"I--" Jiang Shining accelerated her steps under Xue Xian's urging, while speaking hesitantly, "I still feel that it's a little inappropriate."

"What's wrong?" Xue Xian asked, touching his golden bead.

"Hurry away without authorization and leave the master alone." Jiang Shining replied.

Xue Xian glanced at him angrily: "I said, are you a nerd still dreaming of swimming? He is a ghost catching, we were caught. Have you ever seen someone who escaped in prison and even called the prison head?"

"I haven't seen it before." This was right at first glance. Jiang Shining thought about it twice and couldn't help but say, "But-"

Xue Xian: "No, but."

Jiang Shining: "But--"

Xue Xian: "No, either."

Jiang Shining turned his head helplessly to look at him.

Xue Xian was slapped on the golden beads and said shamelessly: "That's how I reasoned."

Jiang Shining: “…”

There is a curfew at night in Ningyang County. Fences and card rooms have been erected on some four-way cross streets. The yamen runners who are on the night are holding wine bags for warming their bodies at night and guarding the card rooms. The four city gates in the southeast, west and north are closed. Ordinary people want to leave the city during this period, so they will probably have to escape.

However, this curfew is not that trouble for these two people who are not human.

Jiang Shining's paper-covered body showed some advantages at this time. If necessary, it could be pressed into a thin piece, making it a good hand to go through the door and the cracks.

"Turn east."

"The front street intersection turned into the alley close to the wall."

"Run straight to the west."

Xue Xian's tricks are more effective than dogs. He can always see the night-watching yamen guards in the shadows from afar. He commands with confidence and decisiveness. Jiang Shining is also a soft-tempered person and is used to being sent by Xue Xian. As soon as the other party spoke, he was satisfied and did not think too much.

As a result, Jiang Shining believed his evil thoughts. After walking for a while, he finally couldn't help but stop and said with a bad look on his face: "Ancestor, you can do it well, shut up."

Xue Xian glanced at him: "Why? Didn't he leave well? He didn't let those vigils notice it."

Jiang Shining said angrily: "Well, I didn't notice it, but I've met this silk shop at least three times. If you listen to your circle, I won't be able to leave the city next year."

Xue Xian hugged Jinzhu and said, "Hiss--the sky is a little gloomy, so I have to find a place to stay earlier."

Jiang Shining: "..." This rascal who is desperate for face.

Without Xue Xian's blind command, Jiang Shining's journey was much faster. He quickly turned out from where they had circled three times and embarked on the right path.

"This building looks familiar." Xue Xian looked around and felt that the street looked familiar very much.

Jiang Shining said "Yes": "You don't recognize the way, we just came this morning, why did you forget it when you turned around?"

After he reminded him, Xue Xian realized that he would walk a little further forward on the street and turn east from the intersection to see Master Liu's house. It was quiet at night, and if there was a little noise, it sounded much clearer than in the daytime. When they passed by the intersection, they glanced at the familiar door of the house and could vaguely hear the slightest voices in the house, which sounded like a quarrel, or something else, and it was always not a peaceful scene.

Jiang Shining paused slightly.

Xue Xian turned around and glanced at the Liu family's courtyard and said, "What? Do you want to see him get retribution for evil?"

"That's Mr. Liu's own business, it has nothing to do with me." Jiang Shining shook his head, stopped, raised his foot and walked towards the city gate.

It is probably because of the nature of a doctor. He still can't watch others suffer with his own eyes, but this may be the clearest difference between him and Master Liu and others.

There are many mountains and forests outside Ningyang County, but most of them are smooth and elegant, and few are dangerous, high and steep.

In the early years, because the national master was a monk, there were many mountain temples in the mountains and fields of the prefectures, and the incense was once in the peak. However, in recent years, winter has become increasingly early, and even the south has been snowing heavily. It is said that auspicious snow indicates a good harvest, but in recent years, the rain is not abundant, and the harvest is not good, and the people are living a life more and more tight. It is difficult for them to live their own lives, let alone add money to the temple to add incense.

As a result, more and more abandoned temples were in the mountains and fields, and it became a temporary place for many passers-by to rest.

When Jiang Shining took Xue Xian to rest in an abandoned temple on Jiguan Mountain, it was already snowing outside.

As soon as Xue Xian entered the temple, he chose a good place - this shameless villain directly took the dry thatch on the ground and spread it on the base of the Buddha statue. He leaned against the Buddha statue without any hesitation and sat down. Without having to rush, he naturally did not have to deliberately maintain the appearance of a cardboard man, but changed back to his true form.

He was dressed in black, sitting in a lazy state, like a boneless body, his elbows were placed on the lotus platform of the Buddha statue, his bent knuckles were loosely supported by his chin, and his other hand was still placing his precious golden beads.

Jiang Shining rubbed his eyebrows and felt that his mind hurt when he saw this ancestor: "Even if it is a abandoned temple, it is a bit more concise. Can the Buddha statue be easily seated?"

Xue Xian patted the legs of the Buddha statue: "Splitting half of it, if you don't like it, just squeak."

He waited seriously for a moment, then raised his chin at Jiang Shining: "Look, I haven't said."

Jiang Shining: "...I just make trouble anyway you like, I don't care."

He blew the gray candlestick in front of the Buddha statue and asked Xue Xian for a fire strip. While trying to light the old candle wick that was somewhat damp, he had to guard against the flames not to stir up his own.

"Where did you get the fire crest strip?" Jiang Shining lit it, threw out the flame at the end of the fire crest strip, and asked casually.

"I came from the bald donkey's cloth before leaving." Xue Xian said with a heart that didn't blush.

Jiang Shining had no choice but to say: "This is the first time I saw someone who was jailed for escape and dared to leave the prison head's things."

Xue Xian: "He doesn't lack this either."

Once Xuan Min was mentioned, Jiang Shining was always a little disgusted. He couldn't help but ask Xue Xian: "Do you especially dislike that master? Because he caught us?"

Xue Xian shook his head.

"Then why are you so anxious to get him off? Say I'm telling the truth..." Jiang Shining pointed at himself and pointed at Xue Xian, "We can't carry our shoulders and can't carry them. If we encounter some trouble on the way, we will suffer. I'm just carrying a medical bell on my body, which is not worth it, but your golden bead is not good, if someone is targeted-"

Xue Xian pinched the beads between his fingers and turned them around in front of the candlelight.

There is a reason why he ran out overnight, and the reason was on the golden bead of the real dragon body. Now that his body has not yet recovered, the connection with the golden bead is really vague. Even if he is held in his hand, he has almost no perception of the golden bead, as if he has pinched an extremely ordinary bead.

But Xuanmin is different. The abnormal movements under his waist are very strange. It can be regarded as an illusion once, but it cannot be ignored twice.

Although Xue Xian still didn't see him doing serious things, he was almost certain that Xuan Min was not that simple.

He can't have any perception of the Golden Bead at the moment, but Xuan Min can't say it is OK. The longer he takes the Golden Bead, the more likely he is to be affected by Xuan Min. If the Golden Bead is abnormal, then he will not be able to restore the dragon body.

Besides...

Xue Xian clashed with Jiang Shining and said, "He was unknown from his origin and his purpose. He was neither like a wise man who made a living for some money, nor like a serious monk who helped to be compassionate. I could even realize that he was cold and resolute in the blink of an eye."

Jiang Shining was confused: "What is cold and violent? Tell me something I can understand."

Xue Xian said "tsk", glanced at him, and said disgustedly: "To put it bluntly, it's different from ordinary monks. I had a little confused about what was different from him before. Now I think it's probably because he has less gentleness to abide by the admonition. Don't you think that at some point, he even dares to commit murder?"

"..." Jiang Shining held it in for a while, shook his head and said, "I don't think so, but I feel ashamed of it. I am indeed a little afraid of him."

Xue Xian said angrily: "That's all, that's the same."

Speaking of unknown origin, Jiang Shining suddenly remembered something: "By the way, have you ever smelled some medicine in that room before?"

"I heard this, I'm still a little puzzled. The bald donkey is still drinking medicine?" Xue Xian replied.

"I grew up smelling the medicine and I'm quite sensitive to it." Jiang Shining thought for a moment and said, "The smell of medicine in the room is a bit familiar, and it is 70% similar to the medicine of a neighbor who has been seeking medical treatment in my Jiang Family Medical Hall for many years."

Xue Xian asked, "What kind of disease is it to cure?"

Jiang Shining hesitated for a moment and said, "Abscessism."

People with abstinence often stay awake at night, have many nightmares, and occasionally wake up and forget what happened before. They have memory defects and live like a soul leaving the body, so it is called abstinence.

"Abstinence? That bald donkey?" Xue Xian sneered and waved his hand and said, "Where is he in a slight sense of fear and stalemate? How is it possible?"

*******

"It does not look like memory defects, but-" Jiang Shining recalled for a moment and said, "As far as I can see, some people suffering from abstinence are more obvious. Because of memory loss or confusion, they are hesitant when talking about things, and they look depressed all day long and have no energy. But there are others, probably because they are naturally more cautious, they will be particularly aware of their lives, always reserved in their words, and try their best to bypass the missing parts of their memory, and only talk about what they remember. If they don't get along well, they really can't see any problems."

Xue Xian shrugged when he heard this: "Even the latter who is more cautious will not sway all over the streets, right? Since you don't want people to notice, you will definitely be cautious and avoid excessive contact with others and revealing clues. Which amnesia would travel around alone and both provoke people and ghosts? That would not be called amnesia but crazy."

Jiang Shining nodded: "Yes."

"But even if it's not abstinence, the bald donkey has other problems." Xue Xian recalled Xuan Min's appearance and suddenly sat down on the table halfway and said seriously: "Those who are not clear about their origins and cannot see the depth will not sway around aimlessly. There must be a reason for him to come to Ningyang County. But in this day, he only did two things that were not related to him - to capture us and dismantle the Liu family's Feng Shui array."

After hearing this, Jiang Shining couldn't help but add: "He also saved the old lady of the Liu family, helped me get out the medical bell, helped you get out the gold bead, and—"

Before he finished speaking, he stopped. Because of this, Xuan Min's actions seemed even more unclear. It would be fine if he raised his hand, but in fact these things dragged him down for a morning in the Liu family's house, which was time-consuming and laborious. What was he trying to do?

"The meaning of his words before was that he seemed to have planned to send Buddha to the West and bring you, the medical bell, to your sister." Xue Xian played with Jinzhu and said again, "I happened to be there Anqing. It's not a thousand miles away from Ningyang, and it's at least a river. If he really helps with it aimlessly, it would be too enthusiastic. The bald donkey's face was icy, snowy, and the north wind was sluggish. Is it related to the word "passion"?"

After saying that, Xue Xian couldn't help but think about what the bald donkey would look like when he was enthusiastic.

After a moment, the evil devil shivered, shook from his hair to his waist and said with a blank expression: "Help, I'm scared to death."

Jiang Shining: “…”

Although this ancestor seemed unreliable, what he said was indeed reasonable. However, when he said that his purpose was unknown, he helped others. Jiang Shining turned his head to look at him: "On the first day you came to Ningyang County, didn't you do anything serious? Did you just get a paper body for me..."

Xue Xian said, "That's different."

"To be honest, I have never figured out that there are so many houses in Ningyang County, why are you going to come to my abandoned house?" Jiang Shining shook his head and said, "It's cold and dark, and your taste is unique. I really love to cause trouble for myself."

"I'm happy, can you stop me?" Xue Xian retorted.

When this ancestor who couldn't speak well, he didn't even look at others, but only focused on appreciating his precious beads.

The candlelight was warm and yellow, which made Xue Xian's pale skin look a little vibrant. Although he opened his mouth and was slapped, he really had a beautiful appearance. The candlelight cast a shadow under his long, dark eyelashes. His lazy and half-closed eyes reflected the oily yellow and transparent golden beads and the heavy snow outside the door.

There are so many houses in Ningyang County that can shelter from wind and rain, why did she go to Jiangjia Medical Hall? She spent a day working on a cardboard body for the scholar...

Xue Xian can't remember the reason for the meticulousness. His lifespan is much longer than that of ordinary people. If he remembers the details of every day, his head should have exploded.

He only remembers that one winter, he went to the north due to incidents, and happened to pass by Ningyang County on the way back.

It should have been one evening. It was as rare as tonight. There were few pedestrians on the road. Even the stalls in the taverns and restaurants were collected early, and the whole street was a little empty.
To be continued...