There was a meaningful voice behind me, and my fist at my side clenched, then lowered. 【Book by】

It's just two nursing homes, what do I care about them?

Do I need to explain to them what I do every day here at Ji Jiu?

Of course not, and even then, I don't have to care what they think.

You know, being able to be selected from the East Courtyard to this courtyard is something they can't ask for.

Hands slicing across the slippery fabric, it's been a long time since I've worn a garment as good as the material.

Ji Jiu's life in Zhuyuan was low-key and luxurious, and the first time I saw the clothes that the steward brought to me, I almost thought they were mistaken.

I walked in with a thick stack of account books and saw Ji Jiu still sitting at the table looking at the half game of chess on the table.

He had a quirk of not allowing me to clean his table, and would sit at the table for at least an hour or more every day, just watching the game without saying a word.

He heard me entering, looked up at me quickly, and continued to look down.

From my point of view, the way he looked down at me in that moment reminded me of another person.

For a moment, I was stunned by my own thoughts, and I stood there in a daze, speechless for a moment.

I tried to find more connections between these two people in my mind, but after thinking about it and looking at him again, the feeling I had just now disappeared again.

I laughed at myself, my footsteps moved, and I raised my voice: "I put the account book sent from the outer courtyard here for you." ”

"Come here." He beckoned at me.

I looked at him for a few seconds and asked uncertainly, "You want me to come over?" ”

Something went wrong today, didn't he let me go near that table?!

"What are you doing in a daze?"

He beckoned again, and I boldly approached him and approached the table to see if there was anything carved on the board that would be intoxicating.

What disappointed me was that there were black and white chess pieces on the top, and the texture was quite good, and they looked crystal cute one by one.

"Can you read chess?"

A faint smile crossed his lips. A hoarse voice asked me.

I stared at the chessboard for a while, and it was obvious that the sunspot above me was about to lose, and after a turn of thought, I shook my head and said calmly: "I don't understand." This chess piece is expensive, isn't it?! ”

He frowned, narrowed his eyes, looked at me, and said, "Are you interested in learning to play chess?" ”

"You are now my food and clothing parents, do I have the right to refuse?"

He choked on me, but he didn't see annoyance, looked at me seriously and said, "I never force people to do things they don't want to do." "That's a nice thing to say, so why am I here?" "Didn't you tell me that you came to the capital of Zealand to look for relatives?"

I tilted my head and thought about it, and explained, "Yes, but the relatives I am looking for will not get to this place." This kind of place, hehe, how is it possible?! “

He looked at me indifferently and said, "If you want to walk in Sealand and be penniless, even if I let you out of this courtyard now." What do you think you can rely on to get to the capital of Sealand? ”

"It's not far from here to Sealand, how are you going to make money? You're going to be here, and that proves that it's not safe for you to walk outside alone. ”

"That's because I didn't have a chance to use" I was in my heart, and I swallowed the three words "disguise technique" just about to come to my mouth, this is my guarantee of the bottom, and I really can't tell him. "There's no chance of using my medical skills."

He looked at me in surprise. After a moment of silence, he said, "Since you know medicine, why don't you have the curiosity to ask me about the medicine I send every day." ”

He looked at me for a few seconds, and saw that I knew the inside story, and he was not surprised, so he added, "You don't recognize the medicinal herbs?" ”

"Why are you so strange, I am curious. But I have no interest in inquiring about other people's hidden things. ”

"The more curious you are, the more you can sometimes get yourself into trouble."

"If you are willing to sue me, you will naturally say, why should I ask."

"You don't think you're going to stay here for long?"

"That's right. This is also one of the reasons, besides, I am not related to you, and now you are my master, but this yard will definitely not be able to trap me for too long. ”

"I am a person who is used to freedom, I would rather die if I am not free, I can stay here and talk to you calmly because I feel that you have no ill will towards me, and my intuition has always been very accurate."

"These days, I have never seen you embarrass me, and even the life-and-death things like being late for the last medicine delivery, you are just understating."

I lowered my voice and whispered. "I'm just a little scared, it's not a bad time to stay here, but I don't know what your ultimate purpose is for coming to me?"

The first rain after arriving in Sealand began to fall in the evening.

I listened to the voice of the bamboo forest outside the house, and saw that it didn't take him long to finish the account book.

It was as if the hour-long conversation I had with him hadn't happened, but I exchanged some views with him.

From what he meant, I sensed that I should have a chance to get out of this courtyard, but he was waiting for an opportunity, in the sense that he was trapped here for some last resort, just like me.

It's the timing again, why do I always have something to do with this word, as if every step I take in this world, every decision, there will be related and irrelevant people jump out to say this word.

Their circumstances are different, and they all utter these two words without exception.

I am because freedom is not in my own control for the time being, and he is because of his body, and there may be others, he doesn't say, I don't ask.

"Do you have a weird illness that is why you need to use those pills every day?"

The rain was loud, and I sat next to the table, with the account books he had checked in my hand, and I inadvertently said this.

"Didn't you say that you don't have an interest in the hidden things of others?"

"I've changed my mind, can't I change my mind?" I tapped my knuckles on the table and said, "You see, although I am a doctor with a three-legged cat, I have traveled a lot of places from south to north. ”

I deliberately used an exaggerated tone, perhaps the expression was too inappropriate for my person, and he smiled slightly and said, "And then?" ”

"I've seen someone like you, who often uses poison, and that person is plagued by stubborn diseases, and I heard that he has been sick since his mother's womb."

He looked at me in amazement, and even stopped looking through the account book, and after a long time, seeing that I didn't mean to continue talking, he couldn't help but say, "This person, where did you meet?" ”

"Have you been?" He stopped talking, shook his head and said, "No." "You're alone, what are you struggling with?" I amused as I watched as the expression on his face shifted, and I fell into a kind of delusion. "I met him in Yannan." I said in a calm tone, "So, you asked me something curious, and you weren't the first, so you weren't that curious." "Understandable." He looked at me with a scrutinizing gaze for a moment, "There are many strange things in the world, and you have experienced it, although you are still young, it is not strange." "I heard what you said, I met those two ill-intentioned contractors from a border town, so I was stunned here, but in the end, the purpose of coming to Sealand was to go to the capital to find relatives." "You spent so much effort that you almost landed in the land of fireworks, what are the characteristics of the person you are looking for?" "Although I am here, I have lived in the capital of Sealand for a long time in the past, and I still have some connections over there, so I can help you find them."

I grinned and said, "Are the connections you talking about the same place as here?" “

I reacted quickly, remembering that time, the so-called ranking of Sealand mentioned to me by two obscene nursing homes, and smiled a little deeper: "Are your connections all the three sects and nine streams available?" "No," he said, knowing what I meant, and a subtle expression flashed across his face, "whether Sealand is still here, it's actually different from what you think. "The place here is not without thresholds, and the land in the capital of Sealand is more difficult to enter." "Then I'm not wrong, I should go to the East Courtyard, the first day I came, the people in the nursing home told me that with my appearance and figure, maybe there will be dignitaries to redeem me." "Aren't the women of Sealand the most fond of this type of teenager?" "It has to be worthy of the name," he took a sip of tea, poured the tea on the table into another empty cup, slowly pushed it over, and placed it in front of me for me to drink, and then he looked at me with a penetrating gaze and said, "You are a woman, how can you satisfy the so-called dignitaries." "Poof!" Choking on a sip of tea, I looked at him in amazement and said, "You already knew?" "That's nature?" "It's one of the reasons you don't want to embarrass me." "Indeed, I have never embarrassed women." "If it wasn't me, or if I was a man, wouldn't it be a different situation?" "Surely, didn't you just ask me what I'm looking for you for?" "I left a message for them in the West Courtyard, so be careful, it's best to find the person I want earlier." "I have sent men from all parts of Sealand to inquire, and I will not be able to get what I want until you come."

At this point, his eyes darkened. "However, you soon found out that I am not what you are looking for, because you said before, you have to live up to the name." "That's what it means." He smiled and said in a deep voice, "Time is running out, someone will come to me soon, I have been staying here for a few years, and I have been hoping to get rid of that person." ”

I looked at him with some confusion, the time he said was coming soon? That's why you found a reason for me at this time?

"Are you looking for one, your stand-in?"