Chapter Twenty-Seven: Breaking into the Bathroom at Night
The walls of the staircase are painted with warm cartoon drawings in pink, and there are several huge dolls in the corners, hanging on all fours, silently watching the visitors.
The corridor on the second floor was empty, revealing a quiet dead air, like a layer of fog, which was still not visible under the illumination of the light.
The door of the room was closed, and Tao Qinian stood at a certain door as if he had made up his mind.
"Snap"
The door opened.
Tao Qinian's lips trembled, and his eyes gradually filled with moisture.
The items were exactly as they were in their memory, not even the small onion slice under the bed had not moved.
This is the master bedroom, even if the layout of the whole house has changed, even if the person who used to smile is no longer there, even if so much time has passed, it has been so long that things are different. The huge family photo on the wall opposite the bed still told Tao Qinian firmly.
This is your home.
The words slipped from the palm of his hand, and Melovingian came up to see such a picture.
"Master, what's wrong with you?" Merovin rushed over and hugged him, "No matter what happens, I'm here!"
Don't cry, okay? I'm most afraid of you crying.
"Let go" Merovin didn't hear it, Tao Qinian seemed to be made out of temper by him, and said in a hoarse voice, "I'll tell you a story"
"Good"
Tao Qinian stared at the family portrait for a moment, wanting to imitate the happy child above and laugh again, but the smile he squeezed out was more ugly than crying.
"A very old-fashioned beginning, once upon a time there was a little girl, her father was very rich, her mother was very virtuous, the family was very harmonious and generally did not quarrel, but one day" Tao Qinian was not good at telling stories, clumsy and blunt twist and said, "They were plotted, my father died on the spot, blood flowed all over the ground, my mother couldn't bear the blow and jumped into the sea with my father's body, they ...... They never consulted the girl's feelings, they wanted the girl to live a good life and live happily for a lifetime, I don't understand, such a small child, you want her to endure the pain of losing her parents to live, it's better to die"
His gaze turned to the group photo again, and he muttered to himself, "That kid looks like me, doesn't he?"
"I used to think that the wound had healed and I could look at it very calmly, after all, this is a thing of the past, but today I realize that I am just lying to myself"
Meroving's heart felt like he had been slashed, and his blood was gurgling, and an unformed thought formed in his mind to form a "master......
"She's your twin sister?"
Tao Qinian's face collapsed in an instant, and he almost punched him in the face.
Fuck your sister......
"Master, do you want to hear my story" Merovingian did not shy away from it, and did "I ......" in bed like Tao Qinian
"Elder, are you here?" Master Wang poked his head in and looked inside warily.
"Something?"
"I just wanted to ask the elders...... Do you still use it for dinner?"
"I've already opened the valley," Tao Qinian turned to Meroving, "what do you want to say?"
"Ahem......" Merovin chuckled, "Master's face is not very good, I'll tell you when I get out of this illusion."
"You go down and call everyone upstairs," Tao Qinian said to Master Wang, who was embarrassed and about to leave.
"Yes"
"Come with me to the next door and have a look" Tao Qinian skillfully took Meroving's hand and pushed open another door.
The small bed behind the delicate screen flower is still the same as when the owner just left, the quilt is half rolled on the edge of the bed, the desktop is messy, and a few small fleshy pieces on the balcony are growing peacefully, completely unaware of their future fate.
Tao Qinian turned out a folding fan from the wardrobe with a complicated complexion, white paper and black marks, and it was a sentence "flechazo"
Love at first sight.
As if no one was around, he stuffed the folding fan into the Qiankun bag, causing Merovingian to ask, "Can you take the things here?"
"Don't you say that this is my twin sister's house? That is naturally also my house, I take my own things from home, there is a problem?" Tao Qinian looked unreasonable.
"Elder, are you looking for us?" At the moment when everyone went upstairs, the lights on the first floor went out with a bang, leaving only a lonely bonfire to survive and be defeated.
"It's dark, go to bed early, don't open the door and don't open your eyes if you hear anything in the middle of the night"
Tao Qinian dryly recited the common lines in ghost movies.
"Elder, I have something to show you," one of them said, "we found it in the dining room."
He handed over a note, then leaned on the railing and looked at the bright red flames, and remained silent.
"The messenger of darkness peeps into the light, where there is his noise and fireworks, the moment the warm sun burns out, the gray me wakes up from the ink"
"Warm Sun...... Fireworks" Tao Qinian and Merovin glanced at each other and said, "Not good!"
Merovin ran down the stairs as quickly as he could, and at the moment he was about to leave the steps, he seemed to have been knocked away by something.
The campfire goes out in the next second.
Master Wang stood up straight all of a sudden, "What's wrong!"
"The situation is not good," Tao Qinian smiled bitterly, "I'm only afraid of ...... tonight Someone is going to die."
"Assign a room, wait for dawn, me and ......" Tao Qinian originally wanted to say that he was in a room with Master Wang, but he took into account that he was now a man, and he was afraid that it would be inappropriate to be with such a big girl who had not yet come out of the pavilion, and Meroving's eyes winked at him desperately, and the obvious hints were about to overflow, so the words on his lips were changed to "I and my apprentice are in one room, and we live in the master bedroom"
"It's best not to go out at night," Tao Qinian didn't worry about it, and told again, without the halo of the protagonist, going out in the middle of the night is the rhythm of delivering food, "If the small bedroom here is not really nowhere to live, don't sleep"
He walked to the end of the small bedroom, found a box of blades, and said quietly, "It's all gone."
Master Wang wanted to speak and stopped, and finally squeezed out a sentence, "Wouldn't it be better for all of us to get together?"
"The lights will ......go out at night," Tao Qinian said quietly, "I woke up from the ink, gray"
"One day you had a long, long dream"
"What do you do when you wake up?"
"Record it?" Master Wang was puzzled.
Tao Qinian shook his head: "You peep into the light, envy the hustle and bustle of others, and you also want to have this prosperity that you don't belong to, what will you do?"
"Join them?"
Tao Qinian shook his head and gave a weird smile, "It's to become someone else" The implication is that ghosts will become one of us.
The lights went out again, and all they could see was the pale face of their companion.
Tao Qinian took advantage of no one and secretly asked the system: "Can I take the fan?"
System: "This is not your home, just pick what you like, take it away and count me as losing"
I want to blow this system with one punch.
Tao Qinian: "So the boss of this illusion is my parents? Mom saw that dad and missed him."
System: "You're not afraid of ghosts?"
Tao Qinian: "It's all family problems, it shouldn't be a big problem, and I have a male protagonist, who am I afraid of?"
He carefully inserted the sharp blade with a cold light into the gap between the tiles, with the knife facing upward, and then looked at the puzzled Merovingian with satisfaction, and said, "Do you want to sleep inside or outside?"
"Outside" Merovingian lifted the quilt, "Master, come in"
Tao Qinian pondered how the taste of these words felt a little wrong, but he couldn't think of what was wrong, and in the end, it was probably because his thoughts were not pure.
Thinking about this kind of thing to his apprentice, Tao Qinian gave himself a middle finger.
"Master, what are you doing with the blades?, do you arrange the formation?" Meroving's head poked out of the quilt, wanting to get closer to Tao Qinian and feel the alluring fragrance.
"It's not ......" Tao Qinian said in a muffled voice, I just want to pierce the ghost to see if it will bleed.
"Wow"
In the middle of the night, it seemed that someone was knocking on the door with a wooden stick, which was rapid and irregular, Tao Qinian opened his eyes, and the voice was in this room.
Ahhhhh
The master bedroom comes with a bathroom, and Tao Qinian is sure that the sound came out of the bathroom.
He shook the sleeping Meroving, trying to wake up the child to see what was going on, who knew that this broken baby just didn't open his eyes! Tao Qinian's mentality was about to collapse.
The fatal voice stopped, just when Tao Qinian thought that this inner torture was over and was about to sleep (whether he slept or not, he could close his eyes and wait for dawn).
"Squeak"
The bathroom door is open!
Tao Qinian was like a fish in his throat, he didn't dare to breathe, and he even felt that he could vaguely hear the sound of footsteps.
He's here!
Tao Qinian roared in his heart, but he didn't dare to express it, so he had to beg for dawn.
I'm sorry I shouldn't have pretended, I've got to get out of this goddamn illusion tomorrow!
System: "You're not looking for your parents anymore?"
Tao Qinian saw the faint white figure in the room, and his heart sank, and said, "This is definitely going to be found, so I'm going to ask things clearly tonight......"
Tao Qinian: "But I'm still afraid"
System: "The way to overcome fear is to face your fear, and besides, you still have cultivation, why are you afraid of being directly rigid"
"It makes sense" Tao Qinian sat up straight after some "enlightenment", picked up the words by the pillow, and prepared to get out of bed and face to face with the ghosts in the room.
Even if there are no real parents here, only empty shells, Tao Qinian is confident that he can run away.