Lan Ruo and I stood in place, both stunned, I wanted to comfort her, but I saw that her lips were closed, her eyes were shining, she didn't say anything to me, she took the sachet in her hand and turned her head into the side room.

I was in a dilemma, I didn't know where Lan Ruo's friendship started, and I didn't know what Ziwei's abnormality was, so I finally sighed and didn't care about anyone. Back upstairs, who knew that there was an even more worry-free Tang Jiao, who was looking around at my door at this time.

"What's wrong with you?" I couldn't help but say.

Tang Jiao looked at me, "Shopkeeper Shen, why is your face so bad today?" ”

I pinched my eyebrows and asked him, "Is there something wrong?" ”

"I just saw Little Brother Shen pass with a gloomy face, are you two quarreling again?"

"Nope." I patiently repeated, "Is there anything wrong with you?" ”

"I ...... Hehe, what can I do. ”

As soon as he laughed, my temples jumped on both sides, and I felt that nothing good was happening, and sure enough, I heard him say, "That's it." ”

He raised his chin to me, with an expression that I should understand, and when he saw that I was silent, he said, "Oh, that's it, the treasure chest that Situ Yu said, that pearl, you don't want to take a look at it, open your eyes?" ”

"Tang Kao." I took a deep breath, "Count me begging you, accept your thief's heart, have you forgotten what happened when you wanted to take away the four night pearls in the tomb in Muzhang County?" ”

"I promise not to take it away this time, I won't touch it, I just want to see, what kind of bead is in it."

"We are on the territory of the Situ family, and you want to fight their family heirloom idea." I said, "You don't think the four of us are enough, do you?" ”

"What about it...... No play? He wilted, and I warned: "Don't look at me with such an expression, this is not child's play, you have so many treasures in Fengxian Pavilion, why risk your life for a pearl, the magic used by these people is unpredictable, if we fall out with them, we don't know how to die." ”

Tang Jiao shuddered and smiled ugly, "Shopkeeper Shen, I'm wrong, can't I, I just don't look at it." ”

I stared at him, was silent, and said, "You'd better be sincere, Tang Jia, think about what Cangyu said before we left, do you hope it will come true?" ”

Tang Jiao's face changed completely, he let out a few words, yawned and diverted the topic, "I have to go back to make up for sleep, why are you so sleepy, Shopkeeper Shen, you should rest early." ”

Seeing that I ignored him, he walked back to the room with his tail between his legs.

I couldn't understand the logic of his life for money, shook my head, pushed the door and wanted to see Jiang Xun's situation, but when I got closer, I found that the quilt on the bed was neatly spread, and the person who should have been lying on it was gone.

I panicked, and wanted to chase out and call Tang Jiao back to ask him what was going on, just took two steps, his mouth opened, and the word "Tang" was halfway said, and suddenly I heard a sound from the window behind me, and even though it was covered by a shadow, I didn't wait for a reaction, and the moment I made a move, someone covered my mouth with one hand and pulled it aside, and said in my ear: "Don't shout." Shen Qing, it's me. ”

It's too close.

His chest pressed against my back, and the breath he exhaled blew on the top of my head, and as if there was nothing, it burrowed into the cranial cavity with his voice, and the numbness extended outward from the bones, and my whole body tensed, soaked in the cold around him, and I felt the tip of my heart tremble.

Seeing that I was no longer moving, Jiang Xun let go of me, the sound of breathing was faintly audible, he walked to the door and plugged in the latch, sat down at the table, poured a cup of cold tea into his abdomen, turned his eyes, and saw that I was still standing in place, raising his eyebrows, "What?" ”

"You ......" I noticed the change in tone in my voice, slowed down, and asked, "When did you wake up?" ”

"One night a few days ago."

"Then why didn't you tell us?" I was surprised, and my brows tightened, "Didn't Tang Jiao stay by your side during the day, and he didn't tell me that you were awake." ”

"Because he doesn't know either." Jiang Xun turned his face sideways and said to me, "Close the window first, let's talk slowly." ”

I went to close the window as I was told, and the room suddenly became much darker.

"Sit."

I pulled out a stool and sat down, and when I saw that the sleeve on the right side of his shirt was hanging empty, it was not a good feeling, and asked him, "Why are you pretending to be unconscious and hiding it from us when you are awake?" ”

He seemed to be extremely thirsty, and poured another cup of tea and drank it all, looking unhurried.

I said, "And you just woke up, shouldn't you have a good rest, how did you just come in through the window?" Where have you been? ”

Jiang Xun smiled and said, "I finally asked a key. ”

He rubbed his fingers on the rim of the teacup and said, "Taking advantage of the fact that they were defenseless against me in the past two days, I went around Dongchuan, surveying the terrain and touching the bottom of Situ's house. ”

"You're crazy!" I was amazed, "Do you know how badly you've been hurt?" ”

"Of course I do." Jiang Xun said softly: "Only in this way will they not be wary of me, and we will have a chance." ”

He poured another cup of tea, took a sip, and said, "Besides, no one knows better than myself what my body is doing." ”

I looked at his gray face, and I couldn't be reassured at all, and said, "When you say this, you don't even have a little blood on your face, and it's not convincing at all." ”

"When you did it to me just now, you didn't think about the extent of my injuries at all." He smiled and glanced at the severed arm, "It's cracked." ”

"How could I have known it was you in that situation just now?" I hurried to his side, and sure enough, I saw the blood seeping through my coat, and I was startled, and asked, "Do you want me to call a doctor for you?" ”

He shook his head, his smile looking extremely weak, "Time is the best medicine for me, and the doctor can't help me get my broken arm back." ”

As soon as these words came out, hope ignited in my heart and I asked, "Can your arm really be connected?" What do we need to do? ”

The pot of tea was almost finished by him, and his chapped lips were stained with water, but there was no relief.

"We went back to the ravine to look for your severed limb, but there were so many pieces of corpse down there that we couldn't find it."

He snorted, "I saw it when I fell, and it's normal to find that kind of place." ”

"What then?"

He smiled again, "What can I do?" It depends on whether it has a conscience and whether it is willing to grow back on its own. ”

"You can joke about that kind of thing."

"Not a joke." Jiang Xun smiled, "Remember when I told you about my past?" ”

I nodded and panicked, and heard Jiang Xun say, "As long as the breath is still there, I will always come back." ”

"They always do," he said. ”

A child's tooth will grow new teeth, nail hair will grow new when it is cut off, muscle wounds will heal over time, leaving a scar, but who has ever seen a new arm grow after a person's arm has been severed from the shoulder?

"Shen Qing." He called me and said, "Don't tell anyone about me waking up for the time being, and don't let Tang Jiao come in during the day, he is too noisy, so he says I need to recuperate." ”

"What else do you want to do?" After asking, I said, "The Situ family has agreed to join forces with us to deal with that evil path, they are both people who practice puppet control techniques, they know each other more than us, and with their strength, we can be much easier." ”

Jiang Xun smiled: "It's a good idea, but it's a pity that I'm not used to being comfortable by nature, so I can't do it if I put my life in the hands of others in exchange for a chance to breathe." ”

I was silent.

"Moreover, I have also found some things in the round building in the past two days." Jiang Xun looked at me and said, "Shen Qing, I don't believe in the people of the Situ family, whether they have anything to do with the disaster in Dongyan Town or not, at least I can confirm now that they must have done something against the righteous path." ”

My heart skipped a beat and I asked, "What did you find?" ”

"This round building has nine floors, the first floor is for guests to live in, the second floor up to the sixth floor is a guest room, Situ Yao's room is on the seventh floor, he is the only one on the whole floor, and at night, the candles of the round building are only lit here, because the servants of the Situ family can only stop here, and the upper eight floors are where the head of the family, Situ Yu, lives, and he hardly leaves the room unless necessary."

Jiang Xun said: "At first, I thought he was ill and needed to recuperate and it was inconvenient to show up, but it wasn't until I watched him walk into a room on the top floor that I heard a suppressed roar of pain from inside soon after, and I realized that things were not as simple as I thought. ”

"Ninth Floor...... What does that do? ”

"I've been out there to inquire." Jiang Xun said: "Some people say that it is the place where the successive heads of the Situ family and the inheritors of the family have passed the practice, after the old family master Situ Jing died of a serious illness, Situ Yu took office, although he has passed the age of standing, but he has not yet married, and there are no children under his knees, so in recent years, no one has entered the ninth floor except himself, including his younger brother Situ Yao." ”

"Do you suspect that there is something wrong with Situ Yu?" I asked.

"It's not a suspicion, it's a certainty."

Jiang Xun said: "Situ Yu has a weakness, every time he leaves the room on the ninth floor, his physical strength will be violently consumed, and his defense will also be reduced, so I once took advantage of the fact that he approached the ninth floor at that time, and in the room where he left, through the gap in the window lattice, he saw that it was covered with chains as thick as children's arms, and they were tied with yellow silk with incantations written in cinnabar. ”

"What's locked in the room?"

"It's a person." "It's not certain yet, he's locked in a bed and covered with a black cloth, and I can only see a human figure, I can't see his face," he said. ”

The top floor of the round building of the Situ family, just above our heads, was so close to us that a person was imprisoned in this way.