A Certain Someone

Sheng Wang originally thought that the so-called "several shops" were really just a few, but when he arrived at the school gate behind the mountain, he saw that it was a long street.

The terrain around the school is not straight, the long street winds down along the gentle slope, circles the school half a circle, and the end is hidden behind the wall on the side of the mountain, it is difficult to see the end at a glance.

The only bustling place in the vicinity is also the only place where the people of this school can be active, so in the evening, not only is it not deserted, but it is also very lively.

However, students who are in normal classes still have evening self-study at night, even if they come out, they only have time to eat dinner.Unfortunately, Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian came during the peak season, and all the restaurants that could eat were filled to the brim.

Sheng Wang walked around twice and couldn't help but said, "How unpalatable is the cafeteria? It makes people feel like this?"

The school opened a separate window for them. Normal students use cards, and they have meal coupons.They also muttered yesterday that there are many types of ordinary windows, and it is estimated that the taste will be better.Now it seems that it is not the same, so the students seized the time and came to the door to hold a tooth sacrifice.

Jiang Tian took out his phone and looked at the time. School was over at 5:40. The students had just entered the store at this moment, and it would be at least 6:[-] by the time they finished eating and made room.

He asked Sheng Wang, "Is there any place you want to go?"

There is only one street here, and there are only so many tricks to go back and forth. If Sheng Wang came alone, he would not be interested in any of them, but it would be completely different with Jiang Tian beside him.

He scanned back and forth and said, "I want to go anywhere."

Jiang Tian: "..."

Sheng Wang said, "What should I do?"

"Pick one."

"Choose the obstacle, you can't pick it out."

"..."

Sheng Wang's eyes clearly said narrowness: "Aren't you my brother, you have an obligation to help make up your mind."

Jiang Tian frowned and looked at him speechlessly, then nodded after a while, stretched out his hand and said softly: "Give me the knife, and help you share it. How many houses do you want to go to?"

Sheng Wang: "...Damn it, who are you scaring? Are you willing?"

Originally, he just said something casually, whether it was a brother or a friend, these words were very common, but in front of a special person, there was an inexplicable meaning.

Jiang Tian paused.

They were still walking up the gentle slope side by side, taking a leisurely pace as if they were relaxing.Jiang Tian's right hand is still spread out, his long and thin fingers are slightly curved.

From the corner of Shengwang's eyes, he saw Jiang Tian curled his fingers, retracted them and inserted them into the pockets of his trousers.For a few seconds, Jiang Tian didn't say a word, as if he was thinking about the issue of reluctance, and also seemed to be digesting the ambiguity that was unclear.

After a while, he said, "Forget it."

After a while, Sheng Wang let out a soft "Oh".

So the wind slipped between the two of them, winding around the bend.

The night lights on the street came on one by one, and the two of them suddenly became very quiet. Sheng Wang walked a few steps, looking around those shops pretending to be natural.Among all the fancy signs, there is a store with a really special style.

The first floor of the commercial building is on the ground, the first floor is lower than the road, and there is a wooden staircase leading directly down.There are several eucalyptus trees planted on both sides of the store door. The branches and leaves are lying on the roof. The top half of the crown is pink orange, and the bottom half is green green. Under the floating night, it is foggy and connected.

A string of white paper lanterns hangs on the tree on the left, and there is an arrow pointing downstairs under the lantern.On the right, surrounded by a very modern blue and white light circle, there is an arrow pointing upstairs.

On the wall of the store, there are graffiti made of fluorescent materials, with the words "escape room" written on it.

But it was the people at the door that really caught Sheng Wang's attention.A group of boys and girls gathered at the stairs, apparently just came up from the bottom floor, some of them patted their chests, looking out of their wits.

"Scared to death." A girl said.

"I'm going to have a nightmare tonight." Another person echoed, "Actually, I'm fine, but the mechanism is too clever and the arrangement is too serious, so it's scary. Where's Bian Chen? Bian Chen, are you okay? I can see your face is pale."

Several boys laughed and joked, "When does his face turn pale?"

"Fuck you, you can't be scared for nothing." Bian Chen's voice was easily recognizable in the crowd. After he finished cursing, he felt that this was wrong, and roared amidst even louder laughter: "Who the hell said I was scaring you?" Come out, it’s too boring in there, okay?! Second, you have the face to laugh at me? Who screamed worse than the girls just now?!"

"You." The boy who was bullied said unceremoniously.

Bian Chen uttered a rude sentence, and the two chased after each other on the stairs.

A girl asked, "Are you still playing?"

The boys who were laughing at each other just now said in unison: "Play with a bird!"

The girls laughed: "Everyone is timid and refuses to admit it. But there is no place to eat now, why don't you go upstairs and play the modern future version of the secret room? Or play a board game for a while?"

"Let's play board games, let's go." They said and ran upstairs.

"Then go up, let's go down and have a look." A girl said.She was still a little bit unsatisfied, so she dragged the other two boys who wanted to play downstairs, and the three of them entered the shop again.

Sheng Wang stared at the store and thought for a while, then turned to look at Jiang Tian, ​​with "I want to play" written all over his face.

Jiang Tian looked at the horror-style decoration downstairs, and at Shengwang's eager expression, as if he wanted to remind him something, but finally nodded and said, "Let's go."

The boss of the chamber of secrets is a young man who, in order to match the theme, dressed himself up as a ghost.When Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian went in, the three No. [-] students were still debating which one to play.

The girl pointed to a secret room with 2-3 people and said, "How about playing this?"

One of the boys complained: "The small secret room is boring, you have to play with more than 5 people."

"But there aren't enough of us."

"Boss, can 3 people play a 5-person secret room?" the boy asked.

The boss nodded: "Yes, but it's a bit difficult. Why don't you ask them if they are willing to be together?"

"Who is it?" They turned their heads in doubt, and saw Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian.

"Eh?! It's you guys! It just happened to be—" The boy who disliked the small secret room suddenly became energetic. He and Jiang Tianshengwang are actually not familiar with each other, but someone is better than no one, so he greeted: "We almost People, are you together?"

Of course Sheng Wang didn't want to be with others, but before he had time to express it, he heard Jiang Tian say to that person, "No need."

He knocked on the counter and asked the boss, "Is the secret room for the two of you still available?"

The boss pointed to a ghost school theme and said, "Yes, this one is empty."

"Hey Brother Jiang, what are you playing with two people?" said the boy from No. [-] Middle School, "It's just for young couples, it's boring."

He does not mean that.

He just complained casually, and Shengwang's action of unloading the bag froze for a moment. He subconsciously glanced at Jiang Tian, ​​only to see Jiang Tian say to the man, "Oh."

After that, Sheng Wang didn't pay attention to what the people in No. [-] Middle School said and what the boss said, and he couldn't listen at all.He knew that Jiang Tian was never interested in this kind of unfamiliar people who pretended to be familiar. He probably said that "oh" just to block the other party's words, but his heart still jumped.

He suddenly remembered what Sheng Mingyang said when he was a child, he said: "The children in other people's families are a little bit crazy, how come this one in my family has never been crazy, like a lazy bastard."

He once thought that this was true, he really wouldn't be extra excited just because of who was looking at him or who was around him, but he didn't realize until today that it turned out that he just didn't touch the right person all the time.

He was a little "crazy" tonight, and his brain was always in a subtle state of excitement while playing the Chamber of Secrets, although it was not obvious on his face.

Before entering the secret room, the boss seems to have said that "this small secret room is more terrifying than several large secret rooms".I don't know how others feel, anyway, Shengwang didn't feel any fear from the beginning to the end, it has nothing to do with being bold, it's just because his attention is not on these things at all.

He and Jiang Tian never got stuck in deciphering, and they went smoothly all the way.From opening the door of the dimly lit classroom to the corridor where the overhead light is broken, to the girls' dormitory with blood written on the bottom of the bed, and finally to the bathroom deep in the corridor.

There is a mirror with a mechanism in the bathroom. At the end of solving the puzzle, they need to turn on the tap to wash their faces. The face of the female ghost will appear in the mirror, suggesting which compartment she is in.Then knock three times on the cubicle door, and a piece of the ceiling above your head will move away, and a mannequin with disheveled hair will fall from it, dangling from a twine.

This is the end of the story of "The Missing Girl", and then the secret door on the wall will slowly rise, which is the exit of the secret room.

As a result, when Sheng Wang knocked on the cubicle door, the mannequin bounced against the wall, and the wig accidentally fell off, leaving only a bald head hanging on the hemp rope.

So when the secret door was raised, the two of them bent down and came out from inside, Sheng Wang smiled and lay down on the counter, Jiang Tian didn't hold back either.

The spooky boss is completely dumbfounded.

He has seen guests say "it's not that scary", he's seen people crying in fright, he's seen people walking and discussing the mechanism and reminiscing about the plot, but he hasn't seen people dying of laughter.

"Did you really press the mechanism to get out? Didn't you open the door with your feet?" The boss couldn't help asking.

Sheng Wang laughed so hard that his neck was bloodshot, and he slumped on the counter, unable to answer the conversation at all.Jiang Tian scanned the QR code to pay, and said to the boss, "Remember to glue the wig."

After speaking, he patted Sheng Wang and said, "Stop laughing, go eat."

Sheng Wang didn't recover until he sat down in a Hangzhou restaurant.He let out a long breath, fanned the wind with his hands and said, "I'm getting hot from laughing."

Jiang Tian ordered food with his mobile phone, then handed him the mobile phone and said, "Look at what you want to eat."

Sheng Wang's eyes were still bent, which looked extremely bright under the light.He said, "I'll treat you to dinner. Don't grab it. You can do it at any other time, but not today."

"What happened today?" Jiang Tian asked.

"Birthday." Sheng Wang said, "The customs of the world, I invite you."

Jiang Tian was stunned for a moment, and didn't bother to refute his nonsense Jianghu customs.He subconsciously clicked on the calendar and looked at it again, frowned and said, "Isn't your birthday on December 12th? Today is on the 4rd."

"I know." Sheng Wang scanned the order code on the table and said, "Theoretically, it's tomorrow, but I don't like celebrating my birthday that day."

"why?"

Sheng Wang raised his head and found that Jiang Tian was a little dazed. This kind of expression was so rare on his brother's face that he was also taken aback for a moment and asked, "Why do you have such an expression?"

Only then did Jiang Tian regain his composure and said, "It's nothing."

Sheng Wang stared at him for a while, then suddenly leaned over and said, "Brother."

Jiang Tian's eyes moved, and he looked up at him.

Sheng Wang narrowed his eyes and said, "Are you planning to celebrate my birthday tomorrow? Or... What gift did you prepare for me?"

"No." Jiang Tian said.

"Oh." Sheng Wang leaned back in his chair and ordered food with his mobile phone.

"Why don't you like celebrating your birthday that day?" Sheng Wang heard Jiang Tian speak suddenly.

"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that when I was young, my parents gave me food together, which left a deep impression on me. Later, my mother was gone, and there was always one less person on my birthday, so it was a bit deserted." Sheng Wang carefully chose the dishes, and said: "Birthday Well, it’s better to be happy when eating and drinking. If I live tomorrow... I might miss my mother.”

After ticking off a few, he handed the phone to Jiang Tian and said, "Come with me today, okay?"

Maybe it was because of the lighting, Jiang Tian frowned slightly, but his eyes were unexpectedly gentle.He said, "Okay."

Just because of this sentence, Jiang Tian almost responded to every request that night, and even restrained himself a lot.It's rare to see him like this, Sheng Wang felt that if he didn't take the opportunity to tease him, it would be a waste of time.

The most famous thing about this restaurant is not the dishes, but the rice wine, which is served in a special bowl and named "Baiyujiang". , Said: "Look, I've watched it several times, and I haven't seen what you look like when you're drunk. Isn't it a bit unfair?"

He pointed to the stick of "white jade syrup" and said, "Tell me honestly, how much you drink will make you drunk, is this enough?"

Jiang Tian: "... I don't know."

Sheng Wang: "???"

He almost asked the waiter to do another tie on the spot, but fortunately, Jiang Tian stopped him.It's hard to tell if I'm drunk or not after drinking two big Zami wines. Anyway, I must go to the bathroom many times.

In the end, the waiter couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded: "Our rice wine has a lot of stamina, and you may not feel much after drinking it, but it's easy to get drunk when you get more energy."

At that time, Sheng Wang had just finished drinking a cup, and because it was really delicious, he wanted to have some more.Hearing "the stamina is great", without saying a word, he pushed the cup to the opposite side and said, "I'll give it to you, and the rest will be yours, I won't drink it."

In order to wait for this so-called stamina, Sheng Wang purposely moaned and ate dinner for nearly two hours.As a result, when it came time to pay the bill, Jiang Tian was still awake.

The store has just opened not long ago, and is still holding events, and gave Shengwang a small gift—two pottery jugs tied with thick hemp ropes, filled with the signature "white jade pulp".

It was almost 10 o'clock when they came out of the store.

The young man's body fire was already high, even though Sheng Wang had only drank a glass of rice wine, a thin layer of sweat was still on his body.When the evening wind blows in late autumn and early winter, it is quite comfortable.

He hooked the hemp rope, lifted the wine up to his face, gestured at the size of the jug, and asked Jiang Tian, ​​"Are you not drunk now?"

"Yes." Jiang Tian responded.

"Then what if we add these two jugs?" Sheng Wang asked.

"I shouldn't be drunk either," Jiang Tian said.

Sheng Wang gave a "tsk", lowered his hand and said, "Forget it, I give up."

"No need." Jiang Tian said.

"Huh?" Sheng Wang was taken aback, then turned to look at him.

The night wind blew away the hair on his forehead, and the outline of his eyebrows, eyes and nose bridge was very clearly outlined by the night lights on the street, making him handsome and handsome.With those yellow and white patches of light reflected in his eyes, he glanced at Chao Sheng and said, "You can try again on your birthday next year."

"It makes sense." Sheng Wang suddenly became happy.Not sure if it was due to planning ahead for next year's birthday or something.He shook the wine in his hand, and the clay jugs made a sound when they clinked lightly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately said: "No! You almost got caught in it. Except for birthdays, I can't test you anymore?"

Jiang Tian said, "Let's forget it in normal times."

"Why?"

"If you put yourself down first, I will be the unlucky one in the end." Jiang Tian said.

"Depend on."

Sheng Wang was so choked that he had no words to refute, he reached out to strangle him.Jiang Tian gave way very quickly, and reminded: "Don't shake it around, the wine is with you."

The two returned to school in a half-walk and half-noisy way. On the way, Jiang Tian took out his mobile phone and sent a few WeChat messages to others. When they received the fifth reply, they happened to walk downstairs in the dormitory.

Jiang Tian said, "You go up first."

"What about you?" Sheng Wang asked.

"I'm going to get something."

When he got back to the dormitory, Sheng Wang was a little puzzled.He first leaned on the balcony and played with his mobile phone for a while, then took a shower, went to the corridor and waited for a while, but he never saw Jiang Tian's shadow, and he didn't know where he went to get anything.

The waiter at the Hangbang cuisine restaurant was right. The rice wine didn't feel like drinking it, but it had a lot of stamina. He wandered around the dormitory for a while, and the alcohol slowly climbed up.

Sheng Wang started to feel sleepy, but he was a bit unwilling to sleep.

This is his own birthday, and he planned to spend it with Jiang Tian a few days ago.During this day, he laughed and played, and the excitement was mixed with subtle throbbing and ambiguity. He had done a lot of things, but he still seemed to be missing something.

Now that the day is coming to an end, the night is dark and the surroundings are silent, but he suddenly feels a little empty, he doesn't know if it is something else.

……

It was already 11:[-] when Jiang Tian came back, and the whole campus fell into a deep silence. It was not until he went around the hill that he heard a few boys and girls talking and laughing at the edge of the autumn leaf forest. It should be the group of people from No. [-] Middle School , seems to have Bian Chen's voice.But he didn't pay much attention, just ran past them and strode up the stairs.

Behind him there were girls' whispers and whispers, and someone called him.But when he heard it, people had already circled upstairs.

He stopped in front of the dormitory, his hair lifted by the wind fell down, and he was holding a thick paper bag, breathing calmly outside the door.

Most of the dormitories in the corridor are dark, except for the few people downstairs who just came back, most of them should be asleep.Jiang Tian opened the door and wanted to say hello to the people in the room, but found that the room was quiet, the quilt on the upper bunk was a bit messy, and Sheng Wang had already fallen asleep.

Judging from his awkward posture, he should have fallen asleep while waiting, and accidentally leaned on the pillow.

Jiang Tian was taken aback for a moment.

He stood at the door for a while, looking down at the paper bag in his hand.After a long time, he pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, not knowing whether it was self-deprecating or something else.

He actually prepared a gift, but he was in such a hurry that it seemed that he was still late.

Sheng Wang fell into a deep sleep, his face was half buried in the quilt, his hair was slightly messed up and scattered on the pillow.He seemed a little hot, and his forehead was slightly damp with sweat.Jiang Tian walked to the bed and put the paper bag on the lower bunk.

He stood by the bed and watched for a long time, and wiped the sweat from Sheng Wang's forehead with his thumb, but the other party didn't notice.

He looked up at the too bright cold light, walked to the wall and turned off the light, and the dormitory was instantly plunged into darkness.He kept a mobile phone lamp for himself, and under the limited fluorescent light, he put the clay pot of rice wine in the refrigerator, took his clothes and took a shower, then wiped his hair and went back to the lower berth.

The sound insulation of the dormitory building is very good, and the group of students who returned late did not make any noise when they came back, and everything was quiet.

Jiang Tian leaned against the head of the bed, put the towel on his neck, the water droplets from the tips of his hair dripped down, and then soaked into the towel silently.He picked up the paper bag next to the pillow, looked at it in silence for a while, and then put it down again.

Outside the balcony, silver-white light streamed in over the railing.From his angle, he could see the outline of the mountain shadow in the distance, which was also quiet and silent, standing in the night for a long time.

The person on the upper bunk seemed to have turned over in a deep sleep, the bed shook slightly, Sheng Wang's arm hung down from the side of the bed, his thin white fingers were slightly bent, slender and clean.

Jiang Tian raised his eyes and looked over.

He was still leaning against the railing at the head of the bed, with one leg stretched out and the other bent. The gift he brought back was resting on his lap, unobtrusive, like his dull thoughts that had been hidden in a secret place for a long time. .

But at this moment, perhaps because of the stillness of the night, the mind was a little eager to move.

After more than two hours, the rice wine he drank before finally reacted. He was a little tired, but he didn't feel sleepy.

On the screen of the mobile phone, the app marked with the clock is slowly turning the pointer, getting closer and closer to 0 o'clock.

From ten, nine, eight, seven, I went to four, three, two, one unhurriedly.

It's December 12th, it's a sunny day, the moonlight is beautiful at this moment, and the person he likes is 4 years old.

At this moment, everything was silent and no one knew about it, so he took Sheng Wang's hand that was hanging down, and whispered, "Happy birthday."

Happy birthday, Wangzai.

He held it for a long time, until the hand held by him suddenly curled up, and he suddenly regained his senses.Then Sheng Wang's slightly hoarse voice sounded.

He said, "I hear you."