Nightwatcher

Xu Qi'an regretted this question that had been bothering him for a long time.

It wasn't because there was anything wrong with the question itself, but because the way he asked the question was wrong and he exposed himself.

No. 5 Lina didn't know that he was No. 3. What Xu Qi'an told her was that he was a peripheral member of the Tiandihui. But the question just now undoubtedly exposed his identity.

Well, it's all Li Miaozhen's fault. The illusion that No. 3's identity has been exposed is also related to my current state of confusion and pain. I'm not clear enough.

"no!"

Lina yelled and waved her arms excitedly: "I promised Granny Heavenly Gu that I can't tell this matter, and I can't tell others that I heard the news from her."

Oh, the news is from Grandma Heavenly Gu Wait, she hasn't reacted to my werewolf jump yet? !

Talent, Xu Qi'an looked at Lina with admiration in his eyes.

"This is your freedom. A gentleman never forces others to make things difficult."

Xu Qi'an nodded, as if he didn't intend to force it, but after Lina breathed a sigh of relief, he said lightly: "Let's add up the expenses during the time you lived in Xu's residence."

He first glanced at the beautiful little skirt on Lina, and said: "My sister made two clothes for you, using high-quality silk and satin, gifted by the emperor, at ten taels of silver per piece, plus labor costs, The two clothes totaled thirty taels of silver.

"The accommodation fee is three renminbi a night. You have lived at home for several days, so let's count it as three taels. Then you eat, Miss Lina. I don't need to go into details about your own food intake. For so many days, you ate four of my meals in total. Ten taels of silver.

"Now, please pay the expenses, the total is one hundred and twenty taels."

Lina was stunned, stared at him blankly, and said, "You are so good, you can calculate the total amount of money so quickly."

Hehe, the above is all my nonsense to fool you, an idiot, do you still have to plan carefully? Anyway, you can't figure out what's wrong, I was also led astray by her.

Xu Qi'an patted the edge of the bed and said loudly: "Understand my point."

Little Heipi in Nanjiang said aggrievedly: "But I can't break my promise. I must obey what I promise."

"Very well, then please pay the money, or get out of my house." Xu Qi'an said fiercely.

"I" Lina's eyes turned red, feeling that she, a foreigner, was being bullied and helpless, stomping her feet and saying:

"I'll just go. I'll go to Taoist Priest Jinlian. Even if I starve to death, die outside, and live on the streets, I won't betray Grandma Heavenly Gu."

"etc."

Xu Qi'an called her to stop, and made the last effort: "Grandma Tiangu is in southern Xinjiang, right? I'm in the capital, and the two places are separated by tens of thousands of miles. If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, how can you be considered dishonest?"

"Is that so?" Lina questioned.

"Of course," Xu Qi'an nodded solemnly: "It's like going to Jiaofang to sleep with a woman, it's prostitution. But if you don't pay money, it's not prostitution. Right?"

Lina was taken aback, thought about it, and felt that what Xu Ningyan said was reasonable.

Xu Qi'an tried to persuade: "Besides, you are in a foreign land, you are alone and have no one to depend on, so what's the point of sacrificing a little reputation in order to survive, no one will blame you."

Lina showed a look of hesitation and relaxed a little.

Xu Qi'an gave the final blow: "Guiyue Tower has three days' food, just eat as much as you can."

Gululina swallowed secretly, and said crisply: "The deal is done, but you swear, you can't tell others."

Xu Qi'an nodded.

Lina turned around and ran to the door of the room, opened the door, poked her head out and looked around for a while, making sure no one was eavesdropping, then returned to the table in peace, and said:

"Just last time, No. 3 asked him what happened to a friend who often picked up money through the fragments of the book on the ground. The Heavenly Gu Department of our Gu clan knows astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom. I don't know.

"I went to ask Granny Tiangu, the leader of the Heavenly Gu Division, and she said that the guy who picked up money must be himself, not a friend."

Suddenly, Lina's voice stopped, she looked at Xu Qi'an in a daze, opened her eyes a little bit, showing an expression of extreme shock, pointed at Xu Qi'an, and screamed:

"You, you, number three?!"

You just reacted? Xu Qi'an cupped his hands in his heart, and said expressionlessly: "Yes, I am No. 3, but I promised Priest Jin Lian not to reveal my identity. It's all right now, we have broken our trust, so it's no big deal."

Lina stared blankly at him for a while, and finally accepted the fact that Xu Qi'an was number three, and felt that everyone had broken their promises, and the guilt in her heart suddenly eased a lot.

"Grandma Tiangu said that twenty years ago, two thieves stole a very valuable thing from a rich family's house. Some of the big family's families have already reacted, and some have not yet noticed.

"Grandma Heavenly Gu also asked me where you are. I said you were in the capital. Hearing this answer, Grandma Heavenly Gu couldn't believe it. She seemed to think that you should never be in the capital."

"You wait first."

Xu Qi'an interrupted Lina, leaning on the high pillow, silent for a cup of tea, and said slowly: "You continue."

"Later, before I left Southern Border, Grandma Tian Gu told me that one of the two thieves was her husband. There is a legend in our southern border that one day Gu God will wake up from the abyss, Destroy the world and turn the world of Kyushu into a world with only Gu.

"This legend was deduced from generation to generation by the prophets of the Heavenly Gu Department. It is a future that will definitely happen. In order to change the future, Grandfather thought of a way, so he left Southern Border. Then he never came back.

"The natal Gu he left in the Gu clan is exhausted, which heralds his death.

"Grandma Tiangu also told me that the thing was about to be born, and she foresees that I will also be involved in it, so she asked me to come to the capital to seek opportunities."

After Lina finished speaking, except for the existence of the Qijue Gu, which was not disclosed, everything else was said.

The Qijue Gu was entrusted by the Heavenly Gu mother-in-law to give to someone who is destined, Lina thinks that it has nothing to do with Xu Qi'an, so there is no need to disclose it to him.

"I know Lina, you go out first, I want to be alone." Xu Qi'an instructed: "Today's conversation must not be leaked to anyone."

"Um!"

Lina nodded vigorously, and walked briskly to the door of the room. When she opened the door, she turned around and said, "I'll take Lingyin to Guiyue Building first. Remember to pay the bill later."

"?"

Even when he was in such a bad mood, question marks still appeared in Xu Qi'an's mind.

He looked at Lina in astonishment: "No, it's not long after lunch, right?"

"I'll take the bell tone to Zamabu later, so I'll be hungry." Lina waved her hand and left the room.

Begging for a sack of beans, do you two want to eat me up in one go? Can I withdraw the promise just now? Xu Qi'an opened his mouth, feeling so distressed that it was hard to breathe.

Lina ran out of the room happily, thinking about the dishes of Guiyuelou, and quickly forgot about the dishonesty.

As for the fact that Xu Qi'an is number three, she thinks that it doesn't matter who number three is, and it has nothing to do with her, as long as she is happy, why think so much.

Changing to number four Chu Yuanzhen, he must be in the midst of a brainstorm now.

Passing by the east wing, I heard the Xu family's mistress whispering to the eldest daughter: "Lingyue, have you heard any strange noises lately?"

"No."

"But mother always feels that at night, there are people whispering outside the window, and sometimes there is the sound of tiles turning on the roof. Do you think the house is haunted again?"

"Mother, you're talking nonsense again. People will be so scared that they won't be able to sleep at night. Then I will go to my elder brother tonight and ask him to accompany me at the door."

"Mother is not talking nonsense, you don't know, Lingyin will go to the yard alone for a while after dinner every day, and ask her what she is doing, she said that she saw a lot of ghosts and wanted to fry them to eat, but couldn't catch them They. I heard that children's eyes can see unclean things."

"Mother, are you menstruating? You are suspicious. We have a father, an elder brother and a second elder brother. What kind of ghosts dare to come to our house to make trouble. Besides, the saint of Tianzong is at home, what are you afraid of?"

"Makes sense."

These words were well-founded, and my aunt was convinced, and then said: "Lingyin also told me that Miss Susu is a ghost."

"The ring tone is really impolite and will offend the guests."

"Yeah, so I beat her up."

Lina thought about it, and decided not to tell the mother and daughter the truth, so as to save them from being afraid. She went around the house and found the disciple who was hiding in the flower garden and sucking the chicken leg bone.

"What are you doing hiding here?" Lina pinched her waist and said angrily, "You want to be lazy again?"

Xu Lingyin glanced at her, silently threw away the chicken leg bone, then clutched her belly, and fell to the ground.

"What are you doing?" Lina blinked.

"I ate a chicken leg of unknown origin, and now I'm poisoned, and I can't move forward." Xu Lingyin announced loudly.

"Nonsense, you hid this chicken leg bone during lunch." Lina tactfully dismantled her.

Xu Lingyin was taken aback. She didn't expect her master to see clearly her plan. As expected of her master, she was indeed smarter than her. Then he had an idea, suddenly realized and said:

"It's my brother's leftover chicken legs, with his saliva on it. My brother's saliva is poisonous, so I can't move forward."

"Your brother's saliva is not poisonous." Lina exposed her again.

"You have never eaten elder brother's saliva, how do you know his saliva is not poisonous." Xu Lingyin was not convinced.

Lina was taken aback, not knowing how to refute, so she beat up Xu Lingyin.

It is only natural for a master to beat an apprentice.

This apprentice is a bit smart, if he doesn't fight now, he won't be able to control it in a few years!

In the room, Xu Qi'an endured the headache, sat at the desk, and wrote four words on the rice paper: Twenty years ago.

He originally didn't want to do analysis and reasoning in an extremely bad state, because it would cause too many mistakes and omissions, but it was related to his biggest secret, Xu Qi'an didn't want to wait for a moment.

Rubbing between her brows, she took a deep breath and wrote the second sentence: two thieves.

After pondering for a few seconds, I wrote the third sentence: There is only one left.

There should be no need to doubt this point, it is impossible for the Heavenly Gu mother-in-law to make a wrong judgment, as the current leader of the Heavenly Gu department, this mother-in-law will not make mistakes in such matters.

Of the two thieves back then, one has already died.

Finally, he wrote on the rice paper: Gu God, the end of the world!

He got up and walked to the round table, poured a glass of cold water, and drank it slowly. After drinking, he returned to the desk and wrote five words after "twenty years ago":

Battle of Shanhaiguan.

"On the official ship returning to the capital from Yunzhou, when I woke up, I dreamed of the scene of the Battle of Shanhaiguan. It is unscientific to see Wei Yuan in his youth, because I was born 20 years ago, and it is impossible to experience the Battle of Shanhaiguan. , it is impossible to have relevant memory fragments.”

Xu Qi'an's eyes flickered slightly, and he wrote the word "Qi Luck" behind "two thieves".

"Grandma Tiangu insisted that I was the one who picked up the money, and thought that I was related to the two thieves back then, but what is the biggest secret in me? It is luck!

"So, the two thieves stole Dafeng's luck? In the ancient tomb, the monk Shenshu said that my luck was refined."

Xu Qi'an dipped his ink, and wrote behind "Only one": "Yunzhou Warlock?"

The reason for the question mark is because it is not sure.

"Dean Zhao Shou said that the three forces related to luck are Confucianism, warlocks, and dynasty. First of all, exclude the dynasty, and I am probably not a member of the royal family. Secondly, exclude Confucianism. The strongest part of the Confucian system is the way of speaking. Follow instead of using luck.

"Only warlocks are experts in playing with luck. I suspect that the first and second ranks of warlocks are careers related to luck."

So who stole Dafeng's luck, refined it, and hid it in his body?

Xu Qi'an used to think it was the supervisor, because he was clearly arranged by the supervisor, but now he has doubts.

Is the supervisor a thief? The majestic Dafeng Jianzheng, no one in the entire dynasty knows how to play with luck better than him. If he really wants to steal Dafeng's luck, he needs to collude with the people from the Southern Border Heavenly Gu Department?

That's too much to look down on this first-grade warlock.

"Compared to Jianzheng, I suspect that it is the warlock who appeared in Yunzhou, the mystic warlock who is at least the third rank. He conspired with the former leader of the Heavenly Gu Department to steal Dafeng's luck.

"Because the two conspired together, did they hide from the prison for a short time? The luck that was stolen 20 years ago, and the major event that happened 20 years ago, only the Battle of Shanhaiguan affected all forces in Kyushu, and invested a lot of troops. Million-dollar battles.

"I saw the Battle of Shanhaiguan in my dream as evidence. Although I did not participate in the battle, it is very likely that this is not my memory, but the scene brought about by the recovery of luck? In this way, the Battle of Shanhaiguan was not easy. Ah, check what the fuse is, maybe you can find more clues.

"Why is luck placed on me? I'm just an ordinary Xu family man. There's no reason to give luck to me.

"Such an important thing was given to me, but it has been kept silent for twenty years. Is it really given to me for nothing?"

Suddenly, Xu Qi'an's body trembled, his pupils contracted violently, he stood there for a long time like a statue, and wrote three more words on the rice paper with slightly trembling arms:

"Tax bank case!"

PS: Sorry, the leader who thanked you yesterday is "right-handed dumb".