Chapter 33: Conversation Before the Banquet
This ghost story is very short, the end is its climax, and the horror of the story is directly proportional to the kung fu of the storyteller, for example, Xia Qingshui, deliberately slowed down the tone, and suppressed his voice from time to time, as if he had his own BGM, all of which was paving the way for the ending. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
What is really scary is not the story itself, but Xia Qingshui, who tells the story.
His last action was to make Qing Xingdeng's subconscious mind think of him as a ghost, and a momentary contrast would make people's brain nerves quickly reflex, and fear would naturally arise.
It's just that he was a little hesitant at first, these ghost stories are all heard by people in their world, and monsters like Qingxing Lantern should be very resistant to fear.
However, it turns out that even youkai are timid and afraid of ghosts, even though they are a type of ghost.
But since people can scare people, ghosts can naturally scare ghosts.
Xia Qingshui didn't summon Qingxing Lantern again, after all, everyone was going to sleep.
Soon after, Xia Wuregret returned home, took a shower, and then dragged him to a barber shop in the community, where he asked his father what he was going to do.
"Do the hairstyle. ”
This answer was definitely beyond Xia Qingshui's expectations, and before he could react, he was taken to wash his hair, and after washing his hair, he was pressed on a chair, and a barber came over with a very tacit understanding and began to tell his father what to do and what hairstyle is better, and then he saw his father nodding his head in various ways.
"Dad, don't sell me!" Xia Qingshui hurriedly shouted.
"You stay honest for me, I'll buy you a tie, the money has been paid, go back to the shower after the haircut, the time is almost enough. Dad said.
“...... Oh. He was desperate and silently mourned for his hair.
Time passed minute by minute, under the scissors of a professional barber, his hair that was originally fluffy like weeds became shorter and shorter, and after various grooming, a new hairstyle appeared under the corners of his eyes.
"It's over?" Xia Qingshui asked.
The barber put away the hair dryer, uncovered the haircut cloth in front of him and said: "It's over, retro Sanqi hairstyle, according to the type of banquet provided by your father, we specially selected it for you, the hairstyle has a business atmosphere, full and soft sideburns, clean lines, showing a side face, very trimming, very suitable for wearing a suit." ”
Hearing the barber's description, Xia Qingshui only felt that he seemed to be ten years older, but he did look like he had a different style in the mirror, because his bangs were sideways to the right, revealing a full forehead, and the original pale face looked much healthier because of the extra ruddy after the dust removal yesterday.
"That's it. "The matter has come to this point, and there is no going back.
"When you go back to take a shower, remember to bring a shower cap, and also, a benefit of 1,000 yuan. The barber laughed.
He exclaimed, "Damn, my dad didn't give me any money?"
The barber immediately reacted and apologized again and again: "I'm sorry, I'm used to it." ”
“......”
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Mountain City, Haohui Hotel.
The restaurant on the second floor and the living room on the third floor have been chartered by Chu Qingyu's father, Chu Mingwei, at this time at a quarter past seven, there are still fifteen minutes before the banquet officially starts, but there are already many people in the living room, and they are standing together in twos and threes chatting.
The parlor was very spacious, with some tables and chairs removed, and a large space in the middle, surrounded by white silk tables in all three directions, with many snacks, drinks, and fruits, which could be eaten by themselves.
At this time, people kept entering, most of them were well-known figures in the mountain city, and they gave Chu Mingwei face to attend his son's coming-of-age ceremony.
Many people came with their sons and daughters, firstly, to let them know more people and get to know more people, and secondly, they wanted to make friends with the Chu family, some of them were eleven or twelve-year-old children, and some were about the same age as Chu Qingyu, everyone seemed to be from a wealthy family, with a lofty demeanor.
Some of the classmates of Shancheng No. 8 Middle School who were invited by Chu Qingyu gathered together, they were all wearing dresses, some of them were their own dresses, some were borrowed from relatives and friends, and some were rented, although they were glamorous, but compared with the ones worn by the children of various families present, their dresses were slightly inferior.
"Li Yi, you look so good in this dress. Xu Bing found a girl in a group of people, more than a dozen classmates from No. 8 Middle School, and he knew the latter.
Li Yi glanced at him, shrugged his shoulders, and then said, "I've never worn it, it feels awkward." ”
"Me too, I don't have a chance to wear it on weekdays, I've been putting this dress for several years, and it doesn't feel like it fits. Xu Bing complained, "Yours looks just right, and you look beautiful to wear." ”
Lee chuckled.
"I'm going to rent a spot, of course. ”
Xu Bing sneered awkwardly, but shifted the topic to the guests present.
"I didn't expect such a big person to come, that person I know, the CEO of a foreign company, I didn't expect him to come. Xu Bing said to Li Yi, who frowned and did not speak.
Li Yi doesn't like others to pretend in front of her, especially Xu Bing, the reason why their group of people gathered here is completely because of crampedness, in order not to look embarrassed, they huddled together, and Xu Bing pretended to be big in front of her, which made her very irritable.
"Huh, Jiang Xiaoxian?" Xu Bing's voice sounded, and Li Yi subconsciously looked over.
From the entrance, two people walked in, a middle-aged man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, his sword eyebrows and starry eyes, giving people an inexplicable majesty, and there was a tall figure standing beside him, Jiang Xiaoxian wore her hair scattered, wearing a white dress, her shoulders were exposed, the two ribbons above the dress were fixed on her upper arm around her collarbone, and a crimson gemstone necklace hung on her chest, and the whole person was as dazzling as a goddess.
She took the arm of the man next to her, met everyone's attention, and entered the living room.
"It's beautiful. Li Yi murmured softly.
Xu Bing beside him had long been stunned, not only him, but most of the boys in their group had their eyes on Jiang Xiaoxian.
"That person should be Jiang Xiaoxian's father, Jiang Xingyu, the curator of our Mountain City Starry Sky Martial Arts Hall!" someone from the eighth middle school said.
Li Yi was slightly shocked.
That middle-aged man is Jiang Xingyu?
The name Jiang Xingyu is very famous in Shancheng, because he is the only director of the Silver Martial Arts Pavilion in Shancheng, and his own strength is also in the golden stage, and he has special abilities.
As a martial arts practitioner in the mountain city, there are few people who don't know Jiang Xingyu.
After Jiang Xingyu and Jiang Xiaoxian came in, the former chatted with the others, while the latter stood alone at the edge of the hall, looking cold, looking at the mobile phone in his hand, and then a young man went over to talk, and he didn't know what to talk about.
Not long after, Lu Jiaxi appeared in a lilac pleated dress, compared to Jiang Xiaoxian's elegance, her dress looked much more noble, in addition to wearing heavy makeup, she also stepped on a pair of shiny high heels.
This appearance surprised several classmates who knew her in the eighth middle school, and they almost didn't recognize it.
As soon as Lu Jiaxi came, he first went to Chu Mingwei, who was greeting others in the center of the hall, and then saw that Jiang Xiaoxian had already come first, so he went to her side, and the two beauties gathered, making many young men look sideways, as if they wanted to talk, but for the sake of face, only a few acquaintances gathered around together, and everyone laughed together.
Compared to that side, the students of the eighth middle school are more deserted here, they are either talking in whispers, or eating snacks next to the table where the food is placed, and the atmosphere is relatively dull.
At this time, someone walked up to Li Yi and invited her to the side to chat.
The eyes of several classmates were on Li Yi, as if they were envious.
"Sorry, I'm chatting with my classmates. Li Yi was reluctant to contact these people, and there was an inexplicable resistance, so he found an excuse to refuse.
The man frowned slightly, but quickly relaxed, then smiled and said, "Then don't bother Miss, may I ask Miss's name?"
"My name is Li Yi. She replied.
"It's really like its name, my name is Wu Ren, not the five kernels of Wuren moon cakes, there are characters next to my five. The young man chuckled.
The people around were amused by the humorous tone of the man.
"Uh, that's a fun name. Li Yi blurted out without thinking about it, which made Wu Ren slightly stunned.
"Fun?" he asked.
"It's not fun, it's funny, it's not right, that's what it means. Li Yi was a little flustered, and her words were a little rude, which made her blush, but she didn't avoid the other party's eyes.
"Haha, I understand what you mean, then Miss Li will talk slowly, I'll go find a friend first. Wu Ren laughed heartily and said to Li Yi.
"Good!"
Wu Ren raised his eyebrows, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and turned to leave.