Sparkling

They were still in the same school, even in the same class, when they went to junior high school.

This incident is not surprising at all, because Xiaoshan Island has only two elementary schools, one junior high school and one high school.

Although I came to a new school, most of the classmates in the class are old faces. Even if they don't go to school, they usually look down and see each other. They are very familiar with each other.

Because of this, the freshness of the new school hadn't lasted a whole morning before it had disappeared and was replaced by boredom.

Xu Feng's life has not changed much from before, mainly just dawdling.

This is also the state of life of most people in the class.

It’s almost time to finish junior high school, and then go to learn a craft, or go out to run a business with their parents. The children on the island generally grow up according to this route, so their junior high school life is also very easy, going to school is like playing.Compared with playing cards, chatting, reading comics, or going out to fight in groups, taking classes is considered a side job.

Among these people, Ye Lin became an exception.

Xu Feng didn't know if it was his own illusion, but he always felt that after Ye Lin entered junior high school, he was like a clockwork reading robot.Although he was a good kid before, and he would finish the homework that the teacher said seriously, but after junior high school, it seemed that whenever he saw him, he would always look down at the book or do the homework.

The people in the class played cards, chatted, or quarreled, whatever. He sat far in front without raising his head. He was completely uninterested and turned a blind eye.

He has almost no friends in the class. He comes to school every morning, opens the door and walks into the noisy classroom silently, and then starts studying until school is over.Xu Feng suspected that he might not speak a word to anyone all day.

At the same time, the quarrel next door intensified.

Occasionally, Xu Feng's mother was also at home, watching TV in the living room, and there was another quarrel next door, causing Xu's mother to put down the TV and listen to their quarrel.

When Xu Feng came out of the room occasionally, he wanted to roll his eyes when he saw his mother's eyes eavesdropping on the corner.He's gotten tired of hearing it since elementary school.

After elementary school, Ye Lin stopped coming to his house to do homework, and the chances of seeing each other became less, and it seemed that he became estranged.

Xu Feng returned to his room with a glass of water, and slammed the door behind him, making it much quieter.

He thought of Ye Lin who was at the center of this war, there was no escape, and he didn't know what he was doing now.

After a long time of quiet life, I feel bored.

Humans are restless animals. Once bored, they will want to start a war.

There is a group of people in the class, just such a group of boring people.They seem to be very comfortable and free every day.Free to come and go in class, no one cares, do whatever you want, the only goal every day is to find some fun and excitement for an ordinary new day.

Xu Feng can be regarded as a fringe figure in this circle, he neither gets too close, but also seems to be inseparable.

This day they somehow set their sights on Ye Lin.

Ye Lin is considered a good student in the class, he seems to have nothing else to attract his attention all day long except for studying, in their eyes, he is synonymous with "fake prudence".

Xu Feng was reading a pictorial, which was newly published in the new week. He had just bought it from a newsstand and it was still warm, so he read it engrossed.

The people around were chattering about something, there was nothing new in the content, it was nothing more than going to punish someone later, or making an appointment to fight somewhere, Xu Feng ignored it until Ye Lin's name floated to his ears along with the small whispers inside.

He suddenly raised his head from the pages of the book, he was a little puzzled.

He and Ye Lin are not very close, at least after graduating from elementary school, they almost never get along alone, and they seldom talk.

Probably because they live close by, so they would occasionally look at him more. He naturally categorized their relationship in this way in his heart. Other than that, he was no different from other classmates.

He didn't take his eyes off the pictorial, but his mind was no longer on the colorful coloring pages in front of him, and he listened to their plans with his ears up.

"I don't know if he looks good when he was beaten up and cried hahahahaha"

"With his small body, he will definitely not be able to withstand beatings, and he might cry and beg for mercy."

"As soon as you said it, I want to watch it now hahahaha."

And so on.

Xu Feng raised his eyes and glanced at Ye Lin who was in front of the classroom.

One of them sat at the head and the other sat at the end, separated by the entire noisy classroom, one quietly lowered his head to write something, and the other silently looked at the figure in front of him.

Suddenly, he was slapped heavily on the shoulder, so hard that he almost threw himself forward on the table.

"Hey, are you going after class?"

It refers to bullying Ye Lin.

Xu Feng rubbed and patted his sore shoulder and cursed, thought for a while, nodded,

"go."

If it gets too much trouble, he...

He wondered dimly, would it be different if he was there, but he couldn't say it.

Xu Feng didn't stop them from doing this, because it was useless to persuade them, and he didn't want to appear as if he cared about Ye Lin.

After class, the little gang in the back row of the classroom crossed their shoulders and left the classroom early. The place they chose was a sandy road outside the school. There were lush banyan trees beside the road. Ye Lin would ride home from here every day.

This road can be regarded as a small highland, looking to the side is the unobstructed sky, and below is a slope full of weeds.The narrow dirt road is only enough for two people to walk side by side, and there are weeds on the side.

This road can be regarded as a branch of the avenue, leading to a corner of the village. Both Xu Feng's house and Ye Lin's house are at the end of this road.

They leaned under the banyan tree in twos and threes, smoking, playing cards, blowing the wind, and waiting for Ye Lin to come home.

Ye Lin came very late, junior high school ended at four o'clock, but he didn't appear far away until 05:30, when the school cleaning bell rang above the village.

This group of people had long been impatient for waiting, and their originally laughing attitude gradually turned into resentment, becoming irritable, and began to curse with obscenities.

Xu Feng thought that he probably didn't want to go home so early and stay at school until he had to leave.

At 05:30, the sky had already started to get dark, and the sunset glow in the sky showed a thick twilight.There are no street lights on this road, and it is difficult to even recognize faces.

After squatting all afternoon, there were very few people passing by, so when a figure in a white shirt and school uniform came staggeringly on a bicycle, they all knew that it must be Ye Lin.

Ye Lin didn't know anything about their existence, or even if he saw a group of vague figures from a distance, he would never think that they were coming for him.

When he gradually approached the banyan tree, the leader approached first, and when Ye Lin passed by him, he stretched out his foot and kicked him.

The thin wheel of the moving bicycle was caught off guard by such a sudden kick, and was immediately kicked down. Ye Lin and the bicycle fell out all at once.

A group of people immediately surrounded it.

Ye Lin was stunned by the sudden attack. He fell to the ground and stared blankly at the approaching figure.

Two or three were classmates in the class, and one or two were unfamiliar faces, and they even saw Xu Feng.

The figure is getting closer and closer, the shadow is pressed on his face,

"you--"

Before he even finished his sentence, he was hit on the head by the leading boy. These people are all experienced fighters, and their hands are very strong. With just one blow, the unsuspecting Ye Lin headed straight to the haystack. I fell down, and when I got up again, my hair was messy and my face was covered with mud.

"You came out so late, you told us to wait!"

While cursing, he put his hands in his trouser pockets and kicked Ye Lin who was lying on the ground.

After doing this twice, even Ye Lin, who was too dazed to study, realized that this was bullying, and these people were here to beat him up.

A person next to him stepped forward, leaned down and brushed his hair up, forcing him to raise his head. Ye Lin's still youthful face was clearly displayed in front of everyone. In those eyes, it was obvious that Anger has been ignited.

"Yo, I'm angry. It's fun. If you do this twice, I really look down on you, hahahaha."

Ye Lin struggled to stand up, and the three or two people beside him hurried forward, one by one pressing down on his shoulders.

The leader looked at his ferocious eyes, laughed hahaha, then changed his face sullenly and slapped him with a big mouth, backhanded another, and then another.

His favorite thing is to slap people.

He slapped hard, and he loved to hear a loud "snap".

The key is that this is equivalent to rubbing the other person's face on the ground, and there is a pleasure of trampling on others' self-esteem.

Ye Lin was being pressed down, his shoulders were weak, he was like a deer that fell into a trap at this moment, he was not strong, but he struggled desperately, it was impossible to hold down.

He struggled desperately, the two next to him couldn't control it, the leader saw it, raised his jaw slightly,

"open."

The two let go, and Ye Lin suddenly got up from the ground like a wild beast, and rushed towards the boy who beat him.

He hadn't learned to fight, nor had he grown up to fight.

But fury is the best teacher. When he rushed over with his disheveled hair and a white shirt that had been torn off and stained with mud, his aura actually made the boy feel a little emotional.

He punched the boy in the face, literally.Maybe it's because his speed is too fast, everything is just a flash, maybe it's because his aura is so frightening that there's no time to resist him in a panic.In short, he beat him all at once, like a drop of water dripping into a frying pan that was ready to fire. With just one blow, everyone exploded and lost control.

They rushed up one after another, and they couldn't even see each other's figure clearly, throwing fists and kicks indiscriminately.Countless fists and feet hit the body, and each blow brought severe pain to a certain part of the body, but the strength did not disappear, but instead, it was continuously generated by this momentum, no matter who the opponent was, Like crazy, Ye Lin returned it with fists and kicks.

The pitch-dark fight lasted for an unknown amount of time, and a sharp whistle sounded in the ear, one after another, but no one paid any attention to it, and the speed of the fists did not slow down because of this.Until the voice gradually approached, someone woke up like a dream,

"someone is coming!"

I don't know who suddenly yelled, and the crowd who were fighting together suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, pushing each other and running away.

The person who was found was the old man in charge of the village, named Zhou De. He used to be a policeman in the Xiaoshan police station, and now he is in charge of the security of the village. He is a violent old man.

Zhou De swung his baton and rushed over with a loud shout, like an old but still strong gorilla.Someone bumped into him without long eyes, and he picked it up and beat him.

"Little bastard who dares to fight in groups, I can't beat you to death!"

Those people did not dare to tangle with him and fled in all directions.Zhou De was alone, he gave up after chasing them for a few steps, turned back to look at Ye Lin who was lying there, and Xu Feng who was still here for some reason.

Ye Lin fell down on the messy grass, suddenly lost strength, and didn't even have the strength to stand up.Zhou Dexia pursed his lips, and when a stinking face appeared in his field of vision, he just rolled his eyes, gasped for breath, and couldn't say a word.

Old man Zhou turned his eyes to Xu Feng who was standing on the side again. He also participated in the fight just now, but which side he helped was still to be discussed.The white shirt of the school uniform on his body was torn in a mess, revealing the white shirt inside, and there were sporadic colors on his face.It's not like Ye Lin who exhausted all his strength and couldn't stand up, but he was also thrusting his waist, panting heavily.

Zhou De pointed his baton at him and shook it unceremoniously, "What's going on?"

Xu Feng pursed his lips and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. There was a tingling pain on his lips, and he realized that his lips seemed to be scratched and bleeding.

He swallowed the saliva with difficulty, his mouth was dry and he said,

"Just kidding, what can happen."

"Just kidding!"

Zhou De was furious all of a sudden,

"Is there such a joke!"

He turned his head to look at Ye Lin again, and he recognized that this was a boy from the Ye family, "Why did you get involved!"

Before Ye Lin opened his mouth, Xu Feng said,

"None of his business."

Panting for breath, he gradually calmed down the frenzied mood just now.

"It's none of his business, it's your business!"

Zhou De waved his baton in front of him, which made Xu Feng so upset that he almost wanted to snatch it away.

"One or two don't go to school well, and they spend all day doing all this nonsense, and they have nothing to do when they are idle!"

Xu Feng echoed in his heart, yes, he just has nothing to do.

"Get up!" Zhou De lowered his head and said to Ye Lin, "I'll take you home after rest." He was going to sue.

"no!"

Ye Lin recovered a little bit of strength, and got up from the ground immediately after hearing what he said.When he came together like this, Zhou De could see it clearly. Compared with him, Xu Feng's appearance like that was nothing short of meaningless.

Ye Lin's short hair was extremely messy, and the exposed forehead was scratched and bloodshot.There were still unresolved finger marks on his face, and the bruises on his cheeks had begun to swell. It looked like he had been beaten badly.

Seeing his miserable appearance, Zhou De frowned and clicked his tongue.

Ye Lin ignored his wrinkled expression and repeated eagerly,

"No! You can't go to my house!"

He is rarely emotional, and his attitude is very firm.

"If you dare to fight, you will start to be afraid!?"

Old man Zhou is also stubborn and wants to play against him.

"It's not what I want to fight!"

"Then what is that all over your face!"

...

I can't tell the old man clearly.

Xu Feng didn't want to entangle with him anymore, so he raised his hand to block between the two of them, "It's all right, stop arguing."

He stood in front of Ye Lin, turned his back to him, and said to old man Zhou, "I'll take him back, okay? I promise, I won't let him fight again. I promise!"

"You take care of yourself first!"

Xu Feng "..."

After talking for a while, he finally sent the Buddha away. Xu Feng let out a long breath, feeling exhausted.

Looking back, I saw Ye Lin. When he was arguing with old man Zhou, he was always beside him without saying a word. Now he finally calmed down. A green face was hidden in the shadow of the setting sun, silent, lost. Lost color, like a rag doll that has lost its vitality.

He didn't speak, he pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, very similar to when he was a child.

Although he is still very small now.

Xu Feng let out a tired breath, patted him on the shoulder, and walked over to him to help up the bicycle that had fallen on the grassy slope.

The bicycle fell alone on the side of the road, the rear wheel was kicked out of shape, the basket was crushed in the grass, and the front and handle were tilted to one side, unable to be pulled back. It looked as miserable as its owner.

"Let's go."

Xu Feng said.

Ye Lin raised his head, there seemed to be tears in his eyes, but after blinking, there seemed to be no more.He asked, "Where are you going?"

"go home."

Ye Lin didn't speak, but there was a sign of resistance on his face.

Xu Feng picked up Ye Lin's schoolbag and put it on his shoulder, and walked to his side pushing the ugly bicycle.

"Come on, I'll take you back."

Although his home is also on this road, he said "send."

He pushed the car ahead and didn't hear the sound behind him.When I looked back, I saw Ye Lin following silently, after a long distance, he walked with a limp.

Ye Lin was wearing a school uniform with a short-sleeved white shirt, which was neatly tied into black gauze school trousers, but now the hem of the clothes has completely come out, and was blown up by the night wind; there was a tear at the knee A thin black veil hangs down from the school trousers, exposing the flesh and blood inside.

Only then did Xu Feng notice that he also had injuries on his legs. For some reason, he felt more and more uncomfortable.

He couldn't tell whether it was regret, self-blame, or guilt.But he was silent and said nothing.

The two were silent all the way, and it was a very difficult journey.

Arriving at the door of Ye Lin's house, Xu Feng hesitated to say something to him, but the door of the stone house suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man rushed out from inside, and when he saw Ye Lin at the door, he rushed like an angry lion. Coming up, he slapped him on the head indiscriminately.

Ye Lin lowered her head, just accepting it, without expressing anything.It's just that his ears turned red in an instant, and they looked very hot.

"Where did you go to fool around when you didn't come home after school! Your mother gave birth to a dead cub!"

The man's abnormal rage exploded, followed by a series of cursing, which was terrible, and Ye Lin's mother scolded along with him.His voice was hoarse and trembling, sharpening his heart every sound, just listening to it made people feel uncomfortable.

Xu Feng looked at the mad dog-like man in front of him, and when he was startled, he suddenly remembered that this was Ye Lin's father.

Although I can hear this disturbing sound like a dog barking at any time in my own home, the stimulation I receive is different when I hear it through a few walls and when I hear it in person.

He clenched his fists and clenched his back teeth almost instantly.

How much he wished that he could do something then, stand in front of his father or run away with Ye Lin, even if he did something that would be of no avail, but he thought, it would be great if he had done it then.

In the end, he watched in shock as the man dragged Ye Lin into the house as if he was pulling the neck of a dog, and closed the door with a bang. The crackling noise.