Volume 7: Frost Chapter 18: Cuckoo
Guan Qingtong looked at the water in the cup. She suddenly smiled and asked, "Where is your spirit bird? It didn't seem to be in the yard when I came here just now."
"You mean Jiujiu?" Jiang You pushed up his glasses. "It has recently become obsessed with playing with pigeons. It should be playing with pigeons in Wenfeng Park now."
"Pigeon?"
"Yes, its calls have changed recently," Jiang You imitated the chirping sound. "It used to be chirp-chirp-chirp, but now it's chirp-gu, gugu-gu-chirp. It's really interesting."
"You are quite interesting." Guan Qingtong said.
"Really?" Jiang You leaned back in his chair, his eyes meeting Guan Qingtong's from a distance .
"Why don't you go to the institute today?"
"I have to get up early and climb the mountain. It's too tiring."
"Are you really tired?"
"Can you help me find a more appropriate reason?"
Guan Qingtong chuckled, then her expression turned serious. She said, "The piece of paper was found in Teacher Xie's notebook. He was looking up Meng Yuanbai's affairs and found the place name Luozhen. Then he died."
Jiang You also sat up a little straighter.
Guan Qingtong looked at the light spots on the stairs. Her tone was light but clear. She said, "Back then, the government cracked down on feudal superstitions. Folk metaphysical families had to either leave or accept government control. When the Guan family came to my generation, only my brother and I were left. My brother took the initiative to hand over the Guan family secrets to the country. Then, we were sent to Teacher Xie. He took us in."
"I didn't participate in the disaster thirty-one years ago, and I only know a rough outline of what happened. I only know that many people died, all of whom were people I knew, and they never came back. My brother could no longer perform divination after that. After that, we followed Lao Zhuang to Tangjiang, and we had the Special Operations Department. I married Lao Sang and had Xiao Nuo. Finally, my brother couldn't hold on any longer, and he passed away."
"Why are you telling me this?" Jiang You asked.
"Teacher Xie is a good person."
"so what?"
"When he left, Lao Zhuang was right beside him and didn't notice anything unusual. I looked at Teacher Xie's body and felt something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong," Guan Qingtong looked at Jiang You, her voice trembling. "If he really killed Teacher Xie, how did the murderer do it?"
"Have you told Zhuang Zekun?" Jiang You asked.
"No." Guan Qingtong said.
"Why?"
"He will definitely investigate what I told him. But if the murderer can kill Teacher Xie right under his nose, then he can kill him. I can't let the murderer find out."
Jiang You changed his sitting position and crossed his right leg over his knee. He asked, "So you have set your sights on me?"
"Yes."
"What if I refuse?" Jiang You took a sip of water.
"I will pretend that I have never been here today." Guan Qingtong was silent for a moment, and then she said, "I will continue to investigate. I have seen the dream that Jin Cheng predicted before, but I have never been able to interpret its meaning. Last time I was here with you, I borrowed your power to try to interpret it again. What he saw was that the world is changing, and there are many forces that do not belong here struggling in the soil." She bit her lip, "The way of heaven will change."
Jiang You thought for a moment and said, "The demon sealed in the ruler was indeed dispersed, and it was dispersed completely. I left some arrangements at the place where Meng Xianyang lived, and no strange things entered. I also confirmed that the ruler was an ordinary magic weapon after the exorcism, otherwise I would not have agreed to let him take it back."
"What else?" Guan Qingtong asked.
"The pattern on the ruler is a little peculiar, and it's quite ugly," Jiang You shook his head and looked up at her, "I didn't notice anything wrong."
"I understand," Guan Qingtong sighed softly, "Thank you."
Then she stood up and said, "I'm leaving."
"Okay, I won't send you any more. Some new postcards have arrived downstairs. If you see any you like, take a few back."
"good."
Jiang You watched Guan Qingtong walk down the stairs. When her back completely disappeared from his sight, the door of the side bedroom opened and Jiang Mo came out holding Jiujiu.
"Are you awake?" Jiang You yawned. "Weave me a hammock. I want to take a nap, too. By the way, go to the research institute and bring back a pot of bacon and potatoes..."
Jiang Mo squatted down and put Jiujiu on the ground.
Jiujiu jumped a few times on the ground and then flew up.
Jiang You put his hands behind his head and said, "The Special Operations Department should recruit someone who can summon spirits."
…
Guan Qingtong walked downstairs and said to Lin Yu, "I'm leaving. Goodbye."
"good."
She walked past the shelf and when she was almost at the door, she saw a postcard of a gray landscape. She stopped and took the postcard from the shelf.
Seeing Guan Qingtong's actions, Lin Yu said, "We are having a promotion now, buy two get one free, you can choose anything on the shelf."
"This one, please." Guan Qingtong walked to the counter with the postcard in hand. "How much is it?"
“Buy it directly?”
"Yes."
"15."
When Guan Qingtong took out her phone and was about to pay, a call came in. It was Ji Xiaozhen. She picked up the phone, "Teacher Ji..."
Lin Yu saw that her expression suddenly became serious.
"I'll be there right away." Guan Qingtong hung up the phone. After pondering for a moment, she went upstairs again.
Jiujiu flew past her, down the stairs, and out of the store.
Guan Qingtong looked at Jiang You and said, "Something happened at the research institute."
…
graduate School.
More than an hour ago.
Lin Shunan introduced his research to Tang Butian and the other two. "The 'yard' world of Jinghu Society was broken into many pieces. The research institute used some methods to piece some pieces together. What you see now is the repaired part."
Guan Nuo looked forward a few times and asked, "Can we go in?"
"I'll take you inside in a bit." Lin Shunan also took a step forward and pointed to a dead tree in front of the wooden house and said, "Look at this tree. It has green buds. It's alive again."
Tang Butian followed his gaze and saw a few spots of green on the branches.
"In the past, when we studied small worlds, we were unable to solve a problem. Each small world has basic laws that maintain its operation, but these laws may not be compatible with the laws of our world. This makes it impossible for us to exchange materials between the two worlds. Only a few small worlds can exchange materials, such as the mountains." Lin Shunan glanced at Tang Butian and continued, "Although we knew the existence of laws in the past, our research never involved the field of laws, so we could not solve this problem."
"Is it resolved now?" Guan Nuo asked.
"Part of the problem has been solved," Lin Shunan nodded, "This is why I want to find the reaction that causes the concentration of alien spiritual power to increase...
Tang Butian felt the scar on her right hand getting hot.
The green buds on the dead trees were wriggling, the dead branches were turning, and tiny insects seemed to be flying in and out of the cracks in the bark.
