With Lin Dai's scream, the lights in the main house turned on.

Zhou got dressed, walked out of the room with an oil lamp, came to the patio, and looked in through the open window, the moonlight was shining. Lin Dai was sitting on the edge of the bed, biting her right index finger with a scared look.

"What's wrong?" Zhou asked with concern.

Lin Dai was just about to answer, but Shen Xi preemptively said, "Mother, there are rats in the house." ”

Zhou Shi said with relief: "It's just a mouse, how can the old house not be there?" It's not that I haven't seen it, don't make a fuss. Dale, go back to your own room and sleep. ”

After speaking, Zhou went back to the room with the oil lamp, and Shen Xi waved his hand: "Mother, let's sleep quickly...... Daile, go back to your room, and tell the story tomorrow. ”

Lin Dai looked around, hesitated for a moment, and after getting off the ground, he lifted the curtain and went to the next room.

Shen Xi was lying down, thinking about things, and after a while, she heard faint footsteps, and turned her head sideways to see Lin Dai wearing very short white pants on her lower body, and a small red belly pocket on her upper body, holding the new pillow that Zhou had just stuffed for her, standing at the door tremblingly, looking at herself with a pale face.

"What's wrong?" Shen Xi asked with a smile.

"You...... What a scary story you're telling, I ...... I didn't dare to sleep alone. ”

Lin Dai was frightened by Shen Xi's ghost story just now, not to mention how distressing Chu Chu's pitiful appearance was, Shen Xi's body moved to the bed: "Or ...... Let's still do the same as before, I sleep inside, you sleep outside? ”

"Okay."

Lin Dai responded, but did not come over immediately, but returned to her room to pick up the thin quilt, put the pillow between her chin, trotted all the way with light steps, came to Shen Xi's bedside, laid the quilt and pillow in numbness, and then went directly into her own quilt, trembling like a frightened deer.

Shen Xi propped her head, smiled and watched her do all this, and only after everything was in order did she ask, "On such a hot day, you are covered with a quilt, and you are not afraid of covering the prickly heat?" ”

"It's not hot, it's still ...... It's a little cold. ”

Shen Xi didn't expect his ghost story to be so powerful, it scared Lin Dai, the little Lori, a lot, and the weather in June and July was cold when she was covered with a quilt, which shows the wonderful effect of human psychology.

Shen Xi smiled: "Do you want to listen to the story?" ”

"Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen......" Lin Dai said and covered her ears with her hands, and after a while, she found that Shen Xi didn't speak, so she put her hand down.

"I'm not done yet, so if you don't want to hear it, forget it. However, I have a better story here, about a monk who took three of his apprentices to the west to learn scriptures. ”

Although Lin Dai is three years older than Shen Xi, she is a child's heart, and she was scared to death just now, but after listening to Shen Xi's words, she still couldn't help asking: "Is the monk the one who shaves his head all day long and looks for people along the street to make a match?" ”

"The monk I'm talking about is extraordinary, he is a monk of the Tang Dynasty, do you know what a monk is? Even the high-ranking emperor respected him very much, and opened a Dharma altar in Chang'an to let him preach the scriptures and teachings, and purify all sentient beings, he is a person with great ability. ”

"Oh."

Lin Dai nodded, and the quilt loosened slightly, "What happened later?" ”

A single sentence of "what about later" can cause many stories.

Shen Xi is talking about "Journey to the West" this time.

Although there are a lot of ghosts and monsters in "Journey to the West", the main thing is not about scary ghosts, but about Sun Wukong's supernatural powers, Zhu Bajie's laziness and Monk Sha's hard work. Coupled with a serious Tang monk who is not smiling, the story is very interesting, and it is very tempting for children.

Shen Xi roughly told the story of Sun Wukong's havoc in the Heavenly Palace, and pretended to be asleep, Lin Dai pushed him, muttering: "Say it quickly, what's going on in the back?" ”

"And then they lived happily ever after......"

Lin Dai was dissatisfied: "Sun Wukong was crushed under the Five Elements Mountain, what a happy life." Besides, Tang Seng hasn't come out yet! Tell me, what's going on next? ”

Shen Xi half-squinted at Xiao Lori, who was very keen on the story, and closed her eyes again: "The night is already very deep, let's talk about it later." I'm going to sleep, ......"

Lin Dai was a little unhappy, and she stopped when she heard the wonderful part of the story, and she was very disappointed.

Just when Lin Dai closed her eyes and was about to sleep, the window was blown by the wind and made a "squeak" sound, she immediately remembered the ghost story told by Shen Xi before, and quickly shrank into the quilt, closing her eyes and not daring to look elsewhere.

The next morning, when Zhou came over to call the two children to get up, they found that Lin Dai had slept with Shen Xi again.

Zhou called the two little guys up and said in a reprimanding tone: "Dai'er, you are old, you have to learn to be self-reliant, you have to be courteous before you and Hanwa'er get married, you know?" ”

Lin Dai looked at Zhou in confusion: "Mother, what do you mean by keeping rituals?" ”

"Alas, you child, how can my mother tell you? In short, you can't sleep in the same bed with Hanwaer, you have to go back to your room to sleep, and you can't let Hanwaer see it when you change clothes or take a bath. ”

Lin Dai didn't seem to understand: "But...... Why did my mother sleep in the same bed with my father? ”

Shen Mingjun's voice came from the courtyard: "Oh, what do children know, I'll tell them when they're older...... Children want to have a companion, didn't you and I do the same when we were young? ”

Zhou glanced at her husband with a somewhat charming smile on her face.

When Shen Xi, who got up to freshen up, saw this situation, he knew that the husband and wife life of the father and mother were very harmonious, and the young couple was really living at home.

"Go to the morning study, eat later, and don't be late for school. Dai'er, you hurry up and pack up, and go with your mother to learn the girl's red ...... in a while."

……

……

In the blink of an eye, in early July, the family has moved to the small courtyard for more than half a month.

During these days, the family was calm, and Shen Xi followed a fixed line of life every day...... I go to school in the morning, pad my stomach with the rice balls I brought with me at noon, and go home from school in the afternoon. He only spends two hours a day in the school, and after lunch, Mr. Su will let them lie on the table and take a nap.

Every afternoon when I go home, Zhou's is basically gone, Lin Dai also followed to the tailor shop to learn the girl's popularity, the house is empty, and now there is no pressure to survive, Shen Xi is not in a hurry to make fake paintings, so he ran to the pharmacy to help Hui Niang look at the shop.

In fact, Shen Xi wanted to be closer to Hui Niang.

Hui Niang's appearance can only be regarded as delicate in this era, and she can't even be implicated with the word beauty. At this time, people like the face shape of chicken egg face, willow leaf eyebrows, and carp mouth, and it is best to be petite, like Hui Niang has a natural uncarved melon seed face and a height of about 1.68 meters, only Shen Xi will be shocked at a glance.

Gradually, Hui Niang's daughter Lu Xi'er became more and more familiar with Shen Xi, a little brother who was not much older than her, and became closer and closer.

Shen Xi accompanies her to play hide and seek, kick shuttlecocks, and occasionally make bamboo dragonflies for her. For a little girl who has not had her father's care since she was a child, and her mother is busy taking care of the store business and has no time to play with her, Shen Xi is the best gift from God.

And after dinner at night, Lin Dai would come over to sleep with Shen Xi with a small pillow, at first she was afraid, and later she was fascinated by listening to Shen Xi's storytelling.

Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West", has not yet been born, so there is no legend about the Monkey King Sun Wukong at all. Shen Xi divided the whole story into scattered fragments, in no particular order, and said where he wanted, but what he said was basically those well-known classic passages in "Journey to the West".

This is Lin Dai's favorite story, and later Shen Xi felt that "Journey to the West" had nothing to say, and wanted to tell something else, but Lin Dai didn't buy it, so she had to let Shen Xi continue to talk about "Journey to the West".

“…… With the story all said and done, what else is there to say? You're not annoyed, I'm bored, let's go to bed today, and tomorrow I'll think about what else I'm missing to tell you, okay? ”

Maybe she was familiar with Shen Xi, Lin Dai also unconsciously showed out the woman's entangled energy, Shen Xi wanted to sleep, she shook Shen Xi's arm vigorously, the delicate and flawless little face was full of pleading, innocent and innocent with a bit of infatuation, Shen Xi really couldn't bear to refuse.

Shen Xi had no choice, and suddenly had a mischievous mind, and said: "Senior brother is thirsty, second junior brother, you go and help me fill a bowl of water from the water tank to quench my thirst, okay?" ”

Lin Dai nodded blankly.

Shen Xi, as a storyteller, asked her to bring some water when she was thirsty, and she was still willing to serve. When she came back with the bowl and Shen Xi drank it, Lin Dai realized that there was something wrong with the smile on Shen Xi's face.

"Thank you, Second Senior Brother." Shen Xi said with a smile.

Only then did Lin Dai know that she had been taken advantage of by Shen Xi, put the bowl on the wooden box next to her, picked up the pillow and hit Shen Xi, and said, "You are a bad person, you actually say that I am Zhu Bajie." ”

"Aren't you? Second junior brother? ”

The pillow didn't hurt at all when it hit Shen Xi, and Shen Xi laughed while hiding.

Lin Dai lay down angrily, turned sideways and stared at Shen Xi deadly, with a posture of wanting to stare at Shen Xi until he admitted his mistake. Shen Xi lay down and looked at her, the two of them looked at each other, their eyes collided in the air, and in the end, Lin Dai was discouraged, turned her head, her pink cheeks were red for some reason, and even her ears were burning.

"I don't want to be a second junior brother, I want to be a senior brother." A burst of drowsiness hit, Lin Dai closed her eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

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