Oral period

After that, things went more smoothly than expected.I don't know if it's because the injury on Zhenxiao's face is too shocking, or because he himself is too good at acting, the teacher in the monitoring room didn't make things too difficult, and followed his will to leave the playground at the exit of the playground around [-] o'clock every afternoon from the first day of school to now. I checked the surveillance at the office and found that the person suspected of picking up the lost property was a short-haired girl in a red and white school uniform. I also saw that the reason why he fell was because of his "lack of physical strength". Everyone was happy.

The school uniforms of each grade in their school have different colors, red and white belong to the sophomore class - there were only two sophomore classes taking physical education at that time, and there were even fewer girls wearing glasses and short hair. Zhenxiao quickly found the person they were looking for.

Unintentionally going to scare the other party, Zhen Xiao was determined not to talk to strangers, Xia Jingzhe simply wrote down the class and location coordinates of the girl, and clearly sent it to the owner of the item, so that he could negotiate by himself—— I heard that the lost keychain has been sent to the dormitory auntie in the women's dormitory, and it is waiting to be found by the lost and found, which can be regarded as a smooth ending.

As for those exaggerated thanks in Xia Jingzhe's view, and the reward that was sent to the abandoned sculpture at noon despite his refusal... that's another story.

"Remuneration," Xia Jingzhe picked up the bag of biscuits as a gift in return - it looked handmade - stuffed it into Zhenxiao's arms, and said, "I didn't do much this time, so I'll give it to you."

It's not him who loves sweets... Zhen Xiao thought silently, twisting the plastic paper containing the biscuits to make a small sound, and was about to say something to tease him when he heard Xia Jingzhe casually throwing a sentence: "Yes Now, your mind is pretty good, you want to join—well, the 'Black Envelope Office'?"

Zhen Xiao raised his eyebrows, did not comment on his claim that he was too middle school, and teased him sincerely: "Your brain is not very easy to use?"

"Get out, I'm just too lazy to think about those twists and turns." Xia Jingzhe sat on the stone surrounding the sculpture, and when he heard this, he raised his leg and gave him a gentle touch as a threat. Now, I’ll treat you to dinner again tonight, both of you—don’t come to the rooftop to bother me at noon from now on.”

He probably wasn't joking, such advanced tricks as playing hard to get would not appear in Xia Jingzhe's mouth... Zhen Xiao thought silently, holding the biscuit to weigh for a moment, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, looking at him and said: " What's the benefit of joining?"

"There is no benefit, there is no reward for accepting commissions," Xia Jingzhe pointed to the biscuits in his hand, and said, "This is also the first time I have received something—but every time I complete a commission, I can treat you to a meal. if."

Then it's really a long-term meal ticket.

After a long while, Zhen Xiao nodded, with an inexplicable smile twitching in his eyes, and said softly: "Okay—but I get a headache when I think too much, so don't squeeze me too much."

"Understood." Xia Jingzhe lowered his eyes and calmly breathed a sigh of relief.

He finally said it... Fortunately, Zhen Xiao didn't find out, otherwise, with this person's bad temper, he would probably laugh at him again.

But he can't deny that spending time with the other party is much more interesting than being alone, and the commission will be resolved more smoothly.It's rare to meet someone who is willing to "collaborate" with him, and he still doesn't want to settle the matter.

"Aren't you leaving yet?"

It has been more than ten minutes since the evening self-study get out of class ended, and the most diligent students had already left, but Xia Jingzhe still stayed in his seat, immersing himself in the manuscript he hadn't finished.

The light from the classroom's incandescent tubes fell on his face, making the small piece of cheek exposed under the black hair almost transparent - from the angle of the pillow, he couldn't see his expression clearly, only the corners of his lips were tight, holding The hand of the automatic pencil drawing is fast and steady, and it is different from the previous ones that are either flamboyant or withdrawn.

Hearing this, Xia Jingzhe said without raising her head: "You go back first, I'm still early."

He said it as if someone had made an appointment with him to leave after school, childish.Zhen Xiao raised her eyebrows and choked him on purpose: "It's my turn to turn off the lights today, otherwise I wouldn't bother to ask you—won't anyone think I'm inviting him to go back together?"

Xia Jingzhe finally put down the pen, raised his hand to pin the falling hair behind his ears, and stared at him speechlessly: "Hurry up, I'll turn off the light."

Zhen Xiao let out an "oh" and tidied her schoolbag unhurriedly, but she didn't intend to get up and leave. She was still sitting in her seat with her back leaning on the chair, her eyes fixed on him, and she pointed out: "You go The last time I said, the school only gave you an 'empty bed full of debris' - so where do you sleep now?"

"I don't know how to move if I don't have hands. It's been cleared up a long time ago," Xia Jingzhe got angry when he mentioned this matter, and Xia Jingzhe paused his pen, and added two shadows as if to vent his anger, "But there are other people living in that dormitory. As soon as I go back, they are so nervous, so I usually wait until the door is locked before turning in."

"I don't see how caring you are..."

"Intimate ass," Xia Jingzhe tugged at the corners of his mouth, smiling bluntly, "I'm just too lazy to argue with them. A bunch of idiots have been thinking about how to squeeze me out since the day I moved in, and it took me three days Things were lost at both ends, and needles were found under the bed sheet.”

His tone was very light, as if he was talking about something irrelevant to him, but the malice from others revealed between the words was clear and shocking—few people can blend the two disparate temperaments of cold and hot so naturally, One point is true, indifference and compassion are also true, like a lead wire that can't be burned to the end, the end of the line is connected to a pool of water, the ice floe is shaking, and the moon is shining brightly.

Zhen Xiao fiddled with the zipper of his coat, and narrowed his eyes almost imperceptibly, a trace of heavy emotion that he didn't even notice flashed in his eyes: "And then..."

"Later, I stopped putting things there. I washed my face with cold water and took my toothpaste and toothbrush with me. When it was hot, I would spend the night on the bed. When it was cold, I would go to the office on the rooftop to spend the night. Although there was no heating, The windows are still leaking, but they can't cool off those evil hearts that are hard to guard against."

"I thought you were going to teach them a lesson..."

After drawing a page, Xia Jingzhe stacked several sheets of paper together, put them into the notebook, pressed the lead of the automatic pen to the longest position, and retracted it against the table, staring at the brand new white paper for a long time in silence, before saying: "No need. In my opinion, the most stupid thing is to prove your innocence, and to control violence with violence."

The light of the flashlight outside the window flickered, and it was the security guard who came to check.Xia Jingzhe stood up silently, crumpled the last piece of white paper into a ball, threw it into the trash can, gritted her teeth and said softly: "Let's go - I've talked too much, just forget it when you get out of the classroom door. "

However, before he could take a step, his wrist tightened suddenly——Facing Shangxia Jingzhe's suppressed irritated gaze, Zhenxiao bent his fingers wittily again, turning the act of forcibly grabbing his wrist into a weak "clothes pull" "Sleeve", his eyes were also soft on purpose, not to provoke him at this time: "I live alone now, a transfer student, so I am arranged on the top floor of the old dormitory building. I heard that the building is going to be renovated. Come in, I won't arrange for others to live in, if you don't mind...you can move in."

Xia Jingzhe looked at him straight, seemed to have spent a few seconds to digest the meaning of his words, then raised his eyebrows slightly, and sneered, "When did you become so kind?"

Who knows, maybe it's because seeing the back of him leaving alone, I think he is a bit pitiful - like a stray cat with nowhere to go, who swallows his anger when he is bullied, and even secretly helps those who may have slandered him When a person fulfills his wish, it makes people want to touch him.

"It's not for free," Zhen Xiao looked away from the other party's fluffy hair illuminated by the incandescent lamp, and said with a blank expression, "You will be given half of the room, and the price is to treat me to three meals a day—for me If you say that there is no loss, and that you can make a steady profit without losing money, you won’t do it for nothing.”

Seeing the flickering light of the flashlight outside the window getting closer and closer, and the footsteps of the security guard gradually becoming clearer, Xia Jingzhe lowered his head, his eyes stayed on the two fingers holding his sleeves, and after a moment of silence, he nodded: " make a deal."

"Pillow, you didn't tell me before you came here that you live in such a...a ghostly place..."

The old dormitory building built together when the school was founded decades ago has no elevators, and the stairs on one side are also blocked. You can only walk up to the top floor from the remote west staircase-of course, there are no voice-activated lights, and you have to go to each floor to go to the top floor. Manually pressing the corridor lights on the first floor, they came back too late, just in time for the access control, the only two floors where people lived were closed and the lights were turned off, it was so quiet that there was no one there, let alone the fourth floor where Zhenxiao lived. building.

"I said it," the accused person turned on the corridor light on the last floor, with an innocent tone, "The top floor of the old dormitory building, the people who lived on these two floors before graduated and moved out, they should have lived on the third floor, pity……"

"pity?"

Zhen Xiao looked at his tense jaw, paused his steps, thought of teasing him for no reason, so he cleared his throat, and said softly in a more mysterious tone: "It's a pity that I heard that the third floor is haunted, and there are often power outages for no reason. ...Ugh, it hurts."

Lowering his head, he met the murderous eyes of the other party——Xia Jingzhe maintained a posture where he could reach out to punch him casually, frowned, and said viciously: "Are you an idiot, shut up, hurry up..."

The old corridor lights suddenly dimmed and flickered on and off, interrupting his unfinished swear words.The already pale and frightening light reflected the white wall, mottled the traces of the wall skin being damp and peeled off, and stacked with the slender shadows of the two people, it looked even more terrifying.

Xia Jingzhe subconsciously took a step back, bumped her back against the handrail at the corner of the stairs, staggered in fright from the unexpected touch, and the scream overflowing her throat was suppressed by her self-esteem, and turned into a vague swear word.

In a certain sense, the instigator stood there, looking at him with interest, like a child who got a rare toy, and asked softly, "Are you afraid of ghosts?"

"roll……"

"Okay, then I'll get out." Zhen Xiao turned his body, making a gesture to go around him and go upstairs, "The room at the end of the fourth floor, from here you have to go through a whole corridor, I'll wait for you. Oh , By the way, I forgot to mention that the lights here will be turned off in less than 1 minute, so it should be soon..."

Before the words were finished, the lights above their heads suddenly lit up like a flash of light, and then went out completely.

"I'm leaving. The light switch is at the bottom. You have to go down half a floor to turn it on. When you go down, be careful not to step on it." Zhen Xiao patted Xia Jingzhe's shoulder in the dark, and walked around him in a serious way reminded.

The next second, there was an expected curse sound in his ear, someone grabbed his wrist, and something soft fell on him, it was warm, and it didn't look like a ghost.

"It hurts..." Zhen Xiao touched his back and said helplessly, "The knee hasn't healed yet, so don't hit my wound."

"Shut up, go turn on the light." Xia Jingzhe lowered her head and said sullenly.

"Carry you to drive?"

"..."

It's strange that people who are not even afraid of the human heart are still afraid of these ghosts and ghosts.Zhen Xiao was dragged by him with one hand and couldn't break free, so he had to use his left hand to touch the right pocket in an awkward posture, and turned on the flashlight function on the phone from memory, and stuffed it into Xia Jingzhe's hand: "Here, I'll open it."

The mobile phone was held by someone, but the other party didn't intend to let go of his hand. I don't know if it was his illusion, but it seemed to be held even tighter.

Without the slightest accumulation of experience in comforting others, Zhen Xiao was stunned for a moment, and realized that he had nothing to do with him - if he had known that scaring him would have such a big reaction, he would not have talked too much.

Therefore, the culprit was silent for a long time, and with a feeling of guilt that was almost uneasy after having played it off, he seriously enlightened: "There are no such things as ghosts in the world. If there were, ghosts in horror movies would not be ghosts." It looks like a human being. Besides, I’ve been living here for almost a week, and nothing happened, really, don’t be afraid, okay...I’m a little uncomfortable with your appearance. "

Xia Jingzhe seems to have accepted the words, or maybe he simply reacted to the last sentence. In short, after a few seconds, he slowly let go of his trembling hands, stared at the warm light from the phone, and said softly: " I'll give you three seconds, hurry up."

His facial features were already handsome, but he frowned like he was being bullied, his eyelashes fluttered uncomfortably, and the cold sharpness disappeared, which made him look a bit more pitiful for no reason.

Zhen Xiao froze for a moment, turned his eyes away quickly as if he was burned by something, took off his coat and covered his head, his movements were not gentle, even a little rude, but even he felt guilty when he said: "I have a wound on my leg. , I’m afraid you won’t be able to wait until I come back.”

There is always a weird smell on his clothes, like it has not been dried after washing, or it seems that there is too much laundry detergent and it has not been washed. It can't be felt under normal social distance, but occasionally it can be smelled when you get closer. Moist and sweet, chokingly heavy.

But this time, I don't know if it's because we got too close, or because the clothes just dried, there is no damp smell inside the coat, only the overly strong scent of laundry detergent, like oranges and sweet flowers , was warmed by the remaining body temperature, wrapped him airtightly, and dispelled the restlessness and fear in his heart.

When he came back to his senses, the clothes covering his head had been lifted by someone. Zhen Xiao bent down slightly, tilted his head, looked at him through the gap in the lifted clothes, and muttered the usual words: "It seems Lifting the bride's hijab..."

The "bride" pulled off the clothes on her head, threw her into his arms with an unkind expression, turned and left.

"It's so heartless, thanks to my special trip up to help you turn on the light in the corridor." The abandoned "groom" shrugged, put on his coat casually, looked at the back of the other party leaving, thought for a moment, and decided to wait in the original place. in case someone goes half way and the light goes off and he has to run back pitifully to flip the switch again.

Next time I have to use a different method to bully him, otherwise I will be responsible for the aftermath if I tease someone, the more I think about it, the more I feel like asking for trouble.