"Grandma, if you're not well, go back and rest, didn't I say I wouldn't let you wait for us." Qin Xiao got out of the car, walked towards the old man with a worried face, and then said to the middle-aged woman on the side in a not very good tone: "Hurry up and send the old lady up, don't you know that she has bad legs?" ”

The simple woman dressed as a nanny hurriedly said in fear: "No, Young Master Qin, I have been persuading ......"

"Alright, Ah Lian." The old man with a snake-headed cane with a dark and faint scarlet crutch interrupted the woman's defense, she looked up at Qin Xiao with great difficulty, and said, "My grandson, there is no hardship on the road." ”

"No, grandma. We all had a great time with each other! Behind him, Du Ruo, who had just placed his luggage, stepped forward and suddenly wanted to grab the old lady's arm. And what was surprising was that the old man, who had always been weak and trembling, suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Du Ruo's outstretched hand, and his withered arm like an old tree overlapped with the girl's smooth and white skin, forming an incomparably sharp contrast.

"Yikes!" Du Ruo exclaimed in surprise and subconsciously wanted to withdraw her hand, but the old lady looked at her with a vague expression, and said in her mouth: "Don't think about what you shouldn't get." ”

"Grandma, what are you doing?!" Qin Xiao was taken aback and hurriedly turned around to check on Du Ruo's condition, the latter shook his head at him with tears in his eyes, and there was a dazzling scratch on his white wrist. The old man looked at all this coldly, and did not defend himself, beckoned Ah Lian to help him sway upstairs. Qin Xiao held Du Ruo's hand and looked at the backs of the two of them leaving with an uncertain expression, silent and didn't know what he was thinking.

From beginning to end, that strange old lady hadn't looked at Qiu Xuan once. And it's not just her, in this huge Qin family's old mansion, whether it is the driver or other mercenaries who come and go, some of them are busy helping to pack their luggage, and some are greeting "Little Master is about to eat", no one has ever taken care of Qiu Xuan or even seen Qiu Xuan once, as if she had never existed in this place

"Qin Xiao, forget it, grandma didn't mean it......"

Du Ruo whispered. Oh, here it begins, another girl with the White Lotus script? Qiu Xuan put away her luggage and sighed in her heart when she heard it. And just when she wanted to go upstairs to find her room when she saw that no one was taking care of her, Du Ruo said in the next second: "But I've really been unhappy with that old thing for a long time." ”

Qiu Xuan: ???

She turned from the halfway stairs to look at the sweet and energetic girl, whose canvas shoes had been kicked aside, and who was now sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed without grace, and at some point a burning cigarette was caught in her white knuckles. She narrowed her eyes and brought her mouth closer to her mouth and took a deep intake familiarly, while Qin Xiao beside her sat down and patted her shoulder gently.

"The old man is also old, so don't worry about her, she doesn't have many days anyway."

Du Ruo sneered and pulled Qin Xiao's collar and sprayed white mist at him, the girl raised her eyes to look at the thick smoke, and suddenly her eyes focused on Qiu Xuan who was standing on the stairs. "Hey, little mute!" She raised the corner of her mouth and looked at her obediently, "What, do you want to make a small report with that old thing again?" ”

The next moment, Qin Xiao also turned around and wrote a threat all over his face, "People who talk too much will have rotten mouths." You should know how to do it, right? ”

For a few handfuls, Qiu Xuan rolled her eyes frantically in her heart, thinking about how you two little children are still threatening people compared to me. But she just looked at the two of them with a blank face, and finally turned around and went upstairs without saying a word.

"This little/person." Du Ruo slapped the sofa cushion suddenly, and her bright and beautiful face was full of haze at the moment. "Forget Ruoruo," Qin Xiao gently rubbed the top of her hair, "Anyway, after grandma leaves, she will have to pack up and get out, bear with it and be obedient." ”

On the second floor of the Qin family's old mansion, Qiu Xuan was standing alone in the corridor with a large box at the moment, she blinked at the doors that seemed to look similar, and found that she didn't know which one belonged to her.

"Miss Qiu Xuan? Why are you still standing here, go back to the shower and change your clothes, it's time to eat. Although the gentleman will not be back tonight, the minimum etiquette must be there. ”

The nanny, Ah Lian, seemed to be an old lady who had just settled in, and was hurrying down the escalator on the third floor. Seeing that Qiu Xuan was still looking at her silently, she didn't look too surprised, just pulled the big suitcase beside her with one hand, and walked to the room at the far corner of the second floor to open the door for her.

Ah Lian put the suitcase aside first, and then pulled open the heavy curtains to let the sunlight pour in. This small room belonging to Qiu Xuan is not as small and dirty as any utility room, but the standard is roughly equivalent to the appearance of an ordinary hotel single room, just a bed, a table and chair and a bathroom, that's all.

"Although I'm not qualified to care about this, but Miss Qiu Xuan can't always do this without talking." So far, she is the only one here who has clearly expressed her kindness, Ah Lian bent down to change the folded mattress, and muttered: "Girls should still be lively and cheerful, just like Miss Du Ruo...... Alas, forget it. Although Miss Du Ruo's conduct and demeanor are not flattering, at least she has a pleasing personality, just like Young Master Qin...... No, no, no, I don't mean anything else, the young master will definitely be with you in the end, it must be. ”

These people are really weird. Qiu Xuan stared at the narrow but clean and tidy single bed, obviously compared to her, Du Ruo and Qin Xiao looked more like a couple. But why, in everyone's cognition, or by default, must she be with Qin Xiao?

"Okay, Miss Qiu Xuan hurry up and change your clothes and come down, otherwise it will be too rude to be late for dinner." The last wrinkle of the quilt corner, Ah Lian reminded her again as if she was afraid that she had forgotten. Qiu Xuan nodded at her briefly, and after seeing her put the door key on the bedside table and walked out, she sat on the bed and bent over to open the suitcase.

The box that seemed to be very large didn't actually have much of it, except for some daily necessities, only a few small objects such as small pebbles. Qiu Xuan didn't care too much, just think that girls have a collecting habit and like to collect these good-looking little things.

But the more she turned to the bottom, the more she felt that something was faintly wrong. When she finally turned out a puppet doll in the innermost layer under the cover of layers of clothing, Qiu Xuan's expression on her face was a little tense.

It's just that on the forehead of the doll that looks so weird, there is a yellow paper with Qin Xiao's name written on it, and some runes such as the eight characters of birth are drawn next to it.

What is this? She flipped the tattered doll over and over again and looked at it several times. Helplessly, not to mention a complete materialist before this, Qiu Xuan has always been too lazy to talk about this kind of strange force, so he doesn't know much about this kind of customs and culture.

Forget it, let's put it downstairs and eat dinner first. She thought so, and came back to the Internet to find out what the puppet was for.

She stuffed the doll back into the bottom of the suitcase and hid it, thinking about it but still not at ease. Glancing at the humble bear puppet on the bedside, Qiu Xuan paused, and had an idea in his heart.

……

"Yo, the little mute can still eat, why don't you have to ask for four more invitations now?" Seeing Qiu Xuan walking downstairs from afar, Du Ruojiao leaned on the chair next to the long table, changing the sweet character painting style before. Qiu Xuan ignored her provocation and walked straight to an unobtrusive corner of the long table and sat down, but at this moment, Qin Xiao on the side suddenly patted the chair next to him.

"Qiu Xuan, what are you doing sitting there, come and sit."

She frowned and looked over, and Du Ruo immediately sneered, but unexpectedly did not stop it. After thinking about it for a while, Qiu Xuan shook her head to express her choice, and then stopped talking and continued to play an autistic teenager.

Qin Xiao's eyes were cold for a moment, and he was silent for a while, then he turned his head to look at the housekeeper standing on the side, and said, "Hasn't the second uncle come back yet?" ”

"The second master is already on the way." The butler, who looked a little old, still had black hair, and he replied with a faint bent gaze, and it was impossible to find fault with the etiquette of his behavior.

Then there was a suffocating silence, and even Du Ruo lowered his upturned legs and sat down in his chair in an orderly manner. Finally, when Qiu Xuan had already made a note in his heart for the "second uncle", the door was reopened.

A gentle-looking man walked in, wearing a pair of thin-rimmed glasses, and his whole person exuded an erudite temperament. Qin Xiao and Du Ruo stood up and shouted "Second Uncle" in a regular manner. After him, followed by a woman of the same age and exquisite makeup, obviously a man's wife, whom Qin Xiao called "Aunt Wei".

Qiu Xuan followed the two of them to stand up, fished in troubled waters, opened their mouths slightly, and then reduced their sense of existence to a minimum and shrank into the corner. After the group greeted each other politely, the man immediately took a seat under the main seat next to Qin Xiao, and his narrow eyes swept over Qiu Xuan who was nested in the corner through the transparent lenses.

"Xiaoxuan come and sit, what are you doing sitting there alone?"

I don't know if the air conditioning in the house is too full or something else, Qiu Xuan suddenly shivered, only to feel that the cold air all over her body was rising. She looked up at the second uncle who was smiling and Mu, and in an instant, a vomit-like stomach acid surged uncontrollably from the bottom of her heart, her body trembled like falling ice, and she swallowed it with despair and coldness.

What's going on? Now that she didn't even have an appetite to eat, Qiu Xuan tried her best to control the desire to retch that surged up at that moment. But the limbs still trembled uncontrollably as if instinctively, and the long table made a slight collision sound, and the two women sitting opposite frowned and cast disgusted glances.

A broad palm lightly rested on her shoulder, and Qiu Xuan's trembling movements stopped. She raised her head from the crook of her arm and looked at her second uncle who was squatting on the ground on the same plane as her, and at this moment it seemed that all the emotions that leaked out had an entrance.

"Is Xiaoxuan uncomfortable? His face turned white. The Sven man with silver-rimmed glasses looked at her with concern, and there were few signs of age on his well-groomed face. Second uncle will drive you to the hospital, don't hold on if you are uncomfortable, be obedient, okay? ”

"Nope."

“……”

"What?"

"Nope." Qiu Xuan lowered her eyes and looked at him, barely suppressing the surging nausea. "Don't go to the hospital...... Not going with you. ”

“……”

At that moment, the expression of the man who was respected as the "second master" seemed to be blank for a second, and before he could reply, the woman with exquisite makeup walked up to her high heels and made a gesture to slap down.

"Ah Wei, forget it, this kid may be in a bad mood." After the second uncle reacted, he stopped the raised palm with a smile, "Give the child a little more space." ”

"Hmph, you can help her talk." The woman named Bai Wei snorted coldly and sat down again, "It's just a can......"

"Bai Wei!"

At this time, the second uncle's face seemed to be really angry, and while he scolded Bai Wei, who hurriedly explained after reacting, he looked back at the empty main seat, and then waved his hand and beckoned, "Let's eat."

After relieving for a while to suppress the inexplicable emotion, Qiu Xuan absentmindedly picked up the meal, and glanced at the second uncle while eating. From the previous scene, it can be seen that the source of this inexplicable emotion came from the man who entered the door later, and the man's wife Bai Wei obviously knew some clues about her identity, but these things could not be let her know.

What could she not know? Qiu Xuan put down her chopsticks, nodded stiffly to the rest of the people and went upstairs.

As soon as she returned to her room and locked the door, she quickly flipped through her suitcase and found that the puppet doll was still lying there, and it didn't look like it had been turned over.

She went ahead and hid it at the bottom of her suitcase, rummaging through the room without finding any information or books about witchcraft, though she wasn't sure if it was. I had to go online and look at the picture she sent before dinner, and found that there were really a few people who were idle and had nothing to do to reply to her.

"I know this! My hometown is XX, and there are a lot of these things in our area.,What the subject wants to know should be marriage Gu.,Write the birth date and name of the person you like on the doll.,After the doll returns to the soul, it will become that person and marry it.。 ”

"Do you know it, don't be blind, this is obviously a stand-in talisman, write the name of the enemy on the stand-in puppet, and the corresponding seven orifices will bleed!"

"Oh oh I know, it's a stand-in attack!"

…… What a mess, Qiu Xuan closed the computer with a little headache, and suddenly had the sense of the ancient times when a group of people surfed the Internet when their village was first connected. Not to mention anything else, just this tattered doll itself has a sense of age.

She sighed, and the whole person got into the quilt to think about things, thinking about it, and fell asleep at some point.

A dark shadow stood on the edge of the bed and watched, the moonlight obliquely dewning, reflecting a ray of light off the frame of the silver-rimmed glasses.

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