sincerity of lies

The rest of the way, I was absent-minded.

The red glove slammed on the chest as the bus moved forward, making people a little irritable.I tugged on the red glove, trying to get it off my chest several times, and saw him again.

He was standing beside me, clasping the ring with one hand, and staring at the market outside the window.

I followed his gaze and looked out. It was just an ordinary open-air vegetable market, with chickens, ducks, fish and geese, and the mournful cries of various animals waiting to be slaughtered. in sewage.

A place where people don't want to take a second look after seeing it for the first time.

I turned around and looked at him again.

He still watched with relish, the dirty picture in reality entered his eyes, as if it had been washed and cleaned, and the dirt and chaos faded away, leaving only the flow of people and the smell of chickens and dogs, full of vitality.

"Be careful," he said suddenly, holding out his hand to me.

I was dull for a moment, and saw a branch with green leaves in his palm.

Branches came in from the windows of the bus, and the bus approached the curb when turning. Sweeping it up, he grabbed it in the palm of his hand again, and then swayed and pulled it out as the bus continued to move forward.

With the slight movement of light and shadow, solid green leaves seemed to emerge from his palm.

For a long time after that, I still remember this scene that was like magic, lighting up the gloomy life.

After coming again, we arrived at Meijiu Village.

This is a very old community, and the access control is not strict. We easily found the family where Yu Xiaoyu lived. He looked at the clothes hanging on the balcony and said, "There is an old man in Yu Xiaoyu's house, it should be Grandma Yu or Grandma Yu. , other than that, there are no adult clothes, and it looks like Yu Xiaoyu and the old man depend on each other for life. Did her parents have an accident?"

I don't know much about it.

He knocked on the door again, but unfortunately the old woman in the house didn't welcome the male students very much, and only said that Xiaoyu was not here and let us go back.

Yu Xiaoyu is not here, we always have to wait for someone.

There is only one entrance and exit in the community, which is very convenient. We just need to sit on the rest chair next to the entrance and exit of the community and wait for people.He raised his hand and glanced at his watch: "It's 05:30 now, I just heard that the old lady in the house is cooking, we'll wait at most half to an hour, and Yu Xiaoyu will come back."

This time, however, his reasoning was slightly wrong.

We waited until almost seven o'clock before seeing Yu Xiaoyu trotting into the community in a hurry.

I rushed up and stopped Yu Xiaoyu.

Yu Xiaoyu looked at me, her round glasses slipped to the bottom of the bridge of her nose, her sight through the upper frame of the glasses seemed to be out of focus, and she looked dazed: "Who are you, what's the matter..."

She didn't recognize me, which is normal, she just transferred to Class E, she lowered her head every day at first, and then she was with Xu Shijin every day, maybe she didn't recognize everyone in the class at all.

What's more, my nose is bruised and my face is swollen today, and my face is deformed. Even if she recognizes everyone, she may not recognize me now.

"I'm Zhou Zhaonan." I said, "I'm here to ask you about Xu Shijin. She and you are good friends. Did she tell you when she ran away from home? The teacher is obviously willing to let her go to class A. want to go?"

Regarding Yu Xiaoyu's attitude, in the past hour or so, I communicated with him, or in other words, he unilaterally arranged all possible reactions of Yu Xiaoyu.

In the end, he discussed with me. He said that he thought that for Xiaoyu, a witness who didn’t know much, the more straightforward and frightened she was at the beginning, the more truthful things could be gleaned from her reaction. thing.

I actually want to refute.

Not that he had a bad idea, but that he wished he could come up with a better one.In this way, instead of always being impressed by him, he will also be impressed by me.

It's a pity that I haven't been able to find a better way, so I can only acquiesce to his suggestion.

Once again he made the right choice.

Yu Xiaoyu's complexion changed, and she, who looked weak and weak, seemed very angry at this moment, and her words were unusually sharp, which was a sharpness she had never shown in school.

"Evidently knowing that the whole class in Class A doesn't like Shi Jin, and let Shi Jin go to Class A, the class teacher is trying to kill Shi Jin! If this is the case, isn't Shi Jin leaving a suicide note and finding a place to commit suicide, isn't it just in line with their wishes? Get out of the way, I'm going home."

Yu Xiaoyu bypassed me and walked towards home.

"Wait, classmate..." He stretched out his hand from behind and touched Yu Xiaoyu's sleeve, but Yu Xiaoyu suddenly ran with his head buried in his head, the sleeve circled in his palm, and still pulled it away.

"Want to chase?" I asked him.

"Two boys chasing a girl, it must have put too much pressure on that girl." He explained, "I didn't come up just now, because I didn't push everything to you, because I didn't want her to feel too unsafe. .”

He always thinks too much.I don't think so.

"She smells of cigarettes." I said suddenly, "Maybe she was in a hurry when she went to the Internet cafe and forgot the time."

"I didn't smell it..." He looked at me in surprise, "Your nose is really good."

Not everything is done by him now.A faint sense of self-satisfaction rose in my heart, but the next moment, I heard him say again:

"Just now when Yu Xiaoyu's sleeves were pulled up, I saw scars on her hands."

He narrowed his eyes slightly, as if recalling the scene he saw in a glimpse.

"There are dense knife cuts, not too deep, and there are smoke scars. There is no one else in Yu Xiaoyu's house except the old man. These scars look like traces left by himself. Will Yu Xiaoyu suffer from depression? ... you Are you listening to me? Why are you angry?"

With a stinky face, I didn't want to talk to him.

However, he still dragged me to a hamburger restaurant, saying that it was hard work for me to follow all the way, and he wanted to treat me to dinner.We sat down in the shop and he ordered two burgers, one for me.

Then, endless questions came out of his mouth:

"Why do all the students in Class A dislike Xu Shijin? Xu Shijin has always been a classmate in Class E, right? How could there be a conflict with Class A?"

This matter...it's a long story.

At the beginning of the second year of high school, we went to a scenic spot for an autumn tour, and this time something happened.

Zhen Huan from Class A jumped into the reservoir and drowned.

is suicide.

Previously in Class A, there had been rumors that she and the new chemistry teacher who came to teach Class A during the summer vacation were ambiguous. This chemistry teacher was young, tall, handsome, and humorous.Zhen Huan did get close to this teacher, causing a lot of gossip.

Words kill, that's all.

The person died, and the incident became serious. The teachers immediately began to investigate the scene and look for witnesses.

Later, two people were found, one was a witness from Class A and the other was a witness from Class E.

A witness from class A took the initiative to stand up, saying that she saw Zhen Huan walking towards the reservoir, and called the other party twice, but the other party did not respond to her, and then she left, and saw a red hat when she left.

On the day of the autumn outing, different classes wore different hats.

Class A has a yellow hat, and Class E has a red hat.

The red hat she saw was undoubtedly a student from Class E.

The teachers asked again, and Xu Shijin stood up and admitted that she saw Zhen Huan committing suicide by diving into the water.

When she stood up, the students in Class A were in an uproar, because Xu Shijin was once an alternate for the school's swimming team.

It always feels weird that a classmate who can swim sees another classmate drown and doesn't try to rescue him or call out for help.

Some radical Class A students even accused Xu Shijin of deliberately harming others.

In the face of these slanders, even ordinary girls have to fight for their reasons.

Xu Shijin asked them back: "I have no grievances with Zhen Huan, why do you want to kill her?"

The students in Class A were questioned.But soon, they found a reason: "Because Zhen Huan took your performance spot."

The High School Affiliated to Qin University is a school that pays great attention to the quality education of students. There are many clubs organized in the school, and they also actively establish contacts with the outside world, so that students from these clubs can go out to perform, compete and exchange.

In addition to joining the school swimming team, Xu Shijin also signed up for the piano club. Recently, the piano club had a chance to go out to perform and wanted to play Dvořák's "Humorous Song". Xu Shijin practiced hard for a long time; but because Zhen Huan played better , so even though Zhen Huan was not actually a member of the piano club, the performance spot was still given to Zhen Huan in the end.

Xu Shijin even defended twice at the beginning that she didn't feel resentful because of such a trivial matter, but the students in Class A didn't believe it at all.It is not surprising that the same thing is different in the eyes of different people.

People only believe what they want to believe.

Xu Shijin also seemed to understand later, she gave up her excuses, and she seemed to finally figure out that at this moment, she was already on the opposite side of the entire Class A.

Someone must be responsible for Zhen Huan's death.

If it wasn't "Xu Shi would like to see death but not save", wouldn't it be "Class A rumors kill people"?

She stated to the teacher and the police who came to investigate:

"Although I can swim, I haven't received professional training. If I go into the water to save a person who is determined to commit suicide, let alone come up if I can't be saved, what if I am also dragged into the water by her and drown?"

"Why didn't you call someone?" the teacher asked her.

"I was frightened. By the time I thought of calling someone, you had already rushed over." Xu Shijin replied.

The matter passed like this, but after this incident, Class A became a tight knot, and Xu Shijin was disliked by the collective.

The initial quarrel between Xu Shijin and Jiang Jie also originated from this.

Huo Ranyin is a student in Class A, and she is always worried about Huo Ranyin's worries. Jiang Jie, who thinks about Huo Ranyin, can't see Huo Ranyin's troubles, so she wants Xu Shijin to come to Class A to apologize.

It was just denied by Xu Shijin.

As a result, the conflict between the two became more and more intense until today.

The story is finished, I should go back, before going back, I looked at him, he seemed to be able to read my heart, smiled and waved to me:

"Don't worry, I will stay here for a few days until the case is solved before leaving. How about it, is it interesting to investigate the case? I will go to your school to find you tomorrow!"

I didn't answer, and walked all the way back to my residence.

The house was brightly lit, my aunt was sitting in the living room watching TV, and my uncle was playing computer games in the bedroom. He—— Huo Ranyin, it was rare for him to stay in the room today, but sat in the living room and watched TV with his aunt.

Their eyes turned when I entered.

The aunt complained: "Why is it so late, if you don't come back for dinner and don't tell me in advance, the extra cooked meals are wasted."

Huo Ranyin looked at me with a smile, his eyes flickered maliciously under the lamp: "Maybe he went out to play."

The aunt said: "Xiao Huo, you are a sophomore in high school, you must study hard."

"Mom," said "Huo Ranyin", "don't worry, he will, he is not like me, he is very self-conscious, isn't he? You should pay more attention to me, I made a mistake last semester and failed to get into class A , we can only let him stay in Class E."

Auntie was in a hurry: "You dare to say it, kid! What's going on? Why can't you get a result when it comes to important exams? It can be saved now. When it's time for the college entrance examination, it's up to you!"

"Huo Ranyin": "Don't worry, Mom, I will learn my lesson, and I won't do this again next time, especially during the college entrance examination..."

He smiled at me again.

The picture on the TV darkened, and the bug-like shadow writhed and crawled on his face.

Of course he will learn his lesson, and he certainly won't make the same mistake in the college entrance examination.

Because he failed the test on purpose.

I go back to my room.

In the cramped space, tall and large cabinets overlook me from all sides, oppressing me.

I went to bed, took out the small table, and took out the homework book.

I wrote down the name Huo Ranyin in the homework book with the words "Zhou Zhaonan" written on the cover.

my name.

Mine, was borrowed by my cousin, Zhou Zhaonan, from the past.

Class A of the High School Affiliated to Qin University is a top class, a class that you can’t get into even if you spend money, but there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Auntie and the head teacher of the top class are very good friends, so I feel sorry for my poor performance in the high school entrance examination due to a cold. The son who was not able to enter the attached middle school bought an admission ticket.

An admission ticket to move flowers and trees.

He took away my name and the grades that allowed me to enter Class A.

I have his name, and I walked into his class, Class E, a class with a few points difference in grades, and I paid the school selection fee to come in.

This is my own agreement. No matter how friends the auntie and the head teacher are, if I don’t want to, the head teacher wouldn’t dare to do this kind of thing. I agreed to the auntie.

After the high school entrance examination was over and the classes were divided, my aunt was so anxious that she didn’t fall asleep for several days and nights, she finally came to me and begged me, saying that Zhou Zhaonan lacked self-control, and if he went to a poor class and was influenced by dubious students, he would never be saved in his life. Let me save my cousin's life.

She almost knelt down to me.

It's hard for me to say no.

Since my parents passed away, I have been living with my aunt and uncle. Although my parents have a lot of money, they are all entrusted in the fund. I can only access it when I am an adult. Taking care of me is a thankless task. The family is better My relatives were all playing football, but they took me in in the end, from elementary school all the way to junior high school graduation.They didn't abuse me either, after all I couldn't watch my aunt kneel down to me.

So I said yes.

My aunt was overjoyed and assured me repeatedly that after my cousin entered Class A, he would definitely study hard, and I also worked hard in Class E, so that after the final exam of the first semester of senior high school, my cousin and I would be able to study in Class A, and everyone was happy.

It's a pity that after entering school, "Huo Ranyin" never followed her ideas.

"Huo Ranyin" has indeed studied hard, and his grades have improved significantly, but in contrast, he has repeatedly come to trouble me. I didn't understand it at first, but later I figured it out.

When my aunt begged me, he hid in the house and peeked.

Auntie was about to kneel down, as if he was about to kneel down.

The aunt said that he "has no self-control", as if to say that he is "just not as good as me".

The hatred was planted in his heart, which was already depressed because of his grades in the senior high school entrance examination, and then made him do that thing—in the final exam of the first semester of senior high school, he deliberately failed the exam, so that the name "Huo Ranyin" fell into disrepute. into class E.

And I, "Zhou Zhaonan", was admitted to Class A at the end of the first year of high school.

After the test results came out, the auntie looked a little embarrassed, but she still said: "You are all grown up, and you will get ID cards soon, and it is not decent to keep exchanging names. If you are reported, my good sister will lose her job. , so you still change your names back, Xiao Huo, you work hard, you are very smart, and you can do so well in the exam without a teacher..."

Zhou Zhaonan finally arrived in Class A, and Huo Ranyin finally returned to Class E.

On the day when the class list was posted, I saw him, and he greeted me with a smile in high spirits.

And with his menacing eyes, he said mockingly:

Real people and fake people, all return to their correct positions.

……

Later, when the second year of high school started, the students who called me "Zhou Zhaonan" for the first semester still called me Zhou Zhaonan, including the teacher. The only thing that changed might be a slight touch on the file.

But with 49 students and so many names, who would go out of their way to see Huo Ranyin who was hiding somewhere?

The name was taken away for a while, as if a place was missing in the body.

Even if I take the name back, that place is still vacant, causing the rest of the area connected to it to be distorted and deformed, causing the beast in my chest to sniff out the gap to break free from the cage...

I found many reasons for the killing intent in my heart, and these reasons seemed to be enough to make me hate him for the rest of my life.

But every time I hate him, what I read in my heart and what I write are all "Huo Ranyin".

In the second year of high school, I was able to remake the badge. When making it, by accident, I still wrote the name "Zhou Zhaonan", which seemed to indicate something.

I stopped writing.

The three words "Huo Ranyin" in red are written all over my notebook.

One stroke at a time, the red is eye-catching and deeply red.

Maybe I just projected my own hatred and loathing onto him.

I hate me.

I hate Huo Ranyin.

Huo Ranyin, who should have gone to hell long ago, killed his parents in that diary.