Rebirth System: Learning makes me happy

Chapter 172 Childhood Shadow

Su Qingqing brought so many people back to her previous home to play not to reminisce the past, but because she had a "childhood shadow" hidden there.

She had talked about this with her friends in Hai City before, and they were all very eager to try it out after listening to her. They could take this opportunity to experience the shadow that had shadowed her for two lifetimes.

After picking up Xu Ruyi, they walked on the thick snow, talking and laughing as they reached their destination.

Su Qingqing took out a bunch of keys from Yu Xingye's down jacket pocket. She used the only copper key in it to open the door.

Su Qingqing took out five pairs of very clean slippers from the shoe cabinet. She searched again and found a pair of brand new slippers that had not yet been opened.

She tore open the plastic wrap and placed the slippers in front of Yu Xingye, smiling proudly:

"I didn't expect it?"

Yu Xingye laughed: "Yeah, very surprised."

Jiang Nian looked up and saw the slippers on Yu Xingye's feet. She then looked at Su Qingqing's pair of slippers, which she often wore before moving, but which were obviously a couple's pair with Yu Xingye's, and said with a smile:

"After three years, this pair of slippers finally found its owner."

Zheng Yinqiu also noticed it. She touched her chin and said, "Qingqing, don't you like this pair of shoes so much that you just bought them regardless of whether they are a couple's pair?"

Su Qingqing's ears felt hot, and she smiled awkwardly:

"At that time, online shopping had just become popular in our area. When my mother was browsing the website, I fell in love with it at first sight. After I found out that it was a couple's pair, I was still hesitant for a while."

Zheng Boqiu put everyone's shoes in order, except for Su Qingqing and Yu Xingye's. He didn't dare touch theirs.

Hearing this, he couldn't help but teasing, "Then it's a bargain for my uncle."

Yu Xingye glanced at him.

Zheng Boqiu froze for a moment, then changed the subject as if nothing had happened:

"Aunt, where is the horror movie you hid?"

Su Qingqing attributed Zheng Boqiu's fearful yet teasing behavior to one of the unique ways for the uncle and nephew to maintain their relationship.

She looked at Yu Xingye, and seeing that he had nothing to say, she followed Zheng Boqiu's words and said:

"I hid under the statue of the God of Wealth."

Except for Jiang Nian, everyone was very surprised.

Su Qingqing said confidently: "I was less than eight years old at that time, but I thought that the God of Wealth is also a god, so he must be able to suppress such a terrifying thing."

Yu Xingye laughed softly: "Don't you believe in these things, baby?"

Su Qingqing was standing in front of Yu Xingye. When she heard the laughter, she bumped her head against him and whispered:

"Believing in their existence and having faith in them are two different things. When I pass by temples and Taoist temples while hiking, I will go in and burn incense."

Yu Xingye's smile still persisted: "Baby is great."

Everyone else was laughing. Su Qingqing snorted and went to unseal the "seal" of her childhood shadow.

She walked to the shelf at the corner of the living room, lifted the red cloth, and revealed a very well-preserved statue of the God of Wealth inside.

She bowed like her mother usually did, whispered "excuse me", and then reached out without hesitation to take out a CD from the compartment under the statue.

Yu Xingye was afraid that she would be scared, so he stayed within her reach. When he saw her take out the CD, he quickly took it from her.

Su Qingqing carefully put the statue of the God of Wealth back to its original place, and after bowing to it, she put down the red cloth and carefully covered the shelf.

Zheng Boqiu stretched his neck curiously to look at what Yu Xingye was holding, and found that it was just a primary color disc without any pattern or name. He asked Su Qingqing:

"Why is there nothing here?"

Su Qingqing shook her head: "I don't know either. Dad said he bought it at a roadside stall. Before I watched it, I only knew it was a horror movie that wasn't very bloody."

At this point, she sighed quietly:

"Otherwise, Dad wouldn't have brought me to watch it."

Yu Xingye touched her head soothingly.

Xu Ruyi smiled and said, "And I scared you so much that you remembered it for so many years?"

Jiang Nian also laughed: "Not only that, Qingqing threw away all her dolls after reading it."

She seemed to have thought of something, and the smile on her face became even more intense:

"I remember it was Qingqing's birthday. My father spent half a month's salary to buy Qingqing a Barbie doll. She treasured it so much that she would hold it while eating and sleeping. But a few days later, when I went to play with Qingqing again, I saw that she offered the doll to the God of Wealth in the flower shop."

Zheng Yinqiu covered her mouth and laughed secretly: "This really scared our baby."

Xu Ruyi looked at Su Qingqing with a smile: "Baby is so cute."

Jiang Nian joked: "But the doll also escaped the disaster and is still preserved in my mother's store."

Su Qingqing whined and hugged Yu Xingye, holding his wrist and pushing the CD to Zheng Boqiu.

"I'll leave the playback to you."

After taking it, Zheng Boqiu ran to the TV cabinet excitedly. But when he saw the CD player that looked like an antique, he felt a little puzzled.

Jiang Nian walked over and squatted beside him to teach him how to operate it.

Su Qingqing pulled Yu Xingye to sit on the single sofa and squeezed into his arms without any hesitation.

She grabbed Yu Xingye's arm and hugged herself tightly, then took the blanket she brought with her and wrapped herself up.

Yu Xingye curled the corners of his mouth and let her fiddle with it. He only moved his fingers to cover her up when he saw that the blanket was not covered tightly.

Su Qingqing's nose was filled with the scent of Yu Xingye, and she was surrounded by her familiar body temperature. She instantly felt extremely safe.

Yu Xingye kissed the cinnabar mole behind her ear and said softly:

"If you're scared, hide away."

Su Qingqing smiled and rubbed his chest: "Okay."

Zheng Yinqiu and Xu Ruyi smiled at each other, their eyes filled with the joy of eating sugar.

They put out the snacks and drinks they bought on the road, and also gave Su Qingqing a bottle of hot milk.

After Zheng Boqiu and Jiang Nian finished tinkering, they looked at the successfully broadcasted images on TV, hurried back to the sofa, each holding a bag of potato chips and began to watch with relish.

Su Qingqing watched the horror movie on TV that was both strange and familiar. She felt a little scared, but for some reason she was more excited.

On TV, a cute doll strangled the protagonist's sister with a string behind the sofa. Zheng Boqiu and Zheng Yinqiu suddenly turned their heads to look behind them in unison.

Su Qingqing had already buried her left eye in Yu Xingye's arm, and her right eye was almost closed in fear. When she caught a glimpse of the twins' tacit movements from the corner of her eye, the fear in her heart was instantly dispelled by a smile.

Yu Xingye noticed that she was trembling, and subconsciously tightened his arms and wanted to speak to comfort her, but before he opened his mouth he heard her suppressed laughter.

He pinched Su Qingqing's cheek amusingly: "Are you not afraid anymore?"

Su Qingqing nodded, her voice still filled with laughter:

"Big Qiu and Little Qiu are so funny. When I see them getting scared, I suddenly feel that they are not so scary anymore."

Jiang Nian and Xu Ruyi were not afraid of these and even had the leisure to comment on the sound effects.

Zheng Boqiu turned his head silently, hugged the pillow tightly in his arms, and pretended to be calm:

"That was a nice close-up of the doll just now."

Zheng Yinqiu directly hugged Jiang Nian and Xu Ruyi's arms, not hiding her fear at all.

"Sisters, please let me hold you for a while, please."

She looked at Su Qingqing and asked in a low voice:

"Baby, is there any high-energy warning?"

Su Qingqing thought for a moment and said, "There is a particularly scary place behind, but I forgot where it is."

Zheng Yinqiu gave her a sad look and said, "It would be better if you didn't tell me."

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