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EP2. The Temptation of Death Story (1)
1. At the funeral
Tongxin’s funeral was very simple, but in the black-and-white world, the color portrait seemed out of place. Death seemed to have nothing to do with Tongxin, and she still smiled innocently.
When Lina and Fu Jun, wearing Beiling High School uniforms, appeared holding flowers, everyone looked at them in surprise. Tongxin’s mother wiped her tears and hurriedly came forward to greet him. She took the flowers and sighed happily: “That’s great. Tongxin is so lucky to have good friends like you.”
Fu Jun and Lina went to the funeral hall . Apart from Tongxin’s mother, there were only a few elders present at the funeral . They gathered together and whispered: “I didn’t expect that Tongxin also had such good friends.” The whispers were also mixed with laughter.
What kind of girl does Tongxin look like in their eyes? Fu Jun and Lina were both curious. Because childlike innocence has so many different looks. In front of teachers and most classmates, she plays the role of a weak girl who is bullied, but in front of Fu Jun and Lina, she has a violent personality, like a lion that will bite them at any time.
“Childlike innocence has never smiled at me, and I never said hello when I met her.” A middle-aged woman complained to the man next to her. The man nodded in agreement: “I always have a bitter face. I didn’t know there was such a posthumous photo.”
The childlike innocence in the posthumous photo is smiling hard, as if feeling the happiness of arriving in a free paradise.
Tong Xin’s mother held flowers and suggested: “You and Tong Xin can see each other for the last time and say goodbye properly.” Fu Jun looked at Lina, who was trembling with a sad face and did not dare to move forward. He took a deep breath and walked towards Tong Xin’s body . Tongxin fell from the rooftop of the school’s tallest experimental building. At that time, her face hit the rough concrete floor hard and was shattered.
The childlike face was carefully wrapped in white cloth and lay quietly among the flowers like a mummy. Fu Jun breathed a sigh of relief, clasped his hands together, and muttered something silently. Lina’s sad cry came, and Fu Jun frowned and said softly to Tongxin’s body : “Farewell, dear Tongxin.”
Lina knelt down in front of Tongxin’s photo and cried more sadly than anyone present. Even Tongxin’s mother was stunned. She was at a loss to persuade her: “Silly boy, don’t be too sad. Don’t cry to your health.
” Those who took advantage of this opportunity were stunned. As the atmosphere relaxed a little and began to calm down, the elders whose smiles had not completely subsided also gathered around Lina and comforted her enthusiastically: “She knows her childlike innocence, don’t be sad, she will not be able to get along with you if you cry.” As they watched, their eyes of fear and disgust drifted towards the corpse of Tong Xin .
Fu Jun knew that, like him, what they were waiting for here was just the cremation of their childlike innocence. As long as the body was cremated, everything would be over. When the childlike innocence completely disappears from this world, they can all breathe a long sigh of relief and escape from the haze. And the childlike innocence was finally able to realize her dream and fly into the pure sky.
Fu Jun squeezed into the crowd, helped Lina up, pointed to Tongxin’s photo and said, “Don’t cry. Look, Tongxin is smiling. She will always smile happily like this in heaven.”
Lina raised her watery eyes, bit her lip, nodded knowingly, wiped her tears hard, looked directly at Tongxin’s photo, and repeated over and over again: “From now on, Tongxin will only smile at me like this, smile…”
Lina was so happy that she couldn’t hold back her tears when she thought that her childlike innocence would no longer threaten and force her again and again, and that the terrible childlike innocence would disappear forever from the cow life.
