My Family Is Very Odd

Li Xiaogui looked at the candy hesitantly for a while, then looked around, but saw nothing.

"Candy, is that for me?" Li Xiaogui stood on tiptoe and asked, holding the window.

After waiting for a while without an answer, Li Xiaogui thought for a moment, stretched out her hand, hesitated again, and withdrew it.

Just as she was about to close the window, the voice rang out again.

"...Little ghost, little ghost..."

Li Xiaogui: "Who are you? Daddy said I can't eat from strangers."

"...Little ghost, little ghost... Mom, Mom?"

The voice was strange, as if it were ringing in her head.

It also sounded childish, as if the speaker was even younger than Li Xiaogui.

"I'm not your mother, did you make a mistake?" Li Xiaogui said.

"Little ghost, your little friend is here!" Ghost Granny said outside the door.

"Coming!" Li Xiaogui said, "You got the wrong person, Grandma is calling me, I'm leaving now."

Li Xiaogui said, hurriedly ran to the table, picked up the candy jar on the dressing table filled with many candies, poured out all kinds of colorful candies on the table.

She quickly picked them up and stuffed them into the pocket next to her waist.

After stuffing them, she tilted her head and thought for a moment, then ran to the window:

"I'm sorry, I can't take your candy, you got the wrong person. It's my birthday today, I'll give this to you, it's as delicious as white rabbit candy. Don't be sad, I'm leaving!"

Li Xiaogui took out a purple candy from her pocket and put it next to the white rabbit candy, then turned around and left without looking back.

A thin black shadow slowly appeared beside the candy. It looked at the empty room and said aggrievedly: Why, don't, candy...

...

"Grandma! I'm here!" Li Xiaogui said as she ran, her skirt swaying with her movements, revealing two straight, white legs, and two ribbons fluttering behind her skirt.

Li Xiaogui stopped in front of Ghost Granny.

Ghost Granny stretched out two old fingers and twirled them in the air. The two ribbons slowly twisted into a beautiful bow and tied behind her, like an ancient magician.

Ghost Granny smiled kindly: "Okay, go ahead. Your little friend is waiting in the living room!"

Li Xiaogui turned her head to look at the beautiful bow behind her, and was overjoyed: "Mmm! I love you, Grandma!"

She pattered to the living room.

Li Xiaogui waved: "Yuanyuan!"

Chen Yuanyuan, who was sitting very restrained, stood up as soon as she saw Li Xiaogui, "Xiaogui!"

Li Xiaogui smiled very happily. At this time, she also saw the man with glasses sitting next to Chen Yuanyuan and greeted him politely: "Hello, Teacher Wen."

Wen Yuanrui nodded and handed the prepared gift to Li Xiaogui: "Well, happy birthday. This is a gift for you. I hope you like it."

Li Xiaogui: "Thank you, teacher!"

Li Xiaogui happily took the gift, then looked up and said obediently: "Teacher, here's some candy for you! It's super delicious!"

Li Xiaogui smiled with her eyes narrowed and gave Wen Yuanrui a candy, then walked to Chen Yuanyuan and took out a candy from her pocket and handed it to Chen Yuanyuan, "Yuanyuan, this is for you!"

It was a blue candy. Wen Yuanrui solemnly pushed his glasses and put the candy into his pocket.

Chen Yuanyuan took the candy: "Thank you!"

Then she also took out a gift and handed it to Li Xiaogui. The gift was not wrapped, and it could be clearly seen that it was a cartoon hairpin: "Xiaogui, this is a birthday present for you, happy birthday!"

"Wow!" Li Xiaogui took it happily, then carefully put it on immediately, raised it up and showed it to her, "Does it look good? Is it too far back?"

Chen Yuanyuan shook her head: "No!"

Li Xiaogui squinted her eyes and couldn't help but reach out and touch it.

Chen Yuanyuan: "Your house is so comfortable. It's super hot outside, but it cools down as soon as I get to your house."

Li Xiaogui: "Hee hee. But it's too cold. Dad said I can't always wear short sleeves at home, I'll catch a cold."

"That's right," a voice came from behind. A strong man came over with a blanket. "Little classmate, this blanket is for you."

Chen Yuanyuan turned her head and saw a pale face and black hole eyes. She took it shyly and hesitantly, thinking: Li Xiaogui's family all have such pale faces. They look sick.

As she was taking the blanket, the doorbell rang. Chen Yuanyuan looked over and watched in disbelief as the man who had just handed her the blanket suddenly teleported to the door to open it.

The blanket fell into Chen Yuanyuan's hands. Chen Yuanyuan froze for two seconds, her breath choked, her legs went limp and she fell on the sofa, stammering and pointing at the strong ghost, at a loss: "He, he..."

To be honest, this was just the strong ghost's subconscious reaction to hearing the doorbell. He was too used to floating around, and the indifferent reactions of Xiaogui and Wen Yuanrui, the two humans, also made him subconsciously think that all humans were very accepting of things like gods and ghosts, and did not take special precautions. He didn't mean to scare Chen Yuanyuan.

Li Xiaogui took Chen Yuanyuan's hand: "Don't be afraid, my brother is just a ghost, nothing else! Don't worry."

Chen Yuanyuan stared at her blankly, a question mark slowly popping up on her head: "?"

She looked as if she had seen a ghost for the first time.

But that wasn't the case when she saw her father in the park before! Later, because her father saved them, Yuanyuan clearly seemed to have accepted it.

"What's wrong? Didn't you see a ghost before? In the park?" Li Xiaogui asked.

Chen Yuanyuan looked at her blankly and strangely: "When? No? Didn't we go straight home after playing until night?"

This reminded Li Xiaogui of the little sister before. Chen Yuanyuan had also forgotten.

Li Xiaogui turned her head to the teacher for help: "Teacher, Yuanyuan clearly saw a ghost before? Why does it seem like she's seeing one for the first time? It was the same last time!"

Wen Yuanrui pushed his glasses and said: "People who temporarily see ghosts, out of the human self-protection mechanism, will weaken the moment they see ghosts, so that they will completely forget that they have seen ghosts over time, or occasionally remember, but there will be a feeling of familiarity, as if they have seen it in a dream."

"This reduces the physical and psychological fear and discomfort, and restores normal life. Second, it is better to see ghosts less often. It is not a good thing to have a bond with ghosts. Ghosts also have specific conditions for harming people. Seeing ghosts less often reduces the specific conditions for encountering ghosts to a certain extent. This is the self-protection ability of people without spiritual power." Wen Yuanrui said, "I'll bring you a book when I go back, you can read it."

Li Xiaogui nodded. They seemed to understand. Li Xiaogui said, "So, Yuanyuan, let me introduce you again. My brother was like that just now because he's a ghost. Not only my brother, but also my father, mother, grandpa, grandma, everyone in my family except me is a ghost. But you don't have to be afraid! They're not bad people! Look, my brother even handed you a blanket because he was afraid you'd catch a cold! My father saved you in the park before! He's a very good person!"

Chen Yuanyuan's mouth was agape with shock as Xiaogui spoke as if it were a horror story, but in her heart she subconsciously believed it, and didn't seem so scared. She seemed to really have a sense of familiarity, the impression was vague, the whole person seemed to be in another time and space, in a daze.

Wen Yuanrui said: "It doesn't matter if you're afraid, it's a small problem. Besides naturally forgetting, we exorcists also have a way to make her forget and not be afraid immediately. I'll teach you."

As he spoke, Wen Yuanrui stretched out his palm and approached Chen Yuanyuan, as if to do something to her.

Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly stretched out her hand to refuse: "No, no need! Hearing you say that, I seem to really feel it, I seem to have experienced this scene somewhere. Ac, actually I'm not very afraid, it's okay!"

It wasn't bravery, even Chen Yuanyuan herself was a little surprised. Except for being startled by the suddenness at the beginning, she now completely accepted this strange thing. Although she acted very scared, she wasn't really scared in her heart.

It was strange, even Chen Yuanyuan just now wondered if her guts had grown.

Wen Yuanrui nodded and withdrew his hand: "Dream effect, feeling like everything has happened in a dream before. Fuzzy cognition. That's good too. Wait a minute, the possibility of seeing a ghost is quite high, no need to erase the memory, you will be much more relaxed."

Because he found that most of the ghosts in the ghost house were unscrupulous, and the ghost just now looked not very smart.

Chen Yuanyuan swallowed nervously.

At this time, Shen Chen walked in. Li Xiaogui pattered over to greet him. The strong ghost stood beside Shen Chen and smiled, seemingly unaware of what he had just done.

The strong ghost looked around and shouted: "Is everyone here? Then I'll go find the Queen, Ahei, Grandpa, and Grandma!"

As he spoke, his figure disappeared again.

Shen Chen greeted everyone one by one, then expressionlessly handed the gift in his hand to Li Xiaogui and said in a normal tone: "This is for you, happy birthday."

Li Xiaogui took it happily: "Thank you, Brother Shen Chen!" Then she also gave Shen Chen a candy.

Shen Chen nodded reservedly, looking at Li Xiaogui, whose bobbed short hair, which was supposed to be a slimming hairstyle, made her round face look even rounder, he couldn't help but reach out and pinch her face.

Li Xiaogui kept smiling at him, her eyes as round as a fawn's. Shen Chen finally couldn't resist and pinched her face again expressionlessly. So soft.

He clearly felt that Xiaogui's face was so small, so why was there so much flesh, so soft.

Strange.

Shen Chen looked at Li Xiaogui solemnly, but this was what he thought in his heart.

Just as the ghosts in the ghost house reappeared, the lights in the house suddenly went out. Wen Yuanrui, Chen Yuanyuan, and Shen Chen subconsciously tensed their bodies.

Then they saw the female ghost slowly walking in with a flying birthday cake. After regaining their senses, Ghost Grandpa and the other ghosts had already found a place to sit on the sofa, very calmly.

Feeling the alarm lifted, Chen Yuanyuan breathed a sigh of relief, but due to the large number of evil ghosts that appeared at once, Shen Chen and Wen Yuanrui unconsciously remained tense.

The female ghost led Li Xiaogui by the clothes to the main seat, the cake slowly falling in front of her. Li Xiaogui felt a breeze gently brushing the hair on top of her head. She looked up and saw the female ghost gently say to her: "Okay, close your eyes and make a wish."

Li Xiaogui nodded her head up and down, clasped her hands together, and closed her eyes. Her eyelashes closed tightly, trembling slightly.

Shen Chen couldn't help but relax and concentrate on watching Li Xiaogui make a wish.

When Li Xiaogui opened her eyes again, she blew out the candles devoutly and carefully, as if completing a ritual.

The lights came on at the same time the candles went out, and everyone cheered. The strong ghost couldn't help but take out his camera again: "Let's take a picture to commemorate it!"

The strong ghost could always pull out his camera at any moment, you never knew where he would pull it out from next and yell for a picture. This time, everyone cooperated, everyone squeezed into a small frame, smiling happily.

...

Li Xiaogui made a total of three wishes:

One, I hope to be with everyone forever!

Two, I hope to become super powerful!

Three, I hope that one day, I can hug my father, mother, brother, grandpa, and grandma! I want to be hugged like I hug Yuanyuan.

The author has something to say:

Repeat after me, this article is purely fictional, it's all fake, it doesn't exist! [Dream effect] is also a made-up term! Don't believe it! Don't be superstitious!

Repeat after me the core socialist values!

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