doting shipwreck

Compared with the lights in Jiangbei District that stay on until dawn after nightfall, the residential buildings in Jiangnan District have long been darkened, leaving only a few sporadic lights, which are swallowed by the night again.

Jiang Hai lives in the Jiangnan District. The windows of this old rented house open outwards without curtains. Whenever there is a cloudless night, the moonlight will unscrupulously spill into the room through the glass covered with a thin layer of gray. .

Facing the cold moonlight, Jiang Hai lay on his back on the bed.After staring blankly at the yellowed ceiling for a while, he still couldn't sleep at all.

After moving his body, Jiang Hai lay on his side and looked at Yu Sheng who was lying on the floor.The young man had slightly long eyelashes, breathed evenly, and slept deeply.

This room is not big, a bed, a wardrobe, and a desk can fill up the less than [-] square meters of space, just like my life filled with unsatisfactory things, but today they still make room for Yu Sheng seat.

In fact, Jiang Hai himself is struggling to live, and the aftermath of taking in is nothing more than two poor people hugging each other to keep warm.

Speaking of the relationship between the two, besides the neighbors and "the homeless drifter and the kind person who helped out", Jiang Hai is also Yu Sheng's senior.

In order to retain students, the middle schools in the county will offer the bait of "junior high school continuous study, tuition fee reduction" when the students enroll. Jiang Hai, whose family is not well-off, voluntarily took the bait.

Everyone says that youth should be full of vigor and vitality.A teenager should be like this, free like the wind and full of light in his heart.

Jiang Hai is the complete opposite. His life is dull and boring, with two points and one line, he doesn't like or hear anything, like a lonely boatman, holding the slender bamboo pole in his hand, looking at the shore. The bustling and noisy.

The first time he heard of Yu Sheng's name was in the second year of high school, when the girls in the class were spreading the word "there is a very handsome gangster in the second year of junior high school".

For them, adolescence is a time of hormonal turmoil, when they are confused about their likes and feelings, they can blush at certain turmoil circulating among their classmates, secretly move their hearts, and secretly bury one in their hearts. The beauty and fantasy of youth.

But in the end, it was too late to recollect the beauty and fantasy, and they were overwhelmed by the study tasks of the third year of high school before they even found out the other party's name.

A handsome gangster from the junior high school?Jiang Hai didn't overhear it, and quickly put it behind him. He didn't pay attention to this little bastard who didn't know whether he was called "Yu Sheng" or "Yu Sheng" until one night after self-study in the second semester of high school. , he was left alone to clean the classroom.

It was almost 09:30 when he walked out of the school gate that day.The small county town at this time is similar to the big city at three o'clock in the morning. The long streets are cold and there are only lonely street lights left.

Walking through the familiar alleys, facing the wanton cool breeze at night, Jiang Hai glanced at the moon in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and suddenly felt like an abandoned person by the world.

At the same age, some people enjoy a bright life, while others just want to live.

While in a trance, the girl's intermittent screaming and crying suddenly came from the right side of the Sancha alley.

Although he remembered that his mother had said not to meddle in other people's business, but he just left without hearing anything, and his conscience would inevitably be troubled.

After hesitating on the spot for a while, Jiang Hai finally rushed in the direction of the sound.

When he arrived, Jiang Hai saw a girl in school uniform with disheveled hair sitting under a street lamp with her knees hugged and sobbing. The strap of the lavender schoolbag at her feet was torn.In front of the girl, a boy who looked fifteen or sixteen years old was arranging his school uniform jacket which had been pulled to his back, while spitting at a curled figure in the shadow of the streetlight.

The zipper of the school uniform was torn, and the boy couldn't pull it up even after tossing for a long time, so he simply stopped and took off his coat.The incandescent light made the boy's skin white, and also allowed Jiang Hai to see his well-shaped profile.

The boy stretched out his hand in front of the girl and said, "Pick up the schoolbag, and I'll take you back."

When the girl grabbed his hand and stood up, the boy sternly shouted to the black shadows that were still curled up: "Listen to me, if you dare to come here to hang out and bully girls in the future, Laozi!" I see you hitting you every time! Shameless old bastard!" While speaking, he raised his fist in a gesture.

"No, don't dare! Don't dare!" The boy's fist frightened the figure quite a bit, but he must have been hit several times not long ago.After being yelled "Get out" by the boy again, the figure ran away rolling and crawling.

After dismissing the malicious person, the boy turned his gaze to Jiang Hai who was at the side.He raised his chin, drooped his eyes slightly, with an expression of fearlessness, as if he was saying to the panting Jiang Hai, "I have already settled the matter."

Jiang Hai stood there for a long time, until the figures of the two under the lamp melted into the darkness in the distance, and then he let out the last breath held in his chest.

That night, Jiang Hai didn't know who this rebellious and unruly boy was, but the next day, rumors started circulating in the school that "a boy in the third grade of junior high school saved a girl from a pervert last night." news.

Jiang Hai was more or less a participant in that incident. Although he was not mentioned in the school's crazy story at all, he broke the usual practice and showed some concern for the gossip from his classmates.On that day, he learned from the two girls sitting in the front row that the boy who saved the life last night was Yu Sheng who was "notorious" in the school.

But Jiang Hai's curiosity stopped here.

After that night, the two never saw each other again, until Jiang Hai found out that Yu Sheng had actually moved to the Tongzilou where he lived.

After six years, when they met again, Yu Sheng only thought that Jiang Hai was the person living next door, but Jiang Hai recognized him at a glance, just because he still had that expression of fearlessness on his face and the same kind of personality on his body. Unruly vigor.

Regarding Yu Sheng's situation, Jiang Hai was still a little surprised, he thought Yu Sheng should live better.

Yu Sheng should have a better life, what he deserves is not sleeping on the street overnight.That's why Jiang Hai took him home.

But Jiang Hai didn't intend to tell Yu Sheng that the two were schoolmates. Presumably Yu Sheng had forgotten about that night, at least he must have forgotten about himself who arrived late.

After thinking about Yu Sheng's matter, Jiang Hai thought about the burden on his shoulders again.

His father died young, and his mother worked hard to raise him alone; he was very interested in acting since he was a child, but in the end, he was only admitted to a second-rate acting school because of his mediocre talents; A good coffee position is the male number N+1 in the unknown splash drama; living on a meager salary alone will make ends meet, and when there is no invitation, he has to do odd jobs in a convenience store.

One year out of graduation and nothing.

He is already 23 years old.

If you can't get ahead in the circle at the age of 25, find a stable job and live a down-to-earth life.

In such thoughts, Jiang Hai fell into a deep sleep.