devil in heart

【Camphorwood Box, Book of Beasts】

It was already sunset when they returned to the hospital, and the hospital had already returned to calm.

With doctors, nurses and patients coming and going, Xie Muyou returned to that floor, grabbed a nurse and asked, "We are the kindergarten teacher of Qu Xin's granddaughter, and we want to visit Grandma Qu."

"Qu Xin..." She thought for a while, "A patient in bed 18? Her daughter discharged her from the hospital in the morning, don't you know?"

"Isn't Grandma Ke Qu's condition not very good?"

"It's good, who can say it's not good?" The nurse waved her hand, "In fact, she shouldn't be hospitalized in this situation, but the old man has to pretend to be sick and ask to be hospitalized, and we can't help it."

"Fake illness?" Xie Muyou asked in surprise.

"I said I was in pain here, and there was pain there, and there was nothing wrong with the check-up." The nurse saw this kind of situation a lot, and hurried to the next ward with the cart.

Jing An curled his lips, and couldn't help but say, "Don't tell me this hospital can't do it?"

"How to say?"

"You heard the voice on the big bed, aren't you seriously ill?" Jing An thought of the situation in the yard.

Xie Muyou smiled: "Think about it carefully."

Jing An calmed down and carefully thought about the situation in the courtyard.

But after thinking for a long time, he still shook his head.

Xie Muyou continued to remind him: "Can you feel their inner emotions?"

"Wu Xi's is fine, but Qu Wan's..." Jing An gasped, "No, why can't I feel her emotions?"

Not only hers, but also Grandma Qu's emotions.

No, it shouldn't be just in the courtyard, but he hasn't felt her emotions all this time.

He is a demon, he should be very sensitive to emotions.Just like Li Qing, Jing An felt that she had plans early in the morning.But Qu Wan...he just felt that Xie Qizhao attracted the attention of others, but he didn't notice anything else.

"Actually, I don't know either. I didn't think of the reason for Qu Wan's situation, but Qu Xin, I suspect..." Xie Muyou whispered a few words into Jing An's ear.

Jing An suddenly covered his ears, staggered backwards, then raised his head to stare at Xie Qi's smirk and couldn't help grinding his teeth.

Even if you bite your ears, can you stop saying such scary things while you are biting your ears?

Xie Muyou staggered out of the hospital with his hands in his pockets, and stopped suddenly when he passed the security booth.

Jing An slammed on the brakes and almost hit Xie Qi, "What's wrong?"

"When we came in the morning, didn't only the security guards go to work?"

Jing An looked at the 24-hour on duty sign beside him and nodded.

"Brother." Xie Muyou knocked on the glass, and the dozing security guard raised his hat and asked with a strong accent, "What's the matter?"

"Hey, I want to ask you..." Xie Qi accidentally saw the visit records spread out by the window, and couldn't help squinting his eyes.

"What's the matter? I'm going to sleep." The security guard muttered.

"I want to ask you." Xie Muyou temporarily changed the question, and took out the letter from the morning that was folded into a thousand paper cranes from his pocket, "Did you write this letter?"

"That's right." When this matter was mentioned, the security guard became furious, "It was still dark, and I just fell asleep when the blind old woman woke me up."

"What did you say?" Xie Muyou's long and narrow eyes suddenly widened, "Are you a blind old man?"

"Yeah, I can't read yet." Seeing that they knew each other, the security guard didn't want to say anything more, turned over and covered himself with a coat. Soon, there was a snoring sound from under the clothes.

***

"Jing An, you're right." On the way home, Xie Muyou was a little disappointed, "I'm meddling in my own business."

"Why do you say that all of a sudden?"

"You said, if I concentrate on Xiaobao's affairs, wouldn't there be so many things behind?" Xie Muyou even had helplessness written in the corner of his eyes, "Does it mean that I wouldn't know that Li Qing is still lingering? The blind mother-in-law is still helping her plot against me?...Maybe, we are on the train to Baipu City now."

"When did you say you were going?" Jing An asked curiously. Could it be that this matter was not his fault?

"During the day, you said it."

"Then really go?" Jing An raised his tone.

"Why not?" Xie Qi looked at him with a smile.

Jing An: "..." For a moment, I really didn't know whether to be happy or not. I was happy because he took his words at ease, but...was it too casual?

What Jing An didn't know was that Xie Qi used to be more serious than now, so serious that he was almost a fool.

As long as Jing An said, he would do it, even if others, including Xie Muyou's brothers and sisters, thought they were incompatible.

It was silent all the way again, approaching the door of the house, Jing An looked at Xie Qi who was quiet all the way, and suddenly felt very unhappy.

Obviously Xie Qi admitted that he was right, and obviously Xie Qi agreed to stay out of his own business.

But he just felt uncomfortable even between the bones.

In an instant, he hated those people who were just looking for trouble, and thinking about Jing Anjiao was out of his control.

"Where are you going?" Xie Muyou thought he didn't recognize the door, so he grabbed his hand.

Jing An carried Doutianpo on his shoulders, and said imposingly, "Go and kill Qu Wan."

Xie Muyou was angry and funny, with warm heart, he pushed Jing An into the house, seeing that he still wanted to go out, he stopped him and never dared to let go: "Killing her can't change the fact."

"Then if you don't care about Lin Simiao, you can change the facts? What does it have to do with you if she wants to turn bad?"

Xie Muyou was stunned.

As soon as these words came out, Jing An couldn't help rolling his eyes, he wanted to slap himself very much right now.He obviously didn't want Xie Muyou to meddle in his own business, but now it seemed that he was pushing him to the side of his business.

Moreover, the tone and way of speaking... Jing An looked up at the sky, it was as if Xie Qi had possessed him.

"You're right." Xie Qi cleared his throat, and wisely did not expose him, saving face for the old man.

Seeing that Xie Qi was about to return to his room after turning a corner, Jing An shouted resolutely: "It's good that you know it's trouble, and you are not allowed to ask for trouble in the future. This time... I will accompany you to solve the problem quickly." .”

"Yes, Master Jing." Xie Muyou was in a good mood, even if he found out that the blind mother-in-law had plotted against him again, he couldn't stop his good mood at the moment.

Jing An seemed to be like a cat with fur... No, it was a big tiger with fur, raised its paw and asked him—"Who bullied you? I'll kill him."

***

After Xie Muyou returned to the room, he squatted down and dragged out a large camphorwood box from under the bed.

It was covered with dust, but after brushing off the thick dust, the exquisite carvings hidden under the dust gradually revealed its appearance.

He sighed, and the helplessness of the years and changes flowed in his eyes.

This box has been around for some years, and if it is put on the black market, it will definitely fetch a high price.This box also has a story. It was given to him by the Cuiyu tribe as a reward for getting rid of the royal pursuers.

Such a box can keep the contents in it unchanged for thousands of years, and will not rot for a hundred years.Such a box is not the ancestral treasure of the Cuiyu clan, the Cuiyu clan has something more precious than this.

Not to mention that the Cuiyu tribe didn't take it seriously, and Xie Muyou, who received the gift, didn't take it seriously either, but just used it to hold some ancient books.

But as time went by, he felt inexplicably sad when he touched the texture of the cabinet.

So many fresh lives, so many stunning talents, how come there is only one lonely girl left in the end?

The person who gave the gift never thought about it, and neither did the person who received the gift. The last box is probably one of the few remaining items of the Cuiyu clan.

Xie Muyou actually made a hexagram for the Cuiyu clan when he knew that Lin Simiao was Cuiyu.

Even with the three hexagrams, the hexagrams are different every time.

Compared with his eldest brother, Xie Qi is actually not good at divination, and the problem of divination is not a big problem, but for creatures like the Cuiyu clan who are loved by the world, even he himself can't believe the results of his divination.

But the result obtained from stargazing last night was similar to what Ding Yu said.

The Cuiyu clan was really on the verge of extinction, not just the rumors he released at that time.

With a heavy hand, Xie Muyou dug out an ancient book from the box, it was the same as when he put it in at the beginning, in fact, this book was the reward he agreed with the Cuiyu clan.

The moment he closed the box, he could clearly feel the kingfisher spirit in his pocket ready to move.

He patted his pocket lightly: "Don't worry."

***

"what is this?"

Xie Muyou pushed the door and almost bumped into Jing An who was blocking the door. Jing An leaned against the door frame and pointed to the book in his hand: "You made yourself so gray just to find this?"

"Look at it?" Xie Muyou stuffed the ancient book in his hand, quickly brushed his hair, and glanced at the bronze mirror hanging diagonally opposite...

""Hundred Beasts"?" Jing An raised his eyebrows, and then he thought of Cui Yu, and he knew that Xie Qi would not just give up.Regret on the one hand, but also inexplicably vaguely rejoicing on the other.

It seemed that he was glad that he was not affected by others, and that he was not really as indifferent as he appeared on the surface.

Not right...Jing An scratched his chin, thinking that he was still unhappy.

Uncle Jing, who is unfamiliar with human emotions, does not know that sometimes people are divided into "outsiders" and "insiders".

Thinking of this, Xie Qi has already leaned over and turned the pages of the book for him with his pale fingers.

Breath beat against Jing An's ears, and the numbness made him successfully miss a heartbeat.

As for whether the demon has a heart?Jing An said that it didn't matter, as long as the uncle was willing, the sound of "dongdong—" just now was the sound of a heartbeat.

He held the book in his left hand, and Xie Muyou leaned over from the right, as if half of his body was leaning against his arms.Jing An just stared at Xie Qi's profile, his long and narrow phoenix eyes, his straight nose, and his bloodless thin lips.

"Look." Xie Muyou found that page and twirled the page lightly with his fingers.As soon as he turned his head, he saw Jing An staring at him in a daze, his pale cheeks were stained with blood, "Look, what are you looking at?"

Jing An cleared his throat, he was not in the mood to answer the conversation, let alone meet his eyes.

Unable to turn his gaze back to the page, unexpectedly, the page that Xie Qi pointed out to him was not a kingfisher.

It's...a strange beast—a human face, a sheep body, tiger teeth and human claws, with eyes in the armpits.