So at first Xu Gu thought that Xu Yezhu asked young children to do this just to select the most suitable children to be secret guards. In fact, this was not the case. He was thinking too complicated.

One day later, Xu Gu asked Shen Heng why Xu Yezhu wanted to let only one child survive in this way. If it was to select secret guards, why not keep them all? After all, every child he liked was It has great potential.

Shen Heng told him that Xu Yezhu simply liked to watch others kill each other and that raising secret guards was fun, so helping him was just a casual thing.

Everything is just to satisfy Xu Yezhu's own preferences.

And his preferences must be satisfied with the blood of others.

At this point, Xu Yezhu's image of a saint in his childhood heart completely collapsed.

Whenever he thought of Xu Yezhu's smiling face, Xu Gu no longer felt kind and kind. Instead, it made him nauseous. It wasn't until he grew up that he understood that Xu Yezhu's smile at that time was not recognition of them, but recognition of the corpse. When he crawled out of the cave, his body was covered in blood, he felt excited and satisfied, and he showed an almost twisted smile.

As a result, Xu Yezhu's smile suddenly became a lingering shadow in his life.

Later, Xu Gu also learned from Shen Heng that Shen Heng himself had actually participated in such a fight. Xu Gu was confused and couldn't believe it. Shen Heng had obviously had the same experience as them. Why? Not only is Shen Heng not afraid of Xu Yezhu, but she often shows him a cold face?

Is it just because he is a prince?

not really.

It's because Shen Heng's situation was worse than theirs at that time!

There is nothing to drink, nothing to eat, just endless killing. If you want to survive, you have to kill each other. When you are thirsty, you drink other people's blood. When you are hungry, you eat other people's flesh.

And when you see Xu Yezhu's smiling face in such a terrible and desperate situation, there are only two situations, either like Xu Gu, who regards Xu Yezhu as an eternal nightmare and lives in his shadow, or , deep down in his heart, he was influenced and infected by Xu Yezhu, causing his psychology to become distorted.

Obviously, Shen Heng is the latter.

"What are you thinking about so deeply?"

A sinister smile suddenly sounded in his ears. Xu Gu shivered unexpectedly. He hurriedly gave a stiff smile and said, "It's nothing, nothing."

"Oh." Xu Yezhu smiled affectionately, but his eyes flashed with a sinister light: "I thought you were remembering things from your childhood."

"!"

Xu Gu was horrified.

"okay."

Shen Heng looked at Xu Yezhu coldly: "Don't scare him, let's get down to business."

Xu Yezhu waved his hands in disappointment: "You are always like this, so boring."

"Then let me tell you what happened during my trip to Qinan."

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Two carriages were driving slowly through the mountains. Inside the carriage, Ye Qingwan closed her eyes and slept lightly. A sudden bump made her open her eyes in displeasure.

She lowered her eyes and looked at her legs, becoming irritated for no reason. I don't know if it was because of her leg injury, but she felt sleepy more and more frequently. Yesterday, she finally got a good sleep, but she was woken up early in the morning. I still feel angry when I woke up.

They set out in the early morning, and it was already afternoon. Such a long time had passed, and they had not yet arrived at Guiming Temple.

But what bothered Ye Qingwan the most was not the smelly and long journey, but the sick-like mountain road! She wanted to catch up on a good night's sleep in the carriage, but the mountain road seemed to be against Ye Qingwan. , every time when she was about to fall asleep, the road would become extremely steep, and there would be bumps from time to time, making it impossible for her to fall asleep.

Ye Qing simply didn't sleep at night, raised the curtain and looked at the scenery.

After watching for a while, Ye Qingwan felt bored. She put down the curtain and asked the driver impatiently: "How long until we arrive?"

The coachman replied: "Miss, I'll probably be there in just a stick of incense."

Ye Qingwan said oh and closed her eyes to rest.

After a while, the carriage stopped, and Ye Qingwan got out of the carriage unhurriedly with the help of two girls.

After getting out of the car, Ye Qingwan stretched lazily and yawned again, showing no dignity at all that a lady should have. At this time, Ye Ningyu, who was getting off the carriage in front, saw Ye Qingwan like this.

He rolled his eyes contemptuously.

The young novice who was sweeping the floor in front of Guiming Temple saw the arrival of Ye Qingwan and his party, and immediately put down the broom in his hand and stepped forward to greet them.

The young novice monk said respectfully: "Are these female donors here to see Mrs. Ye?"

Ning Xiuya said yes, and the little novice nodded and led them into Guiming Temple.

Waves of deep and melodious bells echoed in the ears. Guiming Temple was not big as a whole. The young novice quickly took them to a side hall, then clasped his hands together in a salute and silently left.

Ye Qingwan raised her eyebrows slightly, and at a glance she saw an old woman with gray hair on her temples. The old woman was kneeling under the Buddha statue with her back to them. After hearing the movement, she slowly got up and saw Ye Ningxue standing at the door.

Zhuang hurriedly went up to help the old woman, and then turned around.

The old woman was wearing some outdated Chinese clothes, with an old face covered with wrinkles that was slightly thinner, and her two triangular eyes sunk deeply into the eye sockets were cloudy and unclear.

Ancient times, this is the grandmother of their three sisters, Mrs. Ye.

Mrs. Ye first touched Ye Ningxue's head and said with a smile: "Good boy."

Seeing this, Ye Ningyu stepped forward not to be outdone, and called out sweetly: "Grandma!"

Mrs. Ye was so happy that she simply touched a little head with one hand, a smile from the bottom of her heart filling her sallow face.

But when she looked up and saw Ye Qingwan, the smile immediately disappeared without a trace, replaced by a serious look.

Facing the old lady's rapid change of attitude, Ye Qingwan just leaned against the pillar with her arms folded and watched coldly, as if she had long been accustomed to it.

After a while, the old lady lowered her head again and looked at the two sisters with a smile on her face: "It's rare that you have the heart to come all the way to see me, so hurry up and have a rest, and let's have a meal together later." Mrs. Ye

As he spoke, he did not look at Ye Qingwan again. He seemed to be just talking to the sisters Ye Ningyu and Ye Ningxue, completely treating Ye Qingwan and her two girls as nothing.

"What's the point!" Ye Ningyu said with a smile, "Grandma said that we all have to come for her seventieth birthday. We can only see you once a year. Even if it's thundering or raining, we all have to come to see you.

."

Ye Ningxue then said: "Yes, if possible, I would like my grandma to come back to the house with us, so that we can see grandma every day."

The two of them talked to each other and coaxed the old lady to great joy.

Ye Qingwan really couldn't bear to look at their disgusting pretentious looks anymore, so she couldn't help but call the old lady lukewarmly: "Grandma."
Chapter completed!