Wishful Things

The young man's warm and cool palm seemed to have the power to calm people's hearts. Xu Mingyi raised his eyes and looked at Zhan Yunzhu: "Let's go."

That being the case, let's go in and have a look together——

Zhan Yunzhu's gaze swept over the two hands quietly intertwined, and he felt a burning pain in his eyes and heart.

He never knew when his Zhao Zhao got so close to others...!

Zhan Yunzhu tightly clenched the fingers in his sleeve, a strange smile appeared in his eyes: "It seems that Zhaozhao has a very close relationship with Wu Shisun, which is unheard of..."

—— Zhao Zhao?

Hearing this title, Wu Chao felt quite harsh.

Then after thinking about it, the other party is already dying, so there is no need to worry too much about it.

And he could clearly feel that under the gaze of the other party, instead of breaking free from his hand, Zhao Zhao instead clenched it a little bit.

This move completely dispelled the boy's jealousy.

Xu Mingyi looked at Zhan Yunzhu coldly: "Stop talking nonsense and lead the way."

If there is really a strange trap in the secret room, then this secret room is the place where the other party is buried today——

Zhan Yunzhu turned around, the smile in his eyes dissipated, leaving only the changing gloomy look.

Walking into the inner room, he turned the mechanism behind a bookshelf.

Wu Chao paid attention to his movements—the opening of this mechanism seemed rather cumbersome.

After Zhan Yunzhu opened the door of the secret room, he turned around and looked around without a trace. Seeing that no one came in, he took the long wax from the candlestick beside him and looked at Xu Mingyi and the two: "Zhao Zhao, follow me."

A black shadow flashed by outside the window, like the shadow of a tree swaying in the wind and rain. The patter of the rain perfectly concealed the subtle sounds.

Xu Mingyi seemed to have checked something, and raised his eyes slightly to look at Wu Chao.

Wu Chao gave her a "reassuring" look, held her hand and walked towards Zhan Yunzhu.

The secret room is dark and dark, only the candle in Zhan Yunzhu's hand can be illuminated.

As soon as the three of them entered, Xu Mingyi heard the sound of the door of the secret room closing behind him.

She paused and frowned slightly.

If you just came to see someone, why do you need to close the door of the secret room?

In this way, she and Wu Chao are now trapped in this secret room——

On guard, she grabbed Wu Chao's hand and refused to move forward.

Zhan Yunzhu in the front noticed that the two of them hadn't followed, stopped, looked back, and said with some interesting doubts in his tone: "What's the matter? Zhao Zhao, the person who can save the Duke is here..."

Xu Mingyi looked in the direction of his finger - the corner ahead was pitch black, and there was a dark shadow faintly visible.

But after her sight was roughly adapted to the darkness, she was able to roughly determine the size and outline of the secret room by the candlelight in Zhan Yunzhu's hand.

This place is not too big, just the size of an ordinary study room.

And that group of indistinguishable black shadows...

Xu Ming watched intently, his eyes gradually turned cold: "There is no fourth living person in this secret room—"

She didn't hear any breath at all.

...It really is a scam!

But what is the purpose of tricking her here? Does Zhan Yunzhu really think that he can deal with her just because of him now? What's more, Wu Chao was still there.

So... There must be other strange things in this secret room.

Xu Mingyi thought quickly, and sniffed lightly with the tip of his nose.

It seems that there is not only the damp and musty smell that has not been seen for a long time, but also other smells...

"That's right, there are indeed no other living people." Zhan Yunzhu laughed, and opened his arms and said: "And soon, there will be no more living people... Zhao Zhao, we will never be separated again."

While speaking, he raised the candle in his right hand up high——

Xu Mingyi's expression changed as he faintly realized what he was going to do.

And the young man beside her seemed to have expected this, and rushed forward at this moment.

The candle in Zhan Yunzhu's hand has been thrown behind him.

The body of the candle flew out at a slant, and when it fell halfway, it was firmly caught in the hand.

At the same time, Wu Chao quickly grabbed Zhan Yunzhu's right arm with his other hand, raised his foot and kicked at the crook of his knee, forcing him to fall forward and lie on the ground.

Zhan Yunzhu groaned in pain, struggling to break free from Wu Chao's grip.

Xu Mingyi has already walked over quickly.

The slippery feeling under my feet proved my guess...it was kerosene!

She took the stump of candle from Wu Chao's hand, and quickly looked around by the light of the candle. The black shadows were actually several empty oil drums... and the secret room they were in was almost drenched with kerosene.

Is this planning to die with her?

Yes, he is indeed not a fool who would choose to die together, but he must be very clear at this time that he has no way out, so this is indeed not called burning together, but as a dying person dragging her to be buried with her...

Xu Mingyi's eyes were extremely cold, looking at Zhan Yunzhu who was restrained by Wu Chao and half kneeling there, he asked each word with a pause: "Let me ask you one last question, is the story about my grandfather being poisoned true or false?"

"Of course it's true, how could I lie to you about such things..."

Under the candlelight, Zhan Yunzhu looked at her because of the pain, and said: "This is the emperor's intention. I tried to persuade him, but I couldn't dissuade him. Zhao Zhao, get closer, and I will tell you who is the one who can relieve the poison of the Duke..."

Hearing these words, Xu Mingyi couldn't bear it any longer and suddenly raised his foot over, kicking the person to the green brick wall behind him.

Wu Chao, whose hands were suddenly empty, silently withdrew them.

Zhan Yunzhu's body bumped into the wall, he gritted his teeth, just struggling to get up, the paper umbrella held by the girl left his hand and flew towards him, as if carrying the sound of the wind, it hit him hard on the back of the neck.

Zhan Yunzhu immediately fell to the ground again.

With blurred vision, Zhan Yunzhu saw the murderous young girl walking towards him, and said weakly, "Zhao Zhao, Duke Zhen is not poisoned, everything is fake, but my feelings for you are true..."

As he spoke, he laughed: "I was outside just now, and I already felt that you really wanted to kill me... Ever since you were young, you have never changed your decisions easily. I know that I am destined not to be able to convince you tonight... So, I can only drag you to die with me and reincarnate together..."

While he was speaking, he lowered his head, and when he looked up again, suddenly there was a lighted torch in his hand——

"Be careful!"

Wu Chao strode forward and stopped Xu Mingyi.

There was kerosene everywhere, and the fire folds fell to the ground, and the fire quickly ignited beside Zhan Yunzhu. He struggled to sit up and looked at Wu Chao: "It's a pity that there is an extra eye-catching... But it's okay, it's a decent thing to send the grandson of Dingnan Palace to be buried with me..."

The fire spread very fast, and the secret room was illuminated as brightly as day. Wu Chao protected Xu Mingyi and walked quickly to the entrance of the secret room. Xu Mingyi tried to find the location of the mechanism, but there was no response after trying several places.

"Don't bother, Zhao Zhao, you won't be able to open it...!" Zhan Yunzhu had a strong smile on his face, as if he was very happy.

Glancing at the young man laughing in the firelight, Wu Chao didn't show any panic on his face.

With such an unwise method, it seems that he is indeed insane.

In other words, being trapped in this house, under surveillance everywhere, the reality does not allow him to make more clever traps.

"Don't be afraid."

He held Xu Mingyi's wrist, and said in a low voice, "Xiao Qi has been outside all this time—"

If he didn't even think of this and was not prepared at all, how could he bring her in for an adventure.

Before that, he had made an agreement with Xiao Qi, if he didn't come out after half a cup of tea, he would immediately bring someone in to check.

It's almost the same.

The fire spread and climbed up, the corner of Zhan Yunzhu's robe was burnt, in the whole secret room, only Xu Mingyi and Wu Chao's feet near the entrance of the secret room were temporarily spared.

Zhan Yunzhu tried to extinguish the flames at the corner of his robe - when he was about to die, if he said to wait for death calmly, not many people could really do it.

And compared to death, he was obviously more afraid of dying alone.

Seeing the dazzling and even calm two standing side by side, Zhan Yunzhu had a bad feeling in his heart, and then he suddenly took out a sleeve crossbow from his sleeve and pointed it at Xu Mingyi: "Zhao Zhao, I'm afraid you won't come with me...you don't blame me, do you?"

While speaking, a short arrow has left the crossbow.

Wu Chao protected Xu Mingyi to dodge it, before Zhan Yunzhu fired the second arrow, the dagger in Xu Mingyi's hand flew out in one step.

The dagger precisely passed through the wrist holding the sleeve crossbow, Zhan Yunzhu stepped back suddenly, the sleeve crossbow fell from his hand, and blood gushed out and dripped.

The dagger is poisoned—

Before she came, she had made all the preparations. If she couldn't kill him with one blow, this poisoned dagger would be the most trouble-free way to face the accident.

Zhan Yunzhu fell into the flames.

The door of the secret room opened slowly behind Xu Mingyi and Wu Chao.

"Young master, Miss Xu... are you alright?"

The fire in the secret room was scorching hot, Xiao Qi was slightly startled, and hurriedly asked.

Next time he will definitely not be able to pinch so meticulously, and he should come in earlier—the Celestial Eye was circling around the room early in the morning. At first, it grabbed his clothes with its claws, and then even flew up like an old rooster to peck him. He was still muttering as if he was cursing, and almost started a fight with him... Now that I think about it, maybe he sensed some danger?

As soon as the door of the secret room was opened, the wind poured in, and the flames rose again, and the flames rushed towards him. Wu Chao pulled Xu Mingyi out of the secret room.

Xu Mingyi saw a figure struggling to get up in the big fire, and a hoarse and terrifying voice came out along with the flames: "Zhao Zhao... Zhao Zhao... In the next life, I will definitely find you again!"

The flames flickered in the girl's black pupils, but there was only a calm look in those eyes, and the words uttered from her lips were also cold and calm——

"Then I will kill you again."

The shrill screams were extremely ear-piercing, but they all faded away. Xu Mingyi followed Wu Chao and left the room when he saw the figure completely collapsed and made no movement.

Xiao Qi closed the door of the secret room again.

"There is no adjacent courtyard or dwelling nearby, let it be burned." Out of the outer hall, Wu Chao said: "When the government arrives, there will be nothing left."

Holding his third eye, Xu Mingyi nodded.

The rain outside the hall drifted into the corridor, she raised her head slightly, letting the cool rain fall on her scorched and hot face, it was icy cold and very comfortable.

Feeling the coolness falling on his face, Xu Mingyi slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhan Yunzhu really died this time.

Really dead again.

Even if it is just a mere one, and it can't change the real overall situation, she still needs to keep her spirits up in the future, but this person's death, for her, she can finally let go of a heart disease in her past and present life, and she doesn't have to be distracted to be on guard against such a poisonous snake coming out to harm people.

so--

die well.

The girl summed it up simply and rudely in her heart.

"Let's go."

Wu Chao took the umbrella from Xiao Qi and propped it over her head.

The two were under the same umbrella, Xu Mingyi followed him step by step towards the courtyard, sighed and said, "I didn't get any useful clues, so the risk is useless."

"It's not in vain." The young man walked forward holding an umbrella without looking sideways, and said, "If you don't go in and take a look, if something really happens in the future, you will definitely feel regretful about it."

He knew her too well, so he didn't want her to have any regrets because of what happened tonight.

Hearing this, Xu Mingyi turned his head slightly to look at him - hearing this, it seemed that he didn't think there would be any clues in it from the beginning, but just because he didn't want her to feel regretful because of the unknown, so he accompanied her, or even wanted to go in and take risks for her?

She couldn't help asking: "If you were me today, would you go in?"

Wu Chao thought for a while, and replied truthfully: "Nine out of ten it won't."

Xu Mingyi guessed it would be this answer - he was never less cautious than her.

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have gone in."

With him around, she always felt that she had a lot of confidence in her heart.

So, because of each other, did they behave differently when encountering problems?

Thinking of this, Xu Mingyi sighed half-truthfully, and said, "I don't know if it's good or bad, but am I going to become a foolish and bold person?"

A smile appeared in Wu Chao's eyes when he heard this: "Not at all, I'm sure anyway."

Zhan Yunzhu has come to an end, and is destined to be unable to cause any big disturbances.

However, it would be his honor if he could really support her.

Hearing that he was sure, it was obvious that everything had been arranged before going in. Xu Mingyi couldn't help asking curiously: "You were eavesdropping on my conversation with Zhan Yunzhu before? Where did you hide?"

Wu Chao's face froze, and he hurriedly explained: "How could it be that Xiaoqi heard him lure you into the secret room, so he told me to listen."

How could he do something like eavesdropping on her talking with other men?

And if he really went to listen, only if the other party made a clear statement, nine out of ten he would not be able to listen to it.

Listening to his serious denial explanation, Xu Mingyi curled his mouth and nodded.

But after a while, the smile gradually dissipated. Looking at the rain in the night, she thought about it and said, "I was wondering whether Zhan Yunzhu's words were true or not, and whether something really happened to my grandfather..."

She didn't know whether to believe the statement of poisoning or not.

Thank you Qinghan for your reward, and thank you for your monthly pass.

(The two chapters were posted together, and they are separated in the middle for fear that everyone will say that I am broken again_(:з」∠)_

Good night.