Chen Yaoguang would never have imagined that one day, at an inadvertent moment, in a completely unexpected way, he would suffer such humiliation in the public.
He is young, but he has endured too much.
Ning Ning and He Zhizhou in the room looked at each other from a distance, and politely asked the eldest young master of the Chen family: "Master Chen, do you still need each of us to repeat the action just now?"
Chen Yaoguang: …
Get out! Do you need to repeat it again, don't you have any points in your heart
But he was a gentle and refined scholar, trying his best to endure the scolding choked in his throat, and twitched the corners of his mouth: "No need."
Then he took the initiative to lean to his side and let out a passage into the room. His eyes flickered and fell on the unsheathed long swords.
Very good, this group of people all have swords around their waists.
It turned out that this is the legendary sword repairer, and it is indeed extraordinary and well-deserved.
Ning Ning thanked him and walked slowly into the house filled with herbal scents.
There is no light in the room, and in the foggy and rainy weather, it will inevitably appear a bit dim. The mist that broke through the door shrouded the white smoke overflowing from the incense burner, the air-conditioning was dense, silent, and the darkness spread quietly, creating an unreality like a dream out of thin air.
The carved wooden bed was covered with heavy dark shadows, the bamboo shadow outside the window was fading, and a few shimmers of light occasionally fell from the gaps, gradually illuminating the scene on the bed.
She saw a pale woman.
At first, I only saw a profile face from a distance. In the dark house, the woman's white skin was like a beautiful jade.
The darkness outlines her long hair that spreads out like clouds and smoke, a straight and small nose bridge, and paper-thin lips. Rao Ningning looked at it, and couldn't help but feel the next move, and secretly praised her beauty.
It's a pity that the beauty's face was as bad as her husband's. Unlike the latter, the young lady of the Chen family had a high-fever-like flush on her face, as if she had secretly stole the sunset in the evening and stained her forehead and face.
Chen Lubai had told them that the young lady was called "Zhao Yunluo", and the real person lived up to her name.
Aware that someone entered the room, Zhao Yunluo opened his eyes tiredly and turned his head slightly from the pillow.
Her eyes were clouded by pain and fatigue, and she could not see the slightest vitality, as if she had randomly found two pure black glass beads and assembled them on her face.
When I saw the stranger who suddenly broke in, I coughed lightly, but I couldn't hear any emotion: "Are you here to subdue the demon?"
Zhao Yunluo behaved mildly and politely, and He Zhizhou also restrained his previous sloppy appearance, and smiled a little crampedly: "Madam thinks wrong. We just heard that strange things often happen in the mansion, so we thought of coming to investigate and see. See if there is anything tricky."
"Isn't it just me, the trickster in Chen's house?"
She wasn't even annoyed, she lowered her long eyelashes with a little tiredness: "You don't have to hide it, my son, I know it."
"This matter is still inconclusive, we have not determined that the young lady is a monster."
Ning Ning hurriedly stepped forward and said, "It's just that there are rumors all over the place. If the young lady wants to clear the suspicion, please cooperate more."
Chen Yaoguang strode to the bed when he heard the words, and blocked Zhao Yunluo with his body, his tone was still impatient: "My wife is not feeling well today, I'm afraid I won't be able to provide you with clues."
"It's fine, husband."
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yunluo himself took his words, barely propped himself up from the bed, and sat on the head of the bed. She coughed again, and the morbid blushing on her cheeks became more obvious: "It's better to clear up the misunderstanding as soon as possible. If you have anything you want to know, just ask them outright."
Zhao Yunluo's cooperation was beyond Ningning's expectations.
Chen Lubai, who was beside her, snorted softly and whispered to her: "This goblin is pretending to be innocent again! She thought that if she pretended to be harmless to humans and animals, no one would doubt it?"
He Zhizhou didn't hear these words, and he already had a little affection for this gentle and polite young girl: "Young madam, have you ever been to the well in the middle of the night?"
"I've been afraid of the dark since I was a child."
Zhao Yunluo frowned slightly while covering his chest, his tone erratic due to weakness: "My husband also knows about this. I don't even dare to fall asleep alone at night, how can I go there alone as the rumors say. By the well?"
Chen Lubai snorted again: "My sister-in-law is afraid of the dark, not you."
He Zhizhou pondered for a moment, and then said: "Why did the lady get seriously ill after the Taoist priest opened the altar?"
The question elicited a brief silence.
Zhao Yunluo's face was embarrassed, and he hesitated a bit when he spoke again: "I don't know about this. After the practice that day, everything was fine, but I woke up at night coughing up blood. Since then-cough! Since then, my condition has become more serious. , the husband also suffered from the same disease, and the body is not as good as the day."
"But," He Zhizhou's tone softened a lot when he saw the woman on the bed coughing up blood again, "Young Madam, have you noticed something wrong with you recently? Maybe—"
"enough!"
Chen Yaoguang gently wiped the blood from the corner of her lips for her, stared at He Zhizhou and said solemnly: "My wife is seriously ill, and she can't bear the blow, but you have hurt her again and again, what is your intention! "
"You, why are you murdering me?"
He Zhizhou held his neck with a straight face, and said the most cowardly words in the most righteous tone: "Even if I really hurt your wife, then you should also hurt my wife, so that the two can be cleared. understand?"
God he ○ injustice has the first debt and the owner.
What kind of logic genius is this
Chen Yaoguang was so angry that he really didn't want to have any entanglement with this person anymore, so he immediately issued an expulsion order: "My wife's health is not good, since you have seen her as you wish, please come back."
He said it decisively, and the beauty in his arms was really fragile, even if he was as thick-skinned as He Zhizhou, he couldn't find any excuse to stay.
In the silence of the whole room, a clear girl's voice suddenly sounded from the corner.
—Ning Ning took a few steps forward, with an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, and took out a small bottle from the storage bag: "Senior Brother He has finished asking, I still have a magic weapon here. The master gave me this bottle before going down the mountain. It is claimed to be applied to the skin, and it is no different from cold water to humans, but if demons and ghosts touch it, it will burn like a raging fire, causing unbearable pain."
Except for Pei Ji, the other two people who entered the Buddha Tower together showed completely confused expressions.
They have never heard of this "demon-turning water" by Lao Shizi. If there is such a treasure, I am afraid that the monster hunters in the world will have to drink the northwest wind collectively.
After all, as soon as something strange happens, the goddess sprinkles a bottle, so there is no need to worry about the monsters not showing up.
Chen Yaoguang also showed some confused eyes, looked at his wife calmly, and Ning Ning's leisurely voice came from his ear: "The demon water is very precious, I put a drop on the back of the young lady's hand, look at See how she reacts in various ways?"
Zhao Yunluo and her husband looked at each other, as if making a certain determination, pursed their lips and nodded.
So Ning Ning walked forward with the bottle.
She walked very fast, the smell of medicine on the tip of her nose became stronger and stronger, and a few white smoke rose from the side, covering the long black eyelashes of the crow.
Chen Yaoguang, who was sitting beside the bed, suddenly stretched out his right hand and said solemnly, "It's inconvenient for the insider to contact outsiders. I'll take care of applying medicine."
Ningning nodded and handed him the bottle.
At the moment when the two hands exchanged.
Xu Shi was blocked by the hazy smoke, and there was a brief dislocation in the movements of the two. It was a thousand miles away, and when Ning Ning let go, Chen Yaoguang hadn't even grasped the bottle tightly. The small white round bottle rolled down, and a gray-white liquid poured out from the mouth of the bottle, and a few drops of it splashed on the back of Chen Yaoguang's hand.
A loud bang.
The round bottle containing the demon water suddenly shattered.
"Young Master Chen!"
Ning Ning was shocked: "Are you alright?"
"This water is only effective for demons, so it's naturally fine for me."
Chen Yaoguang wiped away the water stains with a light expression, and looked at the mess on the ground: "I'm sorry, I'm afraid the demon water..."
"It doesn't matter, the master said that this is a useless shortcut for cultivating the Tao. It's broken right now. Maybe God intended me to study hard and practice hard. Don't always think about being clever."
Ning Ning didn't care much, leaning over to pick up the broken bottle, another slender arm suddenly appeared in front of him.
- Pei Ji stepped forward at some point, and help her pick up the round bottle from the demon water with a blank face.
The appearance of the demon water is extremely strange. It is a light gray and nearly white liquid, but it is always boiling like boiling water, and it puffs up round bubbles one after another.
It is indeed the secret treasure of the fairy family, which is completely different from the ordinary water in the mortal world.
As Ning Ning said, even if the boy in black touched those liquids, his expression did not fluctuate at all, as if he was just touching ordinary cold water, and there was nothing special about it.
"The demon water is useless, it seems that we can only have a long-term plan."
Ning Ning raised her eyes and glanced at Pei Ji: "Then let's retire first, and I hope the two of you take care of yourself."
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"I'm pissed I'm pissed off!"
After leaving Chen Yaoguang's courtyard, as soon as he came to the reception room to sit down, Chen Lubai began to keep shouting: "As expected of a demon girl who has become a monster, she actually deceived my brother!"
After a while, he stared at Ning Ning again with wide eyes: "Miss Ning, in my opinion, brother, he must have deliberately broken your demon water—maybe he already knew it was a monster, but he kept guarding it. she!"
"It's not impossible!"
He Zhizhou suddenly realized, and suddenly took a big sip of tea: "Look, even if he knew that his wife was likely to be a monster, he always protected her against all odds, not letting anyone approach, let alone Taoist practices. This, this, Isn't it obvious to tell everyone, 'Even though I think she has a problem, I just won't let you guys mess with her and hurt her'!"
The storybook dealer Zheng Weiqi hit it off with him: "So it is! This is a love story of a person falling in love with a monster! Maybe from the beginning, it was not Miss Zhao who fell in love with the eldest young master, but a painting in her skin. Charm. The two people and monsters have different paths, but they have gone through hardships and obstacles to become a family. I didn't expect that one day Huamei went to the well to clean up, and was accidentally discovered by the servant who had been hiding the truth for a long time."
It's a comprehension version of shredded pork and a jacket, so Mr. Chen coldly handed her a check from the bank, and said with a blank face: "Five million spirit stones, leave my son."
The two of them talked back and forth, Chen Lubai's face changed after hearing this, and he slapped the table with a coquettish daughter.
"No! Even if they really love each other, that woman can't stay! You don't know, except for my brother, my father and I are also getting worse and worse. Not only are they weak but also very sleepy.
This is something that no one knows about.
Shemales have different paths and are destined to be unacceptable to the world, pitiful and pitiful.
After hearing this, Zheng Weiqi restrained her expression, and looked at her little junior sister with some curiosity: "Ningning, what exactly is your demon water, why have I never heard of it?"
Ning Ning was rummaging for something in the storage bag, raised her eyes slightly to look at her, although she answered aloud, she answered indifferently: "Senior sister, have you ever thought that if Chen Yaoguang really knew the true identity of Huamei, How can it sneak up to the well to clean the painting skin?"
With a simple sentence, they overturned their previous tirade with a bang.
The beautiful love story seems to have become an unreliable bubble. Zheng Weiqi wanted to hear her continue to analyze, but Ning Ning took out a bottle of wound medicine from the storage bag and hooked her finger at Pei Ji beside her: "Hand reach out."
Pei Ji held the sword, and when she heard the words, her fingertips moved slightly, and she stretched out her arm stiffly with a slight hesitation.
Seeing the appearance of his palm, Zheng Weiqi couldn't help taking a deep breath.
Pei Ji's hands are slender and fair, with well-defined joints. Although they are covered with calluses formed by practicing swords, they are still beautiful.
It's a pity that his right hand seems to have been burned, and there is a striking red and slightly bulging blisters, and it looks a bit hideous on the young man's white jade-like palm.
"When I saw the demon water, I felt familiar."
He Zhizhou seemed to think of something, and opened his mouth roundly: "It's not really what I think, is it?"
"Just as you think."
Ning Ning held the medicine bottle in one hand, the index finger of the other hand applied the medicine, and gently landed on Pei Ji's palm: "CaO+H2O=Ca(OH)2. Lime forms calcium hydroxide when it meets water, and it continues to release it. Intense heat."
After speaking, she paused, and her fingertips brushed Pei Ji's palm and fingertips in turn, and her voice was a little lower: "You guessed it?"
The girl's fingertips were incredibly soft, falling on the skin like cotton, carrying a cool and cool ointment, which largely relieved the burning pain of the wound. Pei Ji looked down at the back of her fair hand, whether it was itchy or painful, her fingers moved subconsciously.
Then he looked away and looked at the table on the other side: "Well."
"If it's just lime and water, anyone will be scalded."
He Zhizhou touched his chin and thoughtfully: "But Chen Yaoguang is acting lightly, doesn't this prove that he is deliberately deceiving?"
"There are three main points of doubt about the strange things in the Chen residence."
After Ning Ning finished wiping the medicine, he habitually blew cold air into Pei Ji's hand, which made the latter's ears warm and retracted his arms stiffly.
Chengying hated that iron could not become steel: "Can you do it, Pei Ji? Just take a breath. As for such a big reaction?"
Pei Ji didn't want to pay attention to it, and replied in her heart without changing her expression: "As for it."
"The first doubt, the reason for the rumor that the young lady is a demon is that a domestic servant went to the well late at night and witnessed her putting the painted skin into the well for cleaning."
Ning Ning said: "But it's too coincidental, right? Let's not talk about why the two of them happened to meet by chance. As a monster who thoughtfully wanted to replace the original body, Huamei would really commit 'swaggering to the well'. While taking off the skin of the painting, was someone else unintentionally peeping at such a low-level mistake?"
"Yes."
Zheng Weiqi nodded as if understanding but not understanding: "If I were a painting charmer, I would definitely not use such a dangerous method. Is it not easy to clean the painting skin? Wait for Chen Yaoguang to pour a basin of water after going out, and you can solve it by yourself in the room."
"That's right. If we change our minds, discard the previous speculations, and look at the problem from a different angle—"
Ning Ning paused for a while, and a bright color flashed in Xing's eyes: "What if Hua Mei was discovered by that servant not by accident, but on purpose?"
This time, it was He Zhizhou's turn to sit still: "Do it on purpose? What are you trying to do? For fear that others won't know that she is a monster?"
Unexpectedly, Ning Ning squinted and smiled: "If the 'she' in your mouth refers to the young lady, then it is indeed the case."
… Want to let others know that the young lady is a monster
"You mean," he froze, "someone wants to blame it?"
"Assuming what the servant said is true, there must be a monster living in the house. As for who the monster is, we have to come up with the second doubt."
Ning Ning glanced at Pei Ji, but did not expect that the other party was also looking at her lightly, so she smiled and continued: "According to Pei Ji's statement, the painting skin on Huamei's body is drawn stroke by stroke according to the original body. If the young lady has not been replaced, what kind of identity does the painting charm have to contact her, so that she can be familiar with her appearance and draw her so vividly?"
"No, it won't."
He Zhizhou finally showed a shocked expression: "You mean... the person next to the pillow?"
- Isn't that Chen Yaoguang? !
"The third doubt."
Ning Ning made a "three" gesture, and spoke in a leisurely manner: "Although we have little contact with Chen Yaoguang himself, we can still find many things that are not right from his sister Chen Lubai's words."
Chen Lubai's face has been pale since Ning Ning started to speak. At this time, his lips were trembling up and down, and when he heard his name, he took a step back subconsciously.
"That's right! I've been wondering about something for a long time. Miss Chen said that although her brother loves his sister-in-law very much, after this incident, he has always refused to open the forum, and even put an end to all contact between outsiders and Zhao Yunluo."
Zheng Weiqi didn't think much, and blurted out: "Is he not worried at all, Zhao Yunluo is really a monster now, and the real wife is at stake?"
"That's right!"
He Zhizhou nodded in agreement: "If you like someone, even if you trust her unconditionally, once you know that she is likely to be in a dangerous situation, you will still try to investigate everything clearly."
Two veritable single dogs, when it comes to talking about love and not love, they are quick-thinking and steady as old dogs.
"It is precisely because he has a ghost in his heart that he takes his wife behind closed doors. Why do you decline family visits, and even more unwilling to let cultivators enter the house to investigate?"
Ning Ning pursed her lips and smiled: "On the surface, it seems that I don't want Madam's resting to be disturbed. But once the fig leaf is lifted, if anyone inadvertently finds out that the problem is he and not Zhao Yunluo, then everything But it's all over."
She paused and drank the Longjing tea on the table: "There are more clues than that. Remember what Miss Chen said?" Dad specially invited the Taoist priest to open the altar when his brother was not at home. I haven't found any traces of demons in the mansion'."
This is definitely the most weighty stone hammer, and it is simply an obvious reminder.
Since there are indeed monsters in the house, the Taoist priest did not notice any clues—
He Zhizhou was startled: "Because he's not here... that's why I couldn't find the whereabouts of the demon!"
Zheng Weiqi's face was slightly dark: "Also, Senior Brother He asked the young lady before, and asked 'there is something strange around you recently', Chen Yaoguang interrupted the conversation in a hurry. Maybe... It was because he was afraid that the young lady would mention him. recent anomaly, thereby revealing identity."
"That is to say, it was not Zhao Yunluo who was replaced by the charm of painting, but Chen Yaoguang, the eldest young master in the Chen residence."
Ning Ning glanced at Chen Lubai's dejected face, and continued: "Painting charm is a disaster, and often leads to the ruin of the original family. He first transformed into the appearance of Chen Yaoguang, and then drew a face exactly like the young lady, Blame all the suspects on her. At that time, Zhao Yun will be speechless, and will die from exhaustion and exhaustion together with Master Chen and Miss Chen.”
"At that time, he is the only one left in the Chen family. Who else can tell that he is not the real eldest young master Chen Yaoguang at all?"
The voice fell slowly, and everyone present felt a chill on their backs.
The monster that they were trying so hard to find has always been hidden by their side, and everyone had a close conversation with it not long ago.
As for Zhao Yunluo on the sickbed, the loving bedside person actually had a bad heart, seemingly caring for her in every possible way, but in fact, every move was forcing her to death.
The thought of such a scheming and murderous skeleton hidden beneath the thin skin and flesh so close at hand makes it difficult to restrain the scalp.
"I was just suspecting, but there was no definite evidence. So while He Zhizhou attracted Chen Yaoguang's attention, he took lime from the storage bag and mixed it with water, and made up the so-called 'demon-turning water' lie."
Ning Ning took another sip of water: "Chen Yaoguang is a painting charm, it is impossible for me to use the demon water on Zhao Yunluo - after all, once it is proved that she is not a demon, the target will turn to other people in the mansion, for him It’s a huge disadvantage.”
"So you guessed he'd break the bottle on purpose! You fucking—"
Zheng Weiqi swallowed the next words back in her stomach and thought about the words: "You are really talented, Junior Sister! If he doesn't have a ghost in his heart, he will say it immediately after being burned, but if he hides something from us, he will deliberately say it. Act like nothing happened!"
Ning Ning nodded: "He thought he escaped the catastrophe with his acting skills, but he actually stepped into the trap himself. In order to convince Chen Yaoguang that the water would indeed not cause damage to mortals, I originally planned to pick up the bottle, but I didn't expect that. Pei Ji, he…”
She said for a while, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Thank you. It hurts, doesn't it?"
"Did Junior Brother actually understand Ning Ning's intentions?"
Zheng Weiqi said "wow": "I can think of this together, you guys are pretty destined."
Cheng Ying stammered: "Keep praising, keep praising, I love to hear it."
"But this trick of painting charm is too damaging!"
He Zhizhou was very indignant: "The family members who have been harmed so well are suspicious of each other and hate each other, but he has been pretending to play the role of the victim. If it is not revealed, maybe one day the Chen residence will be ruined and others will think that he is a victim. The poorest one."
"This kind of man-eating ghost, ghost and ghost, rarely has a conscience."
Zheng Weiqi said with a smile on her lips, and raised her voice: "You mean it? Mr. Chen. After listening outside the door for so long, is it time to come in and rest?"
The shocked look on Chen Lubai's face still didn't fade away. Hearing this, he quickly raised his head and looked towards the door.
The wooden door was pushed open by Zheng Weiqi's spiritual power. Standing outside the door, Chen Yaoguang's complexion was ashen, his eyes were blood red, and there was no trace of elegance and easy-going temperament.
"So what if you see it through?"
Chen Yaoguang sneered, and his body made a dry sound when bones were rubbing against each other. The draped dough, like paper soaked in water, began to show up and down folds, the folds became longer and longer, and finally fell off, revealing the bones wrapped in layers of painted cortex.
And his voice also became neither male nor female, indistinguishable between males and females. Compared with human voices, it was more like the harsh murmur of gold, silver and iron objects colliding with each other: "A group of rats! Since you have seen my real body, then don't I want to leave!"
[Unexpectedly, the painting charm will show the prototype directly, and everyone is horrified!
The demon had a ferocious demeanor, full of murderous aura, and was as ruthless as a purgatory Shura. The same thought flashed through the minds of several people present: If you can't defeat him, you will surely die today without a burial—]
Before the last word "earth" was finished, the narrator fell into an embarrassing state of death again.
It's really pissed off.
Can you guys make it go through the lines without a hitch? !
—I saw the black-clothed youth who was sitting at the table suddenly stood up, and when he drew his sword and raised his hand, a cold light pierced the misty rain.
Pei Ji's speed is very fast, and the aggression of the whole body is more intense than that of the glamour who laughs wildly.
The long sword was unsheathed and pointed directly at the gate of the demon's life outside the door, bringing with it a sword wind that was as sharp as a blade. Hua Mei never expected that this person's killing intent was more terrifying than his own, and his expression changed for a while. Since he didn't have time to dodge, he could only hurriedly dodge to the side.
And Pei Ji seemed to have expected his action long ago, and stretched out his other hand to ruthlessly grabbed the skeleton's throat, and pressed it on the long column beside the corridor involuntarily.
The painting is so charming.
Obviously, according to Chen Lubai's statement, this group of people is only from a small school. You can see at a glance that they have no ability, but they go down the mountain to eat.
But what is the situation now.
Who is he, where is he, what is he going to do.
"Say."
Pei Ji's brows were soaked with killing intent and coldness, and her voice was equally cold, like a real villain boss. As long as he was a little unhappy, he would take his head with a sword: "Where is the real Chen Yaoguang."
The narrator was silent for a long time.
As if to save his little face, the familiar male voice sounded again.
[I didn't expect Pei Ji to pull up his sword directly, and Hua Mei was horrified!
Seeing that Jianxiu's demeanor was fierce and murderous, he was as cruel as a purgatory Shura. Hua Mei couldn't help but cross a thought in his mind: If he can't be satisfied, he will surely die without a place to be buried today! ]