23. If you care, you will be chaotic

Help me...... Benefactor?

Tang Ai was stunned and stunned. She didn't remember much at the moment, only the blurry images of the two of them kept flashing back to her eyes.

At first, she was moving forward with Zhang Qirui.

And then she was in the water!

As for the after...... After that, she stepped on Xiao Yu's calf.

Tang Ai knew that there must be a terrible fault in his memory.

Her clothes were not yet dry, and her hair was wet and sticking to the back of her neck, and she could throw out droplets of water when she moved.

And Xiao Yu was holding the ground with his hands and struggling to sit up, the sleeves of his robe were as damp as the hem of his robe.

All indications show that Tang Ai did come out of the water.

The person who can bring her ashore from the water, except for Xiao Yu, should not have a second person.

Tang Ai hesitated for a long time and didn't think of what he could say.

According to common sense, if your leg is trampled off, you can't cry in pain and cry your mother?

But Xiao Yu's table is different. He was a little bitter, but he didn't seem to be incorrigible. He just glanced at his right leg and threw a helpless look at Tang Ai.

"I ...... Did it hurt you? "Tang Ai can't tell if he's okay.

"Don't worry, there's no chance of hurting this leg a second time." Xiao Yu lowered his head and snorted half-deadly, and pulled out his cane from the long box on his back, "Since you have nothing to do, go and see Zhang Qirui, he should still be on the cliff." ”

Hearing the words "Zhang Qirui", Tang Ai suddenly came back to her senses, but from her position, she couldn't see the situation on the cliff.

"Zhang Qirui is important, but I ...... And you......" She couldn't go on.

Tang Ai can't admit it if she doesn't want to, no matter what big fluttering moths she had before the fragment, and now she can still breathe here, thanks to Xiao Yu.

She was on the ground and couldn't move the nest.

Xiao Yu didn't speak, lowered his eyes, and was unusually quiet.

After most of the day, he squinted at Tang Ai shamelessly: "Tang Ai, if you want to thank me, just say it, I'm not weak at all." ”

"Then ...... Thank you very much. Tang Ai was not relieved. After all, this person should not be the first time to save her.

"But it's disrespectful." Xiao Yu didn't mean to stand up, he turned his head to look at a pool of clear water, his eyes were also quiet and waveless, leaving only Tang Ai with a touch of Xiao Suo's back, "Okay, thank you too, you can go." Zhang Qirui is the murderer of several adults, the evidence is in the incense workshop in the mountains, you go and bring Zhang Qirui back to the six gates. ”

Tang Ai still didn't move.

To be honest, her current mind can't hold anything Zhang Qirui or Li Qirui.

Xiao Yu played with his cane and didn't look back: "Why don't you leave?" ”

"What do you mean by 'why don't I leave'? Aren't we walking together? ”

"I'm tired, I'm not leaving."

"Then I'm not leaving!" Tang Ai suddenly turned around, followed Xiao Yu's side, and knelt beside Xiao Yu's legs.

"What are you doing, what are you doing?" Xiao Yu hurriedly rubbed back.

"Let me see your injuries!" Tang Ai was a little excited, and he looked like he was dancing with his teeth and claws.

Xiao Yu couldn't avoid it, the back hem of his shirt was already soaked in the water, and Tang Ai was still rushing forward.

Whew......

After this embarrassing tearing sound, both of them stopped moving at the same time.

Tang Ai's posture is really funny.

She bent forward, pouting her ass back, and grabbed the piece of cloth that had been ripped from Xiao Yu's trouser leg with both hands.

But Tang Ai couldn't laugh at all, not only couldn't she laugh, but even Xiao Yu, who was usually used to hippie smiles, couldn't laugh.

Because, Tang Ai not only ripped off the trouser leg of Xiao Yu's right leg, but was also taken off and grabbed in her hand along with the trouser leg, and-

One of Xiao Yu's calves.

That's right, one of Xiao Yu's calves and thighs have been completely separated, and there is no trace of flesh and blood.

Tang Ai was dumbfounded: "......"

Xiao Yusheng has nothing to love: "......"

Time seems to have passed, and neither of them spoke, each of them remained in an embarrassed state of immobility, which was simply two funny statues.

A gust of wind blew, and Xiao Yu coughed in a low voice: "Let go." ”

Coincidentally, there was another gust of wind, Tang Ai barely swallowed his mouth, obediently let go of his fingers, and put this leg on the ground lightly and slowly, looking like he couldn't be more obedient.

Xiao Yu's calf is not alive.

In other words, the leg is lifeless. It is not made up of bones and muscles, but ...... Metal & Wood.

It is a prosthetic limb with a delicately carved human leg and foot shape, with a clasp and a bracket on which you can see obvious breaks, and the clasp has been torn several times by external forces, but the most fatal damage comes from the collapse of the wooden cavity.

Obviously, without Tang Ai's strange kick, this prosthetic leg would not have fallen to this step.

"As I said earlier, I don't have a chance to hurt this leg a second time. Since the day I lost it, I haven't had a chance......" Xiao Yu sighed, almost inaudible, "I want you to go, but you have to pounce on me, I really don't give me any face." ”

He raised his eyes nonchalantly, then smiled casually: "Okay, now you know everything." I was completely crippled, and I had neither a right hand nor a right foot. ”

Regarding Xiao Yu's high sky and calm frankness, Tang Ai was speechless.

Xiao Yu just looked at her with a straight eye, and that clear gaze seemed to be everywhere: "This prosthetic leg is actually not that fragile, when you are in the water, your world-beating magic skills are just breaking the buckle and a small connection." I just didn't expect you to make up for it again. ”

He half-jokingly pulled over the prosthetic foot, and casually lifted the hem of his shirt. By the time the hem of his coat fell, the prosthetic foot and the rest of his leg had already become one.

Xiao Yu then casually untied the long box on his back, pressed a few doors with his fingertips, and a few wooden strips popped out of the box.

These wooden strips are long and short, and have different shapes, which Tang Ai has never seen before.

Xiao Yu didn't explain, he clamped the cane with his legs, dismantled and unloaded, and took the wooden strips and twisted them one by one, and a cane was quickly reassembled into a crutch by him.

This crutch is also very different from the usual crutches, and instead of a beam that allows people to rest under the armpit, there is a half-open bend at the upper end that can be wrapped around the arm.

"You said you wanted to go together, so don't dislike me for being a snail slowly." Xiao Yu shook his arm and poked his crutches to the ground, "Hey, borrow your shoulder and use it." ”

"What...... Oh, good, good! Tang Aifei straightened his tongue when he got old, and put his shoulder to Xiao Yu's left hand.

"Come over a little more."

"Good!"

"No, a little lower."

"Good!"

Xiao Yu laughed "poof", stood up with Tang Ai's shoulder, and didn't exert much strength on Tang Ai's shoulder: "If only you could be as gentle as this time on a regular basis." ”

Tang Ai brushed his face, and the roots of his ears turned red: "You helped me, shouldn't I help me back!" ”

Xiao Yu glanced at her quietly, curled the corners of her lips approvingly, and inserted her arm into the crutches: "That's right, then you can pity and pity me again, help me one more time, go forward, don't look back." The way I walk is going to be ugly right now. ”

"Good...... I'm not looking back. Tang Ai nodded.

"Whoever turns around is a puppy."

"Whoever turns around is a puppy!"

The time of this night seems to be quite long, the breeze and the moon have not changed at all, and it is still shining on the hills as always, refreshing people's hearts.

Tang Ai walked forward, deliberately controlling his pace.

Xiao Yu was behind Tang Ai, not too far nor too close to her. He was also walking, in a way that Tang Ai promised not to look.

Tang Ai could hear the sound of crutches tapping the ground behind her, and even though she didn't look back from the moment she took the first step, she still inadvertently saw the long shadow on the ground.

That is Xiao Yu's shadow, different from Tang Ai, different from anyone else, walking hard, but also walking calmly.

Tang Ai gritted his teeth and tried to concentrate his thoughts.

Zhang Qirui was thrown by her in a corner of her heart, she had to fish him over and think about it. The case was confusing, and she first had to figure out what had happened before.

"Xiao Yu, I want you to tell me the truth, how did I fall into that deep pool?" She asked as she walked, holding back her head.

Xiao Yu said in the back: "Before answering this question, I also have a question I want to ask you." When you and Zhang Qirui walked together, did you see something amazing? ”

"Something amazing?"

"For example, Xiangyun."

Tang Aihu's body was shocked.

The last time she heard the word "auspicious clouds" was from Lord Liu's mouth. About a day ago, in the middle of the night, Lord Liu was about to jump down from Banzai Mountain, and the eight horses couldn't pull it.

Xiao Yu said: "The original story of the whole case is not complicated, and it is not simple to say that it is simple, but I don't mind combing it for you." Zhang Qirui committed the murder, Huiwang Xiao Chengyi actually didn't know, he was just used by Zhang Qirui and stupidly became an accomplice. ”

"You say King Hui is an accomplice?"

"You and Xiao Chengyi have been staying for almost a whole day, and you won't fail to see that he is an old smoking gun, but you probably don't know what kind of tobacco is in the stem of his cigarette pouch. Xiao Chengyi is addicted to smoking, but in his life, he only smokes one kind of tobacco leaf produced in Tianzhu, which is called Doluo grass in Chinese. Doro grass is priceless, only planted in the courtyard of the Tianzhu Imperial Court, but my Tian/Chao water and soil are not suitable for transplanting, so Xiao Chengyi relies on his status as the prince of the Tianzhu Dynasty to spend a huge amount of money every year to buy from the Tianzhu Imperial Family. It doesn't matter to us how much he spends, but half of the reason for the death of several adults is to be blamed on this Dora grass. ”

"Dora grass...... Half of the reason is this Dorograss, but what about the other half? ”

"The other half is the incense that Zhang Qirui burned in the Dongpo Building."

Zhang Qirui burns incense.

Tang Ai immediately remembered the tranquil and pleasant smell he had smelled in the Dongpo Building.

Xiao Yu said again: "If my guess is right, the incense that Zhang Qirui burned in the Dongpo Building is called Luan Yingxiang, and this spice is not produced by my Tian/Chao, but from Dongying." The Dora herb is not poisonous, nor is the cherry incense, but if the two are burned at the same time, it will produce another strange aroma, which is poisonous. ”

Tang Ai hurriedly said: "Isn't this aroma poisonous that can make people hallucinate?" ”

"Yes, Sima Qi has smelled this aroma, Xiong Guozheng has smelled this aroma, Qi Xiuyuan and Liu Heyu have also smelled this aroma. Even you must have smelled this fragrance in the daytime. The toxicity of this aroma does not set in immediately, but temporarily resides in the body, and only in the dead of night does it pull you out and slip away. ”

"Wait, according to what you said, don't King Hui and Zhang Qirui smell this fragrance every day? Why are they all right?! ”

Xiao Chengyi has been smoking cigarettes for more than ten or twenty years, and the substances in Doro grass have long been deeply rooted in his body. Zhang Qirui is the same, he has traveled all over the world, and it is not surprising that he has been to Dongying. Burning the cherry incense for a long time, the ingredients in this spice will also settle in his body. This is like many people who use poison in the rivers and lakes come into contact with poison every day, and over time, the body is not afraid of poison. Xiao Chengyi and Zhang Qirui are similar to these people, even if they inhale the poisonous gas produced when the Duoluo grass and Luan cherry incense are burned together, the substances deposited in the bodies of the two for many years will naturally dilute the poisonous gas. I repeatedly asked Zhang Qirui to take us to see the incense factory, because I judged that his Luan cherry incense was made in the incense factory. ”

"Then can I understand it this way, King Hui came to the capital, which restaurant is not a package, and he finally contracted Dongpo Building because Zhang Qirui had a design, so he waited for him to enter the set."

"That's how it should be."

Tang Ai listened to Xiao Yu's analysis, and a kind of blood boiling impulse arose in his heart, and his steps unconsciously sped up, but he didn't notice Xiao Yu's words just now, the more the volume became slighter and the timbre became lower.

Tang Ai didn't have to worry about the rest. She could think that she must have hallucinated at that time, and saw the so-called "auspicious clouds" like her boss Liu, and climbed to the peak under the temptation of "auspicious clouds", and finally fell off the cliff.

The only thing she feels is that she wasn't alone when she fell off the cliff.

"Xiao Yu, it's just that I fell off the cliff, why do you ...... To keep up? ”

Tang Ai asked this sentence, thinking that Xiao Yu was ridiculing or teasing, at least he could answer a sentence and a half without seriousness. Who knew that after waiting for a while, let alone a sentence and a half, she didn't even listen to a word from Xiao Yu's mouth.

said that he would not look back, Tang Ai could only hold back and continue to walk forward, climbing the mountain again.

However, she didn't see Zhang Qirui who was restrained in the acupoint as she wished.

Zhang Qirui is gone.