The witch looks at her moves

Chapter 23 Moonlight
  Eleven years ago…

1998.

The spring breeze sweeps across the mountains and fields, and the sun shines on the earth.

On the fourth floor of Nantang Central Primary School, in the classroom of Class 2, Grade 4, two girls sitting in the third row were talking to each other.

"Xia Ru."

The girl at the same table called her name.

"what happened?"

Xia Ru was very small, with smooth bangs, and a white floral dress. Her delicate little face had no expression, which did not match her milky voice.

"I want to break up with you!"

"Oh."

Xiao Xiaru was not surprised, she asked: "Su Qingjia, what is your reason this time?"

"You didn't give me the English answers for the midterm exam, so I only got seventy-eight points." Su Qingjia wrinkled her lips, as if she had been greatly wronged.

"You can only get 78 points in the fourth-grade English test. What will you do in the future? Su Qingjia, you are so good at Chinese and mathematics, why did you fall behind in English? I think you should study hard. If you want to If you want to learn, I can teach you, but if you want to copy, you can't." Xia Ru persuaded her earnestly, as if she was a young adult.

"Why not? We are friends who have known each other since kindergarten!" Su Qingjia said: "And please don't speak in this tone. Do you think you are a teacher?"

"This has nothing to do with friendship, I mean..."

"Obviously! I want to break off our relationship with you!"

Su Qingjia turned her head away fiercely, rested her elbows on the table, held her chin in her hands, and her eyes were filled with angry fire.

Xia Ru wanted to say something, but finally didn't speak. They just sat quietly like this. Outside the window, the spring breeze blew a lot of late cherry blossom petals. It looked like falling snow. The primary school students shouted "It's snowing, it's snowing" and they rushed to lie down. Looking out the window, only Su Qingjia and Xia Ru were sitting on their seats, out of tune with all the hustle and bustle.

Xia Ru took out her homework book, picked up a pencil, and started working on the exercises seriously. She used the standard sitting posture for primary school students described at the back of the homework book, and all the spacing was just right.

After two classes of cold war, Xia Ru's arm was poked.

"Xiao Ru."

Su Qingjia opened her watery eyes and stared at Xia Ru pitifully: "Can you do me a favor?"

"I can't copy your homework for you. I copied it for you before because you said you could do it, but you were too lazy to waste time. I was deceived by you." Xia Ru said seriously.

"Shh - I'm not talking about this. After school, I have to do something big, and I hope you can accompany me." Su Qingjia said.

"What's the big deal?"

Xia Ru's doubts were answered after school. It turned out that Su Qingjia wanted her to accompany her to pick up her brother from school.

"Of course this is a big deal. Only adults can pick up children from school. If I go to pick up my younger brother from school, I am an adult." Su Qingjia said rationally.

"Su Qingjia, why are you in fourth grade and still so naive?" Xia Ru asked helplessly.

"You're childish. Are you taking your brother over from school?"

"I don't have a brother."

Walking through the scarred road, the fields on both sides are green. From here, you can see a corner of Nantang's famous Jiuxiang Mountain, with low cloud feet welding it to the sky. There is a gas station at the corner of the road. There is a small market with stalls not far from the gas station. An old man wearing sunglasses and sitting on the roadside with his hands folded and his sleeves folded, asking the little girl if she wanted to have her fortune told, has a sign that reads "Hemp Clothes Shenxiang". .

At the entrance of Nantang Kindergarten, Su Qingjia waited until Su Zhen finished school.

"Sister, why are you here...ah!"

"How is it? Is my brother cute?" Su Qingjia pinched Su Zhen's face and showed off to Xia Ru.

"General." Xia Ru responded.

Su Qingjia pursed her lips, and while correcting the crooked red star on Su Zhen's forehead, she introduced him: "This is my best friend, Xia Ru. Come on, call me sister Xia Ru."

Little Su Zhen was introverted. He raised his head timidly, then lowered it quickly, making a soft sound from the tip of his nose. Reluctantly, in order to show her authority in the family in front of Xia Ru, Su Qingjia insisted that Su Zhen call her sister. , Su Zhen was always very obedient to her sister, but finally couldn't resist her sister's teasing, and murmured:
  "Sister Xia Ru."

"My brother is so good." Su Qingjia touched Su Zhen's head.

Xia Ru put her hands on the shoulder straps of her schoolbag as usual. She looked at this little boy with a childish voice, and her heart was not disturbed.

"go home."

Xia Ru didn't like the noisy environment and wanted to leave early.

At this time, Su Qingjia suddenly turned around and said almost nonsensically: "Xia Ru, my brother calls you sister. If one day I am no longer here, you have to take good care of him for me."

"Why aren't you here?"

"Two days ago, our old man Li from Murakami died in a car accident. He used to often hang out in front of our house and praise himself for his strong health and that he had not been sick for more than ten years. You see, things are unpredictable, who can say for sure? "Su Qingjia took Xia Ru's arm like a baby.

"Even if you are gone, your parents will take good care of him." Xia Ru said rationally, unmoved.

"But he doesn't have a sister anymore." Su Qingjia said.

Xia Ru has excellent grades and is more rational and calm than her peers when encountering problems. However, she suddenly realizes that this quality seems a bit fragile in the face of a stalker. Therefore, Xia Ru's cold face rarely shines with the light of struggle. , she bit her delicate lips and said:

"Otherwise, I'd better copy English for you, right?"

"Hey, Xiaoru, I didn't expect you to be such a bottomless person!" Su Qingjia was furious.

"..."

Xiao Suzhen raised her head in confusion. She didn't quite understand what the two sisters were arguing about. She just muttered: "Sister will not be absent."

The music after school in the kindergarten was still playing melodiously. Girls and boys walked through the crowd and walked towards the tree-lined path leading to the countryside. The warm spring breeze blew in their faces, and the green weeds along the road were dotted with plum blossoms and plum blossoms. Moon orchids and rapeseed flowers, Su Qingjia held her head high and her red scarf was brightly illuminated.

Xia Ru lowered his head and kicked the stones on the roadside casually, thinking optimistically that at least he would have material for this week's diary.

Su Zhen tried hard to keep up with her sister. He knew nothing about everything and just wanted to keep up with her sister.

The three of them walked until they reached the old banyan tree before saying goodbye to each other.

The lens of memory zooms out.

The breeze is melodious and the clouds are rolling.

This scene on a quiet country road is nothing short of ordinary.

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"Do you remember it?"

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and a white horse passes by the window. Xia Ru describes the scene that happened that year, like picking up a small shell from the beach at low tide.

"It seems... I have some impression."

Yu Yue did not inherit Su Zhen's memory. She just pretended to prevaricate and asked, "So when you come back, do you plan to take care of me for your sister?"

"It's one of the goals." Xia Ru said.

"Is there any other purpose?"

As Yu Yue asked, she looked at Xia Ru unscrupulously. It had to be said that Xia Ru was eye-catchingly beautiful, with a thin waist and long legs that were bulging forward and backward. Her fashionable dress was even more impeccable, but her appearance seemed... It is just a foil for her temperament. She has an innate coldness, which is closer to desirelessness and indifference, rather than the pretentious coldness of many beauties.

Xia Ru ignored Yu Yue's frivolous gaze and did not answer her question. Instead, she looked at the nurse sister standing aside. The nurse sister was licking the melon seeds she had taken out from somewhere and listening to them with relish. Facing Xia Ru She looked a little guilty when she suddenly got up and looked at her:
  "I, I am observing the patient's condition."

Xia Ru said nothing.

After the nurse sister stood stubbornly for a while, she had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​listening to the gossip and left angrily.

Yu Yue thought for a while and asked, "Besides picking me up from school with my sister, are there no other interactions between us?"

"No more." Xia Ru replied.

"Then you come to me all the way here just because of my sister's, um... entrustment?" Yu Yue asked.

"Not entirely." Xia Ru said.

"Is there anything else?"

"Yeah, but I can't tell you now."

"why?"

"You have to prove to me first that you are a qualified younger brother." Xia Ru said.

"Where did I fail?" Yu Yue said angrily.

"Your English is not good enough."

Xia Ru said: "I have seen your transcript. Since the first monthly exam in the first year of high school, your English scores have been very poor, always hovering at the passing line. In last year's final exam, your English scores dropped even more." When you hit rock bottom, you can’t even score 80 points. If you continue taking the exam like this, you won’t be able to go to college in the future.”

"Sister Xia Ru, aren't you here to take care of me?" Yu Yue said aggrievedly.

"I take care of you for your sister, not you for her. I am your English teacher and I am responsible for your grades." Xia Ru said, "Also, I have no problem with you calling me sister outside, but inside In school, you must call me teacher." "Yes, Teacher Xia."

Yu Yue pursed her lips.

"Okay, I have something else to do. Take good care of yourself and wish you a speedy recovery."

Xia Ru stood up and left, then suddenly remembered something. She quickly wrote a note and tore it to him, saying: "By the way, I will tutor you in English on the weekend after you are discharged from the hospital. This is my mobile phone number and address." Choose one or the other, it’s your decision.”

"and many more."

When she walked to the door, Yu Yue suddenly spoke. Xia Ru stopped and turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Teacher Xia, is your favorite flower the white lily?" Yu Yue asked.

Xia Ru said nothing.

Yu Yue smiled as if to relieve her embarrassment and said: "I just think the teacher's temperament is very similar to Bai Lily, snow-white and holy."

"I heard from the head teacher that you are an introverted and low-key child. It seems that he was wrong." Xia Ru left.

Yu Yue was lying on the hospital bed, humming a little tune softly. When the nurse sister came in, she excitedly asked her what she had talked about with Teacher Xia. Yu Yue said that it was a secret and could not be shared. The nurse sister sneered and said, you What are you talking about? Your sister asked her to take care of you, not betrothed her to you.

Yu Yue stuck out her tongue.

Sunday.

Xia Ru didn't come to see her again. Yu Yue, who was bored, was flipping through the story books borrowed from the hospital with one hand. The clock was ticking, the sound of birds chirping outside the window came and went, and sometimes there was the cry of children, which never stopped. Like crying.

When the nurse sister walked into the ward while complaining, Yu Yue folded the corner of the book and put it aside.

"Why don't you watch it?" the nurse sister asked casually.

"A little sleepy." Yu Yue said.

"Didn't you just wake up?" The nurse sister was confused.

"It's just... I'm a little dizzy." Yu Yue said.

"Dizziness?"

The nurse sister didn't take it seriously, but when she turned her head, she found that the patient on the bed tilted his head, closed his eyes, and didn't know whether he was alive or dead. At first, she thought the high school student was joking with her again, and she was a little angry. She thought that this boy was getting more and more outrageous, so out of professionalism, she still went to take a look.

"Su Zhen, are you going to take the performance major in the future? Wake up quickly, stop pretending, hey, your English teacher is here to see you, open your eyes quickly... Su, Su Zhen?"

Su Zhen opened his eyes in confusion.

He looked at the nurse in front of him with a confused expression. The nurse sister was patting her chest and frowning, "I knew you did it on purpose. If you keep scaring people like this, I will transfer you to another hospital."

"Lu, Lu Qi?"

Su Zhen opened his eyes. His vision was completely white and he couldn't find the focus. He only saw a woman in white dangling in front of him. He spoke feebly and instinctively called out Lu Qi's name. His voice was chilling. of fear.

"Lu Qi? Who is Lu Qi?" The nurse sister frowned.

The smell of disinfectant in the ward wafted into his nose, stimulating Su Zhen to wake up slightly. He finally saw the woman in white in front of him clearly. It turned out to be a young nurse, not the evil woman with a hidden agenda and murderous people without blinking an eye.

He returned to this world again, and everything he had experienced before seemed like a dream.

"Hello." Su Zhen greeted softly, his body weak and breathless.

The nurse sister laughed angrily: "What kind of story is this? Just pretending to be dead, now pretending to have amnesia?"

"I……"

"You what?"

Su Zhen didn't know how to explain it. If he explained it clearly, he would probably be transferred to a mental hospital by the nurse sister. He had to say: "I, I have a headache and can't remember anything. What happened in the past two days?" Something?"

"Can't you remember? Can't you remember that ridiculously beautiful girl yesterday?" asked the nurse sister.

A pretty and outrageous girl... Shao Xiaoxiao has come to see me?

"Well, she also left you her contact information and made an appointment with you for an address so you can choose." The nurse sister added.

"Yes, really?"

Su Zhen picked up the note next to him and wondered if Shao Xiaoxiao actually took the initiative to ask him out. He put the note away and said, "Well, I have a little impression..."

The nurse sister sneered and said: "Yesterday you were so proud in front of me, but today you are pretending to be dumbfounded? And your tone of voice, why does it sound like you are a different person? You are really disrespecting your talent if you don't become an actor." When the time comes, you will become a big star. Don’t forget your sister’s kindness in taking care of you these two days.”

Su Zhen responded hesitantly, thinking: Yu Yue's personality is completely different from his own, and people around him will inevitably feel disconnected when they meet her.

I just hope that Yu Yue won't do anything outrageous and make it difficult for him to end it.

Strange to say, he was experiencing life and death in a strange world before, but in a blink of an eye he was in a peaceful and tidy ward. The autumn wind outside the window was blowing the fallen leaves, and everything was in order. This feeling is indescribable, just like walking in an endless mystery, like I am still awake from a dream.

Finally a peaceful environment for him to think.

Judging from the last scene he saw, Lu Qi should have expected everything early. She hid some extremely terrifying power. It was a power that even the Qingmao Tianzun and Dazhao Temple Arhat could not reach together. Before night fell, the great monk Already dead, other enemies are also doomed, especially Fenghua...

Seal flowers.

She was slaughtered by Lu Qi, and she served him devoutly for many years. When she inserted the blade into Lu Qi's body with forbearance and hatred, she did not get revenge, but fell into a designed conspiracy.

She walked from one black marsh to another.

The next time he saw her, this mutilated girl might have turned into a cold corpse. Thinking of this, Su Zhen felt deeply powerless.

Being unable to protect himself, he was unable to change this.

Seeing that Su Zhen was silent, the nurse sister thought that he was coming up with some weird idea again, "Okay, okay, don't be in a daze, otherwise I will think you have a brain burn..."

The nurse sister casually put her hand on his forehead. After a brief pause, she retracted her hand like lightning: "Why is it so permed?"

'Is it a fever? No wonder you're so dizzy'

Su Zhen also realized this belatedly. Soon, his vision went dark and he fainted again.

He had another dream, in which the whole world had magic, and the exam became a magic wand waving competition. When it was his turn to take the stage, his classmates all laughed at him, saying that this person was the only one who failed last time. Amidst the harsh ridicule, magic power surged in his body. Today, he is destined to shock everyone with his skills...

wake up.

It was evening when I woke up.

Su Zhen's high fever had subsided, and his only healthy hand was also given an intravenous drip. He stared at the ceiling dazedly, recalling the absurd dream just now, and couldn't help but laugh, thinking that this world is really cruel, not even a sweet dream. People are done.

He thought again of the miserable human lives in Miaoyan Palace, of the permeating poisonous fog and sand, of his seriously ill mother, of Lu Qi's demon-like back, and felt as if a piece of his heart had been cut out, feeling powerless and lost. Attacking again:
  "What's the point of living?"

This shocked the nurse sister: "Why is it boring? It's very interesting to go back to watch the show after get off work every day."

"Is it?"

"Of course. Aren't you a good student? Do good students also have so many worries?"

"A good student...?"

Su Zhen sighed, thinking that he really couldn't manage the image that Yu Yue had prepared for him.

When Su Zhen was in a low mood, there was a knock on the door, very soft and a bit timid.

The door that was not closed was carefully pushed open, and Pingting, a pretty girl, stood at the door. She was wearing a well-cut chiffon dress, revealing a small section of her thin white calves. On her feet were a pair of white flat canvas shoes. , she put her legs together, put her hands behind her back, leaned forward slightly, looked at the ward with kitten-like eyes, and asked softly:
  "Um...can I come in?"

"Shao Xiaoxiao?"

In that world, Nan Chang and Feng Hua were both star-level beauties, not to mention a peerless and enchanting fairy like Lu Qi. Su Zhen was also a person who had seen the world, but the moment Shao Xiaoxiao appeared in front of him, his heart Still stopped for half a beat.

It's like looking at the neon-lit night scene in a city with tall buildings. You think you've seen the most brilliant lights and shadows in the world, but when you wake up one night and open the window, you are suddenly shocked. There is nothing in front of you, only the bright white sky. The moonlight illuminated the balcony the color of frost.

"Come in, come in." Su Zhen was a little nervous.

Shao Xiaoxiao walked in lightly and silently. Although she deliberately covered it, she still exposed a pink petal, which looked like a carnation. The smell of disinfectant in the ward became thinner and a faint fragrance floated.

The nurse sister stood numbly on the spot. She looked at this somewhat reserved girl, and an idea flashed in her heart, and she asked, "Is she Lu Qi?"

"Lu Qi?"

Shao Xiaoxiao blinked blankly.

Su Zhen thought to herself, hadn't the nurse sister seen her yesterday? Why was she pretending to be stupid? Was she listening to his sleep talk and deliberately playing tricks on her?

"Well, sister nurse, I will ring the bell after the IV is finished." Su Zhen said quickly.

The nurse sister understood clearly. In this scene, she was indeed a bit redundant in the ward. She left wisely. Before leaving, she did not forget to say angrily: "Hey, what do you mean by living?"

　Thanks to the mysterious woman in white for the 5000 starting coins. Thanks to C1oud_ for the 500 starting coins. Thanks to book friend Jiao Hen for the 100 starting coins.

　　Thank you readers for your support~
  　　
  　
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