sunk in yesterday

In order to make room for the upper and lower beds, the original desks in the old classroom were stacked up and down and placed side by side near the podium.

The curtains on several windows were partially covered, and the sunlight came in through the glass, turning the dust floating in the air into pieces of gold.

The mottled light yellow was reflected on the gray-black blackboard, and half of the names of the students on duty in the lower right corner were erased, leaving only a "Zi" and a half of "Jia".

Guan Yuzhou took out the three missing person notices and compared them, and read out the name of the only girl among the missing, "Zi Jiali."

"The two bad guys mentioned 'Lili' just now, so they should be referring to this girl." Xia Zhuo rubbed the sweat from his palms after being let go, and repeated the conversation heard in the cubicle. "I mentioned 'rescue', isn't this girl pretty good?"

Guan Yuzhou glanced at him, and thought it was funny when he bit out the word "bad guy" with an indignant look, the corners of his lips curled up, and he said with a smile, "I can't say for sure at the moment."

No one has done sanitation for so long, so it is inevitable that dust will accumulate everywhere.The three touched the switch to turn on the overhead light, and the hanging lamps flickered twice. The light emitted could barely illuminate the ground, but it seemed a bit depressed, hovering on the edge of whether it should be broken or not. .

But they don't care whether the light can still be used. After all, sometimes the flashlight is more reliable, especially when the light is the same as that of the light, it is still necessary to use the flashlight for auxiliary lighting.

"Oh, this is class 1, junior high school, and it's all written in the homework book." Xia Zhuomao squatted on the ground, next to Guan Yuzhou, raised his hand and took out a Chinese book from the nearest table hole .He flipped through it roughly, and many blank spaces were filled with graffiti with pencils. Even the portraits of historical literati were tampered with. It will become a great tool in the future.

Guan Yuzhou glanced roughly at the place where his finger was pointed, and saw that the four-faced creature was staring like a copper bell, with limbs of different lengths. He didn't know where Xia Zhuo's exorbitant evaluation came from.

Xia Zhuo saw that his expression was hard to describe, and couldn't help laughing, "The most important thing for children is creativity, drawing a cat is a cat, drawing a dog is a dog, it's so boring, if you really want to be exactly the same, then you might as well go to the animal world. It’s because the painting doesn’t look like anything, and I add my own ideas in it, so it’s interesting.”

"I, I think so too..." Tan Nian, who had been keeping quiet all this time, suddenly interjected, seeing Xia Zhuo looking over, he lowered his head in a panic and looked at his toes again.

Xia Zhuo thought that he was just answering the words, but after a few seconds, he whispered again: "When I was young, I was sent to an art training institution... there was a teacher in it, who was only 20 years old, and brought A group of elementary school children draw pictures.

"I remember her surname, her surname is Liu, her skin is a bit dark, but her eyes are big and beautiful... At that time, art classes were quite expensive, and art exams were gradually taken seriously. Sending children to professional studies at an early age...

"I'm one of the...

"Once, the topic was "Rainbow", and my friend who studied with me painted the rainbow at night. Because, because the rainbow is formed by the refraction of the sun's rays, it can only appear when there is sunshine in the daytime... He thought the moon It's so pitiful, I can't see the rainbow, so I want to show the rainbow to the moon, and let the rainbow and the Milky Way exchange a day's work.

"Ms. Liu gave him five stars, and the full score is five stars.

"Then... that day, when his mother came to pick him up, he scolded him. She said that something he drew was crooked and contrary to common sense. A dog's mouth was better than his hand.

"Later, Teacher Liu reasoned with his mother... saying that at this age, you can't restrict your thinking with straight things. Children are artists, which is the key to changing the facts with imagination... The parent said She didn't know why, she didn't teach well after paying the money, so she just refunded the fee and took me...my friend left...

"I, I didn't understand at the time... But now I feel, I feel... Teacher Liu is right, she is more serious than those parents in safeguarding children's... thoughts and future.

"But parents don't care about these things. They only care about grades, they only compare themselves with others, and they only care about whether they have face... They never care whether their children are tired or not, whether they like it or not."

Xia Zhuo was quite surprised that Tan Nian said so many words in one breath, "I think the idea is very good, your friend must be a great artist now."

"...No, no. He didn't."

After being denied, Xia Zhuo still smiled and said: "Hey, what artist and musician, these titles are all given by others. If you really love it, why do you care about the empty words on your body, even if your level is not high now? , there will be such a day sooner or later.”

"...There won't be any in the future."

Tan Nian was not in a high mood, maybe he had been at a low point all the time, although he always smiled shyly, but the smile never reached his eyes.

Xia Zhuo is actually very curious about Tan Nian. Such a small child is just like the siblings surnamed Jian whom he met in his dream for the first time. He should be at an age where he should be carefree and having fun on campus, but he got into such a In a cage woven by obsession.

He wanted to know what happened to Tan Nian, because he instinctively sensed that the "friend" in the other party's mouth covered a lot of personal color, and usually this kind of situation refers to himself.

Although he has a lot of gossip factors, he is not the character to expose people's scars in front of people.He put the Chinese document in his hand back to its original position, "How do you know the future? People are learning all their lives, and they are constantly developing. If you are sure about the future now, you can only say that your vision is too short-sighted."

Seeing that Tan Nian was staring at him in a daze, he raised his eyebrows, "You don't think I'm going to pour you chicken soup, do you? Chicken soup or something has no real effect, stabbing the knife will wake you up the fastest."

Qin Nian: "..."

Guan Yuzhou turned his face away from Xia Zhuo's sight, put his fingers against the seam of his lips, as if he was laughed at by this sentence.

Tan Nian scratched his face, his ears turned red, "Thank you... If my friend had known you when he was a child, I'm afraid he would be a very good normal person now as you said."

Xia Zhuo curled his lips, seemingly displeased, "What kind of normal people are not normal people, I think I have a lot of problems. When you say that, you scold me too."

Tan Nian hurriedly lowered her head again, apologizing to him in a panic: "...Yes, I'm sorry."

"Hey, don't be kidding you. I didn't blame you for anything, and I'm not a normal person." Seeing Guan Yuzhou looking at the window with nothing to do with business, Xia Zhuo rubbed his brain with a smile Neck, "Why don't you speak, and wear a deep look all day long."

"What are you talking about?" Guan Yuzhou looked at him again, "Mr. Xia is giving a lecture, and I'm just an observer."

"I think you're laughing at me."

"No."

"...Did you just laugh?"

"No."

Seeing Xia Zhuo looking at him with puffed cheeks, Guan Yuzhou finally couldn't hold back.He laughed twice, and said in a serious voice: "It's not you who are abnormal, but many abnormal things in this world have changed you. If you feel that you are wrong, there is no need to blame yourself."

"Hey, your chicken soup is much more professional than me." Xia Zhuo gave a thumbs up, "But I agree. What's the reason for everything, I think this sentence is wrong, the factor of one thing So much, why should I shoulder it on my shoulders, when it’s time to throw the blame, I have to throw it out without hesitation, less blame, more happiness.”

Especially throwing it to those who don't like it, it's double the happiness.

"As expected of Teacher Xia."

"Teacher Guan has won the prize~"

The business exchange was over, and the three continued to search in the old classroom.

Due to the reminder from the aborigines, they can't move the things in this room at will, for fear that if they accidentally touch the taboo, they will be the ones who will be unlucky.

Obviously the classroom is not too big, but after spending the whole morning, I didn't find anything wrong. Even the corner under the bed, which is the easiest place to hide things, was turned over, but it was so clean that only dust remained.

"It's too cold here." Xia Zhuo held a handful of sunshine, "The light is cold."

"Let's eat something first. If you can't find a clue here, don't force it. You can leave it to other participants to dig." Guan Yuzhou walked to the door, suddenly thought of something, took out the big group photo again, looked at it for a while and then Scanning the table and chairs again, he frowned slightly and said, "There is something wrong."

"what?"

"There are 27 students in the photo, but there are only 26 sets of desks and chairs here. Although it is a junior high school, the class has not changed its core until now. It may be that other classes mixed in when the photo was taken, or it may be this classroom. Less people."

This is a little subtle.

Xia Zhuo thought for a while, "Isn't the serial number written on their table with paint, why don't you check it? If there is a missing number in the middle, it should be that there is one missing person, not an outsider mixed in the photo. "

As a result, the result came out just after checking the beginning, and the table marked with serial number 27 was placed in a prominent position.

"It's really strange..." Xia Zhuo felt that the surrounding air was getting colder, "I don't need to drop out of school, so I moved away?"

Guan Yuzhou shook his head, expressing that he was not sure, "We still have to get the roster. These table numbers should correspond to those of the students in the class. After the photos are taken, we can know whose copy is missing."

Tan Nian was obediently waiting for them to come out at the door, but suddenly jumped out, "Wait, wait a minute, I saw the storage room earlier..."

Within a few seconds, his voice came from not far from the next door, "Mr. Guan, Mr. Xia! Here... There is still a table here!"

The two followed closely into the storage room, walked around the bed, followed the direction Tan Nian was pointing to and saw a wooden table in the corner with a pile of broken boards and old utensils. The number written on the upper right corner had been It is heavily worn, as if it was specially scratched with a sharp object, but it can be vaguely seen as "25".

Compared with the desks in the classroom that are not new but are considered to be in the normal damage category, this one is difficult to see.

Its entire tabletop is engraved with words, and the old and new traces are overlapping and it is difficult to distinguish.

The wooden thorns around the table belly have traces of being repeatedly picked by hand. It is estimated that the hand was cut too hard when picking, and blood seeped into the wood residue.Although the color darkened after a long time and lost its original vividness, it is still very conspicuous under the illumination of a strong flashlight.

In addition, there is a crooked pattern in the lower right corner, which is probably the only clean corner on the entire table. It can be roughly seen from the iconic ears that it is a rabbit head.

Guan Yuzhou tapped lightly on the table, "This is what's missing."

"Look at the ashes on the top, it must have been piled up for a long time." Xia Zhuo wiped his hands casually, covered his mouth with the back of his hand and shone the flashlight into the belly of the table, but suddenly saw something. Flashing past, Ji Lingxia grabbed Guan Yuzhou who was crouching beside him.

Guan Yuzhou was dragged to the side by him, pursed his lips and raised his eyes.

"..." Xia Zhuo admitted that he was guilty, and silently let go.

Guan Yuzhou didn't care about the disheveled hair, reached into the belly of the table, and took out a small mirror the size of a palm.This mirror is not complete, and there are traces of tape on the back, as if it was removed from some round object.

He shook it in his hand, then handed it to Tan Nian.

Tan Nian took it cautiously, but his eyes lit up, "Thank you!"

Guan Yuzhou said: "It's a bit small, let's make do with it."

Tan Nian nodded, and whispered, "It's good enough."

After hearing a few words, Xia Zhuo was at a loss, so he didn't ask any more questions, and continued to dig out other things in the belly of the table.

Although the desk has been moved here from the classroom, what should be inside is still there.There are a lot of shopping lists in the corner, but the address on the invoice is displayed in the town. It seems that I bought it from a more prosperous place, or hired someone to buy it on my behalf. The total price below is not too small in this era. The family conditions should be quite good for the money spent.

Xia Zhuo put the invoice aside, "If the owner of this table is the child I saw being bullied earlier, there should be 'Autumn' in the name, I heard they call him 'Little Sister Qiu'."

After he finished speaking, he picked up a damp and wrinkled book, and found that all the books here were only in the fifth grade of elementary school, which was completely different from the junior high school textbooks in the classroom.

From 2002 to 2005, from the fifth grade to the second grade.

Exactly three years.

In this way, according to the clues of the female participant's self-explosion, this child is most likely the one who disappeared three years ago, so all his things were moved out of the classroom and put in this room.

Thinking of the pitiful appearance of the kid in the cubicle, he subconsciously relaxed his movements, opened the cover, and saw clearly the name written on the paper: Qiu Yinghua.

The author says:

Part of this dream was created for Tan Nian, the reason for his split personality is easy to guess~

The role of the mirror is of course for him and his sub-personality to often play mirror ♂ surface play (no