The Midnight Owl

Xu Wang waited a few minutes in the corner of the corridor, deliberately waiting for the bell to ring, and the teacher entered the door to the podium. He stepped on the same frequency and slipped in through the back door of the classroom.

The teacher left him alone.

It is a pity that 80% of my classmates suddenly blessed him at this moment and looked back neatly.

There was no malice in those eyes.

People who are close to each other on weekdays, care, worry, those who are far away on weekdays, sympathize, or simply curious.

Mother died.

It’s bigger than the sky falling.

Fortunately, Xu Wang thought, they did not know that he had been rushed back only after staying at his father ’s house for less than a week. Otherwise, the life committee can make a donation box and collect love for him before school ends today.

Ignoring all eyes, he slipped into his seat, put his schoolbag, took the book, and looked at the blackboard. His expression was natural and his body relaxed. It was like an ordinary afternoon. He returned to his dormitory to take a nap as usual. He stepped on the first class as usual and slid back to his seat from the back door as usual.

The agility of light cars is familiar with the usual blandness.

The teacher knocked on the blackboard, or turned back or looked at the students, all of them withdrew their attention.

In those withdrawn eyes, the distress and sympathy are all gone, more is doubt, daze, disagreement, or stop talking, but in the end, all belong to the blackboard.

Xu Wang was very satisfied.

The kindness that is too warm makes people vulnerable, a little cold, just right.

“Page 86 …” The English teacher led everyone into today’s review focus.

Xu Wang turned his head down and took a chance to wink.

Shengsheng pressed back the sour sensation mixed with hot air.

Someone was looking at him next to him. Xu Wang was more sensitive to this line of sight. However, if he was seen this way on weekdays, he would be happy to fill in a discussion paper on “My squad leader also likes me”.

Today is really not so flamboyant, he can only look at it honestly, cheeky, and asked Wu Sheng silently: “Do you want me?”

Perhaps he smiled too brightly, and Wu Sheng’s eyes were not very beautiful.

After a few seconds, a stack of ordered rolls was thrown, and a paper ball kissing his forehead was also included.

The paper ball is unfolded, which is naturally the squad leader’s handsome font—the mock exam paper last week.

Xu Wang turned over one by one, and they were all blank papers. The answers were written separately and placed at the end of each paper. The key questions were also accompanied by explanations. Obviously let him do it first, and then compare the answers. Mathematics, English, Synthesizing …

Xu Wang raised his head and gave his best friend a raised eyebrow with a careful doubt-what is my favorite language?

Mr. Wu bowed his head and wrote another piece of paper.

How can Xu Wang eat twice, lose his eyes and fast, hold it steady, spread it out-there is not enough people to swallow the elephant.

Xu Wang couldn’t hold back and was happy.

This time it was true music.

Wu Sheng is recognized as the first grade in the overall grade, and the single subject is also the first, never missed, except for Chinese.

Xu Wang is recognized as a partial subject. Mathematics, English, and science are all stunned by everyone. In Chinese, he is always the leader of a single subject, and is the brightest star in the heart of Lao Zhang.

If it were not for science majors with a wider choice of majors, plus a little selfishness in wanting to be in the same class as Wu Sheng, Xu Wang would report when the arts and sciences were divided into subjects.

Seeing that Xu Wang had a smile, Wu Sheng’s heartstrings relaxed, and he heard the strong name of the English teacher clanging–

“Wu Sheng!”

Judging from the tone, it should be called more than once.

Wu Sheng stood up quickly and met the teacher’s “Come on” gaze.

What is coming?

Squad leader Wu was puzzled.

Looking at the surroundings, several classmates have stood up, and their heads are head-stucked. Obviously, the teacher asked a very difficult question, so that those who clicked the name were unfortunately recruited.

Most of the classmates are waiting to watch the excitement. After all, the teacher called Wu Sheng to get upright, which is typical of the tree. If the face is beaten, the teacher’s mentality must collapse.

On the occasion of a sudden attack, sitting in the first row of Qian Ai, standing in front of the book, turning his head back quickly, exaggerating the mouth shape, the sloppy face, did not affect the precise transmission of information at all: “Back-Lesson-Text- “

Wu Sheng suddenly.

Yesterday, the homework assigned by the English teacher was to memorize the key text, saying that the grammar that must be tested is in this text, and if you recite it, you will get points. Anyway, it is a point given in vain.

Standing right now, these people chose “no love” with actual actions.

Wu Sheng gathered his mind and concentrated his mind, and the text came out like a stream of clouds, with a standard pronunciation and a natural sense of language.

Seeing the lively classmates, they came back disappointed.

It’s fun if Wu Sheng can’t answer it. It’s normal for answers to be correct. What’s new.

After finishing a text, the teacher nodded in satisfaction, and all the standing classmates were finally able to sit down.

Wu Sheng remembered to go to see Xu Wang again, the latter had already set up a textbook and made up for sleep on the table.

Wu Sheng didn’t know whether it was true or false.

The picture in my mind still stays at the moment when Xu Wang was amused by the paper ball. If he was really sleeping, Wu Sheng hoped that he would still receive the paper ball in his dream.

Go to bed during class, go to the toilet after class, run faster than anyone else, but Wu Sheng went to the toilet, and found no one.

Throughout the afternoon, Xu Wangdeng did not give any students the opportunity to “concern and condolences.”

At the end of the evening, the self-study was over. If the whole class was granted an amnesty, the sound of squealing in the air was endless.

At this time, Xu Wang was upset, and he packed his bags in two or three times. The schoolbag was thrown over his shoulder. Looking back at a neat and clean tomorrow: “Bye.”

Wu Sheng was surprised: “Don’t go back to the dormitory?”

“My dad didn’t worry, he had to let me go home.” Xu Wang shrugged and looked “I’m helpless.”

“Oh.” For a long time, Wu Sheng always felt that he still had something to say, but he couldn’t organize the language messily, and finally he uttered a dry word, “Be careful on the road.”

Xu Wang stunned and laughed: “The money-robbery met me, the bankruptcy, the color-robbery met me …” He thought about it with care, and raised his eyebrows handsomely.

Wu Sheng: “…”

Wu Sheng had no impression of how to go back to bed. It was already eleven at night when the reaction was wrong.

The lights in the dormitory were turned off, and the small table lamps of each bed started to work. The roommates were fighting in the sea, leaving the bed alone, empty.

Come back home?

With Xu Wang ’s stubborn character, it would be impossible for him to go to his dad ’s house if his mother died. Now he has gone. After just a few days, he was hurried back to school. He is dull and should understand one or two.

Moreover, he is not dull at all.

He is more sensitive than anyone in terms of warmth and coldness.

A flash of lightning struck the window of the dormitory, and thunder thundered in the distance.

Rain in April is always exceptional.

Wu Sheng turned over and got out of bed, went to the corner of the corridor, and dialed Xu Wang’s number with his mobile phone.

Schools do not allow mobile phones, but there are always hundreds of ways to deal with students.

The phone rang for a long time and no one answered it.

Wu Sheng fights again.

After the third call, the phone was finally picked up, and he did n’t wait for him to speak. He had already preempted the complaint: “Is there a squad leader like you? Do not sleep in the middle of the night and harass classmates!

The accusation was sincere, that is, the throat was dumb, and there was a hint of nasal sound.

Wu Sheng is not going to pretend to be stupid: “What’s wrong with the sound?”

“You tried to sleep soundly and was awakened.” The other side of the phone said, yawning a lot, like the truth.

Wu Sheng narrowed his eyes and asked, “Where is it?”

There was a pause in the receiver: “My dad is here.”

Rumble–

The same thunder rang at both ends of the phone.

“I’ll ask you again,” Wu Sheng’s voice calmed down, “Where?”

There was no movement over the phone.

“You dare to hang up my phone. I will go to the teacher on duty now and say that my classmates have been lost.

“You don’t have to be so ruthless …”

“The opponent is too cunning.”

“Can you ignore me?”

“Yes, you came back and changed the dormitory, and replaced a good classmate who did not affect the roommate’s sleep and rest.”

“How am I not affecting you ?!”

“No one is in the lower bunk, it’s cold.”

“…”

Five minutes later, Wu Sheng got dressed, slipped out of the dormitory, turned into a shadow in the rainy night, and sneaked into the teaching building.

If on the third day of the third year, someone told him-

Wu Sheng, you will be handed over to a particularly unreliable buddy when you are in high school. The impulsive devil will be possessed all day long. When the road is uneven, I want to roar. If you do n’t go in to persuade you, he must say something to him, he must return to you, you throw him a paper ball, he will force you to throw a pen cap, so, you are a special baby friend, you ca n’t change anyone, it ’s him, One day I could n’t see, and I felt awkward.

He would think that it was a curse, and he was particularly cursed, because every sentence was full of slots, and he couldn’t think of the possibility of realization.

Now, he is in the third grade.

I have thoroughly recognized the nature of the world-“absolute” does not exist.

He always moved in elementary school. He did n’t have long-term friends. He was obsessed with studying in junior high school. He did n’t make deep friends. High school became the class leader. The meaning in the eyes of his classmates is “mobile exercise library”. There are many more, in the dormitory, playful and slapstick, shield him by default, occasionally hit the bed, but also to embarrass him for delaying his study.

Although he has no longing for naive play, it is one thing for him to participate or not, and it is another thing for others to take him to play or not.

Xu Wang moved in one month late. In October of the first semester of high school, Wu Sheng remembered very clearly. It also rained that day, and it was extremely heavy. The window was filled with water, and the window sill was flowing. No one in the dormitory. Caring, Xu Wang took a rag and wiped it for a long time. At the end, he toured the entire dormitory, his eyes fixed on his face: “Is there any extra rag?”

Wu Sheng was listening to English at that time, took off his headphones and asked, “What?”

“Is there any extra rags?” Xu Wang repeated it aloud again and explained further, “Place it on the window sill to absorb water. Otherwise it will flow again for a while.”

Wu Sheng shook his head blankly.

The matter of cleaning the sanitation has always been a ghostly existence in their dormitory-the rag that Xu Wang used was still an old towel that a classmate didn’t have time to throw.

Xu Wang frowned and sighed in disappointment: “Bai has a face that loves labor.”

Wu Sheng: “…”

Not only Wu Sheng was speechless, but other roommates were not happy anymore: “Where are we going?”

So in order to prove that he was qualified, the roommates worked together to clean up the window sill and the ground. The next day, they also looked for a boarding house to repair the situation of the window sill leaking.

Of course, there are also Wu Sheng in the labor force.

This is Xu Wang’s debut.

Once again, “compassion” was the weekend afterwards, and there were only two of them left in the dormitory. He was working on the upper berth and Xu Wang was reading a book in the lower berth. The atmosphere was warm and Xu Wang was cold and kicked on his bed: “You always It ’s silly to do this one day. “

Wu Sheng was also too busy, so he put down his pen and leaned out to ask his classmates, “Are you talking to me?”

Xu Wang sat up all at once and caught the evidence: “Look, the two of us are in the room. You still asked me this. It’s not stupid, what’s the matter, Cliff Lema squad leader!”

“Yes,” Wu Sheng rarely listened, “I don’t study anymore, what should I do?”

“Anything will do,” Xu Wangyu said with a long heart, “Life should be colorful.”

Wu Sheng thought about it very seriously: “Piano and Olympiad I learned in elementary school, Go and skating in junior high school, less time in high school, and no talent for self-study painting. Now I change to the computer direction, and the amount of extracurricular reading is a little less, one week It ’s just one or two books. Looking at this, my life is indeed quite pale. Could you give me some specific suggestions about the variety? ”

Xu Wang: “… I want to have a close relationship with you!”

Wu Sheng still remembers that when Xu Wang said this, his eyes widened and his expression bulging like a meow star in a tiger skin, which was more lovely than the most difficult math problems.

It was also at that time that he knew, oh, they are already friends.

Seven classes in three years.

Wu Sheng stood at the back door of the classroom, his hair was wet with rain, and drops of water dripped down his cheeks.

Xu Wang tilted his head on the desk and saw him, as if smiling, but there was no moonlight, everything was in the shadows.

“You didn’t bring an umbrella?” He asked very seriously.

Wu Sheng grinds his teeth, walks in, and sits in his table: “Give you another chance.”

Xu Wang straightened up and said seriously: “It’s such a heavy rain, you don’t bring an umbrella, how can we go back to the dormitory?”

Wu Sheng looked at him for two seconds, then suddenly reached out and picked up Xu Wang’s cell phone on the desk.

Xu Wang somehow: “What are you doing?”

“Call your mother,” Wu Sheng turned over her address book, “saying that you will never return home at night, and you will be messing around in the classroom.”

“You are sick!” Xu Wang went crazy to grab the phone. “My mother is dead, dead–“

In the hoarse voice, the crying can’t hide anymore.

Wu Sheng hugged him firmly.

Xu Wang struggled desperately, but couldn’t get rid of it. He never knew that Wu Sheng had such great strength.

The rain was heavier, and the sound of thunder and rain mixed, and the sky was overwhelming.

Xu Wang finally cried out, holding Wu Sheng, howling and crying like a bullied child.

“When they divorced … my mother told me … that she robbed me from my dad …”

“Actually, my dad didn’t want me …”

“When I was in the first year of high school, I needed a dormitory … When she refused, I would make trouble with her …”

“At that time she was already sick, but she didn’t tell me, I was still so angry with her …”

“I don’t want to live with my dad at all … but I dare not go home …”

“I always feel that my mother is still at home, waiting to train me to fail the exam, I am afraid that once I go back, the dream will wake up …”

“Wu Sheng, why do the bad guys live well, the good guys are so bitter …”

Xu Wang vented all his grief, regret, and anger without reservation.

Wu Sheng didn’t speak, only touched his head, and accompanied him quietly.

The rain is getting bigger and bigger, and the thunder is getting louder and louder, which is not like the rain in April.

Xu Wang was tired of crying, and his voice was completely dumb, strangely, his heart calmed down a lot. Sadness is still there, but it won’t hurt. I just want to cry with one mouth.

Wu Sheng ’s entire school uniform top was wet, and Xu Wang could n’t tell where the rain fell or his achievement.

Raising his face quietly, Wu Sheng also looked down at him.

Or, Xu Wang thought, the other party looked down at him like this from beginning to end, quiet and tender, unlike Wu Sheng.

The night was dark and there was no moonlight, but Xu Wang swore that he saw what he wanted in that eye.

Ghosts, minds.

Xu Wang gently moved up.

Closer, closer, he has even seen clearly, Wu Sheng’s eyes, his increasingly clear shadow.

Suddenly, the eyes blinked, and the flustered panic eroded everything.

Xu Wang had no end, no matter what, he kissed up suddenly!

Wu Sheng is faster, almost instinctively pushing people away, and in a hurry, he has no energy at all.

“Bud–“

Xu Wang was pushed directly to the ground.

His back hit the slanted table and chair, buttocks fell on the hard ground, but he didn’t feel any pain at all. The first half of a minute was dazed, dazed, and my brain was blank.

Wu Sheng did not know what to do.

My heart is like a drum, if it weren’t for rain, I’m afraid I could hear the sound of “Dump”.

He wanted to say sorry, but couldn’t say it. He wanted to pull people up, but he didn’t dare to reach out.

He was afraid that Xu Wang asked why, for the first time in his life, he was so afraid of being asked questions!

Xu Wang gradually slowed down, knowing that it hurt.

The back hurts, the buttocks hurts, the eyes hurts, and the pain is terrible everywhere. It is even more terrible in my heart. The pain is sour and sore.

He tried to take a deep breath.

Not once, twice, twice, three times …

Finally, in the first few times he didn’t know, he succeeded, just like the man who had been struggling hard ashore, finally got a sip of oxygen.

Wu Sheng is still stupid, which is rarer than the gentle Wu Sheng.

Xu Wang looked at him for a long time in a leisurely manner, “poofed”, and leaned on the table legs, stretched his hand lazily towards him, just like what was right: “Don’t confess, hurry and help me.”

Wu Sheng relieved with relief and quickly got up.

Xu Wang took the hand he reached over, slightly cool, damp, and sweaty.

Rain, it’s crazy.

Walking in the corridor, watching the rain splash on the glass, it may even create the illusion of being splashed by water drops.

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang walked quietly one after the other.

Since leaving the classroom, the two have never spoken again.

The long corridor seemed to see no end. After a long time, Wu Sheng began to bottom out, always worrying that people were no longer behind.

With a footstep, he turned back without warning.

Xu Wang seemed taken aback, and looked out of the window suddenly, firm, persistent, and persevering, just like the slamming glass, which could see flowers.

Wu Sheng was breathless.

Even if it was just a side face, it was clearly seen, and Xu Wang had tears on his face.

The tears weeped before were on his school uniform. Wu Sheng was sure that Xu Wang didn’t cry anymore until he left the classroom.

Converging his eyes, Wu Sheng pretended not to see anything, and continued to move forward, but his heart was completely messed up.

Xu Wang, who was crying quietly, was more distressing than before.

But he dare not ask why.

Just like in the classroom, Xu Wang half-jokingly said “confession”.

What confession?

One word is unclear, and the other one dare not delve into it.

Lightning flashed across the window, as if it was close to the glass, and in a flash, the corridor reflected like a day.

Xu was too close, the thunder sounded almost at the same time, with a bang, it hurt people’s ears.

Wu Sheng narrowed his eyes in the bright light and finally waited until the thunder passed. He thought left and right, but still felt inappropriate, and turned back: “It is too dangerous to hit thunder so frequently, or we will wait …”

Before he finished, he stopped.

There is a shadow of Xu Wang behind him.

There was only an empty corridor, deep and cold, as if it could reach the end of darkness.

…

Xu Wang swears that he is closely following Wu Sheng.

But walking around, the surroundings began to blur. The portraits of celebrities hanging on the walls on both sides began to deform in the form of lightning and thunder, just like the image when the old TV signal was unstable.

He was afraid.

Wu Sheng just turned around at this moment, his mouth opened and closed, and he seemed to be saying … thunder? Or something else.

He wanted to ask clearly, and with a panic in his heart, he shouted very loudly, “I can’t hear clearly–“

Wu Sheng didn’t seem to hear it.

And his eyes were not in sight with him, like … it was like not seeing him.

Another flash passed by, and even Wu Sheng’s figure began to blur.

Xu Wang has seen countless horror movies, less than one tenth of a thousand at this moment.

He desperately pounced on Wu Sheng, since he can’t say it or can’t see it, he really hugs him!

But in the end, he only hugged himself.

The rain stopped.

The whole world is clear again.

It is no longer the world that Xu Wang recognized.

No corridors, no schools, no Wu Sheng.

It was still night, but the sky was clear and the stars were rare.

He stood in front of the gate of a hospital and raised his eyes blankly. The four words “Central Hospital” were red as blood.