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Chapter 5

Xiaoshu's house is at the east end of the village. There is an old elm tree in front of the house and a pond behind the house.It was probably because they hadn't been home for a while, and before reaching the door, the siblings couldn't wait to run, and several boys followed excitedly, but they were dumbfounded as soon as they entered the door.

Strictly speaking, this place can no longer be called a home.The yard was overgrown with weeds, the corners and eaves were covered with cobwebs, and there was not a single decent piece of furniture in the room.The sunlight came in through the hole in the roof, casting several halos of different sizes on the dusty floor.

"Why do I feel that this place is a bit gloomy?" Shen Sa shrank her neck, hiding behind Fang Jianyue and looking around for a while.

"Are you afraid of ghosts in broad daylight?" Fang Jianyue snorted disdainfully.

"Hush!" Shen Sa hurriedly silenced his voice, and said seriously, "Don't talk nonsense."

"It's getting late, let's hurry up and clean the house before we talk about it." Wang Siyuan briefly observed the situation in the house and said to the boys.

As soon as the voice fell, several big boys immediately got busy.Those who moved things moved things, those who swept the floor swept the floor, and even Little Swallow was busy up and down along with her, but Xiao Shu still followed Higashino Jingxian closely, never leaving her footsteps.

"Why does he always follow you?" Luo Ling was never good at dealing with children, and now he couldn't help frowning when he saw this pestering brat.

"I don't know, maybe I don't think I look like a bad guy?" Higashino Shizuru made a joke casually.

Unexpectedly, Luo Ling became more serious, bent down and looked at Xiaoshu seriously and asked, "Do you think I look like a bad guy?"

Xiaoshu didn't answer, but just looked at him blankly with a pair of big eyes.

"In this way, if you're 'like', you can nod your head, if you're 'not like', you can shake your head. Remember, you can't lie." Luo Ling took a step forward, looking directly at Xiaoshu with both eyes. Asked again.

Xiaoshu seemed a little scared, and timidly clung to Higashino Shizuru, and his two little hands subconsciously grasped the corners of his clothes.

"Don't scare him." Higashino Jingxian embraced Xiaoshu's thin body with his hands, and at the same time expressed amusement at Luo Ling's childish behavior.

"You're still too young to distinguish between a good person and a bad person. Remember, people like me and this brother are good people, but people like that guy over there are bad people, do you understand?" Luo Ling Pointing to Shen Sa not far away, he said seriously.

"Do you teach children like this?" Higashino Shizuru couldn't help laughing.

On the other side, the unknown Shen Sa was asking Yanzi what he cared most about.

"Uh.... Yanzi, how did your grandma..... die?"

"The doctor said it was a cerebral hemorrhage."

"Doctor? So your grandma died in the hospital?" Shen Sa seemed to know that it was inappropriate to talk about this with Yanzi, so she asked extremely cautiously.

But Yanzi didn't feel anything, and nodded obediently.

"Oh, so it's not at home, it's okay." Shen Sa finally breathed a sigh of relief, and muttered to himself.Then he turned his eyes and found that Yanzi was looking at him strangely, and hurriedly explained: "Uh... don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that it's good for your grandma to die, I mean..., um, I mean... ..."

The young lady couldn't understand what he was saying at all.

"I told you to fetch water, why are you dawdling there!" Fang Jianyue shouted at him impatiently.

The cleaning work was finally completed before dark. Looking at the brand-new house, the sister and brother finally showed long-lost smiles.Fortunately, the circuits in each room are intact. When Wang Siyuan turned on the lights, there was finally a sense of home here.The village head also carefully asked someone to bring some bedding and food, which made the younger sister and younger brother very happy.

"I didn't expect their happiness to be so simple." Looking at the happy siblings in the yard, Higashino Shizuru couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

"When people don't have too many desires, happiness becomes very simple." Luo Ling said.

"Desire? What do you mean?"

"It's just... There are too many things I want, and I will never be satisfied."

"Like the old woman in The Fisherman and the Goldfish?"

"Almost." Luo Ling smiled.

"If you were given a chance, what would you want most?" Higashino Shizuru asked.

"I want our band to never disband, and then travel to every corner of the world, so that people all over the world can hear our music." Luo Ling looked at the sky above the patio, said full of longing, and then He asked Higashino Shizuru again, "What about you?"

"Me?" Higashino Shizuru couldn't help lowering his head, kicking a small stone at his feet thoughtfully. "I don't want anything."

"No way? Didn't you have anything special you wanted or something you wanted to do since you were young?"

"Yes, but it has never been realized once, so I just don't think about it." Higashino Shizuru couldn't help sighing.

"It won't be so miserable, right? Then you can say one now, maybe I can help you realize it?"

"say what?"

"Just say one thing you want to do most right now."

"Now?" Higashino Shizuru smelled the sweat on his clothes, and smiled self-deprecatingly, "The thing I want to do most now is to take a good bath."

"Isn't that simple?" Luo Ling glanced at the faucet in the middle of the yard, and then strode towards the center of the yard.I saw him taking off his shirt three times and five times, and then without saying a word, he picked up the water pipe and aimed it at Shizuku Higashino.Higashino Jingxian was stunned unexpectedly, so he got so excited for a moment, he simply took off his clothes and went forward to make a fuss with Luo Ling.Although the weather in October is still hot in summer, it is almost early autumn after all, and it is still a bit cool at night.However, the two of them didn't care at all, they completely turned on the Songkran mode, and after a while they became two veritable drowned rats.Seeing that they were having fun, Shen Sa and Liu Hao responded one after another. Even the usually steady captain Wang Siyuan actually joined the battle. They shouted and jumped, having a great time.

"Jianyue, come quickly, we are 2 short and 1 short, and you are the only one missing!" Liu Hao saw that he and Shen Sa were gradually losing ground, so he couldn't help shouting at Fang Jianyue, who was sitting alone and neatly dressed.

"I... have a cold." Fang Jianyue touched his nose, as if he was afraid to avoid it.

"I think you are afraid of revealing?" Shen Sa said to Xiaoshu who was smiling silly, "Xiaoshu, take care, when you grow up, don't be like him! Remember, a real man That's how it should be!" After finishing speaking, he slapped his chest cracklingly.

"Shen Sa, come here and tell me again!" Fang Jianyue's face darkened, and he roared angrily.

"If you have the guts, come here." Shen Sa provoked recklessly.

"You..."

At this moment, the courtyard door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, only to see Xin Ya and Zhang Xiaoai walking in with a bowl of freshly cooked five-spice eggs, and they were shocked when they saw the scene in front of them. Jump, Zhang Xiaoai let go of her voice and yelled.Xin Ya hastily put down the bowl in her hand, pulled her up and fled quickly, causing Yan Zi and Xiao Shu to giggle.

At night, several boys huddled together on the only bed in Xiaoshu's house, looking up at the starry sky through the hole in the roof.

"Ah, this house is really nice! Not only does it have a super invincible sky screen 3D night view, but you can also count the stars if you can't fall asleep, how romantic!" Shen Sa spent the night in this kind of place for the first time, so excited that he couldn't sleep.

"It would be more romantic if it rained in the middle of the night." Liu Hao mumbled with his eyes closed.

"Shut your rat mouth!"

"Didn't you still say this room was gloomy during the day?" Fang Jianyue said.

"It's okay, I asked Yanzi, and she said that her grandma didn't die at home." Shen Sa said reassuringly.

"How do you know that her old man won't come back? Maybe she can't let the young lady and brother go in her heart?"

"How is this possible? Her grandma lives in the county hospital. It's far away from here. How can she come back?" Although Shen Sa said so, Shen Sa's voice was obviously not as confident as before.

"How is that impossible? Haven't you heard of 'Ghost Bus'?"

"Hey, can you stop talking?" Shen Sa's voice was already trembling.

"In our hometown, there is a saying that after this person died..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" This kind of thing is Shen Sa's weakness.

"Are you scared? Don't you? Who just patted his chest and said that all real men should be like him?" Fang Jianyue took the opportunity to tease.

"Are I wrong? You are a real man, no, you are more real than a real man, you are simply a man among men, is it okay now? I beg you to stop talking, okay?" At this moment Shen Sa no longer cared about losing face, and begged in a crying voice.

Jianyue finally showed a satisfied smile.

"Why does he even sleep next to you?" Luo Ling asked softly in the dark.

Higashino Shizuru smiled noncommittally.

"You're still so obsessive at this age, you don't look like a boy at all." Luo Ling's tone showed a trace of dissatisfaction.

"What about you? Didn't you used to take me to church sleepovers?"

"Who made the priest feel so good every time he saw you? If you weren't here, he would definitely stare at me and talk endlessly. I'm so annoying." Luo Ling sighed suddenly when he said this, "Oh, but Now that no one thinks about me, I really miss it, and I don't know if he is doing well now?"

"The priest is a good man. God will bless him. By the way, remember to say hello for me when you send him a card at Christmas."

Luo Ling suddenly smiled, "If he knows that we are now classmates again, he will be shocked."

"Who was surprised?" Shen Sa was about to go to sleep, when she heard Luo Ling talking here, she couldn't help but interjected again.

"It's none of your business, sleep." Fang Jianyue said.

"Hey, why do I always feel that something is moving on the roof?" Seeing that he was still asleep, Shen Sa couldn't help pulling the corner of his quilt.

"Maybe it's a mouse?" Fang Jianyue knew that he was most afraid of ghosts and mice.

"A mouse? No way? Why is a mouse going up to the roof? There's no food there. Hey, what if it accidentally falls? Didn't it just fall on our bed?" Shen Sa said more and more, feeling more and more frightened.

"It's okay, just keep your mouth shut."

"Shut up? Why?"

"That way at least it doesn't fall in your mouth."

Shen Sa was so frightened that she immediately closed her mouth, and then felt that it was not safe enough, so she simply got under the quilt.