It happened that there was no class in the afternoon. He packed his things and put on his satchel. Seeing that he was about to go out again, Shao Wei raised his head from the variety show: "Old Lin, are you going on a date again?"
Lin Huai: "... go to work."
"Oh," Shao Wei said, "I finally had no class this afternoon, I thought you were going on a date again."
"Shao Wei." Tan Xiruo returned to the dormitory with the courier, and raised his brows again after hearing his love brain speak, "Not everyone is like you and only stays with your girlfriend all day long. You finish drawing the drawings No?"
"I think you're just jealous that I have a girlfriend. A fair lady, a gentleman is so good." Shao Wei opened the cad angrily.
He was drawing the blueprints, but his mouth didn't stop: "By the way, Lao Lu, Lao Tan, what kind of girl do you like? How about I introduce you?"
Tan Xiruo took a book from the shelf and ignored him at all: "I like to study."
"Hey, what about you, Old Lu?"
"I like..." Lu Jin raised his head from the game, "Um, that kind of quiet, black hair..."
"Could you be more specific?"
"Well, pure, with a melancholic temperament?" Lu Jin thought for a while, "It's better to like wearing a white dress..."
Lin Huai: ...
... This description, the more it sounds, the more it looks like a person. He twitched the corners of his mouth and moved away from Shao Wei who was shouting, "So you like pure girls with classy looks".
He arrived at the Midnight District familiarly. With his help, in just three months, the Midnight District has changed a lot.
In addition to the former Notre Dame College in this area, there is a ghost school modeled on ghosts, and a deserted village where the wind blows.
When Chen Shu saw him coming, he was still very enthusiastic. He stammered and told Lin Huai that recently, he had a new idea.
"Now the haunted houses in our country are deeply influenced by foreign countries. Most of them are hospitals, schools, castles... This kind of modern things, occasionally there are a few ancient haunted houses, and most of them are Japanese gardens." He said, "I I want to design a haunted house with traditional Chinese temperament.”
"Hmm..." Lin Huai thought for a while, "You mean, the feeling of Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Chen Shu said three times, and Lin Huai realized that his repetition was not because he was very happy, but because he simply stuttered again, "And most of the haunted houses nowadays are sold with blood and violence. , or it is eerie, scary, dirty... these are too low-level, I want to design an artistic, beautiful and scary haunted house... "
Chen Shu was very excited when he mentioned the matter related to the haunted house. He jumped up and down, and found many classics related to ancient Chinese strange novels from the bookshelf. Lin Huai looked at the huge midnight area through the glass window of his office, and suddenly wondered, "Why didn't Cheng Yu'an come today?"
Generally speaking, every time he comes to the Midnight District, Cheng Yu'an will also be there. Although he has no creative thinking, it is difficult to participate in the discussion. But this person has an unusually strong feeling for the design of haunted houses, so even though he never put forward any constructive ideas, he has participated in their discussions many times with his own money and shamelessness, and is responsible for being on the sidelines. Serve tea and pour water.
"He..." Chen Shu said, "something happened to his family."
"?"
"His sister, who had been missing for more than two years, is back."
"Sister... You mean, Cheng Yu'an still has a younger sister?"
"Well, weren't you curious before, did their family have three children? In fact, they were originally four siblings." Chen Shu said slowly, "Their younger sister fell out with the whole family because of a woman five years ago. They completely cut off contact a year ago. The family was heartbroken, and since then, she has rarely been mentioned... "
Lin Huai: ...
"Sorry, I'm taking the liberty to ask." Lin Huaixu rolled his eyes, "Is their sister called... Cheng Yuxian?"
"?" Chen Shu looked at him in surprise, "How do you know?"
Lin Huai: ...
The world is so big, there are no surprises... Lin Huai raised his head and looked up at the sky: "It's nothing, because it's safe and quiet."
Chen Shu: "You do have a sense of humor."
After a pause, he continued: "But it's really strange. When Cheng Yu'an said that his sister had eloped with a woman, I thought his sister was a man. I didn't expect him to insist this time. I heard it wrong before. His sister has always been a girl."
Lin Huai: ...
"Maybe I misremembered." Chen Shu shook his head.
In other words, Cheng Yuxian, who had been missing for two years, successfully completed the transformation into Cheng Yuxian. Lin Huai didn't know what to say for a while.
"This incident also brought back the third brother of their family, Cheng Yubao. Their family is really strange. Except for the eldest brother Cheng Yuping who is the heir, the second brother Cheng Yu'an is idle every day, the third brother stays on the mountain all day, the fourth sister and people elope…”
"On the mountain?"
Lin Huai's intuition moved suddenly: "What mountain?"
Chen Shu looked at him inexplicably: "The area in the north, it's called Baiyunjian or something... Didn't Cheng Yu'an say before that his third brother couldn't study well, so he became a Taoist priest?"
Lin Huai: ...
After finishing his part-time job in the afternoon, he got into Chu Tianshu's car and returned to the rental house.
"Now, everyone is here." Sitting on the sofa, Lin Huai murmured, "Zhang Minge from the Zhang family in Qingcheng, Chu Tianyu from the Chu family in Jinling, Cheng Yubao from the Cheng family in Baiyunjian...the largest in China... The three great celestial master families all surrounded me..."
Chu Tianshu raised his eyes from behind the computer: "What's wrong, are you scared?"
Lin Huai: "No, I just think my social circle is awesome."
Chu Tianshu: ...
Now that he has known Cheng Yu'an's identity, now Lin Huai has reason to suspect his motives for being fond of haunted houses. Chu Tianshu tapped the keyboard, while Lin Huai tapped the teacup with his fingers. After a while, he looked at Chu Tianshu: "You said that Cheng Yu'an, could it be aimed at me?"
"?"
"It's not that I'm narcissistic, but I think... in this world, there are too many people who pay too much attention to me. Alas, I've tried very hard to keep a low profile." He sighed, "I want to be an ordinary It's really difficult for the schoolboys."
"Come on," Chu Tianshu said, "a kiss."
He kissed Lin Huai's forehead, and said, "You don't have to worry too much about these things, I'm here."
"But what if that Cheng Yubao is very powerful?"
"Just him?" Chu Tianshu snorted, "I beat that kid when he was ten years old, so he crawled around naked."
"..." Lin Huai showed a rather indescribable look in his eyes, "So you were so violent when you were young..."
Chu Tianshu didn't speak. Lin Huai lay beside him watching him write novels. After a while, Lin Huai asked, "Why did you beat him?"
"?" Chu Tianshu turned to him.
"If he's going too far, if you meet him in the future, I'll help you vent your anger." Lin Huai said seriously, "I heard that some people need to spend a lifetime to heal their childhood..."
Chu Tianshu: "Pfft."
"Hey, it's been a long time since I wanted to know more about your childhood." Lin Huaixu rolled his eyes, "Be more serious."
Chu Tianshu finally turned off the computer: "What do you want to know?"
"Uh... your npc's tone of replying to the player..." Lin Huai struggled a bit, "A major childhood event that fits your personal settings, such as the reason why you don't want to become a teacher. It seems that you are the eldest son of the clan, but in fact a The good-for-nothing of Wulinggen, the old lady who was married to the right family broke off the engagement, found a rich old man who was sealed here in a ring... and so on. "
Chu Tianshu: ...
"Or, how about we exchange one secret for another?" Lin Huai leaned on his shoulder and said in a coaxing tone, "I'll say one, and you say one, how about it?"
After thinking for a while, Chu Tianshu said, "Okay."
"My first secret, I'm afraid of cats." Lin Huai said frankly.
Chu Tianshu raised his eyes: "Is this kind of thing your secret?!"
"It's your turn."
Chu Tianshu: ...
"Well, the first secret about my lackluster childhood..." Chu Tianshu thought for a while, "My current mother is not my biological mother. She is my biological mother's cousin."
"So your biological mother..."
"She died when I was five years old... in front of me." Chu Tianshu said calmly, "In the second year after her death, my father married her cousin as a sequel."
"... So you refused to become a celestial master because of your mother?"
Lin Huai suddenly felt panicked. After a moment of silence, Chu Tianshu scratched his hair: "Well, that's right."
"She died to protect me." Chu Tianshu said softly, "When the evil spirits attacked, there were only the two of us in the yard. To protect me, she was covered in blood and fought against the evil spirits. Until the end, When she was seriously injured, she still hugged me and used her body to firmly block the attack from the evil spirit."
"..."
"I was only five years old at the time. In the end, the only thing I remember was what she said to me at the last moment before she died." Chu Tianshu said lightly, "She said, Tianshu, live on, as an ordinary person, live Go on. Before that catastrophe, I had the talent to amaze all the elders. But after that, maybe it was because I was too stimulated... "
He scratched his hair and smiled wryly: "Just thinking about Taoism makes me... and my mother, as the strongest celestial master of the Chu family, is even more capable than my father. …Since then, I have been trying to find another way to end the struggle between humans and ghosts.”
"so you… "
"So I work hard to learn scientific and cultural knowledge, and strive to practice the core values of socialism." Chu Tianshu clenched his fists, "Use scientific methods to analyze ghosts and avoid and prevent disasters!"
Lin Huai: ...
"Although my father did not support me, with the help of my stepmother and other kind people, I struggled out of myself and finally won the opportunity to practice my own scientific way. Of course, this also caused dissatisfaction among some people, such as Cheng Yubao, He once challenged me because of our different worldviews." Chu Tianshu looked at him with firm eyes, "However, my firm belief and the strong maternal love left to me by my mother all supported me. All actions. In the end, I won the victory and achieved a series of scientific research results, such as... "
Lin Huai: ...
He yawned: "I have morning class tomorrow, I have to wash up and go to sleep."
"Okay." The passionate speech was interrupted, and Chu Tianshu couldn't help feeling a little regretful, "You go to sleep first, I still have some manuscripts to write."
"Oh." Lin Huai rubbed his eyes, "Good night."
After washing up, he quickly lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Time passed minute by minute, and the clock on the wall finally stopped at twelve o'clock.
The bedroom door was pushed open, Chu Tianshu quietly looked at Lin Huai's sleeping face through the light.
After confirming that Lin Huai was asleep, he came to the living room alone, turned off all light sources, drew the curtains, and sat on the sofa.
Touching his neck unconsciously with his fingers, he stared at the TV in the dark expressionlessly, then closed his eyes.
After a long time, he finally smiled and sighed: "I lied to you again, please forgive me."
Through many memories, he saw the overwhelming blood color flooding up again.
In the center of the blood is a woman with long straight black hair. She walked towards him in a white dress.
"Tianshu." He heard a woman's voice, "Come here."
"Mother… "
The boy stumbled towards the woman, full of grievances and fear, as if he was looking for a comforting hug.
A warm embrace for a mother who wants to protect her only son from a demon.
However…
"Die!" The sharp female voice came from his dream again like a nightmare, "Die! You go die!"
"Why aren't you dead? Why aren't you dead? You..."
A sharp pain seemed to come from the neck again. The young man covered his throat and blinked his eyes vigorously.
"You deserved to die! You deserved to die... You didn't deserve to live!"
After sitting in silence for a long time, he opened a can of Coke and drank it down in the dark.
"Huh..." He rubbed his head vigorously, "I'm finally happy, forget it, go to sleep."
What he didn't know was that the moment he stood up, at the end of the corridor, the young man who was supposed to be asleep—
Also at this time, stopped staring at him, and silently returned to the room.
Volume Seven: Four Seasons and Four Beauties