devil's pet

"what should I do?"

Zhuo Xiran asked herself repeatedly.

Want to ask Wei Qi?Apologize to him, beg him to forgive yourself, it doesn't matter if you give him a cow and a horse in this life, just ask him to leave the house to yourself.

It's not that he hasn't asked, Wei Qi's attitude seems to be very clear, he doesn't miss the old feelings at all, making Zhuo Xiran suspect that the good relationship between the two before was just his own wishful thinking.At first, Zhuo Xiran also thought that the other party just wanted to pay compensation, but now that Wei Qi's obsession with this house has surpassed Zhuo Xiran's imagination, Zhuo Xiran had to think, what did he want? Do you want money, or do you want a house?

On the outskirts of City K, the reason why Zhuo’s century-old house has been well preserved and not taken away as a cultural relic by the country is because it is a European Gothic-style building. It was originally not far from the Catholic Church. A house where a priest lives.Grandpa's father is a devout Catholic believer, and he has a very good relationship with the priest. Catholic priests are not allowed to marry, and because he is far away from home, he has no relatives. After his death, he gave this house to his grandfather's father.

His grandfather, Zhuo Yinian, was an atheist and had a very xenophobic personality, but he was born here after all, he had feelings for him, even if he felt disgusted, he was reluctant to leave.Therefore, after Grandpa's father passed away, he piled up all the European-style furniture in the house in the attic and replaced it with Chinese-style mahogany furniture.As a result, the whole house was made to be a combination of local and foreign, Chinese and Western, which looked nondescript, weird and abrupt.

The plants in the yard have also changed from the earliest roses to chrysanthemums.

[The flower language of Lintuo chrysanthemum: eternal love. 】

Grandpa's love for grandma is eternal. He really never remarried until he died, and he really kept his promise. He never left his hometown or moved out of the old house.

Whenever the light yellow chrysanthemums are in full bloom in the garden, grandpa stands in the center of the garden, looking at the long sea of ​​flowers, and always has a few sentimental words.

"Of course, the priest entrusted the house to your great-grandfather, and your great-grandfather passed it on to me. Although I don't like this house, I promised your great-grandfather to take good care of it, and he will definitely fulfill my promise. Man Be sure to keep your promise! Do you know?" He stroked the iron wreath, "I know you like it, I believe you will take better care of it than me, so in the future when I die, it will be yours, without your father For the sake of mom and your big brother and big sister, let them die in the United States, and never come back!"

Zhuo Yinian coughed hard twice, leaned on a cane with both hands, and poked the soil in the garden fiercely. He didn't know whether he was angry at the children for not coming home, or because they were not patriotic.Or maybe both.

"However, you must not follow them. People leave the land where they were born and raised themselves. Even if they climb to the top of the world, they are doomed to be just floating duckweed. They drift with the tide and cannot escape the emptiness and loneliness of their hearts. On the homeland, absorb the nutrients of the soil and have a thick foundation to keep climbing up. When the dream finally comes true, the heart is solid and full, just like this ripe fruit, which is mellow and sweet, which makes people endless aftertaste. "

The little boy beside him chewed his fingers, tilted his head, and looked at Zhuo Yinian with his big watery and black eyes, curious and puzzled.Zhuo Yinian looked at his grandson, swept away the melancholy on his face, he smiled, knelt down and touched the little boy's head, and said with a loving smile: "Of course, promise grandpa to take good care of the home that only belongs to us, okay ?"

The little boy thought for a while, and although he didn't quite understand what Grandpa said, he still nodded and said in a childish voice, "Of course I understand."

Zhuo Yinian pinched his pink face: "Of course, be good!"

"Grandpa..." The little boy reached out to touch the wrinkles in the corners of his grandpa's eyes and smiled happily.

He wants to be with grandpa forever and live happily here. He loves grandpa very much.

grandfather……

When Zhuo Xiran woke up from the dream, her body was curled up in a corner with the phone still in her hand.He stood up and put the phone away, rubbed his red and swollen eyes, and walked into Grandpa's room with heavy steps.

He looked at the photo frame of his grandfather, the photo of Zhuo Yinian stayed at the time when he was 60 years old, he was full of energy and radiant, his thick eyebrows showed a heroic spirit that would never bend, but his eyes looked forward gently, as if in another The world looked at his most beloved grandson, the boy who accompanied him through 15 years of loneliness and loneliness.

Zhuo Xiran reached out to stroke Grandpa's cheek, and he asked softly, "Grandpa, what should I do?"

"Grandpa, the house may be lost. I'm not a man. I've broken my promise. I've let you down...I'm sorry, Grandpa..." Zhuo Xiran pinched her fingers guiltily.

"I don't want to give them the house, they are bad people!" Zhuo Xiran's voice was full of tears.

"Grandpa, you are showing signs! Who will help me? Wow..." Zhuo Xiran grabbed his trousers, his body stiffened, and he suddenly raised his head and began to cry, which seemed to be the depressed tears that had been suppressed for more than twenty years. It was like opening a gate and couldn't stop.

stab-

Zhuo Xiran, who was crying, heard the sound of lighting, and immediately stopped crying, sobbing and looking towards the source of the sound.

A bright yellow spark, as big as a firefly, floated in front of Zhuo Xiran's eyes, and looked particularly eye-catching in the dark room. Zhuo Xiran tilted his head to look at it, but didn't react for a while.

He frowned, and looked closer, sparks suddenly turned into a cluster of flames burning in the air, almost burning off Zhuo Xiran's eyebrows.Zhuo Xiran took a few steps back in fright, staring at it blankly.

The flame is like a comet, fleeting, and the moment it burns out, it turns into a black card and falls to the ground.

Zhuo Xiran, who was confused about the situation, hadn't had time to panic when the supernatural event suddenly disappeared. He hurried over to pick up the card on the ground, wanting to confirm whether he was hallucinating.

A blue-black card was wrapped in European-style classical lace with hot silver texture, and five large red characters were impressively printed on it: Devil's agent.

Zhuo Xiran was stunned for a moment, and suddenly, like a dog that stepped on a switch, he threw away the card and jumped to the side.He looked at the card with a look of fear for a long time before he fled the room belatedly.

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Zhuo Xiran, who had been hungry for a whole day, opened the curtains and looked outside, saw that there was no one at the gate, so she wrapped herself into rice dumplings, opened the door and sneaked out. As soon as she reached the gate, an egg flew in from nowhere. He was hit on the head, and then hundreds of carrots, eggplants, cucumbers, tomatoes, and eggs were thrown at Zhuo Xiran. Zhuo Xiran quickly turned back to the door, locked the door, and ran back to the room with the spoils, throwing the eggs on his body. Scrape them all into a bowl, cut the tomatoes into pieces, and make a bowl of egg soup to drink.

After the meal, he gnawed on the white radish bite by bite, walked around outside Grandpa's room, tried to open the door several times, but stopped because of fear.

He didn't know what he was afraid of. His grandfather was an atheist, his whole family were scientists, and he himself studied astronomy. He was educated in materialism since he was a child. Science told him that there are no ghosts and gods in this world.Yes, but how to explain the supernatural event just now?

devil agent...

Zhuo Xiran felt that his brain had a twitch to see these five words.

But why didn't he have the courage to open the door to prove that he was indeed having a brain twitch instead of actually seeing that strange thing?

Because his thinking is not firm enough, he subconsciously still fears ghosts and gods.

Well, he admitted that he is not a die-hard fan of materialism, he is just an ordinary commoner, and he is still superstitious.

Demons... demons... that sounds scary!Exciting too, isn't it?

No matter how frightened he was, how much he struggled in his heart, he couldn't suppress the curiosity and wanted to find out.The doorknob seemed to have a powerful magic power, which attracted Zhuo Xiran eager to try it. He stretched out his hand tremblingly, and gently pushed the door open. There was a chill down my spine, and I broke out in a cold sweat.

He rushed into the room recklessly, found the card on the floor in the middle of the house, picked it up and rushed out the door as quickly as possible.He ran to his bedroom in one breath, locked the door, got into bed, only his eyes were exposed, he looked around and waited for a while to make sure that no ghosts and ghosts came to him, and then he gradually relaxed.

He handed the card to his eyes and looked at it. Apart from the five words "devil agent", there was a line of small characters at the bottom of the exquisite card, which contained a row of phone numbers.

On the back are two lines:

I can help you make your wish come true, just hand over your...

Now, callme.

hand over what?Can wishes come true?

Those simple words seemed to have some kind of magical power, bewitching people's minds, making Zhuo Xiran completely unable to think about whether this matter was reasonable or not, he just couldn't help taking out his mobile phone and making a call.

The phone went through!

—beep beep——

A voice came from the opposite side, followed by a female voice.

"Hi, who are you looking for?"

The female voice was sweet and soft, which made Zhuo Xiran's tense heart relax a little.

"That..." Zhuo Xiran rubbed the bottom of her nose, and asked falteringly: "Excuse me, I, I'm looking for a devil's agent!"

Zhuo Xiran yelled these five words as if death was at home. Anyway, the other party couldn't see him, so it didn't matter if he was mentally ill.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other side, and then there was a giggle, and he replied: "Okay, I am the agent of the devil."

Zhuo Xiran suppressed her heartbeat, and asked hesitantly: "Oh, hello, can you grant my wish?" This question is so awkward, Zhuo Xiran thought.

"How can we talk about this kind of thing on the phone? Come over and talk to each other. Is this your mobile phone number? I'll send you the address," the woman said.

"Good, good!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhuo Xiran pondered for a while, and finally decided to go and have a look first.

In the middle of the night, Zhuo Xiran wrapped himself up tightly and got out of the dog hole in the backyard.

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