Farewell, this school bully is too unruly

A day in an old residential building always starts with the sound of footsteps of students rushing to school in the corridors in the early morning.

Xi Jing woke up to the sound of dogs barking, and lay on the bed hopelessly, listening to the greetings from upstairs and downstairs, full of the smell of fireworks in the world.

Sensing him waking up, Bai Yuan wearing an apron appeared at the door of the bedroom at the right time, and threw the dried clothes to him: "Get up and wash up, get ready for breakfast."

This is their first vacation since they started working three years ago.The two arrived at Bai Yuan's house from the airport at two o'clock in the morning, and there was a heavy rain on the way, which drenched both of them completely.It's almost the Ghost Festival in July and a half. According to the previous agreement, the two of them will accompany Grandma Bai back to their hometown in the countryside to live for a while, worship the ancestors of the Bai family, and come back after the Ghost Festival.

Xi Jing yawned and walked out the door, and saw his black panther, which had grown up a lot, lying on the sofa like a cat, purring and purring after being touched by Bai Yuan, without the dignity of a beast.

The clock on the wall showed that it was just past seven.

In fact, the conditions in the wild are much more difficult than this, and it is not uncommon for him to stay up all night, but when he returns to a familiar environment, probably because his whole body is at ease, Sui Jing actually feels a little tired.

He ate the green vegetable porridge and pancakes for breakfast with shredded pickles and cabbage, and together with Bai Yuan, he took the incense candle paper money and other things prepared by Grandma Bai downstairs and loaded them into the car.

From Sui Jing's point of view, it's the same to find a grocery store to buy these things in the countryside, but Grandma Bai insists that the paper money sold in the old shop she is familiar with in the city is authentic, and Sui Jing does not intend to argue with the old man about this—it must be If anything, he has always believed that when a person dies, nothing will be left behind, just a pile of protein to give back to the earth.But saying such things will make the old people feel disrespectful to ghosts and gods and offend their ancestors, so he will play house with the old people.

Seeing Bai Yuan open the driver's door, Sui Jing was startled and asked, "What are you going to do?"

Bai Yuan: "I'm driving, you can sleep on the road for a while."

Bai Yuan slept well during the trip back last night, but Xi Jing’s senses are too sharp, and because he has been active in the secret realm all year round, he is used to being alert at all times. It was still a noise that he couldn't ignore.In the past three years, the two traveled together, Bai Yuan has long remembered these small "weaknesses" of Sui Jing.

"You want to show off your newly obtained driver's license." He said jokingly, and sat down in the co-pilot's seat cooperatively.

In the third year after graduating from Tali, the busy Bai Yuan finally found time to pass the driver's license test. When Li Li and others knew about it, they sent him countless emoticons in the chat group.

Grandma Bai sat in the back row and watched the interaction between the two with a smile.

The old man's back has become a little bit bent over the past few years, but his spirit is still good and his consciousness is very clear.

The traffic in the morning rush hour was basically going into the city. Their car going out of the city went smoothly after passing through the congested road, and arrived at Bai Yuan's hometown before dinner.

Looking at the familiar rural scenery, Sui Jing thought in his heart that he must take some time to go for a walk by the river—maybe it was because he had met Bai Yuan twice in this scenery replicated in the spiritual realm, although he was not here I grew up in the village, but I also have a special feeling for it, and I always feel familiar.

Uncles and aunts that Bai Yuan was familiar with recognized him through the open car window, and they stood far away in the field and waved to him.Enthusiastically, some people came to the car with farm tools and chatted with Grandma Bai.Seeing a strange Xi Jing in the car, they all asked his identity with smiles.

Sui Jing, who spoke a dialect with a strong local accent, half understood it, and thought that these were relatives and friends of Bai Yuan's family, so he dealt with it seriously, pretending to understand even if he didn't understand.

Then he felt Bai Yuan snickering beside him, and couldn't help casting a condemning look.

"The old house is now lived by Xiaoyuan's uncle's family. I have greeted them and cleaned the room a few days in advance. Don't worry." Back in her hometown, Grandma Bai straightened her back, excited to lead the way.

Sui Jing and Bai Yuan were only worried that the old man would accidentally fall, and they were relieved when they walked into the courtyard of Bai's house.

A big yellow-haired dog yelled towards them, and when it came close, perhaps sensing the unobtrusive fierceness on Xi Jing's body, it whimpered and slipped away with its tail between its legs.This made Xi Jing feel a little regretful—this dog looks a lot like the one he had seen in the spiritual realm back then, the one that accompanied Bai Yuan when he was a child, so he originally wanted to lick a few to say hello, but he didn't expect it to be Disliked by dogs.

People in the country are most enthusiastic about guests coming from afar. The room that Uncle Bai Yuan arranged for them is the best in this house. The mattresses are all brand new and no one has ever used them.

"The second floor should be quieter. Those little kids usually don't come up to play." While Grandma Bai was chatting with old acquaintances downstairs, Bai Yuan's aunt first took them upstairs to have a look at the room.The woman didn't know how to hide her gaze, and looked at the two of them with innocent curiosity.

All the cousins ​​in his hometown know about Bai Yuan's marriage to Xi Jing.

At the beginning, Grandma Bai hesitated whether to conceal it, but Bai Yuan insisted on giving her partner a dignified title, so she made it public.This time Sui Jing came back with a little sense of recognizing his ancestors.

This made Sui Jing very interesting, Bai Yuan had paid homage to the Sui family's ancestral hall with him, and now it was his turn to accompany Bai Yuan to worship the ancestors.

After dinner, although water, electricity and internet have been connected to the village for a long time, and there are plenty of entertainment, the old people are still more used to sitting around and chatting together.Bai Yuan poked Suijing quietly and said, "If you're not interested, you can go out for a while, you don't have to listen here all the time."

Xi Jing knew that Bai Yuan was thinking of himself, but he had no intention of leaving at all.

After all, the old people are now talking about Bai Yuan's childhood.

"...Xiao Yuan is now out of society, is he still as lonely as before? Have you made more friends?" Uncle's hearing is not good enough, and he said in a rather loud voice, "He used to be here He went to elementary school nearby for two years and got good grades, but he didn’t play with his classmates, and once he was beaten in a cornfield, it was Rhubarb who rescued him.”

A blush rose on Bai Yuan's face, and he argued for himself: "It's not about beating me up, but about asking me about homework, Uncle, I told you before."

Uncle frowned and listened carefully, not quite believing that he would remember wrongly: "Really?"

Bai Yuan was helpless: "Really. My classmates at that time were very simple, and it would be hard for them not to get along with good grades."

"Then how do I remember that when you came back, half of your body was wet, didn't you get pushed into the river?"

It's not good to have a party with relatives of the older generation. They can dig out the dark history of many years ago for you to chat.

Bai Yuan also recalled a lot before he remembered what his uncle said.But it wasn’t that he was bullied that time, it was that a child living nearby had a conflict with a strange boy. He formally apologized, and the old man even gave him a book as an apology, which is still in his bookcase at home.

When Xi Jing heard this place, he suddenly felt a little familiar.

"What book did the old man give you?"

Not understanding why Sui Jing paid special attention to this issue, Bai Yuan replied: ""A Hundred Years of Invention", I only found out later that this book has long been out of print. It's a pity that I don't know where the old man lives, otherwise I can return it."

"No, given you, I guess he is very happy." Xi Jing said.

Bai Yuan: "?"

After talking to the others, Sui Jing signaled Bai Yuan to go out and chat with him.

Everyone present knew they were a couple.Although it is unbelievable for men and men to be husband and wife in the hearts of these simple and conservative people, but if the couple wants to whisper, no one will keep them so ruthlessly.

Sui Jing took Bai Yuan to walk along the field path to the creek under the moon, and said awkwardly: "I always thought this place was familiar before, and I thought it was influenced by my subconscious mind. I just talked about fighting and delivering books. I remember the matter, I may have been here with my grandfather when I was a child. The person who accidentally knocked you into the water... was me. "

This confession came so unexpectedly, Bai Yuan couldn't keep up with Xi Jing's rhythm for a while.

Xie Jing explained: "I told you that I was kidnapped when I was a child. After that, I was not in a good mood. Some people in my family said that maybe I lost my soul when I was kidnapped. I need to find a sorceress who is good at calling souls. From town to town, grandpa didn't know what to do, so he found out that there is a witch in the village who is very spiritual."

At this point, Bai Yuan remembered that there was indeed an aunt in his hometown who knew about ghosts and ghosts, and people in nearby villages and towns would come to her to help resolve strange things that they couldn't explain clearly.But...with the wealth of the Sui family, if you want to look for them, you should look for those famous monks and priests, why would you come to find a country witch?

"Who knows, I don't believe it, and I haven't listened carefully." Sui Jing shrugged.

"Hush." ​​Bai Yuan stopped the other party from talking nonsense, "The Ghost Festival is coming, so you can't mention things like not believing in gods and Buddhas."

"Dr. Bai, did you agree to believe in science?" Sui Jing felt that Bai Yuan, who was clearly devoting himself to scientific research but still respecting folk taboos, was cute, so he stopped talking about offending ghosts and gods.

As a result, he had a strange dream that night.

Sui Jing dreamed that she was being led by her grandfather on a dark path, and the scenery on both sides of the road could not be seen clearly, only the road under her feet seemed to be glowing with fluorescence, stretching far into the distance.In his dream, he was much smaller than in reality. When Grandpa took one step, he had to chase two or three steps to keep up.

After walking and stopping like this for an unknown period of time, another scene finally appeared in front of the road.

A low, small brick house appeared at the end of the road.

There was a dim light in the small brick house, and the smell of incense came from it, accompanied by a distant female voice singing.