"Well, this bead is very ordinary!" Qi Zhen nodded softly.

"Hmph......" Chang Qing suddenly remembered that he was still the biggest suspect, and immediately raised his face.

The deep old man who seemed to be ethereal a moment ago turned into an angry young man with cold eyebrows in an instant. Knock knock, knock knock...... Oh, the gongs and drums are ringing, and the powder is here. Face-changing stunt, shine again! I looked at his extra-long stinky face, which was comparable to the face of a bull and a horse, and I wanted to laugh wildly but was afraid of ruining the atmosphere of the serious discussion at the moment, and I held back my laughter until I almost hurt myself.

"Anyway, if you can't find reliable proof that you really didn't leave the house last night, Qi Zhen, you are the biggest suspect in this matter!" Chen Qiu stared at his face calmly, "Although, we don't want it to be you, but ...... You've changed! It's becoming less and less like you! ”

My heart shook, my smile suddenly swept away, and Chen Qiu's words reached my heart.

"Oh?" Qi Zhen raised his eyebrows slightly, his expression innocent and puzzled.

"A person who is extremely exaggerated by nature and likes to play treasure the most will not become gentle and calm, just like a person will not have two faces!" Chen Qiu's tone was not intense, but his words were sharp and aggressive, "No matter which one is your true face, you are a terrible person who is different from the outside!" ”

“…… There is a difference ......between the inside and the outside," Qi Zhen sighed and repeated Chen Qiu's words, and there was a moment of distraction.

I looked at him, his pale complexion, his slender figure, his originally small eyes were now round and large, and the hazy eye waves seemed to be shrouded in a light veil. The eyeballs, which were always spinning around in the bones, are now as motionless as a mountain; The shallow gaze is now as deep as the sea...... I unconsciously took a step back, and the person in front of me was indeed ...... What a stranger!

"No matter how it changes, I am still Qi Zhen and your friend! Isn't it? He smiled lightly, and the bitterness between his eyebrows and lips slowly spread, like a cup of strong tea with an extremely bitter taste.

"Alas......" Chang Qing sighed first, "but, from now on, can we still trust you as much as before?" ”

“…… I have a kinship to my heart! Chen Qiu inexplicably came out of an ancient sentence, I grinned and wanted to laugh, my eyes were hot, but two tears flowed.

Qi Zhen stopped talking, just looked at me with his eyes.

As if it had been discussed, Chang Qing and Chen Qiu also turned their heads to look at me together.

"Both, what are you looking at me for? I don't have any flowers on my face! "I tried to squeeze out a relaxed and playful smile, but unfortunately the muscles in my face were not cooperative, and my mouth was hard to open.

No one answered.

The eyes of the three of them are like a wire net with a hook, and I, the little fish that has jumped into the net, no matter how much I struggle, I can't change the predicament in front of me.

“…… Friends shouldn't hide from each other! Qi Zhen, are you right? …… Isn't it still a suspicion? Let's not be too busy to take a stand, check it again! I let out a low breath and mixed the two sides.

I was answered by an awkward silence.

"Qi Zhen, if you really encounter something difficult, just tell us, we will definitely help you!" I continued to persuade with great pain, "Chang Qing, Chen Qiu, we should believe him, maybe things are not as 'Blue Bird' sees?" ”

"Little Star, when did you become so inconsistent?" Chen Qiu looked directly at me and ruthlessly exposed my shortcomings.

Chang Qing shook his head at me, blaming me for my uncertain and half-hearted look.

Only Qi Zhen didn't squeak, but there was a lot more sadness in his eyes when he looked at me, as if he had suffered countless grievances and was full of suffering, but he couldn't get the forgiveness of others!

I'm really in a dilemma, and I can't talk about my suffering.

Whether it is Chang Qing, Chen Qiu or Qi Zhen, they are all good friends of mine, but friendship is not like other items that can be weighed with utensils, and it is very painful for me to choose which side.

As time passed, I stood like a papaya, my eyes sweeping from left to right, one by one over the faces of the three of them, and my mind was spinning like a windmill, thinking about the solution repeatedly. I'm greedy and don't want to lose any of them. In that case, the only way to do this is to ...... I made up my mind and stopped being in a daze.

I raised my head and spit out vigorously: "Ahem! You are all good friends of mine, and you should know that I have a temper of 'no tears when you see the coffin'. I will never give up my trust in any of you until the matter is settled! I can, and will, find a way to find out the truth! With that, I turned around firmly and walked out in style.

"The truth? I'm afraid it's even more unbearable than it is now! Behind him, Chen Qiu's sighing whispers came.

"That's nothing!" I didn't look back, I didn't stop, I just said loudly, "Unless...... Like Ling, Teacher Ling...... Show me the butcher's knife clearly, otherwise I will never give up! ”

The whimper of the wind wafted through the forest.

I ran away, touching the tears of pain, and poured out all the way silently, I hope that none of them will treat me like Teacher Ling!

I ran a long way, and when I finally stopped, I found that I had unknowingly come to the small alley where Xu Lan's house was. The familiar bluestone paths lazily shimmer in the sunlight with a round luster like jade, the walls on both sides of the alley are densely crawled with vines and plants, and the vicissitudes of life are mottled with sun shadows, like the set of an old movie, which makes people feel nostalgic and sentimental for no reason. Well, anyway, the third class is self-study, so I'm not going back to school!

I paced slowly into the alley, walking slowly, gazing at the vines and smooth bluestone pavements that dotted the walls, as if remembering something that had been left behind in the depths of time.

No one has been here for a long time!

Not only because of the crazy plants on the walls and the green weeds that pop up between the bluestone slabs, but most importantly, the loneliness. Without the path and courtyard of the owner, even in the brilliant sunshine, it will exude loneliness and desolation.

There are no more noisy footsteps, busy figures, jumping laughter, and even naughty chases have become memories that cannot be repeated! It's like an old painting scroll, everything is frozen at the end of the picture.

Maybe it was because I had too many tears just now, but now I don't have a single tear, although my heart is flooded with sourness at the moment.

I stopped in infinite melancholy, staring at the round stone cave door in a daze. Or maybe my eyes were red and swollen and affected my eyesight, and there seemed to be a person standing in front of the cave door. The man was hidden in the shadow cast by the stone cave door, and his whole person was very blurred, and he could not distinguish between men and women.

I suddenly became excited, could it be...... Is Xu Lan back?

Thinking of this possibility, I couldn't hold it back, and almost rushed to the stone cave door. There has never been a moment when I miss her so much, in this moment when I am so uncertain!

It wasn't far away, and I was soon in front of the door. I held on to the wall with both hands, so that I didn't fall straight down! There was indeed a person in front of the door, the jade tree was in the wind, handsome and chic. It's that damn Yun, Teng, Jiao!

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment! The successive blows made me accumulate too much anger. My face, I don't have to look in the mirror to know it, is full of anger and distorted. However, the culprit in front of me who caused me to rejoice in the void still has an expression of pity and sympathy on his face, which is really inadequate!

"Cousin, how did you get here?" A tone of fake concern.

"What about you?" I resisted the urge to draw my fist and slam him down, and asked coldly.

He smiled and stared into my face: "I'm here to relax." ”

Trip? He's a good thing! I twitched the corners of my mouth and smiled, "Don't you have to go to class?" ”

"Hehe, didn't you go to class either?" He said meaningfully, "There are things that need to be thought about quietly, and this is the perfect place!" ”

"Hmph...... Really? When you say that, I think of something. My eyes straightened, and I squeezed out a few words from between my teeth, "You confessed to your relatives by force, and you gave me a string of black beads in a hurry." Excuse me, what is your grudge against me in the past? Who is this bead? As he spoke, I held out my hand. As I expected, the beads on my wrist "changed" again. The loose and inferior shape is gone, and the cold black light that flickers like a show-off.

Hey! What a string of "face beads"!

I squinted at him and sneered.

He remained silent, but the inexplicable smile on his lips deepened!

In the eyes of outsiders, the blue sky, white clouds, quiet alleys, the ancient bluestone road leads straight to the deep courtyard, and in front of the simple and generous round stone cave door, two young men and women looking at each other and smiling, what an elegant and poetic picture of Jiangnan style!

It's a pity that the beautiful appearance is always just a mirror, and what is hidden in its depths is the ugly truth!

I've put all my anger into action!

First a "hungry tiger pounces on food", then a "double-peaked piercing ear", and then uses the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw" to jam the neck of the "jade tree"!

"Tell me what this string of beads is?" I have messy hair, my voice is like a night owl, my blood-red eyes show a fierce light, coupled with this bruised neck stuck, if you want to look at it now, it is the "Sadako" shape of the entire Chinese version of "Midnight Murder Bell"!

His immovable, handsome face finally changed color.

"Ahem! Table...... Don't get excited! Let go of your hands first, I'll ...... I'll tell you right away! His eyes swept over my "white bone claws", and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Speak quickly!" Unmoved, still clinging to his neck.

"This bead is called the 'Soul Splitting Bead'." He observed my reaction as he spoke, "There are 13 in total, and it's a kind of soul-calming treasure!" ”

"What do you say? Is this a treasure? I grabbed his neck in anger and screamed, my voice high and loud.

"Uh...... Don't, don't get excited! He smiled hard, his face unusually flushed with astonishment. Oh, it turns out that after the neck is stuck, everyone is equal, and the handsome guy is the same as the cooked hairy crab!

Seeing a schadenfreude and gloating smile on my face, he had no choice but to laugh twice with me: "Ahem, can you ...... Release your hand first? ”

I let go of my anger and let go.

He took a few deep breaths, and after passing his strength, he said, "...... This string of beads can gather the soul that is scattered by external forces; You can turn your thoughts into real things...... And, under the right conditions, it can also – insight into the heavens! ”

In the last four words, he said solemnly, just like the truth. I couldn't help but roll my eyes wide! I heard that most handsome guys are a combination of incomparably arrogant and narcissistic, and I saw it today. What kind of soul suppression, restriction, and virtual transformation of reality, sounds mysterious and terrifying, to put it bluntly, most of it is some kind of blinding spell that is assisted in the execution. As for insight into the heavens, that's even more nonsense! Since it is a heavenly machine that has nowhere to follow, how can it allow mortal things to gain insight? It is said that the power of heaven is unpredictable, even if it is a magic weapon of the gods, he does not dare to claim to be insightful, what does he think he is? Three Qing and Four Emperors? Guanyin Bodhisattva?

"You don't believe it?" He noticed the disdain and disdain on my face.

"Hey, hey! In this way, your bead is really a treasure with great powers, right? I said with a smirk, "Well, please let it perform now!" ”

I originally wanted to take him into the army, but when he heard me say this, his eyes showed imperceptible joy. I was stunned, as if he had said that the purpose of what he had just said was to make the beads perform in front of me.

I was not allowed to think about it any more, he had returned to normal, his face was brilliant, and his right hand flicked between my wrists, and I only felt a chill on my wrist, and the string of beads had already flown up on its own, slowly forming a circle in front of me.

I glanced warily, but I couldn't take my eyes off it.

The center of the circle rippled outward like a substance, and the ripples gradually dispersed, and a large rolling mountain range appeared in front of my eyes, lush primeval forests were all over it, and the waterfalls pouring out of the cliff were like nine days of the Milky Way falling to the world, and wisps of hazy and ethereal white clouds were entwined around the top of the mountain. The sunlight is very soft, and the blue sky reflects the peaks inserted into the sky, the waterfalls and the towering ancient trees that are like white exercises in the sky, a primitive, simple and pure rhyme and majestic momentum come to the face. What is this place? My doubts only flickered, and my mind was completely immersed in it.

The ancient road is deep, the tangled and tangled ancient vines on the mountain cliff are jagged and falling, and there are large stones of strange shapes standing horizontally and vertically in the mountain valleys, and gurgling clear springs flow around the stones. The trees are lush and tall, and the flowers are as brilliant as the morning sun, and there are many species that I have never seen before. Well, this gray pine tree, unusually tall, looks about twenty meters, the bark is slightly cracked, as if covered with a thin layer of scales, the branches are very short, but dense, the leaves are large, in the shape of a strip-lanceolate. There are also a few green trees of 2 or 3 meters, with thick and oval leaves, and the flowers that bloom resemble double-petaled camellias, but they are all dark yellow. From time to time, there is a sound of rustling between the trees, and when you look closely, you will find the shadows of small animals flashing by. Hey, there's a couple of big pheasants resting on the branches over there, all with black necks. A few lively and small macaques climbed and flew through the trees, and in a blink of an eye, they disappeared into the dense foliage......

I looked left and right, and the amazement in my heart was indescribable: this place was quiet and peaceful, the scenery was picturesque, like a fairyland on earth, could it be some kind of illusion created by magic?

I pondered for a moment, opened my mouth, and called tentatively, "Hey! The sound echoed in the quiet valley for a long time. It doesn't seem like a fantasy, I still don't think about it. Fortunately, there was a sound of footsteps ahead, and several figures of different heights appeared on the other side of the mountain road. Someone! I rejoiced and stopped to watch.

At the foreground was a trembling, chubby old man, whose wrinkles were crisscrossed like deep furrows, covering his entire dark face, so that his facial features were so small that it was impossible to judge his exact age. Although he glared hard, trying to make his eyes look sharper, the loose bags under his eyes and yellow, cloudy eyes still betrayed his decay. He was dressed in an unusually white, new wide coat and trousers, and a bright red turban tied around his head. Along the way, the turban and fat trouser legs flew up and down against the mountain wind, very-weird.

My smile immediately froze halfway, and I muttered to myself: It's too old! It's ugly! It's not that I don't respect the old, it's just that this old man doesn't know how to dress up. You said that you are such a black, fat old man, wearing such white, such big clothes and pants, and actually wearing such a red turban, this contrast is too strong, making people look at the cold hair standing on end!

While I was scolding, the old man walked up to me.

"Ahem! Old...... Uncle, what kind of place is this? I asked with a sweet smile on my face, consciously well-behaved and polite.

Unbeknownst to me, the old man walked past me tremblingly, without even lifting his eyelids.

My face sank and I was a little angry. However, on second thought: he is so old, and his ears are probably furnished, and it is normal that he can't hear my question!

I put my hope in those who came after him.

He was followed by nine men, six men and three women. There are different ages, some old and young, tall and short, ugly and handsome, and they are also different. However, they are all wearing white clothes and pants, although they are not new, but the color that is so white that it is better than Nippon white paint almost dazzles my eyes, hehe, I don't know what brand of laundry detergent they use, this dress is really clean enough!

"Excuse me, what is this place?" I pulled back my wandering thoughts and asked in a serious voice.

The nine of them hurried forward, and none of them reacted to my question, completely treating me as air!

Strange, is this some kind of wild place? These people are all ethnic minorities and can't understand Chinese? Or are they...... All deaf?