Ning Chen

The time is full of regrets of the rush of a hundred years.

"..." Xie Zhanning couldn't help sighing, and most of the anger towards Wen Renjie just now disappeared.

Gu Lichen called softly: "Senior?"

"How did Zhi'er die? Was it Shi Shuliu, did Shi Shuliu kill her?!"

After a while, Wen Renjie opened his mouth again.

Gu Lichen clenched his hands into fists, frowned, raised his voice, and replied, "Senior, what are you talking about! Shi Shuliu is also sister's adoptive father, how could he harm sister?!"

Wen Renjie suddenly trembled violently, and his figure began to sway, as if he would disappear at any moment, "Father? He is Zhier's foster father?!"

Xie Zhanning caught a glimpse of Wen Renjie's feet gradually becoming transparent, almost disappearing, and exclaimed, "Master, Senior Wen Ren's feet!"

Seeing this, Gu Lichen hurriedly said, "Senior, you..."

Wen Renjie waved his hand, and said with a wry smile: "I've heard how beautiful Renjie has been for half his life, but now he can only stay here as an earth spirit. It's ridiculous, really ridiculous!"

"The body of the earth spirit?" Xie Zhanning looked at Gu Lichen with puzzlement on his face.

Gu Lichen explained: "The body of the earth spirit is to imprison the living soul of a person in a certain land with the spirit prisoner technique, so that the living soul cannot leave. Imprisonment is an extremely sinister and vicious spell, and many people who practice Taoism disdain to use this method."

"So that's the case." Xie Zhanning nodded, and Gu Lichen said again: "Senior, who is so vicious and imprisoned your soul here?"

Wen Renjie looked at Gu Lichen fixedly, and blurted out every word, "Shi, wash, flow!"

"No, it's impossible!" Gu Lichen had already guessed three points in his heart, but when the name came out of Wen Renjie's mouth, he still refused to believe it.

Wen Renjie immediately burst out laughing, "Hahahaha, he is your adoptive father, of course you speak for him!"

"Impossible, impossible..." Gu Lichen continued to whisper softly, Xie Zhanning couldn't bear to see Gu Lichen like this, so he gently put his arms around Gu Lichen's shoulder, "Master..."

Gu Lichen turned his head sideways, and beside him was a very reassuring arm, "Zhanning."

There was silence everywhere, no one answered, after a while, Wen Renjie spoke again, "Gu Lichen, do you want to hear the story between me and your adoptive father?"

"..." Gu Lichen froze on the spot, did not reply, but Xie Zhanning spoke up, "Senior, tell me, this junior is all ears."

"..." Wen Renjie glanced at Gu Lichen, and then told the story.

The puppet city, Wenren's mansion.

In the early years, Shi Shuliu and Wen Renjie hit it off immediately and became brothers of the opposite sex. On that day, Wen Renjie's only daughter, Wen Renzhi, celebrated her birthday. Shi Shuliu came to Wenren's residence to congratulate her, "Brother Wenren, congratulations! !"

Wen Renjie said happily: "Hahahaha, thank you Brother Shi."

The beautiful woman next to Wen Renjie is Wen Renjie's wife, Mrs. Gu. At this moment, she is welcoming the guests with the baby Wen Renzhi in her arms. Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi."

"Sir, Zhi'er has just turned one year old, and she doesn't know how to call someone yet." Gu Shi also smiled gently.

Wen Renjie laughed loudly, "Hahaha, Madam reminded me that it was because my husband was so happy."

But the infant Wen Renzhi stretched out his hand and grabbed Shi Shuliu. Shi Shuliu looked at the baby, his eyes flickering, "Zhi'er was born smart, and he will definitely inherit Brother Wenren's mantle in the future."

Gu's face seemed a little displeased when she heard this, and she said, "I hope she can just be an ordinary little daughter, and not be like his father, who knows how to play with those cold puppets all day long."

Wen Renjie echoed repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it is what Madam says."

"..." Shi Shuliu pursed his lips and smiled, and didn't say any more.

After the banquet, Wen Renjie took Shi Shuliu to the puppet hall of Wenren's mansion. Shi Shuliu asked, "Brother Wenren, with your current ability, have you ever thought about developing a living puppet?"

Wen Renjie was startled, and asked back: "Living puppet? Brother Shi, that is a forbidden technique of our Wen family."

Shi Shuliu nodded, and continued: "Brother Yu certainly knows that being a puppet is a forbidden technique, but because it is a forbidden technique, Brother Wenren is more interested, isn't he?"

"..." Wen Renjie didn't answer, because Shi Shuliu's words caught his fancy. Over the years, he had actually longed for the art of living a puppet in his heart for a long time.

Shi Shuliu didn't refute when he heard about Renjie, and said: "Brother Wenren, you have already reached the pinnacle of puppetry, but there is only a living puppet, which has never been made by anyone before, don't you want to be a puppet in this world?" Is it No.1?"

"No.1, No.1..." Wen Renjie murmured continuously, as if he had entered the land of no one.

Since the long talk with Shi Shuliu that day, Wen Renjie has been like a demon, burying his head in the puppet hall all day long, obsessed with the study of living puppet art, completely ignoring anyone and anything beside him.

Gu yelled outside the puppet hall every day, trying to regain some of Wen Renjie's mind, "Husband, husband, come out, come out!"

Every time at this time, Wen Renjie became more irritable, "Get out! Don't bother me!!!"

"Father, Daddy..." As Gu Zhi grew older, she had already learned to call her Daddy, and now, only Wen Renzhi's voice could keep Wen Renjie awake for a moment, "Zhier..."

But whenever Wen Renjie was slightly awake, Shi Shuliu's words would penetrate deep into his mind like a magic voice, and when Wen Renjie's slight sobriety was unable to resist the magic voice, then it came again. The old appearance, "Get out! Get out of here!!!"

During Wen Renjie's years of research on living puppets, Shi Shuliu was always very enthusiastic in finding all kinds of natural and earthly treasures for him to make living puppets. It should be found by Wen Renjie, "Brother Wenren, I brought you a good thing."

"Nine-tailed spirit fox fur?" Today, Shi Shuliu brought many fox furs to Wen Renjie, and Wen Renjie's eyes lit up immediately when he saw the fox fur.

Shi Shuliu nodded, and said, "It's the nine-tailed spirit fox fur. With it, can Brother Wen Ren's technique of living a puppet be accomplished?"

Wen Renjie looked up to the sky and said with a long smile: "Hahahaha, if it can be done, it will definitely be done!"

"That foolish brother will wait and see." Shi Shuliu also smiled, but that smile made people feel uneasy.

One day, a young man in Tsing Yi entered Wenren's mansion alone, and shouted outside the door: "Wen Renjie, come out! Since you dared to slaughter my son and grandson, today I will let you pay for your life!"

Wen Renjie rushed out the door and asked, "When will I kill you..."

"A few nonsense!" The young man in Tsing Yi didn't wait for him to explain, he transformed into a nine-tailed demon body, and slaughtered Wenren's whole family without any effort. As soon as he fought, his manpower was exhausted, and Wen Renjie was still defeated by the young man in the end.

When Wen Renjie was dying, Shi Shuliu came to Wen Ren's mansion quietly. He looked at the bloody corpses and sighed, then walked up to Wen Renjie, knelt down, and asked, "Brother Wen Ren, you are a living puppet!" Can the technique be accomplished?"

When Wen Renjie saw Shi Shuliu, it was as if he saw a life-saving straw. He grabbed Shi Shuliu by the corner of his clothes and panted repeatedly, "Brother Shi, help me..."

Shi Shuliu gently pulled out the corner of his clothes, and said coldly, "It seems that it's not done yet."

"Brother Shi?" Wen Renjie was puzzled as to why Shi Shuliu had such a tone. He stood up slowly, his voice still piercingly cold, "Brother Wen Ren, I think Ling Ai is very smart, maybe , it is not certain that she will become a living puppet one day."

At this moment, Wen Renjie didn't have time to think about all the things he had met with Shi Shuliu in the past. Whether it was intentional or not, he could only beg him not to endanger Gu Zhi, "Zhi'er, don't hurt me, my Zhi'er..."

Shi Shuliu turned around coldly, unable to see his expression clearly, even his words were equally unclear, "Don't worry, Brother Wenren, Brother Yu will take good care of Zhi'er, so you can go with peace of mind."

Wen Renjie crawled towards Shi Shuliu with difficulty, his feeble voice was full of endless resentment, "Shi Shuliu, you..."

Shi Shuliu turned around suddenly, and said: "... I heard that Patriarch, you may have many dreams in the night, I'd better send you to Yiyang."

Yiyang, the place where they met and became brothers of the opposite sex.

55. The Soul Returns to the Old Azusa

"Gu Zhi returns to his hometown..."

When Wen Renjie told the past one by one, Gu Lichen was already upset and breathless, "Senior, what you said is true?"

Wen Renjie glanced at Gu Lichen, and said in a deep voice, "I, Wen Renjie, don't even bother to lie to you, a junior."

"..." Gu Lichen was stunned and said nothing, Xie Zhanning whispered from the side: "Master."

The surroundings were silent again, and after a while, Wen Renjie finally spoke, "Gu Lichen, now do you know what kind of person Shi Shuliu is?"

Gu Lichen knew that Shi Shuliu was a withdrawn and arrogant person, but to him, no matter what outsiders said about Shi Shuliu, Shi Shuliu was the adoptive father who raised him, "Why, why?" It's going to be like this..."

Wen Renjie saw that Gu Lichen seemed to have lost his mind, and continued: "Now that I think about it, the reason why Shi Shuliu and I became brothers of the opposite sex back then was nothing more than coveting my Wenren Yanshi clan's living puppet forbidden technique. Don't you know how insidious and vicious the technique of living a puppet is, but you still listen to him and believe that he has possessed his magic way."

"Then Shi... why did he trap you here, senior?" Xie Zhanning saw that Gu Lichen had disappeared completely.