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When the sun once again filled every corner, Zheng Laiyi was already obediently sitting at the dining table waiting for dinner.

Jiang Mingjing came out of the kitchen, put down the freshly steamed dumplings in front of Zheng Laiyi, put the prepared sauce aside, and said, "Come on, eat more of your favorite dumplings while it's hot."

"Eat more", this sentence has almost become Jiang Mingjing's mantra, as long as he faces Zheng Laiyi, he will definitely say this sentence.

Zheng Laiyi stared blankly at the dumpling in front of her, not moving for a long time.Jiang Mingjing frowned slightly and knocked on the table.

"Laiyi?" Could it be that he doesn't even want to eat dumplings?

Zheng Laiyi moved. He picked up the chopsticks, picked up a dumpling slowly, dipped it in some sauce, and then ate the large dumpling stuffed with so much stuffing that he almost couldn't close his mouth.

Holding the document in his hand, but staring at the person opposite, he didn't dare to ask nervously until Zheng Laiyi swallowed everything in his mouth, "Is it delicious?"

Zheng Laiyi praised without hesitation: "It's delicious."

Satisfied, Jiang Mingjing picked up his cup and took a sip of coffee, before looking down at the document, he said, "Eat more."

After breakfast, Liu Huixian came to visit and continued the tutoring class that was interrupted before.During this time, Jiang Mingjing started tidying up the house.

From the kitchen to the living room, Jiang Mingjing couldn't help but pause when his sight touched the wine cabinet in the corner.

Walking over, opening the special glass door, his fingers slowly slid across each wine bottle, and finally, he stayed on a wine bottle and did not move.

It was an unfinished bottle of Shaoxing wine.

"Mr. Jiang?"

The sudden voice brought Jiang Mingjing back from his thoughts. He immediately recovered, turned to look at Liu Huixian, and asked, "Teacher Liu, what's the matter?"

Although she didn't know what was going on, Liu Huixian vaguely felt that she had disturbed him, so she was a little flustered, and stammered, "Laiyi... class is over."

"Oh, that's it, it's hard work." Seeing the figure following Liu Huixian, Jiang Mingjing hurriedly beckoned that person over, "Laiyi, I got some fruit in the kitchen, you go and eat it." Looking back at Liu Huixian , "Ms. Liu, you also stay to have lunch together? It will be done soon. If you are hungry, eat some fruit first."

Liu Huixian shook her head, politely declining Jiang Mingjing's kindness.Although there is nothing urgent to do next, since Zheng Laiyi disappeared last time due to her own reasons, Liu Huixian will feel guilty when facing Jiang Mingjing. If it wasn't for Zheng Laiyi, she would never dare to be in front of Jiang Mingjing Appear.

Sensing Liu Huixian's restraint, Jiang Mingjing didn't do much to keep him, and sent him away politely.

Back at the villa, Zheng Laiyi was sitting at the dining table eating the fruit Jiang Mingjing had prepared for him.

At lunch, Jiang Mingjing took out the unfinished bottle of Shaoxing wine from the wine cabinet and poured a glass for himself and Zheng Laiyi.

"Why drink?" Zheng Laiyi asked.

"Congratulations on your return?" Jiang Mingjing replied, "Anyway, you eat and sleep well, and everything is fine. If you are happy, then drink some wine to cheer you up."

Zheng Laiyi didn't speak anymore, just drank the glass of wine, but Jiang Mingjing drank the rest. Fortunately, he was a good drinker, so he regained his sobriety after taking a rest after eating.

In the afternoon, Zheng Laiyi went back to her room for an afternoon nap, and Jiang Mingjing continued to tidy up the house.After the first floor was cleaned up, he went up to the second floor to tidy up the leisure room.

Open the curtains, and the bright sunlight pours in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating every detail in the room.Jiang Mingjing cleaned up the garbage first, then put pillows and other things where they should be placed, and put one on the rattan rocking chair, and then...

Jiang Mingjing paused again. This time he found gauze and medicine on the small table next to the rattan rocking chair—these were left over from Zheng Laiyi's foot injury.

Speaking of which, he had seen the moon with Zheng Laiyi here before, and that was the first time he saw the kid crying.Looking back now, those tears were so beautiful that it broke my heart. There was no other way but to hold him tightly.

He is such a capricious but unlovable peculiar kid...

"Mirror."

Huo got up, and Jiang Mingjing who stood up in a hurry looked a little embarrassed.

"Laiyi? Why, can't you sleep?"

Zheng Laiyi pointed to the clock on the wall and said, "It's already 03:30, I'm full of sleep."

"Oh, it's so late?" Coming over, Jiang Mingjing dragged him downstairs, "Then come down for afternoon tea, I have prepared some snacks."

When he got downstairs, Jiang Mingjing made a cup of black tea, then took out the green tea cake from the refrigerator, and put them in front of Zheng Laiyi.This is his afternoon tea, instead of the previous sugar water.

Looking at the carefully prepared things in front of her, Zheng Laiyi raised her head and asked, "Why are you being so nice to me?"

Jiang Mingjing froze for a moment, but quickly said, "Because I want to do this, I promised you that I will always be with you, and I will always take care of you."

Zheng Laiyi was silent.

Dinner was cooked by Jiang Mingjing himself, a table full of vegetarian dishes.The last time I saw that Zheng Laiyi liked the food in the vegetarian restaurant so much, Jiang Mingjing put in a lot of effort to find the recipes, and finally became a teacher today. After more than an hour of tossing around, he finally came up with a table of dishes that he was satisfied with.

"Laiyi, eat more." Jiang Mingjing ordered as before, but this time Zheng Laiyi didn't move, letting the aroma of the food in front of him overflow, he just didn't move his chopsticks.

"How long do you want to treat me as 'him'?" Zheng Laiyi said this with undisguised anger in his tone.

Jiang Mingjing frowned slightly and said, "What are you talking about?"

Taking a deep breath, Zheng Laiyi suppressed the sudden emotion in his heart, and when he calmed down a little, he said, "Do you know what is the cycle of cause and effect?"

Jiang Mingjing froze.

Zheng Laiyi continued to ask: "Have you ever heard of such words as 'died by death' and 'unfinished life'? Or, do you know what order is?"

Jiang Mingjing clenched his hands under the table and remained silent.

Sighing, Zheng Laiyi looked straight at Jiang Mingjing and said, "There are many people who died violently in this world, and there are also many people who committed suicide. From the point of view of the causal cycle, the murderous death is probably due to too many crimes in the previous life, so in this life Retribution; the person who committed suicide may be wronged in the previous life, and he will repay it in this life. But no matter how precise the instrument is, there will always be mistakes, not to mention the world is so big, the order cannot always be correct, right? So there are occasional Yangshou It’s not surprising that people who died unexpectedly before the end of their lives, or those who ended their lives without permission?” Looking down at the dishes on the table, Zheng Laiyi’s voice became more and more illusory, as if it was about to melt into the air. Generally speaking, "in order to correct the trajectory, the tea maker will take in people who have not yet lived their lives but died accidentally, and let them live in the Lingqi Teahouse as spirits, waiting for the opportunity to get into other people's bodies and return to the world; and those who commit suicide without authorization People will be temporarily detained in the world for three months, and forced to stay in the Lingxi Teahouse as self-salvation spirits, if they still do not want to be resurrected after three months, then they will be sent to the underworld." After talking so much, Zheng Laiyi breathed a little, "I really can't remember, but I still remember the feeling of water pouring down my throat when I committed suicide. Jiang Mingjing, you know that I am not the one you took care of."

Suppressing himself with all his strength, Jiang Mingjing tried his best to hold back the urge to speak. Although he didn't know what he would say, he knew that if he said it at this time, everything would be irreversible.

Tired, Zheng Laiyi said the last sentence.

"If the guardian spirits give up waiting, then in order to make up for the impact caused by their stay in the world, they will be deprived of the chance to be reborn, and they will disappear and disappear completely."

"boom!"

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Mingjing had already rushed out of the villa.

Zheng Laiyi, who was left behind, looked at the carefully cooked food in front of him, finally picked up the chopsticks, picked up a bamboo shoot with chopsticks, and put it in his mouth to chew slowly.