I put away my phone indifferently and watched Xiaobao's interaction with the lion casually, but my emotions were still captured by the poet Qiu, whose hand was on my shoulder: "What? ”

"It's nothing, my sister is engaged next Saturday night." I spoke calmly like it was just a trifle.

"Oh."

After being quiet for a while, I couldn't help it when I saw that he didn't ask, I bumped him with my arm: "I, I really don't understand, it's so strange, you can see it, do they look like they want to get married, and the family needs them to marry, what makes them have to get married?" Also, does this incident have anything to do with them? ”

To be honest, my mind is about to explode, everything reveals that everything seems to have been planned by this couple, but it is too obvious, too "above board", but it makes people uncomfortable, just like you think that the front is the right exit, but if you take a step forward, you may fall into the trap, and there are big thorns waiting for you in the trap.

"Dead man, why don't we travel by ourselves and go somewhere else." It doesn't matter who he is engaged, whether someone wants to harm us, and he escapes far away.

"Where do you want to go?" He took me into his arms in vain, as if he really wanted to discuss with me where to play.

I leaned on his shoulder and turned my toes: "Aren't the four famous mountains of our country quite famous, I haven't had a chance to see it, alas, I haven't been abroad, my brother used to tell me that country Y is very romantic, we can also go and see ......"

I talked about several places that I had heard about before, and the poet said yes without any opinion, and the more I talked, the more energetic I became, and by the way we talked about what we would bring with us if we went out to play, and looked like we could leave tomorrow with great interest.

Go somewhere else, go somewhere where the bad guys behind the scenes can't find it.

But this man with a faint expression and a full of connivance in his eyes actually knew very well in his heart that even if he could take me away, I would not really leave, there were my parents, my relatives, and even my friends, I couldn't leave them behind.

In the end, I can only imagine my dreams about the future.

……

After all, it is a family member, and the person who wants to get engaged is my sister, my sister, no matter what our actual relationship is, externally, we have to take care of face, after all, with my father's current status, every word and deed has attracted the attention of people in this circle.

So, the day before the engagement, I went home to live, and I had to help my mother with tomorrow's dinner, and my mother also prepared the dress for me.

At the end of the day, I was so busy that I didn't have time to think about anything else, until I was going to rest, when I accidentally passed by my sister's room, and the door of her room was not closed, leaving a fist-sized slit, and I could see it at a glance.

My sister sat on the edge of the bed, facing the floor-to-ceiling window, her long hair was draped on her back, the moonlight was shining in, there was no poetry of a beautiful girl, she only felt that it was dark and gloomy, and the dress she was going to wear tomorrow was thrown on the floor at will.

She loves Yin Yan, doesn't she, why does it seem that she is not looking forward to her engagement with him at all, and she is still ruining the very important dress tomorrow night?

Inadvertently, she froze until Ban Zhi, who was facing away from me, slowly turned sideways, with a pair of dead eyes, as if she had seen me through the crack in the door, but soon, she stood up and walked slowly in the direction of the door.

I thought she had found me, held her breath, wanted to hurry away, and felt why I had to run away with a weak heart, but in an instant, I was still standing in place, and she also came closer.

In fact, she did spot me, but when she came over, she reached out and slammed the door shut!

Me: "......"

, what do you mean!

Staring at the crack in the door that I couldn't see, I pursed my lips and turned to leave.

I didn't want to admit it, but as soon as she looked at me and approached, I broke out in a cold sweat for no reason...... I'm afraid of her? Cut!

I ran back to my room in a huff, and as soon as I opened the door, someone came to report that Mr. Qiu was coming, my eyes lit up, and I turned around and walked downstairs with a depressed mood.

In the living room, my mother was still discussing tomorrow night's engagement banquet with my aunt who had been at home for more than ten years, to see what else needed to be prepared, my brother sat on the side, occasionally coped with my mother twice, held a magazine in front of him, showed his boredom, saw me come down, and laughed at me: "Are you in such a hurry to go to the lover?" ”

I gave him a blank look: "How can a single dog understand my feelings!" ”

"Hey, dead girl."

Listening to my brother's laughter and scolding, I had already rushed out of the gate, and in the courtyard I saw Qiu Shishi who walked in with my father, Qiu Shishi was still holding Xiaobao in his arms, and the black egg was actually squatting on my dad's shoulder.

What used to be in my father's heart, so that he couldn't really accept the Qiu poet, is that I and Yin Yan were almost engaged, and now, tomorrow night Yin Xiang is going to make a pile with my sister, my father has recently been angry with my sister and Yin Yan, but his attitude towards Qiu Shiren has improved.

Perhaps, he originally admired the Qiu poet, you know, before knowing that I was with the Qiu poet, he personally admired the Qiu poet, and I was quite happy to see what the two of them were chatting about, and I also let go of a small matter.

"Why are you all so late," I ran to them, kissed Xiaobao on the cheek, and helped my father take the briefcase, "Have you eaten, do you want me to make you some supper?" ”

My dad snorted: "So diligent? I haven't done it before, so who can I show it? ”

There was nothing in his hand, he carried the black egg from his shoulder to his arms, and the other hand followed the black egg's hair, which actually felt like an old man was idle.

"Of course it's for you, I'm your daughter." I put my arms around him flatteringly, and I remember that I hadn't been so coquettish to him in a long time.

"You're all mothers." He shook his head helplessly, and then said to the Qiu poet beside him, "My daughter is spoiled by me, you can bear it so much." ”

"What Uncle said, Ban Lan is very good."

Dad disagreed with his mouth, but his eyes were satisfied.

When I entered the house, my mother stood up, took Xiaobao who rushed to her, picked it up, and said something similar to me to my father and Qiu Shishi: "Come back, why is it so late, are you hungry, I'll go make you some supper." ”

I laughed "poof".

In the end, I simply cooked the noodles, and each person ate a bowl of snoring, and my mother also specially brought a bowl upstairs to my sister, and the bowl was empty when I came down, and I wanted to come to Ban Zhi or give my mother some face.

The family is warm, and occasionally quarrels and finishes supper, but in my heart, because of my sister, there is always a little regret.

Qiu Shiren and I took Xiaobao Hei Dan back to my room, Hei Dan jumped on the sofa and collapsed upright, Xiao Bao was exploring my room strangely, and also found a photo of me when I was a child, happily lying on the carpet and watching, I took two glasses of water and put them on the low table, and Qiu Shiren sat cross-legged on the blanket in the same way.

"Why are you here so late?" I asked this when I first saw it, but he couldn't really answer me at the time, because it was something related to the Yin and Yang Bureau.

I heard that today, the Yin and Yang situation is very turbulent, and Bai Xi's situation is not very good, Qiu Shishi used to help him, which was negotiated between Qiu Shishi and Bai Xi when he asked him to help deal with the Qiu family earlier.

"Well, the longest month, the shortest two days, there will definitely be a fuss, and the first to bear the brunt must be the special department."

I smiled coldly: "The person behind him has a really big plan, is he planning to control the Yin and Yang Bureau first, and then control the entire Yin and Yang Realm?" ”

He picked up the water glass on the low table, raised it to his lips and didn't drink it immediately: "The Yin and Yang Bureau is closely related to the Yang Realm, your father is in this position, and it is likely to be affected, recently, let him be careful, I will put a few more talismans on your family." ”

I nodded with a heavy face.

"Xiaobao." Qiu Shiren took a sip of water, put the water cup down, and called Xiaobao over.

Xiaobao spread the album on the carpet and crawled over with his hands and feet: "Dad? ”

Qiu Shiren touched his brain: "It's almost summer vacation, live on my grandmother's side during the summer vacation, is it okay to accompany my grandmother?" ”

"Okay."

"That's okay, you have to be responsible for protecting your grandmother, grandfather, and uncle, can you do it?"

Xiaobao opened his mouth and said "wow": "Xiaobao wants to protect so many people, does it mean that Xiaobao is very powerful?" ”

I couldn't help but laugh, hugged me and kissed the two: "Definitely, my son is the best." ”

Xiaobao was praised flutteringly, holding up his small chest and threatening to protect his grandparents, grandmothers and uncles.

The next day, in addition to Qiu Shishi, who had to help deal with the affairs of the Yin and Yang Bureau, and my father and brother, who would only rush back in the evening as usual, I took Xiaobao and my mother and led my sister to the villa where the dinner was held very early.

On the side of the villa, the Yin family has been "fully equipped", with flowers and streamers everywhere, as well as projectors, beautiful, like a fairytale castle in the heart of a princess.

We are in the lounge exclusive to the bride, Yin Xiang's aunt warmly entertained us, the Yin family had an accident in the early years, Yin Xiang's parents have died, his eldest brother is frail and sickly, Yin Xiang had to lift the lintel at a young age, and later his eldest brother also died, he also took good care of his sister-in-law as promised, and his brother's only child, a fifteen-year-old boy, I have seen several times, because Yin Xiang was trained and trained, and the temperament is quite similar to Yin Xiang.

But I haven't seen him for several years, he went abroad when he was ten years old, and then I broke up with Yin Yan, so it is even more impossible to meet him, and now goodbye, the young man's height has risen a lot, but he looks thin, although he is a little shy, but he is quite generous when receiving guests, but his face is not very good, as if he is sick, inadvertently, I vaguely see him showing a trace of dazed and painful.

Could it be the distress of adolescent children?

"Sister Banlan?"

My mother was dressing up my sister, I made my hairstyle, and I walked out without a hurry to change my dress, and then bumped into Yin Yu's nephew Yin Yu in a corner, I didn't expect him to hide here and smoke, and after seeing me, he hurriedly put out the cigarette.

"Huh? Smoke? Why don't you study well? "After all, he also followed my ass for a while when I was a child, although it felt strange to meet again, but seeing him like this, I sprouted a sense of responsibility in my bones.

"This ......" Yin Yu swept away the smoke in the air in embarrassment, "There are always times when I am upset, I only occasionally come to one, man, it's normal to smoke a cigarette......"

"Why do men have to smoke, it's all the reasons that men find for themselves." I snorted and expressed my disdain, and Qiu Shishi also smoked, but after knowing that I didn't like it, I slowly decreased, and quit little by little, I said to Yin Yu, "I see that you don't have a good complexion, are you sick?" I'm sick and still smoking, what kind of man is I if I don't take my body seriously, and ah, how annoying is it at a young age, just look at it. ”

I saw that he lowered his head, although he did not refute my words, but when I thought of adolescent children, I guess I was impatient to listen to this, and I reflected on myself as if I was nagging? Moreover, before, I could still say that I was his aunt, but now she is nothing, and it is not suitable to take care of this idle matter, so I will not say: "Ahem, I still have to go and see your future aunt, let's go, you, don't smoke anymore, okay?" ”

I turned to leave, but he stopped me: "Sister Banlan! ”

"Huh?"

"You," he hesitantly and cautiously dug into his pocket, and found that what he had taken out was either a cigarette or a lighter, and hurriedly stuffed it back in, as if precipitating something, and finally opened his mouth, "Why is it not you who is engaged to my uncle?" ”

I paused, then smiled softly: "Probably, this is the adult world?" The person you identified as a child, when you grow up, will no longer be the one you dreamed of when you were a child, alas, you will understand later. ”

I was about to leave again, but he suddenly shouted, "Don't you feel strange and have no doubts?" ”

"What?" I looked at him puzzled.

"My uncle, how could he marry another woman, you never wondered if there was something ...... here"

"Yin Yu!" I interrupted him, "As I just said, many people will change when they grow up, including your uncle. ”

"Not really!" He almost retorted to me with a roar, looking anxious as if he was anxious to prove something, "My uncle likes you, he only likes you, he will never marry another woman." ”

"I'm in love with other men myself." I tried to tell him as calmly as possible, "It's not who I liked when I was a child, but I will definitely ...... when I grow up."

"Why don't you understand!"

Yin Yu looked like he was about to cry: "My uncle is in pain, he must not want to marry another woman, he must be waiting for you to save him, he must be waiting for you!" ”

He looked at me with tears in his eyes, as if he was in a hurry to tell me something.

As soon as I opened my lips, before I could say a word, a servant came to me and called me: "Miss Ban Er, why are you here, Mrs. Ban is looking for you." ”

"Okay, I'll go over here." I responded, and then looked back at Yin Yu, who had already put away all the expressions on his face, turned sideways, and looked at a potted plant next to him in a daze.

I didn't want to ask any more, so I sighed and left there first.

In the evening, the elder brother and father came over, and Yin Yan took the Yin family and received them in person.

When it was time for the engagement dinner, the invited guests arrived one by one, after all, they were two big families, and there was no such thing as a pure engagement, and everyone hoped that on such an occasion, they could make more friends, negotiate more business, and get the support of more politicians......

Everyone is busy, and I am no exception, looking at the handsome and cute Xiaobao wearing a small suit and a small bow tie around his neck, and then looking at the black egg with a small bow tie of the same style as Xiaobao on his neck, wearing a cat-style suit and a bow tied to his tail, they are standing in front of me.

"Your task tonight is to follow your grandparents and grandmothers, protect them, and by the way, keep an eye on my brother, and if you find something wrong, notify your mother immediately, can you do it?"

Qiu Xiaobao stood upright, and his voice was crisp: "Yes!" ”

Black Egg: "Meow! ”

"Very well, you guys go."

So, at the banquet in the evening, the guests could always see a little boy next to my mom and a cat standing on my dad's shoulder.

Someone asked my mother who the little boy was, my mother smiled and said that it was her grandson, and she didn't say much else, but she really showed her love for Xiaobao, and the guests naturally wouldn't be stupid enough to ask more, at least in front of my mother, she was still polite to Xiaobao, and praised her cuteness.

Well, it's cute.

Ban Zhi and Yin Yan are even more praised by many people, these people, even if they knew that Yin Yan was almost engaged to me, and now they are engaged to my sister, they are one by one, as if there has never been anything between me and Yin Yan, and they praise Yin Yan and my sister as if they are like a cowherd and a weaver girl.

Hmm, that seems weird?

There are also people who come to me on purpose, pretending to chat with me, either sarcastically or sarcastically about my sister, and a few men, all of whom pretend to be so personable that they talk to me in a clichéd way, nothing more than wanting to be my father's son-in-law.

Like the one in front of me, the young master of the Su family, looking at the dignified appearance, just a few men were bored with me, so he hid in the corner to be lazy, he also came here, looking at the guests in the venue with melancholy and disdain, and then "accidentally" found that there was still me in this place, and asked me if I minded that there were many people here, and he couldn't move his buttocks.

He asked me why he was sitting here alone, and he didn't like everyone to get together for some kind of benefit, and he said that he didn't like it either, and what he hated the most was marriage, saying that he must strengthen himself and protect his sister from free love.

Actually, if he really thought so, he wouldn't have sat here and told me this, how could I not see through it, everything was just a gesture of play, and it was really annoying to try to get my attention.

I endured myself, and when I was thinking about how to put the wine in the cup in my hand on Young Master Su's face, I saw my mother's figure, and casually said to Young Master Su, "You are slowly angry here", and went straight to chase my mother.

"Mom?" I called out to my mother, and was about to walk to the back of the banquet hall, when my mother, who was holding Xiaobao, stopped and turned around, and I asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Your sister and Yin Yan went to change clothes, and they didn't come out for a long time, and soon the engagement ceremony was about to start, so the maid went to shout, but the maid didn't come back, I don't worry, I want to find them."

I looked at a few of my mother's friends standing not far away: "Mom, you better stay, you need to entertain here, I'll call them." ”

I've always been suspicious of Yin Yan and Ban Zhi, and now there's something wrong with me, and it's impossible for my mother to go to them.

I gave Xiaobao, who was firmly following my mother, a wink, and the little BMW took my mother's hand: "Grandma, I want to eat cake." ”

"Okay, grandma will bring it to you." She picked up Xiaobao and casually stopped at me, "Then you go and call them, let them hurry, don't delay." ”

"Okay, I know."

This villa is made up of two houses, the front room is the place used to entertain guests at this time, including the lounge provided for guests, and the back room is a place for their families to rest, and guests are not allowed to step into it.

At this time, most of the servants also entertained guests in the front room, for fear that they would not be full, and even the servants of the Ban family came over, so there was no one in the back room at all.

I went up to the second floor, turned on the light, the place is big, the corridor is long, the light can't shine through the distance, I look like there is a black hole waiting for me in front of me.

"Ban Zhi!" Calling my sister's name, I could faintly hear the echo, but no one answered me, and I walked forward.

I walked silently, and the whole space was very silent, from a noisy banquet hall, suddenly to silent, which really made me a little uncomfortable, and I always felt that my ears were still ringing.

I walked into the rest room where my sister stayed during the day, pushed it open and saw that there was no one inside, I went in to check inside, there was no one either, and I was about to leave to look elsewhere, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw something in the half-length mirror that was facing me.

I looked back at it, and I saw a few blood words appear on the originally smooth mirror.

[You, run, no, fall, go]

After the words came out, the blood flowed down the mirror, and in a moment, the entire mirror was covered with blood, including the five words.

My pupils shrank, and I quickly withdrew from the room in a panic, ran out of the rest room, and ran back the same way, but just a few steps back, I saw someone walking towards me, I opened my eyes, and shouted, "Who is it?" ”

"Miss Ban?"

The person who came also seemed quite surprised, and when I saw who he was, I felt that his surprised appearance was really fake, and he smiled at the moment: "Young Master Su, why are you here?" This is the back room, and there are rules that guests are not allowed to enter. ”

"Really? I hadn't heard of it before, but I thought it was really noisy ahead, and I wanted to find a secluded place, but then I saw someone running up to the second floor, and I was curious, so I followed. ”

He said very sincerely, I don't believe a word, if you really don't like the banquet this kind of occasion, you can not come at all, don't you, and, sneak to the back room, forget it, see someone go to the second floor, he also ran up to the second floor by himself, this back room is so quiet, at first glance it is not a hospitality, someone goes up to the second floor is likely to be the master's house, he followed the second floor What's the matter, there is really no politeness at all.