Cen Yu opened the documents that Pei Lejun had found and looked at them for a while. In one of the documents, it was mentioned that large families had a connection with "household gods". It said that some local gentry and wealthy people at that time would invite household gods to their homes to protect their homes and ensure their safety.
Depending on what is being worshipped, the "gods" invited will also be different.
There was a time when an entire township was inhabited by people with the same surname, and thus they all worshipped the same deity. Because so many people worshipped it, it eventually became a local belief.
Cen Yu glanced at the documents for a while, then looked up at Pei Leyun.
Pei Leyun seemed to have been secretly watching him the whole time. When he saw Cen Yu's gaze, he immediately looked down at the screen... After a while, he looked up at Cen Yu again, and then Cen Yu caught him red-handed.
Pei Leyun's face visibly flushed red. He was a little embarrassed and wanted to say something, but then he remembered that they were still in the library, so he could only send Cen Yu a teary-eyed rabbit emoji.
Cen Yu propped his head up, watching the rabbit on the screen—
"Were you spying on me just now?" he asked Pei Leyun directly.
Pei Leyun made some noise across the table, attracting the attention of those around her. The other person quickly made an apologetic gesture before sending an emoji to Cen Yu in the chat box.
First, he sent a string of crying rabbit emojis, and then said—
【yes……】
"Why are you spying on me?" Cen Yu asked again.
Pei Leyun's expression on the other end was conflicted and hesitant. He looked up at Cen Yu again, and seeing that Cen Yu wasn't looking at him, he said in the chat box—
[I just happened to see it (poor thing)]
"Really?" Cen Yu said.
Pei Leyun sent a rabbit nodding emoji.
"I don't believe you." Cen Yu chuckled, propping his head up with his hand. "You were clearly looking at me the whole time."
Pei Leyun now wore a look of wanting to die, seemingly not expecting that her secret observation of Cen Yu had been discovered for so long.
Wen Jingyao was still looking at the information sent on the screen, but he soon noticed that something was wrong with the two people next to him.
Pei Leyun stared at the screen with a flushed face, while Cen Yu typed on the side. It looked like they were flirting behind his back.
Wen Jingyao couldn't take it anymore. He coughed and reminded Cen Yu that this was a dream! They had serious business to attend to and shouldn't just focus on romance.
Cen Yu was drawn to his cough and glanced at him.
Wen Jingyao felt someone tap his shoulder. He was a little confused, but he turned around and found that it was a vague person in the library... Then he watched as this person handed him a box of throat lozenges, implying with his actions that if he wanted to cough, he should go outside to cough.
Pei Leyun watched all of this without making any reaction.
Wen Jingyao didn't want to waste time on this meaningless dream, so he also sent a private message to Cen Yu—
Stop flirting and get down to business!
Cen Yu remained silent. Was he trying to flirt?
He turned to look at Wen Jingyao and mouthed, "Then you'd better get to work."
Wen Jingyao looked at Pei Leyun, who then looked at him, seemingly puzzled as to why this "group member" was staring at him, but he still smiled politely.
Wen Jingyao made a hand seal, preparing to try a brute-force breakthrough and deal with Pei Leyun in the dream first.
Pei Leyun remained seated in front of the computer, smiling at him. Wen Jingyao vaguely sensed something was wrong, and the next second... he realized he had woken up from his dream. He hurriedly turned his head and found that he and Cen Yu, who had been holding hands, had separated.
Only the ambient light was still on in the bedroom. Wen Jingyao sat on the edge of the bed, wanting to try to enter the dream again, but he quickly caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye.
He braced himself against the edge of the bed with one hand, stretched out his other arm, and picked up the photo that was facing him.
The photo shows Pei Leyun and Cen Yu smiling.
Wen Jingyao held the photo frame for a long time without saying a word. He clearly remembered that before entering the dream, he had deliberately placed this group photo face down on the table.
"Playing tricks," Wen Jingyao muttered to himself, then looked up at the bedroom. "You really want to kill Cen Yu?"
...
Cen Yu discovered that Wen Jingyao had suddenly disappeared, but neither Pei Leyun nor the "others" in the library seemed to have noticed it.
Cen Yu looked across at the other side and asked, "Where did that person go?" His voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for Pei Leyun to hear.
"That person just now?" Pei Lejun seemed not to understand what he was talking about.
"It's just the two of us researching in the library today." Seemingly because their voices were disturbing others, Pei Leyun immediately fell silent and then spoke in the chat box—
【Xiao Yu, let's go outside and talk, okay?】
Then he sent a rabbit emoji with teary eyes.
Cen Yu stared at the screen for a while, then looked at Pei Leyun across from him, and finally reached out to close the computer screen. "Let's go."
Seeing this, Pei Leyun hurriedly shut down her computer, stuffed it into her backpack, and followed Cen Yu out of the library.
The two quickly left the library. Cen Yu found a bench outside the library and sat down. He patted the seat next to him and said, "Sit."
Pei Leyun put down what she was holding and sat down uneasily next to Cen Yu.
Cen Yu doesn't actually remember every date he met Pei Leyun. Even if there are things like subconscious and deep memories, he doesn't think he can remember every detail clearly.
For example, right now, he wouldn't remember how many clouds were in the sky when he met Pei Leyun at the library, or whether it was a sunny or cloudy day.
“These are your memories,” Cen Yu said.
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