Mask

Chapter 2 The boy who should not be contacted (1)
1
three months ago.

At the end of summer, at five o'clock in the evening, it was raining.

The relocation banquet was organized by the neighbors nearby. To welcome the mother and daughter named Mo who had just moved to the residential area, the organizer was Xiuxiu's mother, the most enthusiastic in the community, and she set the venue in her living room.

Before the mother and daughter surnamed Mo arrived, a table of people were drinking tea and eating melon seeds, and said idlely: "Mother and daughter are very polite."

"That mother doesn't talk much."

"My daughter sounded comfortable speaking."

"What's your daughter's name?" Someone asked.

Xiuxiu's mother replied, "Yazi, his name is Mo Yazi."

"Japanese name?" asked in a low voice from the next table.

"Her father is Japanese, and her mother is from here." Xiuxiu's mother smiled slightly, her small eyes narrowed into a line, "We'll ask them later when they come."

Little Xiuxiu, who was less than six years old, was running around in the living room, crushing the sound of the heavy rain outside under the soles of her red leather shoes, and Xiuxiu's brother grabbed her by the collar.

"Xiu Kai!" Xiu Xiu's mother glanced at them, "Let go of my sister, go upstairs and change the school uniform!"

Xiuxiu's brother went upstairs nonchalantly, pulling on his tie as he walked, his baggy school uniform trousers dragging under the heels of his shoes, making the floor clatter loudly.The downstairs neighbor was salty and tongue-tied. He took out his cell phone from his trouser pocket and sent a text message to his little girlfriend: "My mother lost her nerve and set up a broken table to please the neighbor next door."

In the living room, someone asked: "Xiukai will enter school this year, right?"

"Correct."

"Which school do you want to go to?"

It's okay not to ask, but when I asked, Xiuxiu's mother showed a regretful expression: "I didn't pass the final exam, so I can only go to ordinary schools in the future."

"Oh……"

"I originally wanted Xiukai to take the exam, but this school has a particularly high admission score this year. Think about it and forget about other schools."

"Grey is a key school."

"Yes!" Xiuxiu's mother nodded in agreement.

Upstairs, Xiu Kai received a reply from her little girlfriend: "Is the neighbor next door male or female?"

His fingers quickly tapped on the screen: "Mother and daughter."

Just as the text message was sent, there was a soft knock on the door in the living room downstairs.The adults were chatting hotly but didn't hear, he leaned down impatiently and shouted: "Mom, someone is knocking on the door!"

Xiuxiu's mother hurriedly got up and went to the gate, everyone gradually quieted down, and looked at the door leisurely and philistinely.

The little girlfriend's text message quickly replied: "Ah... girl..."

Xiu Kai bowed her head and typed: "I assure you that you are ugly."

As soon as the door was opened, the chilly wind and rain in late summer poured into the living room.Xiukai sniffed and smelled it, and smelled the fragrance of jasmine, he poked his head out of the stairs and looked down.

When Mo Yazi entered, he was holding a pot of jasmine in season.

She was as white as this jasmine, and her clothes were as wet as this potted plant.Xiuxiu's mother welcomed her in politely, she slowly changed her shoes, then walked into the living room with the potted plant, raised her head slightly when she walked to the third step, her gaze quietly met Xiukai who was poking around on the stairs.

She was tall and thin, with wet bangs on her forehead, and her eyes under the eyelashes were indifferent and gentle.She looked at him as if she was looking at a brother who was 10 years younger than her, but she was only three or four years older than him.She was breathing, Xiukai was also breathing, their chests rose and fell slightly.Then, she looked away, as if she had never seen him before.

Xiukai sat down leaning against the railing, and cleared the unsent text messages word by word.

The downstairs was very lively, Xiuxiu's mother brought Mo Yazi to the round table to introduce to the neighbors, and Masako put the potted jasmine on the table.

She said: "There are a lot of plants at home, and my uncles and aunts will all go to the yard to get a pot later."

The voice was rustling, and it was very comfortable to hear.

After everyone agreed, Xiuxiu's mother asked, "Why doesn't your mother come?"

She said: "She has a cold, and it is not suitable to come to crowded places."

"Oh……"

Xiukai moved down a few steps, and when he lowered his head, he could see the living room. The person who texted was changed from his girlfriend to his closest buddy, and he tapped his fingers quickly: "My neighbor next door is definitely right!"

Masako said: "Thank you auntie for the hospitality, but I can't eat dinner. I have a part-time job that I just successfully applied for, so..."

"It's okay." Xiuxiu's mother understood the meaning and asked, "Are you still studying? Why are you starting to work now?"

"I'm still studying."

"which school?"

"Changing schools, not sure."

"What school do you want to go to?" Halfway through the question, Xiuxiu's mother added, "It's a bit troublesome to change schools. You need to find a school that matches your grades, otherwise the level of education will be far behind, and it will be thankless."

"So I switch to Gray."

After Mo Yazi finished speaking, the table was silent for half a second. Xiuxiu's mother looked at her. She was looking down at the jasmine petals, her tone and expression on her face were calm.

"Masako's grades are so good, what school did she go to?"

"Mei Lan."

Mei Lan, a key school in the neighboring district.

"Xiukai!" Xiuxiu's mother immediately raised her head and patted Masako's shoulder with her right hand, "Masako, come to our house to play more often, to make up lessons for Xiukai, and Auntie will cook delicious food for you!"

Xiukai went downstairs and was ordered by Xiuxiu's mother: "Call my sister."

"Mom..." He was reluctant.

"Auntie." Masako took a step back, "Let's discuss making up lessons later. When the time is up, I have to go first."

"Oh, OK!"

In just 5 minutes, the meeting with the new neighbors ended. A table of people watched her leave, and Xiukai watched her change shoes at the gate intently.After changing her shoes, she stretched out her hand to open the door, and the cool wind outside the door raised her long black hair with a "huh".

"By the way, there is one more thing to say in advance." She grabbed the doorknob and looked back at the people in the room. "Sometimes my mother doesn't like to meet people or say hello."

"She has mental problems."

"So when there is any abnormal noise in our house, please help me... call the police."

2
At [-]:[-], at dusk, the rain weakened.

Masako closed the door, isolating the shock and breathlessness of the whole room.She picked up the umbrella in the corner and opened it, reaching out to brush her long wet hair behind her ears.

Half an hour later, she held an umbrella and arrived at the pizzeria in the food street in the city center.

After changing into the store clothes, I just picked up work. The team leader ran into her as soon as he returned to the counter and asked loudly, "There are a lot of customers tonight, so I have to leave work half an hour late. Are you two okay?"

The team leader asked two people, one was her, and the other was a girl who bowed her head in front of the counter to keep accounts.The girl quickly put away the account book, raised her head and smiled apologetically: "No problem."

The girl is slightly fat. Although her hair is straightened, the broken hair on the forehead is still curled together. There are a few pimples on the tip of her round nose. She is the same age as Masako, but she is not familiar with Masako.

"Mo Yazi, what about you?"

"I'm OK."

"Okay, let's get busy!"

As soon as the team leader left, the girl put the ledger on the table and wrote quickly. The pen was decorated with a chain that jingled with her movements.

As Masako approached, she could see clearly that the hanging chain was a small ceramic bear with a bell on it, and she could also see clearly that she was writing the amount of salary received this week.

"Do you often work?"

The girl was disturbed, glanced at her sideways, and continued writing.

"Are you Grai's student?" Masako put her hands on the counter and asked softly.

The tip of the pen on the paper stopped suddenly, and the girl looked at her again, with a layer of sweat on her forehead.

"How do you know? You are also from our school? Do you know me?"

"I just saw a Grai uniform in the locker room. Thinking about it, the only girls of my age here are you and me, so I guess it's you."

"Oh..." She looked worried, "You just came here to do it today?"

"I've been working for a week, and there are too many customers today, so I was called by the team leader to help. Usually I work the day shift, and you work the night shift."

"Oh."

The girl put away the pen and account book and stuffed them into her pocket, and was about to leave when Masako called her again: "Lu Jianer."

She stopped three steps away from the counter, and before asking, Masako said, "You still have a school badge on your school uniform, so I know your name."

"What are you going to do?"

It seems that she is an overly sensitive girl, and after being told some personal information by Masako, she can't help becoming vigilant.Her chubby back was straight, her naturally curly hair stuck to the back of her sweaty neck, and she looked nervous.

"It's nothing." Masako said, "I may soon be your classmate."

The sound of the rain outside the glass wall became louder again, Lu Jianer looked at her, and she smiled at Lu Jianer.

"My name is Mo Yazi."

3
The next day, it was raining and sunny.

Class [-], Grade [-], Grace High School, the atmosphere is lively, with students laughing and clamoring.Before the preparatory bell was played, when Lu Jianer was concentrating on keeping accounts, the head teacher came in.

The leaves outside the window rustled with the wind, and the noise in the class calmed down a little. The students who were still full of enthusiasm looked up, and there was a girl behind the head teacher.

"Who is it?" asked the student behind him.

"I don't know." Jane replied.

The head teacher put the courseware on the podium, opened the teacup and took a sip of water. After chewing all the tea leaves, he said the first sentence: "She is Mo Yazi from Mei Lan."

The pen in her hand scratched crookedly on the paper with a "hiss", and Lu Jian'er raised her head in surprise.

"Mo Yazi moved here with her family two weeks ago. She was busy going through the formalities earlier, so she delayed getting to know everyone until now. She will continue her studies in our Grai from now on. Everyone has to take care of her new classmates, understand?" The head teacher said.

"It's clear...it's clear!" There were sporadic responses from the audience, and some boys booed excitedly, their voices so loud that they caught people's attention.

It's Yang Xin.

Jian Er saw that Yang Xin, who was sitting in the last row, was excitedly discussing with the brothers next to him, while talking, he glanced at the girls on the stage, grinning as if he had been pumped.

"Hey, hey...Yang Xin, this guy..." There were whispers around.

He heard, threw an eraser at the talking girls, provoking a murmur of complaint, and he looked at them with a playful smile.

Jian'er withdrew her gaze and continued to look at Mo Yazi.She was standing quietly with her back against the blackboard, her bag in both hands, her straight black hair hanging down to her elbows.She seemed to have seen Lu Jian'er too, but she didn't speak, and only listened to the teacher's speech.

"Yu Qi." The class teacher called the roll, and the boys sitting in the first row stood up in response.

Yu Qi is the class monitor, wearing glasses, not tall, but delicate and gentle.

"This is Yu Qi, the monitor of our class. You can ask him about many things."

Yu Qi glanced at Masako, who nodded slightly.

"Her hair quality is really good." The girl in the back row spoke.

But Lu Jian'er pinched the pen more and more tightly. The class teacher said on the podium how excellent Mo Yazi was, and said how much he hoped that the whole class would learn more from her. Xin excitedly pushed his brother: "She is my favorite!"

When the class bell rang, the class teacher asked Masako where she wanted to sit, and Masako said, "Sit there."

Then, her seat was arranged next to Lu Jian'er.

She didn't talk to Lu Jian'er at first, but just sorted out her textbooks in an orderly manner.The two didn't communicate for a whole class. When the class was over, Lu Jian'er handed her a note, which read: "Don't tell others that I work in a pizzeria."

Masako did not respond after receiving the note, so when the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Lu Jianer reluctantly handed her the second note: "Grey does not allow students to work outside."

"What will happen if you know?" She asked lightly.

Lu Jian'er was a little nervous when she suddenly spoke, so she quickly wrote on the paper: "At least the school will call the parents."

But as soon as the note was passed on, it was taken away by a third party unexpectedly.

Lu Jianer trembled in shock, the sunlight outside the window was blocked, and the condescending girl leaned on the table to look at the words on the note.

Lu Jian'er saw that it was her, and stuttered: "What, what?"

"So you're working part-time." The girl sat lazily on the edge of Lu Jian'er's chair, but Lu Jian'er had no choice but to move aside, forcing half of the seat to be vacated for her.The two sat on the same seat, they looked like close friends, but one was arrogant, and the other was flushed.

"Lu Jian'er in our class is working part-time without telling the school." She repeated.

"I have no money……."

"Working part-time in a pizzeria, how about a thousand a month?" She raised her chin with a smile, "Look at you, the pimples are all on the tip of your nose, can I buy you a box of acne cream? It will be reimbursed." Just give me the money first."

This girl was tall and thin, with a mean appearance, one hand rested on Lu Jian'er's shoulder, and the other hand scratched her chin with her bright nails.There were some friends of this girl standing around the table, they blocked the sunlight coming in from the window, opened their hands to Lu Jianer, and looked at her with a smile.

Masako tidied up her books calmly, while Lu Jianer beside her started to move.She heard Lu Jianer's rapid breathing and the ding-ding-dong-dong sound when she put her hand into her schoolbag. Masako was attracted by the sound, and looked sideways. It was the little ceramic bear that was hung on Lu Jianer's schoolbag in a different place. On the zipper, blushing and smiling.

Lu Jian'er's face was also flushed, but she was blushing, full of grievances.

"Yishaling."

The girl looked over upon hearing the sound, and asked in surprise, "Xinsheng, how do you know my name?"

Masako put the pen into the pencil case: "You didn't do very well in the mock exam last month."

"what?"

"English is a two-digit number starting with 3, Chinese is 1 point away from the passing line, and mathematics..."

"Hello!" Yi Xialing roared nervously, and stood up abruptly. The girls around the desk shrugged and glanced at each other.

The whole class fell silent at once, and the students looked this way one after another, except Yu Qi, who was sitting in the first row, was still buried in the sea of ​​questions.

Lu Jian'er also looked at Masako in a daze.

Masako looked very calm, she arranged the books as if nothing had happened, and let Yi Xialing walk to her desk and slap the table with a "slap".

"Aren't you meddling in your own business? Do you want to make it difficult for me? Who are you?"

She finally tidied up all the books, raised her head, and looked directly at Yi Xialing.

"I still remember your results in the three subjects of chemical biology."

Yi Xialing glared at her fiercely, then stopped and left.

After the vassal girls looked at each other for a few times, they all left resentfully. As soon as they walked away, Yang Xin jumped out and shouted: "Yixaling, I tell you, be more polite to Masako next time!"

Someone shouted in a low voice: "Yixaling is back."

Yang Xin stopped talking immediately, and was about to slip away when the man laughed out loud as a prank, and he realized that he slapped his hand heavily on the table.

4
"Mo Yazi, how do you know her grades?" After the classroom fell silent, Lu Jianer asked in a low voice.

"I saw it when I went to report to the office."

Masako looked at her, and as soon as Lu Jianer met her eyes, her face blushed again: "Thank you for helping me."

"Then we can be friends."

"Huh?" Lu Jian'er shrugged, "I'm not very well."

"It's ok."

"The grades are always lagging behind, and I don't look good."

"it does not matter."

"Why?" she asked, "You have no friends?"

"I'm a freshman, and I'm new to my surroundings, and I think you're easy to get along with."

"Uh……"

"Boom-thump-thump-"

The class bell rang, and the topic was forced to pause.

This class is a math class, the teacher came early, stood in the center of the podium with the handouts in his hands, turned on the computer and played the exercises for the students to do.

But Lu Jian'er is really slow in mathematics, biting the tip of the ballpoint pen and thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't write a number in the book, but at this time the teacher said: "Students who have done well, tell me the answer, and the way of solving the problem, too. , Lu Jianer's first question."

She froze in her seat.

"Lu Jian'er, are you ready? The first question is very simple." The teacher put one hand on the podium, although his tone was gentle, but there was a hint of contempt.

——Because Lu Jianer is a poor student.

The electric fan on the ceiling was turning creakingly, and the students were lying on the table or staring at the blackboard absentmindedly.Lu Jianer held the math book and stared at the formula above, holding back for a long time without uttering a word, and the teacher didn't have any intention of telling her to sit down or ask others to answer.

Until she felt a little strange in her hand, Jian'er hesitated and turned her head carefully, and saw Mo Yazi handing a small note with answers and ideas to her hand.

Those words were very delicate, like a clear spring in the desert, pulling Lu Jian'er back to the brink of dying, she took advantage of the teacher not paying attention, put the note into the book and started to read.

"Very well, sit down. Yang Xin, the second question."

"Thank you."

Lu Jian'er took a breath, wrote these two words on the note and passed it back.

Mo Yazi was still looking at the question seriously, she was doing the last question.Lu Jian'er knew that the teacher's last questions were usually difficult questions, so she kindly reminded: "If you can't do it, don't do it. This kind of thinking question is very difficult, and the teacher will give you the answer..."

"The last question, Yu Qi." As soon as she finished speaking, the teacher called Yu Qi, and when she looked at Yu Qi, her eyes showed approval.

Standing up at the sound of praying, he picked up his notebook and began to answer the questions.He spoke very fluently and gave a reasonable answer at the end, but the teacher just smiled and nodded for him to sit down.

"Hey, your answer is different from Yu Qi's..." Lu Jian'er moved her head closer at some point, and just in time to find out, she spoke out.

The voice quickly spread to the podium, and the teacher turned his attention: "Mo Yazi, do you have a different answer?"

Yu Qi turned her head to look at her, Lu Jianer retracted her neck, and the students in the class also looked over one after another.

Yang Xin and a group of his brothers looked at her excitedly holding their chins.

Yi Xialing put one hand on the desk at the back table and looked at her coldly.

In the eyes of everyone, Masako replied lightly: "My answer is wrong."

As if it was beyond the expectation of the whole class, someone "puchi" laughed, and the voice came from Yi Xialing.

after class.

"The teacher said the answer just now, you are correct, why didn't you say it?"

"I don't want to fight against the monitor just yet."

Hearing this answer, and seeing Masako nonchalantly reading the notes, Lu Jianer glanced at Yu Qi.Sure enough, Yu Qi always looked in their direction, so she patted Masako on the shoulder to comfort her: "It doesn't matter, no one in our class is afraid of him. He just studies well, and he doesn't put on airs as a class leader. He is very honest. Not like his sister."

"His sister?" Masako asked.

Lu Jian'er leaned close to her ear, brought her hands to her mouth, and after completing the standard small talk movement, she went to the topic in a low voice: "His sister is out of water..."

"Is it from our school?"

"Well, our school is in Class [-], Grade [-]. The students in that class are very unique, and it is the most famous class in our school."

"I see." She nodded and smiled.

"why are you laughing?"

"Your attitude towards me and the way you speak seem to be the same as yesterday..." She looked at Lu Jian'er, "It's different."

After school.

pizzeria.

"Because you are the first person to confront that college scum in our class, Yi Xialing, and you didn't take the opportunity to blackmail me. You are so smart and gentle. I just found a treasure."

The pizzeria was very noisy, and there were many passers-by outside the glass walls. Lu Jianer chatted with Masako at the counter when she was free.

"College scum?"

"Yeah, I don't even know how she got into Grai. I got in at the end of a crane anyway, but her grades were worse than mine, and she was so exaggerated that she spoiled many girls in our class." .”

Although Lu Jianer is a cautious girl, she is easy to get acquainted with when she really gets along.Masako helped her, and she immediately opened up to Masako, and the relationship between the two got closer and got along very well.

(End of this chapter)