Chi Ming couldn't remember how he got home.

Shen Danqing poured whiskey for him, and he drank half of the glass like white water, with his elbows on his knees, and it was very difficult to support himself.

He tried to close his eyes, counting silently for a long time before opening them again, hoping to wake up from the nightmare.

Alcohol makes the body hot, but it makes the heart cold into a graveyard.

He couldn't control the trembling of his fingers.

This icy atmosphere reproduces rapidly like fungi, and the air in the house seems to become thinner, and oxygen cannot be sustained.

Chi Ming breathed hard, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Where's Xiao Jiu?"

In the past, no matter when he came home, there were always small voices in the house. Xiao Jiu sometimes flapped his wings, sometimes creaked and licked melon seeds, and sometimes he rustled his fur, but now there is no sound.

Chi Ming hurriedly stood up, searched the whole house, and then couldn't bear it anymore, slammed the door and went out, looking around aimlessly.

Shen Danqing followed behind, and when he was exhausted, he lit a cigarette and gave him one.

Chi Ming sat under the tree slumped, smoked and did not respond.

The coldness formed an airtight web on the spider silk, tightly wrapped around the heart, and every beat was extremely difficult.

"For you," Shen Danqing asked suddenly, "Which one is more important, Xiao Jiu or Yan Jiu?"

It took a few seconds for Chi Ming to raise his gaze, and looked at Shen Danqing blankly, wondering if he didn't hear or didn't understand the question.

Shen Danqing: "I guess, you will say that they are all important."

Chi Ming seemed to be sinking at the bottom of the water, all the voices felt distant and strange, and he couldn't find the strength to speak.

Shen Danqing seemed to be talking about the weather, and said in a natural tone: "After your accident that day, Xiao Jiu followed you to the underworld to find you. He was young and impulsive, and I couldn't stop him. Yan Jun withheld it, and I am somewhat responsible for this matter." He lightly exhaled a puff of smoke, and the water vapor in his breath was particularly pale, "As for Yan Jiu, he has a definite life for a long time, even without this incident, his body would not It won't last a year, I've always known about it, but I kept it from Xiao Jiu, I don't know if he vaguely guessed something, but Yan Jiu should have always felt it, so he has a weird temper and is particularly difficult to get along with, don't blame him ...Don't be sad. Birth, old age, sickness and death are the essence of life. You have not been together for a long time, but you can save a lot of pain. You may be sad now, but you only need to drink a few glasses of wine to pay homage and sleep well. Every year or two, except for the anniversary of his death, you may never think of him again. After a few years, you will even forget his appearance. After living your life like this, you may occasionally think of your first love in your later years, only remembering him as sick Yes, it's not easy to get along with..."

Chi Ming's gaze gradually became complicated, he looked at Shen Danqing like a stranger, and said in a hoarse voice, "What did you say?"

"It is said that your human feelings are strong but short-lived. Love, hate and sorrow are not as long-lasting as setting off a firework, but Xiao Jiu is different. Since he likes you, it will not change for hundreds or thousands of years." Shen Danqing booth Opening the palm of the hand, the fingertips floated out of thin air, and the irises were faintly reflected crimson, "Yan Jun wants Xiao Jiu to forget you. Although I think he is authoritarian and arrogant, as an elder, I can't tell the truth. Good or bad..." He folded his fingers and held the flame in his palm, but the crimson color in his eyes did not fade away, "Chi Ming, he can die for you, what about you? Are you willing to die for him once?"

Shen Danqing seemed to be talking drunk and confused, but Chi Ming understood some key points. Trivial information was strung together to form a vague but reasonable outline.

He asked, "What's the relationship between Xiao Jiu and Yan Jiu?"

"Yan Jiu is Xiao Jiu." Shen Danqing spread his palms again, a dagger floated in the flames, the blade was burnt into a very thin arc, he held the handle with his backhand, and suddenly approached Chi Ming, pressing against his neck Ask: "How? Would you like to?"

Chi Ming's body tensed and trembled instinctively, but his heart surged, almost relieved, countless thoughts flooded into his mind in an instant, and the chaotic thoughts burst into a gleam of clarity.

He grabbed Shen Danqing's wrist, "Wait—"

Shen Danqing's expression darkened, and he said in his heart: Sure enough.

"The car accident." Chi Ming said, "Did you hide it for me? Did Professor Chi know about it?"

Chi Ming's parents never called them husband and wife, they always called each other "Professor Chi" and "Teacher Song". After a long time, Chi Ming changed their names accordingly.

Shen Danqing: "Of course they don't know yet."

"As a manager, you are very reliable." Chi Ming directly confiscated Shen Danqing's mobile phone, and asked his parents while calling, "What are you? Are you also a Phoenix? What color is it?"

Shen Danqing didn't answer, put away the dagger, and smoked the last cigarette.

The phone was connected there, and the professor and his wife were participating in a teaching support project in the mountain village of Yun Province, and the signal was not very good.

"Hello? Hello? Wait for me to change places. Okay, Mingming, is there anything wrong with calling so late? Teacher Song and I are already going to bed."

"Ah? It's so late." Chi Ming pretended casually, "I just finished my work and didn't check the time. It's nothing. The holidays are coming soon. May I ask what your arrangements are? Will you come back this year?"

"Oh, I'm sorry son, I forgot to tell you in advance. Teacher Song and I have decided to stay here for the festival. There is a village with interesting Chinese New Year customs. We plan to go and have a look at that time. Don't you need to film this year? How about going there together? Art comes from life, you have to read thousands of books, and you have to travel thousands of miles... Oh, wait a minute, Teacher Song will also say, you wait."

"How is the big star doing recently? A while ago in Qingshi Ancient Town, I told a little girl about you, and the little girl showed me your poster, which was very energetic. I also showed it to your dad, and he wanted to I'm learning from you to keep fit, and I'm practicing push-ups recently... Hey, okay, don't talk, don't talk, your father won't let you talk, since he said something elegant, I'll do something vulgar, how are you? Have you ever met? Nice little boy? I don't mean to urge you, just gossip for a while, don't look around just because you can't bear the loneliness, it's really not urging you, after all, you are such an old man, you must pay attention to safety, When will we meet in the future..."

"I've already met him, he's a very cute 'little boy'." Chi Ming's eyes suddenly swelled, he pressed twice hard, and managed to stabilize his emotions, "I'm fine, you and my dad should pay more attention to our health. "

Chi Ming tried to end this topic, but failed. His parents turned on the hands-free, and you talked to each other, and offered to serve as love counseling for Chi Ming. Chi Ming listened to the whole process, and occasionally responded with an "um" until the call was finally over. , He immediately wiped away the dazzling tears with his sleeve, and let out a long breath.

Shen Danqing didn't know what he was thinking before, but now he came back to his senses and said lightly: "Just pretend I didn't say what I said before."

Chi Ming grabbed him and said, "I'm ready."

"Parents, family, money and career, you really don't want them?"

This is a question that cannot be thought about carefully, Chi Ming brushed aside distracting thoughts, "What's the point, where is your knife?"

Shen Danqing looked at him for a moment, then suddenly smiled, and spread his palms, a vermilion feather floated in the flames, and then it was like a gust of red wind, blowing the flames into scattered debris.

Debris floated in the air, cutting out an area as tall as a person. The scene inside was dark and deep, with floating water glimmering faintly.

Shen Danqing pushed hard from behind, and Chi Ming staggered two steps, only to feel that his feet were empty, and when he came back to his senses, he had already returned to the boundary he had reached when he left the underworld.

Shen Danqing lightly landed beside him, she had already shed her disguise in the world, with long silver hair draped over her shoulders, and her eyes were blushing.

"Do you regret it? It's still too late."

"Don't talk nonsense, I still have a lot of questions for you." Chi Ming glanced at Shen Danqing, "Talk while walking."

Shen Danqing: "Don't ask, I will tell you the whole story."

He talked for a long time, starting from Xiaojiu's birth, until he passed away, and finally said: "A person with complete four souls can cross life and death, and you can go back to the human world at any time, while Xiaojiu...he just goes home when he returns to the underworld. In fact, there is no need to be so sad, sorry, what I said earlier is just testing you."

"I understand, but..." Chi Ming choked for a long time before digging out the words from his broken heart, "When he danced, he didn't know this."

Yan Jiu is just an ordinary person, who doesn't know that there is a soul after death, and doesn't know her identity in the underworld.

As long as he thought about this matter for a while, Chi Ming felt a thrilling shock in his chest, some emotions were about to explode at any time, so he could only try not to think about it, he deliberately changed the topic and asked Shen Danqing: "Are you Suzaku? The one who is very playful in the legend?"

Shen Danqing answered irrelevantly, "Yan Yufei and I, including Xiaojiu's elder brothers, we can only rely on our face to eat, we don't have much ability, we can't return the shattered soul, so you still have to face Xiaojiu and Yan Nine and two."

"You can't, what about Hades?"

"Of course he can, but I heard from Bai Wuchang that Yan Jun made a condition that Xiao Jiu forget everything about you and never see you again."

Chi Ming's heart felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer, but he quickly calmed down, and instead of answering, he only responded briefly.

The two stopped on the bank of the River of Forgetfulness, and there was a ferry in front of them, and it was hard to see how many boats there were in the smog.

Shen Danqing took the lead in choosing a boat, and when he got to the middle of the river, the bow of the boat suddenly shook, and a young man in a white robe bowed into the cabin, "Hello, Mr. Chi."

This person looks familiar, resembling Uncle Bai, but he is very young, in his early twenties at most, and is described as thin and handsome.

"You may have noticed that Uncle Bai is the identity I used when I was in the world." Bai Wuchang said, "Here, you can call me Bai Wuchang, or Lingmian... You can continue to call me Uncle Bai, because I The reason was a delay in time, and I couldn't find you in the underworld in time, and when I got the news, you had already left the underworld... Now that you are willing to come back, I am very grateful."

Chi Ming: "Do you know where Yan Jiu is?"

Bai Wuchang shook his head, "I only found His Highness Ninth Prince, Xiao Jiu, who was imprisoned at the bottom of Zhihui Lake on the lower eighth floor."

That is to say, I don't know where Yan Jiu is yet.

Chi Ming: "Okay, go to Zhihui Lake."

The River of Forgetfulness is the most important water system in the underworld, with many branches connecting the upper and lower nine floors. Along the way, Bai Wuchang stepped forward to pass through numerous checkpoints, and finally reached the last pass. Passing through it, is the Zhihui Lake with faint blue water.

Bai Wuchang showed his token, and the ghost officer on duty said please wait a moment, and left in a hurry.

Shen Danqing: "I have a bad feeling."

Bai Wuchang: "Yan Jun has an important meeting today, there should be no..."

Before the words were finished, the boat shook violently, the river channel was calm and the water was like a long stream, rolling to cover half of the sky.

A deep voice came through the water curtain, "Ling Mian, are you free today?"

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