Eye of the Leopard

Xu Yiqing handed Zhang Xue's monthly exam paper to Liang Yan the next day.

At noon on Monday, as soon as Wen Ya pulled out the notebook from her bag, Xu Yiqing recognized it.The notebook has a thick dark blue glued spine, like a published book.

Xu Yiqing thought to herself: Wen Ya retrieved Zhang Xue's notebook from the trash can and re-bound it, she was much more careful than herself.

He asked, "Did you staple it when you came home at the weekend?"

"No. There are page numbers in the notebook." Wen Ya said, "I arranged them and went to a printing shop to bind them. It's easy." She went to the corner by the window and handed them to Zhang Xue.

Zhang Xue refused.Wen Ya turned her back to Xu Yiqing, she didn't know what to say.Then Zhang Xue bowed her head and smiled, took the notebook and put it in her satchel.

Xu Yiqing took his bag out of the back door of the classroom, and Yang Yue was waiting for him.

Xu Yiqing said: "Ya Ya actually bound the notebook back and returned it to Zhang Xue."

Xu Yiqing pulled Yang Yue, but Yang Yue didn't move.

Zhang Xue picked up her satchel and came out from the back door.

"Zhang Xue." Yang Yue called.

Zhang Xue stopped.

"I want to read your novel." Yang Yue said, he was curious about what Xu Yiqing mentioned, "Wen Ya bound it back for you, so she must have read it. I won't be the first person to read it."

"I don't write well." Zhang Xue said, "Because I think foreshadowing and suspense are rubbish."

Yang Yue said, "Oh. Can I watch it?"

Zhang Xue hesitated for five seconds, took out the notebook from her satchel and handed it over.

Xu Yiqing thought there was a turning point, and immediately asked, "Zhang Xue, can I watch it by the way?"

"No." Zhang Xue continued.

"Why can Yang Yue see it but I can't?" Xu Yiqing protested weakly.

"I don't want to pollute your soul." Zhang Xue said, "Although Yang Yue is younger than us, it seems that he only pollutes others."

Xu Yiqing helped her drag the menstrual blood, and almost got into a fight.She was ungrateful and unkind, but she treated Xu Yiqing much better in terms of actions.

"I won't show it to Xiao Xu." Yang Yue promised.He roughly flipped through the handwriting density of the notebook, and estimated that he could read it tomorrow, "I will pay you back tomorrow night."

Xu Yiqing was depressed for a while, but added: "We have to push Yao Lingling first after we finish our evening self-study. See you at the gate of South School tomorrow night?"

Zhang Xue left.Yang Yue placed an order on Taobao on her mobile phone.

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In the evening Yang Yue reads a novel written by Zhang Xue in the study.During Xu Yiqing's breaks, she would secretly look up at the cover of the notebook.

So Yang Yue pretended to be more active than he actually was.

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On Tuesday night, Xu Yiqing and Yang Yue went to the South School Gate.Yang Yue returned the notebook to Zhang Xue who was waiting: "Your narrative skills are not inferior to those of the same type I have seen before. The foreshadowing and suspense are actually well buried. I thought you really couldn't use it."

"Foreshadowing and suspense are rubbish." Zhang Xue said, "But in order to attract readers to finish reading, I have to practice hard."

Xu Yiqing thought: Foreshadowing, suspense, and narrative skills are needed. Doesn’t Zhang Xue’s writing seem to be an incomprehensible literary novel?

He asked: "Zhang Xue, at least you can tell me what subject matter you are writing about?"

"Inference." Zhang Xue said, "contains an element of sex."

Yang Yue went on to say: "What I just said are the advantages of your novel. I think the disadvantage of your novel is that the characters are flat and facial." Yang Yue said specifically, "Everyone reacts exactly the same to one thing. Big The hostess has no memory."

Xu Yiqing thought: It's over, Zhang Xue wants to make fun of Yang Yue.

"I will consider finding a real person as a prototype, one with unique characteristics." Zhang Xue said, "Observe her more, and write more vividly." Yang Yue made a reasonable point, and she adopted the only reader's opinion for her hobby.

Yang Yue said: "But there is one more thing. You can see that this book was written by a girl. I don't know if this is an advantage or a disadvantage."

"There is no style exclusive to women." Zhang Xue frowned.

"It's a mistake in this description." Yang Yue didn't lose his temper as easily as before.

He opened the notebook in Zhang Xue’s hand, pointed to a passage and said, “□□ will stick to the victim’s face like a gel. It will liquefy and drip after at least a quarter of an hour. Your evidence collection time is wrong. "

"Emulsification? Similar to the wintersweet my mother uses?" Zhang Xue touched the blind spot of knowledge.

"What Lamei?" The two boys said in unison.

"The Mystery of La Mer. It's just a face cream, it's not important." Zhang Xue said, "Yang Yue, have you checked with the doctor?"

"I don't need to ask the doctor for confirmation." Yang Yue prevented her from asking why, "Because I'm a man. Ah, maybe it's more like thick phlegm than gel?"

Zhang Xue looked at Xu Yiqing.

Xu Yiqing silently nodded.

Zhang Xue closed the notebook and pondered: "Next time I play forensics time, I will use this."

"I can still be a reader in the next book." Yang Yue said, "I like the erotic elements you use."

Zhang Xue said: "I write very slowly, only so much in a year. You can read some masterpieces, such as Henry Miller."

Yang Yue said: "But classics are boring?"

"Henry Miller won't." Zhang Xue said, "The plot of his novel can be summed up like this - 'I went to the police station today and found out that I have no money. My wife quarreled with me about it. I accepted the commercial draft in anger. .The bookseller is an idiot. My wife is an idiot. My sister is an idiot. Of course I am the most idiot.’ And it’s so nasty that you wonder why you can get a domestic book number.” Yang Yue and Xu Yiqing are not stupid. □, so she substitutes a cross for a gender characteristic.

"Book number?" Yang Yue asked.

"The publishing license of books." Zhang Xue said, "I still want to be like him one day, so convincing."

"I will try." Yang Yue said.

Zhang Xue said, "I'm leaving. You can do whatever you want."

Xu Yiqing waved: "I know, you should be lonely."

He and Yang Yue watched Zhang Xue go out of school alone and then return to the villa.

After finishing his homework in the study, Yang Yue said, "Xiao Xu, follow me to the kitchen."

Xiao Xu followed him to the kitchen.

On the white marble dining table in the kitchen, there is a large glass basin.Beside four glasses of liquid.From the left, the first cup is colorless and transparent, the second cup is maroon, and the third cup is dark blue.

Yang Yue said: "You stand at the table and I will show you the musical fountain where we chatted for the first time."

Xu Yiqing stood in front of the table.

Yang Yue walked around behind the table and turned on the music on his mobile phone.

Xu Yiqing thought: Is he a little taller than me?

Yang Yue poured three cups of liquid into a large glass basin.

A blue frothy substance gushes out of the glass basin like an artificial fountain.Some blue foam touched Xu Yiqing's hands, which felt icy cold.

"Wow." Xu Yiqing tentatively grabbed two handfuls, the foam slid on the countertop, "Is this safe?"

"The elephant toothpaste experiment is very safe, as long as you don't get it in your eyes or eat it in your mouth." Yang Yue said, "I learned it by myself."

"What are those three cups of liquid?" Xu Yiqing, a liberal arts student, grabbed it and blew bubbles.

"The colorless and transparent cup is concentrated hydrogen peroxide. The dark blue cup is food coloring and soapy water. The brownish purple cup is potassium permanganate solution."

"Where did you get the raw materials?"

"The first two were purchased from Taobao yesterday. Potassium permanganate is..." Pharmacy diluted lotion.Yang Yue froze, unable to utter the prepared lie, "I got it right from the chemistry lab."

"The management of the chemical laboratory is too loose. I have to tell Mr. Zhang tomorrow." Xu Yiqing said, "Don't steal things next time, even though I really like the elephant toothpaste you showed me. Is it because I didn't see it as Zhang Xue’s novel, you did this experiment because you were afraid that I would be depressed?”

"No." Yang Yue said, "I have nothing to do."

"Actually, you can admit it once in a while, you just treat me very well." Xu Yiqing knew that she had guessed right, "Hey, you seem to be taller than me?"

Yang Yue turned off the music smoothly: "Well, it is 1.8 meters now. The team measured it during training at noon."

"My height doesn't seem to have moved." Xu Yiqing said, "Clean up the kitchen now?"

Yang Yue said: "Auntie will clean up tomorrow morning. I'll take a shower first."

They left a dark blue bubble in the kitchen, and went to the main bathroom to take a bath one after another.

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Xu Yiqing wiped her hair and went back to the bedroom.Yang Yue was sitting on the tatami.

"I am too tall, so I have to quit the junior high school football team." Yang Yue said, "On November 11, I will retire after the mid-term friendly match. My familiar teammates said to play live football on the 23th, as a souvenir of my football career."

Xu Yiqing said, "Very good?"

"I said I have an Xbox One and a projector at home. So they want to come here on Sunday afternoon. I share the room with you, should I ask you?"

Xu Yiqing thought: He remembered to ask my opinion.

"Welcome. I came back from home on the weekend, and I planned to bake some mushrooms and chicken legs." Xu Yiqing said, "The portion should be increased. How many people are here?"

"Ten. Four for the school team and six for the same class." Yang Yue cautiously said, "I will lock the bedroom on the second floor."

"Understood." Xu Yiqing said, "Wait, do you have a game console at home?"

"All styles are available, on the first floor." Yang Yue said, "I told you the night I went to your rented room. But every time you go home, you go straight to the study to study, or go back to the bedroom to sleep .I haven't even played with you."

"I knew I wouldn't ask you." Xu Yiqing was excited by the game, "I should avoid staying on the first floor."

He took down the collection of poems on the bedside table and began to read in English.