Abnormal

the bell rang.

The English test was over, and the invigilator had just collected the papers, when he saw that the group of children below were all gearing up, with their legs stretched out of the desk, almost waiting for her to release the news and rush out.She laughed dumbfoundedly, "Okay, that's the end of today, tonight..."

Before the words were finished, the class was already in chaos, and a few rushed out anxiously.These sophomores were very skinny, and when they passed the door, several boys drew their tunes, the one on the left said 'bye teacher', and the one on the right said 'happy mid-autumn festival'.

The joy of student days is really pure.This wasn't even considered a holiday, but it was the kindness of the school leaders who canceled the evening self-study and changed to watching a movie together, which made them happy.

The invigilator shook his head helplessly, and put the papers into the sealed bag. In a blink of an eye, the class was empty.

She picked up her bag and was about to leave, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure lying on the ground in the corner, and stretched her neck, she seemed to recognize this student, who she taught in the first year of high school, called...

"Gao Tong?"

The boy seemed to be taken aback, he quickly patted his trouser legs and stood up, with his glasses still crookedly on the bridge of his nose, he said "Hello, teacher" stiffly.

"Why don't you go, what are you doing here?"

"Uh, my rubber fell into the crack of the radiator... It's a bit out of reach, I'll pick it up."

"That's fine. If it doesn't work, just use a new one. You struggled a lot in the exam just now." The female teacher asked casually, "Are your parents coming to see you today?"

It seems that he has always been rarely noticed, the boy has always been very embarrassed, he only glanced at her and then lowered his head, "Ah... well, I came here." After two seconds, he added: "But it may be slower. "

The child was as thin as malnourished.

The sleeves of the gray-washed school uniform were rolled up to the elbows, and a slender white arm was stained with fluffy ash from the radiator.

She took a few glances, recalled the gossip in the office, subconsciously untied her hair, and said with a smile: "Then the teacher is leaving first, happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

The boy nodded dully, then raised his hand as if remembering something, and waved it, "... Teacher is also happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

……

After finally digging out the eraser from the corner, Gao Tong heaved a sigh of relief, put it back into the pencil case like a baby, and then began to tidy up the table.

Brush all the rubber crumbs on the desktop into the calculation paper, crumple them into balls and throw them away.Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of half of the deduction formula on the paper, and remembered that there seemed to be a physics problem that was not quite right when I took the general science exam in the morning.Forget it, the exam is over anyway, let's see what's going on after handing out the papers.

Before coming to school this week, my parents said that they would bring Qiuqiu to see him on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as moon cakes and glutinous rice balls.Yesterday I called home with a one-card card, and said it was about six o'clock, and now it is almost 05:30, so don't worry.

While thinking about it, Gao Tong slowly packed his schoolbag.The school radio room began to play music, which was the song of Mayday. He hummed along softly and walked out of the classroom gradually.However, when he saw the scenery outside, he couldn't help being slightly startled, and stopped by the window sill.

There are two scenes inside and outside the door of the classroom.Inside is the cold mechanical incandescent light and the indigo cloudless sky; while the corridor is filled with soft light, and the square field is soaked in the rose-colored sunset, wrapping him tightly again.The horizon burned with clouds, and his pupils were also ignited.

The laughter and laughter of the students can be heard across most of the playground and four floors across /Douding/一/.林/④/zero/⑤/9/6/37/.

The world seems to be divided by this teaching building, one end is quiet and peaceful, and the other end is magnificent and noisy.

"Gao Tong?"

Just as he was staring blankly, his name was called again.He was too familiar with this voice, Gao Tong turned his head, and sure enough, he saw a slender and tall figure coming from a distance, that person was also wrapped in the sun, and his whole body seemed to be shining.

For some reason, Gao Tong became nervous, pursed his lips, and said, "...Brother Bai, Brother Bai."

"You call me that too?" The other party smiled gently, and quickly changed the subject: "What are you doing here, aren't you going to eat?"

"Ah, my parents will come over later. They brought me food..."

Bai Xiuwen nodded and said, "I'm here to get the phone." He looked at Gao Tong thoughtfully, "Have your parents arrived yet? Would you like to borrow my phone to make a call?"

Gao Tong subconsciously refused. He didn't dare to take the other party's things, and waved his hands again and again: "No, no, they agreed to arrive at six o'clock, and I will go to the event building to find them later. Thank you..."

Bai Xiuwen's expression was always calm.He said 'that's fine too'.Just about to leave, she paused and said, "There will be a movie in class tonight, so you won't go home."

"No, today the school does not allow temporary..."

"See you tonight."

"Okay, okay." Being interrupted like this, Gao Tong stammered back: "See you tonight."

After the other party left, Gao Tong was still in a daze for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the time had reached six o'clock without knowing it.He quickly ran to the activity building, where the school allowed parents to enter and pick up students. At this moment, it was already crowded, and the hall was full of parents and students.

Gao Tong searched around but didn't see his parents, instead he saw many classmates and their parents gathered together.He didn't think much, just stood near the gate and waited.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival happened to fall on a Thursday, and the school decided to take a holiday after class on Saturday, but it was considered an opening to cancel the evening self-study, and allowed each class to use multimedia to play movies.Gao Tong also thinks it's good to relax. They start school early, and there is no vacation for two months. It is really tiring to take the big and small exams every week.

After a while, he still didn't see his parents. Gao Tong looked at his watch and found that it was already 06:30, the sky was getting dark, the whole sky became uniform, and the afterglow was gone.Everything is burned.

He was going to make a phone call, but there was always someone standing at the card position, and there was a long queue behind him.In fact, there was a classmate next to him. He struggled for 15 minutes whether to ask for a phone call, but he was really unfamiliar with the other party. When he finally made up his mind, the family of three got up and planned to leave.

He stopped thinking, and just waited from six o'clock to 07:30.

People in the lobby of the event building came and went, one after another.Totally unfamiliar faces.unfamiliar environment.In such a Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family is reunited and happy everywhere.And rightly so.

At 07:30, it was finally his turn to call. At that time, he already knew that his parents would not come, so he just inserted the card and entered the number with a blank face, waiting for the beep to sound.

"Hey, Mom."

"Hey, Tongtong, I'm still worried that I can't call you. We can't go today, and I went to your uncle's house for dinner with Qiuqiu. The car broke down on the way back, and I'm waiting for repairs now." ..."

Gao Tong was silent for a long time.

Finally he asked, "Is the car all right?"

"It's nothing serious, and I don't know which part of the engine is broken, but we can't make it through tonight. You and your classmates have a good time." I don't know if it's a bad signal or something, but the voice on the mother's end is always electrified. "Your high school classmates will be real talents in the future. You get along well with them and treat the school as your home..."

Gao Tong didn't say anything, just 'hmm'.After listening to the chatter for a while, he said, "Mom, the evening self-study has started, so I'll hang up first."

At this time, there was no one in the hall, and the students also returned to their classes one after another, waiting to watch the CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala or watch a movie.

The autumn wind is bleak, the autumn wind is bleak.

He hid his hands in the wide cuffs, hid his body in the sack-like school uniform, and was carried back to the teaching building inch by inch by the wind at 07:30 in Jincheng.

……

Jiang Changwan's parents bought mooncakes for the whole class.Before the movie, she beamed and handed out gift boxes of mooncakes table by table, saying that these were high-end mooncakes specially made by the family hotel, with all kinds of fillings, and some pastries from Lao Dingfeng and Daoxiang Village, so you can take whatever you want.There was a lot of noise in the class, everyone was distributing mooncakes and voting on which movie to watch. In the end, the cultural and entertainment committee made a final decision, saying that a new movie "Flipped" was released in the United States last year or the year before. This film is like this, with a Douban score of 9.0+, which is very good-looking.

After making a decision, I started to find the source of the film to show, and it was played on time at 07:30, and all the lights in the classroom were turned off.

But the mooncakes haven’t been handed out yet. Jiang Changwan walks to the row closest to the wall while chatting with people. This place is far away from the multimedia screen, and the viewing position is average. Since there are extra seats in the class, almost no one sits here. .

Who would have thought that a male voice suddenly came from behind: "Chang Wan, let me post it for you."

Jiang Changwan was taken aback, and the corners of his mouth curled up: "What's the matter, Brother Bai has also served the public~"

The other party just smiled and did not reply directly.

Jiang Changwan didn't shirk, and directly handed the mooncake gift box to Bai Xiuwen.Just as the movie started, she and her friends bowed back to the reserved best "viewing position", enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival entertainment while eating snacks.

Bai Xiuwen was really dedicated to his work. There were two people sitting in that row, in the first and second row respectively. He handed over the mooncakes and said "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival" as a gift, which made people extremely flattered and thanked them repeatedly.

The third row is Gao Tong's position.

Even in the dark, some people were paying attention to Bai Xiuwen's actions at this time. They found that he skipped the third row, put the remaining gift boxes away, and sat in the fourth row against the wall.

There are not many people in the experimental class, and there are more columns and fewer rows, and there are only five rows in total.No one in the fifth row tonight.

Soon everyone withdrew their thoughts and focused on the movie.

……

7:45 pm.

Fifteen minutes into the movie, there was silence in the classroom, not even the sound of chewing potato chips and pouring soda.

The heroine Julie climbed up the tallest sycamore tree in the town. At dusk and sunset, the orange-red sky was like a blazing flame, covering the grass field overwhelmingly. A fiery tenderness.

"One morning I was making mental notes of how the strikes of light were cutting through the clouds... when I heard noise below—"

(One morning, I was mentally recording how rays of light pierced the sea of ​​clouds... when I suddenly heard a noise from under the tree——)

Everyone was staring at the screen, as if attracted by the scenes of the film, but the back door suddenly creaked, although it was very light, it was as incompatible as the noise in the film at this moment.

A few people glanced back, and when they saw Gao Tong, they rolled their eyes and turned back to watch the movie.No one is willing to sacrifice the wonderful plot of the movie for him, and soon everyone is immersed in the movie again, and no one pays attention to him anymore.

Gao Tong returned to his seat as quietly as possible, he didn't know what movie was playing, but it didn't matter, everything was fine, even if it was a good choice to use this time to sleep a little longer.He leaned against the wall and looked up at the movie very quietly.

He didn't even notice who the person behind him was.

However, Bai Xiuwen couldn't ignore it.

The slender neck in front of him was almost white in the darkness.He can't concentrate on the film at all, as long as he looks forward, he will always catch a glimpse of that blank part inadvertently.He frowned slightly, turned his head away, tapped his fingers on his thighs, and his eyes fell on the screen, but a strange thought faintly rose in his heart - he wanted to control that fragile piece of white in his hands. Here, rub him, pinch him, pinch him...

He suddenly thought of Gao Tong who was standing alone by the window sill in the corridor just after sunset.There are many colors on his body, but it seems to be constructed of black, white and gray.

Soon, Bai Xiuwen found that Gao Tong was asleep.

The boy lay on the desk, his neck retracted into the collar of his school uniform, Bai Xiuwen closed his eyes, and stopped thinking about it.

……

In the middle of the movie, when the heroine was behind the bookshelf and heard the hero and his friends discussing her family's situation, Gao Tong had also slept through it, and when he rubbed his eyes, he heard an embarrassing sound of breathing in the class.

Before he could figure out what was going on, the back of his neck was suddenly lightly touched by someone. Gao Tong was still a little confused, and was stimulated by the cool touch, shrugging his shoulders and turning his head to look.

"Bo..."

At first, he didn't see who the person behind him was, he shook his head, until his sight gradually became clear, and Gao Tong's eyes widened in shock——

The other party gave him a silent gesture, then turned his head slightly, motioning him to look under the table and chairs.

Gao Tong was puzzled and looked down.There was only faint light shining on this side of the wall, and he saw two mooncake boxes lying quietly in the other's wide palm.

The heart suddenly stopped beating.

Gao Tong raised his head slowly, and met the other party's gaze again, only to see the other party's gaze was looking at him calmly.He opened his mouth, and after a while, he struggled to find his own voice: "Yes... Do you want me to pass it on?"

The other party smiled and beckoned him to lean back, Gao Tong hesitantly leaned back, and the next moment the other party's voice rang in his ears——

"It's for you." The warm breath sprayed behind the ears, and Gao Tong's back went numb for a moment, and he heard the other party chuckle: "Gao Tong, happy Mid-Autumn Festival."

……

The movie gradually came to an end.

Holding the gift box, Gao Tong carefully put the mooncakes into his schoolbag.Knowing that Bai Xiuwen was sitting behind him, he didn't dare to sleep anymore, and felt uncomfortable all over, so he straightened his back subconsciously.

He watched the male and female protagonists plant a sycamore tree in the courtyard together, and their hands touched together inadvertently; then the perspective stretched infinitely, from the two green young men and women to this small sycamore tree, and then To the lush woods behind the courtyard, to the...

Until you have a panoramic view of this small town in the United States.A town is just a town, but the sky belongs to everyone.

-The film ends.

The classroom was silent at first, then there were whispering discussions, and then boiling.A few emotional female students cried quietly, but no one turned on the lights.

The school bell rang ahead of time, and the students began to carry their bags back to the dormitory in groups. From the teaching building to the dormitory building through the playground, there was a lot of laughter, and it really was the Mid-Autumn Festival.

When Gao Tong returned to the dormitory, the room was still dark.He turned on the light, put his bag on the desk, and went to wash and brush his teeth.After a while, I heard the door being pushed open, and I didn't know who came back first.

He looked at himself in the mirror, his thoughts were flying wildly, wondering if Bo Xiuwen would come back to live today, why he gave himself moon cakes, thinking that he is really a good person, this is the best person he has ever met.

There was a knock on the toilet door.

While brushing his teeth, Gao Tong vaguely asked 'Who is it', but after thinking about it, there was no need to ask, as other roommates almost never knocked on the door when they came in.

"It's me." The person outside replied.

Gao Tong spit out the water quickly, ran to open the door before wiping off the foam from his mouth.I saw the other party wearing white half-sleeves, with a usual faint smile on his face: "You wash up so quickly. Are you going to sleep?"

It's only 09:30.

Gao Tong glanced at his watch, shook his head hastily, "I, I'll wash up here first...in case they don't have a seat when they come back."

Bai Xiuwen nodded, but suddenly raised his arm over him, and took the towel from the hook behind him, "They won't be back tonight. I just sent a text message to say that the parents came to pick them up and went home."

Only then did Gao Tong remember that he didn't seem to see the other two roommates in the class, so he had already gone home after the exam.

He nodded, pursed his lips, and didn't know what to say. The other party looked at him and suddenly pointed to the corner of his mouth.

Gao Tong was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously wiped it with his hands, but unexpectedly, he found a lot of foam. He hurriedly turned around to wash it off, and the next moment he heard the voice of the other party coming back into the room, the sound of his heartbeat changed suddenly. install.

After washing up, Gao Tong also returned to the room. Seeing that the other party was flipping through the books, he summoned up his courage and said, "Well, thank you for the...mooncakes."

The other party put down the book and turned to look at him, "Actually, Jiang Changwan's parents sent it. Have you eaten yet?"

Gao Tong was obviously taken aback, and said after a few seconds: "No, I haven't eaten. I've already brushed my teeth..."

"Let's eat tonight. Some foods are time-sensitive." Bai Xiuwen said, "You can rinse your mouth later."

Gao Tong originally wanted to take it home as a gift for his younger sister, but he was too embarrassed to refuse when he saw the other party say so. He took out the mooncake from his schoolbag, unpacked it, and found that the mooncake skin was white, which he had never seen before.

He has only eaten mooncakes with five kernels, but they are actually not very tasty, and he doesn't like them.

"One piece is cranberry, and the other piece should be matcha chocolate red beans." The other party said: "They are all snow skin mooncakes. Do you like sweet ones?"

Gao Tong ate the mooncakes in small bites. He stood beside the trash can and nodded clumsily.

He liked to eat sweets since he was a child, and even suffered from dental caries because of it. After that, he reduced his sugar intake.

After a while, he finally finished eating the mooncakes and rinsed his mouth. Bai Xiuwen quietly flipped through the cartoons. He didn't dare to disturb him, so he just sat on the seat in a daze.

Unexpectedly, just sitting like this, he dozed off.Half asleep and half awake, he seemed to hear the other party ask: "Is it delicious?"

Gao Tong woke up in a jerk, and saw the other party standing there moving his shoulders and neck, probably tired from sitting for a long time.He was so tall that the shadow cast by the lamp almost covered him.

"Delicious..." He nodded, still a little sleepy.

Bai Xiuwen just smiled, "Sleep if you're sleepy. I'll turn off the lights."

Gao Tong was really sleepy, he crawled onto the bed with a sticky 'hmm'.Soon, I also felt a sound coming from the side next door, and the other party also went to bed.

Half asleep and half awake, he heard the other party ask in a warm voice, "How did you meet your parents today."

Gao Tong's brain was no longer able to deal with this kind of problem. After a long time, he replied word by word as if talking in sleep: "They didn't come. On the way...something happened..."

There was silence.

Subconsciously, Gao Tong was about to fall into a deeper sleep, but he always felt that he didn't express his gratitude to Bai Xiuwen, and didn't give him today's blessing.Finally, just before he completely lost consciousness, he whispered, "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival...good night..."

The next moment, I heard the other party's deep voice coming from the bed next door——

"OK, good night."

"you're also happy."

This is the Mid-Autumn Festival in my sophomore year.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival later, Gao Tong couldn't help thinking of that day, when the two got along warmly and harmoniously like friends, and said good night to each other.At first, he thought that the other party was the best person he met in his life.

It's just that something like that happened later.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in the third year of high school, Bai Xiuwen should have gone abroad, or somewhere else, anyway, the other party was often not in school at that time.They never spoke much again.

Many Mid-Autumn Festivals, many reunions, just like this are crushed by the years.

……

In "Pounding", the hero Bryce once had a confession.

"Juli Baker was out of my life. Or, more accurately, I was out of hers."

(Julie Baker is out of my life. Or, rather, I am out of her life.)

At that time, Bai Xiuwen was still young and did not understand the meaning.He has always had no preference for movies about youth growth and love. He thinks indifferently, things in the world, life and death, that's all.No one should be eternal, no emotion is immortal.And he has not yet reached the level of obsession with Gao Tong.

It was only many years later, when he was strolling under the red brick walls of Harvard, overlooking Central Park in his apartment in Boston; when he was driving on the endless interstate highway, and the cozy and comfortable pastoral grass came into view... …

The fiery red sky follows the horizon, and the road follows the Mercedes-Benz off-road vehicles.

Like an epiphany, he suddenly remembered the state of mind of the heroine Julie in the movie when she sat on the tallest plane tree in the town and looked into the distance.He also finally figured out the reason for his abnormal obsession with Gao Tong.

"Pounding Heartbeat" has also been translated into "The Love of the Indus Tree".

Julie once said that the sycamore tree in the town is a gift from God to a wandering corner of the universe.

He thought, yes, so did Gao Tong.Gao Tong is a gift from the universe to his wandering life.But this time, he will firmly control Gao Tong in the palm of his hand.In his world, let him never have another chance to escape his life.

I put it on Weibo and forums before, but I forgot to bring it here =w=