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Lin Huai choked, and decided not to compete with Chen Shen in this regard.

"In short, you should follow this clue to investigate. There is no need to involve Jiang Ke," Lin Huai said, he hesitated, "but if it is really necessary, I will help you."

"Actually, this matter may not come to fruition," Chen Shen's answer surprised Lin Huai, "Maybe it was really just an accident, it was just one of so many stories."

"No matter what, if this matter is your heart disease, since there is a chance, my suggestion is to investigate to the end."

"Are you sick..." Chen Shen seemed thoughtful, "Maybe."

"But speaking of it, you were fourteen or fifteen years old at the time." Lin Huai was puzzled, "Why did she tell you a story every week, and then listen to your impressions after reading it? Is this a special project?"

"I also think it's boring, but she insists on doing this, maybe it's some language improvement class." Chen Shen replied with a smile.

Lin Huai didn't speak. He still remembered Chen Shen's doubts about anti-social personality. He was a little confused. Song Yun's story was actually a kind of psychological aid therapy, but he didn't want to take the initiative to doubt and think. He was afraid As he thinks deeply, he will substitute his inherent thinking, and show his doubts in some details of life, which Chen Shen finds out.

"Are you interested in this?" Chen Shen did not miss Lin Huai's response, he asked.

Lin Huai was startled, worried that his mind would be exposed, he opened his mouth to cover it up: "Because I also want to hear the story."

Chen Shen's expression looked extremely surprised. After speaking, Lin Huai also felt that the words were too stupid, but he had to continue: "No one has told me a story yet..." Although he didn't ask for it... …

"A bedtime story?" Chen Shen asked.

"Hmm... huh??" Lin Huai bit his head and nodded, but felt something was wrong again. Why is there a 'before bedtime' in front of it?

"Song Yun told you a bedtime story??"

"No, we almost have a fixed afternoon tea time, but I see that you are interested in storytelling, and said that no one has ever told you, thinking you are referring to the bedtime stories when you were young."

Lin Huai opened his mouth, how could he expect such a childish thing, but when he saw Chen Shen, his heart skipped a beat, and he felt that he was not expecting it... No, what was he thinking? ?

"Didn't your eldest brother and your sister tell you about your family?" Chen Shen continued along this line of thought.

"My elder brother is very busy, and my sister and I didn't see her very much when I was young." The relationship is not considered close, so how could it be possible to tell bedtime stories.

"Well, I thought she'd tell you a bedtime story."

"I feel that when I had an impression of my sister, she was already in high school," Lin Huai tried hard to recall, but since he had the impression, Lin Qu spent a lot of time with Lin Ya at night, and his elder brother told his sister about it. Maybe, after imagining the appearance of his elder brother, he couldn't help laughing, "But my elder brother may have told my sister a bedtime story. My elder sister is a girl, so she is more delicate. Before high school, my elder brother often accompanied her at night. "

"Really? Your sister seems quite independent." Chen Shen was taken aback for a moment. At first glance, the siblings would think they were of the same type of personality. After getting in touch with each other, they would find that there were many differences between the two. But at least one thing is very similar, they are not very willing to rely on others, but Lin Ya is mostly arrogant, while Lin Huai tends to be cold by nature.

"I remember almost all the way to high school. In high school, my sister had nightmares and would still call me big brother, girls." Lin Qu and Lin Ya lived next door, and his room was far away. Lin Qu had never been with him since he was a child. Of course, he doesn't think Lin Qu is eccentric, because he didn't have this need when he was very young, and he has long learned to get rid of the haze of nightmares and fall asleep as soon as possible. Girls are more delicate, and it is normal for them to rely on nightmares.

"Have you never had a nightmare?"

"I did it when I was young, but it's actually quite easy to learn to overcome it." Lin Huai actually couldn't remember what happened so early, but it was certain that he didn't need his elders to accompany him.

Chen Shen didn't answer, with a thoughtful expression on his face, he looked at Lin Huai, Lin Huai narrated the incident very naturally without noticing it, often being in it, it was difficult to realize the difference.

"Your elder brother is indeed very responsible for his family." Chen Shen said.

Hearing this, Lin Huai was taken aback for a moment. Although Chen Shen didn't seem to care much at all, Lin Huai carefully observed Chen Shen's expression before he was relieved, but Chen Shen has always been a genius in thinking and logic. ——

"Then why don't you make up for your childhood regrets tonight?"

Lin Huai hesitated for a second, then woke up immediately, and resolutely refused. He thought the matter was over, but when he came out of the shower, he saw Chen Shen who had already moved a low-back chair and was sitting leisurely beside the bed.

"???" Didn't he say no more.

"I guess you might be embarrassed." Chen Shen said very sincerely.

Lin Huai rubbed his forehead, he sat down on the bed on the other side away from Chen Shen, set up a pillow, and leaned on it, but he couldn't pull it down to drive Chen Shen away, so he compromised: "Then you say it."

"What story do you want to hear?" Chen Shen asked.

Lin Huai didn't want to follow Chen Shen's wishes and listen to childish bedtime fairy tales, so he simply said, "Let's tell a ghost story."

Chen Shen was stunned for a moment, he thought for a moment, seeing him thinking, Lin Huai felt a little regretful, ghost stories are not so easy to find, he wanted to let Chen Shen leave earlier, but now he still keeps him.

"Then..." Chen Shen opened his mouth and seemed to have prepared a story, "A long time ago, on the frozen plain, there was a ghost who lost his heart..."

"..." This ingenious beginning, if someone else said it, Lin Huai would definitely find it weird and curious what kind of story it was, but from Chen Shen's mouth, Lin Huai was basically sure that the other party was making it up now, which is true. The ghost story -- who knows what Chen Shen will make up.

"Losing its heart also makes it lose its sense of taste, so it loses its nature as a ghost and has no interest in harming people," Chen Shen said slowly, "Suddenly one day, a hunter found it , the hunter accepted a commission to hunt down the running princess. The princess fled into the ice field. The hunter was not familiar with the terrain and needed a ghost to lead the way. But because the ghost had no desire, the hunter couldn't get the bargaining chip to attract the ghost, and the ghost didn't even look at it. The hunter glanced at him, so the hunter had to go on the road alone, but after the hunter left, the fugitive princess suddenly appeared in front of the ghost."

"Huh...?" Lin Huai snorted cooperatively, proving that he was listening. Judging from the current development, it looks like a fairy tale.

"Because I felt that the hunter would not return here for a short time, the princess stayed. The kind princess tried to get closer to the ghost, but the other party was indifferent. The princess made a heart out of snowflakes every day, trying to add a color to this wasteland. , but a fake heart is always fake..." Chen Shen's speech slowed down, as if he was thinking about something.

"And then?" Lin Huai looked at Chen Shen suspiciously. Was this story made up casually, or was it a metaphor...?

"Then, it should be that the ghost regained its heart, became a prince, and lived happily with the princess." Chen Shen said, seeing Lin Huai's mouth twitching, he shrugged helplessly, "I'm not good at making up stories. I can’t really tell you a ghost story at night, if you don’t think I’m dishonest, I’ll search for it.”

"Forget it..." Lin Huai was discouraged. For a moment, he thought that Chen Shen was telling himself something through a story, but after thinking about it, how could it be possible? Several positions were separated by a long distance, but he still couldn't help complaining, "You might as well tell me the case."

"That's a good idea," unexpectedly Chen Shen agreed, "What type of case do you want to hear?"

"Hmm... an educational story?" Although he was not afraid, he didn't want to hear too cruel ones at night.

Chen Shen thought for a while and said, "One day, a Chinese couple was attacked, and only the husband and daughter survived..."

"If it was that daughter who was the darling of heaven when she was a child, her grades plummeted after high school, and then she pretended to be admitted to college and work, and finally spread more and more lies, so that she and her boyfriend bought murder to kill her parents, I have heard of it." Lin Huai Interrupting Chen Shen, education is very educational. My daughter deceives herself, saying that she is going to school and work. In fact, she has been wandering outside and doing part-time jobs every day for eight years. Starting from falsifying the report card, the lies are like a snowball. It got bigger and bigger, causing the final tragedy.

"This is it."

"...if the story is classic or interesting, I think we all know it."

"That's true, so I can only make it up now." Chen Shen sighed.

"..." Lin Huai felt that he and Chen Shen were almost looking at each other in blank dismay, and no matter whether it was him or Chen Shen, they were already past this age, and embarrassment was natural, but it was not clear why Chen Shen suddenly couldn't think about it.