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Why does the man in the photo look so familiar?

The more Jiangchou wanted to see clearly, the more she found the traces of glue to be an eyesore.Before he could see why, Teacher Gan turned around after copying the blackboard writing. He was so frightened that he hurriedly stuffed his mobile phone into the drawer, pretending to be listening carefully.

Teacher Gan glanced around for a week, and finally put his eyes on him, "Jiang Shou, get up and answer, I remember that you made mistakes in the quiz last week."

Seeing him standing up and not speaking for a long time, Zhuo Shuang was afraid that he still wouldn't know, so she wrote the answer on the draft pad and pushed it over, reminding in a low voice, "Choose d."

How could such a small gesture escape the eyes of Mr. Gan on the podium, "I'm asking Jiang Shou or you, Zhuo Shuang, if you love your deskmate so much, why don't you answer for him?"

"no problem."

Seeing that he was really going to stand up to answer the question, Teacher Gan wanted to roll his eyes, "Are you serious about what I say? Just sit down for me. If he can't answer, you can stand for him instead."

"This... is actually not impossible."

Taking advantage of Zhuo Shuang's interruption, Jiang Shou roughly sorted out the context, "Choose d, because the previous article mentioned environmental protection..."

After listening to his analysis for a long time, there was no major problem. Teacher Gan relaxed his frown and waved his hand, "Okay, remember not to make this mistake again next time."

She continued to talk about the grammatical points that they made the most mistakes during this period. Jiang Shou, who sat down, spread out her notebook, and while taking notes, she accidentally caught a glimpse of Zhuo Shuang, who was spinning a pen beside her in boredom, and suddenly some vague thoughts flashed in her mind—this idea It's like the moon in the water in the mirror, so lifelike when it's far away, it tickles people's hearts, and when people really reach out to pick it up, it disperses all of a sudden, leaving a shattered afterimage.

The phone on the table vibrated again.

"Have you finished class yet?"

"The face of the man on the right is a bit unclear." He typed a line in the input box and clicked to send it.

The master's reply came quickly, "No problem, the man on the right will do?"

"Well, it's enough to see the face clearly."

As long as he can fully see the appearance, he will definitely be able to remember where he saw it.

The bell rang for the end of get out of class, and as soon as Teacher Gan left, Teacher Mao came in with a stack of papers.

"If you need to go to the toilet, go, I won't let you go later." Teacher Mao ignored the wailing of most people, "The class representative is here, hand out the test papers and yesterday's homework."

In the third and fourth quarters of the physics quiz, the classroom was so quiet that you could even hear a needle drop on the ground.After finally waiting for the paper to be handed in, Jiang Miao simply cleaned up the table and prepared to go out to get the photos.

"What did he message you just now?" Zhuo Shuang, who couldn't find a chance to ask, threw the school uniform back on the seat, "No big problem, right?"

Just as Jiang Shou was about to answer that there was nothing wrong, the homeroom teacher, Teacher Li, poked his head in from the outside.

"Did you finish the exam?" She looked left and right, she didn't look like she was looking for someone to settle the score, "Come here some boys to help me. Where is Wang Xuan? He is a physical education class representative and he is not in class at this time." up?"

"Wang Xuan went out to eat."

Wang Xuan's deskmate replied like this, Teacher Li gave an oh, and didn't bother with this question any more, "Then Zhuo Shuang Jiangchou, you two come over soon, just a little thing, come quickly."

It takes about 15 minutes to go back and forth from the school gate, which means that if you help Teacher Li, you will definitely not be able to get back before class.Before Jiang Shou could speak, Zhuo Shuang squeezed his palm, telling him not to worry, "Report to the teacher, Jiang Shou has something to do, if you need help, I can do it alone."

"But it's better to move the table with two people..." Teacher Li showed embarrassment, "I'm afraid you won't be able to move it by yourself."

What's so difficult about just asking people?Zhuo Shuang hooked the collar of a boy passing by, and asked with a half-smile, "Our dear homeroom teacher is looking for someone to move the table. I have something to do at the same table, why don't you come with me?"

Facing two evil gods at the same time, the boy nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, "No problem, no problem...

Brother Zhuo, let go of your hand first, I'm going to strangle you to death. "

Zhuo Shuang, who was assured, let go of her hand lightly, "Ms. Li, what do you think? I really have something to do at the same table."

Teacher Li needs someone to help anyway, and this boy looks stronger than Jiang Shou, who has slender arms and legs, "Okay, you two come with me, it only takes 5 minutes."

Jiang Shou, who was in a hurry, took two steps and remembered that he forgot to bring his mobile phone and turned to get it. When he got the mobile phone, Zhuo Shuang, who was about to step out of the classroom door, suddenly turned around and winked at him.

"I'll wait here for your return."

Zhuo Shuang said to him like this.

The closer the track of the season is to summer, the more the length of the day will be infinitely elongated. The low-hanging sun hangs in the gaps of the high-rise buildings, spreading the hot afterglow deeply and shallowly, deep red and lavender, embellished in the dark blue sky. The edges are like burnt ashes.

Jiangchou walked through the busy street alone, and came to the small photo studio located near the supermarket.The air-conditioning in the lobby is still very strong, and the lights are not turned on, so the overall look is slightly dim.

"Excuse me, I'm..."

Before he finished his opening remarks, the lady at the front desk took out a kraft paper envelope from the drawer, "I remember you, come to get the photo, right? That classmate of yours didn't accompany you this time?" She pointed to the sticker on the desk. QR code, "The master told you, 50 yuan, just scan the code."

"He's in trouble."

The Alipay voice broadcast sounded at the same time, and the front desk lady shook her phone, "Got it, I will transfer it to the master for you later."

He took a deep breath, opened the envelope right here, and poured out the photos inside.

The one on the face is the pot of sunflowers that his grandmother has served for half her life.He was ignorant when he was a child, and used the scissors and glue left over from his handicrafts to harm him several times, but this kind of plant that withers and flourishes every year has tenacious vitality, and it can bloom as long as there is light and rain.In a winter when it was snowing heavily, he forgot to move the flowerpots indoors. In the next spring, seeing the flowerpots that had not moved, grandma sighed twice and never thought about planting flowers again.

His focus is on a man and a woman holding hands under a willow tree in the park below.

I don't know if it's the weather or the age, but the overall tone of this kind of photo is yellowish, with a little bit of damp around the edges. From the scenery to the people, there is a hazy feeling under 200-degree myopia.If there is any difference from what he saw in English class, it is that the face of the man on the right has been re-drawn, with a strange clarity.

It is almost impossible to have any other business after get off work. The lady at the front desk came over curiously and said, "It was taken when your parents were in love? You are so handsome and beautiful. No wonder you gave birth to such a beautiful child."

Ordinary people should say thank you no matter what they are praised in good faith, but his mind is not on this at all.

His fingers rubbed repeatedly on the man's face, almost tearing through the thin photo paper.From the first time I saw him, I felt that the man's facial features were very familiar, and it was not the kind of familiarity that I would look at myself in the mirror and then imagine out of thin air.He didn't doubt that this man was that "Zhuo Shuang", he just wanted to know where this familiarity came from.

His life has always been very monotonous, he does not watch TV dramas, occasionally reads the news, basically every day at home and school, with only a few exceptions, for example, last Sunday he went to Sea World with Zhuo Shuang, and he did not return after that Instead, he went to Zhuo Shuang's house, and he had a few words with Zhuo Shuang... Then he met Zhuo Shuang's father in a dishonorable way.

He lowered his head, even if he looked at it with [-]% disgust and prejudice, he still had to admit that this was a very handsome man, with red lips and white teeth, long eyebrows plunging into the temples, extremely marked facial features, and among them a pair of very good eyes, The silhouette is beautiful and elegant, the tails of the eyes are slightly raised, so gorgeous that it is almost indistinguishable.The man put his arms around Jiang Suqing's waist, rolled up the cuffs of his white shirt, revealing half of his forearm with snow-white skin, his thin lips curled up, revealing a lazy, rascal and naughty smile. A man who can settle down and live with others.

temperament.Realizing what had affected his judgment, the blood on his face faded completely.

The man in the photo is haunted by exile

He was so different from the mature man who was unfathomable at first glance that day, no one could think of him as the same person immediately.

The doubts that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time broke through the false self-comfort, and grew into a towering giant tree in a destructive posture, forcing him to face the terrible truth.

No, this person is not... He frantically denied that this man who was close to Jiang Suqing would get involved with his Zhuo Shuang in such an unbearable way.

——Are you still kidding yourself?Why do you just refuse to face the truth?

The voice that had always been his anti-tune came out again.He bit the tip of his tongue, the pain woke him up suddenly.There are tens of thousands of people with similar looks in the world. If there is only this coincidence, he can still comfort himself as before. It is just a coincidence, but what if the name, age... everything can match?

The seemingly incompatible gears turned slowly, and each sharp tooth was buckled tightly. The clusters of doubts that he had forcibly ignored took root and sprouted, and became irrefutable evidence.

Same name?Not alone?The self who swore in the past was like a joke, every word he said became a sharp knife, and the blood that flowed out condensed into sharp ice picks, piercing his internal organs, piercing him so much that he was so painful that he would not want to live.

Memory is such a strange thing. When you are uncertain, everything looks vague and plausible, but once you confirm it, the fog clears, and everything that was previously unknowable after racking your brains suddenly becomes clear.

The man who deceived Jiang Suqing with a fake ID card and sweet words and the man whom Zhuo Shuang called his father he secretly saw last week behind the door, the facial features of the two overlapped, and a brand new identity was born from it. It was his biological father whom he had never met.

Even if he is ashamed to say it, even if he hates to admit that half of his flesh and bones come from him, he and Zhuo Shuang also flowed his blood, they are... A large black spot appeared on his face, and a faint blood color appeared on the edge. The heart in his chest was pounding, every beat was slow and heavy. The illusion of death.

The lady at the front desk thought he was suffering from some kind of illness, so she quickly stood up from her seat, trying to support his hands and feet.

"Student, are you okay? What's wrong with you... Why is your face so pale, do you want me to call an ambulance for you?"

There are a thousand oceans between her and him, and every line of dialogue has to go through layers of waves to barely reach it.He watched her mouth open and close, and the words were arranged and reorganized into an incomprehensible speech, even if she heard it, she couldn't react.

He was falling, into bottomless darkness.

"...Should I call 120, or should I contact your family first? Can you say something?"

A certain key word in her words made his eyes shine.He stared at her, "What did you say?"

"I asked if I should call your family."

family?his family……?No, Jiang Suqing must not be allowed to know about this.

"Can you... just say something?" The front desk lady was about to cry.How did she know that she could see people like this just by looking at a photo.

"It's okay, you don't need to call." He took her hand and told her not to shake anymore.

She held him back tightly, as if she could lend him her strength in this way.

take a deep breath.He forced himself to open his mouth to breathe fresh air to relieve the pain caused by lack of oxygen, "It's okay, I'm okay."

If he hadn't spoken, he wouldn't even be aware of the thick bloody smell rising from his throat.After all, a selfish and cold-blooded person like him will be fine.

"really?"

"Really, I'm fine." He slowly stood up straight, then withdrew his hand, and supported the counter calmly, "Maybe a little hypoglycemia, sorry, I scared you."

"It's fine, it's fine..." The front desk lady repeated the sentence three times, "My mind just went blank."

Heartbeat beats against eardrum

There was a sharp beep, and his eyes fell on the photo again. In his eyes, the man's smiling face was like a vicious curse and a contemptuous ridicule, which made him unable to look away.

Don't look at me anymore, don't look at me anymore, I'd rather I never knew about it.He wanted to tear the photo up, but he didn't want to arouse suspicion, so he hurriedly stuffed the photo into the envelope.

After doing all this, he realized that he was shaking so badly that he couldn't hold the thin envelope several times.

"Can I ask you a question?" His mind was in a mess, and his breathing rhythm was messed up. "Do you have brothers and sisters?"

The lady at the front desk didn't know why he asked this, but she answered truthfully, "No, I'm an only child, and my parents only gave birth to me."

"What would you think if, I mean if, you suddenly found out that you have a... elder brother?"

He didn't know why he asked such a question to a stranger he had never met before, let alone what kind of answer he was expecting.

"If it was me when I was a child, I would be so happy that I couldn't sleep. Since I was a child, I hope to have a taller and handsome brother who will support me when those stinky boys bully me. Don't laugh at me, not only I am alone, many girls have had this kind of dream." Thinking of her silly words when she was a child, the front desk lady laughed, but the smile didn't last long, and gradually became melancholy.

The sky outside was getting darker, and the bloody afterglow spread to her feet and just stopped.

Standing in a bottomless shadow, Jiang Shou casually looked at the world outside the door, with a very indifferent expression, but there was a hysterical madness lurking underneath.

Even though the two are very close, it seems like two distant worlds. For a moment, she thought that this boy would be completely swallowed into the darkness.

"Aren't you answering?" Sensing that the phone was vibrating in his pocket, she couldn't help reminding her.

Jiang Choi glanced at the caller's name, and hung up without hesitation.That person was more persistent than him. As long as he hung up, he would call again. After repeating this three times, he directly pressed the power off button to bring the world back to stillness.

"I don't want to take it."

He seemed to split into two, the one where he was still imprisoned in the depths of pain, and the one where he took over the ownership of the body and watched everything from the sidelines.

"What about now?" He was still obsessed with her answer, "Why don't you look forward to it now?"

The lady at the front desk lowered her head, "The world of adults is complicated and realistic. If you tell me now that I have an older brother, I will be suspicious of his life experience and be on guard against him taking away my property... No matter how he was born, My family and my life can never go back to the way it was before. Now that I have grown up alone, why did he suddenly appear in my life?"