Chapter 199 Jin丨Exclusively published by Jiang Wenxue

"Do you think I want to go back?" Xie Heng smiled and said, "Yes, people like you probably think that the grace of your parents' giving birth to you is above all else. Since I am alive, I should be loyal and filial and support my parents."

System: [Does he think so?]

Xue Chen: [Definitely not.]

System: [Then why do you say that?]

Xue Chen: [I feel guilty!]

System: [……]

Bullshit, you are clearly very righteous!

Hua Liutong said in astonishment: "Why do you think so? I already know the truth, how can I hope you go back? It's just... you can't keep wandering around... If you are willing, you might as well come home with me. I swear, I will protect you well this time and never let you suffer again."

Xie Heng: "I am not a member of the Hua family."

Hua Liutong smiled bitterly: "Yes, I thought too simply."

He wanted to let Xie Heng enter the Hua family's ancestral hall and give him a place to stay. It seems easy, just a matter of adding one more tablet, but it is very difficult to implement in practice.

After all, Xie Heng's surname is Xie. Even if they have a good relationship, it is impossible for him to be included in his family tree. Even if the Hua family agrees, the Xie family will not agree.

Moreover, how could he know whether Xie Heng's soul, which was placed in the Hua family's ancestral hall to receive incense, could be recognized by the Hua family?

Hua Liutong didn't want his friend to become a lonely ghost, but he could do nothing about his fate.

Xie Heng hesitated: "Have you been okay these days?"

"Very well," Hua Liutong said casually: I just think of you occasionally. "

Xie Heng: "I'm sorry for you. If I had known this, I should have asked someone to tell you before leaving that day."

Hua Liutong: "You also have many difficulties, I can understand."

Xie Heng nodded and stretched out his hand to him: "Show me the lamp you bought. "

Hua Liutong took the lanterns and put one in Xie Heng's hand, and held up the other lanterns for Xie Heng to see.

"You just said you would give me a lantern, does that still count?"

"Of course."

Xie Heng observed for a long time and picked a glass lantern with a picture of fish playing on lotus leaves.

The fish in the painting was golden red, covered with a layer of gold powder, shining with bright light. There were only two green lotus leaves, but they were painted very large, almost covering the entire space. The water below was rippling and looked very clear. The color gradually deepened in the distance, almost merging with the lotus leaves. This lantern The composition is very grand, with few colors. Although there are no lotus flowers, it does not look dull.

Hua Liutong accidentally touched his hand, and felt a chill, not like a living person.

He was inexplicably frightened and did not dare to think about it. He quickly shifted his attention and said, "When it's night, light the candle wick inside, and the fire will shine out. It must be very beautiful... Can you... do it?"

Xie Heng asked doubtfully, "What?"

Hua Liutong: "That..."

Xie Heng thought for a moment, "Are you worried that I'm afraid of fire? Don't worry, the fire didn't hurt me, and I've been burned by fire too many times these days, and I'm used to it. "

System: [When were you burned?]

Xue Chen: [The fire-baked ones are rectangular, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and they fall apart when you touch them. They are best eaten with donkey meat.]

System: [……]

【I'm joking.】 Xue Chen said, 【Of course I'm referring to the furnace explosion. Xie Heng, on average, it explodes at least three or four times a day, right? Although most of the time the power is very small, it's still a furnace explosion no matter how small the power is! I play with fire every day, and I wish the flames were bigger, so why would I be afraid of a mere lamp?】

The system saw Hua Liutong's expression through his vision, 【Hua Liutong looks like he believes it completely! He's going to be fooled by you!】

Xue Chen: 【Just ask you, which of my words is not true?】

System: 【...As long as you are happy.】

Xue Chen: 【Thank you.】

System: 【...】

Hua Liutong thought he died in vain in the fire, and before reincarnation, he was still experiencing the pain of death, and was often burned by the flames. He couldn't help but look sad: "You have suffered these days."

Xie Heng: "It's okay. "

Hua Liutong had no experience in communicating with ghosts, and was afraid that something he said would be wrong and offend his taboos.

He now only regretted why he had not thought about taking care of Xie Heng's funeral affairs before. It was too late to ask anyone about these things now.

Hua Liutong: "In a few days, can I go to the temple to burn incense and pray for you?"

Xie Heng looked at him doubtfully: "It's up to you. "

System: [You haven't given yourself away yet? How did you get on with this conversation? At this point, shouldn't you ask him why, then talk to him and tell him the truth?]

Xue Chen: [Stupid, the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month are the days for burning incense, and the Lantern Festival is a few days later. Although it's not as crowded as the first day of the Lunar New Year, it's still an extremely important time. There's nothing wrong with burning incense on this festival. What's there to ask?]

System: [……]

Hua Liutong is confused!

Why didn't he just say it clearly? Now you've been fooled.

Seeing that he couldn't let go of the lantern, Hua Liutong felt that he had finally done the right thing.

He suggested: "Do you want to go to the lantern festival together in the evening?"

Xie Heng: "Me?"

Hua Liutong: "Who else besides you? "

Xie Heng: "It's not that I can't, but I don't want to have anything to do with the Xie family anymore. Can you help me hide my identity?"

Hua Liutong: "Don't worry, I will do my best."

Xie Heng: "You are so serious, it makes me embarrassed. This is my own business. Even if I am not careful and others know about it, it doesn't matter. I just want to save some trouble and don't want to have anything to do with them anymore."

Hua Liutong: "I understand."

System: [You know nothing!]

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In the new year, Pei Rui's new clothes are still black.

He couldn't see and had no concept of colors, so he could just wear the uniform solid-colored clothes without having to match them.

The black leather belt tied his waist tightly, and the domineering young man walked into the Shenhou Mansion with a long knife in his left hand and a basket of eggs in his right hand.

He was already very imposing, and holding the eggs made him even more eye-catching.

"Master Pei, what are you doing..."

"Visiting relatives." Pei Rui said coldly.

"..."

[Ah?] The system was sluggish, [What are you doing! ]

[Visiting relatives. ]

Pei Rui walked in without changing his expression.

Just at this moment, Jin Jian pushed Wu Qing over from behind and greeted him: "Pei Rui."

Pei Rui whispered: "Xiao Jin, senior brother." Wu

Qing sat very low and could not see what was in the basket. He looked up and saw a little yellow, which looked familiar: "What did you take?"

"I don't have anything to show off. It's just a small token of my respect. These are fresh eggs I just laid. I hope you don't mind." Wu Qing

: "..."

Xue Chen: [What do you think?]

System: [Did you learn this from me? ? ? ?]

Xue Chen: [No, I just wanted to shock them with some stupidity.]

The system breathed a sigh of relief.

Jin Jian was about to speak when Wu Qing said: "Go in."

"Yes, Master."

Pei Rui followed them, crossed the threshold, and came to the main hall.

Zhu Gezhengwo got up very early and had just seen off the guests. He was drinking tea inside. When he saw someone coming, he directly let them go to the inner room.

He saw the basket in Pei Rui's hand, "What is this?"

Pei Rui blinked slowly and repeated calmly: "I don't have anything to show off. It's just a small token of my respect. These are fresh eggs I just laid. I hope you don't mind, uncle."

Wuqing: "..."

Jin Jian: "Pfft."

Zhu Ge Zhengwo laughed and said, "Kid, where did you learn this from?"

Pei Rui tilted his head: "Yeah."

Wuqing knew that he was slow to react and his thinking was different from ordinary people. Looking at Pei Rui's expression, it seemed that he didn't know what he did wrong. He said helplessly: "Uncle, let Jin Jian take this gift away."

Zhu Ge Zhengwo: "There are so many eggs, I'm afraid you don't know the weights. Be careful when you take them, don't drop them."

Jin Jian responded and left with the basket.

Zhuge Zhengwo: "This is your first year here. I should have chosen a time to invite you to get together, but I don't know the arrangements of King Taiping, so I didn't take the liberty to invite you. You came at the right time, stay for dinner."

Pei Rui: "Okay."

Zhuge Zhengwo smiled and asked someone to call other disciples over.

When Wuqing saw that they had finished talking, he pushed his wheelchair forward and reported to Zhuge Zhengwo about his work in the past few days in front of Pei Rui without any hesitation.

The annual leave is only three days, and the four famous detectives have returned to work long ago, but there is not much to do, and it is not as busy as usual.

Zhui Ming still drinks in the old building every day, and occasionally there will be work assigned to him, so he didn't call Pei Rui back and gave him a few more days off.

Pei Rui seemed to be daydreaming, but in fact he had been paying attention to the communication between Wuqing and Zhuge Zhengwo.

[It seems that they are very satisfied with Xiao Liu, but because of the dinner party Cui Ming attended before, they are always wary. The better Xiao Liu performs, the more wary they are. ]

[You asked for it. ]

Xue Chen: [You don’t understand. If I played perfectly and didn’t do these things, they must have a good impression of me. The gap between us will be even bigger in the future. Only then will I really lose their trust. ]

System: [I think I understand a little bit. You deliberately did so many suspicious things to attract their investigation, and then made your position clear. They will only suddenly realize it and will not think that you are a pervert at all. ]

Xue Chen: [And I have always been ambiguous. ]

Xie Heng from Jiangnan showed a very faint smile, his eyes seemed to be filled with stars, and he looked up at Hua Liutong who was speaking.

Hua Liutong was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Xie Heng: "I thought of some interesting things. By the way, do you know Yun Heyan?"

Hua Liutong: "The new head of the Yingfeng Bureau? I heard that he is very close to Lord Fang. Most of the merchants in Jiangnan have intersections with him, and my family is no exception. But these things are done by my eldest brother, and I have never seen him in person."

Xie Heng nodded: "Let's go to Qitong's place tomorrow."

Hua Liutong calculated the days and found that Xie Heng had stayed in the world for a long time. He asked worriedly: "Is your body okay?"

In fact, he was still worried that the negative energy in Xie Heng's body was not good for Qitong, and he didn't want him to meet Hua Manlou.

"My legs are disabled, but I am still alive." Xie Heng paused, lowered his eyes and said, "If you don't want to, forget it."

Hua Liutong: "I don't mean that. Qitong also misses you very much. If he can see you again, he will be very happy. But I have to tell him in advance, so as not to scare him."

The system said loudly: [You should worry about yourself! ]