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Wait... where do they go when the teahouse is closed?

Teahouses can't be open 365 days a year.

It's almost Chinese New Year!

Which teahouses are open during the Spring Festival to provide food and games for people to play cards?

Bai Miao suddenly realized that all his memories of Bai An were missing the two most important parts.

Summer vacation and winter vacation.

Bai An's memories are all from those few months during her school years.

The two months of summer vacation and the one month of winter vacation are a blank period.

Everyone has some memories of the short holidays.

It would be too incomplete for a person to have no memories of summer vacations throughout their childhood.

Even Bai Miao himself, as an orphan, would have trips to the mountains during the summer vacation organized by the orphanage to escape the heat.

Although Bai Miao will move out of the orphanage after graduating from junior high school.

Bai Miao thought for a moment and then posed a probing question to Chen Tianzhuo.

What did you do during your summer vacation?

"what?"

Chen Tianzhuo was suddenly stunned by the question; he never expected the topic to develop in this way.

Why are you suddenly asking about summer vacation?

"Summer vacation...I went back to my rural hometown for summer vacation."

"anything else?"

"I have a friend back home with whom I get along quite well. We often catch cicadas together in the woods. Oh, by the way, the cicada shells can be sold for over ten yuan a kilogram!"

That's right, Chen Tianzhuo's summer vacation memories are more reasonable.

I can't remember anything at all.

"Oh... okay, it's alright, you can continue practicing."

The first thing Bai Miao did after returning home that day was to rummage through various items in the house, hoping to find some memories of Bai An's summer vacation.

Is the missing summer vacation memory related to parents?

Bai Miao's intuition told him that these adoptive parents would give him a big life once he entered sixth grade.

Judging from the two incidents in the second and third grades, the third grade was clearly more difficult than the second grade.

Putting aside everything else, Lin Shanshan risked her life to warn Bai An to be careful when seeing elderly people.

The third grade is more concealed, but Bai Miao can still handle it.

Following this logic, if the fifth graders don't solve the problem of the Longevity Hall, the difficulty level in the sixth grade might be extremely high.

After searching his own room to no avail, Bai Miao turned his attention to his parents' bedroom.

In the end, they couldn't figure anything out.

There are three bedrooms in the house. The last one was where my grandmother lived. I don't know when it was closed, and no one has been in it since.

Bai Miao had no idea about the situation here.

The bedroom door was locked, of course, but for this old-fashioned door, Bai Miao simply grabbed a piece of cardboard, swiped it against the latch, and it opened easily.

A musty, old smell wafted from inside the house, and a lot of dust could still be vaguely seen.

Bai Miao did not go in directly, but stood outside the door observing the layout of the room.

The room wasn't very big; all you could see inside was a bed that was just made of wooden planks and a mahogany cabinet.

Both were covered in dust, and sunlight streaming into the room from the small window at the top slant illuminated a few cobwebs in the corners, reflecting a silvery light.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Bai Miao fanned away the dust and went inside. Under the bed, he found another cardboard box filled with various toys.

They all look like the kind of building blocks and robots we played with when we were very young.

At the very bottom, Bai Miao also found a Barbie doll.

The Barbie doll was missing her right hand, and for some reason, Bai Miao felt a strong sense of familiarity upon seeing the doll.

"This doll... Bai An really likes it, but it's not his..."

"When Bai An was a child, he also had a playmate, but I don't know when they lost contact."

Just as Bai Miao was about to continue investigating the mahogany wardrobe, he keenly heard footsteps coming from outside the corridor.

Two footsteps.

They're back?!

Bai Miao didn't dare to gamble, so he quickly put the toy box back in its place, left the bedroom, and returned to his own room, where he pretended to do his homework.

Just as Bai Miao opened his workbook, the sound of a key being inserted into the door rang out.

They really came back.

Bai Miao pretended to run to the living room, only to find that his parents' faces were terribly gloomy.

"Have you finished your homework?"

"Not yet...aren't you guys...going to stop playing cards?"

Logically, as a son, I should do something to show my parents' sudden return home.

At least ask why.

"Kids shouldn't meddle in adults' affairs!"

After saying that, they sent Bai Miao back to his bedroom and told him to finish his homework quickly.

The two of them then watched TV in the living room.

Bai Miao had no interest in doing his homework and was intently listening to the sounds outside the living room.

But then Bai Miao broke out in a cold sweat.

Bai Miao heard two footsteps approaching his bedroom door from the sofa and then stopping there!

In other words, his parents were also gathered in front of his bedroom door, listening to what he was doing!

There's a problem! There's a big problem with that room!

Bai Miao sensed that there might be other dangers outside the Hall of Longevity that he had never been aware of.

My lost holiday memories are likely closely related to why my parents kept playing cards.

But Bai Miao didn't have enough information to think at the moment. He could only carefully do his homework while listening to the sound of his parents leaving outside the door.

Inside the room, apart from Bai Miao's breathing, the only sound was the pen tip scratching across the paper.

The silence lasted for almost an hour before Bai Miao heard their footsteps as they left.

Bai Miao stayed in his room until around 8 p.m., when Bai An's mother urged him to go out and wash up, at which point he opened the door.

Have you finished your homework?

"It's finished."

"Hurry up and wash up, then go to bed."

"Oh……"

Bai Miao slept for some time, and in his hazy state, he heard someone whispering beside his bed.

Bai Miao dared not open his eyes, and after a rough estimate, he figured it was probably past midnight.

Secretly preparing hand seals in bed, Bai Miao planned to forcefully fight his way out if he noticed anything amiss.

"Are you asleep?"

someone asked.

Another voice responded, "She seems to be asleep, right?"

"Let me confirm."

"It's okay, I'm already asleep."

Bai Miao was puzzled when he suddenly felt the whole bed shake. Even so, he didn't dare to move and just silently sensed his surroundings.

Once everything was quiet again, Bai Miao could no longer go back to sleep.

Bai Miao endured until morning before finally getting out of bed.

"this?!"

On the bedside table, the Barbie doll that had been found at the bottom of the toy box was quietly leaning against the wall, its head tilted, staring intently in Bai Miao's direction.

Chapter 244 Delinquent Girl

Fortunately, the doll did not continue to move. Bai Miao also used his Qi Observation Technique to examine it, but he did not see anything strange about the doll.

Not to mention that Bai Miao had carved exorcism talismans in his bedroom, so the appearance of this doll really left Bai Miao puzzled.

"This is fucking hellish."

Bai Miao sat on the bed, staring at the doll for a long time, and after thinking about it, he put it into the desk drawer.

There was definitely some secret hidden in that dusty room, but Bai Miao dared not gamble on the consequences of entering it again.

Yesterday, as soon as I entered that house, my parents seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

Although they didn't say anything on the surface, Bai Miao sensed that they were indeed wary of him entering the room again.

What will happen if I get caught?

Bai Miao was somewhat annoyed. There was still no progress on the matter of Shengshou Hall, and now he knew that his parents had problems.

I really can't stay at this place anymore.