The lord can't get along with this butterfly

Hua Zhuo looked at him quietly, "So you came back from the Goulan Courtyard last night?"

Ji Xiao paused and said with a headache: "No, I only saw the tattoo clearly from the window and then left. I stayed near the brothel and waited for them to come out."

"Oh." Hua Zhuo's expression softened a bit, and she pinched a piece of hibiscus cake from the plate.

"After they left from the brothel, I followed them into a small tea shop. I saw them living in the backyard of the tea shop. I just came back." Ji Xiao continued, "If I guessed right, the tea shop It should be one of the dark spots of the Demon Cult lurking in the market. According to the report from the shadow guard in the morning, the owner of the tea shop has not changed since three years ago. He has always been a resident of this town. It looks no different from ordinary people."

"So..." Hua Zhuo thought for a while and said, "Maybe the Demon Cult has been lurking here for three years?"

Ji Xiao replied: "Not necessarily. The owner of the tea shop should only be responding to their hidden clues. People from the Demon Cult probably came in recently, otherwise they wouldn't have been hiding for so long without being noticed."

"Then what is their purpose?" Hua Jue frowned.

Ji Xiao said: "This is what I have to investigate as soon as possible. In addition, I also need to immediately find out how many dark spots of the Demon Cult like tea shops are hidden."

"Is that so..." Huazhu worried, "It sounds like a lot of trouble."

Ji Xiao poured a cup of tea, took a sip, and said, "It's okay, the Demon Cult reappears, and Wanqing Villa is not the only one who will try to stop it, the other three sects will also join in. If the situation is serious... maybe there will be another one." Hold a martial arts conference in advance and elect a martial arts leader."

"Really?" Hua Zhuo was surprised.

Ji Xiao nodded, stroking the teacup in his hand with his fingers, and said: "So, I don't need my father to come forward this time, I will try my best to be responsible to the end, and step up my practice by the way, so that I can break through the tenth level of swordsmanship as soon as possible. One hundred percent sure to win the position of leader."

"Isn't that too hard?" Hua Zhuo worried, "If this goes on, will your body be able to bear it?"

Ji Xiao said: "It's nothing. With the Tianyi sword, my swordsmanship can break through very soon. It will only take a month at most, and it will not have any impact."

Hua Zhuo sighed, hugged the small hand stove in her arms, and said: "There are so many things... no wonder you look bad today."

Ji Xiao paused for a moment, but didn't speak.

"Otherwise, you should take a rest in the carriage first, it will take a few days before you can go back, so don't be too tired these few days." Hua Jue said.

"No, I'll just sit for a while." Ji Xiao made a temporary decision, "I plan to take a step later and change to riding a horse, so that the time to go back will be shortened a lot. You can continue to ride in a carriage, protected by shadow guards, There will be no problem."

Hua Zhuo was taken aback, and said: "Then you will go back alone?"

Ji Xiao nodded, and said lightly: "I can do it alone, not to mention that there are not many shadow guards accompanying you this time, and I don't feel at ease if there are fewer people around you."

Hua Zhuo pursed her lips, still feeling worried.

Ji Xiao glanced at him, and said calmly: "Life in Jianghu has always been like this. This little thing is just a routine. I'm used to it, so I don't need to worry too much."

Hua Zhuo nodded, and could only tell: "Then be careful on the road."

"Okay." Ji Xiao responded.

After Ji Xiao left on horseback, the speed on Huazhuo's side slowed down again. In addition, it happened to encounter rain and snow on the way, and it took another ten days to drive to the vicinity of Qiujiang City.

When there was still a short distance before entering the city, the carriage suddenly stopped for some reason.

"What's wrong?" Hua Zhuo asked outside the car.

"My lord, someone seems to have fainted by the side of the road." Er Fu shouted outside.

Huazhu asked doubtfully, "Did you faint?"

It's freezing cold.

"Brother Shadow Guard has already gone to see it." Er Fu said.

Hua Zhuo opened the curtain, leaned out from the car and looked, there seemed to be a person lying in the weeds not far from the road, and several shadow guards were surrounding to check.

As soon as the shadow guard came back, Hua Zhuo asked, "How is it? Is that man still alive?"

"Alive." Shadow Guard said, "Do you want to send him to the hospital?"

Hua Zhuo nodded and said, "It's too cold outside, let's carry him into the car first."

The shadow guard responded, and the two worked together to put the unconscious man into the carriage.When Hua Zhuo saw that person, her eyes widened suddenly, her expression became a little strange, and she stared at him in a little stunned.

"My lord, what's the matter?" Er Fu glanced into the car strangely.

Hua Zhuo calmed down, put down the curtain of the car, and said: "It's okay, let's go."

The carriage continued on and did not stop until it reached the entrance of the medical hall.

Er Fu called him outside: "Young Master."

Hua Zhuo in the car hesitated for a moment, but there was no movement, she seemed to be still hesitating, and after a long while, a voice came out, saying: "How about...send it back to the villa."

"Send it back to the villa?" Erfu asked in surprise.

It's already at the entrance of the medical hall, what's the situation when you suddenly change your mind?

Hua Zhuo nodded and said, "Yes."

Er Fu gave a bewildered "Oh" and had to ask someone to drive back.

Ji Xiao arrived as early as seven days ago, and he is still busy investigating the affairs of the Demon Cult, and rarely appears in the village every day.

As soon as Hua Zhuo returned to Wanqing Villa, he ordered someone to put the man in a guest room and call a doctor to treat him.After diagnosis and treatment, the doctor said that the man was not seriously ill, but just physically weak, and he prescribed two supplements of medicine for tonic.Er Fu was quite shocked by this. He passed out in the wilderness in this weather without even getting a cold.

Hua Zhuo didn't say anything about it, she just sat in the room and waited as if nothing had happened. It wasn't until the afternoon that the news of the man waking up came.

When Hua Zhuo opened the door and came in, the man was sitting on the bed, he seemed to have just woken up and still had some headaches, he turned to look at him when he heard the movement.

The man's hair is a little messy, but because of his handsome appearance, it does not affect the visual beauty. His face is more clean and handsome, with bright eyes and white teeth, giving people a gentle and elegant feeling at first glance.

Huazhu walked over excitedly.

The man looked at him, and was about to say thank you, but Hua Zhuo stopped him abruptly, "Brother, I didn't expect you to be a butterfly, too?"

"You didn't hold your breath when you were in a coma, and I sensed it." This kind of scene had the feeling of meeting fellow villagers full of tears. Hua Zhuo asked with great enthusiasm, "Where are you from?"

The man hesitated for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "...in the cave."

Hua Zhuo choked, and said awkwardly: "No, I'm asking if you are a fairy or a demon?"

"Demon." The man replied without defense.

"Is that so..." Hua Zhuo felt a little regretful.

Sure enough, there are still a small number of immortals who have mixed into the human world.

"However, although we don't belong to the same world, we are of the same race, so we can be considered as a family." Hua Zhuo thought for a while and said again.

The man looked at him probingly, and said, "You too..."

Huazhuo nodded, in order to prove her identity, she changed back to the original.A delicate and handsome face is like a picture, and the iconic peach blossom eyes slightly bent when he smiled, cleared his throat, and said: "My name is Hua Zhuo, and I came from the fairy world, but I haven't been enlightened for long, only 19 years. .And you?"

Hua Zhuo looked at him expectantly.

The man thought about it for a while, then calmly said, "Forgot."

"I really forgot." The man explained, "I just woke up from a cave this morning, and when I opened my eyes, I found that I didn't remember anything, and my mana was depleted a lot, and I couldn't recover for a while, otherwise And you won't faint on the way."

"Is that so." Hua Zhuo was thoughtful.

It sounds like it was calculated by someone?

"Then since you don't remember anything, you probably have nowhere to go, so why not stay here first. It's not too late to make plans for the future when your body recovers." Hua Zhuo suggested.

"Alright." The man agreed.

After thinking for a while, the man took out a round jade with golden luster from his thin skirt, handed it to him, and said, "I found this from a cave, and it seems to be worth a lot, so let's treat it as yours." Save my thank you."

Hua Zhuo's eyes lit up.

"This is so embarrassing." Hua Zhuo refused, but took it honestly, and held it in his hand to read it curiously.

It's quite bright, like a night pearl.

The man didn't care much and said, "As long as you like it."

Hua Zhuo put away Yuanyu, and said: "Aside from this, is there anything else in the cave? For example, something that can prove your identity?"

The man said: "There is one."

"What?" Hua Zhuo asked.

The man took out a jade pendant from his pocket.

The jade pendant looked ordinary, its texture was ordinary, and there were signs of wear and tear on it due to years of wearing. The carving patterns and styles were nothing special, only two small characters were engraved on the back - Hanzhou.

"Han Zhou?" Hua Zhuo read out and asked, "Is that your name?"

The man was not sure either, and said, "Maybe."

Hua Zhuo thought for a while and said, "You don't remember anyway, so let's call it that for now."

The man nodded, not caring.

Afterwards, Hua Zhuo stayed with him for nearly an hour, and briefly told him about himself and some affairs of the villa. Just in time for dinner, he stopped by to have a meal with him, looking very enthusiastic Hospitality—after all, we are both fallen butterflies in the world, and it is not easy to get together.

After dark, Ji Xiao came back, and when he heard about Hua Zhuo's return, he just asked a few casually, and didn't have any extra time to take a look, so he went into the study instead, and buried himself in sorting out the news he had just received in the past few days.

Things have been a little strange lately.He used the forces of the world to find out some dark spots of the Demon Cult, but he found that there were not many Demon Cult disciples hidden in these dark spots. There were only three to five people in each place, and the distribution was not dense. In the towns and villages near the bustling big city, there are scattered, like an undetectable trickle, surrounding the various hubs of the Central Plains.

But what is suspicious is that they have never made any movement, they just live there aimlessly every day, almost blending in with the surrounding environment. After so many days, no one has found out what their purpose is.

After sorting through the letters of the other three sects again, as expected, there was still no progress. Ji Xiao leaned on the chair and rubbed the center of his brows a little irritably.

Half an hour later, the shadow guard knocked on the door and came in, holding another letter he had just received in his hand.

Ji Xiao closed the book in his hand, took the letterhead, opened it and read it, frowned, and put it aside.

Seeing that he was frowning, the shadow guard asked, "Master Young Master, is there still no news from the Demon Sect?"

"Hmm." Ji Xiao said coldly, "Even the four sects joined forces and found nothing. I'm afraid they really came prepared this time."

The shadow guard said with relief: "The situation in the Wulin is now stable, no matter how good the Demon Cult is, it cannot be achieved overnight, and it will always show its feet."

Ji Xiao nodded, but did not make a sound.

Seeing his tired face, the shadow guard said with concern: "Master Young, let's put the ones here for a while, it's getting late, your body is important."

Ji Xiao responded lightly, but didn't see any movement. He seemed to be thinking deeply, staring at the case without saying a word.

The Shadow Guard opened his mouth, thinking that he was still entangled with the Devil's Cult, and was about to persuade him, when Ji Xiao suddenly asked, "Have you heard of Painted Skin?"

The shadow guard was taken aback by this abrupt topic, his eyes fell on the book "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" on his desk, he was dazed for a while, and nodded hesitantly.

Ji Xiao's eyes were deep, and his tone was so serious that it was almost lifelike. He thought to himself, "Then do you think what's written in the book is true?"

Shadow Guard: "Huh?"

"The demon... really has feelings for mortals?" Ji Xiao asked.

The shadow guard looked blank, "...big, probably."

Ji Xiao nodded thoughtfully, and then asked a very profound question: "Then do you think that in this world, it's really the way of a monster?"

The shadow guard choked, apparently touched by a blind spot in his knowledge, and murmured: "This... this subordinate doesn't know."

Ji Xiao fell silent.

The shadow guard was worried, and tentatively said: "Master Shao, why don't you go down and ask a Taoist priest to look at it for you?"

By the way, do another ritual.

Asking such a strange question suddenly, maybe some fairy has been entangled.

Ji Xiao twitched his eyebrows, looked at him, "No need."

The shadow guard shut his mouth wisely.

Ji Xiao continued to stare at the book on the table, and there was no movement for a while, as if he wanted to find out why.

With an idea, the shadow guard decided to change the subject, and said, "By the way, Young Master, when Young Madam came back today, she picked someone up from the side of the road."

"Picking someone up?" Ji Xiao frowned upon hearing this, and was really attracted by the attention, and asked, "Who is it?"

"I don't know." Ying Wei said, "It's a man who passed out on the side of the road this morning. We originally wanted to send him to the hospital, but the young lady didn't go in when he arrived at the door of the hospital and brought him back. "

"Oh?" Ji Xiao raised his eyebrows.

The shadow guard added: "Young Madam seems to be... quite caring towards him. As soon as he woke up, he went to the room to have a look, and we ate dinner together."

As expected, Ji Xiao's face darkened when he heard this.

"Young Master." The shadow guard observed his expression and said cautiously, "Do you want to read a little longer?"

"No." Ji Xiao stood up coldly, and said, "It's getting late, it's time to rest, put the letter on the table away for me."

The shadow guard lowered his head and hurriedly replied: "Yes."

Shadow Guard: I'm such a clever little ghost.

The young master suspected that he married a troublesome little goblin, so he silently referred to "Liao Zhai"...

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