crime of blindness

In the high-altitude countryside on winter nights, the air is filled with the smell of charcoal fire.The dim yellow street lamp at the entrance of the village is like a barrier, separating Bai Yu and Shen Ji from the village and the world outside the village.

It's so quiet here that you can hear your heartbeat.Bai Yu looked at Shen Ji's eyes wandering because he told a little lie, and suddenly felt that this person was like a beautiful treasure chest.The treasure chest is opened, and there are many secrets hidden in it, and new secrets can also be put in. All secrets are safe in the treasure chest.

"It doesn't matter if you hear it." Bai Yu said, "Mr. Shen, are you nervous?"

Shen Ji shook his head hastily.Just now I heard Bai Yu talking to the person on the phone, his tone was indifferent and impatient, he tried not to listen as much as possible, but his curiosity got the best of him, subconsciously he wanted to hear more clearly.Are Bai Yu's family over there?Does Bai Yu have a bad relationship with them?

"You..." Shen Ji wanted to explain that he wasn't nervous, but driven by that little curiosity, he said, "Did you quarrel with your family?"

Bai Yu never talked about his family with people he didn't know well, even with Zhan Meng.They all knew that it was his minefield.

But today it was probably a long cold night, maybe it was the clouds passing by on the crescent moon, or maybe it was just a soft spot poked by Shen Ji's action of hiding in the wild grass, Bai Yu suddenly felt a desire to talk.

"Well, it's my dad who called." Said, Bai Yu looked at Shen Ji, "Did I be very aggressive just now?"

Shen Ji was silent, as if he was thinking seriously, the white air he exhaled spread out, entangled with Bai Yu's breath.Bai Yu felt that just standing with Teacher Shen like this made him calm down a lot.

"There is a reason." Shen Ji said seriously: "You won't get angry at your family for no reason."

Bai Yu laughed and said, "So it's still very fierce."

Shen Ji's answer was beyond his expectation - "But if viciousness can protect oneself from harm, then it must exist."

The two walked aimlessly, leaving the village and lights behind.

"I didn't live with them. Before I was an adult, I lived with my grandmother." Bai Yu said in a relaxed tone, as if he was telling someone else's story, "I even thought I was an orphan adopted by my grandmother when I was young."

Shen Ji turned his face sideways to look at him, hesitated to speak.

Bai Yu continued: "I don't know why they don't live with me. I realized after I became sensible that when they saw me, they would think of my sister."

"Do you have a sister?"

"Well, she's five years older than me. I've seen pictures of her. She's very beautiful. But she died not long after I was born."

Shen Ji was surprised, "Are you sick?"

Bai Yu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "She was kidnapped, and when the police found her, she was already... She is my parents' most beloved child. There was no love between them, but since they had a sister, they have become affectionate. "

Shen Ji was puzzled, "But what's wrong with you?"

"I have also asked myself many times, what is wrong with me? Why was my sister killed and I lost my parents?" Bai Yu said, "When I grow up, I find the reason for everything I don't understand. Before I was born , My sister has been taken care of by my mother herself. She is unwilling to have another child, but the elders of the Bai family, that is, my grandparents, demanded that she must give birth to a boy. I am the boy who was not expected by my mother. I gave birth to me After that, she became very weak and had no time to take care of family affairs, so her sister was handed over to the nanny."

Hearing this, Shen Ji already guessed the follow-up.

"Who is to blame for my sister's death? Other than the gangsters, they can only blame me." Bai Yu said, "Finding a baby who has no ability to fight back and blame it will make them a lot easier. But children will grow up, and they will grow old. I After I became an adult, they appeared as if nothing had happened, and asked me to return to the Bai family to inherit the so-called family business. Teacher Shen, if it were you, what would you choose?"

Shen Ji was angry at what happened to Bai Yu, but now Bai Yu didn't ask him if he was angry, but asked about an objective choice, so after careful consideration, he answered objectively: "I will inherit the family business."

Bai Yu: "..."

Shen Ji immediately explained, "That's what you deserve."

The part of Bai Yu's chest suddenly loosened, and he couldn't stop laughing.

Shen Ji was overwhelmed by the laughter, and gradually realized that he had said something wrong.Bai Yu spent 18 years living a life of being forgotten by his parents and being cold and violent. He hated his birth and his blood, so of course he didn't want to go back and inherit the family business.But why is Baiyu laughing?

It took Shen Ji a long time to hold back a sentence, "I was wrong, you shouldn't inherit the family business."

Bai Yu stopped laughing, "Mr. Shen, you are really interesting when you are not working."

Shen Ji didn't understand, his eyes were very round.

"I didn't meet a pair of good parents, but I have a very good grandmother. I never lacked the love of my relatives when I was growing up." Bai Yu went on to say, "It's because I can meet you here now. Because when I wasted food when I was a child, my grandmother told me that there are still many children who have no food, no clothes, no school."

Shen Ji's pupil light trembled slightly.

He was three years older than Bai Yu, and he was also a child when Bai Yu was young.It is the "three noes" children in Baiyu's grandmother's mouth.

"I asked my grandma, what should I do?" Bai Yu said. "She said I could save the money and help them through charities."

Shen Ji lowered his head slightly, looking at the dark and unclear road ahead, "But in the past, many organizations failed to help those in need. Even if those who do charity have good intentions, the people who are helped may get unfair. "

Bai Yu stopped.For some reason, he felt that the teacher Shen who said this exuded sadness and helplessness, as if he had experienced it himself.

This guess made Bai Yu nervous.

Shen Ji realized his abnormality, coughed lightly, "But 'Huo Miao' won't."

Bai Yu nodded, "Many organizations that I donated money to when I was young have been investigated, and I only came into contact with 'Huo Miao' a few years ago."

Shen Ji hummed.

Bai Yu suddenly had an absurd guess in his mind, if Shen Ji's growth environment was similar to Zhao Liming's, would there be a one-in-a-million chance that his pocket money would have helped Shen Ji?

He had to admit that he became more curious about Shen Ji.

"Mr. Shen, when you gave gifts in the morning, did you ask them to line up because you were worried about being unfair?"

Shen Ji didn't expect Bai Yu to ask such a question, so he nodded after a while, "If there is no order, the thin children won't get gifts."

Bai Yu looked at the flying catkin-like light around Shen Ji, and felt that under his seemingly cold actions, there was a soft heart hidden.

"What about you?" Bai Yu said to herself, "Why did you participate in 'Huo Miao'?"

Shen Ji put his hands together in front of his face, exhaled, rubbed, stomped his feet, "It's cold, I want to go back."

Bai Yu was helpless and funny.Shen Ji was not willing to tell him that the reason last time was to sleep, but this time it was cold, and it was accompanied by an exaggerated performance.It seemed that he would not go back if he did not perform this act.

He wanted to know about Shen Ji, but he was not in a hurry, on the way back he said: "By the way, Teacher Shen, thank you for helping me simmer my clothes."

The tips of Shen Ji's ears are red, it's hard to tell whether it's cold red or embarrassment.

After staying in Fanghang Village for three days, on the morning of the fourth day, Bai Yu and Shen Ji bid farewell to the villagers and drove away.Xiao Guo sent them to the town, Shen Ji asked: "Mr. Bai, how are you going?"

There is only one road from Fanghang Village to the town, and from the town you can take the expressway to the surrounding cities.

When Bai Yu rented a car in Xiucheng, he planned to return the car and fly back to Huicheng, but now he feels that he should change his mind.

"What about you?"

"My home is in Tangcheng, I have to drive the car back."

Bai Yu looked at the route and said with a smile, "Then we will part ways here."

Shen Ji said: "Oh."

Both cars were parked outside the convenience store. The weather was fine, and the warm winter sun made people feel very comfortable.This is not a day to say goodbye by any means.

Knowing that Bai Yu did not go the same way as him, Shen Ji felt a little regretful. More than 400 kilometers away, he fled all the way in the morning of the second day of junior high school, worried that if he drove too slowly, he would run into He Fengyi and the boyfriend he brought home.The same distance, no catching up behind, no anticipation ahead, he wanted to drive as slowly as possible, and it would be best if He Fengyi had already left when he returned.

If Bai Yu sat in his co-pilot, the 400 kilometers might not be boring.

Holding the driver's door with his hand, Shen Ji heard Bai Yu shouting from behind: "Teacher Shen."

"Ok?"

"Would you mind waiting for me for half an hour?" Bai Yu said, "I can return the car right here, but the people from the car rental company can't come right away."

Shen Ji's eyes were bright, and his emotions were easily revealed, "Are you going to Tangcheng with me?"

"Mr. Shen, can you give me a ride? If the time is right, we can go back to Huicheng together."

Shen Ji responded without thinking, "I haven't bought the ticket yet."

"What a coincidence, I didn't buy either."

Shen Ji quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he was bringing a friend back to Tang City, if there was any necessary movement between relatives, he could say that he wanted to accompany his friend.On the way, he even began to think about where to take Baiyu to Tangcheng.

Bai Yu didn't know that he had been taken to Tangcheng by Mr. Shen on a "cloud tour", and he also searched for hotels and restaurants in Tangcheng on his mobile phone.The hotel is easy to solve, just book a regular five-star hotel.You have to ask the locals for food.But the guy in the driver's seat doesn't like eating out, so he probably can't recommend anything.

But Bai Yu suddenly thought of the personal news that Shen Ji posted a while ago, a piece of steamed chestnut cake that was not very tasty.Bai Yu glanced at Shen Ji calmly, and found that he was concentrating on driving, so he tilted his phone to the right and clicked into Shen Ji's circle of friends.

The signal in Fanghang Village is too poor. To make a phone call, you have to go to the entrance of the village or climb up the hillside. Internet access is even more of a problem.Sure enough, Shen Ji didn't post a single post, the latest one was steamed chestnut cake.

This news can be said to be praised and stepped on. Mr. Shen couldn't eat Bailuting in Tangcheng, but he still misses the steamed coconut egg yolk cake of Bailuting.

As the favored party, Bai Yu really wanted to taste how bad this chestnut steamed cake is.

Shen Ji didn't pay that much attention when driving, he was about to arrive in Tangcheng soon, it was all flat roads, Bai Yu was playing with his mobile phone, the mobile phone was placed flat before, he couldn't see the content, and he didn't intend to look at it.Now that Bai Yu was holding the phone at an angle, he was puzzled.

Is Bai Yu looking at something that he can't let him see?

He wants to know.

"Mr. Bai, what are you looking at?"

Hearing this sound, Bai Yu subconsciously withdrew from the circle of friends, but in a hurry, he gave a thumbs up to the steamed chestnut cake.

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