Well of Mystery

r is stronger than this! "

"Of course it's okay to post a baby, but I'm the owner of the car, can you really be willing to call me daddy?" Jiang Chenglu ended the discussion with one sentence.

So Bai Xiuqi, who was enjoying the treatment of expectant pregnant women, was stuffed into the back seat and sat comfortably.Jiang Chenglu jumped into the driver's seat and muttered to himself, "Gentle and gentle, my wife and children sit on the back." With one kick of the accelerator, he made a crisp u_turn, and suddenly turned around and drove out of the apartment.

In fact, the feelings of "pregnant women" are not considered at all.

Bai Xiuqi's hometown is now on the outskirts of a county-level city under the jurisdiction of this city, and it was originally just a summer retreat for the Bai family.The main family has moved here since the mansion in the city was confiscated decades ago.After driving for two hours on the highway.The off-road vehicle drove into the down ramp, and ran on the field road according to Bai Xiuqi's human navigation.

"arrive."

Before noon, they finally entered a natural village.Going north around the big pagoda tree at the entrance of the village, there are rows of villa-style small western-style buildings on both sides of the road, many of which have cauldrons on the roofs.There are also two cars parked in the yard, which can be seen to be very rich.

"Many villagers here set up factories and do business outside. They all say that their hometown has good Fengshui, so they hire people to look after the fields and ancestral graves, and the elderly and children are also kept." Bai Xiuqi explained.

Just as he was talking, the vehicle drove to the end of the village.A large lake suddenly appeared in front of it, and a wind and rain bridge was erected on the lake. Both sides of the bridge were densely covered with lotus leaves and flowers.

"Why does it look familiar?"

Jiang Chenglu muttered.Suddenly, he noticed that Bai Xiuqi's expression in the rearview mirror was a bit awkward.Oh, I remembered, the two of them were still lying in this lotus pond last night.

It is not surprising that there are real-life prototype references in Hutian. It seems that Bai Xiuqi brought the memories of his childhood life into Hutian.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chenglu decided to play tricks on Bai Xiuqi.

"Hey, let me say..." He compared the lotus pond in front of him: "Do you want to come here tonight?"

"Come on. Turn left and turn left!" Bai Xiuqi snuffed out the topic in a second.

The Bai family's mansion is on the bank of this lotus pond. The large Chinese-style courtyard, which is completely different from the small western-style buildings in the village, is surrounded by a gray and white powder wall.From the outside, there is almost nothing to be seen, only green trees and some upturned eaves.The door was wide open.It's just that there is a screen wall horizontally inside the door, covering all the scenery.

Outside the gate was a large open space paved with bluestone slabs, and Jiang Chenglu parked his car beside the drum-holding stone pier at the gate.Come over again to help Bai Xiuqi open the door.Almost at the moment when the sound of the car engine stopped, a five or six-year-old boy ran out from behind the screen wall at the main entrance of the Bai family. After looking around twice, he ran towards this side.

"Brother Qiqi!"

The child's voice hadn't changed yet, and he was screaming coquettishly, and was about to pounce on Bai Xiuqi.Jiang Chenglu didn't look good.He stopped in front of Bai Xiuqi and picked up the child first.

This is good, the child saw that he was picked up by a big brother whom he didn't know, and his whole body was stiff with big eyes and small eyes.It was Bai Xiuqi who patted him on the back and introduced, "This is my brother's friend, just call him A Jiang."

"No, call me brother A Jiang." Jiang Chenglu corrected him seriously, then turned his head to look at Bai Xiuqi: "Come on, you can also call me to listen."

"...Go away and don't teach bad children."

Bai Xiuqi came in a hurry this time, and didn't have time to bring any gifts, so he took out a few pink banknotes from his pocket and stuffed them into the little boy's trousers pocket, and asked him to keep quiet, and then the three of them walked in through the gate.

"Wow, that looks very impressive!"

Jiang Chenglu, who visited here for the first time, exclaimed.

Although it was a different industry back then, the industry of rich businessmen and tycoons still has a certain style.After entering the door and bypassing the screen wall, there is the front yard. There are two inverted rooms on both sides of the south door, and a moon door on the east and west sides, leading to the kitchen and the yard where sundries are piled up.Going north through the courtyard is the main hall. The brick-wood composite building with a rolling roof and a door has the unique elegance and softness of the water town.

It's almost like the golden powder family in the Qiong Yao TV series.

The house is an old house, but it can be seen that it has been properly maintained.The door of the main hall was also open, Bai Xiuqi seemed to have forgotten that she was still on crutches, and walked in like flying.

"Cousin!"

The relatives of the Bai family and the Bai family have always referred to each other as cousins, and the little old man waiting on the armchair in the main hall at this moment is a relative of Grandpa Bai Xiuqi's generation, the person who called him that day on Fuxi Mountain.Bai Xiuqi lived in the country for a long time in his childhood, and he could be regarded as a cousin who watched him grow up.

At this moment, the little old man was very excited to see Bai Xiuqi, but he was stunned after looking up and down.

"Ah! boy, what's the matter with your leg?"

Of course, Bai Xiuqi was prepared, and immediately made up a set of lies about excessive socializing at night, drinking caused stomach bleeding, fainted and fell down the stairs and broke his bones.By the way, I explained that I can only eat light food for the time being.

The old man didn't doubt that he was there, he just kept feeling sorry for his suffering, nagging him a few words before turning his eyes to the other person present.

"Who is this……"

"My friend, Li Kun." Bai Xiuqi prepared another lie: "I used to mention him to you all the time."

"Oh, that young man." The little old man nodded slowly, and suddenly his eyes widened again: "No...I heard that the young master named Li Kun...wasn't killed?"

"..."

It was a strange feeling that the lie was exposed face to face, and Bai Xiuqi began to regret why she made up such a lie that could be easily exposed in the first place.But Jiang Chenglu had obviously anticipated this situation for him.

"Abo, my surname is Ni, Ni Kun, not Li Kun."

He put the little boy down first, took two steps forward and bent over to the old man: "Hi, it's our first meeting. Don't take me for that bastard Li Kun!"

"Oh, it's Ni Kun, Xiao Ni."

The old man nodded again and again, and narrowed his eyes after a while: "Why do you think you... seem familiar?"

Oops, it must have been because of that photo that was stuck in the family tree last time.Bai Xiuqi looks very similar to his ancestors, which can barely be explained, but what should Jiang Chenglu say?

Bai Xiuqi was worried when he heard Jiang Chenglu chuckle: "I am an actor and have won many awards. You must have seen me on TV."

"... Oh, it seems to be."

The old man squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, perhaps because he felt that the young man was a good-looking man who was really good enough to be an actor, so he accepted this setting without hesitation.

Bai Xiuqi really didn't know whether to rejoice or smile wryly.

It was exactly noon now, even though Bai Xiuqi had said earlier that he would not keep the old man busy, he still prepared a table of meals and dragged the two of them to his home.The hospitality is hard to come by, so Bai Xiuqi had no choice but to put aside the idea of ​​looking for paintings for the time being.

Cousin's house is just across the road not far from Bai's house, with the ancestral hall of Bai's family on one side and the field of Cousin's family on the other.The descendants of my cousin's family are prosperous and harmonious. A while ago, when the farming was busy, the children and grandchildren who were doing business or studying outside either hired people or came back to help in person. It was lively for a while before it dispersed.Now the field outside the door is lush and green, which indicates a bumper harvest in the near future.

The dining table was placed under the big locust tree at the entrance, and it was full of meat and vegetables, and a pot of pumpkin porridge was specially cooked for Bai Xiuqi.Cousin is very talkative, especially after having Jiang Chenglu as a fan, he likes to mention some trivial things about Bai Xiuqi's childhood.What makes people concerned is that all the memories stay in the years after Bai Xiuqi was six years old, which was about the same age as his cousin's great-grandson, Fatty.

At the dinner table, Bai Xiuqi also asked his cousin about the early years of the Bai family, but unfortunately, because it was only a separate business of the Bai family at that time, his cousin actually knew very little.Immediately afterwards, the topic turned to the old house.

My cousin said that the old house seemed to be haunted.

Almost at the beginning of this spring, when the weather was still very cold, there was a heavy snowfall in the village.When the snow was at its heaviest, it happened to be one or two o'clock in the morning. A thief came and entered the Bai family's old house over the wall.

There are antiques in the old house of the Bai family. This is known to many people from far and near, but there are also many people who know that most of these antiques are fakes.

The real wealth of the Bai family lies in Baishu's studio, which is connected to a warehouse, where Baishu's paintings are kept.

Some people say that the really valuable paintings must be stored in the bank vault or other safe places, so how could they be kept in such an old house that no one has been in or out all year round.It was only later that they realized that there was something more terrifying than the bank security in the old house of the Bai family.

Chapter [-] Thunder and Lightning Under the Dragon King's Knee

When the thief entered Bai's house, he didn't disturb anyone at all, and no one knew what he met in Bai's house.Anyway, an hour later, the patrol team from the Xiaocun Police Station found him in the lotus pond under the Fengyu Bridge.

The thief seemed to be unharmed from head to toe, but he was sitting in the icy water, shivering from the cold.The team members wanted to drag him ashore, but he refused, insisting that there were ghosts and ghosts chasing him all the way to the shore, and wanted to chop off his fingers.

But there was nothing on the snow on the bank except the thief's own footprints.

Of course, the thief was escorted ashore in the end, but he was admitted to the hospital before being sent to the police station. His right little finger was amputated due to severe frostbite.

Since then, no thief has dared to take advantage of the Bai family's paintings.

...It sounds a bit miraculous, probably Baishu cast some kind of spell in the warehouse.Bai Xiuqi took the time to look at Jiang Chenglu, but thought of going together.

After lunch, because Bai Xiuqi couldn't get wet, Jiang Chenglu contracted out the job of washing the dishes.The cousin and the little fat man were going to take a nap after dinner, and Bai Xiuqi didn't bother him. He sat at the door and waited for A Jiang to come out of the kitchen, and the two of them went outside, first to the Bai's ancestral hall to offer incense.

However, as soon as one foot stepped into the threshold, Jiang Chenglu had something to say again.

"The ancestral hall is really unnecessary. Ordinary ghosts enter the underworld, and no matter how much they memorize, they should be reincarnated after queuing up for decades. There are only two types left, one is the civil servants of the underworld. But The underworld expressly prohibits false publicity for personal gain, and it was discovered that it was double opening..."

"Shuangkai, the ghost world still has a double game?" Bai Xiuqi couldn't help suspecting that Jiang Chenglu was bragging again.

"Shuangkai means expulsion from public office and expulsion from ghost status. Reincarnation is atonement for livestock to pay off debts."

Jiang Chenglu explained patiently: "As for the second type, those ghosts who are serving their sentences in the [-]th floor of hell can't protect themselves, but can they protect their children and grandchildren?"

Said that the two of them had already walked into the ancestral hall.Jiang Chenglu looked around and said with a smile, "Look, it's clean, there's no ghost."

Bai Xiuqi also raised his head and looked around, but he saw the portraits of the ancestors staring at him like three courts, and suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

So he turned away.He threatened Jiang Chenglu in a low voice: "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb."

The two continued to walk forward, and when they reached the altar, Bai Xiuqi told Jiang Chenglu to wait a moment, and he first lit three sticks of incense and knelt down on the futon.He murmured a few words, then turned around and asked Jiang Chenglu to do the same.

Jiang Chenglu simply took three sticks of incense, lit them, held them in his hand, and bowed down.Who knew that before his knees touched the ground, he heard a thunderous thunder outside the hall, shaking the entire ancestral hall.

Bai Xiuqi was so frightened that he hurriedly went to see Jiang Chenglu, and Jiang Chenglu also had a look of astonishment.

Neither of them knew what was going on, and Jiang Chenglu was still going to kneel again after the thunder ended.There was another bright flash of lightning outside, and the tablet of the Bai family in the shrine shook twice, but fortunately, it finally stood firm and did not fall down.

Now Bai Xiuqi could see it, and hurriedly stopped Jiang Chenglu: "...Your dragon's knees are too precious, my ancestors can't afford it, so you better stop kneeling, lest the ancestral hall be split by thunder."

"Oh, good."

Jiang Chenglu nodded, and bowed to the memorial tablet with the incense: "Hello, civil servants of the underworld, oh, maybe there are old seniors who are undergoing reform. My name is Jiang Chenglu. To be honest... I It's the kind of relationship with Xiaobai in your family, if you don't want to, you can object to us now."

After all, he stood carelessly in front of the altar, as if he was really waiting for the result.

Bai Xiuqi was about to be annoyed by him.The thunder almost tore the house down just now, who would dare to object?Sure enough, the ancestral hall was quiet from beginning to end, without any sound.

"Look, I'll say they're all reincarnated." Jiang Chenglu was rather proud.

"Perhaps you ran away in anger." Bai Xiuqi glared at him.

while they were talking.He heard a light rumble from the beam above his head, and then something rolled down and hit Jiang Chenglu on the forehead.

Jiang Chenglu yelled "There is a hidden weapon" and looked down. What fell on the ground was an ugly red-brown walnut the size of a ping-pong ball.

But why are there walnuts on the beams?

He was wondering, Bai Xiuqi had already picked up the things, his eyes sparkled.

"I know this thing. It is an iron walnut collected by my grandfather. The variety is Toadhead. When I was a child, I often saw him kneading it in his hand. Unfortunately, I lost one later. Could it be here?"

Jiang Chenglu was also happy when he heard it: "Oh, this is your grandfather's. Isn't this kind of Wenwan walnut also called palm beads? It seems that he is going to give me his own jewel."

"You are beautiful." Bai Xiuqi sneered: "Didn't you hear me say that this walnut is called a toad's head? You are a toad!"

The two had an argument, and Bai Xiuqi then sent Jiang Chenglu to the roof to check carefully, and there was no trace of another walnut or anything else.

It seems that even if Bai Shu is really here, as long as he is unwilling, no one can find him.The two thought about it or gave up.

There is a small gate on the west side of the ancestral hall garden, and outside the gate is a long and narrow alley shaped like a shoulder pole.Walk two steps against the wall, and there is another door on the opposite wall, which is the Bai family's house.Bai Xiuqi asked his cousin for the key in advance, pushed open the side door and walked in.

Inside the door is a small courtyard, and the rooms in the courtyard are used to store sundries.Walk through the courtyard and go out from the moon gate at the other end, turn to the north, pass through the atrium behind the vertical flower door, and then pass through a larger vertical flower door, and you will arrive at the small side street that separates the front hall from the backyard.

Jiang Cheng laughed while walking along the road: "As expected of a rich family, this house is built like a palace, and it's still front and back..."

Bai Xiuqi didn't bother with him, and led the people all the way to the door in the middle of the side street.Unlocking the lock and pushing the door open, inside is the courtyard where his grandfather Bai Shu used to live.

The courtyard is deep and the forest spring is secluded.The afternoon sun shone through the thick and thin foliage on the pebbled ground.Create a bright yet demure feeling.

Bai Xiuqi pointed to the wing room to the west: "Here, that's the warehouse."

Although being haunted may scare some people away, there are obviously protective measures that should be taken.Under the eaves are surveillance cameras that can directly transmit images back to the security company, and the Chinese-style wooden lattice windows are nailed shut.An anti-theft fence is installed outside, as is the gate, and the two anti-theft doors are also password-type.

"If I were a thief, I would go on the roof." Jiang Chenglu rubbed his chin and began to imagine: "Isn't that what you often do when you go to the house to uncover the tiles and drum up the fleas?"

Bai Xiuqi shook his head: "The roof has also been specially treated, and the tiles can't be peeled off. It's the same as the wall."

The anti-theft door was opened during the conversation, and there was a simple wooden door inside.Bai Xiuqi was about to continue to take out the keys, but Jiang Chenglu looked at the two door god talisman papers pasted on the left and right of the door, and made a gesture of snapping his fingers.

The door opened, and there was a unique smell of painting materials in the air that had not circulated for a long time.Due to the requirements for the preservation of painting materials, the warehouse has a constant temperature and humidity. When they entered the room, they closed the door behind their hands and turned on the lighting.

It is very different from Jiang Chenglu's imagination that there are drawing boards everywhere and calligraphy and paintings on the walls.There are rows of wooden shelves in the warehouse, and there are large and small painting and calligraphy boxes on the shelves.From the outside it is impossible to see what is inside.If you look closely, each box is pasted with a white label, indicating the paintings in the collection.

Bai Xiuqi and Jiang Chenglu split up and searched for one box after another according to the map.This is not a simple project - Bai Shu painted nearly [-] pieces during his lifetime, except some of which were lost in the war.The other part was bought and collected by others, and almost all the rest are stored here.Although the size and arrangement of painting and calligraphy boxes are regular, it is hard work to confirm each one in dim light.

As a "skilled worker", Bai Xiuqi's movements are obviously much faster than Jiang Chenglu's. When he found the end of the second row, he turned his head and found that Jiang Chenglu had moved a special calligraphy and painting box for traditional Chinese painting from the cabinet. opened.

What the hell, everyone said that the Wandering Island is an oil painting, what is he still doing in the Chinese painting box?Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi was about to ask questions when he saw Jiang Chenglu take out a scroll.It unfolded quickly.

"……what happened?!"

Bai Xiuqi rubbed her eyes to make sure again, there was nothing on the hanging scroll.

Jiang Chenglu walked over with the painting and asked him to identify it carefully again.It was only then that he discovered that the picture was not completely blank. There was a faint background color around it, but the most important part was left blank.So instead it seems to have a silhouette.

Bai Xiuqi was no stranger to this silhouette.

"Isn't this the Miaoyin bird?!"

The label on the painting and calligraphy box also gave an affirmative answer, but the protagonist of the picture is completely invisible, as if he flew out of the picture.

Reminiscent of the tragedy that happened to me not long ago, Miaoyiniao should have flown away at that time.On the one hand, Bai Xiuqi marveled at his grandfather's strange methods again, but at the same time secretly rejoiced that the painting had not been sold, otherwise the buyer would have come to make trouble now.

"Your grandfather, he is really...cough, Ma Liang, the magic pen." Jiang Chenglu's thinking is probably similar to his.

"Put the painting away." Bai Xiuqi whispered to Jiang Chenglu: "Add a Taishan Yuanyi curse on the box, don't let anyone open it, and save trouble."

Putting aside the matter of Miao Yinniao for the time being, they continued to search for the oil paintings of the wandering islands.Soon, Bai Xiuqi made a discovery.

"Come here and help me." He pointed with his crutch to a flat box standing on the upper shelf of the wooden frame.

After the box was taken off, it was opened, and there was indeed an oil painting embedded on the foam plastic pad inside.

"Why do you draw a ship?"

Jiang Chenglu frowned, thinking that this product was not the right one, so it was for nothing.

Bai Xiuqi didn't take it seriously: "Look at it carefully,"

ps: The reason why Xiaobai can kneel but Ajiang can’t is that Xiaobai is considered to be a member of the Bai family in this life, no matter how big the leader is in his own ancestral hall, he has to kneel down~ Sometimes when you think about it, reincarnation and ancestral concealment are really true It's quite contradictory. If there is a theory of reincarnation, then we are all ancestors of other families, aren't we?

Chapter [-]: The Island Surrounded by Ghost Fire

Jiang Chenglu was stunned for a moment, and after a closer look, he realized that it was not a ship at all, but a long and narrow island.The island is full of mountains, and the mountains are built with scattered buildings according to the terrain. Looking at it, it looks like a ship sailing on the vast sea.

"This... is the wandering island?" He still couldn't believe it: "Why, isn't it a small piece separated from Shengzhou Island? Why are there so many modern buildings on it?"

"What's the problem?"

"...The problem is like hearing that Yaochi was auctioned off to build a stadium with 8 people. Concubine Yang made her debut in Japan and joined akb48."

What is it all about.Before Bai Xiuqi had time to ask Jiang Chenglu how he knew about AKB48, he heard him say "huh" again, and then pointed to a corner of the screen.

"Why is there someone here?"

Bai Xiuqi looked carefully and found that there was indeed a person's upper body protruding from the middle of the sea waves, and it looked as if he was not wearing any clothes.

"Oh, maybe swimming."

He tried to explain it this way, but in his heart he didn't even believe it.Grandfather is the type who will think deeply about every stroke. It is hard to imagine why he wants to draw a naked swimmer in the middle of the vast sea.

At this time, Jiang Chenglu muttered again: "Hiss... there seems to be a fish next to this person?"

While he was talking, Bai Xiuqi also saw it. About one or two meters away from the naked swimmer, there was a big fish rolling between the waves, perhaps because it was head down, so it could only be seen. Blue fish tail.

Bai Xiuqi frowned.I looked at other places in the oil painting, and there was nothing else on the sea.Therefore, the combination of half man and half fish is particularly strange.

"Wait a minute, wait a moment..." Jiang Chenglu obviously thought a step ahead of him: "What if this is not a man and a fish, but half a man and half a fish?"

"You mean, shark?"

Bai Xiuqi was taken aback for a moment.Immediately thoughtful.

As an ordinary human being, magical creatures like mermaids have appeared in his cognition since the age of fairy tales.However, at this moment, in his mind, there is obviously more information about mermaids than Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales.

The mermaids in the East China Sea cry tears.Burn fat into candles, weave yarn into silk, it is the best band-aid material...

No no no!

Realizing that he had been with Jiang Chenglu for a long time, and his way of thinking was a little weird, Bai Xiuqi shook his head and forcefully expelled the strange thoughts in his head, and then asked: "My grandfather painted in oil paintings. A mermaid? Could it be that there were still mermaids in the East China Sea at that time?"

"I don't think so." Jiang Chenglu shook his head: "Mermen are very delicate creatures, especially they have high requirements for the water quality in the waters they live in. That's why they have never been able to escape from the ocean and travel along the sea. The reason for living inland by the mouth of the sea. But look—"

Having said that, he stretched out his hand and touched the shore of the floating island.

"Look what these are."

"……what?"

Bai Xiuqi saw something strange about the sea surface on the edge of the island.The clear blue water in the distance turned a strange orange-yellow color when it arrived here, looking dirty and harmful.

He seemed to have realized something, and then his eyes shifted to the upper half of the island little by little.Among the layers of concrete buildings, there are many thick chimneys erected, and a puff of smoke is being emitted towards the sky.

"It's industrial pollution."

He was finally able to say the word with certainty: "The sea water and the sky are polluted by industrial waste water, according to what you said just now. This kind of environment is simply not suitable for mermaids to survive."

"That's right." Jiang Chenglu nodded approvingly: "However, there are still many humanoid and semi-humanoid creatures living in the ocean, and it is not ruled out that they migrated from Shengzhou Island with the Wandering Island. Anyway, your grandfather It must have happened, that's all we can know so far."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, then patted his head again: "Speaking of which, we still have no way of knowing where this little broken island is!"

Bai Xiuqi did not answer directly, but turned the oil painting over and removed the frame attached to the outside.

This painting was originally painted on a wooden board, and there is a line of pen writing in the lower right corner on the back of the wooden board, marking the time and specific location of the painting in detail.

"This is my grandfather's habit. It's just like people's habit of writing on the back of photos." Bai Xiuqi explained.

According to this line of pen writing, Wandering Island is not too far away from here, just on the coastline of the southern neighboring province.The two remounted the painting, took photos for backup, and put it back in place.Finally exited the warehouse.

Under the shade of the trees in the yard, there was a set of stone tables and stone drums. Bai Xiuqi sat on it and took out his mobile phone.He typed the address into a browser to search, and matching answers quickly popped up.

"Green Fire Island..." He murmured a strange name: "Uh, it used to be called Ghost Fire Island, but it was changed a little because it didn't sound good. It is said that people on the shore often see the island at night. There are faint blue ghost fires haunting it, hence the name."

Jiang Chenglu couldn't help interjecting: "But shouldn't the will-o'-the-wisps be yellow-green in the usual sense?"

"Of course this is not referring to the will-o'-the-wisps in the cemetery."

Bai Xiuqi continued to browse: "Scientific investigations have found that Rose Fire Island is a strange 'double island' composed of limestone and basalt. The basalt comes from an extinct volcano rising from the seabed. Tens of thousands of years ago, The erupted molten material wrapped the lime island to form the current island... As for how the lime island was formed, there is no explanation above."

"It floated here." Jiang Chenglu felt that there was nothing wrong with it: "It seems that there was a car accident at sea a long time ago, and the Titanic hit an active volcano... By the way, you haven't said that the will-o'-the-wisp is What's going on?"

"It's sulfur. There used to be rich open-air and shallow sulfur resources on the floating island. The geothermal heat of extinct volcanoes often ignites solid sulfur minerals, making them burst into mysterious blue-purple flames. It is precisely after seeing these that the island Sulfur mines and sulfur processing plants were successively built on the mainland, and tens of thousands of workers of different types of work gathered at the busiest time."

Reading through the information obtained from the Internet bit by bit, Bai Xiuqi seemed to feel that the oil painting of his grandfather became vivid in his mind.

The lonely sea fortress, the monotonous steel and concrete buildings reveal endless lights and blue will-o'-the-wisps, the gray smoke in the sky and the orange-yellow waste water on the sea interweave a surreal dangerous scene-of course The mermaid in the sea looked up from the waves in the distance.

What kind of expression will it have on its face?Bai Xiuqi thought about it, but didn't dare to think deeply.

That night, Bai Xiuqi and Jiang Chenglu stayed overnight in the Bai family's old house, and did not encounter any strange things.Although Jiang Chenglu tried to persuade them, they didn't sleep on the covered bridge outside the house in the end.

On the contrary, Bai Xiuqi got up early in the morning and picked a few lotus pods. The fresh, crisp and tender taste, with a delicate fragrance and sweetness, is really not something you can buy in the city.

Because they were still thinking about more information about the wandering island, after breakfast, they hurriedly said goodbye to their cousins, grandparents, and drove back to Xuanjing Apartment.Along the way, Bai Xiuqi looked up the information on his mobile phone intermittently, returned to the apartment, and immediately ran to the West Building to find Hua Yang.

Perhaps because everything has been going so smoothly recently, Bai Xiuqi completely forgot that there is still a little witch in Huayang's house.

Huayin is wearing a blue satin dress today. Lovely lace hangs from the skirt and sleeves. Her hair is tied into a ponytail with half a hydrangea flower and a few thin ribbons——Bai Xiuqi finally I kind of understand why the clothes of the dolls are handed over to this little girl.

Oh, no, this is a little girl who is more than 1000 years old.

Just when Bai Xiuqi was in a daze, Huayin saw that it was a "rival in love" who came to the door, and immediately lost her face, and after saying "what are you doing", she blocked the door with her arms folded.

"I have something to do with your brother." Bai Xiuqi didn't want to talk nonsense with her, so he cut straight to the point.

Who knew that Huayin shook her head impatiently: "He's not here, he's with Brother Shang." Having said that, she paused for a moment and then deliberately added: "Hey, I thought you might want to hit my brother too Your idea?!"

Just kidding, what exactly is in this girl's head?You don't really think you have sex with the whole apartment, do you?

Bai Xiuqi couldn't laugh or cry, but after a second thought, he felt that if nothing else was mentioned, at least this was a good opportunity to reverse Huayin's prejudice.

So he temporarily put aside the matter of the wandering island, and asked in a soft voice: "Miss Hua, can you listen to me?"

"what do you want to say?"

Perhaps the phrase "Miss Hua" hit Huayin's arms, although the little girl still looked impatient, she gave Bai Xiuqi a chance to speak.

Bai Xiuqi said "Thank you", then cleared his throat and said the first sentence.

"Don't worry, I really don't have any special meaning for your brother. In fact, I'm a straight man."

"Are you a straight man?" Hua Yin's eyes widened, and then she stretched out her small hand and waved in front of Bai Xiuqi: "Are you blind? Think A Jiang is a woman? Or do you actually not like him at all?"

The three consecutive questions at least proved that her curiosity had been aroused.Bai Xiuqi secretly encouraged herself, and then nodded vigorously.

"I like it, of course I like Jiang Chenglu, and I am confident that I must like him the most in the world. Before I met him, I was an out-and-out, unwavering straight man. But this also just proves that , my liking for him has surpassed the boundaries of gender. Isn't this enough for my determination?"

Chapter [-]: The Moth Tour Group

Hua Yin was a little taken aback by Bai Xiuqi's confession, but she still pouted with a tigerish face.

"It's my favorite in the world... Joke, how long have you two known each other, and you are so eager to apply for the Guinness World Record? This just proves your frivolity and superficiality, yes, superficiality!"

Bai Xiuqi was amused by her bluff.

"Jiang Chenglu and I have known each other for far longer than you think."

Having said that, he paused for a moment, and suddenly leaned over to stare at Huayin's small face: "Speaking of which, you know I'm a painter, right?"

Although she is prejudiced, Huayin has to admit that Bai Xiuqi's appearance still meets her aesthetic standards.Especially when such a handsome man bent down and stared at her wholeheartedly, it was really dizzy.

So she deliberately coughed, pretending not to care and asked back: "I know... so what?"

"not so good."

Bai Xiuqi smiled: "To be honest, I have been drawing for so many years, but I have never seen a woman as beautiful as you. Can I draw a portrait for you too?"

At this moment, Huayin seemed to hear her own beating voice.

"You... like me?" She finally turned her head back to look at Bai Xiuqi.

"Well, I like it. I like all beautiful people and things."

Bai Xiuqi nodded obediently, and was thinking of adding that this kind of liking is not the kind of liking between men and women, but when she saw Huayin's small face, her face suddenly turned hideous again.

She beat her up: "You are still a pervert, you actually like minors!"

Bai Xiuqi felt that he was really speechless: "...don't you like being treated like a child?"

Hua Yin nodded, with an expression that was completely preposterous: "So what? Anyway, I look small! Anyone who would like me now is a pervert!"

After saying this, she suddenly pushed Bai Xiuqi away and ran downstairs.

Bai Xiuqi wanted to chase after him, only then remembered that his legs and feet were inconvenient, and at this time.Hua Yang also came out of Shang Douxing's room next door.

"Don't worry about her."

Hua Yang, who is the older brother, grabbed Bai Xiuqi's hand and led him into the house without any explanation, and then he sighed after taking him to the door.

"My sister has that temper. If you like it, you must get it.