Yan Xi pressed the thumb of the hand with ten fingers and lightly pressed it on the back of my hand a few times, I understood that he wanted to tell me that there was no need to worry about this kind of test between us. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

I also stroked the back of Yan Xi's hand with my thumb in response, but I wondered in my heart if he knew that Xia Ye had done those actions to me before, and I now lived in Xia Ye's house and had to go to work in Xia Yuan Group every day, or as Xia Ye's work assistant, would he be able to agree to that hell fair competition so easily and happily?

And in the end, I didn't tell Yan Xi anything, I have absolute confidence in his feelings, so I should have enough confidence in him! As for the rest, it is naturally not so important.

At night, Yan Xi had to rush back to the police station to return the car, and kissed me lightly on the forehead before leaving, I responded with a hug, waved and waited for him to drive the car away, and then prepared to turn around and go upstairs in the yard.

Xia Ye rushed ahead of me to block the way, looking at his fiery eyes, I instinctively dodged and retreated.

But he pressed on until my back was against the courtyard gate, and there was nowhere to retreat.

Xia Ye's face was still getting closer and closer, and he was already in front of him.

I slipped out in a hurry, and squatted directly on the ground with my legs crossed, thinking that you will have no way to do it now!

It may be that my action angered Xia Ye even more, he suddenly stretched out his hands and lifted me very hard and pressed me against the iron door, and the iron door made a loud "boom" under the impact of gravity, which made the back of my head buzz.

Looking at Xia Ye's face that was blue because of anger, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to move, for fear that he would come up and kiss him again if I didn't agree with him, and a thought suddenly came to my mind, it would be better for me to move back to the school dormitory.

"Miao Ge, stay by my side and don't leave ......"

Xia Ye suddenly circled his arms, hugged me into his arms, and whispered in his ear, I didn't know what to do by this sudden change, and I heard him murmuring in his ear:

"I need you so much now, and I don't have anyone else to trust...... Promise me, don't leave me! ”

It's not that he's talking to me, it's the kind of sincere, even a little pitiful pleading, feeling particularly helpless like a child, but it still has the style of his eldest son of the Xia family.

For some reason, I was particularly afraid that he would touch my body, and I was ready to fight back and slip away, but suddenly my heart softened, and my hand unconsciously touched his back, and my mouth seemed to be not growing on my body:

"Xia Ye, everything will be fine, don't worry, as long as I can help, I will definitely help you!"

"Of course, only you can help me, and from now on there is something I need your help with."

"What?" After I said these two words, I suddenly felt like I had been deceived.

"Now, just hold me like this, don't let go, don't look up, don't look around, follow me into the courtyard and go upstairs."

Who's helping? Bastard Xia Ye, are you sure you're not taking advantage of me?

I was about to look up, but Xia Ye directly pressed his head back into his arms with his hand, and then his chin simply rested on the top of my head:

"Didn't you say don't look up, good, wait until you go back to the room first."

Xia Ye lifted it up a little harder, and my foot in slippers stepped on his instep, he opened the courtyard door with one hand, and took me into the courtyard and then closed the courtyard door, the moment the courtyard door closed, I seemed to sense that there were two figures flashing outside the empty courtyard gate, who was still there so late?

"After 12 o'clock every night for the past two days, Miao Ge, you try to stay in your room as much as possible, no matter what happens outside, don't come out before dawn."

When I went up the steps on the second floor, I walked in front, Xia Ye whispered behind my back, and his extremely serious tone seemed to be very serious! Could it be that something terrible is going to happen in these two days? Is it safe to hide in your room?

I'm very puzzled why Xia Ye suddenly said this? What is he worried about? And what is being hidden?

After entering the house, I was still thinking about what Xia Ye said just now, and I was also thinking about the two figures outside the courtyard gate just now, whether they were dazzled or were they really there? I didn't notice that September had been sitting on the couch staring at me.

I went straight up to the third floor and returned to my room, picked up my mobile phone and wanted to brush down the circle of friends, aiming at less than 30 minutes before 12 o'clock, at this time I saw a reminder on the mobile phone calendar, tomorrow on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, which is the annual "ghost festival" that we commonly call it, also called July and a half.

In my hometown in Xiangxi, especially in Jinxitan, I have to burn paper money in the middle of July to sacrifice to my ancestors. It is said that around the seventh and a half months, the dead ancestors will return, so the importance of "July and a half" is comparable to the Qingming Festival.

During this period around the seventh and a half months, the main activity of the people of Jinxi Altar is to worship their ancestors, envelope them with paper money, write the names of their deceased relatives, burn them outdoors, and raise their names to mourn to show their respect and send money.

At the earliest, about the Republic of China period, I heard my grandmother say that the local squires also made a Bon festival in the middle of the month, exiled lotus lanterns in Jinxi or Tuojiang, and planted paths with incense and candles, called road candles, to guide the ancestors to return home, and also light a few incense sticks, and turn money into the wild, and give the lonely souls (that is, the wild ghosts who cannot be reincarnated for the time being, and the ghosts are not scattered), so that they will not go hungry to the underworld, in case there is a chance to reincarnate is also decent.

After the liberation, this kind of superstitious activity was slowly banned, but the countryside still attaches great importance to the seventh and a half months, but the activities of worshiping the dead ancestors and mourning deceased relatives are mostly carried out secretly at home, or find a place where no one is around, but because of this, it makes people feel a little more mysterious.

In Jinxitan, including many places in Xiangxi, there is an unwritten rule, "During the July and a half period, try not to go out at night, and don't go to other people's houses, because it is easy to bump into some filth that should not be seen." ”

Therefore, by the time of the seventh and a half months, the sun had just set, and it was not yet seven o'clock in the evening, and the doors of every household in the countryside were closed. Like a relatively remote place, suddenly crowded, then it is estimated that you have hit the jackpot.

Also, if you occasionally see someone lighting incense and candles at the end of the street and burning paper money, don't be curious to come forward to say hello, the best thing you have to do is to avoid it, don't rush head-on, otherwise it is easy to have nightmares when you go home at night.

Could it be that Xia Ye told me not to go out of the room these few nights, just because of the half-ghost festival in July? (To be continued.) )