no puppet

In the middle of the night, it was still a humid summer night with dark clouds and continuous rain.

And in the small firewood room in the backyard of Zhao Pingshu's house, a fire was burning, a pot of boiling hot porridge was emitting white smoke, and a sleeping person was wrapped in a blanket and quilt.

Yin Chun guessed right, this puppet was especially afraid of water, and was also very afraid of cold—when he just came back, he was frozen stiff and cold, almost trembling and convulsing constantly.It wasn't until later that I had baked next to the fire for a while, barely calmed down my breathing, that my body gradually tended to warm up.

Yin Chun really couldn't figure out how Xie Hengyan broke free from the shackles and jumped into the river in a blink of an eye - but obviously, there was no need to think too much.This puppet is so stupid that it is unique, and it is not impossible to kill itself one day.

So, taking advantage of the time when the puppet closed his eyes and fell asleep, Yin Chun stared at him carefully for a while, and after a while, moved his gaze down to the relatively more private part of the skirt.

It's not like he hasn't seen the naked Xie Hengyan before.However, due to the problem of face, Yin Zhu never caught people to take a closer look - now that he knew that he was a puppet, he seemed relieved, and felt that it didn't matter much to see him all over.

The first thing to do now is to confirm where the karma seal of this puppet was born.

Yin Chun stretched out his hand to open Xie Hengyan's small mouth, and decided to check it out from the beginning.However, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, he happened to see a pair of sharp fangs on the left and right sides of the puppet, more than half an inch long, fierce and sharp.

——On these two harmful things, he just tore half of his palm by the river, and the wound has not yet healed, and blood is still oozing out intentionally or unintentionally.

Thinking of this, Yin Zhu couldn't help poking in two fingers, pinched one of the fangs, and hesitated to break it off.However, at this moment Xie Hengyan frowned instead, amidst the confusion, a series of soft sobs of obvious resistance overflowed from his throat.

Yin Chun was about to withdraw his hand to leave, but suddenly his wrist tightened.Xie Hengyan exerted force with both hands, but twisted his half arm together, fiercely pulled it into his arms and hugged it, with a certain momentum of relentless death.

Yin Chun was slightly taken aback for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he remembered that the puppet's right forearm was supposed to be twisted and bent, but for some reason, it seemed to be able to move again... and not only could it move, but it was also entangled. Some tight.

Is the puppet's self-healing ability so strong?

After not watching for a long time, the one-armed general is a hero like a wolf and a tiger?

Suspicious in Yin Chun's heart, he stretched out a hand unconsciously, and tried to untie Xie Hengyan's inner garment to find out - at this moment, the small door of the firewood room creaked and was gently pushed open.

Zhao Pingshu stood in front of the door with a stack of brand new and clean clothes in his arms, coughed lowly, and said in an unnatural way: "Brother Chu, you... here are the clothes you asked for."

"I'm sorry to trouble you, thank you." Yin Chun lifted up the blanket and covered Xie Hengyan with his backhand: "Put it aside, I'll change it for him later."

Zhao Pingshu put down the clothes with one hand and one foot, and then circled around a few times, turning left and right.After a while, finally couldn't help but said: "Brother Zhen, who is this person?"

Yin Chun was expressionless: "..."

"No... I didn't mean to pry into your privacy." Zhao Pingshu hurriedly waved his hands, "I just think this person looks at... it's really strange, I haven't seen it before. You know, there are a lot of things going on in the mountains recently. It's been a while since Miss Li who went to the ancestral hall, I don't know why, I always feel a little flustered..."

Yin Chun was silent for a while, then Fang said slowly, "It's nothing serious, you don't have to panic."

Zhao Pingshu pointed at Xie Hengyan, obviously a little embarrassed: "But this..."

Yin Chun said: "He is a young lady who used to be empty."

Zhao Pingshu was dumbfounded: "An empty building?"

Yin Chu said softly, "Yes."

Zhao Pingshu said again: "Xiao, Xiaowan?"

Yin Chun still gave a soft "hmm".

Now Zhao Pingshu was completely dumbfounded, covered his mouth and couldn't speak. After a long time, he walked to the door with a strange expression on his face: "Brother Zhen, you...take it slowly, pay attention Body."

After a pause, he said, "It's so late, I'll go back to bed first..."

Yin Chun's eyebrows twitched, and he wanted to explain something aloud, but Zhao Pingshu had already disappeared in a hurry.He lowered his head and looked down again, and saw Xie Hengyan trembling again, crawling into his arms along half an arm, he was sleeping like a dog, and couldn't bear to look directly at him.

So annoying.

Yin Chun let out a short sigh while touching his forehead, then pushed the person aside in disgust, and pulled the blanket to wrap him tightly.

... Really annoying.

After that, he couldn't sleep for a whole night, and it was only near morning that he became unconscious and leaned back against the wall to doze for a while.

When the sun rose the next day, Yin Zhu opened his eyes suddenly. His first reaction was that he felt a little hot. When he looked up again, he found that the side was empty, and blankets and quilts were all covered on his body, covering him from head to toe. foot.

Yin Chu: "..."

He had an intuition that something was wrong, so he quickly stood up and rushed to the gate of the courtyard.Fortunately, at that time Zhao Pingshu and Zhao's mother were sitting under the tree to choose vegetables. When Zhao Pingshu saw Yin Chu coming, he waved to him and said, "Morning brother, did you sleep well last night?"

Yin Chun only said: "...Where was that person yesterday?"

"Huh? Didn't you see it?" Zhao Pingshu was stunned, "What's wrong with him, he disappeared?"

"It's okay, you are busy with your work."

Yin Chun shook his head, turned around and ran towards the lush forest behind the house.

Sure enough, he didn't go far, and saw a figure of a bent and half squatting figure vaguely reflected on the bank of the river where the accident happened last night.

He drooped his head and lowered his eyes to the ground—looking at his posture, it seemed that he was about to dive into the river again with his head covered.

"……what are you doing?"

Yin Chun strode forward, almost picked up the guy by his collar, and then directly carried him on his shoulder.

Xie Hengyan was originally concentrating on staring at the river in a daze, but now he was suddenly frightened and almost bit him again.Fortunately, he braked fast enough on the way, and when he turned his head and caught sight of Yin Chun's face, he was stunned on the spot, with only half of his teeth sticking out, a natural silliness in his fierce look.

Yin Chun frowned: "Put your teeth back."

Xie Hengyan immediately put it away, and stretched out his hand to push him aside: "Put...let me down!"

Yin Chun didn't move at all: "Let you down? Didn't make enough noise last night, are you afraid that no one will see you?"

"Hey, no..."

Xie Hengyan was carried on his shoulders, twisting wildly like a loach: "Let go first, why are you so unreasonable?"

Yin Chun said: "If you continue to make trouble, go back to the Biyu Mansion to make trouble - both of the Rong family are here, you go and reason with them."

"No... well, no..."

"Not what?"

"I saw my father last night." Xie Hengyan said reluctantly, "Why do you have to take care of other people's family affairs?"

Yin Chun's expression was slightly condensed: "...your father?"

Xie Hengyan whispered: "Yes, I chased him all the way, and finally watched him disappear from the river."

Yin Chun obviously didn't believe it, instead he sneered and said, "You saw it in a dream."

Seeing that he was about to go elsewhere again, Xie Hengyan scrambled anxiously: "Hey, it's true! You put me down...Yin Zhu!"

Yin Chun: "There must be a bottom line for lying!"

"I didn't lie!" Xie Hengyan hurriedly said, "If you don't believe me, look at my arm, he fixed it for me...and also repaired two nails by the way, ah...!"

In a daze, Yin Chu let go of his grip, allowing Xie Hengyan to roll off his shoulder, and fell to the ground with a muffled crash.

The ancestral hall at noon was still deserted, and there were several large and small puddles accumulated on the stone steps in front of the door. After a burst of drizzle, ripples immediately appeared in circles.

Sitting and lying down behind the door, a familiar figure of the two was crookedly side by side.

Xie Hengyan bent over and curled up in the corner of the wall, stretched out her hands behind her back and rubbed it vigorously repeatedly, and shouted while rubbing: "...My God, are you human? How painful it is for me to fall like this, I... oh, it's so cruel to you Nothing to say."

Yin Chuan was sitting close to the fire, holding a small pot in his hand, in which the porridge from the previous night was bubbling.

After a while, he asked aloud: "Your father can repair puppets?"

Xie Hengyan asked back: "Shouldn't you first ask me if I was injured?"

——He still has the strength to howl, which generally means that the problem is not serious.

Yin Chunliang said: "You answer my question first."

Xie Hengyan rolled his eyes and said: "Yes, he will, will, will, will..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt his palm sink, and when he lowered his head, there was an extra bowl of half-cooked white rice porridge, and there was an unspeakable smell of mush inside and out.

Chef Yin moved the pot in his hand coldly and said, "Eat."

"Hey, now you know how to feed me?"

Xie Hengyan looked down at the bowl of porridge, with a smile on his face.

Yin Chun originally thought that this guy would have to pick and choose and talk endlessly, but he didn't want him to just take a quick glance, then picked up the bowl without saying a word, and started to eat without saying a word.

——He knows how unpalatable someone's cooking is.

But the puppet in front of him has been hungry for three days and three nights, eating porridge is like drinking water, gobbling it up and pouring it into his mouth.

Yin Chun watched silently from the side, patiently waiting for Xie Hengyan to finish eating, and at the end, just as he was about to say something, Xie Hengyan stretched out a finger, waved his hand lazily at him, and said: "Don't panic, you are full, Let me take it easy...I know what you want to ask."

Yin Chun didn't speak, Xie Hengyan lay back against the stone wall again, paused for a while, and then said slowly: "My father is a carpenter, but repairing puppets is not his job, and making puppets is even more impossible. "

"As for why he traveled thousands of miles from Tongjing Island to Mount Fuze, I don't know, and I don't understand at all—don't ask, I never interfere too much with my father's affairs."

Compared with the hysterical madness last night, Xie Hengyan who woke up today is unexpectedly calm and indifferent.He shook his sleeves lightly, and then said slowly: "Anyway, now that I know, he's not far from me... If it's just that I don't want to see me, then everything is fine."

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Today's bib has a forwarding lottery!Although the amount is not much, but...give me a little face ~ interested little angels can try their luck!

Ps, I moved the puppet story from Chapter 5 to Chapter 1, and changed some words and sentences without affecting the overall reading~