If the world had no daylight

On Tuesday morning, Bai Tian rode to school to work as usual.

Before entering the school gate, some students who recognized her greeted her one after another: "Mr. Bai, Happy Teacher's Day!"

Bai Tian smiled and nodded to them, and said: "The bell is about to ring, don't be late."

"Got it—" Several half-grown children prolonged the final sound, and walked into the gate in groups, while nibbling on the fried dough sticks and steamed buns in their hands.

The student union and the dean, who were inspecting the discipline, stood at the door, staring at everyone who entered, trying to catch a model almost every once in a while.

Bai Tian walked through the school's long green avenue as usual, parked the car in the bicycle garage and locked it, and then walked towards the teaching building with his bag.

Messages of congratulations are posted in the corridors and on the bulletin boards, and new blackboard posters are drawn in every classroom to welcome the annual Teacher's Day.

But in fact, Bai Tian has never had any sense of substance about this festival.

It may be because, for her, this day is the same as every working day, going to and from get off work as usual, and she should be tired at all, maybe even more.

For example, now—

"Teacher Bai, I happened to be looking for you."

As soon as the middle-aged man saw her, he hurried over, so Bai Tian had to stop on the corridor.

"Director Li, what's wrong?"

Seeing her stop, Director Li continued: "At the beginning of next month, our attached middle school will hold an autumn outing with the No. [-] middle school next door. If there are too many people, it will be troublesome, so the leader teacher..."

After listening to him for 10 minutes, Bai Tian finally walked into the office and rang the bell as soon as he sat down.

Morning self-study has always been the time for the class teacher and English teacher. She turned on the computer and started to deal with the most important things of the day.

After the computer was turned on, it automatically logged into the chat software, and she had turned on do-not-disturb for all group chat messages, but the private chat windows popped up one by one, all of which were greetings in the same format.

This is also one of the reasons why Bai Tian is indifferent to Teacher's Day. All kinds of holiday blessing messages throughout the year are enough to make people troubled. She also has one more holiday that needs to be dealt with, which increases her workload for no reason.

After the morning self-study get out of class, the math class representative came in with homework and said to Bai Tian: "Mr. Bai, this is today's homework. There are three people who have not handed it in. Two of them didn't bring their homework, and one of them asked for sick leave."

Bai Tian looked up at him, and asked casually, "Who asked for sick leave?"

"He Xiaoyun."

The movement in her hand paused, then she nodded and said, "The two who didn't bring it, let them make a new copy and hand it in before noon."

The class representative stuck out his tongue quietly, responded, turned and left the office.

Bai Tian's finger on the keyboard slowly stopped, she looked at the screen without saying a word, but her attention was scattered.

After one summer vacation, she almost forgot He Xiaoyun, a problem student.

But now that I think about it carefully, if those things that happened to her one after another at that time were all connected in series, it would be really hard for people to feel relieved.

Bai Tian sighed, concentrated his attention again, and continued to be busy with the matter at hand.

The evening self-study in the attached middle school is a rotation system between the class teacher and the homeroom teacher. Today happened to be Bai Tian's day off. After finishing her work, she left work as usual.

Because it was still early, Bai Tian gave up the idea of ​​riding a bicycle home, and prepared to go out and take the bus.

Along the way, she took the time to send a message to the head teacher, asking what happened to the female classmate who asked for leave today. The other party was probably still busy and did not reply her.

An unremarkable car was parked at the gate of the school, Bai Tian saw it from a distance, and as soon as he got closer, Ye Li rolled down the window and waved to her.

Bai Tian smiled at him, and after walking over, he met the gaze of the person in the back seat.

Ye Li said, "We're here to pick you up for dinner, to celebrate the great teacher of the people."

Bai Tian looked back at him, and said out of habit: "You don't need to be so troublesome."

But he still opened the door and sat in the co-pilot.

Ye Li waited for her to fasten her seat belt, then started the car, holding the steering wheel and said: "It just so happens that my sister has time today, so let's have fun together."

Bai Tian looked up at the rearview mirror, paused for a moment in those pure black eyes, and then lowered his head.

The person behind him suddenly said, "This is for you."

Bai Tian raised his head and turned around to look, only to see a gift box handed over.

She paused, and stretched out her hands to take it.

The man with long hair said softly, "Happy Teacher's Day."

Holding the box in his arms, Bai Tian replied softly, "Thank you."

Ye Li, who was driving the car, turned a corner and said with a smile, "I'm not very good at picking gifts, so I have no choice but to treat you to dinner."

Bai Tian turned around and sat down, holding the box in his arms, and answered the conversation with a normal expression.

The atmosphere looks very happy, like a real family.

The restaurant Ye Li chose was not far away, and he arrived there not long after.He parked his car in the parking lot opposite the restaurant, Bai Tian followed down with the gift box in his arms, but was stopped by someone behind him.

"Put it in the car, it's heavy."

She looked down, said "oh", put the things in her arms back, and then walked to Ye Li's side.

The restaurant was across the road, and the three of them were side by side. When they got to the side of the road, Bai Tian caught a glimpse of a motorcycle speeding up from the left.

"careful!"

She stretched out her hand reflexively, and took the person on her right to take a few steps back.

And standing on her left, Ye Li, who was closer to the motorcycle, reacted quickly and backed away. The next second, the motorcycle flew past in front of them, and they didn't even see the figure clearly.

Bai Tian looked at the fleeing shadow with lingering fear in his heart, and couldn't help saying: "It's too dangerous, how could that person ride a bike?"

The person who was pulled back by her came back to his senses, turned to look at her, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Bai Tian shook his head, and was about to say something, but he caught a glimpse of the hands that the two were still holding tightly, and was startled for a moment.

Ye Wan let go of her hand without any trace, and stepped forward, saying in a normal tone: "Let's go, I'm hungry."

Bai Tian responded and followed behind her.

After walking a few steps, she suddenly remembered something, turned around and looked at the person who was still standing there.

"What's wrong?" Bai Tian asked with a raised voice, causing Ye Wan to stop too.

The sky was getting darker, and the young man's expression was obscured under the dim streetlights. He finally came to his senses after hearing Bai Tian's voice, and replied, "Oh, it's nothing, I just remembered that there was still an email that I didn't reply."

Bai Tian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let's go to the restaurant first."

Ye Li nodded and followed.

This meal, Bai Tian ate a little absent-mindedly.

She had already noticed that Ye Wan's state was a little strange today, so she couldn't help but pay more attention to her.

But the other party was chatting with Ye Li while eating, it seemed no different from usual.

Bai Tian, ​​who was preoccupied with Ye Wan, didn't know that she was not the only one who was equally absent-minded at this moment.

The next day was still a working day, and the three of them had to go home early, so they ended the dinner early.

After Bai Tian returned home, he took a shower first, and then went back to his room after finishing his preparations.

There was a gift box on the table. She pulled out the chair and sat down. Before opening the box, she was out of her mind for a while.

This seemed to be Ye Wan's first gift to her seriously.

What will be inside?

Thinking of this, Bai Tian couldn't help feeling a little bit of anticipation.

She untied the bow ribbon tied on the top of the gift box, gently lifted the lid, and was about to open it.

The mobile phone on the bed rang suddenly, Bai Tian paused, got up and went to the bedside to pick up the mobile phone.

It is a voice call in the software.

She bent the corner of her lips, pressed the connect button, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Ye Wan's voice came over, but it was deeper than usual, even with a little imperceptible depression: "Bai Tian, ​​pack your things and follow me to the airport."

Bai Tian didn't react, he was stunned for two seconds before asking: "Where are you going?"

"Go back to S City, No. [-] Middle School."

The name of Seventh Middle School is already a little far away for Bai Tian.

Even when he was back in S city last time, Bai Tian never took a look at it.

During those few unpleasant days, she would rather stay in a hotel than set foot in the place where she grew up.

Bai Tian thought that she would never come back in this lifetime.

However, when she hurriedly followed Ye Wan out of the airport at four o'clock in the morning, she couldn't wait to take a deep breath of the cold air.

But this still can't be resolved, the turbid air in his chest that is stuffy for thousands of kilometers.

Ye Wan pressed the peaked cap, reached out to grab Bai Tian's left hand, and stopped a taxi.

They sat side by side on the back seat of the car, silently watching the dark sky, without saying anything along the way.

The taxi drove for an hour and a half, and finally stopped outside the west gate of No. [-] Middle School. After Ye Wan paid, she pulled Bai Tian out of the car.

There were many cars parked at the door, big and small, with different prices. The two of them glanced at each other and walked quickly to the door.

The security room was rarely lit at this hour, and an old man was sitting in it. Hearing the sound, he looked up at the two of them, and waved his hand to let them go.

Ye Wan paused, and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Wang."

The uncle was taken aback, and was about to take another look at Ye Wan's appearance, but she had already dragged Bai Tian in.

Inside the door is not the familiar teaching building, but rows of low-rise apartment buildings.Following the direction in memory, Ye Wan led Bai Tian through the two buildings, and finally saw the figures gathered downstairs in twos and threes.

Some of those people were middle-aged men in suits and leather shoes, some were aunts over fifty years old, and some young people were about the same age as Ye Wan and Bai Tian.

The same is that they are all dressed in black.

Bai Tian let go of Ye Wan's hand and looked at the rows of wreaths piled up downstairs.And on the long white strip, it was written in big black characters—sorrowful condolences to my teacher Li Xuemin.

The two stood in place without saying a word for a long time, as if they were out of tune with the crowd at the other end and were isolated.

In the end, Bai Tian came back to her senses first. She adjusted the black suit on her body, and then pulled the finger of the person beside her.

"Let's go." Ye Wan finally spoke softly.