Miss, you are my future wife

Chapter 56
Shen Jie's steps were light and she walked fast.

Xiao Yao hurried a few steps before he could keep up with her.

"By the way, what is the relationship between Zhang Zhengkai and you?" Xiao Yao pretended to be casual, and glanced at her.

The girl's slender waist rose and fell regularly with her footsteps.

"Aren't you worried about rescuing people, and you still have the heart to think about these things?" Shen Jie didn't understand.

"No, just ask." Xiao Yao waved his hand.

The girl was silent for a few seconds, and said in a relaxed tone: "He is my... suitor. You have finally come to terms with it? You were so close to him before."

Xiao Yao put on a flat tone of "I knew it a long time ago" and said, "Oh, but isn't he a junior high school student?"

"Yes." Shen Jie said in a natural tone.

"... On Zhou Xiaoying's birthday, you invited him here?" Xiao Yao hesitated for a few seconds, but couldn't help asking.

Shen Jie shook her head: "Come uninvited."

Xiao Yao felt a little relieved: "It's not because of him that you rejected me, right?"

Shen Jie didn't speak for a long time, then raised her foot and kicked a small stone away.

"I found this in the private room of the cash drawer last time," Xiao Yao took out Zhang Zhengkai's GBA: "Zhang Zhengkai left it behind, can you return it to him for me?"

Shen Jie frowned: "I get annoyed when I see him. It's too late to hide from him. If you want to pay it back, pay it yourself."

Hearing what she said, Xiao Yao became a little happier again, and then thought of those two good friends whose fate was uncertain, and frowned again.

He followed Shen Jie and turned a corner, and the shining "cash drawer" neon sign appeared at the end of the street.

Thinking of what "Shen Jie" said in that "love hotel room", Xiao Yao asked again:
"He really likes you, doesn't he?"

"Probably, why didn't you ask him directly?" Shen Jie stopped in her tracks, with a displeased expression on her face: "Have you nothing else to say to me?"

"Since he likes you so much, have you never considered agreeing?" Even though the other party clearly expressed his disgust, Xiao Yao still did not give up.

"Strange," Shen Jie said, "If someone likes me very much, I have to promise him, so how many people should I promise?"

"That's right." Xiao Yao shrugged, "Let's go, stop standing."

The expression on Shen Jie's face suddenly changed from impatient to interested: "Wait, listen to what you mean, do you want me to promise Zhang Zhengkai?"

"Absolutely not!" Xiao Yao was startled, and issued a solemn statement: "I mean... Father Yu!"

The tall young man was sitting by the fountain, wearing a faded denim jacket with a white sweater, a pair of khaki cropped pants, and barefoot sneakers.

Hearing Xiao Yao's voice, he stood up and turned around with a displeased face: "Where did you go, kid? Where did you get our Yingying? Who is this?"

Before Xiao Yao had time to deal with this string of questions, Shen Jie politely showed her dimple on one side: "Hi, Father Yu, I'm Shen Jie."

"Shen Jie is my...good friend." Xiao Yao specially emphasized the word "good".

Seeing the girl smiling and bowing to him, Father Yu also realized his recklessness and impatience, and put on a pleasant expression: "Hello, Xiao Shen."

"The situation is urgent, so I'll make a long story short." Xiao Yao cleared his throat.

It's a long story to make short, but it's not really short.

Standing by the fountain, Xiao Yao started from how he first discovered his missing classmate in the cash drawer, how he mentioned this to Yu Luying, how Yu Luying insisted on looking for Zhou Qi in the mirror, all the way to This morning's long adventure in the mirror, I talked to Father Yu exactly as it was, but omitted the details of the speeches of "Yu Luying", "Shen Jie" and "Green-eyed boy" in the hotel room.

"What? Did you hear me speak in that world?" Shen Jie's curiosity was further aroused.

Father Yu frowned: "You should wait for me to come back."

"That's what I said too, but Yu Luying..."

"Okay, kid, you're a man." Father Yu patted Xiao Yao's chest indifferently: "Don't subconsciously shift the responsibility to women when something happens."

Xiao Yao opened his mouth, but did not speak.

"I have two questions." Father Yu tapped his temple while thinking: "When did you first discover that you could go through a mirror? Was it at the classmate's birthday party you mentioned?"

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie looked at each other without speaking.

Logically speaking, both lying and concealment will interfere with the judgment of others.

But he resisted instinctively, resisting letting the Yu family know his special relationship with his daughter and Shen Jie.

Seeing his distressed face, Father Yu smiled tolerantly, and did not continue to ask: "Second question, why did you bring Xiao Shen here again? Do you still think that you don't have enough good friends who got involved in trouble? "

Father Yu's emphasis also falls on "good friend".

It was also difficult for Xiao Yao to answer this question.

Sometimes, when you don't know how to answer a question, the best way is to throw the question back: "Father Yu, do you believe what I said? Have you heard of this world behind the mirror before?" ?”

Father Yu lit a cigarette for himself: "Have you ever heard of Shenyin?"

"Shenyin?" Xiao Yao said.

"Zhang Zhengkai seems to have mentioned to me that there is such a Japanese cartoon called "Shen Yin". I am not very interested, and I didn't ask in detail." Shen Jie said.

"That's right, this word is used a lot in Japan. A simple explanation is that people are missing, without any clues, and neither the living nor the dead. The Japanese call this kind of disappearance 'King Yin', that is, the hiding of gods. In fact, many Such incidents are nothing more than purely criminal cases. But there are exceptions.

"In some cases, the parties will be witnessed activities in the original living area; in some cases, the parties will occasionally contact the family; in some cases, the parties will return after a long time, and they usually claim to have bizarre experiences, There are also some who will call themselves and just stop in one place for a while.

"This kind of story has also left many legends in history, such as the story of our China's Peach Blossom Spring, the allusion of Wang Zhilanke, and the famous legend of Urashima Taro in Japan. Although some of them are indeed pranks or pure myths and legends, but Some people also believe that in addition to the visible and tangible material world, our world also has a spiritual world, that is, a world of ideas.”

Xiao Yao interrupted Father Yu's eloquent talk: "The spiritual world? The rational world?"

Father Yu shook his head: "To say that it is the world of rationality is to put too much gold on one's face. The world of rationality in Plato's philosophy is the origin of all things, and what you encounter is most likely just a certain person. The subjective cognitive world is a figurative projection produced after being distorted."

"Cognition? It's a bit...complicated." Xiao Yao said with difficulty: "A certain person, and who is it?"

"How do I know?" Father Yu replied bluntly.

"The mirror can reflect our appearance," Shen Jie thoughtfully: "I didn't expect that it can also reflect the appearance of our soul? Usually it is just a metaphor."

"Is the kingdom of heaven above the clouds?" Father Yu raised his eyes to the sky: "Is hell under the mantle? Only the ancients would think so. In fact, whether heaven or hell, angels or devils, the world of spirits is generally There will be no intersection and entrance to the material world. This kind of thing will happen, if it is not from the intervention of God, it is the result of some kind of witchcraft and ritual magic."

"Witchcraft, ritual magic." Shen Jie, who grew up with a materialistic education, chewed on these very unfamiliar terms to her.

"Ritual magic, planetary magic, and natural magic correspond to Plato's triple world." Father Yu explained casually: "You just need to know that there is such a thing. The church prohibits magic to protect ordinary people, because the more you know, the better you will be." more dangerous."

"That is to say," Xiao Yao became excited: "Father Yu, you really have done some research on this? Do you know how to rescue Yu Luying and the others?"

"Frankly speaking," Father Yu took a few steps back and forth: "It may be a level deeper than "some research". Is it really just a coincidence that my niece encountered such a thing?

"Is it God's will, or are they playing a big game of chess?" Father Yu murmured.

"them?"

A gust of evening wind blew by, Xiao Yao suddenly shivered.

(End of this chapter)