Dense Fog

Chapter 32

On New Year’s Eve, the firecrackers have not stopped since the afternoon.

Every time the sound of firecrackers sounds, it means that another family has started the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Perhaps it was because of expectations for the first day of the New Year, Lin Wu didn’t feel alone on the New Year’s Eve for the first time.

He posted the couplet early, then hugged the quilt and fell asleep on the bed, occasionally awakened by the sound of firecrackers, turned over, and continued his dreams.

A dream passed the day.

Wake up, the night is noisy, thousands of lights are bright.

It sounds more lively outside than during the day. Lin Wu glanced at the time, and the Spring Festival Gala had already begun.

But he did not turn on the TV.

He hasn’t watched the Spring Festival Gala for many years. The family-friendly atmosphere will only make people more lonely after laughter.

Turning off the ceiling light of the apartment, leaving only one night light, Lin Wu turned on the laptop and found the documentary about wolves that he had been collecting before, but had not had a chance to calm down and watch.

There are five episodes in the film, mainly about gray wolves.

In fact, most documentaries about wolves focus on the most widely distributed population in the world.

However, coyote and gray wolf are close, so Lin Wu also saw it as a popular science film of his family.

The neon lights outside the window and the night lights inside the house outline a soft and colorful atmosphere.

At the beginning of the documentary, a picture of the wolf world, accompanied by the low and magnetic voice of the narration, slowly unfolded…

“As a member of the Canidae family, there are 39 subspecies of gray wolves. They are found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, whether it is dense forests, open plains, barren ice fields, or the severely cold Arctic…”

“They hunt in groups, cooperate with each other, and members perform their duties, advance and retreat together…”

Lin Wu took a serious look. Gradually, the sound of firecrackers outside seemed to be far away. Instead, it was the wind, the sound of the forest, the sound of wolves running in the documentary, and the low roar or high-pitched wolf cry. Ear.

The apartment seemed to have become a forest hut, and the wolves seemed to be around, playing, frolicking, and hunting.

After one episode is played, it automatically enters the next episode.

Lin Wu looked devoted, but also comfortable, and occasionally even wanted to learn howls of the handsome wolf inside.

Until the third episode—

“Wolves have a highly complex social structure and are led by a wolf…”

“Wolves are monogamous. In a wolf pack, only the wolves and their spouses have the right to reproduce…”

“The little wolves that are born will grow up under the care of the entire pack, but after two to three years, some young male little wolves must leave the pack…”

The picture is aimed at a little wolf, it has reached the age to leave the wolf pack, but it does not want to go.

The narration doesn’t fluctuate, it’s still so low and steady—

“This little wolf doesn’t want to leave, but the wolves don’t accept it anymore…”

“Several adult male wolves showed fangs to it…”

“The little wolf tried to get close to its mother, but was yelled back by the wolf…”

Throughout the entire episode, the little wolves are constantly trying, and the wolves are constantly chasing away.

Lin Wu watched it work hard again and again, and ran away dingyly again and again, repeating itself again and again.

Finally, it gave up.

At the end of the third episode, the wolves are hunting around the ice lake, united tightly and orderly. The little wolf could only leave silently and walk towards the unknown forest.

The documentary crew may also care about the fate of the little wolf like Lin Wu.

At the beginning of the fourth episode, the camera completely followed the little wolf.

“The little wolf that leaves the group will try to join other wolves. It sniffs every place in the jungle, dirt, grass, stones, tree trunks, and looks for the smell of companions…”

“It seems to have found it, but finding it doesn’t mean you can join. Most wolves are very exclusive…”

In the following time, Little Wolf became the absolute protagonist of the documentary.

Whether it was Lin Wu or the camera crew, it was obvious that they were affected by its fate, but they couldn’t let go of it in different time and space.

They watched it find a new pack of wolves, but were rejected again, watched it survive alone and tenaciously in the forest, and continued to search for other packs…

It is only an adult, with a keen sense of smell and youthful power, which allows it to hunt alone and not starve to death before finding a wolf pack that truly accepts it.

But just like the recurrence when leaving the original wolf pack, the little wolf finds a new pack again and again, and is rejected again and again, two of which even get injured in a conflict with the pack.

“The little wolf finally met a pack of wolves willing to accept it…”

The whole documentary is drawing to a close. For the first time, the narration has slight emotional fluctuations, as if the long dark night finally ushered in the dawn, and even the calm and low voice seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and a little more relief.

“The female head wolf acquiesced to its approach, which usually means that the wolves have accepted new members…”

Lin Wu was also happy for the little wolf. Perhaps he followed the camera all the way through the roughness of the little wolf struggling to survive in the forest. At this moment, he even felt a little bit of excitement in his eyes and his heart was hot.

“However, the little wolf seems to be hesitating. He approached the wolves and got permission from the wolf, but now he starts to retreat again…”

Lin Wu was slightly startled, staring at the little wolf in the picture, as blank as the wolf pack.

“It retreated to a rock and began to howl, which is enough to traverse the entire forest…”

“This is not a demonstration, but a kind of farewell. At this moment when it is about to be accepted by the new wolf pack, it gave up the integration and chose to become a true lone wolf…”

“After howling, the little wolf turned and ran out of the forest…”

When the camera left the forest, he didn’t chase anymore, and the little wolf’s figure gradually disappeared at the end of the plain.

The final narration was gentle and quiet: “It left the wolf society and ran to its own wilderness.”

The sound of firecrackers outside the window was suddenly concentrated and violent.

Lin Wu woke up from the trance.

Looking up, the hour and minute hands on the clock coincide at twelve o’clock, and the second hand has just passed by.

The old year has passed.

But Lin Wu didn’t have any sense of reality. He listened to the excitement outside the window during the second half of the night, but he was thinking of only the little wolf.

The moon sets and the sun rises.

The sun shines on the earth, and the riverside villa is shaded by the morning light.

At the long dining table, a family of four is having breakfast together.

Just after New Year’s Eve last night, I ate the New Year’s Eve dinner and cooked the dumplings, but on the table this morning, I couldn’t find any more joy in the Spring Festival.

For a complete Western breakfast, the aunt put down the last plate of freshly baked European-style bread and went back to the kitchen to keep busy.

The restaurant was very quiet, only the sound of a knife and fork colliding with the dinner plate.

After eating a few slices of ham, Wang Ye put down his knife and fork and got up: “I’m going to find classmates.”

The father didn’t lift his head, he was still reading the newspaper intently, and occasionally took a sip of coffee.

Mother wiped her mouth with a napkin, and faintly said: “Be careful.”

Only Wang Jincheng, who was sitting on the sidelines, raised his voice as if he had something to do with him: “I will run away on the first day of the Chinese New Year.”

Wang Ye narrowed his eyes and locked him.

Wang Jincheng shrank his neck, and he didn’t know which time he had been beaten by the fear-too many times, it was hard to tell-he stopped speaking.

He is one year younger than Wang Ye, his eyes are like a mother, his nose and mouth are like his father, and anyone who goes out can tell at a glance that he is the son of Wang Haici and Tian Rui. Unlike Wang Ye, who always said that his first child was more like his parents, but Wang Ye was not like anyone else. When he was a child, Wang Jincheng always said that Wang Ye was not his brother. Later, Wang Haici and Tian Rui also became suspicious. , I was worried whether it was a mistake during the delivery in the hospital. Although I found the best hospital, several boys were born in the hospital that day.

Later, the two really took Wang Ye to do a paternity test, and it was true.

Wang Ye had already remembered things at that time, but he didn’t understand it at the time. Later, when he grew up, he reminisced and didn’t feel much. After thinking about it occasionally, he only felt funny. The two have been fighting in the mall for a lifetime. What are they going to do? After all, Wang Jincheng’s child was finally coaxed into the shadow of a snake.

“Mom, I also want to go out and play.” There was no bargaining here for Wang Ye, so Wang Jincheng changed his path again.

Sure enough, Tian Rui’s expression was much richer than just now, and his tone of voice was a little more pampered: “Don’t be naughty, you are crazy outside every day. You can’t accompany your mother at home during the New Year.”

“Oh—” Wang Jincheng dragged his tail, and his triumphant eyes deliberately glared at Wang Ye.

Wang Ye walked out of the restaurant, then turned around and said, “Wang Jincheng, come here.”

Wang Jincheng was a little frightened, but when he thought that his parents were there, Wang Ye should not dare to do it, so he passed by with the courage.

When he approached, Wang Ye drew people over, like a brother, and then said in his ear: “Fool.”

Garden apartment.

It wasn’t until the knock on the door that Lin Wu realized that he was sitting in front of the window, facing the notebook on the desk, in a daze for the rest of the night.

“Snapped-”

There was only one knock on the door, but the heavy force was like a ghost slamming the door.

open the door.

Wang Ye stood at the door, with a sports coat and sneakers, so simple and neat as if it was already sunny outside.

“You really are not afraid of cold.” Lin Wu let people in.

Wang Ye walked into the hallway and looked at the apartment while changing his shoes: “So small?”

Lin Wu wanted to grab the slippers and call him: “You buy me a big one, and I will not refuse anyone who comes.”

Wang Ye looked around and saw only the computer, nothing else: “What did you eat last night?”

“I planned to cook dumplings,” Lin Wu thought of the two boxes of quick-frozen dumplings lying in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator, “I forgot later.”

“What about this morning?”

“Have not eat yet.”

Wang Ye realized that Lin Wu was a little slouched: “What did you do all night?”

“Uh,” Lin Wu hesitated, and raised his eyes to look at Wang Ye, “If I said that I watched a wolf science documentary all night, would it look a bit bleak?”

This is not a question of bleakness or bleakness.

“Did you watch popular science documentaries for the New Year?” This unthinkable act of studying hard is completely beyond the scope of Wang Ye.

“It’s not an ordinary documentary,” Lin Wu must pay for the time and focus on rectifying his name, “it’s especially thought-provoking.”

Wang Ye nodded: “Well, it happened that I didn’t eat.”

…Can your topic switching be simpler and more rude!

Lin Wu took the stubborn resistance of the scumbag to the intellectual topic, but in the next second he reacted to what the other party said, and was stunned: “You didn’t eat either?”

Wang Ye said, “I have eaten.”

Lin Wu: “Did you bring me food?”

Wang Ye: “No.”

Lin Wu: “…what happened to you!”

Wang Ye reached for Lin Wu’s down jacket on the sofa, and threw it over: “Take you out to eat.”

Lin Wu rolled his eyes: “On the first day of junior high school, how can a restaurant open.”

Wang Ye said, “Oh, your downstairs is all open.”

Lin Wu: “…”

Below the Garden Apartment, the breakfast shop is steaming hot and customers are bustling with customers. Fast food chains and convenience stores are still open 24 hours a day. There are some evening signs on the doors of the store. I don’t know if the staff forgot to turn off the signs, but they are still on in the sun.

Lin Wu and Wang Ye found a porridge shop.

Although Wang Ye said he had eaten it in the morning, he brought a pot of ribs porridge without Lin Wurang, and he consciously served himself a bowl.

Lin Wu looked at him with a good appetite, and he was quite moved, “No wonder you are a tiger.”

Wang Ye glanced at him: “Do you know why the coyote is thin?”

Lin Wu: “Why?”

Wang Ye: “Many words.”

Lin Wu: “…”

The tiger is bullying the wolf. Are there any lions and elephants to take care of?

There is no such thing as a bad guy, Lin Wu just obediently and quietly, concentrating on the small ribs.

In fact, without Wang Ye, Lin Wu could still eat well when he came down alone.

But when someone eats together, it feels different.

The heat smoked mist on the cold windowpanes, and the two drank porridge in front of them.

It’s very cold and the porridge is very hot.

“What do you do next?” After a breakfast, Lin Wu yawned in a feeling of fullness, his eyelids a little heavy.

Wang Ye yawned and asked, “What do you want to do?”

Lin Wu continued to yawn, “You come to play with me, shouldn’t you make a play strategy in advance?”

Wang Ye continued to yawn: “What is that?”

Lin Wu: “…”

Wang Ye: “…”

Lin Wu: “Should we two go to bed?”

-At 8 o’clock in the morning, the standard sleep time of the wolf-like tiger combination.

So on this beautiful New Year’s Day, the two classmates who had eaten breakfast went back to the apartment together. Under the call of animal instinct, both of them slept dimly.

Fortunately, the two-meter double bed in the apartment is big enough, with Lin Wu and Wang Ye each occupying one side, and the space is rich.

But this peaceful harmony only lasts until before falling asleep.

Lin Wu woke up after being kicked under the bed.

It was twelve o’clock at noon.

He sat down and looked at the bed, and finally knew what one mountain could not tolerate two tigers.

Student Wang Ye lay in the center of the bed in a big letter, breathing leisurely, and his chest rising and falling regularly. If there is aura in the heavens and the earth, and the sun and the moon have the essence, then you definitely have to rush to Student Wang.

This is not the dove occupying the magpie’s nest, this is the shiningly occupying the mountain as king!

Lin Wu’s anger made the roots of his teeth itchy.

As the old saying goes, the evil tiger can’t stand a pack of wolves. He has to protect their dignity for the wolf family.

Thinking of this, Lin Wu rose in anger, and then walked towards Hushan.

Reached under Wang Ye and tried his best to turn the person aside.

Wang Ye rolled around and turned from lying on his back.

Didn’t wake up unexpectedly.

This quality of sleep Lin Wu is convinced.

Taking advantage of the space, Lin Wu immediately lay down, also in a large letter shape, occupying more than half of the double bed, and one arm and leg stretched directly onto Wang Ye’s body.

That’s cool.

Lin Wu closed his eyes and understood the happiness of the king of beasts.

With this happiness, Lin Wu fell asleep.

Until the evening, he struggled to open his eyes while his chest was suffocated.

Wang Ye was still lying prone, but this time he was lying on his body, with his head resting on his neck, his body weight leaped on him, like a tiger pressing on top, Lin Wu felt that it was a miracle that he could wake up alive.

As if feeling the restlessness under him, Wang Ye woke up, slowly raised his head, looked sleepily at his face at close range, and frowned for a long time before muttering: “Lin Wu.”

Lin Wu tried his best to smirk away a brilliant smirk amid oppressive breathing difficulties: “It’s not me, who else can it be?”

Wang Ye said, “I dreamt that I became a tiger, and then I caught a wolf.”

Lin Wu gritted his teeth, saying every word: “You a tiger doesn’t catch rabbits or deer, what are you doing catching wolves!”

Wang Ye sighed sleepily, “It’s challenging.”