i want to be by your side

Shitou was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then seemed to think of himself, and immediately said with emotion: "We are all the same, I also like to stay by her side, I want her to be happy every day, even if I am sad, I will bear it with her The people of the same family all asked me why I gave up the chance to be formed through cultivation, and asked me if I could wait a little longer? But I can't wait anymore, I want to fulfill her wish quickly and avenge her father; I don't want her to marry someone she doesn't know so casually. Since her father's death, the old people in the village think that she is unlucky. She will not only restrain her father and mother, but may even have Kefuke's son in the future! I I don't want her to be abused and looked down upon by her mother-in-law after she gets married."

"That is to say, originally you could transform into human form very quickly, but you had to lose some of your cultivation to kill that tiger. As a result, although you can understand human speech, you can't transform into human form. Can't speak human words."

"..." Why do you sound so awkward when you say this!Shitou groaned softly, I won't tell you anymore, I have to go find her quickly.

After finishing speaking, Shi Shi sniffed Chen Xing's breath in the air and searched all the way there.I watched the figure of the stone disappear around the corner, turned around, and in the next second I came to the room of Mr. Qin invisibly.

There is no one in the room.

I wandered around inside, took a few letters on the table, and then disappeared into the bathroom next door.

As expected, the man was taking a bath there. Not only was he soaking in the big bathtub, but there were also two maids who were only wearing underwear to wait for him to take a bath.You can imagine the conversations in it, so I won’t repeat them here.In short, after I went in, I extended my claws to the clothes he had changed, and then found a snake-shaped pendant in the inner pocket of the underwear.

However it has claws.

In other words, it wasn't the clawless snake-shaped pendant that Bell was looking for.

But this is also a clue.I casually conjured up an identical snake-shaped pendant and put it back, put the real snake-shaped pendant back into my pocket, then swayed and flashed in front of Mr. Qin. It was called Lianlian, and the water almost splashed all over me.

"Who the hell are you?" The man was frightened and angry, and he reacted very quickly. He was very calm when he saw someone of unknown origin coming, and he wanted to call someone in the next second.

But how could I give him this chance?With a flick of the sleeves, the two redundant maids were firmly restrained by me, unable to move or speak; I stretched five fingers at him, and grasped him in the air, and immediately caught him.I pinched his head and directly launched the soul search technique.

Chi Snake Gang.What kind of gang is this again?

I saw that person's memory from beginning to end, and learned that this person's name was Qin Shou, and he was just a more prestigious cannon fodder among the many cannon fodder of a branch of the Chi Snake Gang.This can be seen from the fact that he has more snake-shaped pendants representing his identity than other cannon fodders.

As for the relationship between this person and the Chen family, it is only a relationship of mutual cooperation and utilization. Mr. Chen’s son Chen Ren was captured by the Chi Snake Gang. Qin Shou used him as a hostage to coerce Mr. Chen to cooperate with them and provide them with certain actions. cover, and they promised the old man to save Chen Ren's life.

In Qin Shou's memory, Chen Xing was arrested because Chen Xing's father used to be a member of the Chi Snake Gang, and Chen Xing had the imprint of belonging to the Chi Snake Gang, which is why Qin Shou could recognize her at a glance The reason for coming.Although Chen's father used feigned death to bypass the members of the Chi Snake Gang, he still has the unique imprint of the Chi Snake Gang left in his body.This imprint will cause two people who have both to sense each other at close range.

Unfortunately, Chen Xing also inherited this mark, so that when Qin Shou met her later, he felt the reaction of this mark on her body.

As for the origin of the snake-shaped pendant with claws on his body... His memory only said that it was a status symbol of a person with status in the gang, because Qin Shou's status in the Chi Snake Gang is not low, so he also has This snake pendant.

As for the snake-shaped pendant without claws, he did mention one thing in his memory - he once heard it from the branch master of the Chi Snake Sect.

He casually stunned the two maids, erased their memories, and threw Qin Shou into the bath, and let him lean on the side unconsciously.Here I have to mention that people who are forced to perform soul search by me generally have no serious physical problems, at most they will be in a coma for seven or eight days.However, most people in this world have to pay a price for soul searching, either making people stupid, or being unable to wake up for the rest of their lives.

I'm not [-]% free of problems, it's just that the soul search performed by me will reduce the cost to a very small one, so small that it will only make people unconscious for a few days, and it's not certain that IQ will drop after waking up.

After solving the matter here, I immediately went out in stealth to find Yuan Jian and the others.But when I followed the route in my memory, there was no sign of anyone there. After asking a servant, I found out that the two of them were invited to drink tea by Mr. Chen.

Don't get me wrong, it's real tea.

When I turned around and came to the living room, I saw a group of people drinking tea slowly, and there were several plates of pastries on the table.

"Don't worry, Mr. Chen, I will definitely rescue Mr. Chen." I heard Yuan Jian say as soon as I came. "As for Qin Shou... Mr. Lao dragged him for a few days."

"Ah!" Mr. Chen twisted his beard with a sad expression on his face, "There is no way to do this! I'll leave it to Ms. Chen and Ms. Yuan to save my son. I will try my best to hold him back."

After speaking, he waved his sleeves to show off the guests.Under the leadership of the old housekeeper, Yuan Jian and Chen Xing got on the two horses of the Chen Mansion, left the Chen Mansion at night, and left the Chen Family Village.Shi Shi followed silently until the horses in front stopped when they were a hundred meters away from the village.

Stone immediately ran over quickly, wagging his tail and circling around Chen Xing's feet.

The atmosphere suddenly became silent.

After a long time, Chen Xing said, "I'll go with you." She rolled up her sleeves, revealing what she thought was a birthmark on her arm, "This mark... I saw it on my father when I was young, maybe because I The imprint on the body is rather vague, not like a snake, but like an earthworm... Heh, I haven't found it for so many years."

"I know my father doesn't want me to get involved with his past, but ever since I know all this, I always feel that his death is not that simple." Chen Xing said, "I want to find out the truth."

"En." Yuan Jian listened quietly, but her eyes kept moving around, as if she was looking for something.

"Are you looking for me?" I jumped out, causing the two horses to neigh in fright, and raised their front hooves high, making a posture of defending against the enemy.

"Long Qing!" Yuan Jian exclaimed, grabbing the rein tightly so as not to let the horse's iron hooves step on me.But the other side was not so lucky.

Chen Xing didn't know how to ride a horse at first, but when the horse raised up, she couldn't control it, and the stone barked and knocked the horse aside, so that the hoof didn't fall towards Chen Xing.With quick eyes and hands, I ran over to pick up Chen Xing who was about to land, and caught her steadily.

"I'm sorry for my mistake," I said apologetically, "Are you all right?"

"..." Chen Xing tightly grasped the clothes on my chest, looking like he was still in shock.After a long time, I felt that the force of my grip on the clothes gradually eased a lot. I looked down and saw that the person had almost recovered.

"It's okay." Chen Xing let go of me and shook his head.

The stone rushed up and roared at me a few times. I guess if it wasn't afraid of my strength and identity, it might really give me a bite.

After this little episode passed, we returned to Chen Xing's house, planning to rest for one night and set off tomorrow.After re-medicating Yuan Jian's foot injury, I put a chair outside the yard and took her out to sit and let her watch the stars.

I brought a pile of firewood from the kitchen, and set up a fire in the middle of the yard, preparing to roast the deer that was hunted this evening.Yuan Jian and Chen Xing ate dinner in the Chen Mansion, poor Shi Shi and I ran to save people without eating anything.However, there is still a bowl of roe deer meat left over from today in the kitchen, so I will leave it to Shi Shi to eat, so I will only eat this deer in the end.

"Where have you been?" Yuan Jian asked suddenly.

"I went to the Chen Mansion to save you." I said, "But in the end you came out by yourself." Then, I picked out some information from Qin Shou's memory and told her.Naturally, I won't be so confused as to say that this is the news I got from my soul search.The process of getting it was taken by me in one stroke, and Yuan Jian never asked me how I got it.

"You say this Qin Shou is taking orders from a man named Tang Quan?" Yuan Jian asked.

"Yeah. According to him, this Tang Quan is also the sub-guild leader of the Chi Snake sub-clan."

"Tang Quan?" Yuan Jian whispered the familiar name, "I seem to have heard of this person somewhere."

"What do they want Mr. Chen to help cover?" Yuan Jian asked again.

"Well...it's a long story..." I replied a little casually, focusing on the almost roasted deer leg in front of me.I couldn't wait to cut a few cuts on the deer's leg with a dagger, sprinkle some salt on it, and gnawed on it.

After the whole venison leg was eaten, I licked my fingers unsatisfied, and continued to focus on the remaining venison.

"Treasurer Long..." Yuan Jian called me helplessly.

"Oh, just call me Long Qing." I realized, "I also call you Yuan Jian, how about it?"

Yuan Jian nodded in agreement.

"Long... Qing?" She frowned slightly, but hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's nothing, it's just that I'm not used to calling people by their names directly." Yuan Jian explained, and then motioned for me to continue answering the topic just now.

"Actually, he doesn't know either. He only knows that he has to come to Chen's Mansion a few times a month to send the things on the carriage to a cave not far from the village." I said, "I asked him about the carriage. He said he didn’t know what it was, everything was packed before it was handed over to him, and he was just in charge of transporting it.”

Just when we were at a loss, Chen Xing came over holding the stone.She said, "Could it be related to the monthly charity festival in the village?"

Yuan Jian and I looked at each other in blank dismay, neither knowing what kind of charity festival this is.

"It is said that this has something to do with Mr. Chen's sickly grandson." Chen Xing said, "Mr. Chen has been in poor health since he was a child. It is common for him to cough and take medicine. It is useless to find many doctors. Later, a Taoist priest passed by. , I heard that after the Taoist priest performed rituals in the Chen Mansion for a few days, Mr. Chen's illness inexplicably recovered, and his health became better every day. So, Mr. Chen followed the Taoist priest's advice and performed it once a month. Giving, sending food and cloth to the people in the village for free, so as to accumulate virtue for my grandson. Hmm... It seems that after this, not long after, Qin Shou, who claimed to be a relative of the Chen family, came."

"Every time the Chen family gives alms, they will send people to the Stove Lord to offer sacrifices. They will slaughter the prepared pigs and chickens on the spot, and let the blood flow all over the ground... But it is strange to say that after so many years, The place was not washed with water afterwards, but there was not a trace of blood left on the ground, as if it had been absorbed by the land. There was no particularly serious smell of blood in the air."

"When is the giving festival usually held in the month?" Yuan Jian asked.

"Probably around the [-]th or [-]th." Chen Xing thought about it carefully, "This month's Giving Festival has not yet been held, and it is estimated that we will see it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

"How about we go and have a look?" I asked, "I mean the mysterious cave where Qin Shou tried everything possible to send things to."

"Do you know the way?" The two looked at me in surprise.

"No one who falls into my hands can't spit out the news I want to know." I said proudly.

"Then let's split into two groups tomorrow." Yuan Jian made up his mind, "Miss Chen Xing, how about you go to the Kitchen God Shrine tomorrow? Long Qing and I will go to the cave first to investigate."

Before Chen Xing could reply, I said to the big dog behind her again: "Shitou, I'll depend on you tomorrow, take a good smell where the blood in that place ended up going."

As I said that, I patted Shishi's dog's head. Shishi bared his teeth and wanted to bite me, but stopped in the next second, and let me pat his head obediently, while staring at me.

I withdrew the demon power that was sent into its body, and withdrew my hand as if nothing had happened.The stone is originally a demon body. Although the demonic power I gave it is not enough to transform it into a human form, it is enough for it to deal with ordinary mountain spirits and mobs.