I bent the devil

The room was silent.

Song Zhishang stood there and stared at Mrs. Nangong who was seated again for a long time. Those extremely similar cat eyes communicated in the air, as if they were fighting against each other.After a while, he spoke calmly, but his voice seemed a bit hollow in this room so quiet that he could even hear his own breathing.

"Mother... what do you mean?"

Mrs. Nangong looked at Song Zhishang quietly, and after a while, she slowly drew the corners of her mouth into a hideous and weird smile.After a moment of silence, he spoke quietly. "...Didn't you already guess it?"

Relying on Song Zhishang's current strength and cultivation, he can be sure that in this room, to be precise, there is another breathing sound behind the screen where his mother is sitting, but that breathing is so weak that it seems that it will die in the next second. .

Mao Tong seldom wandered for a moment, and finally couldn't help but flashed past Mrs. Nangong's half-smile. Just after seeing the scene behind the screen, his pupils shrank rapidly, his scalp was numb and his whole body was cold, and he couldn't even see it. Controlled began to tremble slightly.Mrs. Nangong's giggling after seeing her son showing such an expression was in her ears, which gradually increased until she finally laughed wildly.

However, while she was laughing wildly with her head up, tears slipped from the corners of her eyes into her temples, and disappeared in an instant, and it was impossible to know whether the tears were cold or hot.

Song Zhishang stood there, as if he didn't hear Mrs. Nangong's smile, he just stared at the thing behind the screen, and at the same time, he felt a string in his heart suddenly break.

"I have to do this!" Mrs. Nangong glared angrily at her son who didn't even look at her, stared at him firmly, and said her reasons angrily.The voice was high and piercing, as if whoever had the louder voice was more reasonable.

But no one here is arguing with her about right and wrong.

"He doesn't want to leave the Song Family Fort to you at all!" Mrs. Nangong approached quickly, grabbed Song Zhishang's elbows with both hands and tried to hold Song Zhishang to face her, staring at the pair of eyes that were almost identical to hers, Word for word. "Zhishang, you trust me. I do all this for you."

Song Zhishang opened his eyes slightly and looked at the woman in front of him who was obviously good-looking but turned hideous because of her current expression, and suddenly felt very strange.

... This person is his mother?Is it... Is there a mistake?This person... is so strange...

"Zhishang? Zhishang!" Mrs. Nangong tightly grasped the elbows of Song Zhishang's hands, so hard that her fingernails sunk in deeply. When she couldn't get a response, she shook Song Zhishang, and finally held his hands Face, let him look at himself and listen to himself. "Eight years ago, when that beast came back, I knew something was wrong."

Mrs. Nangong paused, her eyes inspected Song Zhishang's still hollow and numb face, and then she continued to speak. "When you went to the martial arts conference together, I overheard him saying that he would hand over the property of Huaicheng to Song Qingyi! Not you Zhishang! Even...even..." She thought in a panic After thinking about it, he turned his head again to look at Song Zhishang and continued to speak.

"Even! I heard him mention Songjiabao!"

Maoyan, who had been slightly confused all this time, finally looked at Mrs. Nangong as if he had come to his senses, and his eyes were finally clearer.Song Zhishang spoke hoarsely. "Mother... what did you say?"

"You are my son Zhishang, the only relative I have in this world." Mrs. Nangong stubbornly said what she wanted to say to him as if she didn't hear Song Zhishang's words.Eagerly holding his face, as if he wanted to pour all the words into Song Zhishang's mind.

"He actually thinks that bastard is his favorite heir of Songjiabao, as if he completely forgot that you are the young master of Songjiabao who has been called for more than ten years.... Don't worry, Zhishang, these ..." Mrs. Nangong waved vigorously to one side, her wide sleeves drew an arc in the air, like a moth spreading its wings, and looked at Song Zhishang with a good glance, as if asking for credit. "You see, all these have been solved by my mother."

"In this world, only mother is the one who is wholeheartedly for you."

"Now, you just need to get rid of that beast, and that Falling Heaven Palace! Even in the world!... You are not Zhishang who can't think about it." Mrs. Nangong looked at Song Zhishang, her eyes widening.The corners of the eyes even showed a little pink flesh color, which looked like blood and tears that were stubbornly not shed in the eyes.

"Zhishang...you will get everything, these...all are yours, no one...no one! I can't compete with you!"

"...Nobody can."

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When Gu Jiu returned to the City Lord's Mansion, he habitually wandered to Song Qingyi's small study room as usual. Even though he knew that he might still be invisible as before, it was good to just stand outside from a distance.

But he didn't expect that as soon as he walked to the door of the small courtyard, the people in the study seemed to have thought that he would come, and opened the window from the inside with a creak, feeling that the person he hadn't seen for a long time was here. Standing in front of the window, he waved to him with a smile.

Gu Jiu couldn't help but look around first, to make sure there was no one else around, pointed his index finger at his nose, looked at Song Qingyi and nodded with a smile, then couldn't help but open his mouth and smirked and walked forward quickly .

After watching him approach, the person inside closed the window, and opened it from the inside when Gu Jiu just stepped on the stone steps, and offered it to him with a smile.Gu Jiu smiled at him, and naturally put his hand on his palm, allowing him to pull him into the room.

When Song Qingyi turned around and embraced Gu Jiu, the door of the study closed spontaneously, isolating all the hustle and bustle of the outside world.

There are no fierce kisses, and no hugs after a long absence.Gu Jiu and Song Qingyi's hug at this time is relaxed, serene and full of warmth.But just like this, it made the two of them feel extremely happy and peaceful.

"I miss you so much." In the long hug, Song Qingyi slowly spoke against Gu Jiu's temples, her voice was low and hoarse, smiling and slightly relaxed.

Gu Jiu smiled slightly, but slowly smoothed Song Qingyi's back with his hands, as if smoothing the hair of a small animal that was slightly depressed.The two were speechless again, but they didn't feel embarrassed at all, and even missed the silence at this moment.This reminded Gu Jiu of the hugs he got during this period of time when he was half asleep and half awake, and he was finally sure that those were not dreams in the feeling of being sober at this moment.

He couldn't help but let out a long breath and sighed.The tip of her nose couldn't help rubbing against Song Qingyi's shoulder, unconsciously carrying a hint of coquettishness. "...I don't know when it will end. All of this."

The next moment he felt the difference in Song Qingyi's breath, as if he was hesitating, he couldn't help but push him away slightly, and looked at him. "how?"

Song Qingyi pondered for a while, and said to him, 'Come on. After that, I took his hand and walked to the desk to let him sit down, while I sat on the side. During this process, I never let go of Gu Jiu's hand, and even held it in my hand after both of them sat down. The thumb rubbed slightly, as if thinking about how to speak.

"What?" Song Qingyi didn't ask until Gu Jiu asked again.

"The next thing...is not as simple as it seems on the surface. These people...should have been poisoned by Gu poison."

"Gu poison?" Gu Jiu frowned. "Toxic symptoms like wind and cold?"

Song Qingyi nodded slowly, "The person who injected this kind of poison is a person who disappeared in the Jianghu 30 years ago. He is called 'Ghost Doctor'."

"He disappeared 30 years ago, so he appeared this time for revenge?" Gu Jiu immediately frowned and looked at Song Qingyi, "Could it be that Song Zhishang came here to deal with you?"

"It's not like that." Song Qingyi said after thinking for a while, "But... I don't think it's completely unrelated. Although there are indeed people who have persisted for no reason recently, it is true that only Huaicheng has been severely injured in the end. But if these are all Song Zhishang did it purely for the sake of Huaicheng, but he couldn't justify it."

Gu didn't speak for a while, just quietly listening to Song Qingyi slowly speaking to him, and at the same time sorting out himself.

"After all, if he was in collusion with the ghost doctor, it would be impossible for him to appear in Huaicheng. Even if he wanted to use this method to clear the suspicion that he is not a murderer, he would not use this method." Gu Jiu said. Before, Song Qingyi finished speaking with a smile. "And the most important thing is that some of the people who disappeared before belonged to Song Zhishang. Even if they wanted to deal with me, they would not use this self-destructive method."

Well, Gu Baba shrugged. In terms of conspiracy and tricks, he, the so-called modern person who should be more 'smart', actually can't play with the so-called ancient people in many cases.Especially when the other party is already good at tricks, there is no need to make random suspicions.

"But..." Song Qingyi frowned slightly.The movement of rubbing his thumb on the back of Gu Jiu's hand also slowed down, and he looked at Gu Jiu again. "...I seem to have seen Doctor Ghost when I was young."

"You?" Gu Jiu was startled, turned his hand and grabbed his hand, "When? Was it during my absence? He came for you?"

All of a sudden, Gu Jiu's mind flashed medicine man, yang body, etc., and even dreamed up an evil doctor who fell in love with Song Qingyi's intelligence, so he did everything possible to let him inherit his mantle , but Song Qingyi dismissed it, and always avoided it by relying on his superb martial arts.

Finally angered Doctor Ghost, he decided to use the names of all the people in Huaicheng as a threat to force Song Qingyi to succumb.

"The time you threw me over the waterfall." Song Qingyi paused, pursed her thin lips and continued. "He picked me up."

The long and straight eyelashes were slightly retracted, and after a while, they were raised again to look at Gu Jiu. "I remember that there were more than one child who followed him at that time. They seemed to be little beggars. Although they were thin, they were not sick, but they would always disappear after a while."

"He always said that those people couldn't bear the hardship and ran away, but even if it was hard, they still had half a piece of food every day, and being a beggar might not have any food for several days in a row. But at that time I didn't really care. Clear. So I also believe his words."

Gu Jiu stretched out his other hand silently, and held Song Qingyi's with both hands, as if giving him strength and warmth, even though the person in front of him was actually many times stronger than him, and even if he had accomplished martial arts in martial arts, almost no one It can be rivaled, but it still makes Gu Jiu want to warm him up and give him strength at this time.

Song Qingyi seemed to understand Gu Jiu's meaning, after a slight smile, he leaned forward to touch the forehead of the neighbor sitting next to him, closed his eyes and remained silent for a moment, before pulling away and speaking again.It's just that both his tone and demeanor have been withdrawn from the shadow of his gloomy childhood just now.

"He seems to...do some more experiments. I saw the lights in his room one night, and out of curiosity, I leaned into the crack of the door and looked in."

"All I saw was a child stripped naked on a smooth wooden table with fluted edges and a slight slope. There was an exit at the end facing me, and a large wooden table was placed underneath. pot."

From Song Qingyi's description, Gu Jiu thought of a possibility that was close to the truth, and couldn't help but clenched Song Qingyi's hands.But gritted his teeth and didn't stop him from speaking.

For some things, it's better to say it than to stink and ferment it all the time.

"I guessed some of the latter." Song Qingyi smiled, "So I ran away that night."

"En." Gu Jiu leaned over, lightly Song Qingyi's gray sideburns, and said to him, and at the same time said to the young little Qingyi who was accidentally left behind by him. "Our Tsing Yi is awesome."

Song Qingyi smiled slightly, and also leaned over to kiss Gu Jiu's forehead, and then said with a smile. "It's all from when I was young, so it's not worth mentioning."

Gu Jiu squeezed his hand, and said seriously when Song Qingyi looked back. "I want to know."

Song Qingyi looked at Gu Jiu with a serious face.

"When I'm not here, I want to know everything that happened to you, so..." Gu Jiu smiled slightly, "I will give Tsing Yi a hug at that time and tell him. 'My Tsing Yi is great.' "

Song Qingyi looked at Gu Jiu, feeling like falling in love with him again, and pressed his forehead against his, before closing his eyes slightly and whispering softly after a while.

"…Well. I'll tell you. All of it."

Like you never left.

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"I called everyone back because I just found out about something." Song Zhishang sat at the head and looked at everyone with a smile.

"I don't know what's important for the young castle master?" After all the sect masters glanced at each other, a certain person asked as a representative.

"At this time..." Song Zhishang paused, took a deep breath after glancing at the deputy leader beside him, and continued. "Zhishang is only a little longer than everyone knows. If you really care about it, it will be chaotic, but it's not just a family matter. After all, it also involves you and the entire martial arts world, so...even if today will cause Song Jiabao to lose his reputation in the future, he has to. explain."

Song Zhishang looked at everyone. "This incident is not just the work of the ghost doctor alone,... my elder brother, Song Qingyi, the lord of Huaicheng City, is also inseparable."

"what?"

"It's impossible!" The only one who said it was impossible was the deputy leader. Even though he had been under the brilliance of Song Yi, the leader of the martial arts, he was almost inconspicuous all the year round, but it didn't mean that he was incompetent. It could even be said that Putting him among many sect masters and heads, he is still the one who stands out.

It's just that sometimes it depends on who you compare with.

So after he opened his mouth to veto, it made everyone temporarily quiet from the original discussion and looked at him.This scene made Song Zhishang's fingers on the armrest of the wooden chair couldn't help tapping a few more times.

"Young castle master, and everyone." The deputy leader said to the people present. "It is well known that my martial arts league and the city lord of Huaicheng have almost never had any contact, but for so many years, the old man has also seen everything he has done. I have never done anything that makes people frown, less Castle Master." He turned his head to look at Song Zhishang, "So there...is there any misunderstanding?"

Sigh.It overflowed from Song Zhishang's mouth.After looking at the deputy leader, and then at the crowd, he said, "I didn't intend to talk about this at first. But it's over now..."

"Father...it's not that he's unwell all these years, but that he's been poisoned by a poison similar to Huaicheng."

Awkward.

"This poison." Song Zhishang looked at the crowd again and said. "...It was selected eight years ago."

Eight years ago, to put it this way, Song Qingyi had just returned to Songjiabao, and the owner of Songjiabao had already begun to be poisoned.After thinking about it carefully, even the deputy leader became suspicious, but he still asked Song Zhishang, with a bit of blame in his tone. "Master Shao, can this old man meet Lord Song? Why have you never heard of this matter before?"

"Because I just learned about it." Song Zhishang replied, without any grievance or resentment because of the accusation in the deputy leader's tone, this kind of demeanor made people feel good. "Father only woke up after being poisoned, but he felt that he owed his elder brother a lot, so he only told his mother. Even his 'Yizihu' was blocked from taking revenge. He even found out a long time ago... …When I was in Qingyang County, my elder brother actually had a deal with Doctor Ghost.”

There is no need to elaborate on what the deal is. After all, Song Yi was the owner of the No. [-] castle in the world, and he was also the leader of the Wulin League at that time.

"Father still hopes that elder brother can stop, so he gave him all the property in Huaicheng, hoping that he can manage it well. Even if he leaves Songjiabao... he will have his own way. It's a pity that he finally disappointed his father. That's why my mother went to Liangshan with my father."

The cause and effect are interlocking, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Everyone had to be convinced.

"That's why we called everyone back this time...in fact, it's also for tomorrow's business." Song Zhishang looked at the crowd and said. "Father wants to give eldest brother a chance to be together again, but if it still doesn't work... I also ask everyone to lend a helping hand for the justice of martial arts."

As soon as the words fell, Song Zhishang naturally saw the hesitation on everyone's faces, smiled in his heart, and slowly again. "Father learned that the reason why my elder brother has this kind of martial arts now is entirely because of the ghost doctor. By chance, I got the martial arts secret book of the ninth son, and gave it to my elder brother as a sincerity for revenge..."

"Wait!" The head of a certain faction interrupted Song Zhishang, his eyes flickered, and the eyes of others were also full of ambition, "Young castle master, you are talking about... the 'Ninth Young Master'?"

"In this world, there used to be only one Ninth Young Master."

"Such a major event in the martial arts world, we naturally cannot ignore it, Young Castle Lord, I will follow your arrangements tomorrow!"

"Yes! Listen to your arrangement."

The fire was finally set up.