Rust II

This scolding sounded like a thunderbolt that exploded in the entire corridor.

Seeing the other party's crazy words and deeds, Chen Jianliang couldn't help being angry, but still caring about the identities of the two parties, he continued to persuade patiently: "Mother Zhou Tao, we have something to discuss when we go back to the office. Here It's a teaching building, and the students are taking exams, so don't disturb them." He glanced at Zhou Tao's father, who stood silently on the side from the beginning to the end, and asked, "What do you think?"

Zhou Tao's father was not as aggressive as Zhou's mother, even after Chen Jianliang glanced at him, he looked away a little bit dodgingly.

Zhou's mother was still furious, and after a sneer, she suddenly threw out an old diary from her bag, and asked, "Why do you want to go to the office, am I going to say no here?!" He raised his voice a little higher, and continued cursing at a volume that could almost be heard in the entire building: "You guys dare to use such a person, why, now that something happened, you dare not admit it?! I have Let me tell you the evidence! This bastard deliberately seduced my son..." Zhou's mother said here, her voice suddenly became a little crying, "We, our Taotao are almost healed, why did he come to provoke him! Isn't this perverted? I told you that this matter is endless, the more you are afraid of bad influence, the more I will make trouble known to everyone!"

Chen Jianliang saw that the other party had completely lost his mind, and knew that today's incident might not be good. It was because the other party was fashionable and calm in his office before, but when he arrived at the teaching building where teachers and students gathered, he became hoarse. Obviously he didn't want to solve it properly. problem attitude.The opponent's intensified posture also made the scene very chaotic and embarrassing for a while, and no matter how Jiang and Chen tried to dissuade and appease, it was of no avail. In desperation, Chen Jianliang could only call the police. The diary he threw out, snorted coldly, and left in disgrace.

The other party came suddenly and left suddenly.Chen Jianliang couldn't even figure out why Zhou's parents were caught off guard for such a move. He thought that the other party wanted to take the opportunity to demand compensation from the school, but in fact, Zhou's mother didn't mention anything except insulting Lin An from the beginning to the end. When I asked the police to assist in the investigation, the other party immediately died down, turned around and left without even saying a word of cruelty.

Facing this temporary "farce" with heavy thunder and little rain, Chen Jianliang asked the teachers who had heard the sound to return to the classroom with a rather hesitant expression, and then turned around to see that there was nothing wrong with it from the beginning to the end. Lin An, who spoke for a while, moved his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but after a little hesitation, he took it back and said, "Mr. Lin, you should go back to the classroom and continue invigilating the exam."

Lin An stared at the direction of the stairs for a while, then nodded with a pale face, and walked back to the other end of the corridor without saying a word.

The moment the classroom door was closed behind him, Lin An clearly felt the gazes of dozens of people, including another invigilator, all shooting at him.He glanced around in a hurry, and successfully received all kinds of sights mixed with curiosity, exploration, and inconceivability. These sights made him feel like a thorn in his back, and at the same time, they were like powerful hidden arrows one after another, throwing people away. He hit it mercilessly and pierced it again, so within two seconds, the person and his hands and feet became cold and stiff.

The recording of English listening was played on the radio, diverting most of his attention from him, but Lin An stood on the podium, but felt that the volume of the radio was not as loud as his mother's angry scolding in the corridor just now.An unprecedented feeling of heart palpitations spread along the blood to his limbs, and he had an ominous premonition that the "accident" in the afternoon would not end here, what's more, maybe it was just a beating before a good show started and spying.

And sure enough, Lin An's premonition and Chen Jianliang's confusion were both confirmed and answered that night.

At a quarter past eight in the evening, Lin An came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, and sat down at the desk in the bedroom as usual to prepare for lessons. However, tonight's preparation process was more difficult than ever before. .The scene in the corridor of the teaching building in the afternoon kept circling in my mind and couldn't get rid of it, and Zhou Tao's mother's hysterical scolding was like a curse, which made people feel restless when they recalled it for a while. And full of horror.

Feng Ping's call came in at this moment.

There was a trace of trembling and fear in the other party's voice, which was not much different from the morning when Zhou Tao had an accident.

She tremblingly asked on the phone: "Ms. Lin... You, have you seen the school's forum?"

Lin An noticed the strangeness of the other party, and the confusion and uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense, but he still tried his best to maintain his composure, and asked softly, "No. What's wrong?"

Feng Ping suddenly stopped talking, and after a while, she hesitated and continued, "...you should go and have a look... suddenly there are many...posts about you in the forum. You, you better hurry up Contact the administrator at one o'clock, I just called Director Chen, but he didn't answer..."

Feng Ping's voice became lower and lower, and when she said it, she fell silent as if she couldn't speak.

Lin An immediately got up and went to the other side of the desk to turn on the computer. Before he could respond, the other side had hung up the call.

He frowned and looked at the phone, put it aside, and then turned back to focus on the machine that was starting up.

During the tens of seconds waiting for the machine to turn on, Lin An's heartbeat became faster and faster, and various signs and instructions on the screen kept changing, like a bomb waiting to be detonated.He watched without blinking, bent slightly with the mouse in his hand, and didn't even bother to drag a stool from the side to sit down—until a burst of familiar startup music finally jumped to the desktop with the azure blue background. out.

Lin An's hand propped on the edge of the table moved imperceptibly, closed his eyes subconsciously, opened them again after a while, and then immediately opened the browser and entered the forum address in X.

The moment the page was refreshed, Lin An's blood froze like ice.

I saw that under the pinned post about the school rules, school motto and some important notices in the forum, a post titled "X University's 94th Outstanding Graduate Lin An's Hooliganism" was hanging high at the top of the popular list.

The content of the post is narrated in the tone of a whistleblower, describing in detail the whole process of the head of the study department of X University who made a sensation 12 years ago intending to moles his fellow students, and finally attached a file photo with a photo of his ID.

The person in the photo in the upper left corner of the file has a handsome appearance, and his smiling face still has a shyness that teenagers are used to. In terms of facial features and outline, there is almost no difference from him now. The only difference is probably his body when he was young. The kind of immature and green.

Lin Anding looked at the face on the screen, vaguely, as if regressing back to that period of dark and suffocating years in an instant.

The replies below are increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Among the various replies, there are even some students from other schools who were reposted and attracted here. They discussed enthusiastically, marveled in disbelief, and even appeared later Several paragraphs of analysis intentionally or unintentionally connected this unconfirmed gossip with the incident that Zhou's mother made a big noise in the classroom building that happened in the corridor during the X Middle English exam in the afternoon.For a while, the popularity of the post was pushed to a new climax.At the end of the development, even gossip and rumors that had been circulated in various grades before were revealed inadvertently.

——Hey, do you know?I heard that Mr. Lin came in because of his connections. The high school he was in was just a small run-down school in the county town, which couldn't be compared with X Middle School.

——The news above is too old, so let me tell you something new.It is said that Lin, who was surnamed Lin, had a habit of flirting with students when he was in No. 7 Middle School of the county. He often touched the boys in his class (attention, they were boys!), I don’t know if it’s true or not, is there any in the back row? Comrades from class [-] come out to speak out?

——Class 7 may not dare to stand out, haha, they are usually the most proud of their Lin class... I have an elementary school classmate in Class 7 who keeps nagging at my ears all day long, saying that their head teacher has How gentle is good, but this afternoon when the mother of XX (responding to the call of the school leader, respecting the dead, and coding) came to the school to make a fuss, the whole person was frightened and stupid, and she accused me of spreading rumors on the way... Sigh.

——Guys, would you like to return to the topic of this post?Didn't TZ upstairs question whether this file picture is fake?I just brought my dad to see it, and he said that their school files at that time really looked like this, and my dad also graduated from X University, and said that the words on the file were familiar, as if they were someone who taught him back then The old professor's... so... I don't need to say more...

Replies continue to grow.

Lin An stared at the screen motionlessly, watched mechanically, and refreshed until his legs and feet became numb, and the expression on his face changed from the initial shock and fear to complete silence.

——Hehe, it’s really amazing, are you so awesome in X?This kind of criminals dare to recruit in... X University is also, this kind of scum is actually issued a graduation certificate, it is normal to be expelled directly.Fortunately, I still think that next year I will swear to the death to enter the exam to show my skills, and now I can't help but feel a little confused...

The scroll bar finally reached the bottom after turning over a page. Lin An finished reading the last reply in front of him word by word, and unconsciously continued clicking with his index finger on the left mouse button. The abnormal post suddenly became blank, and then, a prompt box popped up with a warning sound: This post has been deleted.

He fixedly watched the page automatically jump back to the homepage of the forum after a few seconds, but he still kept pressing the refresh button in the upper right corner uncontrollably, as if only in this way could he successfully hide his full battery. Sweaty palms, and trembling palms.

A warning post soon appeared on the top of the forum, announcing dozens of ID accounts, including the previous post owner, who had just registered in the afternoon or tonight, and did not fill in the grade and class when registering and other personal information.The announcement showed that it was these new accounts that came out of nowhere and published a large number of false statements that damaged the image of X Middle School, leading to misleading some teachers and students of X Middle School.At the same time, the announcement also solemnly stated on behalf of the school that if anyone follows the trend in the post of "smearing and spreading rumors" by teachers or leaders of the school instead of reporting immediately, once they are identified as students or employees of the school, they will be severely punished.

So a menacing turmoil was finally forcibly suppressed by the school after nearly an hour and a half.

The homepage of the forum suddenly became bright and bright again, as if the rapidly built tall building just now was just an illusion, and it turned into a mirage in a blink of an eye, disappearing in smoke.

However, Lin An knew that it was not just an illusion, and people's curiosity and speculation would not dissipate and stop just because of a few reprimands from the administrator.Rumors are not posts, which can be removed with one click and act as if nothing happened. Instead, they are weeds and wildfires.Once it absorbs nutrients and air, it will grow and burn crazily in everyone's heart, and it will be difficult to wither and extinguish.

Lin Jingjing stared at the bright promotional photo in X on the screen, and after a long while, he turned off the computer stiffly, and was about to straighten up and return to the seat in front of the lesson plan, but as soon as his legs moved, he almost staggered and fell. fell to the ground.He hurriedly supported the corner of the table beside him, and in a trance, another voice suddenly sounded in his head.

The voice was soft and quiet, as if someone was whispering in his ear.

Lin An shook his dizzy head, waited for the numbness in his legs to pass, and walked towards the desk on the other side calmly, then picked up the pen and paper for lesson preparation again pretending to be innocent .But when 10 minutes and 10 minutes passed, the pen stuck on the lesson plan still couldn't write even a complete word, and the hand holding the pen was trembling slightly inadvertently.

Yes, he was afraid.

The hopelessness and unbearableness of 12 years ago seemed to entangle him again at this moment, like a ruthless iron chain, tightly binding and choking his limbs and throat, unable to break free, and unable to break free. Can't escape.

He seemed to suddenly understand the real meaning behind Xu Xin asking himself that question when he opened the park that night.

How can you not be afraid?

When the building is about to collapse, when the rumors are wanton, when the public is the target, and the public is watching.

He has always been afraid, but the dream he is in is so beautiful that people temporarily lose the ability to distinguish the cruelty of reality.

Uncontrollably, he picked up the mobile phone on one side, and eagerly found the familiar number, but when he dialed it, he stopped awkwardly, worrying that the expectation and hope that filled his heart would be the same as that of the previous few days. Same, all in vain, no response.

Lin An stared blankly at the address book in front of him. The string of numbers that had brought him countless hopes, joys, and anxieties in the past two and a half months hadn't lit up again for nearly a week.Whether it was a phone call or a text message, there was never a single word, as if the sentence "wait for me tonight" when we parted on the night of the celebration banquet was just an illusion of him alone.

He didn't ask, and he didn't dare to ask, not to mention the days after Zhou Tao's accident, he ran around with his head burnt out for several days, and he was neither in the mood nor the energy to ask.Even subconsciously, he felt a little lucky that he was so tired that he had no time to spare more time and energy to feel entangled and painful about the relationship between the two of them.

So even after 12 o'clock on Sunday night, when he suddenly remembered that Xu Xin did not show up as scheduled and called to inquire, but was told that the other party had turned off the phone, the loss in his heart was not as violent as expected.

But tonight is different.

Lin An's gaze was fixed on the other party's name in the address book for a long time, and finally he couldn't resist the extravagant thought in his heart, and dialed the number.

A few seconds later, a cold female prompt came from the receiver as usual.He raised his arm slightly, and quietly listened to the entire mechanical shutdown prompt, and then called the second one.Tens of seconds later, the third one, and tens of seconds later, the fourth and fifth...

Just like this one after another, they called aimlessly and meaninglessly, until the reminder recording that had been repeated countless times was exhausted due to battery exhaustion, and could no longer be repeated.

The sun rose as usual the next day.

Lin An almost stayed up all night, and the tiredness on his face was fully revealed in front of everyone when he stepped into the door of Class 7 classroom.

All the discussions in the class stopped in an instant, and the students picked up their textbooks one after another, pretending to read the required texts seriously, as if nothing had happened, but those ones secretly looked at him from time to time, But it still revealed the surprise and doubt in everyone's heart.

Most people saw the contents of the BBS in X last night. Even if they didn’t see it, it was popularized all over the place early this morning. Lin An, who was standing on the top, was related to the person who was full of bad deeds in the gossip post last night, but at the same time, he really couldn't hold back the growing curiosity and doubts in his heart, so in the next day, all or watching The students who saw or came into contact with him couldn't help playing up the residual heat of the deleted post last night.

It wasn't until after school that day that another "tall building" that was maliciously built appeared on the X Central forum.

This time, the poster did not encourage the masses to cooperate with him, but simply posted a video of Boai Road on the first floor, as well as a few photos secretly taken in Cuifangyuan recently. The title is also extremely simple two words: etc. delete.It seems to be expressing ridicule and dissatisfaction with the administrator's "disgusting" move to vacate the building last night, and the content is even less written.However, its power and the degree of shock it brings to people are strangely higher than the previous night's file post.

The video lasts only 30 seconds. There are two men in the picture. One is Lin An, who is known to everyone in X, while the other is casually wearing a vest and sweatshirt, standing sideways to the sun and the camera. Tall and strong, with a toothpick in his mouth, people can feel a sense of fear just by looking at it.I saw the two people in the video saying a few words on the side of the road, because the voice was too low, coupled with the slight shaking and noise of the camera at this time, so no one could hear what the two sides were saying clearly, but a few seconds Then, the man in the vest suddenly moved. He raised his arm and punched the young man on the opposite side, and at the same time cursed loudly: "Fuck you, gay pervert! I warn you , stay away from my sister, and if my mother bumps into me, believe it or not, I will send you to the palace of hell!"

The voice of this sentence was exceptionally high-pitched and resonant, which instantly attracted everyone's attention, and because it was full of contempt and anger brewing, it made people preconceived all the same subjective emotions when they first heard it.

The picture came to an abrupt end here, and with the violent shaking of the camera, it was frozen on the hexagonal tiles under his feet.

And directly below the video are several clear photos taken from different angles and at different times. The photos are also of two people, but this time, anyone who looks at the two protagonists in these photos can probably guess that The relationship between the two is profound.Because no matter when and where Lin An in the picture looks at another person, his expressions and eyes are always full of indescribable shyness and ambiguity, and the unconcealable joy and affection are also present in every one of his expressions. Actions, and every smile, have been fully reflected.

In the first few photos, they went to the supermarket and vegetable market near the community together in the sunset, and in the last few photos, they held hands, hugged and even kissed uncontrollably in the last few photos when the night was dim.

However, each of these scenes, which Lin An treasured in his memory as a treasure, suddenly turned into a ferocious beast on the chaotic night of Wednesday, clamoring to swallow him whole.

Replies in the building inevitably rose again, even though the warning post just released by the school last night was still hanging on the top area, it couldn't stop people's excitement from being provoked again.

Who is in the photo?

Is it Teacher Lin?

I go, is he really gay?

Who is that other person?His...friend?But why can't I ever get a frontal photo?

Questions came one after another, like huge waves in a strong wind, cold, ruthless, biting, with the power to easily swallow people at any time.

The host did not respond, and the replyers seemed to have long ignored the real answer. They asked and guessed the answer by themselves, until the administrator appeared and blocked and deleted the entire building again.

However, the development of the situation this time was far from as smooth as on Tuesday, and the poster was no longer as "weak" as he was the night before. After being beaten by the school for a while, he obediently shut his mouth and did not make any more trouble.They sprung up like mushrooms after rain. After being stimulated, they burst out of the ground even more frantically. Wave after wave, they soon filled the entire forum in X.

However, after trying a series of measures such as warnings, account bans, and IP bans, but still unable to stop this chaotic scene, X had no choice but to temporarily close the forum.But it still had no effect, because in less than 5 minutes, the perpetrator quickly shifted the battlefield to outside post bars, various social platforms, and even the largest city forum in C City.And in these territories that do not belong to the jurisdiction of X, all speech becomes more free and uncontrolled.

For a while, the school name in X and "Lin, a teacher with a bad record of homosexuality" were firmly bound in the public's sight, and more unsightly attacks and rumors grew in this unrestrainable soil.As a result, what was originally an unremarkable personal incident quickly rose to the level of the education atmosphere in the entire X, and even the "dark politics" of the campus in just a few hours.

It was only seven or eight days since the accident where the student fell to his death. X Zhongben intended to avoid suspicion in all aspects, but he didn't expect such a incident to happen halfway, which made the whole school unavoidable We are on the cusp.

Ge Jing was furious, and immediately notified the teachers of the leadership of each school to return to the school for a meeting. Chen Jianliang, as the direct manager of the second year of high school, appeared in the meeting room without a doubt.

"Director Chen, Mr. Lin, tell me how to deal with this matter."

"X Middle School has long banned the relationship between faculty and students' parents! Now people are blaming this point on X Middle School, what explanation and rebuttal are you going to give!"

"Also, homosexual?" Ge Jing paused suddenly when he said this, and then snorted coldly with an angry smile, "Homosexual... oh, what a gay... If he can hide this well 'Bad habits' are not known to people, and no one can control them, but it happens that they are entangled with the students in the class and people get caught, and the public doesn't know how to restrain themselves, they are caught and photographed, and the publicity is broken. If he said that he has no morality, can he be regarded as wronged?!" After speaking, he picked up the mobile phone on the table and threw it in front of Chen Jianliang, and shouted: "Look for yourself, just in the past few 10 minutes , How many phone calls and text messages have this number received from parents of Class 7 and Class 10?!"

Chen Jianliang listened silently without saying a word.He didn't expect that when Xu Xinzhi asked to help a friend arrange someone to come in, he would arrange so many accidents now.He and Ge Jing have never dealt with each other. At the beginning of this year, she was ridiculed and ridiculed everywhere because of arranging a transfer, so he endured it. Who told him that he had a lot of friendship with the Xu family, especially Xu Guang, When he was young, he helped him a lot. Although he is no longer in City C, since his relatives and younger brothers came to speak in person, he naturally had no reason to refuse.So now that something happened to Lin An, Ge Jing angrily reprimanded him in a fit of frustration, so he had no choice but to continue to bear it, without letting out a fart.

At the end of the meeting, Ge Jing gave two instructions that must be implemented immediately, one is to deal with the matter, and the other is to deal with the person.

It's not Chen Jianliang's turn to worry about handling things, it's nothing more than maintaining the school's official forum, and doing some rumors and statements to appease.But this handler, Chen Jianliang had to admit, made him feel a little bit embarrassed.

So he called Xu Xin immediately after the meeting, but he couldn't get through. Then he thought about it and sent another text message, but he didn't get a reply until the next morning.In desperation, Chen Jianliang could only call Lin Anye early in the morning and convey Ge Jing's intention in a tactful manner.

"Director Chen."

The moment the phone was connected, Lin An's hoarse voice came clearly from the other side.

When Chen Jianliang heard it, he was taken aback by the hoarseness in the voice, guessing that the other party must have not had a good rest all night, he couldn't help being a little embarrassing and embarrassing.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xu Shi asked again, "...excuse me...what's the matter?"

Chen Jianliang collected himself, coughed and said tactfully, "That's right, last night...the school forum was closed due to malicious attacks last night, Mr. Lin, do you know?"

The other party was silent for a while, and after a while, he responded hoarsely: "...I know."

Chen Jianliang breathed a sigh of relief, tried to relax his tone, and seemed not so cold, "Well, that's it, Principal Ge held an emergency meeting last night, saying that it was the reaction from the parents below... It's not very good, I'm afraid there will be another meeting today If something goes wrong, like what happened to Zhou Tao's mother two days ago, it's not good for the school's reputation, right? So... what she means is that she wants to ask Mr. Lin not to come here for a few days It's school, rest at home for a few days, after the limelight passes, let's... watch and discuss."

The other side was silent for a while, and after a few seconds, they responded in a low voice: "...OK."

Seeing that the other party agreed so straightforwardly, Chen Jianliang felt inexplicably embarrassed for a while, and then thought of the videos and photos he saw in the jar yesterday, paused, and couldn't help but suggestively said: "Mr. Lin... …Let’s say something in private, this matter is a bit involved, and I may not be able to do much later.” After talking, he paused and continued: “But Mr. The method, your relationship, cough, needless to say, it is very firm, you can find him more and see... if there is any turning point."

The other side didn't speak.

Chen Jianliang waited, and felt that he had spoken enough, so he said politely, "Okay, then you can rest more these days, and you don't have to worry about the situation of Class 7. I will ask the experienced class leader for temporary help. Watch."

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

It's not yet bright, and it's still a little gray.

Lin An was carrying a plastic bag with two steamed buns in it.He stood at the intersection of Bo'ai Road, looked at Huaide Road, which crossed it, and the magnificent gate in X beside Huaide Road. After a long time, he silently put down the mobile phone in his hand, turned around and turned back in the direction of Cuifangyuan.

It was still early, even in the vicinity of the school, there were not many vehicles passing by, and occasionally one or two vehicles drove by, and their headlights were still on.

Lin An walked along this road unusually slowly, his mind, which had been in a mess all night, was now empty, just like this quiet road.

I don't know how long he walked like this, maybe a long time, maybe only a few minutes, and he finally sat down by the flower bed at the gate of the community.

The steamed stuffed bun in his hand had been half-cooled by the wind from the scorching heat when he just came out of the cage. He opened the bag and took one to his mouth. .

A stray dog ​​came cautiously from the opposite side of the neighborhood smelling the smell, circled around him vigilantly a few times, saw that he didn't respond, suddenly rushed up, picked up the leftover vegetable bag he had eaten, and ran to the other side, slamming it a few times. The vegetable bun was swallowed, but he didn't leave after eating. Instead, he looked at him tentatively, and rushed over after a few seconds, taking the other one away.

Lin An stared blankly at the figure of the dog limping and running away, a faint smile suddenly appeared on his pale face.He looked in that direction for a long time, until his eyes began to feel sore and swollen, then he picked up the packing bag that was about to float away and stood up again.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he turned around, he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure leaning against a private car, standing not far behind him with a half-smile.

The other party thought he had been looking here for a long time, but seeing that he finally turned around at this moment, he stretched out his hand to support the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, hooked the corner of his mouth at him inexplicably, and greeted him: "Hey, senior brother, good morning!" , such a coincidence."

Lin An looked at the other party motionlessly, and tightened his hand holding the plastic bag. After a few seconds, his whole body trembled violently.

Seeing this, Ma Yifu raised one eyebrow a little, looked at the person in front of him calmly, then sneered as if he saw something novel, and then said: "Why, ten Haven't seen each other for many years, Senior Brother Lin has been reduced to the point of grabbing food from the wild dogs on the roadside?" He lowered his face, smiled and shook his head: "Tsk, pitiful, really pitiful."