Assassin, calm down

In the early morning of the next day, Bai Chengxiu got up and took care of things for going to the lake to practice.

In fact, it's really nothing, just the leaf and a set of clean clothes.

It is clearly written in the book that with the leaves in your mouth for seven days and seven nights, you will not be hungry or thirsty.

After meeting Liu Guang, the things he encountered became more and more miraculous.

He was calm, quite calm.

After thinking about it, Bai Chengxiu still brought a few apples.

One reason, he likes to eat apples.

Another reason is that if he is hungry or thirsty, it means that the scholar in yellow is a liar, so he will eat apples to satisfy his hunger and come back immediately.

In fact, if the yellow-jacketed scholar is really deceiving, it must be a conspiracy, and he might not be able to come back.

However, he felt that the scholar was not lying.

That day, the man next to the scholar in yellow was unfathomable. If he wanted to kill himself, he could have killed him at that time without wasting a lot of trouble.

That's why he wanted to take a risky gamble.

Liu Guang woke up sleepily, looked at Bai Chengxiu for a while, and then went to touch a few eggs in the chicken coop.

He thought about it for a while, he couldn't eat too many eggs, it was bad for his health.

A person can only eat up to two per day.

But now that the chicken has laid five eggs in total, if he only cooks two eggs for him, will Bai Chengxiu be overhearted and say that he treats him badly?

He thought for a long time, and finally boiled two eggs for Bai Chengxiu, and kept three for himself.

He secretly hid the extra egg he had left, and then carefully told Bai Chengxiu that today the chicken only laid four eggs, Bai Chengxiu ate two and kept two for himself.

Bai Chengxiu looked at the small protrusion under Liu Guang's clothes, and really wanted to tell Liu Guang, you don't need to hide, and I won't steal your eggs.

That egg...will be crushed.

He felt that he would never know what Liu Guang was thinking.

Bai Chengxiu finished eating two eggs, and told Liu Guang once again, "If someone comes from the organization, just say that I'm out to find out news, and I'll be back soon."

Liu Guang nodded.

Bai Chengxiu has already said that the process of cultivation requires his whole body to be submerged in water for seven days and seven nights.

He told Liu Guang the direction of the lake and would mark him along the way.

In case something happened, he immediately got up to look for Bai Chengxiu.

Of course, Bai Chengxiu was still a little worried.

However, he felt that the organization should not send anyone during this time.

Moreover, apart from now, he felt that there would be no such seven or eight days in the future for him to change his physique.

If you can't change your physique, you can't help Liu Guang improve, and you don't have the ability to fight.

Therefore, he must take this risk.

Bai Chengxiu told him a few more words, "Don't run around outside, if anyone comes, look through the crack of the door first, and don't open the door to strangers", and then went out.

Not long after he left, Bai Chengxiu heard someone chasing him from behind.

He turned around, only to see Liu Guang running out with the cultivation book in his hand, "Your book! I forgot to bring the book!"

Bai Chengxiu's face darkened, "I didn't intend to bring it, I'm afraid I lost it during practice."

He pushed Liu Guang back into the yard.

Liu Guang scratched his head.

When practicing, it is good to keep the book next to your body, why would you lose it?

Why didn't he understand what Bai Chengxiu was thinking?

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Bai Chengxiu finally went out, and Liu Guang began his boring days of waiting.

He gradually learned to cook rice and stir-fry vegetables, and the number of chickens in the yard was reduced by one every two days.

During this time, he has not dared to go out.

The more so, the more obvious the figure of that person in his mind became.

Thinking about it, he thought of a poem he heard when he was blind...

No one in one day, like March Xi.

The meaning of this sentence is that a day without seeing each other feels like three months.

Bai Chengxiu went out for eight days, how many months is that?

Liu Guang counted with his fingers.

I don't have enough fingers to figure it out.

Why can't you add the toes?

How many months have you not seen Bai Chengxiu?

He thought of another poem...

The belt gradually widened and he didn't regret it.

He couldn't quite remember the meaning of this sentence.

Literally, it means that one person has become fat but does not regret it, and is haggard for another person, right?

It seems... very appropriate.

He now feels that he has gained a lot of weight physically, but he doesn't regret it, but he is not feeling well mentally.

(Later, Bai Chengxiu told him that the meaning of that sentence is that one person misses another person, becomes thinner and haggard. Huh? Shouldn’t one be fatter if one becomes wider? How could one become thinner?)

Liu Guang leaned against the door, stroking his stomach.

Then he covered his mouth and vomited.

Why... I feel like vomiting.

It seems that I have eaten enough in the morning...

He sighed, and continued to lean against the door, stroking his stomach, with a melancholy look on his face.

How many days has it been?

Bai Chengxiu should be back soon, right?

He didn't dare to go out these few days, and he has already missed an episode...

Only when Bai Chengxiu came back could he go again.

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Bai Chengxiu walked along the country road for a long time, asked for directions several times along the way, and finally came to a water pool, hidden among high mountains.

It was late autumn, and the leaves all over the mountain were yellow, withered grass everywhere, and there was an indescribable desolation.

Where there are lakes, there should be people fishing and fishing, but here it feels quite deserted.

Bai Chengxiu knew that something must be wrong, but the less people knew about what he was going to do, the better.

He walked along the lake for a long time, and finally settled on a reedy shelter.

He puts on his clothes and slowly enters the water.

The water in this place is not too deep. When standing, your head can still stick out of the water, so you should not be suffocated to death.

He took a deep breath and took the leaf in his mouth.

Then, a strange feeling slowly hit.

Bai Chengxiu felt his body floating in the water, his feet were off the ground, and it was getting hotter and hotter.

The mind seemed to be dizzy from burning, and the consciousness gradually changed from clear to blurred, and then into chaos.

A very long and unexamined time.

I don't know how long it took in this state, but suddenly, Bai Chengxiu became sober, and his body no longer felt strange.

The eyes still couldn't be opened, but the scene in his mind became strange.

Some things that I usually put aside in my mind and don't think about them subconsciously, slowly emerged at this moment.

How could this be?

The first thing that appeared was his father's upright face.

Bai Chengxiu sneered in his heart.

He and his father have never been at odds.

Father thinks he is upright, but in his eyes, Bai Chengxiu has always been a person with evil intentions.

His father was an official to Shangshu, and his reputation of incorruptibility and integrity was widely spread.

What he pays attention to is to last forever, to be unyielding, and to be a clear stream in his heart.

What he admires the most is also his eldest son, who is respectful, filial, generous and has a good reputation.

And Bai Chengxiu, like a monster born by himself, likes to bully people and play tricks since he was a child.

That year, my father was impeached and framed.

Bai Chengxiu didn't find it strange at the time.

He felt that it was strange that with his father's personality, he could be promoted to Shangshu and only now was framed.

He was also surprised by everyone's reaction.

Why are you all so impassioned?

If he was also scolded by his father as a "treacherous minister who harmed the country and the people" at the court, his revenge method would be even worse.

After the incident happened, his father said with dignity that even if he died, he would never bow to the treacherous ministers in the court.

After thousands of years, later generations will comment on it.

The eldest brother and the third younger brother echoed in unison, as if they were taking the lives of the whole family to accomplish righteousness.

The fourth brother and younger sister are still young, in the arms of their mother, watching their mother wipe their tears.

Bai Chengxiu thought at the time, he must save these three people.

Moreover, father must not be allowed to be an official anymore.

For every day he was an official, his mother was in danger for one more day.

Therefore, he conspired with the then crown prince Yan Jinfeng, and the two devised a plan to return him to him in his own way, and beat the person who framed his father so hard that he couldn't stand up.

When his father was released, the first thing he did was to slap Bai Chengxiu hard across the face, reprimanding him for using methods that were unworthy, tarnished his reputation, and made people despise him.

Bai Chengxiu touched his face, feeling that things in the world are really strange.

Did my mother cheat on her back then?

He doesn't look like his father's own son in any way.

Although the grievances were washed away, his father's official career was still affected.

So, under the hint of the prince, the father was forced to resign.

From then on, Bai Chengxiu's relationship with his father became worse and worse.

Two years after Yan Jinfeng succeeded to the throne, he smiled and said to the former prime minister, "Master Chen is not too young."

Therefore, Bai Chengxiu became prime minister at the age of 24.

The father was so suffocated that he couldn't get up, so he followed the eldest son who was a magistrate back to his hometown.

This matter has always been in Bai Chengxiu's heart.

Whenever he thinks of his father, he usually uses the word "pedantic".

How do you remember now?

Bai Chengxiu smiled wryly.

Sure enough... No matter how much he denies it, he still wants his father's favor.

It turned out that this is his true mood?

Bai Chengxiu's eyes were still closed, his mind was spinning rapidly, and his thoughts came to another person.

This person is Yan Jinfeng.

When he first met Yan Jinfeng, they were only nine years old.

At that time, Yan Jinfeng was not yet the prince.

He came to Yan Jinfeng's side as an accompanying student.

On the first day they met, they both smiled very friendly.

Next, Yan Jinfeng began to test his loyalty in every possible way.

This trial caused Bai Chengxiu's ribs to be injured, his leg to be broken, and he almost drowned. It also allowed him to fully understand Yan Jinfeng's character.

In short, Yan Jinfeng is a person who is submissive on the outside, scheming on the inside, and does whatever it takes to survive.

Bai Chengxiu appreciated it very much.

Only such a person can survive.

So, he decided to follow.

From the initial temptation to the gradual collusion, the two found that each other's personalities really hit it off.

Bai Chengxiu followed Yan Jinfeng, fought against other princes all the way, and finally became Yan Jinfeng's number one confidant.

Yan Jinfeng did not treat Bai Chengxiu badly.

Bai Chengxiu couldn't get his father's favor, but he got a lot of favor from Yan Jinfeng.

Leaving aside the art of power over others, Bai Chengxiu felt that Yan Jinfeng did have some affection for him.

The height is not cold.

Even if you are an emperor, don't you want a confidant?

This person has the grace to know and encounter him.

He joined the organization with Liu Guang now, not only to save his own life and Liu Guang's life, but also to save Yan Jinfeng's country.

Why do you think of him now?

His thoughts continued to fly, Bai Chengxiu's chest twitched, his heart beat faster, and an eight-year-old child in a fancy dress appeared in front of him.

This child with pink cheeks and thin neck, with his head down, is wiping tears.

Bai Chengxiu felt that the longing in his heart was a bit uncontrollable.

He knew that his feeling for this person was "desire".

When he was 13 years old, he released himself for the first time in the room, and what appeared in his mind was the fourth prince of Shun Kingdom.

He was a little flustered at the time, but he couldn't stop imagining, it was extremely chaotic.

In the next few months, the Fourth Prince spent so many shameful and sleepless nights with him.

He felt that he was strange, and he also thought that it must be because he had not met enough people before.

When he was a little older, he began to enter and exit sensual places.

Brothels, small men's houses, tried many places, and I was addicted to it for a while.

Later, after several times, he woke up and felt that the emptiness in his heart could not be filled.

In my heart, I kept thinking about that person.

Later, he couldn't control himself and started looking for opportunities to go to Shun Kingdom, but the fourth prince lived in the palace, so he couldn't see him.

If he can't see it, he will start endless longing and endless hatred.

Finally, at the age of 15, the fourth prince was sent to his fief.

His fief at that time was located in a remote place, very barren, and far away from Rui Country.

However, Bai Chengxiu was extremely happy.

Every year, he and Yan Jinfeng would look for opportunities to go to Shun Kingdom, and then they would travel thousands of miles to the fourth prince's fiefdom.

He knew that the Fourth Prince had a bad impression of him, and that he was the Minister of Rui Country, so he couldn't and didn't dare to show his face.

So, in the name of "Prince Bai", he gave the fourth prince some fun and delicious things, hoping that he could guess who he was and understand his intentions.

Then, he looked at him a few times from afar, feeling very happy in his heart.

However, Yan Yunze, the Crown Prince of Shun Kingdom, noticed his behavior of giving things away.

Therefore, a secret letter was sent to Yan Jinfeng, saying that Bai Chengxiu, as a minister of the Kingdom of Rui, should be careful not to associate with the children of the royal family of the Kingdom of Shun privately.

Yan Jinfeng already knew about Bai Chengxiu's perverted feelings for the fourth prince. When the letter came, he still scolded Bai Chengxiu and told him to restrain himself and not be caught by others.

Bai Chengxiu had no other choice, and it was inconvenient to send gifts again. Every time he went to Rui Country, he could only hide and watch him from a distance.

At the age of 22, Bai Chengxiu was forced into marriage by his family, and in a fit of rage, he revealed that he liked men.

Although Rui Guo has become more and more favored by men over the years, everyone is just playing for fun.

Adult men, after all, want to marry wives and have children.

As soon as Bai Chengxiu said that he would not marry a wife, the family members were shocked.

Since then, the relationship between myself and my father has never been saved.

Eldest brother also looked at him with contempt.

Mother cried sadly at that time.

Bai Chengxiu smiled wryly.

Now practicing in the water, have you dug out the things you least want to think about?

His thoughts turned again, and the corners of Bai Chengxiu's mouth curled up.

The person who comes to mind is Liu Guang.

Flowing light... Flowing light...

So stupid, but so kind to Liu Guang...

The idiot who can't figure out the situation at any time, but has been helping himself in a ignorant way.

Awakening takes a huge emotional push.

At that time, when he was almost killed by someone, did Liu Guang feel so uncomfortable?

What kind of person was he before?

When his soul changed, it was probably the time when he was about to kill himself in front of his door that night.

He remembered that the scholar in yellow shirt once said, "It's so miserable to be struck by thunder." That night, there was indeed a thunderstorm.

Is that when the soul is possessed?

Bai Chengxiu smiled.

The reaction at that time was so strange, I'm afraid even he himself couldn't react at all.

All kinds of things after that...

It's really hard for him.

Liu Guang, who is he?

Bai Chengxiu calculated carefully.

If he is so familiar with the affairs of Shun country, he must be from Shun country.

He doesn't know how to cook, and he doesn't have much common sense in life, so he seems to be a son-in-law.

I am so curious about everything, as if I have never seen it before...

Haven't seen anything... have you...

Bai Chengxiu's breathing quickened, and a voice came faintly in his head.

Who is Liu Guang, can you really not think of it?