You are my wife, don't doubt it!

The phone rang again. Yu Luying picked it up, opened the cover, and moved her finger to the answer button.

Just then, the door was opened with a click.

It's mom who's back!

Yu Luying subconsciously hung up the phone, muted it, and hid the phone behind her, all in one go.

"Yingying," Yu's mother called out from outside the door, "Come and help mom get things."

“Here it comes!” Yu Luying shouted, kneeling on the ground with her buttocks raised, and pulling the slippers out from under the bed.

"Why are you so slow..." Yu's mother muttered as she walked in, "Can you help me get the food?"

She turned her head and saw her daughter's hair standing up, her body slightly curled up, and her feet hanging a few centimeters off the ground, as if she was being held by an invisible hand.

The screams of mother and daughter filled the entire corridor.

--split line--

"Are you okay?" Shen Jie looked at Xiao Yao, whose face was pale.

"I'm fine, it's nothing, just sprinkle some water." Xiao Yao said with a trembling voice.

What a guy who likes to show off, Shen Jie thought.

"Is this your first time riding a roller coaster?"

"Actually... yes." Xiao Yao thought about it and admitted: "I went to kindergarten, elementary school and junior high school in other places. It seems that there is no such thing in our place."

"Ah," Shen Jie was a little surprised: "You are not a local?"

"My parents were sent to work in the countryside," Xiao Yao explained. "They were both sent to work in Gangbo. I was the last batch of sent-down youth to return to work, and I got 12 extra points in the high school entrance exam."

"That's great," Shen Jie replied casually, "What about your parents? Have they returned to the Magic City as well?"

"No... they got divorced." Xiao Yao's tone was a little sad: "Then they remarried. I live with my grandma now."

"I'm very sorry……"

"There's nothing to be sorry for."

The tandem bicycle had been returned, and the boy and girl walked side by side along the trail in the forest park. Xiao Yao put one hand in his trouser pocket, while Shen Jie put her hands behind her back.

"When I first came to Shanghai, I was not used to it," Xiao Yao recalled. "My old classmates and friends were gone. I felt like a stranger in a foreign land, and I was very lonely."

"After a little adaptation, you will soon have a new circle of friends." Shen Jie said.

"That's what I thought at first...but I just don't fit in with everything here."

"how to say?"

"The high school here finishes school at 4pm, there is no evening self-study, weekends are off, and there is less homework... I asked my classmates why high school is easier than junior high school, and they looked at me like I was an alien, saying junior high school is easier, okay?"

"Well, this isn't a good thing?"

"Although it is a key middle school in the district, the grade director openly encouraged everyone to fall in love at the grade meeting. I was extremely surprised at the time, but people around me acted as if it was a matter of course..." Xiao Yao said.

Shen Jie hesitated for a second before finally saying, "So, you prefer to be stricter?"

"Not really..." Xiao Yao scratched his head: "Maybe I am more suitable to be controlled more strictly?"

"I can understand it, but I can't understand it." Shen Jie tilted her head and thought for a while, then said so.

"I can't make any friends here," Xiao Yao sat down on a wooden bench by the roadside. "I never go home after school. I always like to stay in the school until the guards kick me out... I just want to run into a few classmates who leave late and chat with them, whether they are male or female."

"It's okay, I will be your friend from now on." Shen Jie took out a small pack of wet wipes, wiped the bench, and sat down next to Xiao Yao.

"Friends?" Xiao Yao glanced at her and felt that it was not the right time to dwell on this word. "As for me, I always strike up a conversation with my classmates and want to participate in their conversations or activities. I always treat them to meals even though I have no money. In the end, I am isolated by the whole class."

"Why?" Shen Jie asked in surprise.

"I don't know," Xiao Yao said with a somewhat sad look: "How should I know?"

Shen Jie reached out and touched Xiao Yao's upper arm a few times.

"There was a girl who I invited to dinner the week before. The next week, she found out that I was being isolated. When I talked to her again, she rolled her eyes at me." Xiao Yao continued, "There was even one time when, after school, a boy openly laughed at and insulted me in front of seven or eight students who stayed behind. Then the others just sat there as if they were deaf."

Shen Jie didn't say anything else, just listened quietly.

"My blood boiled and I was about to hit him, but Yu Luying stood up and told the boy to shut up." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "Otherwise, I would have been punished for fighting, right?"

"If it were me, I would help you beat him." Shen Jie pinched her knuckles, making a noticeable sound.

"Thank you," Xiao Yao said, "Ouyang Qianqian said the same thing - that's my godsister."

"At least, you still have two good friends in your class, right?" Shen Jie reminded.

"Well, later on, I became very close to both of them, especially Yu Luying, because she and I were both core members of the poetry club. Later, many people tacitly assumed that we were a couple..." A look of happiness appeared on Xiao Yao's face.

"Poetry society?" Shen Jie didn't understand.

"Poetry, modern poetry." Xiao Yao explained: "The night gave me black eyes, but I use them to look for light."

"The man who said this ended up hacking his wife to death and then committing suicide." The displeasure on Shen Jie's face flashed away, and then she smiled again.

Xiao Yao was stunned: "Don't worry, I won't."

Shen Jie calmly pushed his hand away from her shoulder: "What does it have to do with me? Go on with your story."

Chapter 17 Uncle

"Yingying, the crab shell yellow you like is freshly baked at Xinghualou."

A tall man placed the snacks on the coffee table in Yu's house, turned around, opened the refrigerator, took out two cans of beer, then sat on the sofa and pulled the buckle loudly.

"Come on, why do you need to buy snacks? Wait for me." Yu's mother's voice came from the public soap room downstairs.

"Sister, I won't eat. If you have something to say, please tell me now. There will be a parish meeting soon."

The man was about thirty years old, wearing a faded T-shirt, khaki shorts, and plastic flip-flops. His right foot was resting on his left knee, and he was digging vigorously with his hands.

"You're drinking when you have a meeting?" Yu's mother brought two plates of food and placed them on the coffee table.

The man raised his head and drank the beer in one gulp, then slammed the can on the table: "What kind of life is a person without alcohol?"

"Absurdity!" commented Yu's mother.

"This is what the Bible says," the man laughed and stood up, "Ecclesiastes, Chapter 31, Verse 33."

His face was like a sculpture, with distinct features and sharp angles. His face, which should have been extremely handsome, was untidy and full of beard and smelled of alcohol.

Although he looks unruly, the brilliance that inadvertently flashes from his eyes beneath his sword-like eyebrows cannot be underestimated - if you look closely, you will find that he looks 30% similar to Yu Luying.

"You are taking things out of context and misinterpreting the scriptures," Yu's mother touched the man's forehead and pushed him back onto the sofa. "Look at how you behave now. You don't look like a priest at all! If Bishop Jin saw this..."

"Sister, stop nagging me," the man shook his head helplessly, "If you have something to say, just say it. If you don't, just leave..."

"Yingying, come here and tell your uncle everything that happened to you recently from beginning to end." Yu's mother called to Yu Luying who was sitting in a trance in the corner.

"Ah, okay..." The girl came back to her senses: "Uncle, this is what happened..."

……

The more Father Yu listened, the tighter his brows knitted together: "Have you been to the hospital?"

"I went there twice," said Yu's mother, "and nothing was found."

"Have you been to the neurology department?" Father Yu raised a finger: "Is it possible that it is epilepsy?"

"You are the one who is crazy!" Yu's mother retorted, "I'm afraid Yingying is possessed. That's why I wanted to find you, an expert, to perform an exorcism."

"No," Yu Luying said helplessly, "Mom, it's the 21st century. We should believe in science and not be so superstitious. You are a university professor and a senior intellectual. You come up and say I'm possessed. What the hell am I doing?..."

"Superstition? Exorcism is superstition?" Yu's mother slammed the table and said angrily: "Yu Bo, listen to me, she said this in front of you?"

"The Vatican is now extremely cautious about matters like exorcism." Father Yu opened another can of beer.

Mother Yu said, "I understand. First, we need to go through a formal medical institution to rule out all possibilities of mental illness. Then we need the approval of the bishop of this diocese. Don't you know Bishop Alakin? I hate this kind of thing the most..."

Father Yu raised his eyebrows and gave a look that said, "Isn't this the end?"

"Behind closed doors, how would Bishop Jin know if you didn't tell him? What else do you think we should do?" Mother Yu said angrily, "She is my only daughter. Yingying is my life. As an uncle, are you going to watch your niece suffer?"

“Okay, I’ll think of a way.” Father Yu drank the beer in his hand again.

"Dr. Huang in our church seems to be an expert in neurology," he said, standing up. "I'll meet him tomorrow Sunday and ask him to help check Yingying."

"Don't talk about Sunday, just call me now." Yu's mother pushed him back onto the sofa and slammed the phone on the table.

--split line--

After Shen Jie took aim, she loosened the five fingers of her left hand, and there was a crisp sound of a string. The arrow flew out with a "whoosh" and hit... uh, the edge of the target. The feathers at the tail of the arrow were still trembling slightly.

"What's wrong with you?" Xiao Yao noticed that Shen Jie hissed.

"It's okay." Shen Jie turned sideways and rubbed her chest that was hit by the bowstring: "It's your turn."

Xiao Yao took the longbow from Shen Jie's hand, and the owner of the archery range came forward and taught Xiao Yao the basic bow-holding posture.

"Actually, I practiced this when I was a kid, but I don't have much talent for it, and I haven't played it for many years." Shen Jie said, swinging her arms.

"Shen Jie, I feel like you know everything." Xiao Yao said enviously.

"When I was little, I liked to make noise and play with boys," Shen Jie said with a smile, "Later, my father sent me to learn these things: horse riding, archery, fencing, karate..."

"It's a pity that I can only play the archer in the game," Xiao Yao loosened the five fingers of his left hand, turned to Shen Jie and said, "You can ride a horse, my favorite is the knight."

"Wow..." Shen Jie's eyes were fixed on the target.

"What?" Xiao Yao followed Shen Jie's gaze and looked at his target: "Ah...? Shit luck, huh?"

"Come again, come again." Shen Jie handed over another arrow.

Xiao Yao shot two tens rings in a row again.

"Young man, are you still pretending that this is your first time playing?" The boss handed over the prize with a smile.

"It's really the first time..." Xiao Yao scratched the back of his head.

"How did you do that?" Shen Jie also looked unconvinced.

"I was very good at playing with slingshots when I was a kid. Maybe that has something to do with it?"

"I think you have the potential to become a knight." After leaving the archery range, Shen Jie said with interest: "By the way, why do you like knights?"

"I can't explain it clearly..." Xiao Yao scratched his head: "The glory of the lost nobility? The determination to protect the loved ones? Humility, honor, sacrifice, bravery, compassion, honesty... dedication and sacrifice of oneself to protect..."

Shen Jie smiled sweetly: "And then write a poem for the princess in your heart? You must be a wandering poet, right?"

"Ah, they're all similar. In Bloodline II, the Elf Knight's second transformation is to become a Templar Knight or a Sword Poet..." Xiao Yao explained, "Writing a sonnet for a loved one in the wilderness is also a common scene in knight novels."

"You guys," Shen Jie put her hands behind her back, "do you all like playing games?"

"Not all," Xiao Yao thought for a moment, "most?"

"You always mention this Bloodline II. Is it fun?" Shen Jie asked curiously.

"It's fun." Xiao Yao's eyes lit up: "In the ancient continent of Aden..."

Shen Jie smiled and listened to him for ten minutes: "It seems quite interesting. I'll try it when I get back."

"You come to Area 2, Xierfat," Xiao Yao was very happy: "Remember, don't make the wrong choice."

"Area 2, Silfat, remember." Shen Jie said.

"Oh, right," Xiao Yao thought of something, "I've actually studied the sonnet I just mentioned. I'll write one for you next time."

Shen Jie shook her head: "You should write to Yu Luying. She is your princess, right?"

Xiao Yao was upset and felt that he shouldn't have told Shen Jie so much about Yu Luying: "No, that's all in the past... I have decided to give up on her now."

Shen Jie raised her eyebrows: "What's the reason?"

Xiao Yao hesitated.

Could it be that to be honest, after being rejected by her so many times, I have completely given up?

No, no, not only would she look like a loser, but Shen Jie would also think that she was being treated as a spare tire, right?

"Because... I met you." Xiao Yao raised his face and squeezed out these words in a tone as relaxed as possible.

"Ahahaha... ahhahahaha..." Shen Jie was stunned, and suddenly burst into laughter. She covered her mouth with one hand, covered her stomach with the other hand, and bent over: "Yes...hahahaha...I'm sorry, I didn't...hahahaha...I didn't mean it...hahahahaha..."

Did the Shen family burst into laughter? Xiao Yao thought of Shen Jie's laughter on the first day they met, and also thought of Shen Tianyun's words "It starts again" when they had dinner with grandma that day.