sunk in yesterday

After Guan Yuzhou cleaned the blood-stained cabinet, the two went to bed.

The second half of the night was not peaceful. In addition to the constant "dong dong" sound on the fourth floor this night, there were several other noises, like someone sharpening a knife, or burning something that is not easy to melt, from time to time Just crackling.

Xia Zhuo slept very uncomfortably, and when he opened his eyes after dawn, his head was still full of that weird voice.

Guan Yuzhou let go of his hand from behind and asked, "Get up?"

Xia Zhuo was wrapped in the quilt and closed his eyes, stubbornly buried his head and continued to lie on the bed: "No, you get up first."

Guan Yuzhou followed him.

Xia Zhuo didn't stay in bed for long, and got up consciously before Guan Yuzhou called him for the second time.He stopped coughing, but the lack of sleep made his body a little weak, and his legs were sore and weak when he got out of bed.

There were eight people sitting in the dining room. Except for the dead Qianqian, even Luan Yingxue came down to have breakfast this time.

The death of her companion seemed to make her take off her mask in an instant, and she also knew that other people ignored her, so she sat there alone eating with a blank expression, and left early to go back to the room.

There was indeed some strange movement on the fourth floor last night, but none of the participants was missing. Many people looked suspicious and had no idea what happened.

"I'm going to be sleepy, can you see if I have dark circles under my eyes?" Chu Jin asked Xia Zhuo, pointing at his own face, the haggard look was clear at a glance.

Xia Zhuo said, "Okay, the blood is coming out, you haven't slept all night."

"How can I sleep, it's not him..." Chu Jin paused, and swallowed the rest of the words in frustration, "Anyway, I have never been so worried in my life, if I hadn't talked nonsense at that time , he wouldn’t choose such a fool.”

Xia Zhuo thought of the idea Guan Yuzhou mentioned to him before going to bed last night, took a sip of milk, and looked at the anxious young man through the curling white air: Yu%{Xi/Zheng "What are you going to do today?" ?”

Chu Jin shrugged: "I don't know, I think I've been to all the places I can go in the house, but Yu Ziang said that he can't go out casually."

Xia Zhuo didn't say it clearly, but just asked: "We are going to the handicraft room on the third floor again, do you want to go together?"

"Go again? Everyone in the handicraft room on the third floor has gone in three times, not five times. Is there anything else that can be found there?"

"Just say whether to go or not."

"...Okay, anyway, I feel relieved to stay with you guys." Chu Jin scratched his hair, "Hey, let's go together, can I have a chance to squint for a while?"

"Okay." Xia Zhuo put down the cup and hooked his hands, and when Chu Jin approached, he lowered his voice and said, "There are tools and handicrafts in the workshop, but the most critical materials are still missing, so you have to bring them."

Chu Jin wondered: "What?"

"Bring you two vases, the one with your name engraved on the bottom."

Chu Jin immediately became vigilant, retracted his head, and said in a harsh tone: "What are you going to do?"

With Qianqian's precedent, all of them now know that the vases in the room must be kept well and not broken.Although he knew that Chu Jin's reaction was inevitable, Xia Zhuo was still a little unhappy to see the distrust in his eyes. When he lifted the stool, he retracted to the side of Guan Yuzhou, "Give me love, don't let me down."

Anyway, it's not him and Guan Yuzhou who will have an accident.

Guan Yuzhou looked at him with a little amused temper: "If you speak louder, everyone should see it."

Xia Zhuo slipped the hard-boiled eggs he didn't like into his plate, the unhappiness on his face was swept away, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "Don't you like others looking at me?"

Guan Yuzhou's answer made people feel confused: "Well, sometimes it's quite troublesome."

Seemingly realizing that his reaction was a little sensitive just now, Chu Jin hardly had much to eat. Seeing that the casual clothes over there had begun to secretly look at the situation here, he just endured the desire to immediately go back to Xia Zhuo to explain. , Only when they saw the two put down the tableware and left, did they pull Yu Ziang to follow.

He really didn't know how to save Yu Ziang's life. The quality of his sleep was so poor that he would wake him up even at the slightest sign of trouble. Didn't he stay up all night with his nerves tensed up?

But if Xia Mingming and the others really have a way...

When they chased them out, Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou were standing in front of the gate, looking into the courtyard through the small window, their expressions were not very good.

Chu Jin wanted to take away the unhappiness just now, and approached step by step and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xia Zhuo automatically took a step back and made way for the seat in front of the window, "Seeing is believing, come and see for yourself."

It is just a habit of them to look at the yard every day, after all, everyone thinks that there is something strange about the two rows of porcelain figures.The fog in the morning was the thickest in the day, and the tumbling posture was visible to the naked eye, covering the skin of all the maids with water mist.

Chu Jin looked back and forth twice: "One is missing?"

Guan Yuzhou corrected him: "There is one more."

Originally, the two rows of porcelain figures facing each other should be exactly symmetrical, but when I looked at it again today, there was an extra figure at the front.

Yu Ziang said: "So, if one of the participants dies, there will be one more porcelain man?"

Guan Yuzhou: "Well, it should be like this. Didn't the deacon say that the servants in the house who broke the vase were punished and never allowed to enter the door? It seems that the meaning of not allowed to enter the door is to become a porcelain man guarding the door. "

"The one who broke the vase was obviously another person, and the back of the pot is really unreasonable." After Chu Jin said this, he added a sentence as usual: "But this is an unreasonable place, and the aborigines are not Man, there is no reason to speak."

Guan Yuzhou glanced at Xia Zhuo: "Let's go."

"Wait!" Chu Jin hurriedly stopped him, glanced at Yu Ziang quickly, and his momentum weakened: "Then... we will go to the workshop to find you later?"

Xia Zhuo tilted his head and pretended to be stupid: "Why are you looking for us?"

Chu Jin: "..." Can I play mahjong with you guys?

The restaurant door was pushed open, and someone came out again.

Xiaoqi's complexion is still not very good today. When walking, he always looks left and right with his head down, like a pedestrian who is walking on the road thinking about picking up money.

Mrs. Bai still turned a blind eye to the two of them, and walked back arm in arm with Xiao Qi.Xia Zhuo watched them go upstairs, and when she noticed that their figures were about to disappear, Mrs. Bai raised her hand and touched the earrings on her earlobe.

He asked Guan Yuzhou in a low voice: "Is that little Qi looking for something?"

"Maybe."

Xia Zhuo looked around, but all he could see was the carpet. The deacon cleaned the floor every day, so he didn't think he could pick up anything for nothing.

"I'll see you in the workshop within half an hour." Guan Yuzhou glanced at Yu Ziang, and said clearly: "I'll give you time to think about, it's up to you whether you come or not. If you choose to come, I will take care of the vase , if you choose not to come, I will not do anything to you.”

Chu Jin's expression was complicated, but Yu Ziang nodded calmly: "Okay, see you later."

Guan Yuzhou ignored them and took Xia Zhuo to the room first to make preparations.His idea was very simple, he only mentioned a few elements to Xia Zhuo last night, and Xia Zhuo understood the reason.But the process is still a bit cumbersome, and it is estimated that it will take a long time. They will spend the whole day in the workshop today, so they must make preparations before the two come.

"There are hot pots here, can you cook hot pot if you are hungry at night?"

Guan Yuzhou watched Xia Zhuo fiddle with the big pot in the corner, and couldn't help laughing: "As long as you don't mind the bottom of the pot being muddy soup."

He found matches from the tool cabinet, threw the lighted hay into the pyre of the stove, and waited for them to burn completely.

Not long after, Chu Jin and Yu Ziang pushed the door open and entered.The first time he entered the room, Chu Jin locked the door from the inside, muttering: "I accidentally bumped into that strangely dressed woman, I hope she winks, don't come to look for her later scold."

Xia Zhuo watched them put down the vase, deliberately put on a surprised face and said: "Hey, I thought you wouldn't come."

Knowing that he was still thinking about his previous reaction, Chu Jin tilted his head uncomfortably: "I can't really blame me for this, do you know what are the names of the three great underworlds in country M?"

Xia Zhuo naturally looked at Guan Yuzhou, his face full of ignorance.

Guan Yuzhou said: "CIA, FBI and NSA."

"NONONO!" Chu Jin shook his fingers exaggeratedly: "Wrong! It's DTA!"

Xia Zhuo felt that for a moment, Guan Yuzhou also appeared a little dazed, as if this answer involved his blind spots in knowledge.

"DTA? Differential thermal analysis?"

"You don't understand that, do you?" Chu Jin suddenly said, "Don't? trust? anyone."

Xia Zhuo: "..."

Can't you speak Chinese well?

"Don't pay attention to him." Yu Ziang tugged on Chu Jin's collar and pulled him aside, "I brought the vase, it's hard work."

He didn't ask anything like "what do you want to do", his position was obvious, and he had already entrusted them to Guan Yuzhou and Xia Zhuo.

"Well." Guan Yuzhou glanced at Xia Zhuo: "I have already taught you just now, you do it."

"Oh, good."

Xia Zhuo hugged one of them and headed towards the crafting table. Yu Ziang stared at his back for a moment, then pushed Chu Jin who was still a little nervous behind him: "Go and help."

He was intentionally distracting himself, Chu Jin could see it naturally.After curling his lips unhappily, Chu Jin still followed, moved a stool and chatted with Xia Zhuo.

The person who was in the way was sent away, Yu Ziang leaned against the cabinet, looked at the man who looked at the young man with soft eyes, and asked, "I know you didn't help me for nothing, what do you want in exchange for me?"

Guan Yuzhou looked away from Xia Zhuo, and asked him, "What can you give me?"

Yu Ziang said: "I'm just a student, and there's nothing you can look up to. I don't think you'll be short of things like points, or if you want, I can work for you in the future. But I hope that no matter you Whatever you want, don't involve Chu Jin."

Guan Yuzhou: "Even if you think I'm trustworthy, you don't have to speak out about your weaknesses."

Yu Ziang smiled: "Now that my life and his own life are in front of you, what's the weakness?"

He is a sensible person.

Guan Yuzhou didn't continue to play tricks on him, "One day in the future, I will obviously enter the interpretation dream, and the whole dream will be aimed at him. At that time, I need you to help him."

"Dream interpretation..." Yu Ziang was a little taken aback, he didn't expect him to make such a request, "You should know that no leading actor can come out of the interpretation alive yet."

Guan Yuzhou disagreed: "So I need a lot of chess pieces to ensure that he can pass safely."

Yu Ziang was silent.He looked at Chu Jin who was still smiling with Xia Mingming in the distance, and it took a long time before he said softly: "Life for life... Okay, I promise, I owe you my life."

Guan Yuzhou shook his head: "I didn't say I want you to risk your life. He doesn't need others to protect him. You are just one of the safety bolts."

The two looked in the same direction, but their eyes rested on different people.

After a while, Yu Ziang didn't know whether he wanted to tease him or what, "Since you said that you don't need to reveal your weakness, then what you said just now was also bluntly saying that you are afraid that something will happen to Xia Mingming?"

Guan Yuzhou was unmoved, and just smiled softly: "It's different. I mentioned Xia Mingming to you because even if everyone knows that he is my weakness, I can protect him from anyone."