The Haunted

After Xu Jiang finished eating, he remembered what Chi Yan told him on the phone last time: "Chi Yan, your aunt still wants to introduce her niece to you?"

"En," Chi Yan nodded, "and this time my uncle also nodded and told me to go back and meet, so it's not easy to shirk." After all, he only had his uncle as his relative, and luckily he couldn't take time off due to his busy work recently. If you push it with an excuse, my uncle will definitely ask him to go back to visit the graves of his grandparents and offer incense during the Chinese New Year, and it will be difficult to push it again.

His uncle and aunt met when they were working. Compared with his uncle's and his aunt's family, the conditions are relatively average.Chi Yan has a house, deposits, and shares in his uncle's company. He is not bad in appearance. His aunt has been trying to match him with his niece. At first, Uncle Chi Yan was a little down on the conditions of this niece, thinking that she was not good enough for Chi Yan. Yan did not express his position until later, seeing that Chi Yan had not talked about friends for a long time, and there was no sign of it. He felt that as the only elder, he should take care of him, but he was always incited by his wife, so he came forward and vaguely asked Chi Yan to come back. See you, see if you are compatible, and if you are not compatible, then calculate.

Xu Jiang said: "It's nothing if you go back and have a look. We are old and young, so we should think about it, but you can't listen to your aunt's arrangement. Now let's see if you are a good match. Next year, you will try everywhere. In two years, it has become 'I don't think you should be picky, your sister Lin is fine, let's get the certificate some day', do you think it's unfair?"

Chi Yan didn't speak, just listened to Xu Jiang continue: "But I also know that I don't blame you, you haven't met a creature of the opposite sex in your working environment for three years. How about this, let me introduce you to two elementary school girls. The day before yesterday I Junior sister saw our group photo in high school and praised you for being handsome, I joked that I introduced you to each other, and junior sister didn't say badly."

Chi Yan thought to himself that males are full of masculinity and suppress ghosts. When he chose a school and a major in college, he deliberately chose the famous monk department of a polytechnic university with a male-to-female ratio of eight to one. Naturally, there are more male jobs than female jobs after graduation.Xu Jiang was different. Dr. Xu majored in sociology, and his college only chose one of three majors. Xu Jiang said that even if he was disfigured, he could lie down and win.

Chi Yan had been living in fear for more than 20 years before, always feeling precarious, even his own life was in question, and he had never considered the issue of marrying a wife and having children. He had also met girls who vaguely showed affection for him, but he always wanted to Even if they were together, they would cause trouble for no reason, and they would be alienated without any trace.He has spent most of his life dealing with things that are not human, and has little experience in interpersonal communication and relationship issues. Now that Xu Jiang said this, he felt that what he said was very reasonable.Uncle is also worried that he is alone, if he can find someone he likes, he will definitely not force him to go back for a blind date.With the blessing of the ashes of Young Master Ye San, his life is safe for the time being, so should he also plan to live a normal life?

After weighing it carefully, he nodded to Xu Jiang.

When Xu Jiang saw that Chi Yan was willing to let him introduce a friend to him, he felt as flattered as if a cycad tree was blooming, and he thought to himself when did Lao Chi become enlightened.He was also very quick in action. On Wednesday, he called Chi Yan and said that he had booked a restaurant for Sunday noon, and he would bring the two junior sisters over in the name of inviting them to dinner and looking for friends to accompany them, and introduced them to each other.

Chi Yan had nothing to do on Saturday, thinking that he didn't have to cook together at noon on Sunday and was too lazy to go out to buy vegetables, so he ate instant noodles for lunch, and offered a small bowl to Ye Yingzhi's tablet as usual.I was hungry early in the afternoon, so I called for takeaway from a nearby restaurant that I often eat.

He called at five o'clock, and it was already seven o'clock when the takeaway was delivered. The orange color outside the window was rendering the distant sky, and the sky had already darkened.Chi Yan was cleaning the house, when he heard the knock on the door, he guessed that it was food delivery, so he hurried to open the door.He opened the door a crack, just wide enough for the delivery man to pass in the food, Chi Yan took the food and thanked him, the other party nodded and left.Chi Yan vaguely saw that the other party was wearing black clothes similar to long down jackets, wrapping himself tightly.

Carrying the meal back to the living room and putting it on the dining table, Chi Yan realized something was wrong. He often ordered takeout from this restaurant, and he knew that his package was not like this, not even any other restaurant would package takeout like this ——The poor-quality white paper silk flowers pasted on it made this meal more like a sacrifice or an offering.

Chi Yan's heart felt a little cold, and he turned his head to look at Ye Yingzhi's memorial tablet, and after paying his respects, he lost his appetite and mood for eating.He didn't open the lunch box with paper flowers and tapes on it, but put it back in a plastic bag and carried it to the door. He took out his mobile phone and tried to call the store to ask what went wrong—for him It is said that this move is not so much for rights protection, as it is for peace of mind.

He took out his mobile phone and found that there was no signal. Recently, the base station of the operator in this area has always had problems, and there was no signal for a short time from time to time, but the reality of being unable to contact the outside world at this time made Chi Yan feel anxious.

The sky was completely dark, and the indoor vision had become blurred.Chi Yan went to the door and turned on the living room light, but the white light did not bring any warmth.

At this time, there was another rhythmic knock on the door.

Chi Yan's heart suddenly missed a beat.He frowned, opened the wooden door inside, and looked out through the peephole on the anti-theft door—but saw no one.In the field of vision is a bluish-white patch, faintly tinged with bloodshot red.

He didn't react at first, and looked at it for ten seconds, and then suddenly realized what it was—that thing was also looking in.

Chi Yan was so frightened that he hurriedly took two steps back and almost fell to the ground.Then he quickly closed the inner wooden door firmly, locked it twice twice, quickly left the hallway and ran back to the living room, his face turned pale, and his lips trembled unconsciously.

The knock on the door was still ringing rhythmically, as if it was tireless, but to Chi Yan's ears it was like a reminder of death.

He didn't stabilize his mind until he ran to the altar, touched the porcelain vase on his chest, stared at the tablet with "Ye Shi's Spirit of Welcoming" in a daze, as if he was thinking about something.

The knocking on the door became louder, as if the door was about to be knocked into pieces.It was strange that there was such a loud voice, but none of the neighbors protested or responded at all.

Chi Yan took out his cell phone with a pale face, but there was still no signal, neither cell phone signal nor wireless signal.

Hearing the knock on the door, he swallowed his saliva, then grabbed Ye Yingzhi's memorial tablet and hugged it in his arms, got into the bedroom, locked the bedroom door firmly, and moved the bedside table against the door At the same time, he did not forget to take out the Lingyu that he had neglected for a long time from the drawer of the bedside table and hold it in his hand.

He didn't dare to open the window, so all he could do was shake off the quilt and cover his body, hold the spirit jade in his left hand, hold Ye Yingzhi's tablet in his arms, stare at the bedroom door, and listen carefully to the noise outside the door. sound.

There was a "squeak", the sound of the outer door opening.

Chi Yan thought vaguely, he had clearly locked the doors.

There was no sound of footsteps, but Chi Yan felt that the thing seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then moved towards the bedroom.

He was completely frightened, goosebumps came out layer by layer, and his whole body was shaking.Although there were ghosts trying to murder him and push him down the stairs when he was very young, it was the first time that he felt the imminent and predictable fear of that thing so clearly.He vaguely remembered the folklore that his grandmother had told him - don't open the door to strangers, don't invite strangers home casually, those things only need to be opened once when you knock on the door, and knock again next time It can come in when you don't need to open it.

That's why he subconsciously got into the bedroom and blocked the bedroom door.Hopefully this can be defaulted to two spaces, two doors.

The methodical knock on the door sounded outside the bedroom, so close that it seemed to be right next to his ears.

Chi Yan didn't even dare to look at it, and directly covered himself with the quilt, as if he could completely hide himself in this way, pretending not to exist.He hugged Ye Yingzhi's tablet and pressed it to his chest, his whole body was trembling, and tears had flowed down his face unconsciously.The mouth kept subconsciously murmuring: "Third Young Master, Mr. Ye, Ye Yingzhi, Yingzhi...help me, please...Yingzhi, save me...Yingzhi, Yingzhi, Ye Yingzhi ……Please……"

Whispering to the end, he couldn't hide the crying in his voice.

When watching a horror movie, I feel that the character who wraps himself in a quilt and tries to escape when danger comes is silly, only to realize that this is just the most instinctive reaction of a person.

Chi Yan hugged the memorial tablet tremblingly, as if he was hugging the only salvation; where he couldn't see, a black figure hugged him in the same posture, pressing his heart to his chest, his chin resting on his shoulder, Seems to be smiling slightly.Then he slowly poked his head over, licking away the tear stains on his face with great pity.

The knocking on the bedroom door continued, but Hei Ying was only concerned with wiping away the tears on the face of the person in his embrace with his lips and tongue, and remained unmoved by the annoying voice.