worthless [rebirth]

I don't know if it was because of the sweltering weather or because Jiang Chi wasn't around. This night, Chen Ling couldn't sleep well, tossing and turning in bed, feeling faintly uneasy, always feeling that something big was about to happen.

Jiang Chi went to the Xiao family ancestral hall to inquire about the news and has not returned yet, so he doesn't know what the situation is and whether he will be discovered.Chen Ling regretted that he didn't go with Jiang Chi just now. Although he couldn't help much, he still knew how to look after the wind. The two of them still had a support.

But after thinking about it, if he really needed to do something, the two moves he did would probably hold Jiang Chi back, so he was a little glad that he didn't follow him.

The more you think about it, the more chaotic you become.Chen Ling hugged the thin quilt and turned it over a few times. It was almost four o'clock. He felt that he might have insomnia tonight. At least he would definitely not be able to sleep until Jiang Chi came back safely. When insomnia, lying down is better than sitting Feeling bad, he simply lifted the quilt and got out of bed to find something to do.

"Squeak-"

When Chen Ling was halfway up, there was a slight knock on the door. He suddenly raised his head and saw Jiang Chi closing the door softly.At that moment, Chen Ling felt inexplicably relieved. He jumped out of the bed and ran forward barefoot, saying, "You're back, Chi!"

"Hush—" Jiang Chi turned around and made a silent movement, noticing that Chen Ling's eyes were clear and bright, not like he just woke up, he couldn't help but froze for a moment, moved his gaze down, and saw the other's bare feet .

Chen Ling hadn't realized that he ran over without his shoes on. It wasn't until Jiang Chi stared at him that he followed his gaze and noticed his feet. "That..." Stepping on the instep of his left foot with his right foot, Chen Ling lowered his head and rubbed it uneasily, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to get in, and said softly like a mosquito: "What's the situation..."

"Although the weather is hot now, the ground is still very cold. Let's go back to bed and talk about it." Jiang Chi said calmly, and hugged Chen Ling horizontally as he spoke, but he didn't use this to tease Chen Ling, and he didn't even have any unnecessary expressions .

Chen Ling was obviously worried about his safety, so he didn't sleep until now. He should have been happy to see Jiang Chi, but now he was suddenly upset.Chen Ling had never said the word "love" to him once, and was even a little afraid of him. Jiang Chi had always known that there was a gap between the two of them, but he didn't know how to get rid of it.

Originally, after these few days of getting along, Chen Ling seemed to have let go of many grievances, not only comforting him, but also cooking for him, so Jiang Chi thought that barrier no longer existed.

Until tonight before going to the Xiao family's ancestral hall, Chen Ling's silence finally brought Jiang Chi back to reality.Chen Ling was still the original Chen Ling, and the other party had never accepted him sincerely.In other words, it was Chen Ling who forced himself not to accept him, and that barrier would still exist in Chen Ling's heart for a long time.

Chen Ling didn't know if he was a little too sensitive. He always felt that Jiang Chi, who was holding him, suddenly became a little gloomy, but he didn't look like he was angry, so he tentatively called his name and said, : "Achi, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Chi shook his head, suppressing the previous irritability, thinking that maybe he was impatient and shouldn't push people too hard.Putting Chen Ling back on the bed, he took off his night clothes, put the clothes away, and then dimmed the wick, went back to the bed and lay down, and said, "I went to see, and there really is no spirit seat for Xiao Tong in the ancestral hall."

"So Cao Xun really lied at the beginning?" Chen Ling lay beside Jiang Chi, resting his chin in one hand thoughtfully, "But...why did he lie, and Xiao Yu also has white hair It looks like a black-haired person..."

"Is this difficult for you?" Jiang Chi glanced at Chen Ling's troubled look, couldn't help laughing, and said, "If I tell you that I saw Wang Anzhi in the ancestral hall tonight, do you want to see Wang Anzhi?" Have you thought about it?" As he spoke, he stretched out a finger and poked Chen Ling's forehead.

There was a pain between his eyebrows, Chen Ling grinned, rubbed his head and gave Jiang Chi a look. He wanted to hit him back with a tooth for a tooth, but when he heard Jiang Chi say that Wang Anzhi appeared in Xiao's mansion, his reason overcame his impulse.He held back his resentment for a while, pouted his mouth and said unhappily: "Did Wang Anzhi come to the Xiao Mansion to search for the people's fat and oil?"

"It is true that they came to find Xiao Yu to get something." Jiang Chi said seriously: "But contrary to what you said, the relationship between them does not seem to be pure merchants and officials. It stands to reason that Wang Anzhi imprisoned Xiao Tong. In the prison, Xiao Wang should be hostile to him, but what I heard is that the two of them cooperated, and Wang Anzhi even handed some important things to Xiao Wang for safekeeping, and hid them in the ancestral hall."

"What, the ancestral hall?" Chen Ling was surprised, and said, "Only the head of the family and the patriarch can enter the place like the ancestral hall except when offering sacrifices. Xiao Yu hides things in it clearly to hide."

"Telling people is no longer called hiding." Jiang Chi said indifferently: "In order to prevent outsiders from entering, Xiao Yu even tampered with the lampstand, so I was almost discovered."

"Are you okay?" Hearing Jiang Chi said that he was almost discovered, Chen Ling's heart ached again, and he looked Jiang Chi up and down for fear that the other party might get hurt.

"..." After a moment of silence, Jiang Chi moved his arms, raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you think I have something to do?"

Chen Ling smiled, turned over and lay down on his side, looked at Jiang Chi's sharp side face, and said, "Ah Chi, I don't know why...I always feel that tonight will not pass so peacefully, you say...Cao When Xun Lai told you that Xiao Tong was not dead when he was drinking, did he tell the truth after drinking or was he not drunk at all and did it on purpose?"

"Did you hear what Steward Li said to Cao Xun when he first entered Xiao's mansion during the day?" Jiang Chi said.

Chen Ling asked, "Which sentence?"

"Steward Li reminded Cao Xun not to mention Xiao Tong in front of Xiao Yu, lest he be sad. Now that I think about it, whether Xiao Tong's spiritual tablet has been sent to the ancestral hall, even if the other servants in the mansion don't know, as the housekeeper, he should know Yes. But he told Cao Xun in front of us, as if..."

"It's as if he wanted to tell us on purpose." Chen Ling interjected, "Not only Steward Li, but also Xiao Yu, when we saw him during the day, he was already terminally ill, but during the banquet at night, he was mostly healed. "

"I'm afraid it's not that most of the illness has recovered, but that it's not sick at all." Jing Chenling reminded, thinking that Xiao Yu's voice in the ancestral hall was so angry that it didn't look like he was sick at all, Jiang Chi suddenly realized something, he sat up , frowning and looking at Chen Ling said: "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time, get up and tidy up, and you can go to Yuelai Inn to find Qiu Suo as soon as the sun is up."

"Huh?" Chen Ling got up and asked, "What about you?"

"I..." Just as Jiang Chi was about to say something, there was a commotion outside the house, and the light from the torches illuminated the night sky, shining through the thin window paper.

Someone shouted: "It's not good, someone died!"

Chen Ling thumped in his heart, and looked up at Jiang Chi, only to see that under the light of the jumping fire outside the window, his expression was a bit dark.

"It's late, it seems that none of us can leave." Jiang Chi said to Chen Ling, but there was a cold and cruel smile on his face.

Staring blankly at Jiang Chi at this moment, Chen Ling couldn't calm down the turmoil in his heart for a long time.He knew that the former Jiang Chi had returned.Although it wasn't aimed at himself this time, he was still afraid from the bottom of his heart.

Noticing that Chen Ling's face was pale, Jiang Chi took his hands and clasped them tightly, the coldness in his eyes faded a bit, and said softly, "It's okay, I'm here."

Chen Ling trembled instinctively. Just as he was about to shake off Jiang Chi's hand, he met Jiang Chi's gentle and comforting gaze, and restrained that thought with reason.What happened to me just now, why did I forget that Jiang Chi in front of me was not the one who could only abuse himself, and wanted to break free.If you really do that, the other party will be sad.Holding Jiang Chi's hand back, Chen Ling nodded and said, "Yes!"

The voice outside the door was getting louder, and someone was shouting that the body had been carried out.Jiang Chi and Chen Ling got out of bed, opened the door, and saw that the deceased was none other than Cao Xun!