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Students who participated in the winter trip on Sunday

By Lista ReamPublished 3 years ago 7 min read

Winter is like a fluttering ghost, diving deep into every crevice of this city.

In the heyday of this winter, the school conducted a winter excursion and organized a hot spring for the students. I was eating when Zhang Shishi called. Looking at the English letters starting with B on the screen, I took a deep breath and pressed the call button.

"Hello, this is Talking Xia Xin."

Zhou Zhou, who was smearing curd onto the slices of bread, looked up at me and continued with her weird breakfast. The other side of the phone is the inaudible female voice, her speech is fast: "Talk Xia Xin, the school organized the winter tour you informed in the class, right, let the students who have signed up to participate in the winter tour Sunday morning at eight o'clock in front of the auditorium to gather, late."

"Okay, I got it." After hanging up the phone, I saw Zhou Zhou sizing me up with interest, "What are you looking at me for?"

"I guess this phone call is from Zhang Shishi."

"How do you know?"

"Only to answer her phone call is a look like a great enemy, close to putting on the armor with contradictions to rush up to kill with her."

I stared at the jam in front of the table, the heart of the tightly wrapped chrysalis slowly loosened, a small flying insect peeking out from inside, just when I was ready to speak, Zhou Zhou's phone rang.

I was like a car tire running over a nail, instantly deflated.

The change of events happened three days later, that morning I just woke up and received a phone call from Zhang Shishi, she gave me a head-to-head sentence: "Talking Xia Xin, I thought I told you to inform the students to gather at the entrance of the auditorium at 7 o'clock? It's already 6:50! Where are the students?"

I stood in front of the bathroom with my cell phone in my hand, Zhou Zhou, who had just finished her shower, came out dripping wet, her hand waved in front of me and asked, "What happened to you?"

My steps were a little weak, Zhou Zhou hurriedly held me up: "What's wrong?" She was warm, and the hot steam from the bathroom behind her steamed up and filled the small space.

"I was set up by Zhang Shishi." I gritted my teeth in hatred.

It was already 7:30 when I arrived at the entrance of the auditorium after re-notifying the students of the winter tour one phone call at a time, the tour bus was long gone, and the only person waiting there was Zhang Shishi with a face as heavy as water. In the face of the grievances of the students, she cleared her throat and opened her mouth: "Students do not get excited, the school is to notify the autumn tour activities at seven o'clock to the entrance of the auditorium assembly, out of time. Maybe I did not explain clearly or talk to Xia Xin students heard wrong, notice into eight o'clock, so there is this morning oops ......"

"No, when Mr. Zhang called me clearly said eight o'clock, I could not have misheard." I clenched my fist, looking at the masked face from the heart slowly flooding a sense of nausea, Zhou Zhou patted my hand, letting me rest a little, I pushed her away, "Teacher, in the end, you did not notify clearly or I misheard it?"

Zhang Shishi came towards me, I straightened my spine and stared at her, I thought she would say something, but she just shook her head, "Forget it, let's say it's my fault, I'm here to apologize, I'm an irresponsible counselor."

"Teacher, it's not your fault, you don't even have to defend Talking Xia Xin." A female voice rang out in the crowd, "Tal Ha Xin is not worthy of being a group secretary, not responsible at all, the last time I handed in my application to join the party, and did not help me re-submit it, later it was Mr. Zhang who helped me hand it in, I said this is simply Tal Ha Xin's fault, no sense of responsibility and sloppy now actually accusing others... ..."

The crowd exploded again, all kinds of voices intertwined, invading me a little bit along the air.

I looked at the girl named Qi Yue and turned my head toward Zhang Shishi, who was saying something to her classmates and patting Qi Yue's shoulder for comfort, as the crowd slowly dispersed and returned to where they belonged. I stood frozen in place, with Zhang Shishi standing not far from me, seemingly smiling, and seemingly not.

The large dark clouds covered the sun overhead, with a subtle light coming through the clouds, and she stood in the golden morning light, emitting a beautiful, enchanting fragrance. Only I know that this fragrance is full of poison.

My phone rang at this time, I looked at the familiar number and pressed the call button.

"Xia Xin, today is the weekend did you go somewhere to play?" The mother's voice was as gentle as ever, and she didn't wait for me to answer before she began to ask questions in a crackling voice: "Why haven't you called home in the past few days? Have you been too busy studying? How are you getting along with your roommate?"

I looked at the slowly distant figure and gritted my teeth for a long time before I could finish my sentence: "It's fine, my roommates are fine, I'm fine at school, and I'm going on a winter trip today!"

"That's good, that's good. How are you getting along with your teachers and classmates?"

The sky was sputtering sunrise, and the taste of blood in my mouth slowly spreading, I don't know how I answered her, it seems she also sensed my distraction, sighed, and asked me carefully, "Xia Xin, do you want to talk to your father on the phone? He wants to talk to you-"

"Mom," I shouted hard, and she seemed stunned by my sudden loudness, "I'll have something to do here, I'll call you some other time, that's all." I hung up the phone in a hurry after saying that.

The sourness in the nasal cavity is slowly flooding, my eyes are swollen by the wind as if something is going to spill out.

The saddest thing is not to weep and cry, is even the kind of stifled tears can not fall.

The first thing you need to do is to get a new phone, which is covered with beautiful colored diamonds, and she is picking at them with her pretty nails.

"I heard that the phone is going to be new again. Oh yeah, and didn't they say they were going to give me an iPad last time? How come I haven't seen one until now?" She complained: "Yesterday I bought a new bag, I intend to carry it during the winter tour, who knows bad luck, by a three-eighths can not go to the autumn tour, when to go together to Hong Kong around."

The person on the other end of the phone said something else, she laughed quietly, and then indignant: "I do not like living in this dormitory, a brain-dead fan, every day in addition to chasing stars to make money is to make money chasing stars, a cold to death, and a troublemaker, you say it, how a girl can be so rowdy, every day to make a bunch of things, this time you see, and make me go to the winter tour are I still want to wear that new bikini to the hot springs!"

I stood on the steps and watched Ji Kieran turn around with a smile on her face. She was startled when she saw me and Zhou Zhou, and the phone in her hand fell to the ground with a "pop", and the man on the phone was still loudly saying "hey hey hey". I looked at her, turned around and walked towards the dormitory, she picked up her phone and cursed something behind her, Zhou Zhou looked back at her, her voice was loud and her tone was never more vicious: "I also dislike this dormitory, because the dormitory lived in a 13 point that pretended to be B all day!

"Who are you talking about?"

"Who should I say is who ......"

They argued outside, I didn't bother to pay attention and gently closed the dormitory door. Lin Chaoyang was still in his seat watching LEN's concert, drooling at the screen with nymphomania. I lay on my bed and called Peng Xinan, ringing for a long time before I heard his deliberately low voice.

"Hello..."

"Hello, Pang Sinan where are you?"

"Is something wrong? I'm busy at the moment, so if there's nothing, I'll talk to you later."

I froze for a moment, said "hmm" and hung up the phone. The sound of screaming and cheering came from the speaker, and I covered my head with the blanket and slowly fell asleep to Len's impassioned soprano voice.

This sleep lasted from morning to evening, and I was a little confused when I was woken up by the phone as if I was dreaming. I pressed the call button in a daze and heard a mid-toned voice: "Hey, talk to Xia Xin, come down."

"Who are you?"

"This is Fu Yas, I'm under your dormitory, you come down, hurry up."

"How do you have my phone number?" I looked at the unfamiliar number on the screen, I don't remember giving him my phone number.

Fuas on the other end of the line was a little impatient, "If you have it, you have it! What do you care how I came, I said I waited for you for half an hour under your dormitory building, the phone call took so long before you answered, this will let me continue to blow the northwest wind and drink snow, you quickly come down!"

I stood at the window and looked down, Fu Yaz wearing a black dress, the whole person wrapped tightly, their hair shorter, sitting at the flower bed like a delicate sculpture.

If one of his hands is not in a cast hanging from the neck.

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