Chapter 16 Pupa (4)

June 12 at 19:30 in the evening A moonless night. Shang Xiaodie was dragged into the school theater by both, and today is their rehearsal day.Zhuang Qiushui had already changed into his costume, and when he saw Xiaodie, he lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, I was rude this afternoon, please forgive me." She looked at Zhuang Qiushui in embarrassment, and understood that he was apologizing for the last sentence of the afternoon: "It's okay, I didn't say I was angry." "What are you talking about?" Shuangshuang couldn't understand what they were saying, "What kind of impolite?"

"It's nothing." Zhuang Qiushui shook his head, "Let's go in and change, or Sun Tzuchu will scold him again." Ten minutes later, "Liang Shanbo" and Yin Xintian Qiaoer had a fight.Sun Tzu Chu also put on the costume, and it turned out that he also played the cameo role of Ma Wencai, Liang Shanbo's "rival in love". A student who played tricks did not come, and Sun Tzuchu insisted on making up the number.His sharp eyes swept across the stage, and finally fell on Shang Xiaodie.Although this girl is not pretty, but her eyes are quite elegant, he said loudly: "Hey, this girl, please go backstage and change your clothes."

"Ah—" Xiaodie stood up unexpectedly, pointed at herself and asked, "Are you talking about me?" "Yes, it's you! Don't dawdle, go backstage." The others didn't expect that, but Shuangshuang happily grabbed Xiaodie's hand: "Come and go backstage with me, I'll change your clothes for you." Xiaodie completely lost her mind and was dragged into the background by Shuangshuang.Lu Shuangshuang changed her into a pink Hanfu, just like the village girls written in Tang poems, if they were more beautiful, they would be "the peach blossoms on the human face".

In the first act, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai appear on stage, followed by the bookboy Sijiu and the maid Yinxin.Zhu Yingtai disguised herself as a man and went to study in the academy. When she met a robber on her way, Liang Shanbo helped her after she left.Shuangshuang deliberately wanted to get closer to Zhuang Qiushui, but was pulled away by "Zhu Yingtai".Swords are on the verge of breaking out on the stage, and Zhu Yingtai is going to fight Yinxin's master and servant one-on-one. "Heroes to save the beauty" turned into a group of heroes PK, and everyone entered the gate of the academy fighting and noisy.

In the second act, Han Chuang studies hard.Sun Tzuchu played Ma Wencai and made his debut, just like a playboy.But he was very dissatisfied with Tian Qiaoer, thinking that her performance was fake and contrived, not at all like Zhu Yingtai in the drama, not even a vase.His criticisms were merciless, and he even threatened to replace him if he failed to perform well!Tian Qiaoer is usually the "school belle" who is spoiled by everyone, how can she stand such humiliation?He bit his lip and turned his head away, trying not to let the tears fall. The third act is the popular "Eighteen Gifts".The girl who played a role came on stage, and Xiaodie followed closely behind.It was inevitable that I was nervous when I was on stage for the first time, and I accidentally bumped into "Zhu Yingtai".Tian Qiaoer was just posing for a pose, but was suddenly knocked down to the ground, in a panic.Xiaodie kept apologizing and wanted to help her up, but the "school beauty" pushed her away angrily, stood up and pointed at Xiaodie's nose and said, "What do you mean? Are you trying to embarrass me on purpose?"

Having just been scolded by grandson Chu, Tian Qiaoer was holding back her anger, and scolded Xiaodie severely.Zhuang Qiushui couldn't stand it and said, "Forget it, she has already apologized, so please stop talking." Tian Qiao'er became even more angry: "You guys are deliberately embarrassing me! If you want to play Zhu Yingtai, just say it yourself, why use such despicable means!" This scene of "Liang Shanbo" PK "Zhu Yingtai" can be described as the most naughty episode in the history of Liang Zhu. "Send Eighteen" ended in confusion, and even "I have a little sister Jiumei" was omitted.

The next scene skips directly to "The Tower Meeting".Sun Tzuchu interrupted Tian Qiaoer's performance several times until the end of the fourth act. When "Zhu Yingtai" bid farewell, he said affectionately: "Shan Bo, if I can't spend this life with you, Yingtai would like to return to the Butterfly Cemetery and be with you again." You continue the frontier!" Before he finished speaking, "Liang Shanbo"'s face changed, and there was no "butterfly cemetery" in his lines. "Butterfly Cemetery" sounded like a death knell in the huge theater.The whole theater fell silent, and all the actors looked at "Zhu Yingtai".Xiaodie's palms were also sweating, if she hadn't supported her with both hands, she might not be able to stand steadily.

butterfly cemetery Grandson Chu, who was still dressed up by Ma Wen, came back to his senses, jumped to the center of the stage and said loudly: "This is the end of today's rehearsal! Everyone can go back." Then he turned and stared at "Zhu Yingtai" and said, "Are you taking revenge on me?" Tian Qiaoer was also frightened. She knew that the trouble came from her mouth, she quickly covered her mouth, shook her head and said, "No, I didn't mean it. I don't know why, Hu——no, those four words just blurted out. " Sun Tzuchu sarcastically said: "I think you are a ghost!"

June 12 at 21:20 p.m. The rehearsal broke up badly. After Shang Xiaodie changed her clothes and said goodbye to Shuangshuang, she saw Zhuang Qiushui outside the theater—strange, why wasn't he with Shuangshuang?She followed Zhuang Qiushui to a path where no one was around, and suddenly said behind his back: "Hi!" Zhuang Qiushui turned around vigilantly, and saw Xiaodie's face under the street lamp: "I'm scared to death! Don't wander around outside casually at night, go back to the dormitory and sleep early." Shang Xiaodie raised her head boldly: "Because we just came out of the butterfly cemetery? There will be danger at any time? Like sisters Bai Shuang and Bai Lu, the missing Meng Bingyu, and other legendary people?"

"Even so." "Meng Bingyu looked for you before she disappeared, right? She asked you about the Butterfly Cemetery?" "Okay, I admit, she wants my help. But I advised her not to go there, just said some legends casually, and didn't reveal the location of the 'Butterfly Cemetery' at all. She can find it by herself, it's hers Good fortune is also her bad luck." Zhuang Qiushui walked quickly to the student dormitory through the path covered by green trees.Xiaodie followed him closely and asked: "Hey, don't leave, answer my question! What else did Meng Bingyu say?"

He finally stopped, his face hidden behind the shadow of the leaves, and said, "The real purpose of her search for the Butterfly Cemetery—ghost beauty!" "Ah, ghost beauty?" Xiaodie thought of the woman in white clothes and long hair, with a demonic aura in her classic eyes.At the same time, she thought of the last two sentences recorded in Meng Bingyu's notebook—— I'm back from the butterfly cemetery I found the ghost beauty Meng Bingyu said that she found a "ghost beauty" in the butterfly cemetery. Is it a human or a ghost? "It's a butterfly!" Zhuang Qiushui said while walking in a dull tone, "'Ghost Beauty' is an abbreviation, or a nickname given by explorers, and the internationally recognized scientific name is 'Kashinf Ghost Beauty Swallowtail'. " "Kashinf ghost beauty?" "Also referred to as 'Kashin butterfly', named after the discoverer's surname, just like 'Przewalski horse is referred to as Przewalski's horse. Kashin is a White Russian doctor who went into exile in China in the 1920s. In a mysterious valley in Yunnan, he discovered a This is a very weird butterfly - the wings on the left and right sides are different, the left side is a beautiful woman, the right side is a skeleton, together it is a 'ghost beauty'! Kashenfu published a paper in the American Journal of Biology and sent it to A unique specimen of 'ghost beauty'. This butterfly only exists in ancient legends, and it shocked the world immediately." "'Ghost Beauty' is a rare species of butterfly?" "Not only rare, but also mysterious. There are more than 14,000 kinds of butterflies recorded in the world, which are divided into 16 families according to different morphological structures, evolutionary development and blood relationship, and each family is divided into several genera. There are Among the twelve families, 'Kashinf's Ghost Beauty Swallowtail' belongs to the Papilionidae. People suspect that this butterfly has long been extinct, and once it is found, it will be a rare treasure and has extremely high research value." "How did you know?" "Professor Ning from the Department of Biology told me that he once told me secretly: Legend has it that in a certain corner of the city, there is a place called 'Butterfly Cemetery', which hides 'ghost beauty'. Meng Bingyu is A well-recognized top student in the department, she often helps the professor as an experimental assistant, and I believe Professor Ning has said the same thing to her." "Maybe we need to talk to Professor Ning." "Well, I'll contact him tomorrow. There is one more thing, Meng Bingyu and I both know—" He turned his head, and the dim street light shone in his eyes, "There is a research institution in the United States that offers rewards around the world $100,000, if you want to buy a specimen of 'Kashinf's Ghost Beauty Swallowtail', $250,000 if you capture a live one." Shang Xiaodie suddenly realized: "Meng Bingyu searched for the Butterfly Cemetery at all costs, and the reason why he wanted to get the 'ghost beauty' was the reward of 250,000 US dollars!" "At least it's part of the motivation. But I think the most important thing is the natural curiosity and desire of exploration of human beings. Meng Bingyu always thought that I had been to the 'Butterfly Cemetery'-in fact, I only entered it for the first time the night before yesterday. I If she never goes there, and I don’t want to give her any help, I have a premonition that something will happen to her. Sure enough, she quickly disappeared from the world.” The girls' dormitory building was in sight, and the dormitory supervisor cast a suspicious look again.Zhuang Qiushui shook his head and said, "Don't think too much, go to bed early. Remember—don't run out at night!" "I'll listen to you." Xiaodie resumed her weak tone, "Good night." 22:05 on the night of June 12 She can't sleep. Tossing and turning on the upper bunk for a long time, I always feel uncomfortable in the joints.It's rare for Tian Qiaoer to come back early, maybe she has been stimulated a lot tonight, so she wants to go to bed early.Song You and Manli are discussing the World Cup in the lower bunk. Tonight is Japan vs Australia. Xiaodie turned on the small bedside lamp, and flipped through Xiao Ding's.She is a member of the Bertelsmann book club and bought the book online through the book club last week.In addition to unshakable suspense novels, she also loves to read fantasy novels such as "Zhu Xian" and "Kyushu", and sometimes leaves comments on Xiao Ding's blog.As for why Shang Xiaodie likes "Zhu Xian", in addition to the story of the novel, it is also because the name of the protagonist Zhang Xiaofan is similar to her. After reading for an hour, she took off her glasses and went to sleep.Just when I felt sleepy, Zhuang Qiushui's voice sounded in my ears: "Damn it! Didn't I save you last night!" Panicked, she opened her eyes. She was still in the dark bedroom, with cold sweat seeping from her back vest—it was still Zhuang Qiushui's words, they had all entered the Butterfly Cemetery, and that terrible legend seemed to be true.Perhaps fate opened the gates of hell to them at the same time. "Am I going to die?" Xiaodie asked herself silently in her heart, and then answered, "But I don't regret it." Jin Lingzi called. Song You naturally jumped up from the bed, and was furious at Xiaodie again.In the past two days, Song You was a little nervous, because the death of his roommate Bai Lu made everyone live in fear.Especially when sleeping in the dormitory at night, she was always worried that Bai Lu would return to the bed and lift their quilts one by one. Shang Xiaodie tightly protected Jin Lingzi until Song You was tired and continued to sleep. Besides Lu Shuangshuang, Chongzi is her only friend. When she was a child, only bugs were close to her. Except for the coldest season, these little guys are everywhere and all the time.Almost all girls hate flies and cockroaches.Mothers have always taught their children that when they see flies, they should be swat to death or driven away, and bugs can spread diseases.But Shang Xiaodie is an exception (of course she has no mother since she was a child), she never tramples cockroaches to death, and lets them crawl around, unless she gets close to food before waving them away. Wherever she goes, there will be a lot of insects. When she was in elementary school, Xiaodie often squatted on the ground to watch the ants move, and the ants also performed hard until the teacher came and dragged her back to the classroom.Those rare and beautiful insects such as morning glory and golden beetle always appear around her, and on a whim, she will catch a few and bring them home to raise. From crickets to katydids to golden bells, she has raised almost all chirping insects.Sometimes there are three cages called katydids hanging on the window sill at the same time, and there are seven or eight cricket jars on the ground-it's like a boy.Every spring, she raises silkworm babies. She likes to watch silkworms weave their silk, from ugly worms to hard white cocoons, and finally break out of the cocoons and emerge as moths. Both classmates and teachers thought she was weird, and felt that a bunch of bugs would fly out of her body at any time.If things go on like this, it becomes a vicious circle, the more she has no friends, the more she likes bugs, and the more she likes bugs, the less friends she has.Therefore, she felt it was a blessing from heaven to have a good friend like Shuangshuang at S University. In the memories about the bugs, Shang Xiaodie gradually fell asleep. Hope to sleep well. June 13 at 6:40 am Unfortunately, Shang Xiaodie still didn't sleep well. From night to morning, I only felt that the bed under me had turned into the wild grass of "Ghost Creek", and my back had turned into a red schoolbag.The wild grass grew wildly, piercing her body until it penetrated into the bone, turning into a sharp saw, sawing her into dozens of pieces, and the blood vessels sang midnight songs... When I woke up, my whole body was so sore, especially the joints in my legs, that I could barely lift it.She put on her glasses and struggled to get out of bed.She wondered if she would die anytime soon, like Rime or anyone else who had been "there." Fortunately, I can still live to brush my teeth. In the mirror, my mouth is full of white toothpaste foam.My eyes felt even more wrong, and the more I looked at myself, the more dizzy I became.It's just that the freckles on the face seem to be less, and the acne is not so obvious. Could it be that the new facial cleanser these two days has worked?I leaned closer to the mirror and took a closer look, and my skin became clearer, whiter and tenderer.She touched her face, but still couldn't believe it.No, probably another hallucination.Closing her eyes and spitting out mouthwash, Shang Xiaodie rushed out of the bathroom. The corridor in the early morning was silent, and I ran out of the dormitory building unknowingly and came to the dew-filled campus path. Strangely, her bones were getting more and more painful, but there seemed to be some kind of voice in her ears - she couldn't see the dormitory building when she turned her head, and there were dense bushes all around. She walked blankly for a while, and suddenly broke into the flower garden of the school. It is this flowery place again, with desolate buildings in front of it.She immediately remembered that early morning, when the beauty and the skeleton butterfly brought her to the "ghost creek". My heart beat faster, but I couldn't help walking forward until I saw the blooming oleander flower.In the early morning, the small river was filled with mist, and the turbid dark green water surface was calm, but the mysterious dark red schoolbag was missing. Suddenly, there was a dark shadow in the oleander leaves, walking through the bright flowers like a ghost.Shang Xiaodie almost fell down in fright, but after passing the Butterfly Cemetery, she became more courageous and quietly walked into the woods. The man raised his head suddenly, and through a cluster of beautiful branches and leaves, Xiaodie saw a pair of slender and sharp eyes. "Zhuang Qiushui?" She immediately called out his name, and his eyes widened unexpectedly, his feet slipped and he almost fell into the river. The boy who was originally bold was frightened like this—these two days were spent in panic and turmoil.For three days, he still firmly believed that anyone who had been to the "Butterfly Cemetery" would be retaliated by some mysterious power. But now, he hoped that it was just an absurd legend, and the "Butterfly Cemetery" was just an old house. Accidents are purely coincidental.However, Zhuang Qiushui couldn't convince himself, so he could only smile bitterly in embarrassment: "Why are you here?" "That's what I should ask you." "It was you who told me that I found Meng Bingyu's schoolbag here. So I came over to see if there was anything else that was missed." He walked out of the oleander forest with a serious expression, and turned his head to look at the muddy river. , "Then what are you doing here?" Xiaodie didn't want to answer, and she couldn't explain it herself.Suddenly, Zhuang Qiushui called out: "What is that red one?" Looking along his fingers, there is a red thing hidden in the weeds close to the bank of the "Ghost Creek". It's the red lady's shoe. Shang Xiaodie remembered that he hadn't told him about the shoes the day before yesterday.Zhuang Qiushui walked carefully to the river, knelt down and looked at the women's shoe.A red mid-heel shoe looks small and exquisite, exquisite and attractive, but there is a lot of dirt on the surface. The red women's shoes by the "ghost creek" may have been lying here for many days and nights, alone with this pool of green water - no one in Yedu has "shoes" on their own. Zhuang Qiushui's fingers trembled violently, with fear and longing in his eyes, he finally grabbed the mysterious women's shoe. This is not Cinderella's glass slipper, it seems to be the red dancing shoes of "Ghost Beauty". Xiaodie shook her head in surprise, she didn't expect Zhuang Qiushui to pick up this shoe - if she saw a dirty shoe by the side of the road, no normal person would touch it with her hands (except for trash pickers). What surprised her even more was that Zhuang Qiushui soaked the shoes in the river.The small red shoes submerged in the dark green water, and ripples appeared, as if a young woman was going down the river to take a shower. She walked up to Zhuang Qiushui quietly, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?" "Do not talk!" Zhuang Qiushui's hands also dipped into the "Ghost Creek".Xiaodie closed her eyes in fright, she thought that the dark green liquid, like a harmful chemical reagent, would corrode his poor hand in no time, leaving only the bony fingers. However, his hand actually shook a few times in the water and washed the shoe with the river water.After a while, he lifted the shoe, and the river water had washed away the dirt on its surface.The bright red color of the shoes was revealed, and the beautiful shape was even more eye-catching, giving off a wet and dazzling reflection. Xiaodie looked at the shoes with trepidation, as if she had put them on her feet. Zhuang Qiushui held the shoe in front of his eyes, looked it up and down carefully, and suddenly said tremblingly: "This is the shoe!" "What shoes?" "Meng Bingyu's shoes, she has been wearing these shoes for a few days before she disappeared. This is also her favorite pair of shoes. Every time she attends a party such as karaoke, she will wear this pair of beautiful red shoes. Countless boys' eyeballs." His eyes were still fixed on the shoes, "I will not be mistaken, these are the shoes, Meng Bingyu's red shoes." "No wonder her schoolbag is here, but why did she leave her shoes by the river? And there's only one shoe." "The only reason is—" He fixed his eyes on the dark green river water, as if he could see everything at the bottom of the river. "You mean?" Shang Xiaodie covered her mouth, not daring to speak out the conjecture behind it. Zhuang Qiushui was also silent for a moment, and finally said the most terrifying conjecture: "Is she down there?" "No! It won't...it won't..." Suddenly, he grabbed Xiaodie's hand and said coldly: "Let's go back, don't stay in this ghost place." Just as Zhuang Qiushui was about to drag her away, he stepped on a stone.The morning dew made the stone wet and slippery, and he immediately lost his center of gravity and fell backward with his whole body. The most terrible thing is that his hand was still subconsciously grabbing Xiaodie, and the two of them were dragged to the "ghost creek" together—— For a while, the sky was spinning, and red oleanders, light green wild grass, and dark green turbid water were flying around... In a tenth of a second, the green water rushed towards her ferociously, and before she could open her mouth to make a sound, the capillaries had already contracted violently with the river water, and a feeling of bone-chilling cold spread throughout her body. "thump!" The first one to fall into the water was Zhuang Qiushui, followed by Shang Xiaodie. The "ghost creek" stirred up high water splashes, which wet Meng Bingyu's red shoes on the bank of the river. After a few seconds, calm was restored, and a mist drifted to cover the creek, and it seemed that these two people had never been there. They just disappeared?