Liu Jing was born in Nanyang. He embarked on the path of spiritual practice at the age of twenty and has been practicing for forty years now. However, because of his mediocre qualifications, there is no hope of breakthrough. He came here to find a legendary treasure jade ring.

He pretended to be a practicing alchemist and traveled around. He happened to meet the Wei family and was treated as an honored guest. Along the way, he also accepted the young master of the Wei family as his apprentice.

In order to collect clues about the treasure, he lived in the Wei family. It was not bad to use the power and financial resources of the Wei family to continuously provide him with training expenses.

However, he did not believe in the character of the young master of the Wei family. Although this apprentice diligently greeted and served him every day, Liu Jing only taught him some ordinary qi training methods and did not teach him much.

Hearing the news about the treasure from his apprentice, Liu Jing's face flashed with excitement, but he still pretended to be calm. He grabbed Wei Qi's arm, took him into the house, and then lowered his voice and asked: "Where is it?

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"An old craftsman from our Wei family said that when we were building the Juancheng County government office, he asked a magician to bury a piece of jade to ward off evil spirits in the base of a certain wall. It was somewhat similar to what the master said.

Similar. However, I don’t know which wall foundation it is buried under.”

"Huh? What does that alchemist look like?"

"This old craftsman is old, and he also said that he only met the alchemist once, and he can't remember it now."

Liu Jing noticed a cunning flash in Wei Qi's eyes and understood that this good disciple must know the exact information, but just wanted to use it in exchange for his own benefits.

He remained calm and pondered for a moment before saying, "It's not uncommon to see evil-suppressing things buried at the base of walls. Let's find out more."

"What the master said is that the disciple must find out clearly. If it is true, because it is an important government place, we have to inform the government about this matter and find a reason to take the master to check. However, the disciple thinks that they will not embarrass my guard.

Home."

Liu Jing finally laughed at this time, patted Wei Qi on the shoulder and said, "Well, as a teacher, I know it's right to accept you as my apprentice." However, he already had a plan in mind. It was just a county government, so he would go look for it at night.

That’s it.

Song Xin heard them fussing around in the house and didn't know what they were talking about. He didn't dare to leave the yard, but stood at the door of his hut waiting for instructions.

When Liu Jing and Liu Jing were talking, they would glance at him from time to time, always feeling that he had no good intentions. Now he just felt like a little bug on a spider web, unable to escape, and could only wait to be eaten.

The day passed so peacefully.

Late at night, Song Xin tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. At this moment, she heard Liu Jing's door creaking open, and then there was the sound of gentle footsteps.

He thought Liu Jing had given orders, so he quickly stood up and tried to open the door. Then he heard Liu Jing's cold and stern voice outside:

"Stay in the house and don't come out!"

"Fuck, how did he know I was going to open the door..." Song Xin subconsciously turned to look at the corner of the room to confirm that there was no surveillance. He felt like the protagonist of The Truman World, being watched from beginning to end.

Song Xin trembled and hurriedly retreated to his bed. After waiting for a while, there was no more movement outside.

However, he always felt that something was staring at him from outside, and he was too scared to fall asleep. It was not until late in the night, when his tiredness almost made him unbearable, that he heard the sound of very light footsteps coming from the courtyard.

Apparently someone sneaked in. But Song Xin was scolded by Liu Jing just now, so how could he dare to go out now?

The people in the yard seemed to be heading for Liu Jing's house. He waited outside for a while.

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He seemed to be listening to the movement in the house. After finding that no one was there, he gently opened the door and sneaked in quietly.

The man seemed to be very careful, turning around and closing the door.

There was another moment of dead silence. Song Xin really wanted to go out and check, what if it was a thief? But thinking of old man Liu Jing's words, he could only give up the idea and simply sat on the straw mat with his chin in his hands in a daze.

"You are very obedient, even more obedient than the previous boys."

Suddenly Liu Jing's voice appeared in his ears, which frightened Song Xin so much that he almost collapsed.

But there was obviously no one around.

Only then did he realize that the person who was tiptoeing just now was probably Liu Jing. He didn't know why he went out so late.

"md, just like my former head teacher... I was scared to death."

Cold sweat had already soaked through his clothes, and when he was blown by the cold wind, he couldn't help but shiver. If he really went out, he didn't know what he would face now. It felt like Blue Beard's Bride, and his curiosity tempted him to go and see it.

, but I dare not go...

Liu Jing seemed to be able to sense Song Xin's panic. He sneered and fell into silence again.

"There should be no surveillance at this time..." Song Xin couldn't help but look towards the corner of the room. There was nothing but spider webs and mildew spots.

After being frightened like this, he naturally lost all sleep, and waited until dawn. When it was bright and opened the door, he saw that everything in the courtyard was as usual. The door of Liu Jing's room was open, but no one was there. He relaxed a little and breathed a sigh of relief.

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Clean the yard as instructed, fill up the water in the water tank, and water the herbs. A servant of the Wei family came in with a few food boxes. When he saw Song Xin, he didn't speak to him and just put the boxes down.

Just leave.

"The third box is your morning food, take it and eat it." (Breakfast in the Han Dynasty was the morning food, lunch and dinner were the seasonal food, two meals a day)

Song Xin was frightened and trembled again. It turned out that Liu Jing had been here all along, and she didn't even notice him.

"This man is like a ghost. He hides out of nowhere and scares people. He is simply sick."

But I am still afraid, and the hunger in my belly is real.

But for some reason, before night fell today, the Wei family actually brought him another meal. Although it was not much, there was wine.

The alcohol at this time is very low in alcohol content, similar to fermented glutinous rice wine. I feel like eating two meals a day is not enough, and my stomach will growl in the afternoon.

This made Song Xin overjoyed. After eating these things, it was already dark. I don't know if it was due to the effect of alcohol, but Song Xin only felt sleepy for a while, and fell asleep without realizing it.

The two lived together peacefully for half a month. During this period, he would get an extra piece of food every day before going to bed. At the beginning, he was a little grateful to Liu Jing, thinking that he was giving him extra food because of his leg injury.

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But in the past half month, Song Xin often felt sleepy during the day. When she got up in the morning, she was still yawning all day long. She always felt that she had not slept enough and felt more tired than when she was 996. Once when she was eating at the stone table, she suddenly

Unable to resist being sleepy, he fell asleep. His body quickly lost weight, and his complexion became very poor. Once again, when he was fetching water, he saw himself reflected in the water, which looked like a skinny corpse, and he couldn't even recognize it.

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In addition, he began to feel a dull pain in his wrists, abdomen, back, and ankles every day. He found that there was another cycle of pain. Within every five days, the drowsiness and pain would worsen day by day, and then within two days it would disappear.

It eases, and then the cycle begins again.

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After careful inspection, I found several pinprick-sized wounds on my wrist, as if they were bitten by bugs at night.

He thought it was because of the poor hygiene in this era and the abundance of lice and bedbugs. But having a place to live and food to eat, even if the old man was more suspicious, it would be much easier than the handymen outside.

On weekdays, except for the servants who came to deliver meals, and even Wei Qi who often came to ask for elixirs, there were no other guests. Liu Jing seemed to have some trust in Song Xin, and even if he fell asleep during the day, he would not wake him up.

But no matter how much he ate, the ribs on his chest gradually became clearer day after day.

On this day, Liu Jing suddenly told Song Xin: "I'm going out for a few days, so don't go out at night."

"Yes, Master Liu, I remember."

That night, I heard the sound of the door of Liu Jing's house and Liu Jing left.

However, after learning the lesson from the first night, Song Xin did not dare to go out at all, just in case this elusive old guy was spying on him somewhere.

He lay on the straw mat and looked blankly at the spider webs on the roof. He recalled the jade ring he once held. This month, it seemed to have disappeared. Song Xin rummaged through his clothes and found nothing.

its whereabouts.

"Where did it go? It's so strange, I still hold it in my hand... At that time, I heard a voice saying, "You can't die, you are taking the jade necklace with you... But then I did not die."

He thought about it over and over in his mind for a long time but had no idea.

However, at this moment, outside the house, Liu Jing stood like a statue. After staring at Song Xin's house for a long time, he squinted and nodded, and finally disappeared into the dark night like a ghost.

For two days in a row, Song Xin did not see Liu Jing. He also obeyed Liu Jing's instructions and did not enter his house or step out of the house at night. In the past two days, Song Xin's sleepiness during the day had lessened.

Quite a few, and there were no more wounds on the wrists and ankles.

A few days passed and Liu Jing still didn't come back. Song Xin started to grumble in his heart. He was too lonely and bored, so he could only stretch his legs and legs in the yard and take care of the herbs in the nursery.

Until the fourth night after Liu Jing left, a low thunder rolled from the sky, and suddenly there was heavy rain and strong winds. The thunder and lightning cast shadows on the branches next to the yard like ghost claws, flickering continuously.

Song Xin was about to eat the food sent by the Wei family when he heard a strong wind and the door of Liu Jing's house banged. It must have been blown open by the wind.

When Song Xin heard the noise, his first reaction was that he was afraid that the rain would wet the things in the house, so he subconsciously wanted to open the door to check. But at this moment, his body suddenly froze as if he had been struck by lightning, and his fingers clasped together like

Eagle Claw, his body seemed to be pressed down by some huge boulder, unable to move at all.

"This is...this is that feeling, it's coming again!!" Although Song Xin couldn't move his body, his mind was not frozen.

He still clearly remembered experiencing such extreme silence and oppression in prison.

However, this time was very short, but it was hard not to realize it. He experienced this feeling twice, once before he jumped from a building to his death, and once in prison.

The thunderstorm and heavy rain outside seemed to have stopped for an instant. In a moment of silence, he heard a familiar, strange, and heart-stopping voice:

"Don't go out, or you won't survive the night."
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