The moon in the courtyard hangs clear and bright, embedded among the branches and leaves, pouring out its light like a pearl in the sky.
Li Nanke still stayed in the Zen room in Yunxiang Temple, sitting quietly on the futon and thinking.
The atmosphere of this place allowed him to find a moment of tranquility, as if he could get a glimpse of his inner feelings and deeper thoughts.
There's so much going on these days.
Everything made him feel a deep sense of exhaustion.
Unlike Dongqi County, although the enemies there are terrifying, they are ultimately on the opposite side. The enemies faced by the Yuncheng Night Patrol Division come from within.
Trust and suspicion are constantly alternating, and I don't know who will show up to be judged tomorrow.
Leng Xinnan asked the others to go back, while she silently stayed with the man.
Seeing the man's hesitant and tired look, the woman's heart ached but she was helpless. It was also at this moment that she truly realized how tired her brother was.
She realized how much her brother had sacrificed to protect her.
Just as Yu Shengtian said before he died: The reason why you can persevere is because you have a good brother.
Yes, she is not that great.
She has her brother Leng Siyuan silently guarding her behind her back, so she can do what she likes without any scruples, which is enviable.
Yu Shengtian didn't.
So he could only...walk into the darkness.
"Do you think tiger poison really prevents it from eating its seeds?" Li Nanke suddenly said.
Leng Xinnan was startled, then sat next to the man and thought for a while before saying: "There is no absolute fetters of family ties in this world. I have handled many cases and read many historical materials. There are many people who use their relatives as pawns for profit."
"Yes, so I was wondering if the two little girls Yuan Zhenzhen and Yuan Xixi would..."
Li Nanke's words stop here and there is no more speculation.
Leng Xinnan understood the subtext in the other party's words, and an infinite chill surged in her heart, as if an invisible hand was slowly tightening her grip.
Her eyes were filled with disbelief, "You mean, Chu Yunxin did it?"
The woman couldn't believe all this.
Those are her two biological daughters.
"Maybe I guessed wrong. Anyway, if you want to find evidence now, you must first find Qiu Xindie." Li Nanke looked up at the sky and murmured, "It depends on Wen Wu's ability. I hope he can find it as soon as possible."
"How about you rest for two days first."
Leng Xinnan said softly, her eyes full of concern.
Li Nanke shook his head and smiled: "Time waits for no one. If I do this today, this Chu Yunxin will definitely inform the underworld secretly, and it will be even harder to catch her again."
He turned his head and looked at the woman's charming face, stretched out his hand to caress her smooth long hair, and said softly: "You go to rest first, I will be alone here for a while."
"Don't you want me to accompany you?" Leng Xinnan was worried.
"It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I need to think. It's hard to concentrate when there's a pretty girl next to you. I might take off your clothes after a while."
Li Nanke smiled and said, "In this pure place of Buddhism, do you think this is okay?"
Leng Xinnan blushed, stood up and said, "Then you go back early."
"knew."
Li Nanke waved his hand.
Watching the woman's figure gradually disappear from sight, the smile on Li Nanke's face gradually faded.
He clenched his fists and hammered the floor twice.
Then lie down straight.
The fatigue that emerged from deep within his heart burned every part of his body like a prairie fire.
It made him feel exhausted as never before.
"Does it make sense?"
Li Nanke recalled Yu Shengtian's unwilling roar before his death.
The road to the Night Patrol Division has no end.
For the sake of power, the higher-ups don’t want ‘Red Rain’ to disappear.
The people below are working hard to survive, but they are just chips used by those people in the power game.
No wonder neither Yu Shengtian nor Li Donghai see hope.
Of course, the senior officials of the Night Patrol Department are not only the four department supervisors and the general director, but also those who have real supervisory control.
In short, once you have power, it is difficult to let it go.
How to reform it?
It's impossible to train him to be another Shadow Guard.
Or let the shadow guards be responsible for recovering "Red Rain", but leaving professional matters to amateurs would be even worse.
The emperor had a headache, the queen had a headache... and all the civil and military officials also had a headache.
Li Nanke sighed and stared at the portrait of the nun on the wall. Lying on the ground, his line of sight was reversed from that of the portrait, and the viewing effect was also different.
Compared with the peaceful and sacred place you are looking at, it looks a little more weird.
As he watched, Li Nanke felt inexplicably sleepy.
Everything around him becomes blurry and unreal, as if the real world is slowly disappearing.
He tried to concentrate, but his consciousness became increasingly confused.
clang--
The sudden sound of the bell brought him back to reality without warning, and he woke up.
When I sat up, I realized that my back was wet.
Li Nanke took a breath, patted his head hard twice, stood up and walked towards the door.
The moonlight shines in the courtyard, covering everything in a silvery white light.
The entire courtyard seemed to have fallen asleep in the middle of the night.
However, this kind of tranquility has a somewhat eerie and eerie feel to it.
The branches, leaves and stones illuminated by the moonlight made bursts of "squeaking" sounds in the breeze, as if some indescribable existence was quietly approaching.
If you look carefully, you will see that the scattered moonlight is tinged with a hint of red clouds.
In the corner of the courtyard, there was a lonely old tree. The shadow reflected on the wall was very strange, as if a huge black shadow was reaching out towards Li Nanke.
"Something's wrong!"
Li Nanke frowned.
The scene in front of me exudes a mysterious and uneasy atmosphere, which seems very strange.
Especially the nuns are all gone.
Everything is as silent as ice.
"Amitabha, donor, you are in love." A quiet, very gentle voice, as if whispering in the ear, came slowly like floating leaves.
Li Nanke turned around suddenly.
I didn't know when there was a nun in front of the Zen room.
The nun was standing under the eaves, and only the outline of her body could be seen. Her face was in shadow, and her face and expression could not be clearly seen.
But Li Nanke knew immediately that the other party was the nun in the painting.
The previous abbot of Yunxiang Temple!
Li Nanke was stunned.
Is this a fantasy or real?
He pinched his thigh hard. It hurt, but it didn't seem to hurt at all.
"Donor, are you willing to enter my Buddhist door?"
The nun spoke slowly.
Although she couldn't see her face clearly in the shadow, her hands were making a very strange gesture, which looked neither like the Lotus Seal of Buddhism nor the Seal of Taoism.
"Come on, uncle! Did you create this illusion?"
Li Nanke questioned, and in the end he believed that what he was in now was an illusion.
The nun smiled faintly and walked towards Li Nanke.
She still maintained the gesture shape, and her fingertips seemed to be releasing some invisible energy.
Even without speaking, her body language is enough to convey a profound understanding of Buddhist philosophy and inner compassion.
Slowly, the nun came closer.
At this time, Li Nanke's pupils began to dilate.
There is only one big, erect eye on the nun's face, which is deep and dark, and there are no other sensory parts.
"you again!?"
Li Nanke was shocked at first, and then he felt angry for no reason, "You must be sick, you pester me at every turn. If you want to marry me, you can't brag."
"What is reality and what is fantasy?"
The nun didn't pay attention to Li Nanke's sarcasm and asked softly.