"I also have the good things in my heart, although I have not regretted nine deaths......"

He lay in a dark sea, floating and adrift, he could not see the end of the darkness, nor could he touch the coldness of the sea, only endless ups and downs, layer after layer of untouchable waves lapping against him, pushing him forward, he could not stay, he could not turn back.

Only let this body drift away, let this life be endless......

The water submerged him, rising from his ankles to his jaw, and over his head, and he continued to move forward, step by step, deeper and deeper, the cold chill invaded his bone marrow, and he, along with the fish in the water, lost his support and slowly fell into the middle of the lake......

Is it the wind, is it the rain, is it crying?

The cries, the shouts, the screams of the women......

There was a lot of panic and noise around, all of which were women's voices, crying, screaming, and noisy......

Then there was a shrill cry, no more noise, no more women's crying, they were laughing, they were laughing, everyone was laughing, only the child's cry continued.

At the beginning of his life, he cried alone......

It was a winter night forty-five years ago, a night he didn't remember, in a poor farmhouse, he was pushed unprepared.

The cold wind and cold rain eroded Luoyang that night, and the woman who brought him to the world passed away three hours after he was born.

No one expected that everything was fine, she had just become a mother, but death came to her without warning, she had a splitting headache, shouted frantically, and everyone couldn't hold it down, and then the green tendons on her forehead burst out, she opened her mouth wide and couldn't speak, after a violent convulsion, her whole face turned gray, as if all the blood had coagulated, her body became stiff, she fell on the bed, the temperature flowed from her body, she opened her eyes, opened her mouth, and never woke up again......

He grew up and could understand the words of others, and legend has it that on the night he was born, his mother was possessed by an evil spirit, so the simple and healthy woman died violently after giving birth to him......

Why are there ghosts?

They say that all people go through reincarnation before they are born, and some people come from hell, so it is inevitable that something terrible will come from hell......

So they were afraid of him.

The people of that village, even in the name of goodness, spontaneously performed a ritual to exorcise demons on the day of his birth every year after his birth, and he sat on the 'altar' and watched them be filled with candles and incense around him, and the light of the fire surrounded him, and the mage shouted and jumped up and down beside him, and everyone laughed with satisfaction, and kowtowed and cheered foolishly.

At the age of four or five, he just looked at it with his eyes wide open and blank, he was so frightened that he thought these people were going to burn him, and he cried and screamed.

And his father, the rude, taciturn, mighty farmer, wandered out of it all with a jar of wine, waiting for them to finish the trouble, and then take him away.

He wouldn't comfort or explain to himself, he always did, he could only smell the strong smell of alcohol on his body, wipe away his tears, and go home with him.

Later, when he was seven or eight years old, he didn't dare to cry anymore, he followed his father to farm and hunt, go into the water to fish, go up to the mountains to hunt, his father gave him a hunting knife, let him cut the throat of the wild boar and bleed, he watched his father peel the skin of the prey with his bare hands......

When he was ten years old, when they gathered him around the altar again, he took out the heavy axe he had hidden under the incense table, split the incense table dedicated to the gods, knocked over the altar, stepped on the candles, and rushed out of the crowd with his axe.

They shouted in terror that he was possessed by evil spirits, and that he was like a demon, running after them with an axe, and they fled in all directions.

Then he saw his father, sitting on the haystack with a jar of wine in his hand, looking at him, unhurriedly, as if he had seen a joke, and looked at him, and then could not help laughing, and at last laughed.

He laughed, too, and put his heavy axe on his thin shoulder, and walked toward his father.

His father threw the jar and smashed it against the 'altar' that was on fire.

They stood there, watching the flames burst out, watching the farce of the world......

He has always felt that his father is a bystander, he never says much, no matter what, he coldly looks at the excitement and rise and fall of this world, he does not participate, just like a person watching a play, he treats the world as a joke, and he himself is one of the jokes in the world.

……

The laughter, the noise, the cries, all left him.

Time began to fade, and far-reaching memories fell into dust and buried deep with the soil of the grave shoveled up by the shovel.

No one looked at him and smiled through the chaotic crowd.

In the room, there was only the sound of charcoal fires, and gradually, he could hear the wind outside the window, but he still felt that it was too quiet.

……

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, Dr. Hua came to Gu's house again, diagnosed Gu Qingxuan, confirmed that his condition would not deteriorate again, and told Gu's family that he needed to recuperate for a month and not be stimulated again, otherwise he could not guarantee the consequences.

In the past few days, Dr. Hua has spent a lot of effort to pull Gu Qingxuan out of the ghost gate, and it is indeed not as easy as he behaved in front of Tang Zhiqian, and he also admitted that there are still great risks in the follow-up, and there are many uncertain changes.

Gu Qingxuan's life is as fragile as tissue paper, and he is as thin as wood when he is tortured by illness day and night.

But he survived.

He can feel the return of life......

These days, Jiang Xiange has been in the Gu family, and after Dr. Hua treated Gu Qingxuan, she took a reassuring pill and persuaded Yang Rongan to stop guarding her and not to endure embarrassment in the Gu family. After Gu Qingxuan's condition stabilized, she went back to the house with Yang Rongan, made a little repairs, and coaxed Yang Rongan to stay at home, and she went to Gu Mansion again within half a day.

The Gu family sisters and brothers talked to her alone, and Gu Qinghuan finally mentioned to her what he wanted to ask her to do a few days ago - to go to Jiang Hechuan and ask him about his secret.

Jiang Xiange agreed, planning to go to Jiang Yuelou after going to see Gu Qingxuan.

……

Yang Xiaoning took the medicinal soup brought by the maid and sent it to Gu Qingxuan. On this day, Gu Qingxuan was already able to speak, and he looked much better.

After giving Gu Qingxuan the medicine, this taciturn young man said what he had been wanting to say for so many days, and there was no gleam in his eyes under the mask, only deep guilt: "My lord, I'm sorry......"

Gu Qingxuan coughed a few times and exhaled weakly: "Why do you want to apologize? You didn't do anything wrong......

Yang Xiaoning said sadly: "At that time...... I just want to protect you, no Miss Orchestra...... I'm too afraid of you getting hurt, so I'm holding you back...... to cause ......"

Gu Qingxuan looked at him, and there was a smile on his bloodless face: "It's not your fault, you just did your duty." Your mission is to protect me, and you did it, and that's enough. And it's my responsibility to protect the strings, and I have to do it. ”

"I don't blame you, but I want you to understand that sometimes, I don't put my life first, and you, as the one who protects me, sometimes have to help me protect the people I want to protect first, because their safety is extremely important to me. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

……

She had heard their conversation outside the house, and these days, she had countless questions in her mind because of her father's attitude.

And at the moment, she only wants to believe.

Jiang Xiange went to Jiang Yue Tower.

……

"So, what did you think at the time? Do you know how risky it was?"

"I know. ”

"I can save you, but if we are exposed, you will still die without a place to bury......"

"I know. ”

"Then aren't you afraid that something will happen to me? if he finds out and I spend 100,000 taels to save another man, he won't spare me......"

"I know, but at that time you were my only way to live, and I was desperate, do you understand? I believe you will not be exposed, you are so smart, so wise, you have never missed a battle for so many years...... I count on you to be right......"

In the brocade tent, he lay on the couch, head in her arms, and she sat against the edge of the couch, her arms around his neck, her slender and soft fingers sliding from his cheek to his chin, gently caressing his beard and sideburns.

"You shouldn't, you must know that there is no real stability in this world, if something really happens, I can't protect you, and you can't save me......"

Jiang Hechuan exhaled, he looked up at her, his face in front of him was beautiful and picturesque, his eyebrows and eyes were like a fine brush, beautiful and cold, with a slight trace of time, but the innate arrogance and arrogance were always in her eyes. She seems to have always been far away, and she can't, people like her are always far away from people, even for close people, and they are used to camouflaging a layer of estrangement with indifference.

He had already understood her, understood her, and deeply cherished the tenderness of her soft words in his ear, as long as she would still appear in Jiangyue Tower, it didn't matter......

"I understand, I know it's wrong. I shouldn't have risked you. He said.

She lowered her face and kissed him on the forehead, the hairpin ringed, and her voice was crisp and pleasant, "I forgive you this time." Who made you just go through the catastrophe of life and death? How can I bear to accuse you again? I've been wanting to come and see you these days......

He smiled, closed his eyes, and enjoyed the moment, "I'm fine...... In fact, it was Gu Qingxuan who really experienced the catastrophe of life and death...... To be honest, I don't know if I should trust him...... More than 20 years...... I was afraid that he would die, and that he would want me to die...... I want to see him, but I don't know how to deal with him......"

"You always think that you trust him the most, don't you? But in fact, you are the person who trusts him the most, because you know him best, he knows you best, you are the backing of each other, but you hold each other's most fatal weakness......

"Nope. He opened his eyes and raised his hand to touch her cheek: "The truth is that he is completely honest with me, and I still hide it from him, so I have a weak heart, and it is because I know too much that I feel that I am in danger...... I should be the most feared person in the world......"

She said: "Maybe your feeling is right, you should stay away from this person, he is a dangerous existence." ”

……

Jiang Xiange didn't get off directly at the door of Jiang Yuelou, she asked the coachman to go around to the back door and park outside the backyard of Jiang House, she entered her own mansion alone, and the next people were very happy to see her come back, but even if they saw Jiang Xiange at this time, they would feel distressed, and after a few days, she lost weight again, and she was still sick, and the maids couldn't wait to follow her every step to support her, as if she was afraid that she would be blown down by the wind.

When she entered the inner courtyard, she didn't want others to follow, and went inside to meet Consul Zhang, who asked him where Jiang Hechuan was at this time.

Consul Zhang told her that Jiang Hechuan was entertaining distinguished guests in the building, and that he should see her later, and that he had not immediately informed Jiang Hechuan of his intentions.

Jiang Xiange looked at the time, confused, and asked directly: "Father...... Yuehuaju on the fourth floor, right?"

Consul Zhang's face was obviously stunned, avoiding Jiang Xiange's gaze, and shook his head, "No...... He's in the Yangming Pavilion next door......"

Jiang Xiange didn't say more, turned around and went to the building, and went up to the fourth floor.

The fourth floor is mostly guest rooms, and few people stay during the day. Yuehuaju and Yangming Pavilion are only separated by a wall, and the two rooms are interconnected, and a door in the middle connects the two rooms, which can be locked from both sides.

She had wondered why it was set up like this before, but Jiang Hechuan only explained that it was to hide people's eyes and ears to make a different picture, and Jiang Yuelou did have a lot of more secret organs, so she didn't care.

Later, she finally understood what the two rooms were really for......

She wanted to go directly to Yangming Pavilion and wait for Jiang Hechuan, she knew that she might be able to directly break Jiang Hechuan's secret.

However, she still had a trace of sanity, although she was sick and confused, she still resisted the impulse, passed by Yuehuaju and did not stop, nor did she enter Yangming Pavilion, but went up to the fifth floor, sat in the tea room, and waited for Jiang Hechuan.

Finally, Jiang Hechuan finished seeing his "distinguished guest", came out of Yangming Pavilion, and when he went downstairs, he met Consul Zhang, who was waiting there, and when he learned that Jiang Xiange was coming, he turned around and went upstairs again, and when he passed the fourth floor, the door of Yuehuaju opened, and a woman dressed richly dressed in a cloak covered her face with him and walked by mistake without a pause.

He went straight upstairs, looked back at the figure walking downstairs on the stairs, and then turned his head to look at the fifth floor, just happened to meet Jiang Xiange's gaze unexpectedly......

"Father, was she the one who saved you?"

He didn't answer.

"Who the hell is she? for so long...... Father, can't you tell me yet?"

Jiang Hechuan was silent and shook his head.

"Actually, I can easily find out who she really is, father, you know ......"

"Don't ......," he said.

Jiang Xiange couldn't help coughing, he hurriedly poured water for her, blew it cold, and sent it to her.

She took a sip of hot tea, still feeling dizzy, "Father, what will happen if your relationship with her is revealed?"

Jiang Hechuan was like a thorn in his back, the first time he was so uneasy in front of his daughter, he thought for a while, and confessed: "It will invite great disasters." ”

Jiang Xiange was shocked, she didn't expect it to be so serious: "So father, you have been hiding it, even me, even Uncle Gu has not revealed ......"

"Yes, I can't let anyone know about ......"

Jiang Xiange didn't want to ask, she just wanted him to know that this could bring a huge disaster to all of them, and the hidden danger was already there, but she didn't know what to say, her face hesitated, and she choked for a while before she said: "Father, I'm afraid the danger has appeared, just because of this kidnapping ......."

Jiang Hechuan suddenly changed color, and he said: "I knew there was a risk, but I didn't expect it to ...... so soon."

Jiang Xiange said about the discovery of the Gu family's sisters and brothers, and Jiang Hechuan was in a cold sweat when he heard it, "...... Father, you haven't been to the Gu family these days, you don't know any of this, what do you think, father? You don't trust them anymore, do you? Do you want to turn your back on Uncle Gu?"

Jiang Hechuan kept shaking his head, patting his forehead anxiously, he was irritable for a while, and then settled down, and asked Jiang Xiange seriously: "Xiangge, do you still believe them? It is very likely that they arranged all this to kill our father and daughter!"

Jiang Xiange collapsed and said: "Father, what's wrong with you? Why do you think so? Don't you understand? Our two families have been calculated by others, what they want is for you to turn your back on the Gu family, and if you want to suspect Uncle Gu, you can't fall for the scheme!"

"String Song ......" Jiang Hechuan felt as if his brain was a mess, he couldn't figure out anything, and said weakly: "Maybe the truth is what we didn't think of...... You know they're capable of anything...... Without empirical evidence, we can't be sure whose plot it is, can we?"

Jiang Xiange couldn't understand why he was so paranoid, she could only show her determination: "Father, I believe it will definitely not be Uncle Gu, he will not harm you, he will not hurt us." ”

Jiang Hechuan asked, "Why are you so sure?"

Jiang Xiange seemed to be exhausted, and looked at her father helplessly, she stood up and stumbled back, she wanted to hold on to something, but there was nowhere to support it, "Father, for so many days, you haven't gone to the Gu family, and I have been at the Gu family, do you know......? He's still suffering, and you still have to doubt it...... He was here to save me, he jumped into Weiyang Lake, just to save me...... He could have lived well...... You don't know how scared I am these days...... Not only am I afraid of his death, but I am also afraid that my faith for so many years will be completely shattered, if your father and you will turn against Uncle Gu, then there will be nothing to believe in this world......"

……

Yin Jia, who was frustrated by the unsatisfactory results of the implementation of the plan, received a mysterious letter.

The letter said that they were two of the swordsmen involved in the kidnapping, and that they had forced the mastermind behind the kidnapping, that is, their Yin family, before killing the intermediary contact.

They have no malicious intent, the reason why they do this is very simple, they want to make a direct transaction with the Yin family, and they are sure that the Yin family will make a profit and not lose money.

They want to betray the Yin family with a shocking secret, which is their windfall in that kidnapping, and this secret will make Jiang Hechuan irreversible.

Yin Chengyuan agreed to the deal, and he happily prepared 100,000 taels of silver tickets according to their requirements, and thoughtfully divided them into two boxes and loaded them, and asked people to send the two swordsmen to the designated place.

Yin Shaochu disagreed with this approach, feeling that this was too risky, and the existence of those swordsmen was a great threat to them, let alone making a deal with them, which would directly expose themselves......

Yin Chengyuan insisted on going his own way, successfully obtained the secret, and successfully completed the transaction, and the two swordsmen also obtained the huge amount of silver taels they wanted.

At the same time as that secret, it was sent to Yin Chengyuan, as well as the news of the death of the two swordsmen-

Two boxes of silver tickets smeared with colorless and odorless poison powder are the best weapons for killing.

Knowing his brother's arrangement, Yin Shaochu was terrified, Yin Chengyuan was looking at the information, and Yin Shaochu was looking at him......

He saw the birth of yet another conspirator in power - his brother inevitably embarked on this cruel path, the killing began, with blood on his hands, and he could not stay, and there was no turning back.

"Rivers, rivers, rivers...... Now, he has to cooperate with us, and he will obey us unconditionally. Yin Chengyuan laughed, shook the note in his hand, and handed it to Yin Shaochu.

He was really shocked after reading it, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time: "...... He's too bold......"

"The rivers and rivers will die!