I still don't want to go to school today

After two more classes, the homework books received did not increase. As usual, he should carry this stack of books to the office to hand in business.But the problem now is that although the office is not very far away, it still has to go down two floors.

"Find someone to help you take it there," Zhou Linya raised his voice and turned his head and shouted, "Tang Cheng—!! Almost don't sleep, go to the office with your homework! Yes, it's you, don't look! Hey, why are you cowardly?" Ah, there are no ghosts in the office! Damn, don’t you go? If you don’t go, don’t—”

"...No need." He hurriedly stopped her. "I'll go slowly, it should be fine."

Zhou Linya glanced at him. "Forget it, then I'll go."

She stood up and didn't put down her phone. In her haste, she used an armpit to hold the homework books firmly, and walked out of the classroom crookedly, staring at the phone screen.

On the way, when passing by someone's table, he kicked the leg of the table inadvertently.

Li Wenjia groaned and cursed at her back, "Crazy."

Only then did he notice that one of Li Wenjia's eyes was bruised, and there was a dried blood clot on his forehead, and his image became closer to his usual style.

He remembered that Xu Zhibian was 10 minutes late that night not long ago.This is a very nonsensical association - or simply a guess.The conjecture itself has little meaning, and the effect of leaving it is only to make the person who just faded out of my mind a minute ago reappear.

...maybe it will become a habit later on.

Then he calmly looked away and continued to look at the exercise book in front of him.

……

The rain started on Wednesday, and it has been lingering for many days and there is no sign of clearing up.It may be affected by the moisture, and the scar is getting more and more itchy.But scratching through a thick layer of gauze has little effect, so I can only bear it.

Fortunately, the bandage can now be removed.The white cloth that was no longer clean loosened and fell down in circles, and the blue and red skin inside was finally able to see the light of day again.

The medicine had been on for too long—even the collar of his school uniform smelled of it now.

The smell was more reminiscent of festering than the scar itself.

"It's raining so hard, isn't your classmate coming to pick you up?" His mother opened the window, and the wind sent a lot of water droplets in. "Take a taxi by yourself, and take the money from my bag. Take the umbrella too, don't get wet. And don't forget to tell people that you don't use it in the future—it's been so many days, I guess people are getting impatient."

He took the money and the umbrella, and stuffed a dry towel into his schoolbag before his mother saw it.

Xu Zhijian stood under a tree with fairly thick branches and leaves, bending over to wipe the water on the back seat.

During the run, the canvas shoes were soaked from the inside to the outside in no time.Xu Zhibian raised his head after hearing the sound of splashing water, the hair on his forehead was basically glued to his forehead.

He didn't carry an umbrella, he didn't wear a raincoat--in short, he didn't have any protection from the rain.

Fu Luojia did not wait in a daze for himself to come back to his senses, and went up to make amends with an umbrella, "...is it cold?"

Xu Zhibian smiled, "Why is it cold? It's summer now."

Then he added, "I came here in a hurry, so I didn't bring an umbrella. The school uniform is quite waterproof, and it's not wet inside."

Fu Luojia thought for a while and took out the towel, "Hair."

Xu Zhibian leaned over with his head down.He had no choice but to hold up the umbrella in one hand and wipe it with a towel in the other.

"A bit bitter."

He paused, "What's bitter?"

"On the towel." Xu Zhijian grabbed a corner of the towel and smelled it, "It smells like medicine."

He immediately withdrew his hand - as expected, the smell should be stronger. "……sorry."

"What are you sorry for?" Xu Zhibian didn't look up yet, but he instinctively felt that Xu Zhibian's smile should collapse in an instant.

Xu Zhibian pulled his hand back.Driven by external force, the hand came down to rest on the cheek.

As soon as Xu Zhibian let go of his hand, he also dropped it.

He always remembered that the window sill in the living room was facing this way, and his mother had to go downstairs to work in 10 minutes.

"...Let's go early."

"it is good."

Xu Zhijian raised his head, his face was as usual.

The main road in the county town is stuck in traffic—the overflowing river has overflowed Binhe Road and is constantly rushing towards the city, making it impossible to pass traffic for several streets.

Xu Zhibian rode on the sidewalk all the way.The loose stone bricks are like a kind of switch, and when the force is applied, the stored sewage will come out, surprising passers-by.

The rain did not decrease, as if it was trying to squeeze out the air and smash through the slate, and the impact on the umbrella surface made Fu Luojia's wrist numb.

Under such heavy rain, when they entered the school, they saw so many umbrellas that almost filled half of the playground.All kinds and colorful.

At this time, he has not come to the conclusion that "today is unusual"-people's thinking is always much behind the facts that are happening.

He raised the umbrella slightly so that the edge of the umbrella would no longer block his view, but at the cost of being drenched in the rain.

——This is the unified action of everyone under the umbrella on the playground.

Look up.

Compared with what is happening, the rainstorm is used as a background because it is monotonous and not exciting enough.

"Someone is going to jump off the building?" Xu Zhijian's voice sounded very calm, in harmony with the sound of the rain.

"Jump off the building?" He took off his glasses, wiped them, put them back on again, but they were still gloomy, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"There's someone upstairs."

The crowd below should be shouting something, because of the heavy rain, even he couldn't hear clearly, let alone the people above.

He lowered his head, and the rain seemed to be turned into a small dagger near the ground, and he inserted it into the puddle near his feet with a lot of force.

"...read it soon?"

"Three minutes to ring."

"Let's go then."

Xu Zhiyan paddled the car to the usual location, and the other people who came to the shed hurriedly threw the car away, and went to the playground without even locking it.

"...Who is who? Fuck it's so exciting, the last time someone jumped off a building in the county was more than ten years ago, right?"

"I don't know who it is, but I can tell it's a woman..."

"There's a megaphone over there! Who's calling, Headmaster?"

"How could the principal be in the school when he was in the morning? It was the teacher."

"On the seventh floor, if you come down here, you will not die or be disabled."

"Just dance, at least a week off?"

Fu Luojia wiped his glasses again.

"Go to the classroom now?" Xu Zhibian asked.

"……Um."

At this time, a panting person suddenly rushed out of the corridor.

She ran with a limp, probably because one heel of her high-heeled shoe was broken.

When she saw Fu Luojia, she stopped abruptly, and with a gasp, a strand of hair that came out of the bun and flew around her cheek was sucked into her mouth.

Fu Luojia made sure before she spoke: he didn't want to hear the next words.

"Fu Luojia... Fu Luojia, go and see her, go and see her... She can't listen to anyone now... you go and try?"