Watching Shangguan Li put a cloak on his body, Xitu hugged his small stove and asked.

"Is Sister going out?"

"Or else? Don't ask such obvious questions in the future. ”

She packed herself up, dropped the phrase "take care of the house", and then went out with an umbrella.

It is not false to say to Feng Sibei just now that she has something else to do, she is indeed going to meet someone.

Thirteen incense didn't open the door today, and the shopkeeper had been waiting for a long time when Shangguan Li arrived.

"The young master is upstairs."

She nodded, and then easily found the "Xuanyuan Night Limited House", pushed the door and walked in.

Shen Baiyu, who was originally sitting at the table with a somewhat sad expression, immediately looked up when he heard the movement, and when he saw her, most of the sadness on his face disappeared.

"County Lord."

"I've been waiting."

Shangguan Li also smiled, brushed the snowflakes off his shoulders, and walked up to him and sat down.

Shen Baiyu seemed to be thinner than two months ago, and there was a thick circle of black under his eyes, but his eyes were surprisingly bright, as if the person who was still frowning and drooping his head just now was not him.

"Is the county lord okay these days, I heard that he was injured some time ago?"

Shangguan Li pulled up a smile.

"A small injury, it's long ago. But Brother Shen came all the way from Suzhou, and the stars and the moon are at the same time, do the things I gave you have any results? ”

The news of Shen Baiyu's return to the capital was uploaded to Jingtang early, and she originally planned to come to Thirteen Incense after breakfast, but she was tripped up by Feng Sibei.

"County Lord."

Shen Baiyu's face became unusually serious, and he took out a package from the side, and inside the package was a delicate box, the size of a basin.

When I opened it, there was a strange flower growing inside, with no leaves, only slender snake-like petals hanging on the rhizome, the color of the flower was close to dark red, and there was no smell, but it looked inexplicably uncomfortable.

And under the flowers, a thin layer of black soil is laid.

That is the soil that Shangguan Li dug out of Zhang Yuanniang's yard.

Shangguan Li frowned, and was about to take a closer look.

"Don't!"

Shen Baiyu immediately reminded him, but it was too late, and Shangguan Li's hand touched the petals. Then she felt as if a fog had covered her eyes.

The things around him twisted for a moment, and a strange sense of elegance came out of the depths of his body.

But before this feeling could be formed, it had already been suppressed by Shangguan Li's will. As she became conscious, the strangeness in front of her disappeared.

What appeared in front of her was Shen Baiyu's worried and anxious face, he was holding a bowl of cold water in his hand, and he was going to splash it on her face.

"What are you doing?"

Shangguan Li glanced at him suspiciously.

The latter's eyes widened in surprise.

"County Lord, you, don't you react to this flower?"

Hearing this, it seems that he really studied something from this soil, Shangguan Li was upright, and said.

"I'm fine, but what's the matter with this flower?"

After Shen Baiyu repeatedly confirmed that she had no dizziness and no symptoms of hallucinations, he began to tell his achievements in the past two months.

At first, he wanted to explore whether there was any poison in this soil, and it turned out that there was. But the toxicity is not great, it is basically the extent that the child accidentally eats it and pulls his stomach for three days.

Ordinary mud eating is similar to this reaction.

But because it was something given to him by Shangguan Li, he felt that there might be other mysteries in it. So he didn't give up, after half a month of useless work.

He discovers that a dog's tail grass seed brought in by his sleeve has sprouted in the soil, opening the door to a new world for him on the spot.

Yes, maybe planting something on it will make a difference.

So he started his month-and-a-half-long "planting flowers" business.

Surprisingly, the soil is very good for plants, and the first dog's tail grass grows into shape in only eight days, but the color is reddish, which is different from ordinary ones.

Shen Baiyu wanted to move the grass into a pot and plant something else.

But as soon as the dog's tail grass was plucked, it withered, and the effect was immediate, as if all its vitality had been suddenly drained, and it immediately turned into a handful of dead leaves.

He tried several more times after that, and it all came out like this.

Later, he started using flower seeds, and the results were very different from before, no matter what kind of flower seeds he used, as long as they survived for more than ten days, they would grow into slender petals with a dark red color.

Just like what Shangguan Li sees now.

His father almost set fire to the flower house he used to cultivate because of this, saying that this thing was unlucky.

Shangguan Li nodded when he heard this.

"Ling Zun's approach is right, it seems that this is indeed not a good thing. But what's the matter with you just not wanting me to get near this flower? ”

Shen Baiyu scratched his head, and the faint sadness on his face returned.

"My father wouldn't let me tinker with this stuff at home, so I had to change to a house in the Shen family's suburb of the city. On that day, someone happened to be passing by and wanted to ask for a bowl of water to drink, and when I turned around, I saw the man looking at the flower with a fascination on his face. ”

Speaking of this, he paused, as if he was also puzzled.

"Then I tried to reach out and grab the flower and eat it, but I stopped him. But he was in a strange state, as if he had to do this thing, crazy. ”

"Then I had no choice but to pour a jar of cold water on him. He fainted from the cold, and although he woke up back to normal, he didn't remember that he had gone crazy. ”

"After that, this kind of thing happened a few times, and I found someone to make such a box and bring it to the capital."

When Shen Baiyu said this, his face was also slightly pale. Although he said it as if it was a strange story written in a book, you can only know the strangeness of the scene at that time when you see it with your own eyes.

"I see."

Shangguan Li suddenly said, his voice was like a handful of ice and snow that had fallen on the world at the beginning of the day, dispelling the anxiety and boredom in his heart.

"There are indeed plants that can affect people's minds, and it seems that the hidden meaning here is deeper than I imagined."

But if she remembers correctly, although the flowers in Zhang Yuanniang's yard look weird, she can really see that there are all kinds of flowers.

And there was nothing unusual when she approached at the time.

Could it be that this kind of soil works wonders when cultivated alone, but when it is gathered together, it is useless? It's not a territorial-minded animal.

Moreover, this flower can even affect her for a moment, and she can imagine how serious the consequences would be if ordinary people came into contact with it.

Shangguan Li squinted her eyes, it seems that the secret in Zhang Yuanniang's courtyard is extraordinary.