When eating hot pot, Tong Yan hates nothing more than cleaning up afterward. At this time, he should confidently ask He Zhan and his two men to clean up the mess.
It was the same practice in the past, so the two of them started to clean it up without her having to say anything.
After talking to Shang Xun, Rong Yaoling seemed to be sad, so she took the wine jar and went to the lake to be alone.
The flying pear blossoms slowly fell and spread sparsely on the clean stone table. The residual hot pot smell in the air disappeared and was replaced by the clear fragrance of pear blossoms.
In the huge courtyard, only the master and the apprentice were left sitting under the tree, drinking tea and looking at each other in silence.
There was no one around, so it was a good time to talk. Tong Yan organized his words in his mind for a moment, picked up the tea cup, and seemed to start talking unintentionally.
"Master, does he know that there is something or a spell that can cause sudden pain in a person's mouth?"
She scrutinized Shang Xun's expression without any trace, wondering whether her next sentence should make a friend out of thin air and explain the source of her question.
Shang Xun frowned slightly, looked over, and asked with concern: "But you are not feeling well."
The word 'no' rolled around her mouth a few times, and she finally swallowed it back, admitting honestly: "A few days ago, my heart suddenly hurt as if something had bitten me, and then I went to the library to read a few books.
I couldn't find the specific reason in the Japanese classics, so I thought that the master is very knowledgeable, so I wanted to trouble you to help me look it up."
"I felt unwell a few days ago, so I just told me now." Shang Xun's face turned gloomy, and he tilted his head to look at her with obvious uneasiness in his eyes.
At the same time, he recalled that day when she suddenly turned pale, clutched her chest and ran away. Perhaps this was the real reason why she left that day.
Shang Xun breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief, but his eyebrows had not yet relaxed. There were so many reasons for the pain in his heart that he had to guess out of thin air how to solve the problem.
Now is not the time to be angry with her for not paying attention to her health. Shang Xun softened his expression and called people over in a gentle voice, "Come here, let me take a look at your physical condition."
Tong Yan moved his butt to the stool next to him and put his left hand on the table, waiting for him to check.
The sleeves were pushed up the arms a little, revealing the slender white wrists, and the bone chains neatly worn between the wrists reflected the subtle light.
Seeing the bone chain, Shang Xun's eyes flashed with a hint of pleasure. He paused for a moment with his big hand on the bone chain, and inadvertently noticed a bit of vermilion hidden behind the chain body on the inside of his wrist.
The vermilion dots are just the size of a few pinholes, and they are extremely conspicuous on the snow-like skin. However, they are usually covered by the sleeves and rarely appear in the eyes of others.
Shang Xun unconsciously tightened his hold on Tong Yan's hand, staring at the red spot without moving away. For a moment, he spoke as if he was restraining himself, "When did this red spot... appear?"
Tong Yan stretched his head over and looked at the red dot on his wrist for a while. After recalling it for a while, there was no result. He said with a bit of confusion: "I don't remember. Sometimes I thought it grew here since I was a child."
This red spot is like a small wound that suddenly pops up on your body. You don't know where it came from, and you don't know when it will heal one day.
It's not painful or itchy, it's not harmful to you, and it has no sense of existence. Who would pay special attention to this.
Shang Xun raised his eyes and looked into the speaker's eyes, trying to distinguish the truth from falsehood in her words at this time, but he quickly withdrew his gaze when he realized that she didn't need to lie to him.
He didn't speak, but used a ray of spiritual power to slowly penetrate her heart to check. After a few breaths, he withdrew the spiritual power.
After seeing Shang Xun examine him, he frowned and said nothing, which made Tong Yan think that he had some serious illness that couldn't be cured. His face changed slightly and he asked with some worry, "What's wrong with my body?"
Is the problem serious?"
Shang Xun pressed his eyebrows. Thinking of the situation he had just discovered, he didn't know whether to be angry or relieved. His disciple's uneasy questions rang in his ears. He suppressed the complicated emotions in his eyes, raised his eyes to look at her, and started unhurriedly.
explain.
"You have been infected by twin souls. Do you have any impression of when this poison was planted?"
As Shang Xun spoke, he looked at her expression calmly, wondering who she might suspect, and even guessed that she had already connected with someone and voluntarily planted the poison.
When his mind was ups and downs, he saw Tong Yan repeating these words in confusion. "Twin souls? Such a familiar name. Have I heard it somewhere or seen it before?"
Shang Xun reminded her, "A few years ago, I gave you a book of hundreds of insects, and there was a page in it that recorded this kind of poisonous insect."
The monk has a very good memory. After Shang Xun's reminder, Tong Yan immediately remembered the piece of jade paper and the introduction about twins recorded on the jade paper.
'Twin spirits, also known as mandarin ducks, are milky white, the size of rice grains, and have pairs of wings. They are mostly used between Taoist couples.'
The voodoo is a male and a female, living and dying together. It is often used to test the sincerity between Taoist couples. If one party is attracted to someone other than the voodoo, the voodoo will eat the hearts of both parties as a warning and punishment.
use.
After remembering the effect of the Mandarin Duck Gu, Tong Yan's face turned dark instantly, and many faces flashed through his mind, and finally he placed the target of suspicion on two people.
At this moment, Shang Xun's expression was far from pretty. The solution to the mandarin duck poison was strange. The person who had been poisoned by the poison had to reach the Nascent Soul level in order to be able to cure it. Otherwise, he could only be freed by killing another person who had been poisoned by the poison.
Thinking about it carefully, now the only way to unravel the mandarin duck poison the fastest is to determine who the other poisonous insect is, and then kill this person.
As his mind went back and forth, Shang Xun had already thought of hundreds of ways to kill people and silence them, destroying corpses and eradicating traces. He was just waiting for Tong Yan to say the name of the person waiting to die.
Both of them were immersed in their own thoughts, and they did not notice that the yard had become completely quiet for a moment, and the pear blossoms above their heads were flying like goose feathers and heavy snow in winter.
The intertwined red and white and the sea of pear blossoms form a beautiful picture.
When He Zhan came out of the kitchen, he saw such a scene, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart. Sister Yan never lacked people's care around her, he was just a dispensable one.
Xiao Lou, who came out later, saw him standing at the door and gave him a strange look. He seemed to wonder what he was doing standing here stupidly. He took a few steps forward, but found that he was blocked by a transparent wall of air.
Just as Xiao Lou was about to speak out, a spiritual power next to him immediately sealed his mouth. When he turned around, he saw that it was Rong Yaoling who had returned from unknown time.
She opened her mouth to threaten silently, "Shut up! Don't disturb them."
Xiao Lou: "???"
What's wrong! The master and the disciple are just talking. Is there anything they can't hear?
The two people bathing under the flower tree didn't notice the little episode that happened here. They were both distracted.
For a long time, Shang Xun, who never heard Tong Yan announce the death list, felt depressed and impatient.
Her face was sullen and her eyebrows were furrowed, looking fierce, as if she was scolding her for not being vigilant enough and not knowing she was being poisoned.
"You haven't figured out who plotted against you?"
Tong Yan stirred uneasily with his hands, biting his lower lip subconsciously, lowering his eyebrows and not daring to look at Shang Xun. The master was rarely really angry, and once he became aggressive, she was also very timid.
The girl shyly lowered her eyebrows and bit her plump lips. She was full of temptation without knowing it. Shang Xun couldn't help but raised his hand and put his hand on her chin, releasing her biting red lips with force.
"What are you biting to make you talk?"
Tong Yan timidly raised her eyes to look at him, and excused herself, "I just thought about it for a moment, and I already have some guesses in my mind. Master, if you are angry, don't scold me yet."
Shang Xun restrained his hand and said in a funny tone: "Why should I scold you? I'm not the one who feels uncomfortable."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that what he said was not quite right, and there was an indescribable feeling lingering in his heart.
Before he could think about it carefully, annoyance arose in his heart, and the smile on his lips gradually disappeared. Shang Xun said with a cold expression, "Tell me what is going on. Although the Mandarin Duck Gu is not harmful to the body, it is somewhat controlled by others. Or
It should be dealt with as soon as possible.”
Tong Yan: "This matter starts before you accept me as your disciple..."
Shang Xun's eyebrows moved, knowing that she liked to start from the beginning when talking, and it was common for her to occasionally miss the point, so he interrupted her and said, "Long story short."
"Uh... I suspect that Elder Yu cast a mandarin duck poison on me and Ji Xing." Tong Yan concluded in one sentence.