Enter Chang Xiangsi and help Jingzhai fight

"Brother Qian, you asked me to help, but you didn't say you wanted to kill anyone. I will charge a different price for killing someone. Besides, if it weren't for my help, how would you know where the Tushan family's secret guards are, and how could things be so smooth tonight?" Gui Fangduan looked at Gui Fangqian and said with a smile.

Then he turned around, his eyes fell on our overlapping sleeves, and his smile froze.

Gui Fangqian snorted coldly and said, "Although this spirit-eliminating powder is useful, the effectiveness varies with different spiritual powers. To avoid any more trouble, I advise you to kill them as soon as possible. Otherwise, if you fail in your mission, your grandfather will blame us and punish us again."

He smiled and said, "That was something that my uncle messed up before. Third uncle is still angry. What does it have to do with me? It's rare for me to meet an acquaintance. It's nothing to chat with him. Oh, by the way, Master Qingqiu, don't force your spiritual energy. It's useless and will only backfire and seriously injure your internal organs. This deal is not worth it."

I was startled when I heard that, and looked at Tu Shanjing, shaking my head violently at him. He bit his lip and finally nodded.

Gui Fangduan squatted down and looked me in the eye, and said, "I'm sorry, but according to the rules of my family, once you've accepted an order, you can't go back on your word. Otherwise, if everyone comes to me to beg for mercy and increase the price tenfold or a hundredfold, do I have to pass messages back and forth to see who can finally offer the highest price?"

I closed my eyes and sighed, then slowly opened them and asked, "So, if you're not killing people, what are you doing here?"

He scratched his head, chuckled, and said, "I heard that the Tushan family got a treasure map, so we came to borrow it and take a look."

I smiled bitterly and said, "That's a very polite way of speaking. If we say we don't want to lend it to you, will you just give up?"

He grinned and said, "Of course that's not possible. If I can't borrow it, I can only rob it. So, you'd better hand it over as soon as possible." After saying that, he tilted his head and stretched out his hand to me.

I stared at him and said, "There's something I don't understand. Tell me first and I'll tell you."

He replied, “Okay, what’s up?”

I asked, "I drank too, but I'm fine. Changbao didn't drink, but he fell into your trap. How did you poison him?"

He smiled and replied, "The poison was not in the wine, but was put on the dancing girl's clothes. When the poison evaporated slowly, there were no symptoms at the time, so most people thought it was just the scent of ordinary women's powder and didn't take it seriously. But once the spiritual power is activated, it will be lost soon, and then the limbs will become weak and limp. The stronger the spiritual power, the faster the effect will be, and the slower the recovery will be. But for people without spiritual power, they are just like these singing girls. They will lose their strength after a while, and recover after another."

I nodded and asked, "Well, is there an antidote?"

He waved his hand: "One question for another, you haven't answered yours yet."

I had no choice but to answer, "The treasure map is not in our hands. I only heard that--" Then I turned to look at Tushan Hou and saw that his face was distorted, full of fear and resentment.

"I heard that the eldest son went on a spree to buy various treasure maps a while ago. Maybe he has them."

Gui Fangduan stood up, looked at Tushan Hou and said, "It doesn't matter who has it. So, Master Tushan, where is the treasure map?"

Tushan Hou gritted his teeth and said nothing, glaring angrily.

Gui Fang moved his hand, and a red light lifted the long sword behind him and sent it straight to Tushan Hou's throat, leaving only an inch hanging in the air.

Tu Shan Hou hurriedly said, "It's in my arms! It's in my arms! I can't move it, I can't take it out!"

Gui Fangduan leaped in front of him, put away his sword and put it behind his back, then reached into his arms.

He pulled out a delicate handkerchief, threw it on the ground, reached in again, and this time pulled out a folded piece of brown paper, which he opened and took a look at.

Master Fan was shocked and said, "Isn't this in my study?! Brother Tushan, when did you steal it?!"

Tu Shan Hou blushed and shouted, "How could I steal it?! I just... took it when I was drunk and thought it looked interesting."

I saw the jagged edges under the brown paper, and I suddenly thought, isn't this the other half of the map we found from the Zhiying Gang? I think Tushan Hou's servant found the other half, but I don't know whether he showed it to Tushan Hou or not before he lost it.

Tu Shanjing and I exchanged glances, and a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

I felt his hand tightening on mine, and in an instant, our fingers were intertwined, our minds connected.

Wait for the right opportunity, there is always a way out.

This was his unspoken feeling.

Gui Fangduan asked Tushan Hou, "Where is the other half?"

Tu Shan Hou replied: "I don't know. I only found this half."

I said, "Master Guifang, can I... take a look too? If I've seen it somewhere, maybe I can remember it after seeing it."

He nodded and said, "Then come over. It's only half anyway, so I'm not afraid that you'll secretly remember it."

I gently put Tu Shanjing on the ground and walked over.

He held the paper, showed it to me, and asked, "Do you have any idea?"

I shook my head and said, "I have no clue." Then I squatted down, picked up the handkerchief he had thrown on the ground, looked at it again in the candlelight, and said, "This handkerchief doesn't look like it has any layers, so it's probably not sewn here."

After I finished speaking, I saw Rou'er lying on the side with tears flowing from her left eye to her right eye. I wiped her tears and comforted her, "Alas, you must be very scared, right? I'll wipe it for you to prevent you from getting itchy. It will be fine in a while, don't be afraid."

Gui Fangduan walked to Gui Fangqian, raised his sword and poked the body of the zither player, who fell to the ground with a thud.

I pursed my lips and hypnotized myself: This is not true, this is not true, I am just playing a script-killing game, that is an NPC pretending to be me, don’t think too much about it…

While thinking about it, I walked back, squatted down, helped Tu Shanjing up, and let him lean on me.

Tu Shanjing looked at me with a questioning look.

I forced a smile and told him I was fine.

Gui Fangduan said, "Brother Qian, take a look. This map... has nothing written on it. It's also sloppily drawn. It's only halfway there. Can we take this back and report it?"

Gui Fangqian was helped to sit up, took a look at the map, frowned and said, "I'm afraid it won't work. This map is not as good as Qing'er's. Who can find the place after looking at it? Give me the antidote first, and I will go search with you. Don't believe what they say."

Gui Fangduan took out a small round pale green porcelain bottle from his arms and was about to pull out the stopper when I said anxiously, "Wait!"

Gui Fangduan looked back at me and said, "Do you want to eat too? You don't have to. Although you have spiritual power, you don't know how to use it. It's no different from normal."

I was afraid that the situation would change again after Gui Fangqian took the antidote, so it would be easier to control it by himself. I had to make up some excuses to lie to him and asked him not to give the antidote to Gui Fangqian first.