zero o'clock

【uninvited guest】

Sometime in the early morning of the first day of the new year, there was a knock on the front door of the tea house.

Li Huan drank half a bottle of Wuliangye last night. After being woken up, he only felt a splitting headache. He turned over and covered his head with a pillow. Three seconds later, the man outside stopped knocking on the door and wailed like a ghost: " Help~~~~~!"

Li Huan felt that the mandarin of the other party was like a magic voice, nailed to his brain word by word, directly shouting his spirits.

Of course, he was more worried about the aunt next door being yelled at than his energy.

Lifting the quilt, Li Huan got out of bed with a murderous aura all over his body, put on a coat, and went out with a knife.

It was still dark outside, and he didn't know what time it was, Li Huan hurriedly opened the door latch before the silly hat yelled out.The courtyard door opened, the surroundings were dark and dim, and the two non-human beings looked at each other. Li Huan was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. He slashed his long knife straight to the opponent's neck. With a headache, he said, "Don't dare to call me, believe it or not, I will destroy you?"

The man shrank back in fright, and said in his not-so-fluent Mandarin: "I... I have something to ask Lord Nine Tails for help."

"What demon?" Li Huan asked.

The man said: "Mouse spirit."

The corner of Li Huan's mouth twitched, and he squinted his eyes and looked up and down: "Now the mice have grown so big?" The outdoor was so dark that he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but he could tell that the person was strong and his height was definitely over 1.9 meters, so the appearance of being scared into a ball is very funny.

"I'm a foreign breed, produced in France," the man said weakly, "You know, the mice abroad are all XL versions."

No wonder the accent always sounded like he was about to bite his tongue... Li Huan silently groaned in his heart, took a step aside to make room, and said, "Come in first, the teacher is still resting, it may take a few more days to wake up." Hour."

His voice was lost, and the mouse monster let out an exaggerated "ah", its huge body was so flexible, it rushed over and hugged Li Huan's thigh, wailing, "It's too late! My colleague is missing and I can't wait!"

Inexplicably, Li Huan was wiped with tears and snot all over his pants, and his whole body almost exploded. He kicked him out and said angrily: "Will you call the police when your colleague disappears? You have to find the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox for this kind of thing? Hurry up and go back." , the police will accept it without revealing their identities!"

The muscular mouse monster rolled and fell into the fish pond, and was scared back to its original form by being useless when it hit the water.

The squeaking sound like a pig killing rang through the tea house, mixed with a lot of French retroflex. Li Huan's head was full of black threads and he was completely convinced by this guy. He pulled it out, and comforted him with a helpless face: "Don't cry, and be careful to attract the cat monsters nearby."

The big mouse was crying like pear blossoms and raining, its two paws shrinking and shrinking, and its fat body trembling. When it heard this, it immediately fell silent, its black eyes rolled around uneasily, and it sniffed in aggrieved way: "Really!" Are there any cat demons here? I heard that the monsters in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei have an agreement that forbids the same kind to kill each other, so don't lie to me."

Li Huan: "..."

Anyway, it's a monster, or an imported breed, why are you so cowardly?

Behind the two of them, there was a noise under the peach blossom tree. Ari, who was awakened vividly, pulled the fur tails together, came out in a daze, yawned with his sharp mouth open, and said vaguely: "What's the matter, young master?"

As soon as Li Huan heard the sound, he turned his head and before he had time to speak, he felt the thing in his hand twist desperately, splashing the water stuck to his hair all over his face. Li Huan couldn't figure out why the rat suddenly went crazy. I couldn't bear it anymore and had to let go.

Breaking free from the shackles, the mouse monster rushed out like a cannonball, went straight to Ari, hugged her thigh, "Help~~~~!"

"Where did the evildoer come from?!" Ahri was frightened immediately, kicking her hind legs reflexively.

So within a few minutes, the foreign rat monster fell into the fish pond for the second time.

Half an hour later, the lights in the main room of the Bi'an Tea House were turned on, and the electric kettle was gurgling white steam.

In the sofa booth at the farthest corner, Qi Jingyu was neatly dressed in a shirt and trousers, with fox fur on his shoulders, and his long legs crossed, leaning lazily on the back of the sofa. The man's handsome face showed no joy or anger, and his eyes were radiant. As calm and thorough as ever, he lightly landed on the mouse demon sitting opposite him.

Ari was lying beside the tea table like a Samoyed, sharpening her paws.

The mouse demon had already turned into a human form, with his burly shoulders shrunk to a small size, he was shivering wrapped in a blanket, and the water dripping from his wet clothes fell on the floor and pooled at his feet.

"I'm very sorry, it was my little apprentice who was reckless." Qi Jingyu said politely, "I don't know what to call sir?"

"Raha—" the mouse demon narrowed his eyes and moved his nostrils, "Ha...Haqiu!"

The fishy-smelling droplets rushed over, and the smell was infinitely magnified by the monster's already extremely sensitive senses. The always calm Nine-Tails seldom showed a look of panic that was caught off guard, and then maintained the expression at this moment , he watched as the French mouse blew its nose on the blanket.

Qi Jingyu: "..."

Ari covered his eyes with his front paws, and silently retreated behind the sofa in order to protect himself.

The hot water boiled, and with a soft click, the electric kettle stopped heating. At the same time, Li Huan came out of the back kitchen with a set of tea sets for entertaining guests.Right now, the hall is well lit. Although the two had met each other at the main entrance, it was only at this time that they could truly see each other's appearance.

The human figure of the French Rat Demon is indeed a blond and blue-eyed man with a handsome appearance and a strong and tall figure that makes people feel extremely safe. The original shape is useless, in view of this, even if Young Master Li is a face control, he can't help but give this guy a [-]% discount in his heart.

It's just that this monster... looks familiar.

Li Huan couldn't remember where he had seen this person before. He only thought that he had a hangover and lack of sleep. He bent down and put two bottles of blue and white porcelain teacups on the table, and added tea to them respectively. At this moment, The rat demon who was staring at him suddenly let out a snort.

"Ah! So it's you!!!" Mr. Mouse Demon looked excited, "You're the one who winked at me at Beijing South Railway Station that day?!"

Li Huan: "..."

After what he said, Li Huan remembered, but... What the hell is the wink? !

"No..." Li Huan felt a headache, quickly glanced at his teacher, and said seriously, "Can you change the word?"

The mouse monster thought for a while, and those blue eyes of French blood suddenly became affectionate. Yin's Chinese singing: "Just because I took one more look at you in the crowd~"

"..."

"I can never forget your face again~~~~~"

A row of ellipses appeared above Li Huan's head, and he quickly looked at Qi Jingyu, "Teacher, listen to my explanation—!"

Nine-Tail-sama pressed his forehead and rubbed it, his voice sounded a bit earnest: "Xiao Huan has grown up, and the teacher doesn't want to interfere with your personal problems, but even though you are a demon, this aesthetic can still be learned from anthropology. "

Hu Ling didn't hold back: "Pfft!" Laughing.

Li Huan: "..."

What's the matter? !

Li Huan was so haggard that he wanted to vomit blood, he picked up the electric kettle and poured water for two teacups, then sat down beside the teacher in silence, chatting on WeChat on his mobile phone, using mouse essence as air.Qi Jingyu was in a good mood seeing the little apprentice sulking, so he squeezed open a walnut with his bare hands and passed the nuts over, and then looked at the familiar French mouse again.

"What's your name sir?"

The mouse demon said: "Lagrange."

The corner of Li Huan's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help but look up at him: "Is it easy for you to be beaten to death by a high-level math student by your name?"

"You're talking about Joseph Lagrange, the one who invented the median value theorem?" Lagrange said, "I settled in his kitchen more than 200 years ago and watched him study mathematics every day. His last name, I have always regarded him as my host and thanked me for sharing the bread over the years."

"Are you sure you didn't steal it yourself?"

"Not using rat poison is enough to show that the old man is very kind."

"Ha ha."

"Then, Mr. Lagrange," Qi Jingyu said at the right time before the topic completely went off the rails, bringing the conversation back on track, "You came home this morning, what can we do for you?"

Hearing this, Lagrange, who had recovered with difficulty, suddenly froze again. He looked a little frightened, his brows were locked tightly, his eyes flickered across the faces of the two opposite people one by one, and he said in a trembling voice: "It's like this——"

"At two o'clock in the morning this morning, my colleagues and I came out to buy supper at a convenience store after working overtime. He was standing outside the store smoking a cigarette, but after I paid the money, I suddenly found that he seemed to be possessed and went deep into the pedestrian street. Let's go, but he didn't respond, I chased him out with a midnight snack, and saw him talking to a wall in passage B, then took a step forward, and disappeared..."

The voice dissipated, and the whole tea house fell into a strange silence.

Li Huan was holding the phone, but he couldn't care less about reading the content in the friend group. He thought about the words "disappeared" over and over in his mind, and couldn't help but tighten his brows. After a long time, he said suspiciously: "You Are you sure that's a wall?"

"Sure!" Lagrange said, "I went over to check it, and it's solid!"

Qi Jingyu: "Is that colleague of yours a human or a demon?"

Lagrange: "It's a human being who doesn't know my identity."

"What abnormal behavior have you been doing recently?" Jing Yu asked again

"This..." Lagrange thought for a while, "He is full of energy, his face is rosy, and he is in a good mood."

The corner of Li Huan's mouth twitched: "What kind of abnormal behavior is this?"

"Of course!" Lagrange nodded seriously, "We are programmers who still work overtime at the company on New Year's Eve. We have been in a sub-healthy state of high stress, lack of sleep, and irregular diet for a long time. You say he is normal Is it?"

Li Huan: "Oh."

"Where is the incident?" Qi Jingyu said.

"Zhongguancun Square Pedestrian Street." Lagrange said dryly, took a big sip of water from his cup, then leaned forward mysteriously, and said in a low voice, "I think the feng shui there is bad, Zhongguancun! The housing price per square meter is at least [-] to [-] yuan, and every inch of land is very valuable. Opening a Shaxian snack can make a fortune, but the occupancy rate of the shops on the pedestrian street is less than [-]%, and it is deserted during the day. Two adults, do you think this is strange? "

- To Be Continued