When the magic stick summons cute pets

At the same time, in the courtyard, Zhang Siyuan, who was hugging his knees and curled up at a corner, suddenly heard a small knocking sound, his body moved slightly, and he slightly raised his head to look around the room.

The room was empty and he was alone.

Enduring the fear in his heart, he slowly stood up and walked slowly following the source of the sound.Then through the glass of the window, he saw a strange paper crane flying into the edge of the window sill through the protective net, flapping its wings on the glass.

Zhang Siyuan was startled by this unusual sight and took a half step back in a panic, but was about to go back, but then he felt that the paper crane made of white paper was inexplicably familiar.

After hesitating for a while, he still gave up his previous idea of ​​pretending not to see it, approached cautiously, and stretched out his hand to push the window open a gap.

The origami crane seemed to understand human nature. When Zhang Siyuan started to push the window, it stopped moving and obediently stopped on the window sill. When the gap in the window came out, it flapped its wings and slipped in along the narrow gap. It circled a few times in the air and landed firmly on top of his head.

Zhang Siyuan was startled, tentatively reached out and took the paper crane off his head and put it in his palm for a look.

But I don't know why, the paper crane that was just like a living thing suddenly turned into an ordinary handmade object after entering the room.

Zhang Siyuan turned it over and over again, but couldn't find any way to restore it to its previous appearance.Originally, I wanted to take it apart to see if there was any mystery inside, but when I was about to do it, I suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside.

He calculated the time in his mind, knowing that someone from the Liu family should come over to deliver his meals at this moment, so he put the paper crane on the side cabinet and sat back beside the bed.

His door was locked from the outside with a key, and all the windows were welded shut with protective bars. He was locked inside the house and had no chance of escaping.

Watching a strong middle-aged man bring him food, then without saying a word, he packed up the leftover bowls and chopsticks from lunch and walked out, Zhang Siyuan was full of deep exhaustion: at the very beginning, he He also tried a hunger strike, but when he realized that the family didn't care about his life, he completely gave up this stupid struggle.

He doesn't want to die, he still has a lot of things to do!Fate was so unfair to him, he struggled to survive so hard, he must not fall down here!

Zhang Siyuan picked up the rice bowl, even though he had no appetite because of the intertwined fear and anxiety at the moment, he still tried his best to stuff the rice into his mouth.

Reluctantly swallowing all the food in his stomach, the bell at seven o'clock suddenly rang again. "Dangdangdangdang" seemed to explode in the ear, piercing the whole skull of the person with dull pain.

After finally waiting for the bell to ring, Zhang Siyuan was about to rest on the bed for a while, but before he closed his eyes, he heard a young man's voice suddenly sound from the room that should be empty except him.

"Hey, hey, can you hear my voice? Please answer if you hear it, please answer if you hear it, over."

Zhang Siyuan looked around in panic, and was surprised to find that the eyes of the paper crane that he put on the cabinet suddenly flashed red. He stared at the paper crane carefully for a while, until he heard another sound from the other end After a little movement, he was sure that the previous voice was clearly coming from the paper crane's body!

"You..." He plucked up his courage and took two steps closer, but he didn't dare to get too close. His eyes were vigilantly staring at the paper crane shining with a strange red light, and his voice was hoarse due to thirst. ,"Who are you?"

I saw the red light in the paper crane's eyes flicker again, and then a voice with a smile came over: "Old classmate, you wrote the invitation yourself this time and asked me to come here, why are you here now?" And ask me who am I?"

Zhang Siyuan froze all over, and then his eyes burst into ecstasy. He stepped in front of the cabinet, reached out and picked up the paper crane and held it in his palm, with an excited expression on his face as if he was about to cry: "Ye Changsheng?"

The other end responded with a smile, and the voice sounded heartless: "I haven't seen you for six years. I didn't expect you to become a groom's official when I see you again. The wedding night in the bridal chamber is the No. 3 of the four great happiest events in life." , old classmate, you are really—tsk tsk tsk, winner in life, winner in life!"

Zhang Siyuan wanted to cry without tears, his whole face was tangled together, he opened his mouth but he could only stammer and say, "You, don't talk nonsense! I'm getting married... no, not getting married! Bride, I mean Liu Qian She...she..."

"Already dead?" The other end suddenly interrupted his incoherent speech, and said with great interest, "I never knew, so ghost marriages are still popular here? Why, Liu Qian was your girlfriend before? So their family let you Are you married?"

Zhang Siyuan looked at the paper crane in his hand and fell silent for a moment.

Ye Changsheng, who was just talking casually, heard the sudden silence on the other end, and the smile on his face faded a bit. He sat up from the bed, and asked a little hesitantly: "Wait, she is really your girlfriend. ?”

Zhang Siyuan shook his head subconsciously, and then he realized that the other side couldn't see his movements, and then he sighed and explained in a low voice: "No, she is my colleague... She just came to our company for an internship this year Newcomer."

Hearing his tone, Ye Changsheng felt something was wrong. He exchanged a glance with He Jiuzhong who was sitting beside him, then lightly fiddled with the Thousand Paper Crane on his side, and asked Zhang Siyuan, "More than that?" Is this something to do with it, and what else?"

Listening to his question on the other side, there was another silence. After a while, a low and depressed voice came through the paper crane: "Liu Qian, she... died to save me."

Ye Changsheng narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard this, and suddenly felt that things were a little tricky.

Zhang Siyuan's voice was intermittent, with deep depression: "Liu Qian... is an intern in the secretarial department of the office. I am not in the same department as me. In fact, I have only greeted him a few times in normal times. I can barely get acquainted."

"On the day of the accident, she and I both worked overtime and stayed late. I thought it would not be safe for her little girl to go home alone, so I sent her for a while... But halfway through, I happened to pass by a construction site. , neither of us noticed... She, she pushed me, and she—”

Ye Changsheng was thoughtful: "That's why Liu Qian's family wants you to marry their daughter?"

Zhang Siyuan responded in a low voice: "...um."

Ye Changsheng put the thousand paper cranes in his hand on the table, and suddenly asked a little bit sharply: "But this dark marriage is still a wedding, and it's still the same as the old society's orthodox wedding. In other words, even if Liu Qian's family is willing, if you are not willing, can they still tie you up alive?"

Zhang Siyuan was silent for a while, and then spoke with a trembling voice: "I, my parents died in a car accident very early, and our family was the responsible party for that car accident, and we lost everything. My uncle took me back to raise me."

"My uncle's family's financial conditions are not very good. Now the eldest son wants money to buy a house and marry a wife, and the younger daughter is waiting for money to go to college... Liu Qian's family gave me 80 in cash... and said that as long as I can hold a wedding with her, it will be fine. They don't want Liu Qian to be alone down here at such a young age..."

Ye Changsheng finally realized it when he heard this, and he raised his eyebrows towards He Jiuzhong who was also eating melons vigorously, the corners of his lips were curled up, and his voice was a little playful: "So, this ghost marriage was actually agreed by you yourself. down?"

The other end took a long breath and smiled shortly: "Yes."

"If that's the case, then I have to criticize you." Ye Changsheng sat on a chair heartlessly, dangling his legs, and said in a casual voice, "Your parents have also met, and the money has been collected. , I have taken advantage of everything, and now I am going to regret the marriage—isn’t this a very authentic way of being a human being?"

Across the thousand paper cranes, Zhang Siyuan hadn't had time to reply, but suddenly there was a huge bell ringing "Dang".Ye Changsheng glanced at the time. The time had just reached 07:30. He couldn't help but joked: "What age is it, and your taste is still so peculiar? You don't mind making a lot of noise with this kind of pendulum in the room." Panic?"

The other end also looked at the huge grandfather clock, and finally squatted down as if unable to bear it any longer, his voice choked with pain: "This is given to me by their family."

"Send the bell...'Send the end'!" He broke down in a low hoarse voice, grabbed his hair with his hands, every word seemed to exhaust the remaining strength in his body: "I can see Liu Qian... I can still see her every night now. Their family hates me, they don't want me to marry Liu Qian in the dark, they are cursing me to die, hoping that I will go down to accompany their daughter!"

"They... want me to die!"

The red light in the paper crane's eyes flickered several times, and then gradually disappeared as if it lacked energy.And at the moment when the red light disappeared, a ball of flame suddenly shot out from inside the paper crane. The flame shot up strangely, quickly burned the talisman paper itself into ashes, and then went out immediately.

Except for that layer of black ash, everything else left no trace.

Zhang Siyuan squatted on the ground for a while, then slowly stood up from the ground.He looked at the paper crane that had been reduced to ashes, and was stunned for a while, then he clenched his hands into fists and pounded on the wall, slowly closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against it, opened his mouth slightly, and murmured in pain: " Ye Changsheng, please, help me...help me, I don't want to die here."

On Ye Changsheng's side, after the only paper crane that could communicate with Zhang Siyuan was also burned, they had to temporarily lose contact with that end.

After disposing of the ashes on the table, Ye Changsheng turned his head to look at He Jiuzhong and asked, "What do you think about this time?"

He Jiuzhong lifted the hem of his clothes and sat down on the side of the bed, raised his eyebrows slightly, and his expression showed his lack of interest: "What do you think? As you said just now, Zhang Siyuan's life was originally Liu's Qian gave it to him, not to mention the marriage he personally agreed to and the money he accepted—everything is in his hands, so why would he want to regret the marriage?"

Ye Changsheng blinked his eyes, and said slowly: "It is true to say so, but... after all, my dear, you also know me. Now, we have all come here from the dusty car for so long, if we don’t do anything and have to send some money out, wouldn’t it be a loss.”

He Jiuzhong looked at him with a half-smile and looked at him saying such shameless words and still being righteous, and felt a little itchy in his heart for no reason, he hooked his lips and asked, "So you still want to help him?"

The black eyes were slightly bent, but there was a bit of clever cunning in the innocent and harmless smile: "So I decided to wait and see what happens, and make plans after attending tomorrow's wedding!"

He Jiuzhong looked the young man in front of him from head to toe, and said in a calm voice, "Tell me, what are you planning?"

"Hey..." Ye Changsheng's smile became more and more charming. He stretched out his hand and gestured, a pair of crescent-shaped eyes shone with a dazzling brilliance: "Honey, it's 80!"

He Jiuzhong touched the palate with his tongue: "Didn't you say that was your friend?"

"We're friends, but as the old saying goes, brothers can still settle accounts." Ye Changsheng waved his hand, and said with a serious and sincere expression: "I think appropriate money exchange is a necessary tool to deepen friendship!"

He Jiuzhong was finally amused by the way Ye Changsheng fell into Qian's eyes. He walked to the bedside and sat down, raised his eyelids and looked at him: "You didn't find anything when you were staying at the door of Liu Qian's house earlier?"

Ye Changsheng put his hand against the table and pushed gently, and the swivel chair underneath slowly started to move. He swiveled the swivel chair leisurely and replied, "No, at least not at that time. Liu Qian is dead." It's too miserable, if there is any action after turning into a ghost, there should be residual resentment, but I haven't noticed it for the time being—or rather, the cleanliness there is a bit too much."

Stretching out his hand to support the table and stopping the inertia of the swivel chair, he looked back at He Jiuzhong thoughtfully: "If Liu Qian's family hadn't invited something to suppress her resentment, then—"

"So, what?"

Ye Changsheng stood up and took two steps forward slowly, but then the seriousness on his face faded, and a calm smile appeared again: "It's nothing, there's no point in thinking wildly here now, we'll find out tomorrow!"

It had been a sunny day before, but when the two got up early the next morning, they found that there were thick clouds of fog floating outside at some point.

Most of the fog in winter is also a sign of sunny days, but this time it seems to be a little different.The dense fog continued to spread until noon, although the visibility was slightly higher than in the morning, but it still shrouded the entire city thinly.

The mist clings to the windows, and the inside and outside are densely packed with tiny water droplets.Ye Changsheng wiped the window with his fingertips, and the icy air spread along his fingertips, so cold that he quickly withdrew his hand and rubbed his fingers gently.

"The fog doesn't pass for a long time. Listen to the rain after a while." Ye Changsheng shook his head and muttered, "It's a day of great joy, this omen is not good, not good."

He Jiuzhong took Ye Changsheng's coat hanging in the closet and handed it to him, the corners of his lips curled up, and there was a hint of playfulness in his voice: "It's not a good sign that someone like you who is planning to ruin the wedding is going to the wedding venue. Does it fit?"

Ye Changsheng took the clothes and put them on his body. After thinking for a while, he felt that what he said made sense. He nodded and immediately smiled: "Hearing you say that, my dear, I suddenly have confidence."

Glancing at the time, it was 10:[-], which was [-] minutes away from the opening time stated on the invitation.

He took his backpack casually and carried it on one side, and was about to go out, but he saw He Jiuzhong unhurriedly following to the door, leaning against the wall and looking down at him.

"Can you really do it alone?"

Ye Changsheng pulled the strap of his backpack and tilted his head slightly, looking at him with a smile: "Are you worried about me?"

He Jiuzhong's scarlet eyes quietly locked on the young man in front of him who was smiling heartlessly. He seemed to pause slightly when he heard the question on the other end, and then the corners of his lips sank into a small arc, and he asked lightly. Said: "Can't you?"

After finishing speaking, with something lazy but straightforward in his eyes, he added and repeated to him: "Worrying about you, can't you?"

This time Ye Changsheng was a little stunned.

Probably because he didn't expect the other end to be honest once in a while, he looked at He Jiuzhong's eyes and lowered his eyes subconsciously, but only for a moment, the other end returned to his usual expression, scratched his head and sighed: "I want to bring you a lot of money too." I'm looking at you, but with your aura, it's like smashing the field everywhere, and I'm afraid they won't let us in when the time comes."

He swiped and tapped on the small blackboard again and said: "And mortals are very fragile, if they make you unhappy, you can kill a lot of people with just a wave of your hand!"

As if he had almost foreseen the tragic situation in his mind, Ye Changsheng looked at He Jiuzhong with a sad face: "We will become the most wanted criminals in the whole country together."

He Jiuzhong narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard his words, but then he seemed to think of some pictures from those words, and the curve on the corner of his lips deepened a bit: "That seems to be very interesting."

Ye Changsheng looked at the pupils of the eyes that were slightly stained with interest, and felt that it seemed dangerous to talk about this topic in depth, so he hurriedly stopped with a gesture of pause: "Okay, time is running out. I'll Go down, if something happens, I will call you immediately."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and opened the door and walked out quickly.

And He Jiuzhong, who was left alone in the room, looked at Ye Changsheng's leaving back and the door that closed instantly, for some reason, a slight sense of displeasure flashed in his heart.

He frowned slightly, forcibly suppressed the unreasonable displeasure, then turned around and sat down on the bed again, sinking his heart into cultivation.

The electronic screen in front of the hotel is already scrolling the subtitles "Bless the bride Liu Qian and the groom Zhang Siyuan to grow old together and have a happy marriage for a hundred years".The bright red characters were refracted by the fog around them into a cloud of bright red, which seemed a bit weird for no reason.

I don't know if it's because the day is unlucky, and they are the only one in the hotel to hold a wedding banquet today.The banquet did not require a hall, but a side hall that can accommodate 30 to [-] people.

Not many people came one after another. Both men and women were wearing dark formal attire, and they looked like they were attending a funeral rather than a wedding banquet.

It was approaching the end of the year, and the surrounding shops began to play music related to the Christmas theme, but the brisk and lively rhythm passed through the mist, but it did not relieve the strange solemnity on the faces of all the wedding guests in the hotel .

Ye Changsheng went all the way to Hall No. [-], which was written on the invitation. He stood at the door and looked around, only to see that the door of the box was tightly closed. The door did not mention the bride and groom, and even the best man and bridesmaid were not seen at the door. with.

He lowered his eyes and glanced at the time, it was eleven fifty-five.55 minutes to go.

He cleaned up his expression and knocked on the door. After a while, a tall and burly man came and opened the door for him.The strong man looked him up and down, frowning slightly: "Who are you looking for?"

Ye Changsheng raised his head slightly to look at him, took out an invitation card with a smile and handed it over, "I'm a friend of the groom, Zhang Siyuan."

The hand of the strong man who was about to accept the invitation paused slightly after he heard Ye Changsheng's self-introduction, and his eyes paused for a moment on the smiling young man in front of him, with a delicate expression: "Zhang Siyuan's friend?"

The boy in the dazzling bright yellow down jacket was obviously taken aback for a moment, then he asked hesitantly, "Isn't this the wedding banquet for Zhang Siyuan and Liu Qian?"

The strong man glanced at the words on the invitation card from the corner of his eye, and then handed the invitation card back to him, his voice was a little heavy: "No, this is our family banquet, you may have made a mistake."

The entanglement between the young man's brows became more obvious. He took back the invitation and scanned the address on it, then raised his eyes and looked past the strong man as if he wanted to take a look inside. The expression on his face was obviously disbelieving: "Impossible, this The above address is written here. Hall No. [-] of XXX Grand Hotel, you see, that’s right.”

The strong man didn't bother to tangle with him any longer. His face darkened, and he stepped back a little while holding the doorknob and wanted to close the door: "I don't know, anyway, you're in the wrong place."

But Ye Changsheng on this side has quick eyes and quick hands. Seeing that the other side wanted to close the door, he quickly stepped forward and blocked the door: "Hey, why are you like this? I came all the way from X city to attend the wedding. You can't just So let me go back?"

He looked like a slender young man who seemed to be able to scrape away, but somehow his strength was astonishing. Even the strong man tried desperately to close the door but he couldn't succeed after holding on for a long time.

"I warn you to let go! We-"

Halfway through the speech of the strong man, he was probably startled by the commotion outside. A couple in their 50s walked slowly inside. Their eyes turned around Ye Changsheng. The woman said softly: "Stop making noise, today is Qian On Qian's day of great joy, it is a good thing to have more personal blessings."

The strong man looked at Ye Changsheng, as if he wanted to say something: "But..."

The man slightly raised his hand and interrupted what he was about to say. He walked over and smiled kindly at Ye Changsheng: "Are you Siyuan's friend? It's been a long way to come here. Come in and sit down."

Ye Changsheng also looked at him, nodded politely and followed him into the box.

There were only two large round tables in the box, and when everyone was wearing black formal attire, Zhang Siyuan, who was wearing a dark red Chinese jacket on the main table, looked particularly eye-catching.

The moment the groom, whose face was numb, saw the bright yellow color coming in from the door, his expression suddenly became agitated. He almost wanted to rush to the man immediately and beg him to save him from this place. , but the little bit of reason left in his mind made him try his best to suppress his impulse.

He stared at the discordant note sitting at the table next to him, as if he hoped to pass on his despair and pain at this moment.

Naturally, he also felt the unusual and even too piercing gaze from the main table. He slightly raised his eyes and looked at him, and then sat down quietly in his seat again. Glanced at the time.

Eleven forty-three.

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The author has something to say:

Ye Changsheng (smiling): After finally getting married, be happy!

Zhang Siyuan: ...

He Jiuzhong (twirling Ye Changsheng's hair): Don't be gloating so obviously, huh?

Ye Changsheng: Hey~

Zhang Siyuan (dare to be angry but dare not speak): ...you still have to smile, right?