Chapter 45: Overpowering Drugs

After breakfast the next day, Shen Ziyu changed into men's clothes and looked very handsome. After packing up, she stood at the window of her boudoir on the second floor and looked at the familiar riverside city. In the early morning, the smoke curled up in the distance, and the clouds and mist shrouded between the mountains and rivers, making the scenery picturesque. She said quietly in her heart: "I will leave my hometown again, but this time with him, my mood should be different..."

At this time, the maid in the courtyard came to inform her that the third aunt had some gifts to give to her grandfather in Beijing. She asked Shen Ziyu to come and get them before she left.

Shen Ziyu went downstairs and put her luggage on the table. She said to Li Changsheng, "Changsheng, please wait a moment. I will go to the third aunt's yard to get the gift and come back. I have reserved horses at the post station, and we can start when I come back."

The living room on the first floor is simple but extremely elegant. A gilded incense burner on the table slowly emits green smoke, and mahogany furniture emits a faint fragrance.Li Changsheng is sitting at the table. In front of him is a pen, ink, paper and inkstone. He is concentrating on writing on white paper with a brush. He didn't look up when he heard Shen Ziyu's words, but waved his hand to show that he knew.

Shen Ziyu and her parents lived in a small courtyard east of the villa since childhood. There are bamboo, orchid, plum, chrysanthemum and other plants in the yard, which are planted by her and her mother. However, at this time of late autumn, the withered vines and old trees with fallen leaves came into sight, and the scenery was very depressed.

Out of the yard, Shen Ziyu turned two corners and passed a round door in the shape of a moon. Then she saw the pines, cypresses and bamboos in the yard on the high slope in the north. The third aunt's house is right there. Shen Ziyu quickened her pace.

Li Changsheng finally finished writing on his desk. He picked up the paper and looked at it again, pondered and revised a few words. Although Shen Ziyu's body recovered almost, after all, she suffered from a serious illness and could not recover to the state before her illness in less than a year. Li Changsheng revised and wrote a piece of the virgin kung fu in the Taoist collection to increase vitality according to the principles of his own cultivation of Taoism. He intended to give this set of skills to Shen Ziyu to restore vitality.

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A maid stood at the door and knocked on the door: "Mr. Li, Miss Shen Ziyu asked you to take her luggage and go to the third aunt's house to meet her."

Li Changsheng said, "OK, thank you.But I don't know where the third aunt's house is."

The maid smiled and said, "Please follow me, I will take you there."

Li Changsheng picked up his and Shen Ziyu's luggage, followed the maid, and made many turns in the villa to a deep and quiet courtyard. Li Changsheng noticed that there was a sign at the gate of the courtyard: Building 4, 25th Street, Fengyi Valley. The maid said that Miss Shen was waiting for you in the second room on the right, then bowed and turned away.

Li Changsheng went over and knocked at the door, but no one answered. He pushed the door gently, and the door opened. The room was empty. There are some broken old furniture in the corner of the room. It is obvious that this is an ordinary room for stacking sundries.

Shen Ziyu was not in the room, and no one was in the room.

"Hmm? What's the matter?" Li Changsheng felt that something was wrong, and he turned around and was about to leave the room. Unfortunately, it is too late. There was a sweet smell in the room. He thought it was coming from the old sandalwood furniture, so he was not alert. However, when he began to become weak and dizzy. When he stood unsteadily, he realized that the smell was a kind of overpowering drug.

Li Changsheng staggered and supported the wall, and his luggage fell on the ground. His body also slipped down the wall little by little, and finally fell heavily to the ground. At this time, he heard the door behind him open, and a sweet and greasy voice said, "Don't struggle in vain. This is a very powerful poison, which is the secret recipe of Xiangxi natives. When you touch it, you don't know its existence. When you find yourself dizzy, you have no resistance."

A pair of feet in red embroidered shoes appeared in front of Li Changsheng, and a soft voice said, "Don't be afraid, just sleep. It doesn't hurt at all. You should be reborn as an aborigine in the next life."

Li Changsheng was a little surprised. He raised his face laboriously and saw a woman in red clothes and red pants, about 20 years old, with bright eyes and white teeth, and a peach smile with apple color. Her skin was almost white and transparent, just like a piece of high-quality mutton fat iade. Li Changsheng was surprised and asked, "Who are you?"

The woman in red sighed and said, "People live in the world with much pain and little happiness. What's the fun of living? Go to heaven at ease!"

Li Changsheng saw that her eyes were large and thin, and her pupils were pure, without any impurities, as if it had been washed by the snow water of an iceberg. The eyelashes are long, the lips are red, and there is a large silver collar hanging on the neck. Under the collar, there is a long-life lock with strange characters engraved on it.

"I really don't know you. Why do you treat me like this?" Li Changsheng asked reluctantly.

The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "I am the Virgin of the Fire Dragon Cult. Life on earth is a fire house and a water prison. Why do you persist in it? Sleep!"

Li Changsheng got up from the ground and said, "Lao zi said that careerists always set a lofty and great goal for people, and then use deception and violence to force people to follow him. Because his goal is so beautiful, you are guilty if you don't follow him. Your cult use the slogan of saving the world to force and enslave ignorant people."

The Virgin was surprised and said, "Are you not poisoned?"