Chapter 8: Reunion

What's wrong with her?

Why do you think of a cute little child as a strange person? Why do I have this hallucination?

It must be her hallucination! Because except for her, no one found anything wrong with Xiao Tong, even if Xiao Tong was a monster and would pretend, but Bao Datong was not a mortal, if there was something different, he couldn't see it!

So, it can only be a problem on her side!

Since she came back from Hongqing Town this time, she has not been right. It's just that the high fever caused by excessive fatigue and water and soil adaptation does not go away, she is not a squeamish person, but this time she has not fully recovered after recuperating for a long time, not only is her body always easy to get tired, and she often has a mental trance, and she always feels that she has something shortcoming.

After the incident of pushing the child down for no reason, she could only keep apologizing, saying that she was negligent for a while. Lu Yan didn't blame her at all, and later saw that she was so anxious that she was about to cry, and came over to comfort her, which made her even more guilty. Isn't she going to help the mother and son? Why do you want to hurt people first, fortunately, Xiaotong's knee was just bruised and swollen, otherwise what would she do?

For this matter, she was sullen all the way, Wan Li and Bao Datong rarely did not quarrel, and talked to her in harmony with each other, wanting to divert her attention. She didn't want to be an emotional polluter, trying her best to pretend to forget about it, but she couldn't explain herself in any way, and there was no longer that terrible boy in her mind, all the lovely little boy's hurt and wronged eyes, so endearing and cowardly, as if she had been condemning her rudeness.

"Anyway, do you think it's easy to handle?" Wanli asked Bao Datong.

Bao Datong smiled bitterly and shook his head, "It's not just a question of whether you can recruit the man named Zhang Zixin, but what is more difficult is how to help Lu Yan's mother and son." He guessed correctly, Lu Yan did not officially marry Zhang Zixin, at least legally she was not his wife.

Lu Yan and Zhang Zixin are childhood sweethearts, but because their parents have always disagreed with them being together, after Zhang Zixin was admitted to university, the two came to the city together. Since Lu Yan was not admitted to university, she has been working as a handyman, making ends meet while subsidizing Zhang Zixin's tuition.

Zhang Zixin worked as a reporter in the city's morning newspaper after graduation, and in his sophomore year, his parents both died in an accident, so he used his inheritance to buy a house in the city, and prepared to get married at the end of the filial piety period. Lu Yan waited and waited, and finally it was the day of marriage, Zhang Zixin suddenly said that there was a scoop to interview, and he would go out for a few days. Because the separation is imminent, because they are going to get married in less than half a month, the two of them spent a passionate night.

However, Zhang Zixin never came back!

At this time, Lu Yan already had a child in her belly, she was unwilling to kill the child according to the will of her parents, and wanted to leave a certificate of Zhang Zixin's existence in this world, and her family announced in anger that they would break off relations with her, and since then she can only live a difficult life with Xiaotong alone.

"Do you feel the ghost in her house?" Xiao Xia remembered her uneasy feelings in the dark corridor, "I mean-Zhang Zixin, are you there?" ”

"The place where she lives is not in a good location in the first place, and it is old and dark, and there are few residents, so the yin qi is very heavy." Bao Datong said seriously, "Her family does have an abnormal aura, but that doesn't prove anything." Because this kind of place is inherently easy to attract evil spirits, it is not certain whether Zhang Zixin is wandering nearby. ”

"Could these things be just her imagination?" Wan Li said, "After all, Zhang Zixin is just missing, and now he can't see anyone alive or dead." Legally, he has been missing for five years and can apply for a declaration of death, but the situation is uncertain. From a psychological point of view, this is possible, and the psychological state of both mother and child is not very stable. ”

"No, Zhang Zixin must be dead." Xiao Xia said faintly, "Zhang Zixin is such a beloved person as Lu Yan, she must feel it." ”

"I agree with Natsu." Bao Datong took over, "There is no doubt that two people who love each other very much will have a heart-to-heart connection. ”

Hearing Bao Datong's words, Xiao Xia felt a 'stool' in her heart, and immediately remembered Ruan Zhan's name. She didn't know why she had such a big reaction, but she felt his gentle and indifferent face rise from the deepest part of her heart, and her heart was full of pain.

Where is he? Why haven't you come back yet? Forgot about her? Or is there something in his hometown, or some woman, that stumbles on his feet?

"Now that it's decided, how are you going to summon spirits?" Wanli's words interrupted Xiao Xia's reverie and saved her so that she didn't cry out because of heartache.

"It's like this: Normally, soon after death, a person enters the process of reincarnation and begins a new life. However, those who have strong reluctance or resentment will stay in the world for a relatively long time in an abnormal state, and the length of time varies. Some are only a few months, others are decades, or even hundreds or even thousands of years. If you stay for such a long time, you will gradually have a path of practice, and if you are intentionally cultivating, it will be even more unbelievable. Among them, the good ones will help people to solve their problems, and the evil ones will bring harm to the world. And those of us who are cultivators are here to prevent the latter from happening and to protect the peace of the world. ”

"Zhang Zixin doesn't know when he died, whether he has a way to do it." Wanli said in a low voice.

"Although it is possible that he died five years ago, he should have some ability. However, if what Lu Yan said is true, that is, she can only feel him, but she can't meet, she can't speak, and she doesn't even have a dream, then there is only one explanation - it is not only his body that died, but his soul body was also injured, otherwise, he was imprisoned by something! ”

"You're obviously two explanations." Wanli snorted.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to fight with you." Bao Datong shrugged, "In short, Lu Yan's matter is very abnormal, that is, if my guess is correct, this is not just a matter of communicating yin and yang." ”

"Are there evil spirits?" Xiao Xia asked.

"I don't know yet, it all depends on the results of my investigation. Not today, though. The yin energy in that place is very heavy, and our sudden appearance makes the yang energy flourish, and anything will be scattered in shock, especially considering that this benevolent brother's yang energy is rare and prosperous, and it is simply one in a million. Bao Datong pointed to thousands of miles.

Wan Li didn't reply, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart, why couldn't Lu Yan's matter be as simple as Bao Datong's previous businesses, could it be that there were evil spirits again this time? Why did he always feel like there was an invisible spell haunting them?

The three of them stopped talking and drove straight back to the bar. As soon as he arrived at the place, Xiao Xia was the first to run in. She was still in a bad mood, so she didn't linger downstairs and ran back upstairs. Last time, because of Miss Sun's business, she moved to the bar again, and although it didn't seem to be in danger now, she didn't move out.

She wanted to live where he had lived, so that she would feel like he was nearby, and perhaps subconsciously, she was waiting for him to come back!

The bedroom light was on, and Natsu frowned, condemning herself for forgetting to turn off the light again, in her education, wasting was shameful. She pushed the door open and was about to throw her backpack on the bed, when the figure of a man immediately burst into her sight without warning.

Ruan Zhan! He's back!

This accident was too sudden, she was still thinking about him just now, and the next moment he actually appeared! Is it a hallucination? Xiao Xia couldn't think or breathe, she took two steps forward mechanically, and subconsciously reached out to touch his face, and the slightly warm texture of the skin in her hand told her that he was real!

She wanted to speak, but her voice just choked in her throat and couldn't come out. She didn't say anything, and Ruan Zhan didn't say anything. The two of them just looked at each other with their eyes glued together, and the room was so quiet that only each other's breathing and heartbeats could be heard, as if there was only this land in the world, and there were only two of them!

The strong attraction and huge rejection made the atmosphere in the room tense and ambiguous, Ruan Zhan desperately asked himself to look away and his steps, but he just couldn't do it, he couldn't resist himself getting closer and closer to Xiao Xia. The separation did not make him forget her a little, but made the lovesickness even more bitter!

He unconsciously reached out to touch Xiao Xia's hair, and unconsciously bowed his face to her, not knowing what he was doing at all, just relying on the guidance of his heart. However, for Xiao Xia, his heart was so confused that he didn't have a clue.

He's going to kiss her, right? It seems that yes. But why did he kiss her? When did their relationship grow by leaps and bounds? Still, he was just the joy of reunion after a long absence. She felt her breath getting shorter and shorter, all the air in her chest was squeezed out, and her vision blurred as she watched his face get closer and closer to hers.

She wanted him to kiss her, so she pursed her lips slightly. But at this time, she couldn't breathe, she only felt that her feet were soft, and she fainted directly in Ruan Zhan's arms. She had encountered the most terrible things, encountered the most terrible pursuits, but rarely fainted, her nerves were indescribably tough, but just a second before the kiss she longed for, she fainted shamefully!

Before she lost consciousness, she thought to great chagrin.

Ruan Zhan caught Xiao Xia's body and hugged it tightly in his arms.

What's he doing? If it hadn't been for Xiao Xia 'passing out in time', he would have almost made another big mistake. If he kissed her, would he have to erase her memory one more time? Frequent forcible deletion or alteration of memories is harmful to the body. Just like Xiao Xia, just once, it makes the body unable to recover for a long time. He understood that it was because she was too impressed by the memory, and that by the time he began to erase hers, she had realized that the strong psychological resistance had brought about a physical unidentified reaction.

In this world, the last thing he wants to do is hurt her. He would rather die countless times, and would rather bear all the pain in this world than hurt her in the slightest! But in fact, he was hurting her!

When she was sick, he secretly came to see her every night; When he was far away, he dreamed of her every night; He hesitated for a long time and did a lot of psychological construction before returning to this place; However, as soon as he arrived in the room, he knew that she was coming again, and he was considering whether to leave, when she burst in.

She's such a reckless girl, from the first day they met, she always forced his way in when he was least prepared, leaving his sanity too late to react!

And feelings are always more faithful to the heart than reason!

"If you really can't control it, just love her!" Wanli's voice came from the door, "Everyone is in pain like you. ”

Ruan Zhan didn't speak, just picked up Xiao Xia, gently put her on the bed, and covered her with a sheet.

"There is no way to compare which is more painful." Wanli said again.

Ruan Zhan still didn't speak, just sat on the edge of the bed.

"Don't you think it's too much for you two to do this?" Wan Li reflexively closed the door, a little angry, "Xiao Xia is so dull that she doesn't understand, and I also have a good impression of her." What about you, you know that she loves you, but you keep keeping her out, so I can't completely die. Why do you want to bury me with you because of your love! I just robbed your Nana, and you're going to punish me with Natsu? ”

"A crush doesn't get too sad." Ruan Zhan finally spoke, "So I can't let her start, so that she won't be in pain, and the injury is better than loving her to the fullest and then losing it completely." As for you, I just want her to be happy and happy, regardless of whether you live or die. ”

Although he knew that Ruan Zhan was just speaking indifferently, and he still cared about him as a friend of life and death, Wan Li was still so angry that he couldn't speak.

"So what are you going to do? Just dragged on? ”

"I'm going to die. Wanli, I'll die. When I die, she will learn to bury me in her heart. Maybe she thinks of me once in a while, but she still has a life of her own. And I, just look at her. ”

"Really? Great love saint! Wanli was so angry that he didn't know what to say, "What if you don't die?" What if I fought my life to prevent you from dying? ”

"I can't escape this time, not only my father and Sima Nan have predicted this, but I also feel that I can't survive next spring." Ruan Zhan said calmly, as if talking about other people's business, "Since it can't be changed, it's useless to escape from reality, it's better to plan early." ”

"And what's your plan?"

"It's simple. I want to find out where I came from, and I want to understand why I have this fate! I can't be toyed with by God and not resist, I want to live clearly and die clearly. ”

"I'm not interested in listening to you shouting slogans and saying something practical." Wanli sat down in a chair, glanced at Xiao Xia, and saw that she didn't mean to be awake at all, and fainted completely.

Ruan Zhan told Wanli all the little clues he had investigated in his hometown, his own suspicions, and the words left by Sima Nan.

"Night Wind Ring, Yin and Yang Pole, are you sure he's dead?" Wan Li muttered and repeated these three sentences.

"I don't think Sima Nan is playing tricks, he doesn't know what to say, there must be his reasons." Ruan Zhan frowned, "So if I want to solve this mystery, I have to intervene in the supernatural event a lot." Because I don't have any clues now, and in this world, there are not many people with strong spiritual powers. If he hides it, if he can't help but show up, I might find clues in such events. ”

Wan Li pondered for a long time, feeling that Ruan Zhan's decision was also a helpless solution, "That's just right." What kind of Zhouyi Culture Company is Bao Datong running, you come to help him, isn't it killing two birds with one stone. You know Bao Datong is here, right? ”

Ruan Zhan smiled, "Those two gossip boys downstairs have already told me. ”

"You don't blame him for making your bar so virtuous?"

"I'll get it back to its original state again." Ruan Zhan turned his head and glanced at Xiao Xia deeply, "However, I want to live with you." Xiao Xia's house has a bad aura, it's been an eventful time recently, so it's safer for her to live here, there are no evil things to come in here. ”

"Evil things can't get in? Maybe. But safe - are you sure she's safe with Bao Datong? ”

"Don't worry." Ruan Zhan patted Wan Li's shoulder, "I don't know Bao Datong either, but believe me, he won't come here for no reason, there must be a reason that can't be explained." Moreover, although he has a hippie smile, he is a decent person. ”