The protagonist always calls me in the middle of the night

After the meal, the sun was still shining and the sky was dark. The snack bars and food stalls on both sides of the street were lit up with colorful neon-colored light signs, shining noisy brilliance.

Zhou asked for an hour's leave in advance to send Shiman home. He had plenty of time, but he didn't have a good means of transportation, and taking a taxi all the time was too much for his wallet.

At the right time, the young man suggested that he could ride the bicycle he parked outside the shop. Zhou Yu pulled out Shiman's bicycle and stepped it up. The moment he rode it, he had the illusion of returning to school, even though he had no memory of the school time.

He was riding very fast, but the body was very stable. When he braked, his long legs were on the ground. Looking back, the young man behind him was holding his thin shirt tightly, feeling inexplicably at ease.

Zhou Yu clasped Shiman's waist with one hand, put his arm on his shoulder, relieved the weight of the upper body, and opened the door with the youth's key. There was no one in the main hall, and there was a figure on the glass door of the kitchen.

This is not the first time Zhou Yu came to Shiman's house, but it was the first time he clearly saw Shiman's house in the daytime and Shiman's grandma in a wheelchair.

The first impression I saw when I opened the door was boring.

The previous time, when late at night and the young man sneaked in through the main entrance, they didn't pay attention to this double-purpose room—it was used as a living room and an old man's bed was placed.Walking in now makes me feel uncomfortable.

The curtains are half drawn, half of the room is shaded and half is sunny. The old man's bed and bedding are sunken in the shadow, but the bed is neat and tidy. It can be seen that even if he is old and physically handicapped, the old man has strict requirements on sanitary conditions.

The other items were neatly arranged, but they were hardly moved as usual. On the coffee table, next to the remote control, there was a thin layer of dust on the rim of a pure white ceramic cup, facing the With an LCD TV.

The breath of life is too weak, and the scope of daily activities of the elderly is surprisingly small.

The old man in the wheelchair in the kitchen heard the movement and pushed the wheelchair back two steps. The wheels under her hands creaked. She slowly turned her head to look at the person at the door.

"Xiaoman is back. Who is this?" She didn't intend to explore Shiman's return home time differently than in the past, but the moment she saw Zhou Yu, her old and cloudy eyes turned slightly.

Zhou Yu's ears moved, and the old man's voice was hoarse, like the first sentence he spoke today. His voice was not fully opened, and he was even more twilight than the old man of this age. However, it is understandable that the perennial wheelchair life makes travel inconvenient. Lack of communication with others, Shiman leaves early and returns late, and the time spent together between grandparents and grandchildren is very short.

"Grandma, this is my friend. I fell and sprained my ankle today. He sent me back."

Without too much explanation, caring people will notice your emotions before they speak, but those who love to watch will not have the intention to intervene.

The old man seemed to pay more attention to Zhou Yu, and turned a deaf ear to Shi Man's fall and sprained foot.The wrinkles on her face deepened her smile: "Hehe, this is the first time Xiaoman brings friends back, what's the name? Do you want to stay for dinner?"

Shi Man's eyes darkened, and he was about to refuse, when he heard Zhou Yu say hello generously: "Hello grandma, I'm Zhou Yu, Xiao Man has eaten outside, so I don't trouble you."

The old man still had a smile on his face: "I will come here often in the future, if I have a chance."

Zhou Yu helped the man to Shiman's room, and the old man behind him watched quietly the two people who were helping him, until the door opened and closed, and slowly turned his head to prepare his own dinner.

The door of the inner room was closed, Zhou Yu observed Shi Man's expression, and said, "Your grandma is... strange?"

Shi Man rolled his eyes, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth: "Why is it so strange?"

Anyone who comes here as a guest can find the gap between the grandparents and grandchildren.

Either you're used to it, or you don't care.

Zhou Yu took a step forward, bent down to look at the young man, and exhaled slowly: "Also, I always appear beside you uncontrollably in the middle of the night, you..."

About this matter, I asked once before, but after it was over, they didn't mention it again.In the past few days, the two of them spent most of their time together. Apart from seeing ghosts, the youth's life couldn't be more normal and simple.

Shi Man was stunned at Zhou Yu at such a close distance, and realized that his tone was full of suspicion towards him. His smile disappeared, his eyes drooped, and his thick eyelashes fluttered, making Zhou Yu unable to see the emotion in his eyes clearly.Shi Man casually said: "That's it. Yes, I did it. I summoned you after twelve o'clock every night. It was because I had bad intentions. I didn't know you, but I could summon you out of thin air. I will give it to you one day later." Stab a knife in the back and feed you to ghosts..."

His voice was low, with a sense of loss that could not be ignored, and his soft fur seemed to droop along with the owner's emotions.

Zhou Yu sighed in his heart, Shiman's insincere and pitiful appearance, and he said more and more outrageous things, I really can't bear to study it. If you think about it carefully, the reason is probably not on Shiman, after all, he has no solution to the matter of wearing a book. , No matter how outrageous things can be understood.In the original book, Shiman is equally innocent.

Zhou Yu raised his hand to touch the boy's soft hair, and his tone softened: "If you don't know, you don't know, what are you making up?"

Shi Man felt that the strength of the hand on his head was much more restrained than before, and he secretly sighed in his heart that this person is soft and not hard, and the effect of selling misery is good, try something else next time?

He bowed his head and hummed, and obediently answered Zhou Yu's first question: "Listen to grandma, I will come here often in the future, and I will learn more about it when I have a chance."

The problem between the old man and Shi Man is a family matter, and he, an outsider, doesn't know much about it.

After Shiman settled down, Zhou Yu left and took an hour off. The time was a bit tight. When he went downstairs, he ran very fast, but his usual sharpness allowed him to grab the railing on one side in time before he was about to hit someone. , Inertia made his upper body tilt down, two steps away from the person in front of him.

The person who was almost hit by him was a girl who went upstairs with a schoolbag on her back. She was wearing a high school uniform and looked very cute. If you ignore her staring gaze.

Zhou Yu stood firm, apologized to the girl in front of him, and was about to pass by sideways.

"Are you a resident of this building?" The voice was a bit abrupt in the narrow and dark corridor. The high school girl opened her mouth to strangers, obviously in a questioning tone, but it seemed to be icy when she blurted out from her mouth.

Yu Xingmu looked at the man standing on the same step but a head taller than her, and looked sideways.Appearing here came out of Shiman's house, this person not only sneaked in in the middle of the night, but also entered the house during the day.

And under her surveillance, she didn't find out how this person came quietly in the middle of the night. Last time after he jumped out of the window and left, the shadow sent to follow him never came back, which caused a lot of trouble.

Shiman has never brought home a friend, and this person is no exception.

Zhou Yu was stared at by her, a little inexplicably, the aggressiveness in that look was too strong to be ignored.

There were no traces of ghosts encroaching on her, she was just an ordinary female high school student, but something was still wrong, and he couldn't tell what was wrong.

He cursed fiercely in his heart, there is no normal person around Shiman, even if he is a ghost, people are also eccentric. If he lived in this kind of atmosphere since he was a child, he would be in danger all the time, and he would no longer be able to look at people directly.

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Yu stomped on his toes, feeling an urge to go upstairs and stay by Shiman's side again, it was too unsafe.

I secretly advised myself not to be like this, it's just a high school girl, and the young man has lived here for many years, knowing everyone he doesn't know, this girl may be quite repulsive to all strangers in the community, and he won't be killed for the young man when he sees someone delusional.

Resisting the turning back, he glanced at her, ignored her, and continued to rush downstairs.

Yu Xingmu, who was ignored on the stairs, had a gloomy face, and stepped heavily on the first step of the stairs. When he reached the third floor, he did not open the door as usual, but knocked on the door opposite.

Hearing the approaching sound of wheels sliding inside the door, doubts flashed in Yu Xingmu's eyes, why didn't Shiman come to open the door?

The door opened, Yu Xingmu lowered his head and saw the old man in the wheelchair.

"Grandma, is brother Shi there?" Yu Xingmu asked softly while holding his schoolbag, but his eyes were looking into the room.

I have seen the exact same furnishings many times, and the tightly closed door inside.

The door of Brother Shi's room was too old, and it would make a creaking sound when it was opened. The old woman must not have known about the man sneaking in in the middle of the night, or she would have been kicked out long ago.

This old woman is too withdrawn, I have never seen her go out, and no outsiders have come to visit.Every time the old woman knocked on the door, she would open the door, but she only let people in when she was too entangled occasionally. Most of the time, she guarded the door and refused to let outsiders in.Even if she went in, Shiman might not be there.

Usually it is difficult to get close to Shiman when you meet him, but it doesn’t matter. At that time, Shiman was always alone, she couldn’t get close, and neither could anyone else. Only in this way can Brother Shi be the brother Shi who will always reject people for thousands of miles but is always gentle and lovely .

The old man glanced at the person coming, moved his finger on the wheel, and said, "Go back, it's inconvenient for Xiao Man."

The door was about to be closed again, Yu Xingmu stepped forward to resist it, smiling impatiently at the old man in the wheelchair: "But when I first met my brother's friend, he said he was at home and he was free."

The old man closed the door with a hand, and said calmly: "Forget it, let's go in."

There is not much she can do for Shiman, she guards the house left by her son and tries to isolate Shiman from prying eyes of outsiders. Ghosts often do not come out of thin air, and strangers are not innocent.

Yu Xingmu quickly bypassed the old man's wheelchair, came to the door of the inner room, knocked on the door and shouted: "Brother Shi, I'm Xingmu, can I come in?"

"Come in." A gentle and pleasant male voice came from inside.

Yu Xingmu closed his eyes and opened them again, imagining that the voice from the door passed through his limbs, the smile on the corner of his mouth was constantly enlarged.

She pushed open the door, and the people in the room leaned against the bed, holding a book in their hands, with their legs resting leisurely on the side of the bed, as gentle and harmless as usual.

Her eyes slid across the young man's whole body, and finally settled on his bare instep, her heart was beating thumpingly, except for the bare, exposed skin of the arms, face and neck, these feet, which were usually hidden in the dark, were tender. It was vividly exposed in her eyes.

Yu Xingmu saw the redness and swelling on one foot, her eyes blurred uncontrollably, the dazzlingly white skin, blue blood vessels, coupled with the dark red and swollen part, shocked her eyes very much.

It turned out that my foot was injured. Today is really the right time.