The cupboard was softly covered with clothes on all sides, and four birds were locked in it, with their feet tied with ropes, and at the first sight of the light, they all wanted to run out, flapping their wings but could not fly, and only opened their mouths without sound.

"Sparrows, bulbuls, blackbirds, and house swallows are all common species here." Jiang Xun squatted down behind me, looked at them for a while, and stretched out his hand, the birds were all with their mouths open, waiting to be fed.

He smiled: "Looking at the size, these birds are all adults, but they look like newborn chicks. ”

"Why did Ziwei keep them in the cupboard?" I thought of the plucked bird we saw on the road, a spirit, but it was not hurt to see them, they were all in good spirits, but, "Won't they call?" It doesn't seem to be the first day I've been here, I live next door, and I don't usually hear a sound. ”

Jiang Xun grabbed one and examined it in his hand, and said: "There is no damage, and there is no disease in the larynx, I am not sure of the reason, or it may be because of fright." ”

"Why does he want to raise birds and hide them secretly?" I think it's too unreasonable, it's not worth the trouble to hide it from us.

"It's a question that only he knows." Jiang Xun said: "Since he did this, there must be his reasons, these birds are impossible for us to take away when we leave, you will never think that he is just a childish and has a few pets." ”

I didn't know what to say, so I said to him, "You go back first, I'll talk to him here when he comes back." ”

"If there really is anything, what you are waiting for is just a lie." Jiang Xun stood up and said, "He won't tell you the truth." ”

"But what else can I do?" I took a deep breath, "After leaving Dongyan Town, more and more things are far beyond my control, and other things are even more ......."

My chest was stuffy, my brows were furrowed tighter and tighter, and I heard Jiang Xun say: "You go back first, if you have anything to say, I'll ask tomorrow, don't push too hard, it's okay if he doesn't say it, I'll help you keep an eye on him, don't worry, nothing will happen." ”

"Let's go."

I nodded, went back to the room and thanked him, and asked Jiang Xun when he planned to tell them that he had woken up, he only said that he was not in a hurry, did not give me a deadline, and said: "At least find out the situation in Dongchuan first, this place is empty, sparsely populated, and there are too many things we don't know." ”

I hummed, thinking about what I had just heard from Bai Zhong, hesitated for a moment, was caught by him, and asked me, "What do you think is wrong?" ”

"I've been refining a magic weapon for Ziwei for the past few days, using the vessel of one of their local refiners, I think that old gentleman, he may know something."

Jiang Xun groaned and said, "I can go and check it." ”

"Don't." I stopped: "There are too many traps in that place since the entrance of the alley, it is difficult for you to sneak in now, judging from our contact, that gentleman should not be a bad person, when your injuries are better, we can investigate slowly, and we are not in a hurry at this time." ”

Jiang Xun chuckled and said, "Okay." ”

Although he usually doesn't keep a straight face, that kind of laziness doesn't make people feel easy-going and close, and occasionally convergence, it only makes people feel cold and produce more distance, but every time he laughs like this, I run out of words, I can't say anything, and I stand like a log.

The atmosphere froze, and I remembered my face and asked him: "The short knife I made for Ziwei will be completed soon, I want to take this opportunity to help you and Tang Jiao make a self-defense thing, do you have anything you want?" ”

"Huh?" His tone rose, "Magic weapon?" ”

I hummed, he thought for a while, and said: "I don't need to defend myself, if I increase my combat power, I can add one, but I don't need you to do it yourself, I have one before, it is a bow and an arrow, and when the matter of Dong Chuan is solved, I will go and get it, it has not been used for many years, and I will trouble you to help repair it when the time comes." ”

"No problem." I agreed, no wonder he was so skilled at drawing a bow when he was in Muzhang County, it turned out that the magic weapon he used before was a bow and arrow.

"By the way, there's one more thing I want to tell you."

"You say." Jiang Xun adjusted his position and looked up at me.

"The monster reappeared after we fell into that ravine." I said, "Situ Yao suspects that the thing is refined by the demon Dao that occupies Puxian Village, and he said that he had seen a legend related to it in a picture album about the ancient period that he had read when he was a child. ”

Jiang Xun didn't seem to expect me to say this, and he was a little distracted, and asked me, "What legend?" ”

I said, "I don't know, he didn't say when I asked." A lot of the time threads we have now are related to that so-called antiquity, and I wonder if there will be any connection between them. Maybe we can try to find the album that Situ Yao said first, and find out what the monster is. ”

He didn't answer, and I hesitated for about a minute or two, and then he said, "Say whatever you want to say." ”

My heart is seen through, and my cover in front of him is like a thin veil, and I want to cover it, and I can see through it at a glance.

"Before I came, Liu Ruo said something to me."

He mumbled, and I said, "It's about vaporizing form." ”

"Ice shield?" He knew it as soon as he mentioned it.

I nodded, "He said it was caused by the cold air in your body. ”

Jiang Xun seemed to be a little sensitive to this topic, pursed his lips, and still mumbled, waiting for me to continue.

In this way, it is in response to my previous thoughts, the cold on his body is not a congenital origin, it is his own cultivation, the deeper the spell, the deeper the cold, which caused today's appearance.

I thought so, so I said it directly, Jiang Xun did not deny it, was silent for a long time, and said softly: "Some things happened in the past, I didn't have a choice at that time, the cold entered the body, replaced everything, in order to live, I can only learn to control them, accept it as a part of me, the stronger it is, the more I can be the same." ”

I didn't ask him what happened, and when I heard him admit it, I wasn't surprised, and continued the previous topic: "I said this because when we talked to Situ Yao about Qianbing Suo, he mentioned that Qianbing Suo is also a typical form of gasification, and its essence is a compressed cold air. ”

Jiang Xun's response slowed down, and I said, "I know that this comparison may not be appropriate, but the self-healing ability and toxins in your body have been more strongly manifested in that monster, and you and that evil path also know how to vaporize into shapes." There are two intertwined points in the arts, and when we catch him, we may be able to find a solution to the reason why you are like this and the solution to those toxins and cold. ”

"And then?" Jiang Xun muttered a little, "I found it, what about after that?" ”

"I don't know." I clasped my hands together, paused, lowered my eyes and raised a smile, and said softly, "Maybe...... At that time, you will be able to be an ordinary person, like everyone else, and you will no longer have to have so many worries, no more forced to practice those spells, no more adventures, and no more dangers. ”

"Shen Qing." Jiang Xun looked at me with a slightly moving expression, "Thank you." ”

"Between the two of us, it should be me to you if you want to say thank you." I said: "You and Tang Jiao have come with us all the way because of our affairs, and it is you who have helped me a lot, starting from Dongyan Town, every time, I remember." ”

The moment I raised my eyes, I don't know if it was my delusion, I saw something flash in his eyes, and quickly covered it, and the remaining faint red in his eye sockets, like diluted blood, said to me with a smile: "Since you remember, then when everything is over, don't forget to repay me." ”

I just smiled, knowing that he was joking, but then, the hand I put on the table was held by him, and I looked at each other, Jiang Xun looked at me deeply, and said to me: "I yearn for the kind of life you describe, but as long as there is a second, I will not complain about any suffering I have endured in the past, nor will I regret every decision." ”

His breathing was heavy, his clear voice trembled a little, and he asked me, "Shen Qing, do you understand?" ”

The words are earnest, and the oppression is moving.

This second in his mouth-

Do I understand?

I asked myself in my mind, feeling that the beating was abnormal, as if it was going to go beyond my thinking and give me an answer with my physiological instincts.

The palm of his hand was cold, but my chest was so hot that I didn't dare to look at his face anymore, but the look in his eyes was always imprinted in my mind, and I couldn't shake it off.

Fortunately, Jiang Xun only had questions, and he didn't ask me to answer him, and when he returned to the room that day, Liu Ruo said at that time, "I just think that Mr. Jiang has an interest in you." Hovering in my ears many times, I washed my face with cold water a few times to press down the hot scalding before I regained a little sense.

Even if...... Even if what he said is true, I met Jiang Xun Pingshui, why did he have such thoughts about me, for no reason, a stranger, how can this make people feel at ease.

Or is it that we are not two strangers at all, and it is not the first time we have met in Dongyan Town.

When night fell, I lay in bed, tossing and turning, thinking about it all, and the answer I came up with was a yes.

At that time he asked me if I was a good friend of him, and he made an agreement with my master to take me away when I became an adult, and it was so clear that I could still think that he was as strange to me as he was to me, and that he had seen him before the heavy snow when I was nine years old, or even earlier, or that we had known each other before.

I rolled over, buried my side face in the pillow, and two words came to my mind: two little guesses, reunion after a long absence.

I closed my eyes, curled up and grabbed the clothes on my chest, and for the first time I sincerely hoped that the seal that Master had set for me could be broken and that I could find the past I had experienced, whether it was sad or joyful, and I desperately wanted to accept it.