Liu Jing was born in Nanyang. He embarked on the path of spiritual practice at the age of twenty and has been practicing for forty years now. But because of mediocre qualifications, there is no hope of breakthrough. I came here to find a legendary treasure jade ring.
He pretended to be a practicing alchemist and traveled around. He happened to meet the Wei family and was treated as an honored guest. Along the way, he also accepted the young master of the Wei family as his apprentice.
In order to collect clues about the treasure, he lived in the Wei family. It would not be bad to use the power and financial resources of the Wei family to continuously provide him with training expenses.
However, he did not believe in the character of the young master of the Wei family. Although this apprentice was diligent in greeting and serving him every day, Liu Jing only taught him some ordinary Qi training methods and did not teach him much.
When Liu Jing heard the news about the treasure from his apprentice, a hint of excitement flashed across Liu Jing's face, but he still pretended to be calm. He grabbed Wei Qi's arm and took him into the house before asking in a low voice: "Where is it?"
"An old craftsman from our Wei family said that when we were building the Juancheng County government office, he asked a magician to bury a piece of jade to ward off evil spirits in the base of a certain wall. It was somewhat similar to what the master said. Similar. However, I don’t know which wall foundation it is buried under.”
"Huh? What does that alchemist look like?"
"This old craftsman is old and said that he only met the alchemist once and he can't remember it now."
Liu Jing noticed a hint of cunning flashing in Wei Qi's eyes, and understood that this good disciple must know the exact information, but just wanted to use it in exchange for his own benefits.
He remained calm and pondered for a moment before saying, "It's not uncommon to see evil-suppressing things buried at the base of walls. Let's find out more."
"What the master said is that the disciple must find out. If it is true, because it is an important government place, the government must be notified of the matter and find a reason to take the master to check. However, the disciple thinks that they will not embarrass my guard. House's."
Liu Jing finally laughed at this time, patted Wei Qi on the shoulder and said, "Well, as a teacher, I know it's right to accept you as my apprentice." However, he already had a plan in mind. It was just the county government, so he would go look for it at night. That’s it.
Song Xin heard them making noises in the house and didn't know what they were talking about. He did not dare to leave the yard, but stood at the door of his hut waiting for instructions.
When Liu Jing and Liu Jing were talking, they would glance at themselves from time to time, always feeling that they had no good intentions. Now he just feels like a little bug in a spider's web, unable to escape and can only wait to be eaten.
The day passed peacefully.
Late at night, Song Xin tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. At this moment, she heard Liu Jing's door creaking open, and then there was a soft sound of footsteps.
He thought Liu Jing had given orders, so he quickly stood up and tried to open the door. At this moment, I heard Liu Jing’s cold and stern voice outside:
"Stay in the house and don't come out!"
"Holy shit, how did he know I was going to open the door..." Song Xin subconsciously turned her head and looked at the corner of the room to confirm that there was no surveillance. He felt like the protagonist of The Truman Show, being watched from beginning to end.
Song Xin trembled and quickly retreated to his bed. After waiting for a while, there was no movement outside.
However, he always felt that something was staring at him from outside, and he was too scared to fall asleep. It was not until late in the night, when his tiredness almost made him unbearable, that he heard the sound of very light footsteps coming from the courtyard.
Someone had obviously crept in. It's just that Song Xin was scolded by Liu Jing just now, so how can he dare to go out now?
The people in the yard seemed to be heading for Liu Jing's house. He waited outside for a while, seemingly listening to what was going on in the house. After finding no one there, he gently opened the door and sneaked in quietly.
The man seemed to be very careful, turning around and closing the door.
There was another moment of dead silence. Song Xin really wanted to go out and check. What if it was a thief? But thinking of old man Liu Jing's words, he could only give up the idea and simply sat on the straw mat with his chin in his hands in a daze.
"You are very obedient, even more obedient than the previous boys."
Suddenly Liu Jing's voice appeared in his ears, which frightened Song Xin so much that he almost collapsed.
But there was obviously no one around.
Only then did he realize that the person who was tiptoeing just now was probably Liu Jing. I don't know why he went out so late.
"MD, just like my former head teacher... I was scared to death."
Cold sweat had already soaked through his clothes, and he couldn't help but shiver when the cold wind blew. If I really go out, I don't know what I will face now. This feels like Bluebeard's Bride. My curiosity tempts me to see it, but I don't dare to go...
Liu Jing seemed to be able to sense Song Xin's panic. He sneered and fell into silence again.
"There should be no surveillance at this time..." Song Xin couldn't help but look towards the corner of the room. There was nothing but spider webs and mildew spots.
Being frightened like this, he naturally lost all sleep and stayed up until dawn. After opening the door at full light, he saw that everything in the courtyard was as usual. The door of Liu Jing's room was open but no one was there. He relaxed a little and breathed a sigh of relief.
I cleaned the yard as instructed, filled up the water in the water tank, and watered the herbs. A Wei family servant came in with a few food boxes. When he saw Song Xin, he didn't speak to him. He just put the boxes down and left.
"The third box is your morning food, take it and eat it." (Breakfast in the Han Dynasty was the morning food, lunch and dinner were the seasonal food, two meals a day)
Song Xin was frightened and trembled again. It turned out that Liu Jing had been here all along, and she didn't even notice him.
"This man is like a ghost. He hides out of nowhere and scares people. He is simply sick."
But I am still afraid, and the hunger in my belly is real. But Song Xin was not so stupid that he didn't understand the rules and ate first. He first gave Liu Jing two food boxes and placed them on the stone table in the courtyard before he dared to eat his own.
But for some reason, before night fell today, the Wei family actually brought him another meal. Although it was not much, there was wine.
The alcohol at this time is very low in alcohol content, similar to mash. Originally, two meals a day was not enough, and my stomach started growling in the afternoon.
This made Song Xin overjoyed. By the time he finished eating these things, it was already dark. Not sure if it was because of the effect of alcohol, Song Xin only felt sleepy for a while, and fell asleep unconsciously.
The two lived peacefully together for half a month, during which time he would get an extra piece of food every day before going to bed. At the beginning of the period, he was a little grateful to Liu Jing, thinking that he gave him extra meals because of his leg injury.
But in the past half month, Song Xin often felt sleepy during the day. When I woke up in the morning, I was still yawning nonstop. I always felt that I didn't get enough sleep. I felt even more tired than at 996. Once while eating at the stone table, I couldn't help but fell asleep due to sleepiness. His body also lost weight rapidly, and his complexion became very poor.
In addition, he always feels a dull pain in his wrists, abdomen, back, and ankles. He found that there was another cycle of pain. Within every five days, the drowsiness and pain would worsen day by day, then ease within two days, and then another cycle would begin.
After careful inspection, I found several pinprick-sized wounds on my wrist, as if they were bitten by bugs at night.
He only said that hygiene in this era was poor and there were many lice and bed bugs. But having a place to live and food to eat, even if the old man is more suspicious, is much easier than the handymen outside.
On weekdays, except for the servants who came to deliver meals and Wei Qi who often came to ask for elixirs, there were no other guests. Liu Jing also seemed to have some trust in Song Xin. Even if he fell asleep during the day, he would not wake him up. But no matter how much he ate, the ribs on his chest gradually became clearer day after day.
On this day, Liu Jing suddenly told Song Xin: "I'm going out for a few days, so don't go out at night."
"Yes, Master Liu, I remember it."
That night, after hearing the sound of the door of Liu Jing's house, Liu Jing left.
However, after learning the lesson from the first night, Song Xin did not dare to go out at all, just in case this elusive old guy was spying on him somewhere.
He lay on the straw mat and looked blankly at the spider webs on the roof. Recalling the jade ring she once held, it seemed to have disappeared this month. Song Xin rummaged through her clothes but could not find its whereabouts.
"Where did it go? It's so strange, I still hold it in my hand... I heard a voice at that time, saying, "You can't die, take the jade necklace with you... But then I did not die."
He turned over and over in his mind for a long time but had no idea.
However, at this moment, outside the house, Liu Jing stood like a statue. After staring at Song Xin's house for a long time, he squinted and nodded, and finally disappeared into the dark night like a ghost.
For two days, Song Xin did not see Liu Jing. He also obeyed Liu Jing's instructions and did not enter his house or step out of the house at night. In the past two days, Song Xin's sleepiness during the day has reduced a lot, and the wounds on her wrists and ankles have not increased.
A few days passed and Liu Jing still didn't come back. Song Xin started to grumble in his heart. He was too lonely and bored, so he could only stretch his legs and legs in the yard and take care of the herbs in the nursery.
Until the fourth night after Liu Jing left, a low thunder rolled from the sky, and suddenly there was heavy rain and strong winds. The thunder and lightning cast shadows like ghost claws on the branches next to the yard, flickering constantly.
Song Xin was about to eat the food sent by the Wei family when he heard a strong wind and the door of Liu Jing's house banged. It must have been blown open by the wind.
When Song Xin heard the noise, her first reaction was that she was afraid that the rain would wet the things in the house, so she subconsciously wanted to open the door to check. But at this moment, his body suddenly froze as if struck by lightning, his fingers were clasped like eagle talons, and his body seemed to be pressed by some huge boulder, unable to move at all.
"This...this is that feeling, here it comes again!!" Although Song Xin couldn't move her body, her mind was not frozen.
He still clearly remembered experiencing this kind of extreme silence and oppression in prison.
However, this time was extremely short, but it was hard not to realize it. He experienced this feeling twice, once before jumping off a building to his death, and once in prison.
The thunderstorm and heavy rain outside seemed to have stopped for an instant. In a moment of silence, he heard a familiar, strange, and heart-stopping voice:
"Don't go out or you won't survive the night."
