SAYE

The phone in his pocket vibrated twice, this was the fifth time within 3 minutes, Jiang Cheng opened his eyes.

The car has been driving for almost three hours, and the sky outside the car window is still very gloomy. The girl sitting next to him is still sleeping, her forehead is resting firmly on his shoulder, and her right shoulder is already numb.

He shrugged a little irritably, but the girl just tilted her head. He pushed the girl's head away with his fingers, but within a few seconds, the girl's head was put back on his shoulder.

This kind of action has been repeated many times, and he feels that the girl is not asleep, but the effect is that she is in a coma.

irritable.

He didn't know how long it would take to arrive at the station, and he didn't check the ticket when he got it. He only knew that he was going to a small town that he hadn't even heard of before this trip.

Life is amazing.

When the phone vibrated for the sixth time, Jiang Cheng sighed and took out the phone.

-what happened?

-Why didn't you mention you were leaving before?

- why did you leave suddenly

- why didn't you tell me

how how why why why why BLABLABLABLA...

The message was sent by Yu Xin, probably because she was unable to make phone calls during make-up classes, and at first glance, it was full of question marks.

When he was about to put his phone back in his pocket, the seventh message came.

- If you don't reply to the message, we will break up!

Finally, it was no longer a question mark, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned off his phone, and put it back in his pocket.

Breaking up means nothing to him. The two-month love in high school is nothing more than talking more than other classmates, someone will bring you breakfast, and there is an exclusive cheerleading team for playing... I haven't had time to develop to the point of competence. To what extent.

Looking at the ever-changing yet seemingly the same scenery outside the car window, Jiang Cheng's destination was finally reported on the radio.The girl next to her moved her head, as if she was about to wake up. He quickly took out a red marker pen from his schoolbag, uncapped the pen, and twirled it in his hand.

The girl woke up, raised her face, and there was a big mark on her forehead, as if she had practiced magic skills.

After meeting his gaze, the girl wiped the corners of her mouth, took out her phone, lowered her head and said, "I'm sorry."

Didn't hear any apologies?Jiang Cheng smiled meaningfully at her, and the girl froze for a moment, her gaze fell on the marker pen that was spinning in his hand.

Jiang Cheng put the cap on the pen firmly, and there was a clicking sound.

Two seconds later, she covered her face suddenly, stood up and rushed to the bathroom.

Jiang Cheng also stood up, and looked out the car window. It was gloomy all the way here, and finally it was snowing.He took his suitcase off the luggage rack, put on his coat and walked to the door, took out his cell phone and turned it on.

The phone was very quiet, and Yu Xin's message didn't ring again, nor did she miss it.

I feel that this is the most comfortable time for Yu Xin since she got along with her these days, it's not easy.

But no one else contacted him except Yu Xin.

For example, he thought he would come to pick up the person.

Following the crowd leaving the station, Jiang Cheng pulled the zipper of his down jacket all the way, looking at this gray city in the cold winter.

The chaos and dilapidation around the train station was his first impression of the city.

No, this is the second impression. The first impression is the blankness in his mind when his mother said "go back, that's your real home".

He dragged his suitcase to the southernmost side of the station square. There were few people, and there was a small street next to it, lined up with various small hotels that felt like one could not get out after entering, and small restaurants that felt like one would be poisoned after eating.

He sat on the suitcase, took out his phone and looked again, but still no one contacted him.

He has the phone number and address, but he just doesn't want to move, doesn't want to talk or move, he takes out a cigarette from his pocket, and he is full of deep, inexplicable, dazed feeling that he will come here suddenly , desperate, angry.

Staring at the ice on the ground, he fumbled for the lighter from his pocket while feeling angry, curled up against the cold wind and lit the cigarette, watching the smoke drifting away in front of his eyes, he sighed.

If the class teacher saw this, he didn't know what he would say.

But it's okay, he is already here, far away, not to mention the class teacher, even the people who have lived in the same room with him for more than ten years, maybe they will never see each other again.

In this small school in this small city, it is estimated that no one will be watching whether he smokes or not.

After smoking only half of the cigarette, Jiang Cheng was too cold to bear it anymore. He stood up and planned to take a taxi to find a place to eat first. He dragged the suitcase and took a step when he felt something hit his ankle. Not small, hit him a pain.

Frowning, he turned around and saw a skateboard behind him.

Then before he could look up to see where the skateboard was coming from, a person fell to his feet.

"Why..." He reflexively stretched out his hand to help, but stopped halfway through.

Messy hair hanging loose, cut like a dog chewing long and short, the clothes on his body are also quite dirty... Beggar?tramp?Porcelain?Thief?

It was only when the person raised his head that he realized that it was a little girl who looked like she was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school. Although her face was covered with dirt, she could tell that her skin was fair and her eyes were big.

But before he activated his hand to help again, the little girl was pulled and dragged away by four or five little girls who followed closely, and someone kicked her on the back from behind. The kick made her stagger and almost fell again.

Jiang Cheng immediately understood what was going on, hesitated for a moment, turned around and dragged the suitcase and continued walking forward.

A burst of laughter from behind made him stop again.

When he was in a bad mood, he didn't want to meddle in other people's business. It happened that he was in a super special and very bad mood now, but the dark and clean eyes of the little girl with big eyes just now made him turn his head back.

"Hey!" he yelled.

The little girls all stopped, and a cocky eye slanted: "What are you doing!"

Jiang Cheng dragged the box and walked over slowly, staring at the little girl who was still holding on to the clothes with big eyes. After staring for two seconds, the little girl let go.

He pulled his big eyes to his side and looked at the little girls: "It's all right, let's go."

"Who are you!" The leader was a little timid, but still shouted in dissatisfaction.

"I'm the big brother with a knife," Jiang Cheng looked at her, "I can give you the same hairstyle as hers in 30 seconds."

"I'll ask my brother to come over and deal with you in a while!" The picker was obviously not a habitual offender, and he shrank a little when he heard this, but he was still not convinced.

"Then tell him to hurry up." Jiang Cheng dragged the box with one hand and closed his big eyes with the other, "I'm scared to death, I will run very fast."

The little girls walked away, but the big eyes broke away from his hand.

"Are you okay?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Shaking his head with big eyes, he turned his head and walked to the side of the skateboard, stepped on it, and looked at him.

"Your?" Jiang Cheng asked again.

Big Eyes nodded, stepped on the skateboard lightly, and slid to him, then stopped steadily, still looking at him.

"Then you... go home." Jiang Cheng also nodded, took out his mobile phone and wanted to call a car while walking.

After walking for a while, he heard a voice behind him, and he turned around to find that Big Eyes was still slowly following him on a skateboard.

"What?" Jiang Cheng looked at her.

Big eyes do not speak.

"Afraid they will come back?" Jiang Cheng asked again helplessly.

Big Eyes shook his head.

"No, are you dumb?" Jiang Cheng began to feel a little irritable.

The big eyes continued to shake their heads.

"Let me tell you, I," Jiang Cheng pointed to himself, "I'm in a very bad mood right now, very irritable. I'm not soft on beating up little girls, you know that?"

The big eyes did not move.

Jiang Cheng stared at her for a while, seeing that she had no intention of speaking, he dragged the box and walked forward again, pressing the fire.

The signal was not very good at the moment, and the car-hailing interface couldn't be opened, so he sat down on the stone pier next to the bus stop and lit a cigarette.

Big eyes are still on the skateboard, standing next to him.

"Do you have anything else to do?" Jiang Cheng asked impatiently, a little bit regretting meddling in his own business, causing himself an inexplicable trouble.

Big Eyes still didn't speak, just lightly kicked the skateboard, slid under the bus stop next to it, and looked up for a long time.

When she came back to Jiang Cheng on the skateboard again, Jiang Cheng guessed the reason from her confused expression, and sighed: "Are you lost? Can't you go back?"

Big eyes nodded.

"Are you a local?" Jiang Cheng asked.

nod.

"Call your family to pick you up." Jiang Cheng handed her his cell phone.

She took the phone, hesitated for a moment, lowered her head and pressed it a few times, and then returned the phone.

"What do you mean?" Jiang Cheng looked at a cell phone number that had already been entered but not dialed out, "Shall I call for you?"

nod.

"Fuck," Jiang Cheng frowned and pressed the dial, and after listening to the dial tone on the receiver, he asked again, "Whose number is this from your family?"

Before Big Eye could answer, someone answered the phone over there.

Of course, she probably wouldn't answer either, so Jiang Cheng said "Hello" to the phone.

"Who?" There was a male voice over there.

"Passerby," Jiang Cheng didn't know what to say, "I have a little girl here..."

"Don't." Said over there.

Before Jiang Cheng could recover, the phone hung up.

"Who is this person?" Jiang Cheng puffed out his cigarette, pointed at the big eyes, "If you don't speak, get out, I'm impatient."

Big Eyes squatted next to his legs, picked up a stone, wrote the word "Brother" crookedly on the ground, and then looked up at him.

"Okay, I got it." Jiang Cheng felt that the little girl might really be dumb.

He dialed the number just now again, this time it rang for a short time, and the other side answered: "Who is it?"

Jiang Cheng looked at the big eyes: "Your sister is with me..."

"Tear up the ticket." The other side replied, and then hung up the phone again.

"Fuck!" Jiang Cheng had the urge to smash his phone, pointing to his big eyes, "Your name!"

Big eyes lowered their heads and wrote their names on stones.

Gu Miao.

Jiang Cheng didn't call again, but just sent a text message with a picture of big eyes.

-Gu Miao, dumb, skateboarding.

After 30 seconds, there was a call from the other side.

Jiang Cheng picked up the phone: "It's late, the ticket has already been torn up."

"Excuse me," said the other side, "can you tell me where it is, I'll go over and see if I can put it together."

"...East Railway Station, the one that is particularly broken," Jiang Cheng frowned, "She's lost, come here quickly, I still have something to do."

"Thank you, thank you very much," the other side replied, "I'll be right there, if you have something urgent, you can go first, just let her wait for me there."

Jiang Cheng picked up the half of the cigarette that had just been thrown on the ground and flicked it into the trash can next to him, and lit another one.

He originally wanted to call a car to leave, but he felt that no one cared whether he came or went, whether he was present or not, and he seemed to have nothing to worry about.

Gu Miao stood up after sitting on the skateboard for a while, skating back and forth on the sidewalk on the skateboard.

After Jiang Cheng took a few glances, he was a little surprised. At first he thought that the little girl was just playing around, but he didn't expect that all kinds of uphill and downhill steps, acceleration, emergency stop and U-turn were so easy.

It's just hair that has been cut into pieces of grass, dirty face and clothes that make people play.

After playing for more than ten minutes, Gu Miao slid to him and stopped. She hooked her toes on the skateboard. After catching the board with her hands, she raised her hand and pointed behind Jiang Cheng.

"Pretty handsome." Jiang Cheng gave her a thumbs up and then turned his head, seeing a black motorcycle parked behind him.

The faces of the people in the car could not be seen clearly with the helmets on, but the legs in gray slim pants and ankle boots stood out on the edge of the sidewalk.

Long and straight.

"Your brother?" Jiang Cheng asked Gu Miao.

Gu Miao nodded.

"What's wrong with your head?" The person in the car took off his helmet and got out of the car, walked over and stared at Gu Miao's hair, "You still have your face and clothes... Did you fall into the cesspit?"

Gu Miao shook her head.

"Being bullied by classmates." Jiang Cheng said.

"Thank you," the man turned his gaze to Jiang Cheng's face and stretched out his hand, "My name is Gu Fei, and it's her brother."

Jiang Cheng stood up and shook hands with him: "You're welcome."

Gu Fei looks about the same age as himself, but his eyes don't look like Gu Miao's brother, they are not as big as Gu Miao's eyes... His skin is quite fair.

Jiang Cheng's current mood was like a pot of rotten tomatoes, but Gu Fei's hairstyle was as eye-catching as his legs, so he still peeked through the slits of the rotten tomatoes.

It has a very short cropped head, and when you turn your face away, you can see that there are staff patterns on the green skin shaved against the scalp on both sides, a bass clef on one side, and a rest on the other side, Jiang Cheng didn't see how many dots there were.

"You just got out of the car?" Gu Fei glanced at his suitcase.

"Yeah." Jiang Cheng picked up his phone and continued to click on the taxi app to call a taxi.

"Where are you going, I'll take you off?" Gu Fei said.

"No." Jiang Cheng glanced at his car, no matter how big the motorcycle was, it was still a motorcycle.

"She doesn't take up any space," Gu Fei said again.

"No, thank you." Jiang Cheng said.

"Say thank you to brother," Gu Fei pointed to him, and said to Gu Miao, "Dung ball."

Jiang Cheng turned to look at "Dung Ball", wanting to hear what she was saying, but Gu Miao just hugged the skateboard and bowed 90 degrees to him.

Gu Fei stepped onto the car and put on his helmet. Gu Miao quickly climbed into the back seat and hugged his waist.

"Thanks." Gu Fei glanced at him, started the car, turned around and drove away.

Jiang Cheng sat back on the stone pier. The Internet was quite good at the moment, but unexpectedly no one took orders for a long time, and the taxis passing by kept waving non-stop.

What the hell is this place?

Although he was in a bad mood, he never had time to savor it carefully. He just felt that he had been living in chaos for a while, surrounded by all kinds of shock and confusion, and he couldn't even breathe, and he didn't even think about why he would I agreed to all the arrangements and came here just like that.

Rebellious?

Just like my mother said, our family has never had a rebellious person like you, with thorns all over your body.

Of course, they weren't a family in the first place, not to mention that they have been treated like enemies in the past few years, and everyone who sees them will be angry.

Jiang Cheng frowned, he didn't have time to think about these things.

Until now, at this moment.

In this strange, cold and snowy city, he suddenly came back to his senses.

Desperation and pain and resistance to all the unknowns made his nose sore.

When he lowered his head, tears ran down his face.

When the phone rang, Jiang Cheng was sitting in a KFC at an unknown location. He glanced at the strange number and answered it: "Hello?"

"Is it Jiang Cheng?" A middle-aged man's voice sounded over there.

The voice was a little loud, Jiang Cheng moved the phone a little away: "Yes."

"I'm your father," said the man.

"... Oh." Jiang Cheng responded, this kind of conversation sounded a bit funny, and he couldn't hold back his laughter.

The man over there also laughed twice: "My name is Li Baoguo, you know that."

"Yeah." Jiang Cheng took a sip of Coke.

"Has your car arrived?" Li Baoguo asked.

"It's here." Jiang Cheng looked at his watch, and it was two hours.

"Do you have the address? I don't have a car and I can't pick you up. You can take a taxi and come here. I'll wait for you at the intersection." Li Baoguo said.

"Yes." Jiang Cheng hung up the phone.

This time I was lucky, I took the car when I got out, and the heater in the car was still fully turned on, it was so hot that I felt like I was about to have a fever.

The driver wanted to chat, but Jiang Cheng kept leaning on the car window and looked out silently. He turned his head up several times without success, and finally gave up and turned on the radio.

Jiang Cheng tried hard to see what the city looked like, but the sky was already very dark, the street lights were not very bright, and there were snowflakes flying all over the sky in the halo, which made people dizzy.

He closed his eyes.

It opened again soon.

I don't know what's wrong, just like a bitch, it's really boring.

The car stopped at a certain place, and Jiang Cheng got out of the car with the suitcase, and stood at the intersection.

no one.

"Your father" Li Baoguo, who claimed to be waiting for him at the intersection, saw no one.

Suppressing the irritability in his heart and the pain on his face cut by the wind, Jiang Cheng took out his cell phone and dialed Li Baoguo's number.

"Hey, this stinks..." It took Li Baoguo a long time to answer the phone, "Hello?"

"I'm at the intersection." When Jiang Cheng heard his movement, he immediately wanted to hang up the phone and find a hotel.

"Ah? Arriving so soon?" Li Baoguo shouted in surprise, "I'm here, come out right away."

Immediately, it took about 5 minutes, when Jiang Cheng was dragging his suitcase and reaching out to stop the car at the intersection, a man wearing a Lei Feng hat ran over, pressed his arm, and shouted loudly He asked, "Jiang Cheng?"

Jiang Cheng didn't say anything, he saw Li Baoguo running out of a residential building next to him.

immediately?

When he saw several heads looking this way from the window on the second floor, he really didn't want to speak anymore.

"Stayed at a friend's house for a while, let's go for a walk," Li Baoguo patted him on the shoulder, "Go home, come home...you look taller than in the photo."

Jiang Cheng looked down at the muddy road, and followed him forward.

"Hey," Li Baoguo patted him on the back twice again, "How many years has it been, must it be more than ten years? You can see my son! I have to take a good look."

Li Baoguo stuck his head in front of his eyes and stared.

Jiang Cheng pulled up the mask on his chin and put it on.

Suddenly, I felt that the whole person was completely empty, and even the air was full of confusion.