Chu Yi

In 15, most of the children in the compound had crossed the [-]-year-old barrier. In the previous era, they were already considered grown-up young men, and they could be regarded as pillars at home. It's all going on as before.

At school that day, during recess, everyone was seriously doing eye exercises, only Chu Yi and Guo Fangxin were fighting and joking, but refused to do things seriously; Make trouble with classmates.The homeroom teacher stared at the two of them at the door. The two children were still playing lawlessly, and they were still pulling others to make trouble.

Guo Fangxin leaned against the window, stuck his head out of the window, and then handed Chu Yi a piece of paper with a few large crooked characters written on it.

"I just saw Dongzi run out."

"Where did you go?" Chu Yi replied, turning the nib of the pen, then folded the note, scratched the front table, and asked someone to pass the note.

The front seat was obviously fed up with the two of them, and passed a note to them impatiently.Not long after, a small note was passed back to Chu Yi.

"I don't know, I just saw him leave the school gate."

He crumpled up the note and threw it into the trash can, but he didn't care too much, guessing that Dongtang had something important to do.Turning his head, he seemed to see a head at the fence outside, and suddenly disappeared from sight.After class, a classmate from the next class came to pass on a message to him. Dongtang said that he had something to do and went back first. At that time, Chu Yi didn't pay much attention.If he could rush out to find someone that day, he might be able to see Dongtang for the last time. Of course, this is all for later.

After finally getting through the morning, the moment the bell rang, Chu Yi rushed out of the classroom.Going back to eat, by the way, I would like to ask Dong Tang why he went there?

In the summer of the millennium, the Jujube trees in the yard bloomed poorly, and the flower buds bloomed a lot, but they couldn't bloom. There was no fragrance of flowers in the yard, and it always felt a little less artistic.Chu Yi stretched her neck under the Jue tree, shouting towards the window.He yelled for a long time but there was no movement, so it was nothing.At that time, he didn't realize that something was wrong after all.

That afternoon, when school was over, he guarded the window for a long time, thinking that Dongtang just left something behind, so he ran back to get it.He didn't see Dongtang come back to look for him until the campus was almost closed.At that time, the sky darkened very quickly, and in just a short while, the surroundings had already darkened several shades rapidly.

Some things seem to come very suddenly.

Dongtang didn't go to class for several days.Chu Yi wondered, since this person is not a local, it is impossible for him to leave relatives, right?But it's been so long since I skipped class, and I still haven't even seen anyone.

He summoned Ma Xiaochuan and Yan Hao, and the three of them sat in the courtyard, looking at each other, unable to say anything.

Chu Yi frowned, her eyeballs were about to pop out, she gritted her teeth and asked anxiously, "Where did he go?"

Ma Xiaochuan shook his head, "I looked for the elementary school, but I didn't see anyone!"

Chu Yi looked at Yan Hao again, but still got a negative answer, "I searched all around, but I couldn't find anyone!"

"What about their house? Is there still no one to open the door?" Chu Yi continued, and the two people on the opposite side also shook their heads.

Ma Xiaochuan pulled his face, "Nothing will happen!"

Yan Hao slapped him on the back of the head, "Don't talk nonsense!"

Ma Xiaochuan complained aggrievedly, "Well, it's been so many days, what if it's... um... um!"

Before he finished speaking, Ma Xiaochuan's mouth was covered by a hand.Yan Hao shook his head vigorously, then pointed to Chu Yi who was about to enter a state of dementia, "Stop talking!"

Chu Yi stared at the two of them without saying a word, startled in fear, threw them away and ran away.He ran to knock on the door of Dongtang's house, knocked until his eyes were red, he couldn't lift his hands, and no one responded.Chu Yi's eyes were dull, and he stood stiffly in front of Dongtang's house.

He came out of the door of Dongtang's unit, and fell down on the stairs, with his head buried between his legs, and his hands clenched into hard fists. The lonely back of the young man seemed particularly lonely.

Yan Hao and Ma Xiaochuan sat on the left and right of him, knowing that they are usually good friends, they are both true buddies, and they are sad to see each other.They didn't know about the incident between their brothers at all, and they couldn't understand Chu Yi's mood at all.

Chu Yi gritted his teeth and stood up, and he ordered the two of them to go further to look for it, but since Dongtang walked out of the school that day, there was no news of him.When Chu Yi returned to the compound, Dong Tang was no longer in sight.

In the evening, Chu Yi was lying on a chair watching TV, and he flipped through several channels a dozen times, looking absent-minded.He didn't watch anything on the TV.He comforted himself, maybe Dong Tang had something important to do.

That night, Chu Yi's eyelids kept twitching, so that he couldn't sleep at all.Tossing and turning on the bed did not see any improvement.He suffered from insomnia that night, and the next day he had dark circles under his eyes, and his eye sockets were bloodshot.

For several days, he still didn't see Dongtang.

The next morning, he didn't go to class.As usual, I waited for Dongtang at the breakfast stall at the gate of the yard, but when the hawker closed the stall, there was still no one in sight.He ran to sit under the Jujube tree in the yard, from morning to night, without any expression, just sat there in a daze, motionless.The familiar window in sight did not have the warm yellow light of the past.

He asked everyone in the compound, but no one knew where Dongtang had gone.

No one even knew that Dong Tang came back yesterday.

Everyone remembered that the two children happily went to school in the morning, and Chu Yi came back alone in the evening.

Similarly, no one knew where Wei Dingbang and Jiang Yin had gone.

Chu Yi ran to the office, dragged Dongtang's homeroom teacher to ask him for help, and learned about the situation from him.That day, their homeroom teacher received a call from an unknown person in the office, and the person on the other end went straight to the point and said they were looking for Wei Dongtang.

Probably the previous incident made him a little more vigilant, he grabbed the phone and asked, "Who are you? Why are you looking for Wei Dongtang?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, before slowly uttering a few words, "Something happened at his house, let him come back first."

Although the young head teacher was still a little puzzled, he didn't feel anything unusual after all.He rushed to inform Wei Dongtang and told him to go home quickly.

Chu Yi's palms were sweating, did Dongtang go back to the compound?Obviously everyone in the yard said they had never seen him.The head teacher seemed to have remembered something, and took out a newspaper from the drawer, with a string of numbers written on the corner.

"This is the number of the person who called. I just wrote it down for fear of accidents!"

Chu Yi dialed the number, feeling uneasy and trembling, fearing that something might happen to this person.It took half a minute on the other end of the phone before there was a "beep beep" busy sound.

no one picks up...

Half a month later, Chu Yi was already going crazy, he couldn't find this person anywhere.He tried to call the police, but he said that there was no such case and he would not file a case.

Dongtang was like the wind that completely disappeared in the air, coming and going without a trace.

Dongtang has a stubborn temper, and Chu Yi is even worse than him. This person is purely stubborn, the kind who won't turn back when he bumps into a south wall, but in reality, he can always give people a resounding slap in the face.

He has experienced too many partings, whether it is his parents, or his friends and partners when he was younger.To be honest, Chu Yi was a little scared.

He still sits on the stool that was spread early every day, staring at the gate of the compound in a daze.Buy two breakfasts, go to school alone, and then quietly stuff the breakfast into Dongtang's desk.

He believed that Dong Tang would come back.

A month later, the accumulated food had not been cleaned up, and it was already rotten and smelly.Dongtang's homeroom teacher called a few people, covered their noses and asked them to throw away the milk and buns in the box, and also threw away some Dongtang's textbooks along the way.At that time, Chu Yi followed them and picked up Dongtang's belongings from the garbage dump regardless of the mess. Those memories with Dongtang's imprint on them will be regarded as treasures for a long time to come.

He believed that Dong Tang would come back.

Chu Yi ran around and almost covered the whole of Chongqing within half a year.Take the previous photos of the four friends and ask passers-by one by one.

Every day after school, he would sometimes go to the construction site next to the primary school, where he might find Dongtang.When passing by the primary school wall, he would also climb up to sit there. In the past, he also sat here with Dongtang, and he could see the Jialing River opposite.

He walked through the suspended sewage pipe and ran on it, as if running to the end, there was always someone waiting for him; he walked to the air-raid shelter and put away the things he quietly stole from Dongtang's desk today, here, it seemed that he had been taken by him Arranged into another home.

Until the air-raid shelter was discovered by a real estate developer, he insisted on changing it into a subway platform.He often sat by the window in a daze, his eyes unconsciously focused on the blinds opposite, and looked there eagerly, as if he heard the innocent laughter of two children.

Maybe Dongtang will come back.

At that time, he could still remember Dongtang's appearance.Dongtang's skin looked like wheat that was about to be harvested, with a rich brown color.His deep sunken eyes, black and white, are like mirrors with black gold rims.His outline was cut out boldly, without refinement, but it has its own flavor.

Dongtang disappeared into the compound, but only left an obsession in one person's heart.

The young man didn't want to tell others about his thoughts, so Chu Yi wrote down what he wanted to say to Dongtang in the letter, but he didn't know where to send it, so he had to pile it up in the drawer.

A year later, the drawers are full.

Dongtang, will you never come back again?

One evening, Chu Yi was sitting by the window, watching the jujube orchids in the yard sprout new branches, which playfully stretched into Chu Yi's room. He took a copy of "Dream of Red Mansions" and read a sentence.

Who will guard whom forever?It's only been three or five years, and everyone has gone to do their own thing. At that time, who cares about whom?

Chu Yi tore up the book in a fit of anger, picked up a pen and wrote another letter to Dongtang.

"Dongtang, I'm in high school, how are you? When will you come back to see me? A girl confessed to me yesterday, but I didn't accept it. You know me too. Do you remember that day? That time... "

The neat text on the letter paper ends here.There seemed to be something else written on the back, but Chu Yi scribbled it out.Chu Yi's vision was a little blurry, and he lay down on the table to take a nap for a while.I had a dream, dreaming that Dongtang was back.When he woke up, he was terribly lonely.

In the dream, he cried miserably.

After waking up, he realized that the thick ink had drawn straight black lines one after another on the letter paper, which gradually spread out in a puddle of water, and the snow-white paper quickly turned into a black lacquer color, which stained his arms and could not be washed. clean up.

He glanced and seemed to see a light in the opposite window.

With a "snap", his pen fell to the ground.Chu Yi rushed to the opposite building without looking back, not even hearing grandma's call.His heart seemed to be in the air, he ran wildly, his hands scratched the skin on the nails of the stairs, and he didn't even notice it.

The familiar door appeared in front of his eyes, but a couple who had never seen before walked out of the door. Seeing Chu Yi's disheveled face, he smiled.

"Kid, we are new here, we will be neighbors from now on!"

At this moment, Chu Yi froze in place as if struck by a thunderbolt.

It turns out that you still haven't come back.

Chu Yi said that he left something at this house before, and expressed to the couple that he wanted to get it back.They readily agreed, and the woman pointed to the room: "Where is it all, if you want it, take it."

He looked around, everything was so familiar.On many quiet nights, he would climb into Dongtang's house through the protective fence on the third floor.At a height of more than ten meters, the boy had yearning, and he was no longer afraid.Dongtang's house was already covered with dust, and Chu Yinian would crawl into Dongtang's bed when he read it hard, sleep all night, and leave early the next day.

He never dared to turn on the lights before, for fear of being discovered, he would think that a thief had entered the house.He always groped quietly in the dark, relying on imagination and memory to conceive the appearance of this house.

This time, he will never have such an opportunity.Chu Yi took away all the memories with Dongtang, carried a big box that was heavier than others, and dragged it away.He walked slowly all the way, leaving behind a lonely figure in the darkness.He found a piece of jade pendant in the box. He tied the jade pendant to a rope and hung it around his neck, feeling the coldness of it against his chest, just like his heart.

He believed that Dong Tang would never come back.

It stands to reason that people around would find it strange how such a few big living people suddenly disappeared.But the curious are curious, and no one has brought this matter to the surface.After a long time, it will always fade away, forget, and not remember.After three years and five years.Who still remembers that a family named Wei once lived here?

Chu Yi plucked a yellow Juelan flower, put it in an envelope, and stuffed it into a drawer.

That flower has existed in time forever, and there will be no time to see the sun again.

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