ninety-nine twelve

I recently got a family ticket to the water park from my mom, [-] adults and [-] kid.

It was originally a benefit from my mother's work unit. There are all kinds of benefits. First registration, first served. My mother simply got one for me, since her current family situation doesn’t make it any better, and they are not interested in that kind of exciting rides, so she gave it to me and asked me to invite my classmates to go with me.

I was worrying that there was no legitimate reason to ask Wu Haoyu out to play, this ticket came at the right time.After I excitedly told Wu Haoyu, he asked a crucial question: "Family ticket, three people, right?"

I flipped through the instructions on the back of the ticket and looked at it carefully, "Let's say two adults and one child, children between 1 and 2 meters, and elderly people over 1 years old are also fine."

"It might as well be a student ticket for the two of us."

"It doesn't ask what kind of two adults it is. I just said that we are cousins. Can the ticket inspector check our relationship? I will rent a child at the scene and bring him in for free. ,what do you think?"

"You're kidding me, rent a child, where do you go to rent a child, your thinking is very dangerous, I have to sue you for child trafficking."

"Anyway, I didn't say no. I just need to come as he asked. Two adults and one child will check a ticket. Once they go in, they can play their own things, can't they? If it doesn't work, I'll go with two adults. Earn more tickets for that kid."

"Don't add up, I think the student ticket is more reliable."

"... No, I will give you a family ticket for nothing, and if you don't try it, you won't try it."

"The half-price student ticket is even more cost-effective than your family ticket. Spend a little bit of thought and spend less money."

"I do not."

I was talking on the phone with Wu Haoyu. I was very happy about it, but I didn’t expect to argue about it because of the ticket. Most of my enthusiasm was extinguished. I stubbornly insisted on using the family ticket. , there was no sound from Wu Haoyu's end, followed by a long car horn, before he could speak again, I asked, "What are you doing?"

"I'm here to apply to the driving school and take a look at the venue."

"what?"

"Wait a minute, hang up first, I'll call you back later."

I was hung up by Wu Haoyu, and I was very disappointed for a while. I happily wanted to ask him to play in the water, but he was not only not very excited, but also quietly went to take the driver's license test without telling me.

When Wu Haoyu called me back, he probably heard my listless voice, and teased me: "What's going on? Didn't you feel happy just now?"

"I'm very happy now."

"That doesn't sound like it to me." He went on, "Is that the family ticket you just want to use?"

"Yeah, why don't you use it for free?"

"Then let me put it this way, do you just want to use that family ticket with me?"

I was startled, I didn't expect Wu Haoyu to point it out so directly, he hesitated and began to explain: "No, my mother gave me the ticket because she didn't go, but I didn't go, what a waste, then If I don't need this ticket, she can give it to someone else..."

"Hey, if you say that, why did your mother give you the ticket? You are far away from all the indicators of the family ticket, right?"

"I don't know! She said she asked me to call my classmates to play together, oh--then I figured it out, my mother and I both think what kind of adults we are, both adults are fine, with or without children, anyway The bad thing is that tourists are not a paradise, you see, they can all figure it out, and you are the only one standing here."

"Okay, then I was wrong, let's use the family ticket together." Wu Haoyu replied calmly, emphasizing the word "family ticket".

I felt very embarrassed, so I quickly changed the subject: "Why did you suddenly start learning how to drive?"

"My dad said this morning that he will come back next week, that is, he will come back completely. I will come out this afternoon and sign up for a class to learn how to drive. If he comes back to see that I have nothing to do at home all day after the exam, he may arrange something else for me. of."

"Your father is so strict with you? Isn't it a holiday now?"

"I don't know now. Anyway, last year in the summer vacation of the second year of high school, just before you came, it was less than a month in total, and you even remotely registered me for a full-time IELTS class. Fuck, I was really going to die during that summer vacation. Homework IELTS still has homework, it's better to just go to school..."

"Wait," I was startled, and suddenly panicked, "Why do you want to study IELTS? Are you going abroad?"

"Ah, the original plan was to go out before the college entrance examination, but my dad didn't come back after a long-term business trip, so he couldn't care about me anymore. He said that we should finish the college entrance examination first."

My mood, which was about to recover, suddenly became messed up again. I said a few words to him absent-mindedly, and hung up the phone in a hurry after setting the time to play.The possibility of Wu Haoyu going abroad is a situation I never imagined. It was too sudden. It didn’t mean that I would be fine if he went abroad, but what I subconsciously thought was, what would I do if he went abroad...

On the day I went to the water park, Wu Haoyu asked me to bring my student ID. Sure enough, we were stopped at the gate. The staff said that my situation with him did not comply with the regulations on the use of family tickets. I reasoned with him, saying that this is a family ticket. The denomination is larger than the denomination of two full-price adult tickets. I only have two adults and no children, so why am I not allowed to enter? He said that we are free tickets, so we can’t take advantage of this loophole. If you buy tickets at the ticket office, you will definitely lose They wouldn’t sell it to us, and they called their supervisor, who confiscated the family tickets without saying a word after knowing the situation, and asked us to buy tickets again, with a very bad attitude.

"It's fine to buy tickets. The reason for your park is justified. We cooperate, but what's the matter if you confiscated the unused free tickets from the tourists?" , "You have to be reasonable, return the ticket to me, we don't need it, and then go to the window over there to buy a cash ticket. It’s not a big deal, it’s another thing for you to forcibly take it away. The free ticket is a salary that is not cashed out by other people’s units. Does this mean that you have confiscated other people’s salary? If you don’t pay me back now, it’s okay, We called the police to come, and then we will cooperate to buy the tickets, and if you want to withhold the unused free tickets for no reason, things will be more troublesome, and you will have to pay them back sooner or later.”

"Hey! You kid, do you have a share in talking?"

Wu Haoyu was surprisingly calm, took out his mobile phone and started recording, stuffed it for me to hold it, and still said in a gentle voice: "I will reason with you in a nice voice, now you return the free ticket to me, let's go buy it now Admission tickets, such a simple thing, you insist on making it so complicated, will the free tickets fall into our hands, will it make your park suffer a lot or something? Don’t watch it, he is recording now, I am just talking about the facts, If you don't pay me back, I can describe this matter in a completely different way, pinch the head and tail and put it on the Internet for you. I am a tourist anyway, and I will slap my ass and leave and never come again. Your face is not The filming is clear and clear, turning back is more disadvantageous than us, right?"

"Hey," the supervisor looked around at the staff who came to help, and laughed, "This kid still wants to threaten me."

Wu Haoyu was not angry, he took out my mobile phone from my trouser pocket, pressed a few times and started talking. I don't know if they could see clearly from the opposite direction, but I did see clearly that he pressed 110 three times... …

We are at the ticket gate at the main entrance of the park, and the front, rear, left, and right sides are open to the open air. People passing through the ticket gates on the side have to look at this side. Although there are many people in the park, Wu Haoyu and I are not too Falling down the wind, I held up my phone and continued to take pictures, thinking that if I had been invited to the office by them just now, it would be hard to say whether I would still be able to lift the phone now.

"Forget it, forget it, there's no need to get entangled with kids like you, it's really unreasonable to do big things, stare at them, and you can't come in without buying a ticket!" The supervisor immediately softened, but he couldn't hold back his face The ticket was returned to us, but it was thrown to the ticket inspector casually, and he said something so harsh that it almost made people stare at us all the time.

Wu Haoyu took the ticket back from that person, told me to turn off the video, and said briskly: "Let's go, buy a ticket."

When I finally passed the ticket gate and I could no longer see the annoying staff, I whispered to Wu Haoyu: "I think you should become a lawyer in the future."

"Why?" He walked into the locker room with me, and asked while taking off his clothes.

"You are too organized and rational, so calm, aren't you angry?"

"I'm angry. I'm so angry that I'll fuck it. The idiot actually called me a child. I haven't been called that in years. I hate being called a child the most."

"Fuck, is it true or not? I don't think you are angry at all."

"Of course I can't show that I'm angry. If I want to be angry, I lose, and the ticket will not come back. By the way, where is the ticket we bought?" Wu Haoyu lowered his head and rummaged in his bag. He took it out of his pocket and handed it to him. After he took it, he also found a pen from his bag, and pressed the ticket against a wall to scribble on it. After a while, he handed it back to me, and he was still cursing: "Stupid idiot, isn't it forbidden to use family tickets? I prefer to use them."

I picked up the ticket and looked at it. The word "student" on it was randomly crossed out by Wu Haoyu, and the word "family" was added in bold on the top. The strokes were hard and heavy. I couldn't help laughing. Obviously not as disappointing as before, "Just now I thought you could be a lawyer, how can a lawyer be so naive."

"I'm a shitty lawyer, do you think I understand it? My logic doesn't make sense. Not only can I not be a lawyer, but I'll go to the Internet to give low scores and get bad reviews, and I won't come here again."

"Then why didn't you just leave?"

"I made such a fuss to come here, and he left me with a few words, so I couldn't bear it. In fact, I thought it was reasonable not to let the family ticket be used at the beginning. He just told me in a nice voice that I must not make trouble for no reason. , but his behavior of confiscating the ticket is really awesome, hey, he thought he was at school? He is more shameless than anyone else, who is afraid of whom."

"I didn't expect you to dare to call the police... Did you answer it?"

"Didn't answer, you dare to call the police if you get the share, kid."

"Hey!" I wanted to pinch his neck, but I let him slip away without grabbing his flesh. He turned around quickly, and I vaguely saw the scar on his waist that went into his trousers.

This day is a working day, and there should be much fewer people than on weekends. At least there is no long queue in front of each project.

The water park is not a formal swimming pool, and there are no strict requirements for dress code.Wu Haoyu and I didn't wear serious swimming trunks, we just put on beach shorts.

The sun is very poisonous, but the light is very good. For the first time, I can see the scar on his back clearly in such a bright place.

I have seen the scar many times, and I touched the part on his shoulder lightly. I can't imagine how hard I had to leave such a complete scar when I was a child with layers of clothes on. The wound must be very deep, otherwise how could the scar be so obvious.

I always keep my mouth shut intentionally or unintentionally about my childhood. I don’t have good memories with him, so I don’t know where to start.After so many years, it seems that even an apology is too late and useless. Every time I show a little bit of guilt, Wu Haoyu always deliberately emphasizes words such as "skin and flesh" and "blood and blood", making it impossible for me to answer.

It’s not the ancient world of martial arts, but Wu Haoyu is always injured. He fell and scratched his palm, and went downstairs to buy water and scratched his tiger’s mouth. It seems that both directly and indirectly have something to do with me. Even if it doesn’t matter, I want to let these injuries It has something to do with me, I know it's very neurotic and excessive to think like this, but I think those wounds are the traces I left on him.

Wu Haoyu was walking half a step away from me. He was studying which direction is the way to the devil's slide. He suddenly turned around and looked back at me, asking, "Why aren't you happy? I'm still worried about buying a ticket." thing?"

I avoided my gaze for a while, obviously he was the one who kept cursing just now, and now he is also the one playing with great energy, his mentality is really good.

"Oh——" Wu Haoyu exclaimed softly, "Should I wear a diving suit?"

I was seen through by him, so I simply touched his back with my hands, slid from the shoulders all the way down to the waist, and patted him lightly as a warning.

He ignored me, and said to himself that he would rent a swimming ring later.

Wu Haoyu especially likes the fully enclosed cylindrical slide that slides down after going through several spirals from a high place. He can’t see anything and doesn’t know when it will end. The feeling is very exciting. I also went to slide a short one, which is indeed The feeling he described is not stimulating but rather boring.

I actually want to go to the deep water area of ​​the wave pool to jump waves, but Wu Haoyu has always lingered only in the large slide area. I have played with him five times on the rainbow slide alone. Later, I simply found a project by the buffer pool Soak it up, and come to me after he has had enough fun.

I didn't stay with him for such a short while, and this man suffered a new injury.

Wu Haoyu walked towards me with his butt struggling to step on the water, with a mournful face, "There is a problem with the design of the green slide over there. Every time I finally enter the water, I have to slap my butt. It hurts me to death."

I pulled him over, looked at the position behind his waist, and asked, "Where? What's going on? How many times have you played?"

"three times."

"You're sick, you know it hurts and you still play! If it's broken, I'll see."

Wu Haoyu pulled his trousers down a little bit, it was actually at the place below his waist and above the tailbone, it was just red at the moment, and some blood spots gradually appeared under the skin, I have seen a lot of this type of bruises, until tonight It was bruised and purple, but fortunately the skin was not scratched, otherwise it would definitely be infected in this kind of public swimming pool.

I dragged him and said nothing to let him go to other exciting projects. I asked him to go rafting with me. He hesitated for a while. He heard that it was a slow-rotating parent-child pool with swimming rings. Only agreed.

I couldn't help but want to expose him: "Ayu, don't you know how to swim?"

"what?"

"Aren't we going to be able to go to the beach to swim in this life?"

"I can show you the bag on the beach."

The big swimming ring was gone, so I went to get a floating board for him to lie on his stomach, and pushed him along the current, "I don't want you to show me the bag, I want you to go diving with me."

"I can't even swim and you expect me to dive..."

"I'll teach you, swimming means don't be afraid, don't struggle, you will float up by yourself."

"And then? Diving is I'm afraid, I struggle, and I sink myself?"

"...You didn't sink, you just died."

"I think it's still safe on land, down-to-earth, down-to-earth, so down-to-earth, right?"

"Ah."

"Why aren't you very happy today? Didn't you say that you were going to come to the water park in high spirits at the beginning? Why didn't you see you play when you came?"

"No, I feel a little idiotic and don't want to ride those slides."

"Then let's wait and step on the waves."

"Ayu, did I treat you very badly when I was young?"

"It's definitely not good, but if you want to say how it's not good, I don't remember."

"Has anyone seen the scar on your back?"

"Yes, I take off half naked every year for the physical examination. Many people should have seen it."

"Did someone ask you?"

"No one asks. If I want to ask, I will say that a little bastard made it when I was a child."

"Then am I still a little bastard?"

Wu Haoyu slid off the floating board, stood in the water and looked back at me, but didn't answer.

"If we hadn't met again, would you think of that little bastard every time you saw that scar?"

"The scar is on my back. It's getting old. It's hard for me to see it."

I was speechless, not knowing what else to say casually.

"What are you worried about?" Wu Haoyu asked.

I said, "Ayu, come with me to Hong Kong."

I have a very selfish wish, and I want to say it to him at this inappropriate time: "Let's go to Hong Kong, Hong Kong also has very good universities and majors, you can choose what you like, or do you want to go to Macau more? The education systems in these two places are very similar, but they are different from the mainland anyway, if you want to go to a different university, you can go to Hong Kong or Macau, and you can go home during the holidays, which is very convenient.”

A child happily swam downstream from us, Wu Haoyu pulled me aside, "Okay, then I'll hurry up, the schools over there don't just fill in volunteers, do they? It seems that they all enroll students independently. Ah, it’s broken, should I still have to take their exams? I’ve almost thrown away all my books, do they recognize the college entrance examination results?”

Wu Haoyu agreed so easily, just like when my mother promised me this and that when I was a child, she said it casually, but she didn't take it to heart. I feel a little annoyed, I don't like him saying, "Be serious, I'm not It’s not just a whim, I’ve been thinking about it for a few days.”

"What are you worrying about all day long?" Wu Haoyu crossed the water to the other side, turned back and sat on the bank with his hands on the edge of the pool, dripping wet from his body, "Am I not serious? I am not Have you always behaved like this, are you so careless in everything you say?"

We stared at each other for a long while, neither of us spoke, as children kept swimming through the water between us, Wu Haoyu gritted his teeth for a while, then suddenly opened his mouth again, and said, "I have finished all the exams." It’s been so long, and I’m going to report my grades next week. Wait until now to say, there’s a lot of nonsense, friends have made appointments to go to college together, won’t you just say where you want me to study? ?”

Water dripped continuously down Wu Haoyu's trousers. When he stepped on the stagnant water on the road, the strain on his ankle and Achilles tendon was particularly obvious. Surprised and happy to ask: "Really? Is there me? Is there me?"

I feel incoherent and difficult to speak, but I want to double check: Will you consider me?On such a major issue in life, can I also be among the suggestions he is willing to receive?When he makes that decision for the next four years, will I be one of the factors?But when the words came to his lips, what he said was only: Is there me, is there me?

So it’s no wonder Wu Haoyu couldn’t understand, he said: “What about you, are you telling me the same thing? If you were later, I would have even received the admission letter.” After finishing speaking, he muttered bitterly again One sentence: "Little bastard."