The rain drenched her hair in an instant, and a strand of bang stuck to the corner of her eye, and Bai Lu gently pushed it away.
It was a bit cold at night, and the moment she was drenched by the rain, her body shivered involuntarily, and her eyes narrowed slightly.
Walking to the side of the road, Bai Lu took out the mobile phone from her bag, set it to mute, then took off her school uniform and stuffed it into her schoolbag.
Wipe the water off his face and walk towards the first floor.
It is an old-style building with a very low floor. It is conceivable that the rooms on the first floor will be very humid on rainy days.
There are discarded shoe cabinets piled up at the entrance of the corridor, full of dust, and there is a gray-blue canvas shoe at the bottom, which is thrown here, and the other one is gone.
Bai Lu rubbed her palms together, came to the door of Xu Hui's house, and listened quietly for a while.
There was no movement inside the door, only the sound of rain splashing outside.
Bai Lu took a deep breath and raised her hand to knock on the door.
The knock on the door was very small, three light knocks, almost covered by the sound of rain.
But the people in the house still heard it.
"Who?"
Across the door, Bai Lu could also hear Xu Hui's voice, which was much lazier than before.
The boys were not as wary as the girls, and they didn't look through the cat's eyes, so Xu Hui opened the door directly.
Bai Lu was small in the first place, and she was drenched to the bone. She was like a stray kitten, extremely weak.
Xu Hui was taken aback, then looked down at her, "Who are you?"
Bai Lu raised her head, her lips were blue from the cold.
He should have just taken a hot shower, and there was still a beige towel around his neck. He took off his wet clothes and changed into a clean dark blue T-shirt. The t-shirt is a bit big, showing the neck and shoulders, the skin is slightly fair, and the figure is tall and thin.
Bai Lu shrugged her shoulders and said softly: "I'm sorry, I was passing by... I had an appointment with a friend, but it was too late when it rained suddenly, I didn't bring my mobile phone, and there is no small store nearby, can I borrow it?" Phone?" After speaking, she quickly added, "I can give you money."
After Xu Hui listened, he only let out a faint oh, and then turned back into the room.
"You wait," he said.
He wiped his hair with a towel as he walked, Bai Lu looked into the room—
One bedroom and one living room, very small house.
He lives alone
The room is not neat, but it is not messy either, it is quite satisfactory. Bai Lu saw a few pieces of clothes thrown in the corner of the bedroom door, they were the two that he had just caught in the rain outside.
Xu Hui came back soon, unlocked the screen lock of the phone, handed it to Bai Lu, and went back to the living room to sit on the sofa.
The mobile phone was the latest model, and Bai Lu quickly noticed that there was a calendar on the screen, and there was an important note marked on August 20th.
Bai Lu took a quick glance at Xu Hui, and instead of brushing his hair, he took a cigarette case from the coffee table and took one.
Biting the cigarette in his mouth, he found that there was no lighter on the table. Xu Hui touched his trouser pocket, then remembered that the lighter was in the changed clothes, and got up to get it.
Bai Lu clicked on the important note on August 20th.
Very short, one line.
Inpatient Department of the Second Hospital, at half past ten, Jiang Yiheng.
After getting the lighter, Xu Hui lit a cigarette, and Bai Lu also called her own number.
The phone should be on and off in the backpack.
"Xiao Ru, are you still waiting? Don't wait, the weather is bad and I can't make it."
"..."
"Don't blame me, there's nothing you can do."
"..."
"Well, I know you're not happy, and neither am I."
"..."
"But it's okay, when we meet next time, we'll all be fine."
"..."
"goodbye."
After hanging up the phone, Bai Lu deleted the call log, Xu Hui came over, and Bai Lu took out the money with her bag.
"No need." The smoke made him narrow his eyes slightly.
Bai Lu lowered her head and said softly, "Thank you then."
Xu Hui hummed, and Bai Lu turned and walked out. Just after passing the corner of the corridor, Xu Hui's voice came from behind again.
"You don't have an umbrella?"
Bai Lu stopped and turned her head, "Yes."
Xu Hui frowned slightly, a little impatiently.
"Then you stay in the house for a while."
Bai Lu closed her lips tightly, nodded for a while, and said softly, "Thank you."
Xu Hui just asked Bai Lu to wait at the entrance, and didn't let her in. Bai Lu stood by the door, Xu Hui turned on the TV, and pressed it two or three times without stopping.
Bai Lu felt that he didn't want to watch anything at all, but was just bored.
Finally, I stopped at the movie channel, which was broadcasting a Korean movie, "The Yellow Sea".
The movie is bloody and dark. The hero is imprisoned, rounded up by a group of policemen, and fled to the mountains. He was shot in the arm, tore off his clothes, bandaged clumsily to stop the bleeding, and finally cried helplessly.
After Xu Hui finished smoking a cigarette, he took out another one.
The hero's wife went to South Korea to work, but there was no news. The hero smuggled and murdered for tens of thousands of dollars, just to find his wife and start a new life.
"It's very pitiful..." Bai Lu said softly, looking at the gloomy tone of the TV.
Xu Hui seemed to remember Bai Lu's existence only at this time, looked at her, and didn't speak.
Bai Lu turned her head, looked at him, and said, "This leading man is very pitiful."
Maybe it was because of boredom, Xu Hui agreed.
"What a pity, who told him to kill someone?"
Bai Lu: "But he didn't kill him."
Xu Hui snorted, "That's because he didn't catch up. Others did it first. If he catches up, he killed him."
Bai Lu didn't speak, Xu Hui took a puff of cigarette and said, "Evil is rewarded with evil. He agreed to kill someone just to pay off his debt. This kind of person can't be called pitiful."
"It's not for repaying the debt." Bai Lu said quietly.
After the cigarette was finished, Xu Hui lowered his head and inserted the cigarette butt into a bottle of mineral water that had been drunk on the coffee table.
"What is that for?"
"To not live like a dog."
Xu Hui raised his head, and Bai Lu was also looking at him.
"The male protagonist is a Korean ethnic group in Yanbian. In the eyes of Chinese people, they are not my race, and Koreans also regard them as an inferior group. No one thinks about the benefits, and they are responsible for all the crimes. In this story, they are a complete tragedy. There is no Dignity, no matter how hard you resist, you still can't get out of the darkness..." Bai Lu paused when she said this, "Oh, I'm sorry, I spoiled the story."
Xu Hui's expression was calm, the video continued to play on the TV, and his gaze was still on Bai Lu.
"you saw it?"
Bai Lu: "I've seen it before."
Xu Hui seemed to be curious about the fact that the stray cat girl watched this kind of bloody movie, but he didn't ask any questions.
"Oh."
Meeting by chance, there was nothing to talk about, Xu Hui turned his head back again.
Bai Lu glanced at the time, and felt that not going back to school would be more than a matter of self-criticism, so she said to Xu Hui, "The rain should have almost stopped, so I'll be leaving first, thank you tonight."
Xu Hui: "Have you stopped?" He stood up, came to the bed, and opened the curtains.
The curtain was long and blurry.
Xu Hui: "Don't stop, can you walk like this?"
Bai Lu looked distressed, "Either you, you can lend me..."
"You take an umbrella." Xu Hui continued Bai Lu's words.
Bai Lu hurriedly said, "I'll give you the money."
"No need." Xu Hui came over, took out a long umbrella from behind the door and handed it to Bai Lu.
Holding the umbrella in her hand, Bai Lu said in a low voice, "Then when are you here, I'll return the umbrella."
"Forget it, I have more than one umbrella at home. This umbrella is quite broken, and I guess it will only be used once or twice." Xu Hui said indifferently.
Bai Lu took the umbrella, thanked her again, and then turned to leave.
The door closed, but Bai Lu didn't look back.
Go out and open the long umbrella, red and white, with an advertisement for a taxi company on it. The umbrella was really broken, three ribs were broken, and the umbrella surface on the right was completely collapsed.
Bai Lu walked across the street holding an umbrella, and entered the school under the stern gaze of the security uncle.
Sure enough, the next day was another review—a review with a strong nasal sound. The torrential rain last night put Bai Lu's fragile body at risk of catching a cold.
"You also packed an office talk package this time." After Bai Lu finished her review, she was called to the office by Teacher Bao. When she came back, Wu Hanwen looked up from the test paper and teased her.
Bai Lu ignored it and sat down in her seat.
"Jiang Ru is quite demonic." Wu Hanwen said, "You also have sequelae, why are you going back to school so late?"
Bai Lu turned her head, "Have you finished the questions?"
Wu Hanwen looked calm: "Not really."
Bai Lu: "I'm going to participate in the competition in September."
Wu Hanwen frowned, "Why are you like this, where are you going to poke, I have explained so many questions to you anyway, don't you know how clear your thinking is?"
Bai Lu looked at him, and before he could speak, Wu Hanwen immediately said, "But that's not accurate, after all, you won't be tested in the competition."
Bai Lu snorted.
Wu Hanwen raised his eyebrows, turned around and continued with the questions.
It rained heavily last night, today the sky is clear and blue.
Bai Lu turned around to pick up the book, and saw the mobile phone lying in the back of the bag.
Pause for a while, or take it.
The first item of the recent call is no longer a string of unknown numbers. Bai Lu saved it after returning to the dormitory last night.
Holding the mobile phone in the middle of the night, Bai Lu didn't directly write Xu Hui's name on it for fear of causing trouble.
Amid the thunder and lightning, the night seemed quieter than usual. She lay on the bed for a while, and the scene of Jiang Ru putting flowers on the heads of the two of them appeared in her mind.
So she saved his name as Honeysuckle.
I was so dazed all day that I lasted until night, and wiped my nose with a whole roll of toilet paper.
Wu Hanwen frowned, "Can you please?"
Bai Lu waved her hand, "It's okay."
She insisted on completing a set of comprehensive test papers, then looked up, just in time to see the calendar board on the wall.
August 17th and 20th happened to be Saturday.
"Do you need to take some medicine?" After school at night, several girls from Zhou Yuxin came over and asked with concern.
Bai Lu drooped her eyelids and shook her head.
"Stay away from me, don't get infected, it's so critical now."
"Okay, then take care of yourself."
Li Siyi behind him comforted her, "Bai Lu, do you know that when you are sick, you are actually at your best when you study?"
Bai Lu: "..."
Li Siyi looked serious, "Because it's easy to concentrate at this time."
Wu Hanwen: "You should read your book."
"Hey school committee, you still don't believe me." Li Siyi said to Wu Hanwen, "During the high school entrance examination, I had a cold and a fever, and I was admitted to the sixth high school in a daze."
Wu Hanwen: "Then you are as strong as an ox now, isn't it hopeless for the college entrance examination?"
Li Siyi's highly myopic eyes stared behind the lens: "I'm losing weight."
Bai Lu fell asleep at her desk amidst the successive derogations around her.
Before going to bed, she thought about whether this cold could survive two days.