talked nonsense with Qin Yan, and after the joke, he remembered that there was another person beside him. Signaling Qin Yan to be quiet, Ji Xiamo turned around and smiled at the young man behind him who was cowering and hanging his head silently.

Ji Xia Mo put on a kind smile, stretched out his hand and patted the young man's thin and thin shoulder comfortingly. "Don't worry, it's fine."

The young man glanced up at Ji Xiamo, leaned over, and whispered thanks. "Minion, thank you to Eldest Master Ji for saving his life."

"You're not waiting by Pan Gongzi's side, why are you here?"

"This morning, Gongzi suddenly said that he wanted to eat porridge, so he sent a slave to buy some red dates and lotus seeds, but he didn't want to inadvertently bump into that Gongsun Gongzi and cause trouble, fortunately there was Ji Changgongzi to help." The boy thought for a moment and said again. "When Childe was young, he was weaker than ordinary people, and he always only ate barley."

Ji Xiamo nodded, his eyes flashed slightly, and he glanced at the bamboo basket in the young man's hand meaninglessly.

Seeing that Ji Xiamo no longer asked, the young man buried his head and whispered. "The slave has been out for some time, and if he doesn't go back, I'm afraid the son will be worried. If the eldest son of Ji had nothing else to do, the slave would leave first. ”

Ji Xia Mo raised his lips and smiled, turned sideways and moved out of the way. "Say hello to Changgongzi Pan on my behalf!"

The boy bowed his head in response, and hurried to leave.

When the young man passed by Ji Xiamo's side, Ji Xiamo suddenly twisted Qin Yan beside him, Qin Yan was in pain, jumped to the side with a scream, and hit the young man's body.

"Ahh The young man exclaimed, and the whole person fell forward. Ji Xia Mo flashed forward and grabbed the young man's chest with one hand.

The young man stabilized his body and quickly broke free from Ji Xiamo's arms, with a pair of big eyes staring round, looking frightened.

Ji Xia Mo withdrew his hand lightly and smiled gently. "Be careful."

The young man hugged the bamboo basket in his arms, thanked Ji Xiamo in a panic, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

Looking at the back of the young man leaving, Ji Xiamo rubbed his right hand intentionally or unintentionally, feeling the contact just now, and the darkness in his eyes became even deeper.

"Ji Xia Mo!!" An angry roar pulled Ji Xiamo's thoughts back, and Qin Yan walked up to Ji Xiamo angrily, glaring at him, looking like he wanted to eat people.

Ji Xia Mo picked his ears, and glanced at Qin Yan, who was blushing and thick-necked, coldly, "I'm not deaf, I can hear, I have the strength to run around the street twice, what a noise." ”

"You!" Qin Yan pointed at Ji Xiamo angrily. "What did you just pinch me for!!"

"Oh!" Ji Xiamo responded lightly. "Try the feel, the guy's skin is quite tender."

As he spoke, Ji Xia Mo's lewd/trivial eyes slipped up and down from Qin Yan's body, looking ill-intentioned.

"Ji Xia Mo!!" Qin Yan was furious, his handsome face was flushed, and he didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed.

Just as Ji Xia Mo was teasing Qin Yan with pleasure, he suddenly felt a chill in his back spine, and an eerie chill made him breathe stagnantly, and his whole body tensed.

Ji Xiamo turned his head cautiously, met a pair of dark and deep eyes, and suddenly felt bad.

"Brother Jin~~" Ji Xiamo tugged at the corners of his mouth and waved his paws dryly.

Jin Wuji glanced at Ji Xiamo's hand, the coldness in his eyes was even worse, and his brows furrowed.

"I didn't want to do anything bad just now!" In the spirit of being lenient in confession and strict in resisting, under Jin Wuji's cold violence, Ji Xiamo didn't suffer for a minute, and he was clean.

"Are you sure he's male or female?" After listening to Ji Xiamo's explanation, Qin Yan rolled his eyes and looked at Ji Xiamo like an idiot.

"This has always been a problem that has plagued me, and I always feel that it has nothing to do with Pan Zilong. There is also this scholar, the timing of his appearance is too coincidental. ”

"So what?"

Ji Xiamo touched his nose and gestured a few times with his two hands on his chest. "It's a man, she's flat-chested. But strangely, he has a faint smell of rouge on his body, which is almost easy to ignore if you don't smell it. ”

"Not in the future!" Jin Wuji coldly interrupted Ji Xiamo's gesture, and his deep voice concealed a little anger. "If he really gave birth to a daughter, wouldn't you have tarnished the innocence of men!"

Sensing Jin Wuji's anger keenly, Ji Xiamo nodded again and again like a little yellow chicken, and almost raised three fingers to swear to the sky. "Yes! I will correct it and fight for the organization's leniency! ”

"Brother Jin." Seeing Jin Wuji's cold face and ignoring people, Ji Xiamo stuck to it with a hippie smile, and dragged Jin Wuji's arm and puffed out his little face to be coquettish. "Let's go home, I hurt."

Jin Wuji's hand holding the sword suddenly tightened, and he quickly looked down at Ji Xiamo's injured shoulder, and when he saw the faint scarlet color on Ji Xiamo's shoulder, a trace of chagrin flashed in his deep and cold black eyes.

"I have ordered someone to pass on the doctor, let's go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion first." Seeing that Ji Xiamo's wound was cracked, Qin Yan couldn't care about arguing with Ji Xiamo anymore, and instructed the guards who followed him a few words, then ordered someone to drive the carriage over, looked at Ji Xiamo and said urgently.

The three of them hurriedly got into the carriage, Ji Xiamo leaned lazily on Jin Wuji's arms, his mind quickly filtered everything that had happened since he took over the Pan Mansion case, and there was a faint dark color in his deep black eyes.

He seems to have found a clue to this mess.

The three of them rushed back to the Prime Minister's Mansion and secretly returned to the Plum Garden behind their backs. The doctor from Qin Yan also arrived, helped Ji Xia Mo re-apply the medicine, bandaged it, and babbled for a long time before receiving the reward and leaving.

Ji Xiamo rubbed his sore head, looked at the door drowsily, and muttered quietly.

Jin Wuji sent the doctor away, looking at Ji Xiamo's sullen appearance, frowning slightly. "The wound is open, take care of it from now on, and don't go anywhere."

Ji Xia Mo flattened his mouth and reached out to take the orange that Qin Yan had peeled. "Brother Jin, don't listen to that old man's nonsense, it's just an exaggeration to scare people. Doctor...... Bah! There are a few normal people in the doctor's mouth. ”

"Childe!" Aoki hurriedly walked in from outside the house.

Aoki walked quickly to the bed, saluted Qin Yan, and then presented an anonymous letter to Ji Xiamo. "Childe, the fifth prince came this morning, and when he saw that the prince was not in the mansion, he left a letter, saying that he had investigated the matter entrusted by the prince."

"Really!" Ji Xiamo was overjoyed and held his shoulder, Jin Wuji quickly stepped forward to support Ji Xiamo, with a hint of anger on his face.

Ji Xiamo patted Jin Wuji's arm soothingly, and turned back to signal Aoki. "Bring me the letter."

After receiving the letter handed by Aoki, Ji Xiamo quickly opened it and read what was written on the letter word by word, and then there was a long silence.

Seeing Ji Xiamo's strange face, Qin Yan wrinkled his nose uneasily. "Ji Xiamo?"

Staring at the two thin pieces of paper in his hand, Ji Xiamo was silent for a long time, and suddenly smiled.

"Sure enough! Really!! Ji Xiamo covered his face and smiled like crazy.

"Ji Xiamo, what is written in the letter? If you have anything to say, you laugh at me and I get goosebumps. Qin Yan rubbed his arms and said with a look of disgust.

Halfway, Ji Xiamo stopped laughing, and then looked at the envelope in his hand, his face gradually became solemn again.

"Brother Jin." Ji Xiamo resealed the letter, carefully put it away, and looked up at Jin Wuji beside him. "I have one thing I need you to do right now."

Ji Xia Mo motioned for Jin Wuji to come over and whispered softly, Jin Wuji's brows furrowed a little, and his eyes became cold.

"Brother Jin." Ji Xiamo held Jin Wuji's hand with a solemn expression. "I'll leave this matter to you."

Jin Wuji thought for a moment, looked back at Qin Yan who was eavesdropping with his ears pricked up, and said coldly. "Childe's safety is in your hands, if there is a mistake, I will not spare you."

After Jin Wuji said that, he directly ignored Qin Yan's reaction and quickly disappeared into the room.

Looking at Jin Wuji's back, Qin Yan opened his mouth to speak and stopped, stunned for a while, and didn't react.

Ji Xiamo leaned on the head of the bed, frowned slightly, touched his nose habitually with one hand, and carefully sorted out every detail since the investigation of the case.

"Aoki." Ji Xia Mo opened his mouth and commanded. "Bring me the results of the autopsy and the booklet sent by the Fifth Prince."

"Yes!"

The sky gradually darkened, and the meal and hot tea didn't know how many times to change, Aoki looked at the time, worried that the light was too dark Ji Xia Mo hurt his eyes, so he lit a few more lights in the house.

Qin Yan held the sword and the golden knife at the door of Ji Xiamo's room, pointing at the soldiers all over the courtyard majestically, guarding the entire plum garden like an iron bucket.

Ji Xiamo flipped through the booklet that had been rolled, his brows became tighter and tighter, and the strength in his hand was eager to smash the booklet.

"Bastard thing!!" With an angry scolding, Ji Xiamo angrily slammed the booklet in his hand on the table, overturning the dishes and meals on the ground.

Hearing the movement inside the house, Qin Yan, who had been guarding outside the house, was startled, and quickly broke in with a group of soldiers, and the sword in his hand was cut for five points.

Inside, the candles flickered, the dishes shattered, and the soup splashed on the broken porcelain. Ji Xiamo propped himself on the bed with one hand, panting slightly, and his face could not hide his anger.

Qin Yan swept around the quiet room, looked at Ji Xiamo, whose shoulders trembled slightly, and looked at Aoki with an inquiring gaze.

Aoki held his breath and shook his head in horror.

Seeing the weirdness of the silence in the atmosphere, Qin Yan closed the sword in his hand, walked to the window and half-squatted down, looking at Ji Xiamo's painful pale face worriedly. "Ji Xiamo, be careful of the wound."

The half-hidden windowsill opened, and a dark shadow fell silently into the quiet room. Sensing that there was someone behind him, Qin Yan quickly got up, the blade of the sword in his hand was unsheathed, and Ji Xia Mo was protected behind him. A kind of soldier pulled out his sword with a brush, aimed at the comer, and the momentum was about to explode.

"Jin Guard?" Seeing the person coming clearly, Qin Yan breathed a sigh of relief and motioned for the soldiers to withdraw their weapons and retreat.

Jin Wuji swept around the messy room, his face was cold, he walked to the side of the bed in three steps and two steps and squatted down, a pair of black eyes staring at Ji Xia Mo's pale face.

"Brother Jin, you're back." Seeing Jin Wuji, Ji Xiamo propped himself up and pulled out a smile.

Jin Wuji got up and hugged Ji Xiamo, carefully examined his wounds, and made sure that they did not crack again, so he was a little relieved.

"What's wrong?" Jin Wuji glanced at the broken dishes and bowls all over the floor and asked coldly.

Ji Xia Mo shook his head silently, "It's okay, by the way, Brother Jin, have you found something?" ”

Jin Wuji stared at Ji Xiamo closely, nodded slightly, and handed a brocade box to Ji Xiamo.

Ji Xiamo took it, and after seeing the contents of the box, he closed a pair of beautiful black eyes, and a mocking wry smile hooked up at the corner of his mouth. "Sure enough."

Qin Yan and Aoki looked at each other. "Ji Xiamo, what kind of dumb riddle are you playing?"

Ji Xiamo opened his eyes, closed the brocade box in his hand and handed it to Jin Wuji, and said lightly, "Aoki, send someone to send a message to the Five Princes' Mansion, tell the five princes, gather in the Pan Mansion tomorrow, and Ji Xiamo of the Prime Minister's Mansion will solve the Pan Mansion case for him." ”

"Yes!" Aoki cautiously retreated.

"Ji Xia Mo!" Qin Yan stepped forward, stunned. "Do you know who the killer is?"

Ji Xiamo hooked the corners of his lips, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. "Qin Yan, it's getting late, let's stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion today."

Qin Yan wanted to ask something more, but was suppressed by Jin Wuji's cold eyes, so he had to follow his subordinates out of Ji Xiamo's room with a stomach full of confusion.

The room was quickly cleaned up, Jin Wuji closed the door, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, staring at Ji Xiamo with cold and deep eyes, with a faint worry.

"Brother Jin." Leaning on Jin Wuji's cold arms, Ji Xiamo's messy breathing stabilized slightly.

"I've just re-examined the case in Panfu, and I've been ignoring some very important things all along." After hesitating for a long time, Ji Xia Mo pursed the corners of his mouth and whispered.

"Sleep." Jin Wuji calmly stopped Ji Xiamo, who wanted to tell the truth, and with a flick of his fingers, several internal forces extinguished the candle flame burning in the room. "I'll talk about it tomorrow, you're tired now."

Ji Xiamo raised his head, quietly looked at Jin Wuji's resolute and cold chin, and silently leaned into Jin Wuji's arms without saying a word.

Jin Wuji half-hugged Ji Xiamo to untie his belt for him, took off his shirt, carefully avoided his wound and put him on the bed to lie down.

"Brother Jin." When Jin Wuji lay down, Ji Xiamo held Jin Wuji's hand and buried his face in the quilt and opened his mouth sullenly. "There's a reason to kill, right?"

“…… Kindness. ”

"Then, has Brother Jin ever killed someone?"

"......" Jin Wuji held Ji Xiamo's hand tightly, was silent for a moment, and nodded slightly. Killed, a lot. ”

Jin Wuji raised his head and looked faintly at the beams in the dark, his voice calm without the slightest fluctuation. "There are bad guys, and there are good guys, many, many, man......y, I can't remember how many. ”

"Can Brother Jin find a reason for himself every time he kills someone?"

"I don't remember, maybe there is."

Silence lingered between the two, and Jin Wuji quietly looked at the red bed tent dancing in the wind, like a scarlet blood flower in full bloom.

Incense burns in the furnace, smoke rises,

Time passed quietly, so long that Jin Wuji felt that his body was cooling and stiffening little by little, as if a dead person was silently waiting in the dark to rot.

Suddenly, Ji Xiamo propped himself up and clinged to Jin Wuji's shoulder, his red lips brushing his ears, soft and itchy, like a feather falling on his heart.

"Brother Jin, if you do something bad in the future, I will definitely bend the law for personal gain."