The 13th was a very ordinary day, as cold as yesterday.

There is no TV in the house, and Huang Dan has no mobile phone. Chen Shi has a mobile phone, but they couldn’t surf the Internet. Neither of them went to the studio, and they got up to eat after they woke up naturally, practiced together, did the questions together, ate snacks and talked about it together, and most of the day passed without knowing it.

There is a teapot on the stove all the time, and the front and rear windows are half opened, so that the air can circulate and the room doesn’t feel stuffy.

Huang Dan read English words to Chen Shi, each twice. Chen Shi was silently writing in his notebook, and he had to write Chinese. He got stuck on a word, wrote it and crossed it out, “Slow down.”

Huang Dan leaned over and took a look, “If you can’t write it out, leave it blank. It’s the same during the exam. Don’t dwell on a question for too long, or you won’t have time to check it later.”

Chen Shi finally wrote the words correctly, “I don’t check the paper after I finished it.”

Huang Dan frowned and asked, “Why?”

Chen Shi twirled his pen, “Troublesome.”

Huang Dan ，“……”

Chen Shi supported his head with one hand, and said in a relaxed manner, “Don’t worry, as long as you tell me which college you want to go to, I will definitely be able to find you there.”

Huang Dan put down the English textbook, picked up the book on the table and checked, all the words on it were correct.

Chen Shi wrapped his arms around the youngster’s waist, rubbed his face against it, and said unhappily, “Winter is really bad, but summer is better, I can rub against your soft belly through clothes.”

Huang Dan wears a cotton jacket outside, and a thick sweater, thin sweater, and autumn clothes inside. He wears thick clothes, and he doesn’t feel anything when rubbed against them. “Summer is very hot and dry, and I don’t like it.”

Chen Shi tutted, “We are different, I still like summer.”

Huang Dan asked casually, “Why?”

Chen Shi put his hand into the youngster’s cotton jacket, “I never thought about it, anyway, I like summer the most. By the way, Zhang Shuran, have you seen the sea? I will take you to see the sea next summer, ok?”

Huang Dan said, “Okay.”

The wind came in from the hem of his clothes, he shivered coldly, and let Chen Shi do whatever he wanted.

Chen Shi remembered something, he withdrew his hand and stuffed it into his collar, the red rope was pulled out, and the jade on it fell into the air with that movement, shaking a few times.

Huang Dan had seen this jade before, it was as red as blood, transparent and smooth, without any impurities.

Chen Shi told Huang Dan to lower his head.

Huang Dan understood his intentions, but did not follow through, “Since the jade was given to your family by the master and passed on to you, you should wear it all the time, don’t take it off, it’s unlucky.”

Chen Shi saw that the person didn’t bow his head, so he stood up directly and wanted to wrap the red rope around the youngster’s neck.

Huang Dan dodged, “I don’t need it.”

Chen Shi tensed his face, “Zhang Shuran, try to dodge once again!”

Huang Dan took two steps back, a little further away from him.

When Chen Shi saw the youngster doing that, the veins on his forehead jumped up, “This jade is a betrothal gift for my wife. Do you not want jade or do you not want me?”

Huang Dan said, “I want you, not jade.”

Chen Shi stared straight at him with deep eyes, “That won’t work, jade and I are together, if you want me, then you must have jade, you can figure it out yourself.”

Huang Dan said, “Stop making trouble.”

Chen Shi was furious and his breathing was heavy. He raised his voice, sounding annoyed and aggrieved, “Zhang Shuran, who is making trouble? After I was with you, I didn’t give you anything decent. But I have nothing but myself, just this treasure a piece of jade, if you refuse to accept it, I’ll be really angry!”

Huang Dan said, “You can give yourself to me.”

Chen Shi grabbed the youngster with great force, not letting him escape, “What to present or not, I already belong to you, you can do whatever you want, I don’t want to hurt you, be good, don’t move, let me put the jade on you.”

The red rope was wrapped around Huang Dan’s neck, it was a little hard, but also a little cold, and goose bumps formed where it was touched.

Chen Shi touched jade, “I know you are spiritual, now I’m handing over my wife to you, you have to take good care of him, if anything happens to him, I’ll smash you to pieces.”

After saying that, Chen Shi stuffed the jade into the youngster’s clothes, and straightened his collar for him, “Come on, give me a kiss.”

Huang Dan knew what Chen Shi was thinking, so he didn’t kiss him, “Chen Shi, I won’t die.” He will stay here until it is time to leaves the world.

Chen Shi couldn’t hear that word, but this person mentioned it in front of him again. His face was dark from anger, and his eyes were cloudy, “Can you make me feel at ease?!”

Huang Dan stopped talking.

Chen Shi walked back and forth, like an enraged lion. He wanted to press the youngster on the bed and beat him up hard, but the last time the youngster was spanked, and cried to death, but he couldn’t get his hands off.

Huang Dan saw Chen Shi took a cigarette and a lighter and went out, “Where are you going?”

Chen Shi didn’t turn his head back, he wanted to say in a fit of anger that LaoZi wants you to control him, ah? But he said, “Not going anywhere, just to smoke a cigarette in the yard.”

In the end, he was still afraid of making the youngster worry, and even more afraid of him being sad.

Chen Shi wiped his face, feeling that there was something extra in his bones called servility, which only appeared when facing this person.

The door opened and closed, but within a few seconds, the temperature in the room dropped several degrees.

Huang Dan took out the jade around his neck, rubbed it lightly with his fingertips, and put it back against his chest. He put away the textbooks, paper and pens on the table, and lay down on the bed idly, sorting out all the information he had so far.

After Chen Shi smoked a cigarette and entered the room, he saw a lump in the quilt on the bed and a pig snoring. He closed the door behind his back, kicked off his shoes lightly, took off his coat and got on the bed, and even hugged the person with the quilt in his arms.

Wang Qi came at the wrong time.

Huang Dan and Chen Shi kissed and hugged in the bed, the little quarrel was over, and they were a little dazed when they heard Wang Qi’s voice.

Chen Shi scratched his head, cursed in a low voice, and lingered on the youngster’s collarbone for a few minutes before getting up, “Officer Wang, you need something?”

Wang Qi outside the door said yes.

On such a cold day, no one would run all the way here without any reason.

Chen Shi knew that, but he was still very irritable, his face was dark when he opened the door, if it wasn’t for the fact that he was wearing a lot in winter and his coat was so long that it covered his crotch, the one who greeted Wang Qi would not be him, but his little buddy.

Wang Qi had a cigarette in his hand, and the smell of the cigarette was brought in when he entered the door.

Huang Dan is sensitive to the smell of cigarettes. He can guess that Wang Qi has smoked several cigarettes by smelling them, and it is likely that he has encountered something troublesome.

Wang Qi took two puffs of cigarettes in a row, and said the purpose of this trip, “Shen Liang is dead.”

Huang Dan paused in the middle of pulling the zipper of his coat, “Dead?”

He met Shen Liang yesterday morning. The other party said that he was going to the exam center of the Academy of Fine Arts, and he had to adjust his status one day in advance. And the exam will be over by now. How could something happen?

The room was silent for a minute or two, and Chen Shi asked, “How did Shen Liang die?”

Wang Qi briefly described the condition of Shen Liang’s death. It was bloody and disgusting. He watched it through the surveillance video. His scalp is still numb and his heart is hard to calm down.

Rather than saying that Shen Liang died in a traffic accident caused by the ball, it is better to say that he died in his own hands.

Between one thought, it is life and death.

At that time, Shen Liang had already crossed the road, and when the ball rolled towards him. If he didn’t hesitate, but kicked the ball to the little kid, or picked it up and handed it to the little kid who was standing far away in a safe position. So it wouldn’t roll past him, rolled to the road behind, and rolled to the middle of the road.

The motorcycle will run normally, and it also will not run on the ball, fly out uncontrollably, and hit Shen Liang.

He die with his own choice.

The only good thing is that the motorcycle driver’s life was not life-threatening, and no one else was injured or died. Only Shen Liang died, his head rolled out, and it was crushed by an approaching vehicle.

When Wang Qi was watching the surveillance, there were a few other colleagues, including him, with incomprehensible expressions of astonishment. What would they do if they were in Shen Liang’s situation? They would definitely pick up the ball and return it to the little kid, just a little effort.

A tragedy could have never happened.

After Wang Qi finished speaking, he smoked, and the room fell into silence again.

Chen Shi lit a cigarette and leaned against the table to smoke.

Huang Dan had a headache. He sat back on the bed and breathed in the second-hand smoke for a while, “Officer Wang, you came here just to tell us about Shen Liang’s death?”

Wang Qi did not answer, but said, “I met the two teachers in the studio before I came here. From the end of October last year to the beginning of this year, it is already the fourth. I jest with them that the studio was cursed and people died one after another.”

Huang Dan waited for the next sentence, but Wang Qi didn’t speak for a long time, and he couldn’t figure out what the other party was thinking for a while.

Wang Qi didn’t know what to say, before he heard the news of Shen Liang’s death, he still clung to the girl’s death, hoping to find some clues from Shen Liang, but the other party died in the end.

He felt like a headless fly, spinning around.

Bang, Chen Shi threw the lighter in his hand on the table, “Officer Wang, you said half of the sentence and keep half, are you planning to play a guessing game with us?”

Wang Qi could hear the impatience in his words, “Go and have a meal, let’s chat while eating.”

Huang Dan agreed.

Chen Shi stared at the youngster, and said in a volume that only he could hear, “What is there to talk about with the surname Wang?”

Huang Dan said, “Shen Liang is dead.”

Chen Shi frowned, he tilted his head to smoke, and exhaled a puff of smoke into the floating air-conditioning, “As I said earlier, everyone has their own destiny.”

Huang Dan didn’t say anything, just looked up at Chen Shi.

Wang Qi glanced at the time on the phone, “I’ll wait for you outside.”

After the extra one went out, Chen Shi squeezed away the cigarette dangling from his mouth, and lowered his head to kiss the youngster.

When Huang Dan was released, there was a taste of smoke in his mouth, and his tongue was a little numb. He raised his hand to wipe his lips, “Why did you kiss me so well?”

Chen Shi rubbed his earlobe, “I want to kiss you.”

“Zhang Shuran, I know what you’re thinking in your heart. I’m also surprised by Shen Liang’s death, but people can’t be resurrected after death, so don’t think too much, it will delay your own affairs, do you hear me?”

Huang Dan panted lightly, “I heard it.”

He sighed, “With Shen Liang’s recent level, it was not difficult to get admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, what a pity.”

Chen Shi put the cigarette in his mouth again, smiled with his eyelids half closed, and scratched the youngster’s nose with his hand, “I’ve told you several times, everyone has their own destiny, you just don’t have a long memory.”

Huang Dan，“……”

Wang Qi was waiting outside. Seeing that the two of them hadn’t come out, he walked to the door and was about to knock on the door. He vaguely heard something coming from inside, his expression changed, and he put his ears on it in disbelief.

It took a long time for Wang Qi to come back to his senses. His hand holding the cigarette trembled, and a pinch of ash fell on the door.

There was the sound of footsteps in his ears, and Wang Qi immediately left the place. He stood with his back turned, while adjusting his breathing, while breathing, his complexion gradually returned to normal.

Huang Dan opened the door and came out, catching a pinch of ash out of the corner of his lowered eye, he crouched down and reached out to touch it. There was still a little warmth, his eyes flickered. He knew that Wang Qi was standing here before he opened the door. He must have heard something and deduced his relationship with Chen Shi.

Chen Shi, who was behind, also found out, but just pouted, and didn’t make any other reactions.

Wang Qi pinched his cigarette and threw it on the ground and stomped on it. He turned around and reminded the two young men, “Bring your umbrella, it might snow heavily when you return.”

Huang Dan and Chen Shi exchanged glances, and the latter entered the house to get an umbrella.

There were little snowflakes outside, Huang Dan looked at the room next door, and felt a throbbing pain in his temples. He went to look at the next door, his temples hurt even more, his eyes turned red from the pain, and he almost cried out.

Chen Shi opened his umbrella and was startled when he turned his head, “What’s wrong with you?”

There was a shadow over Huang Dan’s head, and he whispered under the umbrella, “Something happened to Shen Liang, and Qi Fang hasn’t come back for a while, so I don’t feel at ease.”

Chen Shi’s face twitched, “Sooner or later, I’m going to spit blood out of anger because of you.”

Huang Dan sniffed, he was very annoying.

His current situation is exactly the same as Wang Qi, both of them are in the dark about the crux of the matter, and catching Shen Liang, who is the only one alive and abnormal, because there is really no one else or anything to catch.

Who would have known that Shen Liang would be dead as well.

None of Xia Wei, Lin Mao, and Shen Liang survived, and lost contact with Qi Fang and Zhou Jiaojiao. In other words, the few people Huang Dan suspected had no progress, and he didn’t know how to move forward.

Huang Dan’s task to travel to this world has not yet been completed, and he can conclude that there must be something else to happen later.

That will be an opportunity.

What will it be? Huang Dan couldn’t figure it out, his hand was held, and Chen Shi’s low voice was heard next to his ear, “Look at the road, if you bump into something or hit something, return home with me right away and let the person surnamed Wang Eat alone.”

Huang Dan moved his hand, “Officer Wang is here.”

Chen Shi had a look of indifference, “What are you afraid of, the opposite party already knows, and besides, we are just dating, and we haven’t broken any law.”

Huang Dan said, “Yes.”

Chen Shi said while walking, “If the surname Wang is idle and goes to our house to do ideological work, that’s fine, anyway, sooner or later, the family will know about it.”

Huang Dan said, “You think a lot.”

Chen Shi clenched the hand in his palm, and there was a little rough panting in his suppressed voice, “Nonsense, I even think about your wrinkled face, your teeth falling out, your gray hair, and being unable to take care of yourself.”

Huang Dan，“……”

Chen Shi pulled the youngster’s hand to his lips, and kissed him quickly, “I’m two years older than you, and I will work harder to toughen my body in the future. When you grow old, I will take good care of you.”

Huang Dan pursed his lips, “I will also work out.”

Chen Shi didn’t believe it at all, “Forget it, you were out of breath when you ran from the courtyard to the studio.”

Wang Qi, who was walking in front, was not as calm as his face. He really didn’t expect that the two people behind him had that kind of relationship. They were so brave at such a young age, and they were not afraid that their families would know.

Times are about to change, Wang Qi thought.

In less than half an hour, the three sat in a small restaurant nearby.

In this weather, most of the people who come out to eat are rushing to the hot pot, which can warm the stomach from the tongue, and after eating, the stomach is like it is stuffed with chili peppers.

Huang Dan and the others asked for Mandarin duck Hot Pot, and ordered a lot of dishes.

Wang Qi poured wine for himself, and said to Huang Dan and Chen Shi in the tone of an elder, “You are still studying, you can’t drink wine, I ordered juice for you.”

Chen Shi said, “Pour me a glass.”

Holding the wine bottle, Wang Qi asked, “Can you handle it?”

Chen Shi flicks the glass.

Wang Qi poured him wine, “This alcohol has a high alcohol content, young man, don’t be stubborn, otherwise you will suffer tonight, and your roommate will not be able to sleep well all night because of it.”

Chen Shi twirled his wine glass, “Officer Wang, did you drive here?”

Wang Qi was taken aback for a moment, he was busy with this and that during the day, his mind was very confused, so he forgot about it, it seemed that he couldn’t drink this wine.

So the bottle of wine was placed next to Chen Shi’s hand. His drinking posture was so skillful that one couldn’t tell that he was still studying.

The soup in the pot was boiling, and the heat filled the air, covering the faces and bodies of the three of them.

Wang Qi picked up chopsticks to eat mutton, and he suddenly sighed, “Each of them will always stop at the age of seventeen. They have not caught up with the college entrance examination, and they have no chance to go to university. It’s the family members who are sad.”

As a father himself, Wang Qi knows how difficult it is to raise a child. As a parent, he hopes that the child will grow up, be successful, safe, and healthy. After working hard for most of their life, the child is gone, and they don’t know how to live the rest of their life.

Huang Dan found kelp to eat, “The affair of life is impermanent.”

Wang Qi sighed, he subconsciously wanted to drink, and remembered that he was not allowed to drink and drive, so he took two sips of juice, and there was no taste in his mouth, “Shen Liang had an accident in M City, and the body is still there, we have already contacted his family, do you want to go with me?”

Before Huang Dan could speak, Chen Shi took a step ahead of him, “We have an exam in two days, so we won’t go.”

Wang Qi can understand, “Exams are important. You art students have to take more exams than those who study general literature and general science. You won’t be nervous when you go back to school after passing the professional exams.”

He put a piece of frozen tofu into a bowl, and said while eating, his voice was muffled, “Your teacher is going to invite someone to do the practice, it’s just a matter of these two days, probably for peace of mind.”

“Although none of the four of them had any accidents in the studio, they have been with other people after all. The exam is coming up, so they can’t be distracted.”

Chen Shi found kelp and stuffed it into Huang Dan bowl, “Find someone to do practice? It’s all superstition.”

Wang Qi’s hand holding the vegetables stopped in the air. When it comes to superstition, he didn’t believe it before, but he has been a little shaken recently. The cases were very strange, but nothing could be found at all.

As long as it is done by people, it will definitely leave traces.

“Some things are really uncertain.”

Wang Qi drank all the juice in the glass, he stood up and said, “I’ll pay the money. I’ll leave first, I have something to do, you guys go on eating, and slow down when you go back.”

Probably because the deceased in several cases were about the same age as the two people on the table, Wang Qi couldn’t help but feel a little sad, so he gave a few more words before leaving.

Huang Dan said, “Officer Wang is a nice guy.”

Chen Shi took a sip of wine, lowered his head and stuffed a chopstick of bean sprouts into his mouth, “My mind is not working.”

Huang Dan asked with his eyes.

After Chen Shi finished eating the bean sprouts, he picked up potato chips to eat, “Shen Liang had an accident, or died accidentally. He came to us and said a bunch of what we had and didn’t have. I can’t think of any use for it other than wasting time.”

Huang Dan said, “Maybe he was flustered and wanted to talk to someone.”

Chen Shi glanced at him, “If he wants to talk to someone, he can find a colleague. We have a generation gap with him.”

Huang Dan said, “You have a prejudice against him.”

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows, “It’s not that I have a prejudice against him, I just don’t like their profession.”

Huang Dan asked, “Why?”

Chen Shi said, “Where there are so many why’s, if you don’t like it, you don’t like it.”

Huang Dan was distracted, and stuck his chopsticks into the spicy hot pot. After he ate a piece of bean curd sticks covered with spicy oil, spicy tears came out, and he woke up.

Chen Shi shun, “Zhang Shuran, why are you so stupid?”

Huang Dan wiped his face with a tissue, “I won’t eat.”

Seeing the miserable state of the youngster, Chen Shi didn’t even bother to move his chopsticks, and dragged him out.

What it was like when you came, what it was like when you went back, the little snowflakes did not turn into heavy snow, they were slowly spinning in mid-air, fluttering, and being happy on their own.

Huang Dan tossed and turned at night, and couldn’t fall asleep.

Chen Shi pulled him into his arms, “If you have an itch on your body, I’ll scratch it for you. But if you toss around anymore, the heat in the bed will disappear.”

Huang Dan said, “You sleep first, I’ll get up and do a test paper.”

Chen Shi，“……”

He clamped the youngster’s legs, “Do a fart paper, now close your eyes and sleep!”

Huang Dan still couldn’t fall asleep, “I’ll give you a head, you can sleep when you’re tired.”

Chen Shi’s breathing sank, and he pulled up the quilt.

Don’t know if it’s because of eating hot pot, but Chen Shi was very dry, Huang Dan used his mouth for a long time, and it was numb, “Done yet?”

Chen Shi said no, “Soon.”

He touched the youngster rewardingly, his hands were wet with sweat, and said in a hoarse voice, “Don’t move your mouth, just move your tongue, um, yes, that’s it, it feels very good.”

Huang Dan was uncomfortable and tired, with a feeling of discomfort in his throat, he retched a few times, tears came out, all over his face, but still continued to blow Chen Shi, thinking that person could sleep this time.

Chen Shi was very happy to get a head, and his mind was full of stick figures.

Huang Dan helped Chen Shi for a while anyway, he was so tired that he didn’t rinse his mouth, and just made a swallowing movement, his eyelids twitched and closed quickly.

Chen Shi hugged the youngster and licked the corner of his mouth, “Good night.”

Huang Dan was woken up by a kiss in the morning, “I haven’t brushed my teeth yet.”

Chen Shi said, “It’s okay, I don’t despise you, come on, let Gege kiss for a while.”

Huang Dan’s mouth was filled with the taste of mint, “When did you wake up?”

Chen Shi kissed him and said, “It’s been a while, the porridge is on the stove, and I also went out to buy buns and fried dough sticks.”

Huang Dan pushed the person away a little, and panted with his head tilted back, “Why didn’t you wake me?”

Chen Shi wiped the youngster’s lips with his finger, “The ground outside is icy early in the morning, and it’s slippery when walking, and it’s easy to fall.”

Huang Dan said, “From now on if I don’t brush my teeth, don’t kiss me, it’s unhygienic.”

Chen Shi was taken aback for a moment, and he laughed out loud, “Zhang Shuran, I’ve never seen you like this.”

Huang Dan knew that his clothes were stuffed at the end of the bed, so he hooked them with his feet, “I’ve never seen you like this either.”

Chen Shi saw the youngster dawdling, so started by himself, put the sweater on him, carried him out of the bed and put on his lap, and quickly took the cotton shoes from under the bed.

Huang Dan said, “I’m not a child.”

Chen Shi held the youngster in his arms, and pressed his chin to the top of his hair, “I didn’t treat you like a child too, you are a treasure.”

Huang Dan’s face flushed slightly, “Oh.”

Chen Shi was not happy now, “That’s it?”

Huang Dan thought for a while and said, “I’ll shave you later.”

Chen Shi hummed, “That’s about the same.”

Like a old guardian, he carefully tucked the trouser legs of the long johns into the socks for the youngster, and then once again put the cotton shoes on the other party, “If I hadn’t come to the funeral, I won’t be able to meet you, and if I hadn’t met you, there won’t be what I’m doing now, don’t you think it’s amazing?”

Huang Dan said it is amazing.

Chen Shi put the youngster down, “In order to celebrate this miracle, we have to eat two more bowls of porridge. Hurry up, brush your teeth and wash your face.”

He pulled him into his arms and kissed again, “You can go.”

A few days later, Huang Dan and Chen Shi came back from the studio and saw a middle-aged couple, Shen Liang’s parents, who came to take away their son’s belongings.

The middle-aged couple didn’t recognize Huang Dan and Chen Shi, and when they saw them, they didn’t say anything as well.

Huang Dan left the door of the room open, and came in and out with a basin in his hand, intending to observe the movement next door.

Hearing the sound of closing the door, Huang Dan came out. He walked out of the yard, stood at the door and looked to the left of the alley. He thought he couldn’t see anything, but didn’t expect to witness the scene of Shen Liang’s parents arguing with someone.

Huang Dan closed the yard door, turned around and went back into the house, “Shen Liang is like his father, and also like his mother.”

Chen Shi was cutting ham sausage, “It looks a bit like it.”

What Huang Dan refers to is not the appearance, but the heart. Such a family environment has affected Shen Liang and made him a selfish person too.

That afternoon, some kind of Taoist came to the studio and burned the yellow talisman there, looking decent, saying that the studio was so dark that need to change the place.

Chen Shi folded his arms, “It’s just playing tricks.”

Huang Dan said, “Really? I also feel that the atmosphere in the studio is quite dark.”

Chen Shi twitched his face, “That’s because it’s cold.”

Huang Dan also pull out, “It’s not cold during the National Day, I feel like there is a dark atmosphere in the studio.

Chen Shi raised his eyebrows, “Probably because there are many girls?”

Huang Dan said, “I see you think me stupid.”

Chen Shi was wronged, “I didn’t say this, don’t accuse me randomly.”

Huang Dan said, “I’m not kidding, I really feel weird in the studio, the priest may be able to see something.”

Chen Shi blinked, “What thing? A ghost?”

Huang Dan said, “Yes.”

Chen Shi shook his shoulders and laughed, “In broad daylight, what ghost is there? You are timid to begin with, ice melted into water and couldn’t sleep in fear. Don’t fool yourself when you have nothing to do?”

Huang Dan said, “We are also painting in the studio.”

Chen Shi said, “It’s okay, we’ll finish the exam soon and go back to school, the things here have nothing to do with us.”

Huang Dan had a stomachache, so he quickly turned around and left.

Chen Shi shouted at the youngster’s slender back, “Hey, Zhang Shuran, why are you walking so fast without making a sound, wait for me——”

He passed by the middle-aged man, “Master Taoist, you have a lot of good fortune.”

The middle-aged man was moving his lips, chanting some spells, and when he heard the words, he sternly said, “Little child, what are you talking about? stay aside and be careful to be haunted by ghosts, disaster is imminent.”

Chen Shi pointed behind him, “I’m not talking nonsense, there is a girl lying on your back, don’t you feel it?”

The middle-aged man’s hand trembled, the yellow talisman fell to the ground, his calves swayed, and he said inarticulately, “W-what girl?”

Chen Shi snorted contemptuously, “I’m talking nonsense, Taoist priest, didn’t I scare you?”

The middle-aged man’s face turned blue and red. He was about to scold some when he felt a gust of wind blowing from behind. He was so scared that he didn’t dare to look back, and hurried away with the so-called treasure.

The two teachers had said hello in advance and said they would have a day off, so except for Huang Dan and Chen Shi, no one knew how the Taoist priests did it, and nothing had been done yet.

Huang Dan suffered from a bad stomach, and was carried back by Chen Shi half dead, and took off his clothes and went to bed as soon as he entered the room.

Chen Shi tucked in the quilt, “Ancestor, lie down properly.”

Huang Dan asked, “What about you?”

Chen Shi brushed the hair from the youngster’s forehead, “What, you want me to sleep with you?”

Huang Dan said, “Go and have a look at the studio.”

Chen Shi said that there was nothing to see, “That Taoist priest left early.”

Huang Dan’s eyelids flicked, “Left?”

Chen Shi nodded, “There’s nothing to say about this, you should go to sleep quickly.”

Huang Dan was thinking about things in a mess, the task was still a ball of wool, he couldn’t find the main thread.

Chen Shi sat on a chair reading a book and hummed to him.

Huang Dan listened to the singing, his consciousness gradually became blurred, and his breathing became even.

When Huang Dan woke up, it was dark outside, he put on his coat and went out, and saw Chen Shi lighting the stove in the yard.

The smell of smoke was strong, and Chen Shi’s eyes were red from the smoke, and physiological tears flowed from his eyes. He was cursing, and he was so grumpy that he would kick the stove at any time.

Huang Dan approached, “Is there enough paper? If not, I’ll go back and get some more.”

Chen Shi coughed, “Go back.”

Huang Dan looked at the situation on the stove, “Can’t you light the coal? How about I ask again.”

Chen Shi took a breath, “If able to ask, why do I have to work so hard?”

Huang Dan said, “Let me do it.”

Chen Shi waved his hand, “If I tell you to go back, go back, if you talk too much, I’ll spank your ass.”

Huang Dan watched him rub his eyes, “I’ll do it.”

Chen Shi turned his head angrily, “You’re disobedient again, aren’t you?”

Huang Dan wiped off the charcoal dust on Chen Shi’s face, “Don’t! I am obedient every time already, so you also be obedient for once, okay?”

Chen Shi choked off, his throat choked for a while, “Okay, you come.”

Having said that, Chen Shi didn’t leave, just stood aside and watched, the smell of smoke was so strong that it entered the throat. He allowed this person to go, but the other party also sang against him, so angry that his scalp was on fire.

Huang Dan squatted down to fan the stove, tore up the paper and threw it in, and it didn’t take long.

Chen Shi，“……”

It snowed heavily on the day of the exam.

Huang Dan and Chen Shi went out with their painting bags and toolboxes on their backs.

It was still early, and the alley was quiet. The snow on the ground was not mixed with the mud, only two strings of deep and shallow shoe prints.

When Huang Dan and Chen Shi arrived at the exam center, the gate hadn’t opened yet, and there were already many candidates outside, and their parents were waiting.

Chen Shi had just gotten out of the vehicle and was still breathing heavily, but it was much better than before. At least he could stand and walk instead of squatting on the ground with weak legs and unable to get up for a long time.

“If I had met you sooner, I might have cured my problem.”

Huang Dan said, “It’s not too late.”

Chen Shi hooked his lips, “Yes, we still have a long, long way to go together.”

After more than ten minutes, the gate opened, and the candidates swarmed in, not knowing what to rush for.

The exam went well.

Huang Dan and Chen Shi felt the same way, if there is no accident, they just need to wait for the results to come out, and then go back to school for humanities class.

As the time for the unified entrance exam draws nearer, the sense of parting becomes stronger.

Chen Shi grabbed the youngster’s finger, “After the exam here, you will go back to school, and I have to go back too, to prepare for the college entrance examination in three months’ time.”

Huang Dan let him cling to his finger, “You said you would come to school to find me.”

Chen Shi smiled, “Well, I said so.”

Huang Dan said, “After the exam, let’s do a job. Don’t change your phone number. I’ll call you from my landline at home.”

Chen Shi frowned, “Okay, I promised the teacher that I would go to the studio to help after the college entrance examination. Now that I have you, I will do whatever you say, and I will listen to you.”

He bit the youngster’s lip, “I want to show you the sea.”

Huang Dan was a little bit hurt from being bitten, he touched the jade through his clothes, “Chen Shi, why don’t you take the jade back and wear it.”

Chen Shi said that if he fall out for once, he fall out forever, “What is given to you is yours, and this matter is not allowed to be mentioned again!”

Huang Dan，“……”

He changed the subject, “Qi Fang hasn’t appeared yet.”

“Move back to the dormitory.”

Chen Shi said, “When he wants to appear, he will naturally appear, but by then we may have already returned to school.”

Huang Dan said, “You tell, if I ask in the Agricultural University, can I ask about his dorm room?”

Chen Shi shook his head, “Impossible.”

Huang Dan pursed his lips and asked in his heart, “Mr. Lu, can I exchange points for Qi Fang’s information?”

System gave an answer after a ding, “Host Huang, the question you asked involves the mission, and Lu has no comment.”

Huang Dan sighed, this Mr. Lu is really just like what Mr. System said, doing business in a business-like manner without showing respect

Don’t know how Mr. System is preparing for the exam.

Huang Dan frowned, he should worry more about his task.

There is no shadow of the opportunity.

The unified entrance exam was about to come, and the senior high school students in the studio began to get nervous, especially those who were not perfect in single entrance exam, and depend on the last attempt.

If you fail in the professional examination, you will just go back to school to dawdle, and then get a diploma and continue to dawdle.

Huang Dan had no intention of painting, he hesitated for a moment, went to the teacher by himself, and asked Zhou Jiaojiao’s address.

Teacher Liu said, “Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t come here after new year, and she hasn’t asked for leave as well. We are planning to contact her family and ask what’s going on.”

He flipped through the drawers inside the desk, turning things into a mess, “It’s strange, the registration form was placed here before, why is it gone?”

“Old Zhang, many of the things in the drawer belong to you. You usually look through them a lot. Do you know where the registration form is?”

Teacher Zhang said, “The registration form has been kept by you, and even you don’t know what’s going on, let alone me.”

Teacher Liu closed the drawer, but his attitude was still very gentle, “Are you blaming me for saying that?”

Teacher Zhang has a fiery temper, and his tone was very bad, “Did I say that? You put things somewhere yourself, and you forgot, but you want to pull it on me!”

“I’m not blaming you, I’m asking you, can you not distort the facts?”

“I distorted the facts? I think you want to shirk responsibility!”

“What responsibility? The registration form is not very important. It’s fine if you lose it.”

“……”

Huang Dan watched the quarrel between the two men lazily. Behind a trivial matter was a conflict of interest.

There was no other way, so Huang Dan had no choice but to ask Chen Shi to go back together. He asked the other party to sharpen a pencil for him, and draw Zhou Jiaojiao’s portrait from memory.

Chen Shi was bitter, “You ordinarily observe her very carefully, ah?! And the sketch are almost similar to person.”

Huang Dan said, “I draw you better.”

Chen Shi felt relieved after hearing this, and he asked, “Why did you draw her?”

Huang Dan said, “I want to find her.”

Chen Shi clicked his tongue twice, shook his head and said, “Zhang Shuran, why do I feel that you are full of little secrets in your heart?”

Huang Dan was speechless.

Chen Shi pinched his face, “If you want me to say, Zhou Jiaojiao didn’t come to the studio after the new year, it should be because she knew that she had no hope and couldn’t continue her studies. There is no need for you to find her.”

Huang Dan had to find Zhou Jiaojiao, and his task is all entrusted to her.

Chen Shi rubbed his forehead, “I really don’t know if the candy that Zhou Jiaojiao gave you before was mixed with something strange, which made you pay so much attention to her after eating it.”

Huang Dan thought that this is not a problem with candy.

There are quite a few high schools in the entire city of H. Huang Dan searched the address on the Internet, and asked one by one, Chen Shi was so afraid of cars, obviously very uncomfortable, he just insisted on following him, staying with him.

Huang Dan said, “May be Zhou Jiaojiao is not from this city?”

He thought that Chen Shi would not be able to explain clearly again, but he didn’t expect the other party to give the answer this time, “It should be.”

“Do you know something?”

Chen Shi touched his face and asked without answering, “What can I know?”

Huang Dan drank a mouthful of water, “I am asking you.”

Chen Shi put his elbows on his knees, leaned his upper body slightly forward, and stared at the youngster in front of him, “Zhang Shuran, I only know that Zhou Jiaojiao is from this city, and I don’t know anything else. If I know other things, how can I accompany you looking for someone from school to school like an idiot?”

Huang Dan looked into Chen Shi’s eyes, Chen Shi let him look, and they looked at each other.

Not long after, Huang Dan looked away, “Should I ask Police Officer Wang? It should be easier for him to investigate.”

Chen Shi squinted, “Ask what, Zhou Jiaojiao is not a missing person, she just went home, the police won’t waste resources, and the person surnamed Wang hasn’t shown up these days, must be busy with something at hand.”

Huang Dan drink water again, not knowing what he was thinking.

Chen Shi rubbed the youngster’s hair, “Don’t think about it, just look for it tomorrow.”

“Take it as a treatment for me, try it more, maybe I can overcome my fear of vehicles.”

He paused, “It’s strange to say that I’m afraid of vehicle. According to the doctor, it was brought out from my mother’s womb. Whenever I ride in a vehicle, I feel like a disabled person. That kind of fear is very strong.”

Huang Dan lowered his eyes, “I’m sorry.”

Chen Shi asked strangely, “Why did you say sorry to me?”

Huang Dan didn’t make a sound.

Chen Shi stared at him suspiciously, “Did you do something wrong? Tell Gege what it is? Forget it, let’s not talk about it.”

He coaxed the sad-looking youngster, “No matter what you did, Gege likes you.”

Huang Dan is a little worried.

When will he leave this time, and in what way will he bid farewell to Chen Shi.

Two days before the unified entrance exam, Huang Dan finally asked someone in a school. The other party was a boy, seventeen or eighteen years old, “Do you know where her family lives?”

The boy said he didn’t know, “I haven’t seen Zhou Jiaojiao for a long time.”

Disappointment appeared on Huang Dan’s face. He was about to thank him when he heard the boy take out his phone from his pocket, “Wait a minute, I’ll ask in the group.”

After a while, Huang Dan got what he wanted, “Thank you.”

The boy said you’re welcome, “Well, I don’t know if her home is still there, maybe it’s gone.”

“It’s okay, I’ll go and take a look.”

After wasting a lot of effort, Huang Dan and Chen Shi went to the countryside, and they found their destination in disgrace.

It was a three-story red brick building with creepers hanging on the walls. The surrounding area was extremely quiet, and no one could be seen.

Chen Shi looked around and pointed to the mass graves not far away, “If I lived here, the food will not taste good.”

Huang Dan also saw it, no wonder he felt that there was a lot of yin energy here.

Chen Shi looked at one place, and he squinted his eyes.

Huang Dan didn’t notice, “Let’s knock on the door and have a look.”

At this moment, the door of the house opened from the inside, and a woman came out with a broom and dustpan. When she saw Huang Dan and Chen Shi outside, she stopped sweeping the floor.

“Who are you looking for?”

Huang Dan said, “We are looking for Zhou Jiaojiao.”

The woman stood up straight and looked over with unspeakable expressions in her eyes, “Why are you looking for my daughter?”

Huang Dan said, “We are people from the studio. Zhou Jiaojiao hasn’t come over after new year, and the teacher can’t contact her. I’m worried that something must have happened to her.”

The woman was silent for a long time, and when Huang Dan was going to drag Chen Shi and was about to come to the door by himself, the other party said, “Come in.”

Huang Dan walked in side by side with Chen Shi. They stood in the main room, facing them, there was a long table with two posthumous portraits on it, one was Zhou Jiaojiao, and the other was her father.

The hall was dead silent.

Huang Dan turned his head suddenly. He saw Zhou Jiaojiao standing at the door and said to him with a smile, “Shuran, you came to see me.”