"..." Young Master Qin said as if nothing had happened: "I don't know about that. I don't know how hard the servant used, but after all, he was an old servant of the family, and I didn't really want to do anything to him. If he dares not speak out his anger and hates me, I can't do anything about it."

Lan Sizhui couldn't help but say, "Mr. Qin, this... this is too far from what you said at the beginning. Why did you hide so much when the two seniors asked you to tell them clearly?"

Young Master Qin said, "I thought that as long as I had the talisman and the sword, my family would be able to have peace. How could I know that I had to talk about these trivial things?"

Wei WuXian's tone was up and down as he spoke: "No, no, no, this is not just a trivial matter, this is a very serious situation, Master Qin! Think about it, you scolded and beat this man before he died, maybe you even broke his legs. What if he really didn't sell the jade pendant, then he died unjustly, who else can I blame if not you?"

Young Master Qin immediately said, "I didn't kill him! He didn't commit suicide! Why are you looking for me?"

Wei WuXian said, “Hey? How do you know it wasn’t suicide? Maybe he really committed suicide in a fit of rage, but it was treated as an accident. That would be even worse.”

Young Master Qin said, "How can a grown man get so angry that he commits suicide over such a small matter?"

Wei WuXian said, “Mr. Qin, in our line of work, we must not take things for granted. Everyone has different minds and temperaments, and it’s hard to say whether a grown man would commit suicide because of ‘this little thing’. You know, the reason for the corpse turning into a corpse could be the hatred of having a wife stolen or a child killed, or it could be something as trivial as A not taking B to play in the mud when they were children.”

Young Master Qin said stubbornly, "It's definitely not suicide! If a person wants to commit suicide, he can hang himself or take poison. Why would he choose to roll down a hill? It's hard to say whether he will die or not. It's definitely not suicide."

Wei WuXian said, “You do have a point. But Master Qin, have you ever thought about this: what if it was because you broke his leg that he couldn’t walk and rolled down the mountain and died? If that’s the case, then rounding it off would be the same as you killing him, wouldn’t that be worse?”

Young Master Qin said angrily, "What do you mean by rounding off means I killed him? If that's the case, it was an accident!"

Wei WuXian said: “Are you sure you want to convince someone who died so tragically that his death was an ‘accident’? Since he’s back, that means someone has to be responsible for this ‘accident’.”

He responded to every word Young Master Qin said, causing Young Master Qin to sweat slightly and his face to turn pale. Wei WuXian then said, “But there is no need to despair. I will tell you one last way to save your life. You can do this and that.”

Young Master Qin asked: "How?!"

Lan Wangji took one look at Wei Wuxian and knew that he was going to talk nonsense again, so he shook his head.

Wei WuXian said, “Listen carefully. You must open the broken doors of the house and hall wide to keep them clear. Anyway, you can’t stop that thing if you don’t open them.”

Master Qin said: "Okay!"

Wei WuXian said, “Get rid of all the other people in the house and be careful not to hurt innocent people.”

Young Master Qin said, "Almost everyone has left!"

Wei WuXian said, “Well, then, I will find a boy with strong Yang energy, and have him lay a bench across the room at midnight and sit in front of your bedroom to guard it. If an enemy comes, we will stop him with our troops and if a flood comes, we will block it with earth.”

"That's it?"

Wei WuXian said, “That’s it. The boy is already here. As for the others, Master Qin, you can ignore them all and just wait until dawn.”

He was referring to Lan Sizhui. When Master Qin heard the last sentence, his mouth twitched. He glanced at the elegant-looking young man and said, "He is guarding the door. Where are you two?"

Wei WuXian said, “Of course we will guard the inside of the gate and accompany you, Master Qin. If we can’t guard the outside of the gate anymore and the evil corpses break in, we will make plans.”

Young Master Qin couldn't help it any longer and said, "Can't you ask this young master to come and help me guard the outer gate?"

He was referring to Lan Wangji.

Wei WuXian was stunned and asked, "Who are you talking about? Him?"

He nearly fell to the ground laughing, “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”

Lan Wangji put his arm around Wei Wuxian’s shoulders, preventing him from actually falling to the ground, and said, “No.”

Master Qin was quite unhappy after being rejected so straightforwardly: "Why not?"

Wei WuXian said solemnly: “You forgot what I just said, that a boy is needed.”

"..." Young Master Qin didn't believe it, "Why, isn't he?!"

Even after Lan Sizhui had sent Master Qin out of Xiaozhu Pavilion for a long time, Wei Wuxian still couldn't help laughing.

Lan Wangji glanced at him, then suddenly grabbed Wei Wuxian and pressed him onto his lap, saying calmly, “Have you laughed enough?”

Wei WuXian said: “No!”

He sat on Lan Wangji's lap and said, "Hanguang-jun, your face is really deceiving. People say you are a pure-hearted, pure-hearted, and chaste person. I feel very wronged."

Lan Wangji supported him and let Wei Wuxian sit higher. The two of them moved closer and asked, “Feeling wronged?”

Wei WuXian said, “This is outrageous. Tell me, you are clearly not a virgin, but others see your face and indiscriminately say you are. In my previous life, I never touched a girl’s hand except to save people, but no one believed that I was still a virgin.” He counted them one by one, saying, “Going to school and hunting at night! Everyone said I was playing with flowers; going to the mass grave! Everyone said I was a lecherous demon. I really have no words to express my suffering and no place to complain.”

Lan Wangji calmly held Wei Wuxian's hand tightly, with a barely perceptible ripple of smile spreading in his eyes.

Wei Wuxian said, “You’re still laughing. You really have no sympathy, a cold-blooded man. After all, I’m ranked fourth on the list of noble sons, but I’ve only kissed someone once in my life. I always thought it was some beautiful fairy who had a crush on me, and I thought my life as Wei Ying was not in vain. Who knew it was you…”

Hearing this, Lan Wangji finally couldn't sit still anymore.

He pushed Wei WuXian onto the couch and said, “Is it my fault?”

"Why are you so nervous? Hahahahahahahahahahaha..."

When the time came, Lan Sizhui stood in the yard with Xiaopingguo and waited for a long time before Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji slowly came out of the house.

He wanted to remind him, "Senior Wei, you are wearing the wrong clothes of Han Guangjun again," but after thinking about it, he swallowed it silently.

After all, you will wear it wrong every two or three days. Wouldn’t it be tiring to remind yourself every time?

Moreover, every time, Senior Wei would just wear it because he found it troublesome. He felt that it was meaningless to remind him, so he would just pretend that he didn't see it.

Wei Wuxian got on Little Apple, took out an apple from his bag, and took a bite. Lan Sizhui looked at the apple and felt that it looked very familiar. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Senior Wei, isn't that the fruit that Young Master Qin brought?"

Wei WuXian said, “Not bad.”

Lan Sizhui asked, "... the fruit brought by the evil corpse?"

Wei WuXian: “Exactly.”

Lan Sizhui: "Is it okay to eat this?"

Wei WuXian: “No problem. It just fell on the ground. I can eat it after I wash it.”

Lan Sizhui: "Will the apple of the evil corpse be poisonous..."

Wei WuXian: “I can answer this question for you: No.”

Lan Sizhui: "How do you know, Senior?"

Wei Wuxian: "Because I've already given Little Apple five or six...Stop it, Little Apple! Stop kicking your ass!! Lan Zhan, save me!!!"

Lan Wangji held the reins of the angry little apple with one hand, and took the apple away from Wei Wuxian's mouth with the other hand, saying, "Don't eat it. Buy one tomorrow."

Wei WuXian supported his shoulders and finally managed to sit still again, saying, “Isn’t this just to save HanGuang-Jun some money?”

Lan Wangji said, “Never.”

Wei Wuxian scratched his chin, smiling. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he said casually, "Oh, by the way, Sizhui, are you a virgin?"

He asked the question very naturally, but Lan Sizhui suddenly burst into laughter.

This was very un-Gusu Lan Clan-like. Lan Sizhui noticed Lan Wangji glanced at him and quickly straightened his posture. Wei Wuxian said, "Don't be nervous. I just said that to Master Qin casually before. Sometimes a boy is really necessary for performing a ritual. But since you are using a sword to kill the evil corpse, it doesn't really matter whether it is a boy or not. But if you are not, I will be very surprised..."

Before he finished speaking, Lan Sizhui’s ears and face flushed as he said, “Of course I am!!!”

At three o'clock in the night, the door of the empty Qin Mansion was wide open as expected. Young Master Qin had been waiting for a long time.

Lan Sizhui stood in front of Master Qin's door, without a helmet or armor, but he looked quite calm and reliable. Master Qin saw that he still had some of the spirit of a newborn calf, so his brows were not so furrowed, but he was still worried. After entering the bedroom, he closed the door and turned around and said, "Is it really okay to let this young master guard the door? What if the evil spirit fails to be exorcised and another person dies in my family..."

The two people over there were already sitting peacefully at the table. Wei WuXian said, “No one will be killed. Master Qin, calculate how many days the evil corpse has been causing trouble. Has anyone really died in your house?”

Young Master Qin also sat over. Wei WuXian placed a pear from a fierce corpse on the table and said, “Eat some fruit to calm your nerves.”

Under days of pressure, Master Qin was already a little dazed. He picked it up and put it to his mouth. Just as he was about to speak, he heard strange noises of "dong dong", "dong dong".

In an instant, a cold air seemed to blow into the room, and the candlelight on the table flickered.

The pear in Master Qin's hand fell and rolled away, and his right hand was placed on the hilt of the sword at his waist again.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom".

The strange noise grew louder and closer, and every time it sounded, the candlelight trembled as if in fear.

Outside the door, there was a clear sound of a sword being unsheathed, and a faint black shadow passed by the paper window. The strange sound disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by the sound of flying and flapping, and the loud noise of wooden tools breaking.

Young Master Qin's face turned pale and he asked, "What's going on outside?!"

Wei WuXian said, “It’s just a fight. Don’t take it seriously.”

Lan Wangji listened for a moment and said, "Too much."

Wei WuXian understood what he meant. Listening to the sound of the sword and the steps, Lan SiZhui's sword was fast and sharp, but it was not steady enough. It was not that the power was not strong, but it was inconsistent with the purpose of Gusu Lan's swordsmanship. If the spirit, energy and soul could not be unified, or the paths were mixed, there would be disagreements when practicing to a higher level, and it would be difficult to improve.

He said, "It's already pretty good. Sizhui is still young and can't control his movements. When he grows up and plays with more people, he'll understand."

Lan Wangji shook his head, listened for a while, and suddenly looked at Wei Wuxian.

Wei Wuxian was also slightly surprised. He also heard that the swordsmanship of Lan Sizhui just now was not that of the Gusu Lan Clan, but that of the Yunmeng Jiang Clan.

But he had never taught this to the younger generation of the Gusu Lan Clan, and speculated, "Si Zhui and his friends often go out hunting at night with Jin Ling, so they probably remembered it accidentally during the fight."

Lan Wangji said, “Not appropriate.”

Wei WuXian asked: “Then are you going to punish him when you go back?”

Lan Wangji said, "Punishment."

Young Master Qin asked, "What are you talking about?"

Wei WuXian picked up the pear from the ground and put it back next to him, saying, “Nothing. Eat something to calm your nerves, don’t be so nervous.” Then he smiled at Lan WangJi and said, “But, HanGuang-Jun, you are amazing. It’s ok that I can tell it’s YunMeng’s swordsmanship, but how can you tell it too?”

There seemed to be a pause before Lan Wangji said, "I've fought with you several times, so I just remembered it."

Wei WuXian said, “That’s why I say you’re amazing. I only used the Yunmeng Jiang Clan’s swordsmanship to fight you a few times, maybe more than a decade ago. You can still remember it and tell it right away. Isn’t that amazing?”

As he spoke, he pushed the candle towards Lan Wangji, wanting to see if his earlobe had turned red, but Lan Wangji saw through his evil intentions, and firmly covered Wei Wuxian's hand holding the candlestick with his five fingers, pushing it back. The candlelight swayed back and forth, reflecting Wei Wuxian's smiling eyes and the curved corners of his mouth, which made Lan Wangji's Adam's apple move slightly.

At this moment, both of them were startled, and Wei Wuxian said "Huh". Master Qin was as if he was facing a great enemy: "What's wrong? What's wrong with this candle?"

After a moment of silence, Wei WuXian said, “No, this candle is very good. It would be even better if it were brighter.”

He said to Lan Wangji, “These few swords Sizhui used were the most beautiful. But they don’t sound like your swordsmanship, nor mine.”

After a moment, Lan Wangji frowned and said, "Maybe, it belongs to the Wen family."

Wei WuXian understood and said, “Most likely Wen Ning taught him. That’s fine.”

As they were talking, there were loud noises outside the house. The noises were getting louder and louder, and Master Qin's face was getting greener and greener. Wei Wuxian also felt that this was a bit outrageous, and said to the outside: "Si Zhui, we have already said more than ten words inside. Even if you are tearing down the house, you should have finished by now, right?"

Lan Sizhui responded from outside: "Senior Wei, this vicious corpse is moving very fast, and it has been avoiding me the whole time!"

Wei WuXian asked, “Is it afraid of you?”

Lan Sizhui said: "Don't be afraid, it can fight, but it doesn't seem to want to fight me!"

Wei WuXian asked curiously, “It doesn’t want to hurt unrelated people?”

He said to Lan Wangji, “This is interesting. I haven’t seen such a reasonable corpse in a long time.”

Young Master Qin said anxiously: "Can he do it? Why can't he take it down?"

Before Wei Wuxian could speak, Lan Sizhui said, “Hanguang-jun, Senior Wei, this evil corpse’s left hand is a claw, but its right hand is a fist, as if it is holding something!”

Hearing this, Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji exchanged a glance. Wei Wuxian nodded slightly, and Lan Wangji said, "Sizhui, put away your sword."

Lan Sizhui was stunned and said, "Han Guang-jun? I haven't got the thing in its hand yet..."

Wei WuXian stood up and said, “It’s alright! Put away your swords, there’s no need to fight anymore.”

Young Master Qin said, "No need to fight anymore?"

Outside the door, Lan Sizhui said, "Yes!" As expected, he put away his sword with a clang and jumped away. Inside the door, Master Qin said, "What's going on? That thing is still outside!"

Wei WuXian stood up and said, “There is no need to fight anymore because the matter has been almost resolved. There is only one last step left.”

Young Master Qin asked, "Which step?"

Wei WuXian kicked the door open and said, “This is my move!”

The two wooden doors bounced open with a bang, and a dark figure stood stiffly in front of the door, with disheveled hair and a dirty face, only a pair of white pupils with turned up looked extremely ferocious.

Upon seeing this face, Master Qin's expression changed drastically. He drew his sword and retreated quickly, but the ferocious corpse rushed in like a black wind and grabbed his neck with its left hand.

Lan Sizhui stepped in from the door and was shocked to see this. He was about to save the man, but was stopped by Wei Wuxian. Lan Sizhui thought that although Mr. Qin had a tough and unpleasant personality, his crime was definitely not punishable by death. The two seniors would not stand by and watch this vicious corpse kill him, and he calmed down a little.

The five fingers of the dead servant were like iron hoops. Master Qin's face turned purple and veins bulged. The sword had stabbed countless holes in the corpse, but there was no reaction as if it was a piece of white paper.

The vicious corpse slowly raised its right fist and moved towards Young Master Qin's face, as if to smash him into pieces and burst his brain. The other three people in the room were staring at this scene, and Lan Sizhui was almost unable to control his sword-holding hand.

Just when he thought that Master Qin was going to be killed by a head explosion in the next moment, he saw the five fingers of the corpse's right hand loosen, and a flat round object slipped out from between the fingers.

The tail end of this thing was connected with a black line, and the evil corpse put it around Master Qin's neck.

Young Master Qin: “…”

Lan Sizhui: “…”

After three attempts, it was finally able to fit around Young Master Qin's head. This difficult movement was so clumsy and stiff that it was hard to make people feel threatened.

Seeing that it didn't move to kill, and didn't seem to want to strangle Master Qin with the thin wire, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Unexpectedly, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, the vicious corpse punched Master Qin again with lightning speed, so hard and fierce that he screamed, blood flowed from his mouth and nose, and he fell to the ground unconscious.

After beating the man, the evil corpse turned around and seemed to be leaving. Lan Sizhui was watching in astonishment, and when he saw this, he put his hand on the hilt of the sword again, but he always felt that this situation was inexplicably funny, and it seemed even funnier to take it too seriously, and he didn't know whether he should take action or not. Wei Wuxian was already laughing to death, and waved his hand to Lan Sizhui, saying, "Don't worry about it, just let it go."

The vicious corpse turned around, looked at him, nodded, and then dragged its broken leg, limping and jumping, and went out.

Looking at its fleeing back, Lan Sizhui was stunned for a moment before he said, "Senior Wei, is it okay to just let it go?"

Lan Wangji leaned over to check on Young Master Qin, whose face was covered in blood, and said, "No."

Lan Sizhui turned his gaze back to Master Qin, and finally took a closer look at the thing hanging around his neck, which turned out to be a jade pendant.

The red string tied with the jade pendant seemed to have been rolled in the soil for many years and was extremely dirty, so it looked black, but the jade was still smooth and white.

"This is……"

Wei WuXian said, “It has been returned to its original owner.”

After Lan Wangji confirmed that Young Master Qin was just unconscious and his life was not in danger, the two of them took Lan Sizhui and left the Qin Mansion.

Before leaving, Wei Wuxian considerately helped Master Qin close all three doors.

Lan Sizhui said: "It's not easy."

Wei WuXian climbed onto Little Apple and said, “What? Are you talking about Master Qin? Just punch that vicious corpse and it will be over. It’s easy, okay?”

Lan Sizhui said, "I'm not talking about Master Qin, I'm talking about that evil corpse. In the past, I've read the records of evil ghosts and evil corpses seeking revenge. Many of them were caused by a grudge over a bowl of rice. They took people's lives after death, and acted like crazy when they were haunting. But this evil corpse..."

Standing in front of the door that was scratched beyond recognition, Lan Sizhui looked back one last time, still feeling a little unbelievable, and said, "In the two years since the transformation, I have been searching the mountains for a jade pendant that I lost when I was alive. The first time I saw a vicious corpse transform itself, it was not for revenge, but for something like this."

Wei WuXian took out another apple and said, “That’s why I said that I haven’t seen such a reasonable evil spirit in many years. If it were a more vengeful one, it would have cut off one of Master Qin’s legs at the least, or even killed his entire family without a single mortal remains.”

Lan Sizhui thought for a moment and said, "Senior, I still have a question. Was it Master Qin who broke its legs? Was that the reason why it fell and died?"

Wei WuXian said: “Whether it is true or not, it didn’t blame Young Master Qin for this.”

Lan Sizhui asked, “Well, then, is it really satisfied with just one punch?”

Lan Wangji said: "It seems so."

Wei WuXian took a bite of the apple with a loud “crunch” and said, “Right. As the saying goes, people fight for their breath, and die uneasy because that breath is stuck in their chest. He smashed the fruit, returned the jade pendant, and beat the man. Now that the breath is out, it’s no longer blocked.”

Lan Sizhui said: "It would be great if every evil spirit was so reasonable."

Hearing this, Wei WuXian laughed and said, “What nonsense are you talking about, kid? Even humans are unreasonable when they feel resentful. Do you still expect the evil spirit to reason with you? You know, everyone in this world feels that they have been wronged.”

Lan Wangji pulled Little Apple's reins in and said calmly, "You're lucky."

Wei WuXian agreed: “That’s true. This Mr. Qin is really lucky.”

After holding it in for a long time, Lan Sizhui still couldn't hold it in anymore, and said sincerely: "But I always feel that one punch is a little too little..."

"hahahahahahahahahaha……"

Perhaps because he had not yet recovered from the punch from the vicious corpse, or because he had completely given up hope on Wei Wuxian, Master Qin did not come to visit him again in the next few days.

However, seven days later, news about him reached this side of the city.

It is said that one morning, a young man's body in tattered shroud was found on the roadside. It was half rotten and smelled terrible. When everyone was discussing whether to wrap it in a mat and bury it in a pit, Mr. Qin was kind enough to help collect the body and bury it in a proper manner. Everyone praised him.

When Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian were leaving the city, they passed by the Qin Mansion, which had already been replaced with two shiny, imposing new gates. People were coming in and out, sweeping away the gloomy and deserted atmosphere of the previous day, and now it was a prosperous scene again.