Rain is hitting the windows with a loud bang, and lead-colored dark clouds are rolling in the sky of the coastal city. The lightning flashes are like opening a single eye for the black clouds, and then the muffled thunder that rolls over is the unruffled god behind the clouds.

heavy breathing.

Chu Zihang stood at the door of the classroom. The eight-level wind blew the flag on the playground of Shilan Middle School trembling wildly. Several senior students were bending around the flagpole to avoid the rain and tried to lower the flag, but it was obvious that they failed.

A boy accidentally touched the button and opened the umbrella in his arms. The wind blew the umbrella and flew him backwards. Another boy jumped up smartly and tried to hug him, but they were blown away together.

He entered the lawn full of muddy water and became a drowned duck.

Cars honked constantly on the playground, and the car lights from all directions reflected the shadow of the flagpole on the rainy night. The horns sounded like a ragtag band without a conductor. The louder the sound, the more irritated the people who heard it were. Car banquet

In an ordinary playground, students scurry around like headless flies, and most of them are wearing black raincoats. It reminds people of the tadpoles in the kindergarten textbooks who can't find their mothers.

Chu Zihang under the eaves stretched out his hand, and the rainwater splashed on his hand, letting him know that the rain really came from the sky. With this level of rainfall, there are silver waterfalls all over the world.

The curtains, everything was washed hazy by the water spray, and it was difficult to tell whether it was rain falling from the sky to the ground, or whether the water on the ground was flowing back to the sky.

 It is raining all over the sky.

The phone vibrated and received a new message. Chu Zihang glanced down and then silently deleted it. He leaned against the wall with his hands folded and stared blankly at the chaotic car show on the rainy night. It gradually became quiet from the flashy to the rutted roads.

Outside the school gate, only the messy playground was left, which was splashed by the heavy rain.

 “I can’t go home even if I wait for someone”

The voice came from the right side of Chu Zihang. A boy from the lower grade walked to Chu Zihang and squatted down. Together they sat on the eaves of the teaching building and watched the mirage of rising and falling rain.

  “et al.”

Chu Zihang replied that this junior boy, whom he had never met before, was not an acquaintance, but he was not a cold-faced evil star who rejected people thousands of miles away. He even said that few people in Shilan Middle School dared to talk to him, no.

People who know him well say that his zodiac sign belongs to the refrigerator, and you can feel the bone-chilling chill inside from his pupils before you even open the refrigerator door.

“Oh, it’s good to wait for someone, it’s good to wait for someone, at least there will be someone to pick you up in this weather.” The boy in the lower grade looked slightly younger than Chu Zihang, and he should also be from Shilan Junior High School.

He and Chu Zihang had obviously never met before, but yet they squatted down next to Chu Zihang so naturally.

The heavy rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the big raindrops are blown by the wind in the air and hit each other and burst, scattering water splashes on the ground. The wind becomes stronger and the dark clouds roll.

Chu Zihang looked down at the silent boy squatting next to him, and suddenly said his name "Lin Nian"

As if he answered the code correctly, the boy in the lower grade subconsciously looked up at him and touched his cheek with some confusion. It was unclear how Chu Zihang, who had also never met him before, recognized him. "How do you know?"

My name, is my name written on my face?”

"As a transfer student from the junior high school, your entrance exam score was the first. You were praised for your speech under the national flag. The president of the high school student union personally issued you the admission notice." Chu Zihang turned his head and continued to look at the rainy night.

"I was in the audience at that time. You were wearing a white T-shirt with the noble bird o printed on it and black casual pants. Your shoes were a pair of white Nike sneakers."

“Wow, you have a really good memory, and your grades should be pretty good too.” The boy nodded and thought to himself, this guy is really free. He didn’t even take a nap while talking under the national flag, but he actually took notes on the clothes of people on stage.

"It's not bad." Chu Zihang didn't say that he was also the first in his grade to receive a scholarship this year. After all, being the first in his grade couldn't change the fact that now the two of them were standing under the eaves, taking shelter from the rain like wet crows.

“Previously, the condition for me to enter Shilan Junior High School in a public middle school was that I would get the top score in the city’s high school entrance examination in the third grade of junior high school next year, otherwise I would be expelled from school.” The boy laughed.

“But on the first day you entered the junior high school, you beat someone up and sent him to the infirmary.” Chu Zihang looked down at him and asked, “Why are you not afraid of getting a demerit and being asked to leave if you do this?”

“You must have been one of the good students in school,” the boy said as he used his hands to catch the rain out of boredom. “You’ve never had a fight.”

 “Beat.”

"Then we have something in common." The boy said, "There was a man in the second grade of junior high school who said my shoes were fake, so I hit him and then threw his shoes into the urinal of the toilet."

 “Why?” Chu Zihang asked subconsciously.

“Why?” The boy clapped his wet hands, “That pair of shoes was given to me by someone else.”

“But if it’s true or false, what the boy said is right.” Chu Zihang asked.

 “What do you mean?” The boy turned to look at Chu Zihang.

“I have no ill intentions. My last birthday gift was a pirated copy of Shrek’s DVD, which was also fake.” Chu Zihang was silent for a moment, trying to show that he had no ill intentions.

 “Oh, who gave it to you?” The boy was a little stunned by this topic.

 “My dad.” Chu Zihang paused before answering.

"Your dad is really awesome, but he's still very thoughtful. I sneaked in through the back door of the theater to watch that movie, and I only watched half of it from beginning to end, because in the end, people from the theater came in to check the tickets, so I had to sneak out in the dark in advance.

Get out." The boy scratched the back of his head and said.

 “Why don’t you buy a ticket?” Chu Zihang asked.

"I can't afford it." The boy looked up and down Chu Zihang and said with a smile, "After all, I don't have a great dad or mom to give me pirated DVDs for my birthday. I only have one sister in my family."

"" Chu Zihang was silent for a moment and seemed to understand. After a while, he said hesitantly, "If you still want to watch it completely, I can lend you the disc. In fact, someone had already taken me with him before he gave me the disc.

I went to the cinema to watch it.”

“But I don’t have a DVD player at home.” The boy sighed and looked at the rain and became stunned again.

Chu Zihang didn’t speak anymore, and the two of them just watched and listened to the rain quietly.

“You’re a pretty nice person. If you have a chance, I’ll go to your house and watch a movie on your next birthday,” the boy suddenly said.

“But when I celebrate my birthday, I usually have a barbecue party at home instead of watching a movie.” Chu Zihang said.

 “Well, I won’t watch a movie, but there will be a barbecue party”

"I remember your name. I can invite you next time I celebrate my birthday, if you have time." Chu Zihang said, he paused, and then continued, "What will you do if the rain doesn't stop?"

“Run out and find a way to take the bus. You can take the No. 6 bus to the subway station.”

Chu Zihang glanced at the heavy rain outside that seemed to flood the world. "My dad will come to pick me up in a while. I can give you a ride wherever you live."

　　“Are you on your way? I live on the outskirts of the city, it’s quite roundabout.”

When he heard about the suburbs of the city, Chu Zihang was startled. He didn't expect that the boy would live so far away. This meant that after enrolling in Shilan, he would have to take the subway and bus for an hour or two every day to get to the school. According to Shilan Seven

It is a tradition to study early at 30:00. If you want to avoid being late, you have to set out around 5:00 in the morning.

"Sure enough, it's still too far. Why don't we forget it? I'll run back by myself when the rain subsides. I run very fast. During the entrance physical test, the track and field department of the high school wanted to poach me." The boy smiled.

“No, after I see you off, the car can take the beltway and go home, it’s not too circuitous,” Chu Zihang said.

“That feeling is good, that feeling is good.” After receiving the reply, the boy rubbed his hands and turned to look at the pouring rainy night and stopped talking. He felt as if he had finished what he needed to say and the purpose of the trip had been achieved.

Chu Zihang was startled, but inexplicably remembered the first thing the boy asked him when he came to talk to him.

The xenon lamp drew two streaks of white light through the playground and shone on the ground floor of the teaching building. Chu Zihang and the boy who were standing together squinted their eyes. The latter seemed to realize something and stood up to block the car lights with his hands.

, when the car owner saw their reaction, he cleverly switched the high beam to low beam, stepped on the accelerator and steered the black limousine that stood out on the playground to the front of the teaching building.

Two ruts were drawn on the ground, and the accumulated water was crushed so much that two one-meter-high water curtains were raised. Fortunately, Chu Zihang pulled the boy back to the classroom door to avoid becoming a drowned rat.

Parked in front of them was a black beast that broke through the rainy night. A faint white vapor rose in front of the xenon lights. The flowing black car body separated the rainwater from the roof on both sides. Two "" overlapping in the shape of a mountain stood on the car logo.

Shining brightly in the heavy rain, this is an aybah62 worth 9 million. It's a pity that he came a little late today because the car show in the playground has ended. If he had come half an hour earlier, he would probably be greeted by the respectful eyes of most car owners.

Come here, instead of just performing tail-drifting in front of two and a half-year-old children like now.

“Wow, your dad is really rich.” The boy said, looking at this nice car with Shen Xiong’s low roar.

Chu Zihang turned to look into his eyes, but unexpectedly did not find envious eyes inside. When he saw the steel monster in front of him that could not be blown by the tenth level of wind, he seemed to be watching the guided missile tank that was pulled during the military parade on TV.

I can’t help but sigh that I’m really fucking awesome, and then I won’t have any lingering regrets in my heart.

The man in the driver's seat of the Maybach opened the door, took out the black umbrella in the door frame, and trotted towards them. He held the umbrella in front of him with difficulty in the strong wind and rain, as brave as a small tank.

, but the pace of running is inevitably a little out of shape, like a tank dancing, which makes people want to laugh.

It’s hard to imagine that a person coming out of a car of this level would be as bowed down and submissive as he was. Even though the man himself was very good-looking, when he ran towards Chu Zihang with an umbrella, he looked like a

He was as attentive as a father who braised a bowl of fresh hot pork intestines for his son as a midnight snack.

This is like an ordinary father. When he got out of the Maybach and opened the umbrella, all he could see was his son under the eaves not far away. The beautiful car behind him was just a steel tool that turned on the headlights to shine in front of him. It’s just this

At that moment, Chu Zihang realized that the gaze of the boy next to him towards the man in the rain suddenly became indescribable. It was a very complicated emotion, which was obscured by the silver light of the heavy rain after a fleeting moment.

“This is dad, he has no money, he is just a driver.” Chu Zihang whispered to the boy.

 Perhaps this is a kind of empathy.

Chu Zihang knew that the boy had no parents, and now the man drove such a nice luxury car through the rainy night to pick him up. The contrast between a rich father and a father who loved him might make the boys around him feel sad.

What kind of emotion did he have to say this, which he would never say to others in normal times?

“I saw it, driving a Maybach, it’s awesome, brother, I will definitely eat for two when I go to your house for bbq.” The boy said with a low smile.

 “Okay.” Chu Zihang said.

"Your friend?" the man rushed to the eaves with an umbrella and asked as he looked at the boy next to Chu Zihang.

"Isn't it possible?" Chu Zihang said, his tone was very calm, but everyone could hear the slight shock. The boy beside him didn't say anything but just stood unpacking his schoolbag shoulder strap.

"Yes, of course. I must be happy when I see my son making friends." The man slapped his thigh, his face was as slumped as a drowned rat after being beaten by the wind and rain, but his face was still beaming, "I'll drop by where your friend lives."

I'll take you home again. The wind is very strong tonight. I heard that the strongest force today is level 10. But I brought the car here. Even the wind of level 12 couldn't blow us away."

Chu Zihang's face darkened a bit when he saw the man giving a thumbs up gesture to the steel monster in the rainy night. The man alertly realized that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, so he immediately shut up and put on an umbrella. He smiled and walked in front to escort the two boys.

boarding.

Chu Zihang got into the back seat and wanted to reach out to the boy, but found that the boy was standing outside the car in the heavy rain, staring blankly at the school gate. He also turned around and looked through the rear window, and saw a man wearing a hooded coat.
To be continued...