Xin Xiaolu was once a fierce ghost. She didn't remember her name or how she died, except that she was killed in a remote toilet in the school. Her hands and feet were broken, and the white walls and tile floor of the toilet had turned red due to the blood. Ordinary people couldn't see it, but in her eyes, that place had always been the scene of her death.
When she was reborn as a ghost inexplicably in the skin of a child, the deep resentment she had as a ghost seemed to be covered by a layer of glass, and the feeling was not so real. But at the same time, the memory made her drift away from this world, so she responded to others' indifference with the same indifference, and responded to others' malice with the same malice.
Only care and love made her feel at a loss, not knowing how to deal with it. Before she became a fierce ghost, was there anyone who loved and cared for her like this? Xin Xiaolu thought that there should not be anyone, if there was, she would not feel so strange.
Xin Yan is here.
He gave her something very precious, so Xin Xiaolu responded to him with her only bit of "humanity".
Half a month before the college entrance examination, Xin Yanlai turned eighteen. His family also made a big fuss about his eighteenth birthday, inviting many guests to the largest hotel in the city. Mr. Xin used the noon to make friends with his business friends, and in the evening Xin Yanlai found a place to invite friends and classmates to have fun together.
Xin Xiaolu didn't go to the adult cocktail party at noon, but Xin Yan took her to the friend party in the evening. He just let her sit next to him and eat a delicious meal, then sent her home, and didn't let her continue to attend the KTV show afterwards.
Friends who are familiar with Xin Yanlai know that Xin Yanlai cherishes her sister, and they clamored for her to go to the KTV to continue playing, "Go ahead, sister, just sing some songs and play some games, it's more fun with more people!"
Xin Yanlai blocked all the people and glared at the two loudest ones sternly, "Xiaolu is not yet an adult. You will definitely drink later and make endless noise. Do you want Xiaolu to watch you get drunk and go crazy?"
The two of them shrank their heads and pretended to be unable to bear it. "This is terrible. The president is even more terrifying after he grows up. He is an upgraded version of the head of the family. It is so scary. He is so strict, my sister will definitely not be able to bear it!"
Xin Yanlai choked and felt a little embarrassed. He also knew that this was probably a bit... "Xiaolu, do you want to go sing?" He asked Xin Xiaolu's opinion.
The female ghost doesn’t like KTV or any lively and popular places, so she chose to go home.
But Xin Xiaolu couldn't fall asleep for a long time after returning home. She would wander around the yard in her pajamas when she couldn't sleep, especially the garden that Xin Yuan could see from her window. Xin Xiaolu loved to wander there the most, and she almost scared Xin Yuan to death many times in the middle of the night.
Xin Xiaolu was wandering in the garden late at night when he suddenly saw a dark shadow standing outside the yard. The shadow was motionless, behind an iron railing and a clump of trees. It was so dark that he couldn't see its face clearly, but Xin Xiaolu felt that the other person seemed to be looking at him.
After standing in the yard and staring at each other for a while, Xin Xiaolu opened the iron gate and walked out, "Brother, what's the matter?"
Yes, the person standing outside the yard in the middle of the night was Xin Yanlai. Normally, Xin Yanlai, who had just finished his birthday, should have finished singing and gone home to rest, but he appeared here without saying a word.
Time goes back to an hour ago. A group of classmates finished singing and went home. As the protagonist of today, Xin Yanlai was forced to drink a lot of alcohol, but he looked like he was not drunk even when he was drunk. He spoke and acted normally. No one noticed that he was drunk. He even asked the driver to send a few drunk friends back in an orderly manner. Then he left alone and calmly under the reassuring gaze of his friends. He came to his uncle's yard and stood there for so long.
The drunken teenager, who had just become an adult for a day, stood upright, holding a bunch of tulips in his hand - tulips with roots and soil. The flowers were drooping and pitiful, as if they were innocent victims who were violently pulled out of the roadside flowerbed.
Looking at Brother Niu Nai, who was drunk and behaving strangely, Xin Xiaolu couldn't tell whether he was drunk or not.
"Xiaolu." Xin Yanlai looked serious, not like he was drunk, but he said in a more cautious tone than usual: "Don't fall in love too early."
Xin Xiaolu: “Oh?” You come here drunk in the middle of the night to teach your sister
She responded, pointing at the tulips that were tightly squeezed in his hand and about to break, "Are you plucking the flowers from the community flower bed?"
Xin Yan looked at the flowers in his hand, and seemed to have just remembered, so he held the flowers in front of her and said, "This is for you."
Before Xin Xiaolu took the flowers, she suddenly heard Xin Yan say, "Can I get in line first?"
Xin Xiaolu: “?”
"You're an adult at the age of eighteen, so it doesn't count as premature love. There are still more than two years left. I want to be the first in line!" Xin Yanlai still looked completely sober. If he hadn't kept pushing tulips into Xin Xiaolu's nostrils, Xin Xiaolu wouldn't have been sure that he was really drunk.
Although Xin Yan's words were not very clear, Xin Xiaolu understood. She was a little surprised, and this surprise can be summed up as follows: you look like a righteous person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but you actually learn to fall in love early.
Taking the tulip that was about to poke her nostrils, Xin Xiaolu didn't think for long before answering cheerfully: "Okay." She didn't mind fulfilling Milk Boy's wish. It was simple to have a boyfriend or girlfriend. It didn't mean she had to drink incense ash.
Her current mentality is probably like a good child asking if he can have a small toy, and she happens to have one, so she gives it to him generously.
Xin Yanlai looked sober, but his mind was actually a mess. He didn't remember who he was or where he was. He said a few words, his eyes were blank, and the tape started to jam.
Xin Xiaolu asked him to go back and rest.
Xin Yanlai: "Well, take a rest, go to bed early and get up early." Then he recited an English reading passage fluently and seamlessly.
Although his home was in the next neighborhood, Xin Xiaolu was very suspicious that if he was allowed to go back alone, he might do something even stranger halfway, so he took him by the hand and sent him back to the downstairs of his home. It was late at night and there were not many people on this road. Xin Yanlai was led by the hand, his steps were steady, but he kept mumbling, reciting from English reading to Chinese ancient poems, and then from math formulas to geography, biochemistry, and when he got home, he had not had time to start reciting history.
Xin Xiaolu was nagging at him all the way, and she actually felt a little sleepy. Seeing him walk into the house like a wooden pole, she yawned and went back alone. She was wearing a nightgown, with disheveled hair and a gloomy temperament. She walked in the dark community tree-lined avenue in the middle of the night, especially like some kind of erratic creature, scaring an unlucky night owl who came home late, and creating another community ghost legend.
The next day, Xin Yanlai woke up in his bed. He had a headache and sat by the bed for a long time before he recovered. What made him feel strange was that there was a large piece of dirt on his pants for some reason. He was too drunk last night to take a shower, and the dirt on his pants was brought to the bed.
Why was there mud? Xin Yanlai thought about it blankly for a long time, and only remembered that everyone was singing last night, and a few classmates took the opportunity to force him to drink a lot of wine, and then, he didn't remember anything, it was a blank. How did it end in the end? Did the driver take him back
He took out his cell phone and called his friend. The friend hadn't gotten up yet. When he heard him ask, he said in surprise, "Last night, didn't you see us getting in the car and going home? And then you went back too. I mean, I never knew you could hold your liquor so well. You seem fine no matter how much you drink."
"Yeah, it's okay." Xin Yanlai thought that it was probably caused by him falling somewhere.
He had completely forgotten that he had gone to Xin Xiaolu in the middle of the night last night, and had also poured out all his youthful thoughts and past experiences to her, and had also received a love number plate, number one. Because he had forgotten, the little brother today was still secretly in love with her brightly and sadly.
Xin Xiaolu didn't expect that he didn't remember anything and didn't mention anything at all, so Xin Yanlai didn't notice this at all.
Two weeks later, before the college entrance examination, Xin Yan came to Xin Xiaolu and said to her, "This summer, I will take you to my grandpa's house to spend the summer vacation. He is the only one in my grandpa's house. Although he has a bad temper, he is very soft-hearted and cooks delicious fish. The town where he lives is by the sea and it is very fun in the summer. You will definitely like it."
He made this decision because his father would probably make trouble after the college entrance exam, and he couldn't let Xiaolu suffer. He would protect his sister even if she was not related to him by blood, not to mention that she was his secret crush.
In order to stop his father, Xin Yanlai had planned to take Xin Xiaolu to his grandfather's house as soon as the college entrance examination was over. After all, his father felt guilty when he saw his grandfather because of his mother's matter, and he would never dare to go to his grandfather's house to find them. In this way, at least Xiaolu could spend a peaceful summer vacation there. When the summer vacation was over, no matter how unwilling his father was, the matter of the Situ family would be over. If it was not over, he had another plan.
The determination to protect his beloved filled the boy with courage and strength.
But this was not the case for Xin Xiaolu. She mistakenly thought that the little brother wanted to cultivate feelings, a world of two, or something like that. Little boys who fell in love all yearned for it. She understood that she had seen too many children like this in school for many years. Adults... The adult female ghost thought that this matter was excusable. Since she had agreed before, there was nothing to refuse now.
Xin Xiaolu: “Okay.”
Xin Yan came to see her without asking a single question. He agreed directly. It was obvious that he trusted her as a brother. He felt happy and guilty at the same time. He continued to explain, "You guys haven't had a holiday since I finished the college entrance examination, but it doesn't matter. I know your learning progress. You have already mastered the knowledge of this semester. An early holiday will not affect you. I will ask my cousin to help you get a hospital certificate and apply for leave. You pack your things in advance, and we will leave as soon as I finish the exam."
"Also, don't tell anyone about this, okay?" If his father knew about this, he would probably be furious and try to stop them.
Xin Xiaolu nodded calmly: "Yeah." Young kids these days are so creative.
On the day after the college entrance examination, Xin Yanlai left school early as planned in an atmosphere of joy far exceeding that of the New Year, and boarded a plane with Xin Xiaolu. By the time President Xin was ready to go home and settle accounts with his son, Xin Yanlai and Xin Xiaolu had already arrived at the seaside town.
The author has something to say: The recent comments section reminded me of a song - Sour and sweet is me