Chapter 177: Five questions, chasing fugitives, and getting your heart's desire.

The heart was obviously hidden in the chest of the person in front of her, but Chi Xiaochi felt so close that she felt as if she was holding it in her palm, and her palms were tingling with the powerful beating of his heart.

Chi Xiaochi cautiously said, "May I ask?"

"I am your master, your teacher. To preach, to teach ......" Wen Yujing , 061, or Lou Ying , held his hand, said, "...... And to solve the confusion, are my responsibility. "

Chi Xiaochi looked at the five fingers of the two of them interlocked together, "Master has been injured, and needs to rest, so I will only ask five questions."

Lou Ying pursed her lips and smiled softly, "Good."

He's said many times that he likes Chi Xiaochi's energetic tone, it's cute.

Chi Xiaochi asked, "Is that demon practitioner really the one who kills books and parents?"

This is not a surprise to Lou Ying.

Chi Xiaochi's first concern is always the task itself.

"Yes, but not all." Lou Ying leaned back and sat up a bit straighter, "I was interested in looking into this matter earlier, and had already found traces of demon hunting activities on Dongshan Island near the East Sea. After escaping, I thought I couldn't return empty-handed, so I broke into the island. We need a demon's head as proof of identification."

Lou Ying spoke plainly, making no mention of the harrowing sight of himself on the island.

Before he went, Ji Zuoshan, who had escorted him all the way from the Valley of the Lost Butterflies to the East China Sea, asked him, "Mr. Six, is it true that you don't need me to accompany you?"

He crouched down on one knee, reached out to stroke the surging tide, and said, "Go to Xiaochi."

Ji Zuoshan still can't rest assured: "But you're hurt too badly."

He said, "I'm fine. I know myself, but I'm not sure about him."

Even if ...... he knows his ability, he can never rest assured.

Ji Zuoshan said, "Then I will go and tell him about you ......"

"Don't tell him, he'll be uneasy even if he knows I'm coming to break into the island." 061 said, "Moreover, I don't know if my boss will keep an eye on him, and it's not safe to say that you'll be watched by my boss if you communicate with him. I can only trouble you to stay by his side for a while, and look after his safety for me. ...... Many thanks."

Speaking here, he slowly drew a watery sword out from between the snow-white foamy tides of the sea, "What needs to be said, I will go back and say to him myself."

A water sword made from the late tide of the East China Sea was carried in the hands of a man covered in wounds, accompanying him along a bloody path that seemed to have no end in sight.

He did his share of demon hunting, walking over alone and carrying another head, all in one piece.

Lou Ying could read Duan Shujue's memories of the faces of the butchers he had seen through Duan Shujue's panicked eyes.

He forced his way onto the island, found a face that had appeared in Duan Shujue's memories in the vast sea of demons, cut his head with a sword, wrapped his long hair, tainted with blood, around his wrist, crossed the ocean, and turned to his Xiaochi.

The reason he didn't kill all those demons was because he was injured and his power was still insufficient.

With Xiaochi as his weak link, he won't be able to show off easily.

Besides, the revenge of blood relatives should be avenged by Duan Shujue himself.

Chi Xiaochi asked the second question, "Master knew about the rumors?"

"It's about you and me, of course I know."

Rumors abound, and he is well aware of them. He just kept the carbuncle and was not eager to pull it out.

Even if he had fished the painter and the shabby man up the mountain early, and made a clarification to Red Cloud Zi, the rumors had already spread, and he couldn't pull the two men and run to people's doors to clarify them one by one, and he couldn't convene a clarification conference for this reason, and make a big fuss about it, but it would be counterproductive instead. How about leaving the cards first, let it ferment, wait until the public trial and other major occasions, and then the situation to break this thing, in one fell swoop to clean up all the previous rumors.

Chi Xiaochi nodded and asked the third question, "What happened to the wound?"

Lou Ying didn't want to go into detail about it, "It's just my own carelessness, it'll be fine soon, don't worry."

Chi Xiaochi : "...... hmmm."

What followed was a long silence.

Chi Xiaochi's palm was still gently pressed against his heart, and his eyes fell to his fingertips, like he was thinking about his heart.

At this point, Lou Ying also realized that Chi Xiaochi seemed to be intentionally avoiding the real question he wanted to ask.

He was a bit nervous, he was afraid that Chi Xiaochi would back out again, he unconsciously clenched his hand, but immediately wondered if he had pushed too hard, and hastily relaxed his hand's strength.

However, Chi Xiaochi held the shirt on his chest in a reverse grip.

He asked the fourth question, "Master, why have you been gone so long."

Lou Ying's throat choked, and his heart crinkled at the clench of his words.

Chi Xiaochi voice did not fluctuate much, the tip of his thumb was touching back and forth, sensing the subtle heartbeat in his chest, "...... Three days, it's like a dozen years have passed."

Lou Ying sat up straight and bent over slightly, "It's my fault for not greeting you in advance."

It took Chi Xiaochi a moment to raise her eyes to look at him, "I'm not blaming you, I wouldn't. It's just, it's really kind of long."

Lou Ying heart hidden pain more than, wrapped around his waist, so that he was pressed against his chest, listening to the sound of the heartbeat.

"...... Sorry."

Lou Ying dropped his head, and the free hand slowly held the back of his head, slowly stroked Chi Xiaochi's slightly longer hair, and pressed against Chi Xiaochi's ear, apologizing slowly and in a whisper, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

He should have tried harder. He should have gone back sooner.

"It's okay." Chi Xiaochi buried herself in his arms, not sounding very sad, even a little incredibly happy, "You made me wait a couple decades less."

I used to think that if I got too old to act and couldn't read the scripts, I would retire from acting," says Chi Xiaochi. At that time, I would be in a silo, cooking and watching TV every day, waiting for you to come and pick me up one day," said Chi Xiaochi. ...... Now, I've only been waiting for a dozen years to come and find you, and how nice it is to have found you."

How nice that the fated chandelier, unbiased, just fell on his head.

Lou Ying stroked the back of his head, his heart aching slightly.

He didn't want to be thankful for the chandelier, even though the chandelier, accidentally dislodged, had sent Chi Xiaochi to him so that he wouldn't turn a little bit into a monotonous and uninteresting piece of machinery.

He only cares about his Xiaochi.

He asked, "Is it hard for you when I hold you like this."

"No." Chi Xiaochi buried her head a little lower, "It's just that it's been a long time since I've been like this and I'm not really used to it."

Lou Ying felt the warmth spreading in front of his chest, his heart softened a few more points, and coaxed him in a low voice, "I didn't see anything. Just do what you want to do."

After a longer period of silence and embrace, Chi Xiaochi looks up.

He kept himself under control, there wasn't much blood in his eyes, and there was no redness around them to see much sign of crying.

"061." Chi Xiaochi composed herself and solemnly asked the final question, "Are you Lou?"

Before Lou Ying could prepare himself, the wrong answer rushed out before his conscious mind, "I'm not."

061 blushed slightly.

Even without entering Chi Xiaochi's body, without actively connecting with the main god system for the time being, the secrecy system was still functioning.

The Lord God was really watching them!

Chi Xiaochi looked at his slightly chagrined expression and crossed her arms behind Lou Ying's neck, "Dong Feihong, isn't it you?"

"...... is not."

He cocked his head, eyes narrowing slightly, "Blue isn't that you."

"No."

"Huh? Gan Yu too?"

Lou Ying looked back and couldn't help himself, "I don't think so."

"Ah." Chi Xiaochi nodded, "Then the owner must not be either."

"I don't think so."

Chi Xiaochi smiled, and held his forehead gently against Lou Ying's: ''Well, I know. Master, you take this medicine three times a day, I have to hurry up and get the next bowl. Apprentice son will leave."

After saying that, he held the wooden tray of jade bowls and made a bow before exiting.

But Lou Ying still saw his reddened earlobes.

Lou Ying laughed.

How does teasing someone get you off and running so fast.

Chi Xiaochi did run fast, he walked through the corridors at such a fast pace that he forgot to put on his shoes.

He thought of a long ago winter afternoon.

At that time, Chi Xiaochi was still in high school.

After calling in sick to his homeroom teacher, he left school, satchel in hand, and waited to catch a ride to a large mall on the West Side.

He's got a show tonight. He gets paid 600 bucks.

His bike chain fell off and he had to take public transportation.

As he waited for the bus, he took his math exercise book out of his bag to do his homework for the day.

A bus stopped in front of him, but it wasn't the one he was waiting for.

He looked up at the logo on the body of the car, which happened to be the brand of clothing he was walking in tonight, so he stared at it for a moment longer.

It wasn't yet rush hour, there weren't too many riders, and the car started up quickly.

The window of the car moved forward like the scale of a ruler, and in the back seat of the car, leaning against the window, a familiar figure flashed past Chi Xiaochi's eyes.

The exercise book in Chi Xiaochi's hand snapped to the ground.

He froze in place for two or three seconds and drew his feet in pursuit.

He threw off his book bag, which was banging around on his shoulders, and shrugged off his bulky jacket, wearing only a gray pullover sweater, and chased madly after the bus, which was speeding down the road in the pre-rush hour.

Chi Xiaochi didn't cry out, he couldn't even scream, he was just silent and wordless in the chase.

He's afraid the car will stop and he's afraid it won't stop.

A passenger on the bus noticed the distressed high schooler and called out to the driver, who also saw him in his rearview mirror and was guilty of stopping for an infraction.

Luckily, there was a red light at the intersection a few hundred meters away, the car slowly slowed down, and after the car came to a complete stop, Chi Xiaochi also caught up with him, and because of the dizziness of the chase, his shoulder hit heavily on the outer compartment, letting out a loud muffled sound.

He was knocked to the ground horizontally by himself, living like a bumper sticker.

A grocery woman opened the window and said in accented Mandarin, "Bean doll, there's another one behind you, what's the hurry? It's going to the next stop."

Chi Xiaochi looks up and realizes the whole bus is looking at him.

The young man he had just seen was also looking at him.

The man was wearing the uniform of the school next door, and his eyebrows looked a trifle like Lou Ying's, but it wasn't him.

Just then, the car door opened.

Chi Xiaochi sat on the ground and shook his head.

He heard the driver laugh and curse, student boy, stupid, looking at the wrong car.

The light turns green and traffic is starting to move forward.

Chi Xiaochi stood up on his weakened legs and walked back step by step.

The cold wind blew him through, and with frozen red hands he picked up his jacket, his book bag, and eventually returned to the lone station, picked up the math exercise book, which the wind had made flutter, and the ballpoint pen that had rolled off to one side in a tree pit, shook off the dirt, and continued to work on the problems with his head down.

......

Chi Xiaochi left the temple and ran quickly along the cloisters, almost reaching the small kitchen, but then made a sharp U-turn and sprinted back.

He pulled open the door to the temple with one hand and braced his hands on either side of it, gasping for air.

And Lou Ying stayed just the way he had looked at the door when he left a moment ago, expression, movement, not changing a bit, just adding a little more surprise: "What's the matter, forgot something?"

Chi Xiaochi shook her head until she caught her breath and looked up, "You're not going anywhere."

Lou Ying said, "I'm right here."

Chi Xiaochi: "Don't go anywhere."

Lou Ying said, "Okay, not going anywhere."

Chi Xiaochi, now relieved, closed the door behind him and walked back the way he came.

How many stupid things he'd done over the years, how many stupid dreams he'd sworn he'd never be fooled again.

But he wanted to be stupid again now.

This time, Chi Xiaochi stayed in the kitchen, cleaning the pots, boiling the medicinal juices, and carefully tending the fire, refusing to leave.

Duan Shujue envied in his heart, dipped in water and wrote aside: "Sir, congratulations."

Chi Xiaochi smiled brightly, "Thank you."

Duan Shujue also wrote: "I wish you two gentlemen a hundred years of happiness."

Chi Xiaochi tsked, "Kids, don't know any better, what are you talking about."

Duan Shujue : "Mr. ......?"

Chi Xiaochi held the small bushel fan and fanned the fire a bit, "He was quite nice to me before, so nice that I thought he was interested in me. But I'm relieved to know that he's Lou, no wonder, Lou always used to take care of me so well."

Duan Shujue : "...... I don't think so in my humble opinion."

"You've got to be kidding me." Chi Xiaochi said confidently, "Have you ever been in love?"

Duan Shujue took a moment to understand what Chi Xiaochi meant, and then very cautiously and nicely said, not yet.

Chi Xiaochi said, "Coincidentally, I haven't talked about it either."

Duan Shujue waiting to be taught life lessons : "......"

Chi Xiaochi: "But I'm too well read to donkey you."

Duan Shujue : "......" is that right.

Though the words are easy to say, Chi Xiaochi is still a bit embarrassed.

In the past, when he didn't know 061's identity, he said in front of his face I don't know how many times that he liked Lou, he liked it a lot.

But Lou has always treated himself as an unintelligent younger brother, even with his alter ego, most of the time he is taking care of him, occasionally rubbing his nose in it, and not indicating anything further.

In the past, Lou was also so spoiled and pampered himself, just how he messed up.

...... It s always not so bad that you really like yourself.

Chi Xiaochi is trying to be silly without being whimsical.

In his best dreams, Chi Xiaochi wouldn't dare dream of anything so good.

Chi Xiaochi took a small bushel fan and gently knocked on the edge of the medicine jar, thinking, when this mission is over, he has to find a chance to make this clear to Lou.

Tossing a jar of medicine down to a bowl's worth, Chi Xiaochi returned to the temple with the bowl in hand.

Lou Ying was really waiting for him and didn't leave.

Chi Xiaochi, who suspected that it was all a dream, felt much more at ease, and after feeding him the medicine, she went to make hot water for his body to be cleaned and bathed.

Lou Ying thought about the shocking injuries on his body and was a bit worried, so he drove Chi Xiaochi, who was planning to undress him, to the inner room and asked him to add some toning medicine to the water.

The heat of the medicinal spring has a calming effect on the mind, and Chi Xiaochi's spirit had been tense for three days, so when he was vaporized by the medicinal-scented water, his tiredness surged, and while waiting for Lou Ying to enter the room, he actually leaned against the inner screen and fell asleep.

By the time Lou Ying entered the inner room wearing a loose and light lingerie, she smoothly picked up Chi Xiaochi x1 who was sound asleep.

Seeing this, he froze and let out a laugh, picking the person up and gently placing her on the bed, removing her socks and outer robe, covering the covers, and then whirling around to sit down on the edge of the bed, slightly out of breath as she covered the injury on her shoulder to endure the pain.

Duan Shujue took the opportunity to tell Lou Ying about Chi Xiaochi's behavior in the kitchen.

Lou Ying read Duan Shujue's words and was both angry and amused.

Where's the guy who used to say, "Mr. Six, do you like me?" and "You must be trying to hit on me?"

However, Lou Ying doesn't find Chi Xiaochi's idea that hard to understand.

He's still running away.

And that kind of escapist mentality is not something that can be corrected overnight.

Lou Ying The bitter aroma of the medicine still remains in his mouth, and when he thought of this, he lowered his head and kissed the hair of the sleeping inner person through this body, and a sweetness flooded up from the root of his tongue.

He smoothed the hair around Chi Xiaochi's ears, his heart softening.

It's okay, there's no rush.

"...... You run away slowly and I'll try to catch up as fast as I can."