Yan Fei

There are already many people on the street, which is very lively.Xu's family is a big family in Qizhou, and Xu Zhiming's Ganu was brought up by him when he was a child, and everyone in Qizhou knew him well, so he didn't show that he was so big as Ganu walking on the street. What a frightened look.

An old woman was holding a vegetable basket, holding her little grandson in one hand, standing by the vegetable stall, smiling at Xu Zhiming, who had one hand on Ganu's neck, and said, "Master Xu, are you going out now?"

"...Well, go find someone."

The old woman glanced at the food box in his hand, she understood, and took out a wooden box from the basket: "I just want to send it to you, this is the winter snow tea from home."

"Well, thank you." Xu Zhiming's eyelids twitched, he reached out to take the wooden box, and held it in his hand.

Xu Zhiming dragged Ganu to Yan Zi's door, knocked on the door for a long time, but still no one answered.

He didn't know Yan Zi well, he didn't know his work and rest habits, so he had already gone out.But his half-dead look doesn't look like a person who will wander around. It seems that he doesn't have many friends. Where can he go when he goes out at this time?

So the precious and elegant young master Xu made a very rough decision-he was going to climb the wall.

The fence of Yan Zi's house is not too short, and it is absolutely impossible to lift it up normally.However, with Ganu here, stepping on its back can easily climb over the wall.

As soon as Xu Zhiming stepped into the courtyard, he felt strange.It's too quiet.And if he could see it, he would be able to realize that yesterday he couldn't see it when he stood outside the wall, but now he can see the whole yard at a glance—even though it's snowing, he can still see the white stone slab through the gaps in the snow ground.Not only that, everything in the courtyard that can be seen is covered in white flowers, from the door panels to the bricks and tiles, there is no other color.

Xu Zhiming seemed to have seen it, frowned, went to open the door to let Ganu in with a food box in his mouth, and quickly closed the door.

Ganu sensed the nervousness of his master, and obediently kept silent.

Xu Zhiming then walked into the house.The layout of this house is also really strange, there is still a long way from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard, first there is a small room in the middle, then there is a corridor on a side of the pool, followed by another room, and then the inner courtyard.However, the doors of these houses are open brightly, and the room to the floor tiles are all white, and the pool is also dry, with only a layer of white fine sand on the bottom of the pool.

Xu Zhiming heard that there is a kind of disease called snow blindness, people will lose their direction after walking in the snow for a long time.He always felt that after staying in such a house for a long time, would he lose his way, even his mind, and end up becoming a lunatic?

What kind of person is Yan Zi who wants to put herself in such a ghostly place?

In a blink of an eye, Ganu had jumped ahead of him, dexterously got into the door, stepped cautiously across the corridor, and howled softly in the courtyard.

"What's wrong?" Xu Zhiming walked slowly towards Ganu's place while beating the ground with a bamboo pole to find the way.

But when he got to the courtyard, he only had one bamboo pole, so he couldn't see anything.He stood blankly for a while, then suddenly put away the bamboo pole.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly walked to the corridor - how could this brisk walking look like a blind man?

Lying on the porch was Yan Zi who came out of the house last night.He didn't know why he couldn't go back to the house last night, so he just lay on the porch like that.Dressed in white, with silver hair and pale skin, he almost blended with the snow and the white slate, adding a sense of loneliness for no reason.Perhaps he was alone, even if he froze to death in this appalling yard, no one would know.

Xu Zhiming hugged Yan Zi and patted his face, but Yan Zi didn't respond and was completely unconscious.

Yan Zi lay in the snow for nearly half the night, her whole body was cold, only her torso was warm.It is not enough to rely on Xu Zhiming's temperature alone, even a big quilt may not be able to warm him up.

Entering the room, Xu Zhiming gave a nod to Ganu who was following behind.Kanu slumped in and nestled on the ground, like a ball of coal buried in the snow.

Xu Zhiming put Yan Zi on Ganu's soft and comfortable fur, went to the bed and hugged the quilt to cover him.After all this was done, he reckoned that this guy who lay in a coffin every day would not wake up immediately, so he went to find the woodshed.

Fortunately, the firewood room in Yan Zi's house was not completely white. The floor was ordinary gray slate, and a large bundle of normal-colored firewood was thrown in the corner.However, a layer of dust had accumulated on the stove, so it might have been useless for a long time.

He simply and neatly dragged a small handful of firewood and a stove into the house, borrowed a pot of water from the neighbor, put the stove on, sat on the wooden chair in the house, and quietly faced the pot with his head propped on one hand, waiting for the pot to come out. White smoke began to come out of the mouth.

He felt that it might be really difficult to get along well with Yan Zi.Just now when he went to ask the neighbor to borrow water, the neighbor didn't even know when someone lived here.

What kind of person is this?Who is he?Where did it come from?Why...will you enter the Gusu Pavilion?

Xu Zhiming frowned, and clenched the bamboo pole in his hand.

Pot after pot of water boiled dry, Xu Zhiming borrowed pot after pot, Yan Zi nestled in Ganu's arms, but there was no sign of waking up.

The afternoon made people feel drowsy, so Xu Zhiming leaned on a bamboo pole and went to the courtyard to bask in the sun.After drying in the yard for a long time, Xu Zhiming felt that it was a waste to prevent the man who had already put half of his foot into the coffin in such a good sun, so he turned around and was about to carry him out. Sitting up in a daze, staring at Kanu.

Xu Zhiming clenched his fist and put it to his lips: "...cough, cough."

Yan Zi suddenly raised his head, staring at Xu Zhiming in a daze.

"I remember... I didn't come back..." Yan Zi said slowly, and then looked at Ganu who was so excited that he was about to stick out his tongue to lick him, "I don't have such a hairball in my house." ..."

"It's called Ganu." Xu Zhiming took out a plate of pastries from the food box he brought, fumbled to put them on the table, poured two cups of tea in the same state, and sat down at the table, "This pastry is I asked my cook to make it, and you ate it to fill your stomach."

"...Thank you." Yan Zi dragged himself up, brushed his hair, sat on another chair, and took a piece of pastry, "What's on it...plum blossom?"

"I can... I heard she said that plum blossoms were put in."

Yan Zi raised his eyebrows, ate the pastry and drank the tea, and said without commenting, "What the hell is this?"

Xu Zhiming stuffed half of the pastry in his mouth, chewed and swallowed it slowly for a long time before he realized: "Ganu? It's the wolf of the Northern Territory."

"I thought there were no more, even if there were, I wouldn't be so obedient."

Ganu raised his head slightly, stretched out his rough tongue and licked Yan Zi's palm.

Listening to the name, the Northern Territory wolf is naturally a specialty of the Northern Territory.They live in the ice and snow, or in the boundless desert, and they are the most brave and tenacious fighters in the Northern Territory.I heard that people from the Northern Territory will keep one or two horses as the king's mount.The size of the Northern Territory wolf is many times larger than that of ordinary wolves. When standing on the ground, it can be as tall as an adult horse, and when squatting, it is the same size as an adult man in the Northern Territory.They are brave and good at fighting, and they are the best comrades-in-arms.

However, in recent years, the Northern Territory wolf has gradually disappeared and is almost extinct.Didn't expect to find one here.

"...Like a dog." Yan Zi twitched the corner of his mouth and said.

"I raised it from a young age."

"You don't have to be around the bush either." Yan Zi looked up at him.

Xu Zhiming paused the hand holding the teacup, and smiled: "Okay. I just want to ask you, why do you know the poison of 'Jiazi'?"

"……what?"

The smile on Xu Zhiming's face deepened.Although he didn't see it, he could hear that Yan Zi was stiff for a moment.

"Looking at him like that, how could ordinary people recognize that it was poison?"

Yazi is an extremely rare poison, and Xu Zhiming has only read about it in the classics left by his grandfather.Now I only know that the onset of this poison is slow, and lines of meridians will appear from the heart, the hair color will also start to fade, and the nails will start to turn black.If you don't pay attention to it at the beginning, then after the person reacts, there is basically no way to save it. It only takes a stick of incense to attack and you can die.

"Hair color, nails..." He paused, "These two look different, so it's easy to guess, right? And I obviously..."

"But he was drowned."

"...What?" Yan Zi was stunned for a moment, then turned around.

"He was drowned, and he was not poisoned. He is not young, he has been digging coal all the year round, and his hands have been injured, so the black on his fingernails is extremely difficult to remove. Think about it, you know, it is rare, how could he be poisoned?" On an ordinary person, but you told the Yamen that he was poisoned. Do you have any deep impression of Yazi, so that when you see symptoms that seem to be Yazi, you think it is caused by Yazi?"

Xu Zhiming took a sip of tea slowly, and continued: "I heard that you came from Gusu Pavilion, how could the spies from Gusu Pavilion be so careless?"

"Impossible!" Yan Zi slammed the table, stood up from the wooden chair, coughed for a long time because of emotion, and then recovered, shrank for a long time on the wooden chair, "It must be Yazi...it must be... ... Yazi..."

"There's water in his lungs, Wu Zuo has seen it. Did you fall victim to Yai Zi?"

Xu Zhiming didn't hear Yan Zi's voice for a long time, so he knew that he had acquiesced.

"Since you have been poisoned by Yazi, I have to doubt your identity. Yazi won't fall on an ordinary person, and this kind of poison is rarely used among the powerful. So, who are you?"

Yan Zi got a little angry, and stared at Xu Zhiming: "...get out. Don't bother me."

"...Young Master Yan."

"go out."

Kanu looked at the somewhat disappointed master at the side, and made a strange sound, listening...it seemed to be laughing at him.

Xu Zhiming picked up the bamboo pole and hit it lightly on the temple, almost knocking it unconscious.Ganu rubbed the place where he was hit aggrievedly, and moved closer to Xu Zhiming.

"He will come," Xu Zhiming smiled, without the slightest hesitation in his words, as if he believed that he was just like the roundworm in Yan Zi's stomach, "Even if he didn't come for Yazi, out of courtesy, he would here."