Homecoming through online games

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When night fell, Ye Mu originally planned to go to the places recorded during the day to investigate according to the original plan, but an unexpected discovery made him temporarily change his mind.

It was so late, and Wen Zhuang was still staying in Huang Yangliu's courtyard, which could be said to be checking his condition or something unexpected happened.But Gu Xingyan, who stayed in a certain house for the whole afternoon and evening, and didn't even go out for dinner, also went out and went straight to the courtyard where Huang Yangliu lived, which is quite intriguing.

Is it the special treatment that Jing Tong mentioned?But regarding Huang Yangliu's consultation and treatment, Wen Zhuang has always done it himself, and only Jing Tong will help him from time to time.Ye Mu had never seen a third person in that small courtyard before.

I always feel that something is wrong, so go and have a look.

Ye Mu stepped out of the house and sneaked into the night without making a sound.

In Huang Yangliu's residence, several sticks of incense are quietly burning in a small incense burner on the table.Those flickering red spots are the only source of light in the room.Huang Yangliu lay on her back and fell asleep, unconsciously wailing in her dream because of the swelling and pain on her body.This state should be extremely easy to wake up, but she fell into a deep sleep uncharacteristically, as if nothing could wake her up.

Wen Zhuang and Jing Tong were standing in the courtyard outside the house.Wen Zhuang said in a low voice: "Jing Tong, it's still too late to change your mind. Seriously, I think it's better to tell her that she does have a so-called enemy who killed her child, and let her work hard to identify it. The real enemy is better. This is much more believable than you acting out a revival scene and pretending that her child came back to see her, and then leaving a bunch of last words to persuade her to live well."

Jing Tong was wearing a shabby little jacket, which looked very funny.She also lowered her voice and replied: "That's because you don't understand mother's heart at all. For her, revenge is not the most important thing at all."

"Say it as if you understand very well." Wen Zhuang said with a low chuckle, helplessly.

His father was widowed when he was young, and sent him to Baicaotang when he was a little older. He himself never remembered what his mother was like.As for Jing An and Jing Tong, their parents died when they were young, and they were adopted by Baicaotang.So strictly speaking, none of them has any real experience with their mother, and naturally they have no way of feeling the so-called "mother's heart".

Jing Tong said confidently, "Because I'm a woman." She pulled Wen Zhuang's hand and said, "Isn't it a deal? Don't worry, it's up to me."

Wen Zhuang closed his mouth and said nothing more, but after thinking about it, he told him, "Be careful yourself."

"Okay, okay." Jing Tong responded, and suddenly said "Yeah", and said, "Wait, stay here, don't move, I have something to do, I'll be right back." As he spoke, he tiptoed in a panic Just ran out of the yard.

When Ye Mu came quietly to the outside of the small courtyard, he just saw a figure running out in a panic, and quickly dodged to hide.Looking closely, because of the funny little clothes on that person, Ye Mu almost didn't recognize that it was Jing Tong whom he had met during the day.

What is she going to do in this attire?Ye Mu opened the map, Huang Yangliu was inside the house, Wen Zhuang was in the courtyard, Gu Xingyan also arrived, and stopped not far outside the courtyard, not knowing what he was doing.The courtyard was very quiet, and it seemed that nothing would happen for the time being.

Ye Mu thought about it, and decided to follow Jing Tong to have a look.

Jing Tong didn't run very far, and stopped in a small woods. While walking around in the woods, he called softly: "Jiang Shaoxia, are you there?"

Jiang Shaoxia?Ye Mu frowned, hiding more cautiously, preparing to wait and see what happened.

Just after Jing Tong yelled twice, Jiang Wang nimbly turned out of the darkness, reached out his hand to stop Jing Tong who was wandering around, and said in a low voice, "I'm here." Jing Tong was startled.

There are no stars and no moon tonight, which should have been a pretty good weather for night exploration, but it caused trouble for Ye Mu at this time.Looking at the two vague figures, he couldn't make out the appearance of that "Jiang Shaoxia" at all, so he could only rely on his ears to carefully collect every whisper from Night Breeze.

That Young Master Jiang's actions seem familiar?he thought uncertainly.

Jiang Wang was skillfully trimming Jing Tong's face, and various small bottles and tools kept appearing in his hands like magic.Jing Tong's baby face, which was originally a little baby fat, became darker and yellower under his hands. At first glance, the face looks smaller, the eyebrows are slightly thickened, the eyes are slightly closed, the cheeks are slightly modified, and some unknown features are added. Material props.After a while, if Jing Tong could look into the mirror, she would find that the person in the mirror could not even recognize herself—it was the face of a five or six-year-old child.

Jiang Wang stopped and said to Jing Tong, "Miss Jing, your hair...?"

A child of five or six years old would not have such thick and beautiful long hair.

Jing Tong pulled out the hairpin, and her black hair was winding down, but a simple movement has all kinds of elegance, but unfortunately there is only one person who can see this scene.She combed through her long hair with her fingers, and finally missed this black hair that she had carefully nurtured since she was a child. She reluctantly let go of her hand, but her tone of voice was very firm: "It's done. Jiang Shaoxia, you can cut it." .”

Jiang Wang also looked at the long hair with regret, but he didn't show any mercy when he cut it off with a snap.With just a few scissors, I cut off the hair that I have raised for more than ten years.The black hair once held by Infinity Baby spread all over the ground like weeds, piled up in disorder, and no one looked at them again.

There was only a short handful of hair left that was casually tied into a straight braid. Jiang Wang took a step back, ignoring the big black hair on his feet, looked at Jing Tong for a while, and said, "Go ahead. .”

After Jing Tong hurriedly thanked Jiang Wang, he turned around and ran away wrapped in the little jacket, rushing back to Huang Yangliu's place in a hurry.

It's almost time for the incense to burn, and Wen Zhuang's patience is almost reaching its limit.

Ye Mu watched Jing Tong leave, but did not follow after thinking for a while.Compared with some special treatment from Huang Yangliu, he wanted to find out what happened to this "Jiang Shaoxia" who appeared mysteriously.

Even though he planned this way, Ye Mu also wanted to take a look at the situation on Huang Yangliu's side.He called out the map, but after just looking at it, he was immediately stunned, and a cold air rushed up his back uncontrollably.

The map indicated that the woods he was in contained nothing but a blue dot representing himself.

He raised his eyes and saw that Jiang Shaoxia was still standing in the forest, seemingly inactive for the time being.But on the map, the place where Jiang Shaoxia was located was empty.

Ye Mu remembered the black shadow that he saw at the end of the path when he walked out of the yellow willow yard yesterday and then disappeared.There was also nothing shown on the map at that time, and he thought it was just an ordinary shadow or something.

On the system map, the own side is a blue light point, the friendly side is a green light point, and the enemy is a red light point, which is concise and clear, with clear barriers.But what does it mean if a person "doesn't exist" on the map at all?

There is no time to think deeply, in such a dark environment, it is easy to lose track of the target.Ye Mu hid his figure and quietly approached Jiang Shaoxia in the dark, as cautious and steady as a most quiet hunter.But what the prey returned to him was a sudden flash, and he disappeared.

Immediately stopped, Ye Mu was not sure if the other party found him.Looking around vigilantly, the heavy shadows in the forest made his search almost futile.Ye Mu's hand slowly moved towards the knife behind his back, but stopped when he was about to touch the handle.

A bone-chilling chill stuck to his arms, which belonged to human hands, but were colder than the midnight wind.A person approached his ear from behind him, whispering cheerfully:

"Look what I found. Good evening, what an unexpected meeting."

Well done stealth, even he wouldn't have noticed anything—if the night wind hadn't changed direction and sent him the smell of food.

At this time, Jing Tong had already returned to Huang Yangliu's yard.Wen Zhuang was still standing there, and when he saw her, he asked angrily in a low voice, "What did you do running out suddenly?" Then he paused, squinting his eyes to recognize Jing Tong's silhouette in the dark, which seemed to be different from before , walked towards her, and asked in a low voice and hurriedly, "What's wrong with that on your head? Are you all right?"

Jing Tong bowed quickly to avoid it, hurriedly said "It's almost time, I'll let you know when I come out later", and ran into Huang Yangliu's room in a hurry.

Wen Zhuang had no choice but to stop, looked at the hut, and frowned deeply.

Inside the house, a dim light was lit, flickering and casting a figure on the window.

Jing Tong lit the lamp, adjusted its position, and made the light at the head of the bed even darker, then took out a paper bag and sprinkled a handful of powder in the incense burner.

A dense and lingering atmosphere immediately permeated the room.

Then she waited patiently for about half a stick of incense, walked to the head of the bed, tried her best to imitate the clear and thin voice of a child, and called softly:

"Mother, mother."

Huang Yangliu opened her eyes in a daze from a nightmare, and the world in front of her was distorted and bizarre.A feeling of dizziness dilutes the pain that erodes her all the time.She saw her little child in front of her, looking at her with attachment, and screaming loudly.

"mother."

"mother."

Scent of Mimosa works strand by strand, framing the deepest desires of the human heart.

On the other side, Ye Mu slowly relaxed his body and said, "This is not a suitable posture for meeting."

"That's true." The person behind said, and really let go of his hand.

The moment Ye Mu noticed that his strength had weakened, he took a step forward and pulled out his long knife, and without looking back, he bent down and swept behind him fiercely.The blade whizzed through the air and fell into space.

He straightened up and turned his head, but the man was gone.

On the map, Gu Xingyan's green dot was returning to the room, Ye Mu went around the small courtyard to check around, and after checking a few places, he left Baicao Hall in the dark.

When he found a leeward place nearby to sit down and rest, Ye Mu touched the place where the man grabbed his arm before.

It seems that I can still feel the biting coldness at that time, it is almost chilling to the heart.

With such a temperature, could it be a living person?

From the next day, Huang Yangliu's condition seemed to be miraculously getting better day by day.

When she saw Ye Mu, she would no longer show out of control emotions, and usually worked hard to cooperate with the treatment.The light of life that had been lost in her eyes seemed to be re-lit.

Ye Mu is still carrying out a well-planned night investigation step by step, but apart from becoming more familiar with the terrain of Baicaotang, there is nothing special to gain.He never met the "Jiang Shaoxia" that night again.

He didn't intend to ask Jing Tong about this kind of thing, and he didn't think that the other party would tell him honestly if he asked.But Jing Tong has a strange expression when seeing him these days, as if she is the one who visits the other sect every night.

Ye Mu had an inexplicable sense of seeing what the other party had done to him, but he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he simply put it aside.

But in the past few days, when he visited Baicao Hall, he noticed that it seemed that the number of encounters with medicine disciples was getting less and less.Even if they meet by chance, most of those disciples have tired faces and come and go in a hurry.

Ye Mu observed it and quickly found the reason.Recently, more and more patients came to Baicao Hall for medical treatment, and the disciples of the medicine department had to send additional manpower to set up rotations. Even so, there was a long queue outside the villa.

He guessed that there might be some kind of epidemic recently, so he told Ye Ming not to go out as much as possible.

Walking on the street with Zhuifeng by his arm, Ye Mu's eyes swept across the people on the street.

It seems that because of the outbreak of the epidemic, even the residents who are not infected have become lazy, even the sound of shouting and selling is weak.There were far fewer pedestrians on the street than before, and they all looked like they wanted to tuck themselves into their black cloaks to isolate themselves from the outside world.In spite of the hot weather, people wrapped themselves up almost as if they were wintering.

The city was filled with a gloomy atmosphere, which lasted for a few days, like a balloon that was full, and exploded with a bang as a certain event came.

The cause of everything that happened was that a person died.

That person got an epidemic, went to Baicaotang to ask for a prescription, took it back to grab the medicine, boiled the medicine soup and drank it for several days, and then died quietly on the bed.

The grief-stricken family members naturally refused to give up like this, and directly called the shop where the man bought the medicine before, yelling that what they were selling was fake medicine.The shopkeeper of the shop was very angry, and swore that he had been operating sincerely.Do things upright, and never do the kind of shameful things that kill off children and grandchildren.Things got worse and worse, and after I found out the medicine disciples of Baicaotang, there was really nothing wrong with those medicines.So the cause of death could only be attributed to the person's weakness, and the family members thought it was unlucky.

However, this is not the end of the matter.The next day, another person who caught the epidemic died.

He also took the medicine prescribed by Baicaotang's prescription, but he picked it up at another pharmacy.

It was the same riot, but this time the pharmacy was found to be shoddy, selling old or damp medicinal materials as new medicines.Angry family members smashed the signboard and counter of the pharmacy, clamoring for an explanation from the shopkeeper of the pharmacy.

The matter here is not over yet, in the afternoon of that day, the third person who died appeared.

Exactly the same experience, the only difference is that this person got the medicine from the same pharmacy as the first person who died.

The residents who heard about this incident fell into a strange silence, there was no noise or disturbance, no one clamored for an explanation, and they all dispersed.It was an eerie calm.

There are people suffering from epidemics who secretly stop taking their medicines.

When the fourth and fifth dead appeared, and even Baicaotang's prescription could not be cured, the panic finally made people restless.

No one knew if they would be the next one. They began to suspect that there was something wrong with the prescription of Baicaotang.

People gathered around Baicao Hall in large numbers, eagerly begging for an explanation.Some people who were too emotional even attacked the disciples who were doing the free clinic, and things almost got out of hand at one point.When no matter how many words he said, they couldn't reach the other party's ears, Jing An had no choice but to order to temporarily suspend the free clinic, and asked the disciples to withdraw to the villa. , firmly shut the gate of the villa.

They couldn't see any hope, and some people got poisoned by the poisonous powder disciples during the attack, and were poisoned by strange and weird poisons.Although not fatal, the pain was unbearable, and now there is no one to treat them.People became even more excited, cursing and throwing all kinds of things into the villa, and the white walls of the villa were quickly stained with colorful filth.They discussed a lot, and decided to stay outside the villa, and those who don't believe in Baicaotang will never come out!

But the development of the situation is always faster than human imagination, and the footsteps of the god of death have never been slowed down by those struggles and roars.

The ensuing deaths of a large number of patients who stopped or refused to take the medicine, and those who were originally healthy were horrified to find that the symptoms of the epidemic became more and more obvious in themselves, so that all the dazed minds were dying Forced to wake up under duress.

That kind of sobriety is like being poured from the head to the soles of the feet by ice water, with a desperate and ominous chill.Those who had been diagnosed and treated held the prescriptions and prayed for God’s mercy while taking the medicine, while those who were newly ill—many of them were the main force who had besieged the villa before—wept prostrately outside the gate of the villa, crying bitterly. He begged for Baicaotang's help with tearful repentance.

After a moment of silence in Baicao Hall, the door slowly opened amidst all the tearful and desperate eyes.

Many Baicaotang disciples filed out, lined up the long tables in an orderly manner, and quickly restored the order of the free clinic.Several huge wooden barrels were lifted out, inside was a dark brown liquid with a bitter medicinal smell.A disciple stood by and distributed them to people for free, and asked people to tell each other after they went back that they could come here to receive anti-epidemic soup to reduce the risk of epidemics.

Of course, there are also some discordant voices.Some of the patients refused to accept the diagnosis and treatment of poisonous disciples—some because of deep-rooted fear, and some because they had been attacked by poisonous disciples during the last protest—they were the unlucky ones who were poisoned.

The disciples of the Poison Department also looked nonchalant, happy that the line in front of their long table was shorter than the others, and after early diagnosis and treatment, they raised the table and returned to the villa openly.

As time passed day by day, the epidemic was finally brought under control.Although there are occasional patients who die, they don't die in batches like they did at the beginning.Moreover, some people are slowly getting better.Little by little, the town began to come back to life.

Huang Yangliu quietly left Baicao Hall at such a time, with a ruddy complexion and a healthy body, although she has become much thinner and there is always a trace of sadness in her brows and eyes, but compared to the original appearance, she is much better. too much.

Ye Mu, Wen Zhuang, and Jing Tong sent her away together. Jing An couldn't get away because of his busy schedule, but he also asked someone to send her greetings and some gifts.

She bowed to Wen Zhuang and Jing Tong respectively, and said to Ye Mu: "That deal is not counted. Thank you for coming to see me every day, you are a good person."

Ye Mu raised his hand and handed her an earring, with a silver-white base, and four slender leaves on it looped around each other, as if they were cuddling and chasing each other.

"Returned deposit."

Huang Yangliu kept waving her hands, shook her head, and said, "No, no need, this is too expensive."

Ye Mu held it up persistently and said, "This is the rule."

Huang Yangliu was very embarrassed and said: "This, how good is this, oops."

Ye Mu looked at her, and said another way: "Then, it's my gift to make up for you. I accidentally lost your original earring."

Huang Yangliu hesitated for a moment, took it, thanked her, and put it away carefully.

Wen Zhuang looked at her, and suddenly said without beginning or end: "When you go back, pack up your things and find a new place to live."

It sounds a bit like a threat.

Huang Yangliu was a little confused, but she nodded to show that she remembered.

She finally walked over, hugged Jing Tong tightly, and left.

Although the back is lonely, it is straight and tough.Step by step, move forward.