The light was so strong that Xia Qiu could only see clearly the lower half of the face of the man standing on the terrace.
The smile on the corner of his mouth was unfamiliar. The closer he got, the more he felt the difference between him and Ouyang Xiaoleng. In ten years, maybe he had changed a lot. When it came time to face him, she was timid. She didn't know if he could accept himself as he was now.
Her steps and heartbeat quickened, and she ran towards the edge of the terrace. The man's arms were clearly open to her, so how could she not come to him immediately
"careful!"
But someone interfered with her again. Zhang Ke arrived at the terrace at some point. He grabbed Xia Qiu's wrist tightly to prevent her from moving forward.
The blurry figure standing in the light suddenly turned into countless golden butterflies, and they flew into the air. Xia Qiu stretched out his free hand and tried to grab them into the air, but failed to keep them. She felt her heart tightening, and tears burst into her eyes without warning.
Zhang Ke on the side was a little at a loss. He didn't know if it was because Xia Qiu was frightened by his sudden appearance, so he hurriedly asked her: "Are you okay?! I just saw you rushing towards the edge of the terrace desperately, it felt very dangerous! You Did you see something?! How about I take you home?!"
Xia Qiu couldn't say a word, only choking and nodding.
Zhang Ke came by car. He hurriedly picked up all the things belonging to Xia Qiu and Liu Lingmei, and then called a driver to take them back first, and then returned to X Bar to entertain the rest of the people. After everyone dispersed, I bought my order and went home.
After taking a bath, Xia Qiu and Liu Lingmei lay on their backs on the bed together. No matter how Liu Lingmei pressed her about what she had experienced in the bar, she refused to mention it again. It's not suitable because he's afraid of hearing her tell him to give up, but he's just afraid that she'll be worried about her.
"Did Du He send you a message today?" Liu Lingmei decided to break the silence.
"Well, he's quite worried about you." Xia Qiu said, looking at the ceiling reflected by the faint light coming from outside the curtains.
"Really? But when I was in Yongchuan, he sometimes didn't even have time to send me a text message all day long." Although Liu Lingmei said this, she was still sweet in her heart.
"Call him tomorrow..." Xia Qiu took the opportunity to persuade her.
"Don't just talk about me, what's going on between you and that Zhang Ke?! Is there any possibility of development?! To be honest, I think he is very good!" Liu Lingmei has been holding these words in her stomach all night .
"We are good friends, don't make random guesses! He is very popular in our company, and he is followed by a bunch of little girls!" Xia Qiu explained quickly.
"The key depends on who's behind him!" Liu Lingmei stretched out a hand and gently poked Xia Qiu's waist with her finger.
"Hahaha..." Xia Qiu couldn't help laughing, as if all the strength in her body was taken away from her in an instant, including her back, she immediately turned around to fight back.
Tired from laughing, both girls fell asleep.
That night, Xia Qiu had a dream. The dream was a continuation of what happened on the terrace of the
But she still couldn't see the man's eyes clearly, so she had to hold his hand and ask, "Who are you?"
She saw him constantly changing the shape of his mouth, guessing what he might be saying to her, but she couldn't hear a word.
"Where should I go to see you again?!" Xia Qiu intuitively felt that she would wake up from her dream soon, so she took every moment to ask.
This time she read his lips, and what he said should be the word "Yongchuan".
Waking up from the dream, Xia Qiu kept thinking about the dream over and over again. She knew that she couldn't just take a trip based on the clues in her dream, but her body had already begun to take action. She checked the tickets for the day back to Yongchuan on the ticket booking software on her mobile phone and bought the tickets without hesitation.
The genius shone brightly, and she jumped up from the bed. Xiao Hei heard the sound of her getting up, climbed out of his nest in the living room, and ran excitedly in the living room, as if he knew what she was going to do.
"Xiao Hei, I want to go back to Yongchuan!" Xia Qiu lowered his head and stroked the head of Xiao Hei who kept wagging his tail at him.
From Xiao Hei's eyes, she seemed to see the shadow of Hei Yun, although it only passed by briefly, which made her couldn't help but think that it might be her own hallucination.
She left a note for her father and Liu Lingmei on the dining table, took only simple belongings and went out. After getting into the taxi, she sent a text message to Zhang Ke, first to thank him for taking care of him the night before, and also to ask for a leave from him. After sending the message, she realized that it was just after six in the morning, so Zhang Ke must still be dreaming.
Unexpectedly, I received his reply very quickly:
"You should take care of girls, are you too polite? I will help you fill out the leave application form on Monday, don't worry!"
Xia Qiu touched into her backpack, and the plum blossom hairpin transformed from a plum blade lay quietly inside. Over the years, her fingertips had touched its coldness more than once. She always carried it with her, but could no longer transform it into the form of a long sword.
According to Dong Muya, this should be because she is the contractor of the Demon King Fox Ouyang Xiaoleng, and the source of her power is Ouyang Xiaoleng. However, due to the rupture of the maze between the human world and the demon world, she can no longer get from him. Got strength there. But Xia Qiu knew that there was another reason that Dong Muya had never mentioned, and that was that Ouyang Xiaoleng might no longer be alive.
For some reason, the feeling of touching the plum blossom hairpin again today was different from every time in the years since she parted with Ouyang Xiaoleng. She seemed to have found the uneasiness she felt when she had just obtained the plum blossom hairpin. She began to try to summon the plum blade in her heart, although she was not sure whether she would get a response.
At about 6:40, she finally got on the train back to Yongchuan, with only five minutes left before departure. When I booked my tickets, I was too hasty and just chose the earliest one. The train finally left the platform slowly, and the cell phone in the backpack rang at the same time.
The first person to call was her father Xia Xuesong. Xia Xuesong didn't express any dissatisfaction with Xia Qiu's rare impulsiveness and willfulness. He just asked her if she had boarded the train. Knowing that the train had started, he felt relieved. After a few more instructions, he hung up the phone.
She originally wanted to take a nap on the train. After all, she drank a lot the night before and her head was still spinning when she woke up in the morning. But when she thought that she was getting closer and closer to Yongchuan, she felt inexplicably excited. This feeling She was so excited that she couldn't even close her eyes.
This throb is very similar to the feeling I had when I was a child, when I would ride back to Yongchuan by car after being forced to leave Yongchuan to Beijing to find my father during the holidays. She thought that her grandpa and grandma would be waiting for her at the station, and then she would be able to run freely in the familiar Yongchuan forest, breathing in the purest air there. But now, what she was looking forward to was the revelation of the dream.
Xia Qiu felt that a figure was walking from the aisle. From the corner of his eye, his outline looked very similar to the person standing on the terrace. But when she turned her face, the sun shined directly into her eyes through the car window, and in just a blink of an eye, the figure in the aisle disappeared.
Is it an illusion again? She sighed softly.
The hallucinations that had appeared frequently in the past few days were indeed worthy of doubt. At the beginning, she thought it might be because of her mental problem, but the text message from Du He yesterday seemed to be some kind of reminder. The reaction they detected from the demon world is getting stronger and stronger, and has Ouyang Xiaoleng found a way to come back
She suddenly remembered that there was someone who, like herself, had an inseparable connection with the demon world, so she quickly dialed that person's phone number. That person was Dong Muya.
The person who answered the phone was a young female voice, and Xia Qiu immediately recognized that it was Ouyang Zi, the daughter of Dong Muya and Ouyang Hongye.
"Zi Zi, I am Xia Qiu."
"Oh, Sister Xia Qiu!" Ouyang Zi's voice suddenly changed from dull to surprising.
"I have something to do with your mother!"
"Okay, wait!" Ouyang Zi's voice called Dong Muya came from the other end of the phone, "Mom! Sister Xia Qiu is looking for you!"
"Teacher Dong!" Xia Qiu still used to call Dong Muya teacher.
"Xia Qiu, what's wrong?" Dong Muya was preparing breakfast for Ouyang Zi and Min Endong. She felt a little strange that Xia Qiu called so early in the morning.
"I... am on the train back to Yongchuan!" Xia Qiu didn't know where to start talking about the reason for her sudden return to Yongchuan.
"Why is it so sudden? Didn't you just come back before..." Dong Muya paused on the other end of the phone and asked, "Did you also see something?"
"Well!" Xia Qiu felt as if she and Dong Muya were connected instantly, and they could understand each other's meanings even without having to explain everything clearly. "Although it's not always clear and I can't talk to him, I can I’m pretty sure that person is him.”
"I have seen red leaves more than once recently. If in the past few years, he would appear from time to time, it was just because I missed him too much. But what I have seen in the past few days is different from the previous ones. I Pretty sure it’s him.”
Dong Muya saw Ouyang Hongye for several days in a row. The most recent time was after she fell asleep reading on the sofa in the afternoon the day before. She saw him as soon as she woke up, although it was not very clear. He was sitting on the sofa next to her and looking at her quietly, as if he had been sitting there for a long time, but when she was fully awake, he disappeared again. .
Knowing that Xia Qiu also saw Ouyang Xiaoleng, she became even more certain that the reason why she saw Ouyang Hongye was not because she missed Ouyang Hongye too much, but because he really appeared. But why couldn't he talk to her? And although it feels real, his appearance is vague.
The only conclusion is that the confusing path connecting the demon world and the human world is still unstable at this moment.