Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Eight o'clock in the morning. ……
Eight o'clock in the morning.
Ning Ji was woken up by the alarm clock. He buried his head in the pillow and slept for a long time before he struggled to get up. He changed his clothes, opened the bedroom door, and planned to wake up the sleeping lion cat, but he saw a motionless back in the living room.
Yan Sui.
The young man who heard the noise slowly turned around. His handsome features were surmounted by huge purple eye circles, and he stared at him dimly.
Wow.
Ning Ji was shocked. "Oh my god, who beat you up like this?"
Yan Sui was surprised to see the man in front of him, but he still knew how to comfort him, and his expression eased a little.
Ning Ji raised his head and howled: "God has eyes, and finally someone can't stand it anymore and takes action."
Yan Sui: “…”
Ning Ji didn't know which hero had made the move, but he was still very happy. However, he felt something was wrong after being happy: "No, how did you turn into a human so quickly?"
Yan Sui had purple circles under his eyes and was silent for a moment, "You really don't remember what happened last night?"
Ning Ji was a little confused: "What happened?"
Yan Sui looked at Ning Ji, who had no memory of punching him, and decided not to protect his butt anymore. He said slowly, "Nothing happened. What time do we go to Ruifu Temple?"
Ning Ji's attention was immediately drawn to it. "Let's set off at nine o'clock. Oh, and bring the lion cat along as well."
The real lion cat was trapped in the cat bag, wagging its tail lazily, and was obviously relieved about its situation.
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Nine o'clock in the morning.
"Confess and be treated leniently; resist and be treated severely. Tell the truth. Where is your lair?"
Ning Ji sat in the passenger seat and lowered his head to poke the lion cat in the cat bag. "Or you can give up your lover. Yes, that calico cat."
The lion cat in the cat bag turned its head slowly and pretended not to hear.
Yan Sui turned the steering wheel and said, "It won't give up the calico cat."
He said in a very determined tone, "He's a love-brained person. He just thinks about that calico cat all day long."
Ning Ji: "Love-brained?"
Yan Sui: "Well, it loves that calico cat to death, how could it possibly reveal the whereabouts of that calico cat."
The lion cat in the cat bag looked up, looking a little confused.
"Okay." Ning Ji closed the zipper of the cat bag, looking regretful, "Then we can only ask various gods to come out."
Ruifu Temple is built halfway up a mountain. Vehicles that come to pray and burn incense can only park at the foot of the mountain, and people have to climb up to the halfway point to burn incense and pray.
The foot of the mountain is very quiet. Not many people come here to burn incense and pray on weekdays. The stone steps are winding, and you can vaguely see the vermilion temple halfway up the mountain.
Yan Sui, carrying a cat bag, walked side by side with Ning Ji. He recalled that the school held a prayer event during the college entrance examination year and organized all senior high school students to go to the Confucius Temple to pray for blessings.
The Confucius Temple was also halfway up the mountain. The students in the class climbed up to the Confucius Temple in large numbers to pray for the college entrance examination. In order to pass the exam, some students even spent money to hang blessing plaques on the trees next to the Confucius Temple.
There were sixty-one prayer tablets, tied with red silk. The wooden tablets weighed down the leafy tree and filled up. When the wind blew, the wooden tablets collided with each other, making a rustling sound.
Ning Ji also wrote a wooden plaque for praying, hung it on a branch, and tied a beautiful bow on it.
After the large group gradually left, Yan Sui went to take a look at Ning Ji's wooden sign and saw that it said A University.
It turns out that he wanted to go to University A.
At that time, Yan Sui touched the wooden sign with "A University" written on it, thought about it, and spent 60 yuan to buy a wooden sign for praying, wrote "A University" on it and hung it next to the Ningji wooden sign.
Yan Sui's idea was simple - didn't Ning Ji want to be with him? But he refused to do so. He insisted on haunting Ning Ji.
After hanging the wooden sign, Yan Sui was very satisfied and felt that he was simply a genius.
Now it really is a ghost that won't go away no matter what I do - it's on a pair of gay cats.
Yan Sui, who was carrying a cat bag, glanced at the peacefully sleeping lion cat, then looked at the temple vaguely visible on the hillside, and felt that burning incense to the Buddha was unlikely to solve the problem.
Whose demon could be so calm when coming to a sacred Buddhist place?
The two took turns burning incense in the temple. After they were done, they looked at each other and didn't notice anything unusual, nor did they feel that any evil spirit had been cleared away.
The incense was wasted.
The two sighed and went down the mountain together, planning to burn incense and pray for blessings in another place. When they got to the foot of the mountain, they met a familiar figure.
The visitor was very surprised to see them and waved at them, "Ning Ji! Why are you here?"
Ning Ji, who was holding the cat bag, also looked a little surprised, "Xiao Cui?"
Cui Yingyi smiled with his eyes curved, "It's me, what a coincidence! I can actually meet you here by chance."
That look of surprise was extremely clumsy in Yan Sui's eyes.
He is obviously a stalker and a pervert who has been spying on Ning Ji. He tries every means to deliberately create an encounter, but pretends that it was just a coincidence.
A scheming man with ulterior motives.
Yan Sui's mind was filled with alarm bells, and he squeezed in between the two people who were starting to greet each other, trying to warn the idiot who was being targeted and didn't even realize it.
He began to speak sarcastically: "How can such a coincidence happen in the world? It happens as soon as you say it. Is it the Buddha appearing?"
Cui Yingyi was a little stunned, looking at the young man who was half a head taller than him, wearing a black windbreaker, looking down at him condescendingly.
Yan Sui glanced at him and mercilessly exposed the man in front of him, "A City is so big, you can meet someone by chance even when burning incense, who are you trying to fool?"
Cui Yingyi was a little confused, "It really was a coincidence."
Yan Sui wanted to act, so he continued to act.
He sneered, "If you don't believe me, come and see me by chance."
A surprised voice came - "Hey! It's really you!"
The three of them turned their heads at the same time and saw Zhou Qi, who was wearing a black and white sportswear, holding his waist, panting, and looking at them with surprise: "Wow, what a coincidence!"
Yan Sui: “…………”
Zhou Qi came to pray for a sick golden retriever at home. "Fat Ball is going to have surgery in two days. I saw people online saying that the temple here is spiritual, so I came to pray for a lucky charm for Fat Ball."
For some reason, Choi Young-yi started to become a little stiff, and his movements became a little unnatural.
Zhou Qi was a little surprised to see Ning Ji and Yan Sui standing together. He didn't expect that he would be able to see his junior brother and Yan Sui staying together safely in his lifetime.
Ning Ji touched his nose and explained vaguely: "Well, our recent cooperation project..."
Zhou Qi showed an understanding expression. It happened to be dinner time, so he took the initiative to invite everyone to dinner, smiling and saying: "Last time you helped me catch the cat, I haven't thanked you properly, so I'll treat you to dinner."
"That junior Cui, let's go together."
The team of two suddenly became four.
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Zhou Qi chose a hot pot restaurant with a table for four.
Ning Ji chose a seat against the wall and sat down. Yan Sui wanted to sit next to him, but Cui Yingyi suddenly got so excited that he bumped into him and pushed him aside.
Then she gave him a stiff smile: "Let me sit with Ning Ji."
Yan Sui: “?”
Ning Ji took off his coat, and without even looking up, he said casually, "All right."
Yan Sui had no choice but to sit with Zhou Qi. He originally wanted to sit face to face with Ning Ji, but Cui Yingyi suddenly changed seats with Ning Ji.
After reading the menu, Yan Sui looked up and saw Cui Yingyi's stiff face.
Yan Sui: “…”
He put down the menu with an expressionless face, turned his head, and saw Ning Ji and Zhou Qi sitting face to face.
Cui Yingyi gave him a mechanical smile.
During the whole meal, Cui Yingyi seemed to be stuck to Ning Ji, following Ning Ji closely to the condiment table to get dipping sauce, as if he regarded Ning Ji as his savior and never left his side.
Ning Ji just thought that he was shy and had a stronger sense of responsibility in taking care of others, so he called him "Xiao Cui" all the time and took extra care of him.
Yan Sui held the chopsticks in his hand and stared at Cui Yingyi with an indescribable look, as if he was looking at some scheming vixen.
After dinner, Cui Yingyi went to the bathroom, and Ning Ji leaned back in his chair to drink sour plum soup. He liked spicy food, and after a meal, his thin lips were bright red, making his face look as rosy as a peach.
There was no expression on his face, his eyes were upturned, making him look a little unapproachable, and his thin, rosy lips made him look more handsome.
Yan Sui put one hand on the back of the chair and drank the sour plum soup. He looked at Ning Ji's eye-catching face and began to understand why Cui Yingyi was so persistent and did such perverted things as stalking and peeping.
Yan Sui was quiet for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the bathroom.
He intended to warn Choi Young-ik subtly that he should stop being so arrogant, but when he walked into the bathroom, he heard Choi Young-ik sending a voice message to someone in the cubicle.
The bathroom was empty and quiet. Choi Young-yi lowered his voice, but the frustration in it could still be heard clearly. "What should I do? I checked his status yesterday and he said he might go to the temple to pray. I didn't expect to actually run into him..."
"When I was eating just now, I didn't even dare to raise my head. I was so nervous that I didn't even dare to breathe..."
"You know what? I was like a zombie just now. I didn't dare to move..."
Yan Sui: “?”
He stood outside the cubicle, thinking of Choi Young-yi's behavior at the dinner table, his expression was somewhat indescribable.
Is this what you call nervousness? Cui Yingyi's nervousness is so intense that you can't even tell it by taking the square root of a number! Anyone with eyes can see that he is almost sticking to Ning Ji, wishing he could cling to him.
Yan Sui waited at the sink for a long time and washed his hands several times, intending to wait for Cui Yingyi to come out. However, he waited for a long time but Cui Yingyi in the cubicle did not come out, so he had to leave first.
Yan Sui, who came out of the bathroom, was even more wary of Cui Yingyi.
From the moment a group of people started to check out at the counter, he began to squeeze in between Ning Ji and Cui Yingyi intentionally or unintentionally, and would force his way in even if he couldn't.
Ning Ji: “?”
He was a little unhappy, "Why do you always squeeze Xiao Cui? Can't you see that Xiao Cui is unhappy because of being squeezed?"
Cui Yingyi, who was pushed to the side, glanced stiffly at Zhou Qi beside him. His face became increasingly colder, and his whole body exuded a strong chill.
Yan Sui watched Ning Ji wave his hand, motioning Cui Yingyi to stand beside him. Veins popped out on his forehead, and he felt that he must have been driven crazy by the lion cat.
here we go again.
The emperor is not anxious, but the eunuch is. Ning Ji himself doesn't even worry about his own butt, so why is he worrying about it here?
He was holding a cat bag, with his hands in his pockets, and watched the vixen named Cui display her magical powers with an expressionless face.
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In the afternoon, the two went to another famous Ruifu Temple in City A to burn incense and pray. It was almost dusk when they finished.
Before going down the mountain, Yan Sui suddenly asked Ning Ji to wait outside the temple, while he went into the main hall and talked in a low voice with one of the masters.
Ning Ji was holding the cat bag, feeling a little bored. He lowered his head to tease the lion cat in the bag. As he teased, he smiled with his eyes curved.
"Master, it's like this, I seem to have been affected by something dirty recently."
In the hall, smoke was curling. The master who was pulled aside had a kind face and asked the young man in front of him how he had been affected by the dirty things.
The young man in the black jacket looked solemn. He pointed to his head and whispered, "I think my mind has been taken away by something dirty. I've been doing things I don't want to do lately."
Master: "What action?"
The young man was silent for a moment, as if he was having difficulty speaking, but he felt it was not good to hide his illness. He looked up at Ning Ji who was playing with a cat outside the hall, and whispered carefully: "Affected by dirty things... I will suddenly develop a protective mentality and inexplicable possessiveness towards someone."
"Sometimes I even think someone is cute. This influence is too terrible... Master, do you think there is any way to solve this problem?"
"Or check if there's any curse on me, or draw a talisman for me to ward off evil."
The master coughed and said that the curse was not their business.
Yan Sui gestured and said that he could accept the talisman paper at this price.
The master was very kind and drew a talisman on the spot, telling Yan Sui to burn the talisman paper and drink the talisman water.
Yan Sui, who has a mysophobia, blinked when he heard this and remained silent for a while. "Do you really have to drink it?"
The master said solemnly, "You can wear it close to your body, but the fastest way to see the effect is to burn the talisman paper and drink the talisman water."
Yan Sui tilted his head to look at Ning Ji, who was playing with a cat and a dog outside the hall. His eyelids twitched again. He immediately transferred the money to the master and put the talisman paper away safely.
The master transferred the money to him so readily and also gave him a bunch of pomelo leaves to ward off evil spirits, saying that if evil spirits possessed him again, he could use the pomelo leaves to cleanse his body and ward off evil spirits.
Yan Sui grabbed the bunch of pomelo leaves and stuffed them into his bag.
When they were going down the mountain, Ning Ji asked him what he was talking about with the master in the main hall. Yan Sui put one hand in his pocket and held the cat bag in the other hand, and said that they didn't talk about anything.
He said lightly: "It's just an unimportant personal matter."
Ning Ji said "oh" and didn't take it to heart.
That night, Yan Sui, who had just finished taking a bath, lay straight on the bed and took a deep breath, thinking that he could finally be free from the influence of the love-brained cat, and fell asleep peacefully while touching the talisman paper.
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