poor magician

Chi Mu was woken up by the sound from the corridor outside the door.

He heard someone running in the corridor, the footsteps were approaching and far away, sometimes light and sometimes heavy.He and Linxue looked at each other, then opened the door and walked out.

He looked around in the corridor, only to see a few students who were alarmed like him and came out to check.Driven by the doubt in his heart, Chi Mu continued to investigate, thinking that he might have gone upstairs or downstairs, thought for a while and walked up the stairs.

He heard the sound of someone running again.

The third floor of the villa is a gathering area for various entertainment rooms, including chess and card rooms, game console rooms and so on.As soon as I went upstairs, I saw a small room full of toys. There were framed paintings hanging in the corridor. Chi Mu didn’t know much about painting, but he still felt that the world shown in the paintings was very vivid and attracted him like a magnet. his gaze.

"Hey—do you like Mom's paintings too?"

An unfamiliar childish voice fell into Chi Mu's ears, and he looked towards the source of the sound, only to see a little girl who looked no more than ten years old standing next to a painting, staring at him expressionlessly look.

"I think...the drawing is very beautiful." Chi Mu slowly approached the girl, "Did your mother draw these?"

"Yes, my mother is very good at drawing, and she is also a very nice person." The girl stretched out her hand to caress a painting beside her, on which was a gray creature. Chi Mu couldn't tell what it was, it looked like a camel but didn't Four-legged, with a red pointed horn on its head.

"You like mom very much, right?" Chi Mu said.

"Mom and Dad like it very much." The girl smiled, "If you have met them, you will think they are very good people."

"May I ask your name?"

"My name is Xiaoyou." The girl turned to Chi Mu, "What about you?"

"I'm Chi Mu." Chi Mu cast his eyes on the painting again, "This is..."

"This is my Pusi." Xiaoyou reached out and took off the painting, holding the frame tightly with both hands, "Pusi is very good, I like it very much. The Pusi drawn by my mother is really beautiful."

Speaking of this, Xiaoyou's hands suddenly trembled uncontrollably, and then became more and more violent, like a malfunctioning machine, her expression also changed, the corners of her mouth began to twitch crazily, and her eyes were firmly fixed on the picture. draw on.

Chi Mu tentatively asked if there was anything wrong, but Xiaoyou didn't answer, and even smashed the painting in his hand to the ground heavily.With the sound of shattering, the glass picture frame became a pile of fragments scattered on the ground.She stepped on the painting a few more times, and then hurried away.

Chi Mu couldn't help but be at a loss watching this scene.He likes but destroys, he can't understand the reason.

He looked at the other paintings and found that they were ordinary landscapes or animals.Going further into the corridor, there are no more paintings on the wall, but a row of nails, as if something had been hung before it was taken down.

Chi Mu couldn't make any guesses.It is rare for him to meet Xiaoyou, a girl who lives here, and decides to tell Fuer the news.

"It's called Xiaoyou. Hmm..." Fuer sat in front of the desk in the room with a thoughtful look on his face, "According to what you said, this Xiaoyou is quite strange. Is she still upstairs?"

"I don't know...she left after smashing the painting."

"I really want to see her." Fuer stood up abruptly, as if interested, "Let's go find her again!"

Chi Mu nodded, and walked out of the room with Fuer, first looked around on the second floor, and found nothing, then went down to the first floor.

"It seems to be on the third floor." Fuer was a little tired and couldn't bear to sit on the sofa to rest, "Wait for us to go up."

Chi Mu waited for Fuer to rest for a while before walking up to the third floor together.The original fragments of the picture frame on the ground have disappeared without a trace, the floor is clean, and only the empty space on the wall tells the traces of just now.

The two looked around on the third floor, opened the doors of every room, and finally saw Xiaoyou beside a mahjong table.She lay down on the ground and checked under the mahjong table, but when she found nothing, she slowly got up from the ground and looked at the two people standing at the door.

Fuer looked at Xiaoyou, his eyes slowly widened, as if his eyeballs were about to jump on Xiaoyou.She spoke slowly with an expression of disbelief: "You are... Shuang Wan..."

Xiaoyou frowned: "It's been a long time since I've heard someone call me by that name." Then he stared at Fuer for a while, "Are you Fuer? I think I remember correctly."

"Yes... why are you alone?"

"Mom and Dad haven't come back yet..." Xiaoyou's eyes seemed to pass through Fuer and fell into the distance, "They will come back... Yes..."

"That's good." Fu'er said with a forced smile.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Chi Mu couldn't help being amazed at the fact that Fu'er and Xiaoyou met, and suddenly a lot of questions came to his mind.

"It's getting late. Fu'er, and Chi Mu, good night." Xiaoyou politely bowed slightly to the two, then walked around them and walked out of the room.

"Senior Fuer knows her?" Chi Mu asked.

"It was a long time ago. I came to the orphanage here with my mother. I played well with her. At that time, her name was Shuang Wan. She got along well with a monster for some reason. It was also renamed Pusi.

"Later she was adopted by a couple, they are the parents she said, and I haven't seen her since then." Fuer said that there seemed to be a flash of emotion in his eyes, but Chi Mu couldn't catch it.

Chi Mu nodded. Fuer also said before that he would come here with his mother as a volunteer. It is not surprising that he would meet a few orphans, but he just happened to be the protagonist of the mission.

The two didn't see any clues, and decided to continue to have in-depth contact with Xiaoyou, while taking a good look around the villa. After that, they said good night to each other and went back to their rooms.

When Chi Mu returned to the room, he saw Linxue looking at the files at the desk, so he didn't bother him, turned around silently, went to the bathroom, took a shower, lay down on the bed and began to think about the task.

Lin Xue stopped working, and seemed to see what he was thinking: "It's only the first day, take your time."

"That girl looks weird no matter what." Chi Mu sighed, "But I don't know what went wrong."

Linxue didn't say anything else, she sat on the edge of the bed and stretched out her hand to gently smooth out Chi Mu's somewhat messy curly hair, then pressed the incandescent light switch by the bedside, and the whole room was plunged into darkness.

"Good night." Linxue slowly lay down next to Chi Mu, "Rest first."

Chi Mu quickly went to Linxue's side and said, "Good night, teacher." As long as he was close to Linxue, he could quickly feel at ease, just like a child in the wind and rain finds support.It seems that as long as this person is by his side, he can sweep away all the fear and confusion in his heart.