Rekindling the dream of becoming a star

Chapter 95: Saving People
"Have a good rest today. The journey and the physical examination must be tiring." Zhang Shaohong said gently.

"Understood, boss."

Returning to his room, Chen Fang felt tired and lonely at the same time.

The teammates directly changed to the train to Shenzhen at the station and left, leaving Chen Fang alone.

Lying in bed, he suddenly felt very homesick. Thinking that today was already Friday and it made sense, he picked up the phone and called.

After getting consent, Chen Fang quickly packed up and left the base to rush to the station.

It was already past five in the afternoon when I got home. Not long after, my father came back. He was surprised to see Chen Fang and hurried to prepare dinner.

The mother came home soon after, and after the family of three finished their lively dinner, they held a small family meeting.

"The contract has been signed, the blueprints have been drawn up, and the construction team and materials are arriving this week. You can go and take a look tomorrow." Father Chen Yi first talked about the construction site.

"The store is progressing very quickly, the staff is all there, and they are in training. Xiao Sun is very capable, so I basically don't need to help."

"The expenditures are still within the plan and there are no signs of overspending at the moment. If we keep it up, there will be no problem with funding." When talking about work, his parents' expressions were very serious, which made Chen Fang uncomfortable.

"Then let me tell you my news." Chen Fang took a deep breath: "Mom and Dad, I was selected for the National Youth Team."

"National Youth Team? What does that mean?" Mother Ke Qing was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chen Yi.

Chen Yi didn't respond, so Chen Fang had to say, "China National Youth Basketball Team, referred to as the National Youth Team."

“National team?” The parents were in great self-doubt, but the father was the first to believe and became proud: “Look, my genes actually gave birth to a national team, haha!”

"Did you give birth to her? I gave birth to her!"

Seeing the parents arguing like a child, Chen Fang hurriedly separated them: "You two gave birth to this child, I can prove it."

"Fangfang, are you going to join the national team? Isn't that jumping three levels?" The mother was filled with joy and pride from the bottom of her heart.

"No, we're not going until November next year. It's still early. Besides, it's still the pre-selection period. Don't tell anyone."

"Then you must work hard. This is the glory of our Chen family. When I return to my hometown during the Chinese New Year, I will sit in the chief seat."

"You are so grown up, but you are still acting like a child." Ke Qing slapped her husband, then said to her son seriously, "Then you should train more seriously now. You must seize this opportunity."

"Don't worry, I won't slack off. Mom and Dad, you guys chat, I have to go back to my room to do my homework." To be honest, while Chen Fang was happy, he also felt a little guilty. Ever since he found out he had joined the national youth team, he had been feeling insecure.

Chen Fang returned to his room. He had no intention of doing his homework and even had the idea of calling Lu Yun.

After dialing, Lu Yun quickly answered: "What's going on? Are you starting to miss me?"

"Don't be funny." Chen Fang, who was speaking his mind, would not admit it: "Have you arrived yet?"

"Just got into the hotel. I was just about to send you a message."

"what's up?"

"Where are you now? The dormitory?"

"I'm back to Nanyang."

"That's great. Wu Zi called me just now and I wasn't there, so you can take over."

"Wu Zi?"

"Yes, she actually has a very good impression of you. I won't cheat you. You can ask her what the specific matter is."

Then there was a buzz on the line, "I'm not going to talk to you anymore. The coach has to go to a meeting. I'll give her your number. That's it for now."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Fang was a little confused and nervous when his cell phone rang. It was an unfamiliar number.

"Hey."

"Chen Fang?"

"Yes, it's me. Are you Wu Zi?" In fact, Chen Fang had already recognized Wu Zi's voice. Her voice was very recognizable. Her voice was very clear and had a cool feeling.

"You are in Nanyang?"

"Yes, I just got back."

"Are you free tomorrow?" she asked after a moment's hesitation.

"Yes." Chen Fang answered without hesitation.

"Okay, then reserve it. Meet me at the stadium in the old town at 8 o'clock tomorrow."

"Ok."

Beep, and then the phone was hung up.

Chen Fang stared at his phone in a daze.

That night, Chen Fang actually couldn't sleep. His biological clock didn't even wake him up. When he opened his eyes drowsily, he found the room full of light. He was startled and jumped out of bed.

Look at the time again, it’s half past seven.

Fortunately, Buddha bless you!
Chen Fang hurriedly put on his hoodie, washed up quickly, put on his shoes and said to his father who was busy in the kitchen: "Dad, I have something to do. I won't be back at noon. You guys eat."

"Hey, kid, why didn't you tell me earlier?" The father was still complaining, but he heard a door slamming, and his son had already run away.

There was not much traffic on the weekend morning, and the taxi arrived at the destination before eight o'clock despite its best efforts.

After getting off the car, Chen breathed a sigh of relief and found a breakfast shop opposite. He ran over happily and ordered a meat pie and soy milk. Halfway through the drink, he saw Wu Zi coming.

Wu Zi was dressed very simply today, wearing a small jacket, a white T-shirt underneath, straight jeans, a long black bag, and hiking shoes. She looked like she was going for a picnic.

Despite this, her beautiful figure and cool appearance still attracted passers-by to look back.

Not daring to keep Wu Zi waiting for long, Chen Fang wiped his mouth, reluctantly threw away the remaining breakfast, and ran over.

Seeing Chen Fang, Wu Zi turned her head to look at him, and she said slowly, "Very punctual."

"What's the matter?" Chen Fang changed the words on his lips and pretended to be calm.

"Come with me to a place and I'll tell you on the way." Wu Zi exuded a chill from head to toe.

But Wu Zi got in the car and sat alone in the back, looking out the window. She had no intention of saying anything, but Chen Fang could see the sadness in her eyes.

Chen Fang didn't dare to say anything and could only sit in the passenger seat silently, watching the taxi leave the city, drive into the suburbs, and then get on the national highway.

After a bumpy ride, we drove through a small town and entered a small urban area. This is Weicheng County under the jurisdiction of NY City, and it is the county closest to the sea.

The taxi quickly left the county town, drove into a remote road, and then started to go up the mountain.

Chen Fang was surprised to find that the road was not desolate at all as the car was going up the mountain. He could always see a few houses.

Five or six minutes later, the taxi slowly stopped. Chen got out of the car and looked at the school with the plaque of Weishan High School hanging not far away. He finally couldn't help asking, "Is this the place?"

Wu Zi's face turned pale. When she saw the four big words "High School", she almost lost her balance. Chen Fang subconsciously tried to help her, but was pushed away by Wu Zi.

Chen Fang withdrew his hand awkwardly, cursing himself for being a servile licker. He thought it was a date, but he didn't expect it was just a second-rate bodyguard.

This is a high school located in the mountains. It is weekend now and there is no one at the school gate.

After Wu Zi made a phone call, she looked at Chen Fang and said, "I know you have questions, and I'll tell you now."

"I was born here." She pointed to the school not far away.

This was a big surprise, but Chen Fang didn't interrupt and just listened quietly.

"My mother is teaching and my father works in the county."

"When I was one year old, they suddenly disappeared, and then we were adopted by relatives. They kept silent to me, and I didn't know about this place until I accidentally found my parents' diary."

"I found a good friend of my mother who is still teaching here, and we made an appointment to meet today."

"Later, don't say anything or ask anything, just think of it as accompanying me." At this time, Wu Zi's expression changed from being aloof to full of misery.

Chen Fang nodded and assured: "I understand."

"Thank you." Wu Zi bowed in thanks.

Chen Fang didn't know what to say about this, so he could only say in a low voice, "It's my duty."

At this time, a middle-aged woman came to the school gate. When she saw Wu Zi and Chen Fang, she waved to them.

As soon as he approached, the middle-aged woman trembled all over, took a few steps back, and the next moment she covered her mouth and sobbed, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Shi Ran!"

Then, she quickly wiped her tears and took a deep breath to ease her excitement. She reached out to hold Wu Zi's hand: "You look exactly like your mother." She looked at Chen Fang again: "Who is this?"

"My friend." Wu Zi introduced briefly without even saying his name.

Chen Fang smiled and nodded to the middle-aged woman.

"Just call me Teacher Wen." The middle-aged woman responded gently. She took Wu Zi's hand and led her into the campus.

The Weishan High School is very unique. It is built on the mountainside. All the roads you see are uphill. The buildings on both sides of the road are built on flat land. The vegetation here is lush. Before entering the school, the sun is shining brightly, but after entering, you feel a little chilly.

Chen Fang couldn't help but shiver.

Teacher Wen led them to a two-story building that looked like a teacher's dormitory. She introduced it to them, "Come sit at my house first. You came from Nanyang, so you must be tired from the ride."

"Aunt Wen, I'm not tired." Wu Zi's mood has calmed down now. Perhaps she has let out a lot of emotions after all the troubles along the way. The decoration in the house is simple. Chen Fang found a mahogany chair and sat obediently near the door, watching Teacher Wen and Wu Zi sitting on the long sofa.

Teacher Wen then poured them both a cup of hot water. After everything was done, her face slowly turned sad.

"I know why you came here. I understood it the moment I received your call." She said slowly.

"Auntie, I actually know something, but I don't know the details."

"You've grown up. You should be 16 years old this year." Teacher Wen sighed.

"Yes, that's right." Wu Zi nodded obediently.

"Fifteen years ago, this place was very lively." Teacher Wen began to reminisce.

"Eighteen years ago, Weishan High School was the only high school in the county. At that time, your mother Yin Shiran had just been transferred in through the civil service examination. She had just gotten married, and your father worked in the county government. You were a couple that many people envied."

"Not long after, your mother became pregnant, and then you and your brother were born."

"One day, your father came to the school to look for your mother, and then he disappeared. The school mobilized all the teachers and the county police, but they couldn't find him. This matter became an unsolved case, and it remains so until now."

"Auntie." Wu Zi's body was trembling slightly, but her voice was firm.

"You should know that I didn't come to you to ask these questions. I want to know the truth."

Chen Fang couldn't help feeling a little nervous. He picked up the disposable cup and drank some hot water.

Teacher Wen's face changed, and she showed obvious hesitation. Her eyes flickered, and she dodged under Wu Zi's determined gaze.

"I am your mother's best colleague and friend, and our single dormitories are next door to each other." Teacher Wen clenched her fists and began to tremble.

"That afternoon, your mother was in the room grading homework, and you and your brother were lying in the cradle. I could occasionally hear your babbling voices and the nursery rhymes your mother sang to comfort you from next door."

"Your father came suddenly. I heard them arguing, and then soon I saw them hurrying downstairs. I was a little worried, so I went out to greet them and ask about them. But your parents were in a hurry, and I only saw your father's livid face. He seemed to notice that I was upstairs, so he turned around and glanced at me."

"I will remember that look for the rest of my life." Teacher Wen covered his chest with his hands, gasping for breath, his face full of fear.

"I went back to the room and looked out the window and saw them go to the back hill."

"Because I had classes in the afternoon, I went to the classroom without thinking too much. As soon as I finished the first class, there was a violent storm with lightning and thunder. The whole sky seemed to fall down. I had never seen such heavy rain, and it continued until the evening."

"When I returned to the dormitory, I heard a child crying in the next room. I went to see, and saw you and your brother crying loudly in the cradle."

"After I coaxed you guys, I waited in the room for a long time. I felt something was not right, so I quickly called a teacher to tell the principal."

"We searched all night but found nothing. The entire back mountain was empty after the heavy rain, and the police dogs they brought were useless."

"Behind the mountain is the sea. There is only one road down the mountain. The police asked everyone nearby, but no one saw them."

"Some people say that your parents..." Teacher Wen hesitated.

"Auntie, please continue, I'm not a child anymore." Although Wu Zi was already in tears, she tightly grasped Teacher Wen's hands and begged.

Teacher Wen gritted his teeth and said, "Your parents may still be in the back mountain. The police speculate that your father killed your mother, buried her, and then jumped into the sea."

"Because the guard said your father arrived at the school in the morning, but I remember clearly that your father didn't come to see your mother until noon."

Wu Zi's tears flowed silently. She trembled all over and shook her head desperately: "My father couldn't have killed my mother. The diary is full of his love for my mother."

"Why are you all so sure? Why do you say that about my parents!" Wu Zi suddenly became angry.

"Zizi, calm down, because there was another person missing at that time." Teacher Wen hurriedly grabbed Wu Zizi.

Then she said quickly, "That man was an art teacher. He was very handsome and was admired by many female teachers at the school. He...he was very close to your mother, and there were rumors in the school."

"The police's theory is that this was a murder of passion. When your father came in, he was carrying a large, long bag. The guard saw a wooden handle sticking out of the bag, and it looked like a shovel."

Wu Zi suddenly stopped moving, and in Chen Fang's eyes, he looked stiff.

Chen Fang's legs closed unconsciously. He suddenly felt the hot water was cold. He touched it and found that it was actually his hands and feet that were cold.

As a born-again person, he truly believed this.

Holy shit! Chen Fang never dreamed that he would hear such a story.

"Auntie, can you take me to see that building?" Wu Zi said this softly after a long time.

"Zizi, it's all in the past. Don't think about it anymore. Just listen to your aunt." Teacher Wen started crying and choked up while hugging Wu Zi, "My poor child."

"I'll just take a look." Wu Zi's soft voice was full of determination.

"Okay, I'll take you there." Teacher Wen wiped away his tears and made up his mind.

Watching them go out, Chen Fang didn't know what to do. Worried about Wu Zi's mood, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, then followed them out with a dark face.

As they were going up the mountain, the road became winding and narrow. There was fog in the mountains and the figures in front of them could no longer be seen clearly. Chen Fang could not help but quicken his pace.

I heard Teacher Wen say from a distance: "That place is already deserted. The school won't let people go there. You can just take a look from a distance."

Seven or eight minutes later, Chen Fang saw them stop. After taking a few steps closer, he saw an L-shaped black-tiled wooden building vaguely visible among the dense trees in the valley ahead.

"Let's go. No one has been here for a long time, and there are already wild beasts." Teacher Wen really did as she said. After just one look, she finally showed her teacher's authority and pulled Wu Zi away without any explanation. Chen Fang hurriedly followed.

After returning to the house, Wu Zi said goodbye to her. They were silent all the way until they reached the school gate, where she bowed deeply to Teacher Wen.

After Teacher Wen left, Chen Fang moved closer and looked at Wu Zi's pale face. He didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Chen Fang!" Wu Zi suddenly spoke, looking up at him slightly.

"Accompany me to my mother's former residence again." She requested word by word.

It was like a bolt from the blue. Even with such bright sunshine, Chen Fang couldn't feel a single bit of warmth.

But looking into Wu Zi's eyes, Chen Fang didn't have time to take a deep breath and nodded, "Okay."

Men, at this time, can't be cowardly.

"Thank you."

The two told the guard that they had forgotten to take something and re-entered the school. Relying on their memory, Wu Zi and Chen Fang returned to the abandoned wooden building.

Seeing Wu Zi about to go over, Chen Fang held her back and said, "Let me lead the way."

The weeds were so overgrown that the path could no longer be found. Chen Fang punched and kicked his way through, and managed to carve out a workable path.

When he arrived in front of the wooden building, Chen Fang found that it was not as dilapidated as he had imagined. At least the walls were not cracked and the stairs to the second floor were still durable.

Seeing Wu Zi raising her foot to go forward, Chen Fang stopped her and said, "Let me do it."

After looking at Chen Fang, Wu Zi obeyed obediently.

They went upstairs cautiously, and the scene on the second floor was beyond their expectations. After all, it had been exposed to wind and rain and was close to the sea, so it was severely corroded. Everywhere they looked, there were skylights or collapsed beams. It was a mess.

"Mom's room is over there." Wu Zi suddenly pointed to the room at the edge.

Just as Chen Fang was wondering how Wu Zi knew it, he looked in the direction and found a wooden plaque nailed to the side door frame with three large characters "Yin Shiran" written on it.

Then I looked to the side and saw [Wen Xinyin] was indeed written on it. It seemed that everything was right.

I moved forward cautiously. The wooden boards, unable to bear the weight, made creaking sounds. It was extremely quiet everywhere. I looked up at the sky. The blue sky gave me a little comfort, but the big mountain behind blocked all the sunlight, making it very cold and gloomy here.

Finally they arrived at the door, and both of them had a thin layer of sweat on the tips of their noses. This kind of unknown road was the most stressful.

The door was half-open. Chen Fang gently pushed it open and was shocked when he saw the layout of the room.

In the middle of the room, there was a baby cradle. On the other side of the window, there was a desk with mushrooms growing on it. Next to the desk, there was a collapsed tent bed lying there quietly.

The roof was surprisingly intact, and a hanging incandescent lamp swayed gently in the breeze. There was a washbasin stand at the door, and you could still see the washbasin with oil embroidery patterns placed there intact.

The window was completely shattered, leaving only a huge square hole facing the two of them.

I don’t know if it’s because of taboos, but no one dares to take anything away. The house is fully furnished, but this actually deepens the eerie feeling.

Wu Zi walked into the house slowly. She came to the cradle with her eyes full of sadness.

"Mom." Wu Zi called softly. She looked around and touched every piece of furniture with her hands, as if she wanted to feel the traces of her mother that had not yet faded.

Chen Fang was somewhat worried and slowly approached. He glanced at the window casually and saw a vaguely visible gravel road.

Teacher Wen’s memories suddenly came to my mind. That day, Wu Zi’s parents took this road to the back mountain.

My scalp exploded and goose bumps covered my entire body from my head to my heels.

"Chen Fang!" Wu Zi looked at him again, with an even more pleading look in her eyes.

Chen Fangxin felt something was wrong, but he suppressed his discomfort and said, "Yes."

"Can you accompany me to the back hill?"

Chen Fang felt his heart sinking through his body and falling into an endless abyss.

But what can we do now?
The so-called saving lives means saving lives completely, putting out fires means extinguishing the fire, and a journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. The closer we get to the end, the more we must persist.

If Chen Fang had not been reborn, he would not be afraid at all, but as a reborn person, believing in ghosts and gods is a natural psychological suggestion logic.

"Okay." Chen Fang agreed with difficulty.

　First of all, it is on the shelves, so I give Chen Fang some benefits. After all, he worked hard for 40 words. As for whether it counts as the book friends, I don’t know. This story is taken from what I heard with my own ears, it is a true story. Of course, there are deletions and additions to suit the plot. In the end, I can only say that reality is often like this, very cruel.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)