When the magic stick summons cute pets

When Xu Cheng woke up from the coma, the outside sunlight had already shone into the room through the window.He suddenly sat up from the ground, looking around with a little panic on his face.

Familiar furniture, familiar environment.

This is Xu Chi's room.

He clenched his hands into fists and hammered his aching forehead, as if he couldn't recover for a moment: Are they... back?

Using the other hand to support the ground to support the whole person to stand up from the ground, I feel that the whole person is still a little dizzy.He turned his head slightly and glanced at the bed, but Xu Chi on the other side was still lying pale on the bed, motionless.

Xu Cheng reluctantly used his still not fully recovered head to think about what happened before.

The things that happened in "Taoyuan" were like having a ridiculous nightmare, but that nightmare was too real, so real that even if he recalled it now, he could still clearly remember what happened in Taoyuan. The appearance of those monsters with vertical eyes and jagged teeth, and the disgusting rancid smell behind those unreally beautiful scenery.

The memory came back little by little, and the nightmare-like experience not only didn't fade away with his waking consciousness, on the contrary, the more he recalled it, the clearer it became.

After sorting out the whole process from front to back, all the memories ended at the moment when Ye Changsheng asked him if he was willing to pay the price to save Xu Chi.

When he thought of this, he felt his head hurt even more, as if someone was hitting him with a hammer, the pain made his brow furrow deeply.

He remembered that he had agreed, and now he was back too.What about Xu Chi?What about his brother?

Xu Cheng glanced at Xu Chi on the bed again.I don't know if it's because of the effect in his heart, although he still looks weak, but Xu Cheng always feels that the breathing on the other side seems to be much smoother and longer than before, and the talisman paper that Ye Changsheng stuck on his forehead before has also been removed. Torn off.

Xu Cheng looked all the way around, and finally paused suddenly on Xu Chi's intertwined hands that were placed outside the quilt—the peachwood box and the photo that should have been held in Xu Chi's arms were all gone now. It was gone.

——Did Ye Changsheng take all those things away?

With this in mind, Xu Cheng supported his inexplicably exhausted body and went out to search again.The shoes of Ye Changsheng and He Jiuzhong were gone by the door, but there was a note written in flamboyant characters on the coffee table in the living room.

There were only a few words on the note, and with the cursive strokes, it looked very crisp and neat.

"The task has been completed, the reward will be discussed later. Ye Changsheng."

Xu Cheng looked at the few words, first glanced quickly, then turned back and paused on the first line for two seconds, then his mind exploded with a "buzz": Mission completed?Completed means——Xiaochi was really rescued? !

Heart suffocated, he held the note tightly in his hand, not daring to delay, turned around hastily and rushed into Xu Chi's room again.

"Koike? Koike?"

After a few steps to the head of the bed, Xu Cheng reached out and patted Xu Chi's face lightly, and shouted a few times in a hoarse voice.Seeing that, he frowned slightly, and his breathing became short of breath, as if he was struggling in a nightmare, he quickly grabbed his shoulder and shook twice: "Xiaochi, wake up! Xiaochi?"

It seemed that the continuous yelling finally had an effect. Xu Chi, who had kept his eyes tightly closed, suddenly opened his eyes with a cry of surprise. His eyes looked at the ceiling lazily, and then he gradually found the focus. , looking at Xu Chi who was looking at him anxiously, his face twisted for a moment, and then he burst into tears with a "wow".

"Brother...Brother...I was wrong, I was wrong, brother..."

His cries were too miserable, mixed with grievances, panic and guilt, too many complex emotions intertwined, like a flood breaking a levee, out of control.

As the old man of the family, Xu Chi has excellent academic performance, and the family has always held him in his hands and pampered him, and he has cultivated an air of arrogance.Except for the few years when Xu Chi didn't remember anything, when he grew up, Xu Cheng had never seen his younger brother crying so shamelessly in front of him.

"Hey, you... don't cry, okay, why are you crying..."

Xu Cheng wanted to come here before, but Xu Chi made such a big mistake this time, if he was brought back, he would definitely give him a good lesson.But at the moment, seeing that the other side was crying so much, all the words of the lesson were blocked in his throat, and it was hard to say it again.

Xu Chi held Xu Cheng's sleeve tightly with one hand, and shook his head desperately, because he cried so much that tears and snot all over his face, looking pitiful and embarrassed.

Looking at Xu Chi like this, Xu Cheng seemed to see that when he was three years old, he took him out to play, but he accidentally got too carried away and almost left Xu Chi by the side of the road.When he recalled that when his younger brother went back to look for him this time, the other end was standing silently by the side of the road, until he went to pick him up, the other end looked at his face, and finally grabbed him I couldn't help crying for a long time.

Xu Cheng sighed and stopped talking, just patted Xu Chi on the back and waited for the other end to finish crying. He couldn't help but think of Ye Changsheng's previous words in his mind.

——"Taoyuan" also chooses people.Those who can be attracted are mostly those who want to escape reality.

After waiting for a while, and finally waiting for the crying on the other end to subside, Xu Cheng took a tissue from the bedside and handed it to Xu Chi, and asked slowly: "Xiaochi...those things are, that is, 'Taoyuan'. 'That...do you still remember? That wasn't a dream, you should understand, right?"

Xu Chi's body stiffened slightly, and his eyelashes trembled uneasily.He didn't make a sound, but he was able to get the answer from his expression.

Xu Cheng felt that the other end probably didn't want to discuss this topic very much, but since he knew about it, it was like a thorn in his flesh. Neither will be comfortable.

"When I went in before, I heard you tell me that you felt that you were just a tool for me and my parents to fill the gaps in life—"

Xu Chi raised his head violently, because he was crying too hard before, he couldn't hold it all in now, his voice was still panting intermittently, he shook his head vigorously and explained: "Brother, that's not me! "

Xu Cheng licked his lips, subconsciously wanting to smoke a cigarette in this kind of dignified atmosphere, but he rubbed his fingers on the shell of the pack of cigarettes in his pocket twice, after all he still remembered that his younger brother didn't like to smell cigarettes Taste, so I didn't take out the cigarette.

He nodded: "I know that's not you." Looking at the other end who seemed to be slightly relieved, he said slowly, "But, that must be part of your thoughts."

"That monster lured you into that place precisely because it understood your thoughts, didn't it?"

Xu Chi had no choice but to lie about Xu Cheng's inference.He sniffed and remained silent for a while, and then said: "Brother, it's not your fault. Everything, I know, is my own problem."

His voice was low, with a bit of choking after crying: "Actually, I don't hate you for letting me study."

Hearing that Xu Chi was finally willing to speak, Xu Cheng straightened his back slightly and listened carefully to what the other side said.

"Because I'm naturally good at studying...or good at taking exams. Every time I work a little harder, I can get a particularly beautiful ranking. The envy of others will bring me a strong sense of satisfaction. Although I don't I don't know if I like these, but if it's purely from this aspect, I should be happy to accept your expectations of me.

So it's really not your problem. "

Xu Chi took a deep breath, lowered his eyes, and gently grabbed the corner of the quilt with his fingers, looking a little uneasy: "But everything is different after high school."

"Brother, you know, the high school I'm studying at now is the best key middle school in X city, and the students enrolled in it are all the students with the best grades in the city. Among that group of people, there are too many excellent grades, my point Excellence quickly became mediocre among them. When I entered the third year of high school, after a summer vacation, the situation was even worse. In school, my ranking fell again and again. No matter how hard I tried, I was still the same. Can't reach the previous state..."

As Xu Chi spoke, his voice choked up again: "So, all my accusations against you are just to get angry at you because I want to escape the fact that I am a loser."

Xu Cheng didn't seem to have expected the truth of the matter to be like this, he pursed his lips into a stiff line, and asked after a while: "Then you quarreled with your parents because you wanted to be a photographer, and you ended up leaving the college entrance examination?" Is this why you ran away from home?"

The voice on the other end did not reveal any accusations, but Xu Chi heard a deep sense of shame and guilt creeping up in his ears, making him sit in front of Xu Cheng almost wanted to find a hole in the ground. Bury yourself whole: "...half of it."

Xu Cheng felt that his head was hurting again, he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and rubbed it between his fingers, looked at Xu Chi and continued to ask, "Then there is still half of it?"

Xu Chi gritted his teeth, and honestly confessed: "Because my academic performance dropped sharply in the third year of high school, I secretly skipped a few evening self-study and went out to play with my junior high school classmates, and they introduced me to photography. I don’t know if it’s because I want to escape the pressure of studying or something else, but I am really fascinated by the feeling of recording the scene in front of me every time I press the shutter.”

Xu Cheng felt that he didn't understand what was so obsessed with pressing the shutter, but he thought about the satisfaction he felt every time he caught a criminal, and felt that although the two were different in nature, they could probably be substituted by a superficial analogy.He nodded and said, "If you really aim to be a photographer, that's fine, but what happened afterwards? What happened to you after you left home that you were drawn into that place?"

Xu Chi was silent for a while, and said hoarsely: "Because I found out that I am color weak."

Xu Cheng paused for a while while twisting the cigarette, and he let out an "ah", as if spying on some privacy, and his face became a little embarrassed: "Look, look weak..." After a long time, he managed to squeeze out a sentence. Consolation, "Color weakness is not color blindness, it shouldn't matter to photographers, right?"

As he said that, he felt that his consolation was too dry, so he bit the bullet and carefully squeezed out another sentence: "Besides, if it's a black and white photo, it shouldn't matter even if it's color-blind?"

Xu Chi forced a smile: "Brother, you don't need to comfort me. After going through those things, I have completely figured it out now. Compared with losing my life, those other trivial setbacks are nothing. "

He lowered his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice trembling slightly, "I was also obsessed with ghosts before. I have never suffered since I was a child, and I have been spoiled by you and my parents since I was born, but I am already at this age , When encountering such a little thing, I feel that I can't bear it, and I immediately think about being a deserter... If it wasn't because I was so cowardly, it would be impossible for the following things to happen..."

As he said that, he seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and he sat up straight in an instant, reached out and grabbed Xu Cheng's arm, his Adam's apple rolled suddenly, and his expression became tense: "Brother, where are you?" When we were inside, what did you hand over in order to save me in the end?"

Speaking of this, Xu Cheng was also taken aback. He looked at Xu Chi and said in surprise, "Didn't you have no consciousness at that time? Why do you still remember this?"

Xu Chi looked at Xu Cheng's indifferent expression, and his anxious expression changed: "Brother, talk! What did you hand over?"

Seeing that the other end was really anxious, Xu Cheng quickly pressed his shoulders to appease him: "Don't worry, don't worry, look at me now, am I still fine? I don't have any missing arms or legs. "Speaking, I also felt it. I felt that although my body was a little tired, I didn't feel any other discomfort. I wondered: "The situation was urgent at that time. The price, but he didn’t tell me what he wanted in detail. Later, I felt a pain in my head, and then I lost consciousness, and I don’t know the specific situation.”

Although Xu Chi saw nothing unusual about Xu Cheng, but thinking about the pale white substance that Ye Changsheng pulled out of Xu Cheng at that time, he felt uneasy in his heart, frowning for a long time, he still said uneasy: "Brother, you still Give Ye Tianshi a call and ask."

Compared to Xu Chi's uneasiness, Xu Cheng, as the person involved, seemed indifferent: "Even if you really have something, you won't be able to get it back if you give it to me. Instead of worrying about it, you might as well think about what to do next. Apologize to parents." He stood up, frowned and accused, "Parents have been worried about you for several months and are about to get sick!"

Xu Chi listened to the reproach from the other end, his face became more guilty and ashamed, and he murmured for a while and said sullenly: "Brother, I, I'm a little scared..."

Xu Chi glared at him angrily: "You were so bold when you did it, but now you know how to be afraid?" Looking at the dejected expression on the head with the head down, he sighed again, and hesitantly moved his hand gently. Put it on the top of his head and touched it, and said slowly, "Xiaochi, in fact, what you complained about before is also true. Although our starting point is for your own good, we cannot completely deny that we may really have something in you. It’s just to make up for regrets, so it puts pressure on you unconsciously.”

"For example, look at your brother and I. We worked so hard back then and passed our undergraduate course to a university. Now that we finally have a smart younger brother, I don't want you to be admitted to a prestigious university and let your brother tell the truth. Can you be vain? I think so, our parents probably think the same way."

He looked at Xu Chi seriously, "But these are just incidentals. Compared with those false names, of course we want to take your healthy and happy growth as the primary goal. Parents opposed you to become a photographer at the beginning. It’s not because they feel ashamed that you didn’t take the college entrance examination. They are just afraid that the photographer will not be stable, and running around is too hard, so they don’t want you to go this way. They are afraid that you will be old in ten or twenty years. I regret it when I grow up, do you understand?"

Xu Chi listened to the words on the other side, his eye circles turned red again, he lowered his eyes and wiped them with the back of his hand. After a long time, he gave a low "hmm".

"I know you are all for my own good." He said hoarsely, "I don't hate you... What I want to escape, what I hate is always that useless self."

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint you."

"When I was in 'Taoyuan', I had a good time at first, but within a few days, I regretted it. But when I asked to leave at that time, it was already too late. Obviously I committed the crime alone. I'm stupid, but I'm still hurting you, brother, I'm really sorry."

Xu Cheng looked at him for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Xiaochi, can you get out of bed now?"

Xu Chi was stunned, then looked up at him: "What?"

Xu Cheng smiled at him, picked up the car key from the table and shook it: "Do you want to go to my apartment together to pick up your parents? They have been waiting for news from you all night. .”

A tear fell from Xu Chi's eyes, and he raised his hand to wipe his eyes vigorously, then nodded: "Okay."

From here to Xu Cheng's apartment, it was almost eleven o'clock at noon. Xu Fu and Wang Cuihe paced around the room anxiously, checking the time from time to time.

"Hey, old lady, our city...hasn't called yet?" Xu Fushi asked Wang Cuihe, who was holding his mobile phone, with a anxious look on his face.

Wang Cuihe on the other end glared at him: "You've only been asking for a few minutes? You've been wandering around beside me. If you called me, wouldn't you know?"

Xu Fu shook his head and sighed: "Hey, I'm in a panic." He wandered around the living room again, frowning, "It's already noon, should I finish everything? I said, Why don't you call and ask?"

Hearing his words, Wang Cuihe hesitated: "This, isn't it good? What if the phone call I make over there is at a critical time, what should I do? Besides, if it is really over, Chengzi will They will always tell us that it is useless for us to rush here."

Xu Fu thought about it and thought it was right, but he didn't get any news for a while, and his heart continued to burn.

The two continued to wander around the house anxiously. Suddenly, there was a sound of a key opening the door. When they looked outside, they saw Xu Cheng open the door and enter the house.Wang Cuihe was taken aback, and hurried over: "Chengzi, why are you here? Your brother..."

Before she could finish speaking, she crossed Xu Cheng and saw the younger son with a sickly pale face following behind her older son. Her lips trembled, and her voice broke: "Xiaochi!!"

Xu Fu, who was standing in the living room, was taken aback when he heard Wang Cuihe's voice, and then hurried over: "You, you, you..." His voice suddenly choked up, "How are you? "

Hearing the voices of Xu Fu and Wang Cuihe, Xu Chi's heart constricted suddenly. He walked out from behind Xu Cheng, looked up at the two who seemed to be much more haggard than he remembered, his voice choked, and it took him a while to whisper Said: "Dad, Mom, I'm sorry... I made you worry."

As soon as Xu Chi's words came out, Wang Cuihe's tears rolled down immediately. She cried and rushed up to hold her little son in her arms, and patted him with one hand: "Are you really capable? For so many years, you have just quarreled and you are going to run away from home? Woohoo, a good child has become like that after staying outside for more than ten days, you are trying to force your mother to death!"

Xu Chi couldn't help but want to cry when he was crying at the other end, he sniffed, "I'm sorry, Mom." Then he looked up at Xu Fu who was standing a little further away, looking at him with a complicated expression, his lips trembling After a moment, he opened his mouth, "I'm sorry, Dad."

Xu Fu also took a deep breath, waved his hands and turned his back, looking like he was secretly wiping away his tears: "Okay, as long as the person recovers, as long as the person recovers...It's noon, I'll go to the kitchen and make some dishes for you."

With that said, he hurried to the kitchen.

Wang Cuihe let go of Xu Chi, looked back at Xu Fu's back, looked at him with a smile while crying, and said, "Your father is ashamed, he has always been worried about you."

Xu Chi nodded: "I know."

Xu Cheng came over, stretched out his arms and pushed the two of them towards the dining table: "Okay, isn't it a joy that Xiaochi is back, why are you crying?"

Another glance at Wang Cuihe: "Mom, it looks like you didn't rest yesterday, okay, your eyes are black and blue."

Wang Cuihe wiped under her eyes, and smiled embarrassedly: "I'm worried." Looking at Xu Chi again, the nerves that had been tense for several months finally relaxed, and pulled the other end The hand repeated over and over again, "It's good that people come back, it's good that people come back!"

Xu Cheng looked at Wang Cuihe and knew that she probably had a stomach full of things to tell Xu Chi, and after thinking about Xu Chi's situation, he felt that they needed to communicate at this moment, so he simply gave up the time wisely.Facing Wang Cuihe on the opposite side, he said: "Mom, Xiaochi also has something to tell you, you guys talk first, I'll go to the kitchen to help my dad cook and help him."

Saying that, he winked at Xu Chi again, tapped him lightly on the shoulder, walked around the two of them and went to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Xu Fu had already cooked a dish and was putting it on a plate. When he saw Xu Cheng coming in, he handed the dish over and said, "Chengzi, you came just in time. Try this dish that Dad made."

Xu Cheng laughed when he heard the words, and he took the food over: "Dad, there's nothing bad about the food you cook, who doesn't know that you used to..." When you were young, he put a chopstick of food into his mouth, chewed it, The words of praise were stuck in his throat, and he frowned slightly and asked in doubt, "Dad, did you forget to put salt?"

Xu Fu glanced at the dish suspiciously: "Is there not?" He said, took a pair of chopsticks to pick up a little bit, and muttered, "I remember the ones with salt..."

After tasting the sandwiched vegetables, his brows stretched out: "I just said how could I forget to put salt, isn't that just right?" He glanced at Xu Cheng again, and began to chatter, "Chengzi, are you usually here? Eating those heavy oil and salt takeaways outside every day makes the taste heavy? I told you a long time ago that the food cooked at home is the healthiest. You just don’t listen. I’m 32 this year and I don’t want to talk to anyone. The whole day is soaking in the police station, let us worry..."

Xu Cheng couldn't listen to Xu Fu's words, and stared intently at the steaming dish. After a while, he picked up another chopstick and stuffed it into his mouth as if re-validating.

It's not just that there is no salt.

Xu Cheng frowned deeply: Even if it doesn't have the salty taste of salt, at least it should have the taste of the ingredients themselves.

But, nothing.

Putting down the chopsticks, he thought deeply for a while, and then seemed to think of something suddenly, a flash of light flashed through his mind, he was slightly stunned, and then he turned his eyes back to the seductive aroma that was exuding on the food.

——Could it be that... this is the price he paid for saving Xiaochi?Lose your sense of taste?

Xu Cheng sighed deeply, feeling his head hurt a little: But if this is really the case, then the rest of his life will be too miserable, right?