"Sikong Zhui Ming is dead."
Under the moon, Qing Shisan dressed in a light shirt and bamboo hat, sat alone on the roof, mumbling to himself.
Can a dead person really be resurrected?
Qing Shisan sneered at this, but at this moment, he had no worries and believed this evil.
"I'm not dead-set on working for him."
"I didn't believe his words without reservation."
"He saved my life,"
"Gives me a reason to live,"
"Since we have nowhere to go, it might not be a bad idea to stay with him for now."
It didn't take long for Qing Shisan to find a valid reason for following Zheng Xiu.
He looked at his re-grown legs and gently moved the night sky in front of him with his cigarette rod - the empty night sky was like a pool of thick black ink. The movement caused strange ripples in circles.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, if he hadn't experienced it personally, he would never have believed that such a magical thing existed in the world.
He felt that he could easily tear away the night and enter another space: a space where he could roam freely like a fish in water.
call out.
In the darkness, a petite figure climbed over the wall silently and jumped into Zheng's house.
She tried her best to suppress her rapid breathing - why did she say "she"? When Qing Shisan first had this idea in his mind, he couldn't help but think strangely. Ever since he watched that strange heart merge into his body, his five senses had become incredibly sharp. With just one glance and just by the sound of the other person's breathing, he could instinctively identify the other person's gender and age. In the past, this was not impossible, but it was impossible to do so easily, just like intuition.
"Hey hey hey——"
Qing Shisan, who was sitting on the roof, became inexplicably excited.
He lowered his hat and let the smoke swallow him up.
…
"Qing originally wanted to do it neatly, but she seems to be very familiar with your family."
Qing Shisan tied the girl into a rice dumpling and threw it in front of Zheng Xiu's room. He knocked politely and waited quietly for Zheng Xiu to walk out of the room. Qing Shisan said truthfully.
"Are you familiar with our family?"
Yue Linglong was already asleep in the room.
Zheng Xiu looked at the girl who was tied up in confusion - at least she could tell from the bumps under the night clothes. The girl's night clothes had many holes and were stained with blood. The edges of the wounds were sharp, and they should have been injured by swords. She was looking at herself with frightened and angry eyes.
In this world, Qing Shisan has just become a stranger, and he is already as meticulous as before. He first gagged the girl's mouth to keep her quiet, then covered the girl's face again and kept it in the same position, so that Zheng Xiu could still maintain a sense of pleasure like opening a blind box while exploring the girl's identity.
Zheng Xiu glanced at her with a strange look, and Qing Shisan shrugged with a "whatever you want" expression: "If you like, I can open her mouth... but she is quite noisy."
"Is it?"
Zheng Xiu took off the woman's veil.
Under the scarf, a dirty face was revealed. The woman's face was pretty, with a small nose and watery eyes - provided there was no large light blue "birthmark" on the left side of her face. Zheng Xiu suddenly stopped breathing and approached the girl's face.
"woo woo woo woo--"
The girl thought that this dog-like handsome man was going to do something else to her, so her pupils shrank and dilated into a slightly oval shape, and she whimpered in horror.
Zheng Xiu stretched out his fingers and gently touched the "birthmark" on the girl's face.
Qing Shisan looked at him strangely and looked away silently. For some reason, this situation always gave him the feeling of a rich man teasing a good girl.
Zheng Xiu touched it, and it felt cold to the touch. He could clearly feel the uneven texture like scales.
The rest of the skin feels smooth and moist to the touch. It feels like a girl's skin. It's unmistakable.
The two touches are very different.
The more Zheng Xiu touched the girl, the redder her face became. He stared at Zheng Xiu as if he wanted to eat someone.
It's scales.
"Are you a snake?"
The appearance of the snake at this time does not tend to be "snake-like", it is beautiful and dignified, but also has a bit of girlish playfulness. Zheng Xiu didn't recognize it for a while. The "snake" in the other world has stepped out of the human path with half its foot and entered the snake path. Its eyes are vertical and its scales cover half of its face. It looks no different from the beautiful snake.
Most of today's snakes still look like humans, except for an inconspicuous "snake scale" on their face.
"How come you don't know how to care about women?"
Zheng Xiu complained about celebrating the thirteenth day.
Qing Shisan filled the snake's mouth with a rag.
Just as Zheng Xiu pulled out the crumpled rag and made a sound of "Boo~", the snake cursed loudly: "You're going to kill me and I'm going to suck you..." He quickly stuffed the rag back.
Qing Shisan squinted his eyes and laughed, and asked: "Do you pity the fragrance and cherish the jade?"
Zheng Xiu pretended not to understand the joke in Qing Shisan's words. It would be better to say that Qing Shisan's current attitude made Zheng Xiu miss him quite a bit - it was as if Qing Shisan had never left. He glanced at Qing Shisan and said, "Take it with you and find a place where you can talk."
Qing Shisan carried the sobbing snake on his shoulders and asked, "Where are you going?"
After a while, Zheng Xiu had an idea: "Go to Ba Liufu Medical Center."
…
When Scar Lao Liu stared at the door with two copper bell-like eyes, the two "gods of plague" who had just sent him away came to visit him again late at night. One of them was carrying a woman writhing like a maggot on his shoulders. When talking about "people", his eyes clearly showed a look called "despair".
He wished he could travel through time and space, go back to a month ago, and strangle himself to death. Why is it so hard to imagine being related to Zheng Haoran's son?
Scar Lao Liu was about to say something when Zheng Xiu popped out a broken piece of silver with his finger. Taking advantage of Scar Lao Liu's shock, he squeezed into the hospital and closed the door with a bang.
"I'll let you use your land."
After a while.
Zheng Xiu signaled Qing Shisan to throw the snake to the ground.
With a sad face, Scar Laoliu hid in the woodshed next door and plugged his ears.
Snakes have an unruly temperament. As soon as they pull out their mouth parts, they start to curse, and they start to curse, and they can't speak well.
Zheng Xiu had no choice but to turn the snake over and drive Qing Shisan out.
"Probably this location..."
Before Zheng Xiu "took action", he felt sorry for the snake for several seconds. You can't blame me for this, you told me your weakness. He put two fingers together and started poking at the snake's "weak spot".
"Hmm~"
"ah!"
"Woooooooo..."
"嘤嘤嘤!"
Qing Shisan was smoking silently outside the door at first, but the girl's melodious "screams" began to be heard from inside. As he listened, Qing Shisan was dumbfounded, and he didn't notice the lumps of cigarette ash falling on his big toe. .
He was curious about what a man and a woman were doing inside to make such a sound.
About half an hour later, when Qing Shisan entered again, Zheng Xiu had already untied the snake. The snake sat there obediently, motionless, completely gone from the unruly look that he had been scolding not long ago.
"As expected of Zheng Haoran's son."
Qing Shisan sighed in his heart, hung the cigarette rod on his waist, and sat silently behind Zheng Xiu.
"Tell me why you sneaked into Zheng's house."
Zheng Xiu's tone was not harsh or ferocious, but when he spoke, he raised two fingers and shook them in front of the snake's eyes. When the snake looked at it, its whole body convulsed and its eyes were frightened, as if those two fingers were deadly weapons in the world.
The snake told his story honestly.
Snake was chased by the "Jingzong" and fled all the way to the imperial city. When she passed by Zheng's house, she felt that it was safe for some reason, so she climbed over the wall and crawled in. Unexpectedly, she fell into Zheng Xiu's clutches.
"Jing Zong?"
Zheng Xiu was stunned and turned to Qing Shisan.
Qing Shisan currently "tentatively" believes Zheng Xiu's story. He comes from another time and space. Seeing that Zheng Xiu seemed to have never heard of "Jingzong", he was surprised. He believed Zheng Xiu's words not long ago and said calmly: "Jingzong is the 'state religion' in Daqian today. There are branches all over the country. About twenty years ago, after the Northern Barbarian Rebellion ended, the previous king set it up in order to seek the 'method of immortality'. The previous king seemed to believe that there was a place called 'Pure Land' in the world. As long as you find this place, you will live forever, stay young forever, and establish Jingzong as the 'state religion'."
Qing Shisan didn't know much about Jingzong, but he roughly knew that Jingzong seemed to be recruiting strange people from all over the world before Wei Yangzun was alive. He didn't know the specific purpose. Since the death of Wei Yangzun, Jingzong disappeared from the sight of the people for a time due to changes in officials in various places.
After listening to Qing Shisan's words, Zheng Xiu's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. The way the Jingzong acted sounded like... why did he feel like "Ye Weiyang"?
"Is it a candle?"
Zheng Xiu's first reaction was naturally to think of the "first stranger" who had been hidden in the cracks of history, but according to Qing Shisan, this Jingzong was founded by "Wei Yangzun" in order to seek "immortality" .
Zheng Xiu speculated that it was because news of his father's deeds in the Northern Barbarians came back. When Wei Yangzun learned about the stranger, he naturally had the dream of immortality. This seems to coincide with the world line that Zheng Xiu initially experienced.
"Why does Jingzong want to hunt you down?"
Zheng Xiu asked.
Snake subconsciously touched the blue scales on her cheeks, her face turned red, and she glared at Zheng Xiu fiercely. She was about to say, "My aunt, I won't tell you," but when she thought of the feeling of being "poke seven inches," she immediately became obedient. Tell the whole story.
"I heard what they said. They said that I was 'filthy' and needed to be 'purified.'" Snake gritted his teeth: "I was caught by them, and they locked me in a cage. Unfortunately, they didn't know that my body It's as soft as a bone and can easily get out of the cage."
After hesitating for a moment, Snake glanced at Zheng Xiu secretly. She didn't know why, but she always felt that the man who was poking her seven inches over and over looked familiar, but she couldn't help but dislike him. How did this guy know my weaknesses?
The snake scratched his head and couldn't figure it out.
"The reason why they refused to let me go may be because I accidentally learned the biggest secret of Jingzong."
Qing Shisan and Zheng Xiu heard this and asked at the same time: "What secret?"
"The saint of Jingzong is... Wei Ruyi."
Wei?
Zheng Xiu frowned and had some suspicions when he heard the last name, but he still asked: "Which Wei Ruyi?"
Qing Shisan's eyes narrowed: "Princess Daqian, Wei Ruyi."
Zheng Xiu learned more about this so-called "state religion" from Qing Shisan.
Since the founding of Jingzong, it has never carried out activities such as propaganda or demagoguery with great fanfare. In the eyes of the common people, Jingzong is a mysterious guy who wears white gowns and acts low-key. The reason why Qing Shisan looked a little solemn when he mentioned "Jingzong" was because he once worked for a high-ranking official, and the senior official inadvertently mentioned that Jingzong would occasionally select people with special talents from the prisoners on various death rows. , the selected person will be directly removed from the list of death row prisoners, never to appear again, and disappear from the world.
To a certain extent, this is an act that goes beyond the laws of Daqian.
"Princess Daqian, Wei Ruyi."
Zheng Xiu repeated the name softly. When he changed his past and came to this world, he had heard of this "eldest princess of Daqian" more than once. Since the death of Wei Yangzun, this eldest princess had become a powerful figure in the government and the public.
Because the young emperor was unable to take care of himself, the eldest princess of Daqian stepped aside and became involved in politics, and took charge of the state religion as a "saint". Not to mention anything else, these two identities alone were enough to arouse Zheng Xiu's curiosity and attention.
He never knew that Old Wei had such a daughter. Even if history is changed and the world line is changed, it is impossible for someone who has never been heard of to appear out of thin air. "Before" Zheng Xiu had contact with the royal family. Not to mention being familiar with them, he had at least met several of the princesses of the old Wei Dynasty, and there was no such person as "Wei Ruyi".
Jingzong's behavior was somewhat similar to that of "Ye Weiyang" in the past, which gave Zheng Xiu more reason to investigate further.
While the snake became obedient after being manipulated seven inches, Zheng Xiu found out from the snake's mouth that her life path had indeed undergone many changes. She was adopted by a big white snake when she was young, and was later abandoned by the big white snake, but she did not join the Quanquanlou—perhaps there is no such organization as the Quanquanlou in this world. She wandered around in the market, living a beggar-like life, wandering around. In the blink of an eye, ten years later, she almost fell into the hands of Jingzong.
When Zheng Xiu asked her if she knew a charming woman with wavy hair and blowing reed leaves, Snake looked blank, but Zheng Xiu already had the answer in his mind. Snake has not met "Ye" in this world and is alone.
…
The two of them said goodbye to Scar Laoliu and returned to Zheng's house.
"You just let her go?"
Qing Shisan asked curiously.
"if not?"
Zheng Xiu asked back.
"nothing."
Qing Shisan couldn't understand Zheng Xiu's logic.
Zheng Xiu thought for a while, then wrote a list and handed it to Qing Shisan.
"You can check for me the whereabouts of these people. The more detailed the better."
Qing Shisan glanced at the list. Most of the names written on it were unfamiliar to him, until he saw "Pei Gaoya". Thinking of the "story" Zheng Xiu said, Qing Shisan vaguely understood something, nodded, and took the order.
Qingshisan left for more than ten days.
One day in the market, Zheng Xiu saw a dirty little orange cat licking the hair between its paws pitifully on the street. He was stunned, then rushed forward and pinched the soft flesh on the back of the orange cat's neck. Hold it in your hand.
"...You, you, you...are you still there?"
Zheng Xiu remembers the orange cat, a creature from Chang Dark. But when he blurted out and wanted to call out the orange cat's name, three words were spinning in his mind, but he couldn't remember them. The words became the word "you" on the tip of my tongue.
This cat has a name. What is it called?
Zheng Xiu's head started to hurt.
But no matter what, he finally met a familiar boss. Zheng Xiu instantly had the urge to hold the orange cat in his arms and rub it hard.
The orange cat shrank its neck and whimpered pitifully.
"Meow?"
It looks like an ordinary cat at the moment.
(End of chapter)
