CH 83

Chapter 83: Handholding

Lu Hua’s change was actually not sudden. She also suddenly realized that she was the only woman in the family, and she suddenly had a sense of responsibility. Moreover, Lu Shi was so unreliable, even less reliable than her. This sense of responsibility to take care of others arose spontaneously.

There was nothing unusual about this kind of transformation.

After eating, Lu Hua still felt a little unspeakable melancholy, and muttered: “Qing Qing, if you were a girl, we could sleep together. I want to talk with you at night.”

Lu Shi interjected, “Why don’t we have a nighttime chat session?”

Lu Hua: “What the hell is that?”

Lu Shi said: “Just turn off the lights, and then sit in a circle and tell ghost stories together.”

Lu Zheng spat out one word coldly, “Childish “

Lu Shi glared at him, and said coolly, “You’re old and can’t keep up with the trends.”

Lu Zheng: “…”

Lu Hua whispered, “But I’m afraid of ghosts.”

Lu Shi frowned, “What the hell? You’re so timid?”

Chang Qing thought for a moment, “I think it’s quite interesting.”

Lu Zheng immediately made a decision, “Go to the game room, there’s plenty of room there.”

Lu Shi laughed at him, “Who said it was childish just now?”

Lu Zheng ignored him.

Seeing that they all agreed, Lu Hua sniffed and said, “Then let’s call a few more people over.”

After a while, Ah Jian, Shang Shu and his wife, Sun Yi and a few others gathered in the game room.

Lu Shi took out two white candles from nowhere.

Lu Hua whispered in Chang Qing’s ear, “I saw third brother summoning a demon.”

Chang Qing: “…ah? What?”

Lu Hua covered her mouth with a smile and said, “Third brother asked someone to buy a book from abroad, and drew an array in his room to summon the devil. I saw it all.”

Lu Shi’s ears turned red. “I heard you! Lu Hua! You said you wouldn’t say anything!”

Lu Hua snickered, and said to Chang Qing, “I don’t even believe in that stuff, but he really believes in it.”

Chang Qing felt that he seemed to be out of touch with the times.

Lu Shi’s ears were red, he probably felt very ashamed too. He glanced at Lu Hua angrily but didn’t say anything more since everyone else had come over.

Everyone formed a circle, the lights were turned off, and only two white candles were lit and stood on the floor.

Lu Shi cleared his throat, and said: “The Lu family’s first night talk has officially begun. The theme is to talk about your own scary experience and the requirement is to be as realistic as possible.”

Lu Hua raised her hand, “What if you don’t have a scary experience?”

Lu Shi frowned. “Then there must be a punishment and a king game1. You know what a king game is, right?”

Shang Shu grinned, “I don’t know it. What is it?”

Lu Shi glanced at this uncle a few times, “You don’t even know this. Lu Hua, you explain it to him.”

Lu Hua briefly explained it in a few words to him. Shang Shu understood, and he muttered: “It’s still so complicated.”

Lu Shi thought for a moment and said, “So, let’s start with me and go clockwise. If there’s someone who can’t figure it out everyone else will draw cards, and whoever draws the king can ask that person to do something.”

Lu Hua finally regained some energy. “This is interesting.”

Lu Shi saw that everyone was looking at him and didn’t have any objections. He nodded in satisfaction and sat down. He cleared his throat and said, “Let’s start with me.”

“I want to tell you about a terrifying experience. It’s absolutely true. When I was in junior high school, my classmates and I played the four corners game.2 If any of you don’t know what the four corners game is, you can look it up on Baidu. In short, it’s a very scary game to test whether there is a ghost in a room. I played with three boys at that time. When it was my turn to go to the next corner, I felt there was breathing behind me…”

Lu Hua was so frightened that she hugged Chang Qing’s arms tightly, and almost shrank into his arms.

Chang Qing was a little embarrassed. After all, she was no longer a child, and it wasn’t good for him to hug her.

Lu Zheng sat next to Lu Hua, looked down at them, stretched out his hand and tugged at Lu Hua, and Lu Hua reluctantly retreated a little. But her eyes turned and she paid attention again, so she simply hugged Lu Zheng’s arm and Chang Qing’s together in her arms.

In this way Chang Qing’s hand met Lu Zheng’s. Perhaps it was because of Lu Zheng’s strong physique, but the temperature of his hand was very hot. It was so hot that Chang Qing immediately straightened his back and couldn’t help but move his hand away.

Lu Zheng lowered his eyes and looked at their hands which weren’t far away from each other. He sighed in his heart and silently put his hand closer to his. He gently squeezed Chang Qing’s soft fingers.

Chang Qing couldn’t help but glance at him, but Lu Zheng was looking at Lu Shi who was sitting across from them, not at him.

Chang Qing was afraid that Lu Hua would find out, so he only used a little force to twitch his fingers lightly.

Because Lu Zheng wasn’t using much strength, he easily pulled out his fingers.

It’s just that such an affair-like contact made Chang Qing’s cheeks heat up unbearably.

Crazy, he’s really crazy, how dare he.

He obviously said that he didn’t want to see him before, so what is this now?

Chang Qing’s heart was flustered, and he held back from looking at Lu Zheng again. There were many people around right then, it would be really embarrassing if they were found out.

Lu Shi, who had just finished speaking, felt it was terribly scary but he still felt a little bit unsatisfied. He looked around at the expressions of the others, and seeing the fear on their faces, he smiled triumphantly.

Lu Hua shuddered and asked, “Third brother, you had a serious illness when you were in junior high school. Have you forgotten? Could it be from playing this game?”

Lu Shi stopped and said, “That’s not likely…”

There was a clear lack of confidence.

Lu Zheng said: “It’s all in the past, let’s move on.”

Sun Yi was after Lu Shi. Sun Yi twisted and turned and said, “My home is in the countryside. Then, ah, there is a very cute little girl near my home. Her parents are both working outside. The little girl was a left-behind child who lived with her grandmother. One evening, when it was already dark, but not yet completely dark. The little girl was playing in the yard and she saw something. She cried and ran all the way home and her grandma couldn’t coax her at all.”

She paused, Lu Shi was impatient, and urged, “And then? Tell me quickly!”

Sun Yi took a deep breath, and then said, “The little girl had a high fever that night. Her grandmother found fingerprints on her hands. There were five sharp and thin finger marks. The girl was sick for a week before she slowly got better. When she asked her why she was crying, she said something crawled out of the well in the yard and grabbed her.”

Lu Hua held Lu Zheng and Chang Qing’s arms tighter, and their hands collided again.

Before Chang Qing could move his hand away, he realized that Lu Zheng had grasped his hand and squeezed it tightly in his palm. At the same time, Chang Qing’s mobile phone in front of his knee lit up, and a WeChat message popped up.

Lu Zheng: Your hands are so cold. I’ll warm them up for you.

Chang Qing: “…”

Fearing that Shang Shu’s wife who was sitting on the right side would find out, he quickly reached out and snapped the phone face down on the floor.

He pulled his hand, but Lu Zheng held on tighter this time. He couldn’t pull it away, and he was afraid that he would be discovered by Lu Hua if he moved too much, so he had no choice but to stop moving.

Chang Qing’s hand was a bit cold, but inside with the heating it wasn’t cold at all. There was no need for Lu Zheng to hold his hand to keep it warm. It was obvious that he just wanted to hold his hand.

Chang Qing slandered in his heart.  Sun Yi had finished speaking now, and it was Lu Zheng’s turn.

Lu Zheng said confidently: “I don’t have any frightening experiences.”

Lu Shi was happy, “Then you have to accept punishment.”

He ordered Ah-Jian to get a deck of cards. He drew out the king and a few ordinary cards, then shuffled them up again and distributed them. “The person who draws the king is the king. You can give a dare and whoever is dared must do as they’re told, understand?”

Everyone nodded, and Chang Qing drew his card and flipped it over only to see that the king had fallen into his hand.

Lu Shi didn’t get the king, but he wasn’t discouraged. He looked at the others and asked, “Who has the king?”

Chang Qing raised his hand weakly, “Me.”

Lu Shi frowned, and said, “You’re so lucky. You can give him an order, it can be anything you want.”

Chang Qing hesitated for a moment, and couldn’t help but glance at Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng smiled at him, and repeated Lu Shi’s words: “Anything is fine.”

Chang Qing: “…”

It felt like Lu Zheng was broken.

Chang Qing cleared his throat and said, “Just let Lu Zheng princess carry Shang Shu around for two laps.”

Lu Zheng: “…”

Shang Shu: “…”

Lu Shi’s eyes lit up and he couldn’t help giving him a look of approval. He lifted his chin and said: “I didn’t expect your life to be so barren, that a princess carry is an interesting experience. Without further ado, let’s get started.”

Lu Zheng took a deep look at Chang Qing and gently let go of his hand. Fortunately, the candles were far away from them and cast a lot of shadows on them so their hand holding wasn’t noticed by anyone. Therefore, it was relatively safe.

Lu Zheng stood up. He glanced at Shang Shu who was stronger and thicker than him, took a few deep breaths and then picked up Shang Shu.

He didn’t know if he should go with the flow and put his arms around Lu Zheng’s neck. However, judging from Lu Zheng’s stiff expression, he shouldn’t be very happy. So, Shang Shu had no choice but to settle for the next best thing and put his arms around Lu Zheng’s shoulders.

Everyone looked like they wanted to laugh but didn’t dare. They were suffering more than the two of them.

The two were about the same height, but there was a slight difference in weight. Lu Zheng carried him for two laps without any pressure before putting him down.

“Are you satisfied?” Lu Zheng smiled condescendingly at Chang Qing, that smile was full of resentment no matter how you looked at it.

Chang Qing couldn’t bear it, and laughed immediately, “Satisfied, you’re quite strong.”

When Lu Zheng heard this his resentment seemed to have dissipated a lot. He sat down and looked at Chang Qing. Then, he lowered his voice and said, “Just you wait. Don’t fall into my hands.”

Chang Qing didn’t take it seriously. He won’t lose when it comes to telling scary stories.

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1. King’s game is basically a dare game where you draw cards. The one who draws the king card gets to ask someone to do a dare.

2.Four corners- four people stand in the corners of a room without the lights on. Corner 1 goes to corner 2 and taps them, they (#2) go on to the next corner.  Eventually you should find an empty corner…unless there’s a fifth person in there with you. (the 5th person being a ghost)