Chapter 64 I'm Afraid

Of course Su Jinshi didn't answer him, he just knocked on the window even harder.

Xu Liangchuan suddenly remembered that he lived on the second floor, so how could there be someone outside the window?

"What...what is that!" Xu Liangchuan asked weakly and in fear.

I don't know if it was because he was too weak from exhaustion or because he was too scared to shout any louder.

Xu Liangchuan bravely got out of bed and lit the candle.

Su Jinshi snorted twice and opened the window directly. The whistling wind outside the window blew in and blew out the candle that had just been lit with a "puff".

Su Jinshi saw an empty teacup on the table, so he fiddled with it.

The teacup was knocked over, rolled twice on the table, and slowly stopped.

Xu Liangchuan was so frightened that he was stunned.

He clearly didn't see anyone, but the teacup turned upside down and spun in circles out of thin air.

Su Jinshi changed the function of the voice transmission box to public playback, and searched for the scary nursery rhyme on his tablet and clicked to play it.

The scary nursery rhyme then rang out directly in Xu Liangchuan's room through the voice transmission box.

"Ah!" Xu Liangchuan screamed in horror, threw away the quilt and crawled out of the room.

He hurried downstairs, but because he couldn't see clearly in the dark, he missed a step and ended up tumbling down.

Although Su Jinshi wanted to scare him and make him suffer the consequences of his evil deeds, he did not want to kill him.

After all, rolling down the stairs is too dangerous.

So Su Jinshi reached out and supported him.

Although Xu Liangchuan rolled all the way down and was bruised and battered, his body was not spared, but he was not injured.

However, Xu Liangchuan's voice alarmed all the guests in the inn.

The innkeeper also appeared holding a candle, "Master Xu..."

The candlelight illuminated the shopkeeper's face, and his facial features were cast in a terrifying shadow in the darkness. He suddenly appeared in front of Xu Liangchuan.

"Ah!" Xu Liangchuan screamed and crawled backwards.

He almost hit the shopkeeper when he waved his hand.

Light shone through the windows of the rooms in the inn from all directions.

When the guests staying in the hotel heard Xu Liangchuan's scream, they lit candles and came out to see what was happening.

"Brother Xu, what's wrong?"

"Why are you shouting ghosts?"

"I...I don't want to live in that room anymore!" Xu Liangchuan saw a scholar coming down to watch, and hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Can I live in the same room with you?"

The other party quickly pulled his hand away and took several steps back.

None of them saw the ghost, only Xu Liangchuan saw it. What if the ghost followed Xu Liangchuan? "Xu... Brother Xu..." the other party said hurriedly, "I'm not used to living with others. Sorry."

"Mr. Xu, there are no ghosts in our store. Don't scare other customers." The shopkeeper said hurriedly. Isn't Xu Liangchuan ruining his business? "Anyway...anyway, I don't want to live alone!" Xu Liangchuan said in horror, "There really is a ghost. It's the voice of a little girl, singing an unknown song. It's very scary!"

"Mr. Xu!" The shopkeeper interrupted Xu Liangchuan, "Mr. Xu, I noticed that you went to the toilet frequently last night and you were exhausted. You must be sick and have hallucinations."

"Master Xu, it will be daybreak in less than half an hour, don't be afraid."

"Yeah, even if there really is a ghost, it won't come out in broad daylight."

"Mr. Xu, look at the sky outside. It's getting a little white. It's almost dawn. You should be more at ease."

Everyone tried to comfort him, but no one agreed to live in the same room with Xu Liangchuan.

They were also afraid that Xu Liangchuan might really bring something dirty near them.

Especially since they were going to take part in the imperial examination, they were most averse to these ominous things.

Gradually, the crowd dispersed and the inn became quiet again.

Xu Liangchuan returned to the house and asked the shopkeeper for many candles, lighting up the room very brightly, and waited anxiously for dawn.

Although Su Jinshi successfully scared Xu Liangchuan, he also scared himself.

The inn was bustling for a while just now, but she didn't feel anything. Now that the guests have returned to their rooms, the inn has become quiet again, without any sound, so that she is alone in the room and the surroundings have also become quiet.

Su Jinshi just returned to his own residence from his parents' house today.

Although the light was on in the bedroom, it was pitch black outside the door.

This thing is most afraid of imagination. At this moment, Su Jinshi's mind kept echoing the horrible nursery rhyme that she had just played to scare Xu Liangchuan.

Su Jinshi could only poke Shen Shilang, but the validity period of the voice box had expired and she could no longer speak.

"What's wrong?" Shen Shilang saw Xu Liangchuan's reaction just now and knew that it was Su Jinshi who did it.

Just after he asked, he felt Su Jinshi poking him twice again. Shen Shilang understood, "You can't transmit sound anymore?"

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

Su Jinshi poked him twice again to show his affirmation.

Shen Shilang smiled slightly and said, "Aren't you going to sleep yet?"

Su Jinshi wanted to sleep, but her mind was full of that horrible nursery rhyme. She even had some auditory hallucinations and didn't dare close her eyes.

Su Jinshi was speechless. She was cursing the mall for not letting her buy an intermediate voice transmission box when she suddenly noticed the remaining tea in the cup on the table.

Su Jinshi recalled that when she first met Shen Shilang, she was able to clean Shen Shilang's wound directly with a cloth dipped in water.

Before, I could simply write on Shen Shilang’s body.

So it should be okay for her to write on the table with tea in her mouth, right?

I just don’t know if Shen Shilang can understand simplified Chinese.

She can read traditional Chinese characters, but she can't write them.

Su Jinshi dipped his fingertips in some tea and tried to write on the table.

I didn’t expect it to be so useful.

Su Jinshi saw a darker color of water on the wooden tabletop that was peeling off. "I'm scared."

Shen Shilang was puzzled: "What are you afraid of?"

Su Jinshi: "It was me who scared Xu Liangchuan just now."

Unexpectedly, Shen Shilang could understand this line of simplified Chinese characters.

"I know, I guessed it." Shen Shilang asked curiously, "What characters did you write? It's a little strange, not quite the same as the characters I learned, but I seem to be able to understand it."

Shen Shilang pointed at the word "吓" and asked, "Is this the word 吓?"

Su Jinshi quickly poked him twice to indicate that it was correct.

Combined with the meanings before and after, even if some characters are different in traditional and simplified Chinese, you can roughly guess their meaning based on the font and the meanings before and after.

Su Jinshi explained: "Traditional Chinese characters are too difficult to write, so in my era, this simplified Chinese character was evolved based on traditional Chinese characters."

"No wonder it's a little different, but I can understand it." Shen Shilang nodded, "What are you afraid of?"

Su Jinshi: "I just found a scary nursery rhyme to scare Xu Liangchuan. But I live alone, and now I'm scared. My mind is full of that scary nursery rhyme."

Shen Shilang was helpless. How could he be okay if he tried to scare others but ended up scaring himself?

"Are you living alone now?" Shen Shilang knew that Su Jinshi's world was very different from his own, but he didn't expect that a girl could live alone.

(End of this chapter)