surname teacher

Chapter 33 Stone

"Book of Surnames" states that in the coastal areas of the late Ming Dynasty, there were often southerners playing dog-man games along the street for a living.

A dog-man looks like a human but has a dog-like face, wears a dog's skin but does not bark, or may be able to lie on the ground and cry and learn ghost language from three or two people.

—— "Surname Book? Shi Shi Chapter"

At [-]:[-] in the morning, when Jin Heng, who was lying on his side in the same regular sleeping position as himself, woke up leisurely from his own bed, the sunlight had just penetrated a little bit from the light-colored curtains in front of him.

Although it was still early, there was the faint sound of someone walking back and forth downstairs, but without thinking about it, someone who lived under the same roof with him for almost three months had already woken up early.

And to a certain extent, they are basically used to the cohabitation life of the two doing their own things and not interfering with each other. Last night, they stayed up late last night to write something for the last spontaneous human combustion case, so at this moment, Jin, who is not feeling well in his eyes, Heng frowned and slowly sat up from the bed, first raised his hand to take out the recently fitted thin-frame glasses on the bedside table, and then took the crutch beside the bed and walked slowly to the bathroom in the bedroom.

The set of toiletries in the bathroom still belonged to him alone. Qin Gentiana, who had not taken the initiative to invade his personal space during this time, would only enter his room occasionally when he went upstairs to ask if he wanted to deliver laundry. Most of the time, the only place where the two of them would meet was in the living room and dining room downstairs.

Although the two of them will occasionally kiss, which is an intimate behavior between cohabitants, but thinking about when was the last time, in fact, even Jin Heng himself can't remember clearly.

But that being said, living under the same roof, you still have to meet every day, even though the two of them have never slept in the same bed.

But when they get up and go downstairs together in the morning, they will definitely run into each other, and when they meet, the two people who are nominally living together must still greet each other normally, and then continue to live together as usual.

"morning."

"Well, morning."

When he came down from the upstairs, Qin Gentian, who was still in the kitchen, greeted him, and Jin Heng, who was still in his pajamas, raised his head to answer him, and then subconsciously glanced in his direction.

At this moment, under the morning light, the tall and thin man with his back was leisurely preparing breakfast for the two of them as usual. The only difference was that there was an extra dog around his feet since two months ago. white dog spinning back and forth on his feet.

According to his own words, this little mad dog, not much bigger than a mouse, was the culprit that caused him to have to receive rabies injections for more than a month.

However, after seeking Jin Heng's consent in advance, and bringing him home and keeping him close to him, Gentiana surprisingly patiently prepared a nest as comfortable as Chang Ming's cot for the little white dog. And like many little girls who like small pets, they take this little dog who looks like white dough with them almost every step of the way, and even put him on his lap when watching TV at night Just touching two of them can be enjoyable.

And I don’t know if it’s because of his paternal love that the dogs who don’t understand human language are moved. In the beginning, the little white dog who yelled at him twice in three days has been able to talk to each other in the past month. Get along with him normally.

Although he often avoids Qin Gentian and Jin Heng, who are like giants to him, in shoe cabinets and bathrooms, etc., at least once in a while, there will be a few responsive conversations like the one before him.

"Do you want soy milk?"

"...Wow! Woah!"

"Slow down, no one will grab you, don't choke."

"Wow, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, cough..."

The next second, the little white dog who was really choking lay down on the ground and made a vague sound like a child crying. Jin Heng, who was standing outside the kitchen for a moment, thought he had heard it wrong.

But Qin Gentian, who also heard the same voice just now, put down what he was doing, bent down and picked him up from the ground, and wiped the sick little white dog's mouth with the small towel around his chest Then, he glanced at him in his direction.

"what happened?"

"...It's nothing, was he crying just now?"

"Really? Isn't the sound of a puppy supposed to be like this?"

"……kindness."

Hearing Qin Gentiana explaining this to himself, he didn't say anything, and Jin Heng, who had any doubts in his heart and would not immediately express it on his face, cast his eyes on the strange little white dog and couldn't help but take a second look. He just took the newspaper that was placed in the living room before and sat down at the dining table behind Qin Gentiana.

Today's breakfast is still Qin Gentiana's personal play, freshly ground soy milk, oatmeal, Chinese snacks and a variety of delicious side dishes can be chosen, in short, everything is according to the two people's own taste.

After Jin Heng ate the breakfast prepared by him at home a few times, he basically developed the habit of having breakfast at home in the morning, and Qin Gentian, who knew his preferences quite well to some extent, would eat it with him After breakfast, I will start preparing to go to work, or occasionally take turns to do other things at home.

"Are you going out this afternoon, Jin Heng?"

"Don't go out, what's the matter?"

"Can you let old Dong take me to the hospital? The dog seems to be not feeling well since yesterday."

"Well, I'm calling."

Because he doesn't like pets very much, he has never expressed any enthusiasm for this little white dog of unknown origin. Jin Heng, who was originally sitting at the restaurant table drinking soy milk and reading the newspaper, wondered if he would have time to go with Gentiana Qin in the afternoon , I thought about going out of the kitchen to the living room to call Lao Dong.

It's just that although he didn't pay attention to the movement in the kitchen, after he came out, the sound of Qin Gentiana coaxing the dog in a low voice kept coming out intermittently, and Jin Heng, who was sitting outside on the phone, was a little distracted for a while. To attract the past.

Even though he is already in his thirties, he still likes small animals so much.

The things he is good at can't be counted on both hands. He is very patient in everything he does and is willing to put in effort.

Although I don't want to admit it, but these days, the advantages that Qin Gentiana has shown little by little have been silently recorded in the hearts of our uncle who is used to being reserved.

However, Jin Heng usually would not take the initiative to confront him, but occasionally from the perspective of cohabitants who have lived together for a period of time, he can actually see some signs that Gentiana Qin's life was not very good.

Habitual frugality, close to pathological cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder, overly sensitive, always used to consider other people's thoughts, and unspeakable persistence and dependence on family and relatives.

Although in terms of actual age, Jin Heng is actually the less mature of the two.

But sometimes seeing how a person like Gentiana Qin can work so hard to manage the relationship between two people, Jin Heng will feel helpless not knowing how to refuse his request, or hope that he can always be happy, at least keep The strange psychology of this positive and optimistic state now.

It was just waiting for him to be so emotionally thinking about some issues that he would not normally think about, and then he turned around and saw that the sofa was filled with Qin Gentiana, a severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, arranged in a row in an orderly manner like a prisoner. plush toy.

Unable to find an empty place to sit down for a while, his uncle finally had to look away helplessly, and then he was about to continue what he hadn't finished before, when he suddenly heard a sudden noise from outside the gate of his house. The doorbell rang twice.

To be honest, usually they would knock on the door so early, except for the property management, they could only deliver milk.

But the two of them don't drink milk very much, and the little nephew didn't live here when he returned to the old house yesterday weekend, so no matter how he thinks about it, it can only be the property company.

However, sometimes things are really so unexpected, so even Jin Heng didn't think for a moment that when he walked to the door and was about to open it, he would hear the voice of his always serious and serious grandfather.

What made him even more speechless was that the old man standing in the surveillance video outside the door seemed completely unaware that he had been exposed, and was still talking with his little great-grandson under his breath until——

"Why is no one answering the door? My uncle and the others seem to be asleep. Grandfather...how about we give him a call?"

"Shh! What's the call? I'm here to make a surprise inspection of them today! You help me look around first, I'll step up to look through the back window, let's keep our voices down, listen to my command, don't Lead your uncle to—”

Jin Heng: "Morning."

Jin Feixiong: "..."

Jin Changming: "..."

Three generations of old, middle-aged and young people surnamed Jin stood outside the gate with big eyes and small eyes, but the actual atmosphere was extremely awkward.

Unexpectedly, he would come out suddenly. Mr. Jin thought that his behavior just now was a bit embarrassing, but thinking about what he did as an elder, there was nothing embarrassing about it, so he straightened his back and put his hands behind his back, looked him up and down a few times, and started to get used to it He taught his grandson, whom he hadn't seen for a while, a lesson.

"Why are you still sleeping at home after seven o'clock! I have been practicing Taijiquan outside! What do you look like slowly all day long? Are you 23 or 32 this year! Also! I heard that you recently I haven’t gone out for several days! Is it true? What are you doing at home all day long? Did you make a bomb or a spaceship? What about the other one? Are you at home today?”

Being confused by his grandfather's completely unreasonable lecture, Jin Heng didn't know what to reply. Afterwards, Jin Heng with a numb face simply said nothing, just frowned and walked away, and let the aggressive old man take the lead. The little nephew who lowered his head and suppressed a smile came in together.

He just closed the door in front of him smoothly, and at the same time, he knew exactly what his grandfather was here for today, and his uncle let the two doors of the upstairs bedroom close automatically without leaving a trace.

And looked down at the two strings of door keys that had consciously hid under the sofa, Jin Heng, who followed in, first pursed his lips quickly, and then slowly waved at them with the hand that was always behind his back, Immediately afterwards, the two strings of spiritual keys quickly disappeared under the sofa.

The earliest art of hiding things in China, the technique of concealment, is said to have been created by the Lu family in Shandong, and it is the unique skill of the Lu family's ancestors.

Make a hide-and-seek agreement with the item, and let them find a place to hide it by themselves, then no matter where this item is in the house, no one else will be able to find it again.

Taking these two strings of keys as an example, unless Jin Heng, who had agreed with them in the game of hide-and-seek at the end, called them out, these two strings of keys would never show up by themselves. Of course, they were locked by Jin Heng because of the keys. The closed door is—

"Eh? Why are all the doors upstairs locked? Ah Geng, where are the keys to the two of your bedrooms?"

"Isn't it on the door?"

"You don't know? Then who knows? Jinheng? Jinheng? Did you secretly take the key away? Don't play tricks on me all day, you know?"

"Have you eaten breakfast? Changming, have you eaten?"

"I ate, Changming didn't eat, it's alright, you don't have to be busy, sit down and rest for a while, I said you don't want to serve him all day long, let him do something for you, you see Look at him now more than before..."

"No, Jin Heng is not idle at home."

"Really? How are you two doing?"

"Huh? Pretty good."

The old man who came to his grandson's house early in the morning hadn't finished condemning Jin Heng, who was getting more and more unmotivated in his eyes, and couldn't resist talking to Qin Gentian who was pouring tea for him in the living room.

When Jin Heng came in, he heard his grandfather say this and he didn’t express any opinion. He sat down next to his little nephew in the restaurant with a suppressed smile, drank porridge and watched the excitement, and continued to eat his breakfast and read his newspaper with his head down. went.

And he was inexplicably irritated by his broken attitude that he didn't know to change since he was a child. The old man was about to slap the table and scold people with his eyes wide open, and then asked Jin Heng, who had known and pretended to be with him all day long, to hand over the house key.

Seeing this, Gentiana Qin couldn't help laughing, and then quickly took the initiative to help Jin Heng out of the siege, and then it took a while before the topic was finally changed to another place.

"Uncle Qin still has a way to coax Grandpa Grandpa, Uncle, were you scared to death just now? Haha, I actually yelled loudly outside the door so you could hear me. You must not have noticed it, but in fact... My heart is still with you..."

"is it?"

"Yes, yes, hehe, if I don't help you, I will help you. As the saying goes, my nephew is my uncle's caring little padded jacket..."

While keeping an eye on the situation of Gentiana Qin and the old man outside, the slick young master Changming started to surrender to his uncle after saying this. Unfortunately, he had done this kind of tricking the adults too much before, and now his uncle just No matter how foolish he is, he won't be easily fooled anymore, so let him play tricks with himself back and forth.

It's just that the uncle and nephew hadn't said a few words when there was a sudden and familiar sound coming from the corner of the kitchen.

And subconsciously looked at the little white dog left in the kitchen by Gentiana Qin, realizing that the two humans at the dining table were looking at him again, hiding by the cabinet, the little white dog shivered with guilt He lowered his head tremblingly, and bit his mouth tightly, not daring to make any sound.

Jin Changming: "... Uncle, did you just... hear anything?"

Jin Heng: "...En."

Jin Changming: "Oh... Then maybe we both heard it wrong... Haha... How could the puppy..."

Little White Dog: "Hic."

Jin Changming: "..."

Jin Heng: "..."