desolate

At around twelve noon, the rain in the clouds cleared up, and Zhou Ze's phone number was connected for the first time.

To be precise, it should be Zhou Ze who finally turned on the phone. First, there were dozens of missed calls from Zhou Haiyang, followed by the old class, and the rest were Qin Yan, Gu Xiaona, Li Pingan...even Wen Jialang. Both made a voice call on WeChat and QQ.

Zhou Ze went through the missed calls and unread messages from top to bottom. It was very difficult, so Ma Wenjing called him three times and sent him a message.

The phone call takes precedence over the message. It may be that after finding out that he didn't answer the call, Ma Wenjing gave up the phone call and edited a short message instead.

The content is roughly two things: one is to ask Zhou Ze to call back within 10 minutes and explain her behavior today, and the other is that she used 70.00% of the ink in the message to express her disappointment with Zhou Ze, and the words revealed her own The annoyance and annoyance I received while dealing with this troublesome business.

At this time, an hour, four and 10 minutes had passed since he received the text message.

Ma Wenjing's words were like knives, but fortunately Zhou Ze was used to them, even if he swallowed these knives, he didn't feel the slightest.

Holding his medical certificate in his hand, Zhou Ze called Zhou Haiyang back.

"Hey, Xiao Ze, is that you?" As soon as the call was dialed, the other party connected. Zhou Haiyang's voice was filled with unreal concern, "Where have you been? If you have anything, you can talk to the teacher with me." If you ask for leave, how can you skip school directly!"

Zhou Ze looked at the diagnosis results on the medical certificate. Mild to moderate depression and bipolar disorder were like two naked and pitiful him lying on this thin piece of paper, weightless but extremely important.

He heard his own voice say, "I'm in the hospital."

The worried tone became more serious, and Zhou Haiyang asked, "Why did you go to the hospital?"

Zhou Ze copied what Professor Lu said during his consultation: "Occasionally, I feel that I can't control my emotions, and there are some complications such as insomnia, heart palpitations, memory loss, and depression, which may be caused by too much pressure from various aspects. Mental illness, the doctor advised me to take medicine for treatment.”

He even persuaded Zhou Haiyang that this is not a big problem, it is as common as a cold and fever, and it is easy to treat, so don't worry.

Zhou Haiyang was silent for a while after listening.

In fact, he is not close to Zhou Ze, his nephew, at most he is polite.

Except for going back to Pingjiang to study this time, the last time they met was before Zhou Ze's parents divorced.At that time, Zhou Ze lived at the house of his grandparents. He was completely different from the good students now. At that time, the little Zhou Ze even had a local accent in Mandarin, but he was very noisy. He was the king of children in the community.And Zhou Haiyang's only impression of him is: this kid loves to play with his carving knife.

Perhaps with a playful mind, Zhou Haiyang suddenly tried to teach Zhou Ze stone carving one day, but in this kind of teaching, he found that the child was patient and able to endure the practice, but he missed the goal To carry on his mantle.

So when he was about to teach something more, Ma Wenjing picked him up again in a flash.

Then raise the child up like this.

Smart, sensible, polite, excellent grades...

Zhou Haiyang sighed a long time on the other end of the phone. He didn't know what to say this time. He didn't know whether to comfort or persuade him. After hesitating for a long time, he finally said dryly: "You haven't eaten yet, have you?" ?”

Before Zhou Ze could respond, Zhou Haiyang went on to say, "I'll transfer some money to you to buy some food, and I'll call your mother."

"it is good."

Answer here, hang up the phone there.

Afterwards, Zhou Ze neatly folded the diagnosis result in half, cut it into a small square about the size of half a palm, put it in his pocket, and then turned around and walked out the door of the outpatient department.

His purpose has been achieved.

Now Zhou Haiyang will definitely ask Ma Wenjing to let him stay in No. [-] Middle School. Although no matter what, he will definitely be transferred in the third year of high school, but for now, as long as the whole sophomore can stay in No. [-] Middle School.

At that time, he will definitely give Ma Wenjing a perfect "good son".

Although it was a temporary idea, it has to be said that after doing all this, he felt unprecedented joy, which was similar to the pleasure after successful revenge—even though he did not admit that it was revenge.

After the rain, there was water on the ground, but not much, and it was a shallow depression. Throwing a fish in it might not be enough to drink two mouthfuls.Zhou Ze picked these small puddles when he was walking, and when he stepped on them lightly, a shiny shoe print disappeared instantly on the ground.

He was enjoying himself so much that he didn't notice that he was about to bump into a motorcycle in two steps.

"Brother Hu, are you in the store? There is something..." Pei Ye walked over from the other direction on the phone, and when he looked up, he saw a person standing beside his motorcycle—to be precise, The side of the downed motorcycle?

Fortunately, when the motorcycle was parked, it was next to a bush that was half the height of a person. After the car fell down, it was completely pressed on the bush, but nothing fell.

Pei Ye walked up to Zhou Ze who was about to help the motorcycle for the third time, and moved his hand away in disgust, then he straightened the motorcycle easily by himself, and asked, "...Are you taking revenge?"

Zhou Ze took a step back in embarrassment: "No, I didn't see..."

Pei also looked around, and there was a large open space for parking in front of the hospital, with raised eyebrows as if saying: You make up yours, if I believe I'm the one!

Zhou Ze didn't bother to explain, just said: "You check it, if it's broken, I'll pay you for the repair."

Pei Ye fixed the motorcycle, inserted the key, lifted his long legs, and straddled the car. His set of movements was smooth and smooth, and his inspection method was to turn the key and pat the car body twice.

"There's nothing wrong with it." Pei Ye propped his feet on the ground, "This car doesn't belong to me. If it's really broken, I can't say it graciously."

Zhou Ze brushed off the leaves and water on the handcart: "If it breaks, I will pay for it. Since there is nothing wrong, I will leave."

He turned his head to the side of the road, intending to take a taxi and leave.

But for a long time, he didn't see a single taxi except for delivery vans, large trucks, and a few private cars.

Another truck passed by, and under the bumpy roar, the sound of the tires running over the stones was crackling.

Zhou Ze stepped back from the curb and saw that Pei Ye and his car were still there, and this guy was still staring at him, as if he was sure that he would definitely turn around.

Pei Ye half-folded on the dashboard and said to him kindly: "Do you want to take you for a ride?"

Zhou Ze didn't hesitate. It should be said that when he found out that Pei also didn't leave, he probably foresaw that this motorcycle might be his means of transportation today.

Pei also took off his helmet to Zhou Ze and asked, "Where are you going?"

Zhou Ze took the heavy helmet without refusing, because the inner liner of the helmet was still warm just after he took it off.

"Go ahead, I haven't figured it out yet."

Pei Ye let out a groan, and suddenly started the car, and the person wearing a helmet behind him bumped into his back unexpectedly.

"Sit still, you pull my clothes."

"I see."

Zhou Ze grabbed a corner of his coat while talking.

The fabric is stiff and feels a little cold to the touch, but it feels thick in a small ball.

Soon, the motorcycle was on the road, but it seemed that in order to take care of him, Pei Ye did not drive fast, so that the action of grabbing clothes seemed unnecessary.

When the car was driving halfway, Pei Ye suddenly spoke, part of his voice was scattered by the wind, but Zhou Ze still made up a complete sentence?

"If you don't know where to go, I'll go somewhere first, I have something to do."

This is probably when the two are closest together.

When Zhou Ze raised his head a little, he could see the scar on the back of Pei Ye's neck, smell the faint smell of motor oil on his coat, and even hear Pei Ye's low cough when the speed of the car was slow.

But they are so close and so far away.

Zhou Ze quickly drooped his eyelids and stopped looking at the scar on his neck.

The helmet keeps the wind out.

Through the transparent goggles, Zhou Ze saw the car driving into a pedestrian street, passing through the pedestrian street, and finally detoured to the side of a road, which was crowded with large and small hardware stores and car repair shops. The only gap was It's an airtight adult goods store.

"I have something to do, you can do whatever you want." Pei also parked the car, and rushed to one of the car dealerships after saying this to Zhou Ze.

A middle-aged man who was washing his car in the store poked his head out and gave him a look.

"Your friend?" Brother Hu asked, flicking the towel.

"Student." Pei Ye replied briefly, "Where's the car?"

Brother Hu raised his chin: "Here, the door is parked. I took a look. There is a problem with the engine. It is not easy to repair."

Pei also walked to the side of the modified motorcycle, pulled his trousers and squatted down to look around every corner of the car. After getting a general understanding, he proceeded to push the car into the shop, planning to disassemble it first.

It took a few hours to repair the car, and it took a lot of effort to disassemble the body stickers. Pei also kept going around the car with the problem, and didn't even bother to have a bite for lunch, until finally he found the problem and the specific solution. , before stopping to take a sip of water and rest for a while before starting repairs.

There were boxes of mineral water in the counter, and Pei Ye walked towards the counter while lifting up his clothes to disperse his sweat.

He walked halfway and suddenly thought of something: "Brother Hu, how much does it cost to repair this car?"

Brother Hu, who was eating melon seeds at the door, replied loudly: "It's more than 800 for repairs and washes. As usual, I will smoke [-], and you will keep it for yourself."

Pei also said, "Didn't you draw two hundred and fifty before?"

Brother Hu snorted and spat out the melon seeds: "You repaired this car by yourself, why should I spend so much? Just pretend it yourself!"

Only then did Pei Ye hum, wipe the sweat with the back of his hand, and a small spot on his forehead instantly became black.

Just as he walked to the counter, just as he was about to bend down to get water, he saw a person sleeping on his stomach inside the counter.

Correspondingly, Pei Ye's movements lightened instantly.

After successfully fetching the water, he immediately rushed to the side of Brother Hu, without panting, "No...why didn't he leave?"

Brother Hu glanced into the shop: "Him? I called him in. You were so focused on repairing the car that you didn't even hear me telling you to eat. You can't leave him outside, right?"

Pei Ye raised his head and poured most of the bottle of water, and his sore throat finally came back to life with the water.

"Tsk, he played truant, what time is it and he still won't go back..."

"What are you muttering about?" Brother Hu gave him a sideways glance, "Have you played truant from school yourself? You're still talking about others."

"I'm... different from him."

"What's the difference? Don't they all have two eyes and one mouth?"

It was rare for Pei to be choked, and he couldn't refute verbally, so he had to poke his mouth in disapproval, but in fact, he thought of something else in his heart - he and Zhou Ze were just different.

This kind of kid who thinks truancy is cool, grew up in a greenhouse, is so innocent, and always believes in those self-righteous principles, but in fact, if he is thrown outside to suffer for two days, he will scream in pain.Not only can't satisfy the spirit, but also suffer from the lack of material.

It's already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and now I can go back to the next few classes.

Pei also finished drinking a bottle of water, crumpled the plastic bottle and threw it into the corner of the wall, then walked to the counter and knocked on the table.

"Hey, get up and go to school."

"..."

The person being called didn't move, and Pei didn't know whether to be angry or laugh, so he had to call again.

"Master, after class, is it possible that someone will invite you?"

"...don't make noise."

Zhou Ze moved this time, but his face stinks.

In the past, everyone liked the gentle and elegant Miyoshi student, but now he has learned how to play with his fangs. Pei also felt that it was very fresh for a while, so he leaned on the counter to watch him.

He urged: "Don't stay here if you don't have class, go home quickly."

The car wash smells heavy and dirty, and if you don't pay attention, you will be covered with engine oil. If you want to wash the car, the water will be sprayed everywhere. He is afraid that Zhou Ze will not be used to it if he stays any longer.

Fortunately, after sitting quietly for a while, Zhou Ze's face softened a lot, and almost completely returned to his usual appearance, only the occasional frowning of his eyebrows, and the shadow of fangs could be seen.

Brother Hu didn't know where to hide to smoke, and there was no one in or outside the store.

Pei Ye straightened up and pulled his arm: "Go back, don't worry your family, you really want to..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhou Ze had already stood up: "Well, thank you for today, I've had a good rest, don't bother me."

Zhou Ze walked quickly, and Pei Ye reacted quickly, and immediately said, "Then I'll take you out. Whether you're going to school or your home, you have to make a detour here. You can hurry up by walking along the path."

This proposal was very sincere, and Zhou Ze didn't refuse, and Pei Ye would lead him the way.

It’s not all about leading the way. The small road used to cross the other street is diagonally opposite the car wash, and you don’t need someone to guide you at all.

But Pei also planned to send people across the road.

As a result, while waiting for the traffic light, Zhou Ze suddenly saw a group of people passing by not far away.

Not only him, but even Pei also noticed.

Without even thinking about it, he pulled Zhou Ze into a standing position facing him.

"Tsk, I forgot that he also works nearby."

Zhou Ze answered him softly: "It's okay."

Not only did he not care, he even looked back twice.

Seeing Ju Haonan walk into a hair salon, he recently worked as an apprentice in it, so his hair is colorful.Here, Pei also finally realized that his actions were really unnecessary to him, so he walked away with a straight face, and the quietness was somewhat trying to hide it.