She is in the fog

He Jiahe came closer: "Going abroad? Which country?"

"I don't know, it seems to be a country in Europe."

"Why are you going abroad? It can't be for tourism. You're still in class."

“It seems like they are emigrants and won’t come back.”

"Huh? So sudden? Isn't the semester over yet?"

"Who knows? Who can guess what a rich person is thinking?"

"So she'll go to school in Europe from now on? And won't come back?"

"Well, her whole family immigrated to Europe, and only her father is still in the country."

"You're really not coming back?"

When the gossip team was discussing enthusiastically, the class bell rang and everyone had to reluctantly return to their seats.

All the words they discussed just now fell into He Xi's ears. The news came so suddenly that she couldn't believe it for a moment. She lowered her eyebrows and had a very strange expression.

It was not until a week later, when she still hadn't seen Ning Xiaoduo, that she completely believed that Ning Xiaoduo had immigrated to Europe.

I had a lot of mixed feelings at once, but more of a sense of relief and of surviving a disaster.
She did not think deeply about the reason why Ning Xiaoduo suddenly immigrated. She only knew that from now on, that hateful person, the evil person, the shameless person... the mountain that overwhelmed her was thousands of miles away and could no longer affect her life.

Winter came very early in Nanzhou City this year. In mid-December, the temperature was close to below zero, but unfortunately, it still didn't snow.

Even in the cold winter, He Xi arrived at school early as usual.
She walked quietly to the windowsill and suddenly found a flickering fire in the classroom. She felt strange, pushed open the door, and immediately turned on the classroom lights.

Li Xingyu?
She lit a fire in the classroom?
When Li Xingyu saw someone coming in, he immediately pulled out a book from his desk and put out the fire on the table with a few "bangs". Then, regardless of the hot ashes, he quickly put them into a black plastic bag, stuffed the black plastic bag into his schoolbag, and said to He Xi, "I'll help you clean it up later."

He Xi was puzzled: "Help me clean up?"

Li Xingyu did not answer and ran out of the classroom in a hurry.

He Xi approached the seat and finally understood what Li Xingyu meant. It turned out that she was burning a fire on her table, and there were still a lot of black ashes on the table.
She sighed and took out a tissue from her schoolbag to clean up, but she smelled a strange smell, so she stretched out her index finger to pick up some black ashes on the table, rubbed it with her thumb, and put it under her nose.

It's paper money ash.

Paper money is another name for ghost money, which are pieces of paper burned during sacrifices as money for the dead or ghosts.
The origin of paper money originated from the ancient people's belief in the immortality of the soul. They thought that people would go to another world after death. That world had special paper money that needed to be burned by the living for the dead so that the dead could live a better life in that world.

Li Xingyu burned paper money on her desk? What was this?
Just as she was wondering, she suddenly found a small piece of unburned paper money at the leg of the table. She picked it up, spread it on her hand, turned it over, and her eyes widened immediately.

Her name was actually written on the paper money!
Although half of the character "曦" has been burned off, it can still be accurately identified. The two characters on top are indeed "何曦", there is no mistake.

He Xi felt a chill down his spine.

By writing a living person's name on paper money, is she cursing her?
Although she always felt that Li Xingyu was always weird and inexplicable, she didn't hate her so much, right? Did she have to curse her to death?
At this time, Li Xingyu came in with a wet towel in her hand. She wiped He Xi's table clean in a few strokes and then wiped the water off it with toilet paper.

"Okay, it's clean, you can sit down."
After she finished speaking, she ran out of the classroom again.

He Xi looked at her back, frowned slightly, and felt unhappy.

She sat in her seat, put her schoolbag into the desk, looked at the stains on her thumb and index finger, stood up, went to the bathroom to wash her hands, and went to the toilet before returning to the classroom.

The classroom was empty, so He Xi took out a small notebook from her schoolbag, opened it, and looked at the two candy wrappers inside that were used as bookmarks. She couldn't help but smile knowingly, and threw all her unhappiness out of her mind.

After Ning Xiaoduo was gone, she could finally carry her favorite things with her openly.
She still remembered that when she was in junior high school, she wore the silver swallowtail butterfly hairpin given by her adoptive mother on her head. Ning Xiaoduo saw it and said that she was too ostentatious. Without saying a word, she pulled it off and threw it to the ground.

Fortunately, the hairpin was of good quality and was not broken, otherwise she would have blamed herself so much.

From then on, she no longer dared to carry her precious things with her, for fear that Ning Xiaoduo would go crazy one day and damage them.

But on the first day of school on August 8, when the last straw broke the camel's back for He Xi, she was completely desperate and put the swallowtail butterfly hairpin back in her hair.
She thought: Wearing the gift my mother gave me, my mother should be able to recognize me when I get there.

Unexpectedly, she met Mingmei. At that moment, she felt that the sun had suddenly risen.

She had just washed her hands with cold water, so they were a little cold. She rubbed her hands, put her fingers in front of her mouth and blew out hot air, looking at the icicles outside the window. Suddenly, an impulse emerged in her heart. While Li Xingyu was not in the classroom yet, she moved to her seat.

Her seat is next to the window, so she can always enjoy the scenery outside.

She stretched her neck, put her mouth close to the window, and let out a long breath.

The hot air quickly rose up, forming a cloud of white mist on the window. While the mist was still there, He Xi immediately extended his index finger and wrote the word "Ming" on the mist.

She also wanted to write the word "Mei" at the end, but unfortunately there was no extra space. When she was about to take another breath, she heard a noise in the corridor, as if someone was about to come in.

He Xi was startled and wiped off the white mist in a hurry.

Thus, the word "Ming" that was written with "handsome eyebrows and clear eyes" became perfectly invisible and turned into a mess under the smearing of fingers.

"Boom, boom," He Xi's heart was beating wildly, and he was as nervous as if he had done something bad and was discovered.

……

After the afternoon classes ended, the boarding students hurried to the cafeteria to eat, while the day students went outside the campus to reward their hungry stomachs.

Ever since Ming Mei was removed from her position as announcer at the radio station, He Xi hasn't listened to the radio for a long time.

She also followed the trend of day students and went outside the school.

The school gate was bustling with activity.

There were a few boys dressed like gangsters, sitting on the flower bed beside the wall. They picked up a wooden stick and shoveled the soil there out of boredom, as if they were waiting for someone.
The security guard came to drive them away several times, and they came back again after the security guard returned to the security room.
After so much going on, the security guard got tired of it and simply stopped paying attention.

Day students are still walking out of the school one after another in groups, buying fried skewers at the stalls at the school gate, drinking milk tea in the typhoon shelter opposite, or absorbing knowledge in the bookstore next door, enjoying a leisurely and comfortable life.

He Xi went to a nearby noodle shop and had a bowl of noodles. After the steaming noodles went into his stomach, his whole body warmed up.

Not long after, two girls holding milk tea walked into the noodle shop, "Boss, two small bowls of mixed sauce noodles."
They found an empty seat and sat down. They sipped their milk tea in sync. One of the girls exclaimed, "This new product from Bifengtang is really delicious."
Another girl agreed: "Yeah, it's really delicious."

Their expressions were filled with sweet satisfaction, and it was obvious that they were sincere.

He Xi was inspired by them and still felt a little hungry even after eating a big bowl of noodles.
He Xi couldn't suppress his greed, so after paying the bill, he took the initiative to walk into the typhoon shelter opposite the school.

The decoration of the Typhoon Shelter is very trendy, with the lights shining like stars. A large rectangle is framed on the right wall, painted pink and covered with sticky notes of various sizes.

She walked closer to the white wall and looked carefully at the sticky notes on it. Different names were written on the stickers, but what they had in common was that they were all good wishes.

For example, "So-and-so and XXX will grow old together and never separate", "So-and-so loves XXX all his life", and "So-and-so and XXX will be good friends forever".

While He Xi was still looking, a small white hand suddenly reached out and put a sticky note on the upper right side of her sight.
She looked up and saw the note saying, "May everything go well for Li Bufan."

He Xi turned around, looked at the girl in front of him, and said hesitantly: "You seem to have covered up someone else's sticky note."

The girl smiled sweetly: "There is no extra space, and it won't be a problem. After this wall is full, the store will clear it all. You want to write too? I happen to have an extra sticky note here, how about I give you one?"

"No, thank you." He Xi turned and walked towards the bar.

If the girl had come a little later, if He Xi had looked a little faster, he would have been able to notice the covered sticky note.
The covered sticky note read: "May He Xi be safe and happy."
The handwriting is like flying dragons and dancing phoenixes, with a momentum that can swallow mountains and rivers. It is a bright handwriting.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

The business at the Typhoon Shelter was very good, and the bar was crowded with students. He Xi stood at the back and waited for a long time. Finally, it was her turn, but a noisy voice came from behind her:
"Boss, I want five cups of the new milk tea!"
A tall boy squeezed in and pushed He Xi aside.

"Boss, hurry up! Five cups of new milk tea, take away!" The boy was still yelling.

He Xi sighed silently and said, "Never mind, let's wait a little longer."

Unexpectedly, the waiter said to the boy: "I'm sorry, this female student came first, so she should order first. Please wait a moment." The waiter looked at He Xi again: "Hello, classmate, what would you like to drink?"

(End of this chapter)