not tired!" Xiao Fu raised his hand and replied loudly, "Brother Lu Wei has a sword, run quickly, kid!"

"Look at my sword!"

Lu Wei waved the small wooden stick and danced, Xiaofu and Xiaotu ran away in all directions, shouting "Run, run!"

The little guys couldn't stop their crazy play, Si Yu smiled helplessly, but the sky was dark clouds, and they had to be sent home.

So he put on a serious face on purpose and said to Lu Wei: "Teacher confiscated the sword first, and I will return it to you tomorrow."

"Ah..." With a bitter face, Lu Wei handed the branch to Si Yu, and told him worriedly, "Teacher, you must return it to me tomorrow!"

"Let's throw it away..." Xiaotu said timidly, "Teacher Ruan Ruan said that swords are bad things..."

"Ruan Ruan?" Si Yu was startled, pulled Xiaotu over, and asked her, "What did Teacher Ruan Ruan tell you?"

"I know, I know!" Lu Wei replied first, "Teacher Ruan Ruan showed us a sword, which was hard and made of wood, and said that if we saw this sword in the future, we would run away! It ran very fast. Far, far, far away!"

Xiao Fu lay on Si Yu's back and begged for praise: "Brother, Xiao Fu is the fastest runner, and Xiao Fu can fly!"

Si Yu touched Xiao Fu's head with his backhand, and then asked Lu Wei: "Lu Wei, tell the teacher, have you seen what Teacher Ruan Ruan's sword looks like?"

Lu Wei frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I didn't look carefully."

"It's a sword made of wood," Xiaotu added in a low voice, with two palms compared to the length of an adult's forearm, "It's so long, it seems that there is a word engraved on it, but I can't see what it is..."

Si Yu's heart skipped a beat. He hugged Xiaofu and said gently, "It's okay, the teacher just asked casually. It's going to rain, everyone hurry back."

Si Yu sent the children home, and carried Xiao Fu back to Room 43.

The iron gate was left open, and Qi Lu was waiting for Xiaofu to come home.Si Yu carried Xiao Fu into the yard, Qi Lu heard the voice and came out to meet him, Xiao Fu twisted his body and jumped off Si Yu's arms, danced and said to Qi Lu, "Master! Xiao Fu and brother Lu Wei are playing swords! It's fun! Xiaofu runs the fastest!"

Seeing that the little guy was sweating all over, Qi Lu frowned displeasedly. Just as he was about to utter a reprimand, he saw the little guy was very excited, his face was flushed, and the wrinkles between his brows were still flattened.

"Well, go take a shower and dry off."

"Okay!" Xiaofu spun around on the spot, clapped his hands and said, "Take a shower! Take a shower, Xiaofu!"

Si Yu laughed lightly, and tapped the ground with a small wooden stick: "Go quickly."

"Master!" Xiaofu saw the little wooden stick and reported it to Qi Lu as if offering a treasure, "This is our sword! A sword made of wood! When you see the wooden sword, run away! Run away!"

Qi Lu's face changed suddenly when he heard this, he grabbed Xiaofu's hand and brought the little guy behind him.

Si Yu didn't ignore the slight change in Qi Lu's expression. He shrugged, threw the sword into the flowerpot aside, and said indifferently, "It's just a piece of wood."

"Teacher Si, please send Xiaofu back." Qi Lu returned to normal in a blink of an eye, and said in a flat tone.

"You're welcome," Si Yu smiled, "Then I'll go back first."

Qi Lu nodded.

Black clouds are rolling in, and the wind and rain are about to come.

Si Yu made a phone call to Ruan Ruan, but it showed that the phone of the other party had been turned off.

He rushed into the room and took out the handbook and peach wood sword from under the pillow.

wooden sword?How could Ruan Ruan have a sword in his hand?

Combining all the previous clues, he always felt that Ruan Ruan's sword and his sword seemed to have some connection.

The descriptions of the children were too vague, and he couldn't be sure what Ruan Ruan's sword looked like.But Lu Wei said that Ruan Ruan made them run away when they saw this kind of wooden sword, and the farther they ran, the better.

Si Yu's eyes were heavy, and he slashed his arm with a mahogany sword, but his skin was intact, without any scars.

A sword made of wood, not to mention hurting people, might not even be able to cut vegetables.

There is no threat to the wooden sword, but Ruan Ruan wants the children to run away when they see the sword?

Si Yu was in a state of confusion, he looked at the mahogany sword in his hand, a black and white photo was pasted on the sword, Si Zheng was staring at him quietly, with a peaceful and gentle expression.

Si Yu gradually calmed down, he took a deep breath, and recalled word by word what Ruan Ruan had said to him.

——I am just a college student from a poor mountainous area...

He remembered that when Ruan Ruan called him for the first time, the caller showed that it was Hu Qing's number.

Huqing is a remote mountainous area, and the country's key poverty alleviation target. Si Yu opened the search engine and entered the two keywords ""Huqing, Ruan Ruan".

The first page was full of spam messages such as "Huqing City Ruanji Snack Franchise" and "Huqing Personal Information Inquiry". Si Yu hurriedly scanned it and then turned to the next page. After flipping through four pages in a row, finally, His gaze was fixed on one of the old news - "The first college student who came out of Huqing Ruanjia Village."

He clicked on the webpage and read it word by word. The news was about Ruanjia Village, Huqing City, a poor mountainous area where a college student was finally admitted.The college student has been sponsored by an anonymous well-meaning person since elementary school. The kind-hearted person kept a low profile and declined the interview with this newspaper, saying that he would continue to support the student to complete his university studies.

There is also a picture at the bottom of the news, a girl is holding an admission notice, standing under the flagpole of the dilapidated school, smiling brightly in her eyes.

Although the photo is very blurry, Si Yu can still recognize from the outline of the face that this person is Ruan Ruan.

So this anonymous well-meaning person, could it be...

The more he thought about it, the more his heart beat like a drum.Si Yu forcibly stopped the guesses that popped up in his mind, and told himself not to make unfounded guesses.

Si Yu turned on the phone and found the two text messages that Ruan Ruan had sent to him before he left.

In the first article, Ruan Ruan asked him to "be careful"; in the second article, Ruan Ruan said "be careful in everything".

Be careful?What should he be careful about?

Si Yu tapped the table with his index finger quickly, his brain was working fast, suddenly, he stopped with his fingertips, supported the table with both hands, and stood up abruptly.

Just be careful!Ruan Ruan did not make a typo!

—Be careful, be careful...

What Ruan Ruan wanted him to be careful about was "Fan"!

"Fanfanfan..." Si Yu paced around the room restlessly, repeating the word repeatedly, with frictional syllables between his upper teeth and lower lip, "Fan...F!"

A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, and two seconds later, there was a "wow", and the rain poured down.

A fine layer of cold sweat broke out on Si Yu's back. He picked up the "Treasure Book of Ghosts and Monsters", and quickly turned to the last page with trembling hands.

On it, black and hard bloodstains were written horizontally and vertically.

He thought these were the first two strokes of the word "正", but he never thought that these were also the first two strokes of "F"!

Dark clouds billowed in the sky, and the fallen leaves were engulfed by the strong wind, which made the cheeks of passers-by hurt.

In a low-cost rental house in the city, Ruan Ruan curled up, sitting in the narrow gap between the bed and the wall, clutching something tightly in her hand, her face pale.

In front of her, an old mobile phone was on a call, with the speakerphone turned on.

"How is it?" A deep male voice came from the phone.

"...No, no," Ruan Ruan's voice trembled, the blood in his body seemed to be ice, "I, I can't hurt those monsters..."

"Really?" The other party chuckled.

"Really," Ruan Ruan's lips trembled, every syllable between her teeth trembled, "I've tried it, that sword is useless, I can't do it, please let me go, I beg you! "

boom--!

There was a thunder outside the window, and the rain poured down.

"knock knock"

After Qi Lu finished washing, he just lay down in the coffin when there was a knock on the window.

He got up and dodged out from the gap in the tight curtains. Si Yu held an umbrella and stood in the heavy rain and slammed on his window vigorously.

Qi Lu's heart tightened, and he quickly opened the window to pull him in, but as soon as his hand stretched out of the window, he froze in the pouring rain.

In his room, there was no light, no bed, no wardrobe, no desk, and nothing that a human being should have.

He couldn't let Si Yu in.

Through the rain and fog, Si Yu's face was blurred. He was wearing a pair of cotton slippers, and the bottom of his trousers and shoes were wet from the rain, but he didn't seem to notice it. He stood under the umbrella and looked straight at Qi Lu.

Complicated emotions flashed across Qi Lu's pupils, and the two looked at each other for a moment through a rain curtain. Qi Lu suddenly reached out and grabbed Si Yu's umbrella-holding wrist, leading him to the eaves.

One of them was standing inside the house, the other was standing outside, and they were very close to each other through the window sill.

"Mr. Qi," Si Yu said, "do you know F?"

"It's raining so hard, what are you doing!"

Qi Lu's tone was heavy, he rarely expressed his anger so bluntly.

"Mr. Qi," Si Yu continued to ask, "Are you human?"

Qi Lu's body froze, his pupils constricted suddenly, and he suddenly felt that the blood all over his body had turned into sharp ice blades.