Zhang Qining and Zhan Suiyu were flirting and scolding as if no one was on the side, and Tao Xue couldn't help but sigh when she saw it, and she couldn't help but feel that these two were really not ashamed, and couldn't help but turn her head and ask Ji Ran.

"They've been like this all the way?"

"Yes."

Speaking of this, Ji Ran also felt a headache and couldn't help laughing.

Tao Xueqi sighed, thinking that it was really worthy of Zhang Qining, sad that it was progressing so fast.

She glanced at Ji Ran, and when the other party saw her looking at herself, she stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The frankness and sincerity of the face make people unable to give birth to a trace of love.

Tao Xueqi thought, "I shouldn't have such high expectations for him." ”

"Ahem, Zhang Qining." Tao Xueqi coughed lightly and said loudly: "Do you still listen to the next thing?" ”

"Listen, you say." Having said that, Zhang Qining's eyes did not take their eyes off Zhan Suiyu's face at all.

“…”

"Zhang Qining, didn't your tutor teach you to look at others when you speak?"

"Ahh Zhang Qining snorted and said, "I have been free-range since I was a child, and there is no such thing as a tutor." ”

A tic-tac-toe character popped out of Tao Xueqi's head.

"This girl." Zhan Suiyu laughed wildly.

still remembers that in Suzhou, when Zang Wang talked to Qi Ning about tutoring, her attitude at that time was very bad.

Now like this, is it deliberately angry with Xue Qi?

"Relieved?" Zhang Qining said softly.

Zhan Suiyu sighed Sure enough, every time she does something particularly childish, it seems that most of it is for him.

He nodded, smiled comfortably, and took a piece of purple potato cake and fed it to her.

Tao Xueqi was fed up, and the experienced Ji Ran smiled at her and said, "Just get used to it." ”

After thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate, and shook his head again. "No... It's better to forget about this kind of thing. Just ignore it. ”

Ji Ran said so, it seems that the two of them are really hopeless.

"Ugh..."

"Then Miss Tai Sui Tao, you can continue." Zhang Qining turned his face with a fox-like smile on his face.

To be precise, she herself is as beautiful and cunning as a fox, but this is different from herself.

Tao Xueqi looked at her and couldn't help but think so. If you want to compare, Zhang Qining is a fox, and he should be a snake.

Unlike fluffy and likable foxes, cold, hard-armored snakes are not likable.

"Tao Xueqi?" Zhang Qining looked at it, why didn't she keep quiet, wouldn't she really be angry because of this kind of thing?

"Xue Qi?" Ji Ran said loudly. Tao Xueqi came to her senses and shook her head.

"It's fine. Then go ahead. About 300 years ago, one of the masters of the Tao family was given a scroll that recorded the method of sacrificing to obtain Tai Sui. ”

“… Tao Xiuru. Zhang Qining said softly, this name is a little familiar, and Zhan Suiyu couldn't help but be stunned after hearing it. This person is the one they saw in the Sumeru mustard seed in the Li Dynasty three hundred years ago?

He asked, "Is that Tao Xiuru?" Zhang Qining nodded, "It should be." ”

Tao Xueqi was really surprised now.

"How do you know?"

Zhang Qining: "I had nothing to do before, I looked for "The Legend of Ancient and Modern Characters in Zhengzhou", and Tao Xiuru's name happened to be on it. It just so happened that we had seen a Tao Xiuru before, so we couldn't help but pay attention to it. I didn't expect him to be the head of the Tao family. ”

"Zhang Qining, sometimes I really admire you, and you can really find anything."

Tao Xueqi looked at her with her hands in front of her and couldn't help but say, this luck is simply amazing.

"Coincidentally? How I don't think. Zhang Qining said: "That's because you don't know that I have a mantra, that is, I never believe that there are any coincidences in this world, and all accidents are inevitable." ”

This may be the fate between people, the relationship related to Pingning and Xiao Chulan three hundred years ago has been brought to this world.

Not only did he meet the demon dragon Xin Ze, but also Shen Zhizhou and Huo Bai, Hongfei and Sikong Yuan, and now Tao Xiuru. Through him, he also indirectly got involved with Tao Xueqi and Ji Ran.

Seeing the legend of the character, it is said that after the fall of the Li Dynasty, he was squeezed out by the ministers who took refuge in Taizu, and was finally demoted from Beijing.

After that, he resigned directly and returned to Zhengzhou to inherit the family business, and did not re-enter the official career.

If he hadn't been reused by Xiao Chulan, he wouldn't have offended so many people.

Although letting him be Jing Zhaoyin was to take revenge on him, it was the two of them who calculated him three hundred years ago.

It seems that because of this, he was not allowed to be reused by the new emperor, and finally broke off his career.

"Sure enough, I'm here to pay off my debts." Zhang Qining muttered in a low voice, looked up and said, "What happened later?" Zhao Tai Sui started with Tao Xiuru? ”

"Not really." Tao Xueqi said: "He hasn't used it." This scroll was sealed in an inconspicuous box by him, and the head of the Tao family naturally had a period of decline after the renewal.

When there was nothing of value in the house, a certain generation of masters stumbled upon the box, opened it and read the contents of the scroll, and this was the beginning of everything. ”

It is best to recruit Tai Sui as a sacrifice to children in the lunar year, lunar moon and cloudy sun, otherwise it is replaced by ordinary children. There is a fate for people to enter the eyes, Tai Sui to, reincarnate into the womb, occupy his body, the Lord.

"This is the content of the scroll, and the children of the Tao family have had nightmares since that generation of family heads.

At that time, the Tao family had no power or power, let alone abducting children, and it was not an exaggeration to be found and killed, the risk was too great. So he turned his eyes to his son. ”

Tao Xueqi laughed indifferently. "Do you know what the most vicious and evil place of that scroll is?"

Zhang Qining: "What? ”

"Even though the chances of success are small, the child who is sacrificed every time is bound to die. Although there are not many, the people who recruit Tai Sui can still get what they want.

At that time, what the Tao family wanted most was money.

He exchanged his son for a sum of money, the source of which is unknown, but since he has had this money, his business has gradually improved.

Then he began the second sacrifice..."

Zhang Qining frowned, "You said that the children used by the Tao family to sacrifice are all the children of the Tao family, which means that the second time he used it was his own flesh and blood?" Why? ”

After all, tiger poison does not eat children, why insist when there is a second option?

"It's because it's my own blood and bones that I use it." Tao Xueqi sneered.

Zhang Qining lowered his head and pondered, thinking of a ridiculous answer, "Because of blood? ”

"Clever."

“… It's ridiculous. Zhang Qining suddenly didn't know what to say.

Ji Ran didn't understand, "What do you mean because of blood?" ”

Zhang Qining explained: "It is the same thing as the inheritance of the imperial throne, and most emperors will have such a consciousness: whether it is a Ming monarch or a Yongjun, the next emperor must be his own blood and blood, and no matter how bad it is, it must be the blood of the royal family."

For the first time, the head of the Tao family used his own son because there was no one else to choose from.

But then it wasn't, and the reason why he had the ability to go to other children but didn't look for it was not because his conscience found that if that were the case, there would be no other victims. The reason for doing this is that he has an addiction. ”

"Addiction?"

"Yes." Zhang Qining nodded.

"It's like killing someone, everyone hesitates before they do it for the first time, but once they do it, they get addicted. Whether it's fear, fear, or excitement, this feeling stronger than average can hang over a person for the rest of their lives.

There are people who can't stand it and will be crushed by this feeling. On the other hand, they become addicted to that feeling and continue to do it, consciously or unconsciously.

In the process of repeating each other, it may even produce some kind of complex, quirk, or distorted belief. It can also be called a demon of the heart. ”

Ji Ran understood, "So, you mean that the master became addicted to his son after using him as a sacrifice. Think of a part of the first session as a fixed section, even... For him, it might have been more like some kind of ritual. ”

Zhang Qining: "That's good. Money was the bait that aroused his desires, and after another profit, his appetite was fed.

Maybe he was still a little scared the second time, but gradually even the last shred of fear was swallowed up. His own flesh and blood, which seemed to him indispensable, and..."

Zhang Qining raised his eyes to look at Tao Xueqi, Tao Xueqi met her gaze, smiled, and naturally took it. It was up to her to say that this sentence could be confirmed.

"And the parents of the body and skin, everyone wants to take Tai Sui for themselves, and other people's children are not their property in their eyes. If it happens one day, it is easy to get into trouble.

It is good for the family to keep their children, there are a lot of concubines and concubines to use, and illegitimate children will of course be better. ”

"What kind of parents would do such a thing to their children..."

Ji Ran frowned, this matter is against natural reason, it has long exceeded his bottom line, if it weren't for the presence of someone who has really experienced it, he can't imagine that there will be such evil in this world.

"Licking the calf is deep, these four words are a kind of nature. It is also a kind of nature for people not to be themselves, and it is also a kind of nature to destroy heaven and earth. When one overpowers the other, either one is amazing. Zhang Qining said lightly.

In her life, she had only felt that kind of warmth once.

Hearing this, Zhan Suiyu couldn't help but raise her eyes to look at Zhang Qining, knowing that she was thinking of Father Zhang, the man who had given her warmth once, and then splashed his selfish blood in front of her.

Zhang Qining's expression was relaxed, and he said with a light smile: "Ji Gongzi doesn't need to be too pessimistic, there are indeed Tao families like this in this world, but more of them are ordinary people, and everyone is not so perverted." ”

After speaking, she didn't forget to tell Tao Xueqi that Ji Ran's heart was like a malt candy blown out, it would break when she touched it, and she usually had to be careful.

The corner of Ji Ran's eyes twitched: The person who is most unqualified to say this is you.

She was afraid that she had forgotten how she had tortured his fragile heart a few days ago.

Who knew that Zhang Qining said back, "When the maltose is heated, it melts into a puddle of syrup, and it will not break no matter how you make it." No matter what you do, timing is always important. ”

After speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled, Ji Ran wanted to say something, but Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Tao Xueqi pondering, and then nodded approvingly, feeling that what she said was remarkable.

Ji Ran suddenly fell silent.

"Haha, Lin Zhao, look at you, I know that Ji Ran will definitely not be able to fight Tao Xueqi in the future!"

Seeing Zhan Suiyu's squeak, Zhang Qining looked at him and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhan Suiyu's gaze fell on her face and shook her head, "It's nothing." I just suddenly found something and thought it was a little strange. ”

"What?"

"Miss Tao." Zhan Suiyu turned sideways and looked at Tao Xueqi, "You just said that because of family reasons, each generation of leaders will leave their children behind. Out of the Tao family's obsession with blood, I can understand this. But... What's the matter with you? ”

That's right, Tao Xueqi is the daughter of the Tao family, how can she be used to recruit Tai Sui?

"Although she is a concubine, she can't bear the time when my mother is pregnant with me, and she will be near the so-called lunar year, lunar month, and lunar day. It's not that I don't want a concubine, but from the beginning of the Tao family, I don't care about my own flesh and blood, so what about my concubine? ”

"When the lunar year is cloudy and the moon is cloudy, it is indeed not easy to encounter." Zhang Qining nodded, "No wonder." ”

Ji Ran: "But the fact that a mother gives birth to a child cannot be controlled, and some people have two days and one night in their life, no matter how long it is." ”

Zhang Qining smiled and teased: "Ji Gongzi, you know a lot." ”

Ji Ran's face turned red, why is this Zhang Qining always so unserious? Zhan Sui Yu is like this?

"In short, if you want to control it when it's cloudy, it depends on the sky, right? It is not something that can be forced. ”

"How could it be?"

Zhang Qining and Tao Xueqi said in unison.

Zhang Qining: "Success is in the sky, planning is in people, nothing is impossible." ”

Tao Xueqi hooked her lips, the bright red rouge on the inside looked like blood at the moment, and she said: "You can't treat the head of the Tao family as an ordinary person, I, a person who is exactly the same in years, months, days, including hours, stands in front of you, can't I explain anything?" ”

"But..."

"Ji Gongzi, don't you know that there is a medicine called oxytocracy?"

"Induced labor?"

"Hmm." Zhang Qining nodded. "Actually, there is a more direct way."

After speaking, she looked at Tao Xueqi, and with her current understanding of the Tao family, she felt that it was more likely that Father Tao would use this method.

"What?"

Zhang Qining was settled, and seeing that Tao Xueqi's expression had not changed, he opened his mouth.

"Disembowelment."

"Section!?" Ji Ran was so taken aback that he couldn't say the next three words.

Although Zhan Suiyu guessed that Qi Ning's way of opening his mouth must be appalling, he was still stunned when he really heard it. Looking at Tao Xueqi, her expression did not change much, and she lowered her eyes and smiled.

Although they had never met, she still had a trace of affection for the poor woman after giving birth to her biological mother.

Because of her reaction, they knew that Zhang Qining was right.

Section...

If that's the case, it can indeed guarantee that Tao Xueqi will be born in the time that Tao's father needs.

It's just that this method is too difficult, and I haven't heard of any doctor in this world who has this ability. Can you keep your mother and child safe?

No, it can't be.

Tao Xueqi: "According to what the scroll said, he found the most suitable person to recruit Tai Sui, and the ceremony was successful." Because I became the body of Tai Sui, I remembered it when I was born. That scene, heh..."

I really want to forget, but I can't forget it.

The first time I opened it, I saw the man's eyes looking at him with a hint of demonic frenzy, and he kept chanting: "It's done, it's done, ha, hahahahaha!" ”

Because he cut open his wife's stomach with a knife, blood was sprayed all over his body, as if he had crawled out of the bloody water.

Because he had already planned this, there was no birth mother at all, and the whole room was just him, her, and the corpse of a mother who had never even seen the child.

If she had known that there would be such a day, she was afraid that she would not want to conceive herself.

Tao Xueqi didn't glance at the bed, so she didn't know that there was a woman in this world who held on to her breath even if she was disemboweled, until she saw her being held alive from her belly, and then she closed her eyes.

"Why do you have to do that?" Ji Ran asked.

"Because of blood, because of possession. Mothers are more likely to have feelings for their children than fathers, and they are more likely to be dependent on their children. He didn't want that threat to exist. ”

Tao Xueqi said indifferently.

Ji Ran was in a trance: "Just because of this reason? ”

Tao Xueqi sighed, "Yes, that's for this reason." ”