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A sandalwood was lit in the room, and Wei Fengye wiped the dagger in his hand with a soft flannel.Misty Rain Villa strives for dexterity in martial arts, and the weapons are only light daggers or soft swords.

Ah Fu outside knocked on the door twice: "Brother, Zhu Ranmo is here."

The white smoke from the sandalwood curled up, and the faces of people who came in seemed to be covered by a layer of fog.The fog cleared, but Zhu Ranmo's expression was numb like a heartbreaker.

"How long has it been since you had the candied fruit from your hometown?" Wei Fengye greeted in a flat tone.From the first time they speak a language with similar tones, two people recognize each other as fellow countrymen.It's just that one has nothing to say about their hometown, and the other has nothing to say about their hometown, so they tacitly ignore this connection.

"Brother Wei has never been an easy-going person, so why bother to be polite now." Zhu Ranmo said.

Wei Fengye sneered and looked at Zhu Ranmo.Perhaps it is true that one side supports the other, Zhu Ranmo and his appearance do have similarities.Not fair skin, strong eyebrows, sharp features that can be noticed at a glance.

"Although Gao Chengwen has committed suicide in fear of crime, there are some things that I haven't figured out, and I can't explain it to Gu Zhu. I've heard about your relationship with Gao Chengwen, and that's why I called you here."

"I do not know anything."

Wei Fengye took out a letter, but Zhu Ranmo didn't answer it.Wei Fengye unfolded the letter paper and said: "I picked up a letter that day, which stated a poisoning plan against Shaogu Master. The recipient wrote Gao Chengwen. He also admitted that he was the murderer. The letter was written by the He taught his master in Yaowanggu. When I read the letter, I just felt his master’s hatred for Shen Wugu, but when I saw this, I felt a little empathy.” He pointed to a certain line, “This word , is a unique dialect in our hometown.”

In an instant, Zhu Ranmo's whole body was enveloped in cold air.

"Do you want to eat candied fruit now?" Wei Fengye asked.

The sweet taste of candied fruit brought back Zhu Ranmo's rationality, and dying with sweetness was a good end for him.Thinking of this, he felt a certain unwillingness, and he heard himself say: "I know how to detoxify Master Shaogu."

"Not enough." Wei Fengye smiled.

Zhu Ranmo thought he would struggle, but he didn't expect to feel calm when he spoke.

"What I have done with Chengwen, I can do with Senior Brother Wei." Look, after going around and around, I still turned back into that person without dignity, or in other words, I was doomed from birth that I didn't deserve to have it in my life. Dignity, in the past few years, it was just a self-deception.

Wei Fengye sneered sarcastically after hearing this: "It's fine if you insult yourself, don't disgust me, I'm not interested in that kind of thing. I want you to do something."

Zhu Ranmo thought that he would see earth-shaking changes when he returned to his hometown. After all, seven years away is the time distance that a child can grow up or die.But when he stepped on the land he had been away for a long time, the voice and even the content inside his ears did not change at all.

"Is this your hometown?" Qiao Wangzi who came with him was very interested, looking left and right, there was something new everywhere.

Zhu Ranmo glanced at it, feeling that the river here has not changed, it is exactly the same as when he jumped down eight years ago.

Qiao Wangzi found something new and strange: "This lotus pond is really similar to the one in Shenwu Valley."

This sentence reminded Zhu Ranmo that Wei Fengye didn't have conscience and asked him to return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and he was generous enough to let Qiao Wangzi accompany him, which proves that there must be someone who is godless and ignorant of him secretly watching him both.

Zhu Ranmo found the pawnshop according to the address given by Wei Fengye, and he said to Qiao Wangzi: "I'm procrastinating in the store, and you leave as soon as you find something in the shopkeeper's bedroom. Let's meet at the bridge."

Qiao forgot Ziyi, and was about to leave when Zhu Ranmo called out again: "Give me that piece of organdy, and I'll take it first."

Qiao Wangzi touched his pocket several times and smiled stiffly: "I seem to have forgotten..."

Zhu Ranmo was completely speechless, and stepped into the pawnshop by himself, not bothering to talk to him.

The shopkeeper sent the last guest away, and smiled at Zhu Ranmo, "What do you want, my lord?"

Zhu Ranmo said: "I want to find something." The shopkeeper's appearance is neither beautiful nor ugly, just like a finely carved stone sculpture covered with a layer of human skin, which is indescribably fake.

"I have been studying martial arts for many years, and it seems that I can become a teacher. I want to come here to find a convenient weapon."

The shopkeeper smiled kindly: "If you want to find weapons, you should go to the blacksmith's shop. The pawn shop doesn't have these."

Zhu Ranmo looked at him: "A few days ago, Yanyu Villa was closed and disbanded. Many disciples must have sold their weapons for money."

"I have never seen it before."

Zhu Ranmo handed him the item in his sleeve: "Please ask the shopkeeper to see if this is a good item."

The shopkeeper took it over and suddenly froze.

"This dagger is worth dozens of gold, but it is a good deal with huge profits."

The shopkeeper could barely hold the dagger, so he suddenly raised his head and said, "I won't do this business."

Qiao Wangzi had been waiting at the appointed place long ago, seeing that it was getting dark, Zhu Ranmo came over.He said, "Is the money Senior Brother Wei gave enough for us to stay at the hotel?"

"What kind of inn are you staying in?" Zhu Ranmo smiled, "There are places where you can stay at no cost."

Zhu Ranmo found a deserted temple based on his memory. He arranged the food and wine he had just bought, and waved at Qiao Wangzi.

Although the weather is neither too cold nor too hot, and there is nothing uncomfortable living in the ruined temple, Qiao Wangzi still doesn't understand why Zhu Ranmo has to come here.Only then did he realize that he didn't know anything about Zhu Ranmo's past—before he picked up Qiao Wangzi from the temple—and he didn't even ask or try to understand it.

Qiao Wangzi took a sip of wine, and said in a mysterious way: "What were you like when you were young?"

There were holes one after another in the roof of the ruined temple, and Zhu Ranmo was lying on the ground, directly facing the sky full of stars.He lived in the ruined temple for a year, and he hated this starry sky for a long time. It looked like a candle, so bright, but why didn't it have no temperature at all?He thought he would die that winter, but luckily he met Master.He once heard Qiao Wangzi reciting poems sourly, such as "the long river gradually falls, the dawn stars sink, the blue sea blue sky makes every night heart", he didn't even know the words at that time, he didn't understand what the poem was talking about at all, and he still thought of what the poet wrote That's right, when I lived in the ruined temple, I really looked forward to the stars falling every night so that the holes in the ruined temple could be blocked.

Qiao Wangzi didn't wait for Zhu Ranmo to answer for a long time, and looked over to find that he had fallen asleep.Moonlight, starlight and thin clouds at night covered Zhu Ranmo's face with a colorful veil through the hole in the roof. Looking at this sleeping face, he suddenly wanted to touch it.

When his fingers were about to stick to the skin, he withdrew his hand as if he had been pricked by a needle.Qiao Wangzi was in a trance for a while.He has seen many loves, real or fictional, and none of them has been foolish and irrational, so that in his deep-rooted thinking, love is equivalent to sulfuric acid, as long as it is contaminated, the most stalwart wisdom will be eroded.And love is unpredictable again, wearing the cloak of "beauty", following you furtively, and giving you a head-on blow when you are unprepared.If the pleasure of being single is one, the negative emotions are also one. After becoming a slave to love, the prisoner increases by one, and the joy and sorrow also double.Qiao Wangzi is afraid of trouble, and looks down on irrational behavior, and is content with inconspicuous happiness, so she simply imprisoned herself in a vacuum other than love.

"If we touch it, whether it's me or Ran Mo, something will fly away immediately with the starry night."

The pawnshop manager hurriedly boarded the boat, and the boatman punted the boat, and long lines were drawn on the water surface.

"Guest, you don't plan to come back in the middle of the night, right?" the boatman asked.

The shopkeeper replied absent-mindedly: "I won't be coming back."

"Will Hua Tianbi take you in?"

There was a piercing pain in the lower back, the shopkeeper struggled and turned around, and saw the boatman pull out the blood-stained dagger from his body.The dagger has a sharp blade and an exquisite blade, and it was specially forged by the owner of the Misty Rain Villa when the child was just born.

He felt dizzy, something was irretrievably flowing out of his body, he grabbed the boatman's skirt tightly: "Hua Tianbi wants to kill me?"

The boatman stretched out his hand to touch his cheek, and sure enough, he was wearing a mask.This mask is like a portrait drawn stroke by stroke, striving to be completely different from the original face underneath.

The shopkeeper knew that he was doomed to die here today, and a broken smile crossed his lips: "I returned the violin to him, but he didn't look for me again. I just found out. I should have known earlier, I can’t control Misty Rain Villa at all, if Fengyu is definitely fine. But it’s too late, I’m too stupid, Fengyu is so good, how could he not like it. It’s too late... ..."

"Hua Tianbi has been sick all the time, and he hasn't abandoned you." Seeing the shopkeeper's eyes light up again, Zhu Ranmo stabbed him in the stomach again, "But he really likes Wei Fengye too, and he likes many people .”

After dealing with everything, Zhu Ranmo threw the body into the water.He stood on the boat without moving. After the dull sound of falling into the water, the water quickly returned to silence, and the salty wind blew away the bloody smell on his body.The sky was clear.