The world is very bitter, you are very sweet

Chapter 1

It's four o'clock in the morning and the night is quiet.A black SUV was speeding across the ground shrouded in darkness.

The car has been driving for several hours, and there is a bridge across the river ahead.

Xu Jingheng yawned.He was actually very sleepy, but he couldn't fall asleep in the car. He wanted to squint for a while, but found that the more he squinted, the more dizzy he became.

Dizzy and unable to sleep, he was really uncomfortable, so he had to open the window of the co-pilot to get some air and look outside.

The streetlights were dim, and the distance could not be clearly illuminated.

Xu Jingheng was imagining what it would be like to live in his hometown where he was about to study and live without any impression in his memory.

"Why don't you sleep for a while? It will take another hour or two to get there." Xu Li, who was driving, asked.

Xu Jingheng shook his head, "Can't sleep."

"If you can't sleep, you can squint for a while."

"The more you squint, the more uncomfortable, dizzy."

"are you hungry?"

"Not hungry, don't want to eat in the car."

The car drove on the cross-river bridge. City H was not like city S where there were cars on the road all night. At this time, in the middle of the night, there was only this car on the bridge across the river, and Xu Li drove faster.

Xu Jingheng looked out the window with the wind blowing, all the buildings and scenery on the side of the road seemed to him a dark picture with no fixed focus, flashing past indistinctly.

The bridge is a straight bridge, long, with a street light of ten meters.There is a very long river across the bottom, and it will take a while to finish driving the bridge.

As soon as the car got on the cross-river bridge, Xu Jingheng saw in the car that there seemed to be a black mass stuck to the bridge guardrail in front of him.

The night was very dark, the speed of the car was fast, and the black shadow was on the other side of the bridge, which was a little far away from Xu Jingheng. In addition, he hadn't slept all night, and he was in a trance and his eyes were blurred, so he couldn't see the black thing clearly. what is it.

He blinked hard twice, stuck half of his head out of the window, and stared at the black shadow that seemed to exist for a few seconds, only to feel that the black shadow suddenly moved slightly.

The vehicle passed by quickly, Xu Jingheng didn't see clearly what that thing was.He drew his head back, frowning slightly while sitting in the car.

Still a little puzzled.It was so late, how could there be a dark shadow on the guardrail of the cross-river bridge?

Before he could figure it out, the car got off the bridge, and Xu Li's speed slowly slowed down.

The road ahead has become smaller, but there are many more street lights, and there are still lights on outside the doors of several houses.

Looking at the houses and roads that were gradually becoming clear in front of him, Xu Jingheng turned his head and asked Xu Li: "Dad, did you see anything when you were on the bridge just now?"

Xu Li drove the car intently, looked ahead and said calmly, "What is it?"

Xu Jingheng looked at the tree outside the window, with some doubts in his eyes, "On the railing of the bridge, there seems to be a black shadow, vaguely... I don't know if I saw it wrong."

Xu Li frowned and said, "Black Shadow?"

Xu Jingheng nodded, "Well, a black shadow seems to be floating on the guardrail."

Xu Li smiled, and didn't pay much attention, "You didn't sleep at night, your spirits are not good, your eyes are blurred, do you still have double images when you look at things now?"

Xu Jingheng softened his eyes vigorously, shook his head, looked at the front of the car intently, and said puzzledly: "No, I can see clearly..."

He thought for a while, and said seriously to Xu Li: "I really saw a black shadow on the bridge just now, it was a mass of something, but the car was driving too fast, I couldn't see what it was... But I think That lump was indeed on the bridge."

Seeing that Xu Jingheng was so sure, Xu Li stopped the car slowly.He turned to look at Xu Jingheng and asked, "Did you really see it?"

Xu Jingheng nodded firmly, "I really saw it...couldn't it be a ghost?"

Xu Li sneered, "Didn't you never believe that there are ghosts in the world?"

Xu Jingheng pursed his lips and said, "Then didn't I see it just now..."

In fact, he really does not believe in the existence of ghosts in the world.He is neither afraid of ghosts nor believe in gods and Buddhas.

So at this moment, a terrible thought came to him, and he unconsciously lowered his voice and said to Xu Li: "Could it be that someone is sitting on it?"

Xu Li looked in the rearview mirror. There was a row of houses behind the car. He had already passed the bridge, so he couldn't see the bridge itself.He restarted the car, "Since it's so mysterious, let's go back and have a look."

That's exactly what Xu Jingheng thought, "Well, I hope I'm wrong."

Don't really think someone is going to jump off the bridge.

Xu Li turned the car around and drove towards the cross-river bridge.

When the car was just driving home, it was on the left side of the bridge, and Xu Jingheng was sitting on the co-pilot, watching the black shadow floating on the guardrail on the right side of the bridge. See too clearly.

Now the car is driving in the direction of the bridge, and it is driving along the right side of the road. The distance is closer, and Xu Li's speed is also much slower.

Slowly, the car on the cross-river bridge got closer and closer to the black shadow, Xu Jingheng and Xu Li also saw more and more clearly that the black shadow really existed.

It was the back view of a short-haired boy in black short sleeves.

The boy was sitting on the bridge railing with his back to them, his legs were already halfway down, and his hands were still on the railing.He kept his head down, looking at the river under the bridge.

When the car stopped behind the boy, Xu Jingheng's expression was already dull.

"Dad... what's wrong with him?" Xu Jingheng saw someone seeking death in front of him for the first time, "He's sitting on the guardrail... is he going to..."

Seeing such a scene suddenly, he was indeed a little panicked at the moment, and his head, which was still a little sleepy just now, was immediately congested with shock.

Xu Jingheng pulled Xu Li's white shirt sleeves, subconsciously whispered: "Dad, is he... going to jump into the river?"

As a grown man, Xu Li was at least superficially calm.

He didn't speak, and flicked the headlights on purpose twice, trying to attract the boy, but the boy didn't turn his head to look at them, and still maintained this posture that looked like he was about to fall, hanging on the bridge above the guardrail.

Only the wind blew up his short hair slightly.

Xu Li didn't dare to honk the horn, for fear of frightening the boy on the guardrail.

He unbuckled his seat belt extremely carefully, patted Xu Jingheng's hand reassuringly, and said softly: "It's okay, I'm not afraid. Dad goes out to see him, don't come out first, don't scare him."

Xu Jingheng nodded anxiously.

Even though the boy didn't seem to notice them, Xu Jingheng subconsciously held his breath, not daring to let out a breath.He watched nervously as Xu Li opened the driver's door as quietly as possible and got out of the car.

Xu Li didn't close the car door after getting out of the car, he was afraid that the sound of closing the car door would scare the boy.

The boy's current posture and position are already very dangerous. He only has his hands propped on the guardrail, and his body below his thighs is hung under the guardrail. capital.

Xu Li was standing by the car, hesitating, thinking, and considering what his first sentence should be... But he was also worried, what if he would be frightened if he spoke?

Xu Jingheng was sitting in the car, looking at the hesitant father outside and the boy who was about to fall, he was also trembling with fear, unconsciously becoming extremely cautious about breathing.

Outside the car, Xu Li was approaching the boy on tiptoe. He was thinking about what to say when he heard the boy in front of him speak.

"do not come……"

The boy turned his head slightly, squinting at the figure on the bridge.

His face was covered in blood, his face could not be seen clearly, and there were also dry blood stains on his arms and neck.

Xu Li raised his hands, made a gesture of surrender, and comforted him: "Ok, okay... I won't go, I won't go..."

"Let's go, don't look at me, and don't think about doing anything." The boy's voice was small and hoarse, as if he had quarreled with someone not long ago, and his voice hadn't returned to normal.

"Okay..." Xu Li nodded quickly, "I don't look at you, I'll recite it, I don't look at you, child..."

He turned to face the car, looked at Xu Jingheng who had a frightened face in the car, and nodded to him comfortingly, Xu Jingheng also obediently remained silent.

Xu Li said softly: "Son, uncle has already turned around, don't be afraid, huh?"

The evening wind blew up the boy's loose black short-sleeved T-shirt for a while, and then blew it tightly against his thin back.

He arched his back slightly, his spine was very prominent, "Then you get in the car and go, that's all."

Xu Jingheng and Xu Li looked at each other, Xu Li's eyes were full of worry, while Xu Jingheng's expression was complicated.

Even though the boy's voice was very hoarse, Xu Li could tell that the boy was not very old, maybe he was about the same age as Xu Jingheng from his own family.

Thinking of Xu Jingheng, Xu Li felt distressed and blamed himself...

During Xu Jingheng's high school year, his temperament changed drastically.He doesn't like to talk anymore, and he doesn't like to laugh on weekdays. He has completely changed his appearance, and he can no longer see the well-behaved and lively shadow of when he was a child.

As a father, he couldn't find the reason, but he knew that Xu Jingheng's first year of high school was not happy, because he could often see the injuries on Xu Jingheng's body.Even though Xu Jingheng has tried his best to hide it, parents can still easily find out.

He actually guessed that Xu Jingheng might have been bullied at school, so when Xu Jingheng proposed to transfer after the car accident, he readily agreed without asking.

He also asked Xu Jingheng several times what happened to the injury on his body, and Xu Jingheng always said that he fell while running.

But... how can I get so many thin scars on my wrist after falling...

Xu Jingheng deliberately perfunctory him on this matter, so he didn't force him to ask.Even the matter of leaving his parents and transferring to his hometown to study, he quickly agreed.

He thought, Xu Jingheng has grown up, he has his own reasons for making decisions, he also has his own considerations about what to say and what not to say to his parents, so he doesn't care so much.

"Let's go, you guys..." the boy on the bridge railing said again.

Xu Li came back to his senses, and said in a good voice: "My child, I see that you have been injured, and it looks quite serious. Do you want uncle to drive you to the hospital?"