After Xu Jiang finished eating, he remembered what Chi Yan told him on the phone last time: "Chi Yan, your aunt still wants to introduce her niece to you?"
"Well," Chi Yan nodded, "and this time my uncle also nodded and asked me to go back and meet, it's not easy to shirk." After all, he only has his uncle as a relative, and recently he was busy with work and couldn't take time off. The excuse is to push it, and during the Chinese New Year, my uncle will definitely ask him to go back to visit the graves of grandparents and give incense to the grandparents.
His uncle and aunt met when they were working, and the conditions at home are relatively average compared to the uncle and aunt's family. Chi Yan has a house, savings, and shares in his uncle's company. His talents are not bad. His aunt has always been interested in matching him with his niece. Uncle Chi Yan didn't like this niece's conditions at first, and felt that she was not worthy of Chi. Yan, he never made a statement. Later, when he saw that Chi Yan was slow to talk about friends, and there was no sign of it, he felt that as the only elder, he should take care of him, but he was always incited by his wife, so he came forward and vaguely asked Chi Yan to come back. See and see, see if they are compatible or not.
Xu Jiang said: "It's fine if you go back and have a look, we're not too young, we should think about it, but you can't listen to your aunt's arrangements, now we'll see if we're good friends, and next year we'll try everywhere first. In two years, it has become 'I don't think you should pick it up, your sister Lin is fine, find a day to get the certificate', do you think it's wrong?"
Chi Yan didn't speak, and listened to Xu Jiang continue: "But I also know that I don't blame you. You haven't encountered a creature of the opposite sex in your working environment for three years. Let me introduce you to two elementary school girls. The day before yesterday I When the junior sister saw our group photo in high school and praised you for being handsome, I joked about introducing you to each other, but the junior sister didn't say anything wrong."
Chi Yan said in his heart that males are full of yang energy and ghosts. Back then, when he chose schools and majors in college, he deliberately chose a famous polytechnic university with an eight-to-one ratio of males to females. After graduation, his counterparts would naturally have more males than females. Xu Jiang is different. Dr. Xu is a sociology student, and their colleges choose one out of three. Xu Jiang said that even if he is disfigured, he can still win.
Chi Yan had been living a life of trepidation for more than 20 years, always feeling precarious, even his own survival was a problem, let alone the issue of marrying a wife and having children, and he also met girls who vaguely showed his affection, but he always Even if they think about being together, it will be plain and implicate others, and they will be estranged without a trace. He has spent most of his life dealing with things that are not human, and he has no experience in interpersonal communication and emotional issues. Now, listening to Xu Jiang's words, he thinks what he said actually makes sense. My uncle was also worried that he was alone, and if he could find someone he liked, he would definitely not force him to go back on a blind date. With the protection of Young Master Ye's ashes, his life is safe for now, so should he also plan to live a normal life
He weighed it carefully and nodded to Xu Jiang.
When Xu Jiang saw that Chi Yan was actually willing to let him introduce his friends to him, he felt flattered like a blossoming iron tree, and thought to himself, when did Lao Chi become enlightened. He also acted very quickly. On Wednesday, he called Chi Yan and said that he had booked a restaurant for noon on Sunday. He would bring two junior sisters over and introduce them to him in the name of inviting them to dinner and finding friends to accompany them.
Chi Yan had nothing to do on Saturday, thinking that he didn't have to cook at noon on Sunday and was too lazy to go out to buy vegetables, so he simply ate instant noodles at noon, and offered a small bowl to Ye Yingzhi's tablet as usual. I was hungry early in the afternoon, so I called to order a takeaway from a nearby store that I often eat.
He called at 5 o'clock, and it was already 7 o'clock when the takeaway was delivered. The orange outside the window was rendering the distant sky, and the sky was darkening and darkening. Chi Yan was cleaning up the house when he heard a knock on the door, guessing it was a takeaway, and hurried to open the door. He opened the door a crack, just enough for the takeaway to hand in the meal, Chi Yan took the meal and thanked him, the other party nodded and left. Chi Yan vaguely saw that the other party was wearing a black dress like a long down jacket, wrapping herself tightly.
Carrying the meal back to the living room and putting it on the dining table, Chi Yan realized that something was wrong. He often ordered takeaway from this restaurant, and knew that the packaging of his family was not like this, and even no other store would pack takeaway in this way. —The inferior white paper silk flowers affixed to it make the meal more like an offering or offering.
Chi Yan felt a little chill in her heart, she looked back at Ye Yingzhi's tablet, bowed, and lost her appetite and mood to eat. He didn't open the lunch box with the paper flower tape, but put it back in a plastic bag and put it at the door, took out his mobile phone and tried to call the store to ask what went wrong - for him , This move is not so much to protect rights, but to find peace of mind.
When I took out the phone, I found that there was no signal. Recently, the base station of the operator in this area has always had problems, and there is no signal for a short time from time to time.
The sky was completely dark, and the indoor vision had become blurred. Chi Yan walked to the door and turned on the living room light, but the white light did not bring any warmth.
At this time, there was a rhythmic knock on the door.
Chi Yan's heart skipped a beat. He frowned, opened the wooden door inside, and looked out through the cat's eye on the security door - but saw no one. In the field of vision is a blue-white piece with faint red bloodshots.
He didn't react at first, looked at it for ten seconds, and then suddenly realized what it was - the thing was also looking in.
Chi Yan was so terrified that he hurriedly took two steps back and almost fell to the ground. Then he quickly closed the wooden door inside, locked it twice, quickly left the entrance and ran back to the living room, his face turned pale, and his lips were shaking unconsciously.
The knock on the door still rang rhythmically, as if tireless, but in Chi Yan's ears it sounded like a life-threatening talisman.
He didn't calm down until he ran to the offering table, touched the porcelain vase on his chest, stared at the tablet that read "The Spirit of Ye's Greetings" in a daze, as if he was thinking about something.
The knock on the door became louder, as if it was about to smash the door. It is strange that with such a loud voice, the neighbors did not protest or react at all.
Chi Yan took out his cell phone with a pale face, but there was still no signal, neither cell phone signal nor wireless signal.
He listened to the knock on the door, swallowed his saliva, then grabbed Ye Yingzhi's tablet and held it in his arms, got into the bedroom, locked the bedroom door firmly, and moved the bedside table to the door. At the same time, he did not forget to take out Lingyu, who had been neglected by him for a long time, from the drawer of the bedside table and held it in his hand.
He didn't dare to open the window, all he could do was shake off the quilt to cover him, hold Lingyu in his left hand, hold Ye Yingzhi's tablet in his arms, stare at the bedroom door, and listen to the voice outside the door. sound.
"Squeak" was the sound of the outer door opening.
Chi Yan thought vaguely, he clearly locked the door.
There were no footsteps, but Chi Yan felt that the thing seemed to hesitate for a while, and then moved towards the bedroom.
He was completely frightened, goosebumps appeared layer by layer, and his whole body was shaking. It was the first time that the imminent and predictable fear of that kind of thing was so clearly felt, although ghosts tried to murder him and push him downstairs at an early age. He vaguely remembered the folklore that his grandmother had told him - don't open the door to strangers, don't invite strangers home, those things only need to knock on the door once you open it, and the next time you knock on the door. You don't have to drive it to get in.
That's why he subconsciously got into the bedroom and blocked the bedroom door. Hopefully this can be defaulted to two spaces, two doors.
A methodical knock on the door sounded outside the bedroom, close to his ear.
Chi Yan didn't even dare to look at it, so she covered herself with the quilt, as if she could hide herself completely and pretend not to exist. He held Ye Yingzhi's tablet against his chest, his whole body was trembling, and tears were streaming down his face unconsciously. He kept mumbling subconsciously in his mouth: "Third Young Master, Mr. Ye, Ye Yingzhi, Yingzhi... please help me, please... Yingzhi, help me... Yingzhi, Yingzhi, Ye Yingzhi... please... …”
He whispered to the end, unable to hide the cry in his voice.
When watching a horror movie, I think it's silly to wrap myself in a quilt and try to escape when danger comes, only to find out that this is just the most instinctive reaction of people.
Chi Yan shivered and hugged the tablet, as if he was holding the only salvation; where he couldn't see, a dark figure hugged him in the same posture, pressing his heart to his chest, and resting his chin on his shoulder, Seems to be smiling slightly. Then he slowly turned his head, and licked the tears on his face from the excessive fright.
The knocking on the door of the bedroom continued, but the black shadow only used his lips and tongue to wipe the tears from the face of the person in his arms, and was unmoved by the annoying sound.