Embrace the blade

The night outside the window didn't know how deep it was, Jiang Li turned over on the bed, but still didn't feel sleepy.It was as if he had been bewitched by someone. As soon as he closed his eyes, all the temperature and breath that belonged to Qi Zhaoxi flooded into his mind, his low and smiling voice still lingered in his ears, and the lingering touch of his lips and teeth almost gnawed at his spine. bone.

Jiang Li suddenly sat up, lifted the quilt out of bed, lit the lamp and picked up the teapot, filled a cup only to find that the tea was already completely cold.

He was in a daze when there was a soft knock on the door, and Jiang Lanze asked quietly outside: "Jiang Li, are you asleep?"

Jiang Li opened the door, and Jiang Lanze showed him an embarrassed smile: "I'm going back to Luoyang tomorrow, but I can't sleep, can I chat with you? Jiang...uh..."

Jiang Lanze suddenly realized that the address was wrong, but he couldn't call him brother to someone he had only met a few times in front of him, and it would be even more inappropriate to call Jiang Yunruo directly. He became embarrassed and appeared even more cautious.

"Just call him the original one." Jiang Li let him into the room.

"Okay." Jiang Lanze nodded, and sat down at the table, "You haven't slept yet, what are you thinking?"

"..." Throat tightened slightly, Jiang Li downed a cup of cold tea in one go, and then said calmly, "It's nothing."

Although he wondered why he was so thirsty in the middle of the night, Jiang Lanze didn't ask any more questions, and Gu Zi said, "After listening to you tell the "Longevity Formula" and the things about the grave guards, I'm still dizzy until now. I think the Guiyun Villa where I grew up and the Guiyun Villa you mentioned are two different places."

Jiang Li glanced at him, and he quickly explained: "I don't doubt your words! I just... just feel..."

"I understand what you mean." Jiang Li said.

Jiang Lanze breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and stared at the toes of his shoes, and murmured: "It's like a dream. It turns out that the uncle I worshiped every year died not long ago. It turns out that I still have a cousin. So many things happened. I do not know anything."

Jiang Li was lost in thought and didn't make a sound.

"You probably don't know that my mother was gone when I was born. My father probably felt that my lack of a mother hurt me, and he wanted to make up for it twice, so he was very spoiled by me. I was fond of playing since I was a child, and I did my homework when I was studying. I was not serious, and I hid the crickets I caught in a jar and took them to the school, intending to play with Jiang Huaiyang and the others, but I forgot that crickets could chirp. As a result, my husband read a poem, and the crickets chirped, louder than ours. Several times, my husband was so angry. I complained to my father, and every time my father taught me that I should not be an example, but next time I make a mistake again, my father will not really punish me."

"Later, I practiced martial arts with my father, and I still tried to be lazy. I would never stand in the yard to practice when it was raining. When the sun was poisonous, I would lie on the ground and pretend to be dizzy. When I learned to breathe out and circulate my true energy, I was lost I fell asleep meditating vaguely, and when I opened my eyes, it was already dusk. My father was sitting beside me. He didn’t wake me up, but looked at the setting sun in the distance. At that time, I couldn’t understand his expression, but now I think I think it must be very lonely."

"I didn't know anything before, so I felt very happy like this, especially when I saw other children being whipped up and down by their parents, I felt that my father was the best in the world." Jiang Lanze lowered his voice as he spoke, almost buried his head in his knees Li, "But I have been thinking these two days, is it because he has never expected or demanded me, so he let me go? What kind of son am I in his eyes? Am I useless? Take responsibility, can't you count on it at all?"

Jiang Li lightly pressed his hand on his shoulder, Jiang Lanze raised his face, tried hard to hold back the tears with his eyes wide open, but couldn't help sobbing: "Jiang Li, why does he not know the truth about Gui Yun at all?" tell me?"

"Maybe he wants to protect you."

"But I'm the owner of the young villa. Don't I want to inherit the villa in the future?" Jiang Lanze said, "I'm already this old, why didn't you tell me?"

Jiang Li thought for a while and said, "When your father is cured, you can ask him personally."

Probably due to the lack of blood, the temperature in Jiang Li's palm was not high, but it was enough to give Jiang Lanze a little warmth and comfort through his clothes in this gradually cooling autumn night.Only then did he realize that Jiang Li was not as indifferent as he seemed, and the timidity in his heart dissipated, so he blurted out and asked, "Jiang Li, do you want to visit Guiyun Villa?"

"..."

Jiang Lanze turned around and faced him: "You can go back to Luoyang with me, father misses uncle very much, and must also want to see you very much!"

Jiang Li hesitated and didn't answer.

Jiang Lanze hurriedly said: "I know, I heard from your words that day that there are traitors in Guiyun Villa, so you don't trust us. If you were not trapped by the formation, you would definitely not recognize me. But I promise, father and uncle will never harm you, they will definitely find out the traitor!"

"I already know who it is."

"Who is it?" Jiang Lanze was stunned, "You mean Senior Brother Ji? But I don't think Senior Brother Ji is like that kind of person, there must be a reason behind it."

Jiang Li didn't answer.

Jiang Lanze persuasively persuaded him: "Besides, Busujian and "Longevity Jue" are not your business alone. You don't have to bear it alone. This is the whole Guiyun Villa's business. You are Guiyun Villa Even though I can’t call out now, we are a family, why don’t you go home and have a look?”

I don't know which word touched him, Jiang Lanze could clearly see the waves in Jiang Li's eyes, and hurriedly asked, "How about it, come back to Luoyang with me?"

In his expectant eyes, Jiang Li nodded slowly: "Okay."

Luoyang, Guiyun Villa.

The square-faced man returned to the house in the night, and when the candles were lit, a figure standing in the corner was reflected.

"Hey, I was shocked." The man laughed, "Isn't this Mr. Ji Xiuming? He's such a rare visitor, why did he come to see me? Have you finally made up your mind?"

Ji Xiuming leaned against the wall, his face pale: "I saw Yun Ruo."

"Yes, where?"

"Nanjiang Xugu." Ji Xiuming seemed to be talking to himself, "No, no, I've seen him in Dongting, I didn't recognize him at all, but why didn't he grow up, and he was still alive Looks like he is seventeen or eighteen years old?"

The man was not surprised: "That's the effect of the "Longevity Formula"."

Ji Xiuming looked at him blankly.

"Didn't I tell you back then that what your adoptive father taught Jiang Yunruo behind your back was the "Secret of Longevity", do you believe it now?" the man said, "Tell me how you met him."

Ji Xiuming managed to regain his composure, and told the story of the future. After the man listened, he was interested in another person: "The man who followed Jiang Yunruo, Qi Zhaoxi, hasn't moved yet?"

"What should he do?" Ji Xiuming didn't know why.

"Strange, so patient." The man mused to himself without explaining.

But the more Ji Xiuming thought about it, the more anxious he became: "Too bad, Lan Ze is still with them, Yun Ruo will definitely tell him everything that happened in Luoxia Valley."

"You are not the only one in the villa who knows Taniguchi's method of breaking the formation. Even if they know someone betrayed them, they can't conclude that it is you." The man glanced at him, "On the contrary, it is you yourself. You haven't done enough. What are you panicking about? This run, Jiang Yunruo must be suspicious."

"No," Ji Xiuming shook his head again and again, "Yun Ruo clearly knows how he treats me!"

"Joke. If Jiang Yun knew that you harmed them, he would have killed you long ago, and would have you come to me to worry?"

Ji Xiuming was speechless for a moment.

The man continued: "But judging from the situation, he will soon guess it's you. So we have to act quickly and get rid of Jiang Yunruo before he finds the evidence."

Ji Xiu's face turned ashen: "Does it have to be like this..."

"What did you say?"

"I don't want to kill him." Ji Xiuming closed his eyes in pain, "After I got the Sword of No Doubt, I often had nightmares, dreaming that he was lying in the bloody forest with his adoptive father in the valley, and he was still looking at me with his eyes open. When you said that Yun Ruo was still alive that day, I felt happy from the bottom of my heart and breathed a sigh of relief. I never thought of harming them."

"Okay, how many times have I heard this sentence." The man said impatiently, "At that time, you were asked to take the sword of no doubt while the Prajna Church was in chaos. You got stuck in the mud, and you thought you could turn around? It’s useless for me to say these things, so you can save them for Jiang Yunruo.”

Ji Xiuming still said: "I don't want to kill him, is there no other way?"

"If there were other ways, would you still come to me?" The man said sarcastically, "Master Ji, please think carefully, either you should be your good person honestly and don't get involved in this matter from the beginning, or you should just do it Just go on, and stop being a whore and wanting to set up a memorial archway for yourself, which is annoying."

Ji Xiuming shut up.

"If Jiang Yun doesn't die, you don't want to live, do you understand?"

Ji Xiuming gritted his teeth and said "um".

"Speaking of the Sword of No Doubt, how is your research going? Have you found any clues to the Secret of Longevity hidden in it?"

"No, except for the traces of being broken and recast on the sword, there is nothing special about it."

The man thought for a moment, and said: "You take the Buyi sword and leave the villa first, and wait for my news. Now everyone in the world knows that the "Longevity Jue" can bring people back from the dead, as long as Jiang Yunruo and his so-called master who 'resurrect the dead' show up , There are countless people trying to tear him apart and snatch the "Longevity Formula". If you are lucky, you may not need to do it yourself."

Ji Xiuming asked anxiously: "Then what are you going to do?"

"I'll go to the Wisdom Sect." The man smiled, and suddenly rolled up his sleeves, revealing a black line on the inside of his forearm, which climbed to the elbow along the veins, "No price , do you think you can win the trust of the Prajna Sect?"

The black line was terribly dark, as if carved in the bone.Ji Xiuming looked at the man carefully again, only to find that he looked haggard, and he couldn't help being confused: "You are just a small branch of the Jiang family, how can you know so many secrets... You have worked so hard, what exactly do you want?"

The man went out, pushed open the door, looked at the dimly lit Guiyun Villa, and sighed: "You won't understand now, everything I do is not selfish, it's just for Guiyun, for Mr. Jiang Luming. Landlord."

Ji Xiuming stared at the man's back more and more complicatedly.

"I want to go to the ancestral hall to add a stick of incense to the old owner, will you come with me?" the man suddenly asked.

"I'm not going."

The man nodded and stepped into the dark night.