On the winding path, the scholar in a cyan shirt wiped the sweat from his forehead, looking at the village not far away with a few wisps of cooking smoke, with a slightly excited look on his face.

"Brother Li You? When did you come back? A broad voice came from behind him.

Li You looked back, and a middle-aged man in a coarse cloth shirt was walking towards him quickly with a few pheasants in his hand, and he raised his right hand and waved it high from afar.

"I came back a few days ago, no, I just arrived at the entrance of the village." Li You pointed to the bookcase behind him, and said with a smile: "Brother Liu went up the mountain to hunt pheasants again." ”

Liu Zhuang smiled heartily, "You also know that your sister-in-law likes to eat chicken the most, so she pestered me to catch a few for her after finishing her farm work in the morning." It just so happens that you're back, don't go anywhere tonight, just come to my house for a few drinks, brother, when you're not at home, it's hard for me to find someone to drink. ”

Li You responded with a smile and walked to the village with Liu Zhuang.

"Brother, what was the result of going to Beijing to take the exam this time? Is there a single official and a half-job? Liu Zhuang changed the pheasant to his other hand and reached out to put his hand on Li You's shoulder.

Li You smiled bitterly: "If I pass the exam, I won't be the dejected person I am now, there will definitely be officers and soldiers and attendants beating gongs and drums to see off." ”

"It's okay, it's just that I didn't pass the exam once, my Lao Liu is the most accurate to see people, there are so many scholars in the village, I think you can do it, brother, one day you will be able to go to high school......"

"Champion." Li You reminded.

"Yes, yes, one day I will be the top student in high school." Liu Zhuang waved his hand, "When that time comes, don't forget your brother and me." ”

Looking at the big man next to him confidently swinging his fist and saying this bold statement, Li You's depressed mood in the past few days seemed to be a little infected, and he looked ahead and said firmly: "Brother Liu is right, it's just a failure, when I go home and study hard, I will definitely be able to pass the exam next year!" ”

Liu Zhuang grinned, and said meaningfully: "Fame is naturally the first priority, but brother, Miss Cen has been waiting for you for so long, how can you say that you have to give someone a name when you come back this time, otherwise wouldn't you have done so much farm work in your house in vain." ”

"What farm work?" Li You was stunned.

"You don't know? Oh yes, Miss Cen hadn't come when you left. Liu Zhuang explained: "It is probably the second day of your departure to the capital, I go out to hunt every morning and can see Miss Cen working in your field, if it weren't for her, my brother, you would have been out for two or three months, and you would have missed the season of rice planting a long time ago......."

"Where is Miss Cen now?" Before Liu Zhuang could finish speaking, Li You interrupted him.

"At this hour, I must still be in the ground, maybe it will be time to leave in a while...... But then again, this Cen girl looks like a big lady who doesn't touch the spring water with her fingers, but she didn't expect to really do farm work in the field, but she still looks good, tsk. Brother, you're so blessed. Liu Zhuang sighed.

As soon as the words fell, Liu Zhuang only felt that there was a flower in front of him, and Li You beside him had already rushed out and ran towards the village.

Liu Zhuang touched his head, looked down at the bookcase that Li You threw in place, picked it up and carried it on his back, humming a little song and walking home.

The entrance of the village is about three miles away from Li You's family's field, and although it has been a day's journey, Li You does not feel tired at all when he wants to see the girl at this time.

Not long after, a graceful young woman appeared in Li You's sight, holding her high trouser legs, carefully watering seedlings in the field, and the white calves under her trousers were particularly eye-catching in the sun.

Maybe the weather was a little hot, the woman's sweat-soaked hair was put on her forehead one by one, and the white dress was inevitably stained with some muddy water, but the woman didn't care at all, just wiped the sweat with her arm, and then continued to water the next row.

At this time, Li You no longer had the slightest sense of loss, looking at the beauty who seemed to be a fairy in the sky on weekdays at this time, she did not hesitate to wet her dress in the field for herself, Li You only had an urge in his heart to marry him home immediately.

As if sensing the gaze of the man on the ridge, the woman in the field gently hammered her waist and looked up. Seeing Li You waving excitedly at herself on the other side, the woman was a little surprised at first, then tilted her head and smiled with her eyebrows.

Although she was in a dirty place, the woman in white who laughed was quite a bit out of the mud and had a temperament that was not stained, and Li You, who was watching it, was a little stupid for a while, and was stunned in place, and it took a while to react.

Li You waved his hand to signal the woman to wait for him in place, then stood up, took off his boots, stepped into the muddy water, and prepared to water the remaining seedlings with the woman.

But before he could take two steps, Li You stopped in place, and his smile froze on his face.

Since going to Beijing to catch the exam, the beautiful face of the woman in front of him will appear in Li You's eyes and hearts every day, and now the beloved woman who he misses every day is standing not far away, but Li You doesn't dare to take half a step closer.

The woman wiped the sweat running down her face, and the hair behind her ears naturally fell down, bright and moving. It's just that those originally dark eyes, at some point, have turned into golden vertical pupils, staring directly at Li You.

"I finally had a different dream." Li You lay on the bed in a large shape, staring blankly at the ceiling.

After dreaming the same dream for seven days in a row, Li You felt that he would have a nervous breakdown sooner or later if he continued to do it. Although this dream is still about him and Green Snake, at least it is a different plot.

Squinting his eyes and looking at the sun shining directly outside the window, Li You realized that when he woke up, the time would definitely not be early, and when he touched the mobile phone next to him, sure enough, it was eleven o'clock in the morning.

Although he still felt a little tired, this was not his home after all, and Li You was not too embarrassed to sleep until the afternoon, so he got up and tiptoed open the door.

After carefully observing and making sure that no one upstairs saw him, Li You hurriedly rushed into the bathroom, tucked his messy shirt into his pants, pulled his hair twice, and tightened his belt before pretending to be calm and go downstairs.

Today is Saturday, and in time for lunch, Fusu Road is already crowded with college students and some recent migrant workers, queuing up in front of restaurants against the May sun.

On the first floor of the store, there are also a lot of teenagers and girls in high school uniforms, ordering a few cups of coffee, huddled together and playing mobile games, which is also a rare time for them to relax.

"Senior brother, it's early."

Li You followed the sound and saw that the school girl with a high ponytail was sitting in the position of last night and beckoning to him, and opposite sat a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, staring at a few things on the table that seemed to be tiles and the like, frowning, and muttering something in his mouth.

"Morning, junior sister." Li You said hello with a smile, pulled away the chair next to Su Jianxia and sat down, looked around and asked, "Isn't Boss Wei in the store?" ”

Su Jianxia stood up, "Uncle just went out for a while, it seems that he has something to deal with, and he doesn't know when he will come back." Senior brother sit down first, and I'll make you a cup of coffee. ”

Li You nodded, and his heart began to be a little bottomless, I don't know if the mysterious boss solved the snake demon last night, it is not safe for him to go back today, or go back to school, after all, there are many people in the school, maybe the snake demon will not dare to come?

"I look at this gentleman, it seems that there has been a big bad omen recently, it seems that he has encountered some trouble?" A voice from the opposite side suddenly interrupted Li You's thoughts.

Li You was stunned for a moment, and when he looked up, the young man was looking at him with a mysterious face, looking left and right from time to time, for fear that someone else would hear it.

Getting closer, Li You found that the man was wearing LOTOS, a pair of glasses made of pure gold, the brand's fame and this material, not to mention that this pair of glasses was also around 1 million. On top of that, he was dressed in a tailored suit by Stuart Hughes, neatly dressed.

A few years ago, when he followed his mentor to a foreign academic forum, Li You saw a rich man at the forum wearing a suit of this brand, and it is said that a set of hand-customized high-end suits costs about two or three hundred thousand yuan for a cheaper one, and one million to ten million for a more expensive one.

Looking at the dress, the man in front of him looked like a rich boy from a wealthy family, but the tone of his magic stick when he spoke to him made Li You feel that he was a charlatan who was abducted and deceived everywhere.

"Who are you?" Li You hesitated for a moment, but still asked cautiously. After all, there have been too many strange things in the past two days, and since the man in front of him and Su Jianxia know each other, he must not be an ordinary person.

"My name is Lu Ling, and I come from a family of exorcists that have been passed down for thousands of years." The man spread out his palms, and the few pieces on the table that looked like tiles were lying in the palms of his hands, "I just made a divination, and the hexagram shows that something seems to be pestering Mr. recently." ”

Li You looked down, although he didn't see anything, but he found that those things were more like turtle shells than the tiles he thought.

"Can Mr. Lu tell what it is?" Li You asked tentatively.

Lu Ling looked at the hexagram carefully, "This thing, it should be a demon or something, it looks like a snake?" ”

"Can Mr. Lu tell where this snake demon is now? Or is it why did she get haunted by me? Li You was a little surprised in his heart, this rich boy seemed to have some doorways.

Lu Ling put away the turtle shell, with a strange expression on his face, "According to the hexagram, this snake demon should still be nearby, not far away, but it's just ......"

"But what?" Li You asked anxiously, didn't that boss solve the snake demon yesterday?

"Nothing." Lu Ling shook his head, put on that mysterious expression again, and said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter what the reason is, if you need it, as long as the price is right, I will help you make that snake demon and never suffer in the future." ”

"Price?" Li You was stunned.

"Of course, take the money to do things, brother, you know how dangerous the snake demon is, and I am also on the risk, in case there is something long and short, I can't give some settling-in money or something." Lu Ling's face was taken for granted.

"How does Mr. Lu charge......

Lu Ling leaned back in the seat and leisurely stretched out five fingers.

"Five thousand?" Li You asked carefully.

The corners of Lu Ling's mouth twitched, she withdrew her fingers, took a deep breath and said, "Five hundred thousand." ”

"So expensive?" Li You was taken aback.

"This kind of thing is originally a job of licking blood on the tip of a knife, brother, you go and inquire, how many people can do it? Who else but me can take this job? And if you think about it, 500,000 to buy your life, a steady profit and no loss, in the future, you will have a good year, and there are many opportunities to earn 500,000. Lu Ling began to analyze it seriously.

Li You was a little speechless for a while, and he didn't know how to answer, although he was indeed a little moved, but 500,000 was not a small amount for him now.

Fortunately, Su Jianxia quickly came over with two cups of coffee, and glared at Lu Ling directly, "Don't fool your business here, cheat and cheat everywhere, my senior brother has nothing to do, don't beat his idea." ”

"What is this, I am kind enough to help him solve his troubles, that snake demon is sucking his essence every day through dreams, if I don't make a move, it won't take the next seven days, he will be sucked dry." Lu Ling retorted.

Li You was suddenly a little creepy, and looked at Su Jianxia to confirm whether it was true.

Su Jianxia frowned, "Don't be alarmist here, I am in charge of my senior brother's affairs, and I will definitely not let the snake demon succeed." It's you, it's noon, and Barrister Lu shouldn't forget that the trial will be held in a while. ”

Lu Ling's face changed, she looked at the time of her watch, gasped, quickly stood up and reached out to take the coffee and walked out, but before she could take two steps, she turned back, took out a business card from her pocket and put it on the table, "Brother, I've finished speaking, if you need to call me, if you can't pay 500,000 at once, you can pay it in installments." ”

Originally, I wanted to fool a few more words, but seeing that Su Jianxia had already rolled up his sleeves and was about to make a move, Lu Ling hurriedly took two steps back and turned to leave.

Li You stretched out his hand to pick up the business card, and the dark gold business card was written in flowing lines with a simple introduction.

Tianxing Law Firm.

Lu Ling.

Tianxing Law Firm is a local law firm in Jiangbei Province and one of the four largest law firms in China. It is said that the law firm has basically no unwinnable lawsuits, and although the law firm has the fewest lawyers among the four major law firms, it has always had the highest success rate.

The brief introduction on the business card is enough to show how conceited this lawyer named Lu Ling is, or how confident he is, thinking that with his own strength, he doesn't need those superfluous prefixes at all.

"That guy surnamed Lu is full of nonsense every day, cheating money everywhere, senior brother can't believe his nonsense." Su Jianxia reminded.

"He just said that the basilisk sucks my essence through dreams every day...... Is it true? Li You asked softly.

"It's not as serious as he says." Su Jianxia shook his head, "The snake demon does want to establish some kind of connection with you through dreams, but it shouldn't be sucking essence, the surname Lu just wants to cause you to panic, and then find him to help you solve the problem in a panic." ”

Li You was a little relieved, but suddenly remembered one more thing, "There is another thing, he said that the snake demon is still nearby, didn't the micro boss solve the snake demon last night?" ”

Su Jianxia was silent for a while, but he didn't answer directly, "Uncle said, that snake demon won't come tonight, senior brother can sleep peacefully tonight." As for the rest, there will be results tomorrow. ”

"What does it mean to have results tomorrow? Could it be that the snake demon is communicating with the boss or negotiating or something? Li You was a little puzzled.

Su Jianxia shook his head and didn't answer again.

Li You saw that Su Jianxia didn't seem to have any more meaning to explain, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless, until now, only he, the victim, didn't know the ins and outs of this matter, as if everyone else was selling Guanzi, intentionally or unintentionally hiding it from himself.

Thinking of this, Li You glanced down at the business card he was holding in his hand, and secretly made up his mind in his heart.

"In that case, then junior sister, I'll go back first, and I'll come back tomorrow." Li You seemed to put the business card in his pocket casually, said hello and hurriedly prepared to leave.

"Okay, brother." Su Jianxia stood up, glanced at the place where Li You put his business card, hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Lu Ling, this person, the way to solve the problem is too extreme, he never considers the consequences of the incident, if any irreversible situation is caused, he will definitely let it go, and in the end, this consequence still needs to be borne by yourself, senior brother." ”

What are the consequences of killing that snake demon? It's just that she can't pester me anymore. Li You thought to himself. But on the surface, he still replied: "Don't worry, junior sister, I will think about it carefully." ”

Su Jianxia nodded, although he knew that he didn't listen, but what he had to say had already been said, and the rest depended on how he decided.

Seeing Li You's somewhat hasty back disappear from sight, Su Jianxia sighed, turned around and walked to the bar, and patted the clerk who was dozing off, "Sister Xie, I have something to do upstairs, you can look at the store for a while." ”

The girl with heavy glasses seemed to be startled, and a spirit jumped up, looked around, and found that it was Su Jian Xia who breathed a sigh of relief, "Ah okay, it's okay, you can go and get busy, I'll be alone." ”

Su Jianxia squinted and smiled, went up the stairs to the second floor, walked straight to a room at the end of the corridor, knocked lightly on the door twice, pushed the door and walked in.

Behind the humble door, there is a room that is bigger than the coffee shop downstairs.

From the floor to the ceiling, the room is constructed with fine golden silk nanmu, which exudes a trace of fragrance from time to time. The floor next to the wall was full of some antique vases with a sense of age, and above the vases, the extremely expensive wooden walls were nailed by the boss and hung with calligraphy and paintings.

By the window in the middle of the room, the young boss was lying on a crystal clear jade chaise longue, unfolding the folding fan in his hand and fanning it gently, as if he was closing his eyes to recuperate.

Next to the recliner sat a woman in a long white dress, with a graceful and luxurious temperament between the woman's eyebrows and eyes, but at this time, sitting here, her hands in front of her and rubbing nervously, she was a little restrained.

"Hello, my name is Su Jianxia, and Li You is my senior brother at school." Su Jianxia walked to the woman's side, pulled a stool and sat down, "You are Miss Cen, right?" ”

"You know me?" The woman looked up in surprise and looked at the girl dressed as a student.

"I heard Senior Brother Li You say that in his dream, you are the green snake that killed him." Su Jianxia was blunt.

The woman was silent for a long time before bowing her head and saying, "I didn't kill him." ”

"I brought him into the dream, but the subconscious in his heart will also cause the dream to go in a different direction from the original path." The woman cautiously glanced at Wei Ziqi on the recliner, then looked at Su Jianxia and asked, "If Miss Su is interested, I can take you through that memory again." But I can only bring your consciousness to the past, and no one else can hear or see you, like watching a movie? You can only be a spectator, seeing the cause and effect of everything, but you can't intervene. ”

Su saw that Xia was a little curious, glanced at Wei Ziqi, and after seeing that he didn't have any reaction, he nodded and said, "Okay, then it's troublesome Miss Cen." ”

The woman walked up to Su Jianxia, half-squatted down, and looked at Su Jianxia at eye level, "Miss Su, concentrate, look into my eyes." ”

Su Jianxia hurriedly stared at the woman's eyes and swallowed her saliva, she was also the first time she was taken to visit a person's memory, and she was inevitably a little nervous.

The woman closed her eyes, and then slowly opened them, the originally dark eyes had turned into golden vertical pupils, and those eyes seemed to attract Su Jianxia's attention as if they were magical, Su Jianxia felt that she was getting closer and closer to those eyes, but at this time her eyes seemed to have been sucked, and she could only stare at the woman in front of her, and she couldn't move a single point.

I don't know how long it took, the woman's eyes suddenly lit up, emitting two dazzling lights, and Su Jianxia couldn't open her eyes a little, and her mind was also spinning.

After finally getting used to it, Su Jianxia shook his head and tentatively opened his eyes, only to find that he was no longer in the room just now, but under a high city gate, pedestrians came and went wearing ancient costumes, going in and out of the city gate, but everyone would stare at her from head to toe when they passed her, especially the two legs exposed under her short skirt and the belly exposed by her blouse.

"It's strange, didn't the green snake say that I only have consciousness to come, how can people here seem to be able to see me." Su Jianxia muttered quietly.

"Is it possible that I brought you over directly?"

Su saw Xia stunned for a moment, turned his head and saw those deep eyes, with a slight smile on his face.