life after death

The beginning of the dream was the same as countless times. His mother sat in the driver's seat and said with a smile, "Xiaolin, I'll bring you some dried fish. Which flavor do you want?"

Chen Yilin was tired of eating dried fish, waved his hand and said no, and walked away.

Thinking about it now, she must have been a little bit disappointed at the time, big or small, but unfortunately I never had the chance to ask her again.

She rolled over on the highway, a full 180 degrees, and was out of breath before she could be sent to the hospital. The adults didn't show him her bones. It is said that her delicate face was beyond recognition, and her ribs poked a big hole in her chest. Poke onto the steering wheel.

She is not the first person to die in a car accident.

Chen Yilin's father overturned his car on a mountain road and fell off a straight cliff when he was over two years old. He couldn't even find his body.No one wants to find it.

Although no one mentioned it in front of Chen Yilin, but Chen Yilin knew that his father went to see the death of the third son who lived in the golden house on the mountain. Laughed a bit.

Their family wasn't that poor back then, and they still had some spare money, otherwise his father wouldn't have traveled so far to play in the golden house instead of ordering a six-yuan Malatang at a street stall.

Their family is in the hardware business, and they specialize in tossing some screws. His mother was originally a no-nonsense person, but her husband died, so she was forced to take on the heavy burden.In Chen Yilin's first year of junior high school, there was a great financial depression. Half of the nearby hardware factories closed down.

She didn't have time to enjoy the blessings for a few years, and she went there to see her son, who was extremely intelligent since he was a child, with plump wings that could shelter her from the wind and rain.

What a trick of fate.

In the dream, he had a fucking dream, he got up from the bed in the middle of the night sweating, and ran out wearing a pair of slippers, onto the highway, running and running, running and running.There was not a single car on the highway, not a single person, not even a bird, the only living thing was him. As he ran, he saw the scenery on both sides receding, he saw the metasequoia trees replaced by camphor trees, The camphor tree was replaced by a sycamore tree. He didn't feel tired. He was always running and never caught up.

But today is a little different.

Chen Yilin fell.I was tripped by someone.

He fell to the ground with a bang, grinning his teeth in pain. Sitting on the ground, he saw someone reaching out to him. Su Junping stretched out his hand to him with a smile, opened his mouth slightly and said—then he woke up.

Chen Yilin touched his hair, the pillow was soaked with sweat, but he didn't dare to get up, the broken bed would make earth-shattering noises when he got up, his grandma couldn't sleep well when she was old, and Chen Yilin didn't want to disturb her rare good sleep.

He lay on the bed with his eyes closed and recollected the dream, until he fell asleep in a daze, and he couldn't comprehend what Su Junping was trying to say.

When Chen Yilin woke up the next day, he went to an intermediary to transfer or rent a shop, but the prices from the intermediary were too low as Chinese New Year was approaching, so Chen Yilin couldn't find a suitable one for a while.

As he expected, the store's business plummeted.Occasionally, a few people came to buy, but most of them were eaten by himself with noodles, but Su Junping ran extra frequently since that day.

He came for the first time since that time, and the excuse was that he came to collect the bowls himself.Chen Yilin took out the cleaned bowl, Su Junping took out a bowl of braised pork from his schoolbag, and said to him, "One thing for one thing."

Chen Yilin wanted to refuse, but he gave him several vicious glances, so he could only accept it dumbfoundingly.

In addition to delivering food, there is also buying pastries.Su Junping said: "Brothers still have to settle accounts clearly. Are you my brother? You can't be your own brother even if you want to. I'm the only child." Having said that, Chen Yilin will of course have to collect the money.

Su Junping's bowl was in his place, and Su Junping had ample excuses to come and go, and he couldn't stop him.

Before you know it, New Year's Eve is here.

In recent years, the price of fireworks and firecrackers has risen sharply. Chen Yilin didn't buy it, and it was right to contribute to environmental protection.He pasted the inverted "Fu" on the door early in the morning, cleaned the windows, and did a general cleaning.Grandma got an old hen to make boiled chicken, and there was a completely dried salted fish hanging on the balcony, and she planned to make steamed eggs with salted fish at night.

Chen Yilin was standing on a rickety square stool and was cleaning the top window. Su Junping came in with a bulging bag on his back. When he saw the stool under his feet dancing disco tremblingly, he was so frightened that he took a handful of fireworks They were all thrown away.

He rushed over to stabilize the stool legs: "I'm scared to death, can you stand on a reliable place?"

Chen Yilin lowered his head, looked at Su Junping with a pretentious expression, stomped his feet with a smile, and said to Su Junping's cry, "Is it shaking? I don't feel it standing on it."

With lingering fear, Su Junping watched the old man finish cleaning one window, and when he jumped down and wanted to move over to clean the other one, he volunteered: "I'll do it, I'll do it, I haven't tried it yet."

Chen Yilin glanced at him suspiciously, and pushed another stool together to expand Su Junping's foothold.

However, Su Junping's useless thing wiped half of his leg and shook like a cramp, so Chen Yilin hurriedly called him down.Su Junping threw the rag, looked at Chen Yilin and whispered, "I don't dare to jump, I'm afraid of heights."

Chen Yilin: "..."

He swallowed the phrase "it's not high", opened his arms and said, "Jump down, I'll catch you."

Su Junping looked into his shining eyes, struggled for a while, and finally closed his eyes and jumped, feeling nothing and then fell to the ground.

When he found out that it wasn't a big deal, he remembered his embarrassing behavior just now, couldn't help blushing, and tried to say something to save face.For example, he is not really afraid of heights, but reacts violently to the shaking surface. Chen Yilin smiled and listened carefully, and gave him a glass of water as a reward for his work.

Su Junping held the glass and covered his hands, looking at his smile, he always felt a subtle discomfort.

He ate lunch at their house, and Chen Yilin's grandma's fried chicken was really amazing, the meat was white and tender, and the skin was golden, not only yellow and thin, but also very chewy, Su Junping boasted so much that the old lady laughed gone.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, he went home to help Yang Hong, and put the fireworks stick into Chen Yilin's hand before leaving.It was rare for Chen Yilin not to say anything disappointing, so he just accepted it.

The New Year's Eve dinner that night was the most sumptuous meal he had in the past four years.Chen Yilin chewed the extremely salty salted fish, spat out the thorns one by one, and went to wash the dishes after eating. After washing the dishes, he watched the Spring Festival Gala with his grandma. The Spring Festival Gala became more and more boring. Grandma watched After a while she leaned on the bed and fell asleep, Chen Yilin covered her with extra blankets, and persisted until twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, turning off the TV to set off fireworks.

Chen Yilin's home is in the old city. Although the government has repeatedly banned fireworks and firecrackers in the city, the ban on smoking cannot stop the beautiful traditions of the Chinese people for thousands of years. Besides, how can the hooligans in the small dilapidated building be ordinary people?

Chen Yilin finally found an open space, lit it secretly, and it bloomed in his hand like a bunch of uncomfortably fresh flowers. The crackling silver light brightened the corners of his eyes. Life is meaningless, it will only increase fires and pollute the environment. It is still necessary, because it is very beautiful, a kind of beauty that lights up people's hearts.

On the second day of the new year, Chen Yilin was working hard to settle the leftovers, and Su Junping came, bringing news of the agency.

It was a vegetable market close to Su Junping's house. There were fewer people there and the prices were cheaper. Chen Yilin waited until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year to go through all the formalities and moved in just the day before school started.

The first day of school was the [-]th day of the first lunar month, and I couldn’t pinpoint it more accurately. I came to class just after the Lantern Festival, and Su Junping was so sleepy that he lay on the table to catch up on sleep. Chen Yilin listened to Wang Wenjie’s gossip about him: "Second year of high school is not bad, but the winter vacation of senior three is full of eleven days, come on the seventh day of the new year, and don't even give a Lantern Festival!" He spitting and scolding the corrupt exam-oriented education, and the corrupt class enemy at the time of his impassioned speech Wang Wenjie immediately pretended to be shot and lay down on the table for half a second, then grabbed Chen Yilin's hand exaggeratedly and said, "I...I can't do it." Now, comrade-in-arms, the arduous task of defeating the class enemy is entrusted to you, remember...'Family sacrifices are never forgotten to tell Nai Weng'..."

Chen Yilin nodded solemnly after hearing his nonsense speech, the English class representative kicked him impatiently, and he rolled weakly to the office.

When Wang Wenjie came back, the biology class had already started for 5 minutes.His evaluation of the little fresh meat teaching biology is: like an intern.The implication is that not only does he look like an intern, but his level is also like that of an intern. He can't hold back these little ghosts who are always beckoning. Wang Wenjie walked in without saying hello.

The collar of his coat fell to his shoulders, disheveled and ruddy, with bloodshot eyes and a hollowed out body.

Someone whistled at Wang Wenjie, who beat him back.

He sat on the seat, woke up the confused Su Junping, and said mysteriously: "I just went to the office of 'Peacock', and I heard the English teacher opposite her say that we are going hiking on April [-]st! Do you understand hiking? Understood! Just this once, go to a farm in the countryside, just like a wave, like a wave!"

Su Junping was already a little out of bed when he was pushed awake, but he heard a burst of hot air coming out of his nostrils: "Go away, it's still early for April Fool's Day."

"Believe it or not, the person opposite is the deputy head!"

He covered his darling and told others. It took half a class to pass the news to the whole class. For the whole year, it made people feel distracted.At the meeting on Tuesday, the senior Duan chief criticized this kind of "inferiority of blindly disseminating information without scientific basis". People in Class [-] wanted to trample Wang Wenjie to death. Fortunately, before he was completely crushed, the deputy head took power and decided to go on a trip on April [-]st, saving his precarious life.

On the night of March 31st, the entire teaching building was boiling, and everyone who studied at night chatted and fell asleep caught a pack, and every class teacher was irritable and walked around wanting to gag their mouths.

The third year's building was quiet, and someone looked at the excited second year and snorted coldly: "Idiot."

The excursion is far from as good as they imagined, it is almost a special program of No. [-] Middle School: next year's sophomores will also move to this building, and they are very gloating about the excursions that the new sophomores are looking forward to.