Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Punishment

Missing exams will be punished, but the punishment has not come for a long time, and there is even no sign of it coming.Even Zhu Zhu reassured me, saying that this kind of broken things are often caught, and the worst is to write inspections and make-up exams.I also think so, and I even thought about it, treat Eva to McDonald's, let her ghostwrite the inspection for me and Bao Jingsheng.I was relieved that everything was business as usual, and it was uneventful for a few days.Both Bao Jingsheng and I thought that this was the end of the matter, and we still went to his house to eat instant noodles every night.When the punishment came, it was like a bolt from the blue, knocking us into a daze.

Of course, thinking about it afterwards, we could actually see some signs, like the brief calm when a storm passed by, and no one asked us to explain why we missed the exam. The class committee didn't ask any questions, and the conspiracy was quietly accumulated. Only Tao Tao bit me like a dog that could only predict earthquakes. Tao Tao walked side by side with me at the corner of the stairs, which was the corner where he had stopped me and twisted me for the first time.We were going to exercise between classes, and it seemed that we walked side by side naturally.It was precisely at that corner that Tao Tao tripped his foot, he let out an oath, grabbed the handrail, and bowed his back.I said, Tao Tao, are you okay?Tao Tao looked up at me, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he said, I'm fine, what's the matter if I stumbled a bit.How about you, are you all right?Tao Tao's words were very funny, what's the matter with me, everyone knows what happened between me and Bao Jingsheng.I said, I have nothing to do.

There was still a smile on the corner of Tao Tao's mouth, but the smile froze for a long time, and it was a bit like a sneer.Tao Tao said, it’s fine if there’s nothing wrong, and you can’t hide from it if something happens.Cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect.Can't be wrong to be careful, right? At this time Bao Jingsheng came down from behind and patted Tao Tao on the back. He said, buddy, are you alright? Tao Tao said that things are trivial. I became anxious, I said Tao Tao, why did your words turn sour, what exactly do you mean?I can't understand you at all.

Tao Tao muttered something in English that was a bit like "this damn" but not "this damn", who knows.We used to imitate Song Xiaodou and imitate her birdsong, but in fact it was all nonsense.After Tao Tao finished his chatter, he limped away. Today is the last inter-class exercise before the end of the half term. Song Xiaodou announced during her morning reading that Tao Tao would stand in front and lead the exercise.She said that although it is a half-term, half-term can also be considered as a summary, we should have a beginning and an end, anticlimactic.How beautiful the leopard's tail is.Speaking of the leopard's tail, Song Xiaodou's voice trembled with joy, and even his face flushed.Her single braid came around from the back of her neck and hung on her chest. Now she likes to stroke the braid while talking. The braid and the leopard feel the same, right?

I don’t remember the sophomore year? There was a poor tiger head in Class 1, but I still like Song Xiaodou’s statement, the leopard’s tail is indeed very beautiful.And I also found that Song Xiaodou has also become more beautiful, her face and lips have obviously become plump and rosy, especially the small mouth with two protruding petals, which opened up to people as friendly as a rose. .It has been a long time since she scolded us in English, she just warned us to cherish the time.Cherish the time, she always pouted her mouth when she finished saying this sentence, her mouth was as soft as lipstick that was about to drip.

Once when eating barbecue, Zhu Zhu once said to me, Miss Song is getting married, right?But Bao Jingsheng shook his head, he said, what do you know, Misi Song is in love. I don't have an opinion, I think they are all talking nonsense.A woman like Song Xiaodou can't fall in love. It's a joke that she will be settled by any man.Song Xiaodou is so proud, what else does a man need?But I didn't say it, I was afraid they would call me a fool. I don't even dare to say how I feel about Tao Tao, although I don't have any feelings for him anymore, because I can't see him at all, even if he is a shadow, he will dangle in front of my eyes, right?But his shadow seemed to be sucked in by another shadow, and it disappeared without a sound.Therefore, when he suddenly stood in the front row to give us a drill, I really felt like we had reunited after a long time.I didn't feel it at the dark corner just now, but now that he and I were face to face, I was a little dazed, as if eight or ten years had passed between us.Didn't Song Xiaodou say to cherish the time, but eight years and ten years have passed like this.There were many heads rolling and undulating between us, like gourds floating on the river. The sun in May made people's eyes dark, but they couldn't feel the heat at all.Tao Tao's expression is very serious, and his movements are meticulous, which can be said to be graceful and generous. Indeed, no one can do it as beautifully as him, so rough and so elegant.I don't remember if Tao Tao did so well before, I just think he is obviously thinner, his cheeks on both sides are like an ax has been split, they are terribly steep, and they are blue-white, and his eyes are very tired. It was cold inside, no different from the sun in May this year.I looked at Tao Tao, looked and looked, looked and looked, and there were small bugs crawling to the corner of my eyes, crawling around, itching so much that my heart ached.I rubbed and rubbed my eyes with my fingers, and when I opened them again, the team had dispersed, and Tao Tao naturally disappeared from the world again.

There is a summary report in the half term. We sit in the classroom and listen to Principal Jiang's voice.It was the first time that Principal Jiang’s voice came from the small building covered in plants. It was no different from Vice Principal Jiang’s voice. It lacked ups and downs and cadences, but it was calm, composed, and earnest, like a wet sheet of paper. The rag is patiently wiping the dusty desk.In fact, no change is impossible, because in this report, Vice Principal Jiang has officially become Principal Jiang. If there is no change, how can he spend so much effort? After five minutes, I began to doze off.The wind was blowing outside, the leaves of the acacia tree were flying around like sparrows, the curtains of the classroom were tightly drawn, the hot air from our noses steamed our faces red, and the voice of Principal Jiang was so loud. It's dreamy, like sleeping on a train and counting the clicks of the rails.Of course, the reason I dozed off was because I didn't sleep well at night.I became more and more obsessed with doing things on the sofa with Bao Jingsheng. Although it was always "empty", I had more pursuits. Because it was empty, I persevered.What is an ideal in the world, Maimed said, is a piece of meat hanging by the mouth of a donkey.

Of course, I couldn't even see this piece of meat near my mouth, only Bao Jingsheng was the only one I saw.He can be a huge piece of meat or nothing, oh poor Eva, why let me know "empty"? I haven't been home for three consecutive nights. I told my father that I will stay at my classmates' home to review my homework during the exam.Dad naturally wouldn't say anything, he hummed to show that he heard it.I don't know what Bao Jingsheng told his uncle and aunt.I met his uncle and aunt once. It was very late, and I fell asleep on the sofa. I only heard the sound of opening the door, someone talking, northern dialect, with a heavy retroflex.I vaguely saw two equally tall men and women walking into the inner room with their arms, a gust of wind hit my face, and then I fell asleep.It was early morning when I woke up, and only Bao Jingsheng and I were left in this family.It was already dawn, and we were drenched in sweat when we got up, because Bao Jingsheng always had to work in vain.Do it, I said you can do it if you want.Bao Jingsheng's movements were fierce, his hippopotamus-like mouth was rumbling.I lay peacefully without saying a word, I found that I felt sorry for him, felt sorry for him, wanted him well, wanted him to get his wish, thought that I could become the female cat on the roof, really, I would rather be the cat on the roof The female cat screamed so hard that tears flowed comfortably, so he and I would be much more comfortable, right?

I listened to Principal Jiang's voice, but I didn't know what he was talking about.His voice passed through my ears without leaving a trace.I recalled the comfort I imagined, and almost fell asleep, like a submarine diving into the deep sea.But at this moment, Principal Jiang's voice suddenly cut my eardrum like a knife.After a scrape and another scrape, I started to wake up, the eardrums were still hurting, and the pain made me sleepless.I saw my classmates looking at me, all of them had strange expressions in their eyes, I don't know why? I glanced at Bao Jingsheng, who was still sitting in front of me, bulging on everyone's heads like a tomb.Fortunately, when Principal Jiang talked about any key points, he would nag over and over again.I have seen the monks in the Crock Temple knock on the wooden fish, and when they hit the place they are proud of, they all shake their heads and knock over and over again.

I quickly understood that Principal Jiang was announcing a principal order.The purpose of the principal's order is to confirm that he has become the principal, but the content is to strictly enforce the school rules and drive the two unlucky guys out of the bubble gate.These two people are Bao Jingsheng and me—in view of the fact that Bao Jingsheng and He Feng, two students in the second grade? Student status....With this order, the principal Jiang ××. I had no thoughts, no thoughts, no words.It's like letting Bao Jingsheng do things on the sofa, it seems to be filled, but it is actually emptied.I let out a long breath and almost fell into a fucking sleep again.

At noon we went to have barbecue as usual.Everyone was silent, and they ate one bunch after another. The bamboo sticks were thrown all over the floor. Ali also ate a lot of chicken butts. He suddenly said, "Damn ×, the more you eat, the more delicious the chicken butts are!"Bao Jingsheng laughed. He said Ali was a sensible person. You knew it too late, but you still knew it.He turned to Zhu Zhu again, and he said Zhu Zhu, don't you think so? Zhu Zhu Wan'er smiled, and she said, I know, but it's still too late, don't you think so, my uncle? I have been waiting for Bao Jingsheng to speak, because after the meeting ended, his face was sullen and he didn't say a word.I waited for him to burst into a series of contemptuous laughs, or say some big words that shook the ground, even if it was a swollen face and a fat man.But he just didn't say a word, his face was gloomy, and his face drooped loosely like the skin of the hippopotamus, and he felt that his booming voice was only spinning around in his body.Now that he's finally talking, Zhu Zhu's smile pries his jaws open, and I know he's either laughing his head up, or kicking over the BBQ stall in a fit of rage.But, he didn't do anything, he said, eat it, eat it, it's a bunch, right?He looked at me for a long time, smiling, and narrowed his eyes.I was so sad that tears were about to flow out.I said, uncle, uncle, you can't find a way? Bao Jingsheng acted like he didn't hear clearly, he said, method, what method, why did you ask me to find a method?His mouth was open, and we looked up at him and could see his blackened chest and even his blood-congested almonds.He pointed the almonds at Zhu Zhu, Ali, and Jingui, and said, Fengzi, why don't you ask them, what good solution can they find? !Bao Jingsheng's rough voice before had become unexpectedly shrill, like a child covering his ears and screaming softly. I was a little confused, I said, uncle, why are you pretending to be crazy, what are they looking for? Bao Jingsheng sneered, why am I looking for a way? I pointed at him with a finger, and pointed at the chicken butt that was smoking black smoke on the charcoal fire, and I said, you are really crazy, you will not be a student tomorrow, but they will still eat here tomorrow barbecue. Bao Jingsheng stared at me, without speaking for a long time, with a stiff smile and scowling alternately on his face.Everyone didn't speak, they all looked at him stupidly, what did they say?I should be able to say a few words of comfort, but I have been sentenced to death with a reprieve, and it seems that I should wait for others to comfort me. It was Jingui who broke the silence.Jingui said, Bo, Bo is nothing.We eat barbecue, and Bao Jingsheng also eats barbecue. What is the difference between barbecue and barbecue? Jingui's words were blah, we didn't seem to understand, but Bao Jingsheng had already heaved a sigh of relief, his whole body was buzzing, letting out the suffocating bird breath.He said, well, what Jingui said is good, what is the difference, what do I do today, and what will I do tomorrow, isn't Bao Jingsheng still Bao Jingsheng? Only Jin Gui smiled innocently, and the two of them looked at each other, just like a martial arts novel.When we left, bamboo sticks were thrown everywhere on the embankment.The river was full of water, and the river bed was rarely full, and the river suddenly felt rich. It covered up the dirty shallows and the smell of the sewer.I don't know what will happen, and I certainly don't know what Bao Jingsheng is planning. At the end of the half term, as soon as the principal's report is finished, it's almost like eating half a meal. Let's go home and let's talk about it after a few days of relaxation.As usual, the second day was a parent forum, but for students, that is already a matter for parents, so what does it have to do with us?The iron gate of the school creaked and barked with difficulty, and was pushed to close by Greyhound. Greyhound looked relaxed and proud. What he meant was that even if you were beaten at the school gate these days Half dead, or the other way around, you deserve it right for kicking any unlucky guy on all fours, I'll just watch happily from inside the fence.What does that have to do with me other than watching? The half-term exam is not the final exam, but for us, as long as it is an exam, everyone should relax after the exam. After Principal Jiang’s report that day, I finished the barbecue. I was going to go with Bao Jingsheng, but he told me that I couldn’t go with him because his parents came from Tibet and lived there with a big sofa. family vacation.He said, you can't go, Fengzi... After saying this, Bao Jingsheng pedaled the huge mail truck and slowly disappeared. I knew he was lying, but I didn't expose his lie.He wanted to be alone, and I wanted to be alone. The wind creaked in the branches of the paulownia tree, and I felt very tired. People always feel very tired in the afternoon, so I leaned against a paulownia tree to rest.During the meeting in the morning, I was still thinking about how to keep warm and have fun with Bao Jingsheng, but this matter passed in a blink of an eye.If both of them are cold, where will the heating come from? Poor Bao Jingsheng, and of course poor Fengzi. Can Bao Jingsheng find a way out of danger this time?Tomorrow's parent symposium, I made up my mind to ask for leave, my mother was not there, and my father, in my lie, he had already been transferred from the embassy and became the army commander of one side.Let me just say that he is directing a military exercise, how can the general get off the line of fire so easily!What about Bao Jingsheng?His parents came, that is, to receive a written notice from the school.Not coming?If you don't come, it's the default.Even if Bao Jingsheng was forced to become a mad dog, he would not be able to jump over this wall.Song Xiaodou later concluded that the principal's order is the principal's determination, or, she muttered, or ambition. It was still early, and I crossed the Binhe Road alone, walked along the embankment, walked slowly, and got out of sweat.A thin mist rose from the river, and a man in water boots was standing in the water carrying a net.The river was already deep, but the nets moved muddy water, and the stench made people's eyes water.But the man just stood in the water and operated his net, lifting it up and down it patiently.Occasionally, a few small fishes as big as a thumb would jump in the net with shiny silver bellies. He would pick them up to have a look, and then throw them back into the water.There is no old woman or old man practicing Tai Chi on the shore, only a few migrant workers who can't find a job, like me, watching the net like a bird.There is always wind by the river, and the wind slowly dried the sweat on my body. In the afternoon of May, I was actually cold and shivered a few times.I looked at the migrant workers around me. They looked similar to Jingui who had just arrived. Their hair was long and messy, their clothes were thin and old, and their lips were darkened by the cold, but they still looked at the net with no expression. The net undulates and haunts the sewage, and finally it is empty. I suddenly thought, what would happen if I just left with these migrant workers and went back to a construction shed with them to eat and sleep together?I can dress myself up as a man, not speak, and when I have a way to live, I will be a way to live, and when I have no way to live, I will come to the river to be a dumb bird. At night, dozens of us will huddle together, chatting with a country bumpkin accent, how comfortable it is .I don't know what other people will say, because they have nothing to do with me anymore. The middle school, the neighborhood, and this person and that person have all become people in my memory.I was crowded with dozens of steaming people, and spent the night in the sweaty and smoky work shed, how comfortable it must be. Of course, I knew I was delusional.I'm not stupid enough to want to be a fairy after reading a fairy tale, or Mickey Mouse after watching a cartoon. I said I'm a normal fool, right?I've read so many McMedley comic strips, but I've never dreamed of being a knight-errant.I stood in the wind, thinking of Eva with envy.Although she is crippled and can't go anywhere, she can sink into her "basement" and evaporate.At the same time, I also thought of Bao Jingsheng bitterly. If he hadn't taught me how to keep warm for fun on the sofa full of clothes, how would I know what cold to be afraid of? I stood in the wind, and the wind dried my sweat. I felt cold, but after being completely cold, I began to warm up slowly.The heat rose from the soles of my feet, and climbed up my body inch by inch, calves, thighs... The heat even evaporated from my hair, and my whole body felt warm.I was not surprised by the sudden warmth that kept me in place.I have had a similar experience in the past. This is hunger. When hunger empties the stomach but can’t eat anything, it slowly feels full. It’s so full that it makes people want to burp , want to vomit.Now, I must have been warmed up by the wind, as if there was a small flame burning in my bones.I took a breath and watched the man carrying the net toil in the sewage.This time, my eyes were really blurred with tears. The sun squeezed out from the gray clouds and cast a dazzling light on the water surface. .Tears flowed to the corner of my mouth, I stuck out my tongue to lick it, my tears were salty, and they were really warm. I looked away and found that the migrant workers had already left.However, on the other side of the embankment, under a row of willow trees, a man was waving his arms at me.It has been waving for a long time, and I am still waving patiently.Oh, it's Zhu Zhu, I think so.You think so too, right?Besides Zhu Zhu, who else would be so patient with me? But I was wrong, this is not Zhu Zhu.I wiped away the tears with the back of my hands and sleeves before I saw it was Eva.Eva's face is smiling, because of this smile, more sunlight shines on her pale face, and her big hooked nose has a deeper shadow. It looks like her face is like a sculpture that's it.There were many sculptures on the embankment, and Eva was the most beautiful of them all, and there was something gleaming on her hand, piercing here and there like needles. I walked towards Eva, she was waiting for me with a smile, the wind was still blowing, and her dry yellow hair was held up by the wind, floating in waves.I have to admit now that Eva's smile made her look beautiful, pretty like a Norse queen.And I, like a defeated and conscripted savage.I walked up to her, and she really reached out and touched my head like a queen.Of course, she didn't put her hands flat on the top of my head, and I didn't bend my knees toward her.I'm a head taller than her, she can't do it. She just patted my cheek, she said, Fengzi, are you crying? She dared to ask me such words, but she just asked.Her voice was different from before, very kind and caring, and on this cool afternoon in May, her voice sounded like an old grandmother.I said, crying, so what if you cry?My words were provocative, but it sounded like I was talking too much.I felt bad for being a baby, and it was in the presence of crippled Eva, and I was on the verge of crying again, because the shiny needle in Eva's hand stung my eye again.I was afraid that she would think that I was really crying, so I blocked her with words first, and I said, you are pretending to be a ghost, as if you are really wearing a diamond ring the size of a needle point, isn't it? Eva moaned, and I swear it was like Tao Tao moaned the first time she stroked her crippled leg.She said, God, Fengzi, who told you?She raised her right hand and put it under my eyelid, she said, is it good-looking? This time I turned my head away from the light.I can see that Eva's ring finger is really wearing a fucking gold ring, and there is really a real diamond in the ring, the size of the tip of a needle.I twisted her ring finger so that her face was crooked.I said, you all call me a lunatic, there is no more normal lunatic than me in the world!What show are you doing? Eva was not angry, she shook her hands vigorously, and her crooked face slowly returned to normal.She said, I didn't do a show, really, why should I do a show, isn't it just a ring? I also laughed, what does she get in the way of me wearing a ring.I said, whether you love her or not, you just want to show off that you have a boy again. Eva's smile turned into a sneer, and she said, Fengzi, I used to think highly of you.Rings, you mean engagement or wedding rings, right? Do men have to buy them for us? Can you buy them for yourself?The sneer on Eva's face softened and turned into a compassionate smile. She said, Fengzi, don't you understand what I mean? I shook my head, and I said, Eva, you are always taller than us, like a swollen river, how could I understand. Eva made a distressed look on my cheek and patted it a few more times.She said, a relative of my grandpa's grandpa, the old Russian guy you call, made a fortune in Vladivostok, and wanted to take me to St. Petersburg for surgery. Surgery, I didn't react, I said, what kind of surgery? Lame, Eva raised her trouser legs generously, of course it was symbolic, I didn't see her miraculous lameness.She said, if the operation is successful, I will be able to run, jump and climb mountains, and I will go all over the world to have fun.You see, those of you who can have fun are full of worries and sorrows all day long.After she finished speaking, she bent her finger into a hook and scratched my nose affectionately. I was a little dazed, and stared fixedly at her big hooked nose with a strong shadow, as if it was only then that I realized that it and the legends about it were absolutely true. I said, what if the operation failed? Failed, she said, oh failed, they said things that failed.It is said that if I cut a wrong nerve, I will be blind.However, it’s okay to be blind. Didn’t I write that this is my ideal?No one can do whatever they want, right? At that time, I wanted to see but couldn't see it, and you wanted to fly but couldn't. We were tied. I stared blankly at Eva, speechless. Eva handed me something as thick as a brick, wrapped in yellow satin, like a box of chocolates.She said, for you to watch and play, my "Notes from Underground".I know you've wanted to see it for a long time, haven't you? I say yes. Eva smiled, she said, call me when you miss me, there is my number on it. To St. Petersburg, I said, to that icy place? So what's the matter, Eva said, the telephone line is not afraid of cold or heat. My tears fell down, splashed on the yellow silk, and melted immediately, like the shock marks left by bullets passing through the glass. Eva, the lame talented girl Liang Chen whose real name is almost forgotten by us, she scratched my nose at the end, she said, tears are a good thing, let’s save good things for yourself. In the evening, I untied the silk satin under the desk lamp, the yellow of the silk and the yellow of the light were mixed together, and it printed my heart in a sallow yellow, that kind of lifeless yellow.Inside the satin was a hard-shell notebook, and when I opened the notebook, there was nothing inside.All the paper cores were neatly cut away like a sharp knife cutting tofu.There was a phone number on the back cover, and a long string of Arabic numerals was written with a large-tipped foam pen. It was thick and black, exuding a faint smell of alcohol, like the crippled guy smiling slyly. After a long time, I dialed this number several times in a depressed night, and I heard an expressionless voice several times, like a robot talking to itself with a fake mouth: The number you dialed is Empty number, please check and dial again later.The number you dialed is an empty number, please check it before dialing... I suddenly laughed, Eva, Eva, what are you kidding?