Right, girls need to take the initiative.

"Grandma," Xiao Yao cleared his throat and interrupted their conversation about the cruise ship: "Aren't you in a hurry to get some soy sauce?"

"What?" Grandma was stunned.

"The soy sauce shop will close at 8:30." Xiao Yao pointed to the clock on the wall.

"You kid, look at how anxious you are!" Grandma reacted and scolded: "Okay, I'm going to go play cards with the old lady from the Jin family. Xiao Shen, you also teach him his homework."

"Okay." Shen Jie said with a smile.

After grandma left, the atmosphere in the room fell into a brief silence.

"Is Shen Tianyun back?" Shen Jie put down her chopsticks and asked cautiously.

The way she looked at Xiao Yao revealed that she was afraid of hearing a negative answer.

Xiao Yao shook his head: "I don't know. I fell asleep when I came back yesterday. As soon as I got up, you came."

"Then... let's go take a look together?" Shen Jie suggested.

"Um."

They said this, but neither of them moved their butts. It seemed that everyone knew the answer in their hearts, but they deliberately delayed the time of "opening the box", as if this way they would not have to face it.

The girl who ran rampant in Teacher Yao's "hall" yesterday seemed to have disappeared, and was replaced by a lady who was cautious and decent at all times.

"During the day, I went to the Sacred Heart Church opposite your school." Shen Jie thought for a while: "I met Yu Luying."

"normal."

"Her mother is here too. She looks just like the one I saw at the Parent-Child Education Center."

"Um."

"I stopped by for mass."

"Ah, you? Attend mass? Is it fun?"

"After the mass, I called Yu Luying and Father Yu to chat alone. I originally wanted to ask you to come with me, but you couldn't get through on the phone."

"Yes." Xiao Yao's heartbeat was a little fast. There was a fragrance unique to "Shen Jie" in the air. He wanted to hug the girl in front of him, but he didn't dare to move.

Damn it, I was already so skilled yesterday...

"It turns out that the Holy Medal of Our Lady of Loreto is the holy relic of Queen Mary I," Shen Jie recalled: "When Father Yu bought it online, he still doubted whether it was a fake, but now it is basically certain. It’s the real thing. I summoned the Queen’s spiritual fortress because I resonated with her spirit.”

"Spiritual fortress..." Xiao Yao chewed on this word.

His eyes turned to the hand Shen Jie placed next to him. The hand was narrow and slender, yet plump and white. The nails were glowing blue, soft and pearly. Her nails were shiny and pointed. Thin, cut into the shape of almonds, cleaner than ivory.

Xiao Yao stretched out his hand and then retracted it.

"The priest said that the spiritual fortress is what each of us wants to be, the ideal me." Shen Jie said.

"I really like Don Quixote." Xiao Yao smiled.

"So before I came here just now, I searched about Queen Mary's deeds on the Internet," Shen Jie said: "She had a tragic childhood and a tortuous growth experience, and she also had the courage to overthrow her father's legacy. She must carry out her ideals even if she suffers infamy. and faith, but failed in the end..."

The girl took out the "chess piece" and rubbed the queen's head in her palm: "I think I can hear her talking to me."

"A tragic idealistic hero? Just like Don Quixote." Xiao Yao took the opportunity to get close: "I discovered another thing we have in common."

Xiao Yao was heartbroken and put his hand on the back of Shen Jie's hand.

"Ah, is that so...?" Shen Jie withdrew her hand thoughtfully, causing Xiao Yao to jump away.

Is it a coincidence? It must be a coincidence, right?

"So, this spiritual fortress is a weapon to fight against the shadows in the palace?" In order to ease his embarrassment, Xiao Yao quickly found something to say.

"Is it understandable?" Shen Jie hesitated: "But the priest said that the spiritual fortress itself is one thing with two sides of the shadow..."

"One body with two sides...?" Xiao Yao thought: "By the way, what will be the impact if Teacher Yao's shadow is chopped off by the bear? Has Father Yu studied it?"

This is not because he is looking for something to say, but because he really cares.

"There may be very bad consequences. Your male classmate is too reckless. But the priest doesn't know what they are specifically." Shen Jie said seriously: "After you go to school tomorrow, take a closer look and see if there is anything. Tell everyone in time."

"Yeah." Xiao Yao said.

Xiao Yao could feel that his relationship with Shen Jie was actually getting closer.

People say that there are four pillars in life: sharing the same window, shouldering a gun together, sharing stolen goods together, and being harmonious together.

Shen Jie helped each other out of kindness yesterday and supported each other through all the hardships. It is not an exaggeration to call her a comrade-in-arms.

Although she felt a little inexplicable after leaving the hall yesterday, this feeling has disappeared a lot today.

Thinking about it, she was just too tired yesterday, or she was in a hurry to send Zhou Qi to the emergency room.

"By the way, how is Zhou Qi?" Although Xiao Yao was not too concerned, he still felt that he should ask.

"Zhou Qi, she..."

Xiao Yao listened indifferently and continued to think about his own concerns.

Comrades can be stabbed by the enemy for each other, but not by the opponent... "knife".

His eyes fell on the white socks on Shen Jie's feet.

Yesterday, he saw with his own eyes that Shen Jie's socks became muddy and had holes in the front and back.

But after leaving the "hall", her socks immediately became white, dry and clean, and the limited-edition thick-soled shoes that were destroyed in the fire returned to her feet.

...except for the spiritual fortress badge engraved with the chess piece pattern and the wound on Zhou Qi's stomach, nothing could be brought out.

In the final analysis, it is more like a holographic immersive online game than "physically entering the palace".

The only difference is that if you die there, you will truly become a vegetative state.

At least that's what the white knight said, but Xiao Yao didn't have the guts to verify it.

Therefore, from this perspective, no matter how many times we hold hands and hug each other, in the final analysis it is just the friendship interaction between online characters.

Shen Jie also realized this, so she pulled her hand back, right? Xiao Yao thought wildly.

"Go and see if your daughter is back? She should be back." Shen Jie finally made up her mind and stood up.

But, what about the promise? It won’t be broken too, right?

"I will find a chance to tell dad." Is this what Shen Jie said after leaving the hall yesterday?

"That means it still counts?" At that time, he was helping the medical staff carry Zhou Qi's stretcher.

"Yeah." Shen Jie nodded.

What does "um" mean? Does it mean affirmation or perfunctory? Why doesn't she let me hold her hand again?

Xiao Yao leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

…

A girl's scream came from in front of her.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Xiao Yao quickly opened his eyes and saw the girl's upper body stretched into the closet, while her two smooth thighs were still standing on the ground.

"The mirror...can't go in." Shen Jie kept pressing the floor-to-ceiling mirror with her hands, and it became like hitting.

"Calm down, calm down, don't break it." Xiao Yao quickly tried to dissuade him, then reached out to touch the mirror.

The only thing that responded to him was deathly cold and as hard as rock.

The passage leading to 30 years later is closed.
Chapter completed!