On the eve of the Spring Festival, Lin Huai got on the bus to Chu Tianshu's hometown.
He was wearing a gray overcoat with a white sweater inside, a gray wool cap on his head, and a fluffy scarf wrapped around his neck—that scarf was bought for him by Chu Tianshu. cat paw prints.
Different from being able to use the power of ghosts in the game, now in reality, Lin Huai, who is almost the same as a human being when not using power, is very afraid of the cold—perhaps still due to the supernatural power, his body temperature is low , The temperature is also lost faster than ordinary people. This directly caused Lin Huai to feel a little chilly, so at night Chu Tianshu had to sacrifice himself and sleep with the cold Lin Huai in his arms.
Of course, Lin Huai also pays attention to keeping warm during the day. In addition to being afraid of the cold, he also has a selfless heart and is thinking about social and public safety. Otherwise, if someone accidentally measured that the body temperature was only 29 degrees, what a huge commotion it would cause.
It took more than three hours to drive from the city where the two lived to the old house of the Chu family. Chu Tianshu was in charge of driving, and Lin Huai also made sufficient preparations for the three hours. As soon as he got into the car, he put on his hat with earmuffs, buried himself in the soft coral fleece blanket, and began to doze off with lightning speed.
—Actually, he shouldn’t have been so sleepy at first, but it snowed last night, and it was too cold for him to fall asleep, so he couldn’t help but burrowed into the arms of the heat source next to him, and then...
It miserably wiped the gun and misfired. Although Lin Huai was still holding onto Chu Tianshu's shoulders during the process, he said in horror, "Don't we have to meet the parents tomorrow? Don't make any mistakes."
However, judging from the results, his persuasion was useless, and he failed to get an OOC dirty talk from Chu Tianshu, "Did you realize that you looked like a shy newlywed daughter-in-law just now".
After more than two hours, the car stopped in the service area after refueling. Lin Huai finally woke up.
He was very obedient and silent when he dozed off, and started various activities after waking up. After the car got off the highway and drove into the city where Chu's family was located, Lin Huai got his head out of the blanket, began to look around, and asked countless questions. Chu Tianshu finally couldn't hold back, and wrote lightly at the red light: "Calm down, don't crawl around me like a cat."
Lin Huai: "Oh."
Lin Huai's face was still a little red from the heat when she got off the car. As soon as Chu Tianshu got out of the car, a servant stopped the car for him. He was wearing a long black coat, standing beside Lin Huai, with a cold and noble expression like a real young master, and then...
He secretly pinched Lin Huai's face where the servants could not see.
Lin Huai: ...
The Chu family is indeed very big. What you see when you enter the door is a huge garden, followed by the main building, many small buildings, the dojo used for training, and the pasture on the back mountain enough for horse racing. Its shape presents a strong ancient garden style—it is said that This mansion has also been handed down from ancient times. When people are here, they seem to have strayed into a certain film set. Lin Huai followed Chu Tianshu and walked behind the waiter, feeling as if she was a group performer who had gone the wrong way.
Of course, this feeling disappeared after seeing the surveillance cameras installed in the corners of the carved verandah.
"These few days are the busiest time in the old house of the Chu family," Chu Tianshu told him, "On New Year's Eve, all the clansmen gather together to listen to the important speeches delivered by the patriarch, and share dinner. There are all kinds of clansmen coming to pay New Year's greetings... "
Seeing Lin Huai's face getting paler, Chu Tianshu shrugged and said, "Of course, we only come back to see my dad, and don't care about the rest."
Lin Huai's face eased back, showing a relaxed smile from social fear: "Yeah!"
The more he walked, the more he felt that Chu Tianshu's position in the Chu family was indeed very special and weird. Along the way, many Chu family members passed by them. They greeted Chu Tianshu after seeing him, and looked back at him frequently after they left. However, Chu Tianshu did not change his expression or heartbeat all the way until he reached a small building.
Father Chu is now in the study on the second floor, and Chu Tianshu goes in first by himself. Lin Huai was sitting in the living room outside, playing with her fingers boredly.
In the living room besides him, there are a few other guests sitting in the distance, who seem to be separated from the family. Just now when Chu Tianshu came in, they couldn't stop staring at him. Now after Chu Tianshu went to the study, they secretly stared at Lin Huai.
Lin Huai heard their whispers.
"The one just now... is the young master? Why is he back?"
"Over the years, the young master has rarely shown himself at home, but it is enough for the young lady to inherit the family..."
"I heard that the young master brought his lover back to show the patriarch."
"The eldest young master is indeed old enough to start a family. Which family's lady is that? Cheng's, Zhang's, Gu's? Which small family?"
"No, I heard that person is an outsider, different from us, not a celestial master."
"Not a celestial master?? An ordinary person?? Let an ordinary person marry into the Chu family?"
"But now the young master doesn't often have activities in the family..."
"That's different. Since he is the blood of the Chu family, no matter whether he leaves the Chu family or not, he bears the fate of the blood. This also means that even if he leaves the Chu family, he will often be haunted by supernatural events and ghosts. These events It will also affect those closest to him.”
An old man said.
"For an ordinary person, being with people like us, sooner or later... will lead to disaster! Back then, Gu You... She was still a member of the Gu family, but she seldom touched magic, so that's it... let alone a purely ordinary person... What about people? After all, Chu Tianshu is the only son of the Patriarch, I'm afraid it will bring that ordinary person... "
"Heavenly Fiend Lonely Star..."
"However, it is correct for my family to let Chu Tianyu inherit the position of Patriarch." A young man with a cold face said, "Chu Tianshu's fate is indeed very strange. Who didn't know that he died when he was five years old. My own mother? However, Chu Tianyu is a woman who can be the head of the family alone. She has to rely on the 'help' of our collaterals."
"Speaking of it, it is really frightening for a five-year-old child to stay in the same well with his mother's corpse for three days without crying or fussing."
"I don't know exactly what caused that incident back then. But I heard that the Gu family is best at calculating fate. Although it is said that Gu Youruo has never been exposed to those Taoism since she was a child, maybe she The disappearance is also because the child's fate has been counted."
"That ordinary person may not live for a few years. If I were him, I would stay away from that girl."
Lin Huai listened to their conversation with great interest, and cracked her knuckles.
"Ordinary people... It's a pity that I'm not even a human being." He said to himself.
"Hey, which family are you from? I haven't seen you before." The young man who said that Chu Tianshu is the lone star of Tiansha found Lin Huai who was sitting quietly in the corner, and frowned, " I haven’t heard of anyone else coming today, where are you from?”
He looked at Lin Huai with suspicion on his face.
"First, I don't call you hello." Lin Huai rubbed his ears with his fingers and said, "Second, I am a collateral branch of the Chu family, if you want to call me by my name..."
youth:
Lin Huai: "You can call me Chu Yuxun."
The young man was obviously chilled by his words. He raised his eyebrows high and said, "What the hell are you..."
The waiter in black appeared on the first floor. He looked at the young man first, and said politely to him, "Mr. Chu Xun, I'm sorry for your long wait."
The young man stopped looking at Lin Huai and turned back proudly. He looked at the waiter, looked respectful again, nodded and said: "It's not a long wait, but I don't know that the young master came back suddenly."
"I'm really sorry to trouble you to make this trip, but the patriarch and the young master haven't seen each other for a long time, and I want to catch up on the old days, so I'm afraid I'm not free today." The waiter said with a smile, "But sir, don't worry, the room where you are staying has already been cleaned up for a few of you." Well, there is a hot spring in the mansion, sir, you can rest here for a good night, and we will discuss things tomorrow."
"This..." the young man had no choice but to agree, "Thank you for the arrangement, patriarch."
He came here this time because he heard that Chu Tianyu might inherit the position of patriarch in the next few years and become one of the few female patriarchs in the history of the Chu family. With this in mind, he thought about using her gender to do something.
But since the patriarch is not free today, he had no choice but to let it go. The young man was about to return with a disappointed heart, when he heard the waiter say respectfully to the boy next to him who was dressed thickly even in the room: "Mr. Lin, the patriarch invites you to go up. The patriarch and Master Tianshu are waiting for you .”
youth:? ?
He watched helplessly as the young man who called himself "Chu Yuxun" yawned and followed the waiter upstairs as if he was half-complaining. And the few remaining people, after a long silence, suddenly said: "Speaking of which, Master Tianshu... did you bring someone back?"
"That person... could it be... that is???"
Youth: ... When I called Lin Huai pushed open the door of the study on the second floor, I heard voices coming from inside.
"The head of the Zhang family is getting worse and worse these days. I heard that he prefers Zhang Mingge to succeed him as the head of the family, but there are other opinions in the family. In fact, the head of the Zhang family is a very good young man with a lot of ideas, but it's a pity The health has been bad. Now that their clan is in a mess, maybe they can't help with the Cheng family's affairs. "
"The Cheng family is a mess. Cheng Yu'an, Cheng Yubao, and the children have their own thoughts. Maybe the Cheng family is betting on several sides."
"Indeed, the frequency of ghosts and ghosts is getting higher and higher nowadays. Perhaps people who practice magic arts shouldn't have too much involvement with the secular world."
"Don't talk about it, old man. Who posted on Moments in the middle of the night to complain about losing the World Cup betting? I think you are also involved."
The atmosphere inside is unbelievably cheerful. When Lin Huai walked in, what he saw were two heads looking at him——
One belonged to Chu Tianshu, and the other belonged to Chu Tianshu's father, Chu Xingkuo.
Chu Tianshu and Chu Xingkuo don't look very much alike, Chu Xingkuo is tougher, and Chu Tianshu is more handsome. Lin Huai guessed that he might look more like his mother, Gu Youruo.
"Hello." Seeing Lin Huai coming in, Chu Xingkuo said, "Sit here."
He didn't look expressionless, but he looked very calm and powerful.
The beginning of the exchange between the two was obviously very friendly, and unlike Chu Tianshu's sister, who immediately drew his sword and wanted to chop Lin Huai when he saw Lin Huai. Lin Huai sat next to Chu Tianshu. Before he could sit still, he saw Chu Xingkuo order: "Bring the red envelope to Xiao Lin."
A big red envelope fell into Lin Huai's hands, but it was very light. Father Chu said: "The red envelope couldn't fit, so I changed it, and it contained a check."
"That... thank you, uncle." Lin Huai thanked him in the most obedient tone possible.
"You're welcome." Chu Xingkuo said, his eyes still looking at Lin Huai, as if sizing him up.
After a long time, Chu Xingkuo finally smiled. He said to Chu Tianshu: "You have a good vision."
"Is my vision still false? They are all high-quality cabbage." Chu Tianshu compared himself to a pig without any sense of shame.
Lin Huai was also trying to smile, being brought into this parent-like scene always made him feel that he was not in a good mood. But now it seems that Chu Xingkuo is obviously very satisfied with his appearance as a well-behaved and pure male college student...
Then he heard Chu Tiankuo's voice.
"Above the red clothes, at least the fierce ghosts seem to be at the level of Sha. It's not easy to seize the body, and after the body is seized, the ability will go down a big step, so maybe it was a top-level Sha before, or even a demon. Now If I want to subdue you now, it will take a lot of effort. But for you before the seizure, perhaps the entire Chu family, Cheng family, and Zhang family need to unite to seal you." Chu Tiankuo looked at Lin Huai , with a very satisfied expression, "He is a promising young man!"
He praised Lin Huai's "strength" in a tone that "Zuckerberg founded Facebook during his college years".
Lin Huai: ...? ?
"Not bad, not bad!" Chu Xingkuo looked at Lin Huai, stroked his chin, his face was full of love from the father-in-law, "Even if they seized the house, they only seized the dead body, and the moral level is also very high."
Lin Huai:? ?
Chu Xingkuo: "Why is such a good cabbage favored by you?"
Lin Huai:?
What happened next completely exceeded Lin Huai's plan.
He originally thought that what he was going to accept was the observation and interrogation by the seven aunts and the eight aunts, but what he actually accepted was that Chu Xingkuo took him to the Chu family's underground shooting range to shoot targets.
"Record this data." Chu Xingkuo ordered the waiter next to him, while he put his eyes on the target plate, "Although the strength has been weakened, the accuracy is very high!"
Then, Chu Xingkuo expressed his satisfaction with Lin Huai along the way, and took him to visit the dungeon where the Chu family held ghosts.
"The dungeons here are very humane. Every day, we send members of the Chu family who are good at persuasion to supersede them. Some of them are famous talk show entertainers. You can also take a look. For those bloodthirsty ghosts, we We will also provide fresh duck blood. All the ghosts that we have successfully transformed have either been saved or worked in the Chu family's factory. You can see that the Chu family is very humane and not scary."
Lin Huai: "... Well, thank you for your kindness, although I don't have any sense of common prosperity as a fellow."
"If the Cheng and Zhang families want to attack you in the future, take out the token of the Chu family." Chu Xingkuo gave him a token, "with this, no one dares to attack you. Or, if something happens, Call the special line of the Chu family..."
"Actually, I'm not that vulnerable..."
"... In this way, someone will immediately come to clean up the scene of the crime and create an alibi for you." Chu Xingkuo finished the last sentence.
... Lin Huai finally knew where Chu Tianyu and the Chu family's protective and funny character came from.
After tossing and turning, Lin Huai finally lay back in the room at night. They will live here for several days. This is the courtyard belonging to Chu Tianshu, there is actually a plum tree planted outside the room, under the plum tree is the exclusive hot spring that is artificially drained.
"How do you feel?" Chu Tianshu asked him.
Lin Huai said: "Very good, my heart is very peaceful."
Chu Tianshu then laughed. He looked at the snow-covered stone and the plum blossom petals falling on the stone, and said to Lin Huai, "Would you like to go to the hot spring?"
"Hot spring, it's okay. But your family is really..."
"My father is a free love himself, so he will bless us more." Chu Tianshu said, "Let's rest early, there are still things to do tomorrow."
"What's up?"
"Go and see what Gu Youruo... left behind."