At the beginning of my middle school career, as Qi Zhen said, there were ups and downs.

After the National Day performance, I became a well-known "celebrity" in the whole school, whether it was the same grade or senior classmates, whether it was a boy or a girl, when it came to me, their unanimous evaluation was: "Oh, it's the erhu who 'cries wolf' and finally breaks the string; ”

Whenever I heard such comments, I pretended not to care, laughed at them, and turned away in style. Then, go to no one's place, grit your teeth and complain, and then come back as if nothing happened to continue to play the open-minded girl who doesn't miss anything.

Although Chang Qing and Chen Qiu knew the reason, they couldn't help me explain, so they had to comfort me in private.

Qi Zhen also came to comfort me seriously: "Don't be angry, they say that because they don't understand art and are jealous of you." ”

"Jealous of me?" This argument is quite new.

"Of course. You must know that the highest state of art is 'the unity of heaven and man', and pulling the erhu can pull the lightning and thunder, and the ghost crying god, such a profound skill can be said to have reached the point of 'perfection', they are beyond their reach, and they can't practice it even when they die. How could they not be jealous? ”

"Yes, really?" I said word by word, and a cold light began to gleam in my eyes. The corners of Chang Qing and Chen Qiu's mouths twitched, and they were both holding back a smile.

“…… What's more, you can still pull the string at once, how difficult it is! Such a tenacious string, others don't say pull it a thousand times, at least hundreds of times to break it. Doesn't that show that you are skilled and powerful? Alas, all genius artists cannot find a soulmate in their lifetime, and only after death will they be praised and worshiped by the world! You must be ...... too."

"Are you done?" Oh, my God! I finally knew why so many homicides were caused by a single sentence, and if vision could have killed anyone, I think I would have killed him a long time ago.

"Ahem! I'm done! That's it! Hey! "Probably finding that I was approaching viciously with a fierce light in my eyes, and I had the intention of kicking him flat, Qi Zhen obediently closed his mouth and hid behind Changqing's back.

"Don't listen to his! …… Anyway, don't take other people's comments to heart. However, the human face we saw that day was obviously the idea of hitting the spirit stone, you have to be careful! At the end, Chang Qing retracted his smile, a little worried.

"It's okay, you don't have to worry! It's not the first time I've encountered this situation, and I'll be careful. I glared at Qi Zhen angrily, and then said to Chang Qing and Chen Qiu in a relaxed tone.

Chen Qiu didn't speak, nodded calmly, but her eyes still revealed the worry in her heart, inferring from the situation of fighting with that face that day, this time the coveting spirit stone must be very unusual, whether it is a human or a demon, the power seems to be stronger than ever.

"Don't underestimate you! Otherwise, I'll give you a few talismans and pass on some tricks to you! Changqing tugged at her hair and proposed.

"No kidding! I'm a girl, and I don't want to be a Taoist aunt, why do you want to learn this? …… Hey, why should we be so worried and wait for things to come to the door! "Even if we temporarily learn Taoism with Buddha's feet, we are in the bright and others are in the dark, and we can't prevent it, so simply "brake with static, and respond to all changes with no change"! I calmly rejected Evergreen's offer.

"That's right! Right! Anyway, you can wait for someone to save you when the time comes, don't be afraid! Qi Zhen stuck his head out from behind Chang Qing and echoed me with a flattering expression.

"Help, save your head! If I'm a youkai, I'll be the first to eat you, and see if your crow's mouth can talk anymore! I rolled my eyes at him angrily, turned and ran. Chang Qing and Chen Qiu also followed one after the other.

"Hey, why did you run away? Wow! Why are you running so fast? I still have nothing to say! Qi Zhen shouted behind me.

"Are you deaf? The class bell is ringing, young master! What's the nonsense after class! I had no choice but to stop, put these two sentences behind, and went straight to the classroom.

After running far away, I didn't hear Qi Zhen's footsteps, so I looked back. Qi Zhen was still standing in place, his thin figure looked very lonely, faintly, and I saw a strange expression on his face, as if with some kind of inexplicable sadness. I suddenly turned my head and ran as fast as I could. My mood was affected, and the sadness seemed ...... Why is it so familiar? But it shouldn't be on him!

I was scribbling on the paper with my pen in frustration, not even listening to what the teacher was saying. Finally, when I got to the end of class, I looked up and saw that Chang Qing and Qi Zhen's seats were already empty. These two guys seem to have practiced the "Great Shift", and as soon as the bell rings, they disappear. Qi Zhen's sad and strange expression just now was always shaking in front of my eyes, making me feel uneasy. I waited for them to come back, and there was a lot of laughter in the classroom, but somehow, I felt harsh to hear it, so I didn't want to stay in the classroom anymore and walked down the hallway.

"How can a person look far away from the railing? Enjoying the view? An unfamiliar voice rang in my ears. Looking out from the railing? Unless writing an essay, who would speak in such sour words? As soon as I turned around, a boy was standing next to me. He was a little shorter than Chang Qing, with a well-proportioned figure, a handsome face, and a pair of smiling, lacquer-like black eyes staring intently at me under two starry eyebrows. (I'm sorry, I've been reading martial arts novels a lot lately, so I've borrowed the physiognomy descriptions in the book.) His words were cordial, his tone gentle, like a friend I knew. However, I didn't know him at all, and he was a stranger I had never met. I frowned and asked coldly, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm your alumnus, nice to meet you! Can we be friends? This handsome man stretched out his hands affectionately, and looked like he was going to hug me. I jumped to the side with agility and stared at him with the eyes of an idiot and a nymphomaniac: "Cut! I don't know you, who wants to be your friend? ”

"Don't say that! Didn't the ancients say, 'The white head is like new, and the cover is like the past.'" 'Is it?' I really want to be friends with you. His eyes sparkled and he looked sincere.

I squinted at him and quietly took another big step to the side. Hmph, ancients! The ancients also said: "Knowing the face of the person does not know the heart." "What! When you meet a stranger, you go up and make friends with others, either with bad intentions or ulterior motives! What kind of guy does this guy belong to?

Seeing that I didn't answer, he continued: "Besides, I listened to your erhu performance that day, and I think you played too well, and that kind of poignant and ethereal artistic conception is really profound......

My anger surged up, and his ridicule was more embarrassing than the outright criticism of other classmates. "What do you mean by that? Do I have a grudge against you? Neuropathy! "I yelled with a grim face, forgetting to maintain my demeanor, and the classmates who were moving in the corridor all looked at us, some surprised and some gloating.

He seemed to be frightened by my reaction and was momentarily overwhelmed. I wanted to scold a few more words, but then I thought that I was already "famous" enough, and if I quarreled with others for that performance, wouldn't my image be even more unbearable? So, I suppressed my anger and prepared to leave. I can't afford to provoke, can't I still hide?

"Oh no...... Oh no! Something is wrong! A panicked boy stumbled up the steps and almost threw himself down the hallway.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?"

"Coward, what scared you like this bear?"

In the face of the classmates who came around to ask questions, the boy's expression was still frightened, and he was drenched in cold sweat until the dripping came down, and he didn't wipe it; There were traces of abrasions on his face and hands, and in some places there was blood, and the injuries were not light. His lips trembled, his voice was sharp, and there was a sign of impending disaster in his tone: "Dead! …… I see the dead! It's horrible! ”

……

"Where? School? ”

"Who died? How did he die? ”

"Take us to see it!"

After a brief period of fear, there is more curiosity. This is a common human disease, and the more unknown it is, even if it is something terrible and can bring disaster, the more it can arouse the exploratory curiosity of human nature. What's more, at this time, all the teenagers around him are fourteen or fifteen-year-olds, and children younger than them will rely on their parents and teachers in case of trouble; Children older than them have a much stronger sense of self-preservation. And they are the most eager to prove that they have grown up, and they are the most fearless, because they have not yet been tempered by the world, even death, in their eyes, is not a very big deal. Therefore, young people are brave, many adults need to think about things, young people often only do it on the spur of the moment, and as for the consequences, it is not within the scope of their consideration! Everyone invariably thought: Of course, the dead are terrible, but there are so many of us, what is the point of going to see them? So, he asked the boy, "Where the hell is it?" Tell us! ”

The poor boy, perhaps frightened, had already crouched down, curled up in a ball, holding his head, and repeating in his mouth: "It's terrible! It's horrible! ...... "He would never say anything else."

I looked at the boy coldly, and suddenly my heart moved: there was a small yellow leaf in his hair, his clothes, especially his trousers, were stained with bits and pieces of grass, and there were many black mud spots splashed on his trouser legs. There is no doubt that he has been to a place with trees, grass, and black mud, and there is only one place in the entire campus, or one place, that is, the woods in the northeast corner and the "old building" in front of it!

I didn't hesitate, and I didn't have time to bother with the "nymphomaniac" boy anymore, so I turned around and quietly walked towards the woods. Originally, it was best to go with Chang Qing, Qi Zhen or Chen Qiu, but I was dizzy by the popularity just now, and I only had anger in my head, and I just wanted to vent as soon as possible, so I acted alone.

I walked through the cafeteria, trotting briskly along the concrete walkway. I left the noisy campus behind, and the woods in the northeast corner were quiet, and not a single student came or went.

I stood still at the edge of the woods, and the gusts of wind blew in my face, and I didn't feel cool, only cold. The trees are swaying in the wind, and the rustle of the leaves rubbing against each other, like the cries of some kind of animal, is creepy. Want to go in? Thinking of the strange faces that appeared in the woods that day and the figures suspended on the shallow pits, I couldn't help but groan, the initial anger had been extinguished by the wind, this place was too close to the "old building", and those bloody, miserable, and strange breaths did not seem to fade with the disappearance of the "old building".

"Do you want to go in?" Someone asked me gently.

I was startled, and when I turned my head, Qi Zhen came out of a corner, and he was standing next to me without a sound, sticking to me so closely, I didn't even notice it, what the hell!

"Why is there no sound at all? You want to scare me to death! My eyebrows were raised.

"Don't be angry! …… I just want to, look at you quietly. Qi Zhen said calmly, his eyes were gentle, but there was something incomprehensible in the depths of his eyes, the black mark on his face that had been burned by fire trembled slightly, and the sad expression that did not belong to him vaguely emerged.

"Look at your size! If you look at it again, there won't be a flower on my face! …… After class, where did you go? What about evergreen? Not with you? I used a fierce tone to hide my distraught. In a trance, I always felt that there was a small thorn pierced in my heart, and I couldn't find it or pull it out, but as long as I thought about something, it hurt faintly.

"I'm walking alone on the playground." Qi Zhen replied honestly, and then asked rhetorically, "You ran to this forest and stood for a long time, and you didn't even seem to hear the class bell ringing, did something happen?" ”

"Did the class bell ring? Oops! …… Let's not talk about it yet, let's go to the woods and check it out, some people say, I saw a dead man! "The class bell rings, which means that soon there will be teachers from the Academic Affairs Office who will come to the woods to check on the news after knowing the news. You have to figure out what's going on before the teacher arrives. I hurriedly picked him up and ran into the woods.

The wind stopped, and the woods were quiet, except for the footsteps of Qi Zhen and me stepping on the "rustle" of fallen leaves, there was no other sound. The orderly trees watched us silently, and the occasional drop of the withered yellow leaves was like a butterfly with folded wings, fluttering lightly, but also hopelessly, falling into the dirt. Decay, dissolve, become one with the earth.

The woods are large and gloomy because of the lush trees, but on a sunny day, the light is still enough to see things clearly. Qi Zhen and I split up and ran through the woods as fast as we could, and we looked very closely, and we almost turned the ground up, but we found nothing. In addition to dead branches and fallen leaves, not to mention corpses, not even a single piece of sundries was found.

How? Could it be that the boy has a mental problem and is hallucinating? Or am I inferring the wrong thing and looking in the wrong place? My face immediately darkened.

Qi Zhen straightened up and walked in front of me. He was about to speak, but as soon as he tilted his head inadvertently, his expression suddenly stiffened, and his eyes were full of disbelief as he stared straight above my head. I immediately turned around and looked up. At first glance, I was reduced to a piece of wood, and my whole body was stiff and fixed in place.

Alas! No wonder, I can't find it no matter how I look for it. Because not on the ground, but in the trees!

As it happened, behind me was the only gap in the woods. Closest to the gap were two trees that were sloping outward, and among them hung two people. On the left is a boy in a white jacket, and on the right is a girl in a black dress, both about fifteen or sixteen years old, with well-proportioned figures, and if you can ignore the painful, desperate and helpless expressions on their faces, they should all be very delicate, if not beautiful. Around their necks were thick hemp ropes of the same color as their clothes, and it was this rope that held them to the branches, and their bodies were straight, swaying stiffly with the swaying of the branches.

They are already dead, and we can see that we don't have to wait for the forensic doctor from the Public Security Bureau to examine it. But it's not just their deaths that are truly frightening, it's the way they die and what they do after they. They are not hanged, because the hanged person has bulging eyes, purple complexion, and tongues sticking out, but none of them have these obvious features. And their clothes are clean and neat, as if there is not even dust. There was not a trace of blood on their faces or bodies, and there was no sign of struggle. The most terrifying thing is that they are fluttering on the tree, their expressions are so painful and desperate, but the corners of their mouths are pure and beautiful vivid smiles, and one hand is always spread outward, as if they are greeting the distinguished guests with hospitality. It's a weird combination, and it's no wonder that the boy who found them was so frightened that he ran away.

Could it be that the ghost of the old building has been resurrected again? Qi Zhen and I looked at each other, and our minds were booming, and this possibility swirled in our minds, making us feel a little bitter in fear.