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A fire broke out in the Town God's Temple, and the beams in the front hall and the back hall were destroyed. The fire was raging, and the talisman that Bai Qi had carved for the young apprentice was burned to ashes.

Bai Qi's engraving talisman in seal script was hung in front of the plaque in the apse. With this wooden plaque, Bai Zhun could be regarded as the adopted son of the City God.

Huo Zhenye didn't understand these things, but every temple has a stele of merit and virtue. He wished that Bai Zhun could live a long life. Not only would his name be engraved on the stele of merit and virtue, but when the main hall was built, the biography of the temple would also be engraved on the wall. will also be listed first.

In an instant, Bai Zhun's eyes and ears were all clear, wherever he looked, Bai Yang was three steps away from him.

Axiu's eyes didn't move, but the emotion in her eyes flashed away. She fixed her eyes on the mirror and looked at Xu Yanwen in the mirror.

Xu Yanwen was clear in his heart, but his hands, feet and mouth didn't listen to him. He didn't know why he walked into Cen Dan, why he talked to Cen Dan.

It seemed to be another person, pulling his tongue, he heard his own voice saying: "Miss Cen, can I ask you to go for a walk in the park?"

Cen Dan thought he had something important to say, she was also in charge of the orphanage's donations, followed behind Xu Yanwen, forced a smile: "Christmas fundraising is still very successful, there are already several wives who are willing to sponsor orphans to study."

Xu Yanwen wanted to speak, but he couldn't speak by himself. He watched helplessly as he stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to hold Miss Cen.

Cen Dan was taken aback. She took half a step back and stared at Xu Yanwen. She was not shy, but a little frightened: "Doctor Xu, what's wrong with you?"

Xu Yanwen felt the corners of his mouth being pulled up. He paused every word, trying to resist the invisible hand with his tongue, but he still said: "I like you very much, do you want to be with me?"

Cen Dan stood still, she had a feeling of being tricked, her face flushed with anger, "Doctor Xu, please respect yourself." Even if she had a crush on Xu Yanwen, it disappeared completely at this moment.

Xu Yanwen was still laughing, he approached slowly, trying to ask Cen Dan for help with his eyes, but his actions only made Cen Dan want to turn around and run away.

Cen Dan quickly looked around, looking for someone to help her, Dr. Xu is not normal!

It just snowed last night, and the snow in Shanghai couldn’t hold up, and it turned into water as soon as it hit the ground. The ground was wet, and when the wind blew, it was like fine needles pricking people’s bones. There were no tourists in the park at all.

The moment Cen Dan turned to run away, a red butterfly lightly landed on her shoulder, got into the coat, and clung to the back of her neck.

Cen Dan didn't move, she turned around like a puppet, suddenly lifted her neck, and looked at Xu Yanwen.

Each can see fear in the other's eyes.

"I've always liked Dr. Xu too." Tears welled up in Cen Dan's eyes, she understood that Xu Yanwen just now experienced the same thing as she now.

Her neck was stiff and she raised her feet and walked straight towards Xu Yanwen.

Xu Yanwen raised his arms, and the two embraced intimately in the most rigid posture.

Then their heads were pulled away, and the invisible hands seemed to adjust an angle, gently twisting their necks, nose to nose, lips to lips.

Cen Dan's body trembled and wept desperately, while Xu Yanwen's chest heaved and his face was flushed.

But no one passed by in the surrounding area, only the wind-blown yellow leaves fell on the lake.

Axiu stared straight at the mirror, and when their lips were about to meet, Axiu silently shouted, "Stop!"

The bronze mirror vibrated violently a few times, then fell over with a "snap", the mirror covered the table, and the images of the two people in the bronze mirror disappeared.

Bai Yang narrowed his eyes and smiled, with his hands behind his back, he looked at Axiu with a loving expression: "I'm not trying to harm him either, he's not feeling well recently, right?"

Axiu nodded after a long while, she coughed and rubbed her arms together, signaling that Bai Zhun was afraid of the cold due to coughing.Then he put his hands next to his ears and closed his eyes.

Tell Bai Yang that Bai Zhun sleeps too much these days.

Calculating the time, Bai Yang found that it was almost the same time. If Bai Zhun hadn't been deceived, why would he use this roundabout method? Fortunately, Xu Yanwen's game was laid early.

"Wait until you go out, go to the air vent to blow off the smell on your body before going back."

Axiu lowered her head and rubbed the tip of her nose with her index finger, indicating that Bai Zhun could no longer smell it.

Bai Yang was even more anxious, he already had human bones, the human skin had to be peeled while he was still alive, the skin that was peeled alive could last longer.

He killed so many people, tried every method, passively seized, actively sacrificed, but it didn't last long.

The human skin will dry out, and after a long time, he will be like a paper pricked man in the rain again. The paper skin close to his body is wrinkled and yellowed. He doesn't want to change back to his previous appearance.

Now that all the methods have been tried, let's try the bones and the skin of the seven masters.

Bai Qi's body had decayed, leaving only the skeleton. This bone frame was really useful. The human skin, which could only be used for one or two years, took seven years of careful maintenance.

Bai Zhun's legs and feet are not good. Although his bones are useless, his skin is still young.

The two seven sect masters were all used by him, and Bai Yangguang was imagining it, so he was extremely happy. He is a spiritual creature of heaven and earth, so what if he was originally a paper man, or just playing with the paper man in the applause!

Bai Yang had just been complacent for a moment, when he heard a soft "poof" sound between his leg bones, his face suddenly changed color, and he said to A Xiu: "Hurry up and bring me the incense of life, I promise to make you a human being."

As soon as Axiu left the small courtyard, Bai Yang locked himself in the room, he took off his long gown, his body under the cloth robe could no longer hold up the clothes, and there was another hole between his legs.

Bai Yang simply took off his clothes, opened the box, took out a piece of blood-stained human skin from the box, twisted off a piece of human skin, and stuck it to the hole in his body.

Sunlight came in through the window and shone into the holes in his skin, like holes in a rockery, the light spots pierced through the bones and reflected on the white wall.

Axiu didn't go home immediately, she ran as soon as she went out.

"Axiu" Bai Zhun called her in her head.

But Axiu didn't care about it, and ran all the way to the park, which was the park Xu Yanwen took her to. He also said that in summer, they could go boating on the lake together.

Axiu ran into the garden, looked around, and saw a dusty shadow on a park bench, she rushed forward and saw Cen Dan sitting there.

Cen Dan was still shaking. She wrapped her coat tightly and wanted to leave, but she had no strength at all. She cried loudly into the winter lake water, she was too scared.

Axiu patted her, Cen Dan looked up, she recognized Axiu, her teeth trembled: "He's gone."

She was already able to move according to her heart, but Xu Yanwen hadn't. He walked away slowly step by step, and there seemed to be a lot of words in his eyes when he left, but he couldn't make a sound.

"What exactly is that? Where will it take Dr. Xu?" Cen Dan looked at Axiu, hoping she could answer her.

Axiu was stunned, how could Bai Yang let Xu Yanwen go as a hostage?He detained Xu Yanwen, and had to exchange his life for incense.

Suddenly a yellow bird landed on a dead tree branch, with its wings behind its back, its black eyes stared at Axiu.

Bai Zhun's voice reached Axiu's ears, "Axiu, come back"

Axiu stopped in her tracks, raised her head, looked at the wee bird on the branch with pleading eyes, and silently begged Bai Zhun to save Xu Yanwen.

"You...why are you... laughing?" With someone by her side, Cen Dan slowly came to her senses. She couldn't stop sobbing. Seeing that Axiu was still laughing when she encountered such a thing, she was startled and doubtful, and her whole body was hairy. .

The corners of Axiu's mouth were still raised, she was shocked by Cen Dan's question and took half a step back, Cen Dan was controlled by Xue Die, her body couldn't control herself, but at least she could still cry.

Axiu didn't even cry.

She stepped back step by step, backing to the edge of the lake. When the cold wind blew, a line of birds flew by the edge of the lake.Axiu blinked her eyes, no matter how many times she blinked, there was no trace of wetness in her eye sockets, the eyes were still the same as the day Bai Zhun finished her eyes, the light was painted on.

When Huo Zhenye came home, he saw Bai Zhun sitting by the fire. He heard his footsteps, but he didn't turn his head. He took a few steps forward and saw that Bai Zhun was frowning, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?"

Bai Zhun put his hand on his heart, and exhaled slowly.

"Your heart is not feeling well?"

Bai Zhun shook his head: "It's not me." It was Axiu, he never knew that the paper doll would have such grief, and it hit him like a tide.

But he didn't cut off the contact, but said to Axiu: "Xu Yanwen will be fine, the four sect masters will follow him."

The four sect masters are the most loyal, and they have to repay each drip, not to mention Xu Yanwen gave him a blood transfusion, and he couldn't protect Xu Yanwen every day, so he sent his younger brother Akun to follow.

Akun was only fourteen years old, he was young and smart, and he was a new face in the gang, so he was not easy to be discovered and caused trouble for Xu Yanwen.

From that day on, Akun followed Xu Yanwen every day, watching him go to work from Xu's house in the morning, seeing him home in the evening, seeing the lights in his room turned on, and Akun went back to Suzhou Creek and got into the boat tent to rest.

Xu Yanwen was dating in the park, Ah Kun was hiding behind a tree across the lake, he clicked his tongue, isn't this Dr. Xu with Bai Qiye's sister?Why is there another Miss Cen?

Akun planned to go back and tell the sect master that Mr. Xu was kind to the sect master, and Bai Qiye was also kind, and he was still his own.

Some people in the gang also begged their brothers and sisters to be their daughter-in-laws. If they bullied their wives, they would have to be punished with swords and axes.

Although Ah Kun was young, he still knew this truth. Seeing that the two were about to kiss, he covered his eyes, loosened his fingers, and peeked through them.

Miss Cen is also a bit pretty.

When the two wanted to kiss but didn't kiss together, Ah Kun sighed in disappointment, and then saw Miss Cen sitting down and crying bitterly, and Mr. Xu strode away from the park.

Ah Kun's task was to keep a close eye on Mr. Xu, so he naturally left Ms. Cen behind and followed Xu Yanwen.

Ah Kun found it strange that he followed Mr. Xu every day, and Mr. Xu's actions were very boring. He lived in the Bai mansion in the hospital orphanage, or he was dating Miss Bai.

How could he come here? Ah Kun followed closely and saw Xu Yanwen turned into a narrow alley.

Akun stared at it for a while. He didn't pay attention to the crowd just now. When Xu Yanwen was with Cen Dan, Akun was not concentrating again. Now he felt something was wrong.

Mr. Xu...why does he look like a puppet?

A gust of cold draft blew off the scarf around Xu Yanwen's neck, but he didn't even turn his head and kept walking straight ahead. Akun saw a red butterfly lying on the back of his neck at a glance.

Where are the red butterflies in this winter?

Ah Kun sniffed, seeing no one around, ran up to pat Xu Yanwen: "Mr. Xu, you..."

Xu Yanwen has been looking forward to meeting acquaintances along the way, classmates and colleagues are good, as long as someone can find his abnormality, but no one pays attention to him along the way.

Seeing that Xu Yanwen's footsteps still didn't stop, Ah Kun grabbed Xu Yanwen. He had a lot of strength for practicing the sword, but when he pulled it, he felt that something was wrong. Xu Yanwen had feet, and it seemed that he couldn't stop.

Akun rolled his eyes, held down Xu Yanwen, and tore off the butterfly attached to his neck.

Tear it in half and throw it with the wind.

Xu Yanwen collapsed on the ground, he was panting, and finally he could make his own voice with his tongue: "Thank you, you are..."

The paper butterfly that was torn in two and thrown on the ground flew up and stabbed Xu Yanwen hard with its tentacles.

Axiu was far away in the park, she only felt that something was leaving her body, she stopped in her tracks.

When she started to move again, Bai Zhun felt the surging emotion subside in an instant, he frowned, and directed Huang Que: "Go, see Xu Yanwen."

Ajiu flapped his wings and flew away, standing on the light pole and saw Akun being arrested by the police.

Ah Kun couldn't tell: "I really saw this gentleman passed out and wanted to send him to the hospital."

The policeman took his baton and poked Akun hard: "Little Chi, are you stealing this gentleman's wallet?"

Xu Yanwen was already awake. He stood there in a daze, staring blankly at the street, not knowing why he was standing here.

He seems to have forgotten a very important person, a very important thing.