"But my A-Niang is a descendant of the Fox Clan, why does she speak Jin? Where did the other half of this jade ring go? ”

"I don't know why your aunt speaks Jin, and I don't know where the other half of this jade ring is, I only know that you shouldn't come to Jin, let alone Xinjiang!" Shi Mo turned his head to look at me, pity, pity, helplessness, and self-blame, he dissolved all the emotions he usually hid for me into his eyes at this moment, so that I couldn't tell whether it was Shi Mo or the master sitting in front of me.

"Master, why don't you all want me to come to the Jin Kingdom? A-Niang is like this, and so are you. "I was a little anxious, and I remembered those dreamy warnings from my mother.

"Do you want to know why the two baby girls with different eyes died young?"

"Why?"

"They were eaten, put in the food pot, and ate the soup and meat."

"Eaten?!" I was shocked.

"Yes, peel the skin and gnaw the bones, even the soup with the meat." Shi Mo said, casting his gaze on my bare hands.

I was so frightened by him that the two hands on the desk were inexplicably numb. Peel the skin and gnaw the bone...... I looked at the two pieces of red charcoal in the stove on the case, but a bronze tripod with a beast's head pattern appeared in my heart, under which there was a pile of burning firewood, and someone next to me was holding a big axe to chop off my hands and throw them into the boiling soup, and all around were all hungry eaters with knives and chopsticks.

"What does Master mean that someone in the Jin Kingdom wants to eat me?" I hid my hands in my sleeves and clenched them into fists, my heart beating wildly, and my whole face burned as if it were on fire.

"The alien is a demon, and it has been the same since ancient times. Xianyu is a northern barbarian country with many legends. Seven years ago, the prime minister crusaded against Xianyu, the Xianyu country was almost destroyed, and the nobles in the country fled into the mountains without a trace, but a few monks who served the royal family went all the way south to the Jin country. ”

"Fangshi, what is Fangshi?" Xianyu is a small foreign country between Yan and Jin, and I know very little about it.

"Fangshi, his class of witches. But Su Ri summoned the gods to impeach the ghosts and refine the medicine in order to live forever. Zhiyao's mansion has a monk from Xianyu Kingdom, who believes that the baby girl with the blue eyes of the fox family can be cooked into medicine to achieve longevity. ”

"Ridiculous, this is ridiculous! Birth, old age, sickness and death are the destiny of people, since Xia Yu founded the country, Yang Yang for thousands of years, how can there be a person who can live with the sky? He Zhiyao is crazy! "I was shocked and angry.

"Most of the men of the Zhi family died early, and the Zhi family almost lost their position several times because of this. Therefore, in order to protect the family lineage, the Zhi family has been equipped with medicine people in the house all the year round since Wenzi, who are fed with medicine, and then collected blood from Fang Shi into medicine to nourish the essence of the sect master. The recipe for immortality is a baby girl, and now that you are grown, you don't have to fear that someone else will cook you. It's just that Zhiyao Mansion has a practice of collecting blood for medicine, and they will inevitably not covet your blood. Therefore, it is best for you to leave the Jin Kingdom immediately, and I can send someone to send you to the Qi Kingdom tomorrow. ”

"No, I'm not leaving!" I exasperated.

"Why?" Shi Mo's snow-white eyebrows furrowed suddenly, "But it's because of the shirtless?" ”

"It's my business, what does it have to do with him!"

"Zi Di, you have entered my door, in order not to attract attention, I will let you show people as a man, but as a teacher, I have to say one more word today, no matter how good he is Zhao Wuxian, he is definitely not your lover, you don't want to lose your heart in him. Staying in the Jin Kingdom is really a hundred harms and no benefits for you! ”

"Master, I am a confidant and friend with Wuxi, and we have no relationship between men and women. I want to stay in the Jin Kingdom, and I have a reason why I have to stay. The new son of the Zhi family, the master will be among the invitees to watch the ceremony, and the master must bring Zi Huang with him at that time! I knelt down in front of Shi Mo and kowtowed. A-Niang didn't let me come to the Jin Kingdom for fear that someone would hurt me, but when she was crazy, she asked me to come to the Jin Kingdom. Why? Who is quinoa, quinoa? Perhaps, I'm not an orphan. Perhaps, I still have blood relatives in this world. Xian Yu Fox, Zhifu Medicine Man, this is the only clue I know about A-Niang at present. If this quinoa is in the Jin Kingdom, how can I walk away? In that case, how can I be worthy of my dead mother, worthy of my unmasked relatives!

"Zhifu, you must not go!" Shi Mo sharply rejected my request, "Zhiyao is arrogant by nature and never takes others seriously. If he wants to arrest you to be a medicine man, let alone me, even if he is the prime minister, he may not be able to help him. When the Fan family and the Zhongxing family were still there, the Shangqing of the Jin State was the suzerain of the six major families. Now that those two families have been destroyed, it is the four families of Zhao, Zhi, Han, and Wei who take turns to take power. Now that the prime minister is old, the next secretary will be Zhiyao. Bo Lu is cowardly by nature, and for the sake of the future of the Zhao family, even the prime minister must be afraid of Zhiyao. ”

Yes, if Ji's plan succeeds, then the first to die is Berlu. If Gongzi also died in Zhao Mansion, then the second one to die was Wuxi. And after Zhao Mengli became the son of Zhao Shizi as he wished, if Zhiyan jumped out and accused him of killing his brother and seizing the throne and poisoning his son, then even if Zhao Ying's power was monstrous, he would not be able to save Zhao Mengli. At that time, I am afraid that even Zhao Ying, who lost his third son, will be affected by this. Zhi Yao's heart is so vicious, when he sits on the throne of Shangqing, the Zhao family, which is now in full swing, may not be able to escape the fate of being slaughtered by others.

Shi Mo saw that I was silent for a long time, so he got up and helped me up: "Zi Di, I know that I can't compare with your master, but since I have taken you as an apprentice, I can't see you on fire." In order to conceal your identity, I have already done what I should do. If you have to stay here, then you must stay away from Zhi. ”

"Master, rest assured, Zi Di is by no means a reckless person. Tonight, thank you Master for the wine. I drank the wine from my ear glass, stood up, and saluted Shi Mo to leave.

Shi Mo looked at me with a worried expression on his face, he knew that I didn't listen to half of what he said.

Zhi Yao, Zhi Yao! The name seems to be a hurdle that I can't get around. Isn't he the one who lost the Yao girl? Is he the one who wants to kill me in Baili Mansion? What does Tianshu have to do with him? These questions have bothered me for a long time, and now even my life story is related to him. Looks like I'm going to have to find a chance to meet him anyway!

The cold night in the middle of winter was a little frighteningly quiet, and I was the only one in the wide streets. The dew on the ground formed a thin layer of ice, and people slid and staggered as they walked on it. I didn't ride a horse when I came out before, but now I regret it, according to my pace at this time, I may not be able to return to Zhao Mansion until dawn.

The winter of the Jin State was even more difficult than that of the Qin State. Although it is cold in Qindi, it rarely rains in winter, and that kind of cold is dry cold, simple cold. But Jindi is different, Xinjiang will have a light rain from time to time in the past two days, the cold air is condensed with water, and the yin air is pressing. The clothes on his body are always cold and damp all day long, and no matter how thick the jacket is, he can't warm up his body.

On the ground in front of him lay another frozen bird, its snow-white belly stained with gray and sudden residual snow, and its two little red paws pointed straight towards the sky, which made people look pitiful and ridiculous. Fledglings, chicks, knowing that the middle of winter is difficult, why don't you fly south early? I laughed at myself and shrunk my neck. By this time, the smell of alcohol had already faded, and the cold air penetrated into my sleeves and gave me goosebumps all over my body.

In the cold, I couldn't help but think crankily, I thought of those dreams I had over the years, thought of A-Niang, and thought of Aquinoa in her mouth. For a moment, I even wished that there was the quinoa I was looking for among the medicine people in Zhifu, and I was so crazy that I wanted to have a relative, a relative related to my blood, as if this was the only way to calm my messy heart at the moment.

At the end of the street I heard the sound of horse-drawn carriages galloping, and I stopped to look back. The carriage that had come from the darkness stopped a few feet away from me. Two black steeds snorted and exhaled white air. The driver wore a hat and could not see his face clearly, and the carriage was covered with a thick gray tent, which did not look like a woman's car.

I straightened my clothes, walked quickly to the front of the car, and bowed: "The wizard Zi Di in the Lower Taishi Mansion is anxious to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion, so I take the liberty of asking the master's family if you can take it on the next trip?" ”

After I finished speaking, there was no movement in the car, but the driver of the car suddenly raised his face. It was a distorted face, with a bone protruding high in the center of its forehead, a pointed chin tilted to one side, and a pair of eerie inverted triangular eyes beneath the sparse eyebrows. He looked at me like a monster crawling out of a ghost realm.

My heart shuddered, and I unconsciously took a step back.

He asked in a calm voice into the car tent, "Is that him?" ”

The tent was slightly cracked, and then I heard someone tap lightly on the saddle twice. The next moment, the coachman had already picked up a long sword from behind him and rose to his feet.

Seeing this, I threw the yarn lantern and turned to run, but I didn't have to run a few steps before I fell to the ground heavily, and my unbalanced body slid away against the thin ice on the ground.

"Suffer death!" The grimace driver instantly moved in front of me, and a long sword slammed into my abdomen.

I rolled over and pulled out of my boot the dagger that Ann had given me, and slashed hard at the grimace driver as he rushed towards me.

The grimace driver took a few steps back in pain.

I took the opportunity to get up from the ground and stare at him with a dagger. The road was too slippery for me to run, and if I fell again, the person in front of me could kill me without much effort.

"Who is going to kill me?" I asked. When I was in Tianshu, Yu An once taught me a few tricks to kill the enemy, and the Tianshui dagger was coated with poison that caused people to fall unconscious, as long as I could hold him back for half an hour, he would be dead.

"You don't need to know." After I injured his ankle, he was much more cautious, and his triangular eyes watched my every movement closely, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

"No matter how much the man gave you, I'll pay ten times the price." I pulled a bag of coins out of my arms and threw it at his feet. His eyes moved, as if he hesitated, and I took the opportunity to slid forward, raising my dagger and stabbing him in the chest.

But the opponent is old and spicy after all, even if he was poisoned by me, he reacted in a very short time, slid a step sideways, swung his sword and slashed my wrist holding the dagger, I twisted my shoulder to avoid his attack, the dagger changed an angle in my hand, and his body took advantage of the momentum to brush his other side, and cut the blood veins on the inside of his upper arm ruthlessly.

When the chest stab is a false move, this knife on the arm is the real killer move!