My boss is too weak to take care of himself

Chapter 160 Shadow
Ye Xia couldn't speak, held Xi Shuang's hand, and used her strength to get up from the ground.

Xi Shuang returned the phone to him, and he took the phone, hugged Xi Shuang suddenly, and said in a trembling voice, "I saw a will-o'-the-wisp."

Xi Shuang sneered, patted his hands around her waist, and said, "Didn't the high school teacher tell you that? The so-called 'wild fire' is just white phosphorus spontaneously igniting in the air."

Ye Xia buried her head on Xishuang's shoulder, whimpered softly, like a frightened little animal, and said, "But the teacher also said that white phosphorus comes out of the bones. Are there bones in that forest?" ?”

Xi Shuang straightened Ye Xia's head, stared into his eyes, and said, "Isn't it normal to have bones in the forest? Although there are no wild beasts these days, there are still wild dogs and wolves who died in the forest and exposed their corpses in the wilderness. Naturally, there are many bones."

"But I'm afraid." Ye Xia said and hid on Xi Shuang's shoulder.

Xi Shuang patted his head and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Ye Xia was scared out of her wits, she didn't let go of Xi Shuang, hugged her tightly, and kept moaning.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have told you that this was a deserted tomb. I think it scared you." Xi Shuang pressed his shoulders, and it took him a lot of effort to separate him from her body, saying, "I'm a big man alone. The living are here, don’t be afraid.”

Ye Xia pursed her lips, swallowed hard, and suppressed her violent heartbeat.

Xi Shuang took his hand and led him towards the place where the machine was erected.

"Why didn't you respond to me just now? I called you several times." Along the way, Ye Xia couldn't help complaining in a low voice.

Xi Shuang gave a suspicious "hmm" and said, "I didn't hear you calling me..."

"Ah...but I yelled very loudly." Ye Xia shrank her neck, panicked again in her heart.

Xi Shuang led him to the side of the machine and asked him to sit on the bag, next to the tripod.

As she straightened the microphone cable, she said: "When I walk, I turn off the microphone radio, and I wear earphones, maybe I didn't hear it just now."

After putting away the microphone, Xi Shuang sat down beside Ye Xia, looking at the machine and the surrounding environment.

Ye Xia moved towards Xi Shuang, eager to stick to Xi Shuang's body, Xi Shuang smiled wickedly, and said, "No way, it's not that scary."

"You don't know, when I was a child... well, I was very scared." Ye Xia hugged Xi Shuang's arm, leaning on Tang's shoulder, and said softly.

Probably when Ye Xia was seven years old, his grandfather passed away, because his grandfather wanted to return to his roots, and the funeral was held in his hometown, that is, in the village on the outskirts of the city. Ye Xia, as the eldest grandson, naturally had to watch at the mourning hall.

He and his father slept next to each other on the floor beside the mourning hall. The incense could not be broken and the candles could not be extinguished.

He was still too young at that time, and he didn't know much about life and death, but he felt the fear of the undead early on.

Probably in the early morning, he dreamed of his grandfather, and suddenly woke up from the dream, and heard creaking sounds coming from the side of the mourning hall.

He raised his head from his father's arms and looked towards the mourning hall. The mourning hall was covered with white wreaths and mourning streamers. The burning incense in the incense burner wafted light smoke, and the candles were shaking slightly on the table. The creaking noise continued.

The sleeping adults around did not respond, Ye Xia took a look, then retracted into his father's arms, closed his eyes, covered his ears, and forced himself to fall asleep.

"Did your grandfather be cremated at that time?" Xi Shuang couldn't help asking after listening to Ye Xia's story.

"It was still possible to be buried at that time, but Grandpa's body was not cremated." Ye Xia couldn't help shivering, and said in a sad voice, "Is it a shadow of childhood? I'm only seven years old..."

Xi Shuang smiled, showing her big teeth, and said, "Do you know that some people will enter a state of suspended animation, and after being sealed in a coffin, they will wake up again, and then scratch the coffin board with their nails, and they will make that kind of creaking sound?" The creaking sound."

"I've always thought so before. I think grandpa didn't die at all, but was sealed alive in the coffin." Ye Xia's voice trembled, and his voice became smaller and smaller.

"So, what's going on with your grandfather, and what kind of voice did you hear?" Xi Shuang put her arms around his shoulders, approaching him and asked softly.

"This shadow has always been in my heart and grew up with me until I was in high school. I followed my dad back to my grandfather's hometown. I heard my dad and uncles talking. They talked about the time when my grandfather passed away. I heard strange noises in the middle of the night..." At this point, Ye Xia sighed bitterly, and said, "They said they heard it that night, but no one got up to watch it. Look, these adults , What a chicken thief."

"And then?" Xi Shuang suddenly became interested and asked.

"Then, then they said that early the next morning, they saw that the bucket next to the mourning hall had been gnawed several times. There was sesame oil in it, and it was eaten by mice. That night, it was the mice that gnawed on the bucket!" Ye Xia said and became angry. Get up, "I didn't know the truth until I was 16 years old! The shadow that has plagued me for so many years is a mouse!"

Hearing pitiful and ridiculous, Xi Shuang couldn't help but sneered, but when she saw Ye Xia's wrinkled face, she stopped smiling, touched his cheek, and said affectionately: "Poor Ye Xia, you have been cheated so much. for many years."

Ye Xia leaned closer to Xi Shuang again, and said: "Although I will know the truth later, the shadow of my childhood has become a demon. That's how my courage has become smaller. I'm not afraid of others, but I'm afraid of these gods. Ghostly stuff."

"Well, I got it, I won't scare you again, I promise." Xi Shuang solemnly stretched out a hand to swear, with a sincere face.

"As long as you're here, I'm not afraid. You just stay with me." Ye Xia smiled and arched Xi Shuang's shoulder, like a puppy.

Xi Shuang's neck was itchy from being rubbed by him, so she patted his head and said, "Don't move around."

"I'm serious. I want you to be with me forever." Ye Xia said softly, resting on Xi Shuang's shoulder.

All his breath sprayed on Xi Shuang's skin, Xi Shuang flinched, gave a wry smile, and said nothing.

"Xi Shuang?" Xi Shuang didn't speak, Ye Xia raised her head, looked at her profile, and called her.

"You are so nice, I feel so inferior to be by your side." Perhaps because the atmosphere tonight was so beautiful, Xi Shuang's heart was soft, and she said something she would not normally say today.

"Don't..." Ye Xia wanted to say something, but Xi Shuang covered her mouth.

She chuckled slightly, looked up at the night, and said slowly: "You will definitely say, I don't think so, I don't need to be inferior, I am not inferior to others at all, but Ye Xia, there is some distance, it exists objectively."

(End of this chapter)