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"Of course not!"

Qi'an was very close, his eyes were fixed on Mo Jinze's, if the apprentice dared to lie to him, he would definitely kick him off, what kind of carriage, just run behind the carriage.

"I..." Mo Jinze swallowed, still unable to speak.After staring at each other for a while, he turned his head with difficulty, looked at the back of the horse in front, and said, "Then get out of the way."

You can't push people too fast, Qi'an thought so.

"Okay," he said, retreating, and sat down on the other side of the carriage, "I'll get out of the way, and now I can talk."

"I……"

Qi'an waited for a long time, but still only waited for the word "I", without further words.Looking back, Mo Jinze was sweating profusely from the heat, and when he looked closely, his arms were still trembling slightly.

Prayer: "..."

Mo Jinze's anxiety and embarrassment could not be well conveyed to Qi'an. Qi'an couldn't ask anything, so he simply guessed randomly, trying to find an answer that was closest to the truth.

"Did the illusion let him see the great war 200 years ago again? Did he see Wei Xun rebelling in front of his eyes? Or...he experienced his family again..." Qi An began to wonder if he was pressing too hard , did not leave a buffer room for the apprentice.

Qi'an was silent for a while, he started, but didn't think about how to end it, wanted to ask but suddenly fell into a soft-hearted problem, if it was in the past, he would never be so sluggish.

Qi'an didn't speak, Mo Jinze "I" for a long time, and finally died down, no more sound, the atmosphere fell into an awkward stalemate in an instant, the only silence around was the sound of running horses and annoying cicadas.

Until the younger sisters woke up after returning to the cage, the two of them kept a strange silence.

When it was dark, Mo Jinze drove a carriage to this small town called Nanyang. The town is very small and there are few outsiders, so the people are more hospitable.

It didn't take much effort to rent a yard, Mo Jinze cooked, and Qi'an fed the horses one by one.

Mo Xiwen went to bathe Qi Pang, and Mo Shiqi ran out bored to play with their brother Mo An.

Qi'an has been very silent all the time, he doesn't tease Qi Fat, and doesn't play around, just stays in one place very quietly. When Mo Shiqi came out to look for him, the person he saw was silent, and it hasn't changed for a long time. Pass.

He didn't even notice that she had been standing by for a long time.

"Brother An?" Mo Shiqi called out tentatively.

It took a long time for Qi An to react, "Ah? What's wrong?"

"No, nothing."

Qi'an patted the seat beside her, "Shiqi, sit here."

Mo Shiqi sat down obediently, very obediently.

"You know... brother, he, uh, uh... Forget it, your brother cooks and you help out, Brother An will enjoy the sunset again." Qi'an was halfway through speaking, when he suddenly remembered that his sisters had already been reincarnated, He didn't know much more about this elder brother in his previous life than he did, and he didn't even know as much about those old things as he did, so it's better not to ask, so as not to add to them the troubles and hatred that should have dissipated with reincarnation long ago.

Mo Shiqi: "..."

It's a pity that Mo Shiqi is not Mo Xiwen, she is not a particularly obedient child, so she won't just let it go.

Mo Shiqi: "What's the matter, brother? Brother An, please tell me."

Qi'an didn't speak, and she continued: "Actually, I know it even if you don't tell me. When you first set off, you were injured in Merlin. After that, I felt that something was wrong with my brother. He was in a daze many times, and he would suddenly face the air for no reason. I’m sorry, and today’s sudden blushing is not normal, and it’s probably not the first time I’ve blushed.”

"Brother An, you're not right either,"

Qi'an's half-wandering mind drifted back, with a puzzled look on his face, "What's wrong with me?"

"You wouldn't be so dazed before. Basking in the sun is not the same state as wandering in the sky. You just used the sunset as an excuse. When I first met you, you would do whatever you wanted. You would take the rest of us to steal Uncle Wang's eggs, the fish in Boss Du's pond, although my brother will pay for these in the end..."

"Hey, don't I just do whatever I want now?"

"Cut," Mo Shiqi rolled her eyes at him boldly, "Later you were going to catch fish, but you would report it to your brother, and you will take us there after he agrees..."

Qi'an thought for a while, and it seemed that this was the case. He couldn't refute it, so he had to ask: "That's it? Is there anything else?"

"Uh... Let me think about it... That's right," Mo Shiqi said, "You used to sleep in one room and one bed, but now you all sleep separately. You see, my brother is renting a house today, and he specifically emphasized that he wants three rooms. My sister and I will definitely sleep together, she will cry when she sleeps alone, two cats, Fatty and Rourou, can't occupy the same room, they also sleep with us, that is your brother and your brother."

"..." Why didn't he notice this.

"Brother An? Why are you distracted again? ——Are you right?"

"What's right?" Qi'an jumped off the table, picked up Mo Shiqi, and pushed her back forward, "That's because there is no extra room at home, and it is very hard for two big men to squeeze together Don't think about it when you have nothing to do, go play with Fatty and the others, I'll go see your brother."

"Oh, I know."

Hearing what Shiqi said, Qi'an suddenly felt that the direction of his thinking was completely wrong. The illusion of the apprentice in the Plum Blossom Forest was not the past, not those painful experiences, but... him?

is it him?

What exactly did Mo Jinze see?

Qi'an abandoned the direction he was thinking before, and this time he tried to think about situations that could be related to him.Keeping asking the apprentice, it is very likely that if he can't ask, it will have the opposite effect, deepening his illusion, and he can only think about it by himself.

There was not enough water in the kitchen. Mo Jinze came out to fetch water with a bucket. He felt that someone was staring at him. He looked around suspiciously, and saw Qi'an's gloomy gaze, as if wishing he could carry a stick Come over and beat him up, goosebumps popped out involuntarily.

Qi'an really wanted to beat someone with a stick, so he started to grind his teeth involuntarily, for some reason he didn't do it in the end.In order to find out the illusion that Mei Lin set up for Mo Jinze, he went through every detail of the night when the two of them met for the first time in the Plum Blossom Forest twice, and some suspicious details even repeated four or five times.

When they met for the first time, he kicked him off the cliff. Did Merlin let his apprentice repeatedly experience the process of falling?

By the pond of Du Jun's house, he refused to eat the food he made, did Merlin really get poisoned after letting him eat it?

……

"What exactly is it?" Sitting too tired, Qi An simply lay down on the table, he thought of so many possibilities, and felt that the apprentice should not be so fragile, not to mention that Merlin gave him a dagger.

What was the dagger used for?Why does it hurt the thigh?

Half a year has passed, and in two or three months, plum blossoms will be in full bloom again.He has just started to pay attention to the matter of apprentices, and he feels strange, a little bit of self-blame and a little bit of other feelings that he can't explain.

Thinking and analyzing from beginning to end, looking for possible loopholes and traps, and even some of the possibilities have countermeasures.Qi'an decided to try one by one, anyway, he might not be able to find the illusion made by Merlin anyway.

After dinner and packing up in the evening, I discussed with my sisters and decided to stay in this Nanyang City for seven days, take a good rest, replenish winter clothes and food on the road, and then continue on my way.

After confirming, the younger sisters went to bed with Qi Fat and Qi Rou, Mo Jinze said good night to Qi An, and went into his room to get ready to rest.

Qi An also went back to his room, but he was not going to sleep, but took the pillow on the bed, opened the door and walked out.

He knocked on the door of his apprentice's room, and when Mo Jinze opened the door, he slipped in through the gap without saying a word, threw the pillow on the bed, and then lay sprawled on it, without taking off his clothes and shoes.

Mo Jinze smiled helplessly and helped him take off his shoes.

"Apprentice," Qi An said, "...I want to apologize to you."

Since he decided to try it, let’s start with the first possibility. Qi’an spent the whole night thinking about how to apologize to show his sincerity, but after entering the room, he forgot what he had thought, stumbled a bit, and finally gave up. There is only such a dry sentence.

Mo Jinze took off his clothes/halfway, from the time Qi An entered the room, he was in a very dazed and stiff state, even hearing the words, he didn't know the north, south, east, west...