Stay away from beasts in the world of Siheyuan

Watching the door of the guest room close, Minister Guo did not go back to the room to rest, but went back to the study alone and sat in the chair behind the desk.

He held a cigarette between his fingers. As the fire flickered, smoke rose up and gradually filled the entire room.

In this way, he smoked one cigarette after another, his eyes looking straight in one direction, as if he was looking at something through the smoke in the room.

As time went by, the ashtray on the desk was filled with cigarette butts. After taking a deep breath, he slowly pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray.

With a slight "sizzling" sound, he stood up and walked to the window as if he had figured something out.

He stretched out his hand and pushed open the window. The biting cold wind messed up his neat hair. However, he seemed not to notice it, and just stared straight in the direction of Suzhou with his fierce eyes.

His eyes seemed to penetrate the darkness of the night and the long distance, and he saw the man who opened his mouth wide towards him, ready to swallow him and his daughter into his stomach.

After a long while, he uttered a low, cold snort from the depths of his throat: "Tsk~"

Then, without hesitation, he slammed the window shut, turned around, and walked out of the study without looking back.

Only the closed window and the smoke that had not yet dissipated in the room were left as witnesses of what had just happened here.

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The next morning, the sun shone through the mottled leaves onto the bluestone road of the courtyard.

Xu Changping slowly opened his eyes, stretched himself, and quickly got up, dressed, and washed up. He was concerned about Yang Xiaoyue's health, and the first thing he did after leaving the house was to walk towards the house next door.

He knocked on the door gently twice, and when he was allowed to push the door open, he saw Yang Xiaoyue standing on the ground.

Seeing that her originally pale face had gradually regained some color and she looked more energetic than when he saw her last night, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After saying hello to her, Xu Changping turned around and went back to his home without even entering the door.

After opening the door, Xu Changping went straight to the kitchen. In a short while, a simple but warm breakfast was ready.

There are limited varieties of ready-made breakfasts in the system mall, and Xu Changping has had enough of them after tossing and turning.

Now, whenever he has time, he will buy some materials in the system and do it himself.

After finishing his meal with the Yang sisters, Xu Changping simply cleaned up the kitchen and sent the Yang sisters back next door. Only after he had arranged everything did he leave the courtyard with peace of mind.

When he came back last night, Xu Changping had already informed the driver Xiao Zhang in advance and asked him to wait at the entrance of the alley in the morning and not go to the gate of the courtyard.

At this moment, Xu Changping hurried to the entrance of the alley. After confirming that the person sitting in the driver's seat of the black car was Xiao Zhang, he immediately opened the door and got in.

As the engine roared, the car slowly drove into the street.

On the way, Xu Changping closed his eyes and leaned back in the back seat, his brows slightly furrowed, his mind browsing various medicinal materials in the system mall.

Xu Changping's eyes quickly scanned the introductions of these medicinal herbs. He was looking for the main medicine that could cure Guo Baihui's illness.

Although he determined the cause of Guo Baihui's illness yesterday, it is not so easy to cure it.

Just one thing - medicinal materials - is difficult to deal with.

After Guo Baihui was poisoned, the smart guy treated her, which directly caused the poison in her body to mutate.

Now, even if the person who originally poisoned the food is found, the antidote in his hand will be useless.

Finally, when the car stopped in front of the Guo family's house, Xu Changping found the medicinal herb he needed - blood lotus.

Looking at the very clear pictures in the system mall, Xu Changping breathed a sigh of relief. Once he drew it, he could ask Minister Guo to find someone to look for it.

There was no way. When he was studying medicine before, he had only seen the description of this medicinal ingredient. If Guo Baihui hadn't needed it at this moment, he would not have thought of looking at the picture of this medicinal ingredient. After all, it was too niche.

Following the driver into the Guo family, Xu Changping immediately saw Secretary Sun sitting on the sofa with a pale face: "Who is this?"

When Minister Guo saw Xu Changping, he quickly said, "Comrade Xu, you've come at the right time. Please help me. Secretary Sun suddenly had a terrible headache last night for some reason."

Looking at Secretary Sun's expression, Xu Changping narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "What were you thinking about before you got a headache?"

"I'm not thinking about anything! I'm just reporting the matter of Suzhou Hospital to the minister!" Secretary Sun said to Xu Changping with a confused look on his face.

Xu Changping shook his head and said, "No, you must be thinking about something. You are obviously suffering from the sequelae of hypnosis now."

"Hypnosis!"

"Hypnosis?"

“Hypnosis!!”

Hearing Xu Changping's words, the three people in the room shouted in unison.

Afterwards, Secretary Sun said in a lost voice: "How come I didn't know that I was hypnotized." After hearing Secretary Sun's words, Minister Guo and Xiao Zhang both looked at Xu Changping with puzzled eyes.

There was no way. Minister Guo himself had been hypnotized, and Xu Changping's words made him think directly of the person who had attacked them father and daughter last time.

Xiao Zhang was much more simple. He had only heard people say this word occasionally, but had never encountered it himself.

"How can I hypnotize you if you know that?" Xu Changping glanced at him and said, "You should think about what you were talking about before you got a headache. Maybe you can remember something."

Without Secretary Sun saying anything, Minister Guo said in a deep voice, "He is talking about the person who gave him the medical records."

He suspected, no, he was certain, that Secretary Sun's previous look was because he recalled the appearance of this man and had a headache.

Before Xu Changping could say anything, Secretary Sun suddenly said, "Hiss, I really can't remember what this person looks like." Secretary Sun himself didn't understand what was going on.

He clearly had no one alone with anyone after he went to Suzhou, so how could he be hypnotized?

"If you can't remember, don't think about it, so as not to touch on the forbidden area and have a headache." Xu Changping looked at Secretary Sun who was still trying hard to recall, and said in a light tone.

Secretary Sun came back to his senses and said with a puzzled look on his face, "That's not right! He just gave me a file bag, why did he have to hypnotize me to forget his face?"

"The other party may be someone you knew before." Otherwise, Xu Changping would not be able to guess why the other party did this.

Under normal circumstances, everyone would treat him as a small fry, just like the young man who delivered meals, and if no one said anything, no one would care about his appearance.