She didn't know how long she had slept, but she vaguely heard someone talking outside.
"Open the door!"
"Yes! Master..."
Immediately afterwards, there was a "didi" sound of swiping the card, and the door that closed Tan Jiajia opened with a "click". The setting sun outside the door blinded her face, causing her to wake up instantly.
Someone is here, probably to let her out. She thought to herself, while squinting towards the door, she saw that the person was wearing light casual clothes, with the light behind her, so her expression could not be seen clearly.
But she knew this person.
He is Murong Ranchun, the grandson of ancestor Murong, and he was the one who locked him up here just now.
Tan Jiajia composed herself, bent over and took a few steps forward, and asked, "Is Mr. Zeng awake?"
Murong Ranchun shook his head solemnly and said nothing.
Tan Jiajia's heart suddenly thumped, and a series of "What should I do if he dies?" barrages flashed through her mind, her face turned green, and she murmured: "It's impossible..."
"Pfft——"
Seeing the despairing look of the other party, Murong Ranchun finally couldn't hold it in anymore and sneered: "I lied to you, Brother Zeng is already awake. I want to see you. Come out quickly and I will take you there."
"Huh?" Tan Jiajia, who was thinking about being imprisoned for intentional homicide, was momentarily confused, thinking, "This guy is kidding me!"
Seeing her dull look, Murong Ranchun couldn't help but remind her loudly: "Why are you so dazed? Come on, Brother Zeng is still waiting."
Tan Jiajia came back to her senses, said "Hello", then ducked out of the house and followed Murong Ranchun...
A few minutes later.
Tan Jiajia followed Murong Ranchun to the outside of the house where Zeng Qi was, and Murong Ranchun left in a hurry. But Tan Jiajia didn't dare to go in, and stood furtively outside the door checking the scene inside the house.
Zeng Qi had already put on his clothes and was admiring the green plants on the table with an expressionless face. Except for the thick gauze wrapped around his head, he looked just like any other person.
Tan Jiajia's arrival naturally attracted his attention. Zeng Qi saw Tan Jiajia outside the door looking hesitant and cowardly, wanting to come in but not daring to come in. He asked directly: "What are you doing standing outside? Why don't you come in quickly?" .”
Hearing this, Tan Jiajia had no choice but to walk in, stood in front of Zeng Qi, and said with a dry smile: "Hey, Mr. Zeng, are you okay?"
Zeng Qi gave her a look that showed you how you feel, and said angrily: "You can't die yet."
After hearing this, Tan Jiajia smiled again and said awkwardly: "Accident! Surprise! I didn't expect you, Mr. Zeng, to be so fragile."
"Then what do you mean, you still have to blame me for this?" Zeng Qi heard her sophistry and was not angry but asked her with a half-smile.
"Well..." Tan Jiajia became bolder when she saw that the other party didn't mean to blame her. She sat directly across from him and took the teapot on the table to pour herself a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. Then he said slowly:
"This matter is really your fault. If you hadn't thought of teasing me, you wouldn't have suffered this misfortune. In the final analysis, Mr. Zeng is still asking for it."
Zeng Qi suddenly felt like he was shooting himself in the foot. But he knew in his heart that he was indeed the one who started this matter. But he can't be blamed for this, it's really because the other person was really acting like that at that time... so he, who has always been serious, couldn't help but think of teasing her and took action... It was so rude. .
But he wouldn't let her know this, so he changed the topic directly: "We haven't seen each other for a few days, and you have become a lot more timid."
"That's right, you don't know what my life is like these days." Tan Jiajia replied.
"Oh?" When she said this, Zeng Qi's curiosity was aroused and he asked, "When you say that, I'm curious about what you did? And you haven't said why you came here yet. of?"
Hearing the other party's question, Tan Jiajia rolled her eyes and knew that the "plane crash on a business trip" excuse she had made at Murong's house would definitely not be able to hide it from him.
After thinking about it, I simply broke the pot and told her vividly what happened to her recently and what she knew. Of course, she concealed her ex-girlfriend and the period after she was turned into a girl.
She originally thought that Zeng Qi would just think she was talking nonsense, but she didn't expect that Zeng Qi actually fell into deep thought after hearing this.
After a while, Zeng Qi finally spoke: "It sounds like your experience in the past two days has been really exciting. I'm so lucky to be able to stand in front of me so alive now."
"Haha... just so so..." Tan Jiajia put on a fake smile, and then drank another glass of water as if to vent her anger, but she was very upset in her heart.
No matter how open-minded and cheerful she is on the surface, after encountering such abnormal events one after another, she will also have some emotional ups and downs in her heart.
When human beings encounter troubles and setbacks, if they find someone to talk to, they may feel better.
So Tan Jiajia did this. She expressed her true feelings to the relatively familiar man in front of her. Maybe that wasn't everything, but this was an experience that Tan Jiajia had never had before.
But the other party's reaction disappointed her. This reaction was more indifferent and perfunctory than believing. It's even better to tell her directly, "Stop talking nonsense, there will be no such thing."
Tan Jiajia raised her head and controlled her urge to cry.
After becoming a woman, I became really sentimental! Maybe the "him" from before will really disappear before long.
…………
Zeng Qi was a little helpless as he looked at the other party's actions to cover up his frustrated emotions. He didn't understand what was happening. Just now she was telling a story enthusiastically, but now she looked lifeless and exuded a decadent temperament.
He thought for a moment and said to Tan Jiajia: "When I heard you talk about your bizarre experience, I thought of something. Do you know where you are now?"
"Murong Villa in Cuifu Mountain." Tan Jiajia replied lifelessly, and at the same time complained in her heart, please, didn't you tell me this when I hung it on the tree before? You are changing the subject forcibly.
Zeng Qi naturally didn't know what she was thinking, so he continued to ask: "Then do you know who lives here now?"
Without waiting for her answer, he said to himself: "There is only one person living in the other courtyard now, and that is the founder of the Murong family. No one remembers his name, and outsiders all respect him as ancestor. "
"Wait a minute..." Tan Jiajia interrupted him, "How do I remember, it's been a hundred years since the Murong Group was established, and the founder..." After saying this, she looked around and saw that no one was outside. He lowered his voice and continued to ask. "Still alive??"
Zeng Qi nodded and responded: "Of course he is still alive. He has celebrated his 208th birthday this year."
Tan Jiajia covered her mouth in surprise, completely forgetting her previous unhappiness, and complained: "No way, you rich people can live so long?"
Zeng Qi glanced at her and said helplessly: "Of course it won't work. Can you listen to what I have to say before interrupting?"
"Okay." Tan Jiajia made an "OK" gesture, closed her mouth and listened carefully to what Zeng Qi said.
It turns out that the reason why ancestor Murong lived so long was not because his family was too rich and he had found a way to live forever. It was caused by a malicious opportunity.
Back then, when ancestor Murong founded the Murong Group, he offended many people because of his interests.
Among them, there was one person who had always held a grudge and secretly learned a forbidden technique at the cost of his life, and then cursed ancestor Murong. The general meaning of this curse is that he will gain eternal life, and all the descendants of his family will die suddenly at the age of forty.
After hearing this, Tan Jiajia couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's so tragic... A person with white hair will give away a person with black hair for the rest of his life. Is this an urban legend in your business district?"
"Uh..." Zeng Qi muttered. "According to my estimation, it is close to ten, because according to records, except for the people of the Murong family who married into the family with a foreign surname, every descendant will die suddenly due to some unknown reasons on their fortieth birthday, regardless of their physical condition. Healthy or not.”
"Then have they ever thought that there is actually no curse at all, but some kind of genetic disease caused by genetic mutation." Tan Jiajia asked next, and put forward an old-fashioned hypothesis.
"Generally speaking, it is unlikely. If a genetic disease is inherited, it will usually be gender-specific. However, the Murong family's death penalty at the age of forty affects both men and women, as long as the surname is Murong. Moreover, according to the power and financial resources of the Murong family, it is really It's a genetic disease. I'm afraid I've found a way to suppress it a long time ago, and I won't let it harm my descendants for so many years." Zeng Qi replied.
When Tan Jiajia heard this, she couldn't help but murmured: "That's really a strange thing."
But at this moment, Zeng Qi suddenly poked her head with his finger and said with a smile: "Don't think about it. The Murong family has been searching for a hundred years and still can't find the reason. Can you figure it out just by thinking about it here?"
"I'm really curious." Tan Jiajia scratched her head and said a little embarrassed.
Zeng Qi asked her again: "So, did you get any information from what I told you?"
Tan Jiajia shook her head blankly. It was not an exam. She had to write a review after listening to a story.
"You, you, you..." Zeng Qi sighed with a hint of disappointment, "I want to tell you that I actually believe in the existence of this kind of supernatural phenomenon. And I naturally believe in what you just said. .”
With that said, Zeng Qi struck while the iron was hot and confessed affectionately again: "In fact, no matter how absurd and bizarre those words are, as long as they are said by you, I believe them. In my heart, you Yanshan is water, the hills will turn into lakes.”
Zeng Qi's words were like a breeze blowing by, ruffling the clear spring in Tan Jiajia's heart, and at the same time leaving an indelible mark on her hard steel heart...
