The night breeze filled the forest with the fragrance of the woods, blowing on the clothes of the two. After Dongfang Shiming finished speaking, he turned his gaze back to Jia Qian's body, waiting for his judgment on his guess.

After listening to what he said, Jia Qian didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

After a while, he nodded as if he had woken up from a dream: "...... What you said is not bad at all. ”

"I'm afraid that one day those vicious guys won't be able to hold back and find out where I am, and that's the end of it. ”

Jia Qian couldn't help but tremble slightly as he spoke, looking extremely worried, "I'm still in my prime, my ambition has not been rewarded, my fame has not been achieved, and I don't even have a wife, so I just walked on Huangquan Road, but I can't ...... It's miserable. ”

Dongfang Shiming also felt sad for him, but he didn't know why he wanted to laugh.

I heard him say in a low voice: "The sage once said...... That, it's better to die than to live, I think it's ...... That, it makes sense. ”

"Yes, who is not afraid of death. Dongfang Shiming kicked a stone at his feet again, listening to the muffled sound of it tumbling and jumping into the grass beside the road, "You are not ashamed of this feeling. ”

"Alas, I also know that I sacrifice my life for righteousness. But just going to the end of someone else's pot without knowing it, I always feel that I ...... It's not quite right. Jia Qian was afraid that Dongfang Shiming would laugh at him, so he was busy explaining to him again. But halfway through his words, his momentum was diluted by the worry and fear in his heart.

Dongfang Shiming also felt a little pity for him. This kind of thing, no matter which ordinary person it puts on it, the fear in his heart should be greater than the illusory sense of honor that it brings.

He looked at the starry sky, and began to think about countermeasures.

The two fell into a brief silence, each breathing in different shades.

Jia Qian felt uneasy, and peeked at Dongfang Shiming from time to time, wanting to see how he would react after learning about his bad luck.

Suddenly, Dongfang Shiming stopped. Jia Qian also quickly stopped and looked back at him.

Dongfang Shiming bent down and folded a dog's tail grass and played with it in his hand. He raised his head and asked Jia Qian, "By the way, you probably won't let this kind of rumor spread all the time, right? Have you done anything before?"

Jia Qian had a bitter face: "How could it not be." But it failed several times. ”

"How?" Dongfang Shiming asked next.

Jia Qian scratched his head: "That's the case...... When this rumor first first started, I was going to stay up in the middle of the night and keep my eyes under the window to see who was playing a prank on me. ”

"However, after a while, I didn't see any sneaky figures, but I don't know when, at the door, it will ...... There was one more corpse. Jia Qian couldn't help but be terrified when he thought about it, "It couldn't have been the corpse that came to me by itself, it must have been a ghost." ”

Dongfang Shiming frowned, wrapped the grass stalk in his hand around his fingers, and looked at him incomprehensibly: "Did you do this?"

"No, no, no, there are further measures. Jia Qian shook his head again and again, and continued to recall, "In the next few days, this kind of rumor intensified, and it spread everywhere. That day, I sat at the door of the inn at night, waiting for the corpse to be delivered to the door. ”

Dongfang Shiming nodded and expressed his approval: "Not bad." And what about later?"

"Later......" Jia Qian's expression became more bitter, as if crying in the dark night.

"It's bizarre. During the third watch, I didn't know why I was in a daze for a while, as if I was asleep. But when I come back to my senses, it's ...... The corpse is here again on time!"

Dongfang Shiming tightened the grass stalk in his hand. In this case, most of the people behind the scenes played a little trick, after all, ecstasy incense, lethargy, etc. have such effects, especially hypnotizing ordinary scholars like Jia Qian who have no internal strength, it is more than enough.

"I almost fainted when I saw this. However, I couldn't take care of anything at that time, so I was bold and ...... So he dragged the body away. ”

Jia Qian trembled with his two hands, and seemed to have palpitations to this day, and it could even be regarded as a psychological shadow: "My person in the middle of the night dragged that dead body, it was really terrifying...... After dragging it out for a long time, I felt that there was nothing more to do, and I returned to the inn. ”

"But, you know, when it came the next morning, the corpse came back again!" Jia Qian suddenly patted his thigh anxiously, looking very excited, "It's the one I threw it, and he actually followed me back to the inn! ”

Dongfang Shiming walked over and gently stroked his shoulder, signaling him not to get excited.

But he didn't draw any conclusions right away, because Jia Qian had indeed done what he could, so it seemed that the people behind the scenes were determined to play this joke with him.

"What else can I do? I can't sleep all night, can I? I have to travel during the day, it's so tricky. Jia Qian calmed down, his attitude fell back to the depression just now, and sighed one after another.

The moon had gradually risen to the middle of the heavens, and the sound of the dog barking had gradually fallen silent.

The night breeze was cold, blowing Jia Qian's tiredness. He yawned, after all, it was normal to be tired after traveling eighty miles a day.

Dongfang Shiming has obtained the information that is currently lacking, and he has a more mature speculation about the current situation. Seeing that Jia Qian had the idea of going back, he no longer insisted on it, and the two of them paced back in the direction of the inn together.

On the way, Jia Qian turned his head faintly and proposed to Dongfang Shiming in a wistful tone: "Brother Xian, or else." You're on duty in the first half of the night, I'm on duty in the second half of the night, let's catch the mysterious person behind the scenes, but this will implicate you......"

Before he finished speaking, Dongfang Shiming smiled and shook his head.

His eyes showed pity, and he said to Jia Qian lightly: "The matter has come to this, Brother Jia, the most important thing is no longer a mysterious person, or a corpse. The person behind the scenes has great powers, how can you and I catch him? What's more, the name of the scholar who eliminated evil has already been extremely loud, and even if he succeeds in removing the corpse once, it will be in vain and useless. ”

In fact, he also took into account another point, that is, the purpose of the people behind the scenes.

With this extraordinary ability, he will definitely not be bored enough to entertain a mediocre scholar for fun, he must have his own plan. Since this is the case, he simply made a bet with that person and helped him push the boat down the river, and the bet was that Jia Qian and his life were safe.

"Then what are we going to do?" Jia Qian heard that what he said made sense, and tried to ask for countermeasures.

Dongfang Shiming looked at him, muttered for a moment, and suddenly tore off the grass stalk that had become warm in his hand, and said gently but resolutely: "Have a good rest, tomorrow morning, continue to hurry." ”

Then, with a light hand, he let the broken stalk of grass fly to the ground in the distance with the night wind.

The moonlight anchored in the treetops, and behind the silent coolness, the colors of the mountains faded into the night.