The child's words are not borderline, but the little girl's expression is still clear, Chi Yan barely understands what she means, bends down and touches her head and coaxes: "Probably mother and brother misunderstood, this uncle has been there all the time. of."
He felt funny in his heart, seeing this kind of thing badly, probably only children would take it seriously.
The little girl gave an "oh" and looked at the two and stopped talking.
Ye Yingzhi gave a low smile, took a step forward and stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to touch the child's head, but he took his hand back for some reason.
Chi Yan glanced at him suspiciously, and Ye Yingzhi explained: "There are too many bacteria on the hands of adults, which is not good for children."
Chi Yan thought that she had touched other people's children just now, and she felt a little embarrassed, and silently put her hands behind her back.
Ye Yingzhi leaned over to the little girl and said, "Good, go back early in the evening, don't come out by yourself, and don't talk to strangers, it's not safe."
The little girl murmured "uh".
At this time, only one female voice shouted: "Wenwen!"
The little girl turned her head and saw her mother, Ye Yingzhi and Chi Yan, and then stumbled and ran towards her mother like a swallow in a forest.
Ye Yingzhi pulled Chi Yan and continued to walk forward, the voice of mother-daughter dialogue was left far behind—
"Wenwen, who were you talking to just now?"
"The two uncles on the boat in the afternoon, the uncle said that the other uncle was always there. Mom, I didn't lie, it was my brother who saw it wrong... "
The young mother only felt a chill on the back of her neck.
"Two uncles?" she confirmed to her daughter.
The little girl nodded with wide eyes.
However, she clearly saw that there was only one person standing in front of her daughter just now...
The mother was cold all over, she didn't dare to ask any more questions, and hugged her little daughter even tighter. Tomorrow, take the kids back tomorrow morning. No, my husband can't come back from out of town, so I'll call my eldest brother now and ask him to pick them up tomorrow.
Chi Yan and Ye Yingzhi walked all the way, getting closer and closer to the Nurse Lake. There were no street lights on this road, and the lighting was all based on the moonlight in the sky and the lights from the doors of the residents and the windows on the side of the road. It was too dark at night, and the path that Ye Yingzhi chose now was a bit biased, and there were only the two of them left on the way.
After walking for about 20 minutes, Chi Yan actually saw a child about the same size as the girl just now beckoning to him by the road ahead. He was far away and the light was dim. I can't tell the difference between men and women, and I can only vaguely tell that it is a child from the size of the outline.
Chi Yan said: "Yingzhi, there is another child over there who is still beckoning me to go over there." He said that he wanted to go there, but was hugged by Ye Yingzhi.
Ye Yingzhi put his arms around him gently and smiled, "How can there be a child, you just saw that the little girl had an image in her mind, so you misread it?"
Chi Yan looked at that place again, and sure enough, the little figure who kept beckoning to him just now had disappeared.
He stood there momentarily. The visual impression just now is too real, it really doesn't look like an illusion.
Ye Yingzhi continued to laugh in his ear: "I like children so much, why don't you give me one?"
Chi Yan turned and glared at him: "Can you give birth or can I give birth?!"
Ye Yingzhi just smiled and walked back with his arms around him.
Such a nutritious flirtation, but successfully diverted Chi Yan's attention, ignoring what was wrong at that moment, and accepted the "illusion" explanation in his heart.
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With the sound of the water, something broke out of the water, getting closer and closer to him...
In the early morning, Chi Yan woke up again from her sleep, sat up from the bed, gasping for breath.
Exactly the same dream.
The feeling of being stared at by something made him feel fear in his heart.
It was a cloudy day tonight, the moonlight was gradually shrouded in clouds, and a layer of mist formed on the lake. The night was still calm, but it seemed like something was hiding.
The feeling of panic and fear was even hard to restrain. He didn't care about disturbing his lover, so he leaned on Ye Yingzhi and hugged him, and whispered: "Yingzhi..."
Ye Yingzhi opened his eyes immediately, and put his arms around him calmly, soothing: "Don't be afraid, it's alright, I'm here."
Chi Yan shook his head, he always felt that something more terrible would happen.
"Knock-knock", a knock on the door rang.
Not just their door, but the door downstairs.
What's even more bizarre is that with the sound of "squeak", there is no one living in the room downstairs. The landlord said that it is a house under renovation. With the knock on the door, the somewhat old door opened in response. And the sound of the door opening came to his ears very clearly.
The knocking outside their door continued, but there was a rustling sound downstairs, as if something was crawling on the ground.
Chi Yan froze completely, being disturbed by these two voices at the same time, unable to think, she could only barely maintain the posture of holding Ye Yingzhi.
Ye Yingzhi kept patting him on the back to comfort him, kissing his trembling eyelids gently, and at the same time not forgetting to reach out and stuff his exposed back into the quilt.
Chi Yan heard the sound of the crawling downstairs getting clearer and closer, and then it seemed to change direction... That thing was crawling along the wall, which is the wall against which the head of their bed was leaning! He could even hear the sound of fingernails scratching against the ceiling, and then everything stopped - Chi Yan knew that the thing was parked on the ceiling downstairs, facing the bottom of their bed.
He didn't even dare to grab the door and run away, because the rhythmic knocking on the door continued.
Chi Yan didn't dare to make a sound, he was breathing carefully, he was afraid that "that thing" below would hear it.
He very carefully leaned into Ye Yingzhi's ear and whispered, "... Yingzhi, did you hear it?"
In the darkness, Ye Yingzhi's eyes became extremely dark. He bent the corner of his mouth and murmured: "Bold." At the same time, his subordinates did not forget to continue to comfort his lover.
Chi Yan asked, "What did you say?"
Ye Yingzhi said: "I mean the mice are too daring now. Fortunately, there are no mice in our house. I don't know who hates knocking on the door every day. I'll take a look."
His indifferent attitude also affected Chi Yan, Chi Yan felt less nervous and afraid: "It's not a mouse, you listen to that sound, it's not something a mouse can make."
Ye Yingzhi stuffed Chi Yan, who had raised half of his body in a hurry, back into the quilt, and sat up to prepare to go down the tunnel: "Well, there are many wild animals in this kind of place surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it may also be a weasel or a weasel. A pangolin or something."
weasel? pangolin
Chi Yan grew up in the city, and she only knew about these animals by name, most of whom had seen them on TV or books, but had never really encountered them or left a deep impression on them. What's it like, what's your habit. After listening to Ye Yingzhi's words, I really felt that maybe I was thinking too much and scared myself.
But the unusual knock on the door after his nightmares for two days in a row was terrifying.
He hugged Ye Yingzhi's waist from behind: "Yingzhi, don't go there, can you stay with me... Sleep, sleep and wake up tomorrow and you will be fine." He couldn't say where he came from. This kind of "sleep and it's good" perception is obtained.
Ye Yingzhi couldn't help turning his head and rubbing his face, remembering how he used to cry with red eyes from fright, and explained: "I'll take a look just like yesterday, it's definitely the same person from yesterday, and today he's the same person again. I got the wrong door. When I opened the door, he realized that it wasn't where he lived and left. Otherwise, how would you sleep if you knocked like this?"
Chi Yan felt a little at ease, but when she thought of something that was lying on the floor under the bed, she didn't know what it was, and she felt a little nervous in her heart, and she didn't even dare to stay on the bed. He raised his head and looked at Ye Yingzhi: "...then I'll go with you."