The moment the door was wide open, Xie Wen was actually stunned.
That expression seemed more like a hesitation and hesitation when he smelled it, but he caught it even though it was fleeting.
He is cold and reserved in most situations, but he is shockingly sensitive in front of this person.
So at the same moment when he saw that expression, he withdrew his gaze from Xie Wen, froze slightly and said, "It's the same wherever you sleep."
His tone was very light, as if he had changed his mind temporarily. But unconsciously, the frown between his brows revealed himself cleanly.
After he finished speaking, he subconsciously pulled the door, but he was blocked by a hand just as he pulled halfway.
Wen Shi raised his eyes and saw Xie Wen's hand against the edge of the door, saying, "Why did you go back and regret it halfway?"
"No." Wen Shi was silent for two seconds, and then said, "If you don't want to enter so much, don't enter."
At this time, the emotion in his tone was much more obvious, with a bit of unhappiness, and because he didn't hide it, he didn't seem so cold and hard, more like a soft thorn of bluff.
Listening to this, Xie Wen's eyes stayed on Wen Shi's face, not knowing what he was looking at, but he watched for a while.
After listening, he bowed slightly and walked in, then closed the door behind his back.
When he was holding the doorknob, he held Wen Shi's fingers together, but didn't let go.
The door lock clicked and all the lights were blocked from the house.
When I smelled it, my fingers moved a bit, but I couldn't pull it out. So he could only stand in front of Xie Wen, so close that any one of them tilted his head and could kiss.
"What do you mean?" Wen Shi asked.
"Can't you see, house arrest." Xie Wen leaned back against the door, the hand holding Wen Shi and the doorknob behind him, and Wen Shi's forearm wrapped around his waist, at first glance like a hug .
"I've been stingy since I was unhappy that I could be bored for a month. Of course I have to ask the question clearly before letting you go." Xie Wen's spare hand just happened to be withered, so he would cover it up in front of outsiders so as not to be frightened. No matter who you are, you will feel a lot more comfortable here when you smell it.
He lightly adjusted his face and asked, "Why do you think I don't want to come in?"
Wen Shi moved his lips, but he didn't know how to answer, so he simply didn't plan to say anything.
Xie Wen's fingers were on the side of his neck, like a mixture of white bones and dead wood, a little sharp, but not painful. It only touches the skin lightly, and it scratches people's hearts when it is scratched.
Wen Shi grabbed those dry fingers and said impatiently, "When I opened the door, you were stunned for a moment."
Xie Wen didn't respond for a while: "...I was stunned for a while?"
Staring at him as he smelled it.
It was dark in the room and no light was on. Most of the light outside the window was screened out by the curtains, and when it fell in, it was hazy, and the outlines were blurred.
But he still looked at him stubbornly.
Xie Wen pondered for a moment before he understood what Wen Shi meant, he said, "I was stunned for a while because..."
Halfway through the sentence, he suddenly stopped, wondering what to do.
Wen Shi waited for a while, but did not wait for the following, frowned and said, "Why?"
Xie Wen laughed a little, but the laughter was only muffled in his throat, looking low and deep. After a while, he spoke slowly: "Because what you want and what you want to do, you always find a lot of reasons and excuses for yourself. But today is different."
It was like this when he was a child. Later, he spoiled him all the way, and only managed to cultivate some temper, with a bit of innocuous "unscrupulous".
As a result, several Spirit Washing Arrays wiped out all the fate and returned to the beginning. The bigger the mind, the heavier it is, and it also has a bit of a cold taste of refusing people thousands of miles away.
I went to Master because I encountered a difficult matter.
Back to Songyun Mountain, it is necessary to read some old books.
Walking side by side, it happened to cross the official road, and there was no other fork in the road.
…
Everyone has desires, but it is a little awkward to hear them.
Every time I wanted to order something from him, I would always go around in a big circle, using all kinds of excuses, to force myself onto a single road without bifurcations before I could open my mouth. He also wears an inhumane camouflage.
Over time, it almost became his true appearance.
It is such a cold, refusing person who is thousands of miles away, yet he is rarely honest and straightforward today—
No detours, no excuses.
He just held the handle like that, looked at Xie Wen, and opened the door.
At that moment, he almost revealed a demagogic temperament, like a charming mountain spirit wrapped in frost and snow. In the eyes of ordinary people, there is a cool sexy.
"So what?" Wen Shi asked.
Xie asked: "Huh?"
Wen Shi: "What are you thinking about for a moment?"
"Thinking about..." Xie Wen moved his thin fingers, and the tip accidentally slid across Wen Shi's neck.
When he smelled it, he avoided it slightly, pulled out a thin and beautiful line from his chin and neck, and slid his Adam's apple against his fingertips.
Xie Wen lowered his eyes and looked there, and said in a gentle voice, "I have lived for an unknown number of years, and I have died for an unknown number of years. It seems that I have finally begun to return to the ordinary."
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head with half-closed eyes, and kissed the Adam's apple that was bulging when he smelled it.
He even kissed with the meaning of a sage cyclist, but this place was often implicated in unprovoked desires.
Hen Shi closed his eyes at that moment, and his Adam's apple slid again uncontrollably.
Xie Wen seemed to think it was interesting. After letting go, he fiddled with his fingers and kissed him there again, as if teasing him.
"you… "
As soon as I heard a word, I was silenced by the touch at the tip of my Adam's apple.
He remembered a very absurd dream many years ago.
In the dream, he was sitting on the couch, his clothes loose. His hair was tied up as high as usual, meticulously and arrogantly, but the ends were messy in the lapel of his clothes, or stuck to his neck with sweat, and he was full of delusions and desires.
And the dust is standing on the edge of the couch, neatly dressed and bright.
He saw the other party reach out, and with his fingers, he picked up the wet sweat dripping down his neck into the front of his shirt, and then twitched the pulp of his fingers.
And he pursed his lips in embarrassment and turned his face away, the puppet line wrapped around ten fingers subconsciously wanted to block the opponent, but was easily stopped by the opponent.
When he turned his head again, he only saw that the puppet line was bound to his master under the counter-control of Chen Wu.
The scene in the dream is always jumpy and messy, and there is no pattern. He only remembered that at the end of the dream, the moment before he woke up, Chen Buo was still sitting on the edge of his couch in clean clothes, but his clean and beautiful hand was not under the hem of his robe.
He suddenly bent one leg and propped up the snow-white gown on his knee. Then it was the same, with his back against the wall, his eyes half closed and his neck raised.
But Chen Bubu leaned over and touched his Adam's apple lightly.
…
Wen Shi suddenly grabbed Xie Wen's hand and asked, "Will the Spirit Washing Formation let you see the dreams I had?"
Xie asked: "No."
He hesitated for a moment when he smelled, and his tightly clenched fingers sent a little, but he didn't let go.
Xie Wen's eyes moved a bit: "What's the matter, what did you dream of?"
Wen Shi's breathing was messed up by the kiss on his Adam's apple and the dream he suddenly remembered. He pursed his lips tightly and said nothing, but his shoulders and neck undulated slightly, and the rest was hidden in the darkness.
Xie Wen wanted to see what kind of expression he would have at this time, so he raised his hand and turned on the light in the room.
Lu's home was still an old-fashioned incandescent lamp, which flashed twice before it came on.
At that moment, he saw that Wen Shi's expression was still tense, but there was a large area of pale blood on his neck, and the tip of his Adam's apple was especially red.
"Really can't see?" Even his voice was low and cold, "You swear."
It's just that the content is a bit harsh.
"Swear." Xie Wen followed his words and said, "But I want to hear it more, what dream?"
roll.
Wen Shi felt that this person's questioning was intentional, and at the same time was a little hesitant...
After all, in his eyes, this person has always been the appearance of a celestial cyclist who has lasted for more than a thousand years. Maybe he really doesn't know what his dream is.
He didn't know how to answer for a while, and he couldn't get around, so he simply turned off the light and went to kiss the corner of his lips.
"Snowman." Xie Wen scratched his chin with his fingertips like dead branches, and asked in the gap, "Are you... forcibly circumventing the problem?"
"No, shut up."
Someone got a little angry and was about to block, when Xie Wen lightly pinched his chin and said in a low voice, "Then open it up."
***
In the next room, Lao Mao was paralyzed on the sofa. He looked quite old. He was hugging a pillow tightly, his eyes were empty, and he seemed to be an empty-nest old man.
Xia Qiao was also very empty, sitting on the edge of the bed with his arms around the bedpost, silently digesting the news he had just learned.
Only Bu Ning stood by the bed gently, trying to get Zhou Xu out.
He said: "Junior brother and master are next door. Although this house is old and simple, it was built with great care. The walls are very solid. You can't hear the sound of our house. You can come out and talk."
Zhou Xu was silent.
Bu Ning sighed and said bitterly: "Although my junior brother looks cold and not easy to get close to, it seems that his puppet line will come towards you if the words are wrong, and the five flowers will be tied up, so he will clean up. In fact—"
Actually it is.
Anyway, Zhong Si was the most jerk among the brothers and sisters. When he was heard, he was tied up to the top of the mountain. It took an hour to hang up.
This training method is also a little better than Bu Ning's own labyrinth formation.
Bu Ning carton for a moment, in order to comfort a certain coward, he considered avoiding the important points: "Actually, it won't take long to tie it up, and it will be divided into people to clean up."
For example, tying a bell can take an hour, tying a golden-winged Dapeng takes only a cup of tea, tying a master...
Shouldn't have been successful.
Bu Ning suddenly remembered back then, whenever Zhuang Hao saw Wen Shi rushing towards Chen Chen and letting out cold air, he persuaded him: "If you can't do it, how can you do that to Master? If you have anything to do at the foot of the mountain, let it go, Senior Brother will accompany you. Turn around a few more times, if you don't want to see the idlers down the mountain, you will change your face, and I will go to Junior Brother Zhong to ask for a talisman."
The result is often that Zhuang Haohao's voice just fell, and Wen Shi's puppet line has gone straight to the dust.
Then Zhuang Haohao would sigh deeply, and Zhong Si would flee to the farthest place to hide and watch the play.
Of course, those puppet lines never hit the dust, they were always caught in his palm in the blink of an eye, and when asked, "Are you using me to practice, or are you doing a sneak attack?"
Chen Buu is actually a very good-tempered person most of the time. After all, there are very few things in the world that can cause him to care. So Wen Shi's sneak attack never had any consequences, and it was always over with a few jokes.
But next time there is such a thing, they will persuade them, but they dare to hear it. This has almost become a unique way of getting along and daily.
Only occasionally, Zhuang Ye would take advantage of Wen Shi's absence and sigh with emotion: "I really admire the courage of my junior brother."
Whenever he thinks of these things, Bu Ning hopes that Zhong Si and Zhuang Ye will also come to see how courageous the current apprentices are.
Before dinner, when the Zhang siblings were not at the table, Xie Wen and Wen Shi asked Bu Ning about Song Yunshan.
Bu Ning told them that Zhong Si and Zhuang Ye were still raising them in the array he set up, and they might have a chance to wake up and take a look at the world they left in a hurry.
In order for the two of them not to be disturbed, the great formation used to hide Songyun Mountain is still running, and ordinary people will not find a place and will not accidentally enter. The twelve spirits are still guarding there, keeping a clean and safe.
He was thinking about the past when a buzzing sound suddenly sounded, and the source of the vibration was close to his thigh.
Ancestor Bu Ning was startled.
"Zhou Xu!" He silently took out the vibrating thing from his jeans pocket, and called Zhou Xu twice, "I don't know how to use this thing, it would be bad if I got it wrong."
He stared at the jumping Arabic numerals on the screen, dazedly identifying them.
Until then, Zhou Xu finally came back to life.
He was shocked, he found a chair and slumped over, and said, "Look, this thing is called a mobile phone. If the next time it is so shaken, just swipe your thumb along this side."
He sat up straight from the chair again and said angrily, "How many times are you going to pretend to be dead?"
Then he slumped again: "Then who can tell, isn't there a saying that you will never know which will come first tomorrow or the accident-"
He asked Bu Ning how to answer the phone, but he dropped the phone in his hand.
The phone stopped vibrating instantly.
The room was quiet for a while, before he hesitated to change into a gentle posture, looked at the blackened screen of the mobile phone, and listened to his ears again, and asked, "Why didn't you talk to anyone?"
Although Ancestor Bu Ning didn't know how to use a mobile phone, he had an impression of seeing the Zhang siblings answering the phone.
"Hi!" Zhou Xu is used to turning his pen in school, he is a master, and his mobile phone is also familiar between his fingers: "Unfamiliar numbers like this are probably harassing calls, I often encounter, some senior teaching assistants. Brands, all-round academic tutoring, Balabala, and the opening of the property market in Ningzhou, where you can move in with fine decorations, what kind of stuff—"
He was scolding when the phone buzzed again.
It was still the unfamiliar number, and Zhou Xu pinched it again without saying a word: "Come back?! This fool is quite persistent."
After he finished cursing, he lowered his voice and taught himself: "Stop swearing."
"It's neither rough nor rough." Zhou Xu once again took the lead, and said with little care, "It's just smooth talk."
The phone vibrated for the third time.
Zhou Xu was satisfied.
He didn't press it again this time, but swiped it on and muttered: "Damn, it's not over yet! Okay, it will be this stupid—"
As soon as the word "Bi" landed, the old voice of Zhang Jiajia's advocate Zhengchu appeared in the receiver: "Is it Xiao Xu?"
Zhou Xu: "…"
Grass.
I scolded the old grandfather of the Zhang family.
"Xiao Xu?" Zhang Zhengchu called out again.
Zhou Xu finally couldn't stand it any longer, and replied, "Ang..."
"Is it Zhou Xu?"
"Master, it's me." Zhou Xu bit his head and laughed dryly, then took a deep breath while covering the receiver.
Of course, Zhang Zhengchu was not his grandfather, but Zhou Xu lived in his home when he was a child. In order to get close, Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin asked him to call him grandfather.
In fact, just a title doesn't do much. At least he didn't feel how close Zhang Zhengchu was to him. He has lived in this house for several years, and the number of times he sees Zhang Zhengchu, he can't use a hand.
This can be seen from the fact that he has never saved Zhang Zhengchu's phone number.
"Master, why are you calling me?" Zhou Xu asked with a dry smile.
It may be that Zhou Xu is young, Zhang Zhengchu's tone towards him is much more kind than towards Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin, like an old man who is enjoying his life and can't help but worry about his younger generation.
"It's not a big deal, it's just that something went wrong on the famous tree today. Did you listen to your aunt and the others?" Zhang Zhengchu asked.
your aunty...
Zhou Xu pouted the corner of his mouth silently, assuming that the other party could not see. After all, when Zhang Zhengchu mentioned Zhang Lan in the past, he directly said "A Lan", but he would not use the title "Your aunt".
Zhou Xu thought about it and said, "No, what's wrong?"
Zhang Zhengchu seemed to be choking over there.
It's not that I can't say that I can't be a junior, but Zhang Zhengchu thought that Zhou Xu was always making a fuss about getting involved and knowing. As long as Zhang Lan answered the phone call between him and Aqi, he would definitely be haunted by Zhou Xu. Say something.
Zhang Zhengchu didn't choked for too long, and simply said straight to the point: "Your aunt didn't mention it to you, and you didn't ask? It's not like you."
He said it like a joke at the end.
Zhou Xu laughed a few times and said, "No! I'm not sensible, so I didn't pester my aunt to ask more questions. But I know what the grandfather said!"
Zhang Zhengchu got stuck again for some reason.
Zhou Xu listened carefully for a while, and felt that it should be where the old man was covering the radio, saying something to the puppet named Aqi beside him.
But the pause didn't last long, and the old man's voice rang again on the phone: "I'm talking to Aqi Zheng. Xiao Xu, tell the grandfather honestly, have you entered the cage with your aunt and the others? What happened to you?"
After he asked, he sighed worriedly, and added: "I asked Aqi to call your aunt before, but that girl didn't know what to do in a hurry, so before Aqi finished speaking, she called I hung up. I just called again and couldn't get through. I don't know if I slept or took a shower and didn't get the call. My grandfather thought about it and was worried, so I came to ask you. You know, Alan and Yalin are both strong, and it's not good to announce good news. Report your worries, I like to take care of myself first when I encounter any troublesome things.”
Zhou Xu nodded and replied, "Yes."
Zhang Zhengchu said again: "I guess, the timing of the resurrection of Ancestor Bu Ning is quite coincidental, and it may also be related to the cage you entered. I heard your aunty hesitating before, I am afraid that the situation is not right for her and she will not be able to hold back. Say, I came to ask you specially. Would you tell the grandfather so that the grandfather can rest assured?"
Zhou Xu was simply, looking a little heartless: "Okay, sir, what do you want to ask?"
"Have you seen Ancestor Bu Ning come back to life?" Zhang Zhengchu asked.
"I see." Zhou Xu said, "The scene is quite big."
Zhang Zhengchu asked, "Where was he resurrected?"
Zhou Xu said, "In the cage."
Zhang Zhengchu: "... The master wants to ask what kind of cage and where is it probably."
Zhou Xu: "Oh, just a big cage, in Tianjin."
Zhang Zhengchu obviously couldn't stand the way he asked a sentence and squeezed a sentence. He simply asked: "Then tell your grandfather, how did the ancestor Bu Ning come back to life? Describe it."
Zhou Xu: "Just... That cage is in a village, there is a passage in the village, and when you walk past it is another village, there are a few stones in the village. When Xiao Hei saw the stones, he threw himself on his knees, saying that it was the ancestor of Bu Ning. the rock formations."
Zhang Zhengchu: "Oh? Then what?"
Zhou Xu: "Then he entered the battle, and then the ancestor Bu Ning said he would live."
Zhang Zhengchu: "What about the process?"
Zhou Xu: "Master, to be honest, I really don't know the process. I fainted before the ancestor came out."
Zhang Zhengchu: "..."
At that moment, Zhou Xu suspected that if the old man didn't pay too much attention to his image, he might scold him on the spot.
"Then when did you wake up?" Zhang Zhengchu asked.
Zhou Xu: "I woke up when I came out of the cage."
Zhang Zhengchu: "..."
"So you fainted from before the appearance of Ancestor Bu Ning until after being released from the cage? You can really faint." Zhang Zhengchu smiled, like an elder who ridiculed the minor mistakes of the younger generation, "Then you and Ancestor Bu Ning directly missed it?"
"That's not true." Zhou Xu said naturally, "Isn't it still after being released?"
Zhang Zhengchu finally heard something he wanted to hear: "The ancestor also came out of the cage?"
"right."
"Just in Tianjin?"
"Yeah." Zhou Xu said, "But there is no body, just a spirit."
Zhang Zhengchu suddenly regained his energy, and repeated in his throat: "No body?"
"Yes, he has no body." Zhou Xu said.
Zhang Zhengchu: "Where did he go after he came out of the cage?"
Zhou Xu: "I didn't go anywhere, just follow us."
"Follow—" Zhang Zhengchu paused, then said, "Okay, then no wonder your aunt was hesitant before, I guess she was a little overwhelmed by the ancestors. Since the ancestors followed you, it is also your blessing... However, this matter is still a bit strange, and it is better to be cautious. Well, I originally planned to convene a meeting here in the main family to discuss it. But since the ancestor himself is in Tianjin, our juniors have not avoided it. The truth. Anyway, you have to connect the ancestors first. You tell your aunt and the others, just say—"
The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "Forget it, we will all set off tonight, and I don't know what time we will wait. Let's talk about it in Tianjin."
He thought about it and added another sentence: "On the ancestor's side, don't be alarmed yet."
After speaking, he said hello and hung up the phone.
This…
Is it a shock to call the old ancestor in person? ?
Zhou Xu was stunned for a long time while holding the phone, and said to himself, "How about you... pretend you didn't hear me?"