His face is thin, his white clothes are old, his eyes are dull and hollow, and a layer of green stubble grows on his chin, which is completely inconsistent with what Meng'er said about being full of talent and being romantic.

But his expression was flustered for a moment just now, and his intuition told Lin Yanxi that it was him.

"Gu Qing, we are here for Meng'er. She's really worried about you."

When he heard Lin Yanxi say Meng'er, he said angrily, "What is she looking for me to do?"

"Gu Lang. Who are these?" A woman came out of the small door in the alley, she looked pale and weak, dressed in a long coarse cloth skirt with a rose-red turban tied around her head, which added a touch of color to her.

Gu Qing looked back, swept away the gloom in his eyes just now, and gently supported the woman: "Madam, these are my new friends."

Madam?

Lin Yanxi stared at everyone with wide eyes, and found that everyone present was calm except for her.

The woman smiled gently, rubbed her hand over her clothes, and beckoned to them, "Come, come into the house and sit down."

Gu Qing looked at them and was stunned for a while, then turned sideways and said, "Come into the house and sit down."

The woman took them into the house very enthusiastically and poured them tea, but there were only two tea leaves floating in the teacup, and the tea was close to transparent color.

"My husband, he rarely brings friends, he is not good at interacting with people, you usually take care of him more outside, take care of him more."

Gu Qing held her hand and said, "Madam, don't be busy, take a rest, how are you doing today?"

She nodded, no blood on her lips, "Much better."

The room was very simple, with a simple table, a few benches, a bed, and a jar of wine piled up in the corner.

Lin Yanxi glanced at the wine jar and asked, "Brother Gu likes to drink?"

Gu Qing's face was embarrassed, and he said "um" in a deep voice.

His wife helped him explain: "Actually, my husband didn't drink alcohol before, but my body was useless, which dragged him down, and since he accidentally broke his right hand, the piano painting is not as good as before, and his heart is depressed, but he has promised me that he will change, as long as we work together, everything will be fine."

But what she didn't know was that Gu Qing went to sell paintings on the street today, just to exchange for wine and drink.

Gu Qing's eyes showed a hint of guilt, "Madam......

She stared into Gu Qing's eyes and said gently and firmly, "I believe in Gu Lang."

Gu Qing didn't speak for a long time, and staggered her gaze with self-reproach and said, "I, my robe is a little dirty, so Mrs. Lao will help me take care of it."

She kindly helped him take off his robe and put it in the barrel, "Then you sit down first, and I'll go get some water."

Shen Muzhou said, "Please."

Gu Qing's eyes gradually turned cold as the woman walked out of the small courtyard with a wooden plate, and he asked indifferently, "Are you looking for ***?" I don't owe her anything!"

Lin Yanxi was puzzled: "You have a lady with knotted hair? So you don't ask for medicine for your mother, it's all for your wife?"

"You lied to Meng'er."

Gu Qing said angrily, "I lied to her, and she also cut off my hand, isn't this enough to repay her affection?"

Shen Muzhou asked, "You mean, the hand was broken by Meng'er?"

Gu Qing looked puzzled and said, "Don't you know?"

"My wife was originally the concubine of the county order, and my master was a painter in the county order, specializing in painting some portraits of prisoners, and then began to teach the county order lady to paint, we are childhood sweethearts, and gradually fell in love. The town's Master Li has taken a fancy to her, and Master Li is the richest person in the town, but he is in his forties."

"On the eve of the wedding, my wife eloped with me and was arrested by the county magistrate, who took poison in his hand and threatened my wife to either take poison and commit suicide if he would not have this daughter, or leave me to marry Master Li. She was so fond of me that she chose to commit suicide by taking poison."

"I forced her to die in front of the door and rescued the person, but her poison had invaded her internal organs, and I could only hang her with precious medicinal herbs

With her life, Zhihailou knows about the world, and I entered Zhihailou as a luthier to get the secret recipe that can solve all kinds of poisons."

"Later, you probably all know, I took advantage of Meng'er's feelings for me and got a prescription, and when I was about to leave, the landlord found out my identity and detained me in Zhihai Building, and Meng'er asked me to leave a hand before I was willing to come back to save my wife."

At the end of the day, he lifted up his wide sleeved robe, and a mutilated forearm was bare.

"I've got the punishment I deserve, and you, as well as the people of Zhihailou, don't come and pester me again!"

Lin Yanxi didn't expect things to be like this, Meng'er is obviously so good-looking, compared to her, Gu Qing's wife is mediocre, love or not love in this world has long been doomed.

Shen Muzhou was very calm throughout the whole process, and after listening to his story, he asked in a cold voice, "That means you have seen the owner of Zhihai Tower?"

Gu Qing held the teacup in his hand, his finger bones were slightly white, and he let out a heavy "um".

"What the hell are you looking for me for? It can't be Meng'er who called you here, I don't have any love for her anymore."

When he said this, his eyebrows and eyes were as cold as frost, and the tenderness he treated his wife just now was completely in two states, the gentle and considerate Gu Qing in Meng'er's mouth, who was thoughtful about everything, really existed?

Maybe he exists, but he exists only for his wife.

Lin Yanxi's voice was a little disappointed: "Meng'er doesn't seem to remember cutting off your hand, she thought that everything was done by the landlord, she was afraid that you would be in deep danger, and she wasted a lot of energy, please let us save you."

Gu Qing looked at everyone in surprise and quickly regained her composure and said, "It should be that the landlord gave her something to confuse her memory."

The owner of Zhihai Mansion has rare treasures in the world, which is not an uncommon thing.

This matter is explained, but Lin Yanxi still wants to ask, "So everything you did before was to lie to her? You're just using her from start to finish?"

Gu Qing stared at everyone's eyes, didn't speak for a long time, he lowered his eyes slightly, and sighed.

"Then tell her that I'm dead."

Shen Muzhou asked, "In addition to gifts, how can I meet the owner of Zhihai Tower?"

Turning to this topic, Gu Qing's eyebrows and eyes stretched a little and said: "Everyone thinks that the owner of the building lives on the fourth floor, and they have gone to great lengths to find the entrance to the fourth floor, but in fact, the Zhihai Building is built below, and you can't tell how many floors there are from the appearance."

He got up and walked to the mountain of wine jars, and with one hand he laboriously pulled out the bottom jars, and took out a piece of old, moldy paper from it.

"Zhihai Tower is not only a building that extends downward, his entire construction is arranged according to the formation, like a labyrinth, this is a topographic map, which marks the location of the landlord, only those who break the formation can see him, and what gifts to bring is just a disguise."

When Shen Muzhou was about to take over the drawings, Gu Qing retracted his hand again, he was stunned for a moment and said, "Give you this topographic map, I have nothing to do with Zhihailou and the ghost city, you just need to tell Meng'er that I died on the day I left her, and there are no bones left, so that she can break her mind and live well."

"But Meng'er is still waiting for you to redeem her." Shen Muzhou said.

Shen Yu also chimed in on the side, "If it's because of money, I can help you."

Lin Yanxi glanced at Shen Yu, he really looked like a boy with scattered wealth.

Her eyes were deep, her whole person was unusually calm, and she stretched out her small hand to grab the drawing and withdraw it back into her hand.

"It's a promise, and the dream won't remember you again."

He doesn't love Meng'er, she can see it, she asked before how to determine whether a person is sincere, and he always can't see it clearly when he is affectionate, but if you see him love someone, you can understand what he looks like when he doesn't love.

For Meng'er, Gu Qing is like her hope to live, he is her lover, is sustenance, when he doesn't love, Meng'er should live for himself, he can be hope, but not all.

Shen Muzhou looked at her fixedly, white and delicate

The small face and apricot eyes are round, covered with a layer of coldness, always a little disobedient, and I feel that the appearance of her face inevitably makes people want to take a few more looks, knowing what she is thinking.

After taking the drawings, she and Shen Muzhou looked at them together, and then Shen Muzhou withdrew his gaze and analyzed: "We were on this floor before, after two rooms, the fifth brother and the sixth brother were managed here. It's fine."

He deliberately concealed their true identities.

Fortunately, this trip was not without gain, he folded the drawings and put them in the cuffs.

Before leaving, Shen Yu asked Gu Qing again, "Are you sure you don't need us to help you pass the word to Meng'er?"

Gu Qing was stunned, looked at them in a daze, and his eyes fell on the busy figure in the courtyard again, and then slowly shook his head.

A few people said hello to Mrs. Gu Qing and left, Lin Yanxi glanced at him again, he still maintained the posture just now, sitting on the chair, with a stunned look, looking a little decadent.

Shen Muzhou saw her turn his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Yanxi turned his eyes back and continued to walk forward, and whispered: "Meng'er said that he is very good, gentle and considerate, and always thinks about her, it can be seen that even love can be performed when a person wants to deceive you."

Shen Yu looked at this little girl, she obviously looked a little cute, and her grade was not big, how could she sigh such old-fashioned words.

Shen Muzhou patiently enlightened: "Maybe even he can't figure out whether he loves dreams or not, and not all of them are acting."

She secretly thought about Shen Muzhou's words for a long time, and felt that it made sense.

Gu Qing always had a faint hatred when he mentioned Meng'er, he hated Meng'er for breaking his arm, but in the end he hoped that he would die forever on the day he left Meng'er, he said that he wanted Meng'er to think that he was dead, he seemed indifferent and ruthless, and hoped that Meng'er could live well.

He was in love with his wife, and in the midst of his poor life, he had to exchange his paintings for wine, and lied to the woman that he would stop drinking.

For such a man, his wife will not have much comfort with him.

She suddenly said angrily, "After all, I think he only loves himself!"

Shen Muzhou looked at her puffing up like this, and bent the corners of his lower lip.

She walked in front, and several people rushed over from behind, almost hitting Lin Yanxi, Shen Muzhou's eyes were quick, and he protected her in the big box.

The leader shouted, "Hurry up, hurry up, the tea shed in front of you, you can serve tea to the homeless, you won't be able to grab it when it's too late!"