My very cool daughter-in-law

"Brother Window" is like an opportunity, it makes Sheng Xun suddenly realize that his childhood may not be as ordinary as he remembered.

Including his habit of talking to furniture since he was a child, which traces back to...

Maybe back then, he wasn't talking to "furniture" at all.

There is really someone beside him, who only appears quietly when he is alone.

Then play with him and chat with him.

His parents once caught him talking to "furniture" after leaving get off work early.

But when the couple, who were still very young at that time, touched the door of the child's room lightly, they grabbed the guy who was about to punish the thief and looked inside with bated breath—

But no outsiders saw anything.

The person talking and playing with Sheng Xun is not a real living person.

He is a spirit that visits the little boy's window every day.

That is to say, the child is pure-hearted and innocent, and doesn't think that person is strange, and doesn't feel that the other person's whereabouts are strange. Compared with caring about "Brother Window"'s disappearance, he cares more about why the other person's face is always pale.

In his cognition of the small world, he knew that it was a sign of illness.

……

Sheng Xun couldn't remember exactly how the phone call with his uncle ended up hanging up.

His brain was filled with sudden memories, and he responded to the conversation in the second half of the phone call instinctively, feeling that he had said many "yes" and "um".

That night, he came home with many questions and unspeakable complex emotions. Xiao Qiu greeted him as usual, and wanted to reach out to take the supermarket shopping bag in his hand.

He dodged his hands under Xiao Qiu's astonished eyes, and stuffed the shopping bag directly on the entrance counter, and then grabbed the other's hand that was still in the air.

Xiaoqiu was seldom avoided by Sheng Xun, he was baffled by the rare movements of human beings today, but fortunately, someone quickly stopped him.

Then he heard Sheng Xun ask: "Do I look like when I was a child?"

The ghost was taken aback.

They had only seen Sheng Xun's childhood photos together a few days ago, and Xiao Qiu had even imported an electronic version of that old photo into his mobile phone.After knowing how to use mobile phone contacts and online shopping for food delivery, he has finally mastered the phone's photo album function recently, storing a large number of photos related to Sheng Xun in the photo album.

The photo album has become a daily record of Sheng Xun's life. People who don't know it read it and think that this phone is actually Sheng Xun's.

There are photos in Xiaoqiu's mobile phone, and he still remembers the dream of that day in his mind. Of course, he remembers what Sheng Xun was like when he was a child.

You can also compare it with the person in front of you and draw a conclusion:

"Yes, but your eyes were rounder when you were young, and the lines on your cheeks are also rounder." Xiao Qiu said, he seemed to be carefully looking for the difference on Sheng Xun's face, and raised his other hand that was not held, Fingertips draw from the position he said one by one.

The pale finger moved from the outline of Sheng Xun's eyes all the way to his sharp jaw.

Xiaoqiu thinks she has given an excellent answer.

But he turned his finger-moving eyes back to Sheng Xun's eyes, and found that Sheng Xun's expression was not as satisfied as he thought.

People seem emotionally complex.

"You found the difference so clearly." Sheng Xun squeezed the hand they were holding together, and said, "But why don't you remember me?"

Xiaoqiu's memory of Sheng Xun can only be traced back to the time when he accompanied Sheng Xun to middle school. He knew that the time he followed Sheng Xun should be much longer than that, but the day when he really followed Sheng Xun was already vacant. The untestable part of the memory, in the memory that he had managed to retrieve recently, he had seen a little Sheng Xun, but both he and Sheng Xun knew clearly - that probably wasn't the current Sheng Xun.

Because in Xiaoqiu's dream, he was still living in Chi's house at that time, and Sheng Xun, who looked about seven or eight years old, ran across the corridor in the inner courtyard of Chi's house to meet him in the small courtyard deep in the corridor.

And even though Sheng Xun's memory before the age of five is vague, he still learned about what he might have seen with Xiao Qiu through his uncle today, but when he was seven or eight years old, he was already in elementary school, and he remembered things more firmly. He could also learn from his elders that their family had never visited Chi's family.

Xiaoqiu dreamed of him, but not him.

"...I don't remember you?" The ghost seemed to be confused by someone. Xiao Qiu hadn't heard Sheng Xun mention the details of today's phone call. He didn't understand why he suddenly had an extra "crime" on his head.

Xiaoqiu was so confused even by his voice, he stared into Sheng Xun's eyes and waited for an explanation.

But before the explanation came, the person he waited for first reached out and pulled him hastily.

Sheng Xun hugged him tightly, and sighed in his ear again.

"But I'm not qualified to talk about you." Sheng Xun said in a low voice, "I've also forgotten this memory. Before today, I didn't remember seeing you when I was a child."

Xiao Qiu became more and more confused, so he raised his hand to ring Sheng Xun's back.

Human beings seem to have done some psychological construction before he could brew those four words: "...Brother Window?"

Xiao Qiu stopped halfway through her hand.

His arm didn't really drop on Sheng Xun's back for a long time, and he paused there together.

Memories are such a wonderful thing that sometimes they seem elusive and untraceable.

But sometimes, all it takes is a specific title, an item that is significant to a particular period of time, and it can pull out a thread and lead people to remember the past.

Xiao Qiu's reaction was undoubtedly telling Sheng Xun that he also remembered this paragraph.

After being dazed, he mentioned to Sheng Xun the fat yellow cat in the yard, and the old trees that shed dead leaves every spring and autumn.

There is also the window in Sheng Xun's room that is always half open for him.

What he remembered exactly matched Sheng Xun perfectly.

The perspectives of the two are put together to restore Xiaoqiu's "window brother" period that lasted at least three years.

"Why didn't I see you later?" Sheng Xun didn't let go of the ghost, and simply put his chin on Xiaoqiu's cold shoulder and spoke.

Sheng Xun is already used to the low temperature of ghosts, but Xiao Qiu always wants to turn his head when he talks.

It's so strange, it's obviously a ghost, and the body is formed by the condensed soul and strength, but such a body still has sense organs, which makes Xiaoqiu feel the warmth of Sheng Xun's breath falling on the side of the neck and ears when he speaks.

"Most children have a period when their eyes are not closed." Xiaoqiu said, "The eyes of the sky are not closed, and they can see things that adults cannot see, so you can see me at that time."

But after that, Sheng Xun gradually grew up, and his eyes closed.

He can no longer see this brother who often plays with him. He has also been promoted from kindergarten to elementary school, to a larger school, and met more teachers, classmates and friends.

His life has become more colorful, and he will no longer be locked in the house by adults for most of the day.

So of course, he forgot about the "brother window" who never came again.

He didn't know, it wasn't that the other party didn't come, but in fact, the other party was still there, all the time.

Only he couldn't see it.

Xiaoqiu just remembered the first day when Sheng Xun couldn't see him. That day the little boy brought a small stool to the window as usual. Most of the time it is used for sitting. He would sit by the window on a sunny afternoon, talking with Xiaoqiu, and occasionally reading a book.

It was also a sunny day, the weather was very good, and there was plenty of sunshine in the afternoon. There were fat oranges sleeping under the old tree outside the window, and a new nest of birds was building a nest in full swing on the thick branches.

Xiao Qiu appeared at the boy's half-open window, but he soon realized that the other party must have lost sight of him.

Because he was clearly right in front of him, but the little boy's gaze directly passed him, looking at the birds and trees outside the window.

Being a ghost for too long will gradually degrade your emotions and senses, and you will gradually become numb to the world around you.

But the moment it was confirmed that Sheng Xun could not see, the ghost on the windowsill suddenly felt very, very sad.

It seemed that he managed to find a connection again and had something he cared about.

But time was so fast, it took the connection away from him.

And he even vaguely felt that this was not the first time he had lost.

The ghost stubbornly stayed in front of the human boy's window and did not leave even though the other party could no longer see him.

His little boy was also really very patient.

The other party thought that he just missed the appointment temporarily, and he couldn't come because of other things.

Sheng Xun waited for him very late that day, and the little boy was not noisy.

Later, Sheng Xun sat at that window and read through a whole set of thick-booked encyclopedias, and at that window he finished reading the first-grade textbooks he had just received.

The brother who "temporarily missed the appointment" came every day, but Sheng Xun thought that the other party was not there all the time.

Xiaoqiu didn't accept the jade card Sheng Xun gave him. On the contrary, he tried to integrate his own power into the jade card, hoping that it could better protect the little boy.

The jade plaque hung on the window for another week after "Brother Window" disappeared, and then was quietly taken away by Sheng Xun's family.

The family also knew that Sheng Xun's "brother window" seemed to have disappeared recently. Sheng Xun's mother was afraid that her son would be sad, so she thought of a way to secretly take away the jade token, and made a confession with the whole family, and then everyone told Sheng Xun unanimously : "'Brother Window' came last night and took away the gift you gave me."

The little boy believed it.

Later, he also forgot that he had worn the jade medal.

"But I always remember talking to furniture when I was a child." Sheng Xun slowly stroked the hair on the back of Xiaoqiu's head with his fingers, and he said to his "brother window" who finally came back, "I kept this habit from childhood to adulthood. Later, when I was in school, I always liked to sit by the window, and I liked to look out of the window when I had nothing to do... I thought it was because I had some natural preference for the seat next to the window."

In fact, there is no natural preference, only another habit cultivated with Xiaoqiu remains.

Even though I have no memory, my habit still remembers you.

Sheng Xun's uncle arrived in the city half a week later, and he brought Sheng Xun the heavy wooden box containing the jade token.

The younger uncle's schedule was very busy, and it seemed that he didn't have time to take his nephew to dinner. The uncle and nephew only met once in a hurry in the university town. Sheng Xun walked with each other in the school for about half an hour. The two said After talking, the other party will return to the special car waiting quietly in the off-campus parking lot, and go directly to the neighboring city.

"By the way, Xiao Xun." The uncle called Sheng Xun before leaving.

He has a very upright figure, and he looks outrageous wherever he goes, and when he looks at people with a slight frown, he has a sense of seriousness.

"If it's not necessary for these two weeks, stay in the city and don't run around." The uncle's tone was very ordinary, but his words did not have the weight that an ordinary order should have.

Sheng Xun was taken aback.

Seeing that my uncle didn't intend to continue explaining, Sheng Xun didn't ask any more questions, just nodded, and said hello in a very reassuring manner.

The uncle's frown loosened.

Sheng Xun thought that the other party's next move was to get in the car, but he saw that the driver was already getting ready.

But I never thought that my uncle seemed to have something to say, so he stood still and stared at him for a while.

"One more thing." Uncle started like this first.

Sheng Xun inexplicably felt that his uncle seemed to be hesitant to speak, and his expression was also weird for a moment, which destroyed the original serious and serious aura of the other party.

He made a question mark in his heart.

Face said: "You said?"

The uncle raised his chin towards Sheng Xun's jacket pocket where his cell phone was kept, and asked him abruptly, "Are you in a relationship?"

Sheng Xun: "..."

This question was really caught off guard, and Sheng Xun's first reaction was neither affirmation nor denial.

He was thinking back—he seemed to have only replied to Xiaoqiu's message just now.

Xiaoqiu said that the fabric softener at home was used up, and asked Sheng Xun to remember to bring a bottle in the supermarket when he went home. Sheng Xun returned after reading it.

From viewing information to replying, the total time spent will never exceed 1 minute.

...However, after such a one-minute exchange, what did his uncle actually see?

"What's your expression like?"

The eldest nephew froze in place, reacting like a primary school student who was caught writing a small note in elementary school.

It was very rare for Sheng Xun to look like this in his uncle's eyes, which made the usually serious uncle laugh, and the driver on the side looked at him almost in horror.

The uncle quickly coughed again, and he raised his hand to pat Sheng Xun on the shoulder.

"You are also at this age, and it's normal to fall in love." The uncle held the car door and continued to say to Sheng Xun, "Today is too late. If the relationship develops stably, I will meet you next time."

After saying this, under Sheng Xun's complicated eyes, my uncle finally got into the car and left with his extremely effective "meet you".

Uncle's words forced Sheng Xun to face up to a problem that he had been ignoring in the past.

He should have been a little worried about that.

But it may be that the family environment that has always been happy has given him confidence, and other important things have come one after another.

Soon, the question of "meet you" was temporarily put on hold.

The two more important things in front of Sheng Xun are one about Yupai and Xiaoqiu, and the other about the Chu family and the Chi family.

The first is the jade card.

On the day when the jade token was brought back, Sheng Xun took out both jade tokens from the heavy wooden box, and he also deliberately put the one that he thought of giving to Xiaoqiu back then into the opponent's hand, and the two of them were in love with each other. Reminisce about the past with this gift, and compare the timetable by the way to record the time period that may resonate.

As a result, it didn't take long for Xiaoqiu to realize that this piece of old jade fit him very well, maybe it was because he had tried to fuse power into the jade tablet back then.

"It can suppress the ghost energy on my body." Xiaoqiu said to Sheng Xun holding the jade, "It has the breath you left behind, my power remains, and the blessing effect when it was first polished and consecrated , the three delicately achieve a balance, making it really something that I can wear, and it can also cover up my original strength."

Sheng Xun immediately realized the usefulness of this jade tablet, and he asked, "How far can it be covered up?"

"I don't know, I need to try it." Xiao Qiu said while pinching the red string on the jade tablet.

Sheng Xun then took the jade tablet over, and he put it on for Xiaoqiu himself.

"You know what?" He said when he was giving Xiaoqiu the jade plaque, "It feels like I'm doing something that should have been done a long time ago."

Xiao Qiu didn't speak at first, but later Sheng Xun realized that the ghost was in a trance.

After the other party came back to his senses, he let out a "hmm".

That moment of trance was enough for Sheng Xun to know that Xiao Qiu felt the same as him.

Time went round and round, and the jade plaque that was not taken away was still hanging around the neck of the same person.

And that person carefully felt the effect of the jade token.

He hasn't spoken yet.

It was Andy who was on the sidelines who spoke first, and the doll couldn't hide her surprise and said, "Huh? You feel like me!"

Little Bear nodded, and it also said: "Yes, you feel more like a weapon spirit now."

What the dolls said was exactly what Xiao Qiu originally wanted to express.

The jade plaque covered up the ghost aura and covered up his original power.

When he put it on, it looked like a weapon spirit with neutral attributes.

"Brother Window" realized Sheng Xun's idea of ​​changing the body in a relatively different way.

He temporarily became a jade card spirit.