Chapter 97 Different routes lead to the same goal

The phone at home rang, my aunt was boiling hot water, and my uncle was in the bathroom. Yu Zhouzhou put down his pen and ran to the living room to answer the phone. "Hi, hello." "Hello...is this Yu Zhouzhou's family?" "I am, who are you?" "...I am Dad." Yu Zhouzhou was silent for a few seconds, then continued to speak in a calm voice. "Oh, hello." ... In the winter of this year, Chen Yu did not return to his hometown.His job is in Shanghai, so far away that Yu Zhouzhou suspects that he has gone to another world, like a migratory bird migrating south, far away from his frozen hometown thousands of miles away.

Carefully dialing the phone number he left behind, just after two rings, Chen An hung up the phone.Yu Zhouzhou put down the phone, and within half a minute, the phone rang. No need to think about it, it was Chen Yu who called. Chen An is always very considerate in his work. He knows that Yu Zhouzhou lives at his uncle's house, and the phone bill can be saved if possible, so he always calls. Yu Zhouzhou made up his mind. "Hey?" "Happy New Year Zhou Zhou." "...Happy New Year." Yu Zhouzhou laughed twice. "Is everything going well in your study and life recently? Is grandma's situation any better?"

"Okay, everything is fine." "Then you have something to do with me, right?" "Yes," Yu Zhouzhou stared at the thick grilles on the window, "Just now I... Dad... called and said he wanted to see me." -------------------------------------------------- After New Year's Day, there is another week of classes, which is the final exam. Lin Yang was finally kicked out of the lunch team by Lu Yuning and Jiang Chuan. "Who are you showing Zhong Kui's face to?! Where to eat!" He was wandering aimlessly in the cafeteria with a plate, not knowing what he was looking for.Rows of empty seats slipped past, but Lin Yang still couldn't find a seat he was satisfied with.

Two girls in the first grade of high school passed by him noisyly, one of them accidentally poured a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes on the floor, splashing a piece of vegetable soup on Lin Yangbai's school uniform. Familiar memories flooded his face, Lin Yang stared blankly at the tomatoes and eggs on the ground for a long time, the girl next to him apologized several times but he kept a cold face and did not respond, the moment the other party was about to cry, he suddenly stood up and walked towards the door Run outside. Yu Zhouzhou's words a month ago turned his enthusiasm for being a savior into stone. Lin Yang told himself that Yu Zhouzhou really didn't need him.

She has her own rich world.She lived so peacefully that over time, she would gradually forget the pain.Just like graduating from elementary school, he learned about the real situation in Zhou Zhou's family through Ling Xiangqian and Jiang Chuan, and felt distressed for a while. He regarded her as a little match girl in a fairy tale world, who needed love and protection.But I didn't expect that when she met by chance in junior high school, she would smile so brightly and freely with another friend in another world. She doesn't need compensation. Lin Yang didn't understand until this moment: Maybe she doesn't need him, but he needs her.

He rushed all the way to the door of the seventh class, choked on the cold wind in the winter and ran more than 400 meters at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. When he stopped, he leaned on the wall and almost wanted to vomit. "Yu Zhouzhou didn't come to school today, you came for nothing." The short-haired girl leaning against the door had big dark circles under her eyes and was as thin as a heavy smoker.She wore her school uniform backwards, with the back facing forward, and her two empty sleeves seemed to be dangling gleefully. "...how did you know that I came to find..."

"Aren't you chasing her? I haven't seen you for a long time. I thought you gave up. I was regretting the perseverance of a man, but you appeared again. It's not bad." Lin Yang almost choked to death on his own saliva.The decision he just made two minutes ago, why does this girl look like she already knew it?And to put it so bluntly... "How do you know me..." After thinking for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Did Yu Zhouzhou tell you?" The girl smiled meaningfully, and Lin Yang suddenly felt a chill down his back. "Stop talking so much nonsense, do you want me to help?"

Lin Yang shook his head. It's not that he doesn't know how these girls play tricks. He was chased by a girl from a foreign class whom he had never seen before in junior high school. He didn't care about that girl because of face, but that girl's so-called sister Pushing his nose on his face, he almost forced him to jump off the building. "My military adviser is not the same as those idiot girls." She shook her finger mysteriously, "It seems that you only have determination but no plan, and you rushed seven hundred miles to come here to confess your confession when you got crazy? Tsk tsk, this IQ is really amazing. Worrying. Just follow your strategy, heh, just chase slowly, I guess I will be buried when the two of you reach the stage of holding hands, if I have a baby in the future, I may have already paid off the mortgage in the underworld Yes. When the time comes to give the child a good name, just write it on a white paper and burn it for me to see!"

The girl's careless words almost made Lin Yang's nose bleed on the spot. "How about it, think about it?" Lin Yang believed this girl almost by instinct. "Then, please. Thank you..." he said seriously. "I don't like to listen to those foolish people," the girl smiled crookedly, turned and went back to class, and after a few seconds, she took out three math papers and three history papers. "Give it to me when you finish it tonight, we will hand it in tomorrow." Lin Yang's face turned pale, "Do you want me to do the history paper?"

"No, no, our history teacher, Mr. Wu Wenlu, is not in good spirits. This so-called chronological clue compilation paper is actually a copy of this thing from beginning to end," the girl handed him three other history papers after finishing speaking. These three sheets are full of words, "Just copy it like this." "You don't even bother to copy the papers? Don't you have the answers?" "Of course I'm too lazy to copy. If I didn't want to be lazy, why would I help you? As Yu Zhouzhou's back desk, I still don't like you. If you can't help you, you still have an opinion?! You can regret it now, I Don't stop her, but believe me, with me here, if you want to catch her, you probably have to wait until I'm buried."

Lin Yang's mind was in a mess, he couldn't recall how he apparated from the cafeteria to this place and became a bonded laborer. "So, for the sake of that black-faced Mr. Bao not to trouble me all day long, you just obediently copy the papers for me—do you know who the three written papers in your hand belong to?" Only then did Lin Yang pick up the paper to look at the name column on the side. Yu Zhouzhou's three delicate and correct characters are printed in the upper left corner like seal cutting. "I stole it from the hole in her table." Although the girl's voice was weak, her voice was very loud. Lin Yang couldn't help but pay attention to see if there were any acquaintances on both sides of the corridor when she yelled out such things openly. "Remember, before school is over, it's best to copy it to me when the first evening self-study is over, don't be late!" Lin Yang nodded like pounding garlic. "By the way, my name is Mi Qiao, and I'm Yu Zhouzhou's best friend. Uh, not yet, it will be in a few days. Remember, follow me and have meat to eat!" After Mi Qiao finished speaking, he coughed a few times, cursed in a low voice, "It's so fucking cold in the corridor", and staggered into the room. Lin Yang carried the nine papers in his hands and went upstairs to work as if sleepwalking. Suddenly, the corners of his mouth curled up, as if he finally had a sweet goal in his life. Then I remembered that Mi Qiao didn't even ask his name, so how could I help him? It can't be... being tricked, right? ---------------------------------------- Yu Zhouzhou heard the vibrating sound of the phone, picked it up and saw it was a text message from Lin Yang. "are you sick?" "It should be a cold, a fever, don't worry, it's nothing serious." "Take medicine well, drink more hot water, dress warmly, stop reading, sleep more, and get better soon. Be obedient!" Yu Zhouzhou felt like being struck by lightning, so she replied without thinking, "Do you know why Avalokitesvara wanted to strangle Tang Seng to death?" She believed that Lin Yang must have watched "Journey to the West". Lin Yang's text message was quickly replied: "But in the end, she still couldn't do anything." Yu Zhouzhou rolled his eyes and fell down on the bed. I don't know why, after receiving a call from her father yesterday, she started to have a high fever for no reason at night, and she was groggy.The fever subsided a little this morning. He smelled of wine.It seems that the eldest aunt sat next to her and wiped her body, forehead, ears, neck, palms, soles of feet with alcohol all night... over and over again, trying to cool down with the oldest method.Yu Zhouzhou felt in a daze that her mother was back again. When she had chickenpox in the third grade of junior high school, she had a high fever for a week. It was also such a drowsy midnight. The figure beside the bed was blurred, but there was a pair of gentle Hand, hold it, and never want to let go. She cried all night unconsciously. Dad said on the phone that he hoped that Yu Zhouzhou could spend the New Year with them. At that time, she refused on her own initiative before calling Chen An.The other party was silent on the phone for a long while, and said, I have to go on business trips every year and year after year, only the Chinese New Year has more time. Yu Zhouzhou suddenly wanted to laugh, "Really? But during Chinese New Year, I don't have time." The other end of the phone was quiet for a while, "Okay, I will contact you in the next year. Study hard and pay attention to your body." "Thanks, bye." Dreaming back at midnight, Yu Zhouzhou admitted in her heart that she was happy. She didn't tell Chen An that at that time, she was startled by the excitement of longing for revenge, and even when the high fever persisted, she was still eager to get up-even though she didn't know what to do when she got up. It turns out that I still have obsessions, and I still want to do something, even if it's just a slap in the face, a harsh word, or insulting and showing off in the most mundane way. She wants to see him and them.She has no way to retreat now, she is desperate, and there is no one to worry about and care about, except herself. Yu Zhouzhou knew that at that moment, she was willing to be a suicide bomber. She waited for the moment when the fuse was ignited. ---------------------------------------------- Xin Rui was almost frozen on the bus, so he had to give up his seat, stood up and jumped twice to try to recover. The gorgeous neon outside the window hits the thick window grilles, reflecting the overflowing brilliance.In today's foreign teacher's class, she finished a whole set of special exercises on analytic geometry until she felt like throwing up when she saw the coordinate axes. In the art class of music class, when the teacher used the big screen to watch the clips, she kept holding the sticky notes that had copied idioms and English words and phrases, and bowed her head, as if she was possessed.Not to mention the sports and inter-class exercises that escape every now and then.There are only foreign teachers, and she speaks actively, because she feels that oral English is a very important skill and appearance. facade.Let yourself "upgrade" and become the face of girls like Yu Zhouzhou and Ling Xiangqian. Only Xin Rui knows how much effort she has put in to become another person.At the beginning, Yu Zhouzhou helped her condescendingly, thinking that all she wanted was good grades and getting rid of the so-called treatment of poor students. In fact, Xin Rui wanted much more than that. Whenever she was in junior high school and stood speechless like a stone for a long time before being allowed to sit down, she would close her eyes and cover this memory with fantasy.In the dark fantasy world, she was eloquent just now, winning applause from all around, and even helped Yu Zhouzhou who couldn't answer the question. When she sat down, she could see Wen Miao's dodgy gaze. Xin Rui has many kinds of illusions like this.In music class, there will be a fantasy of the queen of the stage; in art class, I will mistakenly think that I can talk and comment on Van Gogh and Raphael; even in physical education class, I will stare at my bloated legs in a daze, and stretch them with my eyes , straightening and thinning... How could Yu Zhouzhou know that in addition to her academic performance, in order to make her illusion come true, she ran laps every day, lost weight, memorized history and art knowledge, listened to pop songs like listening to English, and learned common sense in the entertainment industry, so that she When I communicate with others, I won't look like an alien, and I can even become a very popular central figure... Xin Rui has always believed that the greatest tragedy in her life is that she is Xin Meixiang, not anyone else. Not another person.Just Xin Mei Xiang. Ling Xiangqian, the first student in the beautiful school year, used standard American accent to grab the white in the foreign teacher class. Xin Rui stood there, his mind was blank, and suddenly felt a sense of fear of being beaten back to his original shape by the demon mirror. From the first time I met her, my intuition told her that there would be such a day.She shattered He Yaoyao's mirror, but Ling Xiangqian's side, how can she knock out the first crack? Xin Rui stepped into the small new home, and when he took out the key, he heard the sound of pots and pans falling to the ground. "I'm so fucking sick, and you still go out to drink for me, why don't you just drink to death?!" Poor, useless, endless quarrels. In this case, why don't you get divorced, why don't you die. Xin Rui pressed her forehead against the door, this rebellious thought made her ashamed and happy. Yu Zhouzhou must not know that even though she lost her mother, he envied her freedom and no worries so much. The two people in the door who were pointing at each other and swearing unbearable swear words were her dearest people and the biggest stain in her life. ---------------------------------------------- "Is my dad busy today?" "Your father is meeting guests in the study. I think it won't be over for a while, so I called you and asked you to take a taxi back first. Come, take off your coat, wash your hands, and go to the kitchen to eat." Ling Xiangqian put her hands flat under the warm water. She looked at the white back of the hand and the healthy pink nails until her mother shouted to her in the kitchen to hurry up. "Is it almost the end of the term?" Mom picked up chopsticks and spare ribs for her, "How's the review going?" "Oh, that's it." "What do you mean by that?" Ling Xiangqian raised her head and saw that her mother was getting a little over-excited again. The muscles on her left cheek were trembling and trembling, trembling and trembling, spreading from the eyelid to the corner of the mouth. Less than three sentences, it was fine a second ago. "It's good, I mean, it's good." Ling Xiangqian sighed softly in her heart. I went to Beijing for an operation and recuperated for a month and a half. After the facial spasm was suspected to be cured, it recurred again and became more severe. The doctor said, don't make her excited. Ling Xiangqian would like to ask the doctor, every middle-aged woman with facial spasms will be gifted with an extra sensitive nerve, apart from the glass cover, is there any other way to keep them from being stimulated? Life itself is a thrill and a torture.What's more, her mother would be furious because of a fly and mosquito that was not blocked by the screen when the window was opened, and her voice would tremble and her eyes would stand and her eyes would tremble because of the sentence "That's it", and the left side of her face would tremble like the Tangshan earthquake—she wanted to What can I do to keep my mother from getting excited? Ling Xiangqian buried her head in her meal, and suddenly a burst of exhaustion hit her, causing her to close her eyes slightly. People seem to be more prone to lose control when facing darkness, and they are more honest. She asked softly, "Mom, what if I don't take the first place this time?" There was no sound from the other side of the dining table. Ling Xiangqian opened her eyes, and the woman on the opposite side was looking at her with complicated eyes, "I called your teacher last week, and he said that you don't know if you passed the first exam last time. You are proud of being the first one, and you run out of the classroom after class, you are distracted, and you can’t stay still. Sissy, Mom and Dad never force you to take the first and second place in the exam, but you have to work hard and don’t think about it. Evil way, if you are not guilty, why would you ask me this?" Ling Xiangqian closed her eyes, lowered her head and stopped talking. Again. Saying anything is in vain. With her eyes half closed, she kept pushing white rice into her mouth. This emotion is always excited, the cheeks are always trembling, and he must wear sunglasses when going out. He accompanied his father to climb up from the countryside step by step to the position of vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. The woman who can still smile and tie a tie for her man after grabbing each other's hair and beating her head to blood is her mother. She suddenly remembered a certain sentence Zhang Ailing said, the original text can't be remembered clearly, the general idea is that life is a gorgeous robe covered with lice. After finishing her meal in a hurry, she went back to her room and closed the door, but she didn't dare to lock the door. After a while, her mother would make noise if she couldn't knock on the door. Ling Xiangqian took out her mobile phone, hesitated for a long time, and still sent a message to Chu Tiankuo. "You know, I actually feel that I am very tired from living." The thumb was pressed on the send button, and he dared not press it down.After a few seconds, she flicked on the eye protection light, and the dazzling white light woke her up. Ling Xiangqian quickly deleted the text message word by word, and was about to close it, but suddenly felt unwilling, and slowly typed , "How's your exam preparation going?" The mobile phone was placed on the corner of the table, and she waited while browsing the historical chronology. It took more than 20 minutes to get a reply. The mobile phone vibrated weakly through the tablecloth, as if trembling for help. "It's not bad, it's not bad. Come on." This kind of reply, without even asking "how are you", directly prevented her from replying to text messages. Ling Xiangqian smiled bitterly in embarrassment, but at the same time she was thankful that she didn't send that message just now, otherwise she would definitely be regarded as mentally ill by the other party. Ling Xiangqian lay on the table, winter always makes people sleepy and depressed, the more she thought about it, the more upset she became, she grabbed the phone and dialed Lin Yang's number. "Hey?" Lin Yang's voice was light and light, with a hint of happiness. "What are you happy about?" Ling Xiangqian's tone was a bit unfriendly. "You don't care if I'm happy? Why, aren't you happy?" "I am not happy." "What upsets you? Saying it makes me happy." "Lin Yang!" Ling Xiangqian didn't dare to make too much noise, so she could only yell into the phone in a low voice. "I said, what are you struggling with all the time? You are the number one student in the school year. You are beautiful, versatile, happy in your family, rich in love...Although you haven't yet, if there are many people chasing you, you can dump them out with a dustpan. You Where are you unhappy?" Ling Xiangqian held the phone for a long time without making a sound. Lin Yang, why do you even say that. No one seems to want to pay close attention to the details of other people's lives.While Ling Xiangqian carefully concealed the real situation of her family from Jiang Chuan and Lin Yang, two best friends who grew up together, she also hoped that they could guess the pain she was really suppressing in her heart through those small details. She hung up directly, threw her phone aside, lowered her head and started frantically flipping through the books. Lin Yang didn't call again.This made Ling Xiangqian feel that she was making trouble for no reason. Tears rolled in her eyes for a long time, and suddenly she heard the phone on the bed finally ringing. Hastily pulled over, only to find that it belonged to Jiang Chuan. "I heard Lin Yang say that you are in a bad mood? What's the matter? Is it too much pressure? If you can't take the first place in the exam, don't take the exam. Give others a chance and accumulate virtue." Ling Xiangqian smiled with her mouth flattened, tears finally fell down. Such kindness touched her very much. However, this touch came from Jiang Chuan, how could she not be disappointed. Jiang Chuan on the other end of the phone was still sniffing, Ling Xiangqian suddenly got really unreasonable, she said softly, Jiang Chuan, can you not always be like a child who can't clean his nose? She couldn't explain how the cruelty and shamelessness that hurt others and herself made her so happy.