After eavesdropping on my thoughts, the whole family went crazy.

Chapter 37 Weary of Spring
The copper coin in his hand felt distinctly tactile. Hua Rongqi took a deep breath and spread his palms.

——The word is facing up.

Their copper coins are engraved with characters on one side and flowers on the other.

Xie Shiqing saw clearly the result of tossing the copper coins and said calmly: "Go to the left."

After all, it was the result of the throw with his own hands, so Hua Rongqi had no objection.

It didn't matter to Su Ran, she was the weakest in the room, so of course she would follow wherever the boss went.

The three of them set off again. After walking for a short time, Hua Rongqi stopped, and his tone was a little strange: "Are we really going on the right track?"

It’s too cold! ! !

It got colder and colder as we walked. It wasn't so cold at the intersection, but after walking these few steps, the cold air seemed to wrap us up.

And it's not the cold kind of cold weather, it's an indescribable, sticky cold.

Probably... spooky?

Hua Rongqi didn't like this feeling very much. When he looked at Su Ran's expression, he thought he didn't like it either.

As for Xie Shiqing, Hua Rongqi didn't bother to care about him.

"If you make a mistake, you can only go on bravely." Su Ran's clear voice seemed particularly ethereal in this environment.

Hua Rongqi didn't know why, so he followed Su Ran's gaze. After a moment, Hua Rongqi's heart collapsed.

Why is there no road behind here? ! !
Hua Rongqi could barely catch a breath, and the hand that subconsciously grabbed Su Ran's arm seemed particularly strong at this moment.

The road they had just walked had disappeared, replaced by a dense forest of dead trees, and there seemed to be several graves deep in the woods.

Su Ran could naturally feel the strength on her arm. She glanced at Hua Rongqi in surprise and said, "Are you also afraid of ghosts?"

Hua Rongqi stumbled a bit when speaking, but still denied it without thinking: "I'm not afraid."

Su Ran: "."

The strength in your hands has not relaxed at all.

"Then let go." Su Ran said.

Hua Rongqi refused simply: "No."

As soon as he finished speaking, a cold light flashed before his eyes. When he came back to his senses, the sword of the young man in black clothes was already lying in front of him.

He just said calmly: "Don't make any noise."

Even Su Ran was startled by his sudden move. Fortunately, he quickly retracted his sword and looked as cold as if the incident had not happened.

Hua Rongqi did become quite quiet after being frightened like this, but she still held Su Ran's hand and didn't let go.

In his eyes, the current situation is like a wolf in front and a tiger behind.

After a brief silence, the three of them continued walking forward.

The boy in Xuanyi took the lead, followed by Su Ran and Hua Rongqi.

Seeing that the two of them were already four or five steps away from him, Hua Rongqi approached Su Ran and whispered, "How about we sneak away later."

"No." Su Ran shook his head, "He is very skilled at first glance. Whether we can go out depends on him."

Hua Rongqi choked. Intellectually, she felt that what Su Ran said made sense, but emotionally she didn't want to agree.

"Hey, don't mess with him." Su Ran patted Hua Rongqi's back and comforted, "Don't be biased against strangers. They might be hiding their bosses."

After saying this, Su Ran vaguely heard a faint laugh. However, when he looked up, he didn't find anything. He just thought he heard it wrong.

Hua Rongqi was dissatisfied. How could he be biased?

It's obvious that this person is the one with the problem! ! !

After walking for some distance, a light appeared vaguely in front of them. Hua Rongqi was overjoyed, but Su Ran noticed something was wrong.

"Will there be normal light in this wilderness?"

After she said this, Hua Rongqi also realized that something was wrong.

The bright spot is right in front of you, a ruined temple.

On a wild ridge overgrown with grass, a dilapidated temple stands alone. The temple gate collapsed, leaving only a few broken wooden pillars, and the writing on the lintel was blurred.

To enter, or not to enter?

Su Ran suddenly remembered the strange Chinese stories she had heard before.

One person will not enter the temple, two people will not look into the well, three people will not hug the tree, and four people will not look back.

There is also a version that is not to lean on the railing alone.

Su Ran looked at their number. Well, three people can enter the temple.

Xie Shiqing didn't care whether he was going in or not. He looked at Su Ran: "Are you going in?"

Su Ran decided to believe the Chinese ghost stories and said, "Come in."

The interior of the temple was in a mess, with some broken Buddha statues lying on the ground and the mottled murals faded.

The three of them stood in the temple lobby and looked out through the collapsed door. The surrounding weeds were as high as half a person. From a distance, they looked like countless shadowy figures dancing.

The moon came out at some point, and the cool moonlight shone in through the damaged roof. The temple looked extremely eerie, and countless ghosts seemed to be dormant in the dark corners.

Su Ran looked around and made sure there were no traces of living people, then said, "Wow, no one."

Xie Shiqing's eyes wandered over the collapsed Buddha statue, and finally landed on the stone tablet in the corner.

Most of the stone monument was covered under weeds, so they didn't notice it at first when they came in.

Xie Shiqing stepped forward and gently pushed aside the weeds on the stone tablet.

The stone tablets are engraved with dense ancient characters, some of which have been blurred by the years, making it difficult to see their original appearance.

Su Ran noticed his actions and came over.

Then I realized I couldn’t understand.

"What does this say?" Su Ran humbly asked for advice.

"Xie Shiqing." The young man in Xuanyi said softly.

"Huh?" Su Ran was stunned for a moment.

He repeated patiently: "My name is Xie Shiqing."

"Oh." Su Ran responded: "Well, Xie Shiqing, do you know what is written on it?"

He was quiet for a moment. After a while, Su Ran thought he would not answer, but heard him say: "I know, it's an ancient text from a hundred years ago."

Xie Shiqing translated the text on the stone tablet and told it to Su Ran.

It turns out that this place was once an important religious site, but due to the invasion of war, the majestic building was quickly destroyed.

Today, only the abandoned temple they saw is left here, standing quietly in this wilderness forgotten by time.

Those who enter this temple need to fulfill the temple girl's wish and must not violate it.

Temple girl?

Su Ran looked back to make sure she didn't see any clues that she might be a "temple girl".

Not to mention temple girls, she was the only girl in this ruined temple.

Hua Rongqi heard the sound of their conversation and came over, but there was something wrong with his expression.

"What's wrong with you?" Su Ran asked.

Hua Rongqi pointed in the direction of the apse, took a deep breath, and said in a trembling voice: "There seems to be something in the apse." After hearing this, Xie Shiqing stood up from a squatting position and walked towards the apse.

As soon as he took a step, he was grabbed by the corner of his clothes. Xie Shiqing looked back.

Su Ran still maintained her squatting posture. She raised her face and looked at Xie Shiqing: "Let's go together, it's not safe to be alone."

The girl's eyes looked particularly moist and affectionate under the moonlight.

Xie Shiqing heard himself say: "Okay."

Hua Rongqi looked at Su Ran and then at Xie Shiqing, always feeling that he was being isolated without knowing it.

He wanted to say something, but the most important thing in front of him was obviously the things in the apse, so in the end he just opened his mouth and said nothing.

The apse was much darker than the lobby where they had just been.

Probably because the roof was not too damaged, the moonlight couldn't get in.

As soon as he stepped into the back hall, a gloomy wind hit his face. Hua Rongqi shivered, but he still pointed to something and said, "That's it."

Su Ran looked in the direction Huarong Qi was pointing. It was very dark over there, and she could only roughly see a bulge on the ground.

After saying this, Hua Rongqi suddenly felt that the temperature of his whole body had dropped, especially his back, as if there was an invisible, cold hand caressing him.

When he came to this conclusion, Hua Rongqi stiffened. He turned his head to see the reactions of Su Ran and Xie Shiqing, and found that their expressions were as usual.

Hua Rongqi's throat tightened, and when he was about to speak, a sudden breath of cold air came from his neck.

"what--!!!"

The sudden cry broke the silence in the ruined temple. Su Ran was startled by the sound, but Hua Rongqi was the real Hua Rongqi.

"Help, ah, ah, ah, ah!" He shouted, regardless of his previous prejudice against Xie Shiqing, and ran between him and Su Ran, grabbing Su Ran's hand, "Let's go, get out, something is wrong here."

At first, Su Ran thought Hua Rongqi was overreacting. However, seeing his pale face and the cold touch on the back of his hand, he realized that it was not Hua Rongqi's problem.

Xie Shiqing also noticed that Hua Rongqi was acting abnormally. He said to Su Ran, "You guys wait here, I'll go over and take a look."

Su Ran originally wanted to accompany Xie Shiqing, but Hua Rongqi's current condition was really not right, so she could only wait with him in the aisle connecting the front hall to the back hall.

Xie Shiqing clenched the sword in his hand and walked slowly towards the back hall.

The closer I got to the mound, the more uncomfortable I felt, and an indescribable sense of oppression came over me.

Until he was only one step away from the mound of soil, Xie Shiqing stopped and used the tip of his sword to open up some soil, revealing a sharp corner on the ground.

It looked like it was made of ebony wood, and the exposed corner was engraved with complicated patterns, mixed with a few incomprehensible characters, and it looked like a string of spells.

Xie Qingshi felt that this corner looked familiar.

Kind of like the corner of a coffin.

If his guess is correct, then the person lying in the coffin is most likely the temple girl mentioned in the stone tablet.

With a vague answer in his heart, Xie Shiqing glanced at the mound of soil at his feet, then turned back to Su Ran.

Seeing that he came back not long after he left, Su Ran couldn't wait to ask: "What is that?"

Hua Rongqi also looked at Xie Shiqing.

Under the burning gazes of the two people, Xie Shiqing thought for a moment and said, "It should be a coffin."

Hua Rongqi subconsciously widened his eyes, thinking of the sinister wind just now, his resistance to the back hall became even deeper, and he just wanted to leave this place of right and wrong quickly.

When Su Ran heard this answer, her eyes lit up: "Temple girl?"

The two of them thought of going together.

"I guess so." It was much easier to talk to smart people. Xie Shiqing led them to the front hall, "I just don't know if I should dig it out."

"You want to dig it out?!" Hua Rongqi thought this man was crazy, "Don't you know what it means to be the deadest?"

"Do you still know the saying that the dead are the greatest?" Xie Shiqing seemed to have heard a big joke, even his eyebrows were stained with smiles, and he asked curiously: "Happy rain?"

Hua Rongqi was stunned for a moment, her expression seemed shocked and puzzled, her lips pursed and she said, "You know?"

Xie Shiqing chuckled softly: "It's not a secret, there's nothing we shouldn't know."

Xiyu is Hua Rongqi’s code name in the organization.

To be honest, Hua Rongqi didn't know how many people knew this code name.

But if nothing else, only people within the organization will know.

Or, in other words, people who were once part of the organization.

Hua Rongqi frowned and looked at the young man in Xuanyi in front of him: "Who are you?"

Xie Shiqing was not like Hua Rongqi, who was facing a formidable enemy. He said calmly, "Xie Shiqing."

"If you want to ask for a code name, you can also call me Yanchun." When he said this, his tone did not fluctuate at all, as calm as lake water.

Hua Rongqi was calm on the surface, but there was already a huge wave in his heart.

Tired of spring? ? ?

Weary of spring! This is spring! ! !

Of course Hua Rongqi knew who Yanchun was.

The organization he belongs to is, to put it bluntly, a killer organization that takes people's money and then kills and sets fires for them.

There is a ranking list of the top ten killers within the organization. There once was a person codenamed Yanchun, who occupied the top position for five consecutive years.

Why is it five years? Because this person named Yanchun suddenly appeared five years ago.

This Yanchun has always been a prodigy in the organization. Many people have only heard of this code name, but have never seen him in person.

There are rumors that Yanchun is an old man over sixty years old, there are rumors that Yanchun is a widow whose husband has died, and there are also rumors that Yanchun is a young man.

There are constant rumors within the organization about Chunyan, but he himself has never taken the initiative to show up.

And a year ago, Yanchun disappeared quietly just like when she first appeared.

Hua Rongqi understands the value of this ranking list. He is also on the list now, but he is only at the ninth position at the end.

The person in front of me is the legendary Yanchun? !
He is really a boy as big as him!
Su Ran didn't know what they were talking about specifically, but based on the past mentioned by Hua Rongqi before and the current reactions of the two, he could vaguely guess something.

Just tired of spring?

It's not mentioned in the original work.

She didn't know if she missed it or if she didn't pay attention when she first saw it, so she forgot about it now. In short, she had no impression of Yanchun at all.

But judging from Hua Rongqi's reaction, this Yanchun should be a very powerful person.

Su Ran felt that she was quite good at judging people sometimes.

When she first saw Xie Shiqing, she thought he must be a big shot, but she didn't expect him to be so.

"You and me." Hua Rongqi caught a glimpse of Su Ran out of the corner of his eye. He thought that Su Ran was still there, and then thought of the life story he had made up before, so he reluctantly said, "Fellow!"

Su Ran: "."

Okay, stop pretending, I guessed it all.

Xie Shiqing: "."

In the year since he left, has the organization been so out of control?
Those who come out are all idiots.

"Who is your fellow countryman?" Xie Shiqing glanced at him up and down, "Don't come here to get close."

Hua Rongqi now believes Su Ran's words, this man is a real boss!
With Xie Shiqing present, the probability of survival is greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)