Because of this sudden deception line, Zhang Lan lost his mind on duty.
She scattered a wave of patrol spells and found a few juniors to replace her. He hurried back to his home with Zhang Biling and Zhou Xu who were released from the cage.
The Zhang family's home is located in the West Ring of Ningzhou. It is a concentrated Chinese-style mansion with exquisite style, but the younger generation does not really like it.
Zhang Lan felt that the layout was old-fashioned, Zhou Xu often had nightmares when he lived here, and Zhang Biling was very restrained every time he came here... In comparison, Zhang Yalin thinks it's not bad, because it fits well with his simple and elegant baby box .
Zhang Lan wanted to move out and live alone for a long time, but never succeeded.
Although her generation is in the limelight now, it is the older generation who are in charge of the house. As long as grandfather Zhang Zhengchu doesn't nod, it doesn't matter how she gets angry with her aunt.
Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin's houses are connected.
When the three of them came back together, Zhang Yalin had just finished pouring incense to the box.
As soon as he heard the movement next door, he washed his hands. The person came first and said, "How is it? Are you asking questions?"
Zhang Lan instructed people to put the confused Zhou Xu on the sofa bed, and then asked Zhang Biling to pour some soothing tea: "Sister Ling said that the cage was not solved by her, but the handsome and young brother of the Shen family."
As soon as Zhang Yalin heard it, she knew that her aunt had committed the same old problem again: "Have you seen it?"
"When you sent me a long speech in speech, he was by the side. With the sick seedling."
"Thank you for asking?"
"Yes, they entered the cage together."
The Zhang family has mixed emotions about Xie Wen, which is mainly due to Xie Wen himself.
He is a side member of the Zhang family. Although he has a different surname and is an adopted son, he is clearly the Zhang family after all. It is rumored that he caused his father and mother to be full of karma, and was removed from the name tree map. In the eyes of most people, he is a marginalized abandoned child.
A normal person in his position would be somewhat embarrassed, either resentful or jealous.
But he doesn't.
Everyone he saw was smiling, he didn't pay any attention to the Zhang family, and he didn't target them. He was like a stranger who had nothing to do with him.
It seems that Zhang Bu Zhang's family means nothing to him.
This attitude, combined with his ill appearance, was really special.
So the whole Zhang family, not even just the Zhang family, didn't care about him on the bright side, but everyone knew him, and when they mentioned it, they couldn't help but talk about it.
It's just that every conversation ends with the same sentence - forget it, he has nothing to say, after all, he can't even solve a cage.
Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin are probably the only two people who haven't said this. The former is for the sake of their faces, and the latter is because of their personalities.
"So what do you mean, even though the Shen family's apprentice can't even get a family tree chart, but he took action to untie the cage and made their pulse jump?" Zhang Yalin asked.
Zhang Lan: "…"
This seems more ridiculous.
"And it stands to reason that his name should appear on the picture if he can be released. There is still no name on the picture, so he can only say—" Zhang Yalin paused.
He wanted to say "hit by mistake", but after deliberation, he changed a more euphemistic statement: "The strength fluctuates, but it is not stable enough to be on the map."
Having said that, Zhang Lan thinks it makes sense.
They have all gone through that stage. When they were children, they learned puppet arts, spells, and knew a little bit of fur and fancy dress, and they were clamoring to enter the cage. There are elders with them. Nine times out of ten, they are going to be cute mascots. Occasionally, they can play Qijia and untie themselves.
At that time their names were not on the family tree.
Zhang Yalin is 11 years old in the picture above, and Zhang Lan is 9 years old. This is a recognized wizard. The others mostly got 14, 5.
In order to confirm, Zhang Lan turned to ask Zhang Biling: "Handsome guy, that... is the apprentice of the Shen family. How is he doing in the cage?"
Zhang Biling was a little embarrassed: "I was possessed, so I can't remember exactly what happened in the cage. I just remember that he saved people with a wire."
Zhang Lan looked at Zhang Yalin: "Study of puppetry."
Zhang Yalin: "It's not unusual, that vein all learns puppet arts."
Zhang Biling couldn't ask anything about it here, but Zhou Xu suddenly woke up over there.
Brother Zhang Lan had no hope for this kid. Because Zhou Xu had never been in the cage, nor had he received serious training, he would, like most ordinary people, forget about the things in the cage when he got out of the cage, just like waking up from a dream.
Who knew that the first thing Zhou Xu did when he woke up was to look at his lower body first.
Zhang Yalin: "?"
Zhang Lan: "What's wrong with you?"
Seeing that the trousers were dry, Zhou Xu let out a long breath: "It's alright, I'll take a look. I went to the toilet several times in the cage, I'm afraid of peeing my trousers."
"… "
Zhang Lan was speechless for a moment, then suddenly reacted: "Do you remember what happened in the cage?"
Zhou Xu: "Yes, my brain is so good, why can't I remember?"
Zhang Lan came to the spirit: "Then do you have an impression of the Shen family?"
Zhou Xu: "Yes, brother coward, brother..."
He suddenly got stuck.
Zhang Lan: "What happened to my brother?"
Zhou Xu thought about it and said, "I'm very confused."
Zhang Lan: "...what's the mystery?"
Zhou Xu: "It looks like a chicken for a while, and it looks like an awesome guy for a while."
He had a very clear mind and remembered everything before and after, so he picked two key points and said: "When he was in the cage, he was attached to a mannequin and asked Xie-"
Zhang Biling scolded him: "Call me brother."
Zhou Xu ignored it: "Xie Wen only has the upper body, and his younger brother only has the lower body. Auntie, imagine it."
Zhang Lan couldn't imagine how Xie Wen only had the upper body, and he was a little intoxicated.
Zhou Xu added: "But he can make a puppet, a snake."
He wanted to say it was very cool, but Zhang Yalin was in front of him, and he felt that he had nothing to say.
He didn't mention much, but Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin subconsciously regarded it as "a little snake", no different from making a bird and a rabbit.
Hearing this, they can basically confirm that the apprentice of the Shen family is not stable enough to be shown in the picture. As for why the line for the death of all members jumped up...
It may just be affected a little, and it is estimated that there will be no next time.
However, out of safety, Zhang Yalin still said: "Isn't Ningzhou currently lacking people on rotation? Would you like to try him?"
"Okay." Zhang Lan turned around and asked Zhou Xu and Zhang Biling, "By the way, what's his name?"
Zhou Xu was stunned: "Damn, I forgot to ask."
Zhang Lan: "…"
***
Zhang Lan walked in a hurry and just missed Wen Shi perfectly.
Xie Wen sent them to the street, watched them get into the car, and then returned to Xiping Garden. Who knew that the car was only a few meters away, and when he smelled it, he said to the driver, "Go to the ancient city of Wan."
Xia Qiao was stunned.
When the car stopped in front of the square, it was dark. Wen Shi got out of the car and saw that there were the last batch of shops in the mall with their lights on, the scroll doors half-pulled, and it looked like they were about to close at any time.
This scene is so similar to the cage, Xia Qiao still has lingering fears: "Brother, why are you here again? Why don't you go home?"
"I'm looking for something." Wen Shi said.
The reason why he took the umbrella at that time was out of the judge's instinct, knowing that there was a cage, he wanted to untie it. Second, at the moment when the female driver handed over the umbrella, he smelled a familiar smell - his own smell.
Saying "smell" doesn't really mean smelling, but perceiving.
Xia Qiao was quite clever, and knew that he must have sensed the traces of the spirit again. Then he followed Wen Shi around the ancient city of Wan, entered the shopping mall again, and went upstairs along the escalator.
"Brother, is it difficult to find the spirit phase?" Xia Qiao couldn't help asking, "There are traces there, why haven't they been found for so many years?"
When smelling: "There was no trace before."
Xia Qiao was stunned: "Huh?"
He digested it before he understood what Wen Shi meant: "You mean, there have been no traces for so many years?"
When smelling: "Hmm."
For a long time, he wondered if his spiritual appearance had been lost, or if it disappeared completely for reasons he had forgotten.
It was not until he came out of Wuxiangmen this time that he finally caught two traces.
This is already progress.
But maybe it was because he had been separated from the spirit for too long, and this perception was always fleeting, too quickly for him to react. He walked through the mall once, only smelling it again when he passed a store, but when he walked twice, the smell was gone.
Unsurprisingly, that shop is Lao Song Stationery Wholesale. It's just that the shop's scroll door is locked, and it doesn't seem to have been opened for many days.
There are also two shops on the corner of the third floor, one is Chuji Rice Noodles, and the other is Mrs. Xu Sewing. Wen Shi thought for a while, and planned to ask Lao Song where he was going.
There are three or two customers in the rice noodle shop, chatting with the boss while eating, and looking at the level of familiarity, in all likelihood, he is also the owner here.
When the boss put the casserole in the iron clip and put it on the table of the guests, the soup in the pot was still boiling, and the sound of gurgling could be heard when passing by, and the rich aroma spread out with a large group of heat.
Wen Shi was walking towards the sewing shop with his eyes half down, but when he glanced over the boiling casserole, he stopped for a moment.
He suddenly thought of Xie Wen's crowded second floor in Xiping Garden for no reason, and of the hot soup on the old-fashioned wooden table. If it is the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, the white mist on the soup surface must be heavy and hot enough to smoke the eyes.
"Brother?" Xia Qiao had some doubts when he saw that he didn't leave suddenly.
He blinked his eyes when he smelled it, and quickly returned to his senses: "Huh?"
Xia Qiao followed his line of sight and saw a few hot pots of rice noodles. He asked a little uncertainly, "Are you hungry?"
"No." Wen Shi's drooping fingers pinched the joints, raised his feet and walked away, "I'm an evil spirit."
Xia Qiao: "?"
Mrs. Xu was sitting beside the sewing machine, wearing a pair of reading glasses, twisting the thread to thread it on the machine. She does wear an old-fashioned wig bun, but not as old as the cage looks.
"Do you want to sew something?" The old lady smiled kindly when she looked at Wen from above her glasses.
Wen Shi said: "No, find someone."
The old lady didn't mind either: "Who are you looking for?"
Wen Shi pointed to a locked shop opposite and said, "Lao Song."
Xia Qiao glanced at him silently, for some unknown reason, it was amazing that the warm name "Lao Song" came out of his mouth when he smelled it.
The old lady said "oh", "He hasn't come for a long time. He's sick. He's in the hospital. After his daughter-in-law had an accident, he got sick in a hurry, and he's in the hospital diagonally across from him."
The owner of the rice noodle shop is also an enthusiastic person. Hearing the old lady's movement, he wiped his hands and said, "Are you looking for him to buy? Are you in a hurry? If you don't want to rush in these two days, I will help him remember his contact information. . Call you when he's better."
Xia Qiao hurriedly said: "It's not to buy, just to see him."
"Oh, go to the hospital." The owner pointed in a certain direction and said, "I went there last week. There are 12 beds on the second floor."
Ten minutes later, Wen Shi and Xia Qiao were standing in the corridor on the second floor of the hospital inpatient department.
As a rule, there are very few visitors here at night. But it is said that Lao Song is in good condition tonight, the continuous high fever has subsided, the inflammation has also eased, and he has eaten a little, but he still does not speak much.
"You can chat with him, but don't stay too long," the nurse said.
Wen Shi was obviously not someone who could chat with him, and he didn't enter the ward immediately.
Standing in the corner of the corridor, he took out a piece of yellow watch paper from his pocket and folded it into a bird. Xia Qiao had seen this thing, and when he smelled it for the first time and felt the traces of the spirit, he also broke a bird to follow it.
"Who are you going to chase this time?" Xia Qiao asked quietly, "Lao Song?"
"Look where he's been." Wen Shi said.
Lao Song is an ordinary person, and he will not have the taste of his spirit for no reason. It must have been somewhere before, or seen someone.
Wen Shi let go of his hand, the paper bird flapped its wings and slid down, entered the ward from the bottom of the door, and quietly walked around the edge of Lao Song's bed before quietly leaving.
Lao Song didn't notice that gadget at all, his complexion was okay, but his expression was a little blank, leaning on the head of the bed and drooping his eyes in a daze.
Wen Shi stood by the door, looked at him through the glass window for a while, then lowered his head and took out the only remaining incense stick and a lighter.
Xia Qiao watched him skillfully light the incense, twisted his fingertips lightly, and a black smoke flowed out under the incense, which he slowly twisted into a stream.
Xia Qiao thought, this is to leave something for Lao Song, just like Shen Qiao left him. It should also be a white plum.
As soon as the thought came to him, the phone in his pocket buzzed.
When smelling, she was twisting the residual smoke of the female driver into shape, and she raised her eyelids when she heard the vibration. Seeing Xia Qiao take out his mobile phone, there are two big characters on the screen - Xie Wen.
Fingers twitched when I smelled it.
The smoke twisted a second before the transformation, and the good white plum blossom branches disappeared, turning into a fluffy thing with a big slap and a ball on the ground.
When smelling: "… "
I was surprised.
Last time it was Xia Qiao, this time it was Xie Wen. He felt that both of them were on his side.
He squatted down with a slumped face, pinching the back of the thing's neck and holding it in front of him.
At the same time, Xia Qiao held up the phone, leaned against his ear, and said, "Thank you boss for looking for you."
The next second, Xie Wen's voice came close to his ear, and he asked, "Are you home?"
When smelling: "...No."
Xie asked: "Still outside?"
When smelling: "In the hospital."
Xie asked: "Why are you going to the hospital?"
Wen Shi hadn't opened his mouth, when the group of things he was carrying called out.
Xie Wen was stunned for a moment on the phone: "I think I heard a cat meow, where is the cat?"
When smelled, his face was expressionless: "You did it."
Xie asked: "?"