Damn that heartthrob

Chen Sheng has been thinking about the reason why Qu Qingchi likes him.

Qu Qingchi is ruthless and scheming. He has never been the kind of person who will treat you well if you look good, you are kind, you are smart, you are funny, and you treat me well.

In fact, in the five-day book, there are many people who are kind to Qu Qingchi, and there are countless people who fall in love with him.But no matter how nice these people were to him, he was indifferent. His heart was like made of stone, so cold that Chen Sheng once wondered why he valued himself.Just like in the previous life, Chen Sheng knew that although Qu Qingchi accepted Guo Qiyou and the others, as long as there was a moment, as long as there was any factor in his plan that required Guo Qiyou and others to die, he would give up Guo Qiyou and the others. There is no hesitation in picking up the knife.

This is not exaggerated by Chen Sheng, this is the state of Qu Qingchi in his previous life.Qu Qingchi's fickleness was never Chen Sheng's nonsense.

Chen Sheng had seen many people go crazy for Qu Qingchi, but no matter whether these people used their true feelings or other means, what they got in the end were all useless results.

Qu Qingchi's intelligence and past make him different from ordinary people. He is the type who laughs at you when you are innocent, bullies you when you are kind, and kills you when you are vicious. No matter what you do, you can't impress him.

Therefore, Chen Sheng, who knows him very well, has never been able to understand why he values ​​himself, his complicated attitude when we first met him, and his silence and thoughtfulness after being rescued. He didn't understand the way he looked at him when they parted, and he didn't understand why this man found him later, and treated him so differently.

Speaking up to this point, in fact, Chen Sheng has never been able to deny that Qu Qingchi treats him well.In this world, he is also the only one who can dictate to Qu Qingchi.It's just that although he knew that he had a different position in Qu Qingchi's heart, if he wanted to ask him the reason... Just like when he was just reborn, Chen Sheng couldn't tell the reason at all.

And the reason for that has never been guessed has been answered today.

you look like him

—Like who?

A rage of being offended couldn't be suppressed.

In fact, Chen Sheng didn't think that Qu Qingchi would raise a substitute. Qu Qingchi lived a sober life and never needed falsehoods and lies to numb himself.

Not only does he not need falsehood to deceive himself, he even keeps looking directly at his most painful past, and then, like watching a play from the sidelines, he carefully calculates what he has lost and what he wants to get back.

So a person like this will never raise any ridiculous substitute, and he doesn't have the time and patience to raise a substitute.

But even knowing this, Chen Sheng couldn't hear anything good from Qu Qingchi's words just now.

So he can't ignore it.

And once he cares about it, it is usually difficult for Qu Qingchi to turn over this article.

At this moment, Chen Sheng held Xiao Sanqian in his hand, and stared at Qu Qingchi's back. When Qu Qingchi turned around, he suddenly put away his fierce side, the smile on his face was like a warm spring breeze, and his expression was as kind as before. His indifference is just Qu Qingchi's illusion.

He lowered his voice, changed his perspective, from the prey that has been caught to the hunter, and said quietly: "Why hurry, the night is still long, and I don't know how to eat people, what are you afraid of." He said When he said this, the tone of his voice became heavier at the beginning, and his tone rose slightly when he was eating people, with a bit of soft laziness. There seemed to be a hidden hook at the end, which made people want to hear his voice again.

He said to Qu Qingchi: "Besides, you said just now that as long as I open my mouth, you will heal me. Now that I have opened my mouth, do you want to leave without helping me?"

"Are you angry?"

Qu Qingchi seemed to be smiling but was not smiling, and answered the wrong question.

"I'm not angry. It's just that you said that I look like someone you know. I'm naturally curious and want to know who that person is. Why, can I ask?"

He also wanted to chat with Chen Sheng. Seeing that Chen Sheng took the initiative, Qu Qingchi walked back from the door. He squatted beside Chen Sheng and said word by word: "Do you know that what you just said doesn't sound like that at all?" Doubtful."

Chen Sheng approached Qu Qingchi's face calmly, his eyes looked down, he seemed to be looking at Qu Qingchi's upright nose, and also seemed to be looking at Qu Qingchi's lips.

The distance at the moment is a little too close.

This action seemed ambiguous, but in fact the eyes of the two people who were looking at each other were clear, and there was absolutely no affection in the exchanged breath.

Not only was there no affection at all, Chen Sheng's eyes seemed to be looking at the meat on the chopping board, and he was thinking about how to cut the knife better.

"I'm used to being stupid, and I didn't hear any difference when I said it," Chen Sheng kept his close movement, opened his mouth slightly, and moved his eyes upwards, staring at Qu Qingchi's slightly curled eyelashes, as if Coaxing a child like: "You might as well learn from me and let me taste it carefully, am I wrong."

Qu Qingchi's red lips moved slightly, raising an unkind arc.He never liked being led by the nose. Even though Chen Sheng's tone was gentle at the moment, the teasing words meant to make him feel uncomfortable.

Chen Sheng naturally understood his thoughts, and he also knew that the Quqing Pool in the painting was not the Quqing Pool in Little Three Thousand School, and the Qu Qing Pool in the painting might not tolerate him because of his arrogance.According to common sense, in order to be on the safe side, he shouldn't talk to Qu Qingchi like this right now, and he also knows that if he wants to find out who he looks like, he can only learn about it from the mouth of Qu Qingchi in the painting .

There is also the need for evidence to convict, he can't deny everything that Qu Qingchi has done before just listening to a few words, in fact, from the last life to this life, the word misunderstanding rarely appeared between him and Qu Qingchi, he also He didn't want to be controlled by the so-called misunderstanding, so he really wanted to find out whether the reason why Qu Qingchi treated him differently had anything to do with the person who looked the same as him.And asking Qu Qingchi from Xiaosanqianzhong about this matter probably won't ask anything. Quqingchi from Xiaosanqianli will definitely avoid the answer that makes him angry, unlike the person in front of him.

Therefore, in order to get the truth, Chen Sheng temporarily suppressed his anger.He patted his leg and changed the topic: "Can you cure me?"

Qu Qingchi tilted his head, and because of this movement, the glazed ear bell on the left came to his face.He half-closed his eyes, and said in a hoarse voice: "Who knows..." He followed Chen Sheng's example and also lengthened the ending.

Chen Sheng was not angry, he opened his hand to him and said, "Come here." Chen Sheng raised his face and directed the other party: "You might as well get closer, take a closer look, and tell me if it can be cured after you see it." I."

Qu Qingchi also noticed that since that sentence was very similar, Chen Sheng's temperament seemed to have changed.

It seemed interesting that Qu Qingchi really listened to Chen Sheng's words.

Chen Sheng did not evade. After being reborn for a long time, he took the initiative to pull Qu Qingchi's hand for the first time. While carefully observing whether Qu Qingchi was disgusted or not, he put Qu Qingchi's hand on his face, and then closed his eyes. eyes, asked Qu Qingchi in a low voice: "Look." He put his face on Qu Qingchi's hand, leaned his lips on the side of Qu Qingchi's palm, spoke very lightly, with a soft tone, and easily let the tears in his mouth The hot air came to Qu Qingchi's palm along with the speed of speaking, leaving behind a different temperature.

"What's wrong with my face?" he said.

Naturally, Qu Qingchi would not be intimidated by his actions, he asked Qu Qingchi to take another look, and Qu Qingchi took advantage of the opportunity to touch his face to confirm again.

After he felt the contours of Chen Sheng's face carefully, Chen Sheng took his hand again, guiding him to touch his Adam's apple that moved up and down, and asked, "How similar are the voices?"

Qu Qingchi raised his eyebrows, and suddenly opened his five fingers, changing from being controlled and guided to being controlled by Chen Sheng.He pinched Chen Sheng's neck and sneered, like a cat catching a mouse.

Chen Sheng was unhurried, and also smiled: "It seems that my face and voice are very similar, only my temperament is different, right?"

Unexpectedly, Qu Qingchi admitted the statement after a laugh: "Yes, only the temperament is different."

A meaningful word "good" appeared in my heart.

Chen Sheng said again: "Is it my good temper, or his good temper?"

Qu Qingchi didn't know what was going on in Chen Sheng's mind right now, and continued, "He rarely smiles at me, and he doesn't want to get along with me."

Chen Sheng said "Oh": "You seem to be very pitiful?"

Hearing this, Qu Qingchi chuckled twice in a low voice. He pointed Chen Sheng's face with his index finger and said, "It's him who is poor."

"Why?"

"Because it's not a good thing to be seen by me."

A "good" word appeared again.

——Fancy?

The smile in Chen Sheng's eyes dissipated, and the hand holding Qu Qingchi suddenly let go, he blinked in annoyance, and said in a strange way: "I've heard such things before."

Qu Qingchi became interested. He sat on Chen Sheng's bed, looked at Chen Sheng leisurely, and prepared to hear what he had to say.

"My Taoist companion once said that it was unfortunate for me to be taken in by him. After thinking about it, he really didn't lie."

As soon as the word Taoist came out, Qu Qingchi slightly bent his fingers and asked, "Do you have a Taoist?" He nodded with his finger on his lap, and said, "What kind of person is it?"

"A man full of lies and arrogance."

"He often lies to you?"

Chen Sheng hummed: "I don't know whether to say it's a lie, or whether he should say that he doesn't want to talk to me about certain things. He always hides important things and uses other things to prevaricate me."

"But listening to your voice, you don't seem to be angry?"

"There's nothing to be angry about." Chen Sheng said lightly, "I know he won't tell me some things, so I'll keep some things from him?"

"for example?"

Chen Sheng thought for a while, "I once told him that he is the person I care about the most."

Qu Qingchi didn't seem interested in such things, so he didn't respond.

"But he doesn't know," Chen Sheng said with a sigh: "I often say this to others."

Only then did Qu Qingchi show a surprised expression.

In fact, Qu Qingchi didn't know that Chen Sheng encountered a lot of troubles earlier, whether it was Guo Qiyou at the beginning or Duan Xiaoxue later, it was a lot of trouble for him in the previous life.Chen Sheng at that time was somewhat different from him in this life. The reason why he was able to find Qu Qingchi in the hands of Duan Xiaoxue, Bai Ye, and Jing Yan to save him was not because of Duan Xiaoxue's kindness, but because of Duan Xiaoxue's kindness. It's because of his observant eyes.

He knows exactly what kind of personality these people have, and he knows how to get along with them.In order to stabilize those people, he thought in his heart that he should establish a good relationship with Duan Xiaoxue and the others. Therefore, we are the best in the world with everyone. We value each other's performance and never hesitate to express, but there is no love in it. relatives and friends.

For example, if Qu Qingchi is there, he will not look at other people, as if only Qu Qingchi is in his eyes, but as long as Qu Qingchi is not there, it will be me and Guo Qiyou/Duan Xiaoxue/Jing Yan/Mo Yan/Bai Ye The best in the world.

As for Xiao Shu?

——Xiao Shu was too cold, they couldn't get better.

In his previous life, he had favored Guo Qiyou in the early stage, and everyone knew about it.In the later stage, he learned a trick from Qu Qingchi and became an excellent water-carrying master. He paid attention to the skill of holding a bowl of water level on the surface, and carried poison for many years, only one time he almost overturned the car.

At that time, Chen Sheng went back to Wangjing to visit his parents. In fact, the main purpose of going back that time was to see Chen Xiuxiu.

That year, my elder brother wrote a letter saying that Xiuxiu had fallen in love with a man. When Chen Sheng received the letter, he was dealing with the affairs on the east side of the false mountain. He was so busy that he thought it was an ordinary family letter when he received the letter. , Ask Mo Yan who is holding the letter to help read it.

After that, Mo Yan read it to him word by word, and when he read about Xiuxiu, Chen Sheng broke the brush in his hand. He couldn't see his face at that time, but he could see it from Mo Yan's expression. Some clues.

After receiving this letter, Chen Sheng felt as if his heart was on fire, and he couldn't sit still at that time.On the eve before he left, he explained the general affairs in the mountain, waited until dawn the next day, randomly took out a batch of things from the treasure house, left a message saying that he wanted to go back to Wangjing, and left.

On the way, Chen Sheng was eager to return home, thinking a lot in his mind.Many years ago, Chen Sheng resigned and went to the monk's place, and he didn't talk to his family about what he did outside. Father Chen was worried because of this. He always felt that as a mortal, Chen Sheng would not live well in the monk's land. Worried that those monks would look down on Chen Sheng and bully Chen Sheng, they worried for a long time, and often mentioned this matter in the letters they sent.

Mo Yan read it twice, and he was also taken in. After Chen Sheng left, he casually raised his mouth.

At this time, Bai Ye, who was pinching Duan Xiaoxue in the courtyard, raised his ears. Jingyan stopped brushing the wall, and the courtyard was silent for a moment. doing things.

Quarreling and quarreling, painting the walls, Mo Yan returned to his room, pondered for a moment, rolled his eyes a few times, and then set his sights on the wardrobe.

After tapping the table with his finger a few times, Mo Yan pursed his lips, and suddenly ran to the closet in small steps, picked and picked in the closet for a long time, took out the clothes inside and gestured repeatedly several times, then looked at the clothes in the closet. Three identical white clothes, the smile on his face gradually disappeared.

Mo Yan is casual and never likes to dress up, but he has a good foundation, even if he doesn't dress up, he looks handsome and elegant, so no one said anything about him, so he only has four clothes.The quantity is not much, but it is enough to change and wash on weekdays.

Moreover, as a monk, there is basically no mess in the method of pinching a body at random, and a piece of clothing can still look like new even if it has been worn for 100 years.

According to Chen Sheng's interpretation, this is probably the happiness of the paper man.Therefore, Mo Yan was very satisfied with these clothes, or he was rarely dissatisfied, but now he decided to go out to Chen's house, and when he looked at these two clothes, he always felt uncomfortable.

Also, even if he doesn't pay attention to the outside world, Mo Yan knows that mortals are different from monks.Cultivators like white clothes, and wearing white clothes is full of immortality, which is very in line with the extraordinary and refined pursuit of monks. Basically, light colors are the first choice of all sects.But in the mortal world, people in white are all attending funerals...

Thinking of this, Mo Yan was a little worried. He thought about the wardrobe for a long time, and finally took out a dark blue robe from the compartment in the wardrobe, and put it on top of the white one.

This outfit looks really good, with the elegance of a scholar, but he feels distressed when he wears this dress.

After all, this dress belonged to Chen Sheng.

It is not easy for him to get it.

He originally wanted to use this dress as a collection, if it wasn't for the fact that there is a lack of clothes and it is difficult to go to the Chen Mansion, he would never wear this dress on his body.But he didn't struggle for a long time, thinking that he still had to go to Chen's house, Mo Yan got dressed and quietly left the room.

The gate of Xuwang Mountain was never opened easily, and Feng Che, who was guarding the gate, sat in front of the gate, drowsy.

Facing the mountain gate, Feng Che with a dumbfounded expression squinted his eyes, just yawned at the dragonfly, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Lord Shaofu appearing sneakily, and nodded at him as he passed by , said a word not to tell others, then opened the door that would not be easily opened and left.

"..."

Feng Che didn't bother to pay attention to him. After all, Qu Qingchi's task for Feng Che was to guard the gate. At this moment, the gate was still there, so Feng Che was not considered a failure. , the handsome and flirtatious river leech came over.

When passing by his side, the river leech didn't say anything, and when he passed by him, the river leech suddenly turned around and gave him a fierce look, and said domineeringly, "How dare you stop me?"

Feng Che who did nothing: "?"

Duan Xiaoxue saw that Feng Che was silent, and sneered: "If you don't want to have my tongue pulled out, you have to know what to say and what not to say."

Feng Che who didn't say a word: "?"

Duan Xiaoxue, who talked to himself, was sent away.

Feng Che didn't know what they were arguing about, but as a stone lion guarding the gate, as long as the gate was still there, he would not be considered a loser.Moreover, it is not easy for him to modify his shape. Although he has a human body, he cannot understand the complexity of the human heart.

Although the two in front of me... can't be regarded as human beings.

But he thought, the animal heart is difficult to understand, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it.

Shaking his head, Feng Che remained the same, and after a while, he saw Bai Ye walking over again.Seeing this, he just wanted to cry up to the sky and ask what happened today.

Bai Ye was a lunatic, Feng Che was very afraid of this smiling lunatic, so when he saw him coming, Feng Che immediately lowered his head and pretended to be dead.

Bai Ye didn't care what Feng Che looked like, when he came here, he first smiled at Feng Che, then bent his smiling eyes, and said to Feng Che, "Oh, the sun is so poisonous, you still have to watch It's pitiful looking at this mountain gate, why don't you go and steal the sword of the first seat with me, after that we kill everyone (Chen Sheng) and take the position of the first seat, how about going to fight Xu Ze by ourselves?"

"..." There was nothing to say to this crazy cat, Feng Che didn't talk to him at all.

Seeing that there was no reaction from him, Bai Ye leaned on the stone steps and wagged his tail lazily, "Speaking of everyone, everyone seems to have returned to Wangjing."

Feng Che: "..."

"It's not like I said, even the small place of Wangjing is only suitable for raising stupid people like us."

Feng Che: "..."

"And the Chen Mansion where everyone is raised is shabby as hell, I feel like laughing just by looking at it."

Feng Che: "..."

"Ah! Speaking of everyone going back to Wangjing today, maybe I can follow up and make fun of everyone."

"..."

"It's just that I haven't had much contact with ordinary people. Since I want to laugh at everyone, I naturally want to show my best side, so as to show everyone's shortcomings and make him feel ashamed. So..." Bai Ye Having said that, he turned his head to look at Feng Che, and asked, "Tell me, mortal," he raised his slender finger to gesture, "It's the kind of old man who likes juniors?

younger generation?

Feng Che was taken aback, thinking how old are you!How do you have the face to talk about juniors? ? ?

and……

"Why do you think a stone lion who has never been down the mountain would know such a thing?"

He is a stone lion, and it is enough for a stone lion to guard the door!

Hearing this, Bai Ye glanced at the curly-haired child squatting on the stone pier, smiled for a moment and said, "Indeed."

"I shouldn't have asked a fool."

He talked a lot in front of Feng Che, and finally he cursed Feng Che before leaving.

Feng Che got angry, but turned his head to see Jing Yan walking over.It's just that Jing Yan is not as happy as the first three. He walks very slowly, his face is full of reluctance, and the resentment around him seems to be able to draw black energy, and his handsome face is gloomy and scary.

He seems to be hesitating.

The man went back to the front of the mountain gate.

Walked to the front of the mountain gate, and then retreated back.

After repeating this several times, he finally retreated...

Feng Che thought that the matter was over here, so he closed his eyes in peace. Unexpectedly, after a while, Jing Yan came back again. He covered himself tightly, and came to Feng Che's side to "slap" the wind twice. Che, said negatively: "Which way down the mountain has more people?"

——Are you sick?

Stone lions are guarding homes and guarding houses to suppress evil spirits!

Which house-keeping stone lion have you seen running around!

Feng Che, who had never left the mountain gate, was about to laugh angrily, and he turned to ask: "Why do you ask this?"

"I want to ask those ordinary people, what do the old men like?"

Then this person didn't like to go out, the dwarf who was obsessed with cleanliness got more and more angry the more he looked at the mountain gate, he kicked the stone pier before he left.

Because of this, Feng Che fell to the ground, looking at Jing Yan who left after beating, he didn't know what he did wrong in his previous life, and that he could encounter these psychosis in this life.

Chen Sheng still didn't know what happened on Mount Xuxu at this moment. He heard that Chen Xiuxiu had gone out and hadn't returned, so he couldn't feel at ease, and he followed Father Chen and asked repeatedly: "What's going on?"

"Who is it?"

"How's your family background?"

"How is your conduct?"

"How are your parents?"

"How many people are in the family?"

"What do you do for a living?"

"How much is the monthly income?"

"Did you come here for Xiuxiu's money?"

"Could it be because of Xiu Xiusheng's good looks! — Shameless!"

Father Chen was annoyed by his reading.

An exasperated Chen Sheng honestly said that this was the first time Father Chen saw it.But thinking that Chen Xiuxiu was brought up by Chen Sheng, and Chen Sheng doted on Chen Xiuxiu since he was a child, Chen's father soon felt relieved to marry his daughter.

But Chen's father felt that no matter how he felt, he still had to be reasonable.He put down his cup and said earnestly: "He only likes your sister because he sees your sister is ugly. Are you even angrier after hearing that?"

Chen Sheng was furious and patted the table, shaking the cups and cups on the table, causing Father Chen to shrink his neck in fright.

"He actually thinks that Xiuxiu is ugly! Is he blind! Why don't you give your eyes to useful people!"

Father Chen said with a bitter face, "Father didn't mean that, he just used an analogy."

"I don't want to compare." Chen Sheng walked on the ground a few times like a trapped animal, and then asked his father, "What does this man look like?"

Father Chen said, "Ugly..."

Chen Sheng stared: "Then he is worthy of Xiuxiu?"

Father Chen went on to say: "—it's not ugly, it's handsome, and I look good."

When Chen Sheng heard this, he said in a strange way: "What would you look at?! You don't have a good-looking face. When the time comes, a group of dubious people will be recruited, and Xiuxiu will be angry when she looks at it."

Father Chen was completely speechless when he heard this, so he took a moment to say: "You have to be reasonable, this person can't be ugly or handsome, what do you want? Also, let's not talk about it first." Speaking of Xiuxiu, what's the matter with you?"

When Chen Sheng heard his father mentioning himself, his expression changed. Calm and serious, he picked up the teacup at the side, brought it to his mouth gracefully, and said calmly, "What's wrong with me?"

Father Chen didn't dare to say more about him, he just said: "You said you went to Little Sacred Peak, and you didn't talk about the specifics of Little Sacred Peak when you went there for many years, just said it was good. But I always think that you are a mortal, My heart is full of ups and downs, and I still can't rest assured. A while ago, your aunt came to the house and said that there was a child in the town with a fairly good spiritual root who joined the sect, but he had been away for many years and had only been an outer disciple for many years. I ran back because I couldn't stand the oppression of my senior brother. Now I can't get high enough to get low. I have been staying at home and have no real business. In addition, I became a half monk and got those cultivation laws. Getting old, I really don't know what he will be like when his family is gone..."

"When I heard this, I thought of you. I thought that people with spiritual roots have such a difficult life. You say that you, a mortal without spiritual roots, can't even touch the outer door? Have you always Find someone to lie to me that you are doing well? Do you only do some idle things in the sect? Do those inner sect disciples often bully you?"

The more Father Chen spoke, the more anxious he became: "Tell me about you! The Taiwei values ​​you, if you are not an official, why are you going to become an immortal!"

Chen's father is also old, and when he said this, he was so sentimental that he shed two tears.He came from an ordinary background and didn't know many things, but even if he didn't know about monks, now he knew that there was a monster in the east, saying that he wanted to fight against Tianzun. He was really disturbed when he heard this, afraid of Chen Sheng This kind of little person will suffer innocently, so he can't sleep well.

Knowing Father Chen's temperament, he was afraid that Father Chen would sleep worse. Chen Sheng couldn't tell Father Chen the truth. Regarding Father Chen's situation, he was afraid that Father Chen would faint immediately if he knew that he was the sweetheart of the head seat of the Little Sacred Peak.

Also to appease Chen's father, Chen Sheng told Chen's father that he met a friend in Little Sacred Peak, he and this friend were life and death friends, this person is very capable, he is his best friend now, and he will come over later , Let Father Chen prepare a banquet and add a pair of chopsticks.

Chen's father's eyes lit up when he heard this, and because he wanted to ask the man about the situation, he said a few good words in succession, and smiled and told the servants in the mansion to make preparations early.

At about noon, Chen Si, the gatekeeper, went to relieve him, and Chen Liu stood for him for a while. As soon as he came to the door, he suddenly saw a person flying from the sky.

This person stepped on auspicious clouds, was dressed in light green clothes, and wore an unobtrusive jasper hairpin on his head. His eyebrows and eyes were picturesque like spring water hibiscus, and he was elegant and approachable.

When people came to the door, Chen Liu thought about Master Chen's words, and immediately went up to greet him, and said, "May I ask if your Excellency came from Xiaosheng Peak?"

The man rolled his smiling eyes and nodded.

Chen Liu made a gesture of invitation, and said to him: "I think you are the close relative and friend who has been taking care of the second master in the mouth of the second master." In order to thank the person in front of him for taking care of Chen Sheng, he added a special sentence : "Your Excellency is really as the second master said, he is an outstanding and personable fairy elder." After saying this, he stretched out his hand behind: "Please!"

"Second Master has already prepared food in the middle hall, and is just waiting for the fairy to arrive."

Hearing this, the man nodded politely, then lifted the corner of his clothes, and walked slowly into the Chen residence. When he arrived at the central hall, the man opened the door and met a pair of familiar eyes.

Guo Qiyou, who was eating grapes at the side, was taken aback and almost choked.

"Bai, Bai Ye?"