no puppet

"Most of the spices that girls use in their daily life are dried flowers and mixed with different types."

"Some are piled into sachets and kept close to your body... Some are made into aromatherapy, which are only suitable for lighting in the room. Counting them, there must be at least dozens of them. Unless you have a dog's nose, you can't identify them at all."

Not long after the night fell, the light rain outside the window gradually stopped.

Xie Hengyan placed more than a dozen piles of dried flowers and spices in front of the table. From left to right, he pointed out to Yin Chun one by one: "This is plum blossom, this is sweet-scented osmanthus, this is crabapple, this is plum blossom mixed with sweet-scented osmanthus, and this is mixed with sweet-scented osmanthus." Haitang, this is..."

"Enough." Yin Chun hurriedly shouted to stop.

Xie Hengyan snorted, and said with extreme disdain: "I knew it, you can't do it."

Yin Chu ignored it and said, "What about the other rooms?"

Xie Hengyan stared suddenly: "You still want to break into the girl's boudoir?"

Yin Chun didn't say a word, just walked towards the door with his wet clothes on.

Xie Hengyan panicked at the time, and rushed up and grabbed him, saying, "Hey, don't run around! Aunt Liu will find out later, tie you up and soak in a pig cage, believe it or not?"

Yin Chun didn't even look at him: "You put on your clothes first."

Xie Hengyan gritted her teeth and said, "You dog..."

Before he finished speaking, there was another quick and hasty knock on the door.

Xiaolu opened her throat and howled loudly outside the house alone: ​​"Xiao Xie, Xiao Xie, are you in there? There have been too many things recently, don't scare me!"

Xie Hengyan's brows twitched in horror, and subconsciously responded: "Yes, I am here, you don't have to worry..."

With a squeak, the girl lost her mind and was about to force her way in while holding on to the door frame.Xie Hengyan's face turned green, and she hurriedly pressed the door panel, faltering and saying no to her: "Don't go in yet, good sister, I'm taking a bath... I don't have any clothes on!"

Xiaolu crouched in front of the door, still refusing to leave: "Then get dressed quickly, I'll wait for you."

Xie Hengyan was instantly stunned: "...what are you waiting for me?"

Little Green's voice was astringent, obviously a little uneasy, and said: "It's getting dark, I'm a little scared."

Xie Hengyan: "What are you afraid of?"

Xiaolu sobbed softly: "It turns out that Xiaotao and I lived in the same room, but now I'm alone, and I haven't slept all night... I really don't dare to stay in the room."

Xie Hengyan's almond eyes widened, she turned her head and looked at Yin Chun for a while, the latter also looked at a loss, as if she didn't know what to do.

——Yin Chun, this bastard, since he is racking his brains to get into the empty building, he certainly doesn't want to be seen whereabouts.

Of course Xie Hengyan knew this point, but at this moment, the girl was also crying across the door, and it seemed too unreasonable not to let her in.

"Xiao Xie, I...I'm really scared." Xiaolu wiped her tears with her hands and begged in a muffled voice, "Can I... can I come and live with you in your room tonight?"

Xie Hengyan: "?"

Yin Chun: "...?"

Xiaolu: "If you don't speak, I will take it as your agreement?"

Xie Hengyan leaned against the door with her back, and mouthed directly at Yinzhen: "What are you doing here in a daze? Why don't you leave?"

Yin Chun turned his head and glanced around—now the door is blocked, the carved windows are closed, and even the bucket of steaming bath water has gradually cooled down, without any residual warmth.

Xie Hengyan followed suit for a while, as if there was really no place for people to hide, so he had no choice but to reach out and point backwards: "...Get behind the screen, behind the screen!"

After a while, Xiaolu finally walked into the door as she wished.The girl's eyes were still red and swollen like two walnuts, but she did not forget to hold another half of the soft pillow and thin blanket in her hand, it seemed that she was really ready to go to Xie Xiaowan's arms.

At this moment, Xie Hengyan's room was crowded into a mess, not to mention the water stains scattered all over the floor, and the half-person-high bathtub in the center hadn't been cleaned up yet.

As for Xie Hengyan himself, he casually put on a thin shirt and stood timidly in front of a screen in the corner, like a quail that has just hatched.

"You...you really want to spend the night here?" Xie Hengyan said incredulously, "It's not suitable for us to be alone, is it?"

Unexpectedly, when he asked this casually, Xiaolu squatted on the ground with a "wow" and began to cry loudly: "You are the only big man in the whole empty building. My sister treats you well on weekdays. At critical moments, you It should start to work..."

Xie Hengyan was most afraid of the girl's tears, so her hands and feet were frightened immediately, and she hurriedly stepped forward to carefully support her and said, "Don't, don't, don't cry, don't cry, just let you live! I'll give you the bed, and I'll sleep on the floor. Is this okay? "

Before the words were finished, there was another sound of footsteps outside the door. The girl Achun from the next room quietly poked her head in, leaned against the door frame and asked, "Xiao Xie, I'm afraid too...can I talk to you?" Xiaolu squeezed into a bed?"

After a while, Aqiu who was downstairs also whispered in front of the door: "Xiao Xie, your bed is quite big... There should be no problem sleeping three girls, right?"

Xie Hengyan: "..."

Ever since, in just half a stick of incense, Xie Hengyan's room was instantly filled with more than a dozen pretty girls in all their splendor, all of whom were fragrant with each other, especially the strong body fragrance brought by dried flowers close to her body.

In the end, even Liu Zhou'er felt that this place was very good, and wanted to come up with pillows and quilts to join in the fun.

Xie Hengyan huddled by the screen alone, as the only seedling with a handle in the whole empty building, he had a great responsibility - the big reason was that he was an indomitable man, and he was in harmony with all the delicate and soft girls around him. no the same.

"Hey, your surname is Yin, why don't you get out of it?" Xie Hengyan looked at a room full of women, and couldn't help but bend her elbows and quietly pushed her against the screen, "Don't you want to sleep on the spot and be with the whole house?" Let the flower girls in Kongzhanlou spend a good night together?"

The screen jerked forward, almost causing him to fall to the ground and eat mud like a dog.Fortunately, Xie Hengyan's center of gravity is relatively stable. After a little stagger, he supported the corner of the table to stabilize his hands and feet. At the end, he didn't forget to turn his head and stare at the screen: "You wait for me, bastard, if you don't watch Before you..."

"Thank you!"

Suddenly someone raised his voice and called him, "Come here and spread the quilt... Your room is so cool, much more comfortable than where I live."

"Eh? What's the matter..."

Xie Hengyan finally stopped competing with the screen, and instead walked towards the girls with a smile, brushed the soft bedding all over the floor, and joked with them: "The things from other people's homes are always better than those from your own home." ——That’s the crooked reasoning.”

Xiaolu also sat in the middle of the crowd, stopped rubbing her nose and crying, and tried to laugh with others.

But in the blink of an eye, the bedside floor of Xie Hengyan's room was already filled with embroidered pillows of girls.

There are endless strange things in the town, and everyone is full of panic, but as long as they get together and fight with each other, the fear can be alleviated a lot.

There are not many other things in the empty building, but there are quite a lot of paper lanterns and candlesticks after nightfall.Before going to bed, the girls are used to lighting up the room with aromatherapy, plus a row of neatly stacked red candles, burning on the window sill and swaying with the wind, which can also make people feel happy physically and mentally, and fall into a peaceful sleep as soon as possible.

Poor Xie Hengyan, a lone male quail, was forced to huddle beside a screen in the corner at this time, neither moving forward nor backward, so he could only sit on the spot with his knees hugged and take a nap.

——He really underestimated the fear of the unknown outcome when people are in crisis.

But in fact, whether it is death or life, for him, these experiences have already become a kind of normality in his past life.

In this world, there will always be something scarier than death.

There is only one thing that is very different from before.

Xie Hengyan has never been like this before, sitting in a crowded room with more than a dozen people gathered in piles—even though the summer night heat is overwhelming, what she can feel at this moment is a kind of warmth and sweetness from the heart.

Liu Zhou'er said: "When I was young, my family was very poor. My father, mother and three brothers often slept on the same couch like this."

Xiaolu also took up the conversation, sat in the middle of the group of sisters, wrapped in a quilt and said softly: "There are many younger sisters in my family, so they always like to sneak into my arms."

Ah Chun, who lives next door, also interjected: "My younger sister is also like this. If she has something to do, she will come and grab the quilt with me. Now that her parents are grown up, they are already married and have babies."

Little green eyes turned red again, and she turned her head secretly and said, "Oh... my hometown was flooded the year before last, and my sister was drowned by the flood..."

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Zhouer hurriedly grabbed Xie Hengyan's arm and called for help: "Xiao Xie, Xiao Xie, tell me about your sister, how old is she? Are you married? Have you had a baby?"

Xie Hengyan froze, then said at a loss, "I... don't have a younger sister."

"Where's brother?"

"……No."

"Where's Auntie?"

"No mother."

Liu Zhou'er was speechless: "Then what do you have?"

"There is only one father." Xie Hengyan quietly moved back a little bit, always feeling a bit out of place with the surrounding atmosphere, "He...uh, disappeared some time ago."

Xiaolu was stunned and said: "It's gone? Can this big living person still disappear?"

Xie Hengyan: "Why not?"

Xiaolu: "Where did he go?"

Liu Zhou'er turned around and sneered: "They say that the person is gone, aren't you just asking nonsense?"

Xiaolu asked again with concern: "Then...do you have any news about him? Tell me, maybe we can find it for you."

"...It's useless." Xie Hengyan said awkwardly, "He doesn't want me anymore."

When everyone heard the words, they couldn't believe it: "What? No?!"

Xie Hengyan straightened her waist, and shrank towards the screen: "Yes, I don't want it. And..."

"and?"

"Besides, I don't know the way either." Xie Hengyan scratched her head and said embarrassedly, "Maybe I'm messing around and getting farther and farther away from him."

But Xiaolu said: "It's hard to say - where did you live?"

Xie Hengyan was taken aback for a moment, but still answered truthfully: "Tongjing Island."

"...On the other side of Fuze Mountain, there is Tongjing Island near the sea."