On New Year's Eve, the firecrackers have not stopped since the afternoon.
Every time the firecrackers sound, it means that another family has started the New Year's Eve dinner.
Perhaps it was because he had expectations for the first day of the new year, it was the first time that Lin Wu didn't feel lonely on the 30th day of the new year.
He posted the couplet early, then fell asleep on the bed with the quilt in his arms, occasionally woken up by the sound of firecrackers, turned over, and continued to dream.
A dream of the day.
Wake up, the night is noisy, thousands of lights are on.
It sounded more lively outside than during the day, Lin Wu glanced at the time, the Spring Festival Gala had already begun.
But he didn't turn on the TV.
He hasn't watched the Spring Festival Gala for many years. The atmosphere of the family is too happy. After laughter, it will only make people more lonely.
Turning off the ceiling lights in the apartment, leaving only one night light, Lin Wu opened his laptop and found the documentary about wolves that he had been collecting before, but had not had the chance to stop and watch.
The film consists of five episodes, mainly about the gray wolf.
In fact, most documentaries about wolves focus on the most widespread species in the world.
However, the coyote and the gray wolf are close, so Lin Wu watched it as a popular science film about his own family.
The neon outside the window and the night lights in the house outline a soft and colorful atmosphere.
The documentary begins, a picture of the wolf world, accompanied by the narrator's low and magnetic voice, slowly unfolding...
"As a member of the canid family, there are 39 subspecies of gray wolf species, and they are found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, whether it is dense forests, open plains, barren ice fields, or the cold Arctic..."
"They hunt in packs, they work together, and the members perform their duties, advancing and retreating together..."
Lin Wu watched it seriously, and gradually, the sound of firecrackers outside seemed to be very far away, instead it was the sound of wind in the documentaries, the sound of forests, the sound of wolves running, and the low roar or high-pitched wolf howling, which was close. ear.
The apartment seemed to be a hut in the woods, and the wolves seemed to be around, playing, frolic, and hunting.
After one episode is played, it will automatically go to the next episode.
Lin Wu looked engaged, but also comfortable, and occasionally even wanted to learn how to howl from the handsome alpha wolf inside.
Until episode 3 —
"Wolf packs have a highly complex social structure, led by a single alpha wolf..."
"Wolves are monogamous, and in a pack, only the head wolf and his mate have reproductive rights..."
"The cubs that are born grow up under the care of the entire pack, but after two to three years, some young male cubs must leave the pack..."
The picture is aimed at a little wolf, it has reached the age to leave the wolf pack, but it is not willing to go.
The narration didn't fluctuate, it was still so low and steady—
"This little wolf doesn't want to leave, but the wolves no longer accept it..."
"Several adult male wolves bared their fangs at it..."
"The little wolf tried to get close to its mother, but was yelled back by the alpha wolf..."
Throughout the entire episode, the little wolves kept trying, and the wolves kept driving away.
Lin Wu watched it try hard again and again, and run away sullenly again and again, again and again.
Finally, it gave up.
At the end of the third episode, the wolves hunt around the frozen lake in tight unity and order. But the little wolf could only leave silently, heading towards the unknown forest.
Like Lin Wu, the documentary film crew may also be concerned about the fate of the little wolf.
At the beginning of the fourth episode, the camera completely follows the little wolf.
"The little wolf that leaves the pack will try to join other packs. It sniffs every part of the jungle, dirt, grass, rocks, tree trunks, looking for the scent of its companions..."
"It seems to have found it, but finding it doesn't mean you can join, most wolves are very exclusive..."
In the following time, Little Wolf became the absolute protagonist of the documentary.
Both Lin Wu and the film crew were obviously involved in its fate, but in different time and space, they couldn't let it go.
They watched it find a new pack, only to be rejected again, and watched it survive alone and tenaciously in the forest, continuing to search for other packs...
It is an adult, with a keen sense of smell and youthful strength, which allows it to hunt alone without starving until it finds a pack that truly accepts it.
But just like the repetition of leaving the original wolf pack, the little wolf found new wolves again and again, and was rejected again and again. Two of them were even injured in the conflict with the wolves.
"The little wolf finally met a pack of wolves who were willing to accept it..."
The whole documentary is coming to an end, and the narration has subtle emotional fluctuations for the first time, as if the long dark night has finally ushered in the dawn, and even the calm and low voice seems to be slightly relieved, a little more gratified.
"The female alpha wolf acquiesced to her approach, which usually means that the pack has accepted a new member..."
Lin Wu was also happy for Little Wolf. Perhaps he followed the ups and downs of Little Wolf struggling to survive in the forest with the camera. At this moment, he was even a little excited so his eyes were sore, and his heart was hot.
"However, the little wolf seemed to be hesitating. It approached the wolves and got the permission of the alpha wolf, but now it is starting to back away..."
Lin Wu was stunned, staring at the little wolf in the picture, as dazed as the wolves.
"It retreated to a rock and started howling loud enough to go through the forest..."
"This is not a demonstration, but a farewell. At the moment when it is about to be accepted by the new wolf pack, it gave up integration and chose to become a real lone wolf..."
"After howling, the little wolf turned and ran out of the forest..."
When the camera left the forest, it stopped chasing, and the figure of the little wolf disappeared at the end of the plain.
The final narration is gentle and quiet: "It left the wolf society and ran to its own wilderness."
The sound of firecrackers outside the window was suddenly concentrated and violent.
Lin Wu woke up from his trance.
Looking up, the hour and minute hands on the clock coincide at twelve o'clock, and the second hand has just passed there.
The old year has passed.
But Lin Wu himself had no real sense of reality. In the second half of the night, he listened to the liveliness outside the window, but all he thought about was the little wolf.
The moon sets and the sun rises.
The sun shines on the earth, and the riverside villa is hidden in the morning light.
At the long dining table, a family of four is having breakfast together.
New Year's Eve was just over last night, the New Year's Eve dinner was also eaten, and the dumplings were cooked, but on the dining table this morning, I couldn't find any joy of the Spring Festival.
A complete western breakfast, my aunt put down the last plate of freshly baked European bread and went back to the kitchen to continue working.
The restaurant was depressingly silent, except for the sound of knives and forks colliding with the plates.
After eating a few slices of ham, Wang Ye put down his knife and fork and got up: "I'm going to find my classmates."
Father didn't lift his head, he was still reading the newspaper intently, taking an occasional sip of coffee.
Mother wiped her mouth with a napkin and instructed lightly, "Be careful."
Only Wang Jincheng, who was sitting on the side, raised his voice as if he was provocative: "Run outside on the first day of the new year."
Wang Ye narrowed his eyes and locked him.
Wang Jincheng shrank his neck and didn't know which time he remembered the fear of being beaten - too many times, it was hard to tell - and stopped speaking.
He is one year younger than Wang Ye, with eyes like mom, nose and mouth like dad. Anyone who goes out can see at a glance that he is the son of Wang Haici and Tian Rui. Unlike Wang Ye, he clearly said that the first child was more like his parents, but Wang Ye was not like anyone else. When he was a child, Wang Jincheng always said that Wang Ye was not his brother. Later, Wang Haici and Tian Rui became suspicious. , I was worried about whether I made a mistake in which part of the delivery in the hospital. Although I found the best hospital, the hospital gave birth to several baby boys that day.
Later, the two really took Wang Ye for a paternity test, that is, they were biological, no doubt about it.
Wang Ye had already remembered things at that time, but he didn't understand it at the time. Later, when he grew up, he remembered it, and he didn't feel much. When he thought about it occasionally, he just thought it was very funny. I have experienced it all, and finally let Wang Jincheng be a child and coax him into a bow and snake shadow.
"Mom, I also want to go out to play." Wang Jincheng changed his path again because he couldn't get a good deal from Wang Ye.
Sure enough, Tian Rui's expression was much richer than before, and her tone was a little more doting: "Don't be naughty, go crazy outside every day, and you can't accompany your mother at home during the New Year."
"Oh—" Wang Jincheng dragged his tail and glanced at Wang Ye with a deliberately ostentatious look in his eyes.
Wang Ye walked out of the restaurant, then turned around and said, "Wang Jincheng, come here."
Wang Jincheng was a little scared, but when he thought about it, since his parents were there, Wang Ye shouldn't dare to do anything, so he went over with courage.
When he approached, Wang Ye grabbed the person, and said in his ear, "Idiot."
Garden Apartment.
It wasn't until the knock on the door sounded that Lin Wu realized that he was sitting in front of the window, facing the notebook on the desk, in a daze for the rest of the night.
"Snapped-"
There was only one knock on the door, but the heavy force was like a ghost slamming on the door.
open the door.
Wang Ye stood at the door, his sports jacket and sneakers, as simple and neat as if it was already spring and March outside.
"You're really not afraid of the cold." Lin Wu let people in.
Wang Ye walked into the entrance and looked at the apartment while changing his shoes: "So small?"
Lin Wu wanted to call him with slippers: "Buy me a big one, I will not refuse anyone who comes."
Wang Ye looked around and saw nothing but the computer: "What did you eat last night?"
"I originally planned to cook dumplings," Lin Wu recalled the two boxes of quick-frozen dumplings that were still lying in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, "I forgot later."
"How about this morning?"
"Have not eat yet."
Only then did Wang Ye realize that Lin Wu was a little lethargic: "What have you been doing all night?"
"Uh," Lin Wu hesitated, raised his eyes to look at Wang Ye, "Would it look a little desolate if I said watching a popular science documentary about wolves for one night?"
It's not a question of bleak or not.
"Did you watch popular science documentaries during the Chinese New Year?" This kind of unbelievable hard study behavior was completely beyond the guidelines for Wang Ye.
"It's not an ordinary documentary," Lin Wu had to justify the time and focus he paid, "especially thought-provoking."
Wang Ye nodded: "Well, it's good that I didn't eat."
… Could you be any more simple and rude about this topic switch
Lin Wu overcame the stubborn resistance of the scumbags to intellectual topics, but the next second he reacted to what the other party said, and was stunned: "You didn't eat either?"
Wang Ye said, "I ate it."
Lin Wu: "Did you bring me food?"
Wang Ye: "No."
Lin Wu: "...then what are you doing!"
Wang Ye reached out and grabbed the down jacket that Lin Wu had put on the sofa, and threw it over: "Take you out to eat."
Lin Wu rolled his eyes: "On the first day of the new year, how can there be a restaurant open."
Wang Ye said, "Oh, the downstairs of your house is fully open."
Lin Wu: "..."
Beneath the Garden Apartment, the breakfast restaurant was hot and crowded with customers. Fast food chains and convenience stores were still open 24 hours a day. Some of the night sign lights on the doors of the stores were still on in the rising sun.
Lin Wu and Wang Ye found a porridge shop.
Although Wang Ye said that he had eaten it in the morning, when a pot of pork ribs porridge was served, he consciously filled himself a bowl without Lin Wurang.
Lin Wu looked at his teeth and appetite, and said with emotion: "No wonder you are a tiger."
Wang Ye glanced at him: "Do you know why the coyote is so thin?"
Lin Wu: "Why?"
Wang Ye: "A lot of talk."
Lin Wu: "..."
The tiger is bullying the wolf, are there any lions and elephants out there to take care of it!
There is no hero who sees injustice on the road, Lin Wu can only obediently be quiet and concentrate on eating short ribs.
In fact, without Wang Ye, Lin Wu could still eat well when he came down alone.
But when someone eats together, it feels different.
The heat misted the cold window glass, and the two drank porridge against each other.
It was cold and the porridge was hot.
"What do you do next?" After eating breakfast, Lin Wu yawned while feeling full, his eyelids a little heavy.
Wang Ye also yawned and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Lin Wu continued to yawn: "You came to play with me, shouldn't you prepare a play strategy in advance?"
Wang Ye continued to yawn: "What is that?"
Lin Wu: "..."
Wang Ye: "..."
Lin Wu: "Should we go to bed?"
- Eight o'clock in the morning, the standard sleep time of the wolf-like-tiger combination.
So on this wonderful first day of the new year, the two classmates who had finished breakfast went back to the apartment together. Under the call of animal instinct, they both fell asleep.
Fortunately, the two-meter double bed in the apartment was big enough, with Lin Wu and Wang Ye occupying one side each, so there was plenty of space.
But this peaceful harmony lasts only until sleep.
Lin Wu woke up after being kicked under the bed.
It was twelve noon.
Sitting on the ground and looking at the bed, he finally knew what it means that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers.
Classmate Wang Ye lay in the center of the bed in the shape of a big character, breathing leisurely, his chest rising and falling regularly. If there is spiritual energy in the heaven and earth, and the sun and moon have essence, then they must go to Classmate Wang.
This is not the dove occupying the magpie's nest, this is the brightly occupying the mountain as the king!
Lin Wu's teeth tickled with anger.
As the old saying goes, an evil tiger can't stand a pack of wolves, and he has to maintain their dignity for the family of wolves.
Thinking of this, Lin Wu got angry and walked towards Hushan again.
Reaching out under Wang Ye, he tried his best to turn the person aside.
Wang Ye rolled over and turned from lying on his back to lying on his back.
Did not wake up.
This sleep quality Lin Wu is convinced.
Taking advantage of the space, Lin Wu immediately lay down, also in the shape of a large letter, occupying most of the double bed, and the arms and legs on one side stretched directly to Wang Ye.
cool.
Lin Wu closed his eyes and understood the joy of the King of Beasts.
With this happiness, Lin Wu fell asleep.
Until evening, he struggled to open his eyes amid a suffocation in his chest.
Wang Ye was still prone, but this time he was lying on top of him, his head was placed on his neck, and all the weight of his body was thrown on him, as if a tiger was pressing down on him. Lin Wu felt that it was a miracle that he could wake up alive.
As if feeling the restlessness under him, Wang Ye also woke up, slowly raised his head, looked sleepily at the face up close, frowned for a long time, and then mumbled, "Lin Wu."
Lin Wu tried his best to pull off a bright fake smile amid the oppressive breathing difficulties: "It's not me, who else could it be?"
Wang Ye said: "I dreamed that I became a tiger and then caught a wolf."
Lin Wu gritted his teeth and said word by word, "You are a tiger who doesn't catch rabbits or deer, what are you doing when you catch wolves!"
Wang Ye sighed sleepily: "It's challenging."