Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

It evaporated after being thrown to the ground.

There is no mirror in the toilet of the teaching building. The wall above the sink is painted gray and white, and a small shelf is nailed up. What looks like a small incense burner is lit, burning, and wisps of smoke are floating.

Lin Pai walked into the men's room, took off the peaked cap and hung it on his index finger, folded his hands and grabbed the corners of the short sleeves, and took them off without a word. The back of his head was facing Xu Rui, and his entire back was exposed to the air. His hair was a bit messy because he was wearing a hat all the time.

As he himself said, a blue-purple bruise stretched diagonally downward from his broad left shoulder, and there were also some small abrasions, which seemed to be nothing serious.

Xu Rui looked down along this bruise, and his eyes fell on his waist, and he could see the faint waist, which was probably thinned out.

"Xu Rui?" Seeing that there was no movement behind him, Lin Pai called out to him, and followed him to look behind him.

"Don't move around, turn around." Xu Rui put his palm on the back of Lin Pai's head and turned his head back.

He took the red bottle and swiped it over the bruise, then fanned it with his hand to make it dry faster.

Lin Pai stood there and let him fan it for a while. The sound of the four classes in front of him had already reached the toilet, which was especially quiet here, so he said, "Otherwise, just spray it on. I don't care. so many."

"It's all right." Xu Rui slapped the bruise a few last times, put on a white bottle and began to spray on the bruise, "The red bottle is for pain relief, you are so blue and purple, don't you feel it?"

"It's okay. I haven't exercised strenuously for a long time. I'm sore all over. The track on my back may be ignored."

After Xu Rui sprayed the white bottle, he fanned him for a while. Seeing that it was almost done, he said "Okay" to him, and walked out of the toilet to wait for him to get dressed.

Xu Rui walked outside, bringing a very slight wind, causing the smoke from the small incense burner to tremble slightly, just like a heartbeat secretly in the boy's chest after a morning reading in September. , was secretly treasured.

11. Chapter 11

The National Day holiday will be in a few days. In the past two weeks, Lin Pai has started to receive some letters one after another.

Sometimes it’s a pink envelope sandwiched between the pages of a book, sometimes it’s a small note from a trustee, and sometimes it’s a letter of encouragement from a small fan.

In the self-study class this afternoon, Xu Rui did not go to the playground to train as usual. He rested his head on his left arm and lay down on the table to study a physics problem. The question was very short, leaving a large blank space for answering. .

He was turning the pen with his right finger, but he couldn't hold it steady for a moment, and the tip of the pen made a stroke in the answer area. This stroke was all the results of his half-session self-study class.

Two girls came outside the classroom, and they whispered to each other for a while. One of the girls lay down by the window and patted the boy in the window seat. The boy was so frightened that he thought he was caught by some teacher while playing with his mobile phone. .

The back of the boy's chair bumped into the table behind, the movement was not too big, the girl standing by the window still blushed, she said a few words to the boy, then pointed to the direction diagonally behind the classroom, and finally handed over Give the boy an envelope.

Even with such a simple communication, the boy still understood her intentions. Since he changed his seat and came to the window in the corridor, this kind of thing has happened frequently. He patted the girl in the next seat, and the girl patted the seat next to her again. , the letter went through several twists and turns, and finally reached Lin Pai.

The girl who was waiting behind saw that the letter had been delivered, and before Lin Pai looked up to the window, she hurried away with the girl who had just delivered the letter on her arm.

Lin Pai looked up after receiving the letter, and there was no one in the corridor, only the whispers on the letter transmission route continued.

Xu Rui was too lazy to sit up, but this posture was too far away from Lin Pai, so he raised his finger on the arm that was resting on the pillow, poked Zhou Ning, pointed to the letter in Lin Pai's hand and said, "What is that? "

Zhou Ning only glanced at it and knew it, "Love letter, Brother Rui, you might as well not ask, it will hurt me again if you ask."

"What is "again"? "

"It means that if Lin Pai in our class sorts it out, the love letters received can be compiled and published."

Lin Pai opened the envelope, scanned it roughly, and folded the letter paper back. He stuffed the letter paper into the envelope and handed it to Xu Rui's desk, just covering the difficult physics problem. Xu Rui said, "Satisfy your curiosity."

Xu Rui held the letter paper with one hand, raised his hand and shook it, shook off the envelope, opened the letter and read it facing the sunset, "Student Lin Pai, hello..."

He only read these two sentences, the more he looked down, the tighter his brows were, the corners of his curled mouth almost protruded from his double chin, and finally he hastily folded the letter back, "Who is this, he doesn't even have a signature, Do you want our classmate Lin Pai to fall in love with Air?"

"Let me see it too, let me see it too!" Zhou Ning looked excited and reached out to take the letter paper from Xu Rui.

Xu Rui dodged it quickly, "Don't look at it, it will hurt someone like you who has been single for 17 years in a row."

"Tch, you are not the same." Zhou Ning rolled his eyes and turned back to his seat.

Xu Rui tried to push the letter paper back with one hand, but failed for a long time. He simply folded the letter paper on the envelope and handed it to Lin Pai. You can handle it yourself, and I wish you an early publication."

Lin Pai took the things, packed them, and put them in the lower shelf of the desk.Xu Rui returned to the state of being bored again, staring at Lin Pai who was seriously solving the problem in a daze.

It’s almost October, and the sunset time is much earlier than before. Just after four o’clock in the afternoon, the sunset has already slanted through the windows, covering most of the classrooms.

Lin Pai's side face was immersed in the light, outlining a clear outline. His long and dense eyelashes were distinct under the light. He was typing a draft on the white paper, stopping and writing, just from the tip of the pen. The ink that flowed out was still not completely dry, and it shone with fragments of light in the setting sun, and Xu Rui was unconsciously fascinated by it.

When the self-study class was coming to an end, Fu Yanye stood at the back door of class five with his schoolbag on his back and waved to Xu Rui. Xu Rui didn't respond, so he called his name twice in a low voice.

Xu Rui seemed to have just woken up from a dream. He sat up, rubbed his sore arms, picked up his schoolbag, and stuffed a bunch of miscellaneous things into it. It took only half a minute to sort it out. It was over, he zipped up his schoolbag, and followed Fu Yanye like a gust of wind, without looking back.

"What is he going to do?" Lin Pai looked up from the physics problem and poked Zhou Ning.

Zhou Ning turned around with a bitter face, and complained dissatisfiedly, "I said you can't ask each other directly if you have anything? Every time you look for me, you don't really look for me..."

Lin Pai handed out the physics test paper that he had just finished. Zhou Ning glanced at it, put away his mournful face, accepted the physics test paper cheerfully, and replied knowingly and endlessly, "Sharp Brother, they are going to the city to train for half a month, and they are leaving today, so they only joined us in the self-study class this afternoon, just waiting for their coach to call him to go."

"Oh..." Lin Pai nodded, and waved Zhou Ning away. He took a book from Xu Rui's drawer and pressed it on the paper on the table, so that he would not know which corner was blown by the wind one day You have to be trained.

In the evening, Lin Pai sat behind the counter as usual, preparing for the upcoming lessons in front of the network administrator.

There was a loud noise of "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping to the left." go inside.

As soon as Lin Pai got up, before he had time to go around the counter, he saw Dong Wenwen walking towards him. Since he got used to the work of network management, Dong Wenwen rarely came over. The people he saw most were the people who changed shifts with him.

"Sit down!" Dong Wenwen waved his hand, telling Lin Pai to sit back;

He turned his head and explained a few words to the workers outside, then walked to the counter, propped his elbows on the table and said, "I found a decorator to repair the "Xin" of the "Xinsheng Internet Cafe" outside. Xiu, that light has been broken for a long time. People from the neighborhood committee came to our house yesterday and said that they will evaluate the city style and appearance for a while, and let us tidy up. "

Lin Pai nodded and looked away.

Dong Wenwen saw that Lin Pai was writing and drawing with his head down, and various calculation processes were written on the draft paper next to him. He stared at the draft carefully and found that it was a question about the force on moving charges in a magnetic field.

The reason why he knows the symbols and units of electric charge and magnetic field is because in the third year of junior high school, the school has already exposed students to high school knowledge in advance, and it will also be used in some competitions.

Lin Pai's problem-solving steps are very fluent, and some complicated transformation steps are skipped directly, but Dong Wenwen's understanding of these formulas is limited to knowing what a few letters in them represent.

At that time, these symbols gave him a lot of headaches, but now he sees them with a strange intimacy.

It has been a year and a half since the end of the high school entrance examination. He stays in Heshan Town every day and sees the people in the town living a repetitive life day after day. When he thinks of the fiercely competitive junior high school, he feels like a lifetime away.

Dong Wenwen wanted to speak several times, but the words got stuck in his throat, but it was Lin Pai who raised his head first and asked him, "Do you have anything to say?"

"What do you think..." Dong Wenwen avoided Lin Pai's gaze, stared at a scratch on the desktop and said, "How about I go back to high school?"

The tip of the pen in Lin Pai's hand paused, he lowered his head and paused for a few seconds, then clicked