The days when I was forced to be a magic stick

"The weather changes as you say, the sun was still rising just now." Someone complained.

"Yan An, how did you know it was going to rain?" Ling Fei asked curiously, remembering the strange behavior of Yan An squatting beside the ancient well just now, the more he looked at him, the more mysterious he seemed.

Others looked at him inquiringly, Yan An looked calm, "I read the weather forecast."

Everyone:  …

Xu Linyuan couldn't help laughing, Yan Er is really too bad.

The return journey was quicker than they had come, but the rain still fell on the way, and they were only a third of the way by this time.

Bean-sized raindrops hit the ground, splashing mist and dust.

Tang Ying said, "No, it's raining too much. Let's hide in the house and wait for the driver to come."

The driver didn't arrive, and they could only wait in the rain when they reached the door. It's better to find a house to hide from the rain first, maybe the rain will subside after a while.

This proposal was passed unanimously, only Xu Linyuan looked at Yan An worriedly.

Yan An shook his head at him, they have entered the territory of Li Gui, and it doesn't matter where they are.

Everyone walked towards the nearest room, but to their disappointment, several adjacent rooms could not be pushed open, as if they were locked from the inside.

"What's the matter, the door can't be opened." Several boys slammed on the door hard, and the door made a creaking sound, shaking up a pile of dust, but they couldn't push it open.

"Perhaps these rooms were locked and unused before they were abandoned." Su Wen felt sorry for the violent treatment of these ancient buildings, but now she can't take care of these, the rain is really too heavy.

The sky seemed to have been pierced with a big hole, and the Tianhe River poured out from this hole, and the raindrops hit the ground densely, and the splashed water mist made Tinglan Garden foggy.

The rain was too loud, and he had to roar when talking. Ling Fei led a few boys, "You guys hide here first, let's go and see other rooms."

They couldn't get into the room, so they could only stand under the eaves. Although it couldn't block too much rain, it was better than standing directly under the rain.

Everyone's clothes are basically wet.

While the phone was still working, Tang Ying called the driver again, turned off the phone, and comforted everyone, "Don't worry, the driver said he's almost here."

"Go a little further and there is a room!" Ling Fei came back in the rain to inform everyone.

Everyone shifted their positions and went to the room to hide from the rain under Ling Fei's leadership.

That place is not a room, but a small two-story attic built in the middle of the lake.

"Xu Linyuan, Yan An! Come in quickly, why are you standing outside!" Tang Ying shouted under the eaves.

"Does this place look familiar to you?" Standing on the wooden bridge leading to the center of the lake, Yan An asked Xu Linyuan who was beside him. He was drenched all over, but he was not in a hurry.

Xu Linyuan looked around, and finally set his sights on Sanchakou not far away, "Here..."

Here they have been.It was at that fork, a girl said to see others, the location of this lake was the direction of the girl's finger.

They thought they were other tourists at the time, but after thinking about it, they couldn’t make sense. If they were tourists, why did they disappear all of a sudden?

From the time the girl screamed to when they looked at this position, it took no more than three seconds before and after. The field of vision here is wide, who can walk out of their sight within three seconds?

"We circled back?"

Seeing Xu Linyuan frown his thick eyebrows, Yan An's lips curled up, "Yes."

"I can still laugh, it seems that I am worried for nothing."

"I just remembered one thing we have been ignoring," he said as the two walked towards the attic in the middle of the lake together, "If the ghosts have been suppressed by the formation set up by the celestial master, why would the residents of the ancient town have a ghost before twelve o'clock?" What about the rules that you have to go home?"

"You mean that strange word of mouth rule was summed up by the residents of the ancient town before Li Gui was subdued?"

"It's very possible." Stepping into the attic area, he lifted up his clothes and wrung the water from his hem, "So let's not mess with other things and just leave before midnight."

"But......"

"Huh?" Yan An raised his head, and when the man was still hesitant, he followed Xu Linyuan's gaze and turned his head.

Standing behind him was a man in a white robe, with loose long hair, an elegant face, and a tall and well-proportioned figure.

"Hello." Said a pleasant male voice.

"You are also Hao Cong's friends, right? Go in and enjoy the fire, I'll make some ginger soup for you."

With a gentle smile on the corners of the man's lips, he nodded slightly to the two of them, then propped up the bamboo umbrella in his hand, and stepped into the vast rain and fog outside.

A bit of quiet fragrance floats from the tip of the nose.

Someone once praised Yan An as a nobleman who walked out of an ancient painting, but when he saw this man, he realized that he was not even one ten thousandth as good as him.

The kind of ancient rhyme and indifference that came out of his bones were not found in him.

"Isn't Lan Ting beautiful?" Tang Ying came over at some point, watching the man's back gradually disappear in the rain with them.

It is not appropriate for a man to describe it as beautiful, but when he sees this man's face, the first reaction that comes to mind is beauty.

Xu Linyuan looked serious, "Don't you think it's strange that this person appears here?" If Yan An didn't say anything, he would have suspected that this person was a ghost.

"It's very strange." Tang Ying led them in, "But Lanting just told us that his ancestors are from here, and he only came back here in the past two years. This is his home."

"Tinglan Court belongs to his family?"

"Well, I have to say that his house is really big. He said that he has no relatives and wants to settle here, but Tinglan Court is too big, so he just cleared out this small attic in the middle of the lake to live in."

"That's right, because it's too big, he didn't even know we sneaked in." A girl said, she meant the one with other people, "The person I saw before should be Lan Ting."

She stuck out her tongue, a little embarrassed, it was so embarrassing to mistake a big man for a woman.

It's okay if the girls don't say it's him, but when Xu Linyuan talks about it, he thinks of Yan An's analysis just now, can people disappear from their sight in three seconds?

Yan An pulled him behind him, not letting him speak, "I heard he said he knew Luo Haocong?"

His eyes searched for Luo Haocong's figure among the crowd around the fire, and he found it.

Hearing Yan An's words, Luo Haocong, who lowered his head, trembled.

"Huh? Is that so?" Everyone was surprised, "So we were able to hide from the rain or did we get the credit of Luo Haocong?"

Ling Fei pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "Oh, isn't it us men who are weather-beaten?"

When everyone was playing around, Luo Haocong remained silent, and Yan An casually sat beside him, "Squad leader, call the driver again."

Xu Linyuan is always the one who compliments Yan An's words the most, "That's right, didn't you say you'll be there soon? How long has it been?"

"Then let me ask again." Tang Ying took out her mobile phone. It was rained just now, but luckily it still works. The other speakers couldn't help but lower their voices.

After calling several times, there was always a notification that no one answered. Tang Ying said to everyone worriedly, "No one answered."

Although Yan An suggested the call, he didn't pay attention to the result. He looked at Luo Haocong beside him, to be precise, his neck.

The hickey left in the morning is now more and more obvious.

"Do you know him?" he asked softly.

Luo Haocong moved to the side.

"You don't know him, but you met him this morning." The other party suddenly raised his head, he chuckled, and his eyes fell on a point above his collarbone, "What happened."

Luo Haocong pursed his lips, stared at Yan An for a while, got up and walked to another place.

Yan An followed behind the other party, they moved naturally, no one noticed them.

Luo Haocong stopped in front of a window, which was propped open by a wooden stick, and the lake surface was covered with a thin layer of mist.

"When you were at Gujing, you were not looking at the carvings on it, were you?" he said after a moment of silence.

Yan An replied very straightforwardly, "It's a carving. But what I pay attention to is the formation on it and the talisman paper."

"Then do you believe in ghosts in the world?"

Yan An narrowed his eyes, "Who do you think is the ghost? Lan Ting?"

However, Luo Haocong's answer surprised him, the other party denied it without any doubt after hesitating, "No, it can't be him."

It's not him, it's who.

Yan An noticed that when he mentioned Lan Ting's name, the other party was very contradictory, and his body was resisting, but his eyes were opposite.

"What the hell happened this morning?"

"I went shopping in the town in the morning, and met Hao Cong who was walking."

Along with the sound came a burst of elegant aroma, Lan Ting stood behind the two with a smile, "The ginger soup is ready, go and drink it while it's hot."

When his eyes fell on Luo Haocong, he became even more gentle. Although Luo Haocong lowered his head to avoid the other party's sight, he couldn't hide his red ears.

Seeing this situation, Yan An gradually frowned.

"Wait, don't drink." Xu Linyuan's voice interrupted his thoughts, "Yan'er, come quickly."

"What's wrong."

"You drink first." He held up a bowl of ginger soup and handed it to Yan An, blinking and winking.

Yan An understood, took the soup and drank it down, and told him with actions that the ginger soup was fine.

"Okay, you can drink now."

Tang Ying rolled her eyes towards the sky, "Xu Linyuan, tell me, do you have some ulterior motives for Yan An? I'm afraid we'll finish the ginger soup or something."

Xu Linyuan grinned with white teeth.

The others laughed, and the slight dissatisfaction caused by being stopped by Xu Linyuan just now disappeared.

"Is the phone connected?" Yan An took the time to ask.

Tang Ying shook her head, "There is still no answer."

A girl interjected, "What are you afraid of? Anyway, Lan Ting's family is so big that we can live in just a few rooms."

"No!" Lan Ting, who had always been gentle with others, suddenly refused sharply.

Everyone present was stunned, and their voices stopped.

Realizing that his tone was too serious, Lan Ting smiled apologetically, "Sorry, I also want to keep you guys here, but the other rooms are not cleaned up."

"Don't mind, they were joking." Tang Ying was also embarrassed.

Lan Ting smiled very quietly, showing no signs of anger, coupled with his magnificent face, it made people blush and heartbeat.

"Do you have friends anywhere else?"

"What?" Because of this sentence, Tang Ying counted the number of people again, "They are all here."

"Ah," Lan Ting walked to the door, "someone is here."

Because of the heavy rain, the water in the lake rose, leaving only a little bridge over the water.On the other side of the bridge stood a man holding an umbrella.

His figure was very familiar, and Yan An recognized it at a glance, it was Gu Xuechen.

Gu Xuechen also saw Yan An, and quickly walked across the bridge deck with an umbrella in hand, only Lan Ting, who was dressed in a special way, made him take another look.

"Why is Mr. Gu here?" Yan An spoke first, and pulled him into the room.

Even though he was holding an umbrella, Gu Xuechen's trousers were completely soaked, "No one answered your phone. I heard you said you would come here this morning, so I came to see you."

Yan An's expression was complicated. If he wasn't here, would Gu Xuechen plan to search the entire Tinglan Garden with an umbrella?

"You haven't dried your hair?" He frowned and stroked Yan An's wet hair.

"It's all wet." Yan An hid uncomfortably, and then looked at the other party's emotions as if remembering something.

Gu Xuechen's eyes were calm, "Let's talk when we get in the car, I brought you a change of clothes in the car."

What he said was natural, and everyone only thought that he and Yan An were good friends.

Only Xu Linyuan looked suspicious, his eyes sweeping back and forth between the two of them.Didn't this person only meet Yan'er during the summer vacation?

When did you become so familiar.

"Well, hello Gu Xian,"

"Gu Xuechen."

Tang Ying laughed dryly, she couldn't just call her by name, "Excuse me, did you see any other cars on the road?"

Logically speaking, the big brothers of the drivers should have arrived long ago. This place is remote, so they will meet on the road.

"Well, at the door."

"Wow, that's great." Everyone cheered.

What Gu Xuechen didn't finish was that what he saw were three cars circling Tinglan Garden, and it was precisely because of this that he knew that this place was unusual, so he specially put on the talisman drawn by Yan An before entering.

He glanced at the man dressed in an ancient style, and Lan Ting smiled at him friendly.

"Huh? Do you think the rain outside has become smaller?"

"Let's go quickly, in case it rains again later."

Everyone bid farewell to Lan Ting.

"Welcome to play next time." He warmly extended the invitation, but his eyes were on Luo Haocong.

No one found out.

Because Lan Ting lent them a house to shelter them from the rain, everyone had a good impression of him, and they all responded, "Okay, pick another day when it doesn't rain."

"If you come to City B, we will show you around City B!"

Everyone passed the wooden bridge one after another, Yan An looked back, and Lan Ting watched them leave with a smile on his face.

Clothes, very clean.