Chapter 051 Shadow Man-7
"Mommy...hungry..."
While Jiang Yan and Meng Tang were chatting, the long-forgotten little paper man grabbed his mother's sleeve, opened his watery round eyes, and said pitifully: "I'm starving QAQ."
"Haha, I almost forgot about you guys."
Jiang Yan rummaged through his schoolbag and took out a box of biscuits. Luckily he brought some food with him when he left, especially for the little paper man.
"Baji."
The light fell obliquely on the table, lengthening the four short shadows. They ate with relish the biscuits whose shadows were cast by the light, and their bodies were covered with pale yellow biscuit foam.
"Do you like them very much?" Meng Tang asked, looking at Jiang Yan.
Jiang Yan rested his hand on his chin, his long eyelashes stained with a little light, and fluttered gently like a butterfly with the wind blowing through the window. He opened his mouth and made a pleasant sound, "Well... I like it very much now."
"Now?"
"Because at the beginning, seeing this kind of creature for the first time, any normal person would be scared." Jiang Yan said thoughtfully, "But later I found that these little paper figures were not like the ones shown on TV, which were just violent monsters. On the contrary, they were very cute, like little dogs."
Where Jiang Yan couldn't see, Meng Tang slightly raised the corners of his lips.
The four little paper figures were all made by him personally and he gave them life, so since my wife likes the little paper figures, she also likes him in a disguised way.
Meng Tang was overjoyed.
He was very satisfied with the time he had with his wife, and it would have been better if it could have been longer. Unfortunately, the lunch break bell rang, and many people in the class came back one after another.
"You should go back."
Seeing that Meng Tang was still here and had no intention of going back, Jiang Yan was a little confused and raised the issue.
"Can't I sleep here with you?"
"Ah?" Jiang Yan was startled and looked up into Meng Tang's dark eyes. "This..."
"Haha, I was just kidding." Meng Tang smiled easily, then stood up and walked out the door, "See you next time."
"good."
As soon as Meng Tang left, discussions in the class started to increase again.
"Wow, why is Meng Tang coming to our class?"
"Is Meng Tang familiar with... that person?"
"Who is that guy wearing glasses? He's from our class? I can't remember his name. Do you remember him, class monitor?"
"I think his name is Jiang... Oh, I remember now, it's Jiang Yan, the cousin of Jiang Nao."
There were sounds coming from his ears one after another. Jiang Yan stayed quietly by the window. Someone pulled the curtains, and darkness instantly flooded into the classroom like a flood.
After a while, the noise died down and Jiang Yan felt a little sleepy. When he was about to take off his glasses and go to sleep, the classmate in the front row suddenly came to him and whispered something.
In the front row was a girl who was usually carefree and active in class, so Jiang Yan had some impression of her.
But she was a little shy at this time, with a blush on her face. It was rare.
But Jiang Yan knew what she was shy about, so he said, "You want to ask Meng Tang, right?"
He and she had never had much conversation in the past, at most they would interact when passing papers. In short, their current conversation did not seem like that of classmates, but more like that of two strangers.
Jiang Yan's tone was a little unfamiliar, and the girl didn't focus on it. She had a violently beating heart, her eyes dodged, and her voice, which used to be high-spirited, was now weak and mosquito-like, like a girl with a lot of things on her mind, "Um... are you on good terms with Meng Tang?"
"We just met today."
The girl was slightly surprised, "Ah? Then how did you two know each other?"
Jiang Yan thought about this question for a long time, because today's acquaintance with Meng Tang also made him feel very sudden.
If Meng Tang really saw his cross-dressing live broadcast and found him, what was his motive? Was he going through all this trouble just to make friends with him?
But it's not realistic to say that Meng Tang fell in love with him.
"Oh, yes, because he also watches horror movies." Jiang Yan said casually, "He asked me to watch horror movies with him."
"Eh?" The girl looked a little panicked. She didn't dare to look. "So that's how it is."
"They said you were dating Meng Tang."
As soon as the girl finished speaking, Jiang Yan almost choked to death on the air, "Ahem."
"Don't listen to their nonsense."
"Okay." The girl said with some regret.
Jiang Yan was confused by the other party's tone.
The girl sighed, "Anyway, Meng Tang won't like me. My grades are very bad, but compared to losing to other girls, I feel better that Meng Tang is gay."
Jiang Yan: “…”
"There are so many impossible things in the world. If you really like someone, be brave. After all, they say this season is the best for confessing. It depends on whether you want to leave regrets for yourself."
Jiang Yan said all these words in one breath. He learned these words from the netizens he used to play games with.
"Huh?"
The girl was comforted after hearing this, and suddenly grabbed Jiang Yan's arm. Her originally dim eyes instantly lit up, "Thank you, I always thought you were a taciturn person who didn't understand romance, but I didn't expect you to be so talkative."
"Um……"
"Oh, by the way, I'm Bai Xiaokui. We haven't talked much before, so I guess you don't remember my name."
How could I not remember her? She was the liveliest girl in the class.
Generally speaking, there are three types of people who stand out in the class: one is the one with outstanding grades, the second is the one who is lively and pretty, and the third is the one who likes to cause trouble.
Jiang Yan doesn't belong to any of these categories, so he is the one who will not be remembered.
Every time his cousin called people to bully him against the back wall of the school, he would drag his injuries back to the classroom. The classroom was still very lively and everyone had their own friends to chat with. Only he returned to the classroom like an inconspicuous stray dog, lonely and helpless.
But at this moment, there was still someone who noticed me.
Bai Xiaokui had seen the injury on his arm and gave him a very cute Band-Aid, so Jiang Yan, who always stayed out of the class, only remembered her name.
"Yes, I remember."
But the girl had already turned her head back.
"Oh, Daddy seems angry."
As the classroom became completely quiet, Jiang Yan, who was about to fall asleep with everyone else, felt a chill on his spine, as if something was staring at him in the dark, and an invisible chill enveloped his entire body.
Jiang Yan subconsciously looked around the classroom. Everyone except him was asleep, and there was nothing unusual here.
He calmed down and felt it, and suddenly realized that the strange gaze came from outside the window.
Jiang Yan calmed himself down and opened the window curtain a little. At the same time, a black shadow flashed past his eyes.
There was indeed someone watching him.
So this "person" just now has been spying on him through the window?
It’s kind of creepy to think about it.
"What is that?"
Jiang Yan asked the little paper figures in the drawer in a low voice. His intuition told him that these little paper figures might know something.
After all, in a sense, they are the same species.
"That's... Daddy."
The tall paper man said after some hesitation.
"Well... Daddy has been... watching Mommy." The little fat paper figurine held his finger in his mouth and said in a baby voice, "But Daddy... is a little angry..."
Daddy?
Jiang Yan was very curious about who the daddy they were talking about was. But every time he asked, these little paper figures were evasive and refused to answer.
Jiang Yan had no choice but to ask in a different way, "Then do you know why your dad is angry?"
"Well... maybe... Mommy was talking to another... girl just now... Daddy is jealous..."
"Yes..." said one little paper man, and another little paper man echoed, "Daddy... likes to be jealous..."
Jiang Yan leaned on the table and lowered his head, staring at the palm-sized paper figurine in the drawer, "Is your daddy a girl?" He would get jealous when talking to a girl.
"This..." The four little paper figures all showed puzzled expressions. In fact, they didn't know the gender of their father. After all, he was just a shadow, not even a person.
It was also at this time that the little paper people realized the difference between themselves and their mother.
"Hey, hey... Mommy seems to look different from us..."
"Mommy... is tall... we are... short... and flat..."
"What are we..."
Jiang Yan saw that the four little paper figures began to be confused. They looked at themselves and then looked up at him. Although there was no expression on their faces, Jiang Yan could feel their helplessness.
"Wow...we are...different from mommy..."
"We...are not Mommy's...biological children..."
"Are we... monsters..."
“Cry…”
Hiss, Jiang Yan took a breath of cold air.
"No, you are not monsters."
Jiang Yan stretched out a finger and stroked the heads of the four little paper figures. He slowed down his voice and spoke in a slightly gentle tone.
"Then mommy...what are we..."
this……
In fact, you are paper figures, the kind that will disappear if burned with a lighter.
Jiang Yan has mixed feelings.
After spending so many days together, it would be a lie to say that he has no feelings for these little paper people.
"You guys—" Jiang Yan paused, as if he had made a decision, and then continued, "You are my lovely babies. Who says I am not your mother?"
"Eh?"
"But... Mommy has a face and a name... We... have nothing... Woo woo..."
Their tone is very similar to that of a child on the street holding his mother's hand and asking innocently: "Mom, why do other children have toys but I don't?"
Jiang Yan was the kid who didn’t get toys in the past, so now he doesn’t want these four little paper figures to be sad.
"Well... that's because I haven't had time to give you names yet." Jiang Yan smiled, "I'll give you names when we get home from school."
"And...Faceface!"
"This...I will draw it for you when I get home?"
Among them, one really dares to ask, and one really dares to answer.
In the dim classroom, the shadow on the back wall suddenly deepened, as if two shadows were superimposed on each other.
But if you look closely, you will find a pair of eyes on it, staring motionlessly at the five "mother and children" in the back row, like a kind husband immersed in this warm scene.
Suddenly, the dark shadow on the wall behind moved.
It slid to the ground like a snake, then lurked forward nimbly and soon moved near Jiang Yan's seat.
All this happened silently, and Jiang Yan didn't notice anything unusual before he fell asleep.
He thought the monster had left, but he never expected that the monster was closer to him.
It has become three-dimensional.
A fingerless hand stretched out from the black vortex on the classroom floor, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as a tentacle.
A slender, dark shadow touched the exposed side of Jiang Yan's face with an intimate and ambiguous action.
"Honey, I get jealous too."
A soft voice came from the darkness.
It’s a pity that only the four little guys in the drawer heard it.
"Daddy..."
The four little guys shrank their heads and spoke in trembling voices.
"Shh, don't let anyone else get close to your mother."
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