I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

Chapter 91 My wife (3)

“…I just wanted to ask, what are you sending me?”

Between classes.

Xu Jiao stood outside the teaching building, avoiding the way of people coming and going. Standing next to a willow tree, she dialed back the number of the “home” she had received last night, and the person who answered the call belonged to the original owner. Father Xu Dashu.

“If you open it and take a look, you will know, the master said, it is something that the son wore personally when he was alive. If you wear this, the person knows that you are his wife, and he will bless you underground, maybe. …When you work in the future, your boss will appreciate you, and the teachers in the school will like you too…”

Behind are some long-winded feudal imaginations. Xu Jiao moved her phone away from her ear and looked up at the willow tree next to her.

It is the time of the late spring and summer solstice, the city is still a bit cold, as if it will not be honestly shrouded by the heat before the summer solstice, the street is also full of chaotic dressing scenery, some people cool off early in the short-sleeved shorts, and Of people passing by wearing fur coats.

The willow tree sprouts new buds, and the catkins have fluttered over half of the campus in the first two months. Now it is much more honest, only the branches can occasionally show a little white, and the rest are graceful and fluttering green, which is very spring.

Looking at the luxuriant willow tree, Xu Jiao heard the brainwashing voice coming from the phone weaken, and put the phone to her ear again, and interrupted impatiently:

“What do you wear on your body?”

“Did you send the wrong tablet? Why did I receive a tablet from a woman?”

Xu Dashu was long and long-winded and asked her not to be disrespectful to her “dead husband”. Since she took the money from her, she had to do things for her. Halfway through the conversation, when Xu Jiao interjected impolitely, he was about to educate her. , I suddenly realized what I heard.

“You, what are you talking about?” The man’s rough and vicissitudes voice came from the phone.

Xu Jiao repeated her words unhurriedly: “I said, why the courier I received was a woman’s tablet? It said her last name is Zheng, and her name is Zheng Zhiyu.”

“What’s the surname is Zheng, and the family’s surname is Xu. His son was only eighteen when he died. Where is the surname of Zheng, you don’t want to tell me nonsense!” The voice on the phone became a little irritable inexplicably, as if feeling Xu Jiao was lying to him.

Xu Jiao didn’t know what was wrong with the old father, and she didn’t bother to explain to him more, she just said lightly: “Since you didn’t send it, then I will send it back to that address as it is.”

“Don’t send me that kind of weird stuff. Next time I will refuse to accept it. If you want to make money, you will earn it honestly. Selling your daughter is what you can do. I am not your wishing pool.”

She still speaks in that plain tone, without much emotional ups and downs.

However, in Xu Dashu’s ears, it is this daughter who has always been silent and stubborn. Somehow she suddenly learned to resist. She was originally just a book to read, and she didn’t care about other things. She was quiet at home like the air, but now she will follow him. Talk back?

“…I just said that girls shouldn’t read too many books at home. Now that you go out, your wings are stiff, and you won’t listen to me anymore—”

“beep.”

Xu Jiao raised her hand and yawned, mute the phone that she had hung up, and blacked out the number just now, and then she was ready to go back to the classroom with her slightly moistened eyes.

She thought about the money left in her meal card.

There are still twenty days before the end of this month. There is only one hundred dollars in the card. In my memory, the money in the bank card is saved by doing part-time jobs. If you have to pay for school fees, you will definitely not be able to move it out to eat and drink…

Perhaps it was that the previous few worlds had never lived a life of hardship, and Xu Jiao realized that she had no way of making money for a while.

Unscrewing her eyebrows, she was about to walk towards the road on the side and back to the teaching building along the way, but suddenly stepped on the roots of the huge tree under her feet, and a slight chill suddenly appeared behind her neck.

Based on the skills she had left from the previous worlds, Xu Jiao instinctively lowered her body and avoided the whistling wind above her head. Before she could tell what it was, she heard another burst coming from her ears. movement.

She looked there quickly, preparing to avoid it according to where the attack came from. However, due to the low blood sugar caused by abstaining from breakfast all the year round, she squatted together, and her sight suddenly went black, and then a golden star filled the area. Come.

It was at this point of pause that the sound of the wind whizzed to the side of her face, and then, the fiery pain spread from the right side of the face close to the ear, all the way to the neck.

Xu Jiao took a breath.

She raised her hand to touch the side of her face, waited for the golden color in front of her to dissipate, looked up again, and found that there was nothing in front of her, the blue sky and white clouds above her head, and the big willow tree whose branches were fluttering in the wind.

Using a black-screen mobile phone as a mirror, Xu Jiao glanced at her appearance on the screen, and found a red mark on her right face to her neck. The surface of her skin was slightly raised, and she immediately swelled up, as if being held by someone. The whip is the same as the one drawn out.

Can cause this kind of injury…

She squinted her eyes and looked at the willow tree in front of her.

Some legends about the willow suddenly came to mind.

There is a saying that the willow trees planted by the river are useful for warding off evil spirits, and the willow branches can also beat ghosts. It is said that they can beat ghosts by one whip and three inches short. However, this kind of tree is not suitable for planting near homes because of the heavy stigma. Lock the soul, those dirty things like to live in the willow tree.

Xu Jiao touched the skin near the wound on the side of her face. She couldn’t tell for a moment that the tree in front of her was unlucky lately and wanted to help her get rid of evil spirits, or whether she was playing a prank with her for some other reason.

Anyway.

Her face hurts.

Feeling the burning sensation on half of her cheek, Xu Jiao stepped out of the grass blankly and made a decision—

The culprit who caused her such unlucky.

She will definitely not let it go.

…

“My God, what happened to Xu Jiao’s face?”

“Are you going to take time off to see the school infirmary? I just heard your roommate say that you fell out of bed last night… Your dormitory has been too unlucky recently, right?”

“Yeah, Xiaoli just accompanied Qian Ai to the infirmary. Would you like to ask the teacher for a leave?”

After returning to the classroom, because it was a small professional class, all the students in the classroom were classmates. The marks on Xu Jiao’s face were so obvious that they were easily noticed by the girls, so they all came around caringly and treated her. Play with the love of friendly classmates.

She blinked. She originally planned to make do with another class, but when she heard what they said between the lines, she couldn’t help but frowned: “What happened to Qian Ai?”

While she was talking, Xu Jiao looked at the old wooden tables and chairs around her. The classroom was only a few dozen square meters. Twenty or thirty people were easily caught in her eyes, but she didn’t see Qian Ai and Zhou Qili.

“Don’t you know?” A girl sitting in the front row turned around. She was secretly eating bread during the break, but now she gestured to her: “Qian Ai went to the bathroom just now. The bathroom in this building is not It’s very old. There is a regular flushing in the end. As a result… I heard that Qian Ai accidentally twisted his foot, stepped into the pit, and fell inexplicably. Fortunately, he just rushed through the water and people came out. It wasn’t too disgusting…”

With that, she picked up the bread she put on the belly of the table again, but lost her appetite somehow, so she had to put it back.

Xu Jiao’s face changed and changed again, and she thanked the female classmate, and then walked near the podium. Because the injury was too obvious, the teacher who gave the lecture was shocked. Hearing that she was asking for leave, she hurriedly criticized her. Now, she also told her to be careful when she walked, so as not to get hurt again.

Xu Jiao thanked the teacher, returned to her seat, and threw the notes into her schoolbag. When she threw the schoolbag over her shoulder, the strap of the schoolbag fell inexplicably, as if it contained something heavy and real.

The girl naturally noticed this. When she walked out of the classroom, the class bell rang, and there were no other classmates in the corridor. Xu Jiao counted the stairs and walked down, all the way to the open space outside the teaching building, opening her schoolbag, no As long as you need to turn it over, you can catch a glimpse of the familiar wood in the corner.

It was the wooden tablet that she deliberately landed on the bed in the morning and didn’t bring it out.

Xu Jiao: “…”

She pulled the book aside, stared at the dark tablet, and said suddenly: “Is that you who used the wicker to slap me just now?”

The rectangular wood was motionless, and I didn’t know if I didn’t want to interact with her, or couldn’t make any response.

Xu Jiao was not in a hurry. She stared at the piece of wood for a while, and stood in the middle of the road slowly and said, “The wood used for this tablet looks pretty good. It will burn for a long time when used as firewood?”

Tablet: “…!”

It quaked violently in Xu Jiao’s schoolbag, as if irritated by her words, and wanted to protest something.

Seeing that it could respond, Xu Jiao raised her eyebrows and did something strange to others. She whispered to the tablet and said, “Did you use the wicker to draw me just now? One shock is not just two shocks.”

The tablet position shook.

Xu Jiao got the answer. Seeing a student coming from a distance, the pace was hurried, as if she knew that the teacher was going to call her name temporarily, so she came from the dormitory. She didn’t look much at others, and only zipped up her schoolbag. , Re-carry the original owner’s backpack, and follow the location of the school infirmary in the memory.

When there was no one nearby, she patted the schoolbag slowly with her backhand, and whispered:

“Don’t come out with me next time.”

“You are so heavy, so tired to carry you.”

The tablet that was heavily disliked: “…”

…

“Xiao Xu…what are you, hiss, this… on your face?”

In the school doctor’s room.

Zhou Qili, who had just accompany Qian Ai to deal with her foot injury, just walked out and ran into Xu Jiao who was coming here. She was happy in her eyes, and then she saw the shocking line from her right cheek to her neck. wound.

Xu Jiao didn’t look like anything, but Zhou Qili didn’t know what she was thinking, her pupils shrank suddenly, and her whole body shuddered in this broad daylight, and her teeth shook together tremblingly, holding Xu Jiao’s hand to her Pulling to a more secluded place next to him, he looked left and right nervously, his throat moved, and then he said:

“Xu Jiao.”

“Yes, did we yesterday… yesterday afternoon…”

Perhaps the latter content can give people great fear. Zhou Qili couldn’t tell the pen-xian thing, as if she was afraid of being heard by some creature, and then gave her fear according to the script she gave.

Xu Jiao understood what she meant. She raised her hand with her other hand and patted her shoulder. She was not light or heavy, as if she was soothing. At the same time, she stared at Zhou Qili’s eyes and answered seriously:

“No.”

She said: “There will always be changes in people’s fortunes. It just happens that Ai Ai and I are relatively unlucky lately. Don’t think so much.”

If Zhou Qili and Qian Ai were not good to the original owner, Xu Jiao wouldn’t bother to calm their hearts, especially when speaking in a normal tone, the facial muscles were involved, which always made her feel the pain on her face more obvious.

Zhou Qili grabbed her hand and increased her strength uncontrollably. After Xu Jiao’s words fell, she shook her head and repeated: “No, no, you don’t know…”

“Ai Ai told me that she was not slippery at all. It was when she was going to the bathroom, something grabbed her foot and dragged her down. At the time, she called terrible, and it happened that my classmates and I were there. Outside, I heard rushing in and pulling her out…”

Zhou Qili’s voice was suppressed to the extreme with a little collapse, and she was afraid that she would speak too loudly to attract other people’s attention, but the fear of climbing up her back made her unable to contain the voice, as if the fears accumulated in the body were not. Find an outlet to vent, and she will be crushed to death by the emotions like this mountain.

Her nails were unconsciously pinched into the back of Xu Jiao’s hand, making Xu Jiao unable to help but look down. Before stopping, she heard Zhou Qili crying and asked in fear:

“First, you, now Ai Ai, is it my turn soon?”

“I shouldn’t drag you guys to play this game because of curiosity. In horror, people who usually attract ghosts will die. I’m still so young, and I haven’t been chasing after he yet. I don’t want to die…”

Xu Jiao wanted to console her again, but when she heard the latter part of her words, her expression changed to =. =

She held Zhou Qili away from the back of her hand expressionlessly, and then said casually: “Don’t worry, it won’t.”

With a pack of tears in her eyes, Zhou Qili asked her, “How do you know?”

Xu Jiao pulled her sleeves and led her to the medical treatment room where Qian Ai was, and replied casually: “Because there may be the protagonist who encounters ghosts. The routine of the protagonist group is not popular now. , We must he.”

Zhou Qili: “…?”

I don’t know why, after hearing Xu Jiao’s words like this, she somehow felt that she was less confused.

At this moment, Xu Jiao glanced back at her and saw that the obsessed little roommate was a little normal, and suddenly she felt a little funny. She couldn’t help wondering if there was such a thing as Zhou Qili among her readers in real life. Type of.

That is, “My life may not be sweet, but I must be happy and happy.”

After thinking about it, Xu Jiao added a more reliable consolation: “Don’t be afraid, even if there is something dirty, you must find me first, and you two will have nothing to do.”

Zhou Qili asked, “Why?”

A little coldness flashed in Xu Jiao’s eyes: “Because I plan to destroy it, and I am currently trying to stabilize their hatred value.”

Zhou Qili: “!”

I don’t know why, it sounds like a sentence full of death, but watching Xu Jiao’s expression at this moment, Zhou Qili’s heart actually rises with an inexplicable worship.

She was frightened and thought, is this the real Xueba? Good proficiency, can catch ghosts across different lines?

…

When Qian Ai saw Xu Jiao, he felt a sense of sorrow when he saw Xu Jiao.

Before she and Zhou Qili stayed together, both of them were filled with panic and dared not go to no one for a moment, so she just sat in this room for a long time, even if the doctor and nurse had already told her After doing this many times, there was no major problem with her foot, mainly a little bruise and excessive shock, and she didn’t even hurt her bones.

But Qian Aiquan couldn’t hear, cheeky, took out the phone and sat there, feeling the feeling of being surrounded by popular people, and finally suppressed the fear in my heart a little bit, regaining his thinking ability.

She remembered that she had relatives in this city, thinking about all sorts of weird things in the dormitory lately, Qian Ai dare not live in the dormitory anymore, and she was trying to be cute with her relatives, preparing to hide outside of school, trying to skip class and go to the temple. Put incense in the place where you are, and watch a few ceremonies to calm down.

After Xu Jiao came and applied some colorless ointment on her face, Qian Ai said this to her and Zhou Qili, and rustled in a low voice:

“Really, I heard that the temple outside the city is pretty good… We are hitting evil. Normal channels will definitely not work. We occasionally need a little faith.”

Xu Jiao looked at her, “Is Marxism-Leninism not good enough, or is the core socialist values ​​not long enough?”

Qian Ai: “…”

She was dumbfounded by Xu Jiao’s questions. She folded her hands and gave her a gesture of forgiveness: “Xu Xueba, you have also seen the tragic situation of our two days. What does it mean? It means that there are some things in Marxism-Leninism that are not within its jurisdiction, and there are specialties in the technical industry. We should leave this kind of work to specialized people.”

Zhou Qili was in a daze next to her: “Can you not engage in academic debates on this kind of thing?”

Qian Ai immediately turned back to the focus: “In a word, I feel that living in the dormitory is too evil. I want to live off campus temporarily. Will you follow me?”

Zhou Qili showed a little hesitation on her face. She had to say that in front of Xiao Ming, following her classmates to eat and drink with her relatives, this kind of stigmatization was no longer in her consideration.

She looked at Xu Jiao’s expression in anticipation, and whispered, “Xiao Xu…?”

Xu Jiao answered her calmly: “Go if you want. I will live in the dormitory.”

Zhou Qili took a breath and looked a little anxious. She wanted to persuade Xu Jiao to say something. When the words came to her lips, Xu Jiao had already raised her hand and made a stop gesture with them, and said lightly:

“I’m serious.”

“You can go out and live without any psychological burden. This is my choice, and I will bear the corresponding consequences—”

“Since the game is played by us, the death is also together, no matter what happens, we must be psychologically prepared.”

A few words suppressed both Zhou Qili and Qian Ai.

When they returned to the dormitory to pack up their things and leave, they looked at Xu Jiao with a strange worry and guilt in their eyes, as if they were sure that she would not have a good life in the future.

Out of inexplicable psychology, the two roommates took out the snacks they pressed at the bottom of the box, as well as the fresh fruit they just bought, and said to her: “Student, we are troublesome to take these away, and they will expire after a long time. Yes, you can eat them all if you have time.”

Xu Jiao looked at the table full of snacks dumbfoundedly, wondering whether they both made her die and be a ghost?

But she didn’t stop her, she just nodded at will. After the two of them left, she also left the dormitory, all the way to the direction outside the school, and walked to the bus stop.

Still carrying the old-fashioned, faded shoulder bag, the people in the car didn’t even look at her, so she went to one of the most famous local attractions.

…

At the end of spring and early summer, it was a good time to stroll around the garden. The breeze blew across the lake and caused waves of ripples. The sparkling light was blowing from above, and the sky was blue with the graceful and enchanting willows on the banks of the embankment. , The water is clear, the willows are green, the flowers are red, and there are beautiful scenery everywhere.

Xu Jiao squinted her eyes because of the wind. Instead of going to crowded places, she walked all the way along the river bank to those remote places. After avoiding tourists, she carried her schoolbag to the front and opened the zipper. Decided to make reasonable use of this piece of wood at hand.

“The willow branches by the river can fight ghosts, don’t you know?”

“Help me pick a useful tree, I just fold a small willow branch, hurry up.”

Wood remained motionless and ignored her.

Xu Jiao looked around and found that there was a piece of tamped soil under her feet, and there was a tall bush nearby, so she squatted down, fumbled in the middle of the schoolbag, found a lighter, and lit it with a click. At the corner of the tablet, innocently said: “What will happen if I shake my hands?”

Tablet: “!”

If it can talk, it will definitely scold Xu Jiao as being nasty, and it will only threaten what it is!

It trembled humiliatingly, trying to jump away from Xu Jiao’s hand and stay away from the fire. When Xu Jiao put away the lighter, it flew towards a nearby willow tree and lay there motionless.

Xu Jiao followed clearly, “This one is okay?”

…

It was noon when I returned to the dormitory.

Xu Jiao deliberately pulled the curtains up, but the lights did not turn on. Even if the windows can fall into the sun, now they are half-dark when the door is closed and the curtains are covered. There is a quiet atmosphere suitable for sleeping. It makes people feel a little bit cold.

After all, it is a dormitory building halfway up the mountain. The students in the dormitory can sleep under quilts in this room when summer is approaching, because the dormitory building is warm in winter and cool in summer. Now the cold in winter has not passed, and the heat outside is not enough. The cold air remained in the room.

Xu Jiao looked around the room and saw half-open cabinet doors, stacked boxes and the like, but she didn’t care about it. Instead, she walked straight to her bed and put her schoolbag in the bed, and the people followed suit. Lie in, so I closed my eyes to prepare for lunch break.

I do not know how long it has been.

A squiggly red suddenly appeared on the embroidered old-fashioned quilt. The red spread quickly, covering the entire quilt. When it reached the top, black and snow soon appeared again, which actually outlined a slender waist. The woman comes.

Obviously being crushed by someone, Xu Jiao in her sleep was not at all uncomfortable, as if she didn’t have much weight on her body, until the biting chill hit her near her face.

The person with closed eyes didn’t make much movement. Just when the woman in red was about to get down, she opened her eyes suddenly, and then, the man in the bed moved manually and was about to withdraw—

The woman in red clasped her wrist firmly through the quilt. She seemed to have the ability to penetrate objects, and she knew her plan all at once.

In the next moment, Xu Jiao suddenly felt that the person on her body had weight, which made her unable to move for an instant.

The other party leaned to her neck, making her unable to see her face clearly, and the cool breath aroused the goose bumps on her neck. She moved her lips and calmly said:

“who are you?”

The other party did not answer this question. The voice was like cold moss, spreading near the skin under her injured ear, low, with only two words:

“Burn me?”