Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

With the mentality that one thing is worse than one thing less, she saw that Lin Pai didn't have much to do, so she ignored him.

After Lin Pai finished speaking, he left, and Lao Zhao walked into Class [-] as if nothing had happened, "Okay, everyone put the math test papers that were handed out yesterday on the table, and the team leader will go down and check them, and give me the list of those who didn't do it."

The first class in the morning of Class [-] is English. The English teacher stands on the podium and looks at the seats in the classroom like Tetris piled up in the back. There is one empty space here, and one empty space here. He said calmly, "Reading is for yourselves. If some students don't study by themselves, don't come back and blame me."

Lin Pai was an honorable member of this class skipping team. After leaving Class [-], he went to the canteen outside the school to buy a pack of cigarettes.

The rerun soap opera was playing on the old-fashioned TV in the canteen, and he recognized it. It was the same show that was playing in the grocery store next to the Brilliant Foot Bath the day he just came back. stared out.

While watching the TV with relish, the boss took a pack of cigarettes for Lin Pai from a relatively hidden corner of the counter. He only cared about collecting the money, and it was not within his scope of responsibility to judge whether the person who bought the cigarettes was an adult or not.

Lin Pai walked back with a cigarette, and stopped at the small road behind the school's laboratory building. On the other side of the small road was a common field in towns. A few years ago, the school set aside such a land to encourage students to practice. The people took care of it, only a few outsourced farmers set up a shed, and they would usually be here.

He took one out of a pack of cigarettes, knocked it upside down along the corner a few times, and lit it.

Lin Pai watched it burn quietly, and took a puff when there was only half of it left. He lowered his head and closed his eyes for a long time before spitting it out gently, as if doing so would make the shredded tobacco thicker full-bodied.

The smoke spiraled into the air, casting a layer of unreality on his expression. If you look at this smoky scene from a distance, you will feel that the person smoking against the wall is a 40-year-old man who has experienced many vicissitudes.

Lin Pai only took one puff. He looked around and found a rusty trash can with a special place for cigarette butts.

He took out from his pocket the photo of Ni Shuqing that he had torn off from the bulletin board in the morning, and it was already crumpled.

He threw the wad of paper into the metal tray containing the cigarette butts, burned the paper to ashes with the burning cigarette butt, and finally extinguished the cigarette butt, throwing it with the pile of cigarette butts that were thrown here in unknown years.

Then he leaned against the wall next to the trash can, staring blankly at the handful of ashes in a daze, neither relaxed nor angry.

The class bell rang again, and Lin Pai walked back to the classroom slowly, even halfway through the second class.

When he reached the fourth floor, he hesitated for a moment, and then went up another floor. There were five study rooms on the fifth floor, which were basically decorations, and were used by the classes on the fourth floor as warehouses.

The podium had already accumulated a thick layer of dust, and the space under the podium was full of unused materials from the class during the holidays. He knew this when he was cleaning up two days ago.

Lin Pai covered his mouth and nose in the dust, found a bottle of black spray paint that was barely usable, and planned to use the black paint to cover the red paint on the desk. He held the bottle of spray paint, thinking that it would be better to put it in a box It was clean, without any dust.

When going out from the self-study classroom, Lin Pai noticed a desk stacked at the back of the classroom. This classroom is filled with old desks and chairs. Due to the large number, there are several rows of desks stacked on top of each other. Together, tabletop to tabletop.

The desk was stacked on the bottom, and the top one was not aligned properly, exposing the corner of the desk. Lin Pai vaguely saw a large group of black stains in the corner, and there seemed to be red under the black stains, like Hastily covered and did not apply carefully.

He looked at the time, thinking that it would be too late for the second class anyway, so he went to the back of the classroom and moved the upper desk down, and only then did he see the whole appearance of the lower desk—

The entire desktop is almost completely black, only the corners still reveal some red color, and the specific content of the red paint is no longer visible.

Lin Pai looked away at the bottle of black spray paint he was holding, and had an idea in his heart.

He folded the desk back, and decided to take the bottle of paint back to the classroom, in case he thought too much.

Lin Pai returned to the classroom through the back door, just in time for the teacher in charge of the second class to leave through the front door, and the bell rang again as soon as he got to his seat.

But the teacher hasn't come in this class yet, chatting in the classroom, going to the toilet, no one pays attention to the bell.

Zhou Ning sat against the wall and chatted with Xu Rui. When he saw Lin Pai come back, he poked Xu Rui with his elbow.

"Why?" Xu Rui looked up at him from a pile of books.

Zhou Ning raised his chin in the direction where Lin Pai was coming, Xu Rui turned his head to look, and saw Lin Pai's left face was bruised and swollen, especially his white skin, the bruise was even more obvious.

"Are you coming back to class after the fight?" Xu Rui asked jokingly, and gave him a thumbs up.

Lin Pai ignored this sentence, and focused his attention on the messy desk, which is now clean. Although it is not a new desk, and the corners and corners are worn, it is also enough.

He pointed to the desk, put the spray paint on the ground on the other side silently with the other hand, and asked, "You guys made it?"

Zhou Ning shook his head like a rattle, waved his hands and said, "I don't dare to claim credit, it has nothing to do with me, it's all done by Brother Rui."

"You're welcome, I'm happy to help others." After leaving these two sentences, Xu Rui picked up his pen and buried himself in the book again.

In the afternoon, Xu Rui did not attend the third self-study class as usual.

In the second half of the training, the coach of the basketball team took the basketball team to the playground, which overlapped with the training program of the track and field team.

Xu Rui stayed with Fu Yanye when he was resting, and only then did he learn more about what happened to Lin Pai in Class [-] in the morning from Fu Yanye.

"What about later?" Xu Rui asked him.

"Later, the first class in Class Eight was math class, and the math teacher in their class was Lao Zhao!" Fu Yanye said with a smile, "Old Zhao had to check the test papers assigned yesterday when he was in class, and it didn't matter whether Fang Zhenghao wrote it or not. Because that test paper has been turned into shreds, and then he stood outside the classroom for the whole class."

"Hey, it's really possible..." Xu Rui put his hand on Fu Yanye's shoulder and said, "I wonder if that kid did his math, just happened to tear up the math test paper, and the first class happened to be math class."

"Xu Rui, you hooked up with Brother Fu again!" A member of the basketball team came over, "Don't you really think about coming over to compete for the captain of the basketball team?"

Holding the empty mineral water bottle, Fu Yanye raised his hand and was about to throw it at the team member. The team member hid with a smile, waved his hand and left.

"I've gone too." Fu Yanye got up and greeted Xu Rui.

Xu Rui nodded with a smile, Fu Yanye walked away a few steps and suddenly stopped him, "Hey, wait!"

"What are you doing? Can't bear to part with me?" Fu Yanye turned around and asked him.

Xu Rui stood up and said, "I remember that Zhao Kun was often accompanied by a man named "Ahao", what is his full name? "

"Isn't that Fang Zhenghao?" Fu Yanye looked at Xu Rui puzzled, "You don't know this, so why were you laughing with me just now? I thought you were laughing at Zhao Kun with me."

"Damn!" Xu Rui turned around and was about to run away, then hurriedly turned back and said to Fu Yanye, "Take a leave for me, if Zhao Kun passes by, he can take Lin Pai in half!"

9. Chapter 9

Xu Rui ran from the playground to the classroom, even the three steps were taken together, but when he got to the classroom, Lin Pai was gone, only the students on duty were still cleaning.

"Did anyone see when Lin Pai left?" Xu Rui stood at the door and asked the student on duty.

The girl cleaning the blackboard in the morning was wiping the podium with a rag. When she heard what Xu Rui said, she recalled, "It seems like he left five or six minutes ago. He just put another rag on the podium before he left. It took no more than 6 minutes. ..."

Xu Rui nodded, didn't listen to the rest of the words, turned around and ran down the stairs.

He ran to the window of the Class [-] classroom and looked at it. There were only students on duty. He walked to the podium and kicked the podium twice. The iron sheet made a deafening noise, "Where is Fang Zhenghao in your class?" ?”

The on-duty students inside and outside the classroom were all disturbed by this movement, and they all looked at the podium. Xu Rui frowned impatiently, and kicked the podium twice. Only then did someone weakly reply, "He will leave after class." I'm gone, maybe I'm already home..."

Xu Rui looked at the boy talking in the corner of the classroom, "To be honest, why did he go!"

The boy was stunned by Xu Rui's stare, and after hearing some rumors about Xu Rui, he weighed it up and felt that he was more difficult to mess with than Fang Zhenghao, so he said honestly, "He seems to have found a few people to go to Block the person who came to the classroom to make trouble in the morning."

"Tell something useful, where is it!"

"I really don't know..."

Xu Rui gave a "tsk" sound, believing what he said, and ran towards the school gate without staying here any longer.

He thought that Fu Yanye didn't say where they were going to make an appointment, so it should be the only way Lin Pai had to go back.

But which road is the only way for Lin Pai... No matter, let’s run forward and talk about it. I don’t know which way Lin Pai takes to go home, and Fang Zhenghao and the others probably don’t know either, so it can only be the school. next to...

Thinking so, Xu Rui ran out of the school gate.There are two directions from the school gate, one direction is the town of Heshan Town, it is school time, this direction is full of students;

The other direction is the back mountain, no matter how late