Well of Mystery

The second floor of the East Building is still the dirty one-bedroom.

Bai Xiuqi sat on a wooden bench that swayed from side to side, with a steaming basin of footwashing water and a pair of slippers on the floor in front of her.

At the same time, Jiang Chenglu twisted a hot towel for Bai Xiuqi, watched him barely finish wiping his face, and motioned him to continue wiping other parts of his body——

It wasn't until this time that Bai Xiuqi realized that his upper body was covered with teeth marks and hickey marks, which were ambiguous and tragic.

"Change your clothes." Jiang Chenglu dug out an old-fashioned round-neck T-shirt out of nowhere: "That Li Kun is really ruthless, how long has it been since he ate meat? The rich second generation shouldn't... ..."

Bai Xiuqi was not in the mood to make this joke, he wiped his body casually, and asked in a low voice: "You told me not to see Li Kun for seven days, and then this happened. Tell me, what happened?"

"It's a long story, and I'm afraid it's hard for you to accept." Jiang Chenglu rubbed his chin: "Do you still remember, the day we first met, I patted Li Kun on the shoulder?"

Remember, Bai Xiuqi nodded.

"That's why he has changed so much - he could have taken his time, but now he has only seven days left."

"Only seven days left?" Bai Xiuqi repeated his words: "You said, Li Kun is going to die?"

"No, no!" Jiang Chenglu shook his head hastily: "It's not him, but the thing that lives in his body. After I slapped it, it will only be alive for seven days."

Speaking of this, he changed his expression, and rarely looked into Bai Xiuqi's eyes seriously: "Little Boss, some words should not be too exaggerated now, do you want to hear it?"

"I still have a choice now?" Bai Xiuqi smiled wryly, signaling him but saying it's okay.

Jiang Chenglu emphasized again: "Really, you believe everything I say?"

"Believe in letter!"

Jiang Chenglu nodded, and then sighed: "You should have felt it a long time ago. There is no way to explain what happened to Li Kun with common sense. He was infected."

"Infected?" Bai Xiuqi repeated the word: "Virus? Bacteria?"

"By the pollen of a plant, the wind-pollinated plant."

Without waiting for Bai Xiuqi to continue to question, Jiang Chenglu suddenly opened his mouth and said: "The gentleman is a rock, and the concubine is a pampas grass. The pampas grass is like silk, and the rock has no transfer."

Of course Bai Xiuqi knew that this was a line from the Han Yuefu poem "The Peacock Flies Southeast".Among them, pampas grass is a wind-pollinated plant that often grows in swamps or wetlands.

Jiang Chenglu memorized the meaning of this poem... Could it be that Li Kun was infected by this little pampas grass pollen?

joke!The pampas grass is very common in the wetlands of the south of the Yangtze River.If he could make people so crazy, wouldn't he have been wiped out by fire long ago?

As if he had guessed what he was thinking, Jiang Chenglu also shook his head: "Of course it's not an ordinary pampas grass, but a spirit with a cultivation level. If someone can get people to this level, I don't think they will be able to escape in 500 years." .”

"Ghost..."

Bai Xiuqi said that he would believe no matter what Jiang Chenglu said, but he still couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "Puwei can also become a spirit?"

"Of course. As long as the chance, talent and hard work are enough, even a small moss can be cultivated. It's just like people have differences in race and skin color, and different spirits have their own likes and dislikes and temperament. For example, the peony flower is graceful and noble. , Plum Blossom is cold, arrogant and withdrawn, and when dealing with Caowu, she must be polite and courteous, and must not go overboard... As for the Puwei goblin, the biggest characteristic is persistence, a special persistence."

Jiang Chenglu continued to introduce: Ordinary plants rely on soil, water and air to survive and grow, but once they become Jingmei, they must obtain essence from other sources to improve their cultivation.

Human beings are precisely one of the best sources of this essence, so the fox fairies choose to turn into handsome men and beautiful women to steal human essence, and the Bone Lady devours human flesh. There is a way to use humans.

"Pampas grass is divided into male and female. Every spring, when it blooms, the male pampas grass will use the spring breeze to spread pollen in the air, look for those who have obsessions in their hearts, combine and grow parasitic plants. These tiny The parasitic strain will continue to tease the stubbornness in the person's heart, absorb the inflated desire, and send it to the body of the male pampas grass."

Under normal circumstances, a person possessed by pampas grass pollen should not have obvious emotional changes - it's as if there is a small parasite hidden in the body.A pampas grass spirit can often absorb the desires of hundreds of people at the same time, there is no need for it to expose itself too much by attacking one of them too hard.

Six days ago, Bai Xiuqi led Li Kun to Xuanjing Apartment for the first time, and Jiang Chenglu saw Li Kun's problem at a glance.

With the idea of ​​helping others, he slapped Li Kun on the shoulder, breaking up the root system of the parasitic pampas grass, which would wither after seven days, and Li Kun who was parasitized should also return to a normal state.

Perhaps it was because the parasitic plant on Li Kun's body was relatively strong, and after realizing that the end was approaching, it launched a stubborn resistance.Li Kun was manipulated into such a madness, it is estimated that even if the parasitic plants withered, it would be enough for the male pampas grass to earn enough money.

Speaking of this, Jiang Chenglu even smiled.

"Do you know? The pollen of Puwei is the Puhuang in traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of stopping bleeding. The Puhuang of Puweijing is a wonderful medicine in this regard, so the male Puweijing especially likes to shoot women. Affected by Puhuang, these Women's menstrual events will fluctuate, and their temper and mood will become worse, and these negative emotions will be absorbed by Puwei Jing. It is even more terrible for pregnant women..."

"I know, I know!"

He didn't come here to listen to the lectures on Chinese medicine, Bai Xiuqi waved his hands to stop Jiang Chenglu from continuing these nonsense.

"You mean, Li Kun inhaled pampas grass pollen and mistakenly became obsessed with me. Just wait for two more days, until the parasitic thing on his body dies completely, and everything will return to normal."

"That's right." Jiang Chenglu spread his hands, "It's that simple."

"Then what if he is infected with pollen again?"

"Puwei Jing also has professional ethics. They generally don't shoot the same person twice. Anyway, in this society, there are more and more people with impetuous hearts suitable for them to parasitize."

Speaking of this, Jiang Chenglu shrugged his shoulders again: "If you are really worried, you can also go to the Taobao shop of Shang Dou Xing downstairs to buy a talisman, burn it to ashes and drink it with a bowl of rootless water. It worked."

"You don't understand what I mean." Bai Xiuqi frowned: "Then the male pampas grass is so harmful, do you still keep it for the New Year?"

"What else can I do if I don't keep it?" Jiang Chenglu asked back: "Do you know where its body is?"

I don't know, but you can ask Li Kun.To put it bluntly, Jiang Chenglu just didn't want to continue to manage it.

It's no wonder, it's not a relative or a reason, and helping each other is just a temporary idea, so how can you ask for more?

Don't push yourself too far.

Bai Xiuqi quietly lowered his head and scrubbed his feet in the water.The towel in his hand became cold, and Jiang Chenglu took it over to scrub, wringed it dry and stuffed it back again.

"No more questions about the apartment? Aren't you curious about those concert-like lights outside?"

"What's there to be curious about? I guessed it all, it's all the broken copper and iron upstairs that are shining."

Bai Xiuqi was a little annoyed and a little disappointed, and said casually: "Those old things that are sealed are full of goblins and ghosts, and people who are frightened throw them here as garbage. This apartment is a Ghost dump."

When he said these words, he kept his head down, so he didn't notice that Jiang Chenglu who was going to answer the words suddenly closed his mouth, frowned and turned his head away, and it took a while before he gave a wry smile.

"Hehe... That's right, it's a garbage dump. It's all discarded and forgotten by humans... Little boss, your mouth is really damaged."

Is it bad? Why don't I feel it?From a human point of view, there is nothing wrong with this sentence.

Bai Xiuqi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly raised his head: "Jiang Chenglu, who are you?"

"I?"

Jiang Chenglu smiled again: "As you can see, he's just a garbage dump manager."

"But I have seen you in my dreams...more than once. In my dream, you have long silver hair and golden eyes, not like a human being."

Having said that, Bai Xiuqi stared straight into his eyes: "Jiang Chenglu, are you a human, or something like them?"

Jiang Chenglu obviously reacted to the dream described by Bai Xiuqi, but it was only a moment of hesitation.

He chuckled: "Stay with garbage, not garbage... what else can it be?"

No, I didn't mean to belittle you—

Just as Bai Xiuqi wanted to explain, Jiang Chenglu suddenly took the towel in his hand, let go and threw it directly into the footbath.

"Little Boss, you're tired too. Go to bed early after washing your feet. It's dark and there are dangers everywhere in the apartment. Don't run around. We'll talk about it tomorrow morning if you have anything to do."

After saying this, Jiangcheng Lu turned around and walked out of his room without looking back.

Judging from the sound, Bai Xiuqi thought that Jiangcheng Road had gone to the Taobao store downstairs.It was the only clean place in Dongdong, and Jiang Chenglu should spend the night there.

Looking out from the window above the stove, there are lights on in the windows on the second floor of the west building, and the puppeteer Huayang should be at home.But at this moment, Bai Xiuqi was not in the mood to discuss with him.

He changed into the T-shirt left by Jiang Chenglu, dried his feet, and put on the plastic slippers on one side.

On the narrow single bed, the sheets had been changed, and there was a fresh smell of washing powder.Bai Xiuqi sat on the edge of the bed and lay down slowly. What he saw was the gray and mottled ceiling and simple high-power light bulbs.

Really, a place like a cage.

Bai Xiuqi closed his eyes, and tried to imagine himself as the administrator here instead of Jiang Chenglu... Less than two seconds later, his eyes suddenly opened wide, and he couldn't imagine the terrible feeling of losing his freedom.

Then, what kind of mood did Jiang Chenglu stay here?Day after day, dwelling in this narrow and strange world.

It seems that his life should not be like this.

But what would that be like?

Bai Xiuqi opened his mouth, the answer seemed to be stuck in his throat, but he couldn't come out.He was a little annoyed, and even felt that the lights on the ceiling were dazzling, so he stretched out his right hand to block his eyes.

This covering made him notice another thing at the edge of his field of vision.

The wooden shelf propped against the wall.

Bai Xiuqi propped up his upper body and looked around. The offerings and the square box wrapped in brocade were still placed on the wooden board.

What was in that box?Now that Jiang Chenglu is not around, it is a good time to get a glimpse of the truth.

But Jiang Chenglu once mentioned that the contents of the box are already very fragile, if irreversible damage is caused after opening, what compensation should be given to others?

Then again, it doesn't look like the box has any special functions of isolating the air or anti-corrosion. If there is something hidden, it will be broken before it breaks.At worst, he turned off the light and took a peek at it in the dim light, is it okay?

……

Bai Xiuqi was at war with heaven and man in his head, and suddenly heard a tender voice coming from the end of the bed.

"Little boss, don't touch that box, it's A Jiang's sweetheart. A Jiang is a good man, don't bully him."

Bai Xiuqi was startled, he gathered himself together, then crawled towards the end of the bed with hands and feet, while stretching his neck to find out.

At the same time as he approached, a pair of wings suddenly appeared at the end of the bed, and then a group of colorful things rose into the air and flew onto the bed sheet.

It wasn't a bird, but a small person with wings.It is only about three inches high, and it looks like a human teenager with delicate features, but the pair of wings on the back are more colorful and beautiful than a macaw.

What's even more weird is that Xiao Yuren is not completely naked, nor is he wearing the toga with long sleeves of the ancients. Instead, he is dressed in a fashionable sweater and jeans. If you look closely, he even wears small sneakers on his feet.

This kind of meticulous workmanship should obviously come from the handwriting of the two puppet masters in the opposite Xidong.

Perhaps it was because the joy of this combination was too strong, Bai Xiuqi didn't feel surprised or scared anymore.He immediately remembered the doubts a few days ago.

"That...you ate the cherries I bought?"

Xiao Yuren sat cross-legged on the bed, and when he heard the word "cherry", his eyes seemed to light up: "That miser, Jiang, is reluctant to buy cherries, thank you for saying it!"

Bai Xiuqi shook his head and said it was nothing, and laughed in his heart that he had already started to get close to the monsters so soon.He paused, then asked the villain again: "Are you a parrot that turned into a monster?"

"Parrot?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yuren let out a "hum" laugh, pulled out a wing and picked out his ears: "You humans are the ones who make monkeys so funny, I am a real Le-Bi-human! "