When Xu Jiao went out, she didn't forget to pick up the Ma Yuan she used to photograph Zheng Zhiyu in red. When she lowered her head to change her shoes, her dark brown hair fell in front of her, blocking her cheeks.
Zheng Zhiyu no longer floated in the air like before, instead he came over and squatted in front of her, raised his hand to tuck the hair on the side of her ear, and pinned it back behind Xu Jiao's ear again, pinching a few strands with her fingertips. She twisted her hair, feeling the softness and fragility of the hair, and the traces of malnutrition that looked like she had been malnourished, she went to hold Xu Jiao's right hand again.
At that time, the girl was bowing her head and tying the shoelaces of a pair of canvas shoes washed into dark gray. There were no signs on the shoes. They were the most pirated copycats on the market. The price was between ten to dozens of yuan. Wait, whether the quality is good or not depends on the conscience of the merchant.
Being pinched by Hong Yi's right hand, Xu Jiao flicked her wrist, wanting to stop the other party from making trouble and influence her to find her roommate.
As a result, she didn't throw it away, instead, her palm was spread out by the cool fingertips, and she could clearly see the white deposits on her five fingernails. Zheng Zhiyu stared at the traces and waited for Xu Jiao. A little impatient, when he was about to be fierce, Hongyi's movements loosened again.
Xu Jiao fastened her shoelaces, grabbed the book and walked out. When she was about to go out, she didn't know what to think, she turned back to grab the willow branch on the bed, and looked sideways at the woman in the wedding dress, hesitantly said:
"Are you going to stay in that tablet?"
In fact, she was worried that she could not solve the dirty thing alone, so she was hesitating whether to bring this guy with her.
Zheng Zhiyu shook his head and kept close to her, so he could reach her by raising his hand, but not to let her be affected by his yin qi, and said slowly:
"Your blood is given to me, and I can stay in your shadow without having to carry that tablet."
Xu Jiao raised her brows and said nothing. She turned around and went outside the dormitory. On the way to the school gate, she glanced at her fingers distractedly, and saw the marks on the nails that symbolized malnutrition and lack of trace elements. , didn't pay much attention to it, only glanced at his shadow in the sunlight—
After all, after going out, Zheng Zhiyu disappeared, only the shadow on his side was much deeper than usual.
no one knows...
What is hidden in her shadow
…
"Ai Ai... What should we, what should we do?" Xiaoli looked at the direction of the empty school gate in front of her. The tall stones were piled up to form magnificent school gate stone pillars, one on each side, and a piece of granite on the ground. The name of the particularly upright university is engraved vertically on it, and the paint in the middle is dark red.
The name of the university that makes people proud of how it looks on weekdays, but now, it gives people a ghostly feeling.
Qian Ai and Zhou Qili are holding hands. This is the tenth time the two of them have stood at the gate of this school. At the beginning, they hadn't noticed anything wrong. Who knew that after stepping out of the gate, they would go Yes, the surroundings are clearly familiar scenes from memory, but for some reason, along the avenue outside the school gate, no matter turning left or right, inexplicably walked back to this place.
Once, twice, three times...
No matter what direction or route, the two girls are clearly walking in the direction they remembered to go to the station outside the school gate, but they will be led back to the school gate, and they will always stand at the angle where they see the school gate when they walk out of the campus. .
It seems that something is mocking them for being overly self-sufficient, and they think they can escape from this place.
A few times ago, Qian Ai and Zhou Qili imitated the way Xu Jiao comforted them before. Good roommates held hands and comforted each other:
"It should be... I remembered the wrong way. The station is not a left turn, but a right turn, haha, I'm a bit of a road idiot."
"Yes yes, the station should turn right."
After a few minutes.
"Um... did we just turn right, Lily?"
"I-I don't know either, why don't we try closing our eyes and walking blindly?"
"There's a road outside. It's too dangerous to walk with your eyes closed? Xiaoli, don't you think... We seem to have encountered something—"
"Shh! Don't say it! It's noon, when the sun is at its highest, how could something like that appear? It must be either of us who remembered it wrong, or should we split up next?"
"In horror movies, it seems that the people who came back in the end were not their own, right?"
"Ah, how did you say this word! Bah! Bah! Bah! We are the successors living in a socialist society, we must believe in science! Ai Ai, hurry up and call Xiao Xu!! It must be We are suffering from heat stroke and don't recognize our way! Call her to come and save a life qaq"
When they got to the back, the two girls were like mirrors in their hearts. They knew what was going on in front of them. They shivered and hugged each other. When they were on the phone, all four eyes were fixed on the screen, and they even opened the door. Be prepared to turn off your phone as soon as something happens.
Fortunately, they got through the phone.
…
"Why don't you two take an umbrella when you go out, don't you sunbathe?"
Under the tree-lined avenue not far from the school gate, Qian Ai and Zhou Qili stood there with a familiar figure, with their arms crossed and their brows raised, looking at them rather helplessly.
The girl's hair is neither long nor short, just over the shoulders, there is no special hairstyle modification, nor has it been dyed perm, it is just a simple dark brown, and the ends of the hair are hooked in different directions at will. People who can't take care of themselves with a hairdryer.
But her appearance is beautiful and beautiful, perhaps because her skin is fair and delicate, her face has no flaws, and her facial features are well developed, even if she has such a rustic hairstyle and wears a normal shape without any special lines. As long as you focus on her clothes for a long time, you will naturally have a quiet charm from her body.
Hearing her words, Zhou Qili and Qian Ai breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from their foreheads and necks, whether they were tanned by the midday sun or frightened, and walked quickly in her direction.
As if the drowning man saw the life-saving straw.
The light makeup on Qian Ai's face was spent a little, and the part of her cheeks near her ears was wet with a lot of sweat, and she took off her makeup a bit, but she could no longer care about her image at the moment, she just walked in the direction of Xu Jiao and hugged her. Live her:
"Xu Xueba, you are really my reborn parents! You came too fast woohoo! I miss you so much!"
Zhou Qili took a step slowly, came over panting, bent down and supported her knees. It took a while for her to recover, but she also remembered to raise the corners of her lips and show a sincere smile to Xu Jiao, her face full of expressions. Rejoice.
The girl gave Qian Ai a hug, then pushed her away for a while, turned around and led them back, and said casually, "You two have hallucinations due to heatstroke, right? Let's go back to the dormitory with me and take a rest first."
Qian Ai and Zhou Qili looked at each other, turned to look in the direction of the school gate, and saw that there were sporadic pedestrians walking across the originally deserted road. Old taxi.
It was exactly what they usually saw when they left the school gate.
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, for fear that if they said the wrong thing, something would happen, Qian Ai was the first to agree; Ha ha."
Her laughter at the end was a bit dry, but seeing Xu Jiao in front of her made her feel more secure for no reason, perhaps because this was the person they could finally meet after a half-circle, and she was a very strong acquaintance, Qian Ai thought. The slightly cool body temperature I felt when I hugged Xu Jiao just now, secretly affirmed in my heart:
It must have been heatstroke.
It might even have a fever!
Right, that is it.
Zhou Qili also nodded and followed closely behind the two of them, afraid that she would be single again, after all, the indescribable horror experience just now left a little shadow on her.
She couldn't control her gaze, and instinctively looked at the surrounding scenery as she walked, as if she was afraid that there was something hidden under the shadows of the trees and the mud that was watching them, her eyes turned slightly, looking at the school near the school gate. Old school building.
One of the liberal arts buildings is the place where several major courses and electives will be arranged nearby. The outside is covered with green creepers, occupying half of the country with the gray cement walls, and embroidered with the three characters of “Art and Science Building” in yellow. All stained with half green.
Leaving from the sun and suddenly walking to this shady place, the dry heat on Zhou Qili's body evaporated little by little, and she felt a kind of coolness that penetrated the heart. She originally only glanced in the direction of the Wenli Building. It was the scenery you would see on the way back to the dormitory, but Xu Jiao, who was leading the way at the front, walked straight to the side of the building.
The soles of Zhou Qili's shoes rubbed against the grains of gravel that fell on the ground.
Qian Ai, who was holding Xu Jiao's hand and walking behind her, looked back at Zhou Qili in confusion: "Xiao Li, what's wrong?"
Zhou Qili looked at the pale hand held by Qian Ai with obvious blue blood vessels, and felt the sweat running down the back of her neck, getting into the collar, slipping out a little itchy trace, but I didn't raise my hand to wipe it.
She just stood there, looking at Xu Jiao who stopped with her back to the two of them, tried her best to show a friendly smile, and pretended to be innocent and curious: "Don't go this way when you go back to the dormitory, Xiao Xu, who are you? Suddenly found a shortcut back to the dormitory?"
The person with his back to them replied leisurely with two words: "Yes."
Qian Ai's heart was so big that she didn't notice anything, so she followed Xu Jiao's words and continued: "Wow, when did you find out that there is a shortcut here, university tyrant? I didn't expect you to look like you're a big student. , you are also interested in exploring the way in the school?"
Zhou Qili did not dare to move, but did not realize that the smile on her face was uglier than crying.
Behind the Wenli Building...
There is no shortcut at all!
There is a wall behind that, which enclosed the Wenli Building, because she took the English test when she started school, and she was late for washing and blowing her hair with a girl in another dormitory. At that time, she found someone to find out the location of the Wenli Building Seeing the direction is very close, I rushed over. Who knew that when I ran to the vicinity, I only saw the high fence. Finally, I honestly took a long detour and found the main entrance.
As a result, she missed two English listening questions, and the final result was the last in the class.
Thinking of this, Zhou Qili only felt that the hand that Qian Ai was holding was terrifying. Seeing that Qian Ai didn't notice anything, she wanted to follow the other party to a more remote place, so she had to shout out in a hurry:
"Ai Ai!"
Qian Ai looked back at her puzzled: "What's the matter? Are you tired or thirsty?"
Zhou Qili continued to act calmly: "Well... I don't seem to have seen the road much just now, and I twisted my foot. Can you come and help me?"
Qian Ai had no doubt about him, so she let go of the hand that Xu Jiao had been holding, and wanted to go over and help Zhou Qili to see what happened to her feet. Who knew she had let go unilaterally, but Xu Jiao suddenly became ruthless for some reason. He tightly clasped the palm of her hand and prevented her from leaving, and her palm was aching from the force of the grip.
Taking a deep breath, Qian Ai turned to look at the girls who had been turning their backs on them, "Xiao Xu, why are you..."
Not finished yet.
On the other side of the bushes under the shade of the roadside, a helpless and light-hearted question suddenly came: "You two, didn't you mean to be at the school gate? What are you doing here in the Wenli Building?"
The sound was very familiar.
Even the slightly lazy pause rhythm has not changed.
Zhou Qili instinctively turned her head to look, and saw another face exactly like Xu Jiao, and then looked at the back of the girl who was holding hands with Qian Ai in front of her, her lips were trembling, and she finally screamed out, as if she had collapsed. One sound:
"what!"
Qian Ai didn't recover from the shock, but when she heard Zhou Qili's screams, she couldn't subconsciously suppress the fear in her heart. An extremely vigorous "Ah!"
Xu Jiao suddenly faced two screaming chickens: "..."
She turned her eyes away speechlessly, looked at the back who was holding Qian Ai and refused to let go, hooked her lips, and asked casually, "Aren't you running now?"
There was an unspeakable confidence in these words, as if a ghost saw the truth written in the book that she should run.
The figure trembled, and turned its head slowly—
Xu Jiao approached step by step, and when she saw that face like her seemed to be unable to withstand the sunlight and slowly melted under the scorching sun, she stopped abruptly. The thing thought she was afraid and approached her. step.
Just this step.
In this shady place, Xu Jiao's black shadow, which was so thick and outrageous, touched the other's feet.
The black shadow moved, the ink marks rolled and flowed, and a scarlet figure suddenly emerged from the shadow. Xu Jiao turned her eyes away, and her ears caught the movement of something disappearing.
Zhou Qili, who used to rely more on the outside road, was already exhausted, and was staring at the distance, not knowing whether she saw it or not, until Xu Jiao squatted down in front of her, she didn't respond. .
Xu Jiao opened her five fingers and waved at her. When Zhou Qili's eyes reflexively turned with her movements, she said calmly, "It's okay to be stupid."
Zhou Qili suddenly came back to her senses, seeing this face so close in front of her, she suddenly opened her mouth, looking like she was about to scream again, Xu Jiao quickly covered her lips with her hands, The movement that can almost penetrate the human eardrum is covered back.
Zhou Qili's pupils shrank, she looked at her in horror, and kept saying "uuuuuu".
Xu Jiao said to her seriously, "Shh, I'm myself, don't call me."
Zhou Qili shook her head, physical tears fell from the corners of her eyes, and she was still making a sound of "uuuu". Xu Jiao saw that she seemed to have recovered her normal reaction, raised her brows, and let go of her hands. After changing his tune, he managed to stabilize his mind, and after a while, he said:
"Prove, prove it."
Xu Jiao asked her with a blank face: "What is the basic contradiction of human society? a. The contradiction between human society and the natural world; b. The contradiction between pioneering and conservative; productive forces and production relations, economic base and upper society The contradiction between the exploiting class and the exploited class - please answer in five seconds."
Zhou Qili looked at her in confusion.
Although her brain is not enough to make her react in the exam, she still subconsciously murmured according to the instinct of the scumbag: "Three short and one long, choose the longest, if you can't know anything, I will choose the top student. ."
Xu Jiao: "…"
She tried hard not to make the disgust in her eyes too obvious. She stretched out her hand to Zhou Qili and answered in a speechless manner: "Well, yes, but there are short answers and big questions in the exam, so you can't be blinded."
Zhou Qili really cried this time. On the one hand, the one who rescued them this time was a real scholar, and on the other hand, she couldn't help thinking, is it because her grades are so poor that she is being targeted by ghosts
Is it still time to learn from the sea and work hard as a boat
Xu Jiao pulled her up, and was about to pull Qian Ai, who has not stopped until now, and has the potential to go to the choir to participate in the soprano, but Zhou Qili grabbed the corner of her clothes.
"I, I'm afraid, you take me with you."
Xu Jiao took a picture of the Ma Yuan she had just brought with her backhand and comforted her calmly, "If you read more books, you won't be afraid."
Zhou Qili looked at the green Ma Yuan in her hand. Although it was very thin, she had an inexplicable sense of weight. It was the weight of knowledge that she could not remember no matter what.
When she opened it and looked at the content inside, Zhou Qili found even more desperately that there was still something inside that made her fall asleep, but for some reason, the sense of fear seemed to have really faded a lot.
The rest is despair that can't bear the knowledge points.
front.
Xu Jiao patted Qian Ai on the shoulder, and the screaming girl with her eyes closed stopped abruptly, she hiccupped in fright at the movement, and found that Xu Xueba was standing in front of her, and couldn't help looking at her blankly.
"What, what's wrong?"
Since Zhou Qili screamed just now, she closed her eyes and started screaming, so she didn't see anything, and she didn't know what was going on. Seeing that Xu Jiao didn't know when to let go of her hand, she walked back now. , and can't remember what scene I missed.
Xu Jiao asked her slowly: "In terms of its origin, what is the product of the country?"
Qian Ai: "… "
She continued with a blank face: "The product of the irreconcilable class-class conflict? Isn't this a high school knowledge point?"
Xu Jiao calmly said "um", confirming that she was not stupid, then turned and walked towards the other side of the dormitory: "Let's go, go back."
Qian Ai followed in a daze, looked back at the book of Ma Yuan that appeared in Zhou Qili's hand at an unknown time, and pointed to the original direction slowly: "Wait, Xueba, you didn't say that over there just now. Is there a shortcut?"
Xu Jiao answered her without turning her head: "I remember wrong."
Qian Ai made an "oh", then looked back at the direction of the school gate in the distance, and asked subconsciously, "I, can we go out again?"
Zhou Qili quietly raised her head from the front of the book and looked at Xu Jiao as well.
Xu Jiao stopped and looked back at the two of them: "Okay, but the dirty things have been resolved. Are you sure you want to go to live with relatives? If you want to go, you can leave now."
Qian Ai still wanted to go to the temple to ask for a peace talisman. After hearing Xu Jiao's words, she took two steps towards the school gate in disbelief. Xu Jiao looked at her calmly.
Qian Aifei said quickly, "You guys are waiting for me here, ha-"
After speaking, she ran towards the school gate, looking back at Xu Jiao and Zhou Qili from time to time, but she ran out of the school gate without encountering any accident, standing on the sidewalk outside the school gate, she was happy She jumped on the spot and waved to Zhou Qili, the bright smile on her face could be seen clearly from this distance.
Zhou Qili held Xu Jiao's Ma Yuan textbook, leaned closer in her direction, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Xu, just now... Did the thing pretending to be you really disappear?"
Xu Jiao nodded: "Yes."
Zhou Qili breathed a sigh of relief: "How, how did you know?"
Xu Jiao glanced at the book in her hand and said righteously: "Because the successors of socialism are all shining brightly, it is impossible for those dirty things to come to the door. Do you want to make a bet?"
Zhou Qili didn't return to her senses: "Betting... what?"
Xu Jiao: "If nothing strange happens in the past two days, even if I win, I will take the sixth grade test next month. You need to do two more sets of questions. If something strange happens, even if I lose, I will sort it out for you. How about two English sample essays?"
Zhou Qili: "It sounds like I can make a profit without losing money. Xueba, I love you - I will definitely remember to ask for a charm for you in the temple!"
After she finished speaking, Ma Yuan, who was holding Xu Jiao, ran towards Qian Ai.
Xu Jiao: "...you return the book to me."
Zhou Qili didn't turn her head back: "I'll change it with you! My dormitory is brand new and it's on the table! You can make do with mine for the next two days! Remember to answer it for me in tomorrow's class!"
Xu Jiao: "I don't want it if it's brand new, hello!"
She looked at the backs of the two of them, and after two seconds, she shook her head helplessly, then turned around and walked towards the dormitory again.
When passing through a grove, the shadow beside her feet twisted dishonestly twice, and suddenly climbed onto her back from behind, a cool breath sounded in her ears, exhaling like blue:
"Why are you being so nice to them?"
Xu Jiao walked forward without squinting: "Because they usually treat me well."
As soon as she finished speaking, she was suddenly stopped to the side by a force, and she almost didn't stand under her feet. Then, Hongyi got off her back, pressed her against a tall tree trunk, and approached face to face. ask her:
"Am I being bad to you?"
Xu Jiao looked at the roadside, this grove is a good place for couples to talk about love, but the trees are not very lush, as long as students passing by can see clearly who are holding hands and hugging in the blink of an eye. Clearly.
It must have seemed strange to others that she suddenly stood under the tree and leaned against the trunk.
Thinking like this, she pushed Zheng Zhiyu's shoulder in front of her: "Don't make trouble, someone is coming."
The pretty woman smiled and narrowed her eyes happily: "Really? That's great."
She clasped her five fingers into Xu Jiao's fingertips, softening the force of the opponent's refusal, and then kissed the lips. Xu Jiao held her breath and closed her eyes. In the eyes of a student passing by, she just As if she was dozing against a tree trunk.
The student looked at the scattered bird droppings under the tree in confusion, and even looked back after walking away, as if he wanted to know what was the stimulus for this classmate to come to the woods to pretend, and to feel the aura of heaven and earth Close your eyes and rest.
Waiting for the others to disappear, Xu Jiao raised her foot to step on the foot of the red dress, but went straight through it, and the next moment—
The tip of her tongue was pushed into something, and the temperature melted as soon as it entered.
It slipped silently into her throat.
Xu Jiao opened her eyes, and her sullen eyes showed a bit of hesitation. She pursed her lips and asked:
"What are you... feeding me?"
Zheng Zhiyu touched her forehead with a smile, and said with a strong voice, "Give you my love."