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At first Cui Shican thought Wen Yu was sick.

He never came to class, Shi Can called to ask, and the other party ended the conversation after saying a few words that nothing happened.Their relationship is in an embarrassing recovery period, Shi Can can't ask more questions, and can't even make a joke like "drink more hot water", so they can only end it hastily.

Before the final exam, it is reasonable to be absent from class, and good students always have such privileges.But when he heard Xu Qingjia say that Wen Yu didn't even take the exam, he realized something was wrong.

"He didn't take the exam?" Shi Can looked at the empty desk, there was not a single corner of the paper left.

Xu Qingjia tidied her schoolbag: "Yes."

When Shi Can recalled the past two weeks, his intuition was not too abnormal: "But when I asked him, he always said it was fine..."

Xu Qingjia said nothing, packed her schoolbag and then greeted Ji Yue, asking her to pack all the homework.Shi Can was shown a face for no reason, her eyes hurt, and she was about to complain when someone grabbed her neck.

"The two of you are going on a date again?" Chen Qianxi laughed, but Xu Qingjia glared at her before changing her words, "Are you going to make up lessons for Sister Yue again? It's hard to be a top student."

Xu Qingjia mocked coolly: "Isn't that right, you and Yi Jingxing don't need to make up lessons for each other."

Chen Qian: "But we have to discuss with each other—that's enough, we are not in the same relationship as you, it's almost enough."

Xu Qingjia sneered.

"Damn, I was almost led astray by you, and I didn't come to look for you." Chen Qian hooked Shi Can's neck tightly, and turned his head to ask him, "Is your body healed? Look at your face."

Shi Can was not used to him being so close to her, so she tilted her head outward: "It's almost there."

Chen Qian saw his resistance, and let go of him with a smile: "Then let's play ball during make-up lessons and relax—you haven't told me how the injury came about, really?"

"It's embarrassing." Shi Can sighed, "Stop talking."

"He didn't even mention Wen Yu's guess." Xu Qingjia added, causing Shi Can to kick his stool.

Chen Qian: "That should be really embarrassing. By the way, why didn't Wen Yu come to take the exam? Our class has lost a competitor for the city ranking for no reason, and Lao Yu is not angry..."

He chattered endlessly with Xu Qingjia, and there must be controversy surrounding how simple the final math problem this time was, whether he had ever done the comprehensive essay problem, and correcting a certain English mistake.Shi Can was not interested these days, he walked away silently, went to his seat to pack his things, and prepared to move the classroom.

The school has a "high third floor", which is left behind and independent.Every time after the senior year of senior high school graduated, the sophomore students would fly to that building like migrating wild geese and be locked up until June of the next year.

To some extent, Cui Shican feels that this is one of the most important traditions of their school.

Wen Yu's table is already empty, it doesn't matter if you move it or not.He walked over and looked at the table seriously, trying to find some traces on it, and when he realized it, he wanted to laugh.

Their seats are changed every month, what can be left behind?

Grabbing her schoolbag and carrying it on her shoulder, Shi Can touched the wound while hugging the heavy pile of textbooks: "Hiss—" she turned her head and glanced at her arm, the cut from the knife showed some signs of tearing, but it was still scarred up.

Suddenly a little speechless.

Wen Yu never came, and he didn't even have a chance to explain his broken appointment.

He is stubborn and doesn't want to talk on the phone.

"This is a misunderstanding."

Shi Can heard the report of the concert at the hospital. Ye Xiaowen was startled by the blood on half of his body, and almost cried. When he saw what was going on, he slapped him on the back of the head.

"You have grown up and become powerful, huh? Fighting, and you have learned to fight with young people in society!" Ye Xiaowen lowered the second half of the sentence, and yelled in his ear, "You are brave when you are righteous?! You are brave when you see righteousness. You didn't see the knife in his hand Woolen cloth!"

"She called me..." Shi Can defended.

"How did I teach you?! It's none of your business, so don't get involved. You have some troubles, how will your mother live!"

He opened his mouth and was about to speak, when Ye Xiaowen disinfected him with alcohol, Shi Can grinned in pain and almost bit the tip of his tongue.The tingling pain seemed to spread all the way to the central nervous system, piercing into the bone marrow, and he was completely blank in an instant.

Shi Can was sitting there, and the girl standing next to her was crying out of breath. Two female nurses took her away for examination, and the police came after a while.A group of people gathered outside the physical examination room waiting for the results, their necks stretched out.

His arms were wrapped so thickly that he could hardly lift them up, so Shi Can tapped the phone screen.

No one responded to the messages he sent to Wen Yu, he said I didn't mean to.No one answered the phone, Wen Yu might have gone to the concert by himself, the scene was too noisy.

Shi Can moved around a bit and felt fine, so she talked to Ye Xiaowen and planned to go home first.As soon as he got up, nurses and policemen walked over surrounded by Maizi: "Student."

The girl was still crying, her eyes were as red as a rabbit: "Shi Can..."

"Do you know each other?" the policeman asked, looking him up and down, "You were the passer-by who helped just now, right?"

This gaze made Shi Can very uncomfortable, so he nodded perfunctorily.

"That's just right, you go with us to make a record, no matter what you say, you're going to call the police, and the procedure still has to go. Fortunately, the girl is fine." The policeman turned sideways, Shi Can didn't want to move, someone pushed his Shoulder, he stumbled a step forward, and suddenly Maizi grabbed his hand—the girl's soft fingers grabbed him tightly, like grabbing a life-saving straw.

She spoke coquettishly, with a crying tone: "Don't tell them."

Shi Can stared at her deeply, and then nodded again after a while.

Maizi held him by the hand throughout the recording process, and his posture was too ambiguous, causing the police to stare at him several times.Shi Can didn't need to make it up on the spot, Maizi had already spoken a long paragraph while sobbing.

"I... When I was out of school, those men ran over, entangled me..." She was beautiful, crying pitifully, and the nurse who came to accompany her couldn't help but patted her shoulders lightly, "They said they wanted a phone number, but I didn't dare to give it to them. I was afraid, so I left...they wouldn't let me go, and they——touched me—"

Shi Can looked down at the tip of her shoe, and sent a question mark to Wen Yu.

Still no reply.

"I was very scared. They blocked me... I ran towards the other side of the school. There were many people there, so I might meet my classmates. Then I saw Shi Can. I called for help, and he came. Uncle policeman, Shi Can really He didn't fight! He protected me and pushed those people a few times, then... that person bumped into the wall and kowtowed, Shi Can didn't do it on purpose!"

Shi Can irritably sent several question marks in succession.

"They still have knives—"

The wound on his arm twitched, and he almost didn't hold the phone tightly in pain.

The policeman stopped for a moment and turned to him: "Student Cui, is this the case?"

Shi Can raised her head: "Well, almost."

He couldn't say that the leader was not a social gangster at all, nor was it some little hooligan pestering female students.

He couldn't say that when he passed by, Maizi pushed her ex-boyfriend against the wall, bumped her head, and her face was covered with blood. She turned her head and saw herself, her eyes lit up, and then she started screaming. , the arm was cut, and the blood poured out and stained the whole T-shirt.

He can't say that I'm not familiar with her at all, I've only met her a few times, and I'm also confused when she holds her hand.I'm not her boyfriend, not anyone's, I just stop by to help, and I want to go to the concert with my best friend.

He can't even say.

After all, Maizi is a high school student, and she is going to be admitted to university, so he doesn't have to take care of it, so he has to help her—just as if someone else liked him, Shican tried to repay this unreasonable favor.

After the police left, Maizi's parents came, crying, thinking that their daughter had been wronged so much.After hearing her explain the whole story, she thanked Shi Can and Ye Xiaowen again. Maizi's father took out his wallet on the spot and wanted to pay Shi Can for medical expenses, but Ye Xiaowen pushed and shoved him down.

The bustle outside the borrowed office of the hospital was more lively than usual, Maizi broke free from her mother's hand and came over, wanting to talk to Shi Can, but seeing his appearance, he finally backed away.

He stood in the corner the whole time without moving, holding his mobile phone, but the mobile phone did not move.

That night, Wen Yu replied to his message: "Let's talk about it later, I'm sleepy today, good night."

Wen Yu said "in the future", but he never had a chance to see Wen Yu again.

The geography teacher talked about the butterfly effect, but Shi Can didn't realize until a long time later that the cry for help he heard when he passed by the alley on that brilliant sunset was the butterfly that instigated a hurricane.

There was a three-day holiday after the final exam, and after that, the make-up classes for the junior high school students began—senior high school, what a terrible term, Shi Can thought she was a scumbag, and still couldn't bear the palpitations.

He arrived at the new classroom 5 minutes early, and looked at Wen Yu's seat, it was still empty.

Lao Yu didn't care that one of his best students didn't come to class, and knocked on the podium to give them a sense of urgency, so that even Chen Qian, who was usually idle, straightened his back the whole time.Shi Can rested his chin, glanced at an empty set of tables and chairs by the window from the corner of his eye, felt uncomfortable for a while, and patted his heart.

Wen Yu is not here... Wen Yu has been away for so many days, it seems that even his heart is empty.

He secretly opened the phone to look, and found that the first page of their message box was no longer available, and Shi Can slid down for a while, starting to get annoyed.He doesn't usually have so many social activities, why should he find someone, all the messy push and dialog boxes come out.

Entering "Wen Yu" and failing to find friends, Shi Can was taken aback for a moment before remembering that he had added a note to Wen Yu.

In the beginning, his real name was quite satisfactory, but later he changed it to a little fish.

The dividing line before and after the time point is a downpour.

He sat in his seat, the message record stayed on "I'll talk about it later", and his heart beat faster and pounded for a long time before he calmed down a little.Shi Can suddenly became dizzy, as if he hadn't eaten breakfast, his eyes went dark.

"Hey, hello, Xiao Cui." Someone called him, but the sound of knocking on the table was dull.

Shi Can was so excited that she almost jumped out of her chair.

Chen Qian looked at him with a complicated expression: "Are you okay..."

Shi Can: "What's wrong?"

"That's right, Qing Jia told me just now that Sister Yue inquired about it." It was very hot in the classroom, and Chen Qian picked up a book on his desk to fan the wind. gone."

Shi Can helped the side of the table, and there was a flower in front of his eyes, colorful black: "Huh?..."

Chen Qian was still saying: "Well, it seems that something happened to his family, and Sister Yue didn't know. Wen Yu transferred to an international school for her third year of high school, and she planned to go abroad after finishing her studies. There was a girl in that school who was Yue My sister's former best friend seems to be a junior high school student of yours, she saw Wen Yu today—"

But why didn't you tell me?

With this question stuck in her throat, Shi Can opened her mouth and found that she couldn't utter a single word.

It's not that he doesn't want to say it, it's that he can't say it, he can't make a sound.

The white coat at the school hospital said that he suffered from stress aphonia and emotional sequelae, and he will be fine after a while.It is estimated that it is not uncommon for senior high school students to suffer from strange diseases, so the white coat brought him a box of pharyngitis tablets, let Shi Can suck it, and started to work on his own.

When they heard the diagnosis, Cui Shican and Chen Qian who took him to the infirmary showed puzzled faces at the same time. He was purely surprised. Chen Qian was instinctively curious about this unfamiliar term, so he chased after the doctor to ask.

This is probably why Chen Qian was able to become a top student, while Shi Can sat on the single bed in the infirmary and had time to laugh at himself.

He touched his throat and spoke tentatively, without even resonance, completely depriving him of the idea of ​​calling Wen Yu, Shi Can fell on the bed and sighed long.

Wen Yu changed schools, international schools, went abroad, and universities.

These few entries went back and forth in Shi Can's mind, and he couldn't quite understand each of them. Just thinking of Wen Yu disappearing without a word made him panic.Anger or impatience are not enough to describe, Shi Can thought about it, probably called being deceived.

Disappointment after being cheated.

He broke the appointment first, waiting for Wen Yu's "later", and what he was waiting for was to transfer to another school, and he also learned about it from others.In terms of emotion and reason, even if Shi Can felt that he was at fault, he still couldn't accept this result.

Fortunately, although he was in a hurry to leave the classroom, he brought his mobile phone with him. Shi Can took it out to find Wen Yu's dialog box, and typed in it.Deleting, deleting, modifying, changing from "why didn't you tell me you transferred" to "did you transfer?", read it silently three or four times by myself, and couldn't tell what was wrong.

In the end, it was still "don't tell me about the transfer", with a grievance expression attached.

Wen Yu quickly replied to him, not as fast as a good student in class: "I wanted to tell you, but I forgot, and it's unnecessary."

Shi Can sent a question mark.

Wen Yu: "It's none of your business."

Shi Can frowned, and the question marks sent out changed from one to a row.

Wen Yu called him directly, Shi Can was stunned for a moment, but still answered.

He hadn't recovered from the colorful darkness, and felt like he hadn't heard Wen Yu's voice in 1 years, but he immediately noticed something was wrong—it was hoarse, rustling, and had a sad crying voice, which he tried to suppress.

His heart was suddenly surging.

"My parents... are still divorced." Wen Yu didn't give him a chance to speak, "We had an appointment for the concert, and after we got back, my dad told me about it. I... didn't think about it , but still... I told you."

Shi Can wanted to say that I remembered, but he still couldn't accept it at that time, but he couldn't do anything about it.

Fortunately, Wen Yu didn't care about his silence: "Forget it, I... I just want to tell you that I've talked with him for a long time. I'm not as strong as I thought. When I said it with confidence, they are really divorced and relieved." , I'm having trouble again, I'm in a terrible mood, I don't want to go to class, I don't want to go to school, I don't want to do anything."

Shi Can: "..."

Wen Yu took a deep breath, and felt much better after speaking. He spoke to him softly, but the content was not sticky at all: "Later, my dad thought it was wrong, and asked me if I wanted to change the environment, and I agreed."

Shi Can grasped the bed sheets in the infirmary tightly, and there were a few wrinkles, which he didn't expect to be caused by this.

"It's not just my parents' divorce, but also... other things, I suddenly figured out a lot about you, about myself, I can't deal with it... In fact, it's better to change the environment. My dad said to send him to study abroad. In fact, it's also in the plan, sooner or later." Wen Yu paused, and added, "It was the time when we didn't talk. So..."

I agreed, I will transfer to another school first, take the bridging class while preparing for the college entrance examination, take the TOEFL test, and leave next year.

There is no need for Wen Yu to explain these things in detail, Shi Can found that he couldn't listen at all.

"Why don't you talk?" Wen Yu asked him, "Oh, you don't want to talk to me, it's a shame you haven't cut it off. I also, I wanted to find a chance to talk to you... Forget it."

Why forget it?

Shi Can was so anxious that he kicked over a stool, and Chen Qian outside immediately shouted, "What's wrong, Brother Can?"

"You still have something to do, right? I heard Chen Qian yelling." Wen Yu said, he always cleared up his emotions quickly, without any ups and downs on the surface, "Then let's do this first?"

Firstly?

"In the future... you should take a good university entrance examination, really."

Shi Can couldn't get back to his senses, only the busy sound remained in his ears.

Which international school to transfer to, don't you want to meet in the third year of high school?How about we get together some other day?

And what have you figured out?Is it the same as I thought?So what?Haven't made it clear why you hung up on me?

The sun shone through the window and shone on his back. It was warm, and he broke out in a hot sweat.

Holding the phone, he was engulfed by a sea of ​​powerlessness.

Colorful black, like fireworks exploding on New Year's Eve, like the last sunset glow on the horizon, like...

Nothing like it.

The last days seemed to be on a roller coaster, from their quarrel to the unfinished concert, from the phone call in the alley that was hung up abruptly to Wen Yu saying that you should take a good college entrance examination.

No one said goodbye, as if not saying goodbye meant not agreeing to "there will be a period later".

When he had a cold war with Wen Yu, Ye Xiaowen comforted him that it was impossible for his friends to be so tired all the time, he had to learn to leave time for Wen Yu, everyone needs a space to be alone.

It's impossible to be friends, Shi Can thought, then he and Wen Yu might not be friends for life.

But on the day when he wanted to understand, Wen Yu told him, "Let's do this first."

A few pigeons flew across the sky in June and flew to the top floor of the teaching building to stop.When Shi Can walked out of the infirmary, the sun was dazzling. He raised his hand to block it, and Chen Qian was still arguing beside him, saying that he wanted to eat the braised pork in the cafeteria at noon. Tenderloin in vinegar, a mess.

When Shi Can walked past the playground, he turned his head. The gymnasium stood at the end of the road, and the raindrops from that day were still in his vision.

Falling to the concrete floor, like a flower.

The sun made all the leaves shine, the flowers withered, and the rain only fell in the middle of the night.Outside the classroom, there were three or two students lying on the corridor balcony, chatting about the never-ending summer.

Shi Can suddenly had nausea in his stomach, knelt down and covered his mouth, and let out a hoarse cough for a long time.

His adolescence ended abruptly on this day.

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Beginning of the adult chapter