catch the dream

When school was over in the morning, Yu Hao had just left the classroom when he saw Zhou Sheng waiting for him at the stairs. He waved the meal card in his hand and said, "Eat."

The girl handed over her meal card under Zhou Sheng's persuasion, and the reason was that "I have a share of the rocket", so Zhou Sheng made a promise to take Yu Hao to the teacher's cafeteria with only 20 yuan worth of maocai. .It just so happened that the counselor Xue Long and the new class teacher Chen Yekai were at the next table, arguing about something. After Yu Hao sat down, the two stopped talking briefly.

You must be talking about me, Yu Hao thought to himself.

"Come to my office at two o'clock in the afternoon." Chen Yekai said to Yu Hao, while Xue Long left without saying a word, carrying the bowl.

Yu Hao was a little uneasy, but Chen Yekai nodded to him, signaling to relax.

"Hey, Kaikai!" Zhou Sheng came back with maocai, and greeted Chen Yekai familiarly.

Chen Yekai said "um" with a heavy heart, got up and left.

Zhou Sheng watched him leave, and said something casually, Yu Hao said, "I don't know what they want to do with me."

Zhou Sheng said: "You haven't done anything wrong, what are you afraid of? Eat it. When Xue Long seeks you, just tell the truth. Don't keep silent. You will suffer from being dumb."

Yu Hao replied: "I have to argue with reason, I understand."

Zhou Sheng was a little surprised, nodded approvingly, and said, "Yes."

Yu Hao thought for a while, then suddenly said: "Is there any way to overcome my fear of certain things?"

Zhou Sheng: "???"

Yu Hao was silent again, in fact he had been thinking about the connection between the black dragon and the reservoir.

Zhou Sheng said: "It's enough to beat him up, just get into a fight. When I was young, I was beaten so hard by my dad that I finally had a fight with him, and I'm no longer afraid of him."

Yu Hao: "I can't beat up a reservoir."

Zhou Sheng: "Reservoir?" Then he remembered what he had heard about Yu Hao last night, and said, "Oh, that's it."

Zhou Sheng studied in the Department of Physical Education, and there was also psychology as an elective course. Although it was not as difficult as Yu Hao's textbook, he still knew a little about the basic principles.

Zhou Sheng gave Yu Hao some meat dishes, the so-called meat dishes were just meatballs mixed with a lot of powder, he picked up some rice, thought for a while, and said, "There are a few ways, one, watch the reservoir being filled with your own eyes. "

Yu Hao thought right, it's been so many years, what if he gets filled?

Zhou Sheng: "Second, go down for a swim, maybe you won't be afraid anymore... Can you swim? But don't go by yourself. Three, convince yourself, your mother... um..." He didn't say any more.

Yu Hao knew best in his heart that the best way was to ask his mother himself, and convince himself that the truth was...she loved him, and never thought of it.

After eating, Yu Hao went back first, Zhou Sheng was still flipping through his phone with a bored expression on his face, and dismissed him with "Go".

Yu Hao returned to the dormitory, put Zhou Sheng's coat in the basin, and helped him wash his clothes. The winter water was icy cold, making his hands red from the cold.

We should add some hot water, Yu Hao thought to himself.Then I went to find the kettle, there was still some water in the kettle the day before yesterday, after pouring it in, Zhou Sheng's sportswear seemed to have not been washed in a week, and dirty water came out when I pressed it.He suddenly found that he was not too resistant to making friends, at least he didn't resist Zhou Sheng, a friend he knew from time to time.

Maybe it's because Zhou Sheng's speech and behavior are very casual, which can easily eliminate his sense of restraint.

After Yu Hao finished washing and drying, he tried to take a nap on the bed in the morning, but his roommates still fell asleep collectively and didn't get up.He really couldn't sleep, and he was a little nervous when he thought of going to Xue Long's office in the afternoon. He repeated in his mind what he was going to say. When the time came, he got up quietly and pushed open the door of the dormitory.

The dean, counselor Xue Long, and homeroom teacher Chen Yekai were all there, and the policeman in charge of the case also came, taking off his police cap and stroking his hair.The policeman was very young, about the same age as Chen Yekai, with dark skin and thin skin.

Chen Yekai's first sentence was: "Is there any evidence that you haven't touched his watch?"

The policeman nodded towards Yu Hao, but Yu Hao was full of arguments and forgot all of them.

"I really haven't touched the bookcase in their house." Yu Hao said to the policeman, "Do you have any fingerprints?"

The dean was looking at the police officer's certificate. The policeman's surname was Huang, and his name was Huang Ting. He was less talkative than Yu Hao. When he met him on Saturday, he had almost no communication with Yu Hao.Yu Hao once thought that he had preconceived that he was a thief, but last night after Chen Yekai listened to the Wechat voice, he changed his impression of him.

"Before reporting the case, their aunt had already cleaned it." Huang Ting said, "The cabinet was wiped once, and fingerprints could not be recorded."

Yu Hao looked at the dean again, and the dean glanced at him suspiciously from behind his glasses.Xue Long's face was not very good-looking, it seemed that it was because of the dispute between Chen Yekai and him at noon.

"If you want everyone to believe in your innocence, you have to show evidence." Xue Long said helplessly, "In a society ruled by law, words are not proven."

"Aren't they saying nothing?" Yu Hao remembered the scene where Xue Long was trampled by an elephant, and suddenly felt a little funny.

"They have evidence!" said the dean, "The watch was found from you, and it is evidence!"

"I took that out myself." Yu Hao said seriously, "I've been looking for the owner. It's definitely not the first time this child lied to frame me. You can investigate her previous tutors. She doesn't want to make up lessons. , I wanted to drive me away, so I came up with this method..."

Speaking of this, Yu Hao thought for a while and added: "Actually, she is quite pitiful."

Chen Yekai couldn't laugh or cry: "You still sympathize with her? How much impact has this incident had on our college?"

Yu Hao instantly had a different impression of Chen Yekai, as if because of him, Xue Long's attitude was obviously different today, and what Chen Yekai meant in his words was to beat back and forth, directly pointing the finger at him. The elementary school student who cheated him.The people present did not raise any objections, obviously agreeing with his statement.

Chen Yekai said: "The most important thing now is to find a breakthrough to prove that you did not steal something. Think about it carefully, starting with the motive of the behavior. Does anyone know about finding the owner?"

"Does the content of lost and found count?" Yu Hao immediately said, "I have a lost and found notice in my mailbox. I wrote it in the Internet cafe and sent it to my mailbox. I plan to download it in the printing room, and then print it out and post it."

"Call it out." Chen Yekai said.

Huang Ting said nonchalantly, "It won't have much effect." But his eyes still followed Yu Hao's movements. Yu Hao went to Chen Yekai's computer to operate. Chen Yekai suddenly remembered something and was about to close the webpage. But Yu Hao had accidentally seen it.

That's a crisis intervention site.

Yu Hao's nose suddenly felt a little sour, and he didn't dare to look at Chen Yekai. He logged into the mailbox. Huang Ting motioned him to wait a moment, and used the video recorder to record the date and attachments in the mailbox, and the whole process of Yu Hao opening the attachment, and specially took pictures of him. Electronic files of lost and found notifications.

Chen Yekai took over the computer, Yu Hao didn't look at it any more, a warm feeling surged up in his heart, and he decided to wash away his grievance no matter what.

Half an hour later, Chen Yekai and Yu Hao sent Huang Ting out of the academy. Huang Ting said, "I will communicate with the other party, and try to invite you to have a talk tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This video should dispel his suspicions." your prejudices."

Just as Yu Hao was about to speak, Chen Yekai motioned him not to speak, and left it to himself.

"Okay, it's best to let Yu Hao talk to the child alone." Chen Yekai said.

Huang Ting took off his police cap again and stroked his hair.

"I'll try my best to fight for it." Huang Ting replied, "If it doesn't work, we'll use mediation."

"I hope to return his innocence." Chen Yekai said.

Huang Ting looked at Chen Yekai and then at Yu Hao.Huang Ting had high cheekbones, deep eye sockets, sharp and sharp facial features, thick eyebrows and big eyes, as if he could see through Yu Hao's heart with a single glance.

"Sometimes, for you, it's enough that the most important person believes in you." Huang Ting said this to Yu Hao.

Yu Hao didn't know how to answer for a while, Huang Ting nodded to Chen Yekai, got into the car, and drove away.Chen Yekai motioned him to the floor-to-ceiling windows in the office building, and the two of them watched the rain outside.

Yu Hao looked at Chen Yekai's reflection through the glass window. Last night in the ward, the lights were pale and dim, and his condition was not good, so he didn't pay much attention to Chen Yekai.Today he is wearing a slim black sweater and black trousers. He is simple and amazingly handsome. Combined with what Zhou Sheng said yesterday, Chen Yekai is like the male lead in a Korean drama. Yu Hao couldn't imagine.

Yu Hao felt that standing beside him, he was like a rustic and stupid bumpkin.

Chen Yekai smiled at Yu Hao in the reflection of the glass: "What do you want to say?"

Yu Hao pondered for a long time, and said, "I don't think her father will admit it."

"Yeah." Chen Yekai replied in a daze, "Everyone is unwilling to admit their mistakes. But Huang Ting will deal with him, and the police have a way. How many suspects, the police did not have evidence at the beginning of the case, and they fought psychological warfare. I admit it myself, you have to be optimistic."

Yu Hao said, "Teacher Chen."

Chen Yekai raised his brows slightly and looked sideways at him.

"I will live a good life." Yu Hao said, "Don't worry about me anymore, I promise you."

"I believe in you." Chen Yekai said with a smile.

Yu Hao left the academy, faced the way back to the dormitory, remained silent for a moment, and walked out of the school gate.

In the canteen by the school gate, Zhou Sheng was buying cigarettes, when he saw Yu Hao walking over, he said "Hey".But the main road was too noisy, Yu Hao didn't hear it.Zhou Sheng followed, and seeing Yu Hao getting on a bus, he looked at the stop sign with a puzzled face.

"This kid..." Zhou Sheng hurried out to hail a taxi.

An hour later, Yu Hao walked down a piece of grass in front of the reservoir embankment in the overcast and rainy outskirts, shivering from the cold.

As he walked, he thought to himself, he must not make any mistakes, otherwise Chen Yekai would be pissed off by him.Just said "live well" at noon, and was fished out of the reservoir the next day.

He had almost dismissed the idea—compared to the day when he was five years old, the weeds in the reservoir were growing waist-deep, and the ladder was rusty and mottled, leading to a shallow concrete slope.

"What are you doing?" A voice suddenly sounded from the dam, Yu Hao suddenly yelled, and almost slipped down the grassy slope.

Zhou Sheng threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, turned sideways, slid off the dam, and said angrily, "You're sick!"

Yu Hao was shocked and said, "How did you know I would come here?"

"Nonsense!" Zhou Sheng said, "There is only one reservoir in this area. If you don't come here, there are other places?"

"But..." Yu Hao still wanted to ask, but Zhou Sheng put his hands in his pockets, kicked him hard, and said, "Didn't you say don't come alone?"

Yu Hao stood foolishly in the rain, Zhou Sheng said angrily again: "Put on the hat!"

The two were wearing hoods, and the sky was dark.

Zhou Sheng waited in the rain for nearly half an hour, his whole body was almost soaked, and he sneezed. Yu Hao said, "I just came to see, I didn't intend to go into the water."

Zhou Sheng didn't answer, he took his mobile phone to illuminate, walked in front, and said back, "Just say it when you get to the place."

"It's right here." Yu Hao replied.

"Are you sure?" Zhou Sheng asked under the bridge opening.

Yu Hao said: "Very sure, I remember the 'no fishing'."

He still remembers that when he came here, his mother watched him under the sign prohibiting fishing and asked him to dig snails. In the past 14 years, the reservoir has hardly changed, only the grass has grown taller.

"I'll go down first." Zhou Sheng said, "Just wait."

"No no." Yu Hao said, "I'll go."

Zhou Sheng was also not afraid of death, so he said, "Then hold my hand, no matter what, don't let it go."

Looking at the pitch-black water surface, Yu Hao finally felt a wave of fear. He didn't notice it back then, but the more he thought about it later, the more he felt it was unpleasant. The black dragon's eyes vaguely appeared in front of him, staring at him under the water.

It was fear, it was death, it was the despair that was engraved in his bones like a shadow.

Yu Hao took a deep breath and turned to look at Zhou Sheng. In the darkness, he couldn't see anything. Zhou Sheng's burning body temperature came from the palm of his hand. In this dark night, he thought that the thing he remembered most clearly in his life might be Zhou Sheng. hand.

"Go." Zhou Sheng said, "Don't be afraid."

Yu Hao walked step by step, Zhou Sheng said again: "I think you are sick."

Yu Hao replied in the dark: "I also think I'm sick, otherwise how could I commit suicide?"

Zhou Sheng: "Don't do that, I'll just talk casually."

Yu Hao stood in the knee-deep water and didn't speak for a long time.

Zhou Sheng said: "What? Come on, I won't let go."

Yu Hao: "The water is not deep..."

Zhou Sheng: "..."

Zhou Sheng also got down, the water here is very shallow, Yu Hao is 1.7 meters five, the water only reaches his knees.Zhou Sheng is 1.8 meters tall, with long legs, and the water doesn't even reach his knees.

Zhou Sheng scratched his head and said, "Swim a few laps? I'll take a photo for you."

Yu Hao: "..."

Yu Hao suddenly laughed out loud on the dark water, feeling that nothing was important anymore, Zhou Sheng took a few steps to test the depth of the surrounding water, and said, "What's so scary about this?"

Yu Hao also waded through the water and walked a few steps, feeling suddenly relieved. The self he was when he was a child was still digging snails here, but the feeling was completely different.

"You can't tell how deep the water is from the outside..."

"Hey!" Zhou Sheng yelled instantly, followed by an exaggerated sound of falling into the water. Yu Hao was so frightened that he shouted instantly: "Zhou Sheng!" Then he rushed towards him, Zhou Sheng grabbed him, and the two The whole body of man is water.Zhou Sheng slipped and fell, and sat awkwardly in the water, but he stood up after a few strokes and said, "What is this?" Then he pulled out a square garbage bag from the water.

Yu Hao: "..."

Zhou Sheng: "It's over, the area of ​​your psychological shadow will probably have to expand a little more at this moment, don't be anything bad..."

Another hour later, Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng were at the Zhongshan [-]th Road Police Station in Yingkou District, explaining the origin of the plastic bag to the police, while Chen Yekai's mouth twitched while listening.

When Yu Hao first saw the plastic bag, he thought of the corpse dismemberment case, but Zhou Sheng was the most courageous he had ever seen, so he opened it on the spot.Huang Ting was taking notes for the two of them. The garbage bag was open, and inside were twelve bundles of neatly stacked new money, one hundred each, with two bricks pressed underneath.

Chen Yekai: "..."