Helpless, I could only stay in the room, anxiously waiting for Shi Buren's arrival.

During this time, I tried to untie the blocked Qi energy, but I was tired and sweaty, but I found nothing.

As the evening wore on, the snow finally stopped, and the snow was covered in snow, reflecting the light from the snow despite the darkness.

"The master has arrived!"

At this moment, there was a sudden shout outside, which made my heart tense suddenly.

I stood up, and found that the gate of the courtyard was open, and three men were approaching the house, led by one wearing a black coat and a pipe in his mouth, followed by three men; One is Fan Sangu wearing a herringbone scarf, a tall man with a black robe, and a middle-aged woman holding a Buddhist bead in her hand.

The middle-aged woman made me feel a little familiar, not herself, but her face, which once had some similarities with the eyebrows of another young woman I met outside Shennongjia. And the young woman is suspected of being Shi Changgeng's lover; It was she who made me inadvertently detonate the internal contradictions of the corpse gate.

Soon the door to the room opened, and four people came in one after the other.

I don't need to introduce the leader, I also know that he is the famous master of the corpse chasing door, and he is not benevolent!

The fat man told me that the Shi family has been in control of the corpse gate for many generations, and it is the largest family in the corpse gate, with a very strong background, and there is no sign of decline, and it is still thriving. This can be known from Shi Buren's three sons and one daughter, and the dragons and phoenixes in each person.

The younger generation may not be as strong as the older generation, but it represents the development momentum of a family, a surname or a force. If the younger generations can't do it, no matter how powerful the predecessors are, it's useless, because there is no successor!

The lifespan of the people of Qimen is actually not much longer than that of ordinary people, after all, Qimen acts against the sky, and God does not allow too long-lived old monsters to appear. It is very amazing that Miao Wu in Miao Village can live for one hundred and fifty or six.

I looked at Shi Buren, he didn't look like a man in the south at all, but like a bearded northeast man in film and television dramas, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a tall figure, but he was darker, his face was full of beard, and he still had a pipe half a foot long and the size of a can in his mouth.

I suspect it could hold half a pound of tobacco.

"Hey, hey." Shi Buren looked at me and grinned, revealing a mouthful of black, smoky teeth.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Donal, what do you want to do when you arrest me here?" ”

Shi Buren smiled and groaned, his mouth and nose suddenly looked like a stove with firewood, the smoke was rising, and he could smell the choking smell of smoke from afar, and he said for a long time: "It's nothing, I just want to ask you for a favor, and there will be heavy thanks after the matter is completed." ”

"Help?" I wondered for a moment and said, "Your faction is full of talents, why do you need my enemy to help?" "I focused on the word enemy, and the bite was extraordinarily heavy.

"Enemies? Hahaha! Shi Buren laughed, his voice was quite rough, and the glass windows rattled, and he said with a smile: "I don't think that we are enemies, even if we are, we can turn enemies into friends." ”

"The revenge of killing a son can also be resolved?"

I squinted my eyes, this Shi Buren is either too deep in the city, or he is a pervert, and he can give up anything for the sake of profit; If that's the case, this person is terrible. The hatred of killing the father is still not shared, and the revenge of killing the son will only be stronger, as long as there is a person who licks the calf, it is impossible to say the word resolution.

"Why not?"

Shi Buren stretched his hand and said with a smile: "Tianyu fought against you, and was killed by the enemy, that is his life should be like this, no one can complain, besides, I have sent someone to avenge him, but it didn't work, that is also fate." ”

I was speechless and asked Cangtian, in my heart, is this guy a human or a corpse? Are there any normal human emotions?

"That's your parent." I reminded him that it felt like he was talking to not a person, but an inexplicable walking corpse.

"Do you know how to breed Gu worms?" Shi Buren didn't answer, but asked me a question.

I was stunned for a moment and nodded slowly.

Shi Buren took the pipe from his mouth and said, "Gu is the king of insects, starting from a hundred insects, fighting, devouring, survival of the fittest, and the last remaining one can become a Gu." ”

I felt a chill down my spine and said, "What does this mean?" ”

Shi Buren grinned and said: "Raising children is actually similar to raising Gu, the one who survives is the dragon among men, and the one who can't survive is his life." ”

"You regard raising children as raising Gu?" I felt a chill rush from the soles of my feet to my head.

"What's so strange about that?" Shi Buren spat out a puff of cigarette and said, "At the beginning of human beings, they competed with hundreds of millions of their kind, and the one who swam the fastest, the luckiest, and the most powerful could descend on the world, which was far better than the tragedy of raising Gu, wasn't it?" ”

"This ......" I asked the sky speechlessly, is this Shi Buren a normal person? Is this kind of thing said by a normal person? Is there still the most basic human ethics? At the same time, I seriously suspect that he deliberately said this to dispel my doubts.

Shi Buren seemed to understand what I was thinking, smiled, and said, "The coming day is long, we can slowly get to know each other." ”

After speaking, he clapped his hands, and saw a girl in a white robe walking in with her head down, standing respectfully beside Shi Buren, and said timidly: "Father." ”

"You're so good to serve Ma Chun." Shi Buren took a puff of flue.

"Yes." The girl's voice trembled visibly, her hands pinched together, and her knuckles turned white.

Shi Buren looked at me again, grinned, turned to leave, and throughout the whole process, he didn't look at the girl next to him, as if it were air.

I was a little confused by his appearance, this girl kept calling Shi Buren's father, she should be Shi Buren's daughter, but he ordered her to serve me, obviously as a maid, and it was a little inconsistent with his identity.

Soon Shi Buren led the people away, and the door was closed; Looking at the girl in front of me who had her head down from beginning to end, I asked, "What is the relationship between you and Shi Buren?" ”

When the girl heard my voice, her slightly delicate body shook slightly, and she paused before saying, "He is me...... My father? ”

"Father?" I frowned slightly, puzzled, "He adopted you?" ”

According to common sense, I am afraid that only adopted daughters will be used as subordinates, and it is unlikely that they will be born personally, but when I think of Shi Buren's words just now, I am not very sure.

"No...... No, it's a pro...... Biological. The girl seemed to have mustered up a lot of courage to say this, and her knuckles pinched harder.

I don't know what to say for a while, my own children are used as people? What kind of medicine is sold in this Shi Buren gourd? After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't figure it out at all, so I turned my attention back to the girl and said, "What's your name, look up." ”

"My name is Shi ...... Xiaomei. ”

The girl's voice was like a mosquito, her fingers pinched twice, and she slowly raised her head, revealing a slightly immature face; The face is like a peach blossom, the eyes are like water, the willow eyebrows are slender, pretty, and completely worthy of the standard of a beautiful girl, according to the current popular scoring standard, it can be reached to nine points, and the poisonous butterfly Miao Miao is at the same level.

It's just that the peach blossom face is thin and difficult to hide tears, the willow eyebrows are long and easy to feel sad, there is no blood on her face, she is faintly a little pale, and there is a lot of sadness between her eyebrows, and she is timid.

"How old are you?" I asked again, feeling like she was definitely not big.

"Ten...... Eighteen. Shi Xiaomei lowered her head again and replied in a low voice.

I frowned slightly, I was only eighteen years old, and I was enough to live up to a generational gap with myself.

After a pause, I asked, "Don't you have any people at the corpse gate?" Why did you send you to serve me? What is the purpose of your father sending you? ”

There were obviously two maids before, and they looked very professional, far better than the timid girl in front of them.

Shi Xiaomei trembled, shook her head, and stopped talking; I don't know if I don't know, or I can't say.

"In that case, then you go down, I have hands and feet and I don't need to be served, there were two maids here before, just call them here." I waved at her, Shi Buren definitely has ulterior motives, I can't make this girl cowardly pretend, undercover.

"Don't drive me away!" How do you know that the girl knelt on the ground directly when she heard this, and said with a heavy cry: "If you drive me away, my father will know and kill me." ”

"What?" I instinctively thought I had misheard, and said, "Say it again?" ”

The girl trembled all over, and begged, "Father let me serve you, if you are not satisfied, he will kill me, please don't drive me away, please." ”

As she spoke, she looked up eagerly, biting her lip, tears rolling in her eyes.

Thousands of alpacas rushed by in my heart, scolding this unkind person or animal?

Killing your own daughter?

I can't believe it, although I didn't find anything suspicious on Shi Xiaomei, but it's really hard to imagine that a father would threaten his own daughter with poison.

It's so unbelievable that it's completely unreasonable.

At the same time, I am even more sure that Shi Buren's plot against me must be very big, big enough to make him ignore human morality, or at least play on the spot.

I was silent, and when the girl saw this, the last trace of blood on her slightly immature face disappeared, her teeth were broken and bloody because she was too hard, and tears fell from her eyes.

"Get up, I won't chase you." When I saw that she didn't look like a fake, my heart softened slightly.

"Gongzi Xie, Gongzi Xie." Shi Xiaomei wiped her tears, stood up, lowered her head again, and a pair of small hands seemed to have no place to put them, pinching each other, and the bones were pinched white.

After thinking for a moment, I pointed to a leather chair next to the stove and said, "Don't stand, sit there." ”

Shi Xiaomei nodded, walked over and sat down quickly, but her butt was only half sitting, still with her head down.

After that, I tried to ask her a few questions about Shi Buren, but she shook her head and didn't speak, and her face showed a look of horror.

It dawned on me that she didn't know, but she couldn't tell.

At the same time, I also wondered, what kind of person is Shi Buren? What is he up to? What does it have to do with me?

But after thinking about it for a long time, I didn't have a clue at all.

Soon, the sky outside was completely dark, and the village outside was lit up, dotted with dots.

Not long after there was a knock at the door, I was stunned, shouted to come in, opened the door and walked in three women, two of them were the two maids before, one with water in his hand, one with a meal box, and the other with a stack of clean clothes.

"Childe, new clothes for dinner and bathing are ready, please use them slowly, if you need anything else, just ask, we will do our best to meet you." The woman with the meal spoke, and seeing that I had nothing else to say, the three of them put down their things, turned around and went out and left.

I smelled the food in the box and felt hungry.

It is said that a series of things happened halfway through the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and it was the fourth day of the new year, and the first meal of the new year had not been eaten.

After thinking about it, I decided not to care, fill my stomach and then say, anyway, it has already fallen into the hands of Shi Buren, if he wants to harm me, there are many ways and opportunities, and there is no need to do anything in the meal.

So I washed up, and after washing, Shi Xiaomei had opened the meal box, she took out the food and put it on the table, and poured me wine.

I sat down, poured a glass of wine, picked up chopsticks and ate, seven dishes and one soup, meat and vegetable matching, very delicious, large portions.

Shi Xiaomei timidly poured wine for me on the side, I glanced at her, handed over a bowl of rice, and said, "Don't stand still, sit down and eat together." ”

Shi Xiaomei nodded, sat down and slowly picked up the rice bowl to accompany her, but her chopsticks only stretched out to the plate of vegetarian dishes in front of her.

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