You Ming Aesthetics

It was already past seven o'clock in the evening when Yan Shan woke up.

Summer days are long, Yan Shan opened the heavy curtains, and although the sun has set outside, the sky is only slightly dim, not yet completely dark.

Yan Shan pushed the door open and walked into the living room. The half-eaten mousse cake and Pizza Hut pizza boxes were randomly placed on the dining table. Still playing cartoons.Sanxian was not in the living room, Yan Shan searched every room, but did not see its shadow, probably went out to play.

Xiaobai opened his eyes slightly when he heard the movement, saw that Yan Shan was up, and asked in a daze, "Are you feeling better?"

Yan Shan walked over and leaned over to close the computer on the coffee table, gently hugged Xiaobai from the sofa, and said softly: "I'm fine, it's uncomfortable to lie on the sofa, go back to sleep in the room."

Xiaobai grabbed the chinchilla pillow and refused to let go, leaning his head on Yan Shan's arms, smelling the faint scent of shower gel on Yan Shan's body, feeling dizzy and unable to wake up.

Xiaobai struggled to wake up, but was pulled back by the incessant sleepiness, so he had to let Yan Shan carry him all the way to the master bedroom, and protested weakly in a soft voice: "I haven't finished watching it yet."

"Wake up and see." Yan Shan gently hugged Xiaobai to the bed, covered him with the quilt, and when Yan Shan turned around to pull the curtain, Xiaobai's muffled voice came from the bed: "The moving things can be cleaned up." I tidied up everything, and put the untidy ones on the desk, go and have a look."

Yan Shan listened quietly, laughed silently, and replied: "Okay, you can go to sleep."

Xiaobai hummed, turned over and hugged Totoro tightly, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Yan Shan took a piece of pizza in his mouth and inspected his new home while eating.When he was resting in the afternoon, Xiaobai emptied out all the things in the box and arranged them carefully by category. He had done everything he could, and there was almost nothing that Yan Shan needed to clean up.

A row of books he usually read was stacked in the corner of the desk, and a handbag was placed on the desk. After washing the handles, Yan Shan carefully took out a red cloth bundle from the handbag and opened it carefully. Inside was a copper bell shaped like a pagoda. .Yan Shan walked back and forth in the room, thought for a while, and finally chose to stick a hook on the top of the door frame from the living room to the kitchen. Firm, took the copper bell and hung it up carefully.

The main body of the copper bell is a five-story pagoda with a diameter of about five centimeters. It is open and has no base. It is tied with a red thread, and a copper bead is threaded through the red thread. The copper bead is divided into eight positions, and each position is inlaid with a ferocious beast. The beast looks like running. The tail of the beast is connected to the copper bead. There is also a small copper bell, with red threads hanging from each copper tongue, and a red tassel with emerald beads on it. Eight small copper bells are shaped like wind chimes, and hold the pagoda in the center.

Yan Shan hung up the copper bell, but he didn't see how he fiddled with it. The copper bell automatically turned a few times, and then gradually stopped. When it stopped, the eight beasts on the bell were facing the eight directions on the compass.

Yan Shan stared at the copper bell for a while, and seeing nothing unusual, he simply washed up, put on his wallet and went out.

The family building where Yan Shan lives is quite close to the University Town of the West Campus, and it only takes ten minutes to walk.

Yan Shan walked unsteadily in the direction of the University City. At this time, the sky was getting darker, and street lights were lit up on the side of the street. From a distance, he could see many vendors gathered on the roads on both sides of the University City. The scale of the night market, dots of orange warm light set against the dark blue sky in the distance, from a distance, ordinary alleys, market vendors, revealing the faint warmth of the world of fireworks.

The sidewalks around the campus were originally not spacious, and vendors set up stalls, making the aisles narrower and narrower. Pedestrians walked slowly, rubbing shoulders. Most of the people in the crowd were students from the University of Science and Technology, and there were also nearby residents who went out for a walk at night.

The stalls mainly sell clothes, bags and various snacks. There are also some stalls with piles of plush toys and jewelry issuing cards. Some girls gather in twos and threes to choose and inquire. Yan Shan stops in front of the second-hand bookstall, and the bookstands The boss was chatting with the young man who was making mobile phone film, saw Yan Shan squatting down to pick up books, and replied: "Look, if the book you want is not here, tell me, there are still a bunch of books at home, I can go back Help you flip through."

Yan Shan rummaged through the pile of old books, finally bought an ancient Chinese dictionary, and asked the boss if he had any other books on ancient Chinese in the Chinese department at home. The boss said to go home and look for it, and asked Yan Shan to come back the day after tomorrow .

Yan Shan made an agreement with the owner of the bookstall, got up and left, bought a watermelon at the fruit stand on the way, moved forward slowly with the crowd, found the ATM machine of the bank next to the school, took some money and put it in his wallet, planning to go Visit the supermarket in the school.

The campus of the University of Science and Technology occupies a very large area and is divided into a teaching area and a living area, separated by a road.In the evening, there is no class arrangement for most majors. Many students come out for a walk and have fun. Various clubs organize activities in the school, and the campus is very lively.

Yan Shan wandered aimlessly all the way, wandering around the stadium unknowingly. The plastic running track of HKUST was newly built after the teacher college moved out. At the same time, a basketball court and a volleyball court with rubber floors were added to the right side of the stand on the track.The basketball court was divided into four playing fields, and a very high iron net was erected around it to prevent balls from flying out and hitting pedestrians.At night, the stadium turned on the headlights, and it was as bright as day, and a group of boys were playing.A group of HKUST varsity basketball team wearing uniforms took up one of the playing fields and was training.Yan Shan walked into the court and deliberately stood on the rubber floor and stepped on it. He felt that the rubber underneath was quite thick, and it would not hurt too much if he fell on it.Yan Shan picked an inconspicuous place to watch the school team play for a while, and when he turned to leave, he thought it would be convenient to guard the school, and he would bring a basketball to play someday.

Yan Shan left the court, stopped and walked all the way, students kept passing him, and a few roller skaters slid past him quickly.After a while, he walked to the front of the library building of the University of Science and Technology of China. Yan Shan wanted to go into the library, but hesitated for a while. He reached out and stopped a passing student, and asked politely, "Do you want to go into the library to check your ID?"

The student replied enthusiastically, "You need to swipe your student card to get in."

Yan Shan thanked the student. Knowing that he couldn't get into the library, he felt a little regretful. He looked at the watch below and it was almost nine o'clock, so he went directly to the school supermarket to buy a large bucket of mineral water, beer and a bunch of Food, ready to go home with heavy bags in both hands.

Yan Shan walked back along a road leading directly to the dormitory building in the school. Occasionally, a car came in and parked under the dormitory building in the distance.

This road is on the edge of the university town, next to the school wall, and directly opposite two high-rise residential buildings have been built side by side. The buildings were so close, Yan Shan couldn't help but stop and take a closer look, then turned around and looked at the dormitory not far away, then thought of something, shook his head, and walked away with his things.

After going out for a while, Yan Shan arrived home around 09:30.Xiaobai had already woken up and sat back on the sofa to watch anime with his laptop in his arms. Sanxian, who had gone somewhere to play, also came back, lying on the dining table and eating his beloved mousse cake.

Yan Shan stuffed the bought beer, cola and various snacks into the refrigerator, picked up a box of potato chips and threw them to Xiao Bai.

Yan Shan glanced at the three delicacies that were eating happily: "Where did you go this afternoon?"

San Xian devoured the cake, and finally swallowed the stuffed mouthful into its stomach. It licked its paws, and said with a sinister smile: "I went to play with the cats in the yard, and they are already familiar with each other. My brothers and I made an appointment to go to University City tomorrow to fight with the stray dogs there."

After hearing this, Yan Shan expressed doubts very shamelessly: "You can still fight with your short legs?"

San Xian had a look of "you don't understand the small sample": "You don't need to get close to slap the dog's face, just jump up and sit on it and you can KO!"

Yan Shan replied, "Be careful to twist your bucket waist" and ignored the Sanxian. He opened a bottle of beer and took a few sips, turned on his computer, and checked the BBS in his circle for new news recently. , and logged into the mailbox to browse through the backlog of emails to find out if there is any suitable entrustment. The seventh month of the lunar calendar is approaching, and it is a good time to make money.

In the end, Yan Shan chose a commission in a villa area in the southern outskirts of the city, intending to invite someone to look at the Feng Shui of the house.

Yan Shan wrote down the contact information of his employer, checked the detailed bus route, and found that it was only half an hour's drive away, not too far away, and planned to find time tomorrow or the day after to visit first.

The residents of the family courtyard go to bed early at night, and when night falls, everything is completely silent.

San Xian was dozing off at the dining table, Xiao Bai was watching his new show with headphones on, Yan Shan was surfing the Internet aimlessly, no one in the room spoke, it was extremely quiet.

Without a sound, the copper bell that Yan Shan had just hung up in the afternoon suddenly rang.

The ringing of the bell came suddenly without any warning, the windows of the house were closed tightly and there was no wind blowing, but the copper bell was disturbed, faintly ominous.

None of them was on guard, and they were all startled for a while.

Yan Shan raised his head suddenly, and saw that the small copper bell on the corner facing the earthquake was still shaking, but it stopped ringing. Fortunately, the main body of the pagoda-shaped copper bell did not move. Yan Shan calmed down and looked at it. According to the watch, the time is just past eleven o'clock, which is midnight.

Xiao Bai pulled off the earphones and sat up straight on the sofa, looking nervously at Yan Shan, while San Xian, who was still dozing off, suddenly opened his blue cat eyes.

At this moment, there were three slight knocks on the balcony window, as if a guest was knocking on the door at random. After a few seconds, the window was knocked three more times.

Yan Shan doesn't think that he would choose to come to visit in the middle of the night, and he insisted on moving a ladder to the second floor to smash the balcony window of his house, what kind of kindness is it? Moreover, he just moved today, and he hasn't had time to tell him the address yet. other people.

can be what?

Yan Shan stared at the window on the balcony. It was pitch black outside the window. He could see a few houses in the front building that were still lit, but now they were hidden in complete darkness. All the light disappeared out of thin air, as if suddenly It was as if people covered it with black paper from the outside, and couldn't see anything.At this time, a bunch of faint blue flames ignited silently in the darkness. The flames stuck to the window and then crawled on the glass like a snake. The faint blue flames burned all the way, and finally the fire snake formed a complicated pattern. Zhang, quietly attached to the glass and burning.

Yan Shan stared at the Fire Emblem, collected himself, and winked at Xiaobai and Sanxian to indicate that there was nothing wrong, then turned his head and said respectfully to the balcony window: "Please come in."

I saw a pitch-black shadow protruding from the Fire Emblem, surrounded by black mist, easily passed through the closed window and landed on the balcony. After the shadow came in, the blue flame on the glass slowly extinguished, and there was no fire outside the window. The lights in the distance can be seen again.

The shadow took a few steps forward, and the black mist on his body receded slowly, it turned out to be a rather young man.

The visitor had half-length black hair and gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. He looked gentle and elegant. He walked up to Yan Shan, looked down at Yan Shan for a while, bent his eyes and smiled, and introduced himself: "My name is Han Wei. , is your professor in charge."

After finishing speaking, Han Wei waved his hands seemingly casually, and a coquettish and beautiful boy appeared out of nowhere from behind him. With the boy's appearance, a strong scent of sweet-scented osmanthus filled the air instantly.The handsome young man nodded to Yan Shan as a greeting, put a stack of books in his hand on the table, and explained: "These are textbooks."

The young man's voice was seductive, and he raised his eyebrows and smiled at Yan Shan suddenly without any sign after speaking. The young man was originally a fairy, but now he smiled with bright eyes and white teeth, with indescribable elegance, and the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus in the room became more intense with his smile.

Yan Shan looked at the beautiful boy shaking his feathers in front of him like a peacock with an expression on his face, and said politely in the tone of signing for a courier: "I'm sorry."

The boy didn't expect that Yan Shan would talk to him with the attitude of dismissing the courier, especially after he smiled wickedly, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but he reacted very quickly to cover up his momentary gaffe, and glanced at the Han Wei didn't answer any more, bowed slightly and disappeared.

After the boy showed off and disappeared, Han Wei looked at Shang Yanshan a little embarrassedly, rubbed the hair on the back of his head, coughed in embarrassment, smiled, and walked to the side of the pile of textbooks seemingly casually , tapped the stack of books with her slender fingers, and the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus in the air disappeared in an instant.

Han Wei flipped through the textbook sent by the beautiful boy, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, he turned to Yan Shan and said, "Today I am mainly here to deliver textbooks to you, and there will be specific arrangements for other matters during the enrollment report. In the future, you will be The students I am in charge of, since I am here today, I will tell you how the specific courses are arranged, after all, every professor has his own arrangement in teaching."

"Most of this semester is basic courses, such as "Introduction to Spirituality" and "Origin of Spirituality". Such courses have recorded teaching videos on the Internet, and you can learn by yourself based on the videos combined with textbooks. All exams are closed-book, and the scores on the paper are included in the total score. If you fail the grade, you will be considered as a failure. If you don’t make up the exam, you can just retake it in the next semester. Of course, if you still have problems after watching the teaching video, you can ask me. It was not involved in the previous semester. Practical courses, such as "The Population Distribution and Ethnic Factions of Demons" are completed in the form of papers. The final paper accounts for 40% of the total score, the usual homework accounts for 40%, and the teacher's evaluation accounts for 20%. There are also no make-up exams. If you fail , and retake it next semester."

After finishing speaking, Han Wei took out a booklet from the stack of books, shook it, and said: "I need to emphasize the discipline of this school, please be sure to read this "Student Disciplinary Standards and Disciplinary Punishment Regulations" carefully, although there is no such book in the school system. Expulsion is one thing, but students who violate discipline will be taken back to the school headquarters for confinement, and depending on the severity of the case, they will be punished with forced labor." Then Han Wei's expression became serious, and he said every word: "Please obey , do not overstep."

"Some classes are taught face-to-face. I will notify you in advance before each class. This is the library card of the city. You can go to the city library for any information you need to look up when writing a thesis. Take this card , you have the right to enter the special category reading area." Han Wei took out a card from his coat pocket and handed it to Yan Shan: "Is there anything you don't understand about what I said?"

"No."

Yan Shan pondered over Han Wei's phone call several times in his mind, and picked out the four words "failure and re-revision" mixed in it, feeling that his future had inevitably cast a shadow.

"That's good." Han Wei nodded, resting his chin and thinking for a moment, then he spread his right hand and stroked his middle finger casually with his thumb. I don't see how hard he was, and the blood beads penetrated the skin and coagulated On the fingertips, Han Wei lightly tapped Yan Shan's forehead with his bloody fingertips.

A smear of blood fell between Yan Shan's eyebrows.

Han Wei watched the blood slowly seeping into Yan Shan's brow, and said, "Before you graduate, I will be your guardian."

Yan Shan touched his forehead inexplicably. He didn't know what spell Han Wei had cast on him just now, so it was inconvenient to ask too much for a while, thinking that it would be better to find out when there was a chance.

With bloody fingers in his mouth, Han Wei looked at Yan Shanxin's house, and said casually, "By the way, it's the first time I come here, so I should leave some greetings."

His eyes turned around in the room, swept across the three delicacies on the dining table, and finally fell on Xiaobai who was sitting still on the sofa. Han Wei looked at Xiaobai with a half-smile, and said thoughtfully : "Oh, a little fox demon with a bad cultivation base."

Xiaobai let him look at him silently, without any expression on his face.

Han Wei looked around, didn't say anything more, turned around and walked towards the balcony, when he passed by Yan Shan, black mist appeared all over his body, enveloping him in an instant.

Before sinking into the black mist and disappearing completely, Han Wei's faint voice came:

"Write a 5000-word dissertation on fox demons, with a topic of your own choice, and check it in a week."

Yan Shan: "..."

noob:"……"

Sanxian: "Hey."

In this way, Yan Shan's college career started vigorously with a 5000-word thesis as a meeting ceremony.