Chapter 58: Poisonous Flower (1)
Xuezhi is a junior in high school, and today is Saturday, and she is at home helping her mother with her business. Her house is a blunt shop and is very busy every weekend. At this moment, Xuezhi was serving a bowl of steaming wontons to customers, and the soup was a little too much, and she was careful not to splash the hot soup on her hands. The customer was at the door, and after putting it down for the customer, she glanced out, and her sister Xueyi came back at this time, far away, and walked slowly.
Xuezhi and Xueyi are one year apart, the same as the third year of high school, they have not had a good relationship since they were children, except for the quarrel is a cold war, it is a very sad sisterhood.
Xue Yi walked into the shop, passed by Xue Zhi, didn't look at her, and went upstairs. Xue Yi never helped her mother with work. Last night, the two sisters quarreled again, in order to compete for the TV show, there was a glass of water on the coffee table at that time, Xue Yi picked up the cup and splashed Xue Zhi in the face. Xue Yi is strong and unreasonable, and it is her bad behavior that leads to the bad relationship between the two.
At dinnertime, my mother announced one thing, and my mother said with an apologetic and helpless expression: "The family is in difficulty, although the business is still passable, but after deducting the rent and utility bills, there is not much left, your father left early, I am supporting the family alone, and I have done my best, seeing that the two of you are going to college, γγγγγγI really can't afford to pay for two, alas, who should go to this school between the two of you, look at the grades." Xue Yi raised her eyelids and looked at Xue Zhi, her white eyes were full of hostility, Xue Zhi ignored her sister's attitude, and only sighed lightly. Mom's decision invisibly deepened the deterioration of the relationship between the two sisters, and perhaps, they did not have a friendly day in their lives.
The grades of the two sisters are about the same, and it is still unknown who will set foot in the gates of the university.
After returning to school, the two studied hard, especially Xuezhi, as if they were obsessed, eating and reading, going to the toilet to read, and after the lights went out, they also used flashlights to drill the quilt to read books, and even their dreams were filled with books.
The two roommates, Yuyan and Han Lixin, were deeply surprised by this. Han Lixin was a talker, she said to Yuyan: "You said that these two sisters, how can they go home and become different people, so hard, they almost cantilever to stab their heads, and they don't know who they have been taught at home, as if they have been brainwashed." Look at Xue Zhi, she's all a nerd, and last night I heard her talking in her sleep, speaking English words. Alas! The third year of high school is really torturous, and I should be nervous, these days, I have to go to college, or I have to work as a coolie. I'm not beautiful, and I'm unlikely to marry well in the future, you see the big beauties in our class, it doesn't matter if people learn or not, with beauty, maybe it's better than the good grades, these days, beauty is a woman's wealth, and a man doesn't just want a woman's skin? You say, don't you? β
Yuyan smiled, noncommittal.
Yuyan is a quiet and introverted girl, and even a little obedient. She had a slender, perfectly proportioned figure, but the downside was that she was too thin, she was simply too thin, sickly thin, and her school skirt swayed on her body, like a skeleton wrapped around her. She looks extraordinarily delicate, her skin is graceful and fair, she has a natural Internet celebrity face, narrow, pointed chin, small eyes, hanging eyes, and the outer corners of her eyes stretching straight into her sideburns, which is very charming. Overall, she is a foreign-looking girl.
If Xue Yi gives people the feeling of being fierce, then Yuyan gives people the feeling of cold.
One night three days after Xue Yi returned to school, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, she got up to go to the bathroom, the dormitory was dim, the light in Xue Zhi's quilt was leaking through the cracks, Xue Yi looked at it with disgust, her efforts were to declare war on herself. Walked out of the dormitory. When she came out of the toilet, she was startled by a fluttering shadow in front of her, and she fixed her eyes to see that it was Yuyan, who was wearing a white nightdress and loose waist-length hair, walking silently in front, and in the corridor full of dim lights, her thin figure was as light as a piece of paper. Xue Yi suddenly remembered the ghost wandering in the night. Where did she go so late? Appointment? How could such an indifferent girl have a boyfriend, besides, the door downstairs had already been locked. Xue Yi stared at her back, this fluttering piece of paper, turned around at the staircase, and disappeared. Xue Yi quietly followed. Yuyan didn't go far, she descended a flight of stairs, and then stopped at the landing, where the lights couldn't shine, and the black, white nightgown floated in the darkness. In order not to be discovered, Xue Yi tiptoed to the foot of the stairs leading to the upper floor, leaned on the railing and looked down, only to hear a "click" sound in the darkness below, and a beam of fire burst out, it was Yuyan who took a lighter to light, she held a small flame, squatted on the ground, and then I don't know what was lit, and suddenly the fire flashed, illuminating the surroundings. Xue Yi happened to see the back of her head at this angle, she kept adding things to the fire, the fire burned more and more, Xue Yi couldn't see what she was burning, above Huang Yanyan's flames, some black ash floated up, hovering and drifting higher into the sky. Xue Yi was puzzled. At this time, Yuyan spoke, and her soft and thin voice came into Xue Yi's ears, "Everything is up to you, you must do this well, let him die, let him die!" I'll burn it to you every seven days, until it's seventy-seven or forty-nine days, and you won't have to worry about running out of money to spend there. Yuyan said as she took something like paper and added it to the fire. Xue Yi's hair stood on end when she heard this, she was burning paper for the dead. The silent corridor echoed with the laughter of a woman who seemed to have no sympathy, it was not the voice of the world. Xue Yi hurried back to the dormitory.
The next morning, when she went to the classroom, she passed by the staircase, and Xue Yi paid attention to the ground, which was clean and clean, and there was no burnt paper ash in sight, only burn marks as gray as paint.
The days passed in tension, and Xue Yi forgot about this strange thing because of her busy schoolwork, until another Sunday night-
The roar of the aunt woke up the sleeping students, Yuyan's secret act of burning paper was discovered by her, Xueyi got up and put on her clothes, and followed some classmates to the birthplace of the sound, or the staircase landing, the aunt of the housekeeper was holding a flashlight in her hand and was reprimanding Yuyan, Yuyan was still wearing that white nightdress, she stood against the wall, her head bowed, and she didn't say a word. There was a strong smell of paper ash floating in the air.
This matter spread among the senior students, Yuyan became a celebrity, many students from other classes came to visit, they piled up at the door of the classroom impolitely, whispering, pointing fingers, some people said that Yuyan had a mental problem, pitiful, it must have been pressed by the college entrance examination, a torturous year, how many students who are not psychologically strong enough have been physically and mentally devastated. But Yu Yan's calm appearance doesn't look like she's crazy, she hasn't been affected by this incident, and she eats, studies, and rests as always.
Gradually, the situation changed, and many boys with unfamiliar faces came to the door of the classroom, they leaned on the door frame, and their eyes looked straight into the classroom, and fell on Yuyan, "She's very beautiful." "Once Xue Yi walked through the door of the classroom, she heard a boy say this, the boy was wearing thick square glasses, and the frames of the glasses were black and thick on his face, so that people could not see his appearance.
But Yuyan was as cold as ice, and in the face of the courteous greetings of strange male students, she always frowned and ignored them, pouring those fiery hearts cold, and slowly no one came.
Yuyan moved out of the dormitory before the next Sunday, and she said that she went out to rent a house in order to study with peace of mind.
It is said that the less one person in the dormitory, the more quiet. But Yuyan has been as silent as a shadow, she is quiet and absent.
Never expect a chatter to keep a secret for someone else. After Yuyan left, Han Lixin said to Xue Yi and Xue Zhi, "You don't know, do you? Yuyan is practicing evil arts. That day, I found a book called "How to Summon" from under her pillow. She must have learned from books when she got up in the middle of the night to do those things. But what was her purpose in doing so? β
"She's such an evil person, she was trained that day, we comforted her, but she was so annoyed." Xue Yi said.
"Is it really as everyone guessed, for the college entrance examination, do some strange things and beg for God's blessing?" Han Lixin said.
Xue Yi shook her head, noncommittal.
Xue Zhi buried her head in the book halfway through hearing this, she was not interested in some opportunistic things, she was convinced that if she wanted to get good grades, studying hard was the only useful method, and she would only waste time by going to the sidelines.
Xue Yi concentrated on thinking back to Yuyan's words that night, "Help me γγγγγγ" and "Let him die γγγγγγ". She seems to understand something, Yuyan is really summoning the undead, right? She seemed to have asked the undead to help her get rid of someone, and she was convinced that Yuyan had summoned the undead, and that night, in the empty corridor, the strange woman's laughter, the voice from the netherworldγγγγγγ
Friday all day and Saturday morning are exams, mock exams, all nervously pale, white and fragrant test papers down and handed in, until the end of the exam to breathe a sigh of relief, as if from the ghost door closed, the pale face gradually returned to a ruddy state.
"It's over, it's over, it's done." Han Lixin lay down on the bed and shouted, but her tone was brisk and she didn't take the exam seriously at all. Xue Yi envies people like her, who have no heart and lungs, and live freely.
Xue Yi took a deep breath and sat at the desk, turning the ballpoint pen with her fingertips, she knew that she didn't do well in the exam, what about Xue Zhi? Looking at her happy face, it should be a success, right? She suddenly wanted to talk to her. Taking advantage of Han Lixin's time when she went out to wash clothes, she said to Xuezhi, "Sister, let's talk?" Go to the playground. β
Xue Zhi raised her head from the book, with a surprised expression, hesitated for a moment, and said, "You go first, I'll come." β
Xue Yi went. She was a little embarrassed and a little apprehensive and went to the playground. Wait under the largest locust tree that entered the playground.
Xue Zhi put her hands in her pockets, and came slowly, almost leisurely, she seemed to guess what Xue Yi was going to say, she stood in front of her with a victorious attitude, in contrast, Xue Yi was as depressed and decadent as a frustrated, Xue Yi felt ashamed, and once wanted to hide the words she had thought about in her stomach forever, but she still spoke, "Sister," she said, "Can you γγγγγγ let me go?" β
"What?" Yukieda tilted her head, indicating that she didn't understand her words.
Xue Yi knew that she was pretending not to understand, and she had a trace of anger in her heart, but she suppressed it and continued to say calmly: "Can you let me go to college, you are my sister, let it be given to me." She tried to keep her tone as stiff as possible, not begging.
Xue Zhi smiled and said, "It's not the finale yet, and no one knows the result, so why do you deign to come to me and end it early." β
"You know, my grades aren't as good as yours. It always has been. Even if I sometimes surpass you, it's when I forget to sleep and eat and you don't work hard. In terms of qualifications, I am inferior to you. I knew I was going to fail. In the last sentence, Xue Yi said very painfully, like a deflated ball, exhaling the last trace of breath, she positioned herself as "failure," how reluctant and helpless.
Xue Zhi looked at Xue Yi's face and said, "'Sister'? This is the first time you've called me sister, right? How strange it is that my auditory nerves, my heart, seem to have a protective film to block it back, and they are so strange to it, as if it is not a word, but a tribulus terrestris that pierces people. Don't call me sister, I don't have you as a sister. I will not overflow with the heart of the Virgin, I will not forgive you for the harm you have done to me, from childhood to adulthood, how many stumbling blocks you have made to me, and I almost lost my life, I am a person who knows right from wrong, hate is hate, love is love. Xueyi, let's compete. Good bye. β
The snow branch walked away, but it was just a little more sad.
Xue Yi stood on the empty playground, as if she had been hit on the head, and woke up, why bother? What a shame it was to beg her, hurting her self-esteem, she thought regretfully.