timeless

Chapter 2 Unsleeping Flower (2)
Jiang Wei stood there waiting while holding the drawing board while holding the paint.Because school has just finished, except for the students in the third grade who need to attend the eighth class, the students in the remaining two grades have all come out, and the campus is very crowded.Jiang Wei stood in the corridor holding a soft paint bottle, and kept avoiding the passing students to make way for them.Seeing Zhao Mengfan come out for a long time, she couldn't help being a little anxious.

Just when she was about to go to find Zhao Mengfan, Jiang Wei suddenly found that the cap of the paint bottle was not tightened, so she tried to free one hand to twist the cap.At this moment, a large group of students who had just finished class suddenly crowded out of the classroom in front of her, pushing and shoving out, Jiang Wei had to retreat to the corridor to make way for them.

I don’t know who bumped into Jiang Wei’s elbow when she walked past her. Jiang Wei, who was struggling to hold a lot of things, lost his grip on one of them, and the whole bottle of unscrewed paint fell directly downstairs. go.

The consequences can be imagined.The paint bottle that was spinning in the air carried the spilled red paint, and all of it was splashed on the head of some unlucky ghost who happened to be standing downstairs.

The boy, who was standing downstairs in the teaching building and chatting happily with his friends, didn't realize what happened at first, only heard a girl's exclamation from above his head.When he raised his head subconsciously, he only saw a red unknown object smashing straight towards his face.Before the boy could even see what it was, he saw a girl's terrified face flashing past his eyes, and the unknown object had already hit his head.

The cold red liquid continued to flow into the collar along the top of the head, and dripped to the ground. The boy was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't realize that he had instantly turned into a red blood man: "Huh!"

Oops!This was the only thought in Jiang Wei's mind at that moment.

Such an unexpected situation made Jiang Wei a little at a loss.She dropped the other things in her hand and ran downstairs: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

From the hair to half of the face, to the shoulders and the top, the original appearance is almost invisible, all are stained with red paint, and some are even dripping on the ground.The poor paint bottle had stopped, lying pitifully a meter away from the boy's feet, leaving a long red mark.

"I, I was not careful..." Jiang Wei stood aside in embarrassment, so embarrassed that he died.

A lot of onlookers have gathered around, eagerly looking forward to the further development of the matter.

The bright red stains were still spreading rapidly on the boy's skirt at a speed invisible to the naked eye.Behind the boy came the gloating and mocking voices of other people: "Yu Xinye, look at your character! You can be splashed with paint even if you stand downstairs!" , Jiang Wei bit his lip and waited for his scolding.

But... the name Yu Xinye...

The boy sitting at the table behind her has only been in school for a few days and hasn't said a few words, but he seems to be quite popular, and his name seems to be Yu... Yu Xinye...

At this time, the boy had turned his head, broke away from the conversation with his friend, and looked at Jiang Wei with his left hand that was still dripping with paint: "What should I do?"

"You...you can go wash up first." Jiang Wei turned his face away, unable to bear to watch.It's not that the boy is pitiful, but that his image at this time is like a red humanoid tomato, and Jiang Wei is afraid that if he looks at it again, he won't be able to help but burst out laughing.

The boy seemed to raise his eyebrows, but the face that seemed to be covered in blood was so full of joy that he couldn't see his expression at all.He wiped off the paint that was about to flow to his eyes, and walked towards the sink.After taking two steps, he turned his head and shouted at his companion as if remembering something: "Hey, Xia Shuo, hurry up and ask the dorm student for a towel and clothes for me!"

It's just that the companion who was named replied "you deserve it" not to be outdone.Jiang Wei looked over subconsciously, and met the quiet and cold eyes of the person who answered the call.

Some of Yu Xinye's companions even whistled at Jiang Wei jokingly.

Jiang Wei stood awkwardly. Although the boy didn't mean to blame her at all, she still felt embarrassed in front of so many people.After thinking about it, she finally followed the boy who was already walking towards the sink.

It was only when Jiang Wei approached that he realized that the height difference between the two was so appalling. Standing behind the boy, Jiang Wei, who was 1.6 meters seven, was actually a little shorter than him.

When he was about to walk to the sink, the boy found Jiang Wei who had been silently following him, and seemed to be taken aback for a moment: "Why are you following me?"

"I'll wash it for you."

"What?" The boy seemed to have not heard her clearly, and showed a confused expression again.

Jiang Wei looked at him and shook hands unconsciously, but she couldn't help frowning because of the sticky paint in her hand: "I'll wash the clothes for you."

This time the boy heard clearly and showed a surprised expression: "Huh? Are you sure?"

"Just take it off later, and I'll wash it off for you." Jiang Wei paused for a few seconds, then raised his eyes to look at him.

The confrontation between the two lasted for 1 minute, and finally ended with the boy finally compromising after realizing Jiang Wei's stubbornness.He turned his face away with a smile, squatted down facing the sink, and turned on the faucet: "Okay, someone will do my laundry for me, I have no objection."

The red pigment emulsified by water flows into the pool along the water, which is as terrifying as blood.Luckily, it's pigment and not paint, so it washes off easily.Standing aside, Jiang Wei watched the boy's hair gradually reveal its original color, which was so deep that it seemed as if it would be stained by accident if you touched it.

It's just that relatively speaking, it's not so easy to wash his clothes.

At this time, Yu Xinye's companion also found towels.One of them came over with a towel and clothes, and when passing by Jiang Wei, he and Jiang Wei exchanged a short glance, then continued to walk forward, and stopped beside Yu Xinye: "Hey, waste wood, towel. "

"I'm useless, your sister!" The boy who was dripping with water took the towel, wiped it twice indiscriminately, and then wiped his face.When he finally raised his head, Jiang Wei saw his face clearly.

The first thing that surprised Jiang Wei was the pair of big black and white eyes, the vigorous vigor seemed to be able to jump out of the flying spirit, and the first impression given by the facial features was heroism.Coupled with a tall and slender figure, standing among those crooked boys, it is impossible not to impress people.

Yu Xinye changed his shirt, smiled and handed the dirty clothes to Jiang Wei: "Then I will trouble you." Suddenly, as if remembering something, he showed a surprised expression, "Wait a minute, you are not from our class. Are you the one sitting in front of me?"

"Yes." The reaction was really slow.

Yu Xinye smiled at her: "Oh, your name is...Jiang Wei, right?"

"Hmm." He took the clothes he handed over, the light and thin fabrics, most of the traces of paint on them had dried out, leaving only the water splashes from the washing just now.

It wasn't until his companions in the distance urged him impatiently and shouted something at him from a distance, that the boy turned his head and said, "I'll take a step first." After speaking, he turned back to look at Jiang Wei, "Bye bye The clothes will trouble you, Jiang Wei."

"Well...it's okay."

The boy waved to her with a smile, and ran back to the small group of boys, and there were a few mocking words from inside, "Yu Xinye has put in a new one so soon", "You can get a girl to help you wash your clothes with just a splash of paint, You are amazing, you", then walked away laughing and laughing.

And Jiang Wei didn't seem to hear it, turned around after a few seconds, and walked towards the school gate with Yu Xinye's clothes in his arms.

Even though he knew that he would be complained by Zhao Mengfan soon, Jiang Wei went home holding Yu Xinye's clothes without saying a word.

There was no one at home, so Jiang Wei carried his clothes into the toilet, turned on the faucet to soak the clothes, and poured washing powder on them, but no matter how much he rubbed, he couldn't wash off the stubborn stain.

Rubbing the place where the stain was, Jiang Wei couldn't help frowning.If Zhao Mengfan didn't hang around for so long and didn't come out, how could there be so many things?

After going through the water five times, the clothes were washed clean.After confirming that there were no more marks left on the clothes, Jiang Wei wrung out the clothes.She watched the paint washed away by the water flow down the floor of the toilet into the leak, and suddenly felt very distressed for this large bottle of paint wasted in vain.At this moment, she seemed to be the endless darkness in the corridor, longing for someone to replace the broken light bulb to illuminate herself soon.

Sure enough, in the evening, I received a questioning call from Zhao Mengfan. The voice on the other end of the phone complained, "Why don't you say anything? I've been looking for you for a long time. I heard that you spilled the paint. Or did someone clean it up for you?"

Jiang Wei hesitated for a moment, and a pair of black and white eyes flashed in his mind.

"Oh... I accidentally spilled the paint on someone else, so I had to go home and help him wash his clothes."

"Who is it?" The girl's keen gossip nerves were immediately involved by the key words in the words.

"Unfamiliar... from our class." A little disgusted with her sensitivity.

"Oh." The subject on the other end of the phone changed, as if he didn't intend to get to the bottom of it, "Next time, don't leave alone."

"Well, good." His eyes couldn't help but glance at the light-colored boy's clothes hanging on the balcony.

"You're in high school, why don't I buy you a motorcycle?" Jiang Wei's mother suddenly asked Jiang Wei just a few days after school started.She was washing vegetables at the time, and her hands were full of leaves, "The road is so far away, it's easier to buy a car."

"Motorcycle... huh?" Jiang Wei's heart was involuntarily lifted.She remembered the scene she had seen of a boy riding Zhao Mengfan home on a motorcycle. At that time, Zhao Mengfan was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle with a proud look on his face.Although Jiang Wei knew it wasn't because of the motorcycle, she still couldn't help being a little envious of Zhao Mengfan like that.But thinking of the lawsuit, Jiang Wei's heart sank again, "Let's forget it."

"Huh? Don't you want it?" Jiang Wei's mother looked very surprised, and couldn't help frowning, as if she couldn't figure it out, "Why don't you?"

"I don't want it." Saying duplicity, I feel somewhat uncomfortable, unspeakably weird and awkward.

"This kid is really weird." Jiang Wei's mother lowered her head again to choose vegetables.This topic doesn't stop here.

But the girl sitting on the sofa watching TV couldn't help but go to see her mother.Her scanty hair was tied behind her head with a rubber band, and although it wasn't dry, it still hung limply against her shoulders.The skin is not as well maintained as ordinary middle-aged women, and there are light spots on the face, and the dry lips are also peeled.When she was squatting on the ground to pick vegetables, a part of her trouser legs was rolled up, revealing her thin heels, and the dry and cracked skin on her feet was covered with a layer of fish-like white dander.

Jiang Wei suddenly felt a little inexplicably panicked and helpless.There is almost no difference between her mother and those aunts in the market.

She thought of Zhao Mengfan's mother, whom she had just met at Zhao Mengfan's house a few days ago.She is much younger than her mother, her hair is dyed a youthful color, and her skin is well maintained, at least that's how she looks, and her clothes can't take off the mature fashion, so she looks quite young no matter what.She is completely unlike Jiang Wei's mother who has a daughter of the same age.

At this moment, a sense of sorrow filled the girl's heels.

The gap between Jiang Wei and Zhao Mengfan is not limited to personality and family background.

In life, there will be many times when sentences like "if only..." and "if only..." come to mind.Knowing that it is impossible, but always looking forward to this tiny, self-deceiving dawn with a fluke mentality.

When Jiang Wei was 15 years old, she had just entered her first year of high school, and her single-parent family had problems, and it was very likely that she would have to pay a large sum of compensation.But in this year, she suddenly recited this sentence in her heart:

"If... I mean if, someone can pick me up like Zhao Mengfan to class."

"It would be great if... I had the same starting point as Zhao Mengfan."

The next evening, when Jiang Wei was studying by himself in the evening, Jiang Wei packed his schoolbag, and suddenly heard two girls in the same class talking about "there are a lot of people robbing at night recently", "someone has been robbed in the middle school next door", and finally said " We must go home together at night" ending.After she packed her schoolbag, she went to see Zhao Mengfan, but the other party waved at her: "My dad will pick me up tonight, and I won't go with you."

What, why didn't you say it earlier!
Although he complained about Zhao Mengfan's self-assertion in his heart, Jiang Wei had no choice but to accept the fact that he walked home alone at night.She looked around, but there was no one who could go with her.After more than 20 days of school, she is not even familiar with the front, back, left, and right tables, let alone someone to go home with.Jiang Wei was not Zhao Mengfan, so he couldn't easily get acquainted with a group of strangers quickly.

She didn't bring any money, so she couldn't go home by car.

A person was walking on a remote street with a schoolbag on his back. There were hardly any pedestrians, and few students walked this way.It was dark all around, Jiang Wei thought of the conversation between the two girls he had heard in the classroom before, shivered, and involuntarily quickened his pace.

The footsteps are getting faster and faster, more and more anxious, just like the mood of the owner of the feet at this time.But he just came to whatever he wanted, and when Jiang Wei was about to walk halfway through this remote street, he suddenly saw three figures appearing not far in front of him.

It was a boy who seemed to be about the same age as himself and two men holding fruit knives.

The images that often appeared in the rule of law news involuntarily appeared in my mind, the girl almost stopped quickly, and hid in the dark hiding place next to her in a conditioned reflex.

Looking at it from a distance, I didn't even dare to breathe hard.

Hiding in the dark and watching two gangsters with knives groping on the boy, Jiang Wei suppressed his panic and couldn't help hesitating: "Should I call the police or run away?" But because of the girl's timidity, it may be the first It was the first time she encountered such a thrilling scene, her feet seemed to have taken root on the ground, and she couldn't even move.

Just as the gangsters took out the last bit of valuables from the boy and were about to leave, the boy who had been silent and obedient suddenly stepped forward: "Wait a minute."

Jiang Wei, who was hiding in a corner 20 meters away, felt his heart jump out of his throat because of his words.

The two gangsters looked back at him vigilantly, as if they wanted to see what kind of tricks this fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy was trying to play.Jiang Wei, who was hiding in the distance, couldn't see the boy's expression, but heard his voice from a distance: "Can you return the phone card to me?"

The girl froze for a moment, and the two gangsters didn't seem to react.

Risking his life, he dared to say "give me back the phone card" to the gangster!
One of the gangsters obviously hesitated for a while, but he did it anyway: "Okay." He took out the card and threw it to the boy from a short distance away.The boy caught the small phone card and did not make any further dangerous moves, and the two gangsters quickly disappeared into the night.

Just when the boy was about to leave, he turned around, and suddenly saw the girl hiding in the corner not far away, and was taken aback for a moment: "You?" After reacting, he walked straight towards Jiang Wei.

Dark streets and dim street lights, a man who survived the disaster and another who witnessed what happened.

Meet here.

I felt the boy getting closer and closer to me, and finally stopped in front of me.

Jiang Wei raised his head, and met the puzzled eyes of the boy in front of him with a shocked expression.

A handsome boy's face.

And a pair of calm and cold eyes.

He looked at himself steadily.

The girl who was still in a state of shock looked at him blankly, as if she heard her own heartbeat like a drumbeat, the heartbeat that covered her heart instantly in this silent night.

"It's you?"

(End of this chapter)