16. Chapter XVI
Mo Chaoyun understood the ins and outs, and smiled bitterly in his heart. What's going on? I thought I got an ally, but I didn't think it would and almost became her talisman.
Shi Jiuwei saw that Mo Chaoyun was no longer in trouble, so he retreated from everyone, leaving Mo Xun and Mo Chaoyun alone. Shi Jiuwei said to Mo Chaoyun: "Go back today, remember that you have just experienced the great disaster of life and death, go back to cultivate first, and I will confront you another day for today's matter." After finishing speaking, he looked at Mo Xun again: "Today's words of Shen Gui are contrary to your words, so you have to confront Shen Gui face to face, and I will make a decision after confronting him, Mo Xun, do you have any objections?" ”
Mo Xun shook his head: "I have no objection." ”
"That's good, you can take Mo Chaoyun back." After speaking, Shi Jiuwei looked at the colorful parrot that stopped next to Mo Chaoyun's seat, his expression was a little subtle, but he still said respectfully: "Do you need me to send someone to send the little mandarin duck back?" ”
The parrot tilted its head to look at Shi Jiuwei, and it took a long time to shake its feathers, and suddenly flew to Mo Chaoyun's shoulder, and shouted in a strange voice: "Go back, you want to go back." ”
Shi Jiuwei was a little embarrassed, so he had to say: "In this case, you can take the little mandarin duck back together." ”
Out of the courtyard of Shi Jiuwei, Mo Chaoyun breathed a sigh of relief, patted Mo Xun's shoulder and said, "Mo Xun, thanks to you, otherwise I would really die today." ”
Mo Xun's expression was also very unsightly, she looked at the little mandarin duck who was still standing on Mo Chaoyun's shoulder, and sighed long: "Let's talk about it on the road...... I really don't understand what this is all about. ”
Only the little mandarin didn't pay attention to the sorrow in the hearts of the two, and flapped his wings and urged: "Hurry, hurry." ”
The road is not long, fortunately, there are only two people living in Mo Chaoyun and Mo Xun now, and it is much more comfortable to talk back to the room than when they were on the road.
"Do you think Ye Zhu's disappearance will have something to do with the people who troubled me today?" Mo Chaoyun was staring at the little mandarin duck who kept tearing her sleeves, and muttered distractedly to Mo Xun.
Mo Xun looked a little absent-minded: "Why do you say that?" ”
"Don't you think they're like they've been agreed? It's like waiting to put this basin on me, you didn't see today's battle, everyone is working together, as if the courtyard master doesn't punish me today, they won't follow it, if you don't help me testify, it is estimated that with the words of that Shen Gui person today, the courtyard master will be able to convict me, no wonder Chiba said......" Mo Chaoyun suddenly stopped, and looked at Mo Xun with a little weakness, but saw that she was frowning and looking at her with a gloomy expression.
Mo Xun stared at Mo Chaoyun carefully for a long time before saying, "Are you hiding something from me?" Where did you go on the night Ye Zhu disappeared? You...... I've seen Chiba-sama, right? ”
The facts are in front of him, even if Mo Chaoyun doesn't want to tell Mo Xun and Panhe, he can't do it. She glanced at the little mandarin who was still entangled with her sleeve, and then said, "Since you know why Ye Zhu killed me before, you must also know that I was recuperating from Chiba before, and I was sent to the Nineteenth Courtyard later." At this point, I realized that I had lost something very important, so I ventured out of the Nineteenth Courtyard to find it. I did meet Chiba that night, and he told me that I had made a total enemy in the Nineteenth Academy, and that I had to listen to him if I wanted to survive...... Actually, I was going to tell you about it, and Chiba told me that I had a way to win at the end of the month. ”
Mo Xun was a little surprised, and repeated: "The way to win? She pondered for a moment and suddenly asked urgently: "What is the way to win steadily, and what is the quick way to tell me?" ”
Mo Chaoyun said solemnly: "Grab the first sign." ”
Mo Xun obviously started with Mo Chaoyun, and didn't quite understand what this sentence meant, and after Mo Chaoyun explained, she was stunned for a long time before muttering: "Lord Chiba is really smart......
"But I'm still a little worried, since there is such a mystery in the lottery, how can someone who knows the inside story let us seize the opportunity so lightly?"
Mo Xun said: "Thinking about it like this, it seems that there is indeed an opportunity." The order in which the lottery is drawn is determined by the head of the hospital. That is, before the official lottery, everyone needs to show their talents in front of the hospital owner, of course, this display is not as harsh as the competition at the end of the month, just to the point, it is nothing more than to let the hospital owner have a ranking in his heart, and finally Shen Guihui will submit it to the hospital owner, and the hospital owner will arrange the signature according to the order of this roster. I heard that those who are valued by the master of the courtyard will be ranked first, and those who are not valued will most likely be ranked last......"
Mo Xun saw that Mo Chaoyun didn't seem to be listening at all, so he stopped and said, "Are you listening to what I said?" ”
Mo Chaoyun muttered: "Isn't it inevitable that you will not be the first to sign at the end?" ”
"It's natural." Mo Xun sighed: "But if you don't say it, I really never thought that there was such a thing to worry about." ”
"Mo Xun, who is this Shen Gui?"
Mo Xun thought for a while: "This person is the same as us, but he is different from us. ”
Mo Chaoyun was puzzled: "What does this mean?" ”
"Shen Gui is in the Nineteenth Academy, so he is the same as us, he should be a seed, but he is never defeated, and he seems to be very valued by the master of the Academy, so I said that he is the same as us, but different from us."
Mo Chaoyun suddenly thought of something: "So, this Shen Gui is the holder of the first sign, right?" ”
Mo Xun was stunned for a moment, and then listened to Mo Chaoyun and said: "What do you think, you said that Shen Gui has never been defeated, and said that the order of drawing lots is in accordance with the order in which Shen Gui compiled the book and finally presented it to the court master, so the first sign is undoubtedly Shen Gui's bag." When she said this, she stopped and looked at Mo Xun: "Shen Gui has ever won the competition at the end of the month?" ”
Mo Xun's expression suddenly changed, and she shook her head solemnly: "Indeed, as you said, I have been in the Nineteenth Courtyard for so long, and I have never seen Shen Gui win the lottery once, I always thought that he was just lucky......"
Mo Chaoyun remembered what Chiba had said, in the Nineteenth Courtyard of the Struggle for Life and Death, there was never such a thing as good luck. This Shen Gui is not simple, and if he can live forever, either he will be useful to the superiors, or he is indeed superior...... Was he the one who attacked them in the dining hall that night? It's a pity that just now, under the chaos at the courtyard master, I didn't see clearly which one was Shen Gui...... By the way, who is that guy whose eyes are as cold as a dead man, and that little girl who is giggling, how can there be a little girl in such a dangerous place as the Nineteenth Courtyard?
Mo Chaoyun asked Mo Xun the question again, and for the dead-eyed guy, Mo Chaoyun got an extremely unexpected answer: "That's Ye Zhu's distant cousin, Ye Fengnan." As for that little girl, I don't know, she came to the Nineteenth House earlier than me, and she doesn't seem to have been defeated. ”
Haven't been defeated? Mo Chaoyun was extremely surprised: "That little girl is at most thirteen or fourteen years old, no matter how you look at it, she is a weak chicken, how can she ...... Could it be that she was lucky enough to draw a soft-footed shrimp? ”
Mo Xun seemed to be angry and funny: "You just said that I didn't have a good thing by luck in the Nineteenth Academy, and now you say that, isn't it a slap in the face?" You guessed it very wrong, that girl was drawn by a nine-foot-tall man, but in the end, the big man died a terrible death. ”
Mo Chaoyun was taken aback: "What a miserable method?" Did you have your hands and feet broken and your eyes gouged out? ”
She guessed happily, but Mo Xun scoffed when she heard this: "The hands and feet are there, the eyes are intact, and it can be said that there are no external injuries." ”
Mo Chaoyun didn't believe it: "How can this be called a miserable ......?"
Mo Xun interrupted her: "It's because of the big man's expression, his expression is ......" Speaking of this, Mo Xun seemed to recall, and there was still a layer of trembling on his face: "Because his expression was saying a miserable word everywhere, and he was extremely miserable, so later many people said that the little girl was a witch and killed the big man with evil magic." ”
After listening to Mo Xun's story, Mo Chaoyun didn't speak for a long time. Mo Xun said with some sympathy: "Are you okay?" ”
Mo Chaoyun coughed and said seriously: "I always feel that it is quite difficult to survive...... To avoid this, be sure to start with the first signing. ”
"How?"
"If Shen Gui is the person behind the scenes, I think it's unlikely, there must be a promoter behind him, since that's the case, let's find a promoter." After Mo Chaoyun finished speaking, he looked at the little mandarin duck who had been playing with her sleeve.
Mo Xun had an epiphany: "You mean Chiba-sama?" ”
Mo Chaoyun nodded: "As the courtyard master said, there are as many people who are drunk by the end of the world as there are carps crossing the river in this demon cave, and Chiba is willing to give me the antidote, this shouldn't be a coincidence, right?" After she finished speaking, she leaned closer to the little mandarin duck, "Did you say that little mandarin duck?" I warn you, don't shoot me again this time! ”
Xiao Yuan's back turned his head, pointed his butt at Mo Chaoyun, and said in a strange voice: "Medicine, medicine." ”
Mo Xun and Mo Chaoyun glanced at each other, this seems to be the second time that Xiao Yuanyu has mentioned the medicine, could it be that there is another mystery in this medicine?
Mo Chaoyun asked, "What about the medicine bottle?" ”
Mo Xun took out the medicine bottle from his sleeve: "There is only one pill in the bottle, and I have already taken it for you." ”
Mo Chaoyun took the medicine bottle and opened the lid, and there was a faint fragrance of medicine inside. Mo Chaoyun looked at the little mandarin duck who was looking at her, frowned, and said, "The medicine is gone." ”
"Medicine, medicine!" The little mandarin duck screamed even more happily, it fluttered its wings, jumped on Mo Chaoyun's shoulder again, took advantage of her unpreparedness, took the medicine bottle in one mouth, flew a few steps high, and suddenly let go, the medicine bottle fell to the ground and was shattered.
In the pile of broken porcelain pieces, Mo Chaoyun saw the note at a glance, the quaint and simple paper, which was the kind of yellowed rice paper that Chiba had used to send her a message before. She hurriedly picked it up, unfolded it, and was stunned. There are only two words written on it: Shen Gui.
Mo Xun came over and saw the words on it clearly, she thought about it with some awe before saying to Mo Chaoyun: "Lord Chiba is really capable of reaching the sky, could it be that he already knows that the person who shot at us that night was Shen Gui?" ”
Mo Chaoyun was also completely stunned, she thought for a long time before she breathed a sigh of relief. She began to secretly admire Chiba, if she expected it to be true, Chiba asked Xiao Yuan to send this note, but he calculated that she and Xiao Yuan would inevitably have a conflict, so he added that pill, so that after she was drunk at the end of the world, she would not be killed on the spot. This scheming is really terrifying, if he is more ruthless, maybe killing her is as easy as crushing an ant, he doesn't even have to do it himself, her life has been lost in vain.
Chiba didn't want her life, and when she figured it out, she was suddenly relieved.