"Dingling—"

There is a fishing line under the door of Yuanyun Taoist Temple. The fishing line goes around the colonnade and connects the thin rope to the table leg in the backyard.

A bell is tied to the string at intervals. After the fishing line is pulled, the crisp bell sounds all the way to the backyard.

Yunqi follows the sound and opens the door for them.

He squeezed the sandalwood in his hand, and looked around the two of them: "The master said that three sticks of incense should be offered to those who are stained with blood."

"Does shooting count as bloodshed?"

"Calculate."

Chi Yue went to the side to clean his hands first, took the sandalwood with his left hand according to the rules, and lit it with the lighter in his right hand.

Then shake the sandalwood to extinguish the open flame, and take two steps forward to face the main hall where the statue is enshrined. If you can't see clearly, you also worship three times devoutly, and then insert the three sticks of incense into the incense burner one by one.

After burning the incense, she found that Yun Qi was still standing next to the incense burner, so she guessed that he was chanting a mantra, so she waited quietly for a while, and then followed his moving pace to the backyard.

"Yunqi." After pulling away from the main hall, Chi Yue asked curiously, "How did Master Ming know that I was stained with blood?"

"He can divination."

"Is it that great?"

"Hmm." A look of pride flashed in his eyes, but no one could catch his emotions because the light of the flashlight was shining down.

They walked slowly to the main hall, and all the people who were waiting for them to come back breathed a sigh of relief seeing that they were safe and sound.

"Sister." Chi Yunyan stepped forward and helped carry the sack dragged by Wen Qizhou into the house: "Are you still looking for supplies?"

"Well, I found it for you."

"what is this?"

"Small gadgets to pass the time." She knelt and sat at the table, letting him look through the items he had taken out of the space earlier.

Chi Yunyan took out jigsaw puzzles, painting tools, calligraphy materials, Rubik's Cube, and ten battery-powered handheld game consoles.

He turned the Rubik's Cube twice, handed it to the curious Xun Song, and turned on the handheld game console to study it carefully.

There are hundreds of games on the console.

Nostalgic games like their familiar Bubble Bobble, Contra, Ninja Bros., and Super Mario are all options.

He pressed the OK button on the game console and played a game of Super Mario, and the speaker immediately emitted a long-lost sound effect.

Hearing the sound effects, everyone, including Mingzhang, picked up the game consoles to play the games they were interested in.

For a while, Nuo Da's main hall was filled with different sound effects, and occasionally they cheered after clearing the level.

"Brother Qizhou, teach Xun Song." The youngest Xun Song will let Wen Qizhou teach him when he encounters a game he doesn't know how to play.

After all being idle, Wen Qizhou patiently hugged him and played with him. The combination of that warm voice and silver-like laughter made people feel much better.

Playing until dinner time, under the questioning of everyone, he omitted the family affairs of the Ge family, and talked about meeting the brothers and sisters of the Ge family, and being followed by others on the way back and forth.

"It's still too dangerous outside." Knowing that they had guns, Wen Yaxian frowned: "Are you going out anytime soon?"

"I'll be out next month."

"Then I'll be with you?" She was really worried about them: "There are many people and strength is great, and it is easy to solve problems."

Chi Yue shook her head: "It's fine for Chang Xiao to accompany us." She paused for two seconds: "You guys stay at Shou Tao Temple."

"Alright."

Xie Changxiao's strength is obvious to all.

And he can also use a gun, and having him accompany them can indeed improve a certain degree of security.

Wen Yaxian felt a little relieved.

She held the chopsticks to pick up food for Yan Shuo beside her, and cast her eyes on the only meat dish on the table: "Shall we go to the back mountain later? The trap we set up earlier should have caught the prey."

Yan Shuo responded lightly: "Okay."

The polar night makes hunting difficult, and they can only set traps in places where prey often appear, waiting for them to take the bait.

Although the efficiency is low, it is enough to maintain a living at least one prey that falls into the trap every time.

After dinner, they went to the back mountain with Xie Changxiao.

Chi Yue didn't want to move, she leaned on the recliner that was moved into the main hall, watching Ming Zhang and Wen Qizhou, who had become addicted to chess, play chess.

Yun Qi and Xun Song are playing game consoles.

The remaining Chi Yunyan siblings, according to today's "shift schedule", cleaned up the debris on the table and prepared to wash the dishes.

A "clang" sound suddenly sounded.

Chi Anying, who didn't hold the bowl and chopsticks firmly, smashed a round bowl, and looked at Mingzhang apologetically: "Master Ming, I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Mingzhang dropped his head, looked up at her, and said kindly: "There are plenty of bowls in the kitchen."

Chi Anying still felt apologetic.

She took the broom and swept the debris into the dustpan, carefully picked up the remaining bowl, and said sorry again before leaving.

So polite that it makes people feel alienated.

"The characters of their siblings are really..." Mingzhang pulled out a long ending, and couldn't help sighing: "It's completely different."

It has been nearly a month since Chi Anying and Chi Yunyan stayed in the Taoist temple. The former has always been restrained and alienated, and has not regarded them as one at all, and most of the time they seem out of place.

The latter was also very restrained at the beginning, but after getting along with them day and night, he gradually blended in, released his originally lively and cheerful temperament, and became closer to them.

Comparing the two, Chi Anying is more like a guest.

Or it could be that she put herself in the position of the guests and was unwilling to open up to any of them.

Chi Yue: "She's always been like this."

Her eyes fell on that figure, watching her merge into the boundless darkness, she lightly retracted her gaze and stopped paying attention.

Anyway, it has nothing to do with her.

*
There was the click of a lighter from the kitchen, and a cluster of flames ignited the candles on the stove, providing light to the surroundings.

Sitting on a bamboo bench, the two brothers and sisters, the light from the candles reflected the two figures on the ground, and sometimes swayed gently with the wind.

Chi Yunyan picked up the water ladle, scooped two ladles of water from the bucket full of well water, and poured it into the round basin with the bowls, plates and bamboo chopsticks.

The well water covered the bowls, plates and bamboo chopsticks. He squeezed two pumps of dishwashing liquid onto the veil and rubbed the veil to make the foam emerge.

"Sister." He glanced at Chi Anying who was becoming more and more taciturn: "Is it true that you will be happy only when you return to the city of origin?"

"No."

"Then why do you always keep a straight face?" He wiped the oil on the bowl with a handkerchief: "I haven't seen you smile for a long time."

"Is there anything worthy of my laughter?" Chi Anying moved in sync with him: "I don't have a low point of laughter like yours."

"Is this a question of whether you are laughing or not? Today Xun Song made you laugh, but you didn't pay attention to him. I really don't understand, what are you thinking about every day?"

"Think about the future."

"Can't you live well in the present? There are so many uncertainties in the future, who knows what disasters will happen in a while? What's the use of thinking so far now?"

Chi Anying remained silent.

She put the bamboo chopsticks, which had been scrubbed of oil stains, into the round basin on the right. Her calloused hands, which had been devastated by natural disasters, submerged in the water again, and picked up the next bowl.

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