"I knew Gu Ruochao's secret ten years ago..."

Memories follow the direction of the falling sycamore leaves, and in an instant follow the squeaking sound of the bicycle to ten years ago.

It's sunny after the rain, and under the blue sky is the S City Children's Palace.

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The Children's Palace has white walls, a brick-red roof, and under the roof, in the corridor. Ink flows across the long wash basin, crooked paintings are hanging on the iron cabinets, and the honor list is pasted with sample essays selected by the teacher.

The "Class List" was posted in the most conspicuous position in the corridor in the form of a colorful advertisement. The newly appointed leader of the Children's Palace was very determined to achieve results and invited teachers from nearby schools to open interest classes. The advertisement had a red background.

Yellow letters, Mathematical Olympiad classes, composition classes, painting classes, calligraphy classes, physical knowledge classes... everything is available. Under the advertisement is a rather ironic saying: "Cultivate interests and reduce burdens."

All the scenes were constructed perfectly. Yi Wan thought, This is what the Children's Palace looked like ten years ago.

Forty o'clock in the afternoon should be the noisiest time in the Children's Palace. The first period of interest classes is over, and the second period is about to begin. The boys and girls who have been detained for forty minutes will be crazy in the corridor, but today the corridor is surprisingly quiet.

The once noisy corridors are now deserted.

Yi Wan saw the boy at the end of the Children's Palace.

The boy carrying a schoolbag stood in the corner at the entrance of the Children's Palace. He had handsome and cute features, but his expression was a bit dull. He looked up at the colorful advertisements on the wall for a long time, as if he was in a daze for no reason, or as if he was in a daze.

A little confused.

Next to the advertisement is the red list of the Chinese Olympiad and Chinese Olympiad. The three words "Gu Ruochao" deserve to be at the top of all the red lists.

Under him, there is a somewhat gloomy "Shen End".

There is a bug near the boy's feet.

The green insect fights with the brown insect. It has sharp fangs and jointed limbs, and it wants to prey on them.

Until someone stopped him.

"Shen Zhong, what are you doing here?"

The other boy's voice was like mushrooms after rain, penetrating the eardrums of every listener lively.

Unlike Shen Zhong, he has a face that leaves an excellent impression on anyone who looks at it. The boy's smile is innocent and sunny, and his facial features are naturally delicate.

His name is written on the nameplate on his chest.

Gu Ruochao.

The boy carrying a schoolbag thought of the paintings he saw in the book a few days ago.

Food chain, he thought.

Beautiful sun predator, he thought.

Gu Ruochao was chewing gum and walking unsteadily down the street. He heard the boy carrying a schoolbag stunned: "Because today is Saturday..."

"Today is Saturday, which is also the National Day. The Children's Palace is closed." The boy was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter.

He leaned forward and backward when he laughed, and his voice seemed to be filled with the willful but bright sunshine that had lasted all summer, like a person who was the most favored, so he was not afraid of letting others judge him.

He laughed unbridled on the street, and kept patting the shoulder and head of the boy carrying the schoolbag, rubbing him into a ball of hair: "Haha... hahaha... you won't stand at this door.

Have you been waiting here for more than half an hour?"

"It's not much more than half an hour, I'm here to watch..."

"Haha, hahahaha..." The boy laughed louder, "How come you are like a game NPC and only follow the established route? And you have been waiting here for forty minutes..."

"I'm watching this ad..."

"Haha...hahaha..." The boy behind continued to laugh, "Watching an advertisement?"

Shen Zhong is always so weird. His weirdness makes it hard to tell whether he is slow or has an abnormal way of thinking. He always seems to be in a daze, or thinking about something. The difficult questions of others are not for him. Problems that require long-term thinking, on the contrary, some meaningless choices that are easy for ordinary people to make often occupy his thinking space and make him feel difficult.

But few people realize this latter point.

"..." The boy carrying the schoolbag stopped talking.

"What's so good about the advertisement? Where are you going? Go home?" Gu Ruochao chose to speak proactively, having long been used to his friend's slowness.

Shen Zhong said: "I don't know. I'm in the junior class every weekend."

Shen Zhong is different from others. There is only one reason for him to go to the Children's Palace - his uncle and aunt intend to use this to hand in a "has been cultivated with all their heart" answer sheet to his divorced parents, and they don't really like to let him go home and disturb their family. Family happiness.

He knew that the underlying reason was that his aunt disliked his mother very much.

The fight between his aunt and his mother started when he was in school and reached its climax after Bie married his brother. The fight between the two women was between firewood, rice, oil, salt and snow, and the weapons each used were pens and chopsticks for writing poetry. Luffa kitchen knife.

In those years when families could not afford to buy a house and lived together in a house, the aunt blew the horn in the kitchen over a hot casserole of chicken soup, while Shen Zhong’s mother was in the room, receiving emails from the publisher. Dong shows nobility.

Their war came to a brief rest after Shen Zhong's mother and father divorced and went abroad. The rest does not mean the end. Shen Zhong, who was fostered (thrown) in their home, is the "remaining sound" of this song.

One month after the divorce, Shen Zhong's mother threw the children she had custody of back to her ex-husband's home and fled abroad. Her ex-husband dropped a letter to his brother the next month and followed his wife.

The aunt followed her husband and accepted the responsibility that was not hers. She said sourly in front of Shen Zhong more than once that your parents are as handsome as the hero and heroine mentioned above.

"Some people are more wonderful than others... If they are not in a good mood, they can divorce and go abroad, but leave their children behind at home. Do you really think you are talking about the protagonists Romeo and Juliet?" She was like a general. He was clenching the frozen chicken with a loud voice, gnashing his teeth like the three hundred Spartan warriors facing a desperate situation, "Isn't this possible because some people are just mean? Others got divorced and went to Romance in the West, right? If she doesn't care about her own child, those bitches will stay in the country to help her raise her children. Do you think they are mean or not?"

Shen Zhong didn't think there was anything wrong. Maybe it was because he was relatively "weak" in nature, or maybe it was because he stayed away for many years. His aunt was spitting when she came to chat with her sister on the phone in the kitchen, but it was too late to finish the stew. The chicken soup was brought to the table. There were only legs in the soup pot, one of which belonged to her son. When her husband picked up the other chicken leg, she hit his wrist with her chopsticks and stared at him until he shrunk his neck and picked up the chicken leg. Into the sinking bowl.

Shen Zhi's family exists in the few phone calls he makes back to China every month. His aunt's family exists in the lush green plants on the balcony, the hot chicken soup on the dining table, and the noisy but crowded house. He knows this proud house. The school district house does not belong to him, but this does not prevent him from feeling that the lighting in this house is very good.

He also wants to own such a house.

This does not prevent him from feeling that he should go out every weekend to reduce the burden on the family.

For example, today, my uncle and aunt will not remember that the Children's Palace is on vacation during the National Day, but Shen will eventually remember that every Saturday and Sunday, this is the time when he should go out and reduce his burden.

"...Forget it, it's a rare Saturday! Don't you want to go out for a walk with me? I finally have no classes." Gu Ruochao smiled again, "Anyway, there is no one at home, and there is no one at home. Let's go out and play!" "

He enthusiastically proposed an invitation to Shen Zhong, but was not rejected. Insects were fighting among the shadows of people, and he grabbed the other person's arm and started to leave with a smile. Before leaving, a caretaker passed by. Seeing people moving, he said to Gu Ruochao: "Chao, are you the first in the Osaihua Examination again?"

"Oh, number one again."

Gu Ruochao only glanced at the red paper that was posted. The glory that seemed to others was completely absent from him. He waved his hand and left with a smile.

Old Man Li's voice was still behind him reluctantly: "How come your child's grades are so good? You participate in all interest classes and are number one in every subject. When will my grandson ask you for advice on his studies?" Skill……"

The green insect completed its prey at this moment.

His voice was quickly drowned in the rustling of sycamore leaves. Gu Ruochao was riding a bicycle, taking Shen Zhong on the back seat. He laughed and took him down the hillside.

"Where are we going?" Shen Zhong whispered in Gu Ruochao's ear.

"I originally wanted to take you to dinner, but now I have changed my mind and want to go to the video game city!" Gu Ruochao said.

"have you been there?"

"I've never been there, but I want to give it a try and do an experiment."

"experiment?"

"You'll find out when you get there." Gu Ruochao said.

His voice revealed inexplicable confidence and nervousness, and Gu Ruochao had been like this for many years. Shen finally grabbed his sleeves and buried his head in his clothes. He heard the wind whistling in his ears, and thought in his head A lot of things.

Shen Zhong has never known the reason why Gu Ruochao is so confident. Perhaps it is for this reason that Gu Ruochao rarely likes to hang out with Shen Zhong. Shen Zhong is quiet, doesn't like to talk, and is a bit dull. He is very trustworthy and has no willpower to harm him. social department.

The bicycle was parked at the entrance of the video game mall. The video game mall ten years ago was far less formal than it is now. The music was loud and even students could spend hundreds of dollars there. Shen Zhi blocked his ears and watched Gu Ruo go to the boss to redeem the money. Dozens of tokens. Gu Ruochao looked back at Shen Zhong: "Let's go. Go play."

His expression was strange, Shen finally thought.

Gu Ruochao was holding the token, and his expression could not be said to be one of excitement or confidence. He was eager to try, as if he wanted to prove something.

One afternoon, Shen Zhong followed Gu Ruochao. He watched Gu Ruochao walk between the game machines. He picked all the games randomly and threw the tokens into the coin slot to start. The games were all different, but they had only the same ending.

——No matter what kind of game it is, Gu Ruochao is always number one.

The first word was like some kind of curse, whether it was in the Children's Palace, in school, or in the video game city. When playing racing, Gu Ruochao even had conflicts with several teenagers of similar age, and they laughed at him for being a novice. Shen finally thought He opened his mouth to speak, but was stopped by Gu Ruochao.

"Not quarreling with them is a necessary plot point." Gu Ruochao was very interested, "And I feel that with them around, my number might be higher."

He spoke very ordinary words, but Shen Zhong suddenly noticed a hint of creepiness.

Something's wrong, he thought.

Gu Ruochao didn't feel right all day today.

The strange excitement, the sudden departure to the arcade to prove it, and the words just now...

This made him vaguely feel that something was going on.

The shadow of the person was stretched on the wall. Before the sun set, Gu Ruochao exchanged the coin he won for a red string of life.

The red rope with the Year of Life is the highest reward in the video game city, and the Xiao pendant hanging on it is indeed pure gold. The entire video game city was conquered by him, and the boss and several children were talking behind them about how awesome Gu Ruochao was. . Shen finally stood behind Gu Ruochao and watched him swing the red rope.

He tried to congratulate him, but Gu Ruochao just put the prize into his pocket without interest. He shrugged: "I already knew this would be the result. I said it a long time ago, didn't I? As long as there is I won’t lose even in ranked games - do you want to know why?”
Chapter completed!