Chapter 19 9. Turbulence

The school has entered the mid-term exam, and Pei Xiaolong is studying hard. He wants to get a good grade in the exam, and then write a letter to his mother so that she can feel at ease.He squeezed out sleep time for many nights, and he began to feel sleepy and lack of energy; sometimes he dozed off on the cold table while reviewing, and then had all kinds of strange dreams. His dreams were vague at first, fragments of various fantasies and impressions came one after another, fragmented and incoherent, but all implied passion and impulsiveness.There was also an inexplicable sense of melancholy and loss.Then he dreamed that he climbed a tall building and looked at the sky and the earth. He wanted to fly out, but the result was to fall.However, many scenes in the dream are memories of his previous experiences.

One day, he dreamed that he was standing under the window of Yu Meilin's house, and it was snowing in the sky. He had been standing in the flying snowflakes for a long time, his feet were bare, but he didn't feel cold at all.At this time, she opened the window and threw a note from it. He took it in his hand and saw that it was a big white butterfly.It is a miracle to see such beautiful white butterflies in winter.Looking at the bright light in the window, he felt very warm and sweet.At this time, he grabbed the snowflakes on the ground and threw them towards the window. The snowflakes whirled and fell from mid-air, but turned into bright red or golden maple leaves.

He looked to the ground and saw that teacher Yu Meilin was buried in the leaves wearing only a light blue dress.There may be a pit under her, and the person is sinking, so Xiaolong quickly grabbed her.Some maple leaves swirled into Yu Meilin's clothes like red-hot iron pieces, causing her to cry out in pain.Ask Xiaolong to take them out quickly.Xiaolong was both excited and timid, and tried to unbutton her shirt with trembling hands, but he couldn't undo it no matter what.When she was anxious, it seemed like an abyss opened behind Yu Meilin, and she began to sink again.He quickly hugged her.But his lips were stuck to hers... It felt very cold and cold. He opened his eyes and saw that there was a large piece of glass-like transparent ice between them.He was startled and found himself awake with his head on the cold table.

Xiaolong got up, washed his face with cold water, drank some water, and turned on the TV to wake himself up. The TV news is reporting that there was an air accident in a certain area of ​​Central Asia. The plane encountered turbulence, or some kind of unexpected failure occurred. In short, none of the passengers on board survived. The report said that there were also Chinese passengers and so on on the list of victims. .Pei Xiaolong felt that this kind of news was very disturbing, especially frightening, so he turned off the TV casually. On the day of the exam, there was intermittent gloomy autumn rain, the chill in the air was already deep, and the autumn fairy tale seemed to be fading away soon.

During the English subject test, the invigilator was Yu Meilin, the head teacher.She walked back and forth in the classroom earnestly, patrolling and shuttling between the desks.The air in the classroom was tense and quiet, and the rustling of the pen tip across the paper could be heard. Pei Xiaolong was a little distracted, he would occasionally raise his head to meet Yu Meilin's gaze, and then quickly lowered his head in a heartbeat, burying his head in the test paper.When Yu Meilin patrolled behind him, he would involuntarily turn his face away, facing her back, and hastily glanced at her ankles, as if to make sure there was nothing unusual...

However, his demeanor and actions did not escape another pair of keen eyes, that is the eyes of the young girl Huang Minmin. It was the school's annual physical and developmental indicators inspection week for middle school students. On this day, Huang Minmin deliberately delayed to be the last one to enter the clinic. "According to your student number, you should be checked in front." Yu Meilin asked her with concern, "Is it because you are not feeling well, are you late?" "Well, I had a headache just now, but it's much better now." Huang Minmin replied vaguely, but she was thinking about other things in her heart.

Yu Meilin measured her height, seat height and bust for her, and then told her with a smile: "Minmin, you are a very well-proportioned, beautiful girl! Your skin and physique are well developed." Huang Minmin said in a teasing tone: "However, no matter how well-proportioned and beautiful you are, you are not as attractive as Teacher!" "What do you mean?" Yu Meilin asked her in surprise. "Teacher, you don't know. There are many boys in our class who admire you. Pei Xiaolong is one of them." Huang Minmin replied in a mysterious tone. "Is there such a thing?"

"Yes, the classmates also said that you and Pei Xiaolong are a teacher-student relationship." "Nonsense!" Yu Meilin's tone seemed calm, but she was a little suspicious in her heart. "But, teacher, there is evidence." A sly smile appeared on Minmin's face. "Evidence? What evidence?!" She was really taken aback. Huang Minmin stood up, took out a photo from her schoolbag, put it in front of Yu Meilin and said, "Teacher, please take a good look." Yu Meilin took the photo and took a closer look, and couldn't help but be stunned: the photo showed that she and Xiaolong went on an outing that day, and after seeing the scene when Maple Leaf went home and broke up, she hugged Pei Xiaolong. Although it was a little blurry in the night, the two People's figure, voice and smile can still be clearly identified.She suddenly felt the blood all over her body rushing to her face, and the anger in her eyes suddenly burned. She pointed to the photo and asked sharply, "Who did this kind of thing?!"

"Me!" Huang Minmin didn't hide it, and suddenly said in a very challenging and aggressive tone. Yu Meilin did not expect that there was such a lovely and beautiful girl in front of her.She was so sharp and terrifying, so unscrupulous and scheming, she almost went crazy with anger!She was about to give the student a hard time, but she was a teacher and had to hold back her anger.She also stood up, threw the photo heavily on Minmin's face, changed her color and said, "You, how can you do such an immoral thing? It's simply despicable and shameless! Do you still understand? Respect people's privacy?!"

Without showing any weakness, Huang Minmin flicked the hair on her forehead back, and said arrogantly: "I, I only know to respect teacher's morality!" Yu Meilin suddenly shed sad, sad tears, and there seemed to be a hole in her heart, wringing out drop by drop of blood, which turned into traces of anger.At this moment, the phone rang, notifying her that her father was sick and admitted to the hospital... At this time, Minmin suddenly cried because of sadness. She wanted to hold back desperately, but tears still flowed down her pale cheeks.She grabbed her schoolbag and ran out of the bathroom.

The results of the midterm exam and ranking came out. Pei Xiaolong was doing well, and his total score was among the top ten in the class. He wanted to write a letter to tell his mother when he got home.In the past few days, he has also planted a pot of wild lilies on the back balcony of his home, and he wants to give it to his teacher Yu Meilin as a gift when it blooms.Wild lily generally blooms in early and late autumn. It has tall and stubborn rhizomes and rather large petals, and emits a strong and attractive aroma.At first glance, it looks like wild grass in the wasteland, but in fact it is the most regal among the wild flowers and grasses.Its underground bulbs can still be eaten. Xiaolong once heard from the old people that lily roots became a very important food in the hungry era.Now they are still widely cultivated as ornamental and edible flowers. When wild lilies bathe in the autumn sun and bloom in full bloom, they are very pure and refined.This is why Pei Xiaolong has a soft spot for lilies. When Xiaolong was cooking the lilies, he heard a hasty knock on the doorbell. For some reason, he felt his heart beating wildly.When I opened the door to look, I saw an urgent telegram sent by the Telecom Bureau. "Is there an adult at home?" The person from the telecommunications bureau asked him, and the sound of the motorcycle accelerator outside the station was deafeningly loud. "No." Xiaolong said with some trepidation, "Let me sign for you!" The telegram was sent by my mother's headquarters in Beijing, and it was packed in a large black and white letter, which looked very solemn.He closed the door, calmed down for a moment, and wanted to read the contents of the telegram.But he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, but he didn't dare to open it.He took the telegram into his room absent-mindedly, and stared blankly at it for a while, feeling that some unknown force was attacking him... Anxiety, which had just faded away for a while, now came back, and more Forcefully tugging at his heart. He hesitated like this, repeatedly panicked and apprehensive, but in the end he couldn't get over the torment in his heart. When he opened the telegram to read it, his face turned gray in an instant.The plane my mother was flying abroad crashed!She was confirmed to be on the plane, and no one on board survived... He recalled the TV news reports he saw a few days ago, and all his ominous premonitions were confirmed. Pei Xiaolong's eyes turned red like fire, and his body trembled a little.He looked at the sky outside the window, his eyes trying to hold back something, but the tears still flowed down his pale cheeks.He wanted to get up and run into the street, but his feet would not listen to him. At this time, he heard the sound of his father coming home.He hastily wiped away his tears, and hurriedly hid the telegram in his back pocket.Although he has always been hostile to his father, he knows in his heart that his father loves his mother more than he does, and he doesn't want to make him sad for the time being. Father seemed to be working very hard and tired, his eyes were bloodshot, but he looked energetic.As soon as he saw Xiaolong, he asked with concern: "Xiaolong, has the test result come out? How is the result?" Xiaolong nodded, forced a smile and said, "It's not bad, it ranks in the top ten in the class." "You kid, you're not bad, you've made progress!" His father patted him on the shoulder like a friend of the same generation, feeling a little relieved.He looked at his son and said, "Why is your complexion not so good, is it because you are tired from the exam during this time?" Xiaolong's eyes turned red, and when the tears were about to flow, he still held back and said, "It's nothing. Dad, you can rest today, I want to learn how to cook a meal." Father looked at him suspiciously.He knew that his son had a stubborn temper, and he couldn't go against him. His mother had taken care of him, and he had to follow his wishes in small things.What's more, my son seems to be very sensible today. From childhood, in Xiaolong's heart, his father was his enemy.When he saw his mother who loved him being sent by his father at will, he felt more hostile towards him.I remember that he once said to his mother when he was young: "If you kill Dad, I will help you." Unexpectedly, his mother laughed loudly, kissed him lightly, and then went to busy with her affairs. He was puzzled, only felt that his mother had completely become his father's poor captive, and it was so lonely and helpless to kill his father by his own strength. When mother and father talked affectionately, and the brisk laughter came like a midnight dream, this made him hate his father even more, and felt that his mother had betrayed him weakly.What filled his heart was endless grievance and loneliness. Dad loved music, and he bought an old record player from an antique store somewhere.Hearing the melodious music, what Xiaolong thought of was a terrible revenge plan, which was to quietly cut the wires and electrocute his father.One day, he really practiced this way, but accidentally cut his own hand, bleeding profusely.The mother's face turned pale, and she screamed for her father to come.In the end, it was his father who wrapped up his wound and carried him to the hospital for vaccination. At that time, he was lying on his father's back, feeling that his father's shoulders were so broad and solid, so warm and loving, so he fell into a deep sleep.From then on, my father threw away the record player that got into trouble... Now, looking at his father's tired back, he felt as sad as a lonely child.He really wanted to look at that old-fashioned record player again, but the tears flowed down quietly again.Xiaolong felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, but he didn't know why.He went into the kitchen and wiped his eyes. Dad sat down on the couch, and he turned on the TV.A news program was being broadcast on TV, Xiaolong suddenly remembered something, ran into the living room and turned off the TV.His father looked at him in amazement, and turned on the TV again without making a sound, but only adjusted the volume to very light.But Xiaolong closed it again.At this moment, a new confrontation formed between father and son, and the harmonious atmosphere in the room just now was gone. Xiaolong was waiting for his father's anger, his scolding.But nothing happened. Father's face became as stiff as a plaster mask, only his lips trembled slightly, and he finally let out a surprised voice: "You, you already know?! When did you know?" Xiaolong shook his head, pretending not to know anything, with a bleak smile on his face, but subconsciously put his hands behind his back to protect the telegram in his pocket. "Is it a telegram? Why didn't you tell me?" Father's tone became very heavy, and his eye circles were red. Seeing that he couldn't hide it anymore, Xiaolong had no choice but to say: "I don't want to make you sad!" "I've received the news a long time ago. Mom's unit has a call." The father couldn't bear the sadness any longer, the pain twitched in his chest for a long time, and now he finally burst into tears, "I always wanted to hide it from you, just because I was afraid that it would affect me. Your emotions during the exam..." At this moment, there is nothing more to say.The father and son hugged each other and wept loudly, but the hostility in their chests had completely melted away.