First dawn

Yi Xiao held the package ticket in her hand, looked at the four words Youlong Park handwritten in the handwriting of primary school students on the package ticket, and looked at the child at her feet with disgust.

"Go and play by yourself." Yi Xiao kicked Yi Mengmeng's heel.

"I don't." Yi Mengmeng refused.

Yi Xiao disdained: "I care about you."

In the park of this small county town, a children's paradise was surrounded, and a row of children's rocking cars were exhausted singing "What's the name of Dad's mother" and "Don't look at me just a sheep" at the same time, All kinds of music mixed together, causing Yi Xiao to be very irritable, but Yi Mengmeng was still very obsessed with this place.At noon, my aunt called him and said that she wanted to take him to familiarize herself with the environment of the city. Yi Xiao couldn't refuse, so she waited and waited until Yi Mengmeng came to my aunt's house.

The owner of the "playground" had bright eyes, looking at the children present, as if looking at many long-legged money bags, and stuffing colorful balloons into the children's hands with all his might, but Yi Mengmeng liked this very much. I played the pass over and over again, and refused to leave no matter what.

"If you don't go, I'll go." Yi Xiao made a gesture to leave.

Yi Mengmeng's earth-shattering cry sounded behind him.

"Hey, handsome guy." Seeing that the business was about to run away, the boss hurried to catch up. "I think you guys are gone to the haunted house. I want you to take the little girl to play before leaving."

"Will you go?" Yi Xiao stared at Yi Mengmeng.

"Go." Yi Mengmeng wiped away her tears and walked forward.

The so-called "haunted house" actually encloses a piece of land in a corner of the park and built a temporary shed. Yi Xiao reckoned that there would be some music in it and some ghost paintings posted, quite disdainful, and followed Yi Xiao Slowly pacing behind Mengmeng.

However, when the curtain of the haunted house was slowly lowered behind him, he discovered that the inside of the haunted house really looked like that.The thick material completely isolates the messy sounds outside, no funny horror music is played, and no pictures are pasted up as he thought. On the contrary, the shed is very quiet, with little light, separated by a The passage and the exit are at the other end of the shed, so that those who come to play can only walk forward step by step.

Yi Mengmeng calmed down, stared nervously and excitedly ahead, and followed Yi Xiao.

In the depths of the haunted house, Qiao Jue was wearing a light and fluffy white long dress, with a lot of props blood spilled on the clothes, holding a gleaming toy kitchen knife in his left hand, and holding a plastic skull in his right hand, squatting in front of the tombstone of the props, sulking.Xu Jiajia is unreliable, and Boss Wang of the amusement park is even more unreliable. He rushed ducks to the shelves, thus creating him at this moment.

An hour ago, Boss Wang's earnest words echoed in Qiao Jue's ears: "Handsome guy, our job is not difficult, you go put on work clothes, dress up simply, and when someone passes by, just walk there, scaring people , that’s all right, isn’t it, it’s not difficult, come on, put your mobile phone here, we are not allowed to play with mobile phones when we are working here..."

Fortunately, the haunted house in the small dilapidated playground is not popular. Qiao Jue felt that he had been squatting here for almost an hour, and no one came over. The shed built by the boss is very insulated, and it is quite comfortable to sit on the ground. It's just that the light is too dim, and gradually I feel a little sleepy.

Qiao Jue was a little bored, staring at the skull in his hand, he suddenly felt that the edges of the plastic toy's eyes were carved a little unevenly, so he picked up the toy knife and carved the eyes of the skull one by one.

Qiao Jue kept moving his hands, but his thoughts flew to the sky. Tomorrow morning, he will report to the No. [-] Middle School. His life in the second year of high school is about to begin. He doesn't know which science class he will be assigned to. He is suddenly a little at a loss, not knowing who he is now What the hell was he doing? He was lost in thought, ignoring the sound of footsteps from far to near. Qiao Jue didn't remember until the footsteps were close in front of his eyes. It seemed that there was a guest coming, and he didn't remember Boss Wang's work requirements.

He stopped what he was doing, and slowly stood up from the tombstone, holding the skull and holding the watermelon knife. The two guests, one big and one small, seemed a little confused, and stood there motionless. Qiao Jue thought for a while, and remembered Responding to Boss Wang's advice.

"What a bad guest, I want to watch the whole process." Qiao Jue muttered in a low voice, and slowly, wearing his "blood" white clothes, "floated" from one side to the other in front of the two people.

The tall guest took a step back, as if he had bumped into some mechanism, a gust of wind was played, the blower sent a gust of cool wind, and a gloomy white light hit the top of the shed, just hitting the faces of the two of them. Suddenly they saw each other's faces clearly.

Qiao Sui: "...you are..." Why does this person look familiar.

"You were yesterday..."

Before Qiao Jue could think too much, the man's expression changed again and again. Qiao Jue thought that the two of them were going to move on, and gave way to the tombstone, but unexpectedly, the man picked up the little girl on the ground , turned around and walked along the way he came.

Qiao Jue stood in the wind, full of doubts.

Not long after, the walkie-talkie on the ground rang out: "Oh, I said handsome guy, you are too dedicated, you just scared the customers away, I don't give salary increases here, you Take it easy, don't take it so seriously."

Qiao Sui: "I'm not..."

The sun was setting, and it was time for the amusement park to close the stalls. Except for the row of rocking carts, they basically had to be loaded and evacuated and come back tomorrow. Boss Wang walked into the haunted house, woke up Qiao Jue, who was sleeping soundly by the tombstone, and told His work for today is over.

Except for the strangeness of the first wave of guests today, the people who came in behind were all normal. Qiao Jue wore the two pink bills given by the boss, stepped on the bicycle, and rode away. Still very happy to make money, Qiao Jue stepped on his bicycle and left Youlong Park in the orange afterglow of the setting sun.

Riding through Shuimo Street, then crossing Lianhu Road, and heading north, you will see the Lianhe Bridge. The waves in the Lianhe River are fluttering with golden ripples, flowing continuously to the other end of the county.

"Brother Sui, brother Sui!" There was a man beside the second bridge, jumping up and down and waving.

Qiao Jue slowed down and jumped out of the car. Guo Da ran towards him while giggling. Qiao Jue asked, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to look for you, Brother Sui." Guo Da was very excited, "I've been looking for you for a long time, your mother said that you went to help your sister's shift, but the phone didn't reach you, so I just want to wait for you here .”

"So happy, what's the matter?" It should be a question of class placement, Qiao Sui thought to himself.

Sure enough, Guo Da was elated: "Class 7, brother Sui, it's stable. We are in two classes. You are No. 1. When the class placement sheet was posted, it was called a crowd. I was in the vast crowd. I caught a glimpse of your handsome name, your grades at the end of the first year of high school, which class you put in, it has to be No. 1, and I looked again, the penultimate one, isn’t it your brother and me! We can really distinguish between the two One class, I will mix with you in the future."

"You're not the last one?" Qiao Sui wondered.

"Really not." Guo Dale said, "Have you heard of the name Yi Xiao? Have you heard of it? It was quite miserable, and he went directly to the hospital. The school originally wanted to punish him, but his family paid him to withdraw him. Later, he seemed to be transferred to us with his family. I didn’t expect it, and he happened to be in our class.”

Qiao Sui seemed to have heard of such a person last semester, but he was too far away from his life, so he basically didn't pay attention.

Those who transferred from No. [-] Middle School did not have a grade record in the first year of high school, so they would naturally be ranked at the bottom of the class list, but Guo Da, who was the last one, was still the last one.

Guo Da scratched his head: "That's it for today, don't forget to report in different shifts tomorrow morning, I will wait for you at the intersection of Xinya Street."

"Okay." Qiao Jue nodded, "The old place is the same time, remember to bring your tuition and insurance fees."

The two parted on the Lianhe Bridge. Qiao Jue was pushing his bicycle and didn't intend to ride any more. After crossing the Lianhe Bridge and another road, there was a depression. The tube building of the old glass factory was in the center of the land.

"Guo Da came to look for you." Xu Hong pushed open the door of Qiao Jue's room, and stood at the door with the screen door open.

Qiao Jue: "I know, I saw him."

"Are you out of class?" Xu Hong pointed to Qiao Jue's desk, and Qiao Jue saw a plate of sliced ​​watermelon on the table.

"Come out, class 7." Qiao Jue briefly explained the news from Guo Da to Xu Hong.

"Forget it, you have chosen all science subjects, and I don't care about you anymore." Xu Hong sighed, "If you choose, you should study hard. Your father and I will count on you in the future."

Before Qiao Jue could answer, there was an embarrassing voice from the next room, like a woman's numbness, accompanied by a few whispers from time to time, Qiao Jue looked up, and Xu Hong saw embarrassment in their respective eyes.

"Li Ronghai is an old man. He is over 70 years old and still prostitutes. No wonder the four children don't take him to live." Xu Hong scolded in a low voice, "These unruly women run here all day long. Thirty yuan You can sleep, this is using our place as a den."

Qiao Jue didn't speak, the constant sound from the next room made him feel a little sick, and his stomach was churning.

The residents in the tube building are full of strange things. The long corridor shared by each other is like an inseparable bond, connecting everyone in this building together. They can't hide their private affairs, and they don't bother to hide them.

Li Ronghai next door has four children. The four houses that were demolished were all given to his four children. After the house was divided, no one wanted to live with Li Ronghai anymore, so they had to move into the house where the eldest son used to work. The dormitory of the glass factory.

The old people living in this building are almost all in the same situation. The family property is distributed to the children, and they have nothing. They can only move into the dilapidated old house and slowly decay together with the dilapidated tube building.

"It's nothing, the whole family is nothing, and they don't feed me every day..." Qiao Zeyan scolded from the other side of the room.

"I know how to eat things that don't die all day long." Sitting beside Qiao Jue's bed, Xu Hong said impatiently amidst the unbearable voice from the next room: "The meal will be ready in a while, and you can send it to Qiao Zeyan. I saw He is annoyed, your father is away on business because he doesn't know the situation at home, this old thing is different from others, it is so difficult to take care of, he only knows how to swear all day long, he is uneducated and unreasonable, I shouldn't have married your father in the first place, Marrying him, I have suffered a lot. Our family has no house or car. The old man gave them all the house. We didn't get anything. We have to take care of him. Your father doesn't know how to treat me better... "

Qiao Jue listened to the same words countless times a week, and guessing that the time was almost up, he pushed open the screen door, entered the kitchen diagonally opposite, filled a bowl full of rice, picked some food, and stopped at the door for a few minutes. In seconds, he pushed open the door of Qiao Zeyan's room.

"I asked Xu Hong to buy the medicine!" As soon as Qiao Jue entered the door, a medicine box fell to his feet. Qiao Zeyan was sitting in a wheelchair and yelled at him. Qiao Zeyan was hospitalized for cerebral hemorrhage in his early years. Even so, he still yelled at Qiao Sui with all his strength at this moment, "You guys, the medicine I bought is different from the one I took before, and the box looks different. You guys , wicked thing, I fuck your mother, you want to poison me to death, huh?"

"The manufacturers are different, but it's the same medicine. You are uneducated. You can only look at the medicine box. You don't want to eat it." Qiao Jue threw the rice bowl on the bedside table, opened the door and left. Qiao Zeyan was deaf and couldn't hear Qiao Jue's words clearly. , still roaring in the house.

In Qiao Jue's room, Xu Hong's scolding came again, and the joy of earning some money from a part-time job in the afternoon had long been washed away.

Qiao Jue stood at the end of the corridor. There was a space by the pool for standing. Qiao Jue looked out the window of the corridor. It was a red residential building, which was also the staff dormitory of the glass factory. The quality of the tube building was much higher. , at least a suite.

It may be because autumn is approaching, the heat is still hot outside the window, but the sky is very high, and the chaotic voices fall in his ears, Qiao Jue raised his head but saw a piece of clear blue in his eyes, he suddenly felt that such a life, day after day ,Pointless.

I really want to leave such a city and escape this day-to-day life.

Fortunately, school will start tomorrow, and I probably won't care about these things when I get busy.