The moon was high in the sky, the cold wind blew the branches outside the house, and they hit the eaves. From time to time, there were a few crows calling, which seemed unusually lonely.

After taking a shower, someone gently opened one of the doors after giving Qiuyu Qiuyu some instructions.

He slowed down his pace, listened to the snoring in the air, and slowly walked to the bed. What caught his eye was a young boy sleeping very proudly on the bed.

He held the quilt in one hand and the pillow in the other, mumbling something and waving his hands from time to time.

"Heh~" The man smiled lightly, sat down beside the bed, and pointed at his thin, withered but still handsome face.

"You... I hope you will always be so heartless, don't be distressed and don't be a puppet..." The man seemed to have thought of something when he was halfway through his words. He fell silent, stretched out his hand to pull his quilt, straightened his body and wrapped it in the quilt, then stood up and looked at the person on the bed steadily, then turned and left...

I returned to my room, took off my feather raccoon cape and gold-embroidered jacket, and sat by the window in my thin inner clothes, looking at the pale moonlight just like that day.

The snow began to fall again, falling in large quantities, covering the dark sky. Only a pale moonlight shone into the room, reflecting the lonely eyes of a man who was sitting in front of the window with his head propped up, his inky black hair hanging diagonally on his hands, looking at the few non-existent stars...

A not-too-light bang sounded from the next room. The man stood up and glanced at the sky outside the window. His nose moved as if it was frozen or as if he smelled something.

"It smells like blood..."

Gu Yanming closed the window and slowly walked to the bed. Just as he was about to pick up the cloak on the bed, he heard a scream, as if someone was frightened.

Gu Yanming no longer hesitated, threw down his cloak, walked quickly to the door, opened it, and walked to the next room... But strangely, the door of the next room he just entered could not be pushed open, as if it was locked.

He knocked on the door anxiously, shouting at the person inside to open the door, but there was no response. Instead, he could hear voices like "young master, young master" from inside from time to time.

The man was already a little anxious, and now he was even more furious. He banged on the door desperately, and the two sisters Qiuyu and Qiuyu who lived in the room at the end were also woken up and rushed over.

"Master, what is this?"

"Something dirty has entered his room, but I can't open the door now," the man said anxiously.

"Dirty things? Do you want to try..." As he said this, he formed a seal with one hand and muttered a sentence. Then he heard the word "break" come out of Qiuyu's mouth, and a sound like glass breaking came from inside the door.

The man didn't care about anything else and pushed the door open. He saw a person lying behind the table in the room. He was a familiar boy...

After a while, the candle lit up again. The boy rubbed his buttocks and prepared to stand up, but he heard a burst of hurried footsteps coming towards him. The boy was startled and turned his head to look in the direction of the sound. At that moment, a strong chest rushed towards him, hugged the boy into his arms, and kept saying

"Don't be afraid... I'm here... I'm here"

"Hiss, you... you fucking let me go, it hurts so much, even if I'm not scared to death by the ghost, I'll be killed by you." The young man's voice came from the man's arms, not polite at all, and the vulgar voice resounded through Gu Yanming's ears.

"What did you say?" The man gradually calmed down and asked coldly from above the boy's head.

"I said..." Suddenly the boy seemed to have thought of something, and pushed away the person who was hugging him. He looked up nervously until he saw the pair of cold eyes.

The boy suddenly covered his mouth and shook his head, as if to say that he didn't say anything.

Gu Yanming looked him up and down, then turned around coldly and said as he walked away

"Since you're fine, then go to rest quickly and stop making a fuss and disturbing others' rest." He said with a flick of his sleeves and walked out of the room.

Qiu Yu, who was standing by, looked at the boy with a worried look, but Qiu Yu, who was standing next to him, looked at him with a gloating expression and then left.

The boy was confused. He was concerned about himself just now, but his expression changed in the next second. This is really as unpredictable as a woman's mind, and it is comparable to the face-changing in Peking Opera.

"Are you okay? You really scared us just now. This is the first time I've seen Master so... nervous." Qiu Yu walked up to the boy and touched his forehead. He found that he didn't have a high fever due to the shock, so he felt relieved, patted his shoulder, said good night, and walked out.

The young man looked at the door in disbelief, muttering, "Bullshit~ Will he be nervous about me? I don't want to dream about that. Being nervous about a person can make you push his head into the water and happen to hit the tip of the same person's nose. I think he is anxious because he is afraid that he won't be able to go back to report. Don't you agree, Mianmian?"

[Host, aren't you sleepy? ]

"No, are you sleepy?" The boy rubbed his nose and sat on the chair.

The system didn't say anything, as if to say that it was sleepy. Go talk to someone else.

"That's not right. Isn't he afraid of drowning me? What do you think, Mianmian?"

"Mianmian, don't sleep anymore, get up and help me analyze this..."

"Dog system..." The voice gradually rose, but there was still no one or system responding when he called.

The next day, the weather was surprisingly good. The sun was shining brightly, but not very warm. Some people had already started doing business on the street. The smoke from cooking mixed with the breath after the snow, and a new day began.

The air was filled with the aroma of sesame cakes and steamed buns. The aroma was carried from the street to the inn by the wind, and then drifted from the inn into a room.

"Gurgle~" The sound of stomach rumbling came from the bed in the room. A young man woke up from the bed while rubbing his stomach in a daze. He rubbed his eyes, and his nose kept moving like a radar. He sniffed left and right, following the aroma, and walked all the way to the door.

He pushed the door open and was about to step out when he bumped into Qiuyu at the door. When Qiuyu saw that he was about to run out without putting on his clothes, she quickly stopped him.

"Master Jiu....., why did you run outside without getting dressed? It's very cold outside. Come on, let's get dressed." She was about to pull him back to the room

"No, I want to eat some buns. I'm starving, Sister Qiuyu." The boy struggled desperately, trying to break free.

"If you don't put on your clothes, you won't have to eat. Qiuyu, keep an eye on him."

An extremely cold voice sounded in front of the two of them. Qiu Yu looked ahead blankly. A man wearing a white mink cloak and with cold eyes stood in front of them.

"Master..." Qiu Yu was about to say something when she heard the young man next to her say

"What if I have nothing to wear? You want to starve me to death? Didn't your master ask you to take me back?"

"It didn't say whether it was a dead body or a living person." He walked downstairs with steady steps.

"Hehe~" Qiuyu stuck out her tongue at him, made a face, and ran downstairs shouting "Master, Master".

In the corridor, the two stared at each other. Qiuyu was the first to sigh and said to the young man, "Master, what the master said was not directed at anyone. He may have a sharp tongue but a soft heart, you know that?"

The young man was speechless and secretly complained: He has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, then I have a soft mouth but a sharp heart. Pah, sharp tongue but a sharp heart. But then he changed into a smile, raised his head and said to Qiu Yu

"Then please take me to change clothes, sister." Because he knew that if he didn't change, that guy would definitely not let him eat, and might even implicate Qiu Yu, which would be bad. After all, Qiu Shi was the first person in this world who had good intentions towards him.

After changing clothes and having breakfast, they packed up and prepared to leave when a group of people arrived at the door of the inn. A well-dressed man who looked like an official was surrounded by a group of people and came to the counter. The man in the middle asked, "Boss, a silver carriage stopped at your store yesterday. Is the person in it still staying in your store?"

The man called the shopkeeper bowed and nodded, urging the waiter to go and have a look. He also led the group of people to an empty table to rest for a while and personally poured tea for them. After a while, the waiter came, whispered something to the shopkeeper, and retreated behind the shopkeeper.

The fat shopkeeper smiled flatteringly and rubbed his hands, saying, "My Lord, the group of people you mentioned are just about to leave. I have asked someone to stop them. They will be here soon... soon..."

"Tell them to hurry up... This Lord..."

"Marquis Chongbo is so majestic. If your Majesty comes to this place, should he...go to see you first?"

After a creaking sound of footsteps on the wooden stairs, the people sitting in the crowd separated and looked towards the stairs.

The man was standing condescendingly, wrapped in a white cloak. Although he had a smile on his face, his slightly raised chin and the coldness in his narrow eyes were enough to show that he was... a little unhappy.

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