Xie Yue ate another snack.
She looked at the lamp on the table and asked, "Why are there lamps here?"
This question was offensive, but the man was not angry. He said: "It was already here."
A reasonable answer.
"oh."
Xie Yue responded, and the two of them sat quietly.
After a while, the man said, "You can have another snack."
Xie Yue ate another piece.
It's very light, she likes it very much.
The man poured her a cup of tea.
Xie Yue drank.
The same delicious taste.
"I'm full," she said.
She grew up hungry and had a small appetite. After entering the Taoism, her spiritual power could be used as a partial supplement. After eating a few snacks and a cup of tea, she was no longer hungry.
So the man stopped letting her eat and drink.
There was still noise outside the door, but for some reason no one entered the courtyard to investigate.
Xie Yue cannot leave.
The two of them didn't feel awkward facing each other.
The candles were burning, and time passed inch by inch with the candles. Xie Yue silently recited the mantra in her heart. Suddenly, she heard him ask: "Are you reciting the sleep mantra?"
Xie Yue was stunned for a moment, then admitted: "Yeah."
He said very gently: "No wonder I want to sleep."
To others, it sounded like a banishment order, but Xie Yue didn't understand. No one had ever taught her how to speak the language, so she only thought of one thing: "Then I'm not proficient enough."
Otherwise he would have fallen asleep.
He smiled again, a little smile falling into his gray dull pupils, like stars.
He said, "It's time for you to go."
At some point, there was no sound outside.
Xie Yue didn't feel offended by his straightforwardness. She stood up. She wanted to say something or ask something, but in the end she just whispered: "Thank you."
He asked: "Thank you for what?"
Xie Yue said honestly: "Your snacks are delicious and your tea is delicious."
Xie Yue left.
He picked up a piece of pastry, chewed it slowly, then picked up the tea cup and took a sip. In fact, it had been a long time since he had eaten these things he once liked. The shadows covered his eyes, and he also lost interest in these things.
When a small accident breaks into life by chance, there is no need to find out who it is.
Qin Kai's footsteps came from outside the door, a little impetuous, and his complaining voice came: "Why did you open the protective circle? I couldn't come in for a long time."
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When Xie Yue returned to the house, dawn broke in the sky.
The man's threatening voice came from the sea of consciousness: "Who allows you to spy privately?"
Xie Yue wanted to say that she didn't mean it, that his barrier was indeed fragile beyond her expectation, and that she was also worried, but she was not good at making excuses, and in the end she just said: "I'm sorry."
"I will not do it again."
There is nowhere to vent this anger.
Xie Yue took out the hibiscus blood: "I got it last night, but you haven't responded. Can you help me now?"
His tone was scornful: "Is this your attitude of asking for help?"
What should I say?
Xie Yue thought for a while and said sincerely, "I beg you seriously."
The man seemed to think about it for a while and then said: "Just remember what you said today. When I ask you to do something in the future, you must do it."
Xie Yue agreed: "Okay."
The man said: "First take that little thing and apply this powder all over his body."
Xie Yue remembered the experience when her nails were corroded by the blood of hibiscus wood, but now she asked to let the birds touch it. Xie Yue thought for a while, went outside to find a pair of chopsticks, and dipped some in them, but the chopsticks were not touched. Corrosion, she asked: "Is this okay?"
Not hopelessly stupid.
The man agreed: "Okay."
