Chapter 367: Sudden Changes in Birthmarks
"That's right. And after searching for several days without any trace, your uncle Liang came to my house in the middle of the night to question me, asking if I was seeing things. After all, his fellow villagers often go to that place to cut pig grass and have never seen it, but my mother and I saw it. Maybe it was really an illusion."
Zhao Mei urged Ye Xiaomei to go to sleep:
"The quilt has kept me warm. Now, the days are getting shorter. It's still dark when you go to school in the morning. Go to bed early."
Even though Ye Xiaomei lay down and turned off the lights, she just couldn't fall asleep.
Ye Xiaomei felt that this was not a coincidence. Zhao Mei felt that business was not going well now, so she opened the store at five in the morning.
Ye Xiaomei didn't sleep a wink the whole night. Before going to school, she went to the guesthouse and found out that a barbarian had indeed stayed there last night.
The locals divide the accents into two groups. Northerners call southerners "nanmanzi", and you can still hear the flavor even when they speak Mandarin.
People in the south call people with northern accents "bei qiao zi", because they speak with heavier intonations.
Ye Xiaomei left a note and hurried to school.
She didn’t know if it was a psychological effect, but when she was in class, she just watched the teacher swaying on the podium, but her chest felt burning hot.
"Xiao Mei, can I go to your hometown to celebrate the New Year during this year's holiday?"
Shang Zhen raised his book to cover himself and poked Ye Xiaomei with his elbow.
Ye Xiaomei lowered her head to take notes, touching her chest from time to time. Every time she touched her chest and the cotton coat touched it, the temperature became more obvious.
"Xiao Mei." Seeing that she didn't reply, Shang Zhen poked her again.
With a snap, a half-broken piece of chalk fell on the table.
——Shang Zhen, don't think that you don't want to study anymore just because your grades have improved this semester. If you really don't want to study, improved grades don't mean that they will always be stable.
Shang Zhen was much more obedient now. After hearing this, he put down the book he was covering and took notes seriously.
In order to avoid being scolded after class, Ye Xiaomei wrote a word on a piece of paper: "OK."
As soon as the class was over, Ye Xiaomei hurried to the restroom. She carefully unbuttoned her clothes and saw that cold sweat broke out on her forehead.
What is this?
Ye Xiaomei pulled open her collar again and looked inside, and this time she saw that the originally small and not too obvious white snake mark had turned into a snake head.
Huh...shocked.
Ye Xiaomei quickly covered her collar, her heart beating like thunder. She seemed to have seen the totem pattern spreading to the body with the snake head as the center, but the viewing space was limited and she couldn't find where it extended to.
She felt that at this moment her mind was blank, with only the rumbling sound of thunder.
Is she going to turn into a giant snake?
Ye Xiaomei's back was immediately wet with sweat.
The bell for class rang, and Ye Xiaomei suddenly came to her senses. She straightened her buttons and ran out. The autumn wind blew into her clothes, and the parts that were wet with sweat just now became very cold.
She shivered from the cold.
Sitting in his seat, Shang Zhen said a lot of words.
——I heard that your village started construction this year.
——Xiao Mei. Do you think all the houses will look the same after the overall construction starts?
——If my mother hadn’t passed away, I would have had a few tiled houses like that.
——That’s my property too, isn’t it?
——Xiao Mei?
Ye Xiaomei didn't hear anything at all.
My mind is full of the changes that have taken place in the past two years.
From the moment I touched Ma Qijun, I couldn't help but think about that, and then I overheard Qin Rong's words. Later, the boss said that there was an egg in her god, and there was also what Qin Rong said in tent 615 about ghost possession.
Now the snake head on her body is vivid, with a forked tongue coming out of its mouth, and its eyes look like three-dimensional and can burst out of its body at any time.
How terrible...
"Everyone stand up."
——Hello, teacher.
Shang Zhen glanced sideways at Ye Xiaomei and poked her with his finger.
Ye Xiaomei came to her senses and saw that all the classmates had stood up. She then stood up, but the teacher's voice followed - students, please take a seat.
At that moment, Ye Xiaomei realized what it meant to stand out from the crowd. When she hurriedly sat down, Shang Zhen lowered his voice and said:
"You were distracted again? Where were you during the break? Everyone is talking about Teacher Qin's death. It's all in the newspapers, and you were still thinking about the genetic disease in their family?"
Ye Xiaomei's pupils shrank and she came back to her senses.
Really dead?
However, Ye Xiaomei might have taken this news seriously before, but now she has bigger problems, and she has no time to care whether Qin Rong is dead or alive.
After school was finally over, Shang Zhen scolded him all the way: "After all, you are a top student in No. 1 Middle School. If you keep dazed all day, your grades will be worse than mine sooner or later."
Ye Xiaomei still had a calm expression on her face and walked towards the school gate with her brows slightly lowered.
Shang Zhen was originally going back to the dormitory, but he followed her and said, "Didn't you teach me before that how can I know if I don't try? Cheer up, your dream is to go to university, a key university, and you also said that if you want to study, you must study for the highest degree."
"Did you hear me?"
Ye Xiaomei stopped walking after being pushed by Shang Zhen. She raised her head slowly and said in a panic:
"Yes, but what if I'm dying?"
After hearing this, Shang Zhen was stunned on the spot, wondering if she had contracted some terminal illness. When he came to his senses, Ye Xiaomei had already disappeared in the crowd of people leaving school.
Ye Xiaomei's mind was constantly going through every detail of the past, including the blood test in the hospital. It was definitely not a mechanical failure.
"Xiao Mei, why are you standing there like an idiot? Business is better this afternoon, and Nan Nan is probably taking extra classes. Come and give her a hand."
Ye Xiaomei slowly looked towards the dumpling restaurant. She had no idea when she arrived at her door.
I took off my schoolbag, put on my apron and sleeves, and started helping.
"This dumpling is too unpalatable. It's really a rip-off for me."
Ye Xiaomei looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man in his thirties wearing the most popular multi-pocket workwear. The high-necked sweater underneath was a little frayed.
He threw the chopsticks onto the rim of the bowl and they bounced high up.
At the same time, one, two, three middle-aged men all stood up one after another, some threw their chopsticks, and some even overturned the table with a bang.
Zhao Mei was shocked. She had never seen such an unreasonable person before. She forced a smile:
"Hey, big brother, our dumplings are famous here, they can't be bad."
Ye Xiaomei looked around and realized that these people were not students from the nearby school at all.
Bang! Someone slammed the table and said, "There's hair in the meat stuffing."
Zhao Mei was so anxious that she almost cried. She hurried forward to examine the half dumpling humbly: "This... this has no hair. Little brother, please don't embarrass a woman like me. The fillings for the dumplings in my family are all fresh. I always wash my hands and put on a headscarf to make them. I make each one myself. I won't serve any that have even a broken skin to the guests."
At this time, students who wanted to eat dumplings were standing at the door but didn’t dare to come in. Some were so scared that they ran away with their schoolbags.
The middle-aged man who overturned the table was wearing a peaked cap. He kicked the table and chairs aside and pointed at Zhao Mei fiercely and said:
"Unless you kneel down for me, this dumpling restaurant will be closed."
Zhao Mei was originally from the country, and when she encountered such a thing, she was so scared that her face turned pale and her hands holding the colander shook constantly.
Ye Xiaomei stepped forward and protected her mother behind her: "I am the owner of this store." Then she turned around and said, "Mom, go back first and call Sanmao at the canteen."
Zhao Mei was terrified, but she knew that the only one who could help her at this time was Sanmao, so she threw the colander to the ground and ran away. She stepped on a dumpling and almost slipped.
Until the back door of the store was closed.
"Hey hey" the leader suddenly laughed: "So you are the boss."
Ye Xiaomei ignored her and closed the roller shutter door with a click. Five or six middle-aged men were locked in the store.
The leader was stunned for a moment.
From the outside, it looked lively and bustling, but all one could hear were a mixture of bangs, snaps, and roars, especially the last one when a large piece of iron sheet protruded from the closing roller shutter door.
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