[This story is purely fictional, if there is plagiarism, it must be held responsible!]
Excerpts:
At the high school reunion, a "strange" face caught my attention, and after being reminded by my classmates, I remembered that she was a former member of the Xi committee Summer.
But this summer in front of me, and the summer in my memory, are completely two people.
What exactly did she go through to make such a big change?
And when I unintentionally revealed the truth, what I saw in front of me made me shiver and chill my back......
01
This was the voice of our homeroom teacher, and everyone was shocked by the word "early love" in the words, and couldn't help but look back at Summer's position.
Facing the noise outside the door and the gaze of her classmates, Summer didn't seem to notice it at all, just staring at the books with an expressionless face.
The middle-aged woman's voice immediately exploded, and she seemed to be very angry: "No puppy love?" Then why did she do so badly in the exam, usually either first or second, but this time she didn't even get into the top ten, how did she learn?"
"This is just a mock exam, everyone has a time when they don't play properly, don't worry too much, I'm sure she will be able to do well next time." ”
"How do you make me believe her? I told her a long time ago, we have no money in our family, and we have no background, I worked hard to raise her, and I will rely on her in the future, and she will repay me like this? I knew this, it was better not to give birth to her in the first place!"
"Don't say that, I usually work hard in the summer, and our teachers and classmates see it......"
Everyone heard that the head teacher was trying his best to comfort Summer's mother, but before he could finish speaking, Summer's mother actually cried to herself.
"Teacher Li, you also know the situation in our family, her dead old man knows how to drink and play cards, and she doesn't care about the life or death of our mother and daughter, every time she drinks too much, or loses playing cards, she knows to lose her temper and smash things when she comes back. ”
In the summer, the more my mother cried, the more sad she became, but the words she said always made people feel awkward.
"It's my life to meet this kind of man and live this kind of life, my life is hard, I deserve to suffer in this life, now I can't rely on anyone, I just want to be able to study hard in the summer, and I will have a good life in the future, but she can't even read now!"
The crying outside the door was so hysterical that it almost turned into a wail.
"Teacher Li, what do you say I should do, she used to be very obedient and sensible, how did she become like this now, does she want to be angry with me, so that she can live with her dead man?"
The head teacher's expression was very helpless, but he seemed to understand something, and couldn't help asking: "Summer Mom, the state during the summer is really not very good, take the liberty to ask, have you and your husband often quarreled in front of Summer recently?"
As if she had been poked in the pain point, Summer's mother screamed: "What does it matter to her that we quarrel, what does she know as a child? She just needs to study with peace of mind, and nothing else matters!"
At that time, we didn't understand what "Chinese-style parents" were, we just thought it was lively and funny.
In the end, Summer's mother still failed to rush into the classroom, and was persuaded away by the head teacher in a good voice, and after Summer's mother left, the head teacher called Summer out alone and chatted for a long time.
No one knew what they were talking about, but when they returned to the classroom in the summer, their expressions remained unchanged, as cold as a clay statue.
Originally, I thought that summer was the kind of person who was extremely cold by nature, otherwise in the face of this situation, how could there not be the slightest emotional wave?
As it turned out, I was wrong.
02
After the first class that day, Summer walked straight outside, walking faster and faster, as if she didn't want to be caught up by anyone.
When class was approaching, my table mates came over excitedly.
"Do you know? The Xi committee member hid in the gymnasium and cried, and when he heard that he was crying so loudly, he startled all the physical education teachers who passed by. ”
Only then did I realize that the Xi machine that seemed to only know how to read books and take exams was actually nothing more than a teenage girl inside.
It wasn't until the end of the second class that Summer walked into the classroom with her head down, but even with her head down, everyone saw her red and swollen eyes.
Since then, Summer has become more untalkative, completely immersed in her own world, but her grades have always been erratic, and someone with a heart specially inquired about the news and came back to spread the news, saying that Summer's parents are getting divorced and quarreling at home every day.
Later, the college entrance examination came, and after graduation, the students went their separate ways, and the last time I heard news about summer was at a girls' college banquet.
It is said that she did not do well in the summer, and she originally went to Tsinghua University and Peking University, but now she is only admitted to an ordinary key university, and her parents are finally divorced, and she lives with her mother in the summer.
All the classmates did not show up for the college entrance banquet in the summer, although most of them also forgot to invite her.
In the years that followed, I never heard anything about summer, and I never met me during the holidays or holidays.
It wasn't until after graduating from college, when a few classmates with good social skills in high school organized this class reunion, that I saw Summer again, but now she makes me feel extremely strange.
No one knows how the ordinary girl who was introverted and had low self-esteem back then became a beautiful woman who talks and laughs with everyone at the wine table now, looking chic and confident.
03
After eating and drinking, we went to KTV to sing, and when I smoked at the door halfway, I just came out to breathe in the summer, so we chatted for a while, and naturally added WeChat friends.
But after a few days of adding, the friends didn't chat, but just sent New Year's greetings to each other during the New Year.
When I returned to Shenzhen after the Chinese New Year, I thought of the summer when I was also working in Shenzhen, so I tentatively asked her if she wanted to set off together, but she readily agreed.
As we went back and forth, our chats and conversations became more and more frequent, and we even met to eat and play together during our breaks, and finally became good friends today.
After getting acquainted with her, I realized that she is now beautiful and excellent, and she has risen to the leadership of the company at a young age, and her future is limitless.
The people who pursued her were batch after batch, and every time they made an appointment to eat and waited downstairs in her company, they would be stared at with hostile eyes.
Sometimes, when I was having dinner with her, I jokingly asked her if something happened during college that caused this kind of change.
She didn't give a positive answer each time, but I vaguely remember asking me a strange question when I first asked the question.
She said, "Do you believe that there are gods in this world?"
I thought about it for a moment, shook my head in disbelief, and she never asked me a similar question since.
It wasn't until a chance encounter that I realized why there was such a big change in her and why she asked me such a question.
04
It was one night, I was watching a TV series on my phone at home, and suddenly I received a voice call from her, she was drunk on the other end of the phone, and asked me to pick her up.
I didn't think much of it, I just went out, picked up her drunk according to the address I was sent, and drove her home.
This is not the first time I have sent her home, I naturally know where she lives, I can just send her downstairs every time, and then watch her go upstairs by herself.
But this time she drank a little too much, and even walking became a problem, so I could only carefully support her and take the elevator to the door of her room.
After finding the key from her bag, she opened the door, and a strange scent instantly hit her face.
It's not a perfume or an aromatherapy smell, it's an indescribable, unfamiliar but familiar smell.
Since I was already too drunk in the summer, I didn't bother to think about it, so I quickly helped her into the house.
Because she lives alone, her rental house in Shenzhen is only a one-bedroom apartment, so her room can be seen at a glance.
But as soon as she opened the door to her room, the strange scent became more and more intense, as if the whole room was enveloped.
After throwing Summer into bed, I was so tired that I sat on the edge of the bed, thinking about resting for a while before getting up and leaving.
But when I subconsciously looked around the environment in the summer room, the whole person was stunned.
Because on the wall at the end of the bed, there is a small offering table, which is either a desk or a computer desk, or the kind that can only be seen in temples or Taoist temples.
There were no offerings on the table, just an incense burner filled with incense ash and an eerie-looking shrine!
The moment I saw the incense burner, I understood where the strange scent that filled the house came from, the strong smell of sandalwood, which I once smelled when I visited the temple.
The common shrines on weekdays are generally used to place the statues of Guan Gong and the God of Wealth, and in this shrine, there is also an object that looks like a statue, but it is wrapped in a red cloth, and it is impossible to see what it is.
At this time, I suddenly remembered the question that Summer had asked me, no wonder she would ask me if I believed that there were gods in the world, it turned out that she was convinced of this, and specially invited a statue of a god to be placed in her home.
With curious questions, I slowly stood up and walked over to the offering table.
But even when I was close, I couldn't make out what the statue was wrapped in red cloth was.
I wanted to lift the red cloth to find out, but the black patches on the red cloth discouraged me.
Because those shocking-looking mottled spots are like traces of a drop of blood after coagulation.
(To be continued)