The Midnight Owl

Chapter 56

Xu Wang waited at the corner of the corridor for a few minutes, deliberately waiting until the class bell rang and the teacher walked in to the podium, then he stepped on the same frequency and slipped in through the back door of the classroom.

The teacher ignored him.

Unfortunately, there are still 80.00% of the students who are suddenly blessed with him at this moment, looking back in unison.

There was no malice in those eyes.

Those who are close on weekdays are caring, worried, and those who are far away on weekdays are sympathetic or simply curious.

Mom died.

It's bigger than the sky falling.

Fortunately, Xu Wang thought, they didn't know that he was driven back after only staying at his father's house for less than a week.Otherwise, the life committee member can make a donation box before school is over today to collect love for him.

Ignoring all eyes, he quickly sat in his seat, put his schoolbag, took a book, and looked at the blackboard.His expression was natural and his body relaxed, as if it was an ordinary afternoon. He went back to the dormitory to take a nap as usual, arrived at the first class as usual, and slipped back to his seat through the back door as usual.

The agility that is familiar with the road, the dullness that is used to it.

The teacher knocked on the blackboard, or the students who turned their heads or looked sideways, all withdrew their attention.

In those eyes that withdrew, the distress and sympathy faded away, and there were more doubts, bewilderment, disapproval, or hesitating to speak, but in the end, it all returned to the blackboard.

Xu Wang was very satisfied.

Kindness that is too warm will make people vulnerable, a little indifference is just right.

"Page 86..." The English teacher led everyone to the key points of today's review.

Xu Wang lowered his head and flipped through the book, taking the opportunity to blink hard.

Shengsheng suppressed the soreness mixed with the hot air.

Someone next to him was looking at him. Xu Wang couldn't be more sensitive to this gaze. If he was looked at like this on weekdays, he would be happy to make up an argumentative essay "My monitor seems to like me too".

He really didn't have such a brilliant literary talent today, he could only look at it honestly, cheekily, and asked Wu Sheng silently: "Did you miss me?"

Maybe it's because he smiled too brightly, Wu Sheng's eyes are not very beautiful.

Every few seconds, a stack of ordered papers was thrown over, with a forehead-kissing paper ball attached.

The ball of paper unfolded, and it was naturally the monitor's handsome font - last week's mock exam paper.

Xu Wang flipped through the blank papers one by one. The answers were written separately and placed at the end of each subject paper. The key questions were also accompanied by explanations. Obviously, let him do it himself first, and then compare the answers. He is so careful... Wait a minute, Mathematics, English, comprehensive science...

Xu Wang raised his head, and raised his eyebrows in confusion to his close friend—where is my favorite language?

Squad leader Wu lowered his head and wrote another note, forming a ball and flicking it deftly.

How can Xu Wang suffer twice, his eyes are quick and his hands are quick, he catches it steadily, and spreads it out-the human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant.

Xu Wang couldn't hold back, he was overjoyed.

This time it's really fun.

Wu Sheng is recognized as the first in the grade in terms of overall scores, and also the first in individual subjects. He has never failed, except for Chinese.

Xu Wang is recognized as a partial subject, and Mathematics, English, and Science are all out of the crowd. As far as Chinese is concerned, he will always be the leader of the single subject, and he is the class teacher who teaches Chinese—the brightest star in Lao Zhang's heart.

If it weren't for the wider choice of majors in science universities, and the selfishness of wanting to be in the same class as Wu Sheng, Xu Wang would have reported the papers when he was divided into arts and sciences.

Seeing Xu Wang's smiling face, Wu Sheng's heart was loosened, and he heard the English teacher's forceful roll call——

"Wu Sheng!"

Judging from the tone, it should be called more than once.

Wu Sheng stood up quickly and met the teacher's "come on" gaze.

what?

Squad leader Wu looked bewildered.

Looking around, several students had already stood up, their heads slumped. Obviously, the teacher asked a difficult question, so that those who called their names unfortunately fell for it.

Most of the students were waiting to watch the excitement. After all, the teacher called Wu Sheng up to be a positive example. If he was beaten in the face, the teacher's mentality would collapse.

At the critical moment, Qian Ai, who was sitting in the first row, stood up to cover his face with a book, turned his head quickly, made exaggerated mouth shapes, and his fleshy face did not affect the accurate transmission of information at all: "Memory-class-text- "

Wu Sheng was stunned.

The homework assigned by the English teacher yesterday was to memorize the key text. The grammar that is said to be required for the test is all in this text. If you memorize it, you will get points. Anyway, the points are free, whether you want it or not.

These people standing right now have chosen "not to love" with practical actions.

Wu Sheng collected his thoughts and concentrated his energy. The text came out like flowing clouds and flowing water, with standard pronunciation and natural sense of language.

The classmates who watched the excitement returned disappointed.

It's fun if Wu Sheng can't answer well, and it's normal to answer fluently, so there's nothing new about it.

After memorizing a text, the teacher nodded in satisfaction, and all the students who were standing were finally seated.

Wu Sheng thought about going to see Xu Wang again, who had already set up his textbooks and lay down on the table to catch up on sleep.

Wu Sheng didn't know whether he was really sleeping or pretending to be sleeping.

The image in his mind was still at the moment when Xu Wang was amused by the ball of paper. If he was really asleep, Wu Sheng hoped that he could still receive the ball of paper in his dream.

Sleeping in class, going to the toilet after class, running faster than anyone else, but Wu Sheng followed to the toilet, but couldn't find anyone.

Throughout the afternoon, Xu Wangling didn't give any students a chance to "concern and condolence".

Finally, at the end of the evening self-study, the whole class seemed to be amnesty, and the sound of tidying up could be heard incessantly. Those who went to school were anxious to go home, and those who stayed were also anxious to go to bed.

Xu Wang felt refreshed at this moment, packed it in twos and twos, threw his schoolbag over his shoulder, and looked back at a clean and tidy see you tomorrow: "Bye."

Wu Sheng was surprised: "Not going back to the dormitory?"

"My dad is worried and insists on letting me go home." Xu Wang shrugged, "I'm also very helpless."

"Oh." Looking at each other for a long time, Wu Sheng always felt that he still had something to say, but he couldn't organize the words in a mess, and finally choked out a dry sentence, "Be careful on the road."

Xu Wang was stunned, and smiled: "The one who robbed me of wealth met me, the one who was bankrupt, and the one who robbed me of sex..." He thought about it seriously, and raised his eyebrows handsomely, "You have such a good eye, you can talk about it."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Wu Sheng had no memory of how he went to bed, and when he realized something was wrong, it was already eleven o'clock at night.

The lights in the dormitory are turned off, and the small lamps on each bed start to work. The roommates are all fighting in the sea of ​​problems, and only the bed in the lower bunk is deserted.

Come back home?

With Xu Wang's stubborn personality, if his mother hadn't passed away, he would never have been able to go to his father's house. Now that he has gone there, he has only stayed for a few days and was rushed back to school. No matter how dull he is, he should understand a thing or two.

Besides, he's not dull at all.

He is more sensitive than everyone else when it comes to human well-being.

A flash of lightning flashed across the windows of the dormitory, and there was rumbling thunder in the distance.

There is always a lot of rain in April.

Wu Sheng got out of bed, went to the corner of the corridor, and dialed Xu Wang's number with his mobile phone.

The school does not allow mobile phones, but students always have thousands of ways to deal with it.

The phone rang for a long time, but no one answered.

Wu Sheng hit again.

After calling for the third time, the phone was finally picked up. Before he could speak, the other end had already complained: "Is there a monitor like you? You don't sleep in the middle of the night and harass your classmates!"

The accusation is sincere, but the voice is very hoarse, and there is still a trace of nasal sound.

Wu Sheng wasn't going to pretend to be stupid: "What's wrong with the voice?"

"Try to sleep soundly and be woken up." The other end of the phone said, and yawned loudly, as if it was a real thing.

Wu Sheng narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where is it?"

There was a pause in the receiver: "My dad is here."

Rumbling--

On both ends of the phone, the same thunder rang.

"I'll ask you again," Wu Sheng's voice cooled down, "Where is it?"

There was no movement on the other end of the phone.

"If you dare to hang up on my phone, I'll go to the teacher on duty right now, tell me that my classmate is lost, and mobilize all the dormitory students in the school to look for it."

"Do you need to be so ruthless..."

"The opponent is too cunning."

"Can you leave me alone?"

"Yes, you can change the dormitory when you come back, and get a good classmate who won't affect your roommate's sleep and rest."

"I don't even affect you?!"

"The lower bunk is not protected from the wind, it's cold."

"..."

Five minutes later, Wu Sheng put on his clothes, slipped out of the dormitory, turned into a black shadow in the rainy night, and sneaked towards the teaching building.

If in the third year of junior high school, someone told him——

Wu Sheng, when you reach high school, you will meet a particularly unreliable buddy who will be possessed by an impulsive devil all day long. Whenever you see an injustice, you will want to yell, and you will want to pick things up in a peaceful environment. If you don’t go in to persuade him, if you yell at him, he must answer you. If you throw him a ball of paper, he will definitely throw you a pen cap. That’s it, you are still a special baby friend. You can’t change it to anyone else, but it has to be him. I can't see it for a day, and I feel awkward.

He would think it was a curse, and he cursed it very carefully, because every sentence was full of slots, and he really couldn't think of a possibility to realize it.

Now, he is a senior in high school.

Has thoroughly recognized the nature of the world - "absolute" does not exist.

He always moved in elementary school, had no long-term friends, was obsessed with studying in junior high school, had no deep friends, and became a class monitor in high school. In the eyes of his classmates, his meaning was "mobile exercise bank". There are many more, even in the dormitory, playing around, blocking him by default, bumping into the bed occasionally, and being embarrassed to delay his study.

Although he has no yearning for childish fights, it's one thing whether he participates or not, and it's another thing whether others take him to play or not.

Xu Wang moved in one month later. In October of the first semester of high school, Wu Sheng remembered it very clearly. It also rained that day, and it rained heavily. If you don't care, Xu Wang wiped it with a rag for a long time, and finally inspected the whole dormitory, his eyes fixed on his face: "Is there any extra rags?"

Wu Sheng was listening to English at the time, took off his earphones and asked, "What?"

"Is there any extra rags?" Xu Wang repeated loudly, and further explained, "Put it on the window sill to absorb water. Otherwise, it will flow all over the floor after a while."

Wu Sheng shook his head blankly.

Cleaning has always been a ghost-like existence in their dormitory—the rag that Xu Wang used was an old towel that a classmate didn't have time to throw away.

Xu Wang frowned and sighed with disappointment: "Bai has a face that loves to work."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Not only Wu Sheng was speechless, but other roommates were also not happy: "How are we so different!"

So in order to prove that they were good-looking, the roommates worked together to clean up the window sill and the ground, and they went to the dormitory the next day to report the rain leakage on the window sill.

Of course, there is also Wu Sheng in the workforce.

This is Xu Wang's first appearance.

The "heart-to-heart" again was on a later weekend, and there were only the two of them left in the dormitory. He was doing homework on the upper bunk, and Xu Wang was reading idle books on the lower bunk. The atmosphere was warm, and Xu Wang suddenly kicked him on the bed: "You always If you do this question, sooner or later you will be stupid."

Wu Sheng was also flustered, so he put down his pen, poked his head out and asked the classmate in the lower berth: "Are you talking to me?"

Xu Wang sat up all of a sudden, as if he had caught evidence: "Look, it's just the two of us in the room, and you still ask me this, it's not like I'm just being stupid, rein in the precipice, monitor!"

"Okay," Wu Sheng rarely listened to persuasion, "I don't study anymore, what should I do?"

"Anything is fine," Xu Wangyu said earnestly, "Life should be rich and colorful."

Wu Sheng thought about it very seriously: "I learned piano and Mathematical Olympiad in elementary school, go and ice skating in junior high school. I didn't have much time in high school. I learned painting by myself and found that I didn't have talent. Now I've changed to computer direction, and the amount of extracurricular reading is a little less. It’s just one or two books. Looking at it this way, my life is indeed quite pale. Can you give me some specific suggestions about richness and variety?”

Xu Wang: "...I want to break up with you!"

Wu Sheng still remembers that when Xu Wang said this, his eyes widened and he had an angry expression, like a cat in a tiger skin, cuter than the most difficult math problem.

It was also at that time that he realized, oh, they are already friends.

Three years and seven classes.

Wu Sheng stood at the back door of the classroom, his hair was wet by the rain, and the water dripped down his cheeks.

Xu Wang leaned on the desk with his head tilted. When he saw him, he seemed to smile, but there was no moonlight, and everything was in the shadows.

"You didn't bring an umbrella?" He asked very seriously.

Wu Sheng gritted his teeth, walked in, and sat at his deskmate: "I'll give you another chance."

Xu Wang straightened up, serious: "It's raining so hard, and you don't bring an umbrella, how can we go back to the dormitory?"

Wu Sheng looked at him for two seconds, then suddenly reached out and picked up Xu Wang's cell phone on the desk.

Xu Wang was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"Call your mother," Wu Sheng flipped through the address book, "Tell me that you don't come home at night and are messing around in the classroom."

"Are you sick!" Xu Wang rushed to grab the phone like crazy, "My mother is dead, dead——"

In the hoarse voice, the crying could no longer be hidden.

Wu Sheng hugged him tightly.

Xu Wang struggled desperately, but he couldn't break free. He never knew that Wu Sheng had such great strength.

The rain became heavier, and the sound of thunder and rain mixed together, overwhelming.

Xu Wang finally burst into tears, holding Wu Sheng in his arms, crying loudly, like a child who has been bullied hard.

"When they divorced...my mother told me...she snatched me away from my father..."

"Actually, my dad doesn't want me at all..."

"I had to live in a dormitory when I was a freshman in high school...she wouldn't let me, so I would fight with her..."

"She was already sick at that time, but she didn't tell me, and I was so angry with her..."

"I don't want to live with my dad at all...but I dare not go home..."

"I always feel that my mother is still at home, waiting to train me and fail the exam. I'm afraid that once I go back, the dream will wake up..."

"Wu Sheng, why do bad people live well while good people suffer so much..."

Xu Wang vented all his sorrow, regret, and anger unreservedly.

Wu Sheng didn't speak, just patted his head up and down, quietly accompanying him.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the thunder was getting louder and louder. It didn't look like the rain in April anymore.

Xu Wang was tired from crying, and his voice was completely hoarse. Strangely, his heart calmed down a lot.The sadness is still there, but it won't hurt. When I open my mouth, I want to cry.

Wu Sheng's entire school uniform was wet, and Xu Wang couldn't tell where it was from the rain and where it was his own achievement.

Lifting his face quietly, Wu Sheng was also looking down at him.

Or, Xu Wang thought, the other party looked down at him like this from the beginning to the end, quiet and gentle, not like Wu Sheng anymore.

The night was very dark with no moonlight, but Xu Wang swore that he saw what he wanted in those eyes.

Ghost fans, heart orifices.

Xu Wang leaned forward lightly.

A little closer, a little closer, he could even see clearly, in Wu Sheng's eyes, his shadow became clearer and clearer.

Suddenly, those eyes blinked, and panic surged, eroding everything.

Xu Wang was at a loss, so he didn't care anymore, and kissed him suddenly!

Wu Sheng was even faster, almost instinctively pushing the person away, and in desperation, he didn't have any strength left.

"Boom-"

Xu Wang was pushed directly to the ground.

His back bumped against the tilted table and chair, and his butt fell on the hard ground, but he didn't feel any pain at all.For the first half minute, I was in a daze, dazed, and my mind went blank.

Wu Sheng didn't know what to do.

The heart is like a drum, if it is not for the rain, I am afraid that I can hear the sound of "dong dong".

He wanted to say sorry, but he couldn't say it. He wanted to pull him up, but he didn't dare to stretch out his hand.

He was afraid that Xu Wang would ask why. For the first time in his life, he was so afraid of being questioned!

Xu Wang gradually regained his composure, knowing that it hurts.

My back hurts, my butt hurts, my eyes hurt, everything hurts badly, and my heart is even worse, it hurts and hurts, and I feel very depressed.

He tried to take a deep breath.

Not once, not twice, not twice, not three times...

Finally, for the first time in the world, he succeeded, just like a person who has worked hard to climb ashore and finally got a mouthful of oxygen.

Wu Sheng was still dumbfounded, which was rarer than the gentle Wu Sheng.

Xu Wang took a good look at him for a long time, and was "poof" happy. He leaned on the table leg and stretched out his hand lazily towards him, as if it was only right and proper: "Don't repent by yourself, help me up quickly."

Wu Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, and hurriedly got up.

Xu Wang held his extended hand, which was slightly cold, damp and covered with sweat.

Rain, it's going crazy.

Walking in the corridor, looking at the splash of rain on the glass, you may even have the illusion of being splashed by water droplets.

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang walked quietly, one in front and one behind.

Since leaving the classroom, the two haven't spoken to each other.

The long corridor seemed to have no end in sight. After a long time, Wu Sheng began to lose his mind, always worrying that he was no longer behind him.

With a pause in his footsteps, he turned back without warning.

Xu Wang seemed to be taken aback, and suddenly looked out of the window, firm, persistent, and persistent, just like the rainy glass, you can see the flowers.

Wu Sheng's breath stagnates.

Even if it's just a side view, you can see clearly that Xu Wang's face is full of tears.

The tears she wailed before were all on her school uniform. Wu Sheng was sure that Xu Wang didn't cry again until he left the classroom.

Closing his eyes, Wu Sheng pretended not to see anything, and continued walking, but his heart was completely confused.

Xu Wang, who was crying quietly, made people feel more distressed than before.

But he dared not ask why.

Just like the "confession" that Xu Wang half-jokingly said in the classroom.

Confess what?

One was vague, and the other didn't dare to delve into it. It seemed to be tacit, but ambiguous.

Lightning flashed outside the window, as close as it was against the glass. In an instant, the corridor was reflected like daylight.

Maybe it was too close, the thunder sounded almost at the same time, and there was a bang, which made people's ears hurt.

Wu Sheng squinted his eyes in the strong light, and finally waited until the thunder had passed. After thinking about it, he still felt something was wrong, so he turned around and said, "It's too dangerous to thunder so frequently, why don't we wait..."

Before he finished speaking, he stopped.

There is no shadow of Xu Wang behind him.

Only the empty corridor remained, deep and cold, as if it could lead to the end of the darkness.

……

Xu Wang swore that he followed Wu Sheng closely.

But as I walked, the surroundings began to become blurred. The portraits of celebrities hanging on the walls on both sides began to deform amidst the lightning and thunder, just like the images of old TVs when the signal was unstable, flashing dazzlingly and giving people a headache.

He got scared.

Wu Sheng just turned his head at this moment, opening and closing his mouth, as if to say to him... thunder?or something else.

He wanted to ask clearly, and he was panicked, so he shouted very loudly: "I can't hear clearly——"

Wu Sheng acted like he didn't hear it.

And his gaze didn't match him, as if... as if he couldn't see him.

Another flash of lightning passed by, and even Wu Sheng's figure began to blur.

Xu Wang has watched countless horror movies, but none of them compare to this moment.

He threw himself on Wu Sheng desperately, since what he said was wrong and what he saw was wrong, he really hugged him!

But in the end, he just hugged himself.

The rain stopped.

The whole world becomes clear again.

But it was no longer the world Xu Wang recognized.

There are no corridors, no schools, no Wu Sheng.

It is still night, but the sky is clear and the moon and stars are rare.

Standing in front of the gate of a hospital, he raised his eyes in a daze. The four characters of "Central Hospital" were as red as blood.