Chapter 24: Shadows
Ye Xingzhi's tone was rare and gentle, "Good, it's just a power outage, it's okay." ”
He was not good at comforting people, and patted her back stiffly with one hand, "Don't be afraid, it'll be fine in a while." ”
Cheng Ningyue's whole body shrank in his arms, tears covered her face, and the clothes in front of the man's chest were also wet.
Under Ye Xingzhi's comfort, Cheng Ningyue's trembling body slowly stopped.
Sure enough, after two or three minutes, the call came.
It is estimated that there was a problem with the line, and the power supply has been restored in the shortest possible time after the emergency repair.
The living room suddenly lit up.
The panic in Cheng Ningyue's heart slowly dissipated, and the whole person seemed to be out of strength, and it took several tries before he barely sat up from Ye Xingzhi's arms.
You don't have to look at her to know how embarrassed she is at the moment.
There were slimy tears on his face, his hair and clothes were messy, and the key thing was that he was so embarrassed that Cheng Ningyue felt so embarrassed.
"yes, I'm sorry......"
Cheng Ningyue got down from his lap, "Just, just scared you, right?" I'm ......"
She didn't know what to say.
"Are you afraid of the dark?"
Ye Xingzhi took out two tissues and handed them to her, and his mind was the scene of her curling up on the ground with her head in her hands and yelling in the kitchen.
It shouldn't just be about being afraid of the dark.
Cheng Ningyue didn't want to explain more, wiped her face with a tissue, and whispered, "I'll go upstairs first." ”
Who knew that he stood up, his legs were weak and he fell down again, and he just fell on Ye Xingzhi's body.
“……”
This person is rare to speak, and he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you need me to carry you up?" ”
Cheng Ningyue just wanted to say no, but Ye Xingzhi had already picked her up, bypassed the coffee table and went upstairs.
She weighed more than 90 pounds, and he hugged her as if it didn't take much effort, and easily went up to the second floor.
Ye Xingyi carried the person back to the master bedroom all the way.
also thoughtfully put her on the sofa.
Cheng Ningyue said thank you to him, the man raised her eyebrows, didn't ask her why she was so sensitive and afraid of the dark, and turned around and went out.
Ye Xingzhi didn't go back to his bedroom next door, he went downstairs to find his mobile phone and make a call.
Shen Yunjing was drinking with a few fox friends and dogs, and he was quite surprised when he received Ye Xingzhi's call.
"If you let you come out together, you won't come, what's the matter, you're lonely at home now?"
Ye Xingzhi stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and lit a cigarette, squinting slightly, "You help me check on Cheng Ningyue's past." ”
“…… What? ”
Shen Yunjing over there wondered if he had heard it wrong, "You want to check your wife's past??? ”
Then the gossip heart immediately burned, "Could it be that your wife has more than just an ex-boyfriend in the past, and there are other ---?"
"There's your uncle!"
Ye Xingzhi is disgusted when he hears the words 'ex-boyfriend' now, "You just go and check what happened to her in the Cheng family before, and check whether she has been abused or something." ”
Cheng Ningyue is an illegitimate daughter, and Ye Xingzhi knows that in this circle, the illegitimate daughters who are taken home generally do not have a good life.
If you encounter the fierce mother of the house, it is not uncommon to kill and maim people.
Ye Xingzhi felt that Cheng Ningyue's reaction tonight should be related to the Cheng family's side.
"Okay, okay," Shen Yunjing agreed, "As long as the money is in place, even at what age your wife is weaned, I can let people find out for you." ”
"As soon as possible." Ye Xingzhi hung up the phone after speaking.
After smoking a cigarette, Ye Xing subconsciously walked to the door of the master bedroom when he went upstairs, but he didn't knock on the door.
After standing at the door for two minutes, he turned around and went back to his room next door.
In the bathroom, Cheng Ningyue soaked in the bathtub filled with water, took a deep breath I don't know how many times, and finally calmed down completely.
This matter probably started half a year after she returned home.
It was Cheng Liyue's birthday, and Cheng Guozhang and Lan Meiting held a very grand birthday party for their beloved daughter.
In addition to Cheng Liyue's classmates and friends, there are also many partners in the Cheng family's business.
Since breakfast that day, Cheng Ningyue has been ordered by Lan Meiting to stay in the room and not to come out.
At that time, she lived in a cleaned up utility room on the second floor, which was only less than ten square meters.
Because of Cheng Ningyue's arrival, Lan Meiting didn't know how many times she had quarreled with her husband, and she washed her face with tears almost every day, and she didn't even have a smile on her face.
Cheng Liyue felt sorry for her mother and blamed all the faults on Cheng Ningyue's head.
That day, when Cheng Ningyue went downstairs for breakfast, Cheng Liyue asked people to go upstairs quietly and broke the light in Cheng Ningyue's room.
At night, Cheng Ningyue found that the light in her room was broken, she wanted to find someone to help repair it, and remembered Lan Meiting's advice to let her not go downstairs.
Cheng Ningyue didn't dare to be disobedient, so she had to sit alone in the dark room, and she could faintly hear the laughter downstairs in her ears.
I don't know how long it was, but there was a noise outside the door.
The voice rustled, as if something was scratching at the doorway.
Cheng Ningyue was a little scared at first, but then she had the courage to go over and open the door, and suddenly faced two white sensen's skull faces, and those two grimaces approached her with a sinister smile, and put their hands on her.
Cheng Ningyue kept screaming and struggling, and when the thin coat on her body was torn off, she also fainted.
When I woke up, I was still at the door of my room, and it was still dark.
Cheng Liyue's birthday party has ended, but all the food has either been put away or thrown away, and no one remembers that the second lady was hungry for a day.
For a long time after that incident, Cheng Ningyue had to turn on the lights at night before she dared to sleep.
Later, I overheard Cheng Liyue say that she had leaked her mouth, and Cheng Ningyue ran to question her angrily.
Cheng Liyue generously admitted this incident, saying that she made people wear a ghost mask to scare Cheng Ningyue.
After Cheng Guozhang knew it, he just deducted his eldest daughter's pocket money for two months painlessly, and as for Lan Meiting, she didn't feel that Cheng Liyue had done anything wrong at all.
This incident left a deep shadow in Cheng Ningyue's heart.
Even after more than ten years, every time she was in a completely dark space, she would still be hysterical with fear.
When I came out of the shower, the bedroom door was just pushed open.
Cheng Ningyue hurriedly wrapped her loose bathrobe tightly and tied the belt around her waist before looking up.
Ye Xingzhi held a glass of milk in his hand.
It was put in the microwave by Cheng Ningyue before, and he went downstairs to drink water and brought it to her by the way.
Ye Xingzhi handed her the milk and asked, "Is it better?" ”
Cheng Ningyue nodded, and thanked him sincerely in a low voice when she took the milk: "Thank you tonight." ”