not scary story

Chapter 69

G City has always been known as a foodie paradise, but Qiao Yuan has never studied the so-called food map because he eats and drinks well every day. For the sake of dating, he still took out his phone and asked Yang Si for help outside the venue.

"Yo ho, who are you eating with?" Yang Si's keen gossip radar began to beep.

"Cut the bullshit. I want a quiet place."

"Oh, Yan Jiu, right?" The car was very quiet, so Yan Jiu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, could hear it clearly, and the teasing in the other party's tone immediately made him blush.

"Hmm." Qiao Yuan didn't deny it either, looking at the restless, shy and nervous guy from the corner of his eyes.To appease him, he added, "There are others."

"Oh..." Yang Si has been with him for many years, and he can get through at one point. He smiled and talked about a place. After hanging up the phone, he immediately sent a message on WeChat. "Are you ready?"

Qiao Yuan took a look, turned off the screen, feeling a little bad.

Even that guy could see that he liked this stupid hamster, but he didn't realize it at all.

The mood from sunny to cloudy turned cloudy after seeing the second WeChat. "The hotel next door is nice, I can book a honeymoon suite for you."

……Dry.

He threw the phone into the back seat forcefully, which startled Yan Jiu.

"Eat hot pot?" Qiao Yuan tried his best to calm down the evil fire in his stomach.This kind of unconscious stance of letting go is simply a great improvement for Young Master Qiao.

Yan Jiu nodded obediently.He's used to being spineless in front of Qiao Yuan, even if it's obvious that he's in the mouth of a tiger at this moment, he doesn't have the slightest sense of crisis.

When he got to the hot pot restaurant, Qiao Yuan looked at the crowded lobby, his expression became ugly again.This dog Yang Si, what about the agreed quiet style? !

He was about to tell Yan Jiu to change places, when he saw that guy staring brightly at the plates of red oil hot pot on other people's tables.

"Are there two sirs?" There were already several service girls surrounding him, vying to lead the way.

"...Mmm." Qiao Yuan finally walked inside with a constipated expression on his face.

Most of the locals in G City have a light taste. The popularity of spicy hot pot shows that the taste of this restaurant is really good.Yan Jiu only boiled two pieces of hand-cut beef, and was so moved that she almost cried.

Simply too much!good!eat!

While sniffing his nose, he continued to pour goose intestines and beef into the pot, and when the meat was all in the pot, he suddenly found that Qiao Yuan picked up a few pieces of meat and rinsed them in the teacup just like a little girl.

"...You don't eat spicy food?" Yan Jiu immediately felt guilty. The person who wanted to come in just now was himself, and the person who desperately ordered was also himself, but he didn't notice Qiao Yuan's reluctant expression all the time.

It was at this moment that he realized that the other party really liked him.

"How about, why don't we change the soup base..." He turned to look for the waiter, trying to hide his shy expression, but Qiao Yuan was not blind, and his eyes were so sharp that he even noticed the movement of pinching his fingers because of his nervousness.

Only then did Young Master Qiao gulp down the beef that had been rinsed until it tasted like boiled water, thinking that the young master's thoughts had not been wasted.

...Damn it, why is it so hot even after rinsing it!

A pot of red oil was replaced by a pot of mandarin ducks, and then Yan Jiu became much more attentive, boiling vegetables for him and pouring drinks for him.

It's not that he is also tempted, but that he is the type of kindness that drips water and springs up to repay each other. It's a pity that Young Master Qiao is the type who treats you well and doesn't like letting you know. In such a situation, two people I don't know how long it will take.

"How can you eat spicy food so well?" Even though he didn't touch spicy oil again, Qiao Yuan was still choked by the smell of chili pepper.For Young Master Qiao, who was born and raised in City G, chili is simply the killer that destroys all taste buds, but this brave hamster guy in front of him can actually fill his mouth full of chili oil without changing his expression, which makes Young Master Qiao very surprised Is not convinced.

"Hey, the village where I lived in when I was a child was rich in chili peppers," Yan Jiu missed very much, "Grandma is very good at making chili sauce, minced garlic and chili peppers, marinated in an earthen pot, and occasionally added Some small dried fish, I could eat a bowl of rice with just this when I was young."

Qiao Yuan saw that he looked happy when he mentioned his childhood, looked away, stared at the misty hot pot, and said expressionlessly: "I was sent to the mountains to practice at the age of 12, and practitioners can only eat light food. Sometimes I don’t have any meat for several days, and I’m so hungry that I’ll go to the mountains to hunt birds, and there’s nothing in that ghostly place, only the birds are the most.”

This was the first time Yan Jiu heard him tell his own story, so he stopped chopsticks involuntarily.

"Why do you want to practice?" In fact, this is what Yan Jiu doesn't understand the most.As the rich second generation in G City, Qiao Yuan doesn't have to learn the way of heavenly masters by himself. Even if he can't use the Fang family, there are many such monks or mages with high cultivation in G City and surrounding cities. It was Hong Kong, not far from City G, where dragons and tigers were hidden. As long as they could afford the money, even forming a ghost-killing army would not be a problem.

Qiao Yuan raised the corners of his lips, but there was no smile in his eyes: "I will take revenge on those who bully me. And no one can guarantee my 24-hour safety. The only one who can save me is myself."

Yan Jiu stared at him blankly, and remembered the dream she had at his house a long time ago.

Is that child covering his ears and crying in a corner, with despair and hatred in his eyes, Qiao Yuan when he was a child?

"You could see them too when you were a child?" Yan Jiu couldn't help asking again.When he was very young, his yin and yang eyes were not too obtrusive. It is said that children's eyes are more penetrating than adults, and many times they can see things without yin and yang eyes.But generally after the age of 12, they no longer have this ability, and the memory of seeing ghosts when they were young will become blurred.

"Yes. And you can touch it," Qiao Yuan recalled plainly while eating potato chips: "I have been aware of these things since I was three years old. At that time, my grandfather often asked a group of Taoist priests to give them I do things at home, and the law and order in G City in those years was very bad, there was a murder case every day, and those ghosts flocked here like meat."

"So powerful?" Yan Jiu opened his eyes wide, "I heard that the economy was not good in those years, and many people jumped off the building."

"What is shown is this kind of secular thing. According to their cultivators, the urban development broke the luck here. Later, they spent a lot of money to build a new city line, and then the city of G stabilized. .” Qiao Yuan also stopped his chopsticks, staring at the boiling pot and remembering.

"Then why did you go there when you were 12 years old? Didn't you say that the younger the better?" The students in Fang's family started studying at the age of seven or eight. Children like Fang Weili have been studying there for a long time. You can throw a talisman with your hand.

"Because I didn't realize until I was 12 that even when I could barely see them, they were still a threat to my safety. I was almost killed by my own nanny, who had been with me for two years and was a basilisk. "Qiao Yuan sneered, and some cold murderousness permeated into his voice, "So who else can believe it?"

Yan Jiu bit her chopsticks in a daze.His childhood was also full of various fears and adventures, but he was protected by his grandmother before he was 12 years old, and he had never had a direct conflict with any monsters before last year.But what about Qiao Yuan?

There seems to be no one in his story who can really be his umbrella.

He lowered his eyebrows, feeling that Qiao Yuan was really great and pitiful.