I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

When Xu Jiao went out, she didn't forget to carry the Ma Yuan that she used to take photos of Zheng Zhiyu in red. When she lowered her head to change her shoes, her dark brown hair fell in front, blocking her cheeks.

Zheng Zhiyu didn't float in the air like before, but came and squatted in front of her, raised her hand to lift the hair on the side of her ear, pinned it back behind Xu Jiao's ear, pinched a few hairs with her fingertips Twisting the hair, feeling the softness and fragility of the hair, as well as the traces of malnutrition, she went to hold Xu Jiao's right hand again.

At that time, the girl was bowing her head and tying the laces of a pair of canvas shoes washed into dark gray. There was no logo on the shoes. They were the most pirated counterfeit goods on the market. The price ranged from more than ten yuan to dozens of yuan. Wait, whether the quality is good or not depends entirely on the conscience of the merchant.

Being pinched by Hong Yi's right hand, Xu Jiao flicked her wrist, trying to stop the other party from making trouble and affect her going to find her roommate.

As a result, she didn't shake it off, but was spread out by the slightly cool fingertips, and saw clearly the whitish deposits on her five fingernails. Zheng Zhiyu stared at the marks, and waited for Xu Jiao. A little impatient, when he was about to be aggressive, Hong Yi let go of his movements.

Xu Jiao tied her shoelaces, grabbed the book and went out. Before going out, she thought of something, and turned her head to grab the willow branch on the bed. By the way, she looked sideways at the woman in the wedding dress, and said hesitantly:

"Are you going to stay in that tablet?"

In fact, she was worried that she would not be able to deal with that dirty thing alone, so she was hesitating whether to bring this guy along with her.

Zheng Zhiyu shook his head, keeping within a range of not too far or close to her, where he could touch her by raising his hand, but not let her be affected by his yin energy, and said slowly:

"Your blood was given to me, and I can stay in your shadow without having to carry that tablet."

Xu Jiao raised her eyebrows, didn't say anything, turned around and went outside the dormitory. On the way to the school gate, she glanced at her fingers distractedly, and saw traces on the nails that symbolized malnutrition and lack of trace elements , didn't care too much, just glanced at his own shadow in the sun——

After all, after going out, Zheng Zhiyu disappeared, only the shadow beside her was much darker than usual.

no one knows...

What is hidden in her shadow.

……

"Ai Ai... What, we, what should we do?" Xiaoli looked at the direction of the empty school gate in front of her. Tall stones were piled up to form a magnificent school gate stone pillar, one on the left and one on the left, and a piece of granite on the ground. The name of the very upright university is engraved vertically on it, and the paint in the middle is dark red.

The name of the university that is so proud of how you look at it on weekdays, but looking at it now, it gives people a ghostly feeling.

Qian Ai and Zhou Qili were holding hands. This was the tenth time for them to stand at the school gate. At the beginning, they didn't realize anything was wrong. But after stepping out of the gate, they walked and walked. Yes, the surroundings are obviously familiar scenery from memory, but for some reason, along the avenue outside the school gate, no matter whether you turn left or right, you walk back to this place inexplicably.

Once, twice, three times...

No matter what direction or route, the two girls obviously walked in the direction of the station outside the school gate according to their memory, but they would be led back to the school gate, and they would always stand at the angle from which they saw the school gate when walking out of the campus .

It was as if something was laughing at them for thinking they could 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 remember the wrong way. The station doesn't turn left, it turns right. Haha, I'm a bit road-crazy."

"Yes yes, the station should turn right."

After a few minutes.

"Hmm... did we turn right just now, Xiaoli?"

"I, I don't know, why don't we try to walk blindly with our eyes closed?"

"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? One of us must have misremembered, why don't we go separately?"

"In the horror movie, they split up. It seems that the ones who come back in the end are not your own people, right?"

"Ah, why did you say this word! Hurry up! 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!! Definitely It’s because we have heatstroke and can’t recognize our way! Call her to come and save me qaq”

When they got to the back, the two girls knew what was going on in front of them like mirrors. They hugged each other tremblingly. When they were on the phone, they stared at the screen with all four eyes, and even turned on the loudspeaker. Be prepared to turn off your phone as soon as something happens.

Fortunately, they got through on the phone.

……

"Why don't you two take an umbrella when you go out, don't you want to sunbathe?"

Under the boulevard not far from the school gate, a familiar figure Qian Ai and Zhou Qili stood there, arms crossed, eyebrows raised, looking at them with some helplessness.

The girl's hair is neither long nor short, just above her shoulders. There is no special hair modification, nor has it been dyed or permed. It is just a simple dark brown. People who can't take care of themselves with a hair dryer.

But her appearance is delicate and beautiful, perhaps because her skin is fair and delicate, there are no blemishes on her face, and her facial features are well-developed, even if she wears such a rustic hairstyle, she wears a general shape without any special lines As long as you keep your eyes on her for a long time, you will naturally taste a kind of quiet charm from her.

Hearing her words, Zhou Qili and Qian Aixian breathed a sigh of relief, wiped away the sweat on their foreheads and necks from the midday sun or frightened, and hurried towards her.

It was as if a drowning man saw a life-saving straw.

The light makeup on Qian Ai's face has been spent a little bit, and the cheeks near the ears are wet with a lot of sweat, and the makeup is a little off, but she doesn't care about her image at this moment, she just walks in the direction of Xu Jiao, hugging Xu Jiao. hold her:

"Xu Xueba, you are really my reborn parents! You came too soon, woo woo woo! I miss you so much!"

Zhou Qili took a step slower, came over panting, bent over to support her knees, and took a while to recover, but she also remembered raising the corners of her lips and showing a genuine smile to Xu Jiao, her face was full of Fortunately.

The girl hugged Qian Ai for a while, then pushed her away a little, turned around and led them back, and said casually, "You two are hallucinating due to heat stroke? Come back to the dormitory with me and take a rest first."

Qian Ai and Zhou Qili looked at each other, then turned to look in the direction of the school gate, and saw a few pedestrians passing by on the opposite side of the empty road, and parked cars with peeling paint on the asphalt pavement that was stinky in the sun. Old taxi.

It was exactly what the two of them usually saw when they left school.

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously, fearing that something would be caused if they said something wrong, Qian Ai took the lead in echoing; "Yes, it's been in the sun for too long, I'm a little... I can't remember which bus to take ,Ha ha."

Her laughter at the end was a bit dry, but seeing Xu Jiao in front of her gave her a sense of security for no reason, perhaps because this was the person the two of them finally met after going around for half a circle, and she was also an acquaintance with a very strong mentality, Qian Ai thought The cool body temperature I felt when I hugged Xu Jiao just now, secretly affirmed in my heart:

He must have suffered from heat stroke.

Maybe 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 alone 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 spying on them hidden under the shadow of a tree or the soil, her eyes rolled slightly, looking at the people near the school gate. Old school building.

One of the liberal arts buildings is where several major major courses and elective courses nearby will be arranged. The outside is covered with green creepers, occupying half of the gray concrete walls, and even embroidered with three big characters of "Wenli Building" in yellow. They are half covered with greenery.

Leaving from the sun and walking to this shady place suddenly, Zhou Qili's hot body evaporated little by little, and she felt a piercing coolness. At first, she only glanced in the direction of Wenli Building, after all, this place 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.

Zhou Qili's soles rubbed against the grains of gravel that fell on the ground, making a soft sound.

Holding Xu Jiao's hand, Qian Ai, who was walking behind her, looked back at Zhou Qili in confusion: "Xiao Li, what's wrong?"

Zhou Qili looked at the somewhat pale hand held by Qian Ai with obvious blue blood vessels, and felt the sweat creeping into her collar along the line of the back of her neck, slipping out slightly itchy marks, but Did not raise his hand to wipe.

She just stood there, looked 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 in her tone: "Go back to the dormitory, don't go this way, Xiao Xu, 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 had a big heart, didn't notice anything, and followed Xu Jiao's words: "Wow, when did you find out that there is a shortcut here, college bully? I didn't expect that you usually look like you are studying too much , Are you even interested in exploring the way in the school?"

Zhou Qili didn't dare to move, not realizing that the smile on her face was uglier than crying.

Behind the Arts and Sciences Building...

There is no shortcut at all!

There is a wall behind that, enclosing the Wenli building, because she took the English test at the beginning of school, and the girl in another dormitory was late because she washed and dried her hair. At that time, she asked someone about the location of the Wenli building. Seeing that the direction was very close, I rushed over, who knew that I only saw a high wall when I ran nearby, and finally found the main entrance after a long detour.

Just like this, she missed two English listening comprehension questions, and her final test result was the bottom one in the class.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qili only felt that the hand Qian Ai was holding was terrifying. Seeing that Qian Ai hadn't noticed anything yet, and wanted to follow the other party to a more remote place, she had to cry out anxiously:

"Ai Ai!"

Qian Ai looked back at her in confusion: "What's wrong? Are you tired or thirsty?"

Zhou Qili continued to act calmly: "Hmm... I didn't seem to pay much attention to the road just now, I twisted my foot, can you come over and help me?"

Qian Ai didn't suspect him, so she let go of the hand she had been holding with Xu Jiao, and wanted to go over to help Zhou Qili see what was wrong with her feet, but she let go unilaterally, but Xu Jiao suddenly became ruthless. He clasped her palm ruthlessly, not letting her leave, the grip made her palm sore.

Taking a deep breath, Qian Ai looked back at the girl who had been turning her back to the two of them in puzzlement, "Xiao Xu, why are you..."

Not finished yet.

On the other side of the bushes under the shade of the road, a helpless and panting voice suddenly came from the other side: "You two, didn't you say that you are at the school gate? What are you doing here in the Arts and Sciences Building?"

The voice was extremely familiar.

Even the slightly lazy pause rhythm has not changed.

Zhou Qili turned her head to look instinctively, and saw a face exactly like Xu Jiao's, and then looked at the back of the girl holding hands with Qian Ai in front, her lips were trembling, and finally she yelled out as if she had a mental breakdown One sound:

"what--!"

Qian Ai didn't recover from the fright at first, but when he heard Zhou Qili's scream, he subconsciously couldn't suppress the fear in his heart, as if he had found the right way to vent, he also yelled out An extremely vigorous "Ah!"

Xu Jiao suddenly faced two screaming chickens: "..."

Speechlessly, she turned her gaze away to look at the back of the man holding Qian Ai who refused to let go, curled 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 a book that she should run.

The figure shook, and slowly turned its head——

Xu Jiao approached step by step, and saw that face like hers seemed to be unable to withstand the sunlight and slowly melted under the scorching sun, and suddenly stopped in her tracks. The thing thought she was afraid, and approached her direction step.

That's it.

Xu Jiao's black shadow, which was also so thick that it was unbelievably thick in this shady place, touched the opponent's feet.

The black shadow moved, the ink marks rolled and flowed, and a scarlet figure suddenly appeared from the shadow. Xu Jiao turned her eyes, and her ears caught the sound of something disappearing.

Zhou Qili, who used to rely on the outside road, was already tired. She was looking at the distance with her eyes absent-minded. She didn't know whether she saw it or not. Until Xu Jiao squatted in front of her, she didn't have any reaction. .

Xu Jiao spread her five fingers and waved at her, and when Zhou Qili's eyes turned reflexively with her movements, she calmly said, "It's fine if you're not stupid."

Zhou Qili suddenly came back to her senses, seeing the 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 eyes, and put the The movement that can almost penetrate the human eardrum is suppressed.

Zhou Qili's pupils narrowed, she looked at her in horror, and kept saying "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm".

Xu Jiao said to her seriously: "Shh, I'm me, don't call me."

Zhou Qili shook her head, physical tears fell from the corner of her eyes, and she was still making a sound of "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Changed the tune, managed to stabilize his mind, and after a while, he said:

"Prove it, prove it."

Xu Jiao asked her expressionlessly: "What are the basic contradictions of human society? a. The contradiction between human society and nature; The contradiction between; the contradiction between the exploiting class and the exploited class—please answer within five seconds.”

Zhou Qili looked at her bewilderedly.

Although her brain is not strong enough for her to react during the exam, she still murmured subconsciously according to the instinct of a scumbag: "Three shorts and one long are the longest, and if you don't know anything, choose it. I will choose the top student." .”

Xu Jiao: "..."

She tried not to let the disgust in her eyes show too clearly, she stretched out her hand to Zhou Qili, and replied a little speechlessly: "Well, yes, but there are short answers and big questions in the exam, you can't be fooled by them all."

Zhou Qili really cried this time. On the one hand, the one who rescued them this time was really a real student master, 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 too late to learn from the sea and work hard?

Xu Jiao pulled her up, and was about to pull Qian Ai, who had been screaming all the time and had the potential to join the soprano in the choir, but Zhou Qili grabbed her by the corner of her clothes.

"I, I'm afraid, you take me with you."

Xu Jiao backhanded the original book she had just brought to her, and calmly comforted her: "You won't be afraid if you read more books."

Zhou Qili looked at the green Ma Yuan in her hand. Although it was very thin, it felt inexplicably heavy. It was the weight of knowledge that she could not memorize anyway.

When she opened it and looked at the contents inside, Zhou Qili was even more desperate to find that there was still something inside that made her fall asleep when she saw it, but for some reason, the sense of fear seemed to have really faded a lot.

The rest is the despair of not being able to memorize the knowledge points.

In front.

Xu Jiao patted Qian Ai's shoulder, and the screaming girl with her eyes closed suddenly stopped, hiccupped in fright, and found that Xu Xueba was still standing in front of her, so she couldn't help but stare at her blankly.

"What, what's wrong?"

Since Zhou Qili screamed just now, she closed her eyes and began to scream, so she didn't see anything, and she didn't know what happened. Seeing that Xu Jiao let go of her hand at some point, she walked back now , I can't remember what picture I missed.

Xu Jiao asked her slowly: "In terms of its origin, what is the product of the country?"

Qian Ai: "..."

She continued blankly: "The product of irreconcilable class-class conflicts? Isn't this a high school knowledge point?"

Xu Jiao calmly said "um", and confirmed that she was not stupid, then turned and walked towards the other side of the dormitory: "Let's go, we're going back."

Qian Ai followed in a daze, looked back at the Ma Yuan book that appeared in Zhou Qili's hand at some time, and pointed in the original direction slowly: "Wait, Xueba, didn't you just say that Is there a shortcut?"

Xu Jiao answered her without turning her head: "I remember wrong."

Qian Ai let out an "oh", looked back at the direction of the school gate in the distance, and subconsciously asked, "I, can we go out again?"

Zhou Qili quietly raised her head from the contents of the book, and also looked at Xu Jiao.

Xu Jiao stopped in her tracks and looked back at the two of them: "It's ok, but the dirty things have been taken care of. Are you sure you still want to live with your relatives? If you want to, 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 in the direction of the school gate in disbelief. Xu Jiao looked at her calmly.

Qian Ai quickly said: "Wait for me here—"

After finishing speaking, she ran towards the school gate, looking back at Xu Jiao and Zhou Qili from time to time, but ran out of the school gate without any accident, standing on the sidewalk outside the school gate, she was happy He jumped up and down on the spot, and waved to Zhou Qili. The bright smile on his face could be clearly seen from all the way.

Holding Xu Jiao's Ma Yuan textbook, Zhou Qili leaned closer to her, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Xu, just now... that thing pretending to be you, really disappeared?"

Xu Jiao nodded: "Yes."

Zhou Qili breathed a sigh of relief: "You, how did you know?"

Xu Jiao glanced at the book in her hand, and said righteously: "Because the successors of socialism are all illuminated by brilliance, it is impossible for those dirty things to come to your door. Do you want to make a bet?"

Zhou Qili didn't come back to her senses: "Bet... what?"

Xu Jiao: "If nothing strange happens in the past two days, I will count as my winner. Next month I will take the CET-[-] exam. You should do two more sets of questions. If something strange happens, I will lose. I will sort it out for you. How about two English model essays?"

Zhou Qili: "It sounds like I'm making a steady profit, Xueba, I love you - I will definitely remember to ask for a talisman for you in the temple!"

After speaking, Ma Yuan, who was holding Xu Jiao, ran towards Qian Ai.

Xu Jiao: "...you should return the book to me."

Zhou Qili didn't turn her head back: "I'll change it with you! The one in my dormitory is brand new, it's on the table! You can make do with mine for the next two days! Remember to answer for me in tomorrow's class!"

Xu Jiao: "I don't want the brand new one, hey!"

She looked at the backs of the two, and after two seconds, she shook her head helplessly, then turned around and walked towards the dormitory again.

When passing through a small forest, the black figure at her feet twisted dishonestly twice, and suddenly climbed up her back from behind, the cool breath rang in her ears, exhaling like blue:

"Why are you 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 by a force, and she almost stopped standing. Then, Hong Yi got off her back, pressed her against a tall tree trunk, and approached her face to face. asked her:

"I treat you badly?"

Xu Jiao looked at the side of the road. This small forest is a good place for couples to talk about love. However, the trees are not very lush. As long as the students passing by in a blink of an eye, they can clearly see the people holding hands and hugging inside. clearly.

It must have seemed strange to others that she suddenly stood under a tree and leaned so close to the trunk.

Thinking of this, she pushed Zheng Zhiyu's shoulder in front of her: "Don't make trouble, someone is coming."

The beautiful woman smiled and narrowed her eyes happily: "Really? That's great."

She clasped her five fingers into Xu Jiao's fingertips, dispelling the other's resistance, and then kissed that lips. Xu Jiao held her breath and closed her eyes. From the eyes of a student passing by, it was just like that. Like she was dozing off against the trunk of a tree.

The student looked at the sporadic bird droppings under the tree in puzzlement, and looked back when he was far away, as if he wanted to know what stimulated this student to come to the grove to pretend to be a comparison, and to feel the aura of heaven and earth Close your eyes and meditate.

When the person disappeared, Xu Jiao raised her foot to step on the foot of the red dress, but she walked right through it, and the next moment——

The tip of her tongue was pressed into something, and the temperature melted as soon as it entered.

It trickled down her throat soundlessly.

Xu Jiao opened her eyes, her sullen pupils were a bit dazed, she pursed her lips, and then asked:

"What... are you feeding me?"

Zheng Zhiyu touched her forehead with a smile, and said with strong meaning: "Give you my love."