The warm sunlight along the way made Tang Ning drunk. He was in a state that seemed like a dream. When Su Anyun carried him through the cold corridor, Tang Ning felt a little cold. This kind of cold could not be blocked even with clothes. His eyelashes trembled, trying to absorb the warmth from Su Anyun's body.
Su Anyun was able to pick up the key and open the door while holding him. The old wooden boards creaked, and the cold air surged out from the crack of the door. The moment the door was fully opened, Tang Ning felt like he was standing at the door of an air-conditioned room that was only set to a dozen degrees.
He slowly got up from Su Anyun's embrace and raised his face. It was noon, the sun was at its brightest. Tang Ning watched the flying dust dancing in the light. The TV screen was pitch black, and there was no one in the kitchen at dinner time.
A quiet and cold house.
It seems like I'm trapped in the old times.
Tang Ning held his breath and watched the scene quietly, as if he was afraid of disturbing something. Su Anyun held him and walked away into the wandering light and shadow.
"Xiao Ning, rest in bed first. I'll go cook." Su Anyun's voice was low and gentle, as soft as the dust floating densely in the air, but a little fresher, like a fine spring rain.
Tang Ning looked at Su Anyun. That handsome face was a perfect match for the scenery on a sunny day, which made him more and more dazed. Su Anyun carried him towards the bedroom. When passing by the dining table, Tang Ning saw that the flowers in the vase had withered, losing their color and moisture, and the tabletop seemed to be covered with a layer of dust.
When I left home in the morning, the flowers were just a little wilted and the table was clean.
Tang Ning blinked blankly, but the gray scene in front of him remained unchanged.
Tang Ning wanted to take a closer look, but Su Anyun had already carried him out of the area. When passing the bathroom, Tang Ning found that the bathroom was not closed tightly and there were many dirty and messy traces. He raised his head and saw a spider web on the ceiling.
An invisible chilly aura intertwined in the room, seemingly forming an invisible net that fell on Tang Ning like a soft spring breeze.
Su Anyun pushed open Tang Ning's bedroom door and walked in. Tang Ning saw that his room was still clean and tidy, and everything remained the same as when he left in the morning.
"What would you like to eat for lunch?" Su Anyunrou asked.
Tangning fell on the bed and looked up at Su Anyun. His eyes were beautifully shaped, his eyelashes were long and curled, and his clear eyes were like the night sky washed by water. "It's all right."
Su Anyun seemed unable to hold back and reached out his hand to touch Tang Ning's beautiful eyebrows.
Tang Ning did not resist Su Anyun's touch at all. Because Su Anyun's fingers were too warm, he even yawned slightly, with a look of fatigue on his face.
Su Anyun's fingers paused for a moment, but he did not retract them immediately. He held them like a kitten. The kitten not only lay on the soft bed and looked at him with moist eyes, but also showed him its soft pads and belly.
"What kind of dishes can they be?" Su Anyun's hand landed on Tang Ning's hair again, touching it carefully.
Tangning closed her eyes slightly, "Something sweeter."
"Coke chicken wings?" Su Anyun finally stopped and left the room after watching Tang Ning order.
The room had become quiet, without any sound. Tang Ning could not stand the silence any more, so he stood up and opened the window. The wind from outside blew in, along with the rustling of trees.
Tang Ning curled up quietly on the bed. He could still feel the unbearable cold and loneliness. Tang Ning covered himself with the quilt and broke out in a sweat. In the dull little room, he took out his phone and checked the group messages.
Lin Yun said that he and Zhou Kang went to burn dragon incense together. There was still no news from Jiang Mianmian. Lin Yun contacted Lu Yuhua and Bai Yingxue in the group and asked them what they were doing and if they needed any help.
Just like Lu Yuhua and Bai Yingxue, who have already faded away, they did not respond to Lin Yun at that time, and they will not respond to Lin Yun now.
The depression in my heart is getting more and more.
Tangning announced in the group chat, "Bai Yingxue and Lu Yuhua are dead."
"The orphanage was set on fire by a monster teacher. I don't know what happened next. If it's not necessary, I don't recommend visiting the orphanage."
Not long after he finished this message, he received a message from Lin Yun: "What happened?"
Tang Ning didn't have the energy to type, so he closed his eyes and sent a long voice message to Lin Yun, quietly recounting his experiences that morning.
Lin Yun quickly sorted out the key points, and he said quickly: "Xiao Yu, let me tell you, there is a legend in the orphanage that only if you make good dolls can you leave the orphanage."
Tang Ning didn't know why Lin Yun suddenly brought this up. He just mentioned this because he unconsciously talked about the few times that Xiaoyu and he had spent time together.
"Lu Yuhua also told you that he guessed that Bai Yingxue was evil in the doll. When you were talking about this information, I suddenly found it very interesting to connect them together."
"We assume that this message is correct. The orphanage asks the children to leave the orphanage only if they can make qualified dolls. In fact, it hopes that they can put their own malice into the dolls and learn to control or strip away their own malice."
Tang Ning was stunned when she read the message. It seemed that this was indeed the correct interpretation
"Do you still remember the doll that Bai Yingxue took from the Lu family that looked like her? At that time, Bai Yingxue was still conscious. Later, she was injured in the orphanage and disappeared for a day. When she appeared again, the doll that looked like Bai Yingxue was gone. Then, Bai Yingxue's temperament and behavior changed drastically. In the end, she even wanted the entire orphanage to die."
Yes, Tang Ning had previously believed that Bai Yingxue's personality changed drastically because she lost her sister's doll. But when she thought about it carefully, Bai Yingxue made him uncomfortable after he lost the doll that looked like Bai Yingxue.
"Does this mean that when the doll containing the malice is destroyed, the malice will enter the body of this person?"
"If your doll, Su Anyun, also follows this set of rules, then Tangning, you don't need your doll anymore. Perhaps the consequence of the doll being broken is that Su Anyun's personality will change drastically, from a perfect prince to a monster full of malice."
Tangning stared blankly at the message Lin Yun sent him.
He had not yet told Lin Yun that his porcelain doll was left in the confinement room.
Did the porcelain doll break? Did Su Anyun's temperament change drastically? She seemed to be still very gentle, even more gentle than before.
The biggest change is that Su Anyun had always asked him to leave home, but now suddenly said that the family would be together forever.
Tang Ning felt a little stuffy in his chest, which was because he had been in bed for too long. He held his phone and opened the quilt. Fresh air and Su Anyun's face came to his side.
Tang Ning's eyes widened slightly as he looked at Su Anyun, who had appeared beside his bed out of nowhere.
Oh no, the phone screen is still on!
Tangning quickly turned off the screen. Su Anyun didn't seem to have any intention of looking at his phone. Her eyes, which seemed to be able to see through people's hearts, stared directly into Tangning's eyes, "What are you secretly watching under the covers?"
Tangning stuttered, "Nothing."
"What are you afraid of?" Su Anyun curled his eyes, "I'm your brother, but I still don't watch too many of these things during the day."
Tang Ning was a little confused.
He still maintained the posture of only sticking out his face from under the quilt. Because he had been covered for too long, his face was stained with a blush, spreading from the corners of his eyes to his cheeks and smudged to his ears. There was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead and a little bit on the tip of his nose.
When he and Su Anyun looked at each other, his moist eyes kept dodging because he felt a little uneasy, like a child who had done something ridiculous and was caught.
"It's time to eat." Su Anyun touched Tang Ning's hair which was wet with sweat. The door was open and the smell of food wafted in from outside. Tang Ning had been hungry for a long time, but he didn't want to get out of bed.
During the day. Not watching.
Although he was a little slow at times, he somehow understood Su Anyun's eyes at this moment.
Tang Ning clearly didn't do anything of the sort, but in that gaze that seemed to have an undercurrent, his spine trembled unconsciously.
It seemed that the heat in him was caused by something he did with his back to his brother.
"Can you come down by yourself?" Su Anyun asked.
Of course Tang Ning could do it. He immediately threw back the covers and got out of bed. However, he forgot that he had hit his knee when he was kneeling in the confinement room looking for the porcelain doll. When he got out of bed so quickly, Tang Ning's legs felt a little weak.
Weak and slender legs.
Su Anyun supported Tang Ning. Unlike Su Anyun's strong and powerful arms, Tang Ning's original body lacked exercise. With the card setting of being delicate and weak, his body became more flexible. After a light sweat, his unique body fragrance shone through his flushed skin.
Tang Ning's tightly pursed lips moved as he wanted to explain himself, but in this situation, he didn't dare to let Su Anyun see what he had just talked about. Tang Ning held his breath and looked at Su Anyun's naturally slightly upturned lips. There was a faint smile on the corner of his lips.
With a hint of joking.
Tangning didn't realize how much people wanted to tease her with her blushing face and inability to utter a word, "I, I can walk on my own."
Su Anyun loosened his hand, bent down to pick up the slippers on the ground and helped Tang Ning put them on.
While Su Anyun was lowering his head, Tang Ning couldn't help but cover his red face.
When Su Anyun stood up for the second time, Tang Ning had already dealt with his embarrassment. He and Su Anyun walked out of the room together. This time, Tang Ning found that the outside was much cleaner, as if it had just been cleaned. There was steaming hot food on the dining table outside, the withered flowers had been thrown away, and the empty vase looked a little deserted.
"Where's Mom?" Tangning noticed there was only a set of bowls and chopsticks on the dining table.
"Auntie said she doesn't really want to eat now, but she will get up and cook when she is hungry." Su Anyun explained.
Tang Ning subconsciously looked at her mother's closed door. Unlike other clean places, there was some dirt accumulated in the crack at the bottom of the door.
"Why do you suddenly not feel like eating?" Tangning did not walk towards the dining table. He continued to stare at the closed door.
"It's too hot, he's sleepy, or he ate something while we were away." Su Anyun listed a few guesses. He took Tangning's hand and led her to the dining table. "Eat first. The food won't taste good if it gets cold."
Tang Ning then walked over to the dining table and sat down. Although the food Su Anyun cooked was still as delicious as before, Tang Ning ate absentmindedly.
"Brother, is Mom still not well?" Tangning couldn't help asking after eating a few bites.
Su Anyun did not shy away from the question. He said to Tangning, "Relax, I will take good care of Auntie."
Tang Ning finally felt relieved after hearing Su Anyun's words.
When my mother was injured before, Su Anyun said she would take care of it, and my mother's hand got much better.
"What are you doing this afternoon, Xiao Ning?" Su Anyun asked as Tangning picked up some food, "Are you still going out to look for a job?"
Tangning was very well behaved while eating. He put down the chicken wing in his mouth first and swallowed the food before saying, "I don't know. I'm a little tired. I might rest at home."
Not to mention that there was still no news about Jiang Mianmian, Tang Ning was already too exhausted to risk being a guest.
"I've wanted you to have a good rest for a long time." Su Anyunrou said, "There's no rush to find a summer job."
Tangning picked up a few grains of rice and put them into his mouth in bewilderment. Did Su Anyun advise him to take a good rest and not look for a job? If he remembered correctly, it seemed that his mother had always advised him to do so. Su Anyun had instead encouraged him to go out and exercise more.
But is his memory correct
Tang Ning was so exhausted during this period that he could not remember these insignificant details.
Lin Yun's words of warning flashed through Tang Ning's mind.
"By the way, brother, why did you suddenly change your mind? Didn't you say before that I'm grown up now and need to be more independent and can't stay at home all the time?" Tang Ning hesitated for a moment but still asked directly about the biggest anomaly. He knew very well that he was not suitable for guessing and making random assumptions by himself, so he might as well ask Su Anyun directly.
However, Su Anyun, who always answered his questions, did not answer immediately after hearing this question. Instead, he picked up some food for Tangning and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's talk about it after dinner."
Talk after dinner
Is there anything that can’t be said directly at the dinner table
Tang Ning ate a few mouthfuls of rice in a daze.
Su Anyun glanced at him, raised the corner of his lips, and reached out to wipe off a grain of white rice from Tang Ning's lips. Without any hesitation, he naturally put the grain of rice into his mouth.
Even though she had always been taken care of by Su Anyun, Tang Ning still felt a little embarrassed when she saw Su Anyun's behavior.
He ate his meal quickly. Su Anyun did not immediately tell him that he had changed his mind, but stood up to clean up the dishes.
Su Anyun went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. Tangning found a sofa and sat down to stare blankly. Once separated from Su Anyun, all those chaotic images came to her mind: the fire, the dead, the rugged mountain road.
These things that bothered him seemed to appear on the TV screen one after another, making Tangning feel more and more depressed. Tangning blinked and the dark TV screen reflected his figure sitting on the sofa.
The narrow corridor was also reflected on the screen. As Tangning stared blankly, a pale hand quietly stretched out from the door on the side of the corridor.
Tang Ning's pupils shrank.
He saw the hand waving at him!
Tang Ning turned around suddenly. There was nothing in the hallway behind him. It seemed that the hand just now was just an illusion. If he remembered correctly, the hand was in his mother's bedroom.
Tangning looked at her mother's closed door.
No hands.
Tang Ning was just turning around when his gaze suddenly paused, because Tang Ning saw a note appear in front of his mother's door.
Tangning blinked hard this time. The note was still there. It wasn't just his imagination. Was it the note that his mother slipped through the crack of the door? Why couldn't she just say what she wanted to say? Why leave a note behind
Just then, the sound of Su Anyun washing dishes in the kitchen stopped. Tang Ning looked towards the kitchen cautiously. The frosted door was closed, so he could only see a hazy figure.
It was difficult to tell whether the figure was facing away from him or staring at his every move.
Tang Ning held his breath.
Why did Su Anyun stop moving? Why didn't he go get the note
The note must have been handed over by his mother. There must be something his mother said to him on it. He was very curious about what happened to his mother. If he missed this opportunity, he might never know.
Thinking of this, Tang Ning gritted his teeth and stood up. He knew that there was a frosted door between the kitchen and the living room, and Su Anyun standing inside would not be able to see clearly what was happening outside. Therefore, Tang Ning did not turn completely to the kitchen. He just squinted his eyes to pay attention to the movements in the kitchen and slowly walked towards the corridor.
His mother's room and bathroom were close together, so he could easily pick up the note and run to the bathroom quickly. After reading it, he could flush the note down the toilet.
Tangning walked towards his mother step by step. He saw the figure in front of the frosted door did not move.
If Su Anyun was facing the sink with her back to him, why didn't she make any sound of washing dishes? She didn't look like she was playing with her phone.
If Su Anyun was facing him
That means Su Anyun has been looking at the living room.
Tang Ning's Adam's apple rolled, and he walked into the aisle, isolating himself from Su Anyun's gaze. He quickly walked to his mother's door, picked up the note, and hurriedly rushed to the bathroom with the note, then immediately locked the door.
It was only when he hid in the bathroom that Tangning dared to take a deep breath. He picked up the note with his weak hands. On it was his mother's beautiful handwriting: "Stay away from Su Anyun."
There is nothing else except these five simple words.
Stay away from Su Anyun
Is this what Mom wanted to tell him? Why did Mom say that? What happened to Su Anyun
Tang Ning thought about the porcelain doll he had left in the detention room, and Su Anyun's unusual support for him to stay at home.
"Knock, knock, knock." There was a knock on the door. Tang Ning's shoulder blades trembled as he leaned against the toilet door. He hurriedly threw the note into the toilet and pressed the flush button.
"Xiao Ning, I'm done." Su Anyun's voice was still gentle: "Don't you want to ask that question? Let's go out and talk now."
Tang Ning walked to the sink and rinsed his face with cold water. The cold water drops rolled down Tang Ning's face. He took a deep breath and tried to look natural in the mirror.
Then Tangning opened the door.
Su Anyun was standing outside the door. Seeing Tang Ning's face covered with water droplets, he picked up the hanging towel and gently wiped the sparkling water droplets off of her.
The face looked a little pale after being washed with cold water, and the slightly curly wet hair against the cheeks made her look even more beautiful. Su Anyun wiped Tang Ning's face very carefully. After he finished wiping Tang Ning's face, he held Tang Ning's hand and wiped each of Tang Ning's fingers bit by bit, from the fingertips to the base of the fingers.
After doing all this, Su Anyun took Tangning's hand and said, "Let's go out and talk, and take a walk?"
Tang Ning hesitated for a moment. His mother told him to stay away from Su Anyun. If he went out with Su Anyun,
But the words of the evil spirit cannot be trusted.
"Let's just stay at home. It's too hot outside." Tang Ning said softly.
The words of the evil ghost cannot be trusted, and perhaps the malicious Su Anyun cannot be trusted either. In this case, it would be better for them to stay in a small space.
"Okay, do you want to eat watermelon?" Su Anyun asked casually.
Tang Ning was in no mood to eat these things. Su Anyun acted naturally and took Tang Ning's hand to walk to his room.
Tangning had never been to Su Anyun's room before, so he was a little flustered when he saw this scene, "Let's go to my room."
Su Anyun remained calm after being rejected for the first time. He readily came to Tang Ning's room.
There was only one chair in Tang Ning's room, so Tang Ning sat on the edge of the bed while Su Anyun sat on the chair in front of the desk. Unlike Tang Ning who was fidgeting, Su Anyun was even in the mood to help Tang Ning tidy up the things that were messily placed on the desk.
Outside the window was lush green trees and golden sunlight. The window was not completely closed, blowing Su Anyun's hair and white shirt. This scene looked like the protagonist in a school drama. Su Anyun looked at Tangning calmly and naturally, and said to Tangning, "Xiao Ning asked me why I changed my mind."
Tangning nodded nervously.
"Then Xiao Ning might as well ask me why I wanted to leave before."
The rhythm of the conversation was completely controlled by the handsome young man in front of her. Tangning asked quietly, "Why?"
"Because I found that I like Xiao Ning." Su Anyun said lightly.
Tangning blinked blankly.
The mottled shadows of the trees swayed on Su Anyun's body, and a feeling as noisy and warm as midsummer surged in him. As their eyes met, Tang Ning looked into Su Anyun's dark and bright eyes.
"It's not my brother's favorite."
The hot wind outside the window grew stronger, making the trees sway, and the rustling sound was like heavy rain pouring down.
— "Brother, why are you still so nice to me?"
— "Want to listen?"
-"think."
— "It'll scare you."
Tangning looked at Su Anyun. He heard Su Anyun say, "As a brother, I can only accompany Xiaoning for a short period of time. In the future, Xiaoning will have her own life and her own family, and we will drift apart."
"I want to be Xiao Ning's family for life."
“Even if it doesn’t snow in winter here, I can still enjoy the whiteness of my family.”