My very cool daughter-in-law

"Look, isn't it a coincidence?" Sheng Xun, who circled the date, turned to the ghost and said.

With the pen in his hand, he made a dot next to the red "Liqiu" on the calendar, and put the cap back on. For some reason, he wanted to share his feelings about Liqiu with the other party.

"When I was a child, I always felt that Liqiu is a particularly deceptive solar term." He said, "Because when it comes to autumn, it sounds like it is going to get cooler, the temperature will get lower and lower, and the sun will be more and more intense." I come less and less, and when I go out to play, I don’t think I’ll sweat profusely when I go out to play, and I’ll be scolded when I go home, and I’m said to be ‘a boy who’s not afraid of the heat, his face is like a monkey’s ass’.”

But the beginning of autumn is not the same thing as the real autumn.

The Beginning of Autumn usually falls in August of the Gregorian calendar. The sun shines brightly during the day, and after the Beginning of Autumn, there are autumn tigers, which can make the skin boys who like to run out and play not only have monkey butts, but after a summer vacation, everyone All became small coal balls.

Sheng Xun was far less down-to-earth and calm when he was a child than he is now. He was the king of Pippi's children.

So when he was young, the elders occasionally teased him, saying—there are three volts in summer, and the kid from the Sheng family has three bright days after three volts.

"Do you want to know which 'Three Brights' it is?" Sheng Xun stopped when he said this, and he found that the ghost was very absorbed in listening to his childhood memories, as if he was possessed by the "pipi boy" in his childhood, deliberately It whetted the opponent's appetite.

The ghost's curiosity is actually not obvious, and he also has an expressionless face when he is listening to the story.

But he's honest.

He quickly said obediently, "I want to know."

Sheng Xun told him with a suppressed smile, "He is so black, his teeth are so white, and his eyes are so bright."

As the saying goes, one white covers three ugliness. If this sentence is reversed, it is probably "one black reveals one hundred ugliness".

Fortunately, Sheng Xun's parents gave birth to this son very carefully. His facial features have already begun to take shape as a handsome model in the future, so he doesn't look ugly when he is dark, and he looks extra energetic.

"But I come back quickly for nothing." Sheng Xun continued, "Every summer I get a mess of sunburn, and it's almost winter when I go on winter vacation, and I can become the one who is so white in the crowd of bear children. At that time, some classmates would pick me up In the composition, write "Sheng Xun is getting darker, I know summer is coming, Sheng Xun is slowly turning white, I know winter is coming again."

That composition was specially selected by the Chinese teacher to read aloud, and the whole class roared with laughter.

Sheng Xun listened calmly, but the little girl who wrote the composition didn't dare to look him in the face for almost half a semester.

He still remembers this golden sentence that has been passed down for several years clearly, and it is funny to say it.

In Sheng Xun's memory, "Liqiu" is such a solar term that seems to reveal a bit of coolness, but it will allow him to continue to expose himself to enough exposure to his classmates' composition, and enough to be laughed at by adults year after year.

"Don't you think it's very deceptive?" Sheng Xun asked the ghost like this in the end.

He was a little surprised to find that the other party who hadn't expressed much expression had a faint smile on his face.

The corners of the ghost's originally straight lips seemed to be turning upwards, and he said, "Mmm."

Sheng Xun was attracted by that precious little smile, took a few more glances, and then realized that he and the other party had been talking for a long time without knowing it, but they hadn't decided what to call the other party.

It is always inconvenient to not have a title, but it seems that it is not so easy to give a single word a title.

As he was deliberating over and over again, he suddenly heard the ghost say, "You call that human Xiao Chu."

Sheng Xun didn't react for a while, and he responded with a "huh" as a confirmation.

After two seconds, he suddenly understood what the ghost meant.

"...Xiaoqiu?" Sheng Xun mulled for a while before calling out.

The ghost seemed very satisfied, and said, "Yes."

His life is still ominous, and his age is even more unknown.

But the ghost with a young face took the initiative to think that he should be called "Xiaoqiu", hoping to get the same title and treatment as Junior Chu from Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun looked at that young face, he has always been strong in receptivity, he soon lost his hesitation, and shouted again with certainty: "Xiaoqiu."

The ghost responded to Sheng Xun again.

Now it's time to change his name to Xiaoqiu—Xiaoqiu walked towards Sheng Xun and regained his name, and his movements seemed to become smoother.

He urged Sheng Xun: "You should go to rest."

No matter how energetic Sheng Xun is, no matter how golden his body is, he is still a solid mortal body and needs sleep to replenish his energy.

He was rushed back to the bedroom, and lay back on the bed under stalking eyes.

But before he closed his eyes, he suddenly thought of something, opened his sleepy eyes again, and said: "By the way, don't be too busy after I sleep. I didn't know before, but after I know You can still let you do housework with peace of mind, and you don't owe me anything."

For some reason, Xiaoqiu, who was standing at the side, gave off an aura of refusal to cooperate, and her eyes quietly looking at Sheng Xun also vaguely conveyed the meaning of "you can't care about me after you fall asleep".

Perhaps it is because the life after death is very monotonous and there are too few things to do, so ghosts have unimaginable obsessions in certain aspects.

Sheng Xun thought about it for a while, then changed his mind and said, "Or don't be busy for now, when I wake up, can we do it together?"

This was the only compromise that Sheng Xun could come up with with his extremely sleepy mind.

Fortunately, Xiao Qiu finally showed a little cooperation intention this time, saying: "Okay, listen to you, you go to sleep."

Almost the second after Sheng Xun got the answer, his half-drooped eyelids completely dropped, half of his face was sunk into the pillow, and he let out a long, clear and shallow breath.

He performed "Falling Asleep in One Second" live. Xiao Qiu kept his promise and didn't sneak to touch the cleaning tools while he was asleep. He just stayed quietly and watched the small shadow of his eyelashes on the lower eyelid.

The ghost is stuck in a bit of fragmentary memory.

He didn't tell Sheng Xun, when he just heard Sheng Xun talk about his childhood past, a few fragments vaguely appeared in front of his eyes.

He seemed to have seen that little boy with extremely strong mobility climbing trees and over walls under the scorching sun, and he had also stood in front of the window of that classroom, listening to the room full of laughter.

But Xiaoqiu's memory is the same as his stiff limbs, they have degenerated for too long and too much, so he only felt hesitant when looking at the flashback in front of his eyes.

Is this really what he has seen with his own eyes?

Or was he listening to Sheng Xun's narration, so he subconsciously relied on associations to construct the scene?

Xiaoqiu's memory is really not very good, and he couldn't come up with an accurate answer after thinking for a long time.

From the bright sky outside the window, he thought that the sky was gradually getting dark again, so he simply stopped thinking about it, and only started trying to wake up Sheng Xun. He felt that thinking so much, he might as well focus on getting human beings to get up and eat quickly.

That night, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu took care of the house as promised and cleaned the whole house.

For the first time, he collaborated with ghosts in household chores and found the experience to be quite otherworldly.

Xiaoqiu often has a ghost by his side, clearly taking a broom to clean the ashes slowly in another room, but when Sheng Xun goes to the bathroom to wash the mop or rag, he will find that there will be an extra pale white on the faucet out of thin air. hand.

That hand silently helped Sheng Xun turn on the faucet, and then disappeared. After he finished scrubbing, he came back and turned off the faucet with a pinch.

When Sheng Xun was careless and sometimes almost stepped on a piece of garbage that Xiao Qiu had just swept up, before he actually stepped on it, he would feel something blocked his ankle, and when he lowered his head again, he saw the The elusive pale hand silently blocked his ankle again.

Because Xiaoqiu can't really touch Sheng Xun, that hand usually holds the long pole of the broom or something else, blocking Sheng Xun's way with dead objects, and pushing his feet to the side through objects. push.

When Sheng Xun experienced it for the first time, he lowered his head and watched the "atypical ghost pulling his feet" for a while, and said with a complicated mood: "Xiaoqiu."

The ghost with the hand in but not the person said in the next room, "Huh?"

Sheng Xun moved his ankle and stood aside according to the force of the object being pushed, avoiding the result of the ghost's hard cleaning: "If it is someone else who is suddenly stopped by you, you may be a little scary like this."

Seeing that Sheng Xun had no intention of stepping on the garbage, his hands and objects disappeared, only the voice of its owner came from the other side of the room, saying, "But you are not someone else."

Xiao Qiu poked his head out from the door frame and added, "You are bold."

Sheng Xun observed for a moment the angle at which Xiaoqiu's head poked out, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, he felt that he should not care about which aspect of the other person's body it would be.

Ghosts, it's normal to be elusive.

Occasionally, the angle of the head tilted out seems to exceed the limit of human beings, which is also normal.

Sheng Xun had already made preparations that in the next few days, he might suddenly return to his previous state at any time and become unable to see Xiao Qiu again.

He contacted Chu Shi the day after the break and asked his junior if he could buy the rhino horn sachet directly from the other party, expressing that he wanted to make this thing a regular item at home.

Chu Shi, who answered the phone, was at a loss for words for a long time. He probably had never seen someone who actively pursued a ghost like Sheng Xun. After a while, he told him: "Once the rhino horn sachet is removed from the sealed bag, its effect will last forever." It's been a long time, and it won't disappear so quickly."

However, Chu Shi did not object to Sheng Xun's idea of ​​preparing a few more sachets.

He knew that Sheng Xun's desire for more rhino horn incense was related to the ghosts following Sheng Xun, and he had cared carefully about how Sheng Xun got along with each other, and then told Sheng Xun that rhino horn incense was a special material. Treasure bags, but because he stayed at school during the summer and had no intention of going home, he didn't bring enough materials.

If Sheng Xun needed more sachets, Chu Shi had to contact his family first, and get the materials through channels known only to mystic masters.

Chu Shi also said Ai Ai expectantly: "Because the channels are also somewhat special, these are generally things that cannot be bought in the market, so... well, the price may be..."

The elementary school boy was even embarrassed when he mentioned that the price might be high, he hesitated.

But Sheng Xun told him affirmatively: "It's okay, it's good that I can get the materials smoothly, and I accept the price very well."

Chu Shi and Sheng Xun had just met each other not long ago, and they didn't quite know what was going on at the home of this senior who was renting a house and doing an internship, so he answered the phone in a little ignorance and hung up the phone.

The rhinoceros horn incident came to an end, and while Sheng Xun was busy with his internship work again, he finally had time to look through the photo files he received that day.

The so-called supernatural photos, in fact, only in the eyes of psychic people, can they see the energy bodies in the photos that do not belong to strangers, and can realize that there are abnormalities in those photos.

The “spiritual photos” in the eyes of ordinary people are often not real supernatural photos, but just illusions caused by light and shadow or deceptive illusions deliberately created by the photographer.

——This is what Xiao Qiu told Sheng Xun when he was flipping through the photos.

Accompanied by such a real ghost, Sheng Xun got twice the result with half the effort when he flipped through the photos.

Usually, he didn't notice anything unusual about this photo, when a pale finger suddenly clicked on a corner of the photo.

Xiaoqiu said unhurriedly: "I am here."

Sheng Xun followed his fingers and looked over, only to find the other party's trace in a corner he almost ignored.

Sometimes it is a silhouette, sometimes it is a side face hidden in the shadows, and sometimes it is because it is closely beside Sheng Xun, so Sheng Xun blocks most of the figure, revealing only a vague hem of the clothes and a little black short hair.

Sheng Xun went through the entire photo file for a round, and he found many himself who passed by in other people's group photos...and more Xiaoqiu who followed him and passed by other people's group photos.

"You really have been following me." Sheng Xun took out all the photos where Xiaoqiu was found, and he sighed a little while looking at the number of items in the folder.

Xiaoqiu was standing by his computer desk at first, he offered to bring a chair for the other party, but the other party refused, then he leaned on the edge of the table and sat on his desk.

At present, the whole ghost of the other party is sitting next to his computer.

"I have been following you." Xiaoqiu replied.

Sheng Xun felt that this sentence sounded familiar, but his attention fell on a photo that he clicked on the big picture alone, and he didn't think about it for a while.

It was a photo taken on campus, and the photographer's classmate gave it the name "Before Departure".

"This was taken before we assembled and set off in the school. The location was the fountain in front of the teaching building." Sheng Xun said while watching it.

And not long ago, Xiaoqiu glanced at it, pointed her pale fingertips beside a big tree behind, and said, "I'm here."

The photo was taken on a sunny day. There were laughing boys and girls in front of the fountain. The sun shines on the young people's bodies and faces without any cover. The lush trees behind cast shade in front of the teaching building.

If it wasn't for Xiaoqiu's own finger, Sheng Xun would never have noticed that under the shadow of the tree, there was a person who was so silent that he almost merged with the shadow.

This photo overturned Sheng Xun's original idea of ​​taking Xiaoqiu to the old bungalow area first.

He revised his itinerary and put the trip back to his alma mater in middle school at the top.

Sheng Xun's university and middle school are in the same city, so it is very convenient to go back to his alma mater. This weekend, he contacted the teacher in advance, and then took Xiaoqiu to the school.

The middle school campus after a few years still seems to be the same as before, without much change. Sheng Xun obeyed the courtesy and went to the office building to say hello to the teacher first.

When he passed the first floor of a low building, an indescribable feeling suddenly swept over him. He seemed to feel it, and glanced at the glass window closest to him.

— there's half a face there.

It is exposed from above the window upside down, like a person hanging upside down behind the window.