gentle collapse

"Are you hungry? I brought some steamed stuffed buns with red bean paste. Let's have a supper before resting." He stood up and walked into the kitchen.I changed my shoes and sat on the sofa waiting for him.

"The steamed stuffed bun has been hot in the rice cooker. It's a little hot. Be careful when you eat it." He put down two bowls, and the other bowl was filled with white soy milk. "Isn't the school food terrible? I see you these days I don't look well, I said some time ago that I would come to pick you up every day, but something happened and I didn't come..."

I asked him, "What happened to you?"

"Oh, didn't you just get promoted? I'm not very familiar with the business when I take over the new job, so I often work overtime. I finally got free these days, so I plan to pick you up later. You may not know that you have been at school. It's been a bit messy outside recently... ...several people died." Seeing that I had no intention of eating, he stood up again, "Let me help you get a pair of chopsticks."

"Brother, what can't you tell me? I'm an adult."

He paused for a moment, then walked into the kitchen. The voice came out from the kitchen, indistinct: "It's nothing serious, it's just some riots caused by parades. Be careful to stay away from the traversers, and it shouldn't be too late." what happened."

He came out of the kitchen, handed me the chopsticks, and said softly, "Don't worry."

I took the chopsticks, stuffed the buns into my mouth, and watched him while chewing.He smiled at me and came to rub my hair: "I haven't washed my hair for a few days. It's sloppy. I'll boil hot water for you. After you finish eating, go and find out the change of clothes. Wash it hot." A bath will be much more comfortable.”

Swallowed along with the steamed stuffed bun, and what I wanted to ask him.He took great pains to hide this matter from me, just because he didn't want to affect my study mood.If I tell him that I know everything, it will only add to his psychological burden.

After taking a shower, I tossed and turned in bed, almost drowsy from fatigue.

I pinned all my hopes on the man who worked in the mutton noodle shop. In retrospect, I never helped him, and I didn't take him seriously, as I can see from the fact that I don't even know his name. One spot.But I still have to trouble him now, and I feel guilty thinking about it.

When I expressed my apology to him, he smiled shyly and said to me: "You never asked my name, I forgot to mention it myself. Well...my name is Wu Fan, I used to His nickname is: No Boat, you know this nickname, right?"

"It's homophonic plus free translation." I nodded.

In a blink of an eye, he suppressed his smile again, stood there awkwardly and said to me: "The sharp silver studio said that they are already fully recruited. I think you have such a heavy academic task, and you don't have much time to work? Now The jobs are generally recruited graduates, and the standard working hours are from seven or eight in the morning to four or five in the afternoon."

"I want to ask my brother. He has graduated for a long time and has work experience."

"That should be a lot easier to find. I'll help you to ask around. The son of the boss in my store seems to have opened a small company, so maybe there will be job opportunities." He laughed again, his lips were thin, and he pursed his lips a line.

I relaxed and chatted with him: "Then why don't you change jobs?"

"Common companies don't recruit time travelers. The government has restrictions on this, right? I don't know very well. Anyway, time travelers usually do basic jobs, and their wages are far below the average level of the aborigines. Like Me, 800 yuan a month." Someone came by the fence, and he handed them things while chatting with me, "But the store includes food and lodging, so I don't need any money."

"Oh..." I remembered that He Yuchen was also very tiring at work, carrying cement every day.The government restricts their work, and capable travelers cannot get suitable and equal job opportunities. Of course, there will be dissatisfaction, "I also think these regulations should be abolished, it's not fair, right?"

Wu Fan turned his head away and looked at the street outside: "Because some traversers come from the future, maybe they are afraid that they will control the economy. Compared with these, the behavior of some aborigines is more chilling. They started I am very interested in us, pretending to be friends and asking about our past. I told them from the bottom of my heart that it was very uncomfortable to leave family and friends, and I had to tell them over and over again. After listening to this story, they Just treat it as a story. And then the relationship after that... you can count it as an acquaintance. They still have a feeling of hostility and contempt for us."

I grasped the railing with my hands, trying to get closer to comfort him.His phone rang, and after he picked it up, he said a few words, and after hanging up the phone, he looked back at me: "There is another order in the store, I will come to see you in the afternoon?"

I smiled and replied: "Okay, I'll wait for you here after class in the afternoon."

"In case I still don't find a suitable vacant position, will you be disappointed when you come this afternoon? I actually... just want to chat with you, and no one usually talks to me." He looked at me with a look on his face. Some nervous.

I patted him on the shoulder to let him relax: "I also want to talk to others or something. I originally begged you to find a job, but it feels like the relationship is reversed."

He nodded, turned around reassuringly, waved to me, and rode away on his bicycle. The wind blew his clothes like a sail.Before going back to the classroom, I bought buckets of instant noodles at the canteen and tore off the lid to get hot water.

"Why do you eat such unhealthy things? You are preparing for the exam." Zheng Yi snatched my instant noodles, "Let's go, my mother brought me twice-cooked pork, and I went back to the classroom to eat. Wait, I Try your side..."

Zheng Yi picked up a large lump of noodles, put it into his mouth, took another sip of the soup, and thought about it: "It feels better than my mother's cooking."

I brought the noodles back and looked at him angrily.But he insisted on pulling me into the classroom: "Please, help me solve my mother's dark dish of human disaster."

I sat down side by side with Zheng Yi, and Chen Wei was right behind me. He patted me on the shoulder and whispered to me: "My dad wanted your brother to come to work, but he refused again... My dad thinks there is something in his words. It means that he considers that you and I are classmates, and he is afraid that I will tell you that you will be bullied, so he plans to apply for a job farther away."

I nodded, and Zheng Yi stuffed a fork into my hand and told me to eat meat quickly. He turned around and asked, "What are you two talking about? It's mysterious."

"It's nothing." I shook my head, "Let's eat first."

"Your brother is so kind to you, don't think about it, study hard." Chen Wei said directly behind his back, and stuffed a notebook into my drawer while talking.I took it out and saw that the above are several important and difficult math examples.

Zheng Yi came over to take a look, and said suspiciously: "Chen Wei, what are you doing, you kid? When I sat with Lin An, I had trouble with him every day. Lin An has only been sitting with me for a day now, so you come to find him on your own initiative." He, I gave him the steps to solve the math problem. What are you two hiding from me, treat me as a brother?" He said the last sentence to me.

"Lin An and I are friends." Chen Wei raised his chin and asked me, "Right?"

I didn't expect him to ask such a question, so I froze for a moment. He didn't look away, and kept looking at me intently. Finally, he couldn't wait for the answer, so he said lightly: "I consider him a friend."

The atmosphere was a bit awkward, Zheng Yi turned around and divided the rice into the lid, and then put some food for me.I said to Chen Wei, "Thank you."

He shook his head and smiled nonchalantly.

After eating, I took out the notebook that had been idle for a few days, and solved example problems during the lunch break to make up notes.I was not sleepy in the afternoon, so I listened carefully to all the lessons, including English.

I understand what I should do most at this juncture.It's no use worrying blindly, I believe my brother has the ability to solve work problems.

After school in the afternoon, I leaned on the railing and chatted with Wu Fan.He brought me a box of rice with potatoes and beef, and I held it in my hand, ready to eat it when I went back to the classroom.The sun was slowly setting in the evening in winter, and there was a smell of dried weeds in the air.

"What are you doing here? The school stipulates that students must eat in the cafeteria and are not allowed to buy junk food outside."

I followed the sound and looked back, and saw a few guards, surrounded by a man who looked like a leader, and my brother was standing beside him.

"He's my friend." I didn't know why my brother was here, and I was a little dazed for a moment.

"He's a time traveler." The man looked at me seriously, and with a wave of his hand, a guard walked back.I realized that the guard wanted to come out from the side door to drive Wu Fan away.

"Wu Fan, you go first." I turned around and said to him.

Wu Fan didn't move, and looked at the leader with his hands behind his back with a complicated expression.The guard's electric baton knocked on the iron railing. He turned around silently, hung a few takeaway boxes on the faucet, and rode away on his bicycle.

"Your brother still doesn't realize the seriousness of this matter!" The man turned his head and reprimanded my brother severely.

"I see, I will educate him." He came over, took my arm and walked towards the school gate.

I protested: "I still have to study by myself at night."

He glanced at the few people standing not far away, and said softly to me: "We'll talk about it when we go home." Then he pretended to be stern and said loudly, "See how I deal with you when I get home."

I knew it in my heart, and followed him back home by bus.

He bent down and took out two pairs of slippers, and put down the keys.My body was cold, so he pinched my sleeves and said, "Why do you wear so little, I'll get you a sweater to put on."

I put on a stand-collar sweater and sat by the bed. He brought a cup of hot water and put it on the bedside table, and sat down next to me: "I was called by your dean. He said that a student saw you with a time traveler. The relationship is very close, and he even said... love you?"

I explained, "No, he's carrying a system mission. A voice in his head ordered him to come after me, but neither of us meant it."

He picked up the water glass again, put it on my hand, and asked me to cover it.He hunchbacked and said softly: "After that, don't contact him again. You don't know. Things have become more and more troublesome recently. The school is also very sensitive about this."

I thought of the look in Wu Fan's eyes when he was driven out by the guards, and I couldn't bear to say: "But he is my friend. He is actually very kind and caring. Not many people want to talk to him after he comes here. Brother, you know, Most of the traversers themselves traversed involuntarily, even if their arrival disrupted our lives, it is not their fault in the final analysis, Miss Xiaoyan did not traverse here..."

"How can there be any absolute bad guy?" My brother changed his usual gentle tone and said sternly, "Different standpoints, different appeals...Anyway, as long as there is one thing that causes conflicts between people, he will do it to hurt you. Things. The few people who died a while ago were all taken hostage by the time traveler, and finally killed by the time traveler who became angry. Is he so important to you? Do you have to make friends with him? In this tense interpersonal relationship At this stage, is it so difficult for you not to associate with him?"

"Yes." I immediately retorted, "I didn't like him before, but I treated him so badly, and he was still willing to help me. I can feel his suffering after being isolated. He was driven away by the guard today, and I Cut off contact with him immediately, what would he think?"

"Before?" My brother stood up and asked me incredulously, "I told you before that if you meet a time traveler, you must tell me not to carry it alone. Why did you hide it from me?"

"Because I think I can handle this, and I don't want to embarrass you, like... just like you lied to me now, you lied to me and we still have everything."