"I just came to find you. You are not here. I thought to wait for you to come out, but I accidentally fell asleep here."

Huo Ran explained softly.

"It's dark everywhere outside. I'm really afraid of the darkness the most and dare not stay alone."

"And if I'm afraid, I'll have nightmares..."

After Huo Ran said this, Jiang Yaochuan was stunned.

He remembered that last night, Huo Ran had a nightmare, holding his hand and crying, and his eyes were still a little swollen until now.

He remembered that in the house, he was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. She was a little girl, who stayed in such darkness for half a month.

Thinking of this, her current behavior is not like being unreasonable or pretentious.

Really scared.

"But I am not afraid of you, but I am not afraid of being there. Wherever you are, I am not afraid of being too dark." Huo Ran opened his eyes and blinked, his words were extremely sincere.

The little girl has a dependent mentality.

The only person Huo Ran relies on now is Jiang Yaochuan.

He is her savior and her hero.

Without Jiang Yaochuan, there would be no such person as Huo Ran in the world.

So in her heart, she has always existed because of him.

"I'll go back to your room with you and wait for the call." Jiang Yaochuan's tone became much softer, and he spoke softly, and suggested to her.

"No." Huo Ran immediately refused, shook his head and said, "Can't you just stay here and don't leave? It's the same if you wait for a call here."

"I've been warming up this bed. When I go back, my room is cold and there is no heating anymore..."

"Brother, lie down too, the quilt is warm." Seeing that he didn't say anything, Huo Ran reached out and patted the pillow next to him.

What Huo Ran said seemed to be correct. Jiang Yaochuan had no reason to refuse, but there was even more reason to let Huo Ran sleep in his bed.

"So that's it." Huo Ran took a pillow and crossed it in the middle of the bed, saying, "You lie there, and then you tell me a story, okay?"

Seeing that Jiang Yaochuan didn't say anything, she slapped her mouth and shouted pitifully: "Brother."

This is really the only person Jiang Yaochuan has met when he has no choice but to meet.

It cannot be solved by force, and it is impossible to reason with her. It seems that all he can do is follow her.

Especially when she called "Brother", Jiang Yaochuan felt even more that he was too inhumane if he didn't follow her.

She treated him as her brother, but he thought a little too much.

So Jiang Yaochuan lay halfway on the other side of the bed, approaching the bed, one meter away from Huo Ran's feet.

After thinking about it for a while, I began to talk to her about a drug-killing operation in Vietnam a few years ago.

Huo Ran listened very seriously, responding to his remarks, nodding from time to time, and when he heard the wonderful place, he would take a deep breath and look nervous.

In the darkness, her eyes kept looking at him, with a faint smile on the corners of her lips, as if this was the happiest thing in the world.

I don’t know how long it has passed, and the room is dark and there is no sign of a call.

Jiang Yaochuan's voice was serious and plain, and he told her clearly, and he had already talked about him throwing a mine into the room.

"Brother, are you injured?" Huo Ran suddenly asked.

"Yes." Jiang Yaochuan nodded, moved his left hand, and said, "A bullet is in here."

It was clearly a terrible thing, and it had even endangered life safety, but it seemed like a trivial matter from his mouth.

"When you saved me, you were injured." Huo Ran said, his nose suddenly felt a little sore, and his heart twitched, feeling uncomfortable.

"If it weren't for me, I wouldn't have given you one more wound."

Huo Ran's thinking angle suddenly made people feel strange.

"Small injury." Jiang Yaochuan spit out two words gently.

However, the bones were not broken by the falling beam, and they were not even considered injured.

"It is my responsibility to save lives and help the wounded."

"Jiang Yaochuan, do you know there is a word called 'give it with your body'?"

After taking a deep breath, Huo Ran put up his little head and looked up, and asked him gently, this time, he was still calling his name.

The last four words floated in the air, instantly causing the atmosphere around to stagnate.

Huo Ran obviously felt her chest shaking for a moment. She really mustered up the courage to say this.

"You saved my life, but I have never repayed you." Huo Ran continued.

This is his duty. He has saved so many people and does not seek rewards.

If everyone comes to repay you, how can he deal with it?

But all this has changed to the most, but he just can't say it.

He was stunned and his eyes went down. In the darkness, he seemed to see Huo Ran's eyes, clear and bright, just like the first meeting five years ago.

That is a picture that will always remain in his memory and even be engraved in his bones.

Five years ago, he was puzzled by this feeling, which made him do something that he shouldn't have done beyond his own reason.

Later he thought that this should be "compassion".

But he himself can't figure out what this compassion represents.

And just as Jiang Yaochuan was stunned for a moment, Huo Ran had taken off the pillow that was crossing between the two and moved it to him.

His arm was placed on his arm.

Jiang Yaochuan's body instantly stiffened.

The softness that can be rarely felt was still lingering in the tip of his nose. The four words "to agree with one's body" were circling in his mind, and his head was a little confused.

The first time I was unconscious.

At this moment, a "clang" sound suddenly came from the room, breaking the silence in an instant, which made people's heart tremble and almost jumped out of their throats.

Huo Ran said "ah" and subconsciously rushed into Jiang Yaochuan's arms, huddled and approached him, trembling a little.

"What?" Huo Ran asked in fear.

"It's nothing, this book has fallen from the bookshelf." Jiang Yaochuan's voice was low, and he was already a little more hoarse than before.

"Really?" Huo Ran was still trembling and asked again: "Then why did I hear a sound?"

"You heard it wrong." Jiang Yaochuan was helpless.

Huo Ran, who was under the bed, had already nestled in his arms safely, shook himself and shrank himself into a small ball.

I am afraid and trying to seek shelter for myself.

He pulled one hand around Jiang Yaochuan's waist.

Jiang Yaochuan stretched out his hand and wanted to take her hand away, but Huo Ran pulled it tightly, and his finger joints were exerting force. I don’t know if he was really scared or something.

He could have used some force to spread her hand.

After all, Huo Ran's strength was so small that it was almost worth mentioning.

But at this time, he couldn't use his strength.

"Your room has been empty for so long and no one has slept. Can you support mice?" Huo Ran buried her head in his arms, spoke softly, and didn't dare to move.

"Don't you come to clean every week?" Jiang Yaochuan took her words rarely and asked her back.

"I—" Huo Ran paused, and then muttered: "Then I will clean up and I am not responsible for catching mice."

In fact, there are no rats in this house. It doesn’t exist at all. Jiang Yaochuan has lived here for more than 20 years. Not to mention rats, he has never seen a rat shit before.

But Huo Ran said he was scared and almost cried when he heard the sound, but Jiang Yaochuan really couldn't say anything.

In such an atmosphere, the soft touch of the person in his arms became more and more obvious. Jiang Yaochuan was stiff and his consciousness was highly concentrated, and even his breathing sound was gradually controlled.

When Huo Ran woke up again, it was five o'clock in the morning.

It was still dark outside, and the room was dark, just like before.

She was still in Jiang Yaochuan's room, but she was the only one, so Jiang Yaochuan didn't know where to go.

Huo Ran remembered that she was sleeping in Jiang Yaochuan's arms last night.

Staying in his arms was full of security, and could block all the wind and rain outside for her and calm her heart down.

She has been in a long time, and has not slept so peacefully like this time.

But where did Jiang Yaochuan go?

Huo Ran sat up from the bed and was about to get out of bed when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside the door.

She immediately retracted her quilt, lay down and closed her eyes, and began to pretend to be asleep.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and it was obvious that you could stop at the door.
To be continued...