Ning Lu waited for a while, and saw that he still didn't speak, so he couldn't help but ask: "Later, did the old man who bought sweet potatoes go back with you?" ”

"Huh?" Xia Beifeng opened his gaze from the page, glanced at her, and nodded slowly.

"Hmm."

Ning Lu once again concentrated his mind, waiting for him to finish the rest of the story.

"We don't know who the old man came back with, but now that I think it's probably me, because I always felt that someone was watching me after I watched the excitement that night."

"But Xiaotian has always felt that he came back with him, and he has been thinking about this for many years, and it seems that he has not forgotten it until now."

"Oh oh......" Ning Lu nodded, tilted her head and asked curiously, "So, is this matter so important?" ”

"It seems like it's important to him." Xia Beifeng sighed, looked at the lawn outside the window in distress, and was silent for a while.

Ning Lu looked at him nervously.

He seemed to have always thought that he was a problem to me, but I didn't dare to ask in detail. I asked twice before, but he diverted the topic, the little broken child is really troublesome! ”

Ning Lu showed a smile of unknown meaning, urging him to continue telling the story with his eyes.

"That night, it was almost the middle of the night, and I don't remember exactly what time it was. Anyway, when I was lying in bed and sleeping, I suddenly woke up, and when I woke up, I heard something outside the window, as if something was hitting the glass. ”

"I thought it was raining and went to see if the windows were closed. As a result, I saw that it was not raining outside, but the wind was quite strong, and the trees downstairs were all crooked. I didn't think about it at the time, and after seeing that the window was closed, I went back to bed. ”

"I thought you could see the old man smiling next to your pillow." Ning Lu whispered, "Isn't it common to be like this in ghost stories? ”

"He couldn't get in then." Xia Beifeng stared at the page in his hand and thought for a while, then folded a corner on the page. Only then did he turn the page and continue reading, "After all, there is a swaggering and deceitful man living in our house, so that he can't even prevent a wronged soul, and he can at most follow me and knock on a window or something, and I can't see him yet." ”

Ning Lu "cut" in disappointment.

"If you watch less ghost movies, you will lose your IQ if you watch more of that thing." Xia Beifeng glanced at Ning Lu and raised his chin at her, "And you're a ghost yourself." Do you think you'd do that kind of thing like lying down next to someone's pillow and laughing in the middle of the night? ”

"Of course not!" Ning Lu shouted loudly: "That's just a pervert, okay!" Stalker! ”

Xia Beifeng seemed to be frightened by her volume when he heard this, and glanced at her with a complicated expression, before moving his gaze back to the page again, and raised his hand to fold the page again.

Denying it so quickly, it seems that you really thought about it, girl.

I don't know which unlucky guy you're targeting.

It can't be a little boy with a crush.

He thought to himself for a while, and was amused by what he had imagined.

"What are you laughing at?" Ning Lu patted the pillow in her arms excitedly, and shouted coquettishly: "You are not allowed to laugh!" ”

"I didn't laugh at you." Xia Beifeng looked at her with a straight face, "Did you misunderstand, don't like to sit down so much." ”

Ning Lu straightened her neck and glared at him, thinking for a long time, she didn't know how to refute his words. He simply turned his head away in a huff and stared at the dark TV screen. No more talking.

"Are you still listening?" Xia Beifeng asked her with a little smile: "If you don't listen, I'll go to the study to read, and you can play by yourself." ”

"Uncle, you know what?" Ning Lu turned around with resentment, stared at Xia Beifeng, and said word by word: "Dig the pit and don't fill it...... No, money, pass, year! ”

"I don't know." Xia Beifeng leaned leisurely on the pillow behind him, stretched out his hand to press his neck and moved his head, and replied as he should: "I don't know what it means to have no money when I'm so big." ”

"Sometimes I really feel ......" Ning Lu heard this and lay back on the sofa like a deflated ball, and said bitterly: "This world is really too unfair. You see why there are people in this world. People like me haven't had a good life since I was a child. I don't have a good relationship with my family, I can't afford all the things I like, people I like don't like me, my academic performance is average, my interpersonal relationships are not good, I can't write my homework all day long, and my test scores have dropped. I'm afraid that I won't be able to get into a good university, so I've been putting up with it and not pursuing my hobbies, and I haven't enjoyed anything at a young age, and I'm dead. ”

She said it in one breath and paused. He pointed to Xia Beifeng's nose and continued to say: "But, there are still people like you, who are handsome, have money in the family, have no job and no one cares, and you don't have to do your homework when you are an adult...... Ah yes, uncle, how were you studying when you were in school? Did you get into college? ”

"I don't know what you mean by being good at studying, I remember playing all the time when I was in school." Xia Beifeng lowered his head in annoyance, hesitated for a while, and said to Ning Lu cautiously: "Speaking of which, I am an art student, and I basically don't take much class, and I went abroad to study piano in an art school for two years in high school. It wasn't until the third year of high school that I went back to school to follow them and review them, and then went directly to the college entrance examination. ”

"Oh......" Ning Lu's eyes lit up again, and she said excitedly: "I understand, the test is very bad, right, how many points?" You name it, I won't laugh at you, and I won't tell anyone about it. ”

"More than six hundred points."

Ning Lu was silent for a long time before she let out a low "oh", and after a while, she looked at Xia Beifeng again with resentment and spit out two words.

"Monsters."

Xia Beifeng looked at her helplessly.

"Tell me something you might want to hear." He lowered his head, looked at Ning Lu with a smile in his eyes, and said comfortingly: "I dropped out of school after a month of freshman year, stayed at home for a while, and went to join the army in the second year. ”

Ning Lu was once again aroused by his words, forgetting the blow caused by the college entrance examination score just now, staring at him and asking, "Why?" ”

If you don't like school, you can resume classes, and the option of dropping out of school and joining the army is not a normal person's choice.

"Because I don't think I'm in harmony with the counselor." Xia Beifeng said faintly: "He always thinks that I went to school because of my family relationship." I always like to find fault and say that I have no contribution to society at all, and I will not be able to find a job after graduation in the future, so I can only rely on my family to support me. It is simply a moth of society, and it should die quickly, so as not to waste national resources. ”

Ning Lu was stunned when she heard this.

"Oh yes." Xia Beifeng looked at her sluggish expression and added easily: "My dad is in the same school as me, and he is a professor in another major." ”

"You, you, you......" Ning Lu pointed at him in surprise and stumbled, "You are sick." ”

"Nope." Xia Beifeng replied affirmatively: "My body has always been very good. ”

Ning Lu felt that she simply didn't know what to say.

"Forget it." She was down for a moment. Finally regained some courage to be a "human" and brought the topic back on track: "Let's continue with that story, that old man knocked on your window in the middle of the night, and then what happened?" ”

"Oh yes, I'm not done yet." Xia Beifeng suddenly said a word, lowered his head and folded the page in his hand again, before continuing, "The morning after the old man knocked on the window, when I got up, I saw Xiaotian sitting in front of the window talking to himself, and he was quite happy. ”

"I didn't really take it too seriously. After all, it's normal for three or four-year-old children to babble on their own, and they go to school after breakfast. ”

"As a result, my bicycle hit a telephone pole on my way to school for some reason, as if someone was pushing me from behind...... I broke my arm and went home to recuperate. ”

After that day, Xiaotian often sat in front of the window in the living room and talked. For about a whole week, although I played with him at home every day, I never took it to heart...... Until one day Xiaotian asked me, brother. That old man said he wanted to come in yesterday, is that okay? ”

"I don't know what he's talking about. Besides, it's normal for a child to suddenly say something inexplicable, just say whatever you want. ”

"That night, our old man went to a friend's house to play mahjong, and the two of us had dinner at home. When Xiaotian was halfway through eating, he suddenly jumped off the chair, ran to the door, opened the door wide, and said to me, brother, look. The old man opened. ”

But the door was empty, and there was no one at all. ”

Just as he opened the door, the trees in our yard suddenly sounded, and the leaves fell whirringly, and a whirlwind broke out in the yard. That's when I really felt something was wrong. ”

"It's too late, though. The old man rushed in through the doorway, grabbed me by the neck and pinned me against the wall. ”

"That's right." Ning Lu listened to his narration with relish, and suddenly began to make an evaluation at this time: "It's finally a bit of a ghost story, and I'm going to fall asleep if there's nothing else." ”

Xia Beifeng glanced at her with disgust.

"Don't forget that you're part of the ghost story now."

Ning Lu waved his hand irritably, motioning for him to continue telling the story.

"I was also young at the time, and I was stunned when he pinched me like that. And I couldn't see him at all, but I could smell a little...... It's just disgusting, the smell of rotten meat. ”

"Anyway, I was pinched by him for a while, and my brain was basically about to stop, and I don't know why I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and I touched a fruit knife on the table and stabbed him."

"Knives work?" Ning Lu tilted her head suspiciously, reached out and touched the blade of the fruit knife on the coffee table, and then lowered her head and glanced at her intact fingers, "It's useless." ”

"Let's see who uses it." Xia Beifeng said and pulled out the fruit knife inserted in the fruit bowl, and shook it quickly in front of Ning Lu's eyes a few times.

Ning Lu involuntarily shrank back.

The fruit knife, which didn't look very sharp, seemed to be like a sharp blade that was broken at the end of Xia Beifeng's hand, flashing with cold light. When it passed in front of Ning Lu's eyes, it carried an inexplicable killing intent in a certain place, which made her tremble a little.

"Look, that's it." Xia Beifeng said: "Don't you yourself understand what you're afraid of? ”

Ning Lu nodded quickly, looked at the knife in his hand vigilantly, and blocked the pillow in his arms to his chest.

Even so, she didn't feel safe. The fruit knife in Xia Beifeng's hand that flashed with silver light seemed to be threatening her safety all the time.

There was a voice in her heart that kept urging her to get out of this place as soon as possible, to get as far away from the knife and the person with the knife as possible, as if she would die if she took one step too late.

"You...... Can you put the knife down first? Ning Lu plucked up the courage and whispered: "I believe your words, you are indeed very useful with a knife, so you don't need to prove it to me." ”

Xia Beifeng nodded, turned the knife in his hand twice, inserted it into an apple in the fruit bowl, and spread his hand at Ning Lu.

Only then did Ning Lu let go of the pillow that was tightly clenched in her hand, and exhaled in prostration.

"What the hell was going on?"

"You can understand it as ......" Xia Beifeng frowned and thought for a while, nodded at Ning Lu, and explained in an ominous voice, "It's probably like a natural threat from carnivores to herbivores, because your instinct tells you that you will never be able to win against me, and you don't even have the ability to resist at all, so you can only run except for fear." ”

"I don't quite understand." Ning Lu shook her head and said confusedly, "Actually, I also felt a little like this when I first saw your brother. At that time, I was quite strange, obviously he was very handsome, and he was still the type I liked, but I just didn't dare to get too close to him...... But it's not as obvious as when you first got it......"

"Xiao Tian is quite restrained now, otherwise it wouldn't be as simple as you dare to approach him." Xia Beifeng smiled at Ning Lu, and there seemed to be a little proud expression on his face, "Didn't you see that when he was a child, walking on the road, what kind of lonely soul and wild ghost ran away from it, it was like a walking humanoid exorcismist." ”

Ning Lu nodded, but there was still a blank expression on her face, obviously still not understanding.

He ...... The principle is not quite the same as mine, but the result is not much worse anyway, so you don't care about the details. ”

While speaking, Xia Beifeng finally turned the book in his hand to the last page. He closed the book, threw it on the coffee table, looked down at Ning Lu and said, "Anyway, you just need to stab you until I can stab you with a knife." ”

Ning Lu nodded depressedly.

Can't you help but say "you", I'm a lot worse than that kind of old man, okay?

He doesn't look good, and he wants to strangle you, I'm such a cute beautiful girl!

And I'm willing to listen to you chattering here.

After all, she just complained in her heart, and didn't dare to really say it. Although he scolded Xia Beifeng hundreds of times in his heart, in the end, his tongue turned, and the words he said were still the same: "So what happened later?" ”

"I was actually a weak chicken at the time, and there was a bit of luck in that knife that scared that evil spirit away. In short, although he didn't pinch my neck, he was only startled by me, and there was actually no damage. ”

"I took the fruit knife, and after I recovered my breath, I saw Xiaotian standing beside me."

"I was in his eyes, seeing things I couldn't see."

(To be continued.) )

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So if there is a bug or something, please forgive me.

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