i have three shadows

Xu Chichi still looked at him calmly.

Xu Xingxing licked his lips, and after a while, he finally made up his mind and said, "I..."

"I'm tired." Xu Chichi interrupted him, "You have to work harder for the exam tomorrow."

Xu Xingxing was stunned for a moment, his beating heart gradually returned to normal, and suddenly he felt extremely tired, and finally he let out an "um".

Meanwhile, across the street.

Jian Qingzhu was sitting in the living room, with a small night light on the coffee table, playing a chess piece back and forth in his hand, which was brought by Xu Xingxing to play chess on a whim.

Not long after sitting quietly, the darkness in front of him gradually swirled, and a moment later, a voluptuous woman appeared.

It turned out to be the female ghost who coveted Xu Xingxing's spiritual power when he entered Fang Qingmeng.

The corner of the glamorous female ghost's mouth was raised, she was still wearing the big red cheongsam, but the collar was rolled with white rabbit fur, with a hint of innocence mixed with charm, she looked much calmer and softer than before.

Seeing Jian Qingzhu on the sofa at this time, she bowed slightly and said softly: "Master, Honggu is here."

Jian Qingzhu nodded absently, and asked, "How is Xia Gang?"

Hong Gu showed a bit of embarrassment and said, "You won't let me start with Xia Ting, I..."

"Are you blaming me?" Jian Qingzhu said leisurely.

"Honggu dare not." Honggu hurriedly said, "It's just that Xia Gang is so stubborn, he won't be moved by threats and temptations, and just won't hand over the things. Speaking of which, master, what is it? It's worth his disregard Want to protect the lives of your wife and children?"

Jian Qingzhu finally raised her head, gave her a cool look, and finally raised the corners of her mouth: "I don't know, so I took it over to have a look. Let me show you the way, and share what you found with Lingguan."

Hong Gu's eyes lit up: "Reaping the benefits of being a fisherman?"

Jian Qingzhu smiled: "It depends on whether you can accept it or not. Where did Zheng Yi find out?"

Hong Gu smiled softly: "According to your order, we secretly stirred up the muddy water, and he is still chasing them one by one. It may take a lot of detours."

Jian Qingzhu gave a faint "hmm".

Hong Gu knew that this meant to let her go, but she didn't move.

The night light shone on Jian Qingzhu's face, and the silhouette outlined was blurred, but the side face was covered with light, which looked extraordinarily soft and beautiful. She was a little stunned and couldn't help asking: "Master, are you really... "

Jian Qingzhu raised her eyes and swept her sharply.

Hong Gu stopped her mouth abruptly, changed the subject hastily, and asked, "Is your injury better?"

Jian Qingzhu looked at her playfully for a long while before answering: "It's not good to be with Xu Xingxing."

"That's right." Hong Gu smiled, and said with some confusion, "Master, Hong Gu doesn't quite understand. Since you want Xu Xingxing to recover his spiritual power earlier, why do you have to wait for some time? Since it's exercise, why not let Hong Gu recover his spiritual power?" Find some little ghosts and let him take them away one by one, wouldn't it be good?"

Jian Qingzhu glanced at her: "Do you really think that catching ghosts is a dungeon upgrade?"

Aunt Hong smiled sheepishly, and saw that Jian Qingzhu didn't seem so indifferent today, so she asked cautiously: "If you don't go to the examination room for the celestial master certificate tomorrow, where are you going?"

Jian Qingzhu didn't speak, but looked up at her.

Hong Gu smiled softly: "I heard that the underworld was in chaos a few days ago, and many evil spirits came out. It just happened that Lingguan was going to hold the exam for the certificate of celestial masters. I'm afraid there are not enough people."

Jian Qingzhu was still silent, only twitching the corners of her mouth slightly.

Hong Gu then slightly annoyed: "Why did you bother? You helped those people..."

Perhaps it was the warm yellow light that diluted the coldness between his brows, Honggu's heart throbbed suddenly, this long-lost feeling made her feel like a human being.

She boldly asked again: "You and Xu Xingxing...do you really like him?"

Jian Qingzhu looked down at the chess pieces in his hand.

Honggu followed his hand and looked over, seeing that he didn't answer, she thought for a while and took two steps forward, sat on the armrest of his sofa, leaned over slightly, and tried softly, "Master, can you touch him now?" To my entity, Hong Gu has admired you for a long time, if you need Hong Gu..."

"What do you want?" Jian Qingzhu smiled, stretched out her index finger to push her away, "Sister Hong, it doesn't matter whether you admire someone else or me, it doesn't matter if you can't tell the difference, but please remember to stay away from me." Well, I'm still underage."

Aunt Hong pursed her lips and smiled.

Jian Qingzhu put away her expression and said lightly: "I'm tired."

A chilling aura rose suddenly, and Hong Gu was startled, only to realize that she was really too bold, so she hurriedly stood up, and replied in a low voice: "Yes."

Then disappeared into the air.

Jian Qingzhu looked at the vortex where she disappeared, and said mockingly: "Look, you said you admired me, but once you have the chance to leave, you still won't stay for one more minute."

He held the chess piece tightly in his hand, looked up at the ceiling in the darkness, and murmured softly into the air: "Xu Xingxing."

After a while, the voice sounded again: "I often feel that I am walking a tightrope, but I don't know why I am on the tightrope, and I don't know if there is an end."

For a long time, he lowered his head and rested his forehead on the back of his upper hand.

There was a heavy breathing sound in the darkness, like sobbing, and then fell silent.

After Xu Chichi returned to the house, Xu Xingxing sat in the living room for a while. The information was not complicated, but it seemed extraordinarily messy going back and forth in his mind.

After thinking for a while, he got up and went into the bathroom.

At that moment just now, he almost said it.

He had a strange feeling that he couldn't wait to tell Xu Chichi everything.

Ever since Xu Chichi said that he would take her part, he didn't feel aggrieved at all, instead he felt an indescribable warmth.

Xu Chichi is his foothold in this world.

After taking a shower, he became quieter. He picked up his mobile phone and wanted to make a call with Jian Qingzhu, but after hesitating for a moment, he put it down again, and took out the paper he gave him in his schoolbag.

There are five full pages of blank paper, with precautions, item lists, important spells, possible unexpected situations... There is also a hand-painted map with the route marked on it.

At the end of the last page, Jian Qingzhu signed: Your Bamboo.

Xu Xingxing felt more at ease, remembered the subway and bus to be transferred, and closed his eyes.

He fell asleep very quickly that night, but had a nightmare. Xu Xingxing woke up in the middle of the night, and the heaving and rising of his chest could not be subsided for a long time.

Without beginning or end, he dreamed that Jian Qingzhu was covered in blood and fell into his arms.

He took the mobile phone and found that it was only three o'clock in the middle of the night. He habitually opened WeChat, just in time to see the message sent by Jian Qingzhu: "I dreamed of you."

Xu Xingxing smiled and replied to the message: "I dreamed about you too."

After a while, Jian Qingzhu replied: "Hold you, go to sleep."

There was an unspeakable throbbing in my heart, but it was a little sour.

Xu Xingxing said "good night", sat on the bed and thought for a while, finally raised his left hand, and pinched the heavenly stems and earthly branches with Jian Qingzhu's horoscope.

A few minutes later, he turned over and sat up, took out the bamboo stick in the drawer by the bed, and made a fortune.

Looking at the hexagram, cold sweat gradually broke out on his body, and then he got out of bed barefoot, took out a few ancient copper coins from the TV cabinet in the living room, and made another divination.

how come?

Xu Xingxing was shocked and couldn't react for a while.

He couldn't see everything about Jian Qingzhu.

When pinching the fingers, there is a fog, and the hexagrams of the bamboo sticks and copper coins are chaotic, and it is impossible to understand.

He went back to the bedside and sat for a while, thinking it was his fault, he casually calculated Xu Chichi's fortune, but the hexagram showed it clearly.

If Jian Qingzhu's life is unpredictable, where did the conclusion that he will not live long come from?

Is it only you who can't see it, or no one else?

He pulled the quilt to cover his face, and made up his mind to ask Blind Qian when he came back.

After falling asleep for a while in the middle of the night, when the alarm clock rang his head was about to explode, Xu Xingxing struggled to get up, walked out of the bedroom, and saw breakfast on the table.

Xu Chichi had already gone to work.

Fortunately, the examination time of Lingguan is very humane, ah, no, it is very in line with the habits of ghosts. It starts at eleven o'clock in the evening, and you can arrive at the examination room before five o'clock in the afternoon.

After washing up, I woke up a little bit, and when I was having breakfast, everything from yesterday began to come to my mind, and my mood suddenly became complicated.

There is a message from Jian Qingzhu on the phone, which shows that he set off for the mountain two hours ago.

Xu Xingxing took a deep breath, thought for a while, decided to be more straightforward, and replied to the message: "Jian Zhuzi, I miss you."

no reply.

Lingguan decided to take the exam at Lin City.

Xu and his party packed up and went out. They took subway line [-] to line [-], got to the terminal station, and then took a two-hour bus ride.

Jian Qingzhu has already booked the bus ticket online. In the past, she directly picked up the ticket and took the bus. After getting off the bus, there is another bus.

Following the route set by Jian Qingzhu, the journey was smooth, and it was three o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the examination room.

The terrain of Xianshui is flat, only there are some mountains around, just like the land of the Qi family, they are all on the edge of the city, while the terrain of Linshi is higher, with more ups and downs, and occasionally there are some flat dams.

There was an air conditioner in the car, and after getting off, Xu Xingxing shivered, feeling that it was much colder than Xianshui.

The examination room is located in a farmhouse in the mountains, and the name is very down-to-earth, called "Kangle".

Xu Xingxing took out his mobile phone and checked the map, and found that it was not as clear as Jian Qingzhu's drawing.

Is the test center the same every year?How could Jian Qingzhu paint so clearly?

It's useless to think too much, and finally follow the route in hand.

They were climbing the mountain all the way, and when they arrived at the destination, Xu Xingxing was stunned.

There is a magnificent courtyard in front of you, smaller than Siyuan Villa, but still full of grandeur. There are two stone lions squatting at the gate, and the receptionist is standing beside the stone lions.

People kept walking towards the inside, taking out their ID cards for the person at the door to check.

It seems that it is a place contracted by Lingguan.

Isn't this Lingguan too rich?

Standing on the side of the gate, Xu Xingxing sighed twice, and then there were question marks all over his head: Did he have any misunderstanding about the word "Nongjiale"?

I was crazily complaining in my heart, when a familiar voice suddenly came from behind: "One line."

He turned his head and saw Zheng Yi, he was still the same, his eyes were warm and deep, but his beard seemed to be longer.

"Uncle Zheng." Xu Xingxing laughed, and when he got closer, he said, "I know why you are so thin?"

Zheng Yi was serious: "Because only beards are growing like crazy?"

Xu Xingxing snapped his fingers: "Bingo!"

Zheng Yi lowered his head and smiled: "That's what they all say."

"All?" Xu Xingxing raised his eyebrows, the spirit of gossip couldn't be suppressed anymore.

Zheng Yi ignored his tone and put his hand on his shoulder: "Let's go, go in."

Xu and his party handed in their ID cards, followed Zheng Yi inside after the inspection, and asked, "How many people will take the exam?"

Zheng Yi greeted the receptionist, and replied: "There are a total of [-] venues across the country, and we have a total of [-] candidates here."

"So little?" Xu Xingxing was surprised.

As he spoke, he looked at the surrounding environment. There were also small separated courtyards inside. There were many pavilions and corridors, all of which were antique buildings.

People passed by from time to time, and they all looked back at Xu Xingxing.

The eyes are a little weird.

Zheng Yi shrugged: "They're all idle psychics. None of the big families have sent anyone out this year."

Xu Xingxing was startled, remembering the black mirage he had given to Qi Qianshan, and asked, "Including your family?"

Zheng Yi nodded.

Seeing that his reaction was cold, Xu Xingxing obviously didn't want to talk about it, and realized that he couldn't continue the question, so he changed the subject: "Why does everyone want to look at me? Why is it a bit... contemptuous?"

Zheng Yi smiled: "Because I am the chief examiner this year, there are photos on the official website."

Xu Xingxing choked, thinking it's no wonder.

After passing half the yard, he felt a little uncomfortable, and asked again: "Are there any requirements for setting up the examination room? I think there is something wrong with this place."

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