"Okay, but there's one more thing you need to do before you do."

Dawn didn't frighten him, he suddenly felt bored, leaned back, and got down to business.

"What's the matter?"

"If I help her transform, I waste my strength and I can't resist it with your hands, if your soul is not damaged, I will extract your soul, and now I only need your hands, so ...... You'll have to tell me a story, and you'll be paid. ”

After dawn finished speaking, he tilted his head slightly and glanced at the white fungus on the side, and saw him raise his hand, and his index finger and middle finger were together to draw a rune in the air with a few strokes, and the palm of his hand was flipped, and a ball of light spread out at the palm of his hand, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a mirror. The white fungus took the mirror steadily and placed it on the table, and the mirror was facing Cen Ximi.

"I don't know how to tell stories."

Cen Ximian looked past the mirror and looked at the dawn, looking a little dazed.

"I love to listen to stories, but I don't need you to tell them, you just need to drip your blood on the frame and I'll see you and her story."

As a cat, Dawn is always very interested in the stories of the world, even if it is a book made up in the market, she has not read less, her enthusiasm for these stories is no less than the old lady at the entrance of the village to the gossip about other people's family affairs, in the eyes of Dawn, Cen Xijun is simply a living book, at a glance it is a person with a story, and this story is still true!

When Dawn saw him, she secretly rubbed her mind to listen to the story, of course, she didn't expect such a stake-like character as Cen Xijun to tell any touching stories, so she took the bronze mirror of the white fungus.

Cen Xijun looked at the vaguely excited expression of the woman opposite and frowned secretly, and then fell on the bronze mirror in front of him. The mirror is an old-style copper mirror, the copper yellow mirror is inlaid on a whole piece of Huanghuali carved frame, the carving is very exquisite, there are two kinds of yin and yang lines, intertwined but not messy, but a delicate dogwood pattern. There is a small round pit in the middle of the mirror base, which looks a little strange.

After all, he was asking for help, Cen Xiwei couldn't figure out Dawn's temperament, and was worried that she would regret her disagreement, so after a little thought, he directly took the dagger placed on the case with the mirror and cut his finger, and dripped the blood that leaked out into the small round pit of the mirror base.

The mirror is called "Huangliang", as long as the blood is dropped in the round pit of the mirror base, you can see a person's life deeds in the mirror, and it will disappear after reading, and it will not leave any traces in the mirror.

As soon as the drop of blood fell into the round pit, it snaked away along the carved yin pattern, and in the blink of an eye, it was covered with the entire carved frame, and the delicate dogwood pattern also turned blood-colored, and the mirror seemed to be awakened by Cen Xi's blood, gradually emitting light, and the copper-yellow mirror surface slowly became clear, and some fragmentary pictures appeared......

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The spring of the twenty-third year of Guangxu

"Son, eat more, you see you've lost a lot of weight recently!"

It's noon, and the Cen family is eating. The middle-aged woman with gentle eyebrows and kind eyes was putting vegetables into the bowl of the young man sitting on the side, her tone was a little complaining, but her eyes were full of love and pity. This person is Cen Xi's mother, Mrs. Cen .

"Thank you mother, my son is in good health, you don't have to worry. You should eat more."

The young man hurriedly held the bowl and took the dish that Mrs. Cen had brought over. While thanking him, he quickly picked up the fish belly and put a chopstick fish meat in Mrs. Cen's bowl, and looked at his mother with a young man's green smile on his handsome face, his eyes were gentle and a little cunning, which was very pleasing.

Mrs. Cen looked at the young man who was smiling happily, and her heart was also very ironing. Her son looks good, works hard in his studies, and is filial to his parents, and she has always felt very proud of her as his mother.

"Okay, where did you get so many polite words for a meal, eat more."

There was a middle-aged man sitting on the left side of Mrs. Cen, looking at the scene of the mother and son, you will serve me vegetables and I will persuade you to eat more, and couldn't help but speak. The man looks very majestic, but the man has a handful of goatee, and he trembles when he speaks, and he is inexplicably happy. And the man seemed to be scolding impatiently, but he scooped up half a bowl of red date and yam soup in his hand and put it in front of Mrs. Cen, and his mouth was clearly wrong.

"Yes, my father taught me!"

The young man's smile did not change, his bright eyes winked at Master Cen, as if he was making fun of him, his mouth was very well-behaved, and his clever and cunning appearance made people laugh, completely forgetting that such a childish act came from a twenty-year-old adult man. And he was Cen Xijun, the man who was as cold as a piece of wood in the pawnshop.

"Young master, the eldest young master of the Yu family is here to find you, and he is waiting for you in the front hall now!"

A family of three was eating, and a young man dressed as a scholar came in through the side door, stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, but still walked behind Cen Xi, and carefully pulled the corners of his robe.

Cen Xijun turned his head and saw the scholar standing behind him with a worried face, so he put down the bowl and motioned him to reply, and the scholar hurriedly stepped forward and whispered the news, so as not to disturb the old lady's meal. After hearing this, Cen Xi nodded and motioned for the scholar to retreat.

"What?"

The Cen family and his wife treat people gently, even if Master Cen looks very strict, he doesn't have so many rules when dealing with his subordinates, so the scholar was not blamed for rushing forward to reply. Just after he left, he asked Cen Xijun.

"Back to my father, it's Yu Chen who came to look for his son, and he is waiting in the front hall."

"Do you want to see him first, and don't let Chen'er wait, if you don't have enough, my mother will make you some snacks later."

"Mother, don't worry, it's rare for me to go home and have a meal with you, and it's okay for Ah Chen to wait."

The Yu family and the Cen family are world friends, Cen Xijun and Yu Chen are about the same age, and they are now taking classes in the same private school. Mrs. Cen also grew up watching Yu Chen, and she was also happy to hear that he was coming, and she was afraid that he would have something urgent and not make him wait, so she wanted to let Cen Xijun go to meet him first. However, Cen Xijun has been going to school in a private school, and he only stays at home for a few days a month, and now he wants to accompany his parents to finish eating.

"That's it. You go to see him first, I'm afraid it's urgent to find a meal. ”

Master Cen spoke, but Cen Xijun didn't refuse, after taking two bites of the rice in the bowl, he saluted and went to the front hall to see Yu Chen.

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The antechamber of the Cen Mansion

Yu Chen sat in the front hall for a while, seeing that the scholar came back with a message but did not see Cen Xijun, his heart became more and more anxious, and he couldn't help but get up from the chair and walk around the hall with his hands behind his back, like a spinning top.

Cen Xijun saw Yu Chen's anxious appearance from a distance, and guessed in his heart that something was wrong, so he immediately sped up.

"Ah, the imperial court is going to cancel the imperial examination!"

Yu Chen's sharp eyes saw Cen Ximian, and hurriedly greeted him, and he told the bad news without waiting for Cen Ximian to ask. The tone was miserable, and a round face was also very well wrinkled, looking pitiful.

Hearing this, Cen Xi's heart was slightly relieved, but fortunately, it wasn't Sister Jin who had an accident. But then his good-looking eyebrows furrowed tightly, and he only felt extremely depressed for a while!

This year, he was supposed to participate in the Spring Festival, and he has been preparing for this for three years, and now that the imperial examination has been cancelled, isn't he busy in vain!

"Ah, what do you say this should be?"

Yu Chen didn't pay attention to Cen Ximi's reaction, he just drooped his head and was still depressed, and he didn't hear Cen Ximian speak for a long time before he looked up and asked him.

"The cancellation of the imperial examination is probably nothing to you, you ...... Your learning attitude of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days, even if the imperial examination is not canceled, you probably won't be able to win. ”

Cen Xi looked at Yu Chen's even more lost appearance than him, and was a little amused for a while. I couldn't help but tease him so that he could recognize the reality.

It is understandable to say that Cen Xijun regrets the cancellation of the imperial examination, after all, who doesn't know that the son of the Cen family is the most promising talent in this year's promotion? But Yuchen is really worried.

Yu Chen and Cen Xijun grew up together since childhood, they are the same age, have the same family background, and are both handsome, but in terms of academics, they are one in the sky and one underground. Cen Xi's family is extremely smart, and the masters who taught him are full of praise for him, but Yu Chen was used by the master as a negative teaching material.

It's just that he himself is also a playful character, skipping class is commonplace, and his studies are even more messy, so angry that Old Man Yu has broken several bundles of rattan, but he hasn't changed at all.