Chapter 47: Night of the Soul
Shi Zuocai had another nightmare.
In the dream, he was lying in bed, unable to move. Dead eyes open, unable to move or blink. In the center of his line of sight, there was a female ghost sitting on top of him.
The female ghost has long hair, and the hair spreads to the edge of the bed.
He felt unable to breathe and was getting more and more out of breath. He tried his best to wake himself up from his dream, but to no avail.
At some point, he suddenly regained consciousness, and when he woke up breathless, he found something even more terrifying.
This is not a dream.
That's not a female ghost.
The person who straddled him across the quilt and looked at him with smiling eyes was Liu Yanshi in pajamas.
Shi Zuocai reflexively leaned back, slammed the back of his head on the head of the bed, and took a big breath of cold air in pain. It's like a little boy who has been molested, constantly pulling the sides of his pajamas to cover them in the middle.
He was so frightened that even his voice changed:
"What are you doing!"
Liu Yanshi couldn't hold back any longer, and giggled. Crawled out of him, and without saying a word, got into the quilt and supported his head with a second pillow next to him.
"You're so funny."
Shi Zuocai calmed down his panicked mood, his face turned pale, and he said coldly:
"I don't think so."
Liu Yanshi suddenly sighed:
"Shi Zuocai, I'm leaving."
Shi Zuocai suddenly lifted the quilt:
"No."
"That's not what it means!!"
The outside temperature was less than ten degrees, and Liu Yanshi was irritated by the cool breeze, hurriedly snatched back the quilt, and said angrily: "Don't be so nervous, okay!" After scolding, he didn't forget to squeeze around Shi Zuocai, and rubbed a little hot.
"It's you who are nervous." Shi Zuocai's reply was merciless.
Liu Yanshi glared at him angrily, lowered his eyes again, and his voice softened:
"I said, I'm leaving. I'm leaving Hikatsu...... Left Guangzhou. β
After a pause, she added:
"Don't be too sad, though, I'll be back...... Right? β
Shi Zuocai turned his head expressionlessly.
"It's not good news for me."
Liu Yanshi wrinkled his nose, lazily picked up the pillow under him and hugged it in his arms, pretending to ask casually:
"Do you hate me that much?"
When Shi Zuocai heard this, he frowned, and looked like he was thinking seriously for a while:
"I don't like it."
"I don't need you to reply to me so seriously!"
Liu Yanshi angrily threw the pillow on Shi Zuocai's face, snatched it back, put it under him, and buried his whole face in it.
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"What did you say?"
Liu Yanshi pulled his head out of the pillow:
"I mean, you're a duplicitous idiot!"
Looking at her face covered with a little crimson by the pillow, Shi Zuocai couldn't help but be stunned, and after a while, he asked:
"Why do you say that?"
"How can anyone sleep by himself and need two pillows." Liu Yanmei pouted and muttered: "You're just afraid of loneliness." After saying that, she also raised the pillow in her hand triumphantly, as if she had found some great evidence.
Shi Zuocai was speechless for a while, and explained indifferently:
"Putting the second pillow on the back of the waist when sleeping is the most scientific way to sleep, which can effectively relieve the pressure on the lumbar spine muscles, and at the same time can also avoid muscle soreness when you get up the next day, because according to the human body structure, it is ...... when sleeping."
"Oh, okay, okay, okay!"
Liu Yanshi sighed:
"I don't want to hear you talk about scientific ......."
She turned, lay flat, tilted her head, looked at the ceiling, and said in a slower tone:
"I'm really leaving. It may take a month to return...... There is also a possibility that you will not be able to come back. β
Shi Zuo was silent for a few seconds.
"I see."
"I know you're big! That's how you react? β
Shi Zuocai turned his head expressionlessly: "Otherwise? β
"Or you're big!"
Liu Yanshi couldn't get angry, sat up again, and smashed Shi Zuocai with a pillow.
Shi Zuocai pulled down the pillow that was pasted on his face, and asked expressionlessly:
"So do you have anything to explain before you leave?"
"Yes!"
Liu Yanshi responded with a grin, and stroked a few strands of messy hair hanging on her face, slightly restrained her expression, making her look a little more serious.
She slowly approached Shi Zuo Cai again, looked at him without blinking, looked at each other for nearly half a minute, and suddenly spoke:
"Shi Zuocai, do you want to sleep with me?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly stuck to Shi Zuocai's ear:
"If it's you......"
She got closer and closer, put one hand on Shi Zuocai's chest, and the last half of the sentence was only a breath sound, word by word:
"I, may, ......"
Shi Zuocai's entire brain seemed to have been hit with a heavy hammer, his eyes widened suddenly, and he shrank back. Liu Yanshi's hand on his chest also bounced away like an electric shock, and the whole person fell into the bed.
After a while, the whole quilt was trembling, and the trembling amplitude became more and more intense, and then Liu Yanshi's irrepressible, giggling laughter could be heard.
She poked her head out of the quilt, and the moonlight poured down from the window above the night sky, illuminating her face with a crimson color, as if illuminating her arms propped up on the bed through them, and even the fine fluff on her arms was clearly visible. She turned her back to the light, the table lamp was reflected in the pupils, and when she tilted her head and squinted her eyes and smiled, Shi Zuocai seemed to face the moonlight.
"Your heartbeat is obviously faster, you duplicitous white-eyed wolf!"
Shi Zuocai twitched the corners of his mouth, and his face gradually turned blue.
Liu Yanshi quickly jumped out of bed, like a kitten who had done something wrong, tiptoeing out of the room, and went to the door to close it. After a while, she opened the door again, and through it half of her face came out, blinking:
"That'...... Am I really leaving? β
Shi Zuocai rubbed his eyebrows and sat up from the bed.
"I'll ask you one thing first."
"Huh?"
Shi Zuocai took a deep breath:
"Does the fact that you are leaving Guangzhou have anything to do with me?"
Liu Yanwei blinked dumbfoundedly.
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The lights in the living room were on. At either end of the mahogany table, a young man and woman sit opposite each other.
Liu Yanshi put his hands on his knees, his waist was straight, and he looked like a well-behaved elementary school student. Shi Zuocai sat on the mahogany chair that belonged to him, crossed Erlang's legs, and his fingertips kept tapping the armrests, making regular sounds.
This silence has been maintained for a while. Liu Yanshi took a breath quietly, and finally couldn't help but speak, asking:
"Do you want coffee?"
"No, you don't." Shi Zuocai shook his head: "I'll go to sleep when you're done." β
"Drink some milk, then? Or tea? I remember that there seemed to be oolong tea at home......"
"No, you don't." Shi Zuocai hugged his arms and began to shake his legs.
"Hmm...... Then I'll scramble two eggs for you? β
Shi Zuocai rubbed his face helplessly and tapped the desktop with his fingertips.
"First, I don't eat any food or drink before I go to bed. Second, this is my home, please don't make the posture of a hostess entertaining guests, and then use this as an opportunity to steal from my house; Thirdly, I just wanted to ask about the situation and didn't promise you anything, so please don't make up for it because you're going to bother me. Now, let's get down to business. β
Liu Yanshi blinked, suddenly crossed the table, stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Shi Zuocai:
"Hello? Mr. Demon? Is that you? β
Shi Zuocai's face gradually turned pale, and he squeezed out a few words from his teeth.
"I'm not."
"Oh." Liu Yanshi stuck out his tongue embarrassedly:
"I see you used to rub your face every time you changed your personality......"
"It's just a subconscious habit."
"That's not a cool habit!" Liu Yanshi chattered solemnly:
"I think you should be like Mr. Demon and study some cool moves before you transform - I certainly don't ask you to learn Kamen Rider like that - and of course I don't mean that Kamen Rider is not cool...... I mean, you can refer to the characteristics that Mr. Demon deliberately created to emphasize the difference from yours, for example, every time you do something bad, you have to call yourself 'Lan Silin', you stretch when you have something to do, oh yes, and the most classic one: every time you eat a bad guy, you have to say it...... 'Whoever you are, I take your life'! β
Liu Yanshi learned Mr. Demon's lines seriously, and couldn't help but amuse himself, he laughed out loud, and quickly restrained his smile, waved his hand and said:
"Oh, you should understand what I mean anyway, think about it, do you want to call yourself a 'Lan Silin' or something before you do bad things......"
Shi Zuocai's face became more and more ugly, and he interrupted:
"I'll never learn from that fool to say that kind of stupid thing...... Especially Lan Silin. β
Liu Yanshi stuck out her tongue, said "Okay", and whispered: "Lan Silin's name is very nice......
Shi Zuocai had bruises on his forehead, and nodded to the table again:
"Especially Lan Silin."
ββ¦β¦ Good. β
Shi Zuocai sighed, closed his eyes, and slowly opened them again, looking directly at Liu Yan.
"You're not normal tonight."
"Huh?" Liu Yanshi was stunned.
"You're deliberately avoiding what we're going to talk about." Shi Zuocai frowned slightly:
"You're scared."
Liu Yanshi was stunned, and said stiffly: "How can I have it!" β
"Then you get down to business."
"Just say it."
Liu Yan looked at it like a deflated ball, drooped down, and propped his head on the table:
"Roughly speaking, I'm leaving this time because of Uncle Fu."
Shi Zuocai frowned:
"Fu Sizhe?"
"Hmmm......"
"Because of the organization that Fu Qing joined before?"
"Yes." Liu Yanshi said softly:
βPandora.β
Shi Zuocai frowned, recalling the shocking case that he accidentally discovered when he investigated Liu Yanshi's life experience and could never confirm the authenticity. If that was true, Liu Yanshi would undoubtedly be a problem for a huge fraudster organization like Pandora.
Shi Zuocai thought about it and asked again:
"How did they find you?"
"It's not just this time that they've come to me...... They've been looking for me since 10 years ago. Liu Yanshi stuck out his tongue: "But you can't catch me." β
It seems that this matter is far more complicated than Shi Zuocai thought, perhaps not only related to the jewelry theft case in New Newcastle, Australia a few years ago, but also the death of Liu Yan's parents...... It is related to the so-called "commercial enterprise corruption case" ten years ago.
Shi Zuocai squinted his eyes and asked tentatively:
"So they came to you, and it has nothing to do with you stealing billions of other people's jewelry, right?"
Liu Yanshi couldn't guess Xiao Jiujiu of Shi Zuocai, threw a roll of his eyes, and gave a plausible answer:
"Who knows?"
"And how did you know that...... Lamb? β
Liu Yanshi shook his head:
"Lala has nothing to do with this matter, it was Ah Fu who told me the situation."
"Who is Ah Fu?"
"Ah Fu is my housekeeper. Alfred.β Liu Yanshi glanced at him with a smile:
"Have you forgotten that I'm a rich woman living in the mines?"
"I only knew that you were a rich woman, but I didn't expect you to be Batman, and even the name of the butler was exactly the same."
"That's not a coincidence," Liu Yanshi said with a grin, "I'm a DC fan, so I specially gave Ah Fu this name." β
"If it's not for the fear of trouble, I'd be very interested in getting to know this gentleman butler who can endure getting along with you day and night."
"Ah Fu is not just my housekeeper," Liu Yanshi said with a smile.
"For as long as I can remember, he's been my father's butler."
"If you are interested in any other information about him, he is 63 years old, holds honorary certificates from the British Butlers' Association and the Dutch National Butler's College, and my Chinese is taught by him, but he is a descendant of Lithuania, and is fluent in eleven languages besides Chinese, and he often gives me a little help when I go out to work before I know you......"
When it came to "a little help", Liu Yanshi raised his hands, hooked his index and middle fingers on both sides, and made a gesture with double quotation marks.
Shi Zuo only heard this, and frowned slightly.
"Is he also a Kyogen Master?"
Liu Yanshi smiled "hum", suddenly crawled on the table, and when he came to Zuocai, a pair of eyes narrowed into crescents:
"No, yes!"
"Then your Kyogen Master's skills were taught to you by your parents?"
"Not really!" Liu Yanshi pursed his lips and said:
"Auntie, I'm self-taught!"
Shi Zuocai lowered his head and rubbed his temples with both hands, a little helpless. After sorting out his thoughts a little, he said:
"Let's not mention that. What is certain at the moment is that you are leaving Guangzhou to avoid Pandora's tracking, have you decided where to go? β
Liu Yanshi blinked and shook his head rather innocently.
Shi Zuocai was stunned.
"What does that mean?"
"What's the point," Liu Yanshi said confidently, "even I don't know where I'm going, so they won't be able to find me even more." β
Shi Zuocai was speechless for a while, Liu Yanshi leaned back on the chair, clapped his hands, stretched his waist again, propped up his chin on the table, and looked at Shi Zuocai with interest.
"Anla, Anla, anyway, my trip won't have any effect on you - as long as you don't leave Guangzhou."
Shi Zuo was puzzled.
"What do you mean?"
Liu Yanshi smiled proudly:
"Because this is Guangzhou, Guangzhou is Lala's territory. Lesbian...... and her sub-personality, she is the patron saint of all Kyogen masters in Guangzhou. If you have any questions, you can always go to the Lamb and find her. β
"The woman." Shi Zuocai rubbed his eyebrows with a little headache, "Find her for help...... You have to give money. β
"You can use your labor to pay for your wages, just like in Hejia Town."
"Don't mention that time. After several days of hard work, the only reward I got was an aspirin. β
"That's not an aspirin!" Liu Yan glanced at him:
"Do you know how much a 'guillotine' costs on the black market? Enough for you to buy a small villa in Panyu. β
"It's like buying a Rolls-Royce for the lame." Shi Zuo said coldly: "Until now, the problem between me and the deputy personality has still not been resolved. β
"It's up to you to decide whether you want it or not," Liu Yanshi rolled her eyes, "Lala is just giving you a backup option." β
Speaking of this, Liu Yanshi seemed to remember something, and smiled sheepishly:
"That's right! If you're really lonely, overwhelmed, hornyβand want to see me, you can try to go to Jiangxi, and if nothing else, I'll be there for the next few weeks. β
"Jiangxi?" Shi Zuocai frowned and said, "What are you doing there?" β
Liu Yanshi slightly restrained her frivolous expression, her eyes were a little distracted, as if she was recalling something, and after a while, she said softly:
"I'm going to save someone."
"Save whom?"
Liu Yan's gaze wandered, glanced at Shi Zuo, and muttered meaningfully:
"Someone you know."
"Someone I know?" Shi Zuo began to retrieve his own memories. But before he could think of any clues, Liu Yanshi had already given a reply:
"I'm going to save a little brother...... 'Pai Big Star' little brother."
"Your game booster?" Shi Zuo reacted quickly. When he was investigating Liu Yanshi's life experience, he once accidentally discovered that Liu Yanshi had always had a friend who played with him in the chicken game, and he even had a fight with the player named "Abyss Demon Horror Sect Star", with first-class skills, and he was indeed a little boy when he listened to the voice.
"That's right."
"What's wrong with him?"
Liu Yan's eyes flashed with a hint of a treacherous expression, and she looked up at the clock on the wall with a pretentious gesture, it was already eleven o'clock at night, she deliberately yawned, and said in a lazy tone:
"It's been a full half an hour since Mr. Zuocai's time to fall asleep stipulated by Mr. Zuocai, is it really okay?"
When Shi Zuo heard this, his face suddenly became a little gloomy. He lowered his head and kept tapping his fingertips on his eyebrows, looking rather irritated.
After a while, he sighed, opened his eyes and looked at Liu Yanshi, and said:
"Tomorrow is Saturday...... So, I still have time. β