under hope

Before dawn, a female student walked out of the house early. The school had newly opened morning self-study.

It is now six o'clock in the morning. Everyone who has a vegetable patch at home has already turned on the lights and gotten up. The only ones who are still sleeping are the adults who have entered the society.

She was born in a middle-class family. Her family was neither poor nor particularly wealthy. She had no worries about food and clothing.

She had just walked out with her patched schoolbag on her back when her mother's stern scolding sounded from behind.

"Hello! Leave the eggs! It was not cooked for you in the first place."

My mother is a very stingy person, and she treats outsiders and family members the same way.

She had to return home obediently and take out the eggs in her pocket.

"This little brat, do you think I’ll really feed you? Go to school!"

The mother took the egg away with an ugly expression and urged her to go to school quickly.

In school, she was also a stingy person. Perhaps due to her mother's influence, she thought people should be like this. Her classmates asked her to borrow stationery. They all refused. Even when the teacher borrowed her red pen to mark homework, she had to ask for an IOU.

Recently, a new classmate came to the class. I heard that he was transferred from other places. She has a capable single ponytail and a lively and gentle personality.

On the contrary, this new classmate is very helpful and she will agree to it with a smile when her classmates ask her to borrow something.

At first, some bad boys wanted to use this to get something from her. Some"permanent" stationery, but they were all influenced by her healing smile.

"It's okay, don't do this again in the future, only by helping each other can we make progress together."

Somehow, this new classmate is so generous and tolerant, and he quickly became the class president with excellent results.

Every time she sees the new classmate's smile, she feels sick in her heart. Yes, she hates it. This new girl.

One afternoon, her mother unexpectedly came to pick her up from school. She was a little happy at first, but she soon realized that her mother didn't come here just for her.

"I heard that there is a transfer student in your class? is that one? Let me see."

As soon as she saw her coming out, her mother quickly asked

"that!..."

She pointed at the happy girl in front of her with great dissatisfaction.

"Oh, tsk tsk, it’s still a car transfer. She is a daughter of a big company, and she has been different from us since she was born."

The mother curled her lips, said a few words in a strange tone, and then turned away and left without reminding her who was in a daze.

Why did the mother talk like that? Should she talk like that if she met someone with a different personality from her own?

Yes, it's not my problem. I feel disgusted because she has a different personality from mine. I don't have to flatter her like other people. I am who I am. She thought this and she felt happy.

In the days to come. , she almost never spoke to the squad leader and never looked at her, but whenever the squad leader made suggestions, she always liked to raise objections in a weird tone.

Once, she was late because she had a quarrel with her mother in the morning. That day, The monitor was also late.

She deliberately slowed down and asked the monitor to explore the situation first.

"Oops, why are you late? Aren't you used to the time yet? Pay attention next time."

The teacher's tone was very gentle, just a little bit reproachful.

It seemed that the head teacher was in a good mood. This was only the first time she was late, so there was no reason to reprimand her too harshly.

Her thoughts were so childish that when she heard By the time the head teacher sternly scolded me, my brain had lost the ability to think.

"How many years have you been in school? Can't remember the time?!"

She didn't react - it shouldn't be like this, it's the first time you're late, why are you doing this to me?

"Copy today’s text ten times! See if you can remember the time next time."

She held back the tears of confusion and grievance, lowered her head and walked quickly to her seat.

Several male classmates winked at her and deliberately stretched out their legs to trip her. She carefully avoided their evil intentions and finally finally She got to her seat safely.

After this incident, she found that everyone looked at her a little wrong, and everyone was deliberately making things difficult for her.

When doing kicking exercises during recess, he stood behind her My female classmate always took the opportunity to kick her. Every time she stared back with a look of guilt, the classmate would say with a smile on her face:

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't hold back too much, I'm sorry."

Smile, why do you have to smile when you apologize? Are you looking down on her? When you apologize, you should kneel down and kowtow, just like your father did.

"Fry one more potato! Kneel down for me!"

Her mother's roar echoed in her mind. In her impression, her father always had to kneel down to her mother. It was like this in the wedding video, and it is like this now.

Smile, what is a smile? What is a smile? It's... the corner of the mouth Raising it upward? Is that... a smile?

In that case, my mother often smiles, but the corners of her mouth are lowered and raised. That kind of smile is different from the monitor's.

Now this female classmate's smile is different It's different. The female classmate's smile is very similar to the monitor's, but it gives her a completely different feeling.

She hates smiling! Because she can't do it, yes, she can't make the corners of her mouth rise, she can't smile.

Oh. , by the way, the reason why everyone treated her like this must be because of the monitor! The monitor knew that she couldn't laugh, so he gathered everyone together to bully her!

It must be like this! She hated the monitor, hated smiling, and hated helping each other!

She To fight back, she would not just tolerate it. She had to let those guys know that she was not easy to mess with!

Slowly, she came home later and later every day, not knowing what she was doing.

Faced with She did not fight back against her mother's beatings as usual, but fled into her room with a small box in her arms. The next morning, the class teacher was the first to come to the classroom, and what greeted her was a quilted animal. A toad inlaid with nails on the podium.

The middle-aged female teacher was very frightened. The toad was still moving its limbs, but the nails could not move it and could only scream incessantly. The scream of the head teacher After attracting the security guards and cleaning up the toads, the two went to check the surveillance records. Strangely, the surveillance camera in their classroom was broken just yesterday. The morning self-study was about to begin, so the head teacher put the matter on hold for the time being and hurried to Back to the classroom

"ah! what is this!"

"Ugh——, this...what?"

"It's... too much..."

Before he even reached the door of the classroom, the head teacher heard the screams of children coming from inside.

According to statistics, almost all students had various corpses of small animals put into their desks.

Some were a dead sparrow, some were a dead chick, and some were the bloody head of a puppy.

The girl who had been kicking her for no reason recently had many chopped-off chicken feet placed in her desk cabinet.

The worst thing was It was the class monitor who made her think she was the initiator of everything. She was so frightened that she cried - there were a large number of insect corpses in the desk and cabinet. The class teacher called the security guard to clean up these things, and comforted the frightened students one by one. We.

For the author of such bad behavior, the class teacher already had a candidate in mind, but she did not dare to make a decision easily now.

After everything was cleared and everyone was ready to start morning reading, she came late.

Almost. Half of the classmates were staring at her, and the class teacher also watched her with very serious eyes as she walked to her seat.

"Classmate Yuhan, look at the desk and cabinet to see if there is anything."

The head teacher suddenly said.

She sang her favorite melody in her heart, and pretended to be disgusted and pulled out a dead mouse from the cabinet.

"Throw it away. Everyone was pranked today. This is too bad. I will report it to the principal."

The teacher temporarily dispelled his inner doubts and solemnly promised the students

"Hee hee, fools, I already knew you would doubt me, I expected everything!"

She threw the dead mouse into the trash can. Unknowingly, the corners of her mouth had turned up, but she couldn't notice it.

Looking at the squad leader secretly, she found that the girl's eyes were red. It turned out that she was afraid of insects. Hehe, you must really like the gift I gave her.

She was grinding her teeth happily, and she was in a very happy mood.

As if he noticed her gaze, the monitor suddenly turned his head and smiled at her - this made her feel incredible.

Why? Even if she encounters this kind of thing, she can smile so easily? Why can't I do it?

Ah, she is so smart, she must have known it was me. Is she trying to influence me? So stupid!

I hate it. , I hate it, the smile is so annoying!

She avoided the monitor's sight, biting her fingers restlessly, and her revenge began again. She wanted to seize the monitor's weakness and penetrate her fiercely!

The next morning, she heard the adults say There was a murder in the park. The deceased was a boy from the same school. She seemed to recognize the boy. He had confessed to the class monitor.

She was late again that day, and the class teacher punished her to copy the text again, but she just didn't hand it in. She took advantage of it. During lunch break, she secretly put an iron box into the monitor's desk cabinet.

This time she forgot that her little eyes that could see the truth had been opened, and her behavior was also seen by the monitor who was standing in front of the screen. clear as day

"Mengya, come out for a moment."

The class teacher appeared at the door of the classroom. She called the monitor out. She didn't know what she said to her, but the monitor quickly came back. Strangely

, the monitor stared at her with very aggrieved and surprised eyes, and his usual smile was gone. Gone.

Found? Ah, it must be those little eyes that peep into reality! The class teacher has never believed me!

She gritted her teeth and clenched her fists tightly.

The class teacher took it out from the desk cabinet She picked up the small iron box. As soon as she opened a crack with trembling hands, she pressed the lid down again.

"Do you hate me?"

There were tears in the corners of the monitor's eyes, and he asked her questions softly.

She didn't answer, just buried her head deeply.

This was not what she wanted, she wanted the monitor to fight back! Damn the teacher for ruining her good deeds! She hates smiles, and smiles should also hate her. They come back and forth!

Just like father and mother, yesterday they were attacking each other back and forth.

"Mengya, don’t talk to her."

The head teacher's voice sounded again.

She heard the sound of sniffing and the footsteps fading away.

It seemed that they were talking outside again, because there was suddenly a chatter in the classroom.

"Hello! Ugly!"

A male voice sounded, and something hit her on the head.

"what are you doing? Wouldn't that make her the same?"

This is the voice of the female classmate who often kicked her.

"Yes, I'm sorry, you ugly guy."

Even without raising her head, she could tell that the male classmates must have smiled. She hated smiling!

The sounds in the classroom made her feel irritated. She had an urge to rip off the corners of every classmate's mouth.

That day In the afternoon, she was criticized by the principal in front of all the teachers and students. The box contained a bunch of living caterpillars, all soaked in blood.

She was expelled, very neatly. The principal was very angry with this kind of bad behavior. Her behavior was intolerable, and the school could no longer tolerate her presence.

Before leaving the school, she saw the monitor still staring at her, with confusion in her eyes, but no anger at all.

Why, after all this, she was still staring at her. If she doesn't get angry, she still won't be as crazy as her mother

"How disgusting, how disgusting! It’s so **** disgusting!"

She cursed loudly and threw her schoolbag far away.

She did not go home, but wandered aimlessly in the streets and alleys. The schoolbag had long disappeared. She dragged her tired body and slowly raised the corners of his mouth with his fingers

"No, I can’t laugh...I can’t laugh."

She tore her cheek hard, but she just couldn't do it like the monitor.Smile

"How annoying! She was laughing at me until I left! Why does she have the ability to smile!"

She kicked up a stone, but it bounced right back onto her head.

"It hurts...it hurts, so why are you laughing? How to laugh?"

She started tearing at her cheeks again.

The sun was pulled into the sky by invisible forces. It was getting late, and the moon was pulled out to take over the sun's position.

People had gone home to sleep, and she was the only one still wandering in the empty dark streets.

"Good evening, dear girl."

When she passed an alley, a masked man in a black coat stopped in front of her.

The man wore an exquisite top hat and a mask with no facial features, which made her feel at ease - the person in front of her did not Will smile!

"Can I check you out?"

As the masked man spoke, he pushed her to the ground with his leather-gloved hands.

Oh, this is the one, right? It was taught in school, committing crimes against minors! It's so interesting, it's true Can meet!

She didn't feel fear, but felt sympathy, because the person in front of her could not smile like her.

She closed her eyes peacefully, looking forward to the bloody storm later.

She could feel itching coming from her chest The feeling, and this feeling extended all the way to the lower part.

Is it coming? Is it going to hurt me? It’s so cold in her stomach, as if there is wind blowing in.

She was a little sleepy and wanted to open her eyes, but was blocked by the dark The gloves obscured the view

"Take a deep breath, dizziness is normal."

The man's voice sounded again

"Oh, what are you doing?"

She felt like something was missing from her stomach, and every time she breathed she felt like she could hear the echo coming back from her stomach.

"Just to check if your internal organs are normal, you can rest first."

The man replied

"Okay, I want to take a nap. I'm so sleepy. By the way, can you... draw me a smile?"

She said with some expectation. She wanted to try to see if she could laugh with the help of others.

"Oh, my snack, of course, but that may have to wait until after the inspection."

The man replied

"Well, good night, kind stranger, can you... stay until I wake up?"

She asked timidly.

She had never seen such a kind person, and he was also someone who couldn't smile like herself! She wanted him to spend more time with her

"As you wish, my snack."

The man touched her hair, which made her feel more at ease. She closed her eyes with satisfaction and fell into a permanent dream.

……

The next morning, someone found her body while passing by an alley, and the police also found Director Zhang's body in the park.

Two people died overnight, casting a shadow of fear over the entire city.

After investigation, it was found that Director Zhang died earlier than the girl. Both of them had their abdomens cut open without exception, but the girl had one exception.

All the organs in the girl's abdomen were missing, and the corners of her mouth were cut open. The incision reached to the base of her ears, showing a very strange smile.

The man fulfilled her wish and now she smiles, always smiling.