She is in the fog

Seeing Mingmei and He Xi become deskmates, He Jiahe felt inexplicably nervous.
Will Mingmei be like herself in the past, who was regarded as a deliberate provocation by Ning Xiaoduo because she was friends with He Xi, and was bullied and isolated every day together with He Xi, and finally had to announce the breakup of her friendship with He Xi?

The feeling of worry only lasted for a moment, and He Jiahe breathed a sigh of relief again.
Anyway, she has nothing to do with He Xi anymore, so what does other people's life and death have to do with her?

"Forgive me for my uninhibited and free-spirited love of life, but I am also afraid that one day I will fall..."
It's "Boundless Oceans, Vast Skies" again.

Zhong Nuo took out his phone as usual. He didn't know what the other end said. Zhong Nuo just replied, "Okay, I'll be right there."

After hanging up the phone, Zhong Nuo said, "Qin Yiran, have you finished counting the heights and sizes of your classmates?"

"The statistics are complete, but there is still one new student missing."

Zhong Nuo then asked, "Mingmei, what is your height and shoe size?"

Mingmei was a little confused, but she still answered obediently: "I'm 36 meters tall, and my shoes are size ."

"Come with me, students, to the Academic Affairs Office to get the camouflage uniforms for military training."

"I go!"
Several male students in the class volunteered to raise their hands.

Soon, several boys followed Zhong Nuo's steps and headed towards the Academic Affairs Office in a heroic and high-spirited manner.

Military training at the beginning of the school year is a tradition of Nanzhou No. 1 Middle School. In order to help students get rid of their holiday laziness and hone their will, except for senior high school students, all other students have to undergo a week of military training every year.

He Xi looked at the camouflage uniform and yellow rubber shoes in front of him, and put them into his schoolbag expressionlessly. Turning his head, he saw Ming Mei's embarrassed look. She opened her mouth to ask about the situation, but saw the military training instructor walk into the classroom, so she shut her mouth immediately and stopped talking.

The instructor’s name was Jian Chun, a junior student at the Nanzhou Police Academy, only a few years older than his classmates.
Jian Chun is the only female among the military training instructors this time. She has neat short hair and wears camouflage uniform. She is neither tall nor short, with a very straight posture. Her skin is bronze, her face is full of determination, and she exudes a unique temperament.

She first explained the rules of military training, and then taught everyone to sing "Unity is Strength".
Her voice was firm and inspiring.

Before eleven o'clock, Jian Chun completed today's tasks and left the classroom.

Zhong Nuo announced that it was time to start cleaning.
The group He Xi was in was arranged to the basketball court area.

He Xi was holding a bamboo broom and sweeping the debris on the basketball court diligently.
Mingmei was holding a dustpan in one hand and a pair of tongs in the other, moving among the flower beds like a light red butterfly.

He Xi just glanced at her once more during the break, and there was only one thought in his mind: She is so beautiful, she is so elegant even when picking up trash.

However, after a moment, this thought was shattered into powder.

Several familiar figures came into her sight again.
It’s Ning Xiaoduo and the others.

Unlike the fearlessness of facing death in the morning, the familiar feeling of fear returned to his body. He Xi subconsciously wanted to escape, but found that the basketball court was empty and there was no place to hide at all.

So she could only stand there and wait for the devil to come.

Ning Xiaoduo approached, glanced at her casually, then lowered her head, picking at her nails out of boredom, and said without raising her head: "Are you free? Come with me to the rooftop?"

"I... I still have to clean." He Xi clenched the bamboo broom in his hand and took a step back timidly.

Hearing this, Ning Xiaoduo raised her head, glanced around, and said loudly: "Everyone, I have something to ask He Xi. She can't help you clean up today. I think you don't mind, right?"

All the students present held their breath and shook their heads like rattles.

Ning Xiaoduo then looked at He Xi and said, "Let's go."

He Xi swallowed silently, she knew what going to the rooftop meant.
My feet felt so heavy as if they were filled with lead and I couldn't take a single step.

Seeing this from a distance, Mingmei put down the dustpan and fire tongs in her hands and walked towards this direction in two steps.
She didn't know the reason, but she could still see He Xi's embarrassment and Ning Xiaoduo and the others' ill intentions.
She chose to walk to He Xi and asked with concern: "He Xi, what's wrong?"

Ning Xiaoduo looked Mingmei up and down. Seeing that she was not wearing a school uniform, she thought she was also a bad student, so she turned her head to He Xi and asked, "Who is she?"

"I'm not familiar with her. She's a new classmate in our class this semester." He Xi was afraid that Mingmei would be implicated, so he immediately moved closer to Ning Xiaoduo and kept some distance from Mingmei.

"A new classmate——"
Ning Xiaoduo deliberately dragged out the ending of the sentence. She looked at Mingmei with a playful smile on her face. A second later, she returned to her coldness and said in a warning tone, "Mind your own business, okay?"

"There are too many people here," He Xi quickly interrupted, "Let's go to the rooftop to talk."

Ning Xiaoduo smiled brightly upon hearing this, squinted her eyes and clapped her hands, then said word by word: "Very good."

The tone was slow and light, but it sounded like the sentence of the god of death, which made He Xi shudder.

Ning Xiaoduo walked up to He Xi, naturally took her hand, and said with a smile: "You are sensible. You don't know how bored I was after not seeing you for a whole summer vacation. So I couldn't help but come to see you as soon as school started. Are you touched?"

He Xi didn't say anything, but frowned slightly.

It hurts, it hurts so much. Ning Xiaoduo seemed to be holding He Xi's arm in a friendly manner, but in fact, her claws were twisting her arm with all her strength.

Ever since Ning Xiaoduo started to hold a grudge against He Xi, his body has always been covered with bruises and he has never had a good day.

……

The sun was scorching, burning the rusty iron railings on the rooftop. Ning Xiaoduo slapped He Xi in the face, raised her leg and kicked her to the railings, hitting the iron railings with a heavy sound.

He Xi finally fell to the ground. His lower abdomen hurt a little because of the solid kick, and he couldn't help but curl up slightly.

The next second, several feet stepped on her at the same time.
The kicks rained down.
All kinds of insulting words immediately flooded into her ears.

"I feel like I'm dirtying my hands just by hitting you!"
"Don't you even look at your own status? How dare you covet the person that Sister Ning likes?"
"shameless!"
"Who are you showing your dying face to?"

I don’t know how long it took.

It lasted so long that she thought she was about to die. The abuser finally stopped, complaining breathlessly.
"Don't mention it, this is still a physical job."
"Why isn't she moving? Is she dead?"

One of the girls quickly stretched out her finger to feel her breath, and then breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay, she's still breathing."

Ning Xiaoduo then kicked him again and frowned, "You've learned to play dead, haven't you?"

Another girl was afraid that someone might die, so she quickly advised, "Sister Ning, the sun is quite strong today. It would be bad if you get tanned. How about we leave?"

"It's so hot." Ning Xiaoduo stretched out her hand to fan her face, squinted at the sun in the sky, then pursed her lips and spat at He Xi on the ground. Only then did she feel a little happier.

"You're lucky!"
After saying this, Ning Xiaoduo and a few of his followers left the rooftop without looking back.

He Xi lay motionless on the ground, as quiet as death.
After a long while, he finally climbed up with the help of the railing.
It hurts. There is no place on my body that doesn’t hurt.
A fishy smell rose to his throat, and He Xi swallowed hard and swallowed it into his stomach.

She looked at the distant scenery through the railing. The sunlight was dazzling and the overlapping light and shadows made her feel dizzy and dazzled.

She also forgot how she walked down the rooftop step by step, and how she walked back home step by step.

At night, it started to rain lightly in Nanzhou City again.
He Xi sat at the desk in her pajamas, listening to the sound of rain outside the window and looking at the transparent laser candy wrapper in her hand, seeming to be lost in thought.

After a while, she raised the corner of her mouth slightly, put the candy wrapper into the drawer, took out the suicide note she had written in the classroom that morning from her schoolbag, tore it into pieces, and threw it into the trash can on the table.

At 6:20 the next day, He Xi's alarm clock rang on time.
She opened her eyes, quickly turned off the alarm, and then stretched contentedly.
My whole body aches, but I have a good sleep.

When I walked out of the community, the sun had already begun to take shape as a scorching sun.

Sure enough, if you have military training, it will be sunny.

Before 7:30, all the students in the class were already there.

Mingmei on the side was wearing camouflage clothes and had long hair draped over her shoulders.

He Xi was just wondering why she didn't tie her hair, and the next second he saw her take out a small mirror and a comb from her schoolbag.

Her delicate eyebrows and eyes were reflected in the mirror. She gathered her hair and combed it carefully.

He Xi observed that Mingmei's neck was snow-white, thin and long, like a white swan, except that a strand of long hair was left behind and had not been combed up.

Then, she did the most daring thing in her life.
She reached out her hand, picked up the strand of hair, and intended to hand it to Mingmei.

The moment the warm fingertips touched the neck, the bright white skin was covered with a thin layer of pink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and suddenly, as if a spring breeze came, thousands of cherry trees bloomed.

He Xi immediately regretted his abrupt behavior.
She hastily withdrew her hand and whispered, "I'm sorry, I just saw that you had a strand of hair that was not tied up."

"Ah, I didn't notice it." Mingmei adjusted her posture and glanced at the mirror. Sure enough, she saw a strand of long hair missing from the back of her neck. She gathered the hair up again, as if she didn't care about what happened just now.

Soon after, the head teacher Zhong Nuo also arrived in the classroom. She told everyone some precautions and asked everyone to wait in the classroom for a while. Until the military training mobilization meeting was about to begin, she let everyone carry their own stools to the playground under the scorching sun.

After the military training mobilization meeting, the students took their stools back to the classroom and hurried back to the playground.

With a whistle, Jian Chun led the three teams in a company to start training.

Because the weather was very hot, the students in the class did not wear camouflage jackets, only camouflage short-sleeved shirts, but there were two exceptions.

One is He Xi and the other is Ming Mei.

(End of this chapter)