I pulled him and continued to walk forward, while responding casually, "Yeah, how do you know."
Shi Yitong shook off my hand and looked at me suspiciously, "You made it clear. I thought you were weird just now, what's wrong?"
I stopped and looked at Shi Yitong with a little confusion.
Do you want to tell him about Mr. Wen? I thought about it, and shook my head inwardly. Shi Yitong is already quite distressed now, and telling him about these things, I'm afraid it will only deepen his troubles. What's more, the mysterious gentleman in the old house seemed to appear in a dream, and even I was still dubious.
But that gentleman told you the solution, is it really okay to hide it from Shi Yitong? A voice in my heart spoke faintly.
"Hey, Gu Yu." Shi Yitong stretched out a hand in front of my eyes, "Are you okay?"
Then I suddenly came back to my senses and smiled apologetically, "Ah...it's okay, maybe it's because it's too hot."
—What kind of nonsense reason. That's clearly written in Shi Yitong's suspicious eyes.
"I mean it." I touched my nose to hide my embarrassment, "I'm a little worried about your grandpa. How is he doing?"
When Shi Yitong heard that I mentioned his grandfather, he immediately withered like an eggplant beaten by Shuang.
"To be honest, not very good."
Shi Yitong's complexion was even uglier than yesterday, and upon closer inspection, it seemed that the dark circles under his eyes were heavier than yesterday. Shi Yitong scratched his head, looked at me again, and finally said as if he had made up his mind, "Grandpa suddenly told me something very strange."
I shuddered and pricked up my ears, "What strange thing?"
"Grandpa told me something about my childhood." Shi Yitong muttered.
"Isn't that good?" I wondered, "It should be a good sign that your grandpa can start chatting with you."
Shi Yitong shook his head desperately, "No, no. How can I tell you... It's not the kind of topic that my grandpa and I used to talk about."
"what is that?"
Shi Yitong glanced at me, thinking, "Grandpa... mentioned an incident when I was eight years old."
Shi Yitong and I walked out of the school gate side by side. There was a main road outside the school gate. Several taxis were parked on the side of the road waiting to pull people. As soon as we came out, they honked their horns one after another, hoping to attract our attention. Shi Yitong bypassed those taxis and chose the bus station. We waited for the car under the stop sign, and Shi Yitong continued to talk.
"I don't know if you have noticed. Our village is very close to the Beitong River. When I was young, I often went to the river with some friends. I don't know why at that time, the adults were always nervous about us going into the water. In fact, the water is not It’s pretty deep, and when a child steps in, the water doesn’t reach his chest, so there’s no danger at all. What’s more, my friends and I can swim, so none of us kids took what the adults said seriously.”
"So one time me and the two boys went swimming without the grown-ups noticing. It was fine at first and we had a good time playing around, but after a while I started trying something wrong. Around I don’t know when the water got deeper, and we had to paddle to float. Before I realized what was going on, my ankle was caught by something. At first I didn’t care, I thought it was algae or something. But I didn’t expect that the ankle was being grabbed more and more tightly, as if someone in the water was desperately trying to drag me down. I struggled and shouted, hoping that my little friend could save me, but Unexpectedly, they were all pulled by the ankles by unknown things, and kept pulling them down. When I was pulled into the water, I took a quick glance and saw a particularly bright red, which was not clear about the fabric of the clothes. It's still the color of the water itself. In short, the impression is very deep, and I still remember it clearly."
I was a little nervous when I heard it, "What happened then?"
"I lost consciousness later, and when I woke up, I was lying on the bed at home. Grandma was very worried, while grandpa frowned. I found out later that the two children who went to the river with me that day All my friends drowned, and I survived alone." Shi Yitong scratched his head and sighed, "I didn't know how I survived in the end, and who rescued me. I used to ask my grandfather, I just said it was my fate. If I asked again, I would not say anything. This happened more than ten years ago, and I almost forgot about it myself. Unexpectedly, my grandfather suddenly brought up this matter last night .”
"What did the old man say?"
When asked by me, Shi Yitong's expression became a little weird.
"Well, grandpa told me. I was able to come back alive because I took other people's lives for me. Didn't the two boys who played with me get drowned?" Shi Yitong took a deep breath, "Grandpa said that he paid back the lives of those two boys so that I could be saved."
I opened my mouth wide in surprise, and couldn't believe it, "Return your life? Is what your grandfather said true? Or is it just that the old man is a little delirious now?"
Shi Yitong shook his head, "I don't know. He also talked to me a lot, saying that he has committed too many crimes in his life, and that people in this industry don't have a good death... I couldn't bear to interrupt him, so I just sat and listened to him. .He also mentioned a lot of things when he was young, both confessing and sighing."
Looking at Shi Yitong's expression, I couldn't bear it. It must not be the way to go on like this. Just as I was about to tell Shi Yitong about that Mr. Wen, the bus stopped in front of us.
"Then what. Thank you." Shi Yitong seemed to be embarrassed and muttered, "It's obviously nothing to do with you, but you still stay with me so kindly."
"What are you talking about." I patted him on the shoulder hard, "Otherwise what do you think my buddy is doing?"
The bus drove all the way towards the afterglow of the setting sun, at a leisurely pace, as if it wanted to blend in with the town. There were not many people in the car, most of them were middle-aged and elderly people, all sitting quietly in their seats, occasionally the sound of flipping newspapers could be heard.
There was no talking all the way, and it didn't take long to arrive near Tonghe Village. Like last time, Shi Yitong led the way, and I followed behind. On the way, we chatted about other topics, which eased the stiff atmosphere a little.
"I feel like I've fallen in love—" Shi Yitong exaggeratedly held his chest and said, "I really want to change my major now and transfer to your class!"