After Junior Brother A Zhai goes down the mountain

The lights in the dungeon were dim, and there was a dead silence, only the faint sound of water.

Lin Yingshi was roughly thrown on the straw mat.The boy closed his eyes and punched the man in his heart, and he took a small breath when he heard the footsteps going away.

Too rough, too rough.

He sat up slowly, looked around the small and dark place, and found someone lying in the corner.The boy cautiously approached, and lightly poked the lying man: "Are you still alive?"

The man snorted, then coughed unceasingly, but said in a low voice, "Xiao Lin, are you here too?"

Lin Yingshi was startled: "Sir?!"

Pei Lanqiu sat up propped up.He leaned against the wall a little weakly, the mask on his face still stuck to his head intact.

In the flickering lights, the big blood on Pei Lanqiu's chest dazzled the young man's eyes.

He rushed forward, but he touched the large pool of blood that hadn't completely dried up with extreme care, his fingertips trembling: "What's going on... What's going on here?"

He raised his head to meet the perfect eye, and said quickly, "Is it your blood? Is it your blood?"

Pei Lanqiu's voice was hoarse: "Yes."

Lin Yingshi's peach blossom eyes widened: "How did they hurt you? Didn't you say it's okay?"

"It's true that they didn't do anything to me, they just didn't notice it for a while, and got their way." Pei Lanqiu raised his hand vigorously to wipe away the blood on the corner of his mouth, and said softly, "I won't hide it from you. The special secret medicine suppresses it. What they did was just an inducement."

Lin Yingshi's fingertips trembled.

"Huodu..." His clear voice was also somewhat confused, "How to solve it?"

He thought of the words his master had left on the page, and his brother had been away from home for three years, and his eyes were once again glued to the deep red.

"Sir, you will stay with me, right?" Lin Yingshi asked softly.

Pei Lanqiu didn't answer.

The dungeon was dark, only the faint sound of water.

His eyes were slightly closed, and he leaned back to rest.After a long time, Lin Yingshi whispered: "...my family has many medical books, such as lost prescriptions and golden medicines, come back with me, and I will treat you for you."

Pei Lanqiu smiled: "No need."

"Why don't you use it?!" The young man rushed over eagerly, like a little animal in a hurry, with two small paws still pawing at his shoulders, but they were extremely gentle and useless.

"You go back with me!" he said, "You must go back with me...brother!"

Pei Lanqiu chuckled, "I'm not your senior brother, Xiao Lin."

Staring at his gentle eyes, Lin Yingshi seemed to be deflated, and limply plunged into the arms of the person in front of her, motionless.

Pei Lanqiu lowered her eyes.During these breath adjustments, his body became much more relaxed, so he slowly raised one hand, and gently stroked the young man's soft hair.

He said softly: "Xiao Lin, what can you do about the poison that even the divine doctor enshrined by the royal family can't cure?"

Lin Yingshi curled her lips: "The master's family has been passed down for a long time, so why can't we do nothing!"

Pei Lanqiu tried her best to bend the corners of her lips.

"Xiao Lin." He said, "The inheritance of the master's school is such an important thing, you can't show it to outsiders."

Lin Yingshi tightened his neckline and grabbed his wrist: "But you..."

"Don't worry." His fingertips touched the boy's lips, "Hush, listen carefully."

——The sound of gurgling water is particularly crisp in the silence.

"Sound of water?" The young man was distracted by him, "Isn't this a dungeon? How can there be running water?"

Pei Lanqiu stood up: "There are a lot of active springs near Dianxing Mountain, and they have been formed for a long time. Naturally, the Sun Mansion also has them."

He supported the wall and walked there following the sound: "Look, the ground outside this dungeon is extremely wet."

Lin Yingshi looked at the ground, and then moved her gaze upwards.Under the dim candlelight, outside the dungeon, there was a wooden cabinet embedded in the wall, on which were placed several jars of unknown purpose.

"It's made of turnip wood?" The boy frowned. "This kind of wood is very expensive. It prevents insects and ants when used as a bookcase, but it is afraid of water. Why is it placed in this damp dungeon?"

——The young man has excellent eyesight.Even in the dungeon, you can clearly see the flowers carved on it.The sculptor was extremely meticulous, even the delicate and beautiful appearance of the stretched petals was carved with incomparable fineness.

"It's epiphyllum." Lin Yingshi stared at the lazily stretched petals.He turned his head and looked at the pensive Pei Lanqiu: "It's the same as the epiphyllum pattern we saw in Fuyun City."

Pei Lanqiu took out a hairpin from his pocket in his bosom, "Yes. They cooperate with the Sun family. It's not surprising that the Sun family has these things."

"It's just like you said, if you put it in this place, there are ghosts."

Lin Yingshi's eyes were sharp, and she immediately recognized the owner of the hairpin—the jade girl from Fuyun City.She wore this hairpin to see them that day, and there were peach blossoms on it.

The boy was still sad.So he turned his head slightly, and pretended to mention it casually: "This hairpin is really pretty. Presumably the owner of the hairpin is also pretty."

Pei Lanqiu smiled, did not speak, just pressed the peach blossom, only to hear a faint sound of the lock, and a long needle shining with black light popped out from the originally fragile hairpin.

He poked the long needle into the iron lock on the door and quickly picked the lock.

"Boss Yu's real business is a hidden weapon." He turned his head and smiled at Lin Yingshi's wide-eyed peach blossom eyes.

Lin Yingshi understood.He moved his toes: "That, that can't buy something like this."

Looking at the young man who had all his unhappiness and little emotions written on his face, Pei Lanqiu couldn't help reaching out and pinching his junior brother's soft little face.

"It was an emergency that day, and I didn't have time to explain it to her, so I bought this in a hurry." He said softly, "Don't be angry."

His hand was still gently pinching Lin Yingshi's face, the young man shook his head, shaking his hand together, and said: "Well, you're not angry."

The boy forcibly turned back the changed topic, and whispered: "I'm not angry, but I'm very sad. Because you won't go back with me."

Pei Lanqiu was wearing a mask.It's just that his eyes are still calm and gentle, and there seems to be something hidden in that intact eye.He blinked slowly, as if those were just illusions under the candlelight.

Lin Yingshi's peach blossom eyes were already foggy: "Is it okay, is it okay?"

After a while, he heard the man in front of him sigh.

"Xiao Lin, the teacher is an important place, you can't bring outsiders back."