I Want to be Alone, Beautifully

weekend.

Zhou Qili and Qian Ai, who skipped school, finally came back. They looked good. As long as they saw their high spirits, Xu Jiao could guess that they were in a good mood recently, and they didn't encounter any dirty things. .

Zhou Qili returned to the dormitory with big bags and small bags. There were new clothes she bought, as well as special products and fruits forced by Qian Aina's relatives before they left. The first time she opened the door and saw Xu Jiao, she ran over with a smile on her face :

"Xiao Xu! You won the bet! From tomorrow onwards, I will obediently study the questions for level six, and strive for a set of real questions for two days, okay?"

"I also brought you a talisman. I prayed for it in the temple. It's so magical there. When the master saw Ai Ai and me, he said that we must have had some bad luck recently. The talisman was drawn by him. Yes, I heard it works!"

Qian Ai went to say hello to other dormitory friends. He was chatting outside before, but now he came over a few steps later, but when he saw Xu Jiao, he was also very happy. He saw Zhou Qili put down her things and took out a yellow piece of paper from her bag The folded amulet was stuffed into Xu Jiao's place, and she also ran over to the two of them:

"How about we go out for a meal today? I treat it as a treat, and I will send bad luck to our dormitory!"

She knew that Xu Jiao's life was a bit tight, so she simply said that she was treating guests, so that Zhou Qili and Xu Jiao were both included in the category of being treated, and Xu Jiao would not let Xu Jiao think about it for no reason.

Xu Jiao held the talisman that Zhou Qili stuffed in her right hand, and seeing the flushed faces of the two roommates, she showed a little bit of embarrassment: "I'll have a part-time tutor later, and I'm going to teach students, so I'm going to do it now." If we have to go out, we probably won’t be able to have dinner together, why don’t you two go eat?”

As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Jiao heard the sound of her old cell phone.

It's an information prompt.

She picked it up and saw that it was a message from the parents of the students, saying that they had returned to their hometown in the country on Friday, and they just turned back now. There was a traffic jam on the road. Weeks are temporarily gone.

Zhou Qili was standing next to her, took advantage of the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the content on Xu Jiao's phone, and immediately clapped her hands: "God's will, God is implying that you are going to have a big meal with us."

Xu Jiao smiled helplessly, and it was enough to refuse once as a matter of business, but to refuse this group activity again and again would easily hurt feelings.

Seeing that she didn't refuse any more, Qian Ai immediately supported the pole on the side of his upper bunk and went to the bed: "Then I'll put on some makeup now, it's quite hot outside today, I sweated a lot on the way, the makeup must have worn off. "

Zhou Qili also pawed at her excitedly: "Did you buy a new liquid foundation recently? Let me try it for you!"

Just trying it out by myself is not enough, Zhou Qili did not forget to bring Xu Jiao: "Jiaojiao, do you want to try it? You don't usually wear makeup, why don't we help you do it today? I really want to try the feeling of helping you make up Oh, you have such a good foundation, you must look good after makeup."

Qian Ai was still cherishing the bottle of liquid foundation that he hadn't opened, but now hearing Zhou Qili's suggestion, his eyes showed a little eagerness, and he sat on his upper bunk and looked at Xu Jiao.

Xu Jiao blinked her eyes slowly.

The words of refusal came to her lips, Zheng Zhiyu in red appeared beside her at some point, the bright red clothes were reflected in her eyes, her pale fingertips rested on her back, and she bowed her head in her ear advised:

"Promise them."

"I also want to see how you look after makeup."

Only Xu Jiao could see her appearance and hear her voice. The two roommates in front of her still didn't know what happened. They just felt that the temperature in the dormitory had dropped a little for no reason.

Qian Ai rubbed her arms indifferently, seeing that Xu Jiao was a little shaken, she smiled and echoed Zhou Qili's words: "Try it, you can choose different styles of makeup, I can know eye shadow, blush, highlight and shadow!"

Just when Xu Jiao uttered the word "no", her voice was swallowed vaguely. No one could see that a pale fingertip was boldly stuck on her lips, and all the rest of her unwillingness was swallowed. Pressed back.

Xu Jiao intensified the force between her teeth expressionlessly, biting the piercing coldness, but the person behind her seemed not to notice, just lying on her shoulder and laughing lowly, the laughter was faint, but there was no reason behind it. joy and madness.

Qian Ai: "Huh?"

Zhou Qili was also at a loss: "What did you say?"

They only saw Xu Jiao open her mouth, but they didn't understand what she was going to say, and they all showed puzzled expressions when they saw that she stopped in the middle of her words.

Even though she knew that the two roommates couldn't see Zheng Zhiyu's movements, Xu Jiao still blushed a little reluctantly after being teased in front of two acquaintances, and then she nodded.

Zheng Zhiyu pinched her ears, and praised her in a low voice: "You are so good."

After she finished speaking, she disappeared, not giving Xu Jiao a chance to retaliate, and being watched by her two roommates, Xu Jiao couldn't vent her anger by facing the air or digging out the tablet that had been properly hidden, so she could only fight. Losing teeth and swallowing blood, he showed an expectant smile with his long-lost acting skills, and replied nonchalantly:

"I mean, ok, I want to give it a try."

……

Makeup seems like a lifetime ago.

Xu Jiao recalled how in Feng Qingyu's world, she got up early every day to go to the crew to put on makeup and change costumes for filming, but now she feels in a daze that she hasn't been under the camera for a long time.

Spotlights, cameras, demeanor, acting...

She was facing the mirror, holding a makeup brush in her hand, and almost without Qian Ai's help, she spread the foundation evenly on her face without a teacher. This foundation is very delicate, and its water content is not low. Xujiao's foundation is good, her skin is not dehydrated, sensitive, etc. After the foundation is applied, it is very smooth.

What Qian Ai gave her was the whitest color number. After applying the base makeup, Xu Jiao's skin became translucent and fair. She perfectly created the makeup that the foundation wanted to show. The color on the face was white, and the facial features The refinement becomes more apparent.

She unhurriedly picked up the eyebrow pencil to fill in the color of the end of her eyebrows, and picked out the most common earth-colored eyeshadow palette at random. When the makeup was about to be completed, Qian Ai said slowly beside her. :

"Xueba, why are you so proficient?"

"Didn't you never wear makeup?"

Zhou Qili was looking forward to the effect of her makeup at first, but now she heard Qian Ai's question, she suddenly realized, and echoed with her face: "Yes, why are you so proficient? Ai Ai has a lot of cosmetics. I don't know the name. I don’t know what it is, how did you distinguish it so clearly?”

Xu Jiao stopped applying the eye shadow with the brush, tapped the middle end of the brush on her wrist, and dropped a layer of excess powder, which slowly spread in the air and dissipated like dust.

She said casually, "I see that you have used it before."

Qian Ai: "???"

Qian Ai: "You mean you can understand it just by looking at it?"

Zhou Qili was also a little dazed: "Isn't a schoolmaster who has no photographic memory a good makeup artist?"

Xu Jiao let them guess, she just put on a light makeup casually, and then she and the girl in the mirror looked more cold, but her facial features were a bit more gorgeous, even if she was standing in the crowd, people couldn't take their eyes away when they saw it at a glance With her face, she slightly adjusted her angle in front of the mirror, and that was the most suitable appearance for her in front of the camera.

Zhou Qili, who had been waiting for the effect of her makeup to come out, picked up her phone by accident, and took a picture of her looking in the mirror at the moment. After a few seconds, the picture on the phone popped up.

Despite the lack of light, it does not detract from the beauty of the people in the photos.

Zhou Qili was just about to show Xu Jiao the photos on her phone, but her eyes suddenly fixed on one part.

On Xu Jiao's shoulder, there was a very pale hand that didn't look like an ordinary person.

Like snow-white joints.

Zhou Qili's heart skipped a beat, and when Xu Jiao looked over, she forced a smile and said to her, "I...I wanted to take a picture of you just now, but it didn't go well, so I'll delete it now."

After finishing speaking, she seemed to want to erase the memory from her mind. After unlocking the phone screen, she quickly pressed the delete button under the photo. When the phone was handed to Xu Jiao, the previous photo was gone. gone.

Xu Jiao didn't pay much attention to it, and Qian Ai didn't notice this detail either. He praised Xu Jiao's appearance after makeup, and then took two dear roommates out.

Zhou Qili felt guilty, she didn't know how to face her mobile phone for the time being, fearing that she might see something she shouldn't look at again, so she threw her mobile phone on the bed before going out.

Qian Ai was wearing a shiny shoulder bag, holding Xu Jiao's hand, and looked back at her:

"Xiao Li, hey? Don't you bring your mobile phone?"

Zhou Qili smiled, and the curvature of her lips quickly disappeared: "Well, the phone is out of battery, let's go, anyway, it's at the school gate, and it doesn't take long to have a meal."

On the contrary, Xu Jiao saw that her complexion was not very good, and there was a thoughtful expression on her face.

……

"Little Xu..."

In the restaurant, after ordering, Qian Ai went to the bathroom. There were only Xu Jiao and Zhou Qili at the table. Thinking of the scene she saw when she took the photo just now, Zhou Qili hesitated for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to meet Xu Jiao with Ai Ai. Open your mouth.

Xu Jiao was looking down at the mobile phone. On the surface, she was chatting with someone, but in fact she was communicating with Zheng Zhiyu by typing. The man whispered in her ear, and she typed on the mobile phone in response.

Just now when Zheng Zhiyu went out with her, he was hiding in her shadow as usual, but when he passed by a street outside the school gate, he suddenly told Xu Jiao that he would leave for a while, and it was not until Xu Jiao and her roommate entered the dining room that they could see her. Seeing her back again, she said to Xu Jiao in a good tone:

There is a business nearby.

When she said she would introduce Xu Jiao to a part-time job, she didn't see anything in the past few days, as if she had forgotten about it. Now that she brought it up, Xu Jiao simply took advantage of the situation and asked about all aspects of the job. So as not to get black eyes sometimes.

"Is it the part-time job you mentioned last time? What exactly is it?"

After typing this sentence, Xu Jiao looked up at Zhou Qili, showed a slight smile, and said slowly, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Qili looked around, hesitated to say: "Well... that is, have you encountered any bad things recently?"

She was obsessed with the ghostly hand in the photo.

Xu Jiao's expression didn't change, she just asked back: "Why do you ask like that all of a sudden?"

Zhou Qili said haha: "I'm just curious about your daily life in the dormitory alone."

Xu Jiao observed her expression, as if she understood something, she comforted her, "There is nothing bad, don't worry about me."

At the same time, she typed another sentence in the dialog box on the phone: "When you were putting on makeup today, did you do something to scare her?"

There are quite a few people in the restaurant. The flavor of this restaurant is quite special. It cooks Northeast cuisine, which is full of portions, cheap, and the taste is guaranteed. Other students or working parties nearby will come here when they have time. It wasn't that Xu Jiao and the others came early today, maybe they had to wait at the door.

There were so many people, Zheng Zhiyu didn't even bother to show up, and just hid in Xu Jiao's shadow, letting out a cool breath around her shoulders, as if acting as eyes, looking at Xu Jiao's screen.

Seeing the question added above, the dark shadow under her feet moved, and after a long time, a familiar voice slipped into Xu Jiao's ears: "I don't know her, why should I scare her?"

"Jiaojiao, why do you always focus on these people?"

Xu Jiao pursed her lips when she heard this coquettish and complaining words, but did not answer. Seeing that she did not respond, Zheng Zhiyu sighed faintly, and then replied:

"When she took pictures of you before, maybe... she accidentally took pictures of me."

Hearing this well-behaved answer, Xu Jiao had a certainty in her heart. At that time, Zhou Qili nodded suspiciously, and told her: "Remember to take the amulet I gave you with you."

Xu Jiao smiled: "Okay."

After saying these two sentences to her roommate, Xu Jiao suddenly sat up a lot——

Where no one can see.

There was a poke on the itchy spot on her waist.

A little itchy and a little painful.

It's a pity that the instigator is now unable to fight, so she can only sit there half-tormented, chatting freely with Zhou Qili about school affairs.

……

After Qian Ai came back, the dishes on the table began to be served slowly. There was a large pot in the center of the table. The waiter first poured the sauerkraut beef that had been marinated in advance, and then stuck a flat, white dish on the edge. Steamed buns are like making pot stickers, and finally cover the pot with a thick wooden board.

Only at the position of the air outlet, there is a curl of heat coming out, and the steaming fragrance inside is also secretly leaked out, making the gluttons in the stomachs of diners eager to move.

The three of them happened to be sitting next to the wall, and there was a cold wall next to it, and Xu Jiao sat on one side, because the structure of the table was rather special, and the dishes were boiled in a pot on each table, so there was no tablecloth on the table, and only I don't know if it's made of wood or iron, but it's square and square, which is especially suitable for dinner parties.

There was hot, rising air on the table, but under the table, Xu Jiao's calf exposed in a blue floral dress, slowly felt a slight coolness climb up.

Her throat moved, and by raising her hand to pick up the cup, she concealed the words leaking from her lips:

"Don't make trouble."

Xu Jiao whispered in a low voice.

Zheng Zhiyu, on the other hand, continued to tease Xu Jiao as if she didn't exist, neither answering Xu Jiao's words, nor reading the warning words she typed on her mobile phone, but just gently stroking her ankles and calves all the way up. past.

Xu Jiao was restless, as if there were countless ants crawling up her legs, her calves were pinched and pinched, kneaded and kneaded, in order to cover up her emotions, she drank three cups of cold drinks.

Both Zhou Qili and Qian Ai laughed at her: "Our dormitory finally came out to have a meal together, why do you only drink water?"

Xu Jiao's lips moved, "I'm a little thirsty."

After finally removing the lid of the pot, she hastily moved her chopsticks a few times, barely filling her stomach to two or three full, and wanted to put down the bowls and chopsticks in her hand, and go to the bathroom to have a good communication with a kid who was too joking.

However, as soon as the chopsticks in her hands were released, the coolness between her legs disappeared. The other party seemed to have grasped her temper very accurately, knowing when to dance on her tolerance limit and when to piss her off. So take it when you see it.

Xu Jiao didn't put the chopsticks down, and she didn't put them down, her eyes fell on the pot of delicious sauerkraut and beef stir-fried vermicelli in front of her, the light in her eyes was uncertain.

"Xiao Xu, don't tell me that you are full after just two bites?"

The roommates were in the middle of eating, when they suddenly saw Xu Jiao stop her chopsticks for a long time, and turned her eyes around her, as if wondering if she was looking for an excuse to lose weight secretly.

Xu Jiao's fingertips clenched tightly. After a while, she still couldn't resist the temptation to eat meat. She picked up the water glass and drank some water, then continued to move her chopsticks:

"No, just take it easy."

……

Large dishes, small skewers, frozen desserts, drinks...

After eating this meal, Qian Aihuan happily went to pay the bill, Zhou Qili rubbed her stomach and wondered if she could lose the extra flesh she had grown on her body before the summer, Xu Jiao was thinking about what Zheng Zhiyu said before the meal that there was business nearby Regarding this matter, after paying the bill, he walked out with the two for a while, and suddenly said:

"I have something to do here temporarily, you two go back first."

Qian Ai and Zhou Qili looked at each other arm in arm, and then Qian Ai asked gossipingly, "Then are you coming back tonight?"

Zhou Qili looked at her without speaking.

Xu Jiao shook her head, "I don't know for the time being. If it is soon, I can go back tonight. If there is a delay, I may not go back."

Only then did Zhou Qili say, "Be careful."

Qian Ai added: "If you are dating someone, remember to bring it for us to see in the future."

Xu Jiao smiled, nodded casually, and walked in the direction where the two of them were going against each other. Zheng Zhiyu, who was staying in her shadow, seemed to have done nothing wrong just now, and reminded her in her ear :

"The third one on the right, that hotel, room 808."

Xu Jiao glanced to the side, no obvious emotional likes and dislikes could be seen in it, she walked to the hotel as she said, this is a big chain hotel, although the facade on the first floor is not as wide as a five-star or six-star hotel , but the decoration is also well done, the young lady in uniform at the front desk asked her with a smile:

"Hello, do you have an appointment?"

Xu Jiao followed what Zheng Zhiyu taught herself: "I'm here to find my friend in Room 808."

The front desk was stunned for a second, the whole person's movements stopped for a moment, and then compared to the side: "The elevator is on the left, you can just go up."

"Ding dong."

Xu Jiao's figure was hidden by the closed elevator doors.

In the staff lounge next to the front desk, a man opened the door and came out, tying his tie as he walked. The sister who had just communicated with Xu Jiao said with a smile, "Is there a guest coming in? Remember the previous rules."

The girl in uniform smiled, but she turned her head to the side when asked: "Check in..."

There was a little confusion and doubt in her eyes, as if she was doubting her memory, her voice paused for two seconds, she clicked the mouse, checked the check-in record in the computer, and said:

"It seems that I don't live here, I'm here to find friends."

"Which floor?"

"……forget."

"Forgot? Xiaoyan, you can't do this. Have you forgotten what the boss said? The night shift needs to cheer up. If things like before happen again, our shop will be over." The voice behind it became more and more inexplicably lower.

The girl at the front desk stroked her forehead hair and smiled apologetically: "I see, Brother Li, I remember that rooms on the eighth floor are not available for guests, and the doors over there are closed. Surveillance is also turned off, no one will go.”

"Ah."

……

upstairs.

Xu Jiao walked out of the elevator, and saw a dark corridor with almost no light in front of her.

Stepping out of the magnificent elevator, her shadow was mixed with the darkness that seemed to be real. When she stepped into the black corridor, a bright red cloth suddenly appeared beside her, and then it transformed into Yes, and the appearance of a pale woman without a trace of blood.

Xu Jiao took out her mobile phone, pressed the flashlight function, and walked forward casually: "Now, can you introduce the content of this part-time job to me by the way?"

Zheng Zhiyu took her other hand that was not holding the phone, and his cold fingertips sank into Xu Jiao's, and a voice resounded in the darkness: "It's very simple."

"Help some things with strong grievances, fulfill their wishes, in exchange for rewards."

Xu Jiao gave a calm "hmm" and squinted at her: "If I collect money...they won't pay me with Mingbi, will they?"

Zheng Zhiyu: "..."

She reluctantly spit out two words: "No."

After finishing speaking, she happened to walk to a room with Xu Jiao. Under the light of the flashlight, the golden house number glowed dimly, and it was 808.

Almost at the moment when the two of them walked to the door, the door suddenly made the sound of a magnetic card being swiped, buzzing, and then took the initiative to open inwards, and the lights also turned on in an instant, illuminating the intense darkness in the corridor.

as if……

Silently welcome them.

Xu Jiao stepped inside and looked at the layout and furnishings in the room. It was different from the horror scene in her imagination. This was an ordinary hotel layout, with a snow-white bed, clean bathroom and room. There is nothing similar to Sen Sen's horror movie screens.

Before she could ask, Zheng Zhiyu seemed to know what she was thinking, and slowly reminded her behind her:

"You can't see it until the clock turns."

Xu Jiao turned off the light in the phone, and asked calmly, "Do you want me to wait here until twelve o'clock?"

Zheng Zhiyu smiled, and gestured to the bathroom next to her: "You can take a shower first and get some sleep."

Xu Jiao casually put the mobile phone in the entrance next to her. She didn't look at the suddenly closed door, but turned around to look at the woman in red behind her. Then, she slowly rolled up her sleeves:

"Just take a shower."

"Let's do the math first."