My very cool daughter-in-law

"Senior Sheng!"

When Sheng Xun heard the shout, he turned his head and saw Chu Shi coming out of the crowd. The other party was in a hurry, obviously rushing out after class, and the large-format textbooks were exposed on the side of the bag that Chu Shi was carrying At one corner, the zipper was pulled to the vicinity of the book, leaving a small opening in the loose bag.

He was afraid of people waiting for a long time, so he didn't pack his bag.

It was five forty in the afternoon.

Their university has just updated the class schedule recently, and the daily lunch break has been reduced by 10 minutes. Correspondingly, the last class in the afternoon has been brought forward from [-]:[-] p.m. to [-]:[-] p.m.

In the afternoon, Sheng Xun went to the school administration center for something, and made an appointment with Mr. Chu who happened to have a class in the teaching area.

"I've been waiting for a long time." Junior Junior Chu trotted up to Sheng Xun.

His bag was bumped with the running, and the thick textbooks that were already exposed outside squeezed the zipper a little more during the bumps.

When Sheng Xun saw it, he helped someone stabilize the bag,

"I didn't wait much, I just left the administrative building 15 minutes ago." He said, stuffing the corner of the book back into the bag and zipping it up again.

It was only then that Chu Shi realized his problem, he smiled shyly, and was about to speak.

On the side, a few companions happened to pass by the two of them. When they saw Chu Shi, they stopped suddenly, and then glanced at him secretly.

Then they took another quick look at Sheng Xun, and exchanged glances with each other.

Sheng Xun noticed that Chu Shi's happy smile just now faded.

Junior Chu seemed to feel at a loss for the crowd all of a sudden, so he managed to finish his thank you to Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun frowned, turned his gaze to the passing students, and glanced at the books in their hands that were the same as those in Chu Shi's bag.

"What's wrong?" He asked directly.

The person closest to him averted his eyes.

"No." His companion said repeatedly.

After that, these people left quickly.

However, after they walked a short distance, they whispered to each other, and the wind blew a few gossips to the back——

"Isn't this our first class?"

"Nonsense, the one who didn't hear the shout was the senior?"

"I have an impression of the one who was called out. I saw it in department activities when I was a freshman. I remember that he was very serious, responsible and capable. He was quite a nice person..."

"No wonder, who in several classes at the same level gets so close to that... Hey, do you think that senior knows?"

……

The voice of the people gradually faded away, and two or three of those who had gone away turned back.

Chu Shi took a deep breath, and when he raised his head again, he had already adjusted himself.

He smiled and said to Sheng Xun: "Let's go senior, we agreed to take care of dinner tonight."

Junior Junior Chu pretended to be nonchalant.

But Sheng Xun could see that he actually had something on his mind that he needed to tell others.

There is a difference between a state where a person really doesn't want any care, and a state where he just dares not take the initiative to ask for it.

"Was that your classmate just now?" Sheng Xun asked when the two left the crowded small square.

He handed over a conversation piece.

Chu Shi looked up at him, with a hesitant expression for a moment, but after walking about ten meters forward, he still nodded.

He said "hmm": "There are our own class and brothers' class."

After answering like this, Junior Chu unconsciously tugged on the strap adjustment buckle.

Another moment passed, and Sheng Xun heard Chu Shi sigh.

"Actually... In fact, they can't be said to be deliberately targeting or something. We basically don't communicate with each other, but in the hearts of most students, I may be a little..." Junior Chu seemed to think about it for a while, and then found a person who thought he was relatively close. neutral adjective.

"It might be a little weird," he said.

Strange.

In fact, this word can not only summarize the impression of Chu Shi's university classmates on him, it can even go back and cover the evaluations of Chu Shi's classmates at all stages from childhood to adulthood.

Born with yin and yang eyes, and born in a master of mystic arts like the Chu family.

This particularity, coupled with his natural introverted personality and his inability to communicate with people, in Chu Shi's memory, there are really many moments when he is "out of tune" with the people around him.

"I really have poor interpersonal skills." Chu Shi said in a self-deprecating tone, "When I was young, because I knew the difference between myself and others, I was afraid of being found out, so I would desperately try to hide the difference."

Turns out that caused a lot of problems.

When he was a child, Chu Shi couldn’t explain to his friends who were ordinary people, why he suddenly stopped at a certain intersection, and why he suddenly decided to turn around at a certain alley, and he had to pull people to detour instead of following the road that was already close at hand. Walk.

He also had a hard time sharing freely about his vacations or everyday experiences, and he was perpetually reticent or outright silent when it came to personal matters.

When I was younger, it was common for people of the same age to help carry a schoolbag, or for classmates with good relationships to help each other with something in the bag. However, Chu Shi’s backpack is always special and private, and he never lets anyone touch it. Your own bag, even if you go out for a short distance, you have to carry a big bag.

"There was a time when someone was really curious about my things and tried every means to snatch my bag to take a look." Chu Shi rubbed his baby face, which still had baby fat, and gave Sheng Xun a smile deformed during the rubbing, "You Can you imagine me fighting someone with my hands, senior? But I really fought at that time, and the dispute eventually turned into a physical conflict. My brother—that is, Chu Shang, and Brother Kui, you have all seen— —This group of cheeky people went to be my parents, just to watch my fighting records."

The first half of this story is still very emotional, but at the end the style of painting changes suddenly, and it sounds like a very family comedy.

Sheng Xun always felt that it was not good for him to laugh at the last two sentences, after all, what Chu Shi said earlier was not easy.

But Xiao Chu himself didn't mind, he smiled Sheng Xun first, and waved his hand: "It's okay, I think it's funny too."

Sheng Xun could see that Chu Shi was happy because of the last memory from the bottom of his heart.

This also made him understand why Chu Shi didn't grow crooked in a relatively lonely growing environment, and he is still a reserved but friendly and enthusiastic person today.

This is inseparable from the harmonious family environment.

"The interior atmosphere of your home is very good." Sheng Xun said.

Chu Shi frowned: "The good thing is that everyone likes to bully the youngest of every generation."

That being said, the corner of Junior Chu's mouth was smiling.

Then, he told Sheng Xun that his previous growth experience also made him reflect. He felt that he seemed to pay too much attention to "hiding himself" when he was a child.

So after going to college, he thought about making a change.

"Nowadays the environment is not the same as before. There are many people who like to read stories about ghosts and ghosts, and they seem to be quite receptive to new things." Chu Shi said, "When I was just in college, I thought, I should be able to let go of myself appropriately, work hard to make a few friends, and change my habit of always hiding everything I like and not taking the initiative to contact people.”

But being able to watch stories about gods, gods and ghosts, and liking supernatural-themed movies is not the same as knowing that ghosts may really exist in reality.

Chu Shi felt that he was like a clumsy snail, and finally took the initiative to stick out his tentacles in social life. When he first entered the freshman year, he carefully reminded a few students who were used to coming home late which places it was best not to go, and Speaking of which street outside the campus is best avoided at night.

No one took him seriously at first.

Some thought he was joking, others thought he was talking about it.

As a result, it was true that someone encountered strange things there, and there were rumors.

I also heard that there have been accidents in those streets recently...

After that, the way people around looked at Chu Shi changed.

"Except for a small number of people who are curious, more people are actually more willing to avoid this kind of thing, and they will feel unlucky and afraid of bad luck." Chu Shi sighed again, "So even with... everyone gradually doesn't like it. No matter how you want to get close to me, I always feel that if I stay with me for a long time, I will be suspicious of the surrounding environment and feel more depressed."

Of course, there are all kinds of people in the university, and some of them are courageous and curious.

It's just that these people, Chu Shi, failed to become friends with each other in the end.

Because those people are curious about ghosts and want to see ghosts, just to satisfy their curiosity, their posture is frivolous and arrogant, and they lack respect for life and other souls.

Chu Shi has rejected many requests like "Take me to hell and I will believe you".

In the end, he didn't make any friends, but he got another dozen new tinted glasses.

"—So in the end I just gave up." Chu Shi summed up his experience of making friends in college.

Sheng Xun stopped walking.

Chu Shi quickly added the second half of the sentence: "But fortunately, the sky is endless - no, I just thought that my college social life might end in failure again, but when I turned around and applied for a part-time job, I met Brother Luo, and then went I know you, senior!"

Junior Chu's tone was relaxed, but his expression was full of sincerity.

From the moment he walked into the bakery, he had the first close relationship other than his family in his 20 years of life.

Only Chu Shi himself knew how much he valued Sheng Xun, Lao Luo and these two friends.

What's more, it's not easy for Junior Brother Chu to tell Sheng Xun for the time being that besides him, there are actually other Chu family members who have experienced the trip to the deserted village.

They all seem to have a natural liking for Sheng Xun, and they will easily develop trust in him.

However, there seemed to be no reason for this trust, so they gathered together and thought about it again and again, and finally a group of mystic masters had no choice but to attribute it to "fate".

"I can't say the most confidential things, but I can tell you about the time period when my family got clear information from the Chi family over the years, and some less confidential things."

Brother Xiao Chu promised Sheng Xun in this way.

For the sake of trust and friendship, he has quietly kept Xiaoqiu's existence a secret from his family, and he has not shared with anyone the clues he put together from fragments.

When Sheng Xun contacted him today and said he wanted to know some information about the Chi family, Chu Shi felt something, but at the same time, there was a deeper intuition telling him that he should stand by Sheng Xun's side, It was right to help Sheng Xun.

A mystic's sixth sense is always elusive.

Chu Shi chose to believe in Sheng Xun, and he also believed in his own talent.

This night, Sheng Xun successfully obtained a rough timetable for the exchange of "mutations" between the Chi family and the Chu family.

It was brought back to Xiangzhang Court by Sheng Xun, and placed on the desk of the study under Xiao Qiu's gaze.

"Do you have any impression?" Sheng Xun asked Xiaoqiu.

Xiaoqiu's eyes roughly glanced at the timetable with the year, month, day and specific time period on the front, and the timetable with words such as "the miasma has become thicker" and "abnormal noises" on the back.

He gave a soft "huh" and didn't immediately say yes or no, just as if he was lost in thought.

When Xiaoqiu was silent, Sheng Xun scanned an electronic version of that form.

He transfers the digital version to the tablet and opens it in the editing mode of the office application.

Starting from a row in the latter part of the table, it is divided into two by Sheng Xun.

Sheng Xun extracted the string of records at the bottom separately.

"What's wrong with these few lines?" Xiao Qiu stopped thinking and observed Sheng Xun's actions first.

Sheng Xun dragged the short watch with close dates but still a certain length to the center of the screen.

"Don't you think this string of time is familiar?" He said,

Xiaoqiu blinked slowly, staring at the string of time.

The ghost seemed to realize something, his pale fingers stretched out, and they joined the hand that was pointing at the screen.

"This is the day I met you." Sheng Xun pointed to the top row of the single column,

Xiao Qiu subconsciously corrected: "It's the day you can see me."

Sheng Xun changed his words: "This is the day I can see you."

After that date, the text of the note reads "Unusual noise, miasma thickens".

Fingers touching each other moved down, and Sheng Xun pointed to another date under the curious gaze of Qi Lingwa.

"It's the day we met Andy in middle school and the doll said we all lost things."

The text in the note at the back is "slight abnormal noise, but the miasma has not changed".

Afterwards, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu respectively found the day when Xiao Qiu fell into a dream for the first time, the day when they were able to contact each other for the first time, and the day when Xiao Qiu broke out at home...

The most recent record shows that a few days ago, it was the day when Xiaoqiu fell into a dream for the second time and said that she remembered something.

The text note on that one reads "Weak traces have been sensed, it seems that the soul responded to the call for a short time, but the connection is weak and unstable, and it will be interrupted soon, and the tracking cannot be done."

——This is a record of the Chi family's monitoring of Xiaoqiu's body and the summoning ceremony.

It provided evidence for Sheng Xun's conjecture when he contacted Huaihe a few days ago, that is, the reason why Xiaoqiu's soul reconnected with his body seemed to be not only related to the ghost itself, but also related to Sheng Xun.

Every time Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu got closer, Xiao Qiu remembered more things, and in the records, those abnormal noises and reactions appeared more intensively and to a greater extent.

"You gave me an illusion."

Sheng Xun's fingertips gently pressed the ghost's.He had a somewhat inappropriate idea pop into his mind.

But Xiaoqiu shook his hand instead, signaling to him but saying it's okay.

Sheng Xun took his eyes away from the records of the weak and crescendoing reactions, looked at Xiaoqiu, and smiled suddenly.

"This record is quite worrying. We need to think about our next actions, and we also need to study what the previous records roughly correspond to." Sheng Xun said, "But I was still thinking just now-you seem to be Embrace this intimacy and memory with your whole soul.”

From the recent records of the Chi family, we can see that the intimate relationship with Sheng Xun and his own lost memories are the two factors that most motivate Xiaoqiu to have a connection with his body.

And the ghost seems to welcome this intimacy and memory with the whole soul.

Only then can he resonate with his body, which has been separated from body and soul thousands of miles away.

The author has something to say: Yes, Sheng Xun and Xiao Qiu are under the year, and they are under the year no matter what