You are my wife, don't doubt it!

The adult world is really a bit complicated.

"Brother Xiao Yao, Brother Zhang Zhengkai," Little Shen Jie asked timidly, "Why did you two fight just now?"

"Isn't it because of you?" "Isn't it because of you?" The two teenagers answered in unison.

"Because... me?" Little Shen Jie was confused.

"You... know my name?" Xiao Yao suddenly remembered something and asked curiously.

Before the little girl could answer, Zhang Zhengkai turned his head and cursed at her in a low voice: "Misfortune."

Little Shen Jie: “?”

The little girl pursed her lips, as if she was about to cry again.

Xiao Yao hurriedly said: "Okay, you are not allowed to bully her, or I will beat you up."

"Come on," Zhang Zhengkai said with a smile, "WHO is afraid of WHO?"

The two older brothers laughed together again.

Little Shen Jie: “?”

"I said it when we were having dinner together that day," Zhang Zhengkai said lazily, "We should go out and have a fight, a fair fight between men, a fair fight between knights - but we were stopped by your female bodyguard."

"Is it really you?" Xiao Yao asked unnecessarily, "Kaizi."

"Damn it, who else could it be?" Zhang Zhengkai said, "If it wasn't for that guy named Yu who stopped us that day, we would have fought a long time ago, and maybe this wouldn't have happened today."

"Why are you here? What are you doing here?" Xiao Yao asked, "I mean, how did you end up here? No, are you the one behind all this?"

"It's me, and it's not me," Zhang Zhengkai replied.

"That's a lot of road." Xiao Yao said, "Don't think you can shirk your responsibility by saying that."

"As for why I came here - of course I came to save you," Zhang Zhengkai ignored the second half of Xiao Yao's words and told him: "But you beat me up as soon as we met. Tell me, are you a..."

"Nonsense," Xiao Yao choked him, "Do I need you to save me?"

"Okay, okay, you don't need me to save you," Zhang Zhengkai didn't argue with Xiao Yao: "I admit that in addition to saving you, Xiao Shenjie and your little female bodyguard, I also came to save myself - now, I need you to save me again."

"Why the hell should I save you? You're a jerk..." Xiao Yao said to him casually.

"That's true," Zhang Zhengkai smiled tolerantly, "Don't you want to know what's going on outside?"

Xiao Yao had to admit that this was a very attractive topic for him now.

"Let the fart go."

"That day, you, Xiao Shenjie and Yu Luying all fell into sleeping sickness at the same time..." Zhang Zhengkai told the story from the beginning.

"I knew it. I guessed it," Xiao Yao interrupted, "Go on."

"After the three of you got into trouble, the priest named Yu, whom we all knew, found me and asked me to go to his place to cut coffee—" Zhang Zhengkai said slowly: "To be precise, this bastard actually kidnapped me."

"I'm not particularly surprised by this plot," Xiao Yao commented, "Go on."

"Wait, a priest named Yu?" Little Shen Jie suddenly held her forehead and thought painfully: "Is it Yu...Yu...Bo...Brother Bo?"

I was thinking I could finish this copy today... but I couldn't finish it... I should finish it tomorrow... crawling away in the dark.

Chapter 393: Reunion with Shen Jie

2023-11-28

"I'm not particularly surprised by this plot," Xiao Yao commented, "Go on."

"Wait, a priest named Yu?" Little Shen Jie suddenly held her forehead and thought painfully: "Is it Yu...Yu...Bo...Brother Bo?"

"Yes," Xiao Yaoqi said, "You even know this?"

"Xiao Shen Jie, do you remember?" Zhang Zhengkai asked.

"She is Shen Jie herself?" Xiao Yao was even more surprised.

"Yes and no." Zhang Zhengkai said: "She is Shen Jie, but Shen Jie is not her."

"Believe it or not, I will make you lie back where I fished you out from?" Xiao Yao threatened.

Xiao Yao actually guessed that the girl in the blue skirt, Shen Jie, whom he met at the gate of No. 7 Girls' High School, was most likely Shen Jie herself.

It was with this thought in mind that he never gave up and kept looking for her, and finally found her here.

He never thought that the Liu Xiao Ling Tong in front of him would be Shen Jie herself - in his opinion, she was at most a fragment or projection of Shen Jie's own consciousness, and might even have nothing to do with the real Shen Jie. She was just someone's cognitive projection of her.

"She is half Shen Jie, half of Shen Jie, of course it could be more or less," Zhang Zhengkai hurriedly added, "My shadow side tore her apart."

"What?" Xiao Yao was shocked: "Can we still put it back together?"

"We can look forward to the outcome of this matter with an optimistic attitude," said Zhang Zhengkai.

The two young men supported each other and finally stood up.

Little Shen Jie, covered in blood, ended her painful thoughts and struggles, and put down her hand that was supporting her forehead.

The little girl raised her face and looked at the two "big brothers" again. Although she still looked like a six-year-old, the childishness on her face was gone, replaced by the kind of agility and playfulness that only adolescent girls could have in her dark, rolling eyes.

Xiao Yao even felt that there was a little bit of that young woman's expression in her... that... how to put it?

Cosette, a name popped up.

Of course, Xiao Yao did not think that Shen Jie in front of him was as smart, innocent, brave and obedient as the girl described by Hugo.

But there seemed to be some innocent yet vicissitudes of life in her eyes, like that of the lark that could not sing.

The little girl walked up to Zhang Zhengkai, raised her right foot, and kicked Zhang Zhengkai hard below the knee with her little leather shoe that was covered in blood and was still wet.

Once, twice, three times.

"Ouch!!" Zhang Zhengkai, who had finally stood up, fell to the ground again.

"What did you say about me just now?" Little Shen Jie still spoke in the voice of a child, but her tone became very familiar: "Misfortune?"

"Wife?" Xiao Yao said happily, "It's really you? You're back? Do you remember?"

"I worked so hard to pull you out of the water, and you call me a troublemaker?" Little Shen Jie ignored Xiao Yao and continued to step on Zhang Zhengkai's knee.

"Wife, forget it." Xiao Yao grabbed Xiao Shenjie's elbow and pulled her back two steps.

"You want me to take care of you?" Little Shen Jie said fiercely, kicking her legs in the air twice. "You've had enough beatings, but I haven't! Also, what gives you the right to beat our dog like this?"

"Dog?" Zhang Zhengkai said.

"Your obsession has brought so much trouble to me and us," Shen Jie continued to scold, "and now I am the cause of the trouble?"

"Shen Jie!"

……

After a chaotic quarrel and fight, the three of them reached a consensus again that now was not the time to stand there and chat, so they continued to walk upstream of the Blood River together.

"Keep talking, Brother Bo kidnapped you, and then what?" Shen Jie sat on Xiao Yao's arms and turned to ask Zhang Zhengkai.

Little Shen Jie sat in Xiao Yao's arms, her little body pressed against his chest, feeling his warm body temperature.

Xiao Yao held her steadily in his arms and walked carefully side by side with Zhang Zhengkai.

Because they were reunited after a long separation, she hugged Xiao Yao's neck tightly, and a sense of security filled her heart.

Xiao Shen Jie's soft body pressed against Xiao Yao's solid chest, his arms gently wrapped around her waist, supporting her tenderly.

His steps were brisk and steady, and Xiao Yao's cooperation made Xiao Shen Jie feel safe and comfortable.

Xiao Shen Jie's hair was already a little tangled, brushing heavily against Xiao Yao's cheek, bringing with it a slight, heavy smell of blood.

"Wife." Xiao Yao called her softly.

"Catch?" Xiao Shen Jie said.

"Would you like to come down first?" Xiao Yao whispered in her ear, "My hands are really weak, and I might have to fight with Zhang Zhengkai's shadow later."

"No." Xiao Shen Jie refused, holding Xiao Yao's neck tighter with both hands: "I now find it very comfortable to sit on you like this."

You are comfortable but I am not, Xiao Yao thought with a wry smile.

Out of the corner of his eye he noticed that Zhang Zhengkai also gave a wry smile.

Suddenly, Xiao Shen Jie launched a surprise attack on Xiao Yao without warning, and pecked him on the lips.

Xiao Yao: “!”

Zhang Zhengkai turned his head away, but Xiao Yao felt that his arms suddenly regained strength.

"Do you have any strength left?" Xiao Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao in his ear.

"I have strength now." Xiao Yao replied.

"It's not that easy to kidnap me," Zhang Zhengkai said, still turning his head and looking at the bloody river. "The monk Shi Hui sent people to intercept me. The process was very complicated, so I won't go into details. Anyway, I ended up in the hands of the organization."

"Shi Hui? Is that guy really behind this?" Little Shen Jie interrupted, "Xiao Yao has suspected him for a long time, but Brother Bo just refuses to believe it, he just refuses to believe it!"

"Do you know about the existence of the organization now?" Xiao Yao tested him and said, "We will meet in a place without darkness."

"What do you mean?" Zhang Zhengkai said.

"Nothing, it's meaningless." Xiao Yao wanted to wave his hands, but then he remembered that he was holding little Shen Jie in his arms and couldn't move at all.

Zhang Zhengkai continued to recall: "It was only after the organization explained that I learned that the sleeping sickness in your school might have something to do with me."

"It has a lot to do with you, right?" Xiao Yao and Shen Jie said in unison.

"I...I..." Zhang Zhengkai shook his head in confusion and said, "It was only recently that I learned about the existence of your so-called shadow world through your organization. I realized that my obsession could cause such great damage... To be honest, maybe you think I'm shirking responsibility, but I have been in this kind of place until now, but when I think about the fact that there are such things in this world, it feels unreal, like a dream."

"Explanation is covering up, and covering up means it is true. You are just shirking responsibility." Xiao Yao and Shen Jie complained again in unison.

But when they thought of Teacher Yao's ready-made example, they both knew in their hearts that what Zhang Zhengkai said was probably true.

"ε=(ο｀*)))Ah, I didn't expect that the two of you have such a good understanding of each other." Zhang Zhengkai said with emotion.

“Brother, put it down,” Xiao Yao wanted to pat Zhang Zhengkai’s arm, but he had no hands, so he simply bumped him with his upper arm: “I know it’s hard.”

"I want to let go too," Zhang Zhengkai said with a smile, "but aren't you the one holding her in your hands now?"

Xiao Yao & Shen Jie: “?”

"Just kidding," Zhang Zhengkai shrugged. "Why do you think I came here? Isn't it just to let go?"

"Oh?" Xiao Yao raised his eyebrows: "How do you mean?"

"Later, the organization mentioned Shi Hui's name during the interrogation... uh, questioning me," Zhang Zhengkai continued to recall. "It seems, I mean it seems, I'm not sure, from their tone, they mentioned Shi Hui because you raised suspicions and accusations in the beginning."

"It seems," Xiao Yao thought, "Brother Bo, although he looked unconvinced, did listen to me in the end."

"At first, when they mentioned Shi Hui, I didn't realize who he was," Zhang Zhengkai continued, "Then I remembered that he was the old monk I met at Xiahai Temple—"

"How come I didn't know you believed in Buddhism?" Shen Jie interrupted and complained.

"I'm confused because of you, the troublemaker," Zhang Zhengkai rolled his eyes. "I just want to go to the temple to relax and find a master to enlighten me."

"Give some advice." Xiao Yao said as he quickly moved a big step to the right, like a hairy crab.

Xiao Shenjie's fist missed and she shouted, "Xiao Yao, let me down, quickly!"

Xiao Yao pushed little Shen Jie to the right again and changed the subject, "Then what happened? Did you reach an evil PY deal with that old bald donkey Shi Hui?"

"What PY transaction? Doesn't it sound ugly?" Zhang Zhengkai protested.

Xiao Yao stuck out his tongue, thinking that his speaking habits were increasingly influenced by his daughter.

"I have no idea what's going on. I don't know anything. I have no idea what the old monk is trying to do behind the scenes," Zhang Zhengkai denied three times in a row. "Anyway, when I realized that the Shi Hui they were talking about was the Shi Hui from Xiahai Temple, I told Father Yu the truth that I had some contact with Shi Hui."

"Oh, I'm so anxious listening to you," Shen Jie interrupted and complained, "When will you change your habit of always speaking slowly and not getting to the point?"

"Don't be impatient," Zhang Zhengkai said, "Besides, aren't you two the ones who keep talking to me about this and that?"

Xiao Yao glanced at Xiao Shen Jie, drew a line on his mouth like a zipper, and then drew another line in front of Xiao Shen Jie's mouth, but was ruthlessly slapped away by the latter.

"In short," Zhang Zhengkai nodded and continued, "They must have had other evidence and linked them together, so they went to Xiahai Temple to confront Shi Hui face to face. But the old monk was guilty and heard the news in advance, so he ran away - and they got nothing."

"Run away?" Xiao Yao said in surprise, then he remembered the zipper he had just sewed and stopped talking.

"The situation is very complicated. I won't go into detail. I don't know the details," Zhang Zhengkai explained. "They wouldn't take me with them when they went to arrest people, right? Anyway, they didn't catch him in the end."

Xiao Yao lowered his head and fell into thought.

"Zhang Zhengkai," Shen Jie couldn't stand it anymore and spoke again, "Just tell me the point - what exactly does your shadow want to do? Why did you trap the three of us here? Why did you trap everyone who has feelings for me in their dreams? If you want to eliminate all competitors, why did you drag me - silly girl into this as well?"