Isn’t it good for the five of us to be together?

"You can't go!"

Jiang Yuchen rejected me.

"Why?"

Jiang Yuchen's eyes were filled with anger: "What kind of child's play do you think that is? Plague is extremely easy to infect and difficult to cure. You are a weak woman with no power to restrain a chicken. I won't let you go with me no matter what."

Being "powerless", I didn't know how to refute. I placed my hope on Chi Wanshen. He should have allowed me to go...

"Don't look at Gu. This matter is entirely up to the National Master. It depends on his opinion."

Chi Wanshen kept herself clean.

Jiang Yuchen also looked like there was no room for discussion.

If not for a mission, who would want to go to such a dangerous place? I don't know anything, so going there might cause trouble, so naturally I don't want to go.

But...how could I not know the nature of the system.

Since it is a main line of tasks that it wants me to complete, something big must happen, and this big thing must be related to the plague that Jiang Yuchen mentioned.

In addition to being driven by missions, there is also some sense of responsibility in it. Maybe, my all-purpose pharmacology book will have an antidote to the plague.

The matter seems to have been settled, and I can only stay in the house and cannot go.

Chi Wanshen's hands will almost be able to move at the end of the month, and he will also go there. I am afraid that the task left to me is to take care of the naughty little emperor in the palace.

Do you want to sit back and wait for death?

Of course that's not possible.

I was still nervous when I went out a few days ago, for fear of being surrounded by a bunch of people and looking like a monkey. But after staying out of the limelight for a few days, everyone seemed to have completely forgotten about it.

It’s not that I forgot, it’s just that things in the southwest spread rapidly, one after another.

The crops in the southwest were flooded and nothing was left, and the people in the southwest even had their homes flooded...

As the days passed, the news became more and more serious.

Jiang Yuchen has been very busy these days, collecting donations here and handling matters there. The candles in Jiang Yuchen's room were basically not extinguished at night.

I sighed, I must not interrupt at this moment.

The day was approaching when I was going to the southwest, and I started to pack my things. I had just two simple clothes, the Pharmacology Encyclopedia in the system backpack, a few bottles of wound medicine that I had made in the past few days, and the silver bell that I picked off... I I don’t know its meaning yet, it seems like everyone is keeping silent, leaving me to figure out its secrets myself.

Forget it, I just put it in. It jingles on my hands and is troublesome. I didn’t bring anything else.

I don’t know if the capital city was also affected at all, but it rained heavily today.

Summer has begun, but the rainstorm is coming fiercely, with lightning and thunder.

I made some food from the kitchen to fill my stomach. I thought about the private room where Jiang Yuchen had been keeping the light on for the past few days. After thinking for a while, I decided to go there with the newly made snacks.

Thunderstorms can make you feel bad. My goal is to feel better by eating some snacks.

Only when he walked to the door excitedly did he realize that the lights in Jiang Yuchen's room were actually turned off.

You should go to bed early, after all, there will be more things to do in the next few days.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, there was the sound of something falling to the ground and breaking.

I had one thought at that time: "It's broken."

Not caring about the few snacks in his hand, he just stuffed them into his mouth and kicked open Jiang Yuchen's door.

There was no bold little thief as imagined, only darkness.

The window was blown open by the strong wind outside, and the only sound coming from the outside was the strong wind inside.

I walked over and closed the window. When I stepped back, I didn't know what I stepped on. I knelt down and looked at it. It seemed to be a candlestick.

Before I could even take a breath, I was almost frightened to death by a man squatting in the corner.

It's Jiang Yuchen.

I was looking for the fire break on my body, only to find that I had left it in the kitchen.

I put the snack in my mouth back into my sleeve, walked to Jiang Yuchen, and found that his condition was not very good.

He didn't respond, he just trembled all over and muttered something, as if he was extremely scared.

It feels like something is being overlooked.

"Master National Teacher?"

Ignore me.

"Jiang Yuchen?"

I felt him raise his head. In the dark, I couldn't see his face clearly.

I grabbed his wrist and asked, "Jiang Yuchen, where is Huo Zhezi?"

Still no response.

I had to fumble around on the table, but there was nothing but a pile of paper.

Just as he was about to get up and look elsewhere, Jiang Yuchen pulled him back: "Don't leave..."

Now I finally heard what he was about to say, and suddenly I felt a very appropriate pink bubble appear around me, and the system also played soothing and ambiguous music at the right time.

however--

"Take your knife and kill me."

I:"?"

I touched his forehead and there was no fever. Why did he say such nonsense?

"Jiang Yuchen, look who I am?"

I held his face and could barely see his eyes clearly.

There was only fear, nervousness and helplessness in his eyes.

My mind suddenly stirred, and I remembered the armory where Chi Wanshen took us before. The blindfolded Jiang Yuchen was also grabbing my wrist. He was also... very scared at that time.

Could it be that Jiang Yuchen is afraid of the dark?

I helped him to the chair and asked him to sit down.

Jiang Yuchen didn't resist, he just held my hand and wouldn't let go. I didn't expect him to be so strong, and he looked like a sickly beauty.

I was about to take a snack to coax him, but then I remembered that I had put the snack in my mouth and bit it.

I still asked him patiently: "Jiang Yuchen, do you know where you put the fire seal?"

"Can not remember."

Oh, he actually answered me.

"Then do you know how the candle went out?"

Jiang Yuchen looked out the window, and a bolt of lightning happened to hit him. He was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, but he still answered me obediently: "The window was not closed, it was blown by the wind."

Seeing him like this, I thought of teasing him.

"What have you been up to in the house lately?"

"Draw the blueprints and build the embankment."

River embankment? Presumably to alleviate flooding problems.

"Then...why don't you let Chen Anping go to the southwest together?"

Jiang Yuchen looked at me seriously: "Worry."

Maybe he was too serious, so I was a little embarrassed to ask: "Why do you just answer whatever I ask you now, just like a puppet?"

I wanted to continue looking for Huozhezi, but he still pulled me back: "Don't leave..."

"I don't want to go. I'm just looking for something. I'm not afraid."

He followed me and pulled my sleeve. While I was looking for him, I asked, "Jiang Yuchen, you are so clingy now. Are your usual coldness just an act?"

Unexpectedly, he didn't reply to me.

Just by chance, I finally found the fire fold in the third drawer under the table.

I lit the fire with a "swish" and lit up the candlesticks in the house.

"It's not an act."