to blame

Back in Yaozhou, Ming Xia took Qingqiu back to the old town.

As always, the branch was filled with a tense and busy atmosphere. Because the Arbor Day was approaching, many tree pits were dug in the open space in the compound, and a new row of Xifu Begonias was planted in the green belt near the dormitory.They are all small trees, only as tall as an adult's chest, but the branches have already grown small green spores.

The air is filled with the unique fresh breath of spring.

Nan Jiang was waiting for them downstairs in the dormitory, and he noticed the awkward atmosphere between one person and one fox at a glance.

Nan Jiang pulled the little fox out of Ming Xia's arms and threw it to Li Youran. He dragged Ming Xia back to the room. Once the door was closed, he asked him straightforwardly, "What happened?"

Ming Xia held back her thoughts all the way, and when she saw Nan Jiang, she felt a desire to confide, "I suspect that my feelings for Qing Qiu are not so pure."

Nan Jiang's heart skipped a beat, what does it mean to be innocent? !

He glanced at the window behind Ming Xia.The window was not closed tightly, leaving a gap for ventilation. At this moment, a hand stretched out from the window and carefully opened the gap a little.

The glass window reflected Qingqiu's furry half tail.

Nan Jiang looked away, pretending that he didn't notice anything, "What's the matter, isn't it innocent? Haven't you always loved it?"

Ming Xia leaned on the chair and sighed long, "I always thought that I liked Qingqiu from the bottom of my heart, a friend in need and a congenial temper."

Nan Jiang was surprised, "Isn't it?"

Ming Xia sighed again, "I just found out that I had seen Qingtan when I was very young. I think he exerted some kind of influence on me... Do you think it is Qingtan's affection for it that influenced me?"

As for the fact that Qingtan was in his body, Ming Xia looked at Nanjiang guiltily, but he couldn't say it yet.

Nan Jiang laughed, "How is this possible?"

"I really think so," Ming Xia was troubled all the way by this question, "I suspect that what I feel is actually Qingtan's love and protection for Qingqiu..."

Nan Jiang has learned a little psychology, but Ming Xia's worries, he really didn't know how to deal with them.The point is that he doesn't know what's going on between Ming Xia and Qing Tan?

Just seen?

On the glass window, the fluffy white tail swayed desperately. The little fox seemed to want to come in from the window, but was violently suppressed by Li Youran.

Nan Jiang smiled silently, and looked away, "Mingxia, what do you like to eat most, and what do you hate the most?"

Ming Xia thought for a while, "I'm not picky about food, I like to eat many things. What's your favorite...shrimp and crab stew, braised pork ribs, barbecue. What food do you hate... Chinese toon."

Nan Jiang said: "If you are very hungry and are thinking about what to order for takeaway, and at this moment you suddenly smell the smell of burning pork ribs, what will you do?"

Ming Xia felt that this question was too easy to answer, so she didn't even need to think about it, "Order the ribs."

Nan Jiang asked again, "What if you smell fried Chinese toon at this time?"

Ming Xia, "..."

"If I told you that Qingqiu was injured right now, what would you think?"

Ming Xia knew that this was just a hypothesis, but he still felt uncomfortable.

"Isn't that enough?" Nan Jiang spread his hands, "Don't you have to ask yourself, is it me who is suffering? Or is it the residual influence of Qingtan? Can you separate it?"

Inseparable.

"If you really can't tell the difference, then you should think about Qingqiu in another way." Nanjiang gently shook his hand, "For you, for its senior brother, in its heart, it should always be Qingqiu." divided."

Ming Xia's heart skipped a beat.

Along the way, he was trapped in his own worries, never thinking about Qingqiu's feelings.Isn't he a little... self-righteous?

Qingqiu got in through the gap of the window, looking at Ming Xia angrily.

Ming Xia looked at it guiltily.

Nan Jiang felt that the two must have something to say, so he retreated out considerately, and took Li Youran who was huddled under the window sill waiting to listen to the corner of the wall along the way.

Qingqiu was very angry when he heard what Ming Xia said, but when he stood in front of Ming Xia, his anger turned into grievance.

Qingqiu's little paws stomped back and forth on the window sill, and asked him with a flat mouth, "Did you... change your mind?"

Ming Xia, "..."

Ming Xia's heart full of guilt suddenly turned into helplessness, "That's not what it means to change one's mind."

Qingqiu snorted, turned his small body to one side, and took a photo of his smooth white hair on the glass window.

Still so beautiful.

"I haven't changed my mind." Ming Xia wondered what kind of words these are. "I just feel guilty. If my feelings for you were only due to the influence of Qingtan... I would feel sorry for you."

Qingqiu snorted again.

Change the angle and take another photo.Well, the profile is also so pretty.

There is really no way.

"I really think so." Ming Xia leaned over cheekily, reached out and touched its back, "If that's the case, I'll feel that I'm not worthy of your kindness to me."

Qingqiu glanced at him sideways, "Are you still thinking wildly?"

Ming Xia was amused by it, "No. Otherwise, I'm even more sorry for you."

Qingqiu felt that it was occupying a certain dominant position now, and wanted to say a few more words, but for a while he didn't know what to say, so he had to continue to sit on the window sill and make a concave shape.

"Don't be angry." Sure enough, it didn't make a sound, Ming Xia took the initiative to come over to coax it, "I apologize to you, how about treating you to dinner?"

Qingqiu gave him a sideways look, and felt that this proposal was very considerate.

"Then... that's fine." The little fox reluctantly accepted Ming Xia's apology, and when he saw that he was reaching out to hug it, he raised his fat paw coldly to stop it.For some reason, the little fox just felt that its aloof style had to be maintained for a while longer.

"If you have any ideas in the future, you can tell me directly." Qingqiu criticized him righteously, "It's not conducive to communication if you keep it in your heart like this. Isn't it?"

Ming Xia nodded.He looked at the serious little fox on the window sill, and felt that he had really thought too much before.He himself has brothers and sisters, and the relationship between them is completely different from his feelings for Qingqiu.At least when he faced Qingqiu, he never thought of putting on a straight face to establish authority.

As for the trivial matters such as eating and dressing the junior brother every day, and whether he has had a good rest...

You're not a fool, why do you need to worry about such a trivial matter? !

Ming Xia picked up the little fox who was still reasoning with him, and kissed it hard on the forehead.He thought he was so stupid, what about seniors and juniors, his feelings for Qingqiu were totally different.

One person and one fox are reconciled.

Now that they are back, the problem they have to face now is how to report their itinerary and what they have gained along the way to the leaders.

Ming Xia held Qingqiu in his arms and sorted out the content to be explained again.

"You can't talk when you see senior brother," Qingqiu whispered to Ming Xia quietly as if reciting a text, "You can't say anything that senior brother said, and you can't talk about his demon core with you!"

Ming Xia was a little worried, he wasn't sure if Qing Qiu would be tricked out.And they didn't gain anything from going out. Would others believe this kind of statement?

It is said that the most indistinguishable way to deceive people is not to say nothing, but to have mixed truths and falsehoods.

So, when they entered Mr. Hu's office, Qingqiu's answer was like this, "I entered Qingqiu Mountain. How did I get in... I don't know, I was sleeping... Oh, ask Ming Xia, I have been sleeping , didn't see anything."

Mr. Hu was so angry that his beard was raised, but this little thing was always irritating, and he didn't want to quarrel with it, so he ran to find Ming Xia angrily.

Ming Xia's explanation was much more honest, "I compared the map you gave me with the city tourist map, and the two maps didn't match after walking. Then Qingqiu said that this seemed to be Qingqiu Mountain. Its home In the mountains, there are yards, there are huts, everything is the same as when they left. But no one. We just came out."

"And then?" Hu Lao asked him unwillingly.

"Then I wanted to go to Qinling Mountains. Because Yiya said that Qingtan was there before, Qingqiu didn't give up and wanted to go and look for it. I also wanted to drop by and see the home I lived in when I was a child."

Mr. Hu had a hunch that he couldn't ask anything.

"We went to Baoji first, and then went to Hengcun. My adoptive father's family has already moved away, and the neighbors don't know their whereabouts." Ming Xia said with some regret: "Then Qingqiu said that it has a sensory signal and wants to go into the mountain. Looking for it. We wandered around in the mountains near Hengcun for a few days, and the dry food was about to run out, and we didn’t dare to hunt casually, so we came back.”

Mr. Hu's premonition came true.

Ming Xia's answer made him a little bit reconciled, but when he thought about it carefully, so many people searched all over the world and couldn't find Qingtan, and it didn't make sense for this person to go out and find Qingtan.

As for whether Qingtan left any clues for Qingqiu, Mr. Hu did have such doubts before, but after he understood Qingqiu's character, he felt... If he was Qingtan, no matter what secrets he had, he would not Tell Qingqiu.It's fine if it doesn't know, but with its personality, it's dangerous if it knows.

Mr. Hu sighed, "What can Qingtan attract people's attention? Do you think it will be money?"

"Why don't you need money?" The rumors Ming Xia heard about Qingtan all said that he was capable and able to make money, so he also wondered if Qingtan left a huge sum of money, attracting all parties salivate.Not to mention anything else, human families like Cao and Ying need a lot of money to drive them.

Money can make a ghost run the mill.

Of course, Ming Xia also suspected that apart from money, Qing Tan might have said something else, something more important than money.But he can't ask.He was afraid that once he asked, this secret would bring danger to Qingqiu, and it would expand in a way he couldn't control, becoming out of control.

There is another reason for not asking, and that is Ming Xia has confidence in Qingqiu.Assuming that one day, the conflict between the monsters breaks out again, and some special methods need to be used to quell it. If Qingqiu masters this method, it will definitely tell him this method as a human being.

This is the tacit understanding between him and Qingqiu.Although Qingqiu never said it out loud, he already knew it clearly.

"I didn't find anything, and I don't know those guys from Xishan..." Ming Xia complained casually, but before he finished speaking, his heart suddenly moved, "Mr. Hu, do you think that Yiya may be hugging Qingqiu?" In a friendly manner?"

Mr. Hu asked him back, "Just because he told you that Qingtan is in Qinling?"

No, Ming Xia said in his heart, it was because Qingtan was indeed in Qinling.

Yiya's seemingly absent kindness was only realized by Ming Xia belatedly after Qingqiu saw Qingtan.It is also possible that the one who made Yiya have good intentions was actually Qingtan.

Mr. Hu said: "These days when you were away, Zhu Huai mentioned to the substitute teacher that he wanted to invite you back to class."

Ming Xia, "...Huh?!"

On the day of the falling out, everyone's faces were not very pretty.

"You won't have any bad ideas, will you?" Ming Xia is not very relieved.Long before entering the formation, Nan Jiang had reminded him that there were all ancestors playing tricks here.

Mr. Hu asked him, "What do you think? Do you want to go?"

Ming Xia wanted to say no, but he thought of Qingqiu and Yiya's unclear attitude towards Qingqiu, and he felt like a cat scratching in his heart, and couldn't help asking himself again and again: Did Yiya want to trick Qingqiu?Or sincerely send it a message?Maybe he has a good friendship with Qingtan, otherwise why would he know Qingtan's whereabouts?

Ming Xia hugged her head and sighed, what does this monster mean?