Chapter 54: The First Appearance of the Past Life
Shen Zhizhou lowered half of his long hair, and the broken hair between his sideburns was almost transparent against the light, and at this time, the wind outside the window carried the shouts of street vendors into the second floor.
She put the last book in her hand on the shelf, and she was aware of the person behind her, and she probably guessed the other party's intention.
"Miss Zhang."
Zhang Qining hooked the corners of his mouth, although he had doubts in his heart, he still said with a good temper on his face: "A few days ago, he called my host, why did he suddenly change his words?" β
Then he turned his gaze to her hair and said, "You plan to leave the bookstore, and you don't even mention the owner." I just don't know, is this related to me, or is it related to your hair? β
With that, she took out a book from her sleeve and threw it in front of herβit was the new book that Shen Zhizhou brought to her when he came to the mansion that day.
The cover of the book was revealed, the spell on the inside of the page was looming, Shen Zhizhou's expression was as usual, Zhang Qining withdrew his eyes, and he had a rough idea in his heart.
"Shen Zhizhou, I met you in Pingshui, why do you want to harm me?"
Shen Zhizhou sighed lightly and raised his hand to make a salute to Zhang Qining. "It's my private business, and I'm sorry to involve the girl."
Zhang Qining: "The spell hidden in the book has prompted the evil in me. My story is never spread by the Zhang family, even if I stand on the street, no one in Lantai may know me, how do you know? I just want to ask for your guilt, what's the use of asking you to apologize? As... You asked me to make two cuts on the Manju Sawa seal on your arm to vent my anger? β
Manju Sahuayin, how would she know! The expression in Shen Zhizhou's eyes changed suddenly.
This girl, how can she see blood as soon as she says it. And Manju Sahuayin... What's going on here?
"Qi Ning, speak softly." Zhan Suiyu stood aside and opened his mouth, Zhang Qining raised his eyes and smiled at him. Okay, sing it to him with a white face.
"Since the girl has recognized it, she might as well explain the head and tail together."
Zhan Suiyu's adviser in Suzhou Mansion was not for nothing, although he smiled, he would never allow Shen Zhizhou to escape. Shen Zhizhou has no hostility towards Qi Ning, but he will never let this aftermath remain, who is the mastermind behind the scenes, the nail must be pulled out.
He still said two words to Zhang Qining and Shen Zhizhou, but he didn't say much to Zhan Suiyu, and only glanced at it for a moment or two before looking away. Although it is a girl's body and appearance, there is no half of a girl's look in her eyes, like a pool of stagnant water. But the strange thing is that even if it doesn't flow, she is still clear, as if it is just frozen at the moment when the water is the cleanest and calmest.
For some reason, Zhang Qining saw that her eyes were loosened, and sure enough, after a while, she raised her eyes to look at her, and said lightly: "I can say the truth of the matter, but I also ask this son to avoid it." β
Zhan Suiyu was stunned, and Zhang Qining turned his eyes to look over.
"Why?"
Shen Zhizhou smiled, didn't say much, folded his hands in front of him and walked towards the screen behind, turned around and sat down. "It's good for the two of you to make a decision, and Zhizhou doesn't force it."
"I'll wait for you downstairs."
Without waiting for Zhang Qining to think about it, Zhan Suiyu made a decision for her, raised his hand and touched her head, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. "What's calling me, huh?"
Zhang Qining nodded, and after Zhan Suiyu left, she walked towards Shen Zhizhou with her back hand.
Qingfeng entered the room, the spider plant on the side was slim, Shen Zhizhou took a sip of tea, and took the initiative to make a cup for Zhang Qining and handed it forward.
Zhang Qining didn't know if she was sincere or suspicious, looked at the tea she handed over, and moved his eyes to her face and looked at it quietly for a while. Zhang Qining didn't speak, and she didn't move.
After a while, Zhang Qining sat down with her sleeves brushed up, but she still didn't pick up the tea in her hand. "Excuse me, we don't have to be like this."
Shen Zhizhou was not angry, and withdrew his hand unhurriedly. "It's okay, you can afford my respect."
"If it's a sin tea, it's even more unnecessary, this gift is too light. I've always either don't accept gifts, but I always accept big gifts. Zhang Qining's fingertips clicked on the table boringly. You have the Manju Sahua Seal on your arm, and you made a deal with the Paradise Pavilion? β
"How do you know about this Manju Sahua seal?" Shen Zhizhou asked, his fingertips curled up slightly, and his gaze became cold.
Zhang Qining glanced at her expression and said casually: "I know a person, no, a demon to be precise." She's made a deal with the Paradise Pavilion, and she mentioned it to me a few months ago. So, what did you make as a mortal with the Pavilion of Elysium? β
ββ¦ I thought the girl was more concerned about who was going to hurt you, and why I was going to help him. β
"There's no rush to this." Zhang Qining turned over slightly, resting on the boxy case with one hand, and said calmly with a delicate and elegant face: "The spell in the book is a Dao Gate Technique, I may know my business around me, and I am so idle and have nothing to do, there is only one demon Dao that specializes in harming people - Long Xinze." β
She moved her mouth and slowly pronounced out the name, and Shen Zhizhou laughed in her heart. I see, she had already guessed it.
"It's not an ornament to have a brain on your head, and I don't believe in anything that doesn't have a cause and effect, and I haven't caused trouble, so it's just him. I'm more curious about why he came to you than asking him why he did it? These two things may not be unrelated. β
"Antecedents..."Shen Zhizhou laughed, there was indeed a case.
"I owe him a favor."
Zhang Qining raised his eyebrows, will this demon still do good deeds? "When? How much affection you want, you can hurt others? β
"The world is not pure, can't I harm others?" She picked up the teacup and brought it to her mouth, Zhang Qining glanced at her and said firmly: "You are not that kind of person." β
Shen Zhizhou's men were stunned, almost spilling the water, and chuckled awkwardly to hide the surprise in his eyes. "I thought the girl wasn't a naΓ―ve person."
Zhang Qining touched a finger to the corner of his forehead and shook his head.
"I've seen a lot of people who do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, you don't have that kind of ambition, you can't do that kind of thing. Harming people may not be voluntary, as a sufferer, I don't want to make excuses for you, but that's the way it is. You're either working with Long Xinze or you're being threatened by him. Judging by your reaction, it should be the former. β
Zhang Qining stared at her and asked her to explain.
"Even if the county lord is reincarnated... In some places, it hasn't changed at all. Shen Zhizhou couldn't help but feel a little stunned, as if the person in front of him was still the county lord of the Hou Mansion who was brilliant and brave three hundred years ago.
Zhang Qining was stunned and looked at her suddenly. "What do you call me?"
Shen Zhizhou didn't seem to see the disbelief on her face, and the more surprised she was, the calmer she became.
"Three hundred years ago, I was a palace medical officer, and after living for so many years, my eyesight was beyond the comparison of ordinary people, and I recognized it at the first sight of the county lord. The appearance of the county lord just now is seven or eight points similar to the previous life, how the county lord of the year was the envy of women all over the world, and the lower officials still remember it vividly, and they will not admit it. β
Three hundred years, she has lived for three hundred years? This is also the handiwork of the Pavilion of Paradise?
"County Lord..."Zhang Qining calmed down and asked in a deep voice: "Three hundred years ago, which county lord?" β
Shen Zhizhou smiled, "You are so interested in the affairs of the previous dynasty, I know what you know." Or, the only one in the previous dynasties who was qualified to be included in the annals of history, but in the end he was stripped of his title, and the historian did not dare to mention it... In addition to the Pingning county lord who dared to poison the ministers on the day of the big wedding, who else? β
Three hundred years ago, the lord of Binh Ninh...
"Ping... Peaceful? β
Xiao Chulan's half-day queen, the county lord of Pingning who poisoned the ministers and was finally killed by Xiao Chulan himself. It's her?
Shen Zhizhou raised his eyes, "Do you think the evil that haunts you is an accident?" There is a wrong, and there is a debtor. Three hundred years ago, the county lord of Pingning poisoned half of the officials, do you think those people will let her go so easily after death? You are so active in investigating the matter of the deposed emperor of the previous dynasty, I thought you knew, or something happened that made you suspicious. β
"And then."
Shen Zhizhou was stunned, and Zhang Qining calmed down almost immediately, not at all too frightened or surprised by learning the identity of his previous life. "Long Xinze won't deal with me just because of this, it's not qualified. What the hell is going on with you and him, what exactly does he want to do? β
Speaking of which, Zhang Qining became more and more calm, and the Lingtai became more and more clear. She is not Pingning, she is now Zhang Qining. The lord of Pingning died three hundred years ago.
When her clear eyes swept over Shen Zhizhou, she seemed to see the sky full of snow suddenly hovering in the air, and only the heart-piercing cold and endless desert remained in the air, it was a real snow-white glass world, and all the noise was drowned in the boundless silence.
Shen Zhizhou retracted his mind and continued: "After Emperor Xiao was deposed, the Li Dynasty was defeated in less than two years. In the end, he was also conscripted and rushed to the battlefield and failed to return. When the soldiers with him returned, I don't know if he was dead or..."
"Him?" Zhang Qining raised his eyebrows, "He's-"
Shen Zhizhou smiled, and a soft light appeared in his eyes. "My fiancΓ©, my... Wife. β
"FiancΓ©'s words... In other words, you haven't married yet, and the head of the pan is for him? You put down your hair now, is someone found it, or... Deadhearted? Zhang Qining remembered that the head catcher surnamed Huo Mingbai was pursuing her.
"I don't want to spend my life with anyone else but him. I found it, but I also died. β
Shen Zhizhou lowered his eyes, and his eyes seemed to have really become a pool of stagnant water. Three hundred years of persistence, three hundred years of obsession, three hundred years of hard searching, in the end it was just an obsession of hers.
"That personβis it Huo Bai?"
Shen Zhizhou didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.
"Why? Isn't the man already found, and he likes you, isn't he? β
"It's not the same. He completely forgot about me. Shen Zhizhou's voice spit out lightly, as if he poured out the despair in his heart together.
"Three hundred years ago, when the imperial city fell, I was devastated when I knew him, but because I didn't see the body, I still had a glimmer of hope in my heart. Even if it's self-deception..."
Shen Zhizhou paused, "At that time, I met Long Xinze, and he said that I don't want to live anyway, so it's better to throw my life to Jile Pavilion and ask him whether he is alive or dead." He said that as long as you have enough chips to exchange, you can get the opportunity I want in the Paradise Pavilion. β
"It's just that on the one hand, you dare to believe what he says?"
"I don't believe it, but I hope for it."
Zhang Qining was silent.
"Because of him, I found the Pavilion of Bliss, and the pavilion master Hongfei told me that Huo Bai has a special physique, does not live or die, and does not enter reincarnation. She advised me to give up. β
Zhang Qining: "But you don't." β
"Yes. I made a deal with the Pavilion of Paradise to give me enough life to find him. β
Zhang Qining understood. Shen Zhizhou, like You Shi Niang, hopes to continue the frontier.
Shen Zhizhou: "I searched for three hundred years and didn't find it, but I didn't expect to meet Long Xinze again at this time." He said he could tell me Huo Bai's whereabouts, but asked me to do one thing for him. β
Zhang Qining smiled: "Help him deal with me?" β
Shen Zhizhou was helpless, the result was already obvious, and she didn't need to say more.
"You have what he wants, and he won't want you to die. That spell is not so much against you as it is at something in your body. β
"Something? What is it? "What else can Zhang Qining have on her except for the pile of evil that is dead on her, like a deep mange?
"I'm sorry, I don't know."
Zhang Qining clicked on the table, and thoughts were surging in his mind.
The county lord of Pingning three hundred years ago was her previous life, and the evil that had haunted her for so many years was the evil created by Pingning in her previous life, and Long Xinze was interested in something in her body. Sure enough, the matter of uprooting the evil spirit still needs to be solved by him.
"Do you know what to do to see him?" Zhang Qining asked.
Shen Zhizhou shook his head, Long Xinze came uninvited every time.
Anyway, his purpose is her, and he knows that he will always come to the door if he wants to find him.
Zhang Qining raised her eyes, the cold in her deep eyes gradually dissipated, I don't know if it has anything to do with the sunlight half-spilled in the window, Shen Zhizhou actually saw a trace of warmth in her eyes.
"You're a little like the demon I know." Zhang Qining said.
"Is that demon also chasing after someone who can't get it?" Shen Zhizhou hooked his lips, it was really sympathy.
Zhang Qining half-supported his head, and his long hair hung down from behind his shoulders.
She traded with the Elysium Pavilion with the Immortal Ge at her fingertips, and found the reincarnation of her husband's life, but unfortunately, since that life, she has been a stranger with that person, and she has also had many karmas, but she has never been a husband and wife again. Even so, she still gave up. β
Shen Zhizhou: "She is a strong person, Miss Zhang is persuading me not to give up?" β
"Nope."
Zhang Qining's denial was too decisive, and Shen Zhizhou couldn't help but be stunned.
"She thought that she had experienced many lives and had a lot of experience, and she once advised me not to be too attached to Zhan Sui Yu, maybe one day my karma would harm him. If I have a hint of sincerity towards him, I might as well consider letting go. β
"I wonder what the girl said?"
Zhang Qining laughed, a trace of dark and paranoid evil aura flashed in his eyes, and said, "I said: 'I don't mind taking him to die with me'." In my lifetime, even if I break his hands and feet, I will keep him by my side. β
ββ¦β
"She advised me not to be too paranoid and to love more calmly. I said that her set does not apply to me, I am a human being, only in this life, so I only care about this life. β
"But you're different." Zhang Qining changed his words and said, "Your deal with the Paradise Pavilion has made your life too long, and you have no choice but to be calm." β
Shen Zhizhou understood. The so-called calmness means that even if she gives up or hesitates once, or stops and reconsiders once in the past three hundred years, everything may be different. Calmness is something you can get when you give up that trace of obsession in your heart.
"If I'm calm, do I still love him as much as I did back then?" Shen Zhizhou couldn't help muttering. It is precisely because of attachment that it is special. If the obsession disappears, the relationship in her heart will slowly fade and eventually disappear in time, but she doesn't want to let go or forget.
Zhang Qining: "I don't care what is good or bad, if I can't let go, I won't let go." If someone breaks my hand holding him, I don't hesitate to break his leg and foot that will leave. Shen Zhizhou, this is the real unscrupulous means. You used to tie your hair for him, and now you have untied it because of him, if you want to say that you are any different from that demon..."
"Shen Zhizhou, it's probably because you haven't waited long enough."
Shi Niang's calmness was polished by the sea of time. As long as she still loves him, as long as he is still in reincarnation, she can wait forever.
And Zhang Qining is that no matter whether Zhan Suiyu likes her or not, as long as she still likes it, she will never let go.
What about Shen Zhizhou? Her words and deeds are still influenced by Huo Bai. She had to give up, because this Huo Bai was not the Huo Bai she was looking for. The Huo Bai she wanted was no longer there.