Inkstone New Tea

Chapter 14

The two sat quietly facing each other, Ye Qinming didn't talk too much, but looked at Gu Xiyan from time to time.

Gu Xiyan could notice that Ye Qinming's eyes hadn't moved away, and felt a little embarrassed, so he changed the subject and asked what he had been wanting to know for the past few days: "I went to the tea garden to look for you a few days ago, and I felt that you were not there. I came back last night You were also injured, these few days...but what happened to you?"

Ye Qinming didn't answer immediately, but just looked at her lightly.Gu Xiyan thought about it carefully and found that she was a little abrupt, and apologized: "I just asked casually, if it is not convenient for you to answer..."

"It's nothing inconvenient. Didn't I say that there are a lot of monsters in Danyang City, so I went out to see what kind of monsters they are. However, they don't seem to want to meet me, so conflicts are inevitable."

"Can they hurt you?"

"Although I am a demon, I am also a body of flesh and blood. It is so strange that I can be hurt." Ye Qinming said casually, but there was a hint of mockery in his eyes.Although he was accidentally attacked, the demon pills of those monsters at least added some effects.

Gu Xiyan couldn't see her expression, she could only tell her hidden mood from her words, but facing Ye Qinming, she couldn't make a clear judgment like ordinary people.

Ye Qinming should have lived for a long time. A demon who has been up and down in the world for an unknown number of years wants to hide her emotions. How much can she see from an ordinary person who has spent eighteen years in a futile life?In Ye Qinming's opinion, the truth and falsehood seem to have nothing to do with her.

Gu Xiyan is not stupid, Ye Qinming will definitely not go to them simply to say hello, but if you think about it, you don't need to tell her.

Seeing Gu Xiyan in a daze, Ye Qinming reached out and waved her hand in front of her. Although Gu Xiyan couldn't see it, the wind brought her back.

"What are you thinking about?"

Gu Xiyan came back to his senses, pursed his lower lip: "It's nothing, I don't know how powerful the power of gods and ghosts is, but you have to be more careful by yourself, don't get hurt again."

Ye Qinming's eyes narrowed, but a sentence suddenly sounded in his mind: "Although you have a high level of cultivation, you still have to be more careful by yourself, don't get hurt again." The voice was clear and soft, but the words of concern were still steady No waves, it seems to be just a simple and straightforward narrative.

Ye Qinming only felt pain in his heart, who said this?But no matter how she recalled, she couldn't catch half of that person's shadow.She was inexplicably agitated, and even vented her irritability on Gu Xiyan who aroused her emotions.

"This is my business, and you don't need to interrupt. Although I keep you, I will only protect you within my ability, so it is useless for you to worry too much."

Gu Xiyan's long eyelashes flickered slightly, and then her eyelids also drooped, and said in a low voice, "Sorry, I was the one who said too much." She was actually just worried about her, not because she was afraid that she would not be able to protect herself.

Ye Qinming didn't know where her bad breath came from. After speaking, seeing Gu Xiyan's lonely and quiet appearance, the discomfort became more obvious.But her pride prevented her from saying sorry, so she opened her mouth, and finally disappeared without a trace with a flick of her sleeve.

Gu Xiyan sat in this posture for a long time, and finally sighed subtly.

After a few days, Ye Qinming never showed up again, and the number of missing people in Danyang City has now reached 14 people, seven men and seven women.In addition to the government posting a reward for clues, someone has raised funds to invite foreign warlocks and monks to come and slay demons. It is obvious that the successive murders have shown that the murderer is not an ordinary person, and the government alone is definitely useless.

Under the huge sum of money, the number of Taoist priests and monks in Danyang City increased sharply, and some alchemists who claimed to be cultivators also volunteered, but they failed several times.

Most of these people are wandering warlocks, and they don't have much guts.After many shots, some people with superficial spells really found the trace, but unfortunately the Taoist priest who found a trace was gouged out the next day and hung on the locust tree outside the city.

Hearing that the death was miserable, his eyes were full of fear and distorted.This scene frightened a group of people away and made the government office a little more peaceful.

But the murderer became rampant. In the past few days, through investigation and checking of household registration, it was discovered that not only pairs of young men and women were missing in Danyang City.

One day, the only son of a family in the west of the city was inexplicably dragged away by a dark shadow. When the men in the neighbors had the courage to look for it, they only found the child's clothes and shoes in the woods, but he was nowhere to be found.

At the same time, in a small village on the outskirts of the city, more than a dozen servants in charge were all gouged out with extremely cruel methods.The wound on the chest of the deceased showed that the injury was not caused by a sharp weapon, but that the flesh and blood were torn open by wild beasts, and the heart was dug out.

This bloody massacre directly pushed Danyang City into the abyss of fear. Every day as the sun slanted to the west, every household began to close its doors to thank customers, and all vendors and small stalls closed their doors. Danyang City in the afterglow of the setting sun, only Desolation and silence remained.

But on this day, when the afterglow of the setting sun was about to set, on the empty long street, a man wearing a bamboo hat and a navy blue Taoist robe walked quietly on the empty bluestone floor tiles.He lowered his head, with a long sword slanted behind his back, standing directly under the bulletin board, and raised his hand to take down the reward list on the right.

As the night darkened, lights lit up in ruined temples on the outskirts of the city.The bean-sized flames swayed slightly in the night wind, reflecting the slender and tall figure of the standing man in brocade clothes.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came from outside the ruined temple. The man was still standing and didn't seem surprised. He turned around and looked at the person who came in, and said with a smile, "You're here."

The man who came in raised his head and took off the hat on his head. Looking at the man in front of him, he took out a notice from his arms.

"Very good, take it." He took out a bag of gold leaves from his wide sleeve and threw it over. The man took it and opened it for a look before putting it away.

"When will you do it?" A slightly deep and indifferent voice.

"Tomorrow. Kill demons and eliminate demons, they will respect you very much, just do as I say."

"I only look at what you pay." After the man finished speaking, he turned and walked into the night. The sky outside was so dark that no stars could be seen.

The man in brocade clothes sneered: "People are really greedy and lowly things."

"Miss, Ah Da got the news from the outside, and someone revealed the list again. This time I heard that it was a Taoist priest, and he was not very old. How could someone be desperate to reveal the list after someone just died?" Ah Qi ate melon seeds , sitting on the side chatting with Gu Xiyan.

Gu Xiyan was fiddling with the chess pieces by himself, stroking the chessboard with his fingers, groping for the position of the chess pieces.Hearing the words, he said slowly: "If someone dies because of this, he still dares to accept it. Either he is a lunatic, or he has real skills."

Ah Qi put her eyes on the chessboard, and then sighed: "Miss, looking at you, I always feel that I have a pair of eyes for nothing. I can see this chess game clearly, and I don't know how to break it."

Gu Xiyan smiled lightly: "It's just that there is a specialization in surgery, and it's often easier to calm down when you can't see it."

"Miss." A man in black shorts walked into the yard and saluted Gu Xiyan.

"Ah Er, what's the matter?" Gu Xiyan continued to put down the chess pieces and asked.

"Miss told us to keep an eye on Yang's family's movements. Our people saw Yang Xunzhi leave the house after sunset yesterday." He didn't know Yang Xunzhi's weirdness, but in this turbulent city of Danyang, it was really hard for him to go out after sunset. It's so abnormal.

"Can you continue to follow?" Gu Xiyan thought of something, and said solemnly.

"Because I felt it was wrong at the time, so I sent someone, but it was strange that I lost it after a while."

Gu Xiyan slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "Ah Er, remember, you can just stare at it from a distance in the future, and don't get too close."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Miss?"

Seeing that Gu Xiyan was in a daze since Ah Er left, Ah Qi couldn't help calling her.

Gu Xiyan came back to his senses, and let out a breath slowly: "Qi, pay more attention to things related to the case outside, and let me know if you have any news."

In the next three days, the Taoist priest who revealed the list not only was not killed by the monster, but captured a snake demon instead.

Gu Xiyan's eyes twitched when he heard the news: "Snake demon? What kind of snake demon?"

The snake demon is not dead yet, at the moment he is being trapped and bound by the Taoist priest on the cleansing platform in Danyang City, and according to the instructions of the priest who captured the demon, they found many human remains in the cave of the snake demon.

The people in Danyang rushed to tell each other, hated and happy, and they all surrounded the sin-washing platform, waiting for the snake demon to be burned to death by the flames.

"Miss, that Taoist leader is really powerful. According to Ah Da and his description, could it be the snake demon that attacked you at that time?"

Gu Xiyan hummed: "It's very possible, but the matter is not that simple. The snake demon is indeed true, but it is not necessarily responsible for the murders in Danyang City."

"Why do you say that, miss?"

"Although it is a monster, its nature is a snake. Snakes don't bite their prey when they eat, but they swallow them directly. The day it attacked me, it just wanted to swallow me directly, and didn't mean to bite me, so the so-called Dongfu The wreckage in it should not have been hunted by it."

Ah Qi frowned: "What you said is also reasonable, there are more than a dozen people in the village outside the city, all of whom had their hearts gouged out, but they didn't seem to mention this, why does the snake demon want a heart? come to eat?"

Gu Xiyan's thoughts froze. By the way, it was said at that time that those people had their chests cut open by sharp claws and their hearts were dug out. From here, we can also know that the snake demon is not the murderer.

But even if they understand it, it does not prevent those people from executing the snake demon, nor does it prevent the people from respecting that Taoist priest like a god.

But the matter continued to ferment, that person didn't catch the snake demon, and then killed two monsters in a row, and it was a monster mixed with humans.

Ah Qi didn't seem very excited this time. After she told Gu Xiyan the news, she was in a daze: "Miss, I still don't believe that Uncle Zhuo and Aunt Zhuo are demons, they are obviously good people."

Gu Xiyan lowered her head and couldn't see her expression, but her hands on the stone table were tightly curled up.The Uncle Zhuo and Aunt Zhuo mentioned in Ah Qi's mouth were a couple picking tea in Gu's tea garden.

But the two are not tea farmers of the Gu family, they just come to the Gu family to help when they are busy. On weekdays, the couple set up a small shop by themselves, specializing in selling cakes.

The two are enthusiastic and down-to-earth, and they are well-known good people in Changlong Lane.The couple has no children under their knees, and adopted three homeless children, two girls and one boy, the oldest is 12 years old and the youngest is only six years old.

Every year, Gu's family donates porridge and food, and the couple will also subsidize some extra money to the beggars in the surrounding area, so the beggars in Changlong Lane especially respect them.

When Gu Xiyan took Ah Qi out secretly, he met the Zhuo family couple who were selling pastries.Gu Xiyan liked the steamed cake made by Aunt Zhuo very much. The two of them knew that Gu Xiyan couldn't see them, so they cherished her even more, and guessed that she was Miss Gu's family.

At that time, Aunt Zhuo and Uncle Zhuo didn't say anything, but they knew that it was not easy for Gu Xiyan to come out, so every few days after that, they would ask the adopted little girl, Xiao Que'er, to deliver freshly steamed rice cakes to Gu's house.This has been going on for a long time, afraid that she will get tired of eating, the two of them will also send the newly made pastries to her for a try.

Having known each other for so long, what Gu Xiyan sees from them is the simplest and most sincere innocence.Demon?What did they do that cost their lives and who did they kill?

The author has something to say: Tsundere, duplicity again, poor Bai Lian is being bullied from time to time.

But she will hand out candy herself.Everyone is eager to leave comments, today's double update, and the second update at 7:[-] p.m.