chilling

Recently, Yu Qiuliang has been in a panic because of his idle time.The monthly exam was approaching, and the school for the first time allowed them not to go to evening self-study, so after the afternoon self-study class, Yu Qiuliang took Song Ciran to run outside, but none of them went home.

Song Ciran's parents didn't know that they didn't study late for the past two days, and it was even more impossible for Yu Qiuliang's parents to know.Yu Qiuliang also didn't tell Yu Xiasheng about this matter, he bought the senior sister with a few stacks of paper money, and asked the senior sister to help him hide it.Gu Jia was short of money recently. When Yu Qiuliang approached her, she was worrying about her old friend in the plastic bottle. Looking at her, Yu Qiuliang could tell that if there was no stack of paper money, Gu Jia would have to carry this plastic bottle with her. bottle to perform on the flyover.

Gu Jia looked left and right, and seeing no other ghosts passing by, she smiled, patted Yu Qiuliang on the shoulder, and let him go.Yu Qiuliang was full of joy, couldn't stop thanking him, and ran away happily.

I heard that before nine o'clock tonight, there was a fountain under the bridge in the north of the city. Yu Qiuliang had seen the posters a long time ago, and had already negotiated the itinerary with Song Ciran last weekend.It would be great if they were so focused on learning. The combination of detailed and meticulous planning and super high efficiency is enough to make them invincible and invincible.

The students are still walking slowly outside the school. They are going home to review, so they are not in a hurry.As long as you can spend on the road, you can spend as long as you can on the road - they probably think so.But Yu Qiuliang and Song Ciran are different from these students who are studying hard. The two of them want to play crazy when they get the chance to play. This is their indulgence as minors.

Before most of the students had left the school, Yu Qiuliang and Song Ciran had already ridden away on their bikes.The bridge was a bit far from the school, so Yu Qiuliang grandly invited out his family treasure: the small tram.Although he was shivering while sitting on the small tram in the bitter cold wind, but the speed of the small tram was very fast, and it would be best if there was less delay on the road.

On the bridge, Yu Qiuliang looked around and was surprised to find that there were people everywhere.It seems that these people, like them, came here to see the fountain.Yu Qiuliang stopped the car and locked it on the bridge railing.This is not the city center, there are often thieves, and he doesn't want to let thieves steal his car.

Song Ciran took off his gloves, opened his mouth and let out a breath of white air. "There are so many people here." He said, "It's not too cold. Come to the river to watch the fountain at night."

"The two of us are not too cold." Yu Qiuliang rubbed his hands, avoiding the passing traffic, and got on the bridge from the side path.He often comes here, but Song Ciran only came here once when he was very young. At this time, he naturally has to follow him. They talked and chatted one after the other. The fountain is close at hand.

Looking down from the bridge, you can see the colored lights in the center of the river and the high and low water columns surrounded by lights.Yu Qiuliang stared at it for a while, and found that the lights could change colors.Standing on the bridge and looking at the fountain, I always feel that it is a little small and a little ordinary. Yu Qiuliang leaned on the bridge railing and looked around, and finally found an empty platform on the river bank.There is no one on that platform, and judging from its distance from the fountain, it is the best viewing place.

Yu Qiuliang pulled Song Ciran over and whispered something to him, the two exchanged a look, turned and ran down the bridge at the same time.The location of this platform is hidden. If Yu Qiuliang hadn't been lying on the bridge railing, he might not have been able to see it. At this moment, standing on the platform and looking up, he could only see the blurry bottom of the bridge.

It's already winter, so the aquatic plants by the river have withered long ago, only a few plastic bags floating from a distance that haven't had time to clean up are left hanging on the bare branches, dancing with the cold north wind.Yu Qiuliang took a look at those plastic bags, thinking that this is white pollution, and the beautiful scenery will be ugly with man-made garbage.

He turned on his phone, adjusted the angle, and took a picture of the fountain.It is really interesting to look at the fountain here. The water column, which seemed thin just now, has become thick and strong now, like a giant dragon emerging from the water.There should be no dragons in the world, only snakes in the world. Yu Qiuliang remembered that he had seen water snakes in the river when he was a child, and he didn't know if there were any snakes living in the water now.I heard that the river was drained in the year when this area was rebuilt. There might not be a single snake left in the river, right?If they are left, they will eat fry.

The white plastic bags are still dancing, they never get tired and never stop, while those water columns dance, but seem to be tired, and gradually get lower and shorter.Yu Qiuliang looked at his watch. It was only 07:30. Although it was already dark, there was still an hour and a half before the fountain stopped working completely.

Few people were willing to stare at a certain scenery all night. Yu Qiuliang heard the horns of cars on the bridge and the chug of modified motorcycles.He knew that someone couldn't wait any longer and left early.Maybe the two most leisurely people tonight are him and Song Ciran. When they go to the bridge after watching the fountain, they may see an empty bridge deck.

Just thinking about it, someone came down from the bridge again.It was a grown man wrapped in a white down jacket. The down jacket was too thick, which made him look a bit bloated.The road he walked happened to be the one that Yu Qiuliang and Song Ciran had just walked, so Yu Qiuliang took a second look at him.Unexpectedly, there are others who discovered this platform, and even took the same path as them.

Seeing Yu Qiuliang looking at him, the white down jacket was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled embarrassedly.Yu Qiuliang also smiled at him, and moved a little to the side to make an empty seat for him.The white down jacket hesitated for a moment, but still walked forward and stood side by side with Yu Qiuliang, but he still didn't say a word.

After a short pause for a few minutes, the water dragon gradually came to life again. Like children stretching in spring, they tentatively got out of the river.The colored lights changed colors again, the bright blue and green made Yu Qiuliang feel the cool wind swishing on the back of his neck.Fortunately, after a short time, those lamps turned into warm colors, until the wide water surface was illuminated like a ball of fire.

Suddenly, the colored circle was cut in half by a white light from the middle, forming two semicircles.Where they split, the water column died down and fell low into the water.Song Ciran let out a soft "Huh", thinking that the fountain was out of order.

However, in the semicircular areas on both sides, those water dragons began to dance wildly.They twisted their powerful waists, causing the water to splash in all directions, creating vortices one after another.Yu Qiuliang even felt that they splashed water droplets on his face, but when he reached out to touch it, there was nothing but a cold patch.

The lights in both halves began to change color again, warming on one side and cooling on the other.Under their infection, the surface of the water also changed its appearance, half of it was a faint dark blue, and the other half was a dazzling red.

"Half Jiang Sesu and half Jiang Hong—" The fat man in the white down jacket chuckled, his voice was very soft, as if he didn't want anyone to hear him.

"A setting sun spreads across the water, half of the river is rustling and half of the river is red." Yu Qiuliang looked up at the sky and said with emotion, "But tonight, there is not even a moon. The current air quality is too bad."

"Why did you recite poems all of a sudden? I seem to have learned this poem in elementary school." Song Ciran suddenly turned his head and squeezed Yu Qiuliang aside, "Hey, go over there a little bit, and there is no one there. Go back there. Squeeze this way, don’t squeeze me into the water later.”

no one?Yu Qiuliang sniffed and looked suspiciously at the white down jacket.The fat man scratched his head in embarrassment, and took the initiative to avoid it.Oh, it turns out that this big brother is a ghost.Yu Qiuliang thought.

He found that he was indifferent to the ghost encounter, presumably he got used to it.I have seen many ghosts, and I am not afraid of them naturally.

Unexpectedly, this fat white man with kind eyebrows and good intentions, who looked like he would live a long life, turned out to be a premature death. I heard that he could read poetry, so he probably wasn't the kind of person who was ignorant.Yu Qiuliang sighed, stepped back, and pulled Song Ciran behind him.He remembered that many people had drowned in this river, most of them went for wild swimming, just now he saw some strange lights not far from the water's edge, probably those water ghosts came to play tricks on people.

As if confirming his guess, several heads emerged from the water and swam towards the platform quickly.Yu Qiuliang rolled his eyes, and pulled Song Ciran back to the center of the platform.

"Isn't it too far away?" Song Ciran protested, "It's meaningless to be so far away."

Wait until they pull you down, it's guaranteed to be a lot of fun.Yu Qiuliang slandered, but still kept a friendly look on his face: "It's a bit cold by the water."

Since he felt cold, it was hard for Song Ciran to say anything.A gust of night wind blew away the white plastic bags hanging on the branches. Song Ciran sneezed and put on his gloves again.After being told by Yu Qiuliang, he also felt a little panicked by the cold. Fortunately, he was fully equipped, including hats, scarves, masks and gloves.

"Do you know that you look like a bear now?" Yu Qiuliang stopped looking at the fountain and turned to Song Ciran.His eyes were like looking at a baby bear through a cage in a zoo.Song Ciran rolled his eyes, standing on tiptoe to look down at Yu Qiuliang deliberately, he was originally taller than Yu Qiuliang, but now standing on tiptoe, Yu Qiuliang looked shorter in his eyes.He laughed sullenly, his laughter was covered by a mask, he felt that standing on a high place and looking down at Qiuliang was really like looking at bears outside Xiongshan Mountain.

Yu Qiuliang put on a mask and smiled: "The monkeys in the zoo like to watch people from the mountains. Do you know why the monkey mountain is so high? Because monkeys are creatures with strong self-esteem, they just like to watch people from high places. This makes it easier for them to think of themselves as the leaders of human beings."

His words were oblique, but Song Ciran understood.Yu Qiuliang is insinuating that he is a monkey who likes to bluff.In terms of eloquence, he will never be better than Qiu Liang, regardless of whether Yu Qiuliang's "monkey psychology" is true or not, his theory is interesting.

Song Ci certainly cannot learn this way of speaking.

Those water ghosts wanted to play tricks on Song Ciran and drag him into the shallow water under the platform, but when they saw Yu Qiuliang, they stopped in place suddenly.Those heads got together in a pile, whispered something, then turned around and swam away together, submerged in the deepest part of the river.These water ghosts all drowned in the river, and I don't know if they regretted it after they died.Whether they regret it or not, they cannot leave this river until they are human again.

Song Ciran was wrapped very thickly, and felt hot after standing for a while, so he went to the river.Yu Qiuliang was afraid that those water ghosts would come to pull people again, so he quickly stepped forward and stopped Song Ciran.

"If you fall into the water, I have to catch you. Isn't it good to stand here? Isn't it good to be alive?" Yu Qiuliang grabbed Song Ciran's scarf and pulled him back.

Song Ciran grabbed the scarf, spread his legs apart, and took a horse stance on the ground.His two legs were stuck to the ground like piles, and he did not move.He took off his mask and started to confront Yu Qiuliang: "I can swim, so you don't need to fish."

"If you wear such thick clothes, they will absorb water when they get wet, and you will sink to the bottom when they absorb water." Yu Qiuliang reasoned with Song Ciran, "And all those who drown can swim."

Why do all those who drown can swim?Because those who can't swim are generally afraid of water, they don't dare to run into the water.Only those who think they can swim will be lucky enough to stand by the water.

The night was getting deeper and deeper, the river was silent, and the river was dark.Song Ciran and Yu Qiuliang had been arguing for a long time, and they were finally tired, while the fat white man stood aside, watching them fight with a smile.This fat man must know that Song Ciran is a living person, but he doesn't know if he sees anything else.Yu Qiuliang suddenly felt that the scarf was tight around his neck, so he stretched out his hand to loosen it.The cold wind came in through the gap, making him tremble all over, and at the same time he became more awake.

"It's almost 08:30." Song Ciran stamped his feet and took out his phone from his pocket.The phone screen is the brightest star in the dark night.Yu Qiuliang leaned over to take a look, and suddenly found a great event, he pointed at Song Ciran's phone screen and shouted: "Do you have a girlfriend?"

"Don't yell so loudly!" Song Ciran realized that his mobile phone screen exposed himself, quickly turned off the screen, and put the mobile phone back in his pocket, not letting Yu Qiuliang look at it.Yu Qiuliang looked at Song Ciran curiously like a navigator who arrived in the New World for the first time. After a while, he suddenly realized: "Unrequited love, brother? It's great!"

"Who is in unrequited love! That's not called unrequited love, do you understand, you idiot!" Song Ciran cursed, then suddenly reached out and took out his mobile phone from Yu Qiuliang's pocket, and quickly pressed the side of the phone .

The light instantly illuminated Song Ciran's face.

"Fuck you..." Yu Qiuliang's phone has a password, and Song Ciran couldn't see his phone's desktop, but saw his lock screen picture first, and was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

"Give me the phone, go home." Yu Qiuliang raised his arm, snatched the phone back, and left first with a guilty conscience.While they were looking at each other's phone screen, Fatty Bai had already crossed the bridge along the previous road, Yu Qiuliang thought that this buddy was quite leisurely, and he would not forget to look at the scenery even after he died.

This path is a slope, there are no street lights beside it, and now there is almost no one on the bridge. Against the backdrop of desolation, this short section of road looks even more eerie.Song Ciran roared loudly to embolden himself, like a gorilla in a documentary, and Yu Qiuliang turned his head in disgust. Not long after, he was frightened by the little wild cat that suddenly appeared by the roadside, and the two went to the bridge together, howling like ghosts and wolves. Run, run the fastest speed in your life.

The little wild cat shook its head and looked at the two mentally handicapped people in puzzlement.Humans are indeed creatures with low IQ, no wonder they shovel shit for their master every day.

"You...you...are you crazy!" As soon as he ran onto the bridge, Song Ciran's legs softened into instant noodles, and he almost fell to the ground.He looked at Yu Qiuliang in horror, and felt that scaring people is the one that can really scare people to death.When he was on the small road, he was not afraid at first, but Yu Qiuliang's surprise exploded his fear in an instant.Who knows that Yu Qiuliang saw something and suddenly let out such an astonishing cry!

Yu Qiuliang was a little better than him, but he was also out of breath, and it took him a long time to return to his words: "I, I, I saw a cat."

After a long time of trouble, it turned out that I saw a cat?Song Ciran was suddenly discouraged.He gave Yu Qiuliang an angry look, and said mockingly, "Screaming so loudly, I thought you saw a wolf."

"Don't make trouble, there are no wolves in the city, and this is not close to the zoo." Yu Qiuliang's throat was dry, but he was too lazy to get water from his bag, so he sneaked to grab Song Ciran's thermos.Song Ciran noticed his actions, but he never stopped them. When getting along with friends, sometimes they need to accommodate.

Song Ciran's thermos was of excellent quality, the water was still hot after a day of storage.Yu Qiuliang breathed a sigh of satisfaction, feeling that he was hot from head to toe, drinking hot water was different, he was much more comfortable now than before.

Although there are fewer people on the bridge, there are still some left.Maybe they are very free tonight, maybe they have the habit of walking here every day, and now standing on the bridge to watch the fountain is just taking advantage of their time for walking.Yu Qiuliang put Song Ciran's water glass away for him, and went to look for the key in his pocket. The key had been frozen into a lump of ice, a metal thing that could get hot and cold easily.

Where they locked the car, there was a man standing with his back to them.Yu Qiuliang stopped in his tracks for no other reason, he felt that this figure looked familiar.

At the moment when he hesitated, the other party suddenly turned his head.

"I just said this car looks like yours. Why didn't you tell me if you didn't go to study at night today?" Yu Xiasheng patted the small tram beside him, and Yu Qiuliang observed his expression, seeing that he was not displeased. A little relieved, he replied: "If I tell you, you won't let me come out to play."

Yu Xiasheng laughed shortly: "How can you do it, little ancestor. If you want to go to the sky to pick the moon, I have to pick it for you too."

"Oh." Yu Qiuliang pointed to the sky, "There is no moon today, make one for me."

Of course Yu Xiasheng didn't have the magic power to conjure the moon out of thin air, he just slipped Yu Qiuliang into the back seat of the car.Song Ciran yawned, got on his own car and followed the two of them, chatting with Yu Qiuliang intermittently.The two of them talked together, but Yu Xiasheng didn't interrupt and let them talk.

Arriving at the familiar intersection, Song Ciran said goodbye in a hurry, turned left and entered his own community.It was only after nine o'clock, and there were still pedestrians on the road, but compared to summer nights, there were still fewer people.Putting his hands in his pockets, Yu Qiuliang suddenly felt his phone vibrate, he took out his phone tremblingly and looked, it was Song Ciran who sent him a message.

"Tell the truth, is he really your brother?" Song Ciran asked.

"Nonsense." Yu Qiuliang replied, "It's not my brother, or your brother?"

Song Ciran probably went to review. After a long time, there was no more news.