To put it bluntly, life is still different from TV dramas.
Bai Lu spent the night tremblingly, and the next day she couldn't read the books at school, as if she was secretly waiting for some cruel news.
At noon, Teacher Bao came to tell the classmates that Jiang Ru had gone home.
Bai Lu let go of her palm in an instant, and it was soaked in sweat.
She thanked Teacher Bao for her short and cold words from the bottom of her heart, because before that, there was always a picture in her mind—she was afraid of the rain last night, so she stayed in the classroom, and Jiang Ru left school alone with her schoolbag on her back.
After class, Bai Lu went to the teacher's office, where Teacher Bao was grading the test papers with a serious face.
"Jiang Ru?" Bai Lu clarified her purpose, and Teacher Bao raised his head from the test paper, and when he read out Jiang Ru's name, his brows could not help but frown together.
"Oh, you are her deskmate." Teacher Bao nodded, "She has gone home."
Bai Lu: "Last night..."
"Well, she sneaked out of school. Later, someone called her home, and her parents came and took her away."
Someone called, who was it.
Bai Lu didn't speak. Teacher Bao looked at her and said, "You girls are messing around at such critical moments. You are too. You should report this situation to me earlier. How did you get to this point!"
Bai Lu nodded, as if admitting her mistake.
Teacher Bao: "It's dangerous to go out at that time yesterday! It's still raining. If something happens to you, it's over."
Bai Lu nodded, "It's my fault for not holding her back."
Teacher Bao said in a deep voice, "Forget it, don't let the matter get worse. Parents will take it away as soon as it is taken away. You should stop meddling in your own business and focus on your studies."
"Ok."
"Let's go back."
Bai Lu hesitated and said, "Then when will Jiang Ru come back?"
Teacher Bao turned his attention back to the test paper, "I don't know about that, I may be back after a few days of adjustment at home."
In the next few days, Jiang Ru did not come.
The complicated study and exams every day made Bai Lu gradually forget about this matter. Only occasionally when it was her group's turn to clean up, Bai Lu would stare at the empty desk next to her for a while.
A week later, someone heard about Jiang Ru.
"It's terrible, do you know that Jiang Ru stole money from the family to have plastic surgery." Zhou Yuxin ran to Bai Lu's side and said in horror.
Bai Lu was taken aback for a moment, then said, "What?"
Zhou Yuxin nodded, and two girls surrounded her, "What's the matter?"
Zhou Yuxin went on to say: "Plastic surgery, and the surgery is pretty big, it grinds the cheekbones and moves the bones."
The girls said one after another: "Oh my god! Will something happen?"
Zhou Yuxin: "I heard that it seems to be infected. Her family knew that she was going crazy, so she went straight to the hospital and made a fuss—"
"What hospital?" Bai Lu interrupted, looking at Zhou Yuxin, as if trying to catch some clues of exaggeration. "Which hospital will operate on her? She is only seventeen this year and is not yet an adult. The operation requires the consent of her guardian."
Zhou Yuxin: "Small clinic, just do it with money, who cares about you.... I heard that Jiang Ru's parents are going to sue that clinic, and now there is a lot of trouble."
Everyone is discussing Jiang Ru's operation, but there is no result.
In the end, no one knew the name of the clinic that performed plastic surgery on minors, and no one saw what Jiang Ru looked like after the operation.
Infection, which infection
Bai Lu is not an optimistic person, and often gets cold hands and feet because of her own thoughts.
Someone poked her shoulder, Bai Lu turned her head and saw Wu Hanwen's calm expression.
"Don't worry, it's already happened, and it's useless to worry about it."
A few days after the incident, Jiang Ru dropped out of school and returned to her hometown.
Jiang Ru is not a local, she came from a foreign city during the senior high school entrance examination. Jiang Ru’s family is not very good, but her parents forced her to buy a house in this city for her further education. Now that something like this happened, she simply dropped out of school. Take people home.
Bai Lu once tried to call her, but the phone number has been shut down.
Outside the window, the white doves are sunny, and the campus is covered with pear blossoms in summer.
The front row seats in the class are tight, and it is impossible to leave a vacant seat. Mr. Bao's filling method is simple and rude, just pull one from the back to come up, and move forward one by one in a row.
So Xueba Wu Hanwen became Bai Lu's new tablemate.
Xueba is skinny and full of spirituality. He doesn't know how to listen to lectures in class, shakes the stool, and solves the problems. Moreover, Xueba doesn't hide his secrets, and Xueba patiently explains and sorts out the knowledge that Bai Lu doesn't know.
In high school, good students are much better at solving problems than teachers, and the same is true for lectures.
Under the leadership of Xueba, Bai Lu's performance in the exam has improved by leaps and bounds, and her grade has jumped up by dozens.
The huikao is completely in accordance with the model of the college entrance examination, and the subjects and schedule are the same. The last English subject ended in the afternoon, and the school had a rare holiday.
Teacher Bao paid for it, and the class planned to hold a dinner party.
"The weather is a bit bad..."
Today is cloudy all day, and the forecast is heavy rain.
The classmates said that the fighters in the third year of high school would not bow their heads to the storm, and Teacher Bao finally said: "You can decide on the place, and we will have dinner tonight!"
Finally settled on a cafeteria. There are some considerations in choosing this place. There is a KTV upstairs in the cafeteria. After the meal, many people will gather for the second wave.
After packing up her things, a group of people chattered to the cafeteria. Bai Lu was afraid of rain, so she specially brought an umbrella in her school bag.
The small restaurant is full of people.
Bai Lu took the plate and picked up two pieces of cake, and added some fried spinach.
"What kind of taste do you have?"
Bai Lu turned her head, and Wu Hanwen was standing beside her dryly, with a full plate in his hand, looking disdainful.
Bai Lu looked at his plate and said, "You can really eat."
Wu Hanwen said frankly, "Mental labor consumes a lot."
A boy came to call him, Wu Hanwen left with the tray, leaving Bai Lu alone.
Ever since Jiang Ru left, she has been alone.
After two hours of noisy eating, the waiter came over and politely said that it was time, Teacher Bao asked everyone to clean up and prepare to leave.
"It's time to go home, go home, don't let me know who went to the Internet cafe secretly, so that you can't eat and walk around!"
Everyone agreed with duplicity, those who wanted to sing had secretly gathered together, the time and place had been discussed, and they were about to break up.
Bai Lu didn't pick up the song and went back to school with her schoolbag on her back.
As soon as I went out, the lightning flashed, followed by a thunderstorm, and it started to rain.
Bai Lu looked up, and someone patted her shoulder. Looking back, it was Zhou Yuxin and two other girls.
Zhou Yuxin: "You don't sing either?"
Bai Lu: "Well, I'm a little tired."
"Have you brought an umbrella? Are you going back to school?"
"Bring it."
"Let's go together."
Bai Lu nodded, "Okay."
The rain was coming hard, "That's right." Zhou Yuxin said suddenly, "Jiang Ru left, are you alone in the dormitory now?"
"Ok."
"It's so pitiful..." The girls said one after another, "Would it be scary to sleep alone?"
"Why don't you live with us."
Bai Lu looked at Zhou Yuxin, and Zhou Yuxin said, "The three of us live in the same dormitory, and there was originally an extra-shift worker, but recently moved back home, there is a space available, you can come."
Bai Lu really thought about it seriously.
When Zhou Yuxin had already started to help Bai Lu plan the dormitory desks, the four girls were about to walk to the school before they knew it - they just had to pass through the last block.
Bai Lu felt that women are born with intuition.
When she was far away, she seemed to have smelled the fragrance of flowers washed by the rain.
The scent reminded Bai Lu of Jiang Ru.
I remembered that she picked up flowers from the ground, gave each of them a flower, squatted beside the flowers and cried, and told her that this flower was called honeysuckle...
A group of people stood under a utility pole in the alley.
Four men, only one umbrella.
Get together to smoke and chat.
—Maybe they are not yet men at their age, it is the night that makes them strong.
The smoke was lingering, and the smoke was smoked into a dim yellow color by street lamps and rain.
The girls were still discussing enthusiastically about helping Bai Lu move, and they didn't care about the few people on the side of the road.
Bai Lu cared.
They walked past them laughingly.
Bai Lu didn't look sideways, but the voices of the girls around her faded away during the few seconds when she was side-by-side with the person.
Raindrops hit the umbrella, crackling.
After walking more than ten meters away, everything returned to its original state. Bai Lu stopped and turned her head.
Their figures became much smaller, and everyone was hidden under the shadow of the trees and the curtain of rain, so they couldn't see clearly.
"Bai Lu?" Zhou Yuxin called her.
Bai Lu turned her head, and the three girls looked at her strangely.
"What's wrong?"
Bai Lu shook her head, "It's fine."
"Let's go."
Bai Lu still didn't move. Zhou Yuxin came to her side and said with concern: "What's wrong? Why are you so dazed? You didn't drink just now."
Bai Lu came back to her senses, and after a moment of silence, she said, "You guys go back first."
"what?"
Bai Lu: "Go back first, I have something to buy."
"What to buy? Let's go together."
"No, it will be fine soon."
"... Well, you can watch the time."
Bai Lu nodded.
wave goodbye.
She hasn't left the range of floral scents yet.
Bai Lu lowered her head and walked to a nearby tree to stand still.
She is too small, leaning against the thick trunk, like a ninja in the manga, blending with the tree.
There were fallen leaves under her feet, and she began to step on them boredly again.
After a while, Bai Lu raised her hand to check the time.
It's ten o'clock, and the door will be closed in half an hour.
Bai Lu poked her head slightly, and saw that those people were still chatting under the street lamp, but they had already finished their cigarettes.
Bai Lu lifted her schoolbag up, ready to leave.
Almost at the same time as she turned around, those people also dispersed. Bai Lu stopped in her tracks, and saw three men squeezed into an umbrella, pushing and shoving away.
Turning around, after a while, the person has crossed the road.
Bai Lu turned her head again, and there was only one person left under the telegraph pole.
Without an umbrella, people are just pouring in the rain and don't care.
He hasn't seen her, but she has seen him—from Jiang Ru's cell phone.
Bai Lu quietly looked at Xu Hui not far away.
Tall and thin, wearing dark clothes, slightly baggy, with his hands in his pockets, his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
About five or six minutes passed, and the night wind gradually cooled down. He wiped the rain off his face with his hand, turned and left.
Instead of following this straight road, he turned directly into the neighborhood.
Bai Lu quietly followed.
Xu Hui entered the outermost building, which was four stories high and installed voice-activated lights.
Bai Lu waited outside for a while but did not see the voice-activated lights on the upper floor turned on. She was just wondering when the room on the first floor turned on.
The curtains of the room were drawn, and the inside could not be seen.
The outside of Xu Hui's house is different from that of his neighbors. There are no fences or plants, so it looks bare.
Bai Lu stood for a while, slowly moved her hand, and put away the folding umbrella.
Resentment, curiosity, boredom, winning and losing...
When recalling afterwards, she also forgot why she took that step.
She only remembers the little lights in the house, and the rain.
The vast, torrential, endless rain.