After saying goodbye to Liangqing and Liangji, Linlang returned to the room full of questions. The husband outside had already knocked on the third watch, and Linlang was lying on the bed, tossing and turning and unable to sleep. The moonlight outside the window poured into the room through the window and poured down on the ground, like a silver-white satin. Linlang got up and put on a coat and lit an oil lamp, and the soft light suddenly illuminated the whole room. She walked to the window, which was ajar, and the moon was shining and the breeze was rippling outside.

The wind passed through the treetops, through the windows, through the ends of her jet-black hair. She was enjoying the gentle cool wind, when there was a slight sound behind her, footsteps, and faint breathing. Someone! Right in her room. She was horrified, and she smelled a familiar smell of incense on the tip of her nose, not far behind her. She breathed heavily, took a step back and turned sharply, the man was dressed in a black robe, and it was the person she had seen at night. Her consciousness returned, her fear slowly dissipated, and she looked at the person in a daze.

It's actually Zhong Jiu!

Zhong Jiu slowly approached her step by step, and did not speak. Linlang wanted to retreat, but there was a wall behind her, and finally there was no way to retreat.

His fingers were slightly cool, gently caressing her cheeks, gentle as water. She couldn't help but swallow, and she was a little confused about the situation in front of her. Why did Zhong Jiu suddenly appear here? Linlang didn't know why a layer of cold sweat broke out on her body, and she asked anxiously, "My door is locked, how did you get in?" Are you a human or a ghost? ”

Zhong Jiu suddenly smiled, but the smile was a little weird, and he said, "You say that I am a human being, and I am a human being." You say I'm a ghost, I'm a ghost. ”

Zhong Jiu's ambiguous answer made Linlang a little dissatisfied, and she frowned: "You've seen Liangqing and Liangji, right?" You're at least not human, are you? ”

"People can be ghosts sometimes, and ghosts can be people sometimes." Zhong Jiu replied slowly.

Linlang didn't understand the meaning of his words, blocked his hand on his face, and said coldly: "Although I think I have a fate with you, as if I have seen you somewhere, it is really inappropriate for you to enter the room like this." ”

Zhong Jiu rubbed his fingers, sighed slightly, only looked at Linlang, and didn't speak for a long time. Linlang was full of doubts, seeing Zhong Jiuzheng staring at her neck for a moment, she reached out to her neck and touched the piece of jade pendant that was cool, shining green in the light at this time. She put the jade pendant into her clothes, and Zhong Jiu closed her gaze. After a while, he looked at Linlang and said, "Okay, very good." Just remember that I won't hurt you. ”

Linlang was wondering if he was talking about it, Zhong Jiu suddenly disappeared, the room returned to quiet, and even the faint smell of smoke disappeared, as if Zhong Jiu had never come.

When Linlang woke up, the sun was already shining on the earth. Today is probably another hot day, and I feel a little hot in the morning. Linlang sat on the bed for a while, and suddenly saw the closed window, she was a little surprised, obviously the window was half open last night, and she felt bored when she went to sleep, and she didn't close it. Why is it closed today, could it be that Zhong Jiu's arrival last night was her dreaming?

She patted her head, she couldn't figure out why she had been dreaming weirdly lately.

Linlang has been in poor spirits recently, and those bizarre dreams have made her a little flustered. After getting out of school this day, Mu Qing dragged her to the river outside the city to catch fish. Linlang was irritable and thought that it would be better to relax, so she went with her to the small river outside the city.

Mu Qing is the child of the shopkeeper of the Jirentang pharmacy in the city, and like her, she is a woman disguised as a man to study in the school. The two have similar interests and are both daughters, so they often play together.

They always come to the small river outside the city, which is beautiful mountains and rivers, and the willows are still there. They like to catch fish and shrimp here, but they can't catch any fish. Even if they were caught, they were all small fish babies, and they were taken back to raise them, but they were never fed.

Linlang took a homemade net bag, put some crumbs of cake into it, and skillfully threw it into the river. It's just that Mu Qing next to him kept shouting, so that the net pocket that caused Linlang was always empty, and even the crumbs of the big cake were eaten. Linlang picked up the stones on the ground and threw them at her, gritted her teeth and whispered, "My fish have been scared away by you, can you be quiet and not speak." ”

Mu Qing finally silenced, and after a while, Linlang fished out the net pocket, and there was indeed a fish about half an inch long in it, Linlang was very happy, because she had never caught a fish, and every time it was a few small tadpoles that were black and not a few bits. Mu Qing's eyes straightened when he looked at envy, and he pouted and was unhappy beside him. Linlang taught her that she was too noisy, and she liked to move, and she couldn't be quiet at all, and it was strange that she could catch fish.

Linlang put the fish in a small clay pot, and threw the net into the river for a long time, and there was no gain, to see that it was almost dark, and it was time to eat, Linlang packed up his things and walked back along the river. Mu Qing found nothing and followed her dejectedly.

As he was walking, somehow, his feet slipped, and Linlang sat on the ground, and the shoe on his right foot fell into the water. It was a new shoe that my mother had just made after staying up late a few days ago, and she should have been beaten if she lost it and went home. The river was very clear, and when she saw that her shoes were on the side, Linlang reached out and fished them out, but before she could reach them, Mu Qing found a branch from the side, and was just about to pick it up, but the branch was too thin and snapped.

In a hurry, Linlang jumped into the water. She thought that the water by the river would be very shallow, but she didn't expect that as soon as she jumped in, the water would not reach Linlang's head. She couldn't swim, and as soon as she opened her mouth to scream, water immediately poured down her nose and mouth. Linlang's hands were randomly pulled upward, but it was useless. She felt her body sinking little by little, and Linlang could clearly see Mu Qing on the shore shouting anxiously, but everything was chaotic, and she couldn't hear what she was shouting.

She saw Mu Qing pick up a long and thick branch again, and stretched it out towards her, Linlang used all her strength to pull it up in a hurry. Just when she was about to reach the branch, Linlang's body sank inexplicably, as if something was pulling her legs, she thought it was the aquatic plants in the river that were wrapped around her legs, and kicked hard a few times, but she was grabbed more and more tightly. She glanced back, and the sight scared her almost away. A black and cyan hand was gripping her leg tightly, I don't know what it was, her whole body was black and blue, she could clearly see white eyes and sharp teeth, and she looked at Linlang coldly, and her smile was extremely eerie. She tried with all her strength to break free, but the thing was firmly gripping her ankles, and no matter how desperate she tried, she couldn't break free. At last she had no strength, and endless despair rose in her heart, and she let the thing pull her to the bottom of the river. She waved at Mu Qing weakly, as if she was saying her final goodbye.

Just when Linlang felt that she was going to die, a faint green light flashed on her chest, and the whole river seemed to be boiling, gurgling and bubbling with big bubbles. Then there was a violent tremor, like a landslide and the ground cracked, and she fainted as soon as it was dark in front of her, and she didn't know anything.

When Linlang woke up, she was already lying on the bed at home, with clean clothes on her body, and Cai Wei was sitting on the edge of the bed wiping her tears. When he saw her wake up, he immediately grabbed her hand and asked if there was anything uncomfortable. Linlang shook her head, Cai Wei asked if she was hungry again, Linlang was stunned for a while and said that she wanted to eat noodles. Cai Wei stood up and went downstairs to work in the kitchen.

Linlang sat up from the bed, remembering that she had fallen into the water, and still had palpitations. After thinking for a while, she lifted the quilt on her body, looked at her right leg carefully, and sighed in her heart after reading it, on her right ankle, there was a circle of black and purple marks that were not very clear, the color was extremely light, and she couldn't see it if she didn't look carefully. The black thing that came to mind scared her. But before she passed out, what was that green light? She touched the jade pendant on her chest, took it out from her clothes, put it in front of her eyes and looked at it again, the dragon was still dancing with its teeth and claws, still glowing with transparent light, Linlang wondered in her heart, could it be this jade pendant?

Cai Wei came in with a hot bowl of noodles, and she hurriedly stuffed the jade pendant into her clothes. While she was eating, Cai Wei scolded: You are not allowed to go to the river again in the future, and you must break your leg if you go again.

Linlang only cared about eating, not speaking. Suddenly I remembered something: "Mother, where is my fish?" Did you bring it back to me? ”

When Cai Wei heard her ask, she slapped her on the table, and Linlang was so frightened that she thought she was going to be beaten. Cai Wei lit her head: "Why is your heart so big, you are about to drown, and you are still thinking about those Raushzi, I threw them away." ”

Linlang finished eating the noodles sullenly, plucked up the courage and asked again: "Then my shoes can be fished up?" ”

Cai Wei was furious: "For the sake of a shoe, don't you want your life?" If it weren't for a woodcutter passing by and scooping you up, I'm afraid you'd have flown away. ”

It turned out that it was the woodcutter who saved her, and she thought it was Yu Pei who saved her. Linlang muttered in her mouth, Cai Wei asked her what she was muttering, Linlang shook her head and said nothing, she thought that the strange things she saw might just be that she had not rested well recently and had hysteria. After eating, Linlang felt tired and sleepy, so she fell asleep on the bed.

When I woke up the next day, I had no dreams all night, and I slept better than before. Linlang's spirit is also much better. She got up, went downstairs and saw a jar on the kitchen windowsill, hooked her head and looked inside, it was actually a small fish caught yesterday, but she didn't expect it to be alive. Linlang happily entered the kitchen, Cai Wei was serving rice, Linlang scooped a scoop of water from the bucket and washed her face indiscriminately, Linlang wiped her face and asked Cai Wei: "Mother, didn't you say that you threw my fish away?" ”

Cai Wei snorted coldly: "If you dare to cause trouble again, you will throw it away sooner or later." ”

Linlang laughed, sat at the dining table, ate a few bites of food, and ran out of the door with her bag on her back.

When she arrived at the school, Mu Qing saw her and ran to her with a happy face, asking, "Linlang, are you okay?" ”

Linlang smiled, patted her chest and said, "I'm fine." ”

"I was scared to death yesterday, I thought you were going to drown!" Mu Qing almost shed tears as he spoke.

Linlang pushed her and said, "Aren't I okay?" ”

Linlang felt that something was wrong yesterday, so she grabbed Mu Qing and asked her in a low voice, "Did you see anything in the water yesterday?" ”

Mu Qing rolled his eyes and said mysteriously, "Yes." ”

Linlang's heart suddenly became nervous, could it be that Mu Qing also saw that thing yesterday? Linlang adjusted her mood and made herself look calm: "What did you see?" ”

Mu Qing laughed suddenly, Linlang thought, oh no, this baby is scared, she hurriedly held Mu Qing's arm, and asked anxiously, "What did you see?" Did you see it too......" Before Linlang finished speaking, he was interrupted by Mu Qing, who smiled and blushed and said, "You, I only saw you fluttering in the river." ”

Linlang slapped Mu Qing's body, Mu Qing screamed and screamed, teasing her for a long time.

Mu Qing covered his sore spot and grinned, "I'm laughing with you, why are you still angry?" You're in the river at that moment, what's there? ”

Linlang tilted her head and glared at her: "I really didn't see anything else?" Can you see a green light? ”

Mu Qing shook his head, Linlang really didn't understand it, but he couldn't figure it out. Could it be that it was really her hallucination, but what about the mark on her ankle, was it on a stone in the water? The more she thought about it, the more she had a headache, and she couldn't sleep and eat because she had been disturbed, and she never dared to go to the river outside the city again. Fortunately, everything was safe, nothing strange happened, and she was a little relieved.