Shengwang originally thought that the so-called "there are a few stores" were really just a few, but when he arrived at the gate of the school behind the mountain, he saw that it was a long street.
The terrain around the school is not straight. The long street winds down the gentle slope, going around the school in a small circle, and the end is hidden behind the wall on the side of the mountain.
The only prosperous place in the vicinity is also the only place where people in this school can move around, so in the evening, not only is it not deserted, but it is also very lively.
However, students who are in normal classes have evening self-study at night, and even if they come out, they only have time to eat dinner. Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian came by an unfortunate coincidence. During the peak period, all restaurants that could eat were filled to the brim.
Sheng Wang turned around twice and couldn't help but say, "How unpalatable is the cafeteria, keeping people like this?"
The school opened a separate window for them, where normal students use their cards and their meal coupons. The food at that window is average, and the advantage is that they don't have to queue. They also muttered yesterday that there are many kinds of ordinary windows, and it is estimated that the taste can be better. Now it seems that half a catty is eight taels, so the students come to the door to beat their teeth when they seize the time.
Jiang Tian took out his mobile phone and checked the time. School was dismissed at 5:40, and the students had just entered the store. When they finished eating, it would be at least 6:30.
He asked Sheng Wang, "Is there any place you want to go?"
There is only one street here, and there are only so many tricks going back and forth. If Sheng Wang came alone, he would not be interested in any of them, but with Jiang Tian by his side, it would be completely different.
He scanned back and forth and said, "I want to go anywhere."
Jiang Tian: "…"
Sheng Wang said, "What should I do?"
"Pick one."
"Choose obstacles, you can't pick them out."
"… "
Sheng Wang's eyes were clearly written: "Aren't you my brother, you have an obligation to help make up your mind."
Jiang Tian frowned and looked at him speechlessly. After a while, he nodded and stretched out his hand in a low voice: "Give me the knife and help you divide it. How many do you want to go to?"
Sheng Wang: "...Fuck me, who are you trying to scare. Are you willing?"
He was just talking casually, brothers and good friends, these words are very common, but when they are in front of special people, they have an inexplicable meaning.
Jiang Tian paused.
They were still walking up the gentle slope side by side, their pace unhurried like a distraction. Jiang Tian's right hand is still spread out, his slender fingers are slightly curved.
Sheng Wang's out-of-the-way light fell there, and he saw Jiang Tian curled his fingers, retracted them, and inserted them into the pockets of his trousers. For a few seconds, Jiang Tian didn't say a word, as if he was thinking about a question he couldn't bear to give up, and he seemed to be digesting the ambiguity that was inexplicable.
After a while, he said, "That's fine."
After a while, Sheng Wang gave a low "Oh".
So the wind slipped between the two of them, twists and turns around the bend.
The night lights on the street turned on one by one, and the two suddenly became very quiet. Sheng Wang took a few steps and pretended to look at the shops naturally. Among the fancy signs, there is one shop with a really special style.
The first floor of the store is on the ground, the first floor is lower than the road, and there is a wooden staircase that leads straight down. There are several Luan trees planted on both sides of the store door, with branches and leaves lying on the roof, the top half of the canopy is pink orange and the bottom half is green, and the mist is connected in a misty night under the floating night.
On the tree on the left is a string of white paper lanterns, with an arrow under the lantern pointing downstairs. On the right is a circle of blue and white lights with a strong sense of modernity, with an arrow pointing upstairs.
On the wall of the merchant is graffiti made of fluorescent materials, with the words "Escape Room" written on it.
But it was the people at the door who really caught Sheng Wang's attention. A group of boys and girls gathered at the entrance of the stairs, apparently just came up from the bottom floor, and several of them patted their chests, looking like they were not possessed.
"It's scary," a girl said.
"I'm going to have a nightmare tonight." Another person echoed: "Actually, it's okay, but the mechanism is too clever and the arrangement is too serious, so it's scary. What about Bian Chen? Bian Chen, are you okay? I see your face is pale."
Several boys laughed and joked: "When his face is still white with fright?"
"Fuck you, you can't be scared for nothing." Bian Chen's voice was easily recognizable in the crowd, but after he scolded, he felt that it was wrong, and shouted in even more laughter: "Who the fuck said I was scared? Come out, it's too boring in there?! Second, you have to laugh at me? Who screamed worse than a girl just now?!"
"You." The boy who was yelled at said rudely.
Bian Chen burst into a rude sentence, and the two started chasing and fighting on the stairs.
A girl asked, "Are you still playing?"
The boys who were still laughing at each other just said in unison, "Play with a bird!"
The girl burst into laughter: "They are too timid to admit it. But there is no place to eat now. Why don't you go upstairs to play the modern future version of the secret room? Or play board games for a while?"
"Board games, let's walk around." They said and ran upstairs.
"Then you go up, let's go down and have a look." A girl said. Still a little unfinished, she pulled the other two boys who wanted to play downstairs, and the three entered the store again.
Sheng Wang stared at the store and thought for a while, then turned to look at Jiang Tian with "I want to play" written all over his face.
Jiang Tian looked at the horror-style decoration downstairs, and at Sheng Wang's eager expression. He seemed to want to remind him of something, but he finally nodded and said, "Let's go."
The boss of the secret room is a young man, and in order to match the theme, he dressed himself up like a ghost. When Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian entered, the three No. 1 middle schools were still struggling with which one to play.
The girl pointed to a secret room of 2-3 people and said, "Would you like to play this?"
One of the boys complained: "The small secret room is boring, you need to play with more than 5 people."
"But we are not enough."
"Boss, can 3 people play in the 5-person secret room?" the boy asked.
The boss nodded: "Yes, but it's a bit difficult, why don't you ask the two of them if they are willing to be together?"
"Who is it?" They turned their heads suspiciously and saw Sheng Wang and Jiang Tian.
"Eh?! It's you! It's just right-" The boy who disliked the small secret room suddenly got excited. He and Jiang Tianshengwang were not familiar with each other, but someone was better than no one, so he greeted: "We are almost here. , together?"
Of course Sheng Wang didn't want to be with others, but before he could express anything, he heard Jiang Tian say to the man, "No need."
He knocked on the counter and asked the boss, "Is there still room in the secret room for the two of you?"
The boss pointed to a ghost school theme and said, "Yes, this one is empty."
"Hey, Brother Jiang, what are you two playing?" said the boy from No. 1 Middle School, "It's all for couples, it's boring."
He does not mean that.
He just complained casually, and Sheng Wang's unloading movement froze for a while. He subconsciously glanced at Jiang Tian, but saw Jiang Tian say to the man, "Oh."
After that, Sheng Wang didn't pay attention to what the people in No. 1 Middle School said and what the boss said, and he couldn't listen at all. He knew that Jiang Tian had never caught a cold with such unfamiliar people, and that "oh" was probably just to block the other party's words, but his heart still jumped.
He suddenly remembered what Sheng Mingyang said when he was a child. He said, "The children of other families are a little crazy, but my family has never been crazy, like a lazy bastard."
He once thought that this was right, he really wouldn't get very excited just because someone was watching him or who was by his side, but he didn't realize until today that he just didn't touch the right person.
He was a little "crazy" that night, and his brain was always in a state of subtle excitement during the play in the secret room, although it wasn't obvious on his face.
Before entering the secret room, the boss seemed to have said, "This small secret room is more terrifying than several big secret rooms." I don't know how other people feel, anyway, Sheng Wang didn't feel any horror from beginning to end, it has nothing to do with courage, just because his attention is not on these things at all.
He and Jiang Tian did not get stuck in decryption, and they went smoothly all the way. From the door of the dim classroom to the corridor with the broken ceiling light, to the girls' dormitory with blood written on the bottom of the bed, and finally to the bathroom deep in the corridor.
There is a mirror with a mechanism in the bathroom. At the end of solving the puzzle, they need to turn on the faucet to wash their faces. The mirror will show the face of the female ghost, indicating which compartment she is in. Then knock on the compartment door three times, and a piece of the ceiling overhead will move away, and a mannequin with disheveled hair will fall from it and hang on a hemp rope.
This is the end of the "missing girl" story, and then the secret door on the wall will slowly rise, which is the exit of the secret room.
As a result, when Sheng Wang knocked on the door of the compartment, the mannequin bounced off the wall, and the wig fell off accidentally, leaving a bald head hanging on the hemp rope.
So when the secret door was raised, the two of them bent down and came out from inside. Sheng Wang smiled and lay on the counter, but Jiang Tian couldn't hold back.
The ghostly boss is dumbfounded.
He has seen guests who say "it's not that scary", people who cry with fright, and people who walk and discuss the organization's aftertaste, but he has never seen people who are dying of laughter.
"Did you really press the mechanism to get out? Didn't you open the door with your feet?" the boss couldn't help asking.
Sheng Wang laughed until his neck was bloodshot, and he was so soft on the counter that he couldn't answer at all. Jiang Tian scanned the code and paid the money, and said to the boss, "Remember to glue the wig."
After he finished speaking, he patted Sheng Wang and said, "Stop laughing, go to dinner."
It wasn't until he sat down in a Hangzhou restaurant that Sheng Wang slowed down. He let out a long breath, fanned the wind with his hand, and said, "It made me laugh."
Jiang Tian took the mobile phone to order food, then handed it to him and said, "Let's see what you want to eat."
Sheng Wang's eyes were still bent, looking extremely bright under the light. He said, "I'll invite dinner. No robbing is allowed. It's okay at other times, but not today."
"What happened today?" Jiang Tian asked.
"Happy birthday." Sheng Wang said, "Jianghu custom, I invite you."
Jiang Tian was stunned for a moment, not bothering to refute his nonsense Jianghu customs. He subconsciously opened the calendar and glanced at it again, frowning: "Isn't your birthday on December 4th? Today is the 3rd."
"I know." Sheng Wang scanned the order code on the table and said, "Theoretically it is tomorrow, but I don't like birthdays on that day."
"why?"
Sheng Wang raised his head and found that Jiang Tian was a little confused. This kind of expression was so rare on his brother's face that he was stunned for a while and asked, "Why are you looking like this?"
Jiang Tian then restrained his expression and said, "It's nothing."
Sheng Wang stared at him for a while, then suddenly leaned over and said, "Brother."
Jiang Tian's eyes moved and looked up at him.
Sheng Wang narrowed his eyes and said, "Are you planning to celebrate my birthday tomorrow? Or... what gift did you prepare for me?"
"No." Jiang Tian said.
"Oh." Sheng Wang leaned back in his chair and took his mobile phone to order food.
"Why don't you like birthdays that day?" Sheng Wang heard Jiang Tian suddenly speak.
"Actually, it's nothing. It's just that my parents gave me a meal together when I was a child, and I was a little impressed. Later, when my mother was gone, there was always one less person on my birthday, which was a bit deserted." Sheng Wang carefully selected the dishes and said, "I have a birthday. Well, it's better to be happy to eat and drink. If tomorrow is over... I might miss my mother."
After he checked a few, he handed the phone to Jiang Tian and said, "Come with me today, okay?"
Perhaps because of the light, Jiang Tian frowned slightly, but his eyes were unexpectedly gentle. He said, "Okay."
Just because of this sentence, Jiang Tian almost responded to his needs this night, and even the choking person restrained a lot. It was rare for him to see him like this, and Sheng Wang felt that he would be blind to this day if he didn't take the opportunity to tease him.
The most signature feature of this restaurant is not actually the dishes, but the rice wine, which is served in a special bowl and named "White Jade Paste". , said: "You've seen me drunk a few times, I haven't seen you drunk, isn't it a bit unfair."
He pointed to the "white jade paste" and said, "Tell me honestly, how much you drink will get you drunk, is that enough?"
Jiang Tian: "...I don't know."
Sheng Wang: "???"
He almost asked the waiter to do it again on the spot, but fortunately he was stopped by Jiang Tian. After two big Zami wines, it's hard to say whether you are drunk or not. Anyway, you must go to the bathroom a lot.
In the end, the waiter couldn't listen anymore, and reminded: "Our rice wine has a lot of stamina. You may not feel good after drinking it. It's easy to get drunk when you have the energy."
At that time, Sheng Wang had just finished drinking a cup, and because it was really good, he wanted to have a little more. As soon as he heard "great stamina", he pushed the cup to the opposite side without saying a word, and said, "Send it to you, the rest will be yours, I won't drink it anymore."
In order to wait for this so-called stamina, Sheng Wang deliberately grinds and chirps, and eats dinner for nearly two hours. As a result, when it came to checkout, Jiang Tian was still very awake.
This store has just opened, and it is still engaged in activities. It gave Shengwang a small gift - two clay jugs tied with thick hemp ropes, filled with the signboard "white jade pulp".
It was almost 10 o'clock when they came out of the store.
The young man's body was already full of fire, and even though Sheng Wang only drank a glass of rice wine, a thin layer of sweat was still on his body. The evening wind in the late autumn and early winter is quite comfortable.
He hooked the hemp rope, lifted the wine to the front, gestured the size of the pot, and asked Jiang Tian, "Aren't you drunk now?"
"Well." Jiang Tian replied.
"What if I add these two pots?" Sheng Wang asked.
"I shouldn't be drunk either," Jiang Tian said.
Sheng Wang gave a "tsk", lowered his hand and said, "Forget it, I gave up."
"No need." Jiang Tian said.
"Huh?" Sheng Wang was stunned and turned to look at him.
The night wind blew the hair on his forehead, and the outline of the bridge of his eyebrows, eyes and nose was very clearly outlined by the night lights on the street, and he was handsome and handsome. With those yellow and white lights shining in his eyes, he glanced at Shengwang and said, "You can try again next year's birthday."
"It makes sense." Sheng Wang suddenly became happy. Not sure if it was because of planning ahead for next year's birthday or something else. He shook the wine in his hand, and the clay pot slammed together lightly.
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately said: "No! I was almost surrounded by you. Except for my birthday, I can't try you?"
Jiang Tian said, "Forget it normally."
"Why?"
"In case you put yourself down first, I will be the one who will suffer in the end." Jiang Tian said.
"Depend on."
Sheng Wang was too choked to refute, and reached out his hand to restrain him. Jiang Tian made it very agile, and reminded: "Don't throw it around, the wine is with you."
The two walked back to the school halfway, and on the way, Jiang Tian took out his mobile phone and sent a few WeChat messages to people from time to time. When they received the fifth reply, they happened to walk downstairs to the dormitory.
Jiang Tian said, "You go up first."
"What about you?" Sheng Wang asked.
"I'll go get something."
Sheng Wang was a little puzzled until he returned to the dormitory. He first leaned on the balcony to play with his phone for a while, then took a shower, and went to the corridor to wait for a while, but he never saw Jiang Tian's shadow, and he didn't know where he went to get anything.
The waiter of that hangbang restaurant was right. He didn't feel anything after drinking rice wine, but he had plenty of stamina. He walked around in the dormitory for a while, and Jiu Jin slowly climbed up.
Sheng Wang began to feel sleepy, but he was a little reluctant to sleep.
This is his own birthday, and he planned to spend it with Jiang Tian a few days ago. Throughout the day, he had laughed, played around, and was excited with subtle throbbing and ambiguity. He had done a lot of things, but he seemed to be missing something.
Now that the day is almost over, the night is dark, and the surroundings are silent, but he is suddenly a little empty, I don't know if it is still unfinished or something else.
…
It was already 11:30 when Jiang Tian came back. The whole campus fell into deep silence. It was not until he went around the hill that he heard a few boys and girls joking and laughing at the edge of the autumn leaves forest. , there seems to be Bian Chen's voice. But he didn't pay much attention, just ran past them and strode up the stairs.
There were faint whispers and whispers of girls behind him, and someone called him. But when he heard it, people had already gone upstairs.
He stopped in front of the dormitory, his hair picked up by the wind fell, and he held a thick paper bag and calmly breathed outside the door.
Most of the dormitories in the hallway are dark, except for the few people who just came back downstairs, most of them should have already slept. Jiang Tian opened the door and wanted to say hello to the people in the room, but found that the room was quiet, the quilt on the top bunk was a little messy, and Sheng Wang was already asleep.
Judging from his awkward posture, he should have gotten sleepy while waiting and accidentally slumped onto the pillow.
Jiang Tian was stunned for a moment.
He stood at the door for a while, looking down at the paper bag in his hand. After a long time, he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, not sure if it was self-deprecating or something else.
He actually prepared a gift, but hurrying up, he seemed to be late.
Sheng Wang slept a little, his face half buried in the quilt, his hair was slightly messy and scattered on the pillow. He seemed a little hot, with a slight sweat on his forehead. Jiang Tian went to the bed and put the paper bag on the bottom bunk.
He stood by the bed and watched for a long time, wiping the sweat on Shengwang's forehead with his thumb, but the other party didn't notice.
He looked up at the too bright cold light, walked to the wall and turned off the light, and the dormitory was instantly plunged into darkness. He kept a cell phone light for himself, put a clay pot of rice wine in the refrigerator under the limited fluorescent light, took a shower, and wiped his hair back to the lower bunk.
The sound insulation of the dormitory building is very good, and the group of students who came home late didn't make any sound when they came back, and everything was quiet.
Jiang Tian leaned on the head of the bed and put the towel around his neck. He picked up the paper bag next to the pillow, looked at it silently for a while, and put it down again.
Outside the balcony, silver-white light poured in over the railings. From his angle, he could see the silhouette of the mountain in the distance, and he was equally quiet and silent, standing for a long time in the night.
The person in the upper bunk seemed to have turned over in a deep sleep, the bed shook slightly, Sheng Wang's arm dangled from the bedside, and his thin white fingers were slightly bent, slender and clean.
Jiang Tian looked up.
He was still leaning against the bedside rail, one leg straight and the other bent, the gift he brought back rested on his leg, not very inconspicuous, like the thought that he had been hiding in a secret place. .
But at this moment, perhaps because of the stillness of the night, that mind was a little bit eager to move.
After more than two hours, the rice wine he drank before finally reacted. He was a little tired, but not sleepy.
On the screen of the mobile phone, the app marked with the clock is slowly turning its hands, getting closer and closer to 0 o'clock.
From ten, nine, eight, seven, to four, three, two, and one in a leisurely manner.
It's December 4th, it's a sunny day, the moonlight is beautiful at this moment, the person he likes is 17 years old.
At this moment, everything was silent and no one knew, so he took Sheng Wang's hand down and said in a low voice, "Happy birthday."
Happy birthday, Wangzi.
He held it for a long time, until the hand he was holding suddenly curled up, and he suddenly came back to his senses. Then Sheng Wang's slightly hoarse voice rang out.
"I heard that," he said.