"Have you ever seen a two-year-old woman step on the lower half of a mouse and use a small wooden board to break the mouse's neck alive?" Shu Kui recalled the past, and all the scenes were vivid, "At the age of four, under the guidance of the medicine ghost, she made poison for the first time and threw it into the well where the whole family drank water. ”

Hearing this, neither Ling Yukun nor Ling Jiuchuan made a sound.

Shu Kui continued: "Not long ago, she brought back a stray dog, and fed the poison and the antidote every day. There's a lot more you want to hear, I can say three days and three nights. ”

"She's only how old she is, she can't be like this." Ling Jiuchuan didn't believe it.

"She's my half-sister, a six-year-old, why should I make up such a lie about her?" Shu Kui asked rhetorically, "These are all what I have seen and experienced with my own eyes, do you think she is kind-hearted?" ”

Ling Jiuchuan was speechless.

Shu Kui looked at Ling Yukun: "Your Majesty is right, she is very obsessed with medicine, and the incurable poison is the best toy." She just made medicine for the sake of medicine, not to save anyone's life. ”

At this point, Ling Jiuchuan couldn't say anything anymore.

Ling Yukun sighed invisibly, and didn't mention it anymore, just asked the two of them to go to dinner.

Subsequently, Shu Kui lived in Haocang Palace, and almost every day someone talked about things outside the palace.

It is said that for the sake of his daughter, the medicine ghost did not dare to play tricks, and honestly gave the real antidote, so that the plague spreading in the Kuixian country was well controlled, and the number of sick people decreased day by day.

A few days later, he was executed by Ling Chi in the square in the center of the city, and when he was executed, the streets of Yecheng were empty.

Ling Yukun kept his promise and sent a housekeeper to Shu Kui's house to take over everything inside and out.

Xiaoxiao was ignorant and didn't know anything, and after learning that her father had died, she didn't show a very sad look, picking up stray cats and dogs as usual, or catching live creatures such as chickens, ducks and mice at home to do her drug tests.

As for Ling Jiuchuan's whereabouts, it is also a topic of discussion among the people in the palace, Shu Kui can often hear that he either goes here to play or goes there to play, indeed, as Ling Yukun said, he is idle all day long.

On this day, Shu Kui practiced spells in the back garden of the palace as usual, and just let a few small pebbles leave the ground, a branch suddenly flew from the oblique thorn, and shot down all the small pebbles like flowing water.

She turned her head and saw Ling Jiuchuan standing not far away.

The two looked at each other, but neither spoke.

After a while, Shu Kui thought that nothing good would happen, so he planned to go back to the room.

"Don't go, let's talk." Ling Jiuchuan stopped her.

"His Royal Highness the Prince's mana is strong, and I am not an opponent." Shu Kui is not interested.

"Listen to my father, you are very talented." Ling Jiuchuan strode forward and blocked the way, "For you, he made a special trip to Shengze and met Master Huo." ”

"Master Huo?" This person, Shu Kui seems to have heard someone mention it.

Ling Jiuchuan explained impatiently, and waved his hand: "Since you are very talented, you must be very powerful, come, let's have a discussion." ”

"Your Majesty, I am not the opponent of His Royal Highness the Prince." Shu Kui lowered his eyebrows and repeated pleasing to the eye.

"Whether it's an opponent or not, try it and you'll know." Ling Jiuchuan suddenly made a move, pushing Shu Kui to a stumbling side.

Shu Kui was a little annoyed, but seeing that the other party was a prince and he was living here, he suppressed his anger and wanted to bypass him.

Ling Jiuchuan immediately took a step to the side.

Shu Kui glanced at him and walked to the other side.

Ling Jiuchuan also followed, and pushed again: "Why don't you make a move?" Scared by the medicine ghost, isn't it? ”

The abuse of the medicine ghost is the biggest shadow in Shu Kui's heart, as soon as she heard this, she was immediately angry, and she didn't want to think about it.

Ling Jiuchuan saw the surging anger in Shu Kui's eyes, he was stunned at first, and then felt a cool breeze blowing in front of him, and hurriedly retreated, but he was still slower, he didn't completely dodge, he was taken by his fingers, and his face hurt hotly.

"You're looking for death!" He was also angry—even Ling Yukun wouldn't hit him like this.

Shu Kui came to the courtyard in three or two steps, and raised his hand with his palm facing up.

All the fallen leaves on the ground were suspended in the air, swaying a few times leisurely, and shooting straight towards Ling Jiuchuan.

Ling Jiuchuan didn't care at all, and fanned his palms, attracting a gust of wind, blowing sand and rocks in the yard.

The leaves were blocked from castration, and they stuck with the strong wind for a second or two, and finally they were invincible, and they scattered and flew away.

Shu Kui expected this, reached out and grabbed a branch in the wind and stuck it on the ground in front of him.

With her spell, the branches grew taller and thicker, growing into a small tree.

Ling Jiuchuan saw that the tree was still immature, swaying left and right in the wind, and seeing that it was about to break, he couldn't help but snort coldly.

Shu Kui was unhurried, and the spells in his mouth kept coming.

The tree grew bigger and bigger, and at the same time, countless vines broke through the ground at the roots, climbed up at a very fast speed, and bloomed one after another bright red flowers.

Before long, the vines hung densely on the branches, like curtains, and when the wind arrived, they could no longer wreak havoc, and gradually became smaller.

The flowers are in full bloom, like the jewels on the curtain, swaying and dancing with the wind, which is very bright and beautiful.

Shu Kui walked in front of the vine, and with a flick of her long sleeves, all the petals burst out of the calyx and floated beside her.

At this moment, the girl standing in front of Ling Jiuchuan was wearing a simple plain dress, with a soft but pale goose egg face, and black hair that was scattered to the waist, and the skirt was fluttering lightly in the wind.

Those petals, like red snowflakes in the sky, surrounded the girl in the middle, as if they could lift her up to the sky at any time.

This situation made Ling Jiuchuan dumbfounded for a while.

Shu Kui smiled lightly and stretched out his hand to him.

Ling Jiuchuan was dazed, and felt that this was the Nine Heavens Fairy beckoning, so he walked over without hesitation.

"Girl, be merciful!" At the moment when the hands of the two were about to touch, Ling Yukun's shout suddenly sounded in mid-air.

His voice was so loud that it shook Shu Kui's ears and made her wake up.

In front of me, everything was gone, only darkness, boundless.

Shu Kui was cold, almost frozen, holding Jin Shengshi in one hand and grasping something hard in the other.

She found herself still in the underwater cave, and for some reason, Jin Shengshi had no light.

She floated for a full minute before realizing that if she didn't go out again, there was a good chance she wouldn't have the strength to get out.

The waterway was not very easy to walk, but there was only one, so it didn't take much effort for Shu Kui to return to the water.

"Your Highness, is that you?" It was already dark, and there were dots of light on the lake, and many small boats were cruising back and forth.

Shu Kui was so cold that his upper and lower teeth were fighting, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

The questioner leaned over, stretched out his hand to pull Shu Kui into the cabin, and draped her in a blanket: "Your Highness, do you want it?" ”

Shu Kui shook his head and recognized this person - it was the captain of the guard team, Xiao Qiu.

"Your Highness, what is this?" Xiao Qiu noticed something in Shu Kui's hand.

"I don't know." Shu Kui felt better, looked down, and saw that what he still refused to let go of was the double hook in the cave in the water.

"Did you find it down there?" Xiao Qiu handed over a small cup of hot water.

Shu Kui took it with his other hand, thanked him, and nodded.

"I'll get it for you." Xiao Qiu said, reaching out.

"No, you don't." Shu Kui turned sideways, "I'm going to hand it over to Shang Mo personally." ”

After saying this, she was stunned, thinking that the double hook was quite heavy, and she didn't know what it was, how could she blurt out that she would hand it over to Shang Mo in person, and subconsciously, she didn't want others to touch it.

"Your Highness, let's go back." Seeing her like this, Xiao Qiu didn't insist and began to paddle.

"How long have you been looking for me?" Shu Kui took a sip of hot water.

"It's been a whole day." Xiao Qiu glanced at the other boats on the lake.

"Where's Yun Jingli? What about Gardenia? Shu Kui asked again.

"Miss Yun is in the room, and Gardenia is beside Your Majesty." Xiao Qiu rowed the boat very slowly, "Your Highness, how did you fall overboard?" ”

"I tripped over something and fell off the railing." Shu Kui didn't say that someone else pushed her - at that time, it happened in less than a second, and the person who pushed her actually wanted to save her.

"What tripped you?" Xiao Qiu was a little puzzled, "His Majesty has already inspected the entire ship several times, and the deck is very smooth, not even a bulge." ”

Shu Kui shrugged, saying that he didn't know either.

"Also, where have you been down there for so long? We all thought that ......" last words, Xiao Qiu didn't dare to say it.

Shu Kui smiled and didn't squeak.

"Aren't you mortal? As far as I know, mortals can't stay that long underwater. Xiao Qiu's face was full of doubts.

Shu Kui still didn't answer, raised his eyes and looked around, feeling that something was wrong: "Why are we getting farther and farther away from them?" ”

On the other side of the lake, the sporadic light is particularly concentrated.

"Aren't you going to see His Majesty? 陛xià is there. Xiao Qiu said.

"Why did he come to such a remote place?" The boat was approaching a small bamboo forest, and there was a pavilion facing the lake in the forest, Shu Kui looked at it, but did not see anyone in the pavilion.

"How can we know His Majesty's intentions." Xiao Qiu said, paddling a few times to let the boat rest on the shore.

He got off the boat, and after Fu Shukui also came down, he led the way in front and walked into the bamboo forest.

It's pretty quiet, not even a little insects or birds.

"Where the hell is Shang Mo?" Shu Kui's heart was faintly uneasy.

"Hey, it's strange, Your Majesty said it, just wait here." Xiao Qiu stood still and looked around.

Shu Kui turned his head with him, but when he turned back again, Xiao Qiu was gone.

Her heart sank suddenly, and she knew that something was wrong, so she was about to run out of the bamboo forest.

I didn't want to, so I took a step, and someone pushed her behind, not heavy, nor light, so that she staggered forward and almost fell into the mud.