CHAPTER IX

Wooden Cocketle

Ling Xiao's answer was soon heard in the room.

Ye Lin pushed the door in, and the little girl was lying in front of the desk doing exercises seriously. Ye Lin didn't make a sound, just stood patiently on the side, and bowed her head slightly to look at her homework by the way - more than two weeks seemed to have made her gradually accustomed to the writing of a hard pen, and the handwriting at this time had long since lost the crookedness at the beginning, and it seemed to slowly coincide with the calligraphy she had written before.

Ye Lin was slightly stunned in surprise, but subconsciously there seemed to be a kind of "it should have been this way" as a matter of course.

- After all, it's ...... Yan Zhenqing's descendant disciple.

"What's the matter?" He was a little distracted, but Ling Xiao suddenly opened her mouth - she had probably just finished the exercise at hand, and at this time she put down her pen, stretched, and sat on the chair with her face up and looked at him with some surprise.

She was wearing the loungewear he took her to buy, not the black she usually preferred, but the delicate pink - the girl's loungewear was either pink or pink blue, in short, most of the stores were such soft and cute colors; The desk lamp on the desk is the eye protection lamp he specially selected for her, bright and clear but not dazzling, at this time it seems that even her whole person has softened, less heroic and casual, more well-behaved, it really looks like an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl.

- hard-working, sensible, soft and cute.

It's a pity that as long as she meets her phoenix eyes, people will immediately react that these are all hallucinations - those eyes are almost surprisingly clear, and they are completely conceited and calm that should not belong to a little girl.

"Your ID card and household registration have been completed." Ye Lin casually put the brand-new ID card and household registration book on the table and explained in a low voice.

Ling Xiao looked at his photo on the ID card with some curiosity, and then opened the household registration book—and then looked at the word "head of household" in the column of "head of household or relationship with head of household" behind his name, and his eyes widened in some shock:

"It's ...... Why? ”

"My hukou is with my parents, and this house originally had no hukou. Therefore, if your hukou falls here, you will naturally be the head of the household. Maybe it was rare to see her slightly dazed and ignorant appearance again, Ye Lin suddenly felt a little inexplicably happy, and actually had a bit of a joking mood again, "Now that you are the head of the household, if I want to move the household registration in the future, I still need you to be present and agree." ”

"Then you're going to look at my face?" Ling Xiao was slightly stunned, then nodded "oh", raised his chin slightly, glanced at him obliquely, and put on a commanding tone very "into the play", "Since that's the case, then you can talk about it first-you've been in a bad mood lately?" ”

She always habitually raised her eyebrows slightly when she spoke, and seemed a little conceited, but there was nothing condescending or unpleasant.

Ye Lin fell silent all of a sudden.

He's not a guy who likes to reveal his feelings to others, let alone ...... Even if he is willing to reveal it, he can't tell what his recent inexplicable loss is.

But fortunately, Ling Xiao didn't seem to have the intention of asking. Seeing that he didn't speak, the little girl just touched her chin and said "hmm", and then she laughed softly—almost at the same moment that she laughed, she flipped her hand.

Her movements were so fast that Ye Lin was almost dazzled, and she didn't know what she was doing at that moment, she could only see that she seemed to just flip her hand at random, and a bird suddenly appeared in her palm.

A woody, delicate, lifelike bird.

Before he could think about what it was, Ling Xiao made another move—she seemed to be inadvertently tossing the wooden bird in her hand.

Then Ye Lin was stunned for a moment - the wooden bird actually waved its wings and flew so lightly!

The woodbird flew around him unhurriedly twice, and then suddenly landed on his shoulder. After standing firm on his shoulder, he pecked back at his wings, as if combing the "feathers", and then quickly turned his head again, pecked his face lightly with its beak, and spread its wings twice.

This is...... Comforting yourself? For no reason, this thought suddenly jumped out of Ye Lin's heart.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at Ling Xiao.

The little girl had stretched her waist again by this time, and simply turned her chair, leaned crookedly against the edge of the table, and looked at him with her chin propped up and smiling.

Seeing that he also looked over, the little girl's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly with a smile, and she looked more and more narrow and cunning:

"This is a wooden armor bird unique to my Wanhua. It looks like it likes you, so give it to you. ”

"Hmm......," she said after a pause, as if inadvertently, "you can't solve the problem with a bitter face, but smile - at least everyone is pleasing to the eye?" ”

Ye Lin didn't seem to expect that she would suddenly care about herself, and she was a little stunned for a while, but her brows suddenly stretched out when she didn't even know it, and even the corners of her mouth couldn't help but have a little curvature.

However, he soon seemed to remember something, coughed heavily, tried to make his face appear stricter, and said in a deep voice: "I received a call today, the other party claimed to be Chen Ji, the chief of the forensic medicine department of the Provincial Public Security Department - I asked someone to check, and there was no problem with the identity and phone number. He asked me to tell you that the murder from two weeks ago was solved. The murderer was a migrant worker on the construction site of a new building under construction in the opposite community, and he couldn't afford to pay off his gambling debts, so he thought of robbery, but he didn't expect to kill someone by mistake. The man has been caught. ”

He paused slightly, and then continued: "He said that the results of the autopsy and the process of the crime were exactly the same as what you said that day. ”

Ling Xiao didn't speak, just tilted his head slightly and propped his chin to say "oh".

Her reaction was too flat, but Ye Lin stared at her deadly: "Before I came that day—what did you say?" Why did he specifically sue you for the case? ”

"That day...... I just briefly examined the body and the scene, and then came up with some reasonable speculations. Ling Xiao replied indifferently, while stretching out his hand and casually teasing the wooden armor bird that was still standing on Ye Lin's shoulder—the bird was made of wood, and it was tightly knit all over its body, and it was impossible to see what the energy and power that drove it were. It seemed to like Ling Xiao very much, fluttering its wings to peck at the little girl's slender fingers stretched out to tease it, while lowering its head and rubbing its head against her palm, it actually looked like it was enjoying it.

This thing is a little too clever and nimble - smart? Ye Lin was also in a trance for a while, but he felt that the little girl's hand was almost close to the side of his neck, and when she lowered her head, she looked like she was smiling, lined with the lights in the night, which seemed to have a rare closeness and relaxation.

The man hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his hand to touch the woodcock - who knew that the woodcock suddenly lowered its head and pecked hard in the palm of his hand, and then fluttered its wings and flew up again.

Ling Xiao withdrew his hand, propped his chin and looked up at the wooden armor bird circling in the air and flying twice, and then landed without hesitation, the landing point was-

The top of Ye Lin's head.

Ye Lin was a little dazed and couldn't react for a moment, but the wooden armor bird not only stopped on top of his head, but also jumped on his head twice, and then seemed to be very satisfied with his head, waved his wings at Ling Xiao with his head up, and then-

Without hesitation, he crouched down on top of his head.

- That action was like a hatching egg on top of his head.

The handsome-looking man with an elite atmosphere had a wooden armor bird nested on top of his head, which was ridiculous no matter how he looked at it—by the time Ye Lin reacted, Ling Xiao didn't know when he had already shifted his position to the bed, and at this time he was so smiling that he was about to roll on the bed.

Ye Lin's face darkened for a moment, and he reached out to grab the wooden armor bird. Who knew that the bird was unexpectedly nimble, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, it fluttered its wings and soared into the air, blatantly hovering out of his reach. Then as soon as Ye Lin withdrew his hand, it immediately swooped down again, happily squatting on the man's head.

After repeating it a few times, Ye Ersao, who had been played around, withdrew his hand for the last time, and looked at the little girl who was crooked on the bed with a face like the bottom of a pot.

"My mechs in the valley have their own thoughts, and they are very smart." The little girl smiled so much that her eyebrows and eyes were bent, like a little fox who had succeeded in her tricks, and at this time she tried to straighten her face, sincerely and seriously...... Nonsense, "I can't control it." ”

Ye Lin couldn't figure out whether what she said was true or false for a while, and stared at her for a while, then he finally accepted this fact with some resignation, and stood up and walked towards the door as if nothing had happened:

"It's late, rest early. I'm eating out with friends tomorrow night. ”

As he spoke, he walked to the door, and seemed to hesitate slightly for a while, but finally stopped and looked back at her: "You should go with you, you should also go out for a walk and relax." ”

Ling Xiao didn't care much about where he ate, and since he opened his mouth, he nodded in response.

Ye Lin took the door and went back to his room. As soon as he closed the door of his room, he felt a light above his head—the wooden cockleur had flown down with its wings and soon landed on the table in his room. It took two steps around his desk, then stopped, tilting its head to look at him.

"No wonder they all say that things look like masters," Ye Lin sighed, stretched out his hand and poked the bird's head, feeling as if he was poking the head of the little girl sleeping next door, frowning and whispering, "This arrogant appearance is exactly the same as your master." ”

The wooden bird flapped its wings and raised its head higher, looking a little proud, obviously not ashamed, but proud.

Ye Lin was simply annoyed by this person and a bird, looking at its raised head, sighed a little resignedly, bent down to find clothes from the drawer on the side and prepared to take a bath, but the moment he closed the bathroom door, he suddenly stiffened.

Ling Xiao said just now: Smile, everyone is pleasing to the eye - Ye Ershao, who has never been ridiculed like this, only realized something in hindsight until this time.

What she meant—when he laughed, she thought it was pleasing to the eye?

The man unconsciously hooked the corners of his mouth, raised his eyebrows slightly, and reached out to turn on the faucet-the subconscious action of raising his eyebrows was unexpectedly a little similar to Ling Xiao.