[Black Basket] Hello, world

As if the dewdrops rolling down the petals could produce a round and clear sound, Xue's eyelids moved only 30 seconds after the music alarm clock sounded.The waltz is produced by the vibration of the eardrum, and finally reaches the auditory center. She slowly opened her eyes, feeling a little heavy in her brain, and then remembered what happened yesterday, and the unpleasant feeling floated up, but it spread slowly due to fatigue, and quickly faded away , the rest is a slight insensitivity.

Looking at the clock hanging on the wall, Xue sat up at [-]:[-], raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, then moved stiffly to the side of the bed and stood up. The sight that lingers on the things in front of him is caught in the black eyes.She didn't hear any noise from other rooms. She went downstairs to wash up. The sound of Xue walking was very soft, and she came to the kitchen.

"Good morning."

She said hello.

The kitchen is large and is separated from the dining room by a bar.On the right hand side of the platform is a glass door, which can directly lead to the garden, where some non-allergenic flowers and edible vegetables are planted, as well as some small and neatly trimmed potted plants.

"Good morning, Snow."

Responding to her was a man with highlighted blue hair, deeply contoured.He only curled his thin lips in greeting, but there was no smile in his pretty eyes—violet eyes—a habit that affected Snow as well.

"It's okay to eat omelet rice today."

"Even if you say yes, there's no time to prepare again." Xue also curled the corner of her mouth, "I'll help."

She saw the man smile again, different from before, this smile made the color of his eyes pale, so pale that it seemed to fall into the sun.Xue didn't hate this kind of smile, but she didn't like it either (if he had to show such an expression, she would rather choose to see him when he was serious)——she subconsciously believed that there was sadness in this seemingly warm smile.

"You look like you didn't sleep well last night." She said, staring at the imperceptible light blue under his eyes.

'Well, didn't sleep at all. "His expression returned to his usual seriousness," the professor called me last night. "He poured a small spoonful of oil into the frying pan. "He's coming back with two children. "

Hearing this, Xue frowned, "From..."

"Syria."

"Oh my God!" Snow rolled her eyes at the ceiling after receiving the message that was far from expected, "The twins haven't been here for long. I'm not saying it's bad, just, just," she poured the rice into In the pot, stirred a few times, thinking about how to express, "After all, we are only a temporary residence here. If the environment changes too much, it may have a worse impact." Xue remembered the twins who hugged her and cried when they left. Poor look, the heart seems to have been pulled.

"Their parents are from this country after all. Compared with before, the professor already knows restraint." The man gave a precise definition.

"It was really a mess when you first came here."

"Well," his expression remained unchanged, he pressed down with a spoon, turned around, patted, and pressed the egg skin tightly, "That was before you came."

"Yeah." Xue said while shaking the eggbeater, her voice was a little longer than usual, like sugar silk sliding through the air, sticking and unwilling to break, "Stay with this professor who likes children, We can only take care of them."

"He laughed out loud, and didn't point out Xue's insincere words, in fact, she is the one they like the most and appreciate the professor.

When Xue went out, it was still fifteen minutes before seven o'clock, and the weather was fine. She packed a quarter of the omelet rice in an insulated lunch box, and then rode to school.The one-week adaptation period has passed, and it's time to return to normal work and rest time.

From the garage, she walked all the way to the auditorium, to the courtyard behind the auditorium, where she took a walk every day at noon this week.There are many mushroom-shaped pavilions in the courtyard, where there are tables and chairs for resting.The eaves of the pavilion are not arc-shaped, nor are they turned upwards, but rectangles full of edges and corners, overlapping each other.From a distance, it is just a simple superposition of bricks, which are pushed or pulled out. Only when you walk in can you see that there are many words on it.Some of the connected flat parts are a sentence, and sometimes characters are engraved on the concave and convex parts sandwiched in the middle, with slightly smaller fonts.Most of them (I can't be sure because I haven't looked at every pavilion carefully) are from the Bible.The modern design reminds Xue of Duchamp's "Nude Descending the Staircase: No. [-]". Inspired by the film, the body is divided into angular parts with lines, and they overlap and blend again.This subversion of the concept of traditional art is very similar to these pavilions that are not limited to flat impressions in Xue's cognition, and it has a certain flavor in Yangquan, which is full of classical Western style.

The brownish cream is sometimes plated with platinum, and the lettering, with their shadows, seem to be on a base of the same color, which is indeed very wonderful.

Xue sat down with her back against the church in the distance.At this time, the hour hand has crossed the half grid, and the warm and cold air unique to the April morning has been dissipated by the sun far away from the horizon.School uniforms in Yangquan are divided into two seasons: winter and spring and summer and autumn. Xue is wearing winter and spring clothes now. She wears a white shirt with a coconut-brown knitted vest and a black knee-length skirt. In winter, she only needs to wrap up a coat and scarf to bid farewell to the cold. .The school uniform here made her feel ashamed of the thin coat (winter style) that was only two layers of cloth sewn together.

"Ah, you want to go home?" Hua looked at me incredulously, "I was just about to ask you what happened yesterday? Brother Kazuki said that you ran out of the drama department in a rage!"

"It goes without saying," Bai Xin spread his hands upwards, "Anyone who comes into contact with An for the first time will want to beat him up."

"Indeed." Xue took a sip of the soup, "I have the idea of ​​beating him up, but he is a senior after all, so it's not easy to do it."

Hearing this, the other two paused, then laughed, "Xue, let me ask you." Hua cleared her throat, "Are you in love?"

"Cough——" Xue looked at Hua's wide-open puppy-like round eyes when she asked the question. She thought she was cute, but after hearing the question, she choked on the soup.She hastily pulled out her handkerchief to cover her mouth, and kept coughing, feeling very funny in her heart, and it took a long time to stop, "I'm going to get a glass of water." She stood up in a hurry with one hand on the table, left the table, the corners of her mouth curved up.

"It can't be...Really?" Xue's attitude seemed to Bai to be an expression of ambiguity, her mouth was slightly opened, her eyes widened, and she looked at Hua after watching Xue go away.

"..." Hua remained silent.

The cafeteria in Yangquan is self-service. Hua poured herself a glass of water and drank it slowly while sitting on a wooden chair by the window. Feeling that her throat had not been relieved, she poured another glass. There was a little noise caused by a few tall boys, but it was quickly stopped by the canteen management aunt.

Someone sat beside her, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a black-haired boy. She looked at the crowd in the cafeteria and didn't pay attention, but the other party suddenly patted her on the shoulder, and Xue stepped back to the other side. , moved his left foot out a small step while turning his head.The boy sat down at about the same height as Ziyuan, with black hair and black eyes, slender eyes, not quite Japanese in appearance, and a little strangeness popped into his heart.

"Hello." She repeated the same words, the moment her lowered nasal voice retracted, the source of the strangeness of the last second was obvious.

"Are you Chinese?" "Are you the ghost of the courtyard?"

"Ah, yes."

"......no."

Xue laughed. She didn't know whether it was the language or the problem just now that made her laugh, but she simply felt that all the discomfort after waking up in the morning had disappeared, and the surprise that hit her at the same time almost brought tears to her eyes, and she laughed a lot.Severely full of moisture, the silver-gray pupils were smeared with a little champagne yellow due to the light from the window shining in through the red velvet curtains, which reflected very beautifully in the boy's eyes. He was stunned for a moment, and then he didn't know how to continue.

He has heard since the first grade that there will be ghosts appearing in the courtyard every morning. At the end of the morning practice today, he saw a tall figure in the courtyard, wearing a girl's school uniform. He thought it might not be a ghost. The thought of confirming tomorrow lingered throughout the morning.I saw her as soon as I walked into the cafeteria.The girl was sitting quietly by the window with a glass of water, so quiet that it seemed that the flow of time around her was slower than others, maybe this was the reason why no one approached.

"This is that ghost!" He bowed his head and said to his friends in the same grade.

"Ha-ghost-?" The other looked at her, "Is your head still-normal?"

"I didn't talk to you!" A hash mark popped out of his head, "I'm a senior."

"senior--"

"That's enough, don't quarrel in the cafeteria." The friend hurriedly stopped the purple-haired boy.

"Boys, what are you talking about standing at the door of the cafeteria!"

The administrator of the cafeteria was standing in front of the three of them with arms folded. Although she was not tall, the aura of staring at them made the three of them silence at the same time, with a voice comparable to that of the coach.

"Sorry to trouble you." One of them stepped forward to apologize, and the aunt's attitude changed instantly.

"It doesn't matter," she said with a smile, "Go in quickly, and just don't do this in the future."

"As expected of Himuro Aru, whose hunting range ranges from young girls to old women." He received the silent sight of Himuro, and the two only made eye contact. He looked away and remained silent again, which seemed friendly. The expression made him hastily distance himself from the two, "I want to confirm whether she is a real ghost."

"She's not a courtyard ghost, but a cold-faced ghost—be careful not to freeze, Liu."

He ignored Ziyuan's words and made up his mind to walk over. In order to solve the mystery of the ghost, he would take a risk even if he was frozen.

"Where are you from in China?" He was surprised at the girl's fluent Chinese. Her profile is deeper than the average Japanese girl, with a high nose bridge and high browbones. She is also an international student?

"People from the Northeast, Harbin, have you heard of it?"

"I know, there are many beauties in Harbin." Xue felt that the corners of her mouth were grinning abnormally (although it was just a normal smile in Liu's eyes), her voice was trembling, and she looked elsewhere in order to calm down Suddenly, the expressions on their faces froze—Hua and Bai stood facing her at the place where the cups and plates were placed at a distance, the two of them were close together, their heads were facing each other, and they were leaning towards her, seeing her sweeping The sights that came came turned back in a hurry, as if they had collided with each other, each of them left quickly, clutching their foreheads.Xue could see Hua's completely flushed side face, and Bai Zheng rubbed his neck uncomfortably. "I'm Xue, what's your name?"

"Liu Wei, from the school's basketball club."

"Basketball club?" He saw the girl's black pupils shrunk a little. "It's amazing. My friend is still waiting for me. Let's chat when you have time. Do you have twitter?"

"Yes," he was surprised by the paper and pen the girl carried with her, and wrote her Twitter nickname on it, "Are you an international student too?"

"No, my grandfather is Russian," Xue added after receiving the other party's gaze, "I can speak Chinese because I have a special affection for China. Chinese food is delicious, right?" She bent The corner of the mouth, I really didn’t expect to be in the same school, no, Yangquan already has 5% of the foreign students, it’s not surprising that there are Chinese people, but it’s also a surprise, it’s not surprising that such a height entered the basketball team.

"Ah, I personally think it's pretty good, but the Chinese food in the school is still much worse."

"Really," Xue has suppressed her emotions, "Then let's talk again when we have a chance, Liu Wei." She nodded slightly, and the other party also stood up, who was indeed about the same height as Ziyuan.

"Ah, goodbye, Xue." The other party said his name fluently, with a not as clear as the north, and the wei sound, which is difficult for ordinary Japanese to pronounce accurately.It's amazing. Liu Wei made such a conclusion in his heart. It can be seen from her Chinese, even from simple chat conversations. She probably has learned it for many years.He left from the other side, went to the table of foreign cuisine, and got himself a bowl of pasta in tomato sauce and grilled octopus in sauce, both of which were reddish.

"Liu," Ziyuan looked at Liu Wei's expression, and said slowly, "It must have been frozen—so cold—"

"No," Liu smiled, ignoring Murasakihara's thorny words, "We exchanged twitter accounts." He took out a small note from his pocket and shook it. Himuro saw Ziyuan showing an expression he had never seen before, and frowned. Wrinkled, his lips pursed into a line, his violet eyes narrowed, and the chopsticks in his hand stopped for a moment, and the oppressive feeling when he was facing the enemy drifted out accidentally, and the only thing he noticed was the ice room, this The episode was kept in memory by Ice Room, so I didn't say much, and there was no need to point it out.

"Is that so?" Ziyuan said slowly, quickly snatching an octopus ball from Liu's plate.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Liu stretched out his hand to grab Ziyuan's hair, but suddenly the cafeteria lady appeared at the side again, he could only stop his hands in dismay, and then the cafeteria lady smiled at the ice room beside her and left.

How embarrassing, Ice Room sighed and ate the last remaining purple cabbage on the plate.

"So, do you want to admit it?" Bai folded his arms and looked at Xue with an expression of "we caught him now", while Hua beside him looked sullen.

"Admit what?" Xue decided to tease the two people in front of her, the corners of her mouth curled up, the meaning was unclear.

"...how could this be?" Hua seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and looked at the two of them and said loudly, "I will never allow Xue to be taken away, it's too damned, we just met again less than a week ago, You're going to have lunch with your boyfriend—"

"Who said I have a boyfriend?" Xue asked, aware of the rich imagination of the two.

"Because you have been able to smile naturally since the beginning of school. In junior high school, no matter what jokes Hua and I made, you couldn't laugh. You kept a straight face all day long, giving off air-conditioning."

"Am I different now?" Xue didn't think she had changed in any way.

"Yeah, I talk a little more than before, and I laugh more often. It's like returning from a middle-aged woman—adolescence—" Facing Xue, she didn't show it deliberately, but it did make people feel terrible. It was hard for Bai to finish the last words.

"You guys misunderstood," the chocolate in your mouth melted, leaving a touch of bitterness, which was very delicious, "I don't have a boyfriend, and I never thought about falling in love. Although I don't mind being confessed, I'm afraid that the incident in middle school has been taken by someone. People have spread it all over the campus." Someone in the snow talk meant something, and the two people in front of them showed disdainful expressions at the same time.

"Don't pay attention to that person. If you can't eat grapes, you will say that the grapes are sour. Today, you are still showing off in class, 'It's only been a week since school started, and there is an unsigned letter in the shoe cabinet. Who is it? It's so distressing'." I don't think her acting skills are so bad." Bai waved his hands with contempt on his face.

"That's right, but you got along very well with that boy just now..." Hua Ye said indignantly, turning her eyes around to look at Xue again.

"He is an international student from China. I have been learning Chinese, so I chatted for a while. It's really nothing."

The two nodded suspiciously.

Doubt completely dispelled—is it?

Hua: "Should we continue with our plan?"

Bai: "Of course, do you think Xue's serious words are credible? It's not that she didn't tell us where she went this year. It's too perfunctory to cover up with a part-time job."

Hua: "I don't think she will lie to us. Isn't this kind of snow very good? It's much more cheerful. People change, and it's been a year."

Bai: "Just try once, I'll convince her to join the drama department, and then at the school's anniversary celebration—"

Hua: "Your plan is so vague, 'Let Xue admit that she likes the National People's Congress' or something, so silly."

Bai: "You—forget it, don't bother with Miss Wuzhi."

Flower: "Hey, wait, who is ignorant!"

The first session in the afternoon was physical education class. Xue sat by the side and watched the girls play basketball, but couldn't calm down.

"Hua, try to shoot the ball yourself! Don't be frightened by Bai's speed!"

"Don't yell at the side, come by yourself!" Bai was very upset that Xue only reminded Hua, so she yelled in the opposite direction. Unexpectedly, Xuezhen stood up from her seat, and she looked back at the physical education teacher who hit the ground with a bamboo knife , made a silent gesture to the students standing together, pointed to the teacher on the boy's side, and walked over.

"Flower, please."

She and Bai stood in the middle circle, getting ready for the jumping posture, and Hua threw the ball upwards.

"!" Due to her height advantage, the ball was taken away by Xue, but Bai was a little surprised by her skillful movements. Xue joined the painting department in junior high school, and she was lazy and unmotivated in physical education class. Her physical education class is almost absent, so joining them suddenly today is an unbelievable thing.

Bai took a step forward, stared at Xue quickly, and stopped in front of her. Xue was stunned, took the ball to the right, and Bai also took a step to the right. Unexpectedly, it was a fake move. Running to the left, the moment Xue passed by, Bai felt all the cells in her body move, and her body trembled excitedly. She quickly passed her teammates, Xue had already handed the ball to another person, and ran to the backboard, the double The girl with the ponytail seemed to be getting the ball for the first time in this game, with a flustered expression on her face, probably not good at sports.

"This way!" Bai raised his hands and shouted loudly, and the ball was really thrown.Xue was so angry that she hopped her feet, rolled up her sleeves while running, approached Bai from the side, and accelerated quickly. Passed to the teammate closest to the opponent's backboard - Xue intercepted the ball - Bai didn't even realize the fact after two seconds - how did she do it - the ball in the air was caught by Xue the instant it reached the teammate's hands Hold on—her speed is unexpectedly fast, her timing is just right, and she needs excellent eyesight to intercept the ball from low altitude—by the time Bai reacted, Xue had already arrived at the back of her own half, bypassing a person standing behind them , as if ignoring others, rushed forward alone, made two "thumbs", layup-the ball scored-

"It's great, Snow!" Hua shouted from the side, completely forgetting that she should maintain a ladylike posture.

"It's great, Xue!" Someone in the stadium also shouted, and everyone cheered and surrounded Xue.

"Awesome—" At this moment, Xue's indifferent image of Xue Nu was completely broken, and Bai, who was still in the contradiction, unconsciously wanted to cheer for her.

Until her bamboo knife shook several times in front of Atsushi Murasakihara with dull eyes, the other party did not dodge, but just looked directly at the court next to her, until there was unprecedented cheers from the girls (most of them jumped up when they heard that they were going to play basketball) It's all as boring as a frustrated ball, complaining that it's a boy's sport), Masako Araki turned her head to look over there, her anger broke through and her doubts came to her head, she didn't care about Zi Yuan who had been eating snacks. rushed over:

"Student Xue! Did you get my permission to play? Do you know how to take care of your body? There are still two months before the ban can be lifted. Are you going to fall short?" The people around Xue hurriedly retreated, and she trotted to Xue's room. Next to him, he raised the bamboo knife and "slapped" it past Xue's side.

"Teacher, don't be angry, Xue played superbly."

"Yes, yes, it's the same as a professional one." Hua walked over and made a face at Xue, "I can actually layup, Xue's jumping ability is terrible!"

"You guys don't know why she can't take physical education class, do you?" Araki Masako glanced at the people around her, and threw the bamboo knife to the ground again.

"I'm sorry, teacher," Xue quickly apologized, seeing Araki's frown, "I know I was wrong."

"Why can't you take physical education class?" At this moment Bai walked up and asked Araki, but looked at Xue.

"I'll go back to the classroom right now, you continue." Snow nodded, and Araki snorted, but did not answer Shiro's question.

"Continue, work hard!" She walked to the seat beside her and sat down with her arms folded. She glanced at Xue who left the field from the corner of her eye. She thought she was a pure liberal arts girl with no athleticism at all. He got taller, and couldn't make a second expression on his face.From the cheers just now, it sounds like Xue should be playing pretty well among the girls, couldn't even the experienced Bai be able to block it?If the eyes are not good, everything is in vain, and you don't know how to control yourself at all!Thinking of this, Araki Masako waved the wooden knife angrily again, just like Murasakihara who knew how to eat snacks despite paying attention to nutritional balance, she looked at Murasakihara, but she disappeared!

Hua walked up to Bai and patted her on the shoulder, "Go and ask her later." Bai remained silent, what she had hidden for Xue, the reason why she didn't exercise, the reason why she never took PE class, what she reasons for hiding from them.

"Does she think we are friends?" Bai looked at Hua, who pursed her lips, Bai's expression was very unpleasant.

"Why don't you take a break first..."

"No need." Bai walked back to the court.

Hua, who doesn't seem to put on an "I'm angry" look at every turn, and actually doesn't make any moves (at most hit the opponent with a punch), Bai can adjust himself even if he is depressed, and it won't be seen by others, but if If it really pissed her off, she would rush directly in front of the other party, grab the collar and question loudly. She and Bai's childhood sweetheart, too... It seems that seeing her expression just now for the third time is really not good. Compared with Xue's concealment, she was more worried about Xue's personal safety. Although Shiro joined the swimming club, the skill she has practiced since she was able to hold a knife is Iaido.

The author has something to say: I originally wanted to put it in two chapters, but I still forget it (the writing is so enjoyable (I haven’t played basketball for a long time, and my hands itch (in fact, this is not a romance, but an article focusing on the crisis of a young girlfriend’s relationship).