After getting to know Yu Ran for a long time, Chu Mian finally understands why people pursue "transcendence" in life.
"Don't argue with idiots." Fang Zhao patted Chu Mian on the shoulder to comfort him.
Chu Mian sat down and drank water to moisten his throat, and then he ignored whatever Yu Ran said, for fear that the other party would trick him again.
Satisfied with successfully teasing him, Yu Ran said, full of sincerity, "Chu Mian, I will kneel down and apologize to you."
He stretched out his right index finger and middle finger, simulating walking on two legs on the Chumian table, and then knelt down with a "boom".
Chu Mian sighed tiredly and helplessly, put on her schoolbag and walked away.
The snow is not too heavy now, but it is a bit dense. Silver powder and jade dust are floating over the city, and the road vehicles have been crowded since the afternoon. The world has no sign of destruction at all. Compared with the doomsday in the rumors, today's more important day is actually the winter solstice.
The cold night is brightly lit, and the light is accompanied by snowflakes.
Li Guirong cooked three large plates of cabbage and pork dumplings, and when they came out of the kitchen, the two sons were banging on the table with their chopsticks, very annoying.
While pouring vinegar, Yu Ran asked, "Is Dad coming back today?"
Hearing this, Li Guirong felt that he was noisy and kicked him, "Why do you care about him? You are quite filial? See if he has ever bothered you? Just asking nonsense here."
Yu Ran didn't speak, just smiled.
Yu Jin didn't seem to have any appetite today, he didn't gobble up like usual, and after finishing a bowl, he excused himself to do his homework and went back to the house. Yu Ran saw that he was a little strange, and went in after a while and asked him: "Yo, what's the matter, brother, don't you have to eat three tons every day?"
"Don't bother me." Yu Jin lay listlessly on the bed.
Yu Ran squatted beside him with a playful smile, and put his arms around his shoulders, "Who messed with you? Tell my brother, I'll go and give him a pennant of 'Walk for Heaven'."
"I'm annoying you to death, get out..." Yu Jin grunted a few times distractedly, and pushed Yu Ran away.
But the little boy was troubled in his heart, and now he wanted to vent quickly, so he still told Yu Ran, "I'm emotionally hurt."
He said such serious and sad words with this immature face, Yu Ran just wanted to laugh, but as an elder brother, he still had to endure it, he turned on Kugou Music, played a song "It's Not a Sin for a Man to Cry" for Yu Jin, and then patiently Listen to Yu Jin complaining.
The process of the matter is very simple. Today, there is a frenzy of doomsday confession in QQ space, and the atmosphere is sweet and warm. Yu Jin also wanted to participate. He had been expressing his true feelings since last night. He wrote hundreds of words of love to his current girlfriend in the memo, and planned to send it at noon today.
As a result... his girlfriend broke up with him early in the morning on the grounds that "I don't want to lie to myself when I'm about to die", and turned around to confess to a senior.
Yu Jin was depressed for a day because of this.
Yu Ran can't empathize with the sadness in this aspect, so he can only comfort in a formal way: "Hey, brother, don't be afraid. There is a saying... 'Where there is no grass at the end of the world', if this one doesn't work, then find another one."
"I was planning to find another one." Yu Jin said, "I just can't accept that she broke up first. Why should I be dumped?"
"Ah? Brother, you are a little too fussy about this..."
"Hey, you don't understand, go away, go away, stop singing!" Yu Jin pushed him away again, turned off the music on the phone, and lay on the bed covered with a quilt to sleep and heal his wounds.
Yu Ran was not in a hurry to wash up and go to sleep, he leaned on the bedside and played with his mobile phone, waiting for the time to reset from "23:59".
December 21 passed smoothly, and the doomsday hypothesis was self-defeating.
The squad leader was the first to send a message in the QQ group: "We survived!"
Other students followed suit: "It's good to be alive." "Huh? Aren't we in heaven now?" "It's worse than the end of the world. The final exam is coming soon." "How many people regret confessing yesterday?"
Yu Ran was completely relieved, turned around and pulled off the quilt for Yu Jin, so that he could breathe smoothly while sleeping.
Then, Yu Ran sent a message to Chu Mian, asking him, "Are you still alive?"
The other party is now insomnia, and quickly replied with a "hmm".
"Hee hee! I'm still here too!"
In fact, Yu Ran really wanted to hear Chu Mian's voice, but Yu Jin was sleeping next to him, and he didn't want to disturb him, so he had to continue texting.
"Chu Mian, we have also experienced life and death together."
Chu Mian didn't feel much about "living together and dying together" under the premise of such rumors, but Yu Ran's words really made him feel that the friendship between the two has deepened, which is worth being happy.
Holding his mobile phone, he typed back: "Then please continue to take care of me."
The light from the screen was reflected on the face, and the corners of Yu Ran's mouth rose uncontrollably. Compared with "survival after disaster", Chu Mian's words seemed to make him more happy.
"Okay!" He responded impatiently.
In the dark night, the snow stopped.
Chu Mian repeatedly turned on the phone several times, and after confirming that Yu Ran would not post any new updates, he put down the phone and turned over to sleep.
At the end of December, the cold wind raged from the north, and the temperature in Ronggang hit a new low. Chengjun Middle School simply stopped the inter-class exercises for a week to prevent the ground from being too icy and slippery, causing accidents among students.
Christmas Eve and Christmas are the busiest working days. Vendors wrap ordinary apples in exquisite wrapping paper and sell them near primary and secondary schools. This can attract many innocent teenagers to buy, and the profits are huge.
Since these two days, all classes in the school have distributed letter papers one after another. In the first grade of high school, I didn't know what to do, but everyone soon discovered that there was a huge red mailbox at the entrance of the teaching building, with white characters printed on it: Principal tree hole.
As the name suggests, if students have anything they want to confide in secret, they can write it down and submit it during the few days at the end of the year. Secondary and senior high school students understand that this is Cheng Jun’s annual tradition. The principal’s purpose is to let the children learn to let go of the regrets of this year in the process of writing, and then try to look forward to next year.
After Yu Ran saw the mailbox, he stood there dumbfounded.
"'Principal tree hole'? Damn, the people in our school are too wild!" Yu Ran pointed at the narrow letter slot in astonishment, "Take the hole of the principal tree? This, this is a rectangle, can it fit in? !"
There happened to be a few students next to him who were about to deliver letters. After hearing Yu Ran's words, they stopped their movements and looked at him complicatedly.
Fang Zhao put the paper in, turned his head and explained to Yu Ran the meaning and origin of the word "tree hole". Yu Ran suddenly realized, and immediately ran back to work, finished writing his letter, and took it out to deliver.
Fang Zhao was curious: "Do you still have secrets to tell? What to write?"
Yu Ran pretended to be mysterious and said: "The secret of heaven must not be revealed."
"Don't write essays in it!" Fang Zhao worried, "If the principal really sees it, he will definitely give us more Chinese lessons next year."
There are more and more letters in the mailbox, and the joy and trouble of adolescence are mixed together heavily. When everyone passes by it, they seem to be able to hear the noise inside.
It was not until the last day of this year that the mailbox carrying the secret was removed, waiting to come back next year.
"Where are you going? It's getting late."
After dinner, Chu Heng saw Chu Mian put on her coat and was about to go out.
Chu Mian said as if nothing had happened, "New Year's Eve."
"Today is actually the 31st..." Chu Heng has been rushing to write a manuscript lately, regardless of day or night, "Then be careful on the road, don't fall asleep, how many friends are with you?"
"Four." Chu Mian took the keys and went downstairs to take a taxi to the agreed place with Yu Ran and the others.
Since they couldn't book a restaurant, they had no choice but to go home for dinner and then come out to get together after school. Chu Mian had never passed the New Year's Eve before, and he seldom even went out at night. It was only two days ago that Yu Ran proposed this matter, and he agreed without hesitation.
As expected, Jiubao Street was crowded with people. Chu Mian arrived at the agreed place early and met Fang Zhao and Ye Xi smoothly.
"Cui He's call has not been answered, maybe he didn't hear it on the way." Ye Xi temporarily gave up calling, and asked the other two boys, "Has Yu Ran contacted you?"
Fang Zhao looked down at Yu Ran's latest text message: "He said he would be there soon... Damn, he said that half an hour ago!"
Ye Xi began to worry: "What to do, the best place is under the century clock, if you go late, you won't be able to squeeze in the front row."
Chu Mian glanced at the time, and said to the two of them, "Go ahead, I'll wait for him."
Fang Zhao: "Is that okay? I'm afraid you'll fall asleep after a while."
"I took medicine before going out."
"Okay." Fang Zhao felt relieved now, and first went to the New Year's Eve fireworks place with Ye Xi to occupy a few seats.
The crowd next to Chu Mian was noisy, and the voice could not be heard clearly on the phone, so she contacted Yu Ran by text message. Ten minutes later, Yu Ran's taxi stopped by the side of the road, and he quickly ran towards Chu Mian, but in the end he didn't stop and almost knocked him down.
The two subconsciously supported each other to stabilize their center of gravity.
After Chu Mian stood up, she said, "There are more people, let's go through the parking lot."
Yu Qi was panting, the tip of his nose was pink, he hurriedly nodded in agreement.
The Jiubao Street underground parking lot spans four large shopping malls, and you can get to the Century Clock just across the road. The two entered Parkson and waited for the elevator, and pressed the "b2" button.
At this time, Chu Mian received a text message from Fang Zhao, informing him that there were too many people at the New Year's Eve location, not only could he not help them to occupy a seat, but they might not even be able to see each other for a while.
"That's it." Chu Mian replied casually.
He didn't feel any regrets, but he could take the opportunity to accuse Yu Ran: "It's all because you were late for too long."
"Traffic jam, no way."
The elevator began to sink slowly, Yu Ran closed his eyes and stretched, just when he raised his arms halfway, he suddenly felt the weight of the floor under his feet.
Before Chu Mian could react, the lights above her head went out.
Yu Ran opened his eyes and found that his field of vision was pitch black, "Fuck! I'm blind! Chu, Chu—"
"I'm not blind." Chu Mian took half a step towards him, "The elevator just stopped suddenly, it should be because the shopping mall has lost power."
Horror movie clips immediately appeared in Yu Ran's mind, "Is the elevator going to fall?"
Chu Mian hesitated to speak, he just wanted to say "no", after all, there are many elevator steel ropes, and they have their own buffers. But hearing Yu Ran's flustered tone, he didn't want the other party to feel at ease so quickly.
In the dark, he calmly took out his mobile phone and said, "Maybe, but it shouldn't fall to my death."
"Ah?" Yu Ran froze all over.
Chu Mian turned on the flashlight and pointed the light beam at Yu Ran's face, and found that he was terrified.
"Well, when will someone come to rescue us? Will no one find anyone in the elevator at all?" Yu Ran hurriedly took his mobile phone to call the police, but found that there was no signal in the elevator, "What does 'emergency call' mean? Just call To the police?"
Chu Mian shone the light of the flashlight forward to cover up the smile on her lips, "It's okay, just wait a bit."
Yu Ran thought for a while, quickly grabbed Chu Mian's arm, and told him eagerly: "Chu Mian, don't worry, if we are stuck here and can't get out, I will find a way to keep you alive!"
Chu Mian was startled.
Originally, he just wanted to take the opportunity to deal with Yu Ran and win the round; he didn't expect that Yu Ran not only regarded the current situation as a crisis, but also took the initiative to comfort himself.
Chu Mian felt relieved, and asked softly, "What can you do?"
"I'll give you a drink!" Yu Ran said sincerely and firmly, "I'll give you all to drink!"
"..." Chu Mian's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and she withdrew her arm, "No need."
"Don't be polite to me. Hey, it's a pity I didn't bring a cup. If you drink, you can only talk to your mouth..."
Chu Mian quickly moved two steps to the side, away from Yu Ran.
At this moment, the elevator button lighted up in orange light again, and half a second later, the overhead light bulb also returned to its original state.
Yu Ran made a false alarm, heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately pressed the button to go to the parking lot.
The two walked forward quickly, climbed the stairs to go out from another shopping mall, and saw that the opposite side of the road was already crowded with people. Yu Ran wanted to get as close to Fang Zhao and the others as possible, so he pushed forward decisively. Chu Mian didn't want to be alone, so he could only follow.
Halfway through, they were all tired, and even if they could see where Fang Zhaoren was, they couldn't get there smoothly.
The crowd was crowded, and Yu Ran fell back half a step. He immediately turned around and grabbed Chu Mian's hand, pulling him to his side.
The palms of the two are cold, but when they touch each other, they gradually feel the heat flow.
Chu Mian leaned closer to Yu Ran's ear and asked, "Someone hit you?"
"Well, it's okay!" Yu Ran smiled nonchalantly, "This area is just a painless abortion!"
Chu Mian smacked her lips, and subconsciously squeezed Yu Ran's hand hard, "I want you to see the money and the phone."
Yu Ran touched his pocket, "It's all here."
The two didn't let go of their hands, just shook each other for a moment. Chu Mian belatedly realized that Yu Ran's fingers had become much hotter, and then realized that there was no need for them to hold hands anymore.
But now the state of the two palms touching is very natural, it seems that there is no need to let go compared to holding hands.
Chu Mian lowered his head and stared blankly at the gap, the crowd around him burst into countdown sounds at the same time, causing him to lean towards Yu Ran, but it didn't help because Yu Ran's voice was louder than anyone else.
From "60" to "15", people's voices finally converged gradually. Even if Chu Mian didn't make a sound, he could still be infected by the lively atmosphere around him, and he felt happy.
"Fives!"
- He felt Yu Ran tighten his hand suddenly.
"Four!"
- He heard Yu Ran's voice was louder.
"three!"
- He saw that when the corner of the burner was turned up, it had a deeper arc than others.
"two!"
—He has a fever in his left chest.
"one!"
——He saw the colorful lights of fireworks reflected in Yu Ran's pitch-black pupils.
Chu Mian gradually recalled her thoughts, and then sighed "unbelievable" slowly. He actually held hands with Yu Ran until the end of 2012.