"Erythronium Boy"
Story introduction
In the autumn of 2009, the junior high school of Shishi Chinese and English Experimental School.
Yang Xiaodong is an ordinary boy in Class 3 of the second grade of junior high school. He has average grades and a stubborn personality. He has a crush on Shi Yingming, a girl in the next class. Shi English is recognized as a good student in his generation, gentle and quiet. His father died young and his mother opened a small noodle shop near the school to make ends meet.
One day after school, Shi English was harassed at the school gate by several gangsters from outside the school. Yang Xiaodong passed by and rushed to protect her without saying a word. He was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. After the incident spread, Shi Ing-wen began to notice this taciturn boy.
But trouble also ensues.
Lin Shaofeng, who is in Class 7, has a fabric business at home. He is rich and powerful, and he has long promised to pursue English. He couldn't stand Yang Xiaodong's "showing off", so he led his classmates Shi Jianpei and Wang Xiaohe to make trouble for Yang Xiaodong every day.
Yang Xiaodong endured it again and again, until one day, Shi Jianpei poured a bowl of hot soup on Shi Ing-wen in public in the cafeteria.
That evening, Yang Xiaodong stopped Shi Jianpei and Wang Xiaohe on the playground. The three people struggled together, and Yang Xiaodong was like crazy, punching him one after another, even with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. When he was finally pulled away, Shi Jianpei fell to the ground with a broken nose and Wang Xiaohe had a dislocated arm.
The matter reached the political and religious office. Yang Xiaodong was given a major demerit. Shi Ing-wen cried and begged for mercy on his behalf, but he pushed him away: "Leave me alone."
Lin Shaofeng stood at the end of the corridor, watching all this and sneered.
After self-study the next night, Yang Xiaodong pushed his bicycle out of the school gate. One of the street lights at the school gate was broken and the light was dim. Lin Shaofeng walked out of the alley with seven or eight people, holding steel pipes in his hands.
"Can't you fight?" Lin Shaofeng held a cigarette in his mouth, "I'll let you fight as much as you can today."
Yang Xiaodong didn't run away. He pushed the bicycle to the side, clenched his fists and faced it.
It was an unequal fight. Yang Xiaodong knocked down two or three people, but was quickly pushed to the ground. Lin Shaofeng picked up half a brick and hit him hard on the back of the head.
Once, and again.
When security arrived, Yang Xiaodong was already lying in a pool of blood, his pupils dilated.
The ambulance came too late. Intracranial hemorrhage, rescue is ineffective.
Shi English learned the news the next morning. She squatted beside the flower bed below the teaching building and cried until she lost her voice. The head teacher supported her and could not say a word.
Lin Shaofeng was taken away by the police. He was under the age of 16 and was eventually sentenced to three years in a juvenile detention center. Shi Jianpei transferred to another school, and Wang Xiaohe took a break from school for half a year. No one in the school mentioned that night again, as if nothing had happened.
Only Shi English would go around and stand under the street lamp at the school gate for a while after school every day.
Later, she was admitted to Quanzhou No. 1 Middle School and left Shishi.
Many years later, when she was working in Xiamen, she would occasionally return to her hometown. When she passed the entrance of the Chinese and English School, she would see bright new street lights, making the whole street look like daytime.
She hadn't cried in a long time.
But she will never forget the look of that old street lamp.
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Intention: love