be happy

People on the street gathered on both sides of the river in groups of three or four, bowing their heads to discuss, shaking their heads and sighing from time to time.

Shen Wuji stepped forward, only to see a few corpses floating in the river, and a foul smell came from it.

"It's a terrible death, my stomach has been hollowed out." One person said while covering his mouth.

"Look at his eyeballs are so wide open, it's clear that he's not going to die. Who do you think is so ruthless, he cut his belly open." Another person echoed.

Shen Wuji's pupils shrank slightly, and he ordered his disciples to salvage all the corpses and transport them outside the city for burning, saying that they were afraid that the corpses would carry unknown diseases.

It was very quick to start, and won the praise of the people.

Luo Qianfan stood at the window to breathe, just in time to see the floating corpses, and asked in confusion: "Why is this corpse the same way as the one I saw before?"

Hearing this, Tao Ranran poked his head out to see that the body had been covered with a white cloth and carried out of the city, so he didn't see anything.

"Aren't you planning to go back?" Tao Ranran looked away, looked at Luo Qianfan, and asked.

Luo Qianfan said: "I won't go back for the time being."

"Because of the boat sinking?" Tao Ranran asked.

Luo Qianfan nodded and said, "I want to take this kid away."

Tao Ranran was very surprised, then spread his hands and said, "I can't decide this matter, you should ask him." After speaking, he pointed to Lu Yu in front of him.

Lu Yu turned around at the right time and said, "Okay."

Luo Qianfan was overjoyed and said, "Really?"

Tao Ranran was also very surprised, how could Lu Yu agree so readily?

At night, with the stars shining brightly, Tao Ranran took two jars of wine, brought a wooden ladder from the backyard, climbed up the roof with difficulty, and toasted to invite the bright moon like Taibai.

"Lu Heqing." Tao Ranran waved to Lu Yu, and then patted the place beside him.

Lu Yu lightly tapped his toes and landed on Tao Ranran's side.

Tao Ranran unsealed another jar of wine and handed it to Lu Yu, saying, "Try it."

Lu Yu took the wine jar, raised his head and took a sip, saying, "Not bad."

"Why did you agree to Luo Qianfan?" Tao Ranran asked.

Lu Yu put down the wine jar, looked at the stars in the sky, and said quietly: "Lu Yu is not suitable to stay in Zhongxuan." If you can't stay by his side, even if you show extreme disgust, you will still be in danger.

"Shen Zhou must have been cute when he was young." Tao Ranran changed the topic.

"En." Lu Yu's eyes were soft, as if he had thought of something.

The young Lu Chenzhou always liked to follow behind him, saying brother on the left and brother on the right. Whenever he was punished, he would always hide in his study, act like a baby to him, and then let him comfort his mother.However, nine years ago, Lu Chenzhou was designed by Mo Fuhui to lose his mind, causing his father to pass away.At that time, Zhongxuan had many of his father's cronies and Si'an spies, some of them were radical and even threatened to kill Lu Chenzhou with his life.After waking up, Lu Chenzhou attempted to die several times, but luckily he discovered and stopped him in time.Later, in order to appease the public anger and give Lu Chenzhou the will to live, he could only speak hatred, and even cruelly turned a blind eye, reminding Lu Chenzhou that only by living can he wash away his sins.Since then, Lu Chenzhou rarely appeared in front of everyone, so he was gradually forgotten.It's just that later he got used to this way, so much so that he forgot how to get along with Lu Chenzhou.

Lu Yu met Tao Ranran's eyes, straightened his hair that was blown by the wind on his forehead, and said, "Luo Qianfan is pure-hearted and cares about him."

"If Shen Zhou woke up and found out that his brother had sold him like this, he would be so angry." Tao Ranran joked, probably because of the alcohol, his cheeks were flushed, and his eyes were blurred.

Lu Yu leaned closer, kissed his lips lightly, stretched out his hand and hugged him into his arms, and said, "Have you ever thought about your husband's feelings when mentioning goodbye to a man in front of your husband?"

Tao Ranran laughed loudly when he heard this, "Lu Heqing, you are drunk."

"Hmm." Lu Yu lowered his head and leaned close to the person in his arms.

Luo Qianfan inside the house raised his head, looked at the roof with a weird face, his ears turned pink, and muttered: "I won't hide in the room, and I won't be afraid of being watched, and it's so cold outside, I can't hide under the covers It's so warm." As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Qianfan realized what he had said, his face turned red, he immediately lowered his head, and splashed the cold water in the basin on his face.

Tao Ranran was woken up by the exaggerated voice of the mistress downstairs, how could there be so much to talk about in the early morning, a big man is so talkative with a girl.

Luo Qianfan and Lu Chenzhou lived in one room, and Lu Yu and Tao Ranran lived next door.

The first thing Tao Ranran did when he got up was to go to the next door to see Lu Chenzhou.

"Are you awake?" Tao Ranran asked with concern.

Luo Qianfan shook his head and said, "No."

Tao Ranran sighed and said, "Let's go downstairs and have breakfast first."

On the table are fried dough sticks, buns, and a small plate of pickles.

Tao Ranran took a sip of the porridge, took a bite of the deep-fried dough sticks, and listened to Xiaoer sitting at the door talking to others.

"I said, little brother, I heard you twittering early in the morning, what are you talking about?" Tao Ranran asked curiously, after talking for so long and didn't finish, why don't you take a tea break?

Xiaoer turned his head to look at Tao Ranran, looked at the shopkeeper, leaned over slowly, and said in a low voice, "Six more dead bodies were found on Bishan Lake outside the city today, the same way as the ones salvaged yesterday. Exactly the same, do you think this matter is evil?"

Tao Ranran's hand holding the fritters froze, and sighed, "How could this happen?"

"Actually, it has happened more than twice, and it happened a while ago, but it was suppressed by Tianhe's people." Xiaoer said mysteriously, "It is rumored that these people angered the gods, so they ended up like this. "

"Xiao Er! I know what to tell the customers all day long, so I don't have to work hard, or I will deduct your monthly payment." The shopkeeper's obviously displeased voice came.

Tao Ranran picked up a bun and stuffed it in the second hand, and said with a smile: "Little brother, talk to me when you are free."

Xiao Er took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, smiled gratefully at Tao Ranran, and said, "Okay, thank you, sir."

Luo Qianfan who was silently drinking porridge at the side suddenly said, "This is obviously artificial."

"Huh?" Tao Ranran looked at him suspiciously.

"In that forbidden place, I saw with my own eyes that old man cut open a person's stomach with a knife." Luo Qianfan said.

Tao Ranran frowned slightly, and pushed away the porridge in front of her, it was too much to eat.

"Has it rained in the past few days?" Tao Ranran asked Xiao Er.

Xiao Er finished wiping a table, looked up to answer Tao Ranran's question, and said, "No."

"Yes." The shopkeeper at the side said, "The water rose a few days ago, flooding several families."

Xiao Er rubbed his head and murmured: "It's obviously not raining, maybe I remembered it wrong?"

"You think it was washed down by the water?" Luo Qianfan asked.

Tao Ranran nodded.

At this time, Lu Yu, who had disappeared early in the morning, appeared with a heavy expression on his face.

Tao Ranran moved his seat, let Lu Yu sit down, pushed a bowl of hot porridge in front of Lu Yu, and said, "What did you do in the morning?"

"Outside the city." Lu Yu said.

Tao Ranran blinked and said, "Bishan Lake?"

"Have you heard?" Lu Yu was a little surprised.

Tao Ranran pointed to Xiao Er, "He just told me."

Lu Yu said: "Tianhe has something strange." Uncle also mentioned before that since he is here, he can't go away in vain.

"Are you referring to Shen Wuji?" Tao Ranran propped his chin with both hands, "He's pretty good."

Lu Yu glanced at him, "Huh?"

Tao Ranran quickly changed his words and said, "I mean, he is a good friend of the eldest brother, and he also helped us."

"Not only him, but also Shen Yunji." Lu Yu said, "If I hadn't met him five years ago, I would have thought that this person never existed."

"What do you want to see him for?" Tao Ranran asked.

Lu Yu: "..." Madam is too stupid, a little helpless.

Luo Qianfan finished handling the buns in his hand, got up and said, "I'm going to decoct the medicine, you guys take your time."

Tao Ranran waved his hands with a smile, and said, "Please."

Tianhe

Shen Wuji was sitting in the first seat, listening to the non-stop chattering of the elders in front of him, he just felt a pain in his head, if Mrs. Shen wasn't by his side, he really wanted to throw up his sleeves and leave.

"Wuji, Lu Heqing is here, do you think this matter will be seen by him as weird?" Shen Zheng, as the great elder of Tianhe, has already turned gray at the temples, and when he was supposed to take care of himself, he was still worrying about the inside of the door. If it wasn't for Shen Yunji's retreat, why would he bother to do this.

Shen Wuji said: "Elder, don't worry, Lu Heqing won't notice anything." Even though he said so, he was still a little uneasy.

Shen Zheng said solemnly: "I opposed this at the beginning, but you just didn't listen. If we were found out, it is impossible for our Tianhe to be tolerated by those decent sects."

"Great Elder." Shen Wuji interrupted, "Everything we do is out of necessity, and we don't do evil."

Shen Zheng seemed to have thought of something, he sighed for a long time, and said: "Let your father give up, isn't the price paid by the ancestors still low?"

"Hehe." Mrs. Shen, who was silent for a long time, sneered, "He has been doing this for so long, do you think it is too late to stop now? I advise you, if you want to escape, run away quickly to avoid disaster."

Shen Wuji looked at Mrs. Shen with complicated eyes. She was pretty but had a fierce face that was contrary to her face. This was his mother. She didn't love her father. As her son, he can't get her love either.

"Mother." Shen Wuji said.

Mrs. Shen looked at him as if she were a stranger, and said: "You are the young master of Tianhe, take care of these things yourself, don't bother me, I don't like to meddle in your Shen family's affairs." After finishing speaking, she flicked her sleeves and go.

Shen Wuji smiled bitterly.

Shen Zheng's complexion changed a few times, he shook his head and sighed.

Lu Chenzhou was taken care of by Luo Qianfan, so he didn't need Tao Ranran to pay more attention.No, after breakfast, he dragged Lu Yu out of the city to relax.

It's late autumn, and all the grasses are withered, only blossoming flowers can be seen among the bushes, standing proudly.

I am used to seeing the bustling street scenes, but the remote alleys have a special flavor.

Tao Ranran held Lu Yu in one hand, and drew lines along the ground with a long branch in the other. He was so involved that he bumped into the fishermen who were walking towards him.

The fisherman fell to the ground, and the fish in the basket were scattered all over the ground, and he still flopped around from time to time.

Tao Ranran quickly threw the branch aside, helped the fisherman up, and asked with concern, "Old man, are you alright?"

I saw the fisherman's face turned purple, and his hands kept shaking.

Tao Ranran and Lu Yu looked at each other, and called out again: "Old man?"

The fishermen seemed to have regained their composure, and they didn't care about the fish on the ground, so they ran away, calling out: "The water ghost is coming for his life!" A burst of dust was thrown up.