I miss you

On the night of going back, Zhou Jiayu tried to piece together the fragments about Xiaodou into a complete story.

It's just that this story seems to be missing a key page number, and it cannot be concluded.

Zhou Jiayu hesitated, and went to consult Lin Zhushui the next day.However, Lin Zhushui seemed to have known the reason for his visit, so he casually threw a booklet to him and said, "Let's see."

Zhou Jiayu took the information and looked through it, and found that what Lin Zhushui gave him was an edited material from an old newspaper, and all the content in it was related to the family of four who died and Xiaodou.

The two masters of Xiaodou are well-known puppeteers and have won numerous awards in the industry.The two got to know each other because of their dolls, and because of their dolls, their relationship grew stronger and became a matter of course.In the end, they held a grand wedding, and the hostess married the host with the doll.

Zhou Jiayu also found that the relationship between Xiaodou and the hostess seemed unusual, because she could be found in many photos about the hostess in the competition.Probably she looks cute like a doll, standing quietly beside the hostess, she has become a landscape instead.From the time the hostess won the first award to the time she married her beloved, Xiao Doudou was by her side and never left.

Zhou Jiayu saw their wedding photos. They love dolls, so even the wedding is closely related to dolls. They even set up a banquet specially for the dolls brought by the bride.Zhou Jiayu glanced at the old newspaper on this page, and suddenly found something. He counted it carefully, but found that there were indeed only nine dolls sitting at the banquet: "Sir, didn't Xiaodou say, Those who come here as dowry have ten dolls?"

Sitting opposite Zhou Jiayu, Lin Zhushui sipped tea, and said in a calm tone, "Xiaodou is the maid who came over as a dowry, and she is the tenth."

Zhou Jiayu was slightly taken aback, vaguely caught something.He continued to read the contents of the newspaper about the future, but found that some things seemed to be different from what Xiaodou said.

A woman's life after marriage was indeed very happy at first, but gradually, cracks appeared in her and the man's family, and even quarreled in public.

Zhou Jiayu said: "Hey, why can't I see... Xiaodou?" Xiaodou, who used to accompany the hostess like a shadow, disappeared.

Lin Zhushui said, "She's gone."

Zhou Jiayu said, "Gone? Why?"

Lin Zhushui picked up the tea in front of him, took a sip, and told the truth that Zhou Jiayu never expected: "Because, the hostess doesn't need to be a doll anymore."

Zhou Jiayu instantly understood the hidden meaning of this sentence, his eyes widened in disbelief: "You mean...all the dolls are made by Xiaodou?"

Lin Zhushui nodded, and he said: "At that time, only the hostess and Xiaodou knew about it, not even the hostess's husband." Their love was based on their love for the doll, and the hostess in love, naturally She didn't dare to tell her husband about this, and that's why she never made a doll again after she got married.

A real puppeteer will never give up his beloved doll completely because of the family.

Zhou Jiayu tentatively asked, "The master found out...so...arguing with the mistress?"

Lin Zhushui raised his eyebrows: "Although it's just a guess, it's pretty close."

As the married life continued, seeing that the fact that the hostess did not know how to be a doll was about to be exposed, Xiaodou, who had a deep relationship with the hostess, did not want to be a spoiler, and chose to leave cruelly.

Just before leaving, she made the last doll, which was exactly like her, wearing the same clothes and having the same hairstyle as her, and Xiaodou even gave the doll her beloved hairpin that she had worn for many years.

"I'm leaving, don't worry, if I miss me, just look at the doll." ——Zhou Jiayu can even imagine Xiaodou's expression and tone when he said this, he was a little depressed, and said : "But why did that happen in the end?"

Lin Zhushui said: "Probably the hostess of the villa really regarded the doll as Xiaodou."

Zhou Jiayu smiled wryly.

According to the data, after Xiaodou left, the hostess's mental state became more and more unstable. The newspaper said that she was fascinated by dolls, and she even began to be unable to distinguish dolls from real people.Xiaodou, who saw the newspaper, must have already started to prepare to go back, but she didn't expect that she was one step too late.

The noisy children accidentally damaged the mother's favorite doll, and the mother's already unstable spirit completely collapsed, hacking and killing all three people in the house, and finally bathed and changed her clothes, and buried her little bean in great sorrow.

"I know you won't come back." The woman hummed and cried as she knelt among the rose bushes, "I know you won't come back—"

The jigsaw puzzles in the story became a clear line bit by bit, but the most critical link was still missing - what exactly was the doll that Zhou Jiayu saw that killed the mistress.

Before Zhou Jiayu opened his mouth, Lin Zhushui explained his confusion: "Everything has a spirit."

Zhou Jiayu was stunned.

Lin Zhushui said: "When Xiaodou left that villa, all she wanted was to protect that home, and she conveyed this urgency to the dolls she made."

Zhou Jiayu said: "So..."

Lin Zhushui nodded: "The woman who killed her husband and child is no longer the mistress of the family, but has become a brutal intruder."

Zhou Jiayu forced a smile: "Baby, is it really alive?"

Lin Zhushui could hear the fear in Zhou Jiayu's tone, he smiled, his voice was a little soft: "You touched one of them."

Zhou Jiayu: "..." Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony...

Lin Zhushui said: "Come here, Xiaodou said that in order to celebrate your entry into the semi-finals, I have something for you."

Zhou Jiayu thought it must be a doll.

In the end, Lin Zhushui really got up and took out a box more than one meter long from the cabinet behind him: "I don't know what it is."

Zhou Jiayu forced a smile: "Sir..."

Lin Zhushui said: "If you don't want it, return it to Xiaodou yourself."

Zhou Jiayu: "..." How dare he.

He took the doll dejectedly, thanked him lazily, and was about to say goodbye and leave, when Lin Zhushui's voice floated over again, and he said, "I heard that you want to leave the Feng Shui world to take the civil servant examination?"

Zhou Jiayu: "..." Damn it, the monitor has sound!

Lin Zhushui said, "Huh?"

Holding the one-meter-long box, Zhou Jiayu smiled like he was crying: "Sir, I'm just joking. I can't even pass the political trial. How can I go to the civil servant exam?"

Lin Zhushui said, "Oh, you even thought about the political trial?"

Zhou Jiayu: "..." It's over, it's exposed.

Lin Zhushui said: "What if I can pass?"

Zhou Jiayu laughed dryly: "If I can get through...then I won't... go..."

Lin Zhushui said: "Oh."

Zhou Jiayu almost wanted to cry and say, boss, don't make such an expression, I'm really afraid of your expression.

When he finally heard Lin Zhushui's "Let's go", Zhou Jiayu ran out as if he was about to receive an amnesty, hugging his box, and almost bumped into Shen Yiqiong who was going to have lunch as soon as he went out. .

Shen Yiqiong's eyes widened when he saw the things in Zhou Jiayu's arms, and said, "Zhou Jiayu, sir gave you another gift?"

Zhou Jiayu said, "Fart! Xiaodou gave it to me!"

Shen Yiqiong said: "Who is Xiaodou?"

Zhou Jiayu then told Shen Yiqiong the story of his participation in a dark tone.

Shen Yiqiong also felt a little dizzy when he heard it, especially when Zhou Jiayu said that he saw the child hiding under the bed and being pulled out abruptly, he made a stop gesture: "Let's have lunch Let's talk, okay?"

Zhou Jiayu said, "Medium!"

The warm food soothed the two terrified souls. After finishing the story, Shen Yiqiong clamored to see what kind of doll was in the box.

Zhou Jiayu carefully lifted the lid of the box, and found that there was a doll in the box that was almost exactly the same as him, except that the doll was much smaller and looked like a shrunken version of himself.

Zhou Jiayu was shocked: "Your doll is so delicate, how long will it take to make it?"

Shen Yiqiong said: "...It will take more than a week to work overtime."

Zhou Jiayu said, "So Xiaodou should have known me a long time ago?" He fell into deep thought.

Shen Yiqiong was also full of surprises. He originally thought about the supernatural, but Zhou Jiayu said: "It turns out that Mr. has paved the way for me early on. Mr., you are really a good man."

Shen Yiqiong: "..."

Zhou Jiayu said: "I will never say Xu Ruhuang cheated again."

Shen Yiqiong: "..." He didn't say anything, and lowered his head to plan the rice.

As a former party member, Zhou Jiayu's way of thinking is always so strange and full of scientific taste.Most people think of a fateful encounter when they see this doll, but he very realistically thinks that Lin Zhushui ordered Xiaodou ahead of time... which paved the way for him to win the game.

Although Shen Yiqiong had everything he wanted to say in his heart, he couldn't say it when he looked at Zhou Jiayu's face.

After the competition, the identities of the ten contestants will be formulated on the Internet.Of course, it must be the internal website of the competition association.

Zhou Jiayu was bored, so he and Shen Yiqiong went to a nearby black Internet cafe to browse the Internet.Then he found out that this website is so amazing, there is actually a video of the game, and below the video is a buzzing comment area.

Zhou Jiayu curiously clicked on the number one video.This video seems to be a wonderful clip of the contestants. Zhou Jiayu also saw Xu Ruwang. Xu Ruwang was really strong and seemed to be the first to find the doll.When he appeared, the bullet screens on the video instantly increased, most of them were exaggerating Xu Ruhuang's strength, and some bullet screens painted peach hearts to express their feelings.

Zhou Jiayu said: "Is Xu Ruwang so popular?"

Shen Yiqiong was playing games next to him, and upon hearing the words, he disdainfully said: "Him? He's a fart, so I won't mention our master, my senior brother can crush him too."

Zhou Jiayu hadn't met Mu Si yet, so he was a little curious about the senior brother Zhou Jiayu was talking about, and said, "Really?"

Shen Yiqiong said: "That's right, he was almost kidnapped by his admirers during the finals that year."

Zhou Jiayu: "..." I didn't expect that your profession would be so dangerous.

Zhou Jiayu asked curiously again: "What about Mr. Lin? His anger..."

Shen Yiqiong said: "This website dare not post Mr.'s video."

Zhou Jiayu said, "Why?"

Shen Yiqiong said: "Let's let it go, the server was down and it was uploaded to the external network."

Zhou Jiayu: "..."

Shen Yiqiong sighed: "This is also a good thing, Mr.'s beauty, only we can see."

Zhou Jiayu thought there was something you could say in front of your husband.

After Xu Ruwang, there were several other contestants. Zhou Jiayu watched with relish, and was sometimes amused by the funny barrage. However, this good mood was completely gone when he saw the clip about himself.

On the screen, he stepped on a hairpin, then curled up on the stairs, crying secretly.There was a moment of silence in the bullet screen, and then it suddenly exploded, everyone was reading "Fuck, who is this?" "Anyone also entered? Can you enter after a night's sleep?" All kinds of things...

But soon there was a bullet screen to clarify the confusion for others, saying that you don't know each other?This is Lin Zhushui's disciple, No. 1 in the preliminary round, the immortal genius who drove out the emperor green!

Zhou Jiayu blushed halfway when he saw this barrage, and silently dragged the speed bar.

As a result, the bullet screen at the back was misled like this, saying, "So that's how it is, he is Mr. Lin's disciple, so this action must have a deep meaning. Look at the gesture of covering his face, does it seem like he is forming a seal. "

Zhou Jiayu: "..." He just had a headache, thank you.

With complicated emotions like this, Zhou Jiayu finished watching the video, and then found out in despair that the second video on the rankings was actually about him and Lu Ru'an competing alone.In that video, he was very weak again and almost fainted, but this time someone with knowledge saw the way and typed the word "empathy" in words.

But Zhou Jiayu didn't really understand these things, so he just read the beginning and then turned it off embarrassingly.

Shen Yiqiong yelled at the side: "What are you doing after shutting it down, keep watching, I still want to see how you kill Lu Ruan!"

Zhou Jiayu: "..." You and Jiba must have a lot in common.

In the end Zhou Jiayu refused to open it. Shen Yiqiong opened the video and watched it with gusto. He also commented on it while watching it, saying, "Jiayu, you performed well, you are very in-depth..."

Zhou Jiayu: "Where is the depth?"

Shen Yiqiong laughed and said, "Tears have depth."

Zhou Jiayu: "..." Please stop talking, thank you.

In fact, Zhou Jiayu was not the first to cry during the competition, but the others were all scared. He was forced to empathize. This explanation seems to be a lot more forceful, and finally it is not so embarrassing.

According to Shen Yiqiong, the content on this website cannot be made public. It is estimated that Lu Ru'an, who challenged Zhou Jiayu, came across this website by accident. In addition, he has some talents, so he is miraculously self-taught. Made it to the playoffs.

Zhou Jiayu remembered what Xiaodou said again, ten years of hard work is not as good as someone else's flash of inspiration.

After watching the video, the two slowly returned to the hotel.

The next day, Zhou Jiayu learned that the semi-finals were half a month later, and the venue was not in Yunnan, so Lin Zhushui had already booked a return ticket and was about to leave in the afternoon.

Yang Mian was very reluctant to part with the two of them, and said that he had the opportunity to drink together again.

Zhou Jiayu and Shen Yiqiong looked at each other, forced a smile on their faces, but what they were thinking about was the unfinished talisman...

After half a month, they returned to their residence, and the other three who went out to run errands have not returned yet.

When Zhou Jiayu got home, he made some food casually, and ate it with Shen Yiqiong.

Zhou Jiayu said, "Where will the semi-finals be?"

Shen Yiqiong mumbled his noodles and said vaguely: "According to the usual practice, if there are fewer people in the preliminaries and semi-finals, then at least one of the semi-finals and finals will be in a place with a lot of people."

Zhou Jiayu said: "A place with a lot of people...could it be considered a horoscope?"

Shen Yiqiong said: "Hey, don't tell me, one year it was really a horoscope, but it was much more difficult than a horoscope, and it was not easy to pick out five starving people out of a hundred people. "

Zhou Jiayu said: "Hungry for life?"

Shen Yiqiong said: "A saying in the Book of Changes, in layman's terms, is that people born between May [-]th and August [-]th."

Zhou Jiayu felt that if this kind of question really came up, he would probably have abstained on the spot.

Shen Yiqiong said: "But don't worry, there's still half a month left, sir won't just let you take the exam naked."

Zhou Jiayu thought to himself after hearing this, but he had already passed the preliminary and knockout rounds naked.

But Shen Yiqiong's guess was right. On the second day after he came back, Lin Zhushui passed by and asked Zhou Jiayu to go to his residence every afternoon.

Zhou Jiayu cautiously asked what he was doing.

Lin Zhushui said lightly, "I won't eat you up."

Zhou Jiayu said: "Hahahaha, Mister really knows how to joke, Mr. is so nice, how could he eat me up?"

Lin Zhushui slightly raised his eyebrows when he heard the phrase "Sir, you are so nice", but he didn't know what he thought of.

Shen Yiqiong was listening to the conversation between the two, and after Lin Zhushui left, he expressed shock and regret at Zhou Jiayu's dog-legged behavior.

After Lin Zhushui left, Zhou Jiayu said angrily: "Shen Yiqiong, if it were you, I guarantee you will be better than me."

Shen Yiqiong said: "How is it possible..."

Zhou Jiayu said, "What would you do if Mr. told you to go there every afternoon?"

Shen Yiqiong thought for a while: "Bathe and change clothes every day, eat vegetarian food and burn incense..."

Zhou Jiayu left without saying a word.

Shen Yiqiong still said behind him: "That can't be said that I'm a dog, I'm stubborn in front of my husband!"

Zhou Jiayu thought to himself, is your attitude tough or where is it?Be careful where you shouldn't be hard, and you will never be hard again for the rest of your life.

But quarrels belong to quarrels, and what should be done still has to be done.

On the first day of going to Lin Zhushui's residence, after serious thinking, Zhou Jiayu really went to take a serious bath and burn two sticks of incense.

Shen Yiqiong ate chicken legs on the first floor, telling him to go early and return early.

Zhou Jiayu didn't speak, but kept a serious expression, and stepped out of the room.

In August, midsummer is here.Cicadas chirped tirelessly on the treetops, and the lush canopy cast mottled shadows.

Zhou Jiayu walked along the stone path, according to the map Shen Yiqiong drew for him, and after a few minutes, he saw Lin Zhushui's residence.

He was inexplicably nervous, and entered the garden cautiously, wiped his sweaty palms before knocking on the door.

"Come in." Lin Zhushui's voice came.

Zhou Jiayu took a deep breath, and slowly pushed the door open.

In the living room, Lin Zhushui was sitting in the backlight. He seemed to be playing with something in his hand, when he heard Zhou Jiayu's footsteps entering, he said slowly, "Come."

Zhou Jiayu walked over and sat down beside Lin Zhushui.

Lin Zhushui said: "From today onwards, I will personally teach you the basics of Fengshui, you should study hard."

Zhou Jiayu said reverently, "Okay, sir."

Lin Zhushui said: "Feng Shui has been passed down for thousands of years, and there are countless calculation methods. The compass is one of them, but relying on external forces is not the right way." He casually took a compass that was placed next to him, and handed it to Zhou Jiayu, "Especially for someone with a special physique like you."

Zhou Jiayu took the compass, and was surprised to find that the pointer on the compass was spinning wildly, as if encountering an unrecognizable magnetic field, and couldn't stop for a moment, let alone use it.

"The method of flying stars in nine palaces is the most basic and most important method in Fengshui calculation." Lin Zhushui said, "The right hand."

Zhou Jiayu gave birth to his right hand carefully, but Lin Zhushui actually held him gently.Lin Zhushui's skin was indeed much colder than ordinary people's. In this scorching summer, it looked like a piece of cool jade. He gently squeezed Zhou Jiayu's palm, and placed his index finger, middle finger and ring finger side by side. together.

"Each finger has three knuckles, and if they are arranged side by side, they can form the Nine Palaces." Lin Zhushui said slowly, "The flying stars in the Nine Palaces have a fixed order, there is no rule, you can only memorize it by rote, I will draw it once, you Try to remember."

As he spoke, he gently stroked Zhou Jiayu's fingers with his fingertips.Zhou Jiayu didn't dare to distract himself, and focused on watching Lin Zhushui's movements.

I don't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that there was a wave of heat, following Lin Zhushui's movements, pouring into his body along his arms.The heat was very gentle, and Zhou Jiayu felt very comfortable.

"Do you remember?" Lin Zhushui asked after drawing three times.

Zhou Jiayu nodded obediently: "I almost remember it."

Lin Zhushui said: "This is the method of calculating the good and bad luck of the stars..." He also talked about the good and bad luck of the nine stars and seven attributes, what is the nine luck, and the 20 years they each control.

It has to be said that compared with Ji Ba's teachings, Lin Zhushui is obviously more experienced, and even many ignorant things that Zhou Jiayu learned, he only explained Zhou Jiayu's confusion with a half-word.

Unknowingly, an afternoon that Zhou Jiayu thought would be very difficult, just passed away.

When Lin Zhushui said, it's getting late, let's go back, Zhou Jiayu was still a little reluctant, he hesitated for a moment, and wanted to whisper: "Sir, come over for dinner, they brought fresh fish over today ..."

Lin Zhushui smiled, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Zhou Jiayu bit the bullet and lied: "Haha, I've never been afraid."

Lin Zhushui said: "It started shaking again."

Zhou Jiayu's face was embarrassed by Lin Zhushui's point.

"Go." Lin Zhushui said, "I'll come later."

With Lin Zhushui's consent, Zhou Jiayu suppressed the excitement in his heart, went out of the room and trotted back humming a song.

Seeing him coming back, Shen Yiqiong's eyes were full of joy, and he said in horror: "What did the master give you again?"

Zhou Jiayu said, "No."

Shen Yiqiong said: "Then what are you so happy for?"

Zhou Jiayu said shamelessly: "Mister took my hand and taught me the Nine Palaces Flying Star!"

Shen Yiqiong was breathless when he heard the words, tears almost came down: "Do you know what my husband taught me back then..."

Zhou Jiayu said, "How to teach?"

Shen Yiqiong howled: "Take a stick—one meter away from me—"

Zhou Jiayu said pitifully: "Hey, don't cry, let's eat fish tonight."

Shen Yiqiong still stared at Zhou Jiayu angrily, muttering that he was not as good as Zhou Jiayu in any way, was his skin not as white as Zhou Jiayu's?But his chocolate color is inherited from his father!

Zhou Jiayu patted him on the shoulder: "Don't think about it, Mister can't see you in black and white, maybe it's my unique temperament, like a firefly in the dark night, that has attracted Mister's attention..."

Shen Yiqiong glared at Zhou Jiayu, that expression was obviously saying that Zhou Jiayu was really shameless.

The author has something to say: Lin Zhushui: Do you want me to teach you with a stick?

Zhou Jiayu: Uh...don't...ahah...