Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

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The exam materials piled up on the desk lay quietly, but the boy's heart was already swinging towards the rainbow in the sky with his head stuck out of the window.

The cool wind penetrated into the classroom, with the unique smell of soil after the rain, and overturned a few pages of bound test papers.

Xu Rui's seat was right by the window, occupying a good spot to watch the rainbow.Zhou Ning put down two glasses of watermelon ice, excitedly grabbed Li Cheng's wrist, and looked at the rainbow outside the window with him.

His palm was filled with the condensed water vapor from the iced drink in summer, and at the same time, he was holding it so tightly that he almost got red marks from his strangulation.

Until many years later, Li Cheng believed that if he could only remember one thing, then he would definitely make a wish and remember this cold and wet moment.

"Don't you want to see the rainbow?" Xu Rui turned to him and asked.

Lin Pai shook his head with a chuckle, and held Xu Rui's palm on the desk, "I've already caught it."

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On June [-]th, the weather was gloomy.

There was a thunderstorm around [-] o'clock in the afternoon, and the rain decreased rapidly. The sun came out of the clouds, and the sky took on a new look.

At about four o'clock, security guards in blue uniforms stood in two rows, and there were patrol personnel in black uniforms walking around. The cordon started from the gate of Heshan High School and was pulled up behind them, forming a straight Kangzhuang Avenue.

The closest to the cordon is the interviewer of the local TV station, who is adjusting the best position of the tripod and the camera.

Looking at the back, the parents of the candidates and their families stood on top of each other, forming a thick human wall.Their anxiety is no less than that of the students who are writing hard in the examination room.

The last bell rang, and the radio announced the end of the exam, and the crowd was in an uproar.

The first one to come out was a boy. He shook the pencil case in his hand and was stopped by the interviewers as soon as he left the school gate. The girls behind saw this posture, half covered their faces with their hands, and slipped to the side.

When Lin Pai came out, the cordon had already been withdrawn, and candidates and their parents huddled together at the school gate, as if thousands of scenes of "little tadpoles looking for their mother" were being staged at the same time.

He hadn't taken off his glasses today, so he found Xu Rui easily by looking at excited or frustrated faces.

The rain on the road hadn't dried completely yet, reflecting the soft sun's rays, leaving spots of light on the side of Xu Rui's face, flickering on and off as he moved.

Obviously there was nothing to worry about, but the moment Lin Pai found him, he still breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.

In the long years that followed, he called this emotion dependence.

Almost at the same time, Xu Rui also found him and raised a bright smile at him.

Through the turbulent crowd, they came to each other.Although they both felt that they should say something, such as "Happy Graduation", "How did you do in the exam", just looking into each other's eyes was enough to produce dizzy throbbing, they just smiled, what? Didn't say either.

"The exam is finally over, my precious daughter, where do you want to go during the summer vacation?"

"Boy, is this subject difficult this afternoon... Forget it, the exam is over, let him go, dad will take you to the restaurant tonight!"

"Here! I'm here... Your mother is at home, and I'll wait for you to go back to eat after cooking!"

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They walked through it, listening to the hustle and bustle of voices, as if they were enjoying the joy and sorrow of thousands of lights.

Lin Pai couldn't help feeling a little emotional in his heart, he raised his wrist a little awkwardly, and the moment his knuckles hit the back of his hand, Xu Rui took his hand and clasped his fingers tightly.

Xu Rui held on tightly, and Lin Pai felt that the strength was a bit exaggerated, but no matter what kind of exaggeration it was, it was not worth one ten thousandth of their firmness.

The days when we grew up rolling in the mud in the past are still alive, and the heartbeat that belongs to the present is still floating.

The voice passed through the brick wall, through the years and dust, without losing its enthusiasm. It always reminded them that they were in love.

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68. Extra Story 1-1

The rear wheels of the bus kicked up a burst of dust, and the cold air came out behind Xu Rui, and was quickly submerged in the hot and dry air.

In the past three years, a bus sign has been erected at this intersection, which is most often called to stop, and it has become a fixed stop.

Lin Pai scanned the scene of Heshan Town left and right, and felt that nothing had changed.He took off the hat on his head and was dazzled by the strong sunlight.

Xu Rui narrowed his eyes and looked at him puzzled.

Lin Pai raised his face towards him, brushed back the broken hair that was sticking to his forehead, and then put a hat on Xu Rui's head accurately.He looked at it for a while, and patted the brim of his hat with satisfaction.

"You can wear it yourself." Xu Rui raised his chin at him, he was holding the handle of the suitcase with one hand and the bag with the other, unable to free his hands.

"I can't get a tan." Lin Pai shook his head nonchalantly, reaching for the bag he was carrying.

Xu Rui raised his hand, avoided it and said, "It's not heavy, I can just carry it."

"I didn't say to help you carry it." Lin Pai held his hand carrying the bag and said as he walked down the street with him, "I want to hold your hand."

Xu Rui smiled silently. After several years of getting along, he had more or less a prediction of what Lin Pai wanted to say and what he wanted to do, but every time he really heard his voice or saw his The figure feels very fresh again.

"Look at the time, what time is it?" Xu Rui asked.

"About 04:30, I took a look before getting out of the car."

"Then let's go home and clean up first, and we'll go back to school tomorrow to get the files." Xu Rui freed a thumb, dragged Lin Pai from one intersection to another, and emphasized, "Home is here!"

"Oh, yes..." Lin Pai nodded belatedly, snatched the handbag that was in the way between them, and naturally clasped Xu Rui's fingers, saying, "I was distracted just now, and I habitually went to I'm leaving over there."

Xu Rui suddenly turned his head and looked at him, with some reproach in his eyes.

Lin Pai met his gaze and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing..." Xu Rui shook his head, his eyes only appeared for a short moment just now, and he said jokingly, "I just said I'll wear the hat for you, it's all covered up in the sun."

Lin Pai responded softly from his nasal cavity, without replying.

After the summer vacation of the third year of high school, they only went back to Heshan Town once.At that time, the first semester of the freshman year had just ended, and they came back to celebrate the New Year, and took away some things that had been left behind by the way.

Perhaps it was because of the short separation time, the students in the class were still very lively at that time, and a large table was assembled during the Chinese New Year.After that, everyone is busy, and there is less and less contact with each other.

Xu Rui unlocked the lock with the key, pushed the door and went in, the room was full of hot air, and the dust danced with their movements under the rays of the setting sun.

"Cough, cough... It's been two years since no one lived there, why is there so much dust?"

Xu Rui carried the luggage upstairs, covered his mouth and nose with his hands, and opened the windows of the whole house to ventilate.

Lin Pai lifted the cloth covering the sofa, and carefully folded the side facing outward, trying not to let dust fly everywhere.He wiped the sofa with his fingers and thought it was clean.

He lifted his trouser legs, and before he could touch the sofa, he heard Xu Rui from upstairs calling, "Pai, bring me two rags."

"Where is it?" Lin Pai glanced at the sofa reluctantly, got up and walked to the stairs, raised his head and asked Xu Rui who was standing in the corridor on the second floor.

"It should be in the kitchen closet, I used to have a lot of them."

Lin Pai went to the kitchen and looked through the closet from left to right. In the last shelf, he found what Xu Rui called "a lot of stockpiling". a stack.

He counted it hastily, thinking that it must be dozens of yuan.

Lin Pai picked two pieces and took them upstairs, threw the pink one to Xu Rui, and asked, "Why did you buy pink towels?"

"A man's heart needle, you guess, there will be a prize if you guess right." Xu Rui went to the bathroom to wet a towel, and went back to the room to wipe it.

Lin Pai followed behind him, rubbing and asking, "Did you like pink before?"

"I am a strong man of seventeen or eighteen, can I like pink?"

"Have you ever talked to someone else before me? Boys or girls? Junior high school or high school? Could it be elementary school?" Lin Pai pointed at his nose and said with a straight face, "Be lenient when you confess, and strict when you resist!"

"What are you thinking? Baby, don't let love blind you."

Xu Rui pushed his hand away, leaned over and rested his chin on his neck, and opened his arms to hug him, but Lin Pai also opened his arms to stop him in mid-air, and the two of them stacked up to form a "big" Character.

"Hmm..." Lin Pai tilted his head, pushed him away and said, "That's because you wanted to buy too much, and you took away all the other colors in the store at that time, and it was still not enough, so I had to buy the pink one. "

Xu Rui folded his arms, looked at Lin Pai for a moment, frowned and said, "You are so smart, no wonder I like you so much."

Lin Pai raised his eyebrows triumphantly, as if he just heard an indisputable fact.Xu Rui felt that if he had a tail, he would definitely be wagging it now.

Lin Pai lowered his head and continued to wipe the table, and wiped the dry place again.

Xu Rui snatched the rag from his hand, and while Lin Pai raised his head, he quickly kissed him on the face, and said, "Okay, don't wipe it, you wiped the place I wiped, Go put the sheets on."

Lin Pai obediently put the rag back into the bathroom, and when he came out, he spread out his still-dry palms to Xu Rui and asked, "Where's the reward?"

"I gave it just now..." Xu Rui played a rogue and said, "Why don't you come to the other side too?"

Lin Pai pouted, without saying a word, went to the closet to find the sheets