The house is money, the story is life

Jing Yao didn't know when the rain ended, just as he didn't know when it started.It started inexplicably, and ended inexplicably, talking to itself, self-righteous, and completely disregarding other people's feelings.

What is said to moisten things in silence, it is so noisy that people can't even sleep well - Jing Yao clenched his fists and curled up in the boundless darkness, feeling the heat in his eye sockets.

I don't know how long it took before he was shaken out of the black cloth and fell to the ground with a "baji".Jing Yao shook his head, got up in a hurry, raised his eyes, and saw a pair of yellow rain boots with duck heads printed on them, and looking up was Xia Shi's condescending face.

Xia Shi was wrapped in a dark blue raincoat, and water was falling down the raincoat.One drop, two drops, it wasn't until the third drop that Jingyao suddenly came back to his senses, and hurriedly turned to look for Xia Shi, but only saw the neat and clean floor.

No hair, no embroidered shoes, everything was laid out as if nothing had happened.Jing Yao was stunned, and asked after a while: "Where's Run'an?"

Xia Shi lifted his hood and looked at him quietly without saying a word.Jing Yao turned around in astonishment, looked around his legs, and saw Zhou Tang who was squatting in the corner, his back was facing Jing Yao, his arms were moving slightly.Seeing that he couldn't ask any questions from Xia Shi, Jing Yao ran towards Zhou Tang, grabbed his clothes and climbed onto his shoulder, and was about to ask a question, when he looked down and saw something in Zhou Tang's hand, he swayed and almost fell off.

In Zhou Tang's hand is a small brush; next to the brush is a small dustpan; inside the dustpan is a pile of jade powder.

"Run'an?" He murmured, his voice trembling.There were also a few small green fragments mixed in that pile of powder, which were dull and dull, and between the fragments was a white broken rope, Jing Yao recognized that this was the one that Runan tore off.

"Jade and stone burn together..." Xia Shi behind him said unhurriedly, walked to the mirror, and played with the rows of scissors, combs, bottles and jars on the table, "I've heard of this, Yuling's unique secret technique, Burn your soul, die together, a suicide spell..."

Picking up a silver comb that fell between the gaps with two fingers, he lowered his eyes: "But it's a pity, it seems that his spells are not very successful."

"Is the spirit haunting Su Xian not killed?" Zhou Tang asked with a frown, stood up, and glanced down at the same time—Jing Yao had quietly landed on the ground at some point, facing him. The powder in the dustpan and the broken rope are in a daze.

"No, she escaped." Xia Shi said lightly, "There was probably some damage...but that's all. After all, it's not my own strength, so the effect must be compromised."

Pulling off the poncho, he put the comb teeth into his pocket, then buried himself in the study of the table in front of the mirror, and opened the drawers one by one: "But I have to say, his decision is quite smart. I'm not sure if When someone comes to rescue them, the power of the wood spirit is their only weapon. And the wood spirit is born to be suppressed by the opponent. With the same power, it will be better if he exerts the effect... And the wood spirit is born and can self-destruct. Recovery, in contrast, even if the damaged Jade Spirit stays, there is only so much he can do, this ending is more suitable for him..."

Before Xia Shi finished speaking, he suddenly heard the wind blowing from the back of his head, and subconsciously moved aside, only to feel something brushing across his cheek.Immediately there was a "pop" sound, and the mirror surface made a sound of shattering. Looking closely, it was a thin piece of wood that was inserted obliquely into the mirror surface, and several cracks spread out on the mirror.

The reflection in the mirror was cut by cracks, and there were still blood stains on the edges of the slightly trembling wood chips.Xia Shi belatedly wiped his face with his thumb, looked down, and saw a touch of red on his finger.

"...Eat those nonsense for me." Jing Yao's muffled voice came from the corner, Xia Shi turned around, and met his cold gaze: "You have no right to say that about him!"

Xia Shi glanced at him, turned his face away, and pulled up his poncho: "I don't know why."

"Yes, it's inexplicable, it's like this to you!" Jing Yao waved his sleeves angrily: "Because you can't understand, and you won't understand! You are just a piece of waste paper, you can only be condescending and self-righteous, and Run'an, at least he always Know where your heart is from the beginning! He is a legend himself, and you, at best, are a collection of pirated stories..."

When he said this, he suddenly stopped.Xia Shi rummaged through the table on his own, pretending that he was losing his mind: "What's wrong?"

"Stories...yes, that's all you want." Jing Yao murmured, his voice suddenly became louder, full of anger, "You just want stories! I understand...you didn't I plan to help! Any help, any hope, is all fake and deceitful. You don’t care who lives and who dies! You just want to promote your story! You just want to make your story more exciting and beautiful! Ha, are you satisfied? You should be satisfied with this development, right? The loyal dog is dead and the trash is alive. You are very satisfied with this ending, right! Don’t you just like sadistic texts? Isn’t this sad enough, ah?”

His face was flushed with anger, and a black cloth suddenly fell from the sky and covered his head.The roar of the wood spirit came to an abrupt end, Zhou Tang rolled up with the cloth and threw it on the sofa, turning around to look at Xia Shi's wound, but was pushed aside by Xia Shi.

Xia Shi stood silently facing the mirror for a while, his fingers still groping among the bottles.Zhou Tang was about to speak when he suddenly saw him turn around and walk towards the sofa, grabbed the black cloth and threw it up.Jing Yao was thrown vigorously, landed on the ground again with a squawk, spread his hands and feet for a while before getting up in a daze, looking at Xia Shi vigilantly: "What do you want?"

Xia Shi tilted his head to look at him, and suddenly stepped on it: "It's nothing, I just think you are ridiculous."

Huge rain boots fell from above, like a falling sky.Jing Yao closed his eyes in disbelief, feeling the heavy water vapor rushing towards his face, but heard a "pop" sound falling on his ears.He opened his eyes in surprise, facing the calm pupils of last summer.Xia Shi reached out to wipe his face, and wiped away the blood oozing from his face: "Okay, we're even."

"Who wants to get even with you!" Jing Yao was stunned for a while, and realized that he had been tricked, and became more and more angry, "What is your expression? You are very proud, aren't you?"

"As you said, I got a very interesting story, why shouldn't I be proud." Xia Shi retracted his foot and squatted on the ground to look at him, "You are right, I like to abuse literature, bloody abuse or something Yes, I like it the most. But unfortunately, I don’t like men and men, and this story is not abused enough.”

Jing Yao's chest rose and fell violently, and he was about to roar again, when Xia Shi suddenly stretched out his right hand, and his slender fingers popped out, between the index finger and middle finger, there was a intact jade bead.Green shimmers flickered on the beads, like breathing and pulsating.

"The half-baked essays are the most embarrassing. If this is the case, it's better to force HE." Xia Shi said, and suddenly withdrew his hand, avoiding Jing Yao's pounce, "And your storytelling is too boring. I don't want to listen to you .”

"Wait, wait a minute!" Jing Yao got up in a panic, staring at Xia Shi's right hand, with a complex expression as if he had been hit on the head by gold, both joy and pain, mixed with disbelief, " Run'an...does this mean it can be fixed? Can you fix him?"

Xia Shi said lightly: "It might be, after all, I'm just a collection of pirated stories."

Jing Yao: "..."

"And." Xia Shi stood up, threw the jade bead upwards, and caught it instantly, "Whether he can live or not, what really depends is your opinion, understand?"

"Ah?" Jing Yao was slightly taken aback, and his expression became tense: "You...what do you need me to do?"

Xia Shi took out a mobile phone and threw it to him, almost smashing him to death: "First, make a call for me."

"……Um?"

half a month later.

Su Xian looked at the vines that climbed to his balcony from the next door, crossed his arms, and felt a little troubled.

She was caught in the rain a while ago, fell seriously ill, had a high fever, and lay in the hospital in a daze for two days, and was taken back to her home by her best friend who heard the news and took care of her. For ten days.It was so hard to finally remember and go home, but as soon as I opened the balcony door, I saw this thing.

Although I don't know how my best friend who I haven't contacted for a long time knows about her hospitalization, Su Xian is still very happy, and his whole body is more relaxed than ever.The only question she couldn't figure out was, why did she get caught in the rain?

I vaguely remember that I went out to do something... but I can't remember what it was.

Su Xian frowned, a pair of black fox eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and he felt as if he was being stared at by something, and this confusion was instantly wiped away.She blinked blankly, and turned her attention back to the plant in front of her again——speaking of this thing, it should be possible to talk about it, right?

At this moment, the doorbell suddenly rang in the living room.

She went to open the door and saw a young man in a black short-sleeved shirt standing at the door, politely: "Hi, I just moved in next door, my name is Mu."

"Hello." Su Xian looked him up and down, "Is there something wrong?"

"Well, it's like this. Although I look relatively ordinary, I'm actually very good at raising flowers and plants, and of course I like it very much. Are plants good for the eyes and good for the body, like vegetables? I’ll make some myself, I think it’s healthier…”

"That." Su Xian interrupted him softly, "I'm sorry, but my family doesn't need a gardener."

"Ah." The young man froze for a moment, waved his hand and said, "I'm not..."

"I don't need food either." Su Xian said apologetically, "I usually don't cook by myself. Even if I do...my grandma lives in the country,"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood, I didn't mean that." The young man quickly explained, "How can someone as excellent as me sell vegetables... I just want to tell you that I grew some peas on the balcony , I accidentally crawled into your house, I hope you don't just talk about it."

"Oh, that's fine. Anyway, I don't usually use the balcony." Su Xian nodded indifferently, and asked again after thinking about it, "Is this thing not inviting bugs?"

"Don't recruit, don't recruit, even if someone else recruits, I will never recruit this one." The young man vowed, "When the beans grow, you can pick them off and eat them yourself, eat them raw when they are tender, and just mix them with cold salad." , you can fry shrimps when they are cooked...and this kind of beans are also called 'Buddha beans', they can keep you safe, very good."

"Well, thank you." Su Xian pulled out a smile.Didn't this man really come to sell homegrown vegetables?

"Okay, it's okay, I'm here to tell you this..." The young man said, taking a step back and waving at Su Xian, "I won't bother you then, I'll go first..."

"Hey, wait!" Su Xian stopped him at this moment, his eyes fell on the young man's wrist, "Your bracelet is so beautiful."

"Ah, you said this." The young man also looked at his wrist, his eyes became gentle, "This is a gift from someone else, a very important person."

"Oh, that's it. So it's a souvenir." Su Xian nodded in understanding, smiled, and stopped asking.The young man also smiled, waved again, turned and ran to his home: "Okay, then I'll go first, goodbye."

Su Xian said goodbye, closed the door, and suddenly remembered that he hadn't asked the other party's name yet.

Forget it, they are all neighbors anyway, let's ask later... Su Xian thought about it, and leaned against the door for a moment.The young man's handsome facial features and well-proportioned figure aroused a strange expectation in her heart. She raised her feet and walked to the balcony to see if there would be flowers blooming.

On the other end, the young man returned home, leaned against the door panel, let out a long breath, and slid down the door panel.He looked down at his wrist, and saw twelve round wooden beads lined up neatly on the brown rope, but there was a small bright green jade bead at the tee.

There was a glimmer of light on the jade bead, and an inch-long figure floated out, stopped on the young man's lap, sat upright, looked up at his face, dressed in blue and white with clean facial features, it gave people a sense of wonder. A very gentle and clean feeling.

The villain's hair is only loosely tied with a wooden hairpin, the hair is like a waterfall, and the wooden hairpin is simple and simple.The young man looked at it for a while, and couldn't help stretching out his index finger to touch his hair. Unexpectedly, the villain disappeared as soon as he touched it.The young man froze for a moment, then turned his fingers to caress the jade bead on his wrist, rubbing it lightly, feeling the familiar coolness.

The cultivation of Wuling is very difficult, it needs chance and more time.But it doesn't matter, he will live for a long, long time, and his Yuling will live for a long, long time. Their time is still very long, so long that even if several decades are allocated to Su Xian, there is still a lot of spare time.

He is willing to wait and can afford to wait.He was waiting for that day to come, waiting for his Jade Spirit to take shape and turn into a human being, and then call him by name.

When that time comes, he'll give him a good beating.

A few days later, it rained heavily.

When Zhou Tang returned to Weiqiu's agency with his body full of moisture, Xia Shi was sitting barefoot on the sofa in the living room, holding a copy of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" in his hands.Zhou Tang put away his umbrella in surprise: "I remember you don't like watching this."

"Well, I didn't like it before." Xia Shi said lightly, "Umbridge really deserves to die."

"Ill?" Zhou Tang smiled, "Suddenly said such childish things."

"Is this very childish?" Xia Shi gave him an unhappy look, "It's just expressing my own feelings. I also want to say long live Dumbledore's Army."

"It's more like being sick." Zhou Tang changed his clothes, sat on the sofa and looked at him, "Aren't you going to talk?"

Xia Shi raised his eyelids and looked at him: "What are you talking about?"

"What happened to you?" Zhou Tang asked.

Xia Shi lowered his eyes: "It's nothing."

"What's the matter. You've changed." Zhou Tang said, "From the day you restored Run'an...no, from the day you absorbed Run'an's story, something has changed in you."

"I was discovered by you." Xia Shi closed the book angrily, "In order to repair the jade spirit, I went back about two years. I was not happy at first, and you still wrote such an ugly story to me... the character is halfway It just collapsed, and the ending was forced to be sensational, but the ending actually let Runan and the others make a triangle? What the hell is this? Rewrite it for me, and write it truthfully."

"I want the end of the story to be something thought-provoking, and at the same time lead the topic to the purity of love and the indulgence of desire... No, I didn't mean that." Zhou Tang snatched the book from his hand , "I mean your state. You watch me talk."

Xia Shi curled up his legs, folded his arms, and looked at Zhou Tang without saying a word.Zhou Tang looked back in silence, after a while, it was Xia Shi who was defeated first.

"I... I don't really know how to say it." Xia Shi lowered his head and fingernails, with an unnatural expression, "I'm always thinking about what Jing Yao said that day."

"Huh?" Zhou Tang remembered, "It's that crazy talk about you manipulating the story..."

"Run'an's story, I was manipulative." Xia Shi interrupted, looking away, "In this regard, he is not wrong, and you know that...but I did this, not Just to get the story."

He paused, curled up his fingers: "'The broken Jade Spirit was forced into the black cloth, squeezed together with his companions, shivering. At this moment, he suddenly realized how small and how small he was. Powerless, how naive and ridiculous it is to gamble your life to protect others.'——This is the ending I envisioned for this story."

Zhou Tang frowned.He faintly understood: "Xia Shi..."

The young man who was called pursed his lips, hesitated for a moment, and continued: "At that time... I thought that Run'an would choose that ending. This is also the ending I hope he chooses. Because I think he is too ridiculous and eye-catching , his life is completely different from mine, so stupid, so passionate, I don't like him like that..."

"This feeling..." Zhou Tang thought for a while, but decided to say it out, "It sounds like jealousy."

Xia Shi stared at him, remained silent for a while, then lowered his face again: "Very well, you have been fired."

"Don't do that." Zhou Tang felt a little funny, "I know what's wrong with you."

He stretched out his hand to press Shang Xia Shi's chest: "It's here that changed this time, right?"

Xia Shi took his hand away impatiently, and said sullenly, "I don't like this."

Zhou Tang: "Huh?"

"It makes me feel ashamed, outrageous, and low." Xia Shi bit his lip, "It forces me to peel off my skin. And based on past experience, it will make me do more stupid things in the future, Very annoying."

Zhou Tang raised his eyebrows with interest: "For example?"

Xia Shi glanced at him: "If one day I ask you for seeds, ignore me. Don't buy a game console. If I have a girlfriend, you will force me to break up."

Zhou Tang laughed loudly and couldn't help touching his head.Xia Shi avoids it in disgust, and can't dodge it, so he simply grabs his hand.After pondering for a while, he said again: "If one day, I tell you that I don't want to die, you don't want to die anymore, you don't want to talk to me, do you understand?"

Zhou Tang froze for a moment, then withdrew his hand: "Well, I see."

"That's enough." Xia Shi nodded, took the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", opened it, and continued to read.

Zhou Tang twitched the corner of his mouth, got up and walked inside.

There is still the temperature of the summer palm between the fingers, with a slight warmth.

He sat down in front of the computer, looked at the blank Word document, hesitated for a long time, finally raised his finger, and tapped on the keyboard hard.