Today I just want to post with the little junior sister who is passing by.

Chapter 156 "Since I like it so much" (4119 words)

A layer of fresh cobwebs has already formed at the door of Qiu Baihui's bedroom. The host's family just didn't come for a few days, and it was already so depressed.

Jiang Qiao brushed away the cobwebs with his hands and led Mu Chenyuan into the back room.

The furnishings in the house are simple, and a faint aroma comes to my face, like burning agarwood, or a smell of magnolia flowers.

"This smell seems familiar to me." After Mu Chenyuan finished speaking, he sniffed it seriously again, and then his tone became more determined, "Yes, that's right, it should be it."

"Are you familiar with the aroma in the house?"

"I can't afford many of the incense from Wantingxuan, but I have smelled them all in the incense shop. I have long remembered such a special smell."

"Wanting, Xuan?" Jiang Qiao suddenly remembered, wasn't that the incense shop founded by Wen Yu? In this case, Qiu Baihui was also a loyal customer of Wen Yu.

Jiang Qiao's sixth sense detected something strange, but he couldn't figure out why.

Mu Chenyuan walked around the house several times. The bedroom was backed by a bamboo forest, and a piece of sunlight reflected the swaying bamboo shadows through the window. Everything around him was very quiet, except for the swaying bamboo shadows, which made people feel more at ease.

"Tell me, will Qiu Baihui leave anything in this house? A person's house can often reveal a person's nature."

Jiang Qiao looked in the direction Mu Chenyuan pointed. The brick pointed by Mu Chenyuan was indeed more tilted than the other bricks, and one corner was more warped than the other bricks.

Mu Chenyuan smiled coquettishly: "Actually, I'm also a little curious about what's inside, but it's too dark inside and I'm a little scared, so let's go in together."

"Let's go in and take a look." Jiang Qiao noticed that Mu Chenyuan's voice was trembling and asked, "Are you scared?"

"..." Jiang Qiao said in shock. He didn't expect that this action would actually lead to such a secret room. Sometimes, intuition is indeed very accurate, right?

"It's really okay. I can do it. I can overcome my fear." Mu Chenyuan said confidently, but her body still betrayed her.

"It's better not to force yourself. I promise you, I will come out within half a stick of incense."

Then, Mu Chenyuan paused, and finally, as if he had made a decision, he walked forward and held Jiang Qiao's hand, "If I can always hold your hand, I will be much better.

"Then how about you walk behind me?"

"I..." Mu Chenyuan spoke to Jiang Qiao at first, but then his eyes shifted elsewhere, "I'm a little scared. It's too dark inside. I don't know what's going on in this dark room."

"It really is."

After saying this, Jiang Qiao added, "I want to take a look, but if you are afraid, you don't have to follow me, just wait for me outside."

If Jiang Qiao wanted to give an appropriate metaphor for Mu Chenyuan's behavior at this time, it would be that he wanted to retreat before going to the haunted house.

With Jiang Qiao's help, Mu Chenyuan immediately got up.

"Okay, if you're scared, tell me anytime and I'll take you out."

"I'm afraid that you obviously like it very much, but you want to give up because of me. If you originally liked this place..."

"No matter how much I like fish, these fish outside the house are not mine to take care of. They have a deeper bond with their previous owner, and I don't want to break their bond, so let's forget it."

"Does it hurt? Is something okay?"

"..." Mu Chenyuan was stunned for a long time, and then said, "Do you want to go in and have a look."

He rubbed Mu Chenyuan's knees, and after making sure that Mu Chenyuan was almost recovered, he walked towards the brick.

"I think the environment here is very good, there are fish outside, but when I think about Qiu Baihui, she hurt you, I absolutely don't want to create any good memories here. I believe you won't like it here either."

Looking towards the direction of the sound, Mu Chenyuan fell to the ground and threw himself on the bricks.

"It's okay, except for the slight pain in my knee, everything else is fine." Mu Chenyuan rubbed his knee painfully, and then slowly stood up, "It seems that I tripped over something."

Then, there was a pop.

Mu Chenyuan nodded in understanding.

Jiang Qiao gently wiped the window sill with his hand, and what was reflected on his fingers was a layer of gray and black.

If Jiang Qiao had the choice, he would sell this house like Mu Chenyuan. If he stayed here, he would always feel depressed and think about the past.

Although the furnishings in this courtyard are very beautiful, Jiang Qiao is still unwilling to live here for a long time. Just like Mu Chenyuan said, he will always think of the past.

But then, Jiang Qiao heard an exclamation, "Oh..."

The bricks were a little heavy. After Jiang Qiao moved them out, there was a sudden noise in the whole house. When he looked up, he saw two rows of bookshelves slowly moving towards opposite positions, and then a dark room appeared on both sides.

"If you haven't come out, I can't help but want to go in to find you, so let's go in together, because I don't know when you will come out, and I will feel uneasy inside, so let's go in together."

"what?"

She turned her head back and said with her finger: "Ah Qiao, look, this brick is not very flat."

Entering Qiu Baihui's darkroom, you first have to go down a few stone stairs. Jiang Qiao activates his spiritual power. After a while, the spiritual stones are actively flying around like fireflies, just lighting up the road ahead of Jiang Qiao and Mu Chenyuan.

"Okay, okay." Mu Chenyuan slowly moved her feet behind Jiang Qiao, and then walked side by side with Jiang Qiao again.

"Leave me alone outside and I'll be worried?"

Jiang Qiao nodded, and then asked Mu Chenyuan: "What do you think of this house? If you don't like it, then sell it and get a good price."

Before walking a few steps, Jiang Qiao still asked Mu Chenyuan: "Are you really okay? Your hands are shaking."

Jiang Qiao nodded.

"There may be some reasons, but if you let me stay here, I will only feel hatred, so let's forget it."

Jiang Qiao's intuition told him that this brick was not that simple.

Jiang Qiao quickly pulled Mu Chenyuan up. He almost gave Mu Chenyuan a slap in his heart.

"You didn't mean to stand behind me, why did you come back?"

Jiang Qiao was a little surprised by Mu Chenyuan's behavior.

Mu Chenyuan squeezed Jiang Qiao's hand tightly, "If I stand behind you, it won't be easy to hold my hand. It's better to just walk away. Besides, I don't think there is any danger in front of you. It will be fine for sure."

The next second, Mu Chenyuan felt something furry flash past her ankle, and a chill suddenly came through her body. When she lowered her head and looked down, she saw a mouse moving toward her. She chirped several times. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Jiang Qiao thought that to a certain extent, Mu Chenyuan was also agile. Before Jiang Qiao could react, Mu Chenyuan had already hugged Jiang Qiao's body, and his legs had already jumped into the air and shrunk to Jiang Qiao's waist. .

Jiang Qiao said helplessly: "We are all cultivators of immortality, why are we even afraid of mice?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Regarding mice, Jiang Qiao's only impression was that Mu Chenyuan didn't maintain the house very well. There would be mice in every nook and cranny, which still meant that the cleaning was not done properly. Many rats like to stay on the rafters. If you don't check them regularly, problems may easily arise.

After walking up the stone stairs, Jiang Qiao, Mu and Chen Yuan finally arrived at the bottom of the darkroom.

Jiang Qiao found that there were several unburned candles in the darkroom, so he used his spiritual power to light the candles. The spiritual power that roamed like fireflies disappeared in an instant.

Qiu Baihui's darkroom does not contain anything ulterior. It is very ordinary and ordinary. It just contains some dolls carved from wood. Those dolls have hair and clothes, and they are quietly displayed in rows.

Mu Chenyuan couldn't help but marvel: "There are so many dolls, and they are so exquisitely made. I used to yell at my mother to make me something like this. I could also dress and change the dolls. I was a little envious."

Jiang Qiao listened silently to Mu Chenyuan's words and remembered them in his heart. At the same time, he rummaged around the dark room.

If you just put some dolls, why put these dolls in the dark room? This is not something that cannot be seen.

Jiang Qiao picked up a purple-clothed doll and looked at it carefully. Sure enough, he found a line of words on the doll's arm, "Five years old."

At first, Jiang Qiao didn't realize anything was wrong, but soon he found another doll. The second doll he held in his hand was indeed larger than the first one, with "eight years old" marked on it. .

As if he thought of something, Jiang Qiao couldn't help but touch the baby's hair, and a strange feeling arose spontaneously.

Mu Chenyuan was admiring these dolls, "She seems to have made these herself. The facial features and so on are so realistic, and the dolls' joints can still move."

"..." Jiang Qiao had known that Qiu Baihui had the habit of collecting his own hair. If all of Jiang Qiao's hair were made into doll's hair by Mu Chenyuan, this would be...

Jiang Qiao looked at many more dolls. There were many different age marks on them, and the oldest one happened to be his current age. After comparing Jiang Qiao's current hair with the doll's hair, Jiang Qiao held his breath. It seemed that I have been working too hard recently and my hair quality has deteriorated.

As for whether it was his own hair, it was just Jiang Qiao's speculation. Now that Qiu Baihui is dead, nothing matters anymore.

At the same time, Mu Chenyuan's exclamation suddenly came, "Jiang Qiao, there is a doll that looks very much like you. No, it's almost exactly the same."

"???"

Among the many female dolls, the only male doll stood out. Jiang Qiao picked up the doll that Mu Chenyuan mentioned. There was really nothing wrong with it. Apart from the fact that the body was made of wood, the facial features were completely different. Exactly the same as Jiang Qiao.

"It seems that she really likes you." Mu Chenyuan whispered, "If she likes you so much, why would she want to hurt you."

"Because what she likes is not the real me, just the fantasy me."

"Is this really the case, you in the fantasy?"

Jiang Qiao put down the doll that looked exactly like him, and began to look at other things in the dark room. "There is a box here, hiss, it's a pity that it can't be opened."

"Is it because I don't have the key?" Mu Chenyuan's eyes were dark when he spoke.

Jiang Qiao nodded, "Maybe you can find the key to the storage ring in Qiu Baihui... Huh?"

There was a splitting sound, and the sound of wood fibers breaking was loud. Mu Chenyuan opened the box with a sword.

"Why do you have to find the key in a formal way when you can use brute force? The box is made of wood."

Jiang Qiao found that Mu Chenyuan's eyes contained some anger that he couldn't fathom. However, Jiang Qiao later understood where the anger came from. He chuckled and replied: "It is true that brute force can be used. I used to I've never seen you use a sword.

"It's just that I'm afraid that such a brute force method will damage the things inside."

Mu Chenyuan waved her hand, "Look, everything inside is intact."

"That's true, your swordsmanship is good." Jiang Qiao knelt down and looked through the things inside.

The memories of the original owner rotated in Jiang Qiao's mind, and they were all familiar and strange things.

There was a piece of paper in the box. Jiang Qiao opened it and read the words inside.

[Jiang Qiao broke the bowl at Qiu’s house for the first time. When he picked it up, he cut his hand, but the fragments were collected]

[Jiang Qiao gave me the flowers he picked from the trees, and also collected them]

[Jiang Qiao tore up the exercise book for the first time, so funny]

[Jiang Qiao gave me a new bowl on my birthday]

[I broke the bowl given to me by Jiang Qiao, please repair it and put it away]

[Collect the Cuju and sandbags we played with Jiang Qiao so that we can revisit them later]

……

What is placed in the box are all memories between Jiang Qiao and Qiu Baihui. Jiang Qiao can clearly retrieve every fragment from the original owner's memory. Unfortunately, these memories have changed now. smell.

Mu Chenyuan also saw the content on the paper, "These things are just memories for you. I won't read them."

She took a few steps back in the direction of the box.

Mu Chenyuan understood that she was not Jiang Qiao's childhood sweetheart. Many good things could be created in the future, but only when she was a child, Mu Chenyuan could not fill it.

Jiang Qiao's reaction when he looked at the paper made Mu Chenyuan feel as uncomfortable as swallowing a bitter melon.

The next second, Jiang Qiao threw the paper aside, "If you don't read it, then I won't read it either."

"Why? Anyway, these are things from your childhood."

"Yeah, my childhood memories, what's going on?"

"Memories should be cherished." Mu Chenyuan was a little cautious when he said these words.

But Jiang Qiao said calmly: "When she decided to be on the opposite side of me, those memories had already drawn a clear line with me."

"But these are things you and I don't have. I haven't known you since we were children."

"You mean, it's a pity for you to have no memories of your childhood?"

"Yeah." Mu Chenyuan nodded.

Jiang Qiao touched his chin with his hand: "Ah, it can't be said that I don't have it. You may not have it, but I have it. When I entered your sea of ​​​​consciousness, didn't I meet you when I was a child?"

Mu Chenyuan's face suddenly turned red: "Of course that doesn't count!"

Jiang Qiao sighed lightly, and then said to Mu Chenyuan: "No one can decide when to meet whom, but I know very well that the memories I am creating now are the most worthwhile..."

(End of this chapter)