The summer of 1997 was hotter and more humid than usual.
The sky is deep blue, the camphor trees are green, and the railings of the kindergarten are dull black.
The cicadas' chirping sounds were sometimes long and sometimes short, and the ceiling fan in the office turned softly, dispelling the heat in the air.
"Teacher Wang, although Mianmian has some intellectual problems, he is very well behaved. Please let him go to kindergarten. He can dress himself and eat by himself." Lin Minzhi stood awkwardly and begged bitterly.
Teacher Wang reached out and touched Ji Mian's chubby face, saying regretfully, "Mian Mian's mom, the kindergarten has a rule that we can't accept children with intellectual disabilities. Otherwise, why don't you try a special kindergarten?"
In the office, two new intern teachers discussed:
"Who is this child? He looks so cute, why isn't he talking?"
"Minzhi's youngest son is cute, but unfortunately he has an intellectual disability and can't communicate with normal people."
"Ah, what a shame. No wonder he looks so dull."
"You know Minzhi's family is having a hard time lately. Her husband is cheating on her..."
"Yeah... there are two children here."
"Her eldest son is useless. He doesn't study and just hangs out in society. It's such a disgrace..."
Lin Minzhi wiped her face and grabbed the corner of her clothes: "Teacher Wang, my child can't go there. Mianmian, come here, please, Teacher Wang, do you want to make friends here?"
Teacher Wang sighed, "Mianmian's mom, you know Mianmian can't speak..."
The child's milky voice rang out: "...I want to."
Lin Minzhi and Teacher Wang both stared at Ji Mian with wide eyes.
After Ji Mian finished speaking, he lowered his head.
Lin Minzhi said in surprise: "Teacher Wang, look! Mianmian, say one more word."
Ji Mian's face was red and radiating heat. Lin Minzhi panicked and reached out to touch Ji Mian's forehead: "Oh, it's so hot! When did you get a fever?"
The word "want" just now was like the auditory hallucination of two people.
Lin Minzhi frowned. Half of the family's money had been taken away by the cheating Ji Weiguo. She only had five yuan on her and looked a little embarrassed.
"Teacher Wang, I'm going to buy some medicine for Mian Mian. Can you let him sleep in the office for a while?"
"Don't worry, I'll take care of Mian Mian, everything will be fine."
Lin Minzhi walked out of the office in a hurry and bumped into a child who rushed in like a firecracker.
The child screamed, "Teacher Wang, Fu Chenyu hit someone in the kindergarten! He made them bleed!"
Fu Chenyu...
Ji Mian was dizzy from the fever. When he heard the name, his brain reflexively came up with a series of adjectives:
A genius boy, the youngest leader of a criminal empire, born with personality defects, emotional disorders, a cold-blooded and ruthless demon.
Twenty years later, the dark web he created will bring great turmoil and unrest to the entire world, increasing the global crime rate by ten percent.
Fu Chenyu, the biggest villain in the novel "Stranger Tenderness"!
Ji Mian's memories, as if a switch had been pressed, flooded into his mind frantically.
He was on duty just one moment, and the next second, he was transported to the novel recommended to him by his female colleague.
"Tenderness in a Strange Road" is a classic novel about a CEO's robbery. The male protagonist, who is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, has a straight male "White Moonlight" whom he can never get. In contrast to the "White Moonlight", Ji Mian, who is only five years old, is the cannon fodder substitute that the attacker chooses as a second choice.
Coincidentally, the cannon fodder substitute "Ji Mian" has the same name and surname as him.
Ji Mian only heard the female police officers in the team discuss the plot and did not have time to read the novel seriously.
As a contrast to Bai Yueguang, the cannon fodder stand-in is naturally inferior to Bai Yueguang in every way.
Bai Yueguang is elegant, aloof, and talented, and she finally marries the president.
The cannon fodder was vulgar, stupid, and a vase, and was killed by Bai Yueguang's pursuer with a single knife.
One of Bai Yueguang's suitors was Fu Chenyu, a highly intelligent criminal genius who made the police tremble in fear twenty years later.
In other words, the man who killed Ji Mian.
Ji Mian struggled to climb down from the small bed, supporting his body. While Teacher Wang wasn't paying attention, he secretly picked up a pen and paper and wrote down his memories.
He clearly felt that due to the fusion of memories, many of his own memories had begun to blur.
The chubby hands wrote on the paper stroke by stroke:
I, Ji Mian, am a time traveler and a trainee police officer at the Jianjing Public Security Bureau. My mother died young and my father died in the line of duty.
Fu Chenyu, the villain in "Stranger Tenderness", the person who will kill me in the future... Remember to stay away from Fu Chenyu, stay away from Fu Chenyu, stay away from Fu Chenyu!
After writing these two lines, Ji Mian had used up all his strength.
He hid the note in his innermost pocket, curled up, and fell into a deep sleep.
"Bah! The son of a prisoner is also a prisoner!"
"Your father killed someone! You're a murderer too!"
"Wild child! You are a wild child!"
"It's shameful not to have a dad!"
In the garden, the children formed a circle, and a boy who was isolated stood in the middle. His clothes were covered with mud, his forehead was bruised, and there was still mud and sand in his hair.
The boy, only five years old, his eyes red and his fists clenched tightly, retorted: "I'm not a murderer."
"You are you are you are you are!"
"You murderer! We know everything!"
"Your father killed someone, and you will kill someone in the future!"
"I'm not a murderer!" the boy repeated, wrestling with the child who was shouting the loudest.
Teacher Wang rushed over and pulled the two children apart: "Xu Cai, Fu Chenyu, no fighting!"
Xu Cai raised his hand to complain: “Master Shen Yu just wanted to kill me!”
Fu Chenyu's expression was like that of a little beast forced into a desperate situation, staring at Xu Cai fiercely.
"Okay!" Teacher Wang's face darkened.
Teacher Zhou from the kindergarten came up and took Xu Cai away, separating the two fighting children.
Teacher Wang took out a handkerchief and wiped Fu Chenyu's face clean, and said softly: "No fighting in kindergarten in the future, understand."
Fu Chenyu's eyes were red, and he seemed to want to explain something, but in the end he pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.
Teacher Wang: “Hey…”
This child is also pitiful.
Tongcheng Lingang County is not big and has few immigrants, so any little thing that happens in every household can be spread to everyone.
Fu Chenyu's father, Fu Yong, is a township entrepreneur, and his mother, Ning Qian, is a great beauty. When a person is beautiful, it is easy for something to go wrong in such a small place.
Last year, Ning Qian was raped by a group of drunk hooligans on her way home. When Fu Yong found out, he went after the hooligans with a knife and killed two of them during the fight. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
After Fu Yong went to jail, Ning Qian never recovered. In the middle of this year, she started to be a mistress for a certain leader and never returned home.
Every day after kindergarten, it was their nanny who came to pick up Fu Chenyu.
Fu Chenyu, who has always been smart, seems like a different person.
He was gloomy and silent, always standing in the corner, hating the whole world.
After Teacher Wang left, a pink and tender girl with a small black mole under her eye ran out from the corner.
If Ji Mian saw him, he would immediately recognize that Tuanzi was the protagonist of "Stranger Tenderness", Su Luoyu.
Su Luoyu held a handkerchief in her hand, took Fu Chenyu's hand and wiped it gently: "Ah Chen, are you okay? Don't listen to them, I will always be with you."
Fu Chenyu bit the word: "Forever..."
Su Luoyu's eyes lit up and she nodded vigorously: "Yes! Because we were good friends before, I won't abandon you!"
Fu Chenyu asked indifferently: "Why didn't you accompany me just now?"
Why didn't his good friends stay with him when he was beaten, scolded and humiliated?
Su Luoyu was stunned for a moment, biting her lower lip with her teeth, tears suddenly welling up in her eyes: "Just now I... I..."
Fu Chenyu suddenly slapped his hand away, and the snow-white handkerchief fell to the ground. The boy turned around silently and limped away.
Teacher Wang returned to the office and saw Lin Minzhi holding Ji Mian with her bloated body, patting him gently and coaxing him in a low voice.
The woman is no longer young and has aged. Her eldest son is useless. She finally has a youngest son, but he is born with intellectual disability.
That's why her husband took away the family's money and ran away with his mistress.
She is a woman in her thirties, and she doesn't know what kind of man she married. She can't expect anything.
As a woman herself, Teacher Wang was moved by the scene and couldn't bear to kick Lin Minzhi out again.
"Mianmian's mom, now that Mianmian's fever has subsided, let's go and register for kindergarten."
Lin Minzhi was overjoyed and cried repeatedly to thank Teacher Wang.
Teacher Wang looked at Ji Mian and thought of another child in the class, Fu Chenyu. Soon, this class would have another "problem" student...
Teacher Wang suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
"I came from the mountains, bringing orchids with me. I planted them in my little garden, hoping they would bloom soon..."
The kindergarten bell rang, Lin Minzhi fed Ji Mian some medicine, and rushed to the clinic with Ji Mian in her arms.
Ji Mian was jolted a bit and regained consciousness slightly in Lin Minzhi's strong arms.
Lin Minzhi bought him a small windmill for five cents at the door. The windmill was loosely tied, and Ji Mian had not played with it for long before it disintegrated on its own and flew away with the wind.
Ji Mian squinted his eyes and watched the kindergarten children laughing and running into their parents' arms like baby birds returning to their nests.
Among the pairs of people, only Fu Chenyu was alone.
He sat silently on a bench in the kindergarten, holding his black schoolbag.
Parents and children passing by avoided him and walked among themselves, with expressions of surprise, disdain, or sympathy on their faces.
In Fu Chenyu's eyes, the world is like a silent, disgusting painting.
Suddenly, a white windmill appeared in the picture, adding color to his black world.
Fu Chenyu tilted his little face up, his eyes following the windmill's erratic movements, and saw Aunt Chen, the nanny who came to pick him up.
Aunt Chen slapped away the windmill that flew in front of her and said impatiently, "Hurry up and leave. I have to pick up my son later. What a little burden... I might as well just send him to full-time kindergarten. I have to pick him up every day, which is really troublesome..."
The white windmill fell to the ground. Aunt Chen stepped forward and stepped on the windmill, snatched his schoolbag, and pulled Fu Chenyu's young body so hard that it swayed.
Fu Chenyu's world once again became the black color that he hated.
He felt sick listening to the children's complaints to their parents and the parents' concern for their children.
Aunt Chen didn't ask what was wrong with his leg. He limped behind Aunt Chen, stepping over the white windmill. His small back revealed a cold and resoluteness that was inconsistent with his age.
Outside the kindergarten, salt water popsicles, shoe repair stalls, old-fashioned popcorn, shared bikes, and 28-inch bicycles are ringing.
Music came from a video store in the distance, swirling in the early summer sky.
"The sea changes into mulberry fields, but it can't erase my longing for you."
"Calling you again and again, my 1997——"
In the summer of 1997, Fu Chenyu understood one thing.
White is such a beautiful and simple word, it is a color he is not worthy of touching.
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