Palm Idol

"But I didn't mean to provoke him or anything."

There was a hint of anxiety in Xiao Lu's voice, as if he didn't know how to say it properly: "I just see him always looking so weak, and I want to use this to push him..."

According to Xiao Lu, not long ago she came across Yuezhong's publicity account, and remembering that it was Xu Lan's school, she sent it to him.

She knew about Xu Lan's truancy, and she sent it to Xu Lan thinking that after seeing these videos, he might rekindle the idea of ​​going back to school.

Unexpectedly, that night, Xu Lan cleared all circles of friends and blocked her directly.

Xu Lan has a gentle nature, and his life experience of being dependent on others has taught him to make concessions and compromises since he was a child. He rarely treats others in such a drastic way—let alone Xiaolu, who took him in for a short time.

After that day, no matter how Xiaolu contacted Xu Lan, whether he called or sent text messages, he deliberately ignored him.

This dead fish-like attitude successfully provoked Xiaolu, who was already violent, and was so angry that he swore that he would never control Xu Lan again.

"No wonder he didn't even take his mobile phone after he ran out yesterday." Lu Yiwen said, "According to his character, he would tell you anyway."

It sounds absurd to say hello to the person who took care of him before even though he was running away, but Lu Yiwen knew that Xu Lan was such a person.

"Feel sorry……"

"You don't need to apologize." Lu Yiwen's tone was gentle, and he really didn't want to put any pressure on Xiaolu. "I think Xu Lan still values ​​you very much. After all, he will come to the company for an interview. Isn't it just you who persuaded me?"

"..."

"Manager Lu." After a brief silence, Xiaolu said, "I'm actually not very clear about Xu Lan, but I will tell you everything I know."

"You said."

"I don't know about the earlier events, but I know someone who took him in. That person is my cousin, named Xu Zhe, who used to be a music teacher in Qian Leyue."

"So that's how it is." Lu Yiwen understood why Xu Lan, who was not well-off, went to Yuezhong to go to school, "Then why didn't Xu Lan stay with him?"

"I've only seen this cousin at banquets before. He seems to be a few years older than me. He has never been married and lives with Xu Lan."

"A few years ago, some relatives talked badly, saying that he was an unmarried big man and adopted a child for what he wanted to do. But I think that cousin is just a simple and nice person. Except for being withdrawn, he treats people very gently."

"But later, I heard," Fawn said after a pause, "Cousin, he made serious mistakes in school."

"In the end...he hanged himself."

·

Not long after the call with Xiaolu ended.

"Brother, take a look, is this the news?" Jing Xiang quickly typed on Lu Yiwen's computer with both hands, quickly pulled out several windows, and handed them to Lu Yiwen to read.

Lu Yiwen glanced at it, and there was a report about a fire in Yuezhong two years ago.

He quickly scanned it, and found that the first fire was a music room in Building No. 3 of the school. After the fire broke out, the flames enveloped the entire floor where classes were still taking place. Thick smoke wants to jump out of the window.

"More than ten people were injured, and three died." Lu Yiwen looked solemn, "This is considered a serious fire, so why do you feel that there are so few reports? Don't worry about it."

"It should have been dealt with." Jian She sat next to him and read the report with him, flipped through the few photos and said, "The location and cause of the fire are indeed a bit strange at first glance. The school suspects that it was arson Not surprisingly."

Yuezhong was devastated by a fire two years ago, not only lost a lot of money and precious musical instruments, but also lost a large number of students. It is not an exaggeration to say that it went back 10 years overnight.

The leaders of Yuezhong hated the fire so much that they were convinced that someone must have set it on purpose. First they suspected that it was the rival school in the city league. After the investigation was fruitless, they turned their attention to the people in the school. .

During that time, Yuezhong conducted strict investigations on almost everyone in the school, and even designed a reporting system, employing people to monitor every move of the teachers and students in the school.

Later, I don't know where the rumors started, saying that someone saw Xu Zhe sneaking around the scene of the fire that day.

The rumors became more and more intense, and the more they were said, the more likely they were true. In addition, Xu Zhe had indeed been haunted near the fire spot that day.

Gradually, Xu Zhe became a sure-fire prisoner.

At that time, everyone in Yuezhong from top to bottom, from outside to inside, from teachers to students, believed that it was Xu Zhe who set the fire. Since then, the whole school began to abuse and exclude him endlessly, and this malice even spread to Xu Zhe. on Lan.

Later, because he could no longer bear the condemnation of the people around him, Xu Zhe, who was gentle but sensitive, didn't even leave a last word to Xu Lan, and committed suicide by stepping on a ladder in the warehouse.

After his death, Xu Lan spent three months in the school in a daze, and finally couldn't take it anymore and escaped from the school that suffocated him.

The above are conclusions drawn by Lu Yiwen and Jian She based on the information disclosed by Xiaolu and the fragmented network channels, combined with the current situation.

After hearing this conclusion, the air in the room seemed to suddenly become oppressive.

Lu Yiwen looked at the insults and curses against Xu Lan on Yuezhong's anonymous forum, and secretly sighed: "Just because of doubts, I drove a living person to the point of committing suicide..."

No wonder Xu Lan had such a reaction when facing the tragic couple this morning.

Lu Yiwen still remembers the appearance of Xu Lan at that time, he stared closely at the young man being carried into the ambulance, the expression on his face was almost expressionless, and almost desperate, as if the blunt and suffocating air was squeezed into the lung cavity little by little , forcing his whole body to sink.

Lu Yiwen couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "Speaking of which, where is Xu Lan? Are you still in the room?"

"Yes." Jing Xiang stood up, "What's wrong? Is something wrong? Shall I ask him to come down?"

"No need." Lu Yiwen got up and said, "I'll go up and have a look, and take him out for a walk by the way."

·

More than an hour later, Lu Yiwen took Xu Lan back to the vicinity of the Unfeeling Cliff that he had come to during the day.

Jing Xiang and Jian She followed far behind, in case of any emergencies.

By this time, the crowd gathered on the edge of the cliff during the day had long since dispersed, and suddenly only the sea breeze was left in the once impenetrable place, leaving an inexplicable sense of emptiness and loneliness.

Lu Yiwen stood on the edge of the cliff and glanced down. Because of the dim light, the bottom of the cliff seemed to be bottomlessly dark, and the sea breeze lingered around him, as if trying to push him down, but also as if it was surrounding him.

"I heard from the police," the place at Louisian Station seemed to be only one step away from the Wanzhang Cliff, "the couple who were going to commit suicide today originally planned to get married this summer, but they were strongly opposed by the two families. I couldn't fight, and finally came here, wanting to die for love."

Xu Lan's lips were turned white by the sea breeze, standing behind him, looking at him in surprise.

"It's unacceptable to be opposed by everyone all at once. If it were me, I might even think about suicide."

"But when I look at this now, I feel that suicide is not so easy." Lu Yiwen smiled and retreated from the edge of the cliff. "It's so high, it hurts to jump down. And if you really jump down , from now on, you, Jian She, and Jing Xiang will all have to leave a psychological shadow, and you probably don't want to come to the beach again."

Seeing that Lu Yiwen walked down a little bit, Xu Lan's tense expression seemed to relax a little.

But still no words.

"You saw that man and his girlfriend crying and working hard today, and I couldn't bear to see it."

Lu Yiwen tried his best not to irritate him with a calm tone: "If you can survive, it's fine for the two of you to do whatever you want. Even if you temporarily sever ties with your family first, there is still a chance to reconcile in the future."

Xu Lan suddenly whispered: "Reconcile?"

His voice was a little weird, which made Lu Yiwen react.

"Even if we can't reconcile," Lu Yiwen changed his words in time, "it's okay to survive—"

"Why!?" Lu Yiwen was taken aback by Xu Lan's sudden raised voice.

Jian She and Jing Xiang in the distance also looked over.

"What do you mean? Mr. Lu, you think that no matter what happens to a person, he can't die. Once he dies, everything is his problem, right?"

When Xu Lan was excited, she would suddenly raise her neck and look at the other party, but her face suddenly turned pale, looking more desperate than excited.

This appearance made Lu Yiwen speechless: "It's not..."

"I really don't understand." Xu Lan's tone suddenly lowered, he squatted down and hugged his head, "When I was alive, I blamed him without hesitation, everything was done by him, and I will blame him even after I died. It must be a guilty conscience to commit suicide so quickly, why! Why don't you blame the person who said such a thing, but blame the person who was forced to die first?..."

This squatting posture is exactly the same as when I met my classmates from the same school yesterday, that one is almost forcing myself to defend myself.

"Xu Lan, calm down." Lu Yiwen hurried over to help him up, "I didn't mean to say anything about your uncle, and I have no right to comment on what he did wrong or right. I just don't want you to be immersed in this matter all the time. .”

Unexpectedly, Xu Lan avoided him for a while.

Lu Yiwen had no choice but to let go of his hand first.

"I have nothing to calm down..." Xu Lan breathed in intermittently, "I just, just don't understand. Uncle, he...has never done anything harmful to the world, and is very gentle to everyone. Those who don't understand Forget about his students, why can colleagues who have worked with him for so long pour dirty water on him casually..."

Lu Yiwen couldn't pull him up, so he had to squat down with him.

Xu Lan didn't seem to want to question him, but she finally burst out after being depressed for too long.

Lu Yiwen sighed, and carefully asked: "Your uncle was framed... Was it because of the popularity vote?"

"..." Upon hearing these four words, Xu Lan looked at him suddenly, with an expression on his face as if his heart had been tightened.

He seemed to have just realized: "Mr. Lu, why do you know..."

"Sorry," Lu Yiwen realized that Xu Lan might not be willing to resort to this matter, "it was your sister Xiaolu who told me."

"..."

Lu Yiwen said again: "I didn't intend to inquire."

Xu Lan turned her gaze back, and grabbed her sleeves tightly: "...it doesn't matter, it's not a secret anyway, everyone in Qian Le knows it."

"—Yes, just because of the popularity vote."

"Uncle... I don't know why, but he has always been at the bottom of the popularity vote." Xu Lan said slowly, "He was not popular with students from the very beginning, so people thought he had a dark personality, but he didn't even die. People are willing to speak up for him, but everyone just blames him."

"But I know, he won't do that kind of thing..." Xu Lan choked up, "But I'm also very unpopular. No one would believe what I said, but they all said I was his accomplice."

"Why...? Uncle, he obviously has many advantages. How can such a bad vote have the right to judge him..."

Speaking of this, Xu Lan's tears finally couldn't hold back and fell down big and big, and fell on the rough rocky ground, dyeing the moon white into a piece of gray.

Seeing him sobbing, Lu Yiwen didn't know how to comfort him, so he just stretched out and hugged him.

It would be cruel to make him stop crying, and Lu Yiwen didn't say anything, but quietly pulled him up and stood there.

Xu Lan didn't resist either. He was already crying almost trembling, but now he was crying even more when he curled up in Lu Yiwen's arms, wiping his nose and tears all over him.

not far away.

Jing Xiang was anxious to wait, and vaguely heard his crying, he couldn't help but patted Jian She next to him and said, "Come and see, what did Brother Lu say to make Xu Lan cry like this?"

Jian She followed his words and looked over there.

The dim light of the night covered everyone with a thick layer of dark blue, and it was only by the silhouette that one could tell who was Lu Yiwen.

Then, he saw a figure that seemed to be Lu Yiwen stretched out his arms to hug the other party, and helped him up by the way, letting the other party fall on his body and cry loudly.

Jian She: "..."

The author has something to say: Continue the advertisement: Bringing down Yuezhong is the main plot of the next book, and this book doesn’t involve too much. If you like this world view, you can pay attention to the next book "I'm also fighting with him today"