Mask

Chapter 21 The Burning Ice Cube (1)
1
Monday morning was filled with the exhaustion of the students returning from the weekend, and the commotion in the student union reached a commanding height during the lunch break.

The once popular "Rolling in the deep" was played on the school radio, and the girl holding the folder walked in the front, followed by two rows of cadres.They passed through the corridor all the way, there was a huge battle, the skirts swayed, and the students around stood aside, whispering.Their footsteps are busy but not chaotic, and there are faint smiles on the corners of their mouths.

The venue for the selection meeting of the student union cadres was chosen in a spacious lecture hall with bright sunlight from the floor-to-ceiling windows.Masako pulled the curtains and walked step by step, the daylight faded away bit by bit, and the classroom became darker bit by bit.The penetrating voice filled the empty classroom. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the darkness without a smile on her lips.

In the long aisle, Concubine Huangfu walked slowly with her arms folded. She was wearing a blue shawl, and her black hair hung down to her neck, swaying slightly with the diamond earrings.

At the gate of each class, there are one or two students walking in the same direction.

The lecture theater is getting darker and darker, the curtains are creaking, the footsteps of the girls' team are getting closer, and the melody of this song is getting more and more passionate.

In the corridor of Class [-], Grade [-], An Qiyan stood leaning against the balcony, his long hair flying in the wind.

In the noisy classroom, Wan Ye stood on the desk making noise, Duan Yousi lowered his head and folded the blue frosted paper in two.

He leaned against the window sill, has been very quiet, quiet so far.

Masako stopped.

The classroom was completely immersed in darkness.

She turned around and pulled the corner of the curtain—

"Wow!"

It was bright, the sun was dazzling, and Yu Qi on the stage squinted his eyes.Masako turned around and looked at everyone in the classroom who was bathed in sunshine.

The radio has stopped playing.

Concubine Huangfu sat at the end of the classroom, resting her chin with one hand, looking at Masako calmly.

The student cadres came to the stage one by one and put the folded paper on the podium.

"Mo Yazi...Wei Ru...Wei Ru...Mo Yazi...Wei Ru..." Every time Yu Qi unfolded a piece of paper and read the name, someone would draw the word "正" on the blackboard.

Although Wei Ru's grades are lower than Masako's, she is still a veteran cadre in the club after all. She is good at everything and has good connections, so Masako seems to be a bit uneasy about her victory.

The scores on the blackboard were tied, and the competition was fierce.

"Mo Yazi." When Masako was about to walk back to her seat, the girl in the front row stopped her.

When she looked over, the girl's pen was spinning between her fingers, her eyes were bright and energetic, and the two rows of girls sitting behind her had long hair and high bundles, all of them looked at Masako expressionlessly, and their movements were consistent as if they had been trained generally.

"If you join the student union, I'll treat you." The girl said with a smile, and made a look at the person beside her. The girl wearing glasses next to her immediately handed the ticket she had just written to Masako.

Masako's eyes fell on the nameplate in front of the girl's desk——

Guan Xinyu, head of the Propaganda Department.

"Sister, please advise me." Masako nodded.

Then took the vote from her assistant.The assistant looked at Masako, and quickly and cautiously retracted when her eyes met. Masako then recognized that she was the girl who handed in homework to Concubine Huangfu at the door of the classroom last time.

The girl smiled at her embarrassingly, as if she had such a humble attitude towards everyone.

In the last row of the classroom, Concubine Huangfu was slowly stacking dominoes on the table. Her hands were slender and flexible, and she focused on stacking the cards, as if she had no interest in everything ahead.

Yu Qi took Guan Xinyu's vote from Masako's hand, took a look at it, and then said to the classmates behind him, "Mo Yazi."

The voting continued, and the time passed by every minute. The papers were unfolded one by one and closed one by one.

Wei Ru...Mo Yazi...Mo Yazi...Wei Ru...Mo Yazi...

In the classroom of Class [-], Grade [-], Duan Yousi kept his head down and folded the paper. No matter how noisy the surroundings were, he remained indifferent, and his techniques were skillful and delicate.

The last vote came from Cheng Yue, Minister of Discipline. She was the last one to arrive.Yu Qi handed her the paper, she pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, looked at the blackboard, and wrote down a name according to the above.

Wei Ru in the front row grabbed the hand of her friend beside her with a nervous expression.Masako knew that although this Cheng Yue didn't know Masako, she was also unfamiliar with Wei Ru, which made her so uneasy who always boasted that she had excellent connections.

"There's suspense..." Guan Xinyu said with a smile while holding her chin.

After Yu Qi took the vote, he unfolded it slowly, lowered his head to look at the names on the paper, and raised his head to glance at the audience.

This action heightened the tense atmosphere and made Wei Ru almost cry.

Huangfu and his concubine crossed their legs, Guan Xinyu folded his arms, all the cadres quietly waited for the result, the sunlight was cold.

"Mo Yazi." Finally, Yu Qi said.

At the end of the lunch break, the bell rang loudly. In the classroom of Class [-], Grade [-], Duan Yousi's blue paper crane stood quietly on the windowsill.He sat back in his seat, lowered his head and opened a can of Coke. With a "hiss", the bubbles rose.

2
After school that day, Masako was invited by Guan Xinyu to celebrate at a KTV box near the school in the name of a "welcome party", and the backbone of the entire student union was accompanying her.

She didn't say hello before she came. As soon as the school bell rang and Masako was still packing her schoolbag, she appeared at the door of the classroom and waved in Masako's direction.

Masako got up and walked towards her, the girl wearing glasses was still following behind her, helping her carry her schoolbag, as if they were inseparable.

Masako said hello to her.

"The student union hasn't had any fresh blood for a long time. Everyone is very curious about you. We have a small party after school today, and we organized it for you. Everyone is a model cadre, and you can't go to a place that is too public. "James" on the pedestrian street, you Let's meet, I booked a big box there, see you then, Mo Yazi."

Guan Xinyu spoke extremely fast, and after she finished speaking like a cannonball, she turned her head and glanced at the girl behind her.

The girl hurriedly hugged the schoolbag in her arms, and smiled awkwardly at Masako: "Hello, if you don't know him, just tell me, and I can take you there!"

"Okay, see you over there." Guan Xinyu tilted her head and looked at Yu Qi in the classroom, "President, remember to come!"

Yu Qi should have been notified in advance, and nodded without looking up.

After Guan Xinyu took a look at Masako, she turned around and left happily, without giving Masako time to refuse or even think about it.

By the time they walked out of the campus, it was already dark, and the students had already added cardigans to their uniforms.The girl wearing glasses called herself Wu Xiaomei, and followed Masako attentively, always asking her what she needed.

Lu Jian'er pulled La Yazi's arm, leaned into her ear and whispered: "I heard that there are many maid-like students in the student union before, but I still don't believe it. Now it seems that this Wu Xiaomei is just right. I became a servant myself..."

Masako frowned after listening, but did not express her opinion.

Under the leadership of Wu Xiaomei, they came to "Zhan Shi". Because Lu Jian'er was afraid of the pressure of contacting the model students, she waved goodbye to Masako and left.Masako finally had time to be alone with Wu Xiaomei, and just as she took a step, she stopped her: "Sister."

"Huh?" Wu Xiaomei immediately pricked up her ears.

"You have a good relationship with those ministers?"

"Uh..." She shrugged with a hint of embarrassment in her answer, "That's right, we are classmates!"

The voice was so hearty that it seemed that it was eager to prove the truth of this sentence.

Masako nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

The mirror on the passageway of the KTV corridor reflected many figures. Masako felt a little uneasy, and took a deep breath while stroking her arms.Wu Xiaomei noticed her discomfort and was about to speak when she happened to see a figure walking out of the box, and changed the subject: "Here we are, it's that box!"

Masako looked up, the light here was too dim, so that when she saw An Qiyan's silhouette, her first instinct was that she was dazzled.

But that's right, it was indeed An Qiyan.

Guan Xinyu walked beside An Qiyan, the two were talking and laughing, and they were handing a leather bag.Seeing Masako, Guan Xinyu immediately greeted her, and An Qiyan's mouth curled up slightly, and she handed the cowhide bag to Guan Xinyu's hand and walked back to the box.

Then came out Yu Wenyi, the two of them stood there, looking at Masako at the same time, the aura inevitably made people feel dizzy.

The bright bathroom wall is covered with mirrors of various shapes, making the whole space mysterious and hidden.There was no way for Masako to retreat, and when she reached the edge of the washstand, Guan Xinyu finally got to the point and put the cowhide bag on the countertop.

She took out a lipstick from inside and waved it in front of Masako: "We will give you a new look."

Masako frowned and wanted to leave, but was held back by Guan Xinyu. She said she didn't need it, but Guan Xinyu took out a black suspender and fringed skirt with very little fabric out of the leather bag in a nonchalant way, and expressed interest. Comparing in front of Masako very well, he said, "It really fits well!"

"I don't want to wear it."

"It's fine, Mo Yazi." But Yu Wenyi's mentality was obviously not that good, "Put it on if you tell me to, why talk so much!"

Guan Xinyu quickly grabbed Yu Wenyi's hand, she shifted her target, and stretched out her hand to lift the long hair on the side of Masako's face: "Then put on makeup first."

Masako also shook her head, the meaning of rejection was very clear.

"What a stubborn little white rabbit." Guan Xinyu was in a great mood, and while talking with a smile, she grabbed Masako's hand without a trace, "You know, Mo Yazi, you are the protagonist of the party this time, If you don’t dress up brightly, how can you let other cadres remember you? We are helping you, and there is always a lack of water, and the boys are going to run away.” At the end, I added another sentence, “Not every boy likes Pure type."

"Tsk tsk!"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a mocking sound at the door, Yu Wenyi followed the prestige and looked, Huangfu and Yifei, who was wearing a bright silk apron, leaned on the doorframe with arms folded, leisurely and contented like watching a play.

"One concubine, what a coincidence." Guan Xinyu restrained her movements, she lowered her head and patted the powder cake on the back of her hand.

"I said who was it that I saw outside the door just now." With a laziness in her voice, Concubine Huangfu walked in step by step and looked at Masako, "It turns out that the protagonist was invited here by you."

"Why, are you interested?" Guan Xinyu began to spread out all kinds of cosmetics, her tone neither flattering nor evasive.

"I'm very interested." Huangfu Yifei propped one hand on the edge of the stage, pointed at Masako with her chin, "I know what you are going to do, leave it to me."

Yu Wenyi stared at Huangfu Yifei's face, Guan Xinyu threw up the powder cake and caught it again, and said with a smile: "Why?"

The concubine Huangfu approached Guan Xinyu unhurriedly, and the high and low mirrors on the wall showed multiple images. She spoke in a casual tone, but glanced at the two of them with eyes that knew everything: "Youth is here, he is looking for And you."

She didn't say who she was looking for, but with a few words and a name, the expressions of Guan Xinyu and Yu Wenyi changed subtly.

Afterwards, Yu Wenyi said "I'll go and see Qiyan" and left the bathroom, while Guan Xinyu also glanced at Masako and walked out without saying a word.

It was quiet.

Masako was tired, she put her arms on the edge of the stage, she was lucky to survive the catastrophe, but she couldn't relax in her heart.

"You lied to them."

After three or four seconds of silence, Huangfu and Concubine Huangfu said this.

Masako raised her head.

"The last sentence is to lie to them." She added, laughing, "The girls around An Qiyan are more or less interested in that guy, as long as he takes a step towards them, they will be able to love him." Take a hundred steps, believe it or not?"

She smiled forcedly.

"Actually, he doesn't like girls' makeup very much." Huangfu Yifei picked up the powder box and opened it, "An Qiyan knows this very well, so she wants to overturn your previous image. I dare not say whether she knows about you and you. Yoss, but the move was smart and prescient, just a bit clumsy in the process."

After speaking, she handed the powder to Masako.

Masako blocked her hand hesitantly.

"What An Qiyan wants to do will be done sooner or later, why don't I personally come to help you, it's better than those girls who are like wolves and tigers?" Huangfu and the first concubine joked, and took a closer look at Masako's face, "Actually, your foundation is very good, and you have more temperament than those girls. Putting on makeup will only make you more perfect, and there will be no mistakes. Trust me."

After hearing her comfort, Masako slowly withdrew her hand, and the powder lightly splashed on her face, she lowered her eyes, her mind wandering.

The private room was extremely lively, An Qiyan saw Guan Xinyu and Yu Wenyi walking through the door, walked around the crowd, and asked, "Why so fast?"

"I met Huangfu." Yu Wenyi responded, her eyes swept across the audience.

"Huangfu and concubine?"

"Have you got your lip balm?"

"It's in the bag." An Qiyan was in a bad mood, and pointed to the venue, "The bag is on the sofa, Yoss is here, he finally promised me to come over, you should be careful with what you say."

"Okay..." Yu Wenyi's expression brightened a little.

In the long corridor, Huangfu Yifei held Masako's hand, and her slender high-heeled shoes stepped on the smooth floor, crisp and leisurely.

"Masako, remember, Yoss wouldn't have come to this party in the first place. The reason why he came was to make peace with An Qi for you. Otherwise, you would be easily isolated in the student union. Then you will do whatever An Qi says. You have to do it, he won't let her ask too much, so no matter what, just this once, you have to listen to her, you know?"

Masako put her hands in front of her body and nodded silently.

Concubine Huangfu opened the door of the box, looked back at Masako's face, and said, "One last thing, you really suit this makeup."

At the same time, the door of the box opened, and the concubine Huangfu dragged her into the noise. Xu Yitian who was on the sofa was the first to see her and stood up blankly.

"Papa!" Huangfu Yifei clapped her hands.

Everyone's attention was attracted, including Yu Qi, Guan Xinyu, Yu Wenyi, An Qiyan... Most people first wondered who the girl behind her was, and said " When the words "Mo Yazi" came out, there was an undisguised sound of exclamation and sighs.

Masako is very beautiful, this kind of beauty is not only the usual plain beauty, but also the sudden, mysterious and amazing beauty at this moment.

Her long black hair was loosened a little, her eye makeup was exquisite, her skin was white, her lips were red, and she was wearing a black fringed suspender dress. Her white shoulders and collarbone were even more subtle and sexy.What is rare is that her usual indifferent expression adds flavor to this outfit, making people eager to get close to her and get to know her.

"Yako..."

Xu Yitian was completely shocked by her, and hesitated in place.

And the only one in the audience who didn't change his expression was Duan Yousi.

Masako saw him in the shadows through the crowd, with his hands on his knees, turning his cell phone, silent, with a pale face.

3
After a brief introduction to each other, the box resumed its bustle.

Masako sat down alone, and Xu Yitian immediately sat beside her.On the other side, An Qiyan was also sitting next to Duan Yousi, restlessly pouring wine into the glass, pouring it into his belly one by one.

Because the clothes were too thin, Masako couldn't help wrapping her arms around her. Xu Yitian immediately noticed it, and leaned close to her and asked softly, "Are you cold?"

The box was already dark, the crowd was noisy and the atmosphere was unclear, the closer distance made his breathing easier.She shook her head, avoiding his tender eyes.

In the noisy crowd, Duan Yousi also cast his eyes over, looking in her direction.

The surroundings were noisy, she fiddled with the hem of the skirt gently, this layer of hazy distance was vaguely ambiguous, which made the temperature in the room rise, and made Masako's ears slightly warm.

But this strangeness was misunderstood by Xu Yitian. He stared at her reddish cheeks, boldly sat a little closer, and whispered her name in her ear.

Masako was very uncomfortable and moved a little to the side.Unexpectedly, Xu Yitian took another step closer, still calling her name, extremely gentle and dependent.

Duan Yousi saw it, but then he turned his attention to An Qiyan, moved her glass away, and whispered in her ear.

The slightly tipsy An Qiyan shook his head angrily before he finished listening. He continued to talk, and patted the back of her waist lightly.

Soon, An Qiyan and him looked at each other briefly, finally nodded reluctantly, picked up two wine glasses slowly, got up and walked towards Masako: "Mo Yazi..."

The room gradually became quiet, Xu Yitian was interrupted suddenly, coughed lightly, Masako looked at An Qiyan.

Concubine Huangfu, Guan Xinyu, Yu Wenyi and others all looked over, and Duan Yousi also looked at her quietly.

Masako stood up slowly.

"Can I have a toast?"

An Qiyan spoke concisely, raised her wine glass high, and looked at Masako with raised eyebrows.

This sentence actually has a lot of content - can I cheers?Toast, we live in peace; if you don't do it, you put on airs, okay, I won't make it easier for you either.

It can be seen that she stood up reluctantly under Duan Yousi's persuasion.The members of the student union are all gathered here today, and Miss An Qi said that once she said something, it was hard to chase after her, and she drank all the wine, how can there be any reason for people not to get along?It seems that all troubles can be easily solved with this extremely simple multiple-choice question.

——If this is what the First Concubine Huangfu said.

"Okay." Masako replied, then took the wine glass, ready to clink glasses with An Qiyan, just when the two glasses were about to meet...

"Wait a minute." An Qiyan withdrew his hand suddenly, looked at Masako, and a different kind of smile slowly appeared in his eyes, "Let's change one."

It was very quiet in the box.

An Qiyan put out a lot of cups on the table, 10 for each person, filled them all up, and then looked up at Masako: "If you want to drink, drink it refreshedly. If you are enough to give me face, how about doing it all at once? You win, reconcile "I win, it depends on my mood."

Xu Yitian stood up and looked at Masako with pity.

Duan Yousi didn't express his opinion. He filled his glass with wine and took a sip, showing the air of a quiet king.

"can."

Masako replied calmly.

The competition started soon, An Qi said that he could hold a good amount of alcohol, and he couldn't even catch his breath after drinking two glasses.But gradually, the students found that Masako was not bad. Although she was slow, she was very patient and suitable for protracted battles.

An Qiyan felt a little exhausted after four glasses, but Masako still calmly picked up the glass, looked at An Qiyan, and drank slowly.

"Mo Yazi is so good at drinking..."

Xu Yitian couldn't believe it, and whispered to the people behind him.

For a long time, there was only the sound of wine glasses clinking, An Qiyan and Mo Yazi drank one cup after another.At the sixth cup, Yu Wenyi appeared behind Masako at some point, and suddenly touched her with her elbow, causing Masako who was drinking to choke, put down the cup, bowed her head and coughed.

An Qiyan had already picked up the seventh cup, closed her eyes and drank it vigorously, while Masako's constant coughing made her peaceful stomach react, and she began to feel uncomfortable.

Throwing the empty cup on the table, An Qiyan picked up the eighth cup.

(End of this chapter)