Chapter 5 Agarwood Box

When Xia Beifeng brought Shen Yungui home, it was already dark.

The afternoon rain had stopped, and a few stars twinkled in the deep blue sky. Xia Beifeng opened the car window, and the cold air swept into the car with a gust of wind, blowing Shen Yungui, who was dozing off in the back seat, a spirit.

"Huh? Is it there? Shen Yungui rubbed his eyes and glanced around, "Why haven't you arrived yet......?"

Lush branches kept passing through the car window, creating a blurred shadow. The dotted lights in the mountains seem to be a little far away.

"I saw a car accident on my way to your store." Xia Beifeng suddenly said: "A motorcycle rider suddenly fell on the road, and he was lying on the ground when we left, and I don't know what happened now." ”

"What did you say?" Shen Yungui looked at Xia Beifeng suspiciously, not understanding why he suddenly brought up this topic.

"I said, when I saw the car accident, I suddenly remembered that before I came back, my master told me to be careful of the car."

"So?" Shen Yungui still didn't understand what he wanted to say.

"Suddenly I felt that what he said made a little sense, no matter how good your driving skills are, you can't stop someone from trying to get you into a car accident." Xia Beifeng looked back at Shen Yungui and smiled at him, "So I decided to stay at home and play games with Xiaotian during this time, don't go out or drive, you can find a way to go home by yourself tomorrow." ”

Do you think so much about a motorcycle accident?

Isn't a car accident an accident, what does it mean that someone wants you to get into a car accident?

What the hell have you done, and why do people hate you so much!

Shen Yungui stared at the back of Xia Beifeng's head for a while, and then suddenly came back to his senses and grasped the point of his words just now: "You let me go back to the city by myself!" ”

Xia Beifeng nodded.

Shen Yungui gasped, looking at the shadows of the trees and the houses halfway up the mountain that kept flashing outside the car window, he couldn't help but gasp.

"How can I go back!"

"If you're not in a hurry. It was possible to walk for half an hour and then take the bus. Xia Beifeng replied without replying: "If you can get up in the morning, you can run down the mountain with me, and you can get there in ten minutes." ”

Shen Yungui raised his hand and slapped Xia Beifeng's head, but he was dodged, and finally only hit the back of the chair behind Xia Beifeng.

Shen Yungui withdrew his hand, sighed and looked out the window with a resentful sigh: "I said why do you have to live so far away, there is not even a ghost in this place." The house is still so expensive, is it too much money to burn? ”。

"Xiao Tian said that he didn't want to get too close to humans, which would affect his communication with the second dimension, so he found this place." Xia Beifeng turned the steering wheel and turned a corner, only to see the gate of the community in front of him, "However, you said that there is not even a ghost shadow, which is a bit exaggerated." ”

"No, it won't." Shen Yungui looked left and right.

Outside the window, there were only two rows of straight plane trees, and the light of the street lamps sprinkled on the unmanned road. There were countless straight shadows printed on the ground, and it seemed that the place was becoming more and more desolate.

"Xiaobei, you know I'm cowardly, don't scare me."

"I didn't scare you." Xia Beifeng turned his head and looked at Shen Yungui seriously, and said slowly: "I'm just lying to you seriously." ”

"!" Shen Yungui reacted at this time, scolded with a smile, turned his head and began to look for some weapons in the car, ready to "educate" Xia Beifeng well.

"I'm driving." Xia Beifeng glanced at Shen Yungui from the rearview mirror. looked at the road ahead seriously, and said calmly: "If you are not afraid of accidents, you can come." ”

Shen Yungui didn't know where to fish out an umbrella. He swung it twice as if he was threatening to the north wind, and the tip of the umbrella almost poked him in the face.

After seeing that Xia Beifeng had no reaction, he threw the umbrella aside again.

"The umbrella...... Don't just throw it away. Xia Beifeng looked up at Shen Yungui's movements in the rearview mirror again, and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yungui picked up the umbrella under the seat of the car and asked Xia Beifeng, "Isn't it just an umbrella, it's everywhere on the street." Are you still distressed? ”

"It's not." Xia Beifeng stopped the car while speaking, waved his hand at the guard box at the entrance of the community, handed the key card to the security guard who poked his head out of the window, and then turned his head to look at the umbrella in Shen Yungui's hand, and smiled, "That's bright." I just left it in my car and forgot to take it, and I have to return it to her when I go back. Of course, if you don't like it and it breaks, it doesn't matter to me. ”

Shen Yungui took a deep breath, looked at the umbrella in his hand respectfully, patted the dust that did not exist on the umbrella, and held it in both hands and put it on the co-pilot in front of him......

Xia Beifeng shook his head and smiled, took the key card returned to him by the security guard, and drove the car into the gate.

They drove past a noisy and brightly lit villa and turned a few more corners before reaching the gate of their house.

Xia Beifeng parked the car in the garage, greeted Shen Yungui in the back seat, shook the car key in his hand, and walked slowly towards his door.

Shen Yungui closed the car door and glanced back at the garage.

"The second brother is back today."

"Huh?" When Xia Beifeng heard this, he looked back and saw a black car next to his car, "Yes, why did he come back too?" ”

Second brother, do you know that your son dislikes you so much?

Shen Yungui looked at the car hidden in the corner with a deep sorrow, and couldn't help but feel sad for his brother.

"What kind of day is it today, why did they all come back to eat one by two...... Xia Beifeng complained in a low voice, and beckoned to Shen Yungui, "Let's go." ”

Shen Yungui shrugged, glanced down at the jade ring on his hand, and quickly followed Xia Beifeng's footsteps.

The cheap plastic umbrella lay quietly on the passenger seat of Xia Beifeng's motorcycle, motionless, a small handprint on the handle of the umbrella was left on it, and even the lines of its palm could be seen.

As the father of the Shen family, Xia Beifeng and Shen Luotian, the father of the two bear children, and the second brother of Shen Yungui, the son of a loser, Mr. Shen Yunxi has always maintained a childlike heart. Even if he is over fifty years old, he can still happily play games and grab snacks with his little son, and he seems to have no self-esteem as an old man at all.

Kids. Just let them grow freely, do whatever they want, and do so much!

Anyway, you can grow up no matter what, and they will bother you if you care too much.

With such a mentality, when he saw his eldest son, whom he hadn't seen for half a year, open the door, not only did he not show his touching or concern as a father. Instead, he waved his hand without raising his head, stared at the TV screen and said, "Xiaobei is back, there are crabs in the kitchen, you go get them." ”

"Look." Xia Beifeng turned his head and spread his hands at Shen Yungui behind him, with a helpless expression, "This is why I don't want to go home, the meaning of my existence in this family is to be a cook." ”

Not only that, but you're also a handyman, plus a humanoid punching bag.

Shen Yungui silently added in his heart.

After Xia Beifeng gave way at the door, Shen Yungui's gaze turned a few times between the two people playing games on the sofa and Xia Beifeng at the door. In the end, he gave Xia Beifeng a sympathetic look and patted him on the shoulder, "Remember to cook two more dishes, if there are four people, crabs alone are not enough to eat." ”

Xia Beifeng resigned himself to his fate and walked into the kitchen.

"Second brother." Shen Yungui dangled to the side of the sofa, looked down at the two people who were playing games, and said with a smile: "I'm coming to your house to eat again." ”

Shen Luotian lowered his head and picked up a game controller on the ground, held it up in front of Shen Yungui's eyes, his eyes still did not leave the game screen, and quickly asked, "Do you want to play together?" ”

For various reasons - for example, boiling crabs for too long, eating after the game, in this case, I will go to stew again, stewing a pot of dishes for too long, and eating after the game...... When the last four people gathered at the table to eat. It's already half past eight.

A cool breeze blew in from the half-open windows, and there was a certain youthful noise.

"O young people now! It's really ......" Shen Yunxi bit a crab leg. sighed vaguely, "Some people in our school fall in love on the playground every day, and I feel blushing when I hear what I say." How could such a thing happen when I was young! ”

When the remaining three people heard this, they all buried their heads and began to eat, but none of them were willing to talk.

"Hey...... It's nice to be young! Shen Yunxi shook his head and sighed. Then he quickly sandwiched the last piece of meat on the plate into his own bowl, "When can you two bring someone back to show me, I'm so relieved." ”

"What about you...... It's better to just die of this heart. Shen Luotian said slowly, raised his hand and handed the bowl to Xia Beifeng, raised his head and winked at him.

"How old are you, take it yourself!" Xia Bei said without raising his head. He stuffed the last bite of rice in the bowl into his mouth, stood up and nodded at Shen Yunxi, "You eat slowly, I'm done, go back to the house to rest first." ”

"Go ahead." Shen Yunxi said, pushing his soup bowl to Shen Luotian, who was also standing up, "If you go to the kitchen, help me serve a bowl of soup by the way and get more food." ”

"By the way, help me bring me a bowl of rice." Shen Yungui also pushed the empty bowl down in front of Shen Luotian, "Thank you." ”

"Okay." Shen Luotian nodded heavily, put the three bowls in front of him, and smiled meaningfully, looking like a pervert before he wanted to kill.

Shen Yungui stood up suddenly, took back his bowl, and turned to walk towards the kitchen.

"Forget it, I'll go by myself."

Xia Beifeng lay on his bed, holding the small box he brought back from Shen Yungui's store in his hand, rummaging through the patterns on it.

The box was the size of a jewelry box, and it looked very worn, the edges and corners were polished to a very smooth surface, and the residual vermilion oil paint could be faintly seen in the gaps in the pattern.

Even so, this thing still looks very good, the small box is carved with finely broken plum blossoms, and the layers are scattered all over the surface of the box.

There was a faint fragrance on the box, but the wood looked like ordinary pear wood, and I don't know why it brought such a fragrance.

Smells like agarwood? But there seems to be a subtle difference.

Xia Beifeng frowned and stared at the small box, remembering where he had smelled it.

A small sound came from the doorway, interrupting his thoughts.

Shen Luotian pushed open the door, poked his head into the room, and looked at Xia Beifeng lying on the bed, his expression seemed to be a little puzzled.

"Brother, are you looking for me?"

Xia Beifeng looked at Shen Luotian at the door in shock and nodded slowly.

"Xiaotian, why do I think you seem to be getting more and more chattering." Xia Beifeng sat up from the bed and threw the box in his hand towards Shen Luotian, "What, do you want to take over Master's class in the future?" ”

Shen Luotian took the box, walked towards the house, shook his head and smiled.

"I don't want to run around like him at all, my biggest wish is to be an old otaku, but since you have something, I must be responsive."

"Good idea, ambitious!." Xia Beifeng clapped his hands approvingly, and said firmly: "Go boldly, I support you." ”

"But you support me and don't support me." Shen Luotian lowered his head and approached the box to smell it, frowning, "Eldest brother is a father, if you support me, give me money to spend...... This thing turned out to be something. ”

"I don't know, it smells like agarwood, but it doesn't feel right."

"The secondary processing has passed." Shen Luotian said and threw the box in his hand twice, and whistled, "I feel that it should have been a man here, but now he has run away." ”

"Can you see anything else?" Xia Beifeng raised his head and recalled for a while, then looked at Shen Luotian on the side and said, "I think I should have smelled this smell, but I don't remember where it is, do you have an impression?" ”

"It seems to be a bit of an impression......," Shen Luotian put his finger into the box and fumbled for a while, "There is nothing in it, but if we don't remember either of us, then we can use the elimination method to determine that this thing should have appeared in Ye Baiyu." ”

Xia Beifeng nodded slowly, his face still with a confused expression of memory.

"I don't know if I can see anything else." Shen Yungui stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in front of Xia Beifeng's eyes, and shouted: "The soul is back!" ”

Xia Beifeng raised his head and glared at him.

"I'll take this thing back and see it again, and I'll tell you tomorrow morning what I've seen, okay."

"Don't be pushy." Xia Beifeng looked worriedly at the back of the person who had already walked to the door, sighed, and said to Shen Luotian: "If you can't pull it, don't toss yourself anymore." ”

Shen Luotian raised a hand, gave a thumbs up, and shook it towards the summer north wind.

"No problem!"

Do you really understand what I mean?

What the hell is no problem!

I'm afraid that you're okay, okay!

Xia Beifeng listened to the sound of the door closing, covered his face in pain, and threw himself back on the bed.

A cool breeze peeked through the crack in the window, and the curtains that hung on the ground shook slightly.

A patient in the hospital was lying on the bed and fell to the ground with serious injuries, and when he hit the ground, he was hit on the head, causing him to be unable to remember many things.

She took a few long breaths, and the sound sounded like it was breaking the seal.

A straight horizontal line appeared on the heartbeat indicator screen on one side.

The man gripped his chest hard, struggled a few times, and finally stopped breathing.

(To be continued.) )