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At 05:30 in the afternoon, it is the peak time for get off work and school.The flow of traffic rushes towards the roads extending in all directions like a flood, blocking the main road completely. The bus moves forward at a speed of stopping and stopping, and the sound of various harsh horns seems to never stop.

Yi Shi moved his legs, the narrow bus seat was too restrictive for his height, he inserted his fingers into his hair and stroked it back, looking out the window.

Outside the window are row upon row of high-rise buildings and undulating mountains not far away, which is very strange, but it is like a picture scroll waiting to be tasted.

The bus is crowded and narrow, just like this city surrounded by mountains.

It's not a good impression, but this is the hometown that his grandmother yearned for, and it was the place she wanted to go back to before she died.

He didn't rest well on the plane, but he was still jet-lagged and couldn't fall asleep. He went to the hotel to put down his things and came out.

At this time, I was a little tired.

Yi Shi put his elbows against the window, almost drowsy but not completely unconscious. After an unknown amount of time, he felt the bus gradually moving forward smoothly, and then stopped. Someone got on the bus and sat on him. Next to it, after driving for a while, it stopped again, and the door opened and closed again.

Suddenly, the pupil sitting next to him shouted loudly: "Brother Xiao Zhao! Brother Xiao Zhao!"

He opened his eyes, just in time to see a colorful head coming towards him, and the owner of the head was sitting in the empty seat in front of him.

When brother Xiao Zhao, who had dyed his hair randomly in no less than five colors, turned his head, Yi Shi could see clearly that he was a very young boy, who looked about his age, with a fair and delicate face that looked good even under the smog The messy hair still has an indescribably clean vigor, and it seems that no matter what kind of clothes he wears, he can't suppress his original temperament.

The boy smiled and said, "Hey, Xiaoyu can take the bus to and from school alone?"

The sound is also very clear and nice.

Yi Shi closed his eyes.

"That's right, I'm already in the sixth grade." The little girl named Xiaoyu seemed very interested in his hair, and asked curiously, "Brother, is this a wig or real hair?"

The boy said mysteriously: "Guess, there will be a reward for guessing right."

Xiao Yu's interest suddenly turned to the reward, and asked excitedly: "What reward?"

There was a slight zipper sound, and the boy dug out something from his bag. Xiao Yu said "wow" loudly in surprise.

Yi Shi opened his eyes again.

The boy on the opposite side shook a brand new box of crayons in his hand, and smiled a little boyishly: "Guess quickly."

Xiao Yu stared at his hair, hesitated: "Fake?"

The boy raised his eyebrows without saying yes or no, and reminded: "Think again."

Xiao Yu immediately changed her words: "Really, really."

The boy smiled immediately: "Congratulations to Liao Xiaoyu, who guessed correctly and won the highest reward, a box of smart card 24-color crayons."

Yi Shi took a glance, and found that the boy looked cute and warm when he was not smiling, but he had a kind of perverse flamboyance when he smiled.The eyes are narrow and long, the eyes are brown, clear and transparent, the end of the eyes is slightly raised like a hook, and the eyes are flowing.

A new word that he had just learned recently flashed through Yi Shi's mind, with peach blossoms in his eyes.

The little girl happily took the crayons and turned them over and over again: "Thank you Brother Xiao Zhao!! Brother, where did you get the crayons?"

The boy said: "Our school started a charity sale, and I won it."

Xiao Yu became interested again: "Win? How did you win?"

Yi Shi closed her eyes again, and the little girl beside her was chattering like a bird, saying that her mother forced her to learn the guzheng and she liked to draw, and that the male classmates in the class were disgusting at pulling her pigtails... It seemed like she wanted to Tell the boy opposite him all the details of life.

It wasn't until the bus arrived that the boy reminded her that it was time to get off, and the little girl reluctantly said goodbye: "Brother Xiao Zhao, goodbye!"

Finally quiet down.

"Hey, isn't this Xiao Zhao? Why are you here? Oh, what's wrong with you?"

"Grandma Deng, I'm going to find Fatty, er, no, Luo Hao. He has a cold and is recuperating at home. Our teacher asked me to deliver homework to him. You can sit here with me."

"It's okay, I went to the market to buy vegetables, just one stop, and got off the bus immediately. What's the matter with your hair? You don't look like a good student."

"Hey, our school started to hold activities. My classmates insisted on spraying me for fun. It is disposable and can be washed off by washing your hair. Granny Deng, don't talk about me anymore. I have already been severely criticized by the teacher. This No, fine me to travel thousands of miles to deliver my homework."

"Hahahaha should be criticized."

……

Not long after, Granny Deng got out of the car.But it was only quiet for a while, and a female voice greeted hesitantly: "He Zhao? It's so rare to meet you here."

Yi Shi opened his eyes, and the boy named He Zhao had already walked over a few steps, and stopped next to a girl of the same age who was wearing a school uniform. The two started talking in a low voice, and the girl couldn't stop laughing.

Is this person a courtesan?

Yi Shi stared at the two of them for a few seconds, or stared at the courtesan for a few seconds. He couldn't tell what he felt, but he thought that person should be the kind of person who has been liked since childhood.

The complete opposite of him.

The radio finally announced the stop where Yi Shi got off.

The sky outside the window has dimmed, and the lights are like large clusters of gorgeous flowers piled up and blooming, layer upon layer, patchwork, bright and eye-catching.

Very lively.

It is also very hot.

As soon as he got off the bus, Yi Shi felt a suffocating heat wave rushing towards his face, wrapping him like an invisible mask, making it difficult to breathe.

He turned on the mobile phone navigation and entered the address.

The recommended plan is to walk 1.1 kilometers from the destination and take 18 minutes.

Not too far.

After 40 minutes, Yi Shi looked down at the screen: the recommended plan is to walk, 1.6 kilometers away from the destination, and it takes 25 minutes.

He turned off the screen blankly.

He had searched the city on the Internet before he came, and the comment with the highest number of likes was only two words - "maze".

This labyrinth gave him a big blow on the first day he came.

"classmate……"

Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder behind him.

Yi Shi doesn't like to have physical contact with others very much, she doesn't resist it, but she is more sensitive than ordinary people.

He subconsciously turned his lower body to the side, just in time to shake off that hand, and turned his head with a frown.

It turned out to be the courtesan just now.

The courtesan held a lollipop in her mouth, seemed startled by his reaction, paused for two seconds, took the lollipop out of her mouth, and sighed: "This is the first time I've seen a real person explode when touched. Mao, just like the cat downstairs."

Yi Shi asked, "What's the matter?"

The tone was so cold that He Zhao instantly felt that he had done unnecessary things, and his enthusiasm for helping others cooled down.

He Zhao stuffed the lollipop back into his mouth again, and said inarticulately with the lollipop in his mouth, "It's nothing, I got off at the same bus stop as you half an hour ago, I've finished my work now, look at you And holding a mobile phone around in circles, thinking you need help."

The word "need help" is extremely heavy.

After a moment of silence, Yi Shi said, "Sorry."

Apologize?

He Zhao looked at him and stretched out his hand.

Jian Yishi stood motionless, as if he didn't understand what he was going to do, raised his chin: "Mobile phone, let me see where you are going, I have lived near here for ten years."

Yi Shi turned on the screen and handed it to him.

He Zhao glanced at it, thinking: "This address is very familiar... I probably know where it is... It's not far away, I'll take you a shortcut, and it will take about ten minutes."

He Zhao walked ahead, led Yi Shi down the stairs, turned into the alley and up the overpass, rolled the lollipop with his tongue, and said proudly: "Student, listen to my advice, here, the navigation is basically It’s useless, it’s better to ask for directions, the people here are as warm-hearted as me.”

The classmate didn't know whether he didn't know what to reply or didn't want to talk to him, so he didn't speak.

He Zhao glanced at him, and saw that this boy had an outstanding appearance, with a high nose and deep eyes, and his angular profile looked like a delicate and indifferent silhouette under the street lamps. If it wasn't for his black hair and black eyes, He Zhao would have suspected that he was a foreigner. .

He looks aggressive by himself, but he also has a cold face, pulling like two to five or eight thousand.

He Zhao asked sincerely: "Student, since you were young, you have been blocked by people to beat you, right?"

The classmate finally spoke: "No."

Okay, no, no.

Can't you see that he is taking the initiative to shorten the distance between the two?

He Zhao said "tsk" in his heart, how could someone pour ice water on his mouth, "呵啦", and snuff out the signs of others wanting to talk.

After 3 minutes of silence, He Zhao commented: "Then the people around you are quite friendly and peaceful."

The classmate glanced at him, but still didn't answer.

It didn't matter to He Zhao, he thought slowly, passing through this alley and turning another corner, he was almost near his destination, and this pleasant journey would soon be over.

and many more……

Go through this alley and turn a corner...

He Zhao turned his head slowly and stiffly, and the boy followed him half a step behind him to the right with no expression on his face. He Zhao was considered tall among his peers, but this boy was a bit taller than him.The street lamps elongated their shadows, and the boy's shadow just covered him and his shadow like a cloud of shadows from back to front.

A chill gradually rose on He Zhao's back, and he remembered, that address...

The place where the boy is going is the haunted house.

He Zhao had been living nearby before his parents divorced, and he was familiar with this area, including the haunted house.The haunted house has been abandoned for many years, and the doors and windows are closed, exuding a strong eerie atmosphere.He has heard more than one version of horror stories about haunted houses since he was a child, so that every time he passed by the place with his classmates and friends in elementary school, he couldn't help being curious and wanted to take a look, and always felt that a pair of eyes were looking through the window, making people shudder. .

He Zhao's heart was beating violently like a drum. The two of them had walked to the depths of the alley, far away from the residents and the main road. The surroundings were so quiet that he almost wondered if he had stepped into the ecstasy circle isolated from the world.

He couldn't help but glanced to the side. He had just passed a street lamp, and the light from the next street lamp was cast on the boy's face, making his face a little pale.

He Zhao stopped abruptly, and blurted out: "Lying on the grass."

The boy didn't seem to know what happened, and cast a questioning look over.But as he took a step forward, the light returned to normal, and so did his face.

He Zhao's heart returned to his chest, and he quickly walked forward.

Calm down, he has a shadow and cannot be a ghost.

To be honest, he looks more like a vampire in a movie than a ghost.

Do vampires have shadows?Are vampires afraid of crosses?What are you afraid of?garlic?black hooves?

He Zhao's thoughts wandered wildly, and before he could figure out why, the haunted house had already appeared in front of him.

He Zhao cleared his throat and said dryly, "That's the place you're looking for."

Yi Shi silently looked at the dilapidated and old house. The beautiful flowers that grandma had planted by herself should have long since disappeared, leaving only messy grass.No one has lived in and taken care of it for too long, and the house stands there alone like an old man who is out of place with the surroundings, and like a monster eagerly looking forward to the owner's return.

It's just that its owner won't come back.

He said slowly, "Thanks."

He Zhao: "You're welcome, you're welcome, then... shall I go first?"

Yi Shi nodded: "OK."

He Zhao walked a few steps, then backed away, pointed to the main road ahead, and said, "If you want to leave later, walk over here, there is an intersection, and it's easy to get a taxi."

Without waiting for his response, He Zhao quickly ran away.When Yi Shi looked over, he only saw the boy's school uniform flashing past at the entrance of the alley.