Chi Yuxian accepted Qian Yue, and was still very grateful to Hua Manlou. The other party not only took him in, but also gave him things.
No wonder so many people want to be friends with each other, but they feel comfortable getting along with each other.
Late at night, a moon-like scimitar was placed neatly beside the pillow, and the gloomy man wearing only a snow-white shirt relaxed his eyebrows.
"I'm very grateful to him. He's such a good guy."
After writing the last sentence, Chi Yuxian let out a long sigh of relief, lowered his head and looked sideways at the moon-moving knife that was in his hand.
He raised his hand and gently rubbed the simple pattern on the scabbard, feeling very good.
So much so that the assassination he encountered tonight was nothing to him.
*
Hua Manlou was right. Chiyu was peaceful in the next few days. Those people were indeed worried about the Hua family.
The young man in black, who was taken care of by Huamanlou again, was sitting in the yard. At his hand was a pot of pink oncidium that exploded. The small flowers were full of foils, and there was a sweet smell similar to butter filling the surroundings.
Chi Yuxian had never grown flowers before and didn't know much about oncidium. He smelled the fragrance in a daze and went up to smell it.
"How about it?"
A warm voice came from behind, and Chi Yuxian immediately straightened up, pretending that the person who just made the action of bending down to smell the flowers was not him.
"nice."
He had a straight face and answered concisely, looking cold.
Hua Manlou burst out laughing, but he didn't point out the other party's poor disguise - at least in his opinion, the other party was just a hedgehog with its thorns standing up.
Fortunately, Chi Yuxian didn't know what Hua Manlou was thinking, otherwise he might act cold and unapproachable for several days in a row.
Winter is coming soon, and the winter solstice is just a few days away. The temperature has obviously dropped, and many flowers in Baihualou have quickly declined.
However, there are still some cold-resistant flower species in the yard that are blooming freely at this time, so Baihualou has flowers in full bloom all year round.
Chi Yuxian quite likes this yard full of flowers, and sometimes sits there for the whole day.
Now he has no worries about food and clothing, and those who want to kill him dare not come to Baihualou.
In a daze, Chi Yuxian seemed to be living a retirement life ahead of schedule.
Tonight, there was a different person serving food at the restaurant. He looked tall and thick, standing there like a hill.
When Hua Manlou took the lacquerware lunch box, she asked why the previous waiter didn't come.
It was originally a greeting, but who would have thought that after hearing this, the strong man trembled all over and his face changed a little.
"He is sick and will probably have to rest at home these days."
Hua Manlou nodded slightly, and just when he was about to say the next sentence, the strong man hesitated for a moment and then lowered his voice and said:
"Playboy, you should go out less often these days."
"oh?"
After hearing this, Hua Manlou raised his eyebrows slightly to express doubt: "Why is this?"
"Recently..." The strong man looked around warily, then leaned in front of him and replied in a low voice, "It's haunted!"
The last two words were spoken with a bit of unconscious fear: "Li Gouzi is sick because he bumped into a ghost on the way back yesterday! He's not awake yet."
There are flowers all over the floor, but I don’t change my appearance, but I am murmuring in my heart.
"Okay, I understand, you should be more careful when you go back."
"Hey."
The strong man responded repeatedly, and after saying this, he hurried back while it was still light.
There was a sound of jade clashing, and Chi Yu opened the bead curtain and walked out.
He heard the conversation just now, and felt a little strange in his heart. They seemed to be talking about hauntings recently.
"Let's eat first."
Hua Manlou raised his hand to rub his forehead and said softly.
He walked to the hall first, and while placing the food, he said: "The identities of those people from the past few days have been almost verified."
"oh?"
Chi Yuxian came over to help: "What's going on?"
"They are affiliated with the Death Building and were hired to come to Jiangnan half a year ago."
Huamanlou set out the dishes and chopsticks and frowned slightly: "It's just that I have never heard of this matter. If it hadn't been for your matter a few days ago, they might have hidden it for a long time."
"Death-killing building?"
Chi Yuxian was deep in thought, his gloomy and profound facial features looking extremely cold under the setting sun.
Like Huamanlou, he had almost never heard of this matter, and looking through his memory, there was nothing related to the fatal building.
As soon as you hear the name, you know what it does. It is full of extremely vicious people. As long as you pay, they will do anything. If it is not completed once, they will send people one after another.
Logically speaking, an organization with this style should not be afraid of the Hua family, unless...
"The people who are afraid of the Hua family are not the Suiminglou, but the people who employ them."
Hua Manlou and Chi Yuxian had almost the same idea. After thinking about it, they said this before the other party spoke.
"But the Hua family has never been an enemy."
Chi Yuxian, who had just arrived in this world not long ago, understood this matter.
"No," he said and then refuted himself, "They came for me. Is it because they are afraid of the Hua family and don't want to attract attention?"
Huamanlou felt that this conjecture made some sense: "Let's eat first. You'd better not go out recently."
"good."
Chi Yuxian nodded in agreement and didn't insist on going out alone.
He sat down to eat, his movements were a little slow, his eyes were not focused, and he looked like he was in a daze.
Although Huamanlou cannot see it, it can also be noticed.
However, he couldn't help but let Chi Yu sit in a daze, after all, it was the other person's freedom.
Chi Yuxian, who was thinking about it, lowered his eyes slightly and ate the food mechanically. He just stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, repeating the process over and over again.
He was thinking about something related to the news he heard on the street a few days ago.
There was also talk of haunting on the streets that day, and he had seen that ghost the night before.
Wearing red clothes and wandering around the deserted city late at night, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit weird, but it is also almost haunted.
What's strange is that, according to what the vendors said, the woman in red had already been buried, and she actually climbed out again.
But Chi Yuxian was sure that the other party was a human and not a ghost - the moonlight was bright that night, and there was obviously a shadow on the other party.
"The food is getting cold."
Huamanlou didn't hear any movement for a long time, so he spoke helplessly to bring Chi Yuxian, who was deep in thought, back to reality.
"Feel sorry."
When Chi Yuxian came back to his senses, he realized that he had been too immersed in his thoughts and had been chewing on his chopsticks.
"What's wrong?" Huamanlou thought for a moment, and then asked with a slightly worried tone, "Still thinking about the matter of taking the life building?"
"no."
Chi Yuxian shook his head first, and then spoke again.
"I was just thinking about the haunting."
"You believe this?"
"fine."
The young man shrugged, his sharp eyes as if they were carefully carved: "Lu Xiaofeng has asked this before."
He mentioned a few words casually, and then told Huamanlou what he had just thought about.
"Did you meet him when you went back?"
Hua Manlou frowned slightly, not expecting that the other party would encounter such things that night.
He sighed silently and thought to himself: "He should have been allowed to stay that day."
"I'll send someone to check."
Chi Yuxian raised his eyes and looked at the young man in white sitting opposite him. After thinking for a moment, he wanted to persuade him not to worry about this matter.
But then he thought about it, Huamanlou was not as unsympathetic as him, and he was probably worried when he thought about the residents who had been impressed.
Not necessarily for him.
*
After clearing away the dishes, the sky had completely darkened. There was no moon to be seen tonight, only stars in the sky.
Chi Yu sat idle in the yard and looked up at the stars, his black clothes blending perfectly into the night.
Perhaps he felt too tired to keep his head up, so he walked to the grass nearby and lay down.
Tomorrow is the winter solstice, and the temperature at night is a bit low, let alone the grass.
Almost as soon as he lay down, Chi Yuxian noticed a chill, which was transmitted to his skin through his not-so-thick clothes.
The grass on the side of his face scratched his skin from time to time, causing itchiness.
Chi Yuxian sniffed and then sneezed.
"Why are you lying on the ground?"
Huamanlou heard the movement on the second floor, so she lowered her head slightly and faced him, raising her voice slightly and asking.
"fine."
Chi Yuxian raised his hand to rub his nose and said in a deep voice, "I'll be up in a while."
That's what he said, but he lay down for a quarter and a half before getting up. His body was full of chills, and his shoulder blades were stung by something unknown, and it hurt and sore when he got up.
As he walked upstairs, he casually clasped the blood scab on his left wrist. He accidentally picked it off and touched the blood before the pain came.
Chi Yuxian: "..."
He lowered his head and looked at his wrist. The wound that hadn't healed was now getting worse and it was probably going to leave a scar.
His eyes only fell on it for a moment, and he quickly lifted it up. As he walked forward, he nonchalantly wiped the wound that was still bleeding out with his sleeve.
The material of the clothes he was wearing was not very good, so it was a bit rough, and there was a pain when he brushed against the wound.
Chi Yuxian's breathing became rapid, and a numbness spread rapidly from the wound to his whole body.
He stood there for a moment, waiting for the situation to calm down a bit before moving forward.
Huamanlou heard that he had stopped just now, so when he came over, she asked, "What's wrong?"
"fine."
Chi Yuxian pretended to be calm, the expression on his face was cold, and his voice was a little stiff.
He disguises himself well, to the point where outsiders would find him difficult to get along with, as if he has no emotions or desires.
However, this outsider does not include Hua Manlou. He is a gentle person and is good at getting along with others.
Not to mention that in the past six months, he had basically figured out Chi Yuxian's character and understood the other party's situation based on those letters. Therefore, when the other party spoke, he immediately sensed something was wrong.
"about to rest?"
"Um?"
Chi Yu Xianqiang steeled himself to talk to Hua Manlou. At this time, he did not realize that his current situation was very similar to that of a flower that was about to decline.
"I just practiced a piece of music and I want you to hear how it goes."
Hua Manlou was smiling, and standing next to him was a completely different gentleness.
