"I'll go to the study and look for a book." Xia Beifeng looked at Shen Yungui's smaller and smaller back outside the window, raised his hand and knocked on the back of the sofa twice, and said to Shen Luotian: "You play by yourself first, and if you are hungry at noon, ask me to come down and cook for you." ”

Shen Luotian continued to press the gamepad quickly, waved his hand, stared at the flickering TV screen in front of him, and said indifferently: "I know, stand down." ”

Xia Beifeng raised his hand and knocked on the back of Shen Luotian's head.

Shen Luotian sat motionless on the sofa, even if he was beaten, he still didn't move the place.

Xia Beifeng looked at him for a while and didn't react, just caring about the back of the game, took a deep breath, shook his head, didn't say anything, and turned to go upstairs.

After Xia Beifeng disappeared at the corner of the stairs, Shen Luotian slowly raised his head, looked at the empty staircase, and chuckled.

"Who said you came to play games with me after dinner...... In the blink of an eye, I forgot about it. He whispered a few words, looked down at his palm, and was stunned for a moment.

The game character's health bar on the TV screen quickly shortened, and soon began to flicker red.

However, it was not until it let out a scream and fell to the ground that the man controlling it came back to his senses, refocused his attention on it, and cursed in a low voice: "! ”

The Shen family's study is probably one of the best rooms in this house, the windows are facing the sun, and if it is sunny, there is direct sunlight almost all day long. Despite the rows of tall bookcases in the study, there are still sporadic rays of sunlight that can pass through the gap between the books and the summer holidays and fall onto the table deep in the study.

Xia Beifeng did not sit on the chair next to the desk at this time, but found a random place to sit on the ground, leaning against the corner of the desk, and took out the books in the bookcase in front of him one by one. Flip it a few times and put it back in.

The bookcase was full of books that looked old, and even a few of them seemed to break if they were touched, and they should have been sent to the museum as antiques, and I don't know why they were left in this home.

The smell of paper and ink filled the room, and Xia Beifeng sat in a pile of books. Constantly repeating the action of opening the book, taking a look, and closing the book, I don't feel tired, and even gradually become a little distracted.

The sun outside the window rises little by little, and then slowly sinks down after a certain point, and leaves leisurely with something called "time".

Xia Beifeng stayed in the study until evening, and only when he found that the light in the room was not dark enough for him to read the handwriting on the page, did he react - another day had passed.

He carefully placed a tattered thread-bound book in his hand back into the bookcase. Stretching his waist, he raised his hand and pressed hard twice on the back of his neck.

The hunger pangs came out at the right time, appearing in pairs with his stomach pain, rhythmically tormenting his nerves.

He glanced down at his watch, patted his forehead with remorse, got up from the floor of the study, and stomped his numb foot on the ground a few times.

Then he limped open the door.

Shen Luotian still maintained his morning posture, sitting on the sofa and playing games intently. When he heard the noise coming from upstairs, he only glanced up slightly. I immediately refocused on the screen.

"It's past six o'clock, why don't you call me?" Xia Beifeng strode down the stairs and asked him, "Don't you know you're hungry, I'm going to cook for you now?" ”

"I called you at noon, but you didn't hear me." Shen Luotian said in a long voice slowly: "I ate at noon, and there are still leftovers in the kitchen...... It should be cold. See for yourself. ”

"Huh? What did you say? Xia Beifeng's footsteps towards the kitchen slammed, he looked back at the back of Shen Luotian's head, and asked in surprise, "No!" You...... Make your own lunch? ”

"I'm twenty years old." Shen Luotian sighed, turned his head and looked at Xia Beifeng behind him, "Is it strange that you can cook a meal?" ”

This doesn't sound like a problem, but Xia Beifeng always feels ...... Something strange.

When he puts the hot meal on the table. After eating a few bites, I realized that I had a hindsight to react to this incident.

Turns out my brother is twenty years old?

And it seems that you can still eat cooking?

Xia Beifeng looked at the three plates of home-cooked food in front of him, inserted his chopsticks in the bowl, and comforted himself that his own lifestyle did not seem to be much.

He was immersed in the two complex emotions of "my brother is finally growing up and can do housework, and it seems that he doesn't have to worry about him becoming a dead house that locks himself in the house every day" and "I don't know when my children grew up, I don't know if I missed something", and he even forgot to eat.

The phone on the table "buzzed" twice, interrupting his sad thoughts and pulling him back to the display.

He glanced down at the text message on the screen of his phone, quickly took a few bites of food, threw the empty bowl into the sink, and got up and walked towards the door.

When he passed by the sofa, he lowered his head and said to Shen Luotian, "I'll go out, you remember to wash the dishes." He took two steps to the door and opened the door.

"Car keys." Shen Luotian looked at the TV screen and reminded him, laughed again after he turned around, and said slightly teasingly, "What, what's the matter with the rush to see your first love, even the current one forgot to bring it?" ”

Xia Beifeng stared at the car keys on the coffee table, squinted his eyes, as if he had made some great determination, and said firmly: "Don't bring it, I won't drive for a while." ”

Shen Luotian's hand shook when he was frightened by this, he almost didn't even hold the handle, he turned his head in surprise, stared at Xia Beifeng who was standing at the door, opened his mouth, and couldn't say anything.

"Gone." Xia Beifeng waved his hand and turned to go out.

"Don't you bring a coat?" Shen Luotian shouted at his back, "It seems to be quite cold outside." ”

"No need." Xia Beifeng closed the door with his hand back as he spoke, leaving a vague sentence, and half of the sentence was blocked by the sound of the door closing.

"I go out for a drink with my friends, and I don't have to bring a coat."

So excited to go for a drink with friends, are you lying to a three-year-old!

Shen Luotian glanced at Xia Beifeng, who was striding towards the gate of the community outside the window, and raised his eyebrows. A disgusted "tsk".

"Don't bring a coat when you drink, be careful of catching a cold!"

Shen Luotian muttered in a low voice, and then shifted his gaze to the TV screen.

He quickly pressed the gamepad a few times, but the picture on the TV screen seemed to freeze and did not move.

"Damn, what's wrong?" Shen Luotian knocked the handle on the coffee table a few times. Seeing that the TV screen was still unresponsive, he was finally willing to land on the sofa and approached the TV.

"What's wrong with you, are you undertrained again?" Shen Luotian stood in front of the TV, raised his hand and knocked on the edge of the TV a few times, and said righteously: "Do you know how much money Dad spent on buying you, and you dare to be disobedient, do you want Dad to dismantle you and sell you as garbage?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the image on the huge TV screen shook a few times. With a "stabbing and stabbing" sound, a burst of snowflakes flashed in the picture, and finally returned to normal.

The game's character stands in the middle of the screen, assuming a defensive posture, waiting for its manipulator to give instructions.

"Hmph......" Shen Luotian sneered, turned around and walked towards the sofa.

With a crisp sound, a teacup on the coffee table shattered beside Shen Luotian without warning.

A few shards of glass were bouncing and scattering on the floor, and pale yellow tea trickled down the edge of the coffee table. A few more drops splashed on Shen Luotian's pants.

The soft and swollen tea leaves that had been brewed were piled on the coffee table, steaming with a subtle invisible heat. It has a light fragrance.

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The last rays of sunlight disappeared through the cracks in the windows, and the small room was plunged into darkness.

Shen Yungui still slept on the table until dark today.

Something small and broken woke up.

It wasn't loud, but it was annoying, like someone or some animal scratching the wood with its fingernails, or like a rat crawling around in a dark corner.

"What time is it? It's time to close the doors. Close the doors. Shen Yungui raised his head in a daze, rubbed his eyes, glanced at the storefront across the door, and shouted, "What the hell are you doing outside, what's going on tomorrow." Forget it today...... It's like a mouse, and it's annoying. ”

Before he could finish speaking, the voice outside the door suddenly stopped.

Shen Yungui took a sip of water from his teacup, stood up and walked out the door.

The tea had been left for an afternoon, and it had cooled through. That sip of water was drunk, with a little refreshing coolness, from his throat through his chest to his stomach, which made his originally confused brain sober up all at once.

The hand he reached out to the door slammed.

Wrong!

Shen Yungui looked at the closed wooden door in front of him and couldn't help but gasp.

The guy in his shop was a kid in the history department of college, and he knew to talk to his girlfriend on the phone all day long, and it was a common thing to be late and leave early, and he never took him as a boss seriously.

That kid has been working in this store for half a year, and Shen Yungui has never seen him stay in the store when it is almost dark.

Usually, when I was in the store, the goods were basically lying on the recliner behind the counter, and some customers didn't bother to stand up and say "welcome", let alone take the initiative to organize things.

So what the hell is going on out there?

Thief? What else?

In fact, he is not very afraid of thieves, although he has neglected to exercise in recent years, but the foundation is still there.

Although he couldn't beat Xia Beifeng's kind of livestock, two or three ordinary thieves still didn't have any pressure at all.

I'm afraid...... Something else.

Shen Yungui recalled what Shen Luotian said in the morning, and couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

He fumbled under the table a few times, found a blade no longer than the length of a little finger, and caught it between his fingers, before he raised his hand and pushed the door in front of him.

The door was pushed open by a small crack, and Shen Yungui leaned closer, leaned on the crack in the door and glanced outside.

The shop outside the door was even darker. It was already dark now, and the tall cabinets and shelves in the store blocked out the light from outside, so that he could only see a faint shadow.

But even a little shadow is enough.

Shen Yungui saw a woman in a black dress, standing at the corner of a certain shelf with her head down, as if she was in a daze.

Very good.

Shen Yungui smiled.

It's not a thief, it's not a clerk, and it's ****** a woman!

He breathed lightly and slowly closed the door again.

But the woman seemed to sense something, and at the last moment he closed the door, she turned around.

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Shen Luotian was startled by the sound of glass shattering, and only when he felt the slightly hot tea on his pants did he react to what was happening.

He pulled out two tissues from the paper drawer on one side and threw them on the tea pool on the floor, watching the tissues quickly soak, but a mess of thoughts was swirling in his head.

Just now, the moment Xia Beifeng closed the door, he inexplicably felt some kind of weird uneasiness, and the things that followed - the sudden failure of the TV, and the self-explosion of the teacup without thinking about it, seemed to remind him that something bad was coming.

Shen Luotian looked around, but didn't see anything wrong.

He slowly picked up the shards of glass on the ground and frowned slightly.

Nothing should happen.

He carefully recalled the events of the past two days, but still couldn't think of what might have happened.

Whether it was yesterday's brightness, or the thing in Shen Yungui's store that he didn't know what it was, it didn't look like a guy who could toss any big tricks, but apart from these two things, he couldn't think of anything else for a while.

Oh yes, and the incense in that box.

What the hell is that......

Shen Luotian casually threw the glass in his hand into the trash, and then took a few more tissues and threw them on the water trail on the ground, trying to recall the aroma.

The cell phone on the coffee table rang suddenly.

A cute Lori is singing a Japanese song on her phone, and on the flickering phone screen, an anime girl with a double ponytail is laughing happily.

Shen Luotian grabbed the phone, pressed the answer button, and said weakly to the other side: "Hey, hello." ”

"Xiao Tian? Xiaobei ...... Is your brother at home? Shen Yungui's anxious voice came from the phone, "Why didn't anyone answer his phone, can you call him?" ”

"My brother is out, and he probably didn't hear the phone ring." Shen Luotian looked out the window and replied calmly, "Uncle, do you have something?" ”

"The ...... you said this morning" Shen Yungui took a deep breath over there, and said in a pressured voice: "The woman in our store seems to have come out." ”

"Huh? Came out? Shen Luotian asked in surprise, and then said quickly: "Don't worry, it's okay now, right, I'll go over when you wait...... What is that woman? ”

"I can't see clearly, it's black and bloody." Shen Yungui paused slightly on the other end of the phone before continuing: "You don't have to be too anxious, she is just wandering around in the store now, and she hasn't done anything yet, if it's possible, let's wait for your brother to deal with it." ”

"He probably won't be back tonight." Shen Luotian picked up a coat from the side as he spoke, tilted his head to listen to the phone, and quickly put his clothes on himself, "It's okay for me to go over...... That thing can scare ghosts, but it can't...... Yes! ”

"Xiaotian, what's wrong with you?" Shen Yungui was looking at the figure of a woman in a skirt swaying in the crack of the door, and suddenly heard a scream on the phone, and then the person over there was silent, and hurriedly asked, "Are you okay, what did you encounter?" ”

It took a long time for Shen Luotian's voice to come from there.

"It's okay, it's okay." Shen Luotian took a breath and said slowly: "It's just that I just stepped on the glass ballast." ”

(To be continued.) )

PS: There was a sentence at the end of the chapter last night,