Song of Less Danger

A room in the corner of the second floor of the porcelain shop was temporarily repurposed for other purposes. Zheng Liaoge plunged into it, but did not come out for several days and nights.

The Bailong who delivered the meal stood outside the door with a food box in his hand, "Young master, it's time to eat."

There was no response from the door, so Bailong knew that the young master had forgotten himself again.He was hesitating whether to push the door open and go in, when he suddenly saw a person walking straight up with gauze tied around his neck, it was the stinky kid who had squandered a lot of their food and medicine money for nothing these days.

Bailong stopped him, "What are you doing, kid, you're running amuck."

Shaowei pushed his hand away impatiently, "Where are the others?"

"I advise you to be more disciplined, don't think that if you have a good temper, the young master can be up or down..."

Shaowei was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and immediately wanted to pass him to push the door, Bailong would not let him disturb the young master, so he immediately blocked his arm, the two confronted each other in front of the door, the atmosphere was tense for a while.

With a sound of "squeak", the door was pulled open, "Bailong, are you calling me... Shaowei! Why did you run out with only this little thing on?"

Zheng Liaoge appeared in front of the two of them. He put on a clean robe and came out with a dirty robe. His long hair was tied up in a ponytail, his face and hands were rubbed with dirty dust from nowhere, and he held a medicinal glass in his arms. I don't know what is inside.

Bai Long was shocked by his attire: "Little, young master, let's take a break and eat."

Shaowei: "What strange things are you tinkering with?"

"It's cold outside, come inside and tell me." Zheng Laoge pulled Shaowei, reached out to take the food box in Bailong's hand, thanked him, and naturally led Shaowei into the room, closing the door.

Bai Long who was shut out of the door: "?"

There were a bunch of bottles and jars in the room, and a strange smell of medicine filled the air. Shao Wei glanced over and found that there were live insects crawling in the glass of medicine on the table.

Shaodan: "...you started raising worms?"

Zheng Laoge was very hungry, sitting at the messy table holding a bowl and concentrating on eating, and nodded upon hearing this.

Shaowei was puzzled, so he simply sat beside him and watched him eat.Zheng Laoge's cheeks bulged from eating, and he still didn't forget to pick up a large piece of meat from the bowl, "Shaowei, come."

"I will not eat."

"Eat, you need to eat more now, otherwise the wound will not grow well."

Like coaxing a child, he couldn't help but open his mouth to eat.Zheng Laoge quickly finished his meal, put the bowl aside, and began to explain to him one by one, "I'm raising a Gu, and I asked Bailong and the others to find a lot of bugs for me these days, but unfortunately there are no books here for reference. , I don’t know exactly how to raise them.”

"What does raising Gu do?"

"Look." Zheng Liaoge took out the medicine glass that he was holding in his arms just now and put it on the table. The bright light made Shaowei see what was in the jar more clearly.

It's a red bug the size of half a palm.

He had never seen such a bug.His whole body was scarlet like fresh blood, with a pair of clearly visible barbed fangs on his head, and countless wormy feet wriggling, which made him very sick and uncomfortable.

"How to raise these messy things."

Zheng Liaoge was observing the state of the Gu worm, and replied after hearing the words, "This is a Gu worm taken from the heart of a Nie family member."

Shaowei was startled, his expression changed.

Zheng Laoge concentrated on looking at Yao Liuli, not noticing the change in his expression, and continued, "The man's eyes are very similar to Shen Zhan's, with bloodshot meridians around his heart, slurred speech, crazy demeanor, and very serious symptoms." Like the bewitched people I've read about in books."

He picked up the bottle and looked at the red worm carefully against the light, and recorded the observations these days on the paper at hand.He made a firm judgment, "This kind of Gu insect is very similar to the peach blossom bran Gu, but not all of them, the peach blossom bran Gu insect cannot be so big."

Shaowei frowned and looked at the Gu worms in the glass, and asked in a deep voice, "Where is the Nie family?"

"Dead." Zheng Laoge said, "This Gu worm almost ate his heart out."

He looked carefully at the Gu worms in the glass, with a very puzzled expression, "It seems that Shen Zhan should have been bewitched too, but why can he still act as usual? Or maybe I was wrong, and I can't do it just by looking at the eyes." Conclusion..."

He murmured while holding Yao Liuli, Shaowei watched him silently, and then looked at the strange bug in his hand.He also thought of Shen Zhan's eyes, and suddenly felt an indescribable chill in his heart.

"What will happen if this Gu worm is planted into a person's body?" Shaowei asked.

"This kind of Gu is similar to Peach Blossom Bran Gu, and I guess it is also a kind of phantom Gu." Zheng Liaoge replied: "There are three types of Gu in the world: Life Gu continues life, Death Gu kills, and another kind of Phantom Gu controls people's spirit. , making people normal for a while, crazy for a while, and become a walking dead after a long time, only obeying the instructions of the Gu mother."

"Then why did this man die?"

"Because this kind of Gu insect is more poisonous than Peach Blossom Bran Gu, if it is not planted in the body of a person whose physique is different from ordinary people, it will not only fail to work, but will even cause death."

Zheng Liaoge said to himself, "It is said that the Nie family is good at using poison, who is better than the Nie family, who can plant Gu into their bodies?"

Shaowei said indifferently: "Maybe they planted it themselves."

Zheng Laoge was puzzled: "You mean, they are killing their own people?"

Shaowei looked distraught, got up and said "there's nothing they can't do", turned and left the room.

Zheng Laoge called out, but the boy left without looking back.He didn't know why, but he always felt that Shaowei was often in a bad mood these days, also on the way to Qinggang, he was silent by himself, as if pretending to be worried.

He hesitated for a moment, got up and cleaned the table, picked up a few worms and threw them into the medicinal glass, sealed the bottle, put it in the cabinet, and ran out of the room.

"Young Master." Bai Long called him downstairs, "Have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." After Zheng Laoge finished speaking, he remembered something, and asked, leaning on the railing, "Bailong, is there a stall selling small wontons nearby?"

"Yes, if the young master wants to eat, I will buy it."

"Please ask for a big bowl, add egg shreds."

In another room, Shaowei sat alone on the couch, his brows and eyes condensed.

He held the black knife horizontally in front of him, and he pressed the texture with his fingertips, which was a familiar touch.

He got this knife on his 14th birthday, and his elder brother handed it to him, telling him that "this is the knife used by the Nie family".

Then his brother asked him to kill people.But none of the missions were successful. As a descendant of the Nie family, he couldn't even kill people.

"You are such a waste, Nie Shaowei."

This is the sentence my brother said to him the most.

Shaowei clenched the black knife tightly, his black hair was hanging down, and his expression was gloomy.

At this time, there was a light knock on the door, accompanied by a soft and clear familiar voice, "Shaowei, I'm coming in."

Zheng Liaoge pushed open the door, came in with a food box, came over and sat on the couch with him, opened the food box, and immediately a burst of aroma came out, "I asked Bailong to help buy small wontons, hurry up while they are hot eat."

The wonton noodle soup has shiny oily flakes, the wonton wrapper is crystal clear and thin, and the surface is covered with golden egg shreds.Shaowei stared at a big bowl of wontons in front of him, his thoughts were suddenly distracted.

"I'm not hungry," he said.

"Liar. You are in a bad mood, it must be because you haven't eaten enough." Zheng Laoge took out a spoon to scoop up a wonton, carefully blew it, and fed it to his mouth, "Ah——open your mouth, hurry up point."

Shaowei was forced to eat wontons, fearing that Zheng laoping songs would be endless, so he took the spoon and said, "I will eat it myself."

Shaowei was really hungry. The process of wound healing made him often feel hungry. He swept away all the wontons, and when he looked up, he saw Zheng Liaoge looking at him with his chin propped up. He suddenly felt uncomfortable, "Look at me!" do what?"

Zheng Laoge half propped up his body and stretched out his hand towards him.Shaowei froze, and then felt a warm and cool touch on his forehead.

Putting fingers on the center of the eyebrows, rubbing gently and slowly, "Why is Shaowei always frowning?"

Shaowei turned his head subconsciously, pursed his mouth and did not speak.Seeing him like this, Zheng Laoge thought for a while, moved to sit beside him, and then untied a pendant from his neck.

It was a ring-shaped emerald white jade pendant, with a simple and heavy color, and it looked warm and bright because it was worn close to the body all year round.Looking carefully at the decorations on the jade, there are actually a pair of wild geese crossing their necks. The workmanship is exquisite, and it is very precious.

Zheng Liaoge took off the jade pendant and put it around his neck, "This is the pendant my mother left me. It is a family heirloom of our family. It can ward off evil spirits and keep you safe. I have never taken it off after wearing it."

Shaowei's heart was shocked, and he grabbed his wrist instinctively, "I don't want it."

Zheng Liaoge had already fastened the jade pendant and put it on his collar, "Mother, bless Shaowei from getting hurt again, and be safe and sound, free from disease and disaster."

Shaowei almost stood up and threw away Zheng Liaoge, but his hands and feet were as heavy as lead, and he stared blankly at Zheng Liaoge's face that was close at hand.

The warm spring light outside the window fell on the face of the person in front of him, illuminating his fair skin and slender eyelashes clearly and softly, like a dream in the flowing water, incredibly clean.

"When Shaowei feels that he doesn't need it anymore, he can return it to me." Zheng Laoge raised his head and said to him with a smile, "In this way, even if we are separated in the future, we may see each other again one day in the future."

Shaowei looked into his eyes and asked involuntarily, "Do you still want to see me again?"

"of course."

"why?"

Zheng Liaoge was stunned for a moment, blinking his clear eyes, as if he had never thought that he would ask such a question, and after thinking about it, he replied, "Because Shaowei is very good, very good."

As he said that, he was about to lean over.He is always like this, every time he is happy, he acts like a baby, he wants to hold hands, he wants to talk to him, no one taught him, he is really like a child who grew up in the mountains, he doesn't know any manners.

Shaowei took him aside and looked at him seriously, "We've only known each other for a few months, so you're not worried that I'll hurt you?"

Zheng Liaoge was lifted away by him with one hand, looked at him for a while, and laughed, "You accompany me to celebrate the New Year, go to the mountains to find medicine, send me to Jiangbei, and save me several times. Is this also called harming me?"

He relaxed his body and sat side by side with him leisurely, "You just don't like to say good things about yourself, I've already seen that."

Shaowei took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "You go out first."

"Ok?"

"I'm tired and want to sleep." Shaowei said so, he got up and went to bed.Seeing this, Zheng Liaoge couldn't talk to him anymore, so he got up and went to the door, and when he opened the door, he turned around and said to him, "Then you have a good rest, if you are hungry or feel uncomfortable, you must tell me, you know. "

Shaowei responded vaguely, and Zheng Laoge closed the door and left.Shaowei sat by the bed alone, until he heard the sound of light footsteps pattering away, the oppression in his chest dissipated briefly, allowing him to breathe smoothly again.

He didn't sleep, just sat like this until night fell and the stars came out of the clouds.

In the middle of the night, everyone fell asleep, the sound of running water outside the window, and the dim light of the stars.Shaowei didn't feel sleepy, he lay motionless on the bed and opened his eyes to look at the top of the bed.

In the silence, a very slight sound came into his ears from outside the door.Shaowei stood up vigilantly, silently holding the knife beside the bed.

The door was slowly pushed open, and a man entered the room across the threshold.When he saw the man, he was puzzled for a moment.

He had seen the man's face before, in this porcelain shop, walking around in the appearance of ordinary people like the other hidden guards of the Zheng family.He had seen this man follow Bailong, and even saw him have a few words with Zheng Laoge.

Shaowei stared at him vigilantly, "What do you want to do?"

The man closed the door behind his back and walked towards him.Shaowei noticed something strange - the man's current demeanor and walking posture were quite different from those he had seen during the day.

The man stopped a few steps away from him, with his hands behind his back, looking down at him with a smile.

"Good student, are you having fun outside these days?"

At that moment, Shaodan was struck by lightning——this voice was his master!That human skin mask was so perfect that even the elite hidden guards of the Zheng family didn't notice it.

Cold sweat crept up Shaowei's back, he put down the knife, knelt down in front of the man on one knee, and said in a hoarse voice, "Master."

The man shrunk his bones and his body became much thinner, but an invisible and heavy pressure still prevented him from raising his head.That painted-faced god is indeed Master, and their tracks have been firmly controlled by Master from the very beginning, and the handful of almonds handed over is Master's warning to him.

He's put it off for too long.

"If you don't urge you anymore, you really won't want to leave." The man leisurely walked to the table and sat down, "It seems that the boy from the Zheng family really likes you."

"Your elder brother asked you to kill, but you didn't. In order to protect that kid, you are willing to do it again."

Shaowei clenched his fingers, "No, I..."

"Have you almost forgotten how your parents died?"

Shaowei's face was pale and pale, and he was as silent as death.

"Take him out of Qinggang City in three days." The man said, "Your elder brother and I are waiting for you outside the city."

The man stood up and said heavily, "You know what to do, Nie Shaowei."