Dense Fog

On New Year's Eve, the firecrackers have not stopped since the afternoon.

Every time the firecrackers sound, it means that another family has started the New Year's Eve dinner.

Perhaps because of the expectations for the first day of the new year, it was the first time that Lin Wu did not feel lonely on New Year's Eve.

He posted the couplets early, and then fell asleep on the bed with the quilt in his arms. Occasionally he was awakened by the sound of firecrackers, turned over, and continued to dream.

A dream through the day.

Wake up, the night is noisy, the lights of thousands of houses.

It sounded more lively outside than during the day, Lin Wu glanced at the time, the Spring Festival Gala had already started.

But he didn't turn on the TV.

He hadn't watched the Spring Festival Gala for many years. The atmosphere was too happy for the whole family. After laughing, it would only make people more lonely.

Turning off the ceiling light in the apartment, leaving only one night light, Lin Wu turned on his laptop and found the documentary about wolves that he had kept in his collection before, but he hadn’t had a chance to watch it yet.

The movie consists of five episodes, mainly about the gray wolf.

In fact, most documentaries about wolves focus on the most widely distributed population in the world.

However, Timberwolves and gray wolves are close, so Lin Wu watched it as a popular science movie of his own family.

The neon lights outside the window and the night lights inside the house outline a soft and colorful atmosphere.

At the beginning of the documentary, a picture scroll of the world of wolves unfolds slowly with the deep and magnetic voice of the narrator...

"As a branch of the dog family, gray wolves have 39 subspecies, and they can be found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, whether it is dense forests, open plains, barren ice fields, or the severe arctic..."

"They hunt in groups, cooperate with each other, members perform their duties, advance and retreat together..."

Lin Wu watched carefully. Gradually, the sound of firecrackers outside seemed to be very far away. Instead, it was the sound of wind in the documentary, the sound of the forest, the sound of wolves running, and the low or high-pitched wolves that were close at hand. ears.

The apartment seems to have become a cabin in the woods, and the wolves seem to be around, playing, frolicking, and hunting.

After one episode is played, it will automatically enter the next episode.

Lin Wu was engrossed in watching it, but he was also satisfied. Occasionally, he even wanted to howl like the handsome wolf in it.

Until the third episode——

"Wolf packs have a highly complex social structure, led by a wolf pack..."

"Wolves are monogamous. In a wolf pack, only the head wolf and his mate have reproductive rights..."

"The pups that are born grow up under the care of the whole pack, but after two to three years, some young male pups have to leave the pack..."

The picture is aimed at a little wolf, which has reached the age to leave the wolf pack, but it is unwilling to leave.

The narration didn't have any fluctuations, it was still so low and steady——

"This little wolf is unwilling to leave, but the wolves no longer accept him..."

"Several adult male wolves showed their fangs to it..."

"The little wolf tried to get close to its mother, but was pushed back by the head wolf..."

Throughout the whole episode, the little wolf keeps trying, and the wolves keep driving away.

Lin Wu watched it work hard again and again, and run away in despair again and again, repeating itself.

Finally, it gave up.

At the end of the third episode, the wolves hunted around the frozen lake, united and orderly.But the little wolf can only leave silently and walk towards the unknown forest.

Like Lin Wu, the documentary film crew may also care about the fate of the little wolf.

From the beginning of the fourth episode, the camera completely followed the little wolf.

"The little wolf who left the group will try to join other wolves. It smells everywhere in the jungle, soil, grass, stones, tree trunks, looking for the smell of companions..."

"It seems to have found it, but finding it doesn't mean you can join it. Most wolves are very exclusive..."

In the following time, Little Wolf became the absolute protagonist of the documentary.

Whether it is Lin Wu or the film crew, they are all obviously involved in its fate, but in different time and space, they are equally unable to let go.

They watched it find new wolves, but was rejected again, watched it survive alone and tenaciously in the forest, and continued to search for other wolves...

It is just an adult, with a keen sense of smell and youthful strength, which allows it to hunt alone without starving to death until it finds a pack of wolves that actually accept it.

But just like the reenactment of leaving the original wolf pack, the little wolf found new wolves again and again, but was rejected again and again, and twice it was even injured in the conflict with the wolves.

"The little wolf finally met a pack of wolves willing to accept it..."

As the whole documentary draws to a close, the narration has slight emotional fluctuations for the first time, as if the long dark night has finally ushered in the dawn, and even the calm and deep voice seems to be slightly relieved and a little more gratified.

"The female alpha wolf acquiesced in its approach, which usually means that the wolf pack has accepted new members..."

Lin Wu was also happy for the little wolf, perhaps because he followed the camera through the whole process of the little wolf struggling to survive in the forest. At this moment, he was even a little excited so that his eye sockets were sore and his heart felt hot.

"However, the little wolf seemed to be hesitating. It approached the pack of wolves and got permission from the head wolf, but now it started to retreat again..."

Lin Wu was slightly startled, staring intently at the little wolf in the picture, as dazed as the pack of wolves.

"It backed up on a rock and started howling enough to run through the forest..."

"This is not a demonstration, but a farewell. At the moment when it is about to be accepted by the new wolf pack, it gave up integration and chose to become a real lone wolf..."

"After howling, the little wolf turned around and ran out of the forest..."

The camera left the forest and stopped chasing. The figure of the little wolf gradually disappeared at the end of the plain.

The final narration is gentle and quiet: "It left the society of wolves and ran to its own wilderness."

The sound of firecrackers outside the window was suddenly concentrated and violent.

Lin Wu woke up from the trance.

Looking up, the hour and minute hands on the clock coincide at twelve o'clock, and the second hand has just passed there.

The old year has passed.

But Lin Wu himself had no sense of reality. He listened to the commotion outside the window throughout the second half of the night, but all he could think about was the little wolf.

The moon sets and the sun rises.

The sun shines on the earth, and the riverside villas are hidden in the morning light.

On the long dining table, a family of four is having breakfast together.

Just after New Year's Eve last night, I ate the New Year's Eve dinner and cooked dumplings, but I couldn't find any joy of the Spring Festival on the table this morning.

A complete Western-style breakfast, Auntie put down the last plate of freshly baked European-style bread and went back to the kitchen to continue her work.

The dining room was depressingly quiet, save for the sound of knives and forks colliding with plates.

Wang Ye ate a few slices of ham, put down his knife and fork, and got up: "I'm going to find my classmates."

My father didn't look up, he was still reading the newspaper intently, taking a sip of coffee occasionally.

Mother wiped her mouth with a napkin, and said lightly, "Be careful."

Only Wang Jincheng, who was sitting on the side, raised his voice provocatively: "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, go out."

Wang Ye narrowed his eyes and locked on to him.

Wang Jincheng shrank his neck, and he didn't know which time he remembered the fear of being beaten-too many times, it was difficult to distinguish-and he stopped talking.

He is one year younger than Wang Ye, with eyes like his mother's, nose and mouth like his father's, and anyone who goes out can tell at a glance that he is the son of Wang Haici and Tian Rui.Unlike Wang Ye, they all say that the first child is more like their parents, but Wang Ye is not like anyone else. When he was young, Wang Jincheng always said that Wang Ye was not his own brother. Later, Wang Haici and Tian Rui also had doubts. , I was worried that something was wrong during the delivery in the hospital. Although I found the best hospital, several boys were born in the hospital that day.

Later, the two really took Wang Ye to do a paternity test, and it was true that they were biological.

Wang Ye already remembered things at that time, but he didn't understand at the time. Later, when he grew up, he didn't feel much about it. When he thought about it occasionally, he just thought it was funny. The two of them worked hard in the mall for a lifetime. I have experienced it all, and in the end, Wang Jincheng, a child, was coaxed to death.

"Mom, I want to go out to play." Wang Ye couldn't get a bargain here, so Wang Jincheng changed his way again.

Sure enough, Tian Rui's expression was much richer than before, and her tone was a little more doting: "Don't be naughty, you go crazy every day, and you can't stay at home with your mother during the Chinese New Year."

"Oh——" Wang Jincheng dragged his tail, and his triumphant eyes glanced at Wang Ye deliberately as if showing off.

After Wang Ye walked out of the restaurant, he turned around and said, "Wang Jincheng, come here."

Wang Jincheng was a little scared, but when he thought about it, his parents were still there, so Wang Ye would not dare to make a move, so he bravely passed.

When he approached, Wang Ye pulled him over like a brother, and whispered in his ear, "You idiot."

Garden apartment.

It wasn't until the knock on the door that Lin Wu realized that he was sitting in front of the window, staring at the notebook on the desk, in a daze for the rest of the night.

"Snapped--"

There was only one knock on the door, but the heavy force was like a ghost knocking on the door.

open the door.

Wang Ye stood at the door, wearing a sports coat and sneakers, as simple and neat as if it was already March outside.

"You are really not afraid of the cold." Lin Wu let people in.

Wang Ye walked into the entrance, changed his shoes, and looked at the apartment: "So small?"

Lin Wu wanted to take the slippers and call him: "Buy me a big one, I will always come."

Wang Ye looked around, only seeing the computer and nothing else: "What did you eat last night?"

"I planned to cook dumplings," Lin Wu recalled the two boxes of quick-frozen dumplings still lying in the freezer, "I forgot about it later."

"What about this morning?"

"Have not eat yet."

Only then did Wang Ye realize that Lin Wu was a little listless: "What have you been doing all night?"

"Uh," Lin Wu hesitated, and looked up at Wang Ye, "Would it be a bit bleak if I said that I watched the popular science documentary about wolves all night?"

It's not a question of being bleak or not.

"Did you watch popular science documentaries during Chinese New Year?" This kind of unimaginable hard study behavior is completely out of line for Wang Ye.

"It's not an ordinary documentary." Lin Wu had to justify his time and focus. "It's especially thought-provoking."

Wang Ye nodded: "Well, it's just fine if I didn't eat."

...Can you change the topic more simply and rudely!

Lin Wu was overwhelmed by the scumbag's tenacious resistance to knowledge-based topics, but the next second he realized what the other party said, he was stunned: "You didn't eat?"

Wang Ye said, "Eat."

Lin Wu: "Did you bring me food?"

Wang Ye: "No."

Lin Wu: "... Then what happened to you!"

Wang Ye reached out and grabbed Lin Wu's down jacket on the sofa, and threw it over: "Take you out to eat."

Lin Wu rolled his eyes: "On the first day of junior high school, how can there be a restaurant open?"

Wang Ye said, "Oh, the downstairs of your house is fully open."

Lin Wu: "..."

Below the garden apartment, the breakfast shop is steaming and bustling with customers. The chain fast food restaurants and convenience stores are still open 24 hours a day. There are some night sign lights on the doors of the stores. I don’t know if the clerk forgot to turn them off, and they are still on in the rising sun.

Lin Wu and Wang Ye found a porridge shop.

Although Wang Ye said that he had eaten it in the morning, when a pot of sparerib porridge was served, Lin Wu consciously filled a bowl for himself without letting him go.

Lin Wu looked at his good teeth and appetite, and was quite emotional: "No wonder you are a tiger."

Wang Ye glanced at him: "Do you know why the coyote is thin?"

Lin Wu: "Why?"

Wang Ye: "Talk a lot."

Lin Wu: "..."

The tiger is bullying the wolf. Are there any lions and elephants out there to take care of it?

There is no hero who sees injustice, Lin Wu can only be quiet and concentrate on eating short ribs.

In fact, without Wang Ye, Lin Wu could still eat well and eat well when he came down alone.

But when someone eats together, it feels different.

The hot air smoked mist on the cold windowpane, and the two drank porridge facing each other.

It's cold and the porridge is hot.

"What's next?" After breakfast, Lin Wu yawned in the feeling of fullness, his eyelids a little heavy.

Wang Ye also yawned and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Lin Wu continued to yawn: "You come to play with me, shouldn't you prepare a game strategy in advance?"

Wang Ye continued to yawn: "What is that?"

Lin Wu: "..."

Wang Ye: "..."

Lin Wu: "Should it be time for us to sleep?"

——At eight o'clock in the morning, the standard sleep time for the wolf like tiger combination.

So on this beautiful New Year's Day, the two classmates returned to the apartment together after breakfast, and under the call of animal instinct, they both fell into a dark sleep.

Fortunately, the two-meter double bed in the apartment was big enough, and Lin Wu and Wang Ye each occupied one side, so there was plenty of space.

But this peaceful harmony only lasts until sleep.

Lin Wu was kicked under the bed and woke up violently.

It was twelve noon.

Sitting on the ground looking at the bed, he finally understood what it means that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers.

Classmate Wang Ye was lying in the middle of the bed in a big character shape, breathing leisurely, and his chest rose and fell regularly. If there is aura in the world, and the sun and the moon have essence, then you must run to Classmate Wang.

This is no longer the dove occupying the magpie's nest, this is the blatantly occupying the mountain as king!

Lin Wu was so angry that his teeth itch.

As the old saying goes, a vicious tiger can't hold back a pack of wolves, so he has to maintain the dignity of their genus of wolves.

Thinking of this, Lin Wu became angry and went to Hushan again.

He reached under Wang Ye and turned him sideways with all his strength.

Wang Ye rolled over, lying on his back turned into prone.

Didn't wake up.

Lin Wu was convinced of this quality of sleep.

Taking advantage of the space, Lin Wu immediately lay down, also in the shape of a large character, occupying most of the double bed, with one arm and leg stretched directly on Wang Ye's body.

cool.

Lin Wu closed his eyes and understood the joy of the king of beasts a little bit.

With this happiness, Lin Wu fell asleep.

Until the evening, he struggled to open his eyes amid a burst of chest tightness.

Wang Ye was still lying on his stomach, but this time he was lying on him, with his head resting on his neck, and the weight of his body fell on him, like a tiger pressing down on him. Lin Wu felt that it was a miracle that he could wake up alive.

As if feeling the restlessness beneath him, Wang Ye also woke up, slowly raised his head, looked sleepily at the face close up, frowned for a long time, and then muttered: "Lin Wu."

Lin Wu tried his best to pull out a bright smirk amidst the oppressive dyspnea: "If it's not me, who else could it be?"

Wang Ye said: "I dreamed that I turned into a tiger and caught a wolf."

Lin Wu gritted his teeth and said word by word: "If you are a tiger, if you don't catch rabbits or deer, what are you doing if you catch wolves!"

Wang Ye sighed sleepily: "Challenging."