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The two stood one behind the other, their chests pressed against their backs so tightly that Pei Ling couldn't help but look at the hands on his chest.Sai Tianxian tilted his head against Pei Ling's back for a while, and it happened to be on the left side of the back. I don't know if it was because of the resonance in his chest, or because Pei Ling's heartbeat was too strong. Even if he was on his back, he seemed to hear it. sound.

"conch."

"What?" Pei Ling looked back at him, wondering why he suddenly mentioned this, did he want to eat seafood?

Sai Tianxian closed his eyes and leaned against Pei Ling's back, listening carefully, crossed his hands close to Pei Ling's chest and hugged him tightly, opened his eyes and pressed his chin against Pei Ling's back, looked up at Pei Ling and said, "It's like the sound I heard when I was sticking to the conch. Brother Ling, there is the sea inside you."

Pei Ling raised her eyebrows noncommittally, "I'll take it as if you're praising me for being broad-minded."

Sai Tianxian smiled, and suddenly stood on tiptoe, the chin that was originally resting on Pei Ling's back was now resting on Pei Ling's shoulder.Due to the height difference, Pei Ling lowered his eyes, and Sai Tianxian raised his eyes. The two looked at each other. Sai Tianxian said with a smile, "I like the voice of the sea."

Pei Ling was taken aback for a moment, and then she sobered up, "I brought you out to do business, not to talk about love."

Sai Tianxian pursed his lips and leaned against Pei Ling's shoulder, his eyes still looking at Pei Ling without blinking.

Pei Ling patted his hand around his chest, and reminded, "I'm going to the water tank, you follow me closely, I didn't tell you to poke your head out, so don't poke your head out, you understand?"

Pei Ling worried that if the daytime scene really appeared in the tank, Sai Tianxian would be frightened.

"Ah."

Under Pei Ling's repeated reminders, Sai Tianxian could only nod his promise.Only then did Pei Ling take a long breath, and turned around to look at a row of water tanks under the wall, intending to go over to find out.

Pei Ling raised his foot and took a step forward, and Sai Tianxian, who was holding him behind his back, also took a step forward.

The cold shadow of the wall lamp, and in the middle of the night, when I thought about the scene at that time, I was not afraid that it was fake, but I felt a little nervous, so I took a very cautious step, and my five senses were particularly sharp. Pei Ling was extremely vigilant and careful.

Halfway through the walk, the wall lamp on the wall short-circuited, and Pei Ling, who was nervous, stopped immediately, but Sai Tianxian, who was closely behind him, couldn't react in time, and moved forward inertially, sticking even tighter.

With Sai Tianxian's stature alone, even the effect of inertia would not allow Pei Ling to rush forward, but it was because Pei Ling was too stable that he was in this state.Pei Ling's forehead twitched when he stopped. He finally understood what it was like to be pressed from behind. Loose, don't stick it so tight.

Not Sai Tianxian, Pei Lingyue pulled his hand, but he twisted his hands and refused to let go.

Pei Ling was a little messy, and just said, "Relax, relax."

"I'm afraid." Sai Tianxian tied his hands tightly, not loosening but tightening, and even stepped on Pei Ling's heels when he moved forward, making Pei Ling's back stiff.

In the end, Pei Ling gave up and lowered her hand, letting Sai Tianxian go.After all, the current situation is not the time to argue about such trivial matters. Pei Ling glanced at the flashing wall lamp on the wall, and felt that the quick fix was quick, and he couldn't stay here for a long time.

Seeing that Pei Ling was unresponsive, Sai Tianxian put his chin on Pei Ling's shoulder and looked at him again. Pei Ling turned his head to look at Sai Tianxian. There was no fear in the expression of success on his face.As soon as Pei Ling raised his hand, he pointed his index finger at his forehead, and pushed him off his shoulder.

"Why are you afraid?"

Pei Ling pointed to Sai Tianxian's forehead without using too much force, Sai Tianxian just pouted and refused to leave his shoulders, Pei Ling had no choice but to cover the top with his hand, forcing him down down.

"It's not a deal, I didn't let you probe, you are not allowed to probe out. If you do this again, I won't take you next time."

"Oh." Sai Tianxian obediently lowered his head after a muffled reply.

Pei Ling sighed, and when he was about to lift his feet forward, Sai Tianxian was still tightly clinging to him behind him. Pei Ling thought that maybe he was really afraid, so he stretched out his hands to cover the hands that hugged his chest tightly.Pei Ling held Sai Tianxian's hand tightly and moved it up slightly, so that Sai Tianxian's hand covered the safety card that Pei Ling had been hanging through his clothes.He thought, if there is a blessing, then half of it will be given to Sai Tianxian.

Sai Tianxian felt the warmth of Pei Ling's palm on the back of his hand, and felt a hard object through the palm of his clothes, feeling very solid.Sai Tianxian, who was leaning against Pei Ling's back, stopped looking for trouble, bit his lips and smiled alone behind Pei Ling, and obediently followed Pei Ling.

The two of them came to the water tank one after the other. In the night, the row of water tanks looked extraordinarily dark. In addition, the wall lamps kept flickering, and the water surface reflected the light from time to time. It was summer, but it was gloomy and cold. atmosphere.

Pei Ling still came to the water tank where he burned incense during the day, and was about to probe to check when he heard a sound from the water tank next to him. The two of them went to look at the water tank next to them. ripples.

Sai Tianxian, who was holding Pei Ling's chest, noticed that Pei Ling's heartbeat was abnormal, and asked him worriedly, "Brother Ling, what's wrong?"

Pei Ling looked nervously at the lively fish in the water tank next to him, "When I lighted the watermark incense during the day, it almost broke in the middle."

Originally, it is very difficult to light incense on the water, and there are living creatures swimming in the tank from time to time, so it is easy for the incense to overturn the water.At that time, Pei Ling's fragrance almost caused the red carp in the water to overturn, but at that moment, a hand suddenly appeared from the bottom of the tank, and quickly dragged the fish to the bottom.

"Then the fish disappeared." At that time, Pei Ling's watermark incense was successfully burned to the end, but he witnessed the strange scene, and his mind suddenly came to him. When the housekeeper came to inform him to pass, he came back to his senses. In the end, he didn't even think about turning around to take another look. Water tank, what the hell is going on.

Pei Ling looked at the fish in the water tank next to him, and said, "It seems that the water tank hasn't been cleaned up yet. Since the fish in the other fish tanks are still there, if I'm wrong, then in this water tank I use during the day, The fish should still be there."

"Brother Ling, look, is the fish still there?"

"En." Before poking his head, Pei Ling told Sai Tianxian one last time, "I didn't let you see, you must never poke your head out, do you understand?"

"Understood." Sai Tianxian reassured Pei Ling tirelessly. He never got tired of Pei Ling's repeated care for him. On the contrary, he liked it very much, because it represented Pei Ling's cherishing of him.

Pei Ling turned his head back, and before looking into the water, he involuntarily clenched Sai Tianxian's hand.Sai Tianxian felt it and hugged him tightly from behind.

Pei Ling took a deep breath, and finally leaned forward to look into the water tank. It was pitch black and nothing could be seen.Pei Ling frowned and looked carefully for a long time, but he didn't see any fish.

After a long time, Sai Tianxian behind finally called him, "Brother Ling? Is there any fish?"

"No."

Sai Tianxian asked him, "Then can I stretch my head?"

After Pei Ling finally confirmed that there was nothing in the water tank except water, he allowed Sai Tianxian to look up.

As soon as he got Pei Ling's permission, Sai Tianxian couldn't wait to poke his head out from Pei Ling's waist, and looked into the water tank next to Pei Ling.

A fish-free water tank, without any ripples on the water surface, is a tank of stagnant water without vitality.The bottom of the tank was dark and nothing could be seen, and the water surface was illuminated by the wall lamp, reflecting their silhouettes.

After looking at it for a long while but not seeing anything in the water tank, Pei Ling withdrew his gaze and looked down at Sai Tianxian who was protruding from his waist. From this angle, he could only see his hair twirling.Seeing him curiously poking his head over the water tank, Pei Ling could only follow him to look at the surface of the water.

The reflections of the two were reflected on the surface of the water. Pei Ling's face was dark, but the reflection on the water was lighter. When he saw his own face, Pei Ling thought, at least Sai Tianxian's face would be clearly reflected, after all, his face is so white.

However, when Pei Ling turned his eyes to look at Sai Tianxian, Sai Tianxian's face on the water was blurred without facial features.This made Pei Ling feel bad.

But Sai Tianxian didn't notice it, he was just curious, and kept poking his head towards the surface of the water to see if there were any fish in the water.

"Fish, come out!" Sai Tianxian looked at and shouted into the water tank, his face stretched lower and lower, and he was close to the water surface.

Pei Ling kept watching, thinking that he was wrong, but when Sai Tianxian got closer to the surface of the water, the face reflected in the water still had no face.Seeing that Sai Tianxian's pretty nose was about to hit the water, Pei Ling immediately pulled him up, away from the water.

"Ah!" Sai Tianxian exclaimed, because he was frightened by Pei Ling's sudden movement.He was straightened up by Pei Ling, but before he could stand still, he was led to spin his body twice, and finally leaned against Pei Ling's arms in a daze.

Sai Tianxian didn't understand, so he looked up at Pei Ling who had a serious face, Pei Ling frowned and looked at the water tank and said, "Don't get too close."

Sai Tianxian followed his gaze to look at the water tank. Pei Ling's pull just now had pulled him one meter away from the water tank.Although I don't know why Pei Ling moved so suddenly, maybe he was leaning in Pei Ling's arms, Sai Tianxian didn't care.His reaction to the sudden incident just now was that he stretched his neck to take a look, and found that he couldn't see the water surface, so he retracted his neck and nestled in Pei Ling's arms with peace of mind.

Pei Ling looked down at him, her frown never loosened, and finally she just sighed and touched the top of Sai Tianxian's head.

Because of Pei Ling's action of pulling Sai Tianxian back just now, there were tiny ripples on the silent water surface, and they spread out in circles. The hand with red nail polish sank between the overlapping water shadows, and then there was There were quite a few waves in the water tank.

Pei Ling and Sai Tianxian, who were far away from the water tank, heard the movement and glanced at the water tank next to them. Sai Tianxian looked up at Pei Ling in confusion.Pei Ling explained lightly, "Maybe it's the fish wagging its tail."

When I came, the fish in the tank next to me were swimming happily. At this juncture, there was a big movement, which really made those who had just had heart palpitations feel a little bit sad.

Sai Tianxian asked Pei Ling, "Are you still watching?"

Pei Ling was a little uncertain for a while, and lowered his head to face Sai Tianxian, looking at his clear facial features, remembering that when he looked at the water surface, there was only a blurry outline reflected on the water surface, after all, worry outweighed curiosity, so Pei Ling decided to It's better to go back to the room first.

"Forget it, let's go back. It's getting late, you have to rest."

He didn't have any objection to what Pei Ling said, but just nodded in agreement, "Yeah."

Pei Ling turned around with Sai Tianxian, intending to go back to the house, but just as the two of them stepped through the round gate, they saw a panicked shadow coming out from the east and flashing past.Pei Ling, who was still vigilant, called out to the shadow, "Who is it?" and immediately wanted Sai Tianxian to catch up.

Sai Tianxian couldn't react in time, and took off Pei Ling's hand with his legs and feet.As soon as he let go, he stumbled and almost fell. Fortunately, he was fine, but the things in his pockets fell to the ground.Sai Tianxian looked down, and saw that the lotus nail fell out, pointing directly at the inner courtyard.Sai Tianxian squatted down and picked up the lotus nail, looked at the inner courtyard, feeling inexplicably tight in his chest.

After running a few steps, Pei Ling realized that Sai Tianxian hadn't followed him, and turned around again. Seeing Sai Tianxian staring blankly at the inner courtyard, Pei Ling asked him strangely, "What's wrong?"

"like……"

It seemed that there was something in the deep courtyard leading him there, it felt very strange, Sai Tianxian couldn't tell, and finally just shook his head to Pei Ling and said, "It's nothing."

Pei Ling glanced at him, not caring much, and then grabbed Sai Tianxian's waist and lifted him up, pinching him under his ribs and chasing after the shadow that had just passed by.

It was only after the two of them left that the row of tanks under the courtyard wall was filled with waves, and the wall lamps projected them. The red and white carp kept in this row of tanks jumped and rolled one after another, and finally the water surface suddenly flattened. , all lifeless.

Pei Ling grabbed Sai Tianxian with one hand and followed the panicking figure, "If you don't stop, I'll call for someone!"

He was just threatening the figure. Pei Ling concluded that the person was not the Tang family, otherwise he would not be so sneaky in the middle of the night, but he didn't know what purpose he came out in the middle of the night, or if he saw something strange in the water like Pei Ling, so he took advantage of it. No one came out to find out?Pei Ling wanted to figure it out.

When the figure heard Pei Ling say that he wanted to call for someone, he obviously panicked. He wanted to run faster, but after taking two steps and weighing the pros and cons, he finally slowed down and stopped.

Seeing this, Pei Ling led Sai Tianxian forward, chased after him, grabbed his shoulder and forced him to turn around, Pei Ling was surprised to see the person in front of him, and blurted out his name, "Zhao Ming?"

Zhao Ming lowered his head and didn't want to meet Pei Ling's eyes, but shook his shoulders awkwardly, shaking off Pei Ling's hand holding his shoulder, then pulled his collar very naturally, and covered it up like he was straightening his clothes. marks on his own neck.

Pei Ling didn't understand why Zhao Ming appeared in the yard sneakily in the middle of the night?And by the looks of it, his complexion is not very good.

"Zhao Ming, what are you doing outside without sleeping in the middle of the night?"

Zhao Ming couldn't answer for a while, but instead asked Pei Ling and the others, "What about you? What are you doing outside?"

After all, Zhao Ming broke through the barriers just like them, so Pei Ling didn't hide from him, and told him directly, "When I burned the watermark incense during the day, I felt something weird in the water tank. There were too many people at that time, so I couldn't turn back." Look again, the more I think about it at night, the more something is wrong, so I will look again." After speaking, Pei Ling threw the question back to Zhao Ming, "And you, you also came out to check because you saw something weird in the water tank during the day Is it?"

When Pei Ling said this, Zhao Ming naturally wanted to follow his words. He was about to lie that he also felt that the water tank was strange during the day, so he came out to take a look.As a result, Sai Tianxian beside Pei Ling suddenly interjected, "No, he came from the east, it doesn't seem like he's going to the front yard."

After being reminded by Sai Tianxian, Pei Ling also realized that something was wrong, "That's right, you seem to have come out of the East Courtyard just now." After saying this, Pei Ling remembered that Zhao Ming, who was with them, asked Pei Ling for help before dinner. When asking for directions, intentionally or unintentionally, I always ask how to get to the East Courtyard.

Pei Ling suddenly realized, "What are you doing in the East Courtyard?"

Zhao Ming, who was punctured, glared at Sai Tianxian first, then bit his lip hard, making the bloodless lip even whiter.When he looked at Pei Ling's serious face again, he was suddenly discouraged, and the lower lip he had been biting tightly was loosened. Zhao Ming gave up his last defense and took off his disguise.He told Pei Ling honestly, "I'm going to find Shen Xuan."

Pei Ling asked him without knowing it, "Shen Xuan? What are you talking about, Young Master Xuan? What do you want him for?"

Zhao Ming's face was dripping with blood, Pei Ling realized belatedly, "You and him?"