Chapter 51 Is he still going to rush forward?
Xie Chengjin has been acting more and more weird lately.
Before, he appeared in her room silently, and now he stood silently at the door of her room, like a ghost, scaring Xie Yanyu every time he appeared.
Hearing his question, she slowed down and said, "I want to go out for a walk."
She really was going out, so she didn't hide it from him completely and gave him a half-truth answer.
Then she asked again: "Brother, why are you standing at the door of my room? Do you have something to talk to me about?"
Xie Chengjin looked at her: "Yeah."
It was summer and the weather was hot, so women's skirts would actually reveal some of their shoulders and necks. Even if they pulled their collars tighter, some skin would still be exposed.
He deliberately avoided looking at her shoulders and neck. "There's been some issues with the seal of the demon world, so I'll need to stay nearby for the next few days. Helan Wei and I will stay here for a few more days. Since you can't see, it's more convenient to stay at the mansion than at the inn. I'll send someone over to take you back to the mansion in a while."
Xie Yanyu was stunned when he heard this.
She really wanted to stay here for a few more days to resolve Li Xun's issue before leaving.
This was a good opportunity, so she quickly said, "There's no need to trouble the people in the mansion to make more trips. I can stay here and go back with my brother when the time comes."
However, as soon as these words fell,
Xie Chengjin pursed his lips: "Really? Afraid of bothering the people in the mansion?"
His gaze was still cold, like a knife, its blade icy and sharp, as if it could cut through her skin and see her inner thoughts and soul. He knew she was lying again. She wasn't afraid of bothering the people in the mansion, she just wanted to stay here. But why? Because of Helan Wei?
He usually doesn't like to meddle in such trivial matters, and if she doesn't want to reply, he won't interfere.
But at this moment,
He looked at her for a long moment, then suddenly said, "No trouble. Go pack your things."
Xie Yanyu didn't want to go back.
So when she heard his words, she didn't move, but continued to refuse: "Brother, I..."
Before she finished speaking,
Xie Chengjin suddenly interrupted her: "You want me to help you clean up?"
Xie Yanyu didn't say anything.
She didn't know what was wrong with him. She suspected he was angry, but his face was expressionless and he didn't look angry.
It was as if he had suddenly become ill and was arguing with her. The more she didn't want to go back, the more he wanted her to go back. If he said that he was worried about her and Helan Wei's relationship, but didn't he keep an eye on her in the room yesterday? It was quite effective, so he didn't have to send her back because of this.
She couldn't understand him and tried to figure out the problem.
But before she could think about it carefully,
She saw him walk into the room, pick up her shoes and socks, and fold them for her with an expressionless face, as if he was really helping her pack her luggage.
Xie Yanyu: "..."
Xie Yanyu really disliked Xie Chengjin's aggressive attitude.
But in recent times, when he oppressed her, although his attitude was tough, his actions were like those of a servant, which was very twisted.
Before, he was pinching her ankle to bandage her, and now he was packing her shoes and socks, causing Xie Yanyu's anger to fluctuate.
She was unhappy, but also felt a sense of pleasure as if she had stepped on him.
She also became twisted, knowing that this would allow some villains to succeed, but she couldn't help but think, what if she became stronger in the future and could really step on him?
It took her a long time to sort out her twisted emotions.
Then she walked behind him and grabbed his sleeve: "Brother, don't take it. I won't go back."
Xie Chengjin glanced at her sideways.
His gaze was heavy and cold.
Without waiting for him to speak, Xie Yanyu spoke first, "I have to stay with my brother for the next few days."
She has important business to attend to, so she must stay today.
So she found an excuse that was impossible to refuse: "Every two weeks or so, my brother is attacked by the remaining poison in his body, and he needs my blood as a medicine. It's been almost two weeks since the last time I took my blood. If I'm not here, what will happen if my brother is attacked by the remaining poison in the next two days?"
As she spoke, she tapped her left forearm with her finger, making a gesture of cutting her arm.
Although she did not like bloodletting, she did not feel wronged about it, and she did not shy away from talking about it.
Because in her opinion, this is an equal exchange.
She took advantage of this to enter the Xie family. Although the Xie family, both the master and the servants, looked down on her and her status as an adopted daughter was also embarrassing, at least it was a stable life, which was much better than living on the streets.
She just felt unwilling.
If she had a better family background, or could climb higher up, or was more powerful, she wouldn't have to live this kind of life.
Her tone was very natural and emotionless when she mentioned this.
Instead, Xie Chengjin was stunned, as if he didn't expect her to mention this.
Then he frowned, and his eyes followed her movements, landing on her left hand. He could see that the upper part of the back of her hand was wrapped in gauze starting from the base of her thumb, and the gauze continued layer by layer along her forearm into the wide sleeve.
He knew there were scars scattered beneath the gauze.
But for the first time, he began to imagine what her scar looked like.
Her skin was so pale that even the slightest finger marks were obvious, and the knife marks were even more obvious, like a centipede, winding unevenly on her forearm.
Xie Chengjin didn't know why he had these associations, thinking of those strange sensations and empathy. For a moment, he suspected that it was because of her blood. He noticed her in the beginning, and then he dreamed of her and empathized with her. Now he even got distracted by thinking about the appearance of her scar.
He suppressed the thought.
After a while, he said indifferently, "It's okay. I don't need you every time. You can go back."
Xie Yanyu said, "No."
She took the folded shoes and socks from his hands and put them back: "I'd better stay with my brother."
Xie Chengjin suddenly felt unhappy.
It seems like something is gradually losing control and collapsing out of control.
He didn't like this feeling, but Xie Yanyu insisted on contradicting him. He should have taken control of her in time and sent her back.
But after a long time,
He looked away and said coldly, "It's up to you."
After he said this, he smoothed the wrinkles on his sleeves and stood up to leave.
However, when he reached the door, he stopped again and turned back to ask her, "Didn't you say you were going out? Where are you going?"
“…Just taking a walk.”
"Can you see?"
Xie Yanyu paused.
She put the jade talisman of Mingxin Fu in her sleeve. She didn't want Xie Chengjin to know about this.
So she said vaguely: "It's okay if you can't see, just go out for a while."
"And sprain your other foot?"
Xie Yanyu didn't know why he brought up this matter again.
She was quiet and didn't say anything.
After a while, she saw him use some spiritual power.
The spiritual power fell on her wrist through the air and pulled her.
Then I heard him say coldly: "Let's go. I'll watch you."
*
Xie Yanyu didn't expect Xie Chengjin to accompany her out.
But she didn't refuse.
She didn't even hide it from him and told him directly that she was going to the pawnshop there.
She was going to the pawnshop to redeem something. She knew it was a token of her engagement with Li Xun, but Xie Chengjin didn't know that. In his eyes, she was just going out to redeem a jade pendant. She didn't have much money, so she took Xie Chengjin with her because he had money. If she didn't have enough, she could ask him for it.
Not long.
They came to the pawnshop.
Many years have passed and the owner has changed.
Xie Yanyu described the engagement jade pendant to the new shopkeeper: "It's an ink-colored jade pendant, round in shape, and the price was very high at the time."
When she pawned the jade pendant, she knew for the first time that it was so valuable. The money she got in exchange was more than the largest amount she knew, so she remembered the appearance of the jade pendant very carefully. There was a Vermillion Bird pattern on the jade pendant, so much so that long after that, whenever she saw something with the Vermillion Bird pattern, she subconsciously felt that it was valuable, so she fell in love with the Vermillion Bird pattern.
But in fact, it is not the Vermillion Bird pattern that is valuable.
It's the jade pendant that's valuable, that's all.
She then added more details to the shopkeeper: "The jade pendant has a Vermillion Bird pattern on it, and it's about half the size of a palm."
Xie Chengjin stood behind her.
When she mentioned the Vermillion Bird pattern, he suddenly remembered going to Yuan's house.
He asked his servants to take her out shopping. The servants came back to report that she had bought several jade pendants and even drew the patterns to show him.
He was not interested in these things, but when he happened to take a glance, he found that the patterns were all Vermillion Bird patterns.
I don't know why he would remember such an insignificant thing.
But she seems to like the Suzaku pattern very much.
This thought suddenly popped into his mind.
On the other side,
The shopkeeper flipped through the records, then came back and said to Xie Yanyu, "This jade pendant..."
He said: "This jade pendant is no longer in our shop. Someone later bought it for a high price."
*
The other side.
Helan Wei sent a message to Xie Yanyu, but she didn't reply for a long time.
He flipped through the communication records with her. It had been a while since she had sent him a message. At a glance, all the messages were from him, although he didn't send many, only two or three.
But even so, his face still didn't look good.
However, after a while, he remembered that Xie Yanyu was blind.
He gave her the book of Mingxin Talisman and asked her to study it by herself, but with her level of cultivation, it would take her ten days to half a month to learn it completely.
He didn't want to make excuses for her, but it had only been a short time. She didn't have the talisman, couldn't see anything, let alone messages, so it was normal for her not to reply to him.
His expression softened a bit.
For some unknown reason, he took out another piece of spiritual jade and prepared to make a jade talisman for enlightenment.
However, when he was almost done, he found that he was still missing one material, so he went downstairs to buy it.
Although this place is on the outskirts of the city, there is also a street market, but all the shops are concentrated in one place. When he finished buying the materials and was about to go back, he suddenly saw the figures of Xie Yanyu and Xie Chengjin from the pawnshop next to him.
The two of them stood close to each other, and there was always a vague sense of intimacy between them.
Xie Yanyu was blindfolded.
But Helan Wei clearly sensed the aura of the Mingxin Talisman on her body—
So someone has already made a talisman for her to enlighten her mind.
Who? Xie Chengjin?
Helan Wei's heart sank suddenly.
He should have been unhappy, but at this moment another feeling prevailed, something close to uneasiness.
With the sudden presence of other people around her, he was finding it increasingly difficult to control her pace.
She was no longer the same person he remembered her to be in her previous life, eager to cling to him. And her perfunctory behavior over the past few days seemed to have accumulated enough weight at this moment, making him realize that even though she still talked about liking him in this life, as if she had some ulterior motive, if he didn't take the initiative, she would still be growing colder and colder.
She needed him less and less.
His eyes were dark.
It was not until he crushed everything he had just bought in his hands that he suddenly came to his senses and realized that something was wrong with him.
She doesn't need him, so does he have to rush to be needed by her?
He laughed sarcastically, then threw away the things in his hand and turned back to the inn.
The half-finished Mingxin Talisman was still on the table. He raised his hand to pick it up, looked at it indifferently for a long time, and was ready to throw it away.
However, at this time,
The spiritual power in the communication talisman fluctuated.
He received her message: [I just fell asleep and just saw the message from you now.]
Helan Wei paused.
Lie. She was clearly outside with Xie Chengjin just now.
He didn't reply to her.
But then, he saw another message from her: [I'll pack up and come over.]
Her tone was the same as always, and she told the lie very naturally.
Helan Wei watched with his eyes downcast, feeling angry, and finally raised his fingertips to edit the message to reply her.
In the past, he would have exposed her, asking her if she had just woken up, or had she been out with Xie Chengjin? Had she not seen the message, or had she been afraid to reply when Xie Chengjin was beside her? He would have found fault with her, asking her if this was what she called love. He would have threatened her, asking her to prove to him that she loved him.
But at this time,
I don’t know if it’s that feeling of unease that’s causing it.
He deleted and revised the message, and finally, as if he knew nothing, he replied with a single word: [Yeah.]
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