Qi Kui clicked on the three-no item named "Mysterious Fruit":

[Prop description: The precious fruit bred by Blood Cherry; Recommended usage scenario: Unknown; Usage effect: Unknown; Travelers who obtain this prop can explore on their own]

Qi Gu remembered that in "Miss Ikuko's Autobiography" she mentioned that the male courtesan would bury the blood brew under the cherry blossom tree in the atrium, so in a sense, the blood cherry blossoms were one of the necessary conditions for making the blood brew.

Since the "mysterious fruit" is the fruit of blood cherry, then if you bury it in the soil and wait until it grows into a cherry tree, can it become a "container" for making blood brew?

In the dungeon, blood cherry blossoms bloom all year round, but if it is planted in Mireu City, due to changes in climate and climate, will blood cherry blossoms produce new fruits? For example, blood cherry or something...

The more Qi Jiu thought about it, the more interesting it became. The next day he went to an agricultural supply store to buy planting-related tools and fertilizers, and that afternoon he dug a hole in the backyard to bury the seeds.

The house inherited from the Bates family had not been taken care of for a long time, and the backyard had long been abandoned. Coupled with constant rain, the roses planted by Ms. Rose had long since withered and rotted.

Qi Jiu took the weed whacker and put on his raincoat to work in the rainy afternoon.

"Meow meow meow~" The cat that had just eaten stretched out and lay lazily under the eaves. The meat overflowing from its belly made it look like a piece of flatbread.

The Liming neighborhood shrouded in rain is very quiet, so quiet that you can hear the sound of raindrops seeping into the soil.

Sometimes, absolute silence can feel noisy.

In order to kill the pervasive silence, Qi Qiu summoned the system: "System teacher, since my skill "NPC Limited Time Recruitment Letter" can hire NPCs to work, can I summon characters that have been hidden in the plot?"

[The system cannot accurately identify what you mean, please explain further so that the system can give a more accurate answer]

"Can I summon the courtesan and the laboratory doctor?" Qi Jiu asked directly.

[In principle, you can try to summon any character, but the system does not recommend that you summon the above two characters]

Qi Jiu raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

[Because the abandoned characters do not exist in the employment directory]

Qi Jiu joked: "Isn't it okay if the favorability level is high enough?"

His voice rose slightly at the end, as if he was a little proud inadvertently.

The system froze for a moment and seemed not to want to answer this question [As we all know, people cannot summon things that do not exist]

Qi Jiu pursed his lips: "What a pity."

But there was no real regret in his tone. He lowered his eyelids and seemed to be thinking about something interesting.

"By the way, system teacher, do you know the number 079?" Qi Qiu asked tentatively.

[Beep——]

His question seemed to trigger some kind of protection mechanism, and the system's answers were blocked.

"Oh, forget it." Qi Jiu shrugged, originally he didn't have much hope.

After tidying up the yard, Qi Ku started to clean up the house.

This house has been sleeping in the story for too long, and the furniture is more or less stained with the traces of time, but the style of the rooms is seamless, with a gentle and elegant style everywhere.

It can be seen that the adoptive mother whom Miss Rossetti admires the most has a good aesthetic sense, treats things very seriously and carefully, and does every detail perfectly.

Such women are respectable.

Last time, Qi Qiu put almost all his energy into studying how to enter the "correct" dungeon and did not thoroughly clean the inherited house. This time he decided to clean the house properly.

The room at the end of the corridor on the right is covered with photos of Ms. Rossetti, and it looks like Miss Rossetti's boudoir.

Qi Jiu carefully wiped all countertops and cabinets with a rag, leaving no blind spots untouched.

He was about to clean up the discarded items on the bedside table when he suddenly found an old photo album among the pile of clutter.

Qi Jiu opened the photo album and saw hundreds of photos recording Miss Rossetti's growth from a girl to a young girl.

There are two lines written on the title page of the album:

"Gift to my angel: Rossetti

——Love your mother"

Mrs. Rose's handwriting is elegant and powerful. She recorded in photos that little Rossetti smiled wildly, and her pure and uninhibited brown eyes always looked towards the camera, gazing at her mother behind the camera.

These two female characters trust, respect and rely on each other from the bottom of their hearts.

Suddenly, Qi Ku's breath froze as he turned to the last page of the photo album.

His eyes rested on the last photo, which was taken of little Rossetti during his time in the orphanage.

The photo was taken on a gloomy winter day, with the cold gray high walls of the orphanage in the background.

Pale and thin Rossetti had a dirty kerchief wrapped around her head, trying to cover her scalp that was bitten by lice. At this time, there was only indifference in her eyes.

Next to little Rossetti stood a boy who was as pale and thin as her. This little boy had a pair of gray-green eyes.

At this time, these gray-green eyes were empty and desolate, looking at the camera like a puppet at the mercy of others.

Qi Qiu's expression was blank for a few seconds, and then his temples began to beat violently, and a stream of heat quickly penetrated his limbs. After gradually regaining consciousness, his hand holding the photo album began to tremble slightly——

He also has this kind of photo.

In fact, this photo was also placed in his real-world adoptive mother's growth album.

When he was a child, he opened the photo album countless times and looked at this unfamiliar photo in confusion.

He didn't remember when he took this photo, nor did he remember who the cold-eyed, dirty little girl in the photo was.

The adoptive mother told Xiao Qiqiu that she found it in the luggage packed at the orphanage.

But Qi Jiu was convinced that he did not remember taking such a photo.

"You were so young at that time, how could you remember these things?" the adoptive mother explained.

Xiao Qi Jiu was dubious: "Is that so?"

The adoptive mother smiled softly: "Look, the little boy in the photo is you, isn't it?"

Qi Jiu followed his adoptive mother's gaze and looked at the photo again. Indeed, the person in the photo was definitely him.

It's him, but it doesn't seem like it's him.

What the hell is going on?

It was probably a desolate winter afternoon when he stood under the gray and cold wall of the orphanage, and a passing teacher clicked the shutter for him and this strange girl.

Who knows?

This photo has always been an "unsolved mystery" for Qi Kuu when he was a child. Later, time diluted this incident, and this enigmatic photo was also forgotten in time.

Until this moment, this photo reappeared in front of him without any warning.

In Miss Rossetti's room, in this absurd world after death.

Obviously, this photo belongs to Miss Rossetti. It is a photo of her and her "brother" when they were in the orphanage.

It is also an important piece of time evidence in the abandoned plot line.

It's all easy to explain.

The only thing that cannot be explained is that in the real world, when Qi Kui was a child, why did this photo also appear in his photo album? And the adoptive mother dug it out from the suitcase packed at the orphanage...

Qi Jiu stared at the photo for ten minutes, his face pale.

Then he took this special photo out of the album and carefully kept it with him.

*

Two days later, Qi Jiu dug out the business card given by the witch.

Although the other party said that he did not need to make an appointment if he wanted to come for divination, Qi Jiu was worried that he would disturb other people's work suddenly, so he still made an appointment phone call in advance.

"Hello? How can I help you?" came the voice of the witch's apprentice on the phone.

Qi Jiu: "Hello, are there any divination schedules recently?"

The witch's young apprentice did not recognize Qi Jiu's voice: "The latest schedule will be in a week. If you don't mind, I will arrange it for you first."

Qi Jiu: "No problem."

"What should I call you? I'll arrange a time for you." asked the other end of the phone.

"Qi Qiu, that will be hard work." Qi Qiu replied.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds: "It turns out to be Mr. Qi. Sorry, please wait a moment. I'll ask Master about the schedule."

"Okay." Qi Qiu guessed that the witch had left a message for her young apprentice. If he called to make an appointment, he could skip the normal appointment process.

Half a minute later.

"Hello Mr. Qi, you can come over after 8 o'clock tonight." The young apprentice informed.

Qi Jiu: "Won't this disrupt the teacher's schedule?"

"Don't worry, Master usually doesn't accept guests after 8 o'clock. Because your situation is quite special, it's okay to come over at that time." The young apprentice explained.

Since the other party has made arrangements, Qi Jiu did not shirk: "I'll thank you and the teacher for the hard work then. See you at eight o'clock in the evening."

After hanging up the phone, Qi Jiu took another nap.

At 7:50 in the evening, he showed up at the door of the address on his business card on time.
To be continued...